Do you still have the rosary Justin? Maybe you should learn to use it, again!

How does a Catholic Bishop speak? Look no further than Bishop Krzysztof Białasik

This is how a true bishop and apostle of Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks.

One who is manly and not sold out to the world having been overcome by a guilty conscience due to their own predilections for sodomy, pornography and riches.

(translation: Toronto Catholic Witness. You are free to use, please credit us). 

Bishop Krzysztof Białasik on gender ideology and abortion:

"There are different influences that promote ideologies against the family. One of these is gender [ideology].  This ideology, which destroys life, and supports abortion, homosexual unions and the adoption of children by them; euthanasia - therefore this promotes death. As John Paul II said, it is a culture of death. God is the Lord of life and not death. Therefore, we are working so that the family will find new impulses of life.
Today, abortion is a very serious problem. In many places, as in Bolivia, some physicians say that abortion is not a problem, just a small operation, the removal of "lumps consisting of a few cells." We know well and the Church teaches this: that the human being must be protected from the moment of conception. It was once thought that the mother's womb was the safest place, this is not the case today. Many women think: "it's my body!". But it is not their body, but another person. Parents have no right to kill, because it is murder. Today abortion is a holocaust on a global scale; I call it the third world war. It is done in white gloves, but it is a holocaust" 

http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.ca/2015/10/breaking-bishop-biaasik-at-synod.html

Shut-up you stupid little Catholic. It is I, the great Clericalist Wizard of Coleridge who knows best - The Faith is not "timeless" and I've seen the "risen lord"

This proves that we are getting to them and we must not stop.

It also proves that they don't give a rat's patootie what you or I think.

They are clericalist on top of being heresiarchs.

http://brisbanecatholic.org.au/articles/on-the-road-together-invective-fear-surprise/

On the Road Together – Invective, fear and surprise "Those voices, clinging desperately to some imagined or ideologised past, cannot point the way into the future. History will have its way, however much we try to cling to illusions of timelessness."

Connect with Archbishop Mark Coleridge:

October 20, 2015
Whatever about the press conference itself, the big surprise for me has been the ferocious reaction in some quarters to what I regard as my quite moderate remarks. Twitter has been frothing with invective, which shows what’s out there – by which I mean the fear, even the panic this Synod seems to have provoked in some. That sort of thing doesn’t look like the Holy Spirit to me – red-eyed joylessness cannot be of God. The impression is that, if you touch the slightest jot or tittle not so much of what the Church teaches but of what her pastoral practice has been or how her truth has been expressed, then the whole edifice built up over 2000 years will come tumbling down. If I believed that, I’d be panicking too and hurling lemon-lipped diatribes this way and that. But I don’t believe it and therefore find myself trusting in the path that’s opening before us, with the abuse rolling like water off a duck’s back. Voices of fear, even panic, have also been heard in the Synod Hall and the small groups, but what’s clearer to me now is that those voices within have strong links to similar voices without. It’s also clear that those voices, clinging desperately to some imagined or ideologised past, cannot point the way into the future. History will have its way, however much we try to cling to illusions of timelessness.
(...)
Once we’ve done our work, it goes to the 10-man commission who are writing the final document. They’ve been hard at it, dealing with the first two parts of the working document. Cardinal John Dew told me that they were huddled over the work yesterday afternoon and into the room unannounced walked Pope Francis – like the Risen Lord, though not (I think) walking through a locked door. He simply wished them well in the work and urged them to give him a good document. They promised to try. Another moment of the Pope of surprises. Let’s hope for some surprises from the final document.
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Has Father Thomas J. Rosica, fluent in five languages, misquoted Pope Francis? If so, what are the implications?

During the address to the Synod on Saturday, last, October 17, Pope Francis quoted St. John Paul II, from the Encyclical Letter, Ut Unum Sint.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25051995_ut-unum-sint.html

The speech by Pope Francis can be found on the Vatican's web page.

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2015/10/17/0794/01750.html

Nick Donnelly @protectthePope on Twitter put out the following.

In the original Italian are the Pope's words. He then quotes from the official English translation of Ut Unum Sint and then Father Thomas J. Rosica's translation of what the Pope said quoting the same document.

I asked an Italian contact to confirm the Google translation of what the Pope said and it is pretty good. He translated it as:

"I am convinced that you have in this regard a particular responsibility, above all in acknowledging the ecumenical aspiration of the majority of Christian Communities and in hearing the question that is posed to me by..."

Well, well, well.

When the quote of St. John Paul II, whom the Pope did quote, is changed from "I am fully aware as I have reaffirmed" as Bishop of Rome in 1995 to "I am convinced that you have in this regard..." it changes the whole message. It goes from a quote of something possessed by the Bishop of Rome to a command to the bishops of the world.

But that is not what Francis said!

Nor is it what St. John Paul II said or meant.

What is Father Rosica up to?

I'm sure it was only a clerical error, "I" versus "you." What's the big deal.

Just a clerical error, I'm sure.



Nota bene:

The Pope's original speech in Italian is here:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/it/speeches/2015/october/documents/papa-francesco_20151017_50-anniversario-sinodo.html

Mentre ribadisco la necessità e l'urgenza di pensare a «una conversione del papato»[30], volentieri ripeto le parole del mio predecessore il Papa Giovanni Paolo II: «Quale Vescovo di Roma so bene [...] che la comunione piena e visibile di tutte le comunità, nelle quali in virtù della fedeltà di Dio abita il suo Spirito, è il desiderio ardente di Cristo. Sono convinto di avere a questo riguardo una responsabilità particolare, soprattutto nel constatare l'aspirazione ecumenica della maggior parte delle Comunità cristiane e ascoltando la domanda che mi è rivolta di trovare una forma di esercizio del primato che, pur non rinunciando in nessun modo all'essenziale della sua missione, si apra ad una situazione nuova»[31].

While I reiterate the need and urgency to think of "a conversion of the papacy" [30], willingly repeat the words of my predecessor Pope John Paul II: "As Bishop of Rome I know [...] that the full communion and visible from all communities, in which by virtue of God's faithfulness, his Spirit dwells, is the ardent desire of Christ. I am convinced that I have a particular responsibility in this regard, above all in acknowledging the ecumenical aspirations of the majority of the Christian Communities and in heeding the request made of me to find a way of exercising the primacy which, while in no way renouncing all ' essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation "[31].

Father Rosica’s translation is:

http://saltandlighttv.org/blog/faith-education/pope-francis-address-at-commemorative-ceremony-for-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-synod-of-bishops

While I reiterate the need and urgency to think of ” a conversion of the papacy,” I gladly repeat the words of my predecessor Pope John Paul II: “As Bishop of Rome I know well […] that the full and visible communion of all the communities in which, by virtue of God’s faithfulness, his Spirit dwells, is the ardent desire of Christ. I am convinced that you have in this regard a special responsibility, above all in acknowledging the ecumenical aspirations of the majority of the Christian Communities and in heeding the request made ??of me to find a form of exercise of the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation.”

You stupid, idiot Canadians, especially you idiot Catholics!

A young Justin Trudeau, he forgot much, but he had nice hair then too.

Well you did it.

You threw out the most respected government in the western world and a Prime Minister of class and dignity, despite what other faults he may have had. An economist for a drama teacher. That is what you traded for. Our country has the lowest taxes compared to GDP in half a century, economic stability and a balanced budget, security, respect from others around the world.

What was broken?

You threw this away for a cretin who admires "China's basic dictatorship." A pot-smoking imbecile. A man who has promised to raise your taxes, run a budgetary deficit, put our country in greater debt. He has no problem keeping citizenship for terrorists, women covering their faces at citizenship ceremonies or hanging around radical jihadists in mosques - hey, take a look at how many Islamists you morons just elected.

He will stop the gateway pipeline and back the malefactor in America by not building Keystone. He will sign on to every globalist environmental treaty and he is nothing more than a puppet for globalists, Marxists and the New World Order and global governance. He hates our military, he will endanger our national security.

He is a bad man.

Courtesy of Barona

You elected a Marxist who will accept what those holding the strings on his mouth tell him to say. Justin Trudeau will help to usher in the New World Order and One World Government, just as our Pope as evident in Laudato si.

Worse and this is for you, you corrupted Canadian Catholics.

You elected the son of an publicly immoral psychotic mother who instead of being home with her family danced at a New York disco with her pantyless bottom exposed for all to see and photograph. His Jesuit educated fascist father nearly bankrupted our country and brought us abortion on demand and a Charter of Rights we did not need which will gave us so called "marriage" within the sexes and euthanasia for which he will not attempt to stop. He will legalise marijuana. He is an bad Catholic and moral imbecile. 

And even worse.

He will do what Harper cancelled and that is use our taxes to murder the innocent in the wombs of their mothers around the world. You, my stupid, stupid idiot Canadian Catholics will be party to murder! As for here, he will prohibit any governing Member of Parliament from talking or thinking or acting for the unborn. 

Read that again my Catholic friend. You voted for the most aggressively pro-baby murder government in the history of this country.

Happy now you stooges?

You elected a drama teacher.

Get ready for it.

San Juan Archbishop Roberto González Nieves supports public outing of adulterers!

Oh for heaven's sake, can you clowns get original? The pillory's been done away with. This moronic cleric wants a public outing of adulterists before they come to Holy Communion. Well, that's merciful, eh?

Who authorised the ordination of this man?  San Juan Archbishop Roberto González Nieves told the 270 prelates at the gathering that the practice of remarried Catholics entering the Communion line with their arms crossed to indicate they wish to receive a blessing, instead of the Eucharist, demonstrates that “spiritual communion is not enough.”
“This gesture shows and suggests several things,” González said of that practice during his 3-minute address to the synod. “It is a manifestation of the desire of sacramental communion and they humble themselves before the community by making clear to all their illegal status; as if to say: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!”
Saying he wanted to present proposals to “enter into dialogue with the complexity of the pastoral reality and the salvation of souls,” González suggested to the synod that certain divorced and remarried persons might enter into something akin to an "order of penitents" through participation in "places of encounter with Jesus Christ."

http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/puerto-rico-archbishop-calls-path-communion-remarried

Mark Benedict Coleridge. Is he our latest heresiarch?

Today's press conference from the Synod to destroy the family featured Brisbane Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge.

Shall we take a look at what this episcopal eunuch had to day?

The Church has traditionally spoken that the second union is adulterous and I understand why. I understand the teaching and what lies behind it, including the biblical background. But at the same time, not every case is the same and that’s where a pastoral approach needs to take account of the different situations. For instance, just to say that every second marriage or second union whatever you want to call it is adulterous, is perhaps too sweeping. For instance, a second marriage that is enduring and stable and loving and where there are children who are cared for is not the same as a couple skulking off to a hotel room for a wicked weekend.  So the rubric, adultery, in one sense, it’s important but in another sense it doesn’t say enough and I think what a pastoral approach  requires is that we actually enter into what the synod is calling a genuine pastoral dialogue or discernment with these couples and the start of that is for people like me to actually listen to their story not just swamp them with doctrine or Church teaching. (Coleridge's commentary begins just before the 24:00 mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timmt6EvF-0)

 

I had a conversation, not too long ago, with a priest - someone who should have been a bishop except he would not dissent on Humanae vitae back in the late 1970. He opined how angry it made him when he would hear Pope Francis say that priests were not "pastoral" or "merciful." He could not understand who it was that the Pope was speaking about. I have certainly not seen a priest any less than pastoral and merciful provided I was repentant for the wretched things that I had done and brought them to either the confessional or spiritual direction.

 

Coleridge waxes on that a "second marriage or second marriage" if it is nice and all is well, is "different from skulking off to a hotel room" and therefore, not really adultery. Well, what if the second marriage began because one or both skulked off to a hotel room? Would it be adultery then?

 

What if the first wife is at home with the other children and struggling? Is there no sin in that for the person who caused the break-up and now lives in something other than adultery?

 

Truly, who educated these men? Have they all been emasculated?

 

There is something, however, even more troubling.

 

We see and hear lots of heterodox commentary at these daily briefings. Why is there no bishops speaking orthodoxy.

Perhaps Fathers Lombardi or Rosica might wish to comment and let us know.

 

We're waiting.

The malformed and deformed consciences of some Synod Fathers - The Obsession with Homosexuality!

"More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason." Our Lady of Fatima

Tell us Heresiarch Cupich, are you a sodomite? 

Is your brother bishop from Northhampton, Peter Doyle?

You can listen to "Bishop Peter" talk about he "came out to Rome" at this link on Vatican Radio. Why have they adopted the homo-heretical and sodomite language of LGBTQRSTU and V?
http://media02.radiovaticana.va/audio/audio2/mp3/00499153.mp3

"Bishop Peter says he came out to Rome conscious of that ”gap that has to be bridged” but he adds that some of the small groups are moving in that direction through seeing Jesus as both truth as well as compassion and mercy." He expresses concern that some bishops sense “a little fear” of reconciling what he describes as “a Church upholding the eternal truth of faith” and “a Church offering healing and mercy to those who have failed to live up to that teaching.” "He says those who are wanting to explore “what is God’s will for us are in no way trying to undermine the traditional teaching of the Church”, but adds it’s essential to find a way of responding to those in difficult situations…"
Bishop Peter says that in preparation for the Synod he was in contact with supporters of sides of the debate. Regarding the concerns of Catholics from the LGBT community in the UK, he says he’s concerned that the Synod “doesn’t seem to have faced up to those issues”, but rather to have pushed them “into a siding” because the bishops do not know how to respond. He says we cannot “leave people in limbo” yet the biblical understanding of male and female does “not leave room at the moment for same-sex relationships. While hoping there may be some further discussion of this topic, Bishop Doyle suggests that issues around homosexuality might merit a Synod of their own, accompanied by further exploration of the theological understanding of anthropology."

http://www.news.va/en/news/synod-bishops-building-bridges-between-truth-and-m

We cannot leave people in limbo” yet the biblical understanding of male and female does “not leave room at the moment for same-sex relationships."

At the moment? The man is a heretic!

These men talk about "seeking God's will?" Was Jesus not God incarnate, the WORD MADE FLESH? Did he not say, "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect? Perfection does not include sodomy any more than it includes adultery, murder, fornication, wife-beating, child molestation, or any other sin against God, self and man. "Seek you first the Kingdom of God" said Our Blessed Lord, not the anus of another man!

Come out, you and all your filthy, perverted brother bishops and priests.

Every one of you child-molesting, Christ-hating sodomites.  Yes, the Catholic priest abuse crisis was caused by men who were sodomites who infiltrated the Holy Priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ to seize upon their victims, teen-aged boys. They were sodomites -- homosexuals and don't let anyone tell you any different!

The real truth? 

These men have poisoned consciences and Michael Voris articulates it brilliantly:

"But see — and here is the dirty little not-so-secret secret of this Synod — many of these men constantly pounding the war drum for sodomy are troubled in their own private consciences because they are gay. They have supported this evil either directly in their own lives or have friends among their brother bishops who are sodomites themselves. They have blessed these evil unions in private or supported such horror by deliberately looking the other way.

Their own consciences have haunted and accused them for years, because they know this is wrong. They know men having sex with one another is evil and goes against nature, and since they engage in this themselves, or their clerical friends do and they support it, they have to use the Church to silence their own guilt crying out from inside of them. With all the evils plaguing the family in today's world, why do these bishops and their clerical supporters find it impossible to stop talking about homosexuality? One can only conclude that the reason they go on and on about it non-stop is because they are troubled in their own consciences."

http://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/the-vortexthe-guilty-conscience

Fisting.

Felching.

Golden showers.

Rimming.

Slurp ramps.

Glory holes

Anal intercourse

Oral copulation

Coprophagia

All according to conscience can you do these deviant things and then come to Holy Communion according to Heresiarch Cupich!

Cupich is a distorter of truth. A malefactor "tickling ears."

Remember Favalora? Leahy? Weakland?

Who do you believe, Cupich? Bode? Marx? Bonny? Doyle?

Or these?

1. Athenagoras of Athens (Second Century)

Athenagoras of Athens was a philosopher who converted to Christianity in the second century. He shows that the pagans, who were totally immoral, did not even refrain from sins against nature:

But though such is our character (Oh! why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, "The harlot reproves the chaste." For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure — who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

2. Tertullian (160–225)

Tertullian was a great genius and apologist of the early Church. Unfortunately, after an initial period of fervour, he succumbed to resentment and pride, left the Church and adhered to the Montanist heresy. Because of works written while still in the Church, he is considered an ecclesiastical writer and, as such, is commonly quoted by popes and theologians. His treatise On Modesty is an apology of Christian chastity. He clearly shows the horror the Church has for sins against nature. After condemning adultery, he exclaims:

But all the other frenzies of passions — impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes — beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

3. Eusebius of Caesarea (260–341)

Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine and the "Father of Church History," writes in his book, Demonstratio Evangelica: "[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men."

4. Saint Jerome (340–420)

Saint Jerome is both Father and Doctor of the Church. He was also a notable exegete and great polemicist. In his book Against Jovinianus, he explains how a sodomite needs repentance and penance to be saved: "And Sodom and Gomorrah might have appeased it [God's wrath], had they been willing to repent, and through the aid of fasting gain for themselves tears of repentance."

5. Saint John Chrysostom (347–407)

Saint John Chrysostom is considered the greatest of the Greek Fathers and was proclaimed Doctor of the Church. He was archbishop and patriarch of Constantinople, and his revision of the Greek liturgy is used until today. In his sermons about Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans, he dwells on the gravity of the sin of homosexuality:

But if thou scoffest at hearing of Hell and believest not that fire, remember Sodom. For we have seen, surely we have seen, even in this present life, a semblance of Hell. For since many would utterly disbelieve the things to come after the resurrection, hearing now of an unquenchable fire, God brings them to a right mind by things present. For such is the burning of Sodom, and that conflagration!

Consider how great is that sin, to have forced Hell to appear even before its time! ... For that rain was unwonted, for the intercourse was contrary to nature, and it deluged the land, since lust had done so with their souls. Wherefore also the rain was the opposite of the customary rain. Now not only did it fail to stir up the womb of the earth to the production of fruits, but made it even useless for the reception of seed. For such was also the intercourse of the men, making a body of this sort more worthless than the very land of Sodom. And what is there more detestable than a man who hath pandered himself, or what more execrable?

6. Saint Augustine (354–430)

The greatest of the Fathers of the West and one of the great Doctors of the Church, St. Augustine laid the foundations of Catholic theology. In his celebrated Confessions, he thus condemns homosexuality:

Those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation and punished; such were those of the Sodomites, which should all nations commit, they should all be held guilty of the same crime by the divine law, which hath not so made men that they should in that way abuse one another. For even that fellowship which should be between God and us is violated, when that same nature of which He is author is polluted by the perversity of lust.

7. Saint Gregory the Great (540–604)

Pope Saint Gregory I is called "the Great." He is both Father and Doctor of the Church. He introduced Gregorian chant into the Church. He organised England's conversion, sending St. Augustine of Canterbury and many Benedictine monks there.

Sacred Scripture itself confirms that sulphur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire and sulphur poured upon Sodom by the Lord. He had decided to punish Sodom for the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment he chose emphasised the shame of that crime. For sulphur stinks, and fire burns. So it was just that Sodomites, burning with perverse desires arising from the flesh like stench, should perish by fire and sulphur so that through this just punishment they would realise the evil they had committed, led by a perverse desire.

8. Saint Peter Damian (1007–1072)

Doctor of the Church, cardinal and a great reformer of the clergy, St. Peter Damian wrote his famous Book of Gomorrah against the inroads made by homosexuality among the clergy. He describes not only the iniquity of homosexuality, but also its psychological and moral consequences:

Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.… It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth. ...

The miserable flesh burns with the heat of lust; the cold mind trembles with the rancour of suspicion; and in the heart of the miserable man chaos boils like Tartarus [Hell]. ... In fact, after this most poisonous serpent once sinks its fangs into the unhappy soul, sense is snatched away, memory is borne off, the sharpness of the mind is obscured. It becomes unmindful of God and even forgetful of itself. This plague undermines the foundation of faith, weakens the strength of hope, destroys the bond of charity; it takes away justice, subverts fortitude, banishes temperance, blunts the keenness of prudence.

And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

9. Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

Commenting upon St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (1:26–27), St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, explains why the sin of homosexuality is so grave:

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed. ... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature — not that God led them to evil, but only that He abandoned them to evil. ...

If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature. ...

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason. ...

Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.

10. Saint Catherine of Siena (1347–1380)

Saint Catherine, a great mystic and Doctor of the Church, lived in troubled times. The papacy was in exile at Avignon, France. She was instrumental in bringing the popes back to Rome. Her famous Dialogues are written as if dictated by God Himself:

But they act in a contrary way, for they come full of impurity to this mystery, and not only of that impurity to which, through the fragility of your weak nature, you are all naturally inclined (although reason, when free will permits, can quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that this sin stinks before Me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease Me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a divine judgement, My divine justice being no longer able to endure it. This sin not only displeases Me as I have said, but also the devils whom these wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because their nature was originally angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin.

11. Saint Bernardine of Siena (1380–1444)

Saint Bernardine of Siena was a famous preacher, celebrated for his doctrine and holiness. Regarding homosexuality, he stated:

No sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God. ... Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect, destroys elevation and generosity of soul, brings the mind down from great thoughts to the lowliest, makes the person slothful, irascible, obstinate and obdurate, servile and soft and incapable of anything; furthermore, agitated by an insatiable craving for pleasure, the person follows not reason but frenzy. ... They become blind and, when their thoughts should soar to high and great things, they are broken down and reduced to vile and useless and putrid things, which could never make them happy. ... Just as people participate in the glory of God in different degrees, so also in hell some suffer more than others. He who lived with this vice of sodomy suffers more than another, for this is the greatest sin.

12. Saint Peter Canisius (1521–1597)

Saint Peter Canisius, Jesuit and Doctor of the Church, is responsible for helping one third of Germany abandon Lutheranism and return to the Church. To Scripture's condemnation of homosexuality, he added his own:

As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly sinful. Saint Peter and St. Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved sin. In fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: "The scandal of Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have become grave beyond measure." So the angels said to just Lot, who totally abhorred the depravity of the Sodomites: "Let us leave this city. ..." Holy Scripture does not fail to mention the causes that led the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this most grievous sin. In fact, in Ezechiel we read: "Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me; and I took them away as thou hast seen" (Ezek. 16:49–50). Those unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of this never sufficiently execrated depravity.

http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/who-says-homosexual-activity-is-wrong

My fellow Canadians including my family and friends

To my fellow Canadians and to my family and friends who are free to unfriend me or otherwise consider our relationship as you will. 

Read my words.

TODAY - Monday, October 19 is election day in Canada.

Two leaders, Trudeau and Mulcair are Roman Catholics. They are apostates, and they are party to murder.

Steven Harper is a coward, he is not a Catholic and therefore cannot apostatise. 

The Canadian bishops will tell you that the environment is important and social justice is important, that capital punishment is important. They have mislead you. We have every right to disagree on prudential decisions on how the economy should be, social supports, employment and law and order. We have no right to dissent on the matter of Life.

Abortion is murder and Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party is a dictator that ordered that any candidate must sign that they support abortion. No Member of Parliament can bring forward even a Private Member's Bill to protect Life. Thomas Mulcair of the Socialist Party has the same policy.

Harper and the Conservatives have no policy on abortion. They hold a neutral or cowardly position. He allowed private member bills to come forward but would not support him. We have no laws on abortion at all, not trimester limited, not partial-birth restriction, nothing.

However, Harper prohibited Canadian taxpayer dollars from being used to fund abortion in foreign countries. The Catholic Trudeau, would restore these murders.

As a Catholic with an informed conscience, (which this letter is about) you cannot vote to commit evil. You cannot vote Liberal or NDP without voting for abortion to continue in Canada with no ability to reduce it, and in fact, increase it worldwide. By voting for one of these you will be participating in the murder of the innocent.

If you have a pro-life candidate you should vote for that person, but you will NOT find him or her in the Liberals or NDP. You may find them in the Conservatives or a fourth party. Your vote for a fourth party may put in a worse candidate, Liberal or NDP, who will also not restrict the coming euthanasia abomination which I believe the Conservatives will from what Party sources have confirmed.

Trudeau has vowed to legalise marijuana and fund foreign abortions. He has admitted smoking pot, since being a Member of Parliament. Sorry, pot messes with your brain and Justin is proof of that.

If you vote Liberal or NDP you will a commit a crime against the unborn. 

You cannot vote for evil and you cannot vote for the lesser evil.

You can vote neutral and to for those who would do less evil considering that they're mostly a bunch of self-serving, arrogant, egotistical and corrupt incompetents. Having worked for Cabinet Minister on Parliament Hill and Queen's Park, I can attest to that.

If you vote Liberal or NDP, do not call yourself a Catholic.

In case you've never seen it, this is what abortion looks like.

For a different take on Harper being the last man standing against the globalist government consider Lord Monckton's thoughts at LifeSiteNews.

The Vatican Press office has "made a big mistake"

Some people brag about their relationships and their work.

Others take a different view.

“Father Rosica is reporting what he heard on the floor, but a great problem is, we don’t know who said it and how many people agreed with it; and it’s sort of a statement without author so it floats out there. It really is a ridiculous statement in itself. To say something that is part of Catholic morality, ‘love the sinner hate the sin’ doesn’t work - work? What does that mean? Of course it works! Loving the sinner is what Jesus Christ did and he calls us to repentance! So, we have to know who said it, why did they say it, and then maybe can they explain it, if there were summaries of each individual intervention then reporters can go to that person  and say, ‘well you said this, did you really  mean it?’ He might say, ‘actually I misstepped or misspoke or I didn’t mean to say it and actually it means something else.’ This is really an information control problem that I think the press office and the synod management committee have made a big mistake. Statements without authors really aren’t useful in furthering discussion.”  Father Gerald Murray beginning at 10:20

“The nervousness created by the lack of clarity about the process may be the worst thing of all.” Dr. Robert Royal

 

The Synod one year ago today - and repeated all over again

Originally blogged one year ago today.

Saturday, 18 October 2014

No stopping the Synod backlash - responsibility is with Pope Francis himself

Now that the Synod is wrapping up, we await the final report and whatever gift we are given tomorrow, Sunday.

Every Catholic must be indebted to Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Napier, Cardinal Pell to the Polish Bishops' Conference and to others whom we are not directly aware not within the English-speaking world. Make no mistake, the people behind the machinations and deception this week intended to change doctrine. It is a homosexual and modernist cabal deep inside the Church. They are masonic, they hate the Church, they hate Christ, they hate you and me. They are malefactors and they will be back again.

Two weeks ago, it was about the civilly divorced and remarried. The actions this week show the truth -- this Synod has been about:

• The approval of sodomy and alternative family arrangements.
• A dismissive attitude towards mortal sin.
• A profanation of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
• And as Cardinal Kasper revealed in his racist rant about Africa, a confederation of national churches under a first among equals. 

The scandal, the utter tragedy in all of this is to see the Holy Father, Pope Francis approve of all of it by not only his silence but by his apparent participation in political games of note-passing and head-nodding in the Synod hall. This is action beneath the Vicar of Christ, the Pope. It is an insult to Our Blessed Lord and to the Body of Christ -- the Church and you and I as members of Her.

It is time to put away two things; the first is this, the Holy Spirit does not directly elect the Pope. Second; papolatry is a violation of the First Commandment, it is not Catholic and never was. We have to face this friends, Christ is the Head, the Pope is His servant. He can make mistakes in prudential judgement and action and in the case of the last 18 months, there have been many.

Never could I have imagined a most senior Cardinal (Burke) ever calling out a Pope and state that the Pope is actively and positively doing "harm" to the Church. We've seen him lectured to do his "job" in a brilliant and humble column by Father Longenecker and the process denounced by Father Vincent Twomey. There is more, to be sure, including this report from Rorate.

We are facing a crisis unknown for at least five-hundred years and the protestant revolution. In fact, it may become the greatest crisis in seventeen-hundred years and the time of Arius. Do not underestimate that which we are facing and it must be said that the person responsible for this is Pope Francis himself. He called this Synod and appointed the antagonists, gave approval and promotion to the public heretic, racist, lying, calumniator, Kasper and he has not taken one step which the Catholic people need to see to reign him in or denounce him. Cardinal Kasper attempted yesterday to destroy a person's career to hide his own mistakes and Pope Francis says nothing.

These men, these malefactors have done great harm; they have disturbed the hearts and souls of millions of Catholics and they are doing evil.

Yesterday, I spoke with a good friend who has been counselling a young man that is struggling with same-sex attraction and chastity. The young man announced to him yesterday that he has a new "boyfriend" and he referred to the change that the Church has taken to justify it. You and I know that there is no "change" but as Cardinal Napier indicated, the damage is done.

Learn from the Prophet Ezechiel; "If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand."

Saint Luke and Saint Matthew both tell us of Our Lord's words, "he that shall scandalise one of these little ones that believes in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea." Jesus held nothing back. The people that have committed this scandal these last few weeks have done the work of Satan. The two paragraphs above apply. God will not be mocked and He is just. The young man referred to earlier has free choice, but those that confused him this week will be judged by God for what they did.

There is no blaming the media this week. The Church has a self-inflicted wound. Pray for Pope Francis that he upholds the faith and guards the Church from heresy. The wolves that drove out our Benedict are still there, and with Pope Francis, they seem to have be emboldened. We love Pope Francis, we must pray for him and convict ourselves for not doing so; but we cannot accept heresy; we cannot accept a change in doctrine through stealth or in any other way. 

Gird your loins and put on the helmet of salvation. Go to confession, go to Mass. Seek out proper liturgy. Pray the Mass and receive Holy Communion devoutly. Be vigilant. Do not break faith with the Truth.  The Truth is found in Tradition. When in doubt you follow what we have always followed. Truth is in Tradition, doctrine does not change. Revelation is not new, there are no "surprises." 

We are in a battle friends. Our Mother is besieged and violated. It is up to you and me to fight for Her. This is the glorious duty that we have that is not to be diminished. This is our time. This is our Crusade. This is our great blessing.

Ave Maria!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Is Francis about to declare something "Infallible?" Is he about to "devolve" the Catholic Church into Orthodox or Anglican type "communions?"

Pope Francis has spoken to the Synod today. A Synod that is out of control in organisation and heretical statements.

Is he about to use his ultimate authority?

If the Pope speaks and declares something "infallible" it can only be on matters of faith and morals (get that my neocath papolater friends?)

He cannot state infallibly, that sodomy is not a sin or that that sodomite or lesbian relationships or state-sanctioned "marriage" can be blest. He cannot state that adultery (civil remarriage after a valid Sacrament of Matrimony) is not a sin. The legal or pastoral permission to provide Holy Communion to unrepentant sinners is a blapshemy and sacrilege and he cannot teach this.

Do not misunderstand, "the gates of Hell will not prevail." They will not, but Our Lord did not say that the Church would not be shaken. Do not think that a Pope cannot teach error. He can, it is just that he cannot teach it infallibly and if he tries to do so, it will be up to bishops of faith to denounce him, if the Holy Spirit does not strike him dead first.

The Pope is saying he is in charge. Good, then he should sanction the likes of Cupich, Danneels, Marx, Dew, Durocher and that no nothing from Panama that wants a return to the Mosaic Law and no doubt, a dozen or more others.    

Instead he talks about devolution. Is this to be to the bishop or the conferences? The former is one thing, the latter is heretical.

Prior to the Council of Trent, the Church was less centralised, even in liturgies as perhaps the most visible element. This decentralization lead to the Church being controlled by the crowns in many lands of Europe and used for political purposes as in England. The orthodox are still a prime example of this and we see this in Russia. The Council of Trent consolidated power for a reason, it was a response to heresy and the protestant revolution of Luther, Calvin and Zwingli and Cramner.

Are we prepared to trust the various episcopal conferences with doctrine? 

Why is Francis ready to follow a failed model of Anglicanism and the Orthodox. It is not Catholic. 

When will the faithful bishops rise up and stop this madness. Madness that comes from Bergoglio himself. 

Pope Francis’ Address at Commemorative Ceremony
for the 50th Anniversary of the Synod of Bishops
October 17, 2015
Paul VI Audience Hall – Vatican City

[Working translation prepared by Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB,
Rosica's spelling errors corrected
English language media attaché, Holy See Press Office]

Your Beatitudes, Eminences, Excellencies, Brothers and Sisters,

As the XIV Ordinary General Assembly is underway, it is a joy for me to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops and to praise and honor the Lord for the Synod of Bishops. From the Second Vatican Council up to the current Synod on the Family, we have gradually learned of the necessity and beauty of “walking together.”

On this happy occasion I would like to extend a cordial greeting to His Eminence Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops along with the Undersecretary, His Excellency Archbishop Fabio Fabene, the Officials, the Consultors and other collaborators in the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. Together with them, I greet and thank the Synod Fathers and other participants in this Synod gathered here this morning in this hall.

At this time we also want to remember those who, over the course of the last 50 years, have worked in the service of the Synod, starting from the successive General Secretaries: Cardinals Władysław Rubin, Jozef Tomko, Jan Pieter Schotte and Archbishop Nikola Eterovic. I take this opportunity to express my deepest, heartfelt gratitude to those – both living and deceased – who made such generous and competent contributions to the activities of the Synod of Bishops.

From the beginning of my ministry as Bishop of Rome I intended to enhance the Synod, which is one of the most precious legacies of the Second Vatican Council. For Blessed Paul VI, the Synod of Bishops was meant to keep alive the image of the Ecumenical Council and to reflect the conciliar spirit and method. The same Pontiff desired that the synodal organism "over time would be greatly improved." Twenty years later, St. John Paul II would echo those sentiments when he stated that "perhaps this tool can be further improved. Perhaps the collegial pastoral responsibility can find even find a fuller expression in the Synod.” Finally, in 2006, Benedict XVI approved some changes to the Ordo Synodi Episcoporum, especially in light of the provisions of the Code of Canon Law and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, promulgated in meantime.

We must continue on this path. The world in which we live and that we are called to love and serve even with its contradictions, demands from the Church the Church the strengthening of synergies in all areas of her mission. And it is precisely on this way of synodality where we find the pathway that God expects from the Church of the third millennium.

In a certain sense, what the Lord asks of us is already contained in the word "synod." Walking together – Laity, Pastors, the Bishop of Rome – is an easy concept to put into words, but not so easy to put into practice. After reiterating that People of God is comprised of all the baptized who are called to "be a spiritual edifice and a holy priesthood," the Second Vatican Council proclaims that "the whole body of the faithful, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief and manifests this reality in the supernatural sense of faith of the whole people, when 'from the bishops to the last of the lay faithful' show their total agreement in matters of faith and morals."

In the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium I stressed that "the people of God is holy because this anointing makes [the people] infallible "in matters of belief”, adding that "each baptized person, no matter what their function is in the Church and whatever educational level of faith, is an active subject of evangelization and it would be inappropriate to think of a framework of evangelization carried out by qualified actors in which the rest of the faithful People were only recipients of their actions. The sensus fidei prevents rigid separation between “Ecclesia” (Church) and the Church teaching, and learning (Ecclesia docens discens), since even the Flock has an "instinct" to discern the new ways that the Lord is revealing to the Church.

It was this conviction that guided me when I desired that God's people would be consulted in the preparation of the two-phased synod on the family. Certainly, a consultation like this would never be able to hear the entire sensus fidei (sense of the faith). But how would we ever be able to speak about the family without engaging families, listening to their joys and their hopes, their sorrows and their anguish? Through the answers to the two questionnaires sent to the particular Churches, we had the opportunity to at least hear some of the people on those issues that closely affect them and about which they have much to say.

A synodal church is a listening church, knowing that listening "is more than feeling.” It is a mutual listening in which everyone has something to learn. Faithful people, the College of Bishops, the Bishop of Rome: we are one in listening to others; and all are listening to the Holy Spirit, the "Spirit of truth" (Jn 14:17), to know what the Spirit "is saying to the Churches" (Rev 2:7).

The Synod of Bishops is the convergence point of this dynamic of listening conducted at all levels of church life. The synodal process starts by listening to the people, who “even participate in the prophetic office of Christ", according to a principle dear to the Church of the first millennium: "Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus tractari debet" [what concerns all needs to be debated by all]. The path of the Synod continues by listening to the pastors. Through the Synod Fathers, the bishops act as true stewards, interpreters and witnesses of the faith of the whole Church, who must be able to carefully distinguish from that which flows from frequently changing public opinion.

On the eve of the Synod of last year I stated: "First of all, let us ask the Holy Spirit for the gift of listening for the Synod Fathers, so that with the Spirit, we might be able to hear the cry of the people and listen to the people until we breathe the will to which God calls us.”

Finally, the synodal process culminates in listening to the Bishop of Rome, who is called upon to pronounce as "pastor and teacher of all Christians," not based on his personal convictions but as a supreme witness of “totius fides Ecclesiae” (the faith of the whole Church), of the guarantor of obedience and the conformity of the Church to the will of God, to the Gospel of Christ and to the Tradition of the Church.

The fact that the Synod always act, cum Petro et sub Petro - therefore not only cum Petro, but also sub Petro – this is not a restriction of freedom, but a guarantee of unity. In fact the Pope, by the will of the Lord, is "the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops as much as of the multitude of the faithful." To this is connected the concept of “ierarchica communio” (hierarchical communio) used by Vatican II: the Bishops being united with the Bishop of Rome by the bond of episcopal communion (cum Petro) and at the same time hierarchically subjected to him as head of the college (sub Petro).

As a constitutive dimension of the Church, synodality gives us the more appropriate interpretive framework to understand the hierarchical ministry. If we understand as St. John Chrysostom did, that “church and synod are synonymous,” since the Church means nothing other than the common journey of the Flock of God along the paths of history towards the encounter of Christ Lord, then we understand that within the Church, no one can be raised up higher than the others. On the contrary, in the Church, it is necessary that each person be “lowered " in order to serve his or her brothers and sisters along the way.

Jesus founded the Church by placing at its head the Apostolic College, in which the apostle Peter is the "rock" (cfr. Mt 16:18), the one who will confirm his brothers in the faith (cfr. Lk 22: 32). But in this church, as in an inverted pyramid, the summit is located below the base. For those who exercise this authority are called "ministers" because, according to the original meaning of the word, they are the least of all. It is in serving the people of God that each Bishop becomes for that portion of the flock entrusted to him, vicarius Christi, (vicar of that Jesus who at the Last Supper stooped to wash the feet of the Apostles (cfr. Jn 13: 1-15 ). And in a similar manner, the Successor of Peter is none other than the servus servorum Dei (Servant of the servants of God).

Let us never forget this! For the disciples of Jesus, yesterday, today and always, the only authority is the authority of the service, the only power is the power of the cross, in the words of the Master: “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their leaders oppress them. It shall not be so among you: but whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave" (Mt 20:25-27). “It shall not be so among you:” in this expression we touch the heart of the mystery of the Church and receive the necessary light to understand hierarchical service.

In a Synodal Church, the Synod of Bishops is only the most obvious manifestation of a dynamism of communion that inspires all ecclesial decisions. The first level of exercize of synodality is realized in the particular (local) Churches. After having recalled the noble institution of the diocesan Synod, in which priests and laity are called to collaborate with the Bishop for the good of the whole ecclesial community, the Code of Canon Law devotes ample space to those that are usually called “bodies of communion” in the local Church: the Council of Priests, the College of Consultors, the Chapter of Canons and the Pastoral Council. Only to the extent that these organizations are connected with those on the ground, and begin with the people and their everyday problems, can a Synodal Church begin to take shape: even when they may proceed with fatigue, they must be understood as occasions of listening and sharing.

The second level is that of Ecclesiastical Provinces and Regions, of Particular (local Councils) and in a special way, Episcopal Conferences. We must reflect on realizing even more through these bodies – the intermediary aspects of collegiality – perhaps perhaps by integrating and updating some aspects of early church order. The hope of the Council that such bodies would help increase the spirit of episcopal collegiality has not yet been fully realized. As I have said, “In a Church Synod it is not appropriate for the Pope to replace the local Episcopates in the discernment of all the problems that lie ahead in their territories. In this sense, I feel the need to proceed in a healthy "decentralization."

The last level is that of the universal Church. Here the Synod of Bishops, representing the Catholic episcopate, becomes an expression of episcopal collegiality inside a church that is synodal. It manifests the affective collegiality, which may well become in some circumstances "effective," joining the Bishops among themselves and with the Pope in the solicitude for the People God.

The commitment to build a Synodal Church to which all are called – each with his or her role entrusted to them by the Lord is loaded with ecumenical implications. For this reason, talking recently to a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, I reiterated the conviction that "careful consideration of how to articulate in the Church's life the principle of collegiality and the service of the one who presides offers a significant contribution to the progress of relations between our Churches."

I am convinced that in a synodal Church, the exercise of the Petrine primacy will receive greater light. The Pope is not, by himself, above the Church; but inside it as one baptized among the baptized, and within the College of Bishops as Bishop among Bishops; as one called at the same time as Successor of Peter – to lead the Church of Rome which presides in charity over all the Churches.

While I reiterate the need and urgency to think of " a conversion of the papacy,” I gladly repeat the words of my predecessor Pope John Paul II: "As Bishop of Rome I know well [...] that the full and visible communion of all the communities in which, by virtue of God's faithfulness, his Spirit dwells, is the ardent desire of Christ. I am convinced that you have in this regard a special responsibility, above all in acknowledging the ecumenical aspirations of the majority of the Christian Communities and in heeding the request made of me to find a form of exercise of the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation.”

Our gaze extends also to humanity. A synodal church is like a banner lifted up among the nations (cfr. Is 11:12) in a world that even though invites participation, solidarity and transparency in public administration – often hands over the destiny of entire populations into the greedy hands of restricted groups of the powerful. As a Church that “walks together" with men and women, sharing the hardships of history, let us cultivate the dream that the rediscovery of the inviolable dignity of peoples and the exercise of authority, even now will be able to help civil society to be founded on justice and fraternity, generating a more beautiful and worthy world for mankind and for the generations that will come after us.