There are rumours in French Catholic media, that according to a "friend" of the Bishop of Rome, Jorge Bergoglio, once the SSPX is reunited, and if Benedict XVI is dead, he will abolish Summorum Pontificum.
My thoughts.
If this is true, then it is one more reason for the SSPX to say, "no."
They are already Catholic. There is no schism and there never was. So, let's put that silly argument to rest right now.
What I will state is this.
If he does, he is the Son of Satan and the mask will be off.
It is no more simple than that.
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
Monday, 10 July 2017
New Bergoglian CDF Prefect Ferrer implicated in paedophile priest cover-up!
So, as long as he is not a priest, he is not the Church's responsibility?
Another scandal, this time, the new Jesuit Prefect Luis Laderia Ferrer who, together with Cardinal William Levada, laicised a child-molester priest and did not tell the police. That defrocked pervert priest later went on to rape 8 boys.
The Church is in a crisis of filth and perversion. Where are the Cardinals and Bishops who will call this out and demand full disclosure and accountability?
Enough!
http://wolnosc24.pl/2017/07/04/kolejna-seks-afera-w-watykanie-tym-razem-zamieszany-jest-w-nia-zaufany-czlowiek-papieza/
Another scandal, this time, the new Jesuit Prefect Luis Laderia Ferrer who, together with Cardinal William Levada, laicised a child-molester priest and did not tell the police. That defrocked pervert priest later went on to rape 8 boys.
The Church is in a crisis of filth and perversion. Where are the Cardinals and Bishops who will call this out and demand full disclosure and accountability?
Enough!
Another sex scandal at the Vatican! This time it involved a confidante of Pope
http://wolnosc24.pl/2017/07/04/kolejna-seks-afera-w-watykanie-tym-razem-zamieszany-jest-w-nia-zaufany-czlowiek-papieza/
Not a week
passed, and the Vatican has already shaken the third turn-sex scandal. This
time he is involved in a confidant of Pope Francis, Jesuit Luis Ladaria Ferrer,
appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in just
last Sunday.
Recall -
last Thursday treasurer of the Vatican, Australian Cardinal George Pell, has
been formally accused of committing a sexual assault against dzieci.Kardynał
Pell, who was prefect of the Secretariat. Economics, which is equivalent to the
finance minister in the Vatican, the personality number three in the Catholic
Church and the highest in the history of the Vatican dignitary, who has been
accused in connection with the scandal concerning sexual abuse among the
clergy.
Not yet
faded echo of the scandal, and the Holy See rocked again. They tried to hide it
for a few months, but the case is issued. It was important for the secretary of
Cardinal, one of the closest collaborators of the Pope. Secretary of the organized
gay party building above Sant'Uffizio (Holy Office), the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, where he is also taking cocaine. Moved
"criminally" to the monastery at Monte Cassino he got there again in
another sex scandal.
Read: Again
unprecedented scandal at the Vatican! Cocaine and gay party in the Holy Office
and the monastery at Monte Cassino. Is Pope Francis stand it?
The head of
that secretary-homoseksulaisty and drug addict was Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig
Mueller z Niemiec, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
which Pope Francis dismissed last Saturday. The new prefect was the Spanish
Jesuit and Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer. Now it turns out, however,
that he may be involved in a pedophile scandal.
"There
had been two days of the decision of Pope Francis to change the position of
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and already dark
clouds hung over the head of his successor, Jesuit Luis Ferrer Ladarii" -
writes on Facebook Jacek Pałasiński, long-press correspondent in Rome.
Newspaper,
la Repubblica "L'Espresso article was published, the new prefect conceal
one of the most notorious pedophile scandals in Italy. The authors describe a
case of a pedophile priest Gianni Troty that, the decision was Archbishop
Ferrer and his then-supervisor - b. Prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith Williama Levady, was sentenced in 2012. The maximum
sentence provided for the code of canon, ie. The dismissal from the clerical
state .
Unfortunately
- adds a journalist - was accompanied by judgment note, according to which,
information about the judgment and reasons for leaving Father. Troty of the
priests and the Order of the Little Works of Divine Providence, had not spread.
Unless b. Trota priest again commits lewd acts on children.
"I
obediently silent church structures, the Italian investigative authorities have
not been notified, precisely because of the decision of Archbishop. Ferrera.
And, unfortunately, Father. Trota again committed. He remained in the same
small town as a coach ... children's football teams, boyish and girlish. The
parents knew nothing about his past. Approx. ten boys and ten girls again was
molested by him. Only in 2015. As a result of accusations of one of the boys
parents b. Fr.. Trota was arrested last year and sentenced to 8 years in prison
for molesting one of the boys. Soon they have to start another process for
another rape. "In practice - write Fittipaldi and Foschini - destroyed an
entire generation inhabitants of this town" - writes Pałasiński.
How to
react to this information now Pope Francis? And if the Pope Francis will cope
with the task of cleaning the church?
Sunday, 9 July 2017
"Pope" Bergoglio confirms himself as a globalist, one world government proponent! Not a word of Christ!
How long have evangelicals and others spoken of the formation of a "United States of Europe," as the Beast of the Apocalypse controlled by the Antichrist. How often did they call Rome, meaning the Catholic Church, the Whore of Babylon?
It's too bad that this Bishop of Rome, this "Pope" won't dialogue and encounter with his Cardinals on the doctrine of the faith at least as often as he meets with the atheist Eugenio Scalfari and the Masonic mouthpiece known as La Repubblica.
He is promoting the antithesis of subsidiarity. It is evil.
Not a word of Christ.
Read it. You decide what we are dealing with.
It's too bad that this Bishop of Rome, this "Pope" won't dialogue and encounter with his Cardinals on the doctrine of the faith at least as often as he meets with the atheist Eugenio Scalfari and the Masonic mouthpiece known as La Repubblica.
He is promoting the antithesis of subsidiarity. It is evil.
Not a word of Christ.
Read it. You decide what we are dealing with.
Francesco Scalfari interview: "My plea to the G20 on migrants'
Last Thursday I received a phone call from Pope Francis. It was about noon and I was at the paper with my phone rang and a voice greeted me: it was His Holiness. I recognized him immediately. “Could you come over today? At 4?” I’ll be there for sure.
I dashed home and at 3:44 I was in the little sitting room at Santa Marta. The Pope came in a minute later. We embraced and then, seated facing each other, we started to swap idea, feelings, analyses of what is going on in the Church and then in the world.
Pope Francis told me that he was very worried about the summit meeting of the G20. “I’m afraid that there will be very dangerous alliances between Powers that have distorted visions of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, Russia and Assad in the war in Syria.” What is the danger of these alliances, Holiness? “The danger regarding immigration. We, you know this well, have as the principle problem and, unfortunately growing in the today’s world, that of poverty, of the weak, of the excluded, of whom emigrants are members. On the other hand there are countries where the majority of the poor don’t come from migratory streams but from social calamities of that country; others, instead, have little local poverty but they fear the invasion of migrants. That’s why the G20 worries me.”
Do you think, Holiness, that in global society as that in which we live the mobility of peoples is on the upswing, poor or not poor as they may be? “Let’s not fool ourselves: poor peoples have an attraction the continents and countries of old wealth. Above all Europe. I, too, have often thought about this problem and I have arrived at the conclusion that, not only for but also for this reason, Europe must assume as soon as possible a federal government and a federal parliament, not from individual confederated countries. You yourself have raised this topic many times, and have even spoken of it in the European parliament. It’s true, I’ve raised this many times.” And you received great applause and even standing ovations. “Yes, that’s so, but unfortunately that doesn’t mean much. They will do that if they figure out the truth: either Europe becomes a federal community or it won’t count for anything in the world.”
...
I have often written that Francis is a revolutionary. Think of beatifying Pascal, thinks the poor and immigrants, it calls for a federated Europe, and - last but not least - puts me in the car with his arms.
A pope like this we never had.
Labels:
More Bergoglian heresy,
The Antichrist
Saturday, 8 July 2017
Bergoglio "didn't mind" stopping Cardinal Müller from Offering the Holy Mass to lobby him for one of "his friends"
In an absolutely scandalous display of sacrilege and hubris, Jorge Bergoglio, in the middle of 2013 demanded that Cardinal Muller cease the offering of Holy Mass, even if it be the Novus Ordo, to attend to him in the sacristy.
Marco Tossati in First Things, reports:
Marco Tossati in First Things, reports:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/07/the-good-soldier
I suspect that Cardinal Müller is upset about his dismissal, but in a sense may see his own beheading as a liberation. To write this article, I peeped into the confidential notes I had made during the last four years regarding the German cardinal and his relations with the reigning pontiff. The notes are the result of many private conversations with high-ranking people in the Vatican who enjoyed the cardinal’s friendship. It appears that Müller experienced life under Bergoglio as a sort of Calvary. This, despite Müller’s statements—he has been a good soldier to the end, and even beyond.
The first step of Müller’s Calvary was a disconcerting episode in the middle of 2013. The cardinal was celebrating Mass in the church attached to the congregation palace, for a group of German students and scholars. His secretary joined him at the altar: “The pope wants to speak to you.” “Did you tell him I am celebrating Mass?” asked Müller. “Yes,” said the secretary, “but he says he does not mind—he wants to talk to you all the same.” The cardinal went to the sacristy. The pope, in a very bad mood, gave him some orders and a dossier concerning one of his friends, a cardinal. (This is a very delicate matter. I have sought an explanation of this incident from the official channels. Until the explanation comes, if it ever comes, I cannot give further details.) Obviously, Mūller was flabbergasted.
Muller should have been more than flabbergasted and his answer to send with this secretary back to this Bergoglio is clear, "when the Mass is ended!"
Cardinal Muller, it is time to man up.
What blasphemy.
What sacriledge.
Bishops, Cardinals, you will be held accountable for your silence.
Labels:
Bergoglian Blasphemy,
Cardinal Muller,
Pope Francis
Say hello to the new Bergoglian Bishop of Milan
Courtesy of Hilary White, say hello to the new Archbishop of Milan.
The Novus Ordo is an irredeemable abomination.
Get out of it. Get away from priests and bishops that promote this kind of blasphemy.
The Church of Man is in free-fall and the rot of Vatican II has infected the whole tree. The filth of priests and bishops is now reaching its zenith.
They will fall, they will be struck down and they will burn in Hell, if they do not repent and do public penance and reparation.
May it be soon.
The Novus Ordo is an irredeemable abomination.
Get out of it. Get away from priests and bishops that promote this kind of blasphemy.
The Church of Man is in free-fall and the rot of Vatican II has infected the whole tree. The filth of priests and bishops is now reaching its zenith.
They will fall, they will be struck down and they will burn in Hell, if they do not repent and do public penance and reparation.
May it be soon.
Labels:
Milan,
Team Bergoglio
Friday, 7 July 2017
Happy Summorum Pontificum Day
On this anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, I say thank you to Pope Benedict XVI, ingloriously reigning as Holy Father and Pontiff from his prison in the Vatican garden under the watchful eye of his two-faced, double-agent, Prison Warden, Ganswein, doing the bidding of the great impostor and his band of merry-minions.
I also restate advice to the SSPX. Just say, "No!"
Look, I don't accept much of the bovine excrement in the documents of Vatican II and I despise the manner in which the deficient and unjustified, abomination of a Mass of the Missal of Paul VI, no blessed or saint in my view, is celebrated, when even done well.
So, ya gonna kick me out, George?
The SSPX is Catholic, always was and, please God, will be.
They need to sign nothing.
If you can come up with any positive developments in the Church and the spread of the faith arising out of the Second Vatican Council, feel free to post a comment on what those might be...
Pfft to a Rome quickly becoming what Jack Chick proffered.
The Whore of Babylon!
I also restate advice to the SSPX. Just say, "No!"
Look, I don't accept much of the bovine excrement in the documents of Vatican II and I despise the manner in which the deficient and unjustified, abomination of a Mass of the Missal of Paul VI, no blessed or saint in my view, is celebrated, when even done well.
So, ya gonna kick me out, George?
The SSPX is Catholic, always was and, please God, will be.
They need to sign nothing.
If you can come up with any positive developments in the Church and the spread of the faith arising out of the Second Vatican Council, feel free to post a comment on what those might be...
Pfft to a Rome quickly becoming what Jack Chick proffered.
The Whore of Babylon!
Labels:
SSPX,
Summorum Pontificum
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Ontario Court of Appeal to hear case of Christian father
Take a click and visit Every Day for Life Canada. An Orthodox Greek Christian father refused his rights to remove his children from indoctrination of the state's new religion.
We are in a fight in Canada. The secularist state and homosexualist lobby pushes us more and more into silence. Dr Tourloukis is fighting a battle on behalf of many.
Please visit the link below and give what you can to the fight!
http://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.ca/2017/06/ontario-court-of-appeal-hears-case-for.html?view=classic
Yesterday, June 26th, Dr. Steve Tourloukis, the courageous Hamilton father was before the Ontario Court of Appeal to defend his parental rights against the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Does the state have the power to overrule parental rights and legally force "inclusive" education in taxpayer funded public schools? The just and right answer is no. True inclusion must welcome those who oppose. Every parent in Ontario and in Canada has the natural and God given right to direct the education of their children.
We are in a fight in Canada. The secularist state and homosexualist lobby pushes us more and more into silence. Dr Tourloukis is fighting a battle on behalf of many.
Please visit the link below and give what you can to the fight!
http://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.ca/2017/06/ontario-court-of-appeal-hears-case-for.html?view=classic
Yesterday, June 26th, Dr. Steve Tourloukis, the courageous Hamilton father was before the Ontario Court of Appeal to defend his parental rights against the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Does the state have the power to overrule parental rights and legally force "inclusive" education in taxpayer funded public schools? The just and right answer is no. True inclusion must welcome those who oppose. Every parent in Ontario and in Canada has the natural and God given right to direct the education of their children.
Labels:
Ontario Liberals
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Letter from Müller to Bishop Fellay and the Society of St. Pius X - Just say "No!"
To those bishops and priests of the Society of St. Pius X,
Just say no.
That is all.
Vox.
Just say no.
That is all.
Vox.
From www.medias-presse.info comes the following
excerpt of a letter from Cardinal Müller to Bishop Bernard Fellay. According to
www.medias-presse.info, Cardinal Müller's letter was communicated to all SSPX
members by the SSPX General House.
Excerpt from Cardinal Müller's letter:
“As you know, Pope Francis has many a time
manifested his benevolence towards your Priestly Society, granting, in
particular, to all priest members the faculty of confessing the faithful
validly and by authorizing local Ordinaries to grant licences for the
celebration of the marriages of the faithful who follow the pastoral activity
in your Society. Furthermore, discussions are continuing concerning questions
relative to the full re-establishment of the communion of your Society with the
Catholic Church.
In relation to this, with the approbation of
the Sovereign Pontiff, I judged it necessary to submit to the Ordinary Session
of our Congregation (which met on May 10 last) the text of the doctrinal
Declaration which was transmitted to you during the meeting of June 13 2016, as
the necessary condition in view of the full re-establishment of communion. Here
are the unanimous decisions of all the members of our Dicastery in this regard:
1) It is necessary to require the adhesion of
the members of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X to the new formula of the
Professio Fidei dating from 1988 (c.f. annexe). Consequently, it is not
sufficient to ask them to express the Professio Fidei of 1962.
2) The new text of the doctrinal Declaration
must contain a paragraph in which the signatories declare in an explicit manner
their acceptance of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and those of
the post-conciliar period, by granting to said doctrinal affirmations the
degree of adhesion which is due to them.
3) The members of the Priestly Society of Saint
Pius X must recognize not only the validity, but also the legitimacy of the
Rite of the Holy Mass and of the Sacraments, according to the liturgical books
promulgated after the Second Vatican Council.”
www.medias-presse.info adds that Cardinal
Müller concluded the letter saying that “during the Audience granted to the
Cardinal Prefect on May 20 2017, the Sovereign Pontiff approved these
decisions”. The French website also adds that in his accompanying letter to
SSPX priests, Father Christian Thouvenot, Secretary General of the SSPX, recalled
the words of Bishop Fellay after the meeting of the major superiors in Anzère,
Switzerland, on June 28 2016:
“The Society of Saint Pius X does not seek
primarily a canonical recognition, to which it has a right because it is
Catholic. The solution is not simply juridical. It pertains to a doctrinal
position which it is imperative to manifest [...] Divine Providence will not
abandon Its Church whose head is the Pope, Vicar of Jesus Christ. That is why
an incontestable sign of this restoration will reside in the signified will of
the Sovereign Pontiff to grant the means for re-establishing the order of the
Priesthood, the Faith and Tradition – a sign which will be, furthermore, the
guarantor of the necessary unity of the family of Tradition”.
Published in Fetzen Fliegen
Labels:
SSPX
Monday, 3 July 2017
Pope runs from bad image of his sodomite mural Cardinal in baby Charlie Gard matter. And where is the Queen in all of this?
Little Charlie Gard is suffering at the hands of the corrupt British state and his failed Monarch, Elizabeth II, who should be stepping in to save this child.
Magna Carta my foot!
Though the parents have raised enough money to take little Charlie to America for treatment, the corrupted system of Britain refused, even to the point of demanding the child be removed from life support and not allowed to go home to die in the presence of his parents.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18182/pontifical-academy-life-releases-chilling-frank-camp
Into this wades the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, butchered by Francis, -- headed by the Cardinal who commissioned a sodomite orgy mural for his Cathedral.
But good old Francis couldn't take the furor caused by this Paglia and has reversed the Vatican's position.
A disgrace!
The "Vatican," I won't say the Catholic Church, - the Vatican, supporting the European Fascist Union and British Health Care over parents rights.
And now, Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States has offered to help little Charlie in America.
The Pope looks very bad.
The Queen, looks worse!
Magna Carta my foot!
Though the parents have raised enough money to take little Charlie to America for treatment, the corrupted system of Britain refused, even to the point of demanding the child be removed from life support and not allowed to go home to die in the presence of his parents.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18182/pontifical-academy-life-releases-chilling-frank-camp
Into this wades the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, butchered by Francis, -- headed by the Cardinal who commissioned a sodomite orgy mural for his Cathedral.
But good old Francis couldn't take the furor caused by this Paglia and has reversed the Vatican's position.
A disgrace!
The "Vatican," I won't say the Catholic Church, - the Vatican, supporting the European Fascist Union and British Health Care over parents rights.
And now, Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States has offered to help little Charlie in America.
The Pope looks very bad.
The Queen, looks worse!
Labels:
Donald J. Trump,
England,
Pope Francis
BREAKING: Vatican officials covered up "bag" of cocaine induced homosexual orgy!
From Pudelek.pl
The cesspool of sodomy in the Vatican continues. Pudelek.pl is reporting that the news breaking last week of the Vatican Monsignor caught in a drug-laced, booze-saturated, homosexual orgy in the Vatican actually occurred two months ago!
http://www.pudelek.pl/artykul/113104/kolejna_kompromitacja_w_watykanie_bliski_wspolpracownik_papieza_urzadzal_gejowskie_orgie_pod_wplywem_kokainy/#
Someone in the Vatican has been engaged in a cover-up.
Has the removal of Mueller been engineered as a distraction?
Has Cardinal Pell (to possible spurious accusations, but if true, throw the book at him) been sacrificed to cause a diversion from the real, current actives sinful cesspool of filth, evil, corruption and sleaze that is the Vatican?
Parents, would you let your sons and daughters travel to Rome to in any way participate in the Youth Synod with these filthy monsters around? Do you think World Youth Day is any safer?
(With sincere apologies to my priest friends, but I would not advise anyone to leave any child alone with any priest, to protect them from the perverts and good priests from false accusations!)
Francis owes our Lord Jesus Christ and His suffering faithful a complete clean-out of the sodomite mafia from the Church and accountability from these thieves and perverts who have stolen from the faithful for their drugs and orgies.
Enough of this cover-up!
The cesspool of sodomy in the Vatican continues. Pudelek.pl is reporting that the news breaking last week of the Vatican Monsignor caught in a drug-laced, booze-saturated, homosexual orgy in the Vatican actually occurred two months ago!
http://www.pudelek.pl/artykul/113104/kolejna_kompromitacja_w_watykanie_bliski_wspolpracownik_papieza_urzadzal_gejowskie_orgie_pod_wplywem_kokainy/#
Someone in the Vatican has been engaged in a cover-up.
Has the removal of Mueller been engineered as a distraction?
Has Cardinal Pell (to possible spurious accusations, but if true, throw the book at him) been sacrificed to cause a diversion from the real, current actives sinful cesspool of filth, evil, corruption and sleaze that is the Vatican?
Parents, would you let your sons and daughters travel to Rome to in any way participate in the Youth Synod with these filthy monsters around? Do you think World Youth Day is any safer?
(With sincere apologies to my priest friends, but I would not advise anyone to leave any child alone with any priest, to protect them from the perverts and good priests from false accusations!)
Francis owes our Lord Jesus Christ and His suffering faithful a complete clean-out of the sodomite mafia from the Church and accountability from these thieves and perverts who have stolen from the faithful for their drugs and orgies.
Enough of this cover-up!
Vatican Gendarmerie dealings discovered two months ago, when the search was made in the building of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In the apartment of one of the secretary Very Important Monsignorów found a bag of cocaine. Arrested priest admitted that he was taking the drug during a homosexual orgy, which he organized in the premises curial. Since then they attempted to place the matter under the carpet in many ways. Initially a secretary, instead of in prison, placed in rehab in one of Rome's clinics, where with the help of prayer had to leave the addiction. Soon, however, through the intercession of Cardinal he moved to the Order of Monte Cassino - the same in which several months ago was arrested the abbot Pietro Vitorelli'egowho embezzled half a million euros from the proceeds to charity. The abbot seemed no abandon the so-called fortune. sex tourism, mainly seeking gay brothel in South America.
Because the health secretary-drug addict in the law significantly deteriorated again placed him in the hospital. Then the matter leaked to the media. The most frequently asked question is, how is it possible that until two months managed to hide everything even before the Pope.
Sunday, 2 July 2017
Say hello to Boy-Toy Capozzi
Well, well, well.
Happy Sunday boys and girls.
And what do we have here?
If it isn't Msgr. Luigi Felching Capozzi, drunken, drugged up sodomite disturbing the otherwise serene and quiet Vatican owned apartment and former headquarters of the CDF.
Source:
https://gloria.tv/article/AFec2dUBFNCC1twG9TbC89pzv
This cockroach, Capozzi, infiltrated the holy priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ and should never have been ordained.
https://gloria.tv/article/QJgkoWSAgYPe6J2qJoCbtgzg1
Who was his superior? Whom was he secretary to?
Why only the effervescent Cardinal Coco-Puffs - Coccopalmerio.
Souce:
http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2017/06/30/we-have-a-winnah/
Oh, he was putting forward the Felching Priest as bishop material. (look up that word at your own risk, you have been warned)
Who are you to judge?
The "Sweet Christ on Earth," according to St. Catherine of Sienna.
That's who!
Happy Sunday boys and girls.
And what do we have here?
If it isn't Msgr. Luigi Felching Capozzi, drunken, drugged up sodomite disturbing the otherwise serene and quiet Vatican owned apartment and former headquarters of the CDF.
Source:
https://gloria.tv/article/AFec2dUBFNCC1twG9TbC89pzv
This cockroach, Capozzi, infiltrated the holy priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ and should never have been ordained.
https://gloria.tv/article/QJgkoWSAgYPe6J2qJoCbtgzg1
Who was his superior? Whom was he secretary to?
Why only the effervescent Cardinal Coco-Puffs - Coccopalmerio.
Souce:
http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2017/06/30/we-have-a-winnah/
Oh, he was putting forward the Felching Priest as bishop material. (look up that word at your own risk, you have been warned)
Inquiring minds want to know.
Was Mons. Battista Mario Salvatore, Not to be Judged Ricca, caught with his own boy-toy in Uruguay and now head of the so-called Pope's No-Tell, Hoe-Tell and the Vatican Bank, there for the big party?
Take your pick:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=monsignor+ricca+uruguay&oq=msgr+ricca+uru&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.6598j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Take your pick:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=monsignor+ricca+uruguay&oq=msgr+ricca+uru&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.6598j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
So where is the Bergomeister in all of this?
Who are you to judge?
The "Sweet Christ on Earth," according to St. Catherine of Sienna.
That's who!
Saturday, 1 July 2017
Woe Canada
July 1.
Once known as Dominion Day after the 72nd Psalm, "And he shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the great river to the ends of the earth." It recalled the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the St. Lawrence River. It remains, for now at least, on Canada's Coat of Arms.
We are a nation that has lost its way.
It was founded by Catholics and its natives were protected and nurtured in the faith, there were no "Indian wars" here. Champlain, Montcalm, MacDonald, Cartier, would they recognise this land today and what it has become?
A nation that wipes out its generation of young in the womb and now sending its old to the tomb. It sanctions so-called "marriage" of the same-sex, stands by whilst the Court recognises that oral sex with an animal is just fine, legalises marijuana and more.
A nation that has two anthems, one which speaks of the Cross and the other asking God to keep us "strong and free." It is a mockery, they disgrace our history, our culture and the faith of our Fathers, - English and French, protestant and Catholic. Canada long ago under the father of our current Prime Minister became radically secularist. So much so that Catholic Prime Ministers - Trudeau, Clark, Mulroney, Chretien, Martin, and now Trudeau again, have betrayed their faith and their land.
A nation that has two anthems, one which speaks of the Cross and the other asking God to keep us "strong and free." It is a mockery, they disgrace our history, our culture and the faith of our Fathers, - English and French, protestant and Catholic. Canada long ago under the father of our current Prime Minister became radically secularist. So much so that Catholic Prime Ministers - Trudeau, Clark, Mulroney, Chretien, Martin, and now Trudeau again, have betrayed their faith and their land.
Weep for her.
Labels:
Woe Canada
NCReporter - New CDF Prefect will be a Jesuit - WhoHoo! - - It's all A-Ok!
ROME Pope Francis has decided not to renew the expiring term of Vatican doctrinal chief Cardinal Gerhard Muller, choosing instead to replace the German prelate with his deputy, a Spanish Jesuit theologian known for keeping a relatively low public profile.
The pontiff has appointed Archbishop Luis Ladaria, 73, as
the new prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He had
previously served as the office's secretary.
A Vatican statement announcing the appointment Saturday did
not say whether Muller would be receiving a new role. At 69 years old he is six
years away from the traditional retirement age for bishops. It is unusual for a
cardinal of that age not to have an official posting.
The Vatican statement simply said the pope thanked Muller for
his service at the conclusion of his five-year term as prefect, with began with
his appointment by former Pope Benedict XVI on July 2, 2012.
Saturday's announcement had been highly anticipated over the
past day, as rumors began to circulate that Muller would be leaving his
position following a meeting the cardinal had Friday with Francis.
The pope's choice of Ladaria, who has served at the
doctrinal congregation since his own appointment by Benedict in 2008, seems to
signify that Francis did not want a radical shake-up at the Vatican office, but
simply a change in personnel.
Prior to his appointment at the Vatican, Ladaria had taught
at the Pontifical Gregorian University and served as its vice-rector. From
2004-2009 he was the secretary general of the International Theological
Commission.
The archbishop is also the president of the new papal
commission studying the possibility of women deacons in the church, being appointed
to that role by Francis last August.
Before becoming the head of the doctrinal congregation,
Muller had served for ten years as the bishop of the southeastern German
diocese of Regensburg. He is known to be close to Benedict, who studied and
taught at the University of Regensburg prior to becoming a bishop.
But Muller and Francis never appeared to develop an
especially warm relationship. Most recently, the cardinal has been inconsistent
about his position regarding the teaching authority of Francis' exhortation on
family life, Amoris Laetitia ("The Joy of the Family.")
After four cardinals publicly challenged Francis last
November to answer questions about what they see as inconsistencies in the
document, Muller said in January that the exhortation was "very
clear" and that cardinals should not challenge the pope publicly.
But the cardinal appeared to contradict Francis' teaching in
the document in a May interview with EWTN. Asked about the possibility of the
church giving Communion to those who have remarried without first receiving
annulments, the cardinal stated: "We don't accept polygamy."
In Amoris Laetitia Francis asked pastors to use pastoral
discernment in such cases and said that in some instances such discernment
"can include the help of the sacraments." The pope has also praised a
set of guidelines issued by Argentine bishops that said divorced and civilly
remarried couples might eventually be allowed to receive Communion.
Muller was also publicly questioned in recent months over
his willingness to implement recommendations of the new papal commission on
clergy sexual abuse, even in instances when Francis had approved them.
When Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins resigned March 1
from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, she noted in a
statement to NCR that Francis' order for the creation of a new Vatican tribunal
to judge bishops who mishandled abuse cases was found by Muller's congregation
to have "legal" difficulties and was never created.
Collins also noted that an order approved by Francis
requiring all Vatican offices to respond to letters from abuse victims was not
implemented by at least one congregation.
In a March 5 interview, Muller appeared to admit that his
congregation was among those that ignored that papal order, saying that if the
Vatican to responded to victims' letters it would not respect the role of
diocesan bishops in such matters.
Muller also appears not to agree with Francis' decision to
create the commission studying the possibility of women deacons. He said in the
May EWTN interview that it is "not possible" for women to be ordained
to the diaconate and that female deacons "will not come."
This breaking news story is being updated.
[Joshua J. McElwee is NCR Vatican correspondent. His email
address is jmcelwee@ncronline.org. Follow him on Twitter: @joshjmac.]
Labels:
Archbishop Luis Ladaria,
CDF,
Jesuits,
Vatican Circus
Friday, 30 June 2017
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller removed from curia! Oh, and that drunken, drug-laden sodomite cleric?
Just stopped at home for a quick lunch break and what do we find?
Methinks he was a bit too honest to Raymond Arroyo.
And Hilary.
And Hilary.
No, not that Hillary.
Keep it comin' George.
.
Labels:
Cardinal Coccopalmero,
Cardinal Muller
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Irish Catholics who hate Our Lord Jesus Christ
The snakes have come back to Ireland.
O Jesus, my Saviour and Redeemer, Son of the Living God, behold, we kneel before thee and offer thee our reparation: we would like to make amends for all the blasphemies uttered against thy holy Name, for all the injuries done to thee in the Blessed Sacrament, for all the irreverence shown toward thine Immaculate Virgin Mother, for all the calumnies and slanders spoken against thy Spouse, the holy Catholic and Roman Church. Jesus, who hast said:”If you ask the Father anything in My Name, I will give it to you”, we pray and beseech thee for all our brethren who are in danger of sin; shield them from every temptation to fall away from the true faith; save those who are even now standing on the brink of the abyss; to all of them give light and knowledge of the truth, courage and strength for the conflict with evil, perseverance in faith and active charity. For this do we pray, most merciful Jesus, in thy Name, unto God the Father, with whom thou livest and reignest in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.
Labels:
Blasphemy,
Homoheresy,
Ireland
What kind of pervert parties have been going on in the Vatican?
Are you surprised?
http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2017/06/28/lets-play-a-game-i-call-it-connect-the-vatican-perv-dots/
http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2017/06/28/lets-play-a-game-i-call-it-connect-the-vatican-perv-dots/
This won't keep under raps long and nor will the Bishop of Rome's attempt to soften the Church's stand on the removal of perverts from the priesthood.
And now Pell? Or was it a set-up? If so, shame on him for being caught in the vortex.
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2017/06/29/toldya-left-right-and-trad-right-cardinal-pell-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-boys/
And now Pell? Or was it a set-up? If so, shame on him for being caught in the vortex.
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2017/06/29/toldya-left-right-and-trad-right-cardinal-pell-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-boys/
Sts. Peter and Paul, on this day when the Church honours your martyrdoms, intercede before Our Lord to send a remedy to these filthy, perverted, satanic sodomites who like termites have driven into the Church and like cockroaches, they hide.
Shine your light, O LORD!
Labels:
Homoheresy
Monday, 26 June 2017
James Martin, S.J. "homosexual-sex obsessed" and the "ravings of a lunatic."
It's about time.
It's about time someone other than the poor suffering laity and Joseph Sciambra have called out James Martin, S.J., for his homosexual obsession.
Sometimes it takes hard, seemingly coarse language, such as the "ravings of a lunatic," to wake up the man at the core of the problem and his superiors.
James Martin is a priest in desperate need of correction. His Superiors have betrayed him just as he continues to betray Christ and His people, particularly those suffering from same-sex attraction.
James Martin, S.J., hates "gay" men. if he did not, he would not tweet his praise of "pride," as he did yesterday. James Martin is filled with rage, it is time for him to either get the deep spiritual and psychological help that is needed, preferable through a life of prayer and penance in a Cistercian traditionalist monastery far away from a computer or any other Jesuit!
James Martin hates himself. His actions, particularly of late, are the ravings of someone obsessed. Not with Jesus, not with truth, but with sex between men.
Enough of this rage James, enough!
Enough of your lies, your distortions, your embrace of homosexualism and the work of Satan, whom you have embraced as your god.
Enough of your projection upon unsuspecting people who are lead astray by your distortions.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/06/homosexual-sex-obsessed-jesuit-v-bp-paprocki-of-springfield-il-action-item/
It's about time someone other than the poor suffering laity and Joseph Sciambra have called out James Martin, S.J., for his homosexual obsession.
Sometimes it takes hard, seemingly coarse language, such as the "ravings of a lunatic," to wake up the man at the core of the problem and his superiors.
James Martin is a priest in desperate need of correction. His Superiors have betrayed him just as he continues to betray Christ and His people, particularly those suffering from same-sex attraction.
James Martin, S.J., hates "gay" men. if he did not, he would not tweet his praise of "pride," as he did yesterday. James Martin is filled with rage, it is time for him to either get the deep spiritual and psychological help that is needed, preferable through a life of prayer and penance in a Cistercian traditionalist monastery far away from a computer or any other Jesuit!
James Martin hates himself. His actions, particularly of late, are the ravings of someone obsessed. Not with Jesus, not with truth, but with sex between men.
Enough of this rage James, enough!
Enough of your lies, your distortions, your embrace of homosexualism and the work of Satan, whom you have embraced as your god.
Enough of your projection upon unsuspecting people who are lead astray by your distortions.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/06/homosexual-sex-obsessed-jesuit-v-bp-paprocki-of-springfield-il-action-item/
Homosexual sex obsessed Jesuit v. Bp. Paprocki of Springfield, IL – ACTION ITEM!
ACTION ITEM at the end!
A little while ago, His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, issued a Decree “Regarding Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ and Related Pastoral Issues.”
This Decree reaffirmed Catholic teaching that a marriage is only possible “between one man and one woman.”
...
You saw how Ed Peters handled one critic HERE.
Immediately, homosexual sex obsessed Jesuit James Martin blasted Bp. Paprocki HERE:
If bishops ban members of same-sex marriages from receiving a Catholic funeral, they also have to be consistent. They must also ban divorced and remarried Catholics who have not received annulments, women who has or man who fathers a child out of wedlock, members of straight couples who are living together before marriage, and anyone using birth control. For those are all against church teaching as well. Moreover, they must ban anyone who does not care for the poor, or care for the environment, and anyone who supports torture, for those are church teachings too. More basically, they must ban people who are not loving, not forgiving and not merciful, for these represent the teachings of Jesus, the most fundamental of all church teachings. To focus only on LGBT people, without a similar focus on the moral and sexual behavior of straight people is, in the words of the Catechism, a “sign of unjust discrimination” (2358).
This, friends, is the raving of a lunatic.
For a complete review of homosexual sex obsessed Jesuit James Martin v. Bp. Paprocki, try HERE, a blog by a Catholic man who suffered with same-sex affliction and is now striving to live a holy life.
URGENT: In his post he makes a great suggestion: drop Bp. Paprocki a supportive note! The diocese’s contact form and addresses:
Labels:
Homoheresy,
James Martin EssJay
Saturday, 24 June 2017
Pope Bergoglio's silence convicts him
The former Director of the Vatican Bank gives his opinion on the state of the Church under Pope Bergoglio.
What we and others have been saying for four years now is becoming clearer to more and more, nearly daily.
Pope Francis’ silence is a bold denial of objective truth: former Vatican Bank chief
Why doesn’t the Pope respond to the Dubia? The former director of the Vatican Bank thinks he knows why. In a biting essay in Italy’s La Verità, translated below, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi suggests that Francis is sending two messages through his silence: that he can contradict himself if he likes and that he wishes to impose a “New Catholic Morality” on the Church. This new morality would be based not on doctrine but on the subjective opinions of the individual conscience. Meanwhile, Amoris Laetitia’s denial of eternal damnation contradicts Jesus’ assertions in the Gospel that sinners are indeed in danger of this fate. Ultimately, Francis’ silence — which allows doubts to continue to flourish — is a denial of objective truth.
June 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — I see two implicit messages in the Pope’s failure to answer the dubia. The first implicit message is “I can contradict myself if I want to.” At the start of the Synod on the Family (October 2014), the Pope invited the cardinals to speak openly and frankly, without fear of embarrassing the Pope (the famous parresia). And yet for months the Pope has refused to respond privately or publicly to the dubia expressed by four cardinals who represent a large part of the faithful.
Read the rest at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pope-francis-silence-is-a-bold-denial-of-objective-truth-former-vatican-ban
Read the rest at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pope-francis-silence-is-a-bold-denial-of-objective-truth-former-vatican-ban
Labels:
Pope Francis
Friday, 23 June 2017
Oh, how these heretics in the Church hate Cardinal Sarah
The liberals and heretics in the Church are speechless. They are between a rock and a very hard place. They hate Cardinal Sarah, but they can't hate him too much because he is an African.
You can thank Archbiship Marcel Lefebvre for these faithful Africans. May they come to rescue us from our modern paganism.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/june-23rd-2017/why-cardinal-sarah-terrifies-his-critics/
You can thank Archbiship Marcel Lefebvre for these faithful Africans. May they come to rescue us from our modern paganism.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/june-23rd-2017/why-cardinal-sarah-terrifies-his-critics/
Why Cardinal Sarah terrifies his critics
Cardinal Sarah's opponents have attacked his views and called for his sacking. His response has been a gracious silence
A growing crowd wants Cardinal Robert Sarah’s head on a platter. Open a liberal Catholic periodical and you are likely to find a call for the dismissal of the Guinean cardinal who heads the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship: “It’s past time for [Pope Francis] to replace Cardinal Sarah” (Maureen Fiedler, National Catholic Reporter); “New wine might be needed at the Congregation for Divine Worship” (Christopher Lamb, the Tablet); “Curia officials who refuse to get with Francis’s programme should leave. Or the Pope should send them somewhere else” (Robert Mickens, Commonweal); “Francis must put his foot down. Cardinals like Robert Sarah … may feel that with a papacy heading in the wrong direction, foot-dragging is a duty. But that does not mean Francis has to put up with them” (The Editors, the Tablet).
Sarah was not always treated as the most
dangerous man in Christendom. When he was appointed to his post by Pope Francis
in 2014, he enjoyed the goodwill even of those who criticise him today. Mickens
described him as “unambitious, a good listener and, despite showing a clear
conservative side since coming to Rome … a ‘Vatican II man’ ”. Lamb was told by
his sources that Sarah was someone liberals could like, the kind of bishop who
was sympathetic to “inculturation”. John Allen summed up the consensus around
the Vatican: Sarah was a low-profile bishop, “warm, funny and modest”.
All that changed on October 6, 2015, the
third day of the contentious synod on the family. The synod fathers were riven
by the seemingly competing demands of reaching out to people who felt
stigmatised by the Church’s sexual teaching and boldly proclaiming truth to a
hostile world. In what has come to be known as the “apocalyptic beasts” speech,
Sarah insisted that both were possible. “We are not contending against
creatures of flesh and blood,” he told his brother bishops. “We need to be
inclusive and welcoming to all that is human.” But the Church must still
proclaim the truth in the face of two great challenges. “On the one hand, the
idolatry of Western freedom; on the other, Islamic fundamentalism: atheistic
secularism versus religious fanaticism.”
As a young priest, Sarah studied at the
Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem and planned a dissertation on “Isaiah, Chapters
9-11, in Light of Northwestern Semitic Linguistics: Ugaritic, Phoenician and
Punic”. So it is no surprise that he employed biblical language to make his
point. Western freedom and Islamic fundamentalism, he told the assembly, were
like two “apocalyptic beasts”. The image comes from the Book of Revelation,
which describes how two beasts will attack the Church. The first comes out of
the sea with seven heads, 10 horns, and blasphemy on its lips. The second rises
out of the land performing great wonders, and persuades the world to worship
the first.
This strange dynamic – one monstrous threat
leading men to embrace the other – is what Sarah sees at work in our own time.
Fear of religious repression induces some to worship an idolatrous freedom. (I
recall the time I found myself the only man left sitting when Ayaan Hirsi Ali
ended a speech by asking her audience to give an ovation “To blasphemy!”) On
the other hand, attacks on human nature tempt some to embrace the false
reassurance of religious fundamentalism, which has its most horrible expression
under the black flag of ISIS. Each evil tempts those who fear it to succumb to
its opposite. As with communism and Nazism in the 20th century, both must be
resisted.
Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, head of the
Polish bishops’ conference, wrote that Sarah’s intervention was made at a “very
high theological and intellectual level”, but others seemed to miss its meaning
altogether. Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane decried the use of
“apocalyptic language”. (One wonders what he makes of the rest of John’s
Revelation.) “The boys don’t like to be reminded of judgment,” quipped one
cardinal after Sarah spoke.
A prominent Vatican watcher wrote to me
from Rome: “He stepped in it today by talking about the two beasts of the
Apocalypse. His popable stock took a hit.” Fr James Martin SJ claimed that
Sarah had violated the Catechism, “which asks us to treat LGBT people with
‘respect, compassion and sensitivity’ ”.
One sometimes wants to ask whether, for
Catholics like Fr Martin, there are any words in which the Church’s sexual
teaching can be defended – since they seem never to employ them. Still, the
reaction to Sarah’s speech probably had more to do with simple illiteracy than
any difference in principle. Cardinal Wilfred Napier of Durban said in the
run-up to the synod that Europeans suffer from a “widespread ignorance and
rejection not only of Church teaching but also Scripture”. He was right. Those
who do not live in Scripture and know its figures first-hand are more likely to
view biblical language as irrelevant or inflammatory.
On October 14, a week after Sarah’s speech,
Cardinal Walter Kasper complained about African interventions at the synod. “I
can only speak of Germany where the great majority wants an opening about
divorce and remarriage. It’s the same in Great Britain, it’s everywhere.” Well,
not quite everywhere: “With Africa it’s impossible. But they should not tell us
too much what to do.”
Kasper’s dismissal of Sarah and the other
Africans prompted an immediate outcry. Obianuju Ekeocha, a Nigerian Catholic
who campaigns against abortion, wrote: “Imagine my shock today as I read the
words of one of the most prominent synod fathers … As an African woman now
living in Europe, I am used to having my moral views and values ignored or put
down as an ‘African issue’.”
Cardinal Napier agreed: “It’s a real worry
to read an expression like ‘the Pope’s Theologian’ applied to Cardinal Kasper …
Kasper isn’t very respectful towards the African Church and its leaders.”
Kasper’s statement was like the breaking of
a dam. Since then, a great wave of abuse has poured over Sarah. His critics
have described him as uppity, uneducated and possibly criminal – or at least in
need of a good beating.
Michael Sean Winters of the National
Catholic Reporter reminded Sarah of his role (“Curial cardinals are, after all,
staff, exalted staff, but staff”). La Croix’s Fr William Grim called his work
“asinine … patently stupid … red-capped idiocy”. Andrea Grillo, a liberal
Italian liturgist, wrote: “Sarah has shown, for years, a significant inadequacy
and incompetence in the field of liturgy.”
In the Tablet, Fr Anthony Ruff corrected
Sarah. “It would be good if he could study the reforms more deeply and
understand, for example, what ‘mystery’ means in Catholic theology.” Massimo
Faggioli, a vaticanist who haunts Rome’s gelaterias, innocently observed that
Sarah’s apocalyptic beasts speech “would be subject to criminal charges in some
countries”. (Having ministered for years under the brutal Marxist dictatorship
of Sékou Touré, Sarah hardly needs reminding that open profession of Christian
belief can be a crime.)
After Pope Francis rejected Sarah’s call
last year for priests to celebrate mass ad orientem, contempt for Sarah broke
out in a shower of blows: “It is highly unusual for the Vatican to publicly
slap down a Prince of the Church, yet not entirely surprising given how
Cardinal Sarah has operated…” (Christopher Lamb, Tablet); “the Pope slapped
down Cardinal Sarah quite strongly, with only a bit of face-saving spared him,”
(Anthony Ruff, Pray Tell); “Pope slaps down Sarah” (Robert Mickens, on
Twitter); “Pope Francis … slapped him down” (Mickens again, in Commonweal); “a
further slap-down” (Mickens once more, a few months later in La Croix). Added
up, it makes for quite a beating.
Exchanging charges of insensitivity is
probably not the best way to settle doctrinal disputes, but the rhetoric of
Sarah’s critics reveals something important about Catholic life today: in
disputes doctrinal, moral and liturgical, liberal Catholics have become
ecclesial nationalists.
Traditional Catholics tend to support
consistent doctrinal standards and pastoral approaches regardless of national
boundaries. If they do not actually prefer the Latin Mass, they want vernacular
translations to track the Latin as closely as possible. They are not
scandalised by the way Africans speak of homosexuality or Middle Eastern
Christians of Islamism.
Liberal Catholics, meanwhile, campaign for
vernacular translation written in idiomatic style and approved by national bishops’
conferences, not by Rome. Local realities require truth to be trimmed whenever
it crosses a border. Catholic doctrinal statements should be couched in
pastorally sensitive language – sensitive, that is, to the sensibilities of the
educated, wealthy West.
One of the advantages of ecclesial
nationalism is that it allows liberals to avoid arguing on direct doctrinal
grounds, where traditional “rigorists” tend to have the upper hand. If truth
must be mediated by local realities, no man in Rome or Abuja will have much say
over the faith of Brussels and Stuttgart (this was the point behind Kasper’s
dismissal of Africans).
One sees this in writers like Commonweal’s
Rita Ferrone, who says that rather than heeding Sarah, English speakers should
be “trusting our own people and our own wisdom concerning prayer in our native
tongue”. The “we” behind that “our” is not global and Catholic, but bourgeois
and American.
What if instead of being put back in his
place, slapped down and locked up for violating Western speech codes, Sarah
becomes pope? This is what his critics fear most. Mickens writes of the dark
possibility of a “Pius XIII (also known as Robert Sarah)”. Lamb says that Sarah
may turn out to be “the first black Pope”. (That would be a beautiful thing – Sarah’s
parents, converts in the remote Guinean village of Ourous, assumed that only
white men could become priests and laughed when their son said he wanted to go
to seminary.) The same well-connected Vatican watcher who told me that Sarah’s
stock fell during the synod now says his fortunes are improving. “People have
noticed all the attacks, and his gracious refusal to respond in kind.”
It is indeed remarkable that Sarah has
suffered this hail of abuse with such grace. In his newly published book The
Power of Silence, we hear his stifled cry of anguish:
I painfully experienced assassination by
gossip, slander and public humiliation, and I learned that when a person has
decided to destroy you, he has no lack of words, spite and hypocrisy; falsehood
has an immense capacity for constructing arguments, proofs and truths out of
sand. When this is the behaviour of men of the Church, and in particular of
bishops, the pain is still deeper. But … we must remain calm and silent, asking
for the grace never to give in to rancour, hatred and feelings of
worthlessness. Let us stand firm in our love for God and for his Church, in
humility.
Despite it all, Sarah is a man unbowed. His
book reiterates his call for Mass ad orientem and the rest of the “reform of
the reform”: “God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the
reform will take place in the liturgy. Despite the gnashing of teeth, it will
happen, for the future of the Church is at stake.”
If Sarah has refused to make himself
pleasing to those who run Rome, he is not about to serve any other party
either. In this wonderfully individual book, he tells old Islamic folktales,
dotes on the suffering and weak, and decries military intervention: “How can we
not be scandalised and horrified by the action of American and Western
governments in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria?” Sarah views these as
idolatrous outpourings of blood “in the name of the goddess Democracy” and “in
the name of Liberty, another Western goddess”. He opposes the effort to build
“a religion without borders and a new global ethics”.
If that seems hyperbolic, recall that six
days after missiles hit Baghdad, Tony Blair sent George W Bush a memo saying,
“Our ambition is big: to construct a global agenda around which we can unite
the world … to spread our values of freedom, democracy, tolerance.” Sarah views
this programme as something close to blasphemy.
He has equally pungent views on the modern
economy: “The Church would commit a fatal mistake if she exhausted herself in
giving a sort of social face to the modern world that has been unleashed by
free-market capitalism.”
War, persecution, exploitation: all these
forces are part of a “dictatorship of noise”, whose incessant slogans distract
men and discredit the Church. In order to resist it, Sarah turns to the example
of Brother Vincent, a recently deceased young man whom Sarah dearly loved. Only
if we love and pray like Vincent can we hear la musica callada, the silent
music the angels played for John of the Cross. Yes, this book shows that Sarah
has a great deal to say: on the mystical life, the Church and world affairs.
But for the most part he keeps silence – while the world talks about him.
Matthew Schmitz is literary editor of First
Things and a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow
This article first appeared in the June 23
2017 issue of the Catholic Herald. To read the magazine in full, from anywhere
in the world, go here
Labels:
Robert Cardinal Sarah
For God So Loved the World
Act of Consecration of the Human Race
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly
prostrate before Thy altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be
more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself
today to Thy Most Sacred Heart. Many indeed have never known Thee; many too,
despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most
merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart.
Be
Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but
also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may
quickly return to their Father's house lest they die of wretchedness and
hunger.
Be
Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord
keeps aloof; call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that
soon there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be
Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of
Islamism; refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn
Thine eyes of mercy toward the children of that race, once Thy chosen people:
of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now
descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from
harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole
to pole with one cry: Praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to
It be glory and Honor forever. Amen.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)