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| Archbishop Viganò Interview w/ Il Messaggero - August 20, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-22-2024, 06:38 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Interview by Franca Giansoldati
published in 'Il Messaggero' newspaper on August 20, 2024 (p. 10)
Taken from here.
1. A step back in time: in 2011 Pope Ratzinger implored you to accept being appointed as Nuncio to the United States, leaving the role of the Governorate where you were cleaning it up internally. You had clashes with Cardinal Bertone, then Secretary of State, whose name is linked to the scandal of the misappropriation of funds from the Bambino Gesù [Hospital] even though he was never investigated. What did Benedict XVI say to you? How did things go that day, and what were the main reasons for the disagreement with Bertone?
To speak of a “disagreement” seems euphemistic to me. Thirsty for power, unscrupulous, manipulative, and contiguous to Masonic circles: this is the portrait of Cardinal Bertone, to whom Benedict XVI was unfortunately subjugated. Bertone did everything he could to remove me from the Secretariat of State, because in my very delicate role I prevented him from promoting “his” candidates, men of his circle, who were corrupt and often sexually perverted. He managed to transfer me to the Governorate on July 16, 2009, where in my action to combat the vast network of corruption I had discovered the role and complicity of the Secretary of State himself in covering, supporting, and promoting the malfeasance and in making personal profit from it. Benedict XVI told me – during the private audience granted to me on April 4, 2011 – that he wanted to appoint me President of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, but Bertone (with the complicity of Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate, who was also involved in the network of corruption) imposed himself forcefully on the Pope and obtained my expulsion from the Roman Curia.
Aware of this plot hatched to the detriment of the Holy See and Benedict himself, and knowing that the Pope’s will that I continue to “clean up” was being subverted (while my removal would have nullified the work done and left the corrupt unpunished), I initially tried to resist, not without great difficulty, since I was precluded from having any direct access to the Pope.
Thus, after a long inner travail, a personal letter from Benedict XVI convinced me to accept the nomination to the United States. He wrote to me: “I would like to tell you that I have been reflecting and praying about your condition after the latest events. The painful news of the death of His Excellency Msgr. Pietro Sambi has confirmed me in the conviction that your providential position at this time is the Nunciature in the United States of America. Furthermore, I am certain that your knowledge of this great country will help you to take on the demanding challenge of this work, which in many ways is decisive for the future of the universal Church.”
2. Bertone still lives in the “famous” apartment in the Vatican, while you, when your mandate in the United States ended, had your apartment in the Curia taken away. A further humiliation. Here too: how did things go, and how do you explain it?
The apartment I was assigned was located in the Santa Marta Hospice, known as Santa Marta Vecchia (not to be confused with the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ) where the priests who worked in the Secretariat of State were housed and where I had already lived for eleven years. It was John Paul II who made it available to me when I returned from Nigeria. The then Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano sent me a letter in which he specified that the reason for this assignment desired by the Pope was “so that you may reside permanently in the Vatican.”
On the same day of my seventy-fifth birthday, in January 2016, I received a letter signed by the then Substitute Becciu in which I was informed that Bergoglio ordered me to leave my apartment immediately, also denying me the possibility of residing in the Casa San Benedetto prepared by Benedict XVI for retired Nuncios. The justification given to me was that there was a need for that apartment for the heads of the Dicasteries. As far as I know, it remained vacant for at least the next seven years, and perhaps it still is today. This was clearly a vindictive action, because Bergoglio wanted to get rid of those who knew too much and those who, being neither blackmailable nor corruptible, were therefore not able to be manipulated. Bergoglio also knew that I would not be deceived by his lies, since I was amply aware of them.
The important thing, however, was to get me away from the Vatican, and this is what happened. With today’s eyes, however, I thank Providence for this expulsion: had I remained within the Vatican walls, I do not think I would have been able to enjoy the necessary freedom to express myself and to denounce Bergoglio and his accomplices.
3.Recently, the court of Enna [in Sicily] sentenced the priest Don Giuseppe Rugolo, arrested in Ferrara in April 2021, to 4 years and 6 months in prison for attempted aggravated sexual assault against a minor. The investigations revealed disturbing cover-ups: how can this attitude be reconciled with the supposed “zero tolerance” for cases of sexual abuse by the clergy affirmed by Pope Francis?
In 2019, Bergoglio promulgated the Motu Proprio Vos Estis Lux Mundi, later amended in 2023, in which he established that a Bishop who covers up a case of sexual abuse by one of his priests must be removed and prosecuted. This document was intended by Bergoglio to give credence to the “zero tolerance” narrative. The sequence of scandals that have come to light even very recently demonstrate that this is in reality a mere facade operation, which also has the immediate effect of taking cases of this type to Rome, allowing them to be controlled and – indeed – covered up.
Faced with the detailed complaints of the young Antonio Messina for acts committed between 2009 and 2013 in Piazza Armerina by Fr. Giuseppe Rugolo, who was still a seminarian at the time, the Curia and the Roman Dicasteries contacted by the victim and her parents in 2016 did not take any action. Bishop Rosario Gisana actually moved to cover up the case and offered the victim 25,000 euros to hush everything up. In a wiretap that was made public, Bishop Gisana admitted: “The problem is also mine because I covered up this story… oh well; never mind; we’ll see how we can get out of it.” Fr. Vincenzo Murgano, the priest who had suggested to Antonio Messina that he should just “forget” the violence, has been responsible for the service for the protection of minors of the Diocese of Piazza Armerina since 2019.
Transferred to Ferrara in 2019 for “treatment,” Fr. Rugolo was assigned by Archbishop Giancarlo Perego to the pastoral care of the faithful, thus exposing young people to the risk that the priest would repeat his crimes. Archbishop Perego, informed of “a proceeding against Fr. Giuseppe for an episode prior to his ordination,” declared that “[Bishop Gisana] showed me that this incident had already been evaluated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and that it absolutely did not constitute a limitation to his presence with us.” Perego’s responsibilities are therefore the same as Bishop Gisana’s, since he could not have been unaware of the reasons for the transfer of the Sicilian priest to his diocese. Yet in the summer of 2020, Archbishop Perego even allowed Fr. Rugolo to organize a camp for teenagers in the parish of Vigarano Mainarda. The trial documents show that between March 2020 and January 2021, Fr. Rugolo accessed pornographic sites with the search term “teen” at all times of the day and night, with an average of at least 60 per day, while he met with local young people and hosted a former student of his from Enna in a hotel in Ravenna.
Last December 2023, when Fr. Rugolo and other accomplices were sent to trial during the criminal trial conducted by the Court of Enna, Jorge Mario Bergoglio publicly expressed his appreciation for the work of Bishop Gisana: “Well done; this bishop, well done. He was persecuted, slandered, and he was firm, always, just, a just man. For this reason, that day when I went to Palermo, I wanted to stop first in Piazza Armerina to greet him; he is a good bishop.” With this public act he heavily interfered in the autonomy and independence of Italian judges, using the authority and prestige of the Papacy – which Bergoglio usurps – to shamefully cover up the corruption of his protégés.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, so eager to impose excommunications on those who denounce the modernist coup underway in the Church, obviously remains silent. Its Prefect, Tucho Fernández, is a pornographer and author of obscene heretical and erotic pamphlets – including La pasión mística [The Mystical Passion] and Sáname con tu boca [Heal Me With Your Mouth] – and it is clear that such a figure has no intention of shedding light on scandals in which both he and his Principal have shown a disturbing contiguity, protecting and even promoting the culprits. How likely is it that Bishop Gisana and Archbishop Perego will be tried by Fernández, when it is actually Bergoglio should be the first defendant in this and other similar criminal cases? Dog doesn’t eat dog!
The Catholic Church is in the same situation as many governments: it is held hostage by a subversive network of corrupt and perverted people who have reached the top of the institutions and are capable of silencing all the scandals in which they are complicit. When the horrors committed by this global criminal organization, especially crimes against minors, come to light, those responsible will have nowhere to hide.
4. And so we come to the schism: how are you experiencing this moment full of tensions?
During these very days, citizens in Great Britain are protesting against the government, whose policies of ethnic replacement through the continuous flow of illegal immigrants make peaceful coexistence impossible and cause an exponential increase in crime. The police have orders to repress all demonstrations and to protect the gangs of violent non-EU citizens, mostly Muslims, ready to establish Sharia law manu militari in England. In practice, the British government, in order to make the English people disappear according to the globalist agenda, promotes and finances uncontrolled immigration while repressing and taxing its own citizens.
The situation in the Church is very similar – in Rome, too, there is a government that wants to replace its Hierarchy and the people of the faithful by “unloading” – so to speak – into the very bosom of the Church a mass of people who lead lifestyles objectively incompatible with Catholic Faith and Morals, but whom Bergoglio’s synodal Church considers as the main interlocutors and whom it welcomes in the name of inclusiveness and “todos todos todos!” Those who are naïve think that the Hierarchy acts in this way out of a zeal for charity that is perhaps excessive and human pity for migrants. Those who observe reality without blinders understand that the ultimate goal of Bergoglian immigrationism is to create division in the ecclesial body, knowing what the results are also by looking at the precedent of what is happening in civil society.
This project of ethnic (and in this case, religious) substitution acts on two fronts: on the external front, it makes us believe that in order to belong to the Church it is not even necessary to believe in the Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and that all doctrinal and moral differences can be overcome in the name of an impossible brotherhood (just as globalist governments make us believe that it is possible to welcome hordes of Muslims into Christian nations without devastating consequences on the social fabric). The insistence of Bergoglio and almost all the bishops on welcoming immigrants is part of this divisive action. On the domestic front, however, Bergoglio abuses the authority of the Papacy (which he usurps) in order to remove from the Church those Catholics who have remained faithful, so that he can eliminate any internal opposition to his subversive plan.
Those who denounce the Bergoglian coup and more generally the globalist coup d’état must be silenced. The excommunication against me, even if manifestly invalid and null and void, constitutes a form of repression of dissent and should serve as a deterrent for others. I am convinced that I would have gravely failed in my duties as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles if I had continued to remain silent, as unfortunately all my confreres do.
5. The Vatican claims it declared you to be in schism because in some of your statements you have denied the authority of the Pope. How do things now stand?
Schism is a sin against the unity of the Church. It is carried out at the moment when a baptized person refuses to submit to the authority of the Roman Pontiff and to remain in the communion of faith and charity of the Catholic Church. But what happens if on the Chair of Peter there is – instead of a Pope who defends and governs the Church – there is a usurper who systematically demolishes her, and who is chosen and appointed by fraud by the St. Gallen Mafia for this very purpose? The Catholic Church is presently occupied by an extraneous body that superimposes itself on her and obscures her, similar to an eclipse: this extraneous body is not the Church, but the anti-church of the False Prophet, and as such it is not possible to be in communion with it. Catholics belong to the Catholic Church, not to its conciliar and synodal counterfeit of which Bergoglio is the head. It is Bergoglio who is in a state of schism with the Church of which he claims to be Pope, and as a heretic and schismatic he does not have nor can he exercise any power, nor demand any obedience.
I reiterate, however, that the use of the judiciary for political purposes that we witness in the civil sphere, especially in the United States of America, is mirrored in the ecclesiastical sphere through instrumental and specious canonical sanctions. And I know for certain that the excommunication against me was desired directly by Bergoglio, who is so arrogant and brazen in his action that he rewarded with an ecclesiastical office the official who carried it out, appointing him archbishop: we are well beyond simony.
6. Where do you live? In Switzerland, in the United States, or near Viterbo?
After my memorial about Cardinal McCarrick was published in August 2018, a contact of mine from the United States warned me that my life was in danger: for this reason I do not reside in a fixed place. I don’t want to end up like Cardinal Pell, nor my predecessor in Washington, the Apostolic Nuncio Pietro Sambi (who strenuously confronted McCarrick so much that you could hear his screams throughout the Nunciature as he rebuked the predatory Cardinal). Archbishop Sambi died in circumstances that have never been clarified, after a trivial operation at John’s Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (which is connected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum in Davos). McCarrick disappeared for a month in 2011 – simultaneous to the death of the Nuncio – and did not attend his funeral. The death certificate issued to Msgr. Jean-François Lanteaume, Chargé d’Affaires at the Nunciature, did not explain the causes of the Nuncio’s death, nor was an autopsy ever carried out on Archbishop Sambi.
7. What are your thoughts on the accusation that you have rejected the Second Vatican Council?
The accusation of having “rejected the Second Vatican Council” has nothing to do with schism, because if anything it touches on questions of the Magisterium and not on canonical discipline. The accusation is specious: there are cardinals and bishops who deny solemnly defined truths of the Faith without Bergoglio ever lifting a finger against them; indeed, they receive his applause.
I would like to draw attention to a fundamental and very important element. We must understand that “the masterstroke of Satan,” the sworn enemy of the Church, has occurred by his appropriating authority and abusing the power connected with her, so that his disintegrating action has had all the appearances of at least formal legality. The Second Vatican Council was to be the juridical instrument with which to place the dynamite at the very foundation of the Church, and then detonate it later. It had to look like a Council, it had to give the idea of having the same authority as the Council of Nicaea or Trent, but at the same time it could not define as truths to be believed any heresies that the Magisterium had already condemned. Thus those errors were insinuated by means of equivocation – deliberately imprecise formulations which at the right moment could serve as a basis on which to implement the revolution. People continue to speak of “the Council,” but we should have the honesty to recognize that for the “conciliar church” born with Vatican II there is only one “council,” which surpasses in authority and importance all the other twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church.
The anomaly is represented by this Council, because it was used for a subversive purpose, under the formal appearance of a solemn act of the Church and with the authoritativeness (as well as the authority) of the Pope and the Council Fathers. The purpose of Vatican II was to create the doctrinal premises – not necessarily explicit and indeed often hidden in ambiguous formulations – to revolutionize the Church, Protestantizing and secularizing her, so as to be able to ferry her towards the syncretistic union of all religions. And this is the project of Freemasonry: the ecumenical and inclusive Religion of Humanity.
The Second Vatican Council has spread through the Church like a cancer. It has committed the entire ecclesial body – in every order and degree, in its institutions and structures – to the subversion of its divine constitution. The new Catechism, the new Code of Canon Law, the new Mass, the new Sacraments, teaching in seminaries and universities, preaching in parishes, the action of Catholic associations, religious life in convents and monasteries: everything has been tampered with and reshaped according to the conciliar paradigm. The results are there for all to see.
For this reason, just as the authority of the Pope cannot be used to destroy the Papacy, so the magisterial authority of a Council cannot be maliciously used to destroy the Church. It ipso facto loses its authority, since it overturns its rationale, that is, its ultimate end. My rejection of the Council is therefore motivated precisely by the fact that this Council contradicts the infallible Magisterium and all twenty previous Ecumenical Councils.
8. It is said that you want to create a parallel Church, a bit like Archbishop Lefebvre did. What plans do you have for the future?
Archbishop Lefebvre never wanted to build a parallel church, but rather he always testified to his fidelity to the one Church of Christ and to the Papacy. Archbishop Lefebvre continued doing the same things he had done as a bishop until before the Council: it is the “conciliar church” that changed doctrine, morals, liturgy, and discipline. He continued to ordain priests, to give them a traditional formation, and to ensure the celebration of the Apostolic Mass.
Today, fifty years later, the subversive plan denounced by Lefebvre is even more evident, and the answers that were valid then today require a new approach. Although it was evident that Popes such as Paul VI or John Paul II were modernists, it was unthinkable to hypothesize their explicit intention to destroy the Church. Today Bergoglio has dispelled all doubts and shows himself as an inimicus Ecclesiæ fiercely determined to carry out the task assigned to him and that he himself had set for himself.
I am convinced that my action – and that of every pastor who has at heart the souls entrusted to him – must today be broader and must be addressed not only to young vocations, but also to the “recovery” of the many good priests and religious – as well as, of course, the lay faithful – who understand the very serious crisis triggered by the Council. In times of war, so to speak, anyone who is able to fight must unite and enlist, even if they have not attended a military academy. All these souls who love the Lord can be accompanied with charity to re-embrace the Catholic Faith in its integrity and to consciously reject the conciliar revolution and its disastrous consequences.
Founding a parallel church is the dream of all heresiarchs: a true Catholic, even more so if he is a bishop, remains in the one Church and continues to serve her, even if he is the only one left to do so. I try to do and preach what the Church has always done and taught, because this is what I have solemnly sworn, and what the Lord commands me. On the other hand, today no honest Catholic can deny that the Hierarchy has completely sold itself out to the powerful of the world, and that its betrayal is a scandal even to those who are not believers.
9. What should be our response to this rupture?
We are going through a period of very serious crisis in the Church and in society. The authorities of all institutions are now carrying out the will of the globalist elite and obey supranational powers. We are witnessing a deep and almost unbridgeable rift between those who govern – both the State as well as the Church – and the citizens or the faithful. We may say that on the one hand the social pact that is the basis of the recognition of the authority of the State has failed, and on the other the bond of obedience to Christ on the part of those who exercise authority in the Church has also been destroyed. In practice, the rulers of the State have rebelled against Christ the King and the exponents of the Catholic hierarchy have rebelled against Christ the High Priest: their authority has been usurped. It is necessary to heal this wound by restoring to Christ His Universal Lordship.
10. Throughout all these years of tensions, has Pope Francis ever picked up the phone to call you, or has he ever sent you letters or messages through an intermediary?
I have never received private communications of any kind from Bergoglio (nor from any Vatican authority). In public, the Argentine Jesuit has had no qualms about insulting and slandering me. In a 2019 interview with Valentina Alazraki for the Mexican broadcaster Televisa (here), Bergoglio publicly lied, denying the conversation that he had with me on June 23, 2013. He even went so far as to obsessively claim to know nothing about McCarrick:
“I knew nothing about McCarrick, of course, nothing. I have said so several times; I didn’t know anything; I had no idea. And when [Viganò] says that he spoke to me that day, that he came . . . I don’t remember if he spoke to me about this, if it’s true or not. I have no idea! You know that I knew nothing about McCarrick, otherwise I would not have been silent.”
I cannot fail to mention Bergoglio’s recourse to slander, in an attitude that betrays a cowardly soul willing to discredit the honesty of the interlocutor rather than refute his accusations.
This occurred after the publication of my testimony on my return from the trip to Ireland, when Bergoglio told the journalists present:
“You all read [Viganò’s] communiqué carefully and make your own judgment. I will not say a word about this. I believe that the communiqué speaks for itself, and you have enough journalistic capacity to draw conclusions. It is an act of trust: when some time has passed and you have drawn conclusions, perhaps I will speak. But I would like your professional maturity to do this job: it will do you good, really. That’s okay.”
A year later, responding to the Mexican Vatican journalist Alazraki, he returned to the subject:
“This case of Viganò, I hadn’t read the entire letter; I saw a bit of it . . . And I already know what it is, and I have made a decision: I trust in the honesty of journalists. And I said to you, “Look, you have everything here, study and draw your own conclusions.” And this you did, because you did the work, and in this case it was fantastic. I was very careful not to say things that were not there, but then a judge in Milan said them, three or four months later, when he convicted him. . . . I kept silent, because if I had spoken I would have been throwing mud. So that journalists could find it out. And you have discovered it, you have found all that world. It was a silence based on trust in you, journalists. Not only that, but I also told you, “Hold it; study it; that’s all.” And the result was good, better than if I had started to explain, to defend myself. You judge the evidence in hand.”
Bergoglio tried to make me look like a dishonest man and a thief, referring to my painful and personal family events, which involved my brother priest (who was afflicted by a stroke and manipulated by unscrupulous lawyers), whom I did not want to attack by challenging an unjust sentence, preferring instead to follow the Gospel command (Mt 5:40). The accusations against me were widely disavowed by all my brothers and by the evidence of the facts (here).
As is typical of the nature of tyrants, Bergoglio has an implacable hatred for me, not only for what I have revealed about him, but also and above all for what I am still able to reveal. By excommunication he wanted in a certain way to condemn me to death, but the truth cannot be killed.
It is now understood that Bergoglio does not want to solve the crisis of which he is the architect: he wants to make it irreversible, because his purpose is to create division: divide et impera.
11. You have accused Pope Francis of having ignored the rumors relating to the homosexuality and abuse of minors by Cardinal McCarrick, who was later convicted of pedophilia, reduced to the lay state, and expelled from the College of Cardinals. The Vatican only took action in 2017 after an accusation that was considered credible. Why didn’t it act earlier? What concrete evidence was there?
As Delegate for the Pontifical Representations, I dealt with the McCarrick case myself, and since then I have asked for his dismissal from the Cardinalate. My direct superiors are responsible for not having taken due account of my judgment based on incontrovertible testimony. Obviously, McCarrick’s work was convenient for someone in the Secretariat of State, starting with the huge sums raised through the Papal Foundation that the Cardinal had set up in the United States. I remember well a comment made to me by the Argentine Leonardo Sandri, then a Monsignor with whom I shared the same office for eleven years when we were both secretaries of the Substitute: “But this McCarrick is always here!” Sandri later became the Substitute, and it was precisely to him that I delivered my Note detailing McCarrick’s misconduct, but ambition and the prospects of advancing his career led him to keep quiet and cover up the scandals. The fact that he repeatedly expressed to me his bad opinion of Bergoglio – “That man is a madman!” – did not prevent him from becoming his accomplice anyway.
Bergoglio owes his “election” to McCarrick: McCarrick himself declared this during a conference at Villanova University where on October 11, 2013 he affirmed that he had favored the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio during the General Congregations prior to the Conclave held a few months earlier, and that he had spoken about it with “a very influential Italian gentleman” (here) who supposedly confided to him how in the space of a five-year period the new Pope would “reform” – that is, revolutionize – the Church.
McCarrick also had strong connections with members of the Democratic Party and assiduously frequented the White House during the Obama-Biden administration, but also under previous Presidents. McCarrick was involved, for example, on behalf of the American government in negotiations with the Iranian Ayatollahs for the development of nuclear weapons.
And that’s not all: McCarrick worked closely with the then White House Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough, in the management of the Alliance for Prosperity desired by President Obama, which in 2014 alone – under the guise of a humanitarian action – facilitated the trafficking of 65,000 unaccompanied children who were transferred to the United States across the Mexican border, as White House stenographer Mike McCormick revealed.
Finally, Bergoglio also made use of McCarrick to make the secret agreement between the Vatican and China, which was strongly desired by both the Jesuits and the democratic establishment.
Bergoglio’s extraordinary action of removing McCarrick’s status as Cardinal and dismissing him from the clerical state served to save Bergoglio’s “reputation.” But these sanctions were not decided after a fair trial: the witnesses were not given the opportunity to name McCarrick’s accomplices, and no judge was ever able to impose any compensation for the victims, because Bergoglio arrogated to himself the right to declare the cause res judicata, without ever disclosing the official decree, which is also a public act. The administrative measure decided on by Bergoglio was intended to hide the network of complicity in which he was and is personally involved, and this is exactly what happened.
The reason why the Vatican only acted in February 2019 (i.e., six months after the publication of my August 2018 Memorial) is that the scandal was no longer manageable, despite the fact that McCarrick’s crimes had been known for decades. The paradox arose with the publication on November 10, 2020, of a substantial Report on McCarrick drawn up by Attorney Jeffrey Lena and costing the Holy See millions, in which he falsely goes so far as to say that I was the one responsible for the failure to timely initiate canonical proceedings against McCarrick (here).
12. As a bishop and pastor of souls, would you like to leave a message to our readers?
Holy Scripture warns us about the reign of the Antichrist that will be established throughout the world in the last times, and about the role of the False Prophet in manipulating the masses. It is difficult not to see the preparation for all this in the globalist ideology that embodies the synarchic project of Freemasonry and in the total subservience to it of the leaders of the Bergoglian church. And here we are not speaking of abstruse questions, but of the very foundations of the Catholic Faith: the uniqueness of the Church as an instrument of salvation, her mission for the conversion of souls to God, and the need to restore the social Kingship of Christ as the only safeguard against all tyranny, both temporal and spiritual.
Before the Second Coming of Our Lord, the Church, which is His Mystical Body, must go through her own Passio in a ferocious persecution: Sacred Scripture clearly tells us this, in particular the Book of the Apocalypse of Saint John. This should help us to understand the importance of bearing witness to Christ and denouncing the false prophets who try to persuade us to come to terms with the world.
13 August 2024
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| Please pray for the soul of Mr. Jack Pfeiffer |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2024, 05:43 AM - Forum: Appeals for Prayer
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Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
In your charity, please pray for the soul of Mr. Jack Pfeiffer who passed away on August 20, 2024. Mr. Pfeiffer is father to Frs. Timothy and Joseph Pfeiffer.
Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer gave shelter and cared for two traditional priests for many years who were abandoned by the Conciliar church in the 1970's for their adherence to Tradition, Fr. Urban Schneider and Fr. Hannifin.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
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The De Profundis - Psalm 129
Out of the depths I have cried unto Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark our iniquities: O Lord, who can abide it?
For with Thee there is mercy: and by reason of Thy law I have waited on Thee, O Lord.
My soul hath waited on His word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
From the morning watch even unto night: let Israel hope in the Lord.
For with the Lord there is mercy: and with Him is plenteous redemption.
And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio owes his ‘election’ to McCarrick |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2024, 05:40 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio owes his ‘election’ to McCarrick
In a new interview given to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò asserts that Francis 'owes' his 2013 election to the once-influential but now-laicized ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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DEDHAM, MA - SEPTEMBER 03: Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick leaves the Dedham courthouse after pleading not guilty during his first appearance for sexual assault charges on on September 3, 2021 in Dedham, Massachusetts.
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Aug 21, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — In a new interview given to journalist Franca Giansoldati of the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò claims that Francis “owes” his 2013 election to disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
In the interview, published by Il Messaggero on Wednesday morning, Viganò was asked, “You have accused Pope Francis of having ignored the rumors relating to the homosexuality and abuse of minors by Cardinal McCarrick, who was later convicted of pedophilia, reduced to the lay state, and expelled from the College of Cardinals. The Vatican only took action in 2017 after an accusation that was considered credible. Why didn’t it act earlier? What concrete evidence was there?”
In response, Viganò answered, “As Delegate for the Pontifical Representations, I dealt with the McCarrick case myself, and since then I have asked for his dismissal from the Cardinalate.”
“My direct superiors are responsible for not having taken due account of my judgment based on incontrovertible testimony,” Viganò alleged. “Obviously, McCarrick’s work was convenient for someone in the Secretariat of State, starting with the huge sums raised through the Papal Foundation that the Cardinal had set up in the United States.”
“I remember well a comment made to me by the Argentine Leonardo Sandri, then a Monsignor with whom I shared the same office for eleven years when we were both secretaries of the Substitute: ‘But this McCarrick is always here!'” Viganò continued. “Sandri later became the Substitute, and it was precisely to him that I delivered my Note detailing McCarrick’s misconduct, but ambition and the prospects of advancing his career led him to keep quiet and cover up the scandals.”
Viganò then stated that Francis “owes his ‘election’ to McCarrick: McCarrick himself declared this during a conference at Villanova University where on October 11, 2013 he affirmed that he had favored the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio during the General Congregations prior to the Conclave held a few months earlier, and that he had spoken about it with ‘a very influential Italian gentleman’ (here) who supposedly confided to him how in the space of a five-year period the new Pope would ‘reform’ – that is, revolutionize – the Church.”
Viganò also claimed to the outlet that the reason Francis laicized McCarrick in February 2019 was because “the scandal was no longer manageable, despite the fact that McCarrick’s crimes had been known for decades.”
“The paradox arose with the publication on November 10, 2020, of a substantial Report on McCarrick drawn up by Attorney Jeffrey Lena and costing the Holy See millions, in which he falsely goes so far as to say that I was the one responsible for the failure to timely initiate canonical proceedings against McCarrick (here),” Viganò concluded.
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| Viganò accuses Italian cardinal of connection to Freemasonry, says he ‘subjugated’ Benedict XVI |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2024, 05:33 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Viganò accuses Italian cardinal of connection to Freemasonry, says he ‘subjugated’ Benedict XVI
In a new interview given to Italian newspaper I l Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of being connected to Freemasonry and having 'subjugated' Benedict XVI.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Aug 21, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — In a new interview given to journalist Franca Giansoldati of the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of being connected to Freemasonry and having “subjugated” Benedict XVI.
In the interview, published by Il Messaggero on Wednesday morning, Viganò was asked, “A step back in time: in 2011 Pope Ratzinger implored you to accept being appointed as Nuncio to the United States, leaving the role of the Governorate where you were cleaning it up internally. You had clashes with Cardinal Bertone, then Secretary of State, whose name is linked to the scandal of the misappropriation of funds from the Bambino Gesù [Hospital] even though he was never investigated. What did Benedict XVI say to you? How did things go that day, and what were the main reasons for the disagreement with Bertone?”
In response, Viganò answered, “To speak of a ‘disagreement’ seems euphemistic to me. Thirsty for power, unscrupulous, manipulative, and contiguous to Masonic circles: this is the portrait of Cardinal Bertone, to whom Benedict XVI was unfortunately subjugated.”
“Bertone did everything he could to remove me from the Secretariat of State, because in my very delicate role I prevented him from promoting ‘his’ candidates, men of his circle, who were corrupt and often sexually perverted,” Viganò alleged.
“He managed to transfer me to the Governorate on July 16, 2009, where in my action to combat the vast network of corruption I had discovered the role and complicity of the Secretary of State himself in covering, supporting, and promoting the malfeasance and in making personal profit from it. Benedict XVI told me – during the private audience granted to me on April 4, 2011 – that he wanted to appoint me President of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, but Bertone (with the complicity of Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate, who was also involved in the network of corruption) imposed himself forcefully on the Pope and obtained my expulsion from the Roman Curia,” he added.
Continuing, Viganò asserted that becoming “[a]ware of this plot hatched to the detriment of the Holy See and Benedict himself, and knowing that the Pope’s will that I continue to ‘clean up’ was being subverted (while my removal would have nullified the work done and left the corrupt unpunished), I initially tried to resist, not without great difficulty, since I was precluded from having any direct access to the Pope.”
“Thus, after a long inner travail, a personal letter from Benedict XVI convinced me to accept the nomination to the United States,” Viganò concluded.
According to Viganò, Benedict XVI’s letter read:
Quote:I would like to tell you that I have been reflecting and praying about your condition after the latest events. The painful news of the death of His Excellency Msgr. Pietro Sambi has confirmed me in the conviction that your providential position at this time is the Nunciature in the United States of America. Furthermore, I am certain that your knowledge of this great country will help you to take on the demanding challenge of this work, which in many ways is decisive for the future of the universal Church.
LifeSiteNews has written to Cardinal Bertone to ask if he has any response to Viganò’s accusations. This article will be updated should Bertone respond to Viganò’s claims.
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| Francis-appointed bishop to offer pro-LGBT Mass for heterodox group advised by Bishop Stowe |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-20-2024, 07:51 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Francis-appointed bishop to offer pro-LGBT Mass for heterodox group advised by Bishop Stowe
Bishop John Iffert of Covington, Kentucky will preside over a Mass in his diocese for the dissident support group
Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children.
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Bishop John Iffert
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Aug 19, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included]) — A bishop appointed by Pope Francis in 2021 to lead the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky will offer an LGBT Mass later this month for an organization associated with heterodox Bishop John Stowe.
On August 28 at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Bishop John Iffert will say Mass for a dissident Catholic “support group” named Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children. The group participated in the Cincinnati Pride Parade in 2024.
The Mass has been announced in the St. Joseph’s bulletin as well as in the diocese’s newspaper. It is being marketed as an event where “all are welcome.”
Iffert gained notoriety earlier this year when he stripped Fr. Shannon Collins and Fr. Sean Kopczynski of their faculties to offer public Masses.
Collins and Kopczynski are founding members of the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, a public association of the faithful that was erected by Iffert’s predecessor, Roger Foys, in the Covington diocese in 2019, though the two had been in the diocese since 2011.
One of the churches Collins and Kopczynski had overseen was Our Lady of Lourdes, which operated as “quasi-parish” beginning in 2016. They had been granted permission to exclusively offer the Traditional Latin Mass by Foys, who was favorable to their mission.
Iffert canceled Collins and Kopczynski in January 2024 after they refused to concelebrate a Novus Ordo Mass with him and after they said they would not recant a sermon wherein Collins remarked that the Novus Ordo liturgy preserves “literally nothing of the (Latin Mass).”
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v47sr6c-is-this-the-h...riest.html
During an appearance on Raymond Arroyo’s EWTN program The World Over, German Cardinal Gerhard Müller was asked for his thoughts on the situation.
Müller replied that some bishops “look to Rome and then say to the Holy Father, ‘I suppressed these people, and therefore I look for the reward of being promoted, being named archbishop, or cardinal.’ This (is the) childish behavior of some bishops.”
Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children is overseen by Fortunate Families, a Lexington-based dissident organization founded in 2004. Stowe, the heterodox bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, serves as an ecclesial adviser for the group, and ultra-liberal Jesuit priest James Martin is listed as an honorary board member.
Stowe has spoken at Fortunate Families conferences in the past. In 2022, he appointed the organizations’ pro-LGBT executive director to attend the Synod on Synodality in Rome.
In recent months, Stowe has doubled down on referring to a 39-year-old woman who calls herself a man and lives as a “diocesan hermit” as “Brother Christian Matson.” Matson attended Martin’s LGBT-affirming Outreach conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. Liberal Cardinal Wilton Gregory said Mass for the gathering, which was endorsed by Pope Francis.
In June, Stowe served as retreat director for the dissident Association of U.S. Catholic Priests. The group supports “women priests,” the normalization of homosexuality in the Church, pro-LGBT political policies, and numerous other positions at odds with immutable Catholic teaching.
After Iffert offers his sacrilegious Mass on August 28, there will be a reception in the basement of St. Joseph’s. The Diocese of Covington borders the Diocese of Lexington to the north.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Cupich’s DNC speech confirms ‘blood pact’ between ‘deep state’ and ‘deep church’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-20-2024, 07:45 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: Cupich’s DNC speech confirms ‘blood pact’ between ‘deep state’ and ‘deep church’
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò called out Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago for his endorsement of Kamala Harris and the Democrat platform, describing the prelate as having supported 'the cult of perversion, disease, sterility, poverty, death.'
Aug 20, 2024
Editor’s note: The following note has been taken from a post by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to X (formerly Twitter), originally published on August 20, 2024.
(LifeSiteNews) — The scandalous endorsements of Blase Cupich and the heretical ultra-progressive Jesuits in favor of Harris and Walz and the radical Left woke agenda confirm the blood pact between the globalist Deep State and the Bergoglian Deep Church.
What typifies them is the cult of perversion, disease, sterility, poverty, death: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic manipulation, mutilation and gender transition, health dictatorship, destruction of the social fabric, ethnic replacement, civil war.
“Let the dead bury their dead.” (Luke 9:60)
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| Fourth Apparition of Fatima- At Valinhos - August 19th, 1917 |
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Posted by: SAguide - 08-19-2024, 12:39 PM - Forum: Our Lady
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At Valinhos - August 19th, 1917
Gratefully adapted from Our Lady of Fatima Chapel email:
The six apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima all occurred on the 13th of each consecutive month, except for the one in August. This was because the Administrator of the district of Ourem, a Mason, had kidnapped and imprisoned the children on August 13th. This is well documented in an earlier post: The Day the Freemasons Promoted Fatima. Although the little shepherds were prevented from keeping their meeting with Our Lady on that day, nevertheless, it is estimated that between three and five thousand souls showed up at the Cova da Iria.
At Valinhos
On the following Sunday afternoon of August 19th, Lucia, Francisco and his brother John had brought their flocks to a family pasture in Valinhos, which was less than a quarter of a mile from their homes in Aljustrel Jacinta was not with them, because she was being treated for the lice she had picked up while being held captive in jail. Lúcia began to get a premonition that Our Lady was about to appear, and since Jacinta was not with them, she sent the older brother, John, to fetch her. It is an especially touching detail that Our Lady patiently waited until Jacinta arrived before making her appearance.
In this visit, Our Lady once again told the children that she wanted them to continue coming to the Cova da Iria on the 13th of next month. She stressed the importance of obedience to her requests, the ramifications of offending her, and the great importance of praying and making sacrifices for sinners, as well as demonstrating a tender and motherly love:
“In the last month, I will work a miracle so that all may believe. If you had not been taken away to the city, the miracle would have been even greater. Saint Joseph will come with the Child Jesus, to give peace to the world. Our Lord will come to bless the people. Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Sorrows will also come.”
Then Our Lady said very sadly:
“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.”
The Mother of God Offended
“If you had not been taken away to the city, the miracle would have been even greater.”
“By this public act, acting in the name of the authority he held over a tiny part of the nation, he had affronted and outraged the Mother of God. Thus, he contributed to drawing down upon his country a just divine punishment. Without this odious act, shamelessly committed by the competent public authority, would the great miracle of October 13th have been seen in all of Portugal? It is quite possible. What a lesson! What terrible responsibility for the unworthy authorities who deprive their people of the choice graces with which God wishes to fill them!”
What a lesson indeed! What terrible responsibility for secular authorities – and even more so for ecclesiastical authorities! It is most appropriate to apply Frère Michel’s line of reasoning to those Church authorities of today, who woefully lead astray their confused and unwitting flock, who continue to outrage God and ignore His Blessed Mother. How should we think God will repay this insult?
However, just as scandal and the abuse of graces can affect so many souls, in converse, our faithful prayers and sacrifices can affect many souls as well. This is nothing but Church teaching on the Communion of Saints we so profess in every Credo. As Frère Michel notes:
“It is an unfathomable but also an admirable mystery, that such a close communion associates all the members of the human family with one another, for their salvation or for their loss.”
Make Sacrifices for Sinners
“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.”
These final words pronounced by Our Lady, while looking very sad, were certainly the request which made the most profound impression on the three little seers and the ones which they heroically and perfectly followed.
Here we see an affirmation that the eternal salvation of many souls really depends upon our prayers and sacrifices! Again, this is in perfect conformity with our basic Catholic catechism.
Thus, following the apparition of August 19th, the three children strove to find new ways to make sacrifices to offer Jesus, for His love, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
What a terrible scandal that these small children promptly obeyed and yet, after more than one hundred years, so many Catholics have actually turned a deaf ear to Our Lady’s simple requests. But doesn’t it always seem to be the way these things work? After centuries of prophecies, only a small handful of the Chosen People actually obeyed and followed Christ their Savior; and look what those few accomplished!
We too can accomplish great things, simply by obeying the Angel of Fatima, who instructed: “Make of everything a sacrifice!” and by obeying Our Blessed Mother, who asks us for the daily Rosary and little acts of reparation. With our daily Rosary and sacrifices, we can obtain the grace for the conversion of sinners and even the Church’s restoration. In reality, it is a special blessing to be here right now, living in the midst of this great Crisis of Faith. What an opportunity to comfort Our Lord and our Blessed Lady; to make such a real difference in the eternal lives of so many souls. Do not doubt it – the Church will be restored, for Our Lord does His best work when the devil thinks he is winning.
Think back over Christ’s Passion and Death and notice the current parallel with His Mystical Body the Church. See how horribly He suffered and all the humiliation He endured. See the utter hopelessness of His suffering, by the world’s standards. Look at the tragic finality as Our Lady held her Divine Son’s Sacred Body in her arms at the foot of the Cross.
And yet, we know that this great tragedy was the means by which the enemy’s reign was defeated. By His Death, we are born to eternal life and by the devil’s current attacks on the Church, what appears to be his victory - by the same world’s standards - he is, in reality, being vanquished. Our Lord triumphs over Satan by His suffering and obedience; and we shall do the same. We are called not just to prayer and penance, but to a joyful prayer and penance! Such joy comes from complete trust in Our Lady. Indeed, from the very beginning of Sacred Scripture, God has revealed the outcome: “She shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.”
Father Gabriel Amorth, Vatican exorcist, and close confidant of Padre Pio once told us: “We exorcists venerate Mary with all the impetus of our hearts, of our affections, of our desires. This is how He wants it, He who established that we receive everything by means of Mary. This is the experience that all exorcists learn first-hand.”
[i]And so, we too, in order to protect ourselves and those entrusted to us, we must be consecrated to Our Lady, wear our scapular and of course, pray our daily Rosary with faith that this most perfect Mother, given to us by Our Lord Himself, will save us from the demonic infestation of these tragic days. Let us prepare today to renew our Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary on this coming Thursday, for the glorious feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Edited from the Fatima Center & Return to Fatima
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| Ireland: Catholic priest ambushed, stabbed multiple times in ‘frenzied’ attack |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2024, 11:36 PM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Catholic priest ambushed, stabbed multiple times in ‘frenzied’ attack
Father Paul Murphy, a 52 year old Chaplain with the Irish Army, was stabbed outside Renmore Barracks, Galway in the West of Ireland at around 10:45 p.m. last night. Thankfully, he has survived.
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Fr. Paul Murphy, Irish Army Chaplain (credit: Catholic Arena / X)
Catholic Arena / X
Aug 16, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [adapted]) — A Catholic priest, who serves as a chaplain in the Irish Army, was ambushed and stabbed “multiple times” in a “frenzied attack” on Thursday night in Galway, Ireland – which saw Irish soldiers open fire in response. Initial reports said a “teenage male youth” had been detained, who reportedly “uttered statements about Irish military involvement in the Middle East.”
Virgin Media News issued the following report on the violent assault today:
Father Paul Murphy, a 52 year old Chaplain with the Irish Army, was stabbed outside Renmore Barracks, Galway in the West of Ireland at around 10:45 p.m. last night as he arrived for duty in his car.
Fr. Murphy was seriously injured, but survived the attack – sending a message from Galway’s University Hospital as he awaits surgery.
He thanked people in a Facebook post on Friday for their “prayers, love and concern.”
I’m doing okay: just awaiting surgery. All will be well.
According to the Irish Mirror, police are investigating whether the incident was terror related.
Quote:The Special Detective Unit of An Garda Síochána [Irish police] is involved in this investigation. One line of enquiry is to establish if this attack had a terrorism motivation.
Irish Mirror journalist Paul Healy reported details of the attack:
Quote:It is understood Fr. Murphy was sitting in his car waiting for the barracks gates to open when the attacker approached him.
Sources say the chaplain lowered his window and the attacker immediately stabbed him multiple times.
Healy goes on to recount how Fr. Murphy tried to escape, stating:
Quote:The gates of the barracks then opened and Fr. Murphy is understood to have driven forward in an effort to get away from the stabber.
The attacker however clung onto the vehicle and continued to try and attack Fr. Murphy.
Irish soldiers then “fired a number of warning shots,” Healy said, adding that a search of the suspect’s home saw evidence which may explain the motive.
Quote:Sources say Gardaí [police] have since searched the suspect’s address in the Galway area and a number of items of interest, including radicalized ‘literature’ were recovered.
There are now concerns that the teenager became radicalized online and that he had a specific grievance and plan to target Defence Forces members.
Healy further reports that “online social media posts” made by the suspect are now being reviewed.
The suspect, described as “Irish” and said to be 16-years-old, “remains in detention and is being questioned in a Gardaí station in the North Western region,” according to the Irish Examiner.
Their report says how “sentries overpowered the youth and detained him” until police arrived, noting that, “Fr. Murphy was provided with first aid at the scene before being taken to hospital where he received further treatment.”
A soldier who had served with Fr. Murphy on a tour of duty in Lebanon responded with shock and words of admiration for the Padre.
Brendan Cruise said on X:
I was fortunate enough to have served in Lebanon with Fr Paul Murphy who was the battalion padre. He was absolutely brilliant on the tour, he had time for everyone & a smile for all. Wishing him a full recovery.
Simon Harris, the Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister] said his “thoughts are with the victim” and thanked the Defence Forces and Gardaí for their action and response in a post on X.
Irish users of the social media platform responded angrily, with many holding Harris and the government responsible.
One user replied to Harris saying, “You’ve brought terror back to this Island, after we fought 800 years to live in peace.”
Others noted the Godlessness of the modern Irish state, remarking the deliberate omission of the fact that the victim is a Catholic priest and that no prayers were being offered by the leader of the Catholic nation.
“Very telling you won’t say a Catholic priest was attacked and you offer no prayers for him.”
Attacks on Catholics and their places of worship have been on the rise in Ireland. A spate of anti-Catholic crime in County Donegal over the summer saw many churches burgled, with damage and attempted arson occuring. One church in Lifford had been targeted three times in six weeks.
The Protestant Church of Ireland has also been targeted, with historic and “irreplaceable” mummies damaged following a break-in and attempted arson in St Michan’s Church, Dublin in June.
The vandalism, according to Dublin Live, is believed to have ruined the mummified remains of five Catholics “including an 800-year-old artifact known as ‘The Crusader.'” A Romanian national was found guilty of the damage.
Yet the attacks have also been linked to hate speech – not online – but made by Irish politicians themselves.
In April, reporting on arson attacks on two County Meath churches, Catholic Arena alleged:
Quote:Hate speech by politicians against Catholics has been a major factor in the recent rise in crime against Catholic.
The attempts to burn down these two churches came shortly after an Irish Member of Parliament (TD) was “mocked for her Catholic faith” by her fellow members during a speech given in the Parliament itself, known as the Dáil.
Gript reported on March 23 how Deputy Carol Nolan’s warning that mass migration policies of the Irish government had created chaos in the country.
“We have an immigration system and an immigrant homeless situation that are nothing short of spiralling social sabotage,” Nolan said.
“This Government has no answers for one simple reason, it is because it does not ask the right questions and it does not listen.”
Nolan was reportedly “sniggered at” at by members she referred to as “communists,” who she says derided her and other members for their Christian faith – whilst refusing to acknowledge the chaos their open borders policies were causing.
“I could hear the comments and the muttering – some TDs were definitely mocking our Catholic faith”
Nolan claimed the anti-Catholic rhetoric emerged over Ireland’s referendum on abortion, when she says was targeted for being pro-life. She explained:
Quote:Unfortunately, I had this trouble before the abortion referendum, and when I called for a ‘No’ vote [to legalising abortion]…so it’s not the first time I have borne the brunt of that type of sentiment.
Nolan said:
Quote:I would get a lot of it, and I got a lot of it because it was evident I was pro-life and because of my beliefs.
She remained defiant in the face of this “bullying,” saying Parliament refused to reflect a majority of Irish people whose lives and livelihoods in tourism have been blighted by uncontrolled mass migration.
“In advance of Holy Week, we will take no lectures from the hard left and the looney left who will not face the people.”
The comments in the Irish Parliament came weeks after a priest’s house was set ablaze “intentionally” in Kildare, destroying outbuildings at St Brigid’s Cathedral.
The attacks on the Catholic faith and on Christianity in Ireland have now seemingly escalated to the attempted murder of a priest. Prayers for Ireland, and for the restoration of its leadership to Christ are urgently needed.
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| Canadian government warns country to prepare for new virus far worse than COVID |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2024, 07:12 AM - Forum: Health
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Canadian government warns country to prepare for new virus far worse than COVID
Dailymail.Com [adapted] | 14 August 2024
The Canadian government has issued advice warning citizens to prepare for a hypothetical new virus that could lead to food and fuel disruptions.
The Centre for Occupational Health and Safety rolled out a second edition of their Flu and Infectious Disease Outbreaks Business Continuity Plan Handbook.
The guide provides information for employers on what to prepare for in the face of another pandemic.
In the new edition, released in June, they focus on a 'hypothetical virus', that they warn could trigger further disruption that Covid-19.
It states that 'based on trends from past pandemic flu, there may be a higher average number of illness and deaths in age groups different than what we typically see during annual flu seasons.'
The guide also warns employers must be ready for a scenario like an disease outbreak or a pandemic which forces people to stay home.
It says: 'If there is a pandemic, how many people will be off work? It is impossible to determine with certainty.
'Estimates vary because no one will know for sure how ill the new virus will make people, how fast it will spread, or how many people will not go to work, until it happens.'
A future pandemic 'will come in two or three waves about three to nine months separating each outbreak', it adds.
The hypothetical virus could also last in these cycles for as much as two years, the report warns.
It adds that people should brace for disruptions like reduced labor, supply chain issues and shifts in consumer demand.
Among those disruptions include telecommunications, banking, water, gasoline, medicine and food.
It comes after American Dr Anthony Fauci recommended that people start wearing masks again due to a rise in Covid cases.
The number of infections is increasing as part of another summer surge - even though hospitalizations and deaths from the virus remain at historic lows.
The 83-year-old told people with comorbidities and seniors 'you should be wearing a mask' in crowded places.
He also revealed he had contracted Covid about two weeks ago. It was his third Covid infection and he has been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times.
World Health Organization officials warn that if the virus continues to spread, it could lead to new mutations and severe infections that evade vaccine protection and therapeutics.
Deaths have been generally on the rise since May, but began declining the week ending July 20. They currently hover at around 500 per week, compared to more than 25,000 in the fall of 2020.
Dr Fauci's face mask guidelines have long been criticized as people claimed they did not work to prevent the spread of Covid.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Contribution to the e-book “Globalisti Assassini” |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2024, 11:14 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Omnis potestas a Deo
Contribution to the e-book “Globalisti Assassini” published by Visione editore
Taken from here.
Having recourse to assassination as a tool to eliminate a political opponent, awakens in us a sense of rebellion that comes from the deepest fibers of our being, from that sense of violated justice that is the same that we feel in the face of the impunity of the guilty, the violent arrogance of his crimes. Unicuique suum tribuere: giving each what is due to him sums up the foundation of the natural Law that we see betrayed both by the failure to punish the guilty and by the persecution of the innocent and the weak. In this violation we see the abdication of the authority that in every human society is precisely responsible for administering Justice in the name of Christ, Lord and Universal Judge.
But what justice can there be, where the authority itself not only does not punish the wicked and does not reward the good, but where it is actually the first to encourage evil and impede good? The origin of this inversion is the necessary consequence of a much worse reversal of the social order, namely the rejection of Christ as God, King, and Lord. It is the Revolution, that is, the institutionalization of Lucifer’s Non serviam, and along with it the reversal of the concept of Good and Evil.
The child who is killed in the womb, the woman who is raped, the sick person abandoned to die by the doctor, the shopkeeper who is robbed, the elderly person who is beaten, the citizen who is oppressed by unfair taxes, the student who is corrupted by the teacher – these are all faces of a general injustice that cries out for vengeance in the sight of God precisely because it is in God that each of us finds the supreme Guarantor of Justice. This request for vengeance – that is, for the restoration of violated Justice – is even stronger when the evil that we see committed in broad daylight is not only not punished, but is even encouraged; while those who resist, those who do not accept subversion, those who continue to believe that there are immutable and eternal principles to which to adhere, are persecuted by the authorities. The teacher who is fired for not wanting to refer to a male student with a feminine pronoun, the student who is expelled for having stated in class that there are only two sexes, the doctor who is laid off for having refused to administer a lethal serum to a patient, the scientist who is removed for not having endorsed the climate fraud, the priest who is removed from his parish for having condemned the doctrinal and moral deviations accepted today – these are the first victims of the Revolution. There is no room for these people in the overturned society, just as there was no room for criminals and the wicked in the society ordered under the Law of the Gospel.
When we try to make sense of what is happening around us today, we must have the courage to recognize the betrayal of human authority with respect to the supreme Authority of God. Without this betrayal, nothing that is happening would even be imaginable. And so it is from the restoration of a healthy authority that conforms to the will of God that we must begin to rebuild society.
The failed assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump is the latest in a long series of similar episodes through which corrupt governments eliminate people they consider an obstacle to the pursuit of their plans: whether it is a former President of the United States, a Prime Minister or a former “inconvenient” collaborator, nothing changes. Not to mention the “suicides” and fatal accidents of those who, with their testimony, could have convicted leading figures of the deep state or the globalist lobby.
The cowardice of the murder committed by a hitman makes clear the injustice of an action against an “enemy” with whom one does not accept a fair confrontation, from which he would emerge victorious. The modus operandi is the one that every tyranny has used against its opponents: ridicule (the opponent is a buffoon not to be taken seriously), pathologization (he is a madman who should be locked up in a mental hospital), criminalization (he should be put in jail) and moral or physical elimination (he must not exist: he is a non-person without rights). Anyone who undermines the System – especially if he has an authority that comes from the evident reasonableness of his arguments that risks opening the eyes of the masses – is made the object of this progressive ostracization precisely because he reveals the corruption of power and the intolerant lie that fuels it. Donald Trump must therefore be “put in a bullseye” – according to the expression used by Joe Biden five days before the attack – and when he is hit or injured, the moral responsibility does not lie with the person who created the climate of violence or with the hitman, but with the victim who “asked for it,” and who actually exploits the aggression suffered to his own advantage.
In the past years, other political leaders – and not only them – have been subjected to this instrumental and specious criminalization: think of Gabriel García Moreno, Enrico Mattei, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Aldo Moro, Bettino Craxi, Silvio Berlusconi, Jair Bolsonaro, Robert Fico, Viktor Orbán and many others. What do they have in common? Their standing against the system that would have them be mere executors of orders from a subversive power that controls everything. Media attacks, summary trials, and the threat of retaliation have become the norm, a norm that seems to want to extend to murder, in the name of the survival of tyranny and the preservation of the power of the Lodges that guide it.
Evil cannot tolerate Good, just as lies cannot tolerate Truth, just as darkness cannot tolerate Light. Yet it pretends that Good is conciliatory and inclusive, that Truth welcomes error, that Light allows itself to be obscured. Truth is accused of intolerance, Justice is accused of cruelty, and honesty and rectitude are mocked and discredited. And this contradiction – which overturns the primacy of what is True and Good and Just in favor of what is false, evil, and unjust – is possible only where the masses have been convinced that they have no intangible principle for which to fight and die. This ensnared society has come to believe that a mother can kill her child in the womb, that the elderly and the sick can be killed by the doctor, that the pervert and the pedophile can be left free to corrupt and violate without this arousing the indignation and reaction of anyone.
In the name of a false and hypocritical peace, force is exercised by the bad guys against the good guys, but it becomes intolerable oppression when the good guys invoke force to render the bad guys harmless. Thus the father of a family who shoots the thief who breaks into his house at night ends up in prison, while the rapist and the criminal are left free to continue to cause harm. Whoever defends the borders of their Homeland is a dangerous nationalist, while whoever invades it to subjugate or devastate it must be invited and financed. Whoever cures the sick must be laid off, whoever exterminates the population with pseudo-vaccines is awarded honors. Whoever does not submit to gene serums must be punished and deprived of work, while whoever submits by compromising their own and others’ health must be rewarded. Whoever denounces the global coup d’état is accused of conspiracy, and whoever organizes the conspiracy continues to demolish their own country with impunity. It is the world turned upside down. It is the upside-down, perverted, and rebellious world that the Revolution wants. It is the kingdom of the Antichrist, the father of lies, the murderer from the beginning.
That the world is subject to Satan, who is its prince, is part of the mystery of iniquity that sees the Civitas Dei opposed to the civitas diaboli. But until now, as a sign of contradiction, the Catholic Church has always strenuously and courageously fought the prince of this world and his seductions. For sixty years now, however, the Citadel has been eclipsed by the false church, by that deep church that is to the ecclesial body what the deep state is to the State: a cancer that slowly kills the institution from within, that spreads to all its members, that destroys its organs. This disintegrating action has brought Her worst enemies to the top of the Hierarchy, reaching the point of usurping the Throne of Peter and abusing the sacred authority of the Vicar of Christ to contradict the teaching of Christ himself. Thus, just as in the order desired by God the Lordship of Jesus Christ unites in itself the temporal and spiritual power, so in the infernal chaos of Satan the tyranny of the Antichrist will have to unite in itself the deep state and the deep church, so as to be able to exercise absolute control over humanity. A false prophet, at the head of a false humanitarian and philanthropic church, will support the synarchy of the New World Order, just as in the societas christiana the Pope ratified the authority of the Catholic Sovereigns.
Today that totalitarian and dystopian project has almost come to full completion. The emissaries of the World Economic Forum and other supranational bodies of Masonic origin are ostentatiously at the head of all Western governments and can avail themselves of the collaboration of the Bergoglian church, which has made all its demands its own. How could one think that the voice of those who for years have been denouncing this coup and the betrayal of the Catholic Hierarchy would be spared from the ferocious ostracism that strikes anyone who does not support the plans of the inimica vis? It was only a matter of time. And so we see the authority of the Church – usurped to be used against the Church – moving against an Archbishop and former Apostolic Nuncio, accusing him of nothing less than schism for having denounced the heresies and deviations of the Argentine Jesuit and for having rejected the Second Vatican Council that paved the way for him. A show trial no less grotesque than those that in the civil sphere have been brought against those political leaders who have similarly denounced the looming threat of globalism.
The lie on which the action of the deep state and the deep church is based is the same: to make people believe that authority, once the umbilical cord that binds it to the sovereign Authority of Christ has been cut, can maintain its legitimacy by virtue of an asserted self-referentiality that absolutizes earthly authority, leading it inexorably to tyranny. Omnis potestas a Deo, Sacred Scripture teaches us (Rom 13:1). This means that if the power of those who govern on earth – both in temporal and spiritual matters – does not exercise its authority not only in the name of God but also in accordance with His will, then it has no legitimacy. And this is, ultimately, the protection against any tyranny that Our Lord wanted to give to earthly institutions, so that they do not degenerate into totalitarianism.
Obedire oportet Deo magis quam hominibus. We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29). Whoever commands and whoever obeys – in the State just as in the Church – must have in Christ the King and High Priest as the foundation of their authority and their obedience. Outside of Christ, everything is necessarily chaos and disorder, and as such has no legitimacy: neither the arrogance of those who usurp His Scepter, nor the rebellion of those who believe themselves exempt from His Universal Lordship.
The world is preparing for a great awakening, an unveiling (in the etymological sense of the term “apocalypse”) of the lie that has eclipsed the Truth for too long. When what we have had before our eyes appears to us for what it really is and not for how it is presented to us, everything will acquire meaning, also and above all in an eschatological key. It will not be reality that changes, but our understanding of it. Only Our Lord, Lux mundi, can illuminate the darkness of this dark night both for those He has placed in authority and for those who are hierarchically subject to it.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
July 16, 2024
Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2024, 11:07 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Profer lumen cæcis
Homily in the Assumption of Mary Most Holy into Heaven
Taken from here.
The Great Pontiff Pius XII proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption into heaven of Mary Most Holy on November 1, 1950, with the Bull Munificentissimus Deus:
Quote:«After we have poured forth prayers of supplication again and again to God, and have invoked the light of the Spirit of Truth, for the glory of Almighty God who has lavished his special affection upon the Virgin Mary, for the honor of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages and the Victor over sin and death, for the increase of the glory of that same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. »
These solemn words constitute the last dogma defined by the Holy Church, before the painful eclipse that has now obscured the Bride of the Lamb for more than sixty years. The end of that glorious Pontificate marked the beginning of a Calvary that today is approaching its conclusion. The passio Ecclesiæ, the passion of the Mystical Body, modeled on the Passion and Death of its Divine Head, is a mystery that we have always believed concerned the individual members of the Church – according to the words of the Apostle, in my turn I complete in my flesh what is still lacking in the afflictions of Christ for his body, which is the Church (Col 1:24) – but that the events we are now witnessing show us in its social and ecclesial dimension. It is the entire Mystical Body that must suffer, die, and rise again, in order to triumph together with the immortal King of the ages.
The Virgin Mary is mystically associated with the Passion of Her Divine Son: as the New Eve, she suffered and endured the pains of Christ, the New Adam, deserving the title of Co-Redemptrix. Her glorious Assumption into heaven in body and soul is for us a reason for joy and consolation, not only for this privilege that the Lord wanted to reserve – among other privileges – for his own Mother; but also because She, Mother and Queen of the Church, is a figure of that heavenly Jerusalem, beata pacis visio, which is the Church itself. In Her we see the will of God accomplished, in the humility and obedience by which Jesus Christ bore witness to the Eternal Father, and that the Church makes her own in the profession of the One Faith and in the bond of Charity.
The Virgin of the Assumption merited not to know the corruption of the body, just as Our Lord did not know it. The Eastern Tradition, since the first centuries, shows us an uninterrupted faith in this truth: the depictions of the dormitio Virginis show us the Blessed Mother on her deathbed, surrounded by the Apostles, while Her soul – a young soul like that of a child – is welcomed into the bosom of the Holy Trinity.
But if the Virgin Mary is a figure of the Church; if She is its Mother to the point of having given birth to us into Grace by the pains that She mystically suffered together with the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ; if She is her Mistress and Queen by grace, for having redeemed us by virtue of the merits of the Co-Redemption, we can hope that the Church herself will see herself in some way assumed into heaven, as in the vision of Saint John: I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev 21:2). And who is she, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, if not the Mater Ecclesiae, the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and our Mother? It is She, in the power of Her most holy humility and immaculate purity, who sums up in Herself the vision of the beloved Apostle. She is the one who rises like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army in battle array (Song of Songs 6:10). She is the dwelling place of God among men (Rev 21:3): the bride of the Lamb (Rev 21:9), whose splendor is like that of a very precious gem, like a crystalline jasper stone (Rev 21:11); she has no need of the light of the sun, nor of the light of the moon, because the glory of God illuminates her and her lamp is the Lamb (Rev 21:23).
The Holy Church, like her Queen, is a holy city that gathers its children from every part of the world and from every age: There will in no way enter into her anything impure, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life (Rev 21:27). Whoever is victorious will inherit these goods; I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowards and the unbelievers, the vile and murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death (Rev 21:7-8).
The vision of Patmos shows us the Church triumphant, which in this is similar to the Virgin Mary. But on this earth the Church – which is militant as the conqueror of all heresies – does not yet know eternal glory and must face the terrible trials that await her not only during her pilgrimage through the centuries, but also and above all in the end times, when the persecution of the Antichrist will rage against her in the illusion of conquering her. And while the Church appears mocked, humiliated and struck to death – just as the Savior was mocked, tortured, and killed – her Ministers flee, hide, and deny knowing the Galilean. Alone, together with Saint John, the Sorrowful Virgin remains at the foot of the Cross, to complete in her own most pure flesh what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ. And in this silent testimony, in which the pain of the soul incomparably surpasses physical suffering, Mary Most Holy is an example to those who, in these terrible moments of crisis and apostasy, remain at the foot of the cross from which the Holy Church hangs, dying. They too – and we with them – suffer in seeing the Mystical Body crucified, following in the footsteps of its Head. And we must all take as our guide the Mother of God, our model, the star that shows us the painful way of the Cross as the only path to the glory of the beatific vision.
Let us not be surprised if the enemies of Christ also seek to obscure the Virgin Mary: they fear her more than the Lord, because they know that it is to Her, and to no other creature, that Providence has entrusted the Church and every baptized person – Auxilium Christianorum – and that it will be She who will destroy the Synagogue of Satan.
Let us pray, dear brothers, that this passio Ecclesiæ may open the eyes of the lukewarm who are still sluggish in their spiritual drowsiness. Let us ask the Virgin of the Assumption to restore sight to the blind – profer lumen cæcis, we sing in the ancient hymn Ave Maris Stella – so that they may see and understand that the one true Church of Christ cannot have peace with the world, because it does not belong to her and is indeed her enemy. So that they may see and understand that the cowards and the unbelievers, the vile and the murderers, the immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars (Rev 21:7) cannot take part in the banquet of the Lamb unless they convert, repent, and repair the evil they have committed. And if the deception of the Enemy has forged a counterfeit of this unique Ark of salvation, our response cannot be to flee or hide, but rather to remain close to the dying Lord and to His Most Holy Mother, like Saint John.
We confidently await the blessed day when the Lord will return in glory to recapitulate all things in Himself, to definitively restore His Universal Lordship. He will repeat to the Church the words He addressed to the Most Holy Mary: Arise, my Beloved, my Beautiful One, and come away! O my dove, who art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the ravine, show me your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, your face is lovely (Song of Songs 2:13-14).
It will be then that we will see the Immaculate Virgin, the Woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under Her feet, crowned with twelve stars (Rev 12:1) descend from heaven like the heavenly Jerusalem, to trample with Her virginal heel the head of the ancient Serpent (Gen 3:15). Her humility will conquer the rebellious pride of Satan; Her purity will crush the impure spirit; Her faithfulness will conquer betrayal and apostasy. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
15 August MMXXIV a. D.ñi
In Assumptione B.M.V.
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| Panama Archbishop Invites Visits to Visit Pagan Temples to Celebrate the Feast of the Assumption |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2024, 03:59 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Assumption: Panama Archbishop Invites to Visit Pagan Temples
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gloria.tv | August 15, 2024
Monsignor José Domingo Ulloa, Archbishop of Panama invites to an inter-religious event on today's Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. It is called "Afternoon of the Temples".
Participants will be able to visit twelve temples between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. The temples offer different cultural activities, including music, architecture, culture, history and most important: gastronomy. There are also folkloric dances, lectures on religious beliefs and pagan rituals.
The event was celebrated for the first time on August 15, 2023.
Monsignor Ulloa calls the afternoon "a reflection of our religious diversity, which unites and strengthens us as a nation".
The event is being organized in collaboration with Hindus, Muslims, Methodists and Rabbi Gustavo Kraselnick, a homosexual activist.
The Assumption is the anniversary of the founding of Panama City.
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| The Most Pressing Need in the World Today: Restoring the Belief in Immutable Catholic Truth |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-12-2024, 08:38 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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The Most Pressing Need in the World Today: Restoring the Belief in Immutable Catholic Truth
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By: Robert Morrison, Columnist [slightly adapted, red font emphasis mine] | August 11, 2024
“Then Jesus said to those Jews, who believed Him: If you continue in My word, you shall be My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)
Commenting on this passage from the Gospel of St. John, St Augustine emphasized the unchanging, or immutable, nature of truth:
Quote:“The truth is unchangeable; it is the bread of the soul, refreshing others, without diminution to itself; changing him who eats into itself, itself not changed. This truth is the Word of God, which put on flesh for our sakes, and lay hid; not meaning to bury itself, but only to defer its manifestation, till its suffering in the body, for the ransoming of the body of sin, had taken place.” (from St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea)
Actual truth cannot change because the Word of God cannot change. St. Paul expressed the same reality in his letter to the Hebrews:
“Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; and the same for ever. Be not led away with various and strange doctrines.” (Hebrews 13:8-9)
St. Paul warned us against being “led away with various and strange doctrines” because he recognized that this was a genuine threat to our Faith: there are those who will try to lead us away from God’s immutable truth. St. Paul went so far as to insist that one must cling to immutable truth even if it appears that reliable authority figures tell us that the truth must change:
Quote:“I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.” (Galatians 1:6-9)
This is such a vital concept that St. Paul repeated it so as to avoid any misunderstanding. Nobody, not even St. Paul himself or an angel from heaven, can change the truth that the Apostles taught.
Of course it is the case that expressions of the Catholic Faith have developed in the centuries since St. Paul warned us against accepting changes to the Faith. As we know, the Church has been guided by the Holy Ghost to perfect the expressions of certain truths, often to clarify and expand upon the truths that Our Lord entrusted to His disciples for the sake of combatting heresies. In each instance, though, St. Paul and everyone else who understood Catholic truth would recognize that the legitimate development of particular expressions of the Faith always elaborate upon and clarify, rather than contradict, the truths they had taught.
Pope Pius XII was the last pope to firmly warn against the errors that threatened to lead Catholics to believe that the Faith could change to become something that contradicted what it had always been. His 1950 encyclical “Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine,” Humani Generis, he denounced the errors that had already started to find their way into Catholic books and seminaries:
Quote:“Such fictitious tenets of evolution which repudiate all that is absolute, firm and immutable, have paved the way for the new erroneous philosophy which, rivaling idealism, immanentism and pragmatism, has assumed the name of existentialism, since it concerns itself only with existence of individual things and neglects all consideration of their immutable essences. There is also a certain historicism, which attributing value only to the events of man's life, overthrows the foundation of all truth and absolute law, both on the level of philosophical speculations and especially to Christian dogmas.”
This last error — historicism — posits that truths of the Faith can evolve over time depending upon historical circumstances, such that what St. Paul considered to be immutable during his time may be different now because our world has changed. It should be clear that St. Paul would have found such an assertion to be preposterous, dangerous, and obviously contradicted by the plain terms of his warning.
Before considering two post-Vatican II manifestations of historicism below, it is worthwhile to see the way in which the error spread prior to the Council despite Pius XII’s warning in Humani Generis that historicism “overthrows the foundation of all truth and absolute law.” The following excerpt from the August 1993 SiSiNoNo explains so much about the crisis in the Catholic Church:
Quote:“Confirmation of this treachery comes to us today, from the very lips of those representing this New Theology. A mouthpiece of theirs is the journal Communio and in an article of November-December, 1990, the Jesuit Fr. Peter Henrici (born 1928) tells us that: . . . Behind that facade of official studies, modernist texts and tracts were secretly circulated to the most brilliant and promising seminarians. Those same modernist concepts, secretly passed around, would later reappear as the New Theology. Those who showed interest and promise in theology, would be given the modernist Fr. Henri de Lubac's book: The Supernatural - the most forbidden of forbidden books! Then they would receive another of his books, Corpus Mysticum. This was done to inculcate them with the principle that identical theological terms could have different meanings with the passage of time or when looked at in another context. Thus we say goodbye to unchanging divine and apostolic Tradition! Goodbye to the homogenous development of dogma! Goodbye to unchangeable truths!”
Yes, thanks to the insidious work of those who sought to spread what Pius XII had forbidden, the future priests were poisoned with the belief that “identical theological terms could have different meanings with the passage of time or when looked at in another context.” Although such a pernicious error can only have been devised by the father of lies, many well-meaning clerics allowed the foundations of their Faith to be overthrown by historicism. Two examples (chosen from among many) should suffice to demonstrate the extent of damage that has resulted from this catastrophe:
Vatican II and Religious Liberty.
It is beyond serious dispute that Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae said something fundamentally different from what the pre-Vatican II popes taught. As discussed in a previous article, Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Benedict XVI) likened Dignitatis Humanae and other Council documents to a “countersyllabus,” meaning that the Council’s key documents essentially promoted the errors that Pope Pius IX had condemned in his Syllabus of Errors, which accompanied the pope’s 1864 encyclical, Quanta Cura. In his They Have Uncrowned Him, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre quoted Fr. Yves Congar’s explanation for how the architects of the Council’s documents justified their deviation from pre-Conciliar teaching by suggesting that the historical circumstances had evolved:
Quote:“Father John Courtney Murray, who belonged to the intellectual and religious elite, has shown that, materially saying quite the opposite from the Syllabus — this latter is from 1864 and it is, as Roger Aubert has proven, conditioned by precise historical circumstances — the Declaration [Dignitatis Humanae] was the consequence of the battle by which, in the face of Jacobism and the totalitarianisms, the Popes more and more strongly led the fight for the dignity of the liberty of the human person made to the image of God.” (p. 185)
So, Congar and Murray would argue, it might have been true for the popes to condemn religious liberty in their time, but times have changed. Archbishop Lefebvre rejected this historicist attempt to justify the rejection of what the Church had previously taught:
Quote:“On the contrary, we have seen that Roger Aubert and John Courtney Murray are themselves prisoners of the historicist prejudice which makes them erroneously relativize the doctrine of the Popes of the nineteenth century! In reality, the Popes have condemned religious liberty in itself, as a freedom that is absurd, ungodly, and leading the peoples to religious indifference. This condemnation remains, and, with the authority of the constant ordinary magisterium of the Church (if not of the extraordinary magisterium, with Quanta Cura), it weighs on the conciliar declaration.” (pp. 185-196)
Today we see the absolute absurdity of believing that the pre-Vatican II popes were speaking only for unique historical situations. Vatican II’s purported embrace of the freedom to openly practice all religions may not have had a direct practical effect in non-Catholic nations, but it erroneously signaled two things to the world. It falsely indicated that the Church no longer condemned the proposition that “liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right,” which Quanta Cura had aptly described as the “liberty of perdition.” It also suggested that the Church had embraced the destructive historicism that Pius XII had condemned.
Bishop of Rome Document and Vatican I.
Thanks in large part to the tragic reality that historicism has destroyed the concept of immutable truth in the minds of many (perhaps most) clerics and theologians, the authors of the new Bishop of Rome document did not need to even attempt to mask their contempt for immutable Catholic truth. While we could cite numerous examples from the document, arguably the most explicit is in the call to reinterpret Vatican I in the light of the most liberal readings of Vatican II’s documents:
Quote:“Among the proposals expressed by the dialogues, the call for a Catholic ‘re-reception’ or official commentary of Vatican I seems particularly important. Assuming the hermeneutical rule that the dogmas of Vatican I must be read in the light of Vatican II, especially its teaching on the People of God (LG, chapter II) and collegiality (LG 22–23), some dialogues reflect that Vatican II did not explicitly interpret Vatican I but, while incorporating its teaching, complemented it (LG, chapter III, 18).”
Footnote 13 cited Cardinal Ratzinger on the need to reinterpret Vatican I:
“Joseph Ratzinger: ‘Just as within Holy Scripture there is the phenomenon of relecture [...], so likewise the individual dogmas and pronouncements of the Councils are not to be understood as isolated, but rather in the process of dogmatic–historical relecture within this unity of the history of faith. [...] That this insight is of fundamental significance for the interpretation of Vatican I, is obvious’, (Joseph Ratzinger, Das neue Volk Gottes: Entwürfe zur Ekklesiologie, 2nd ed. [Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1970], 140–141)”
This may surprise some Catholics, but we should recall that Henri de Lubac — who was a key proponent of historicism — had a tremendous influence of the future Benedict XVI. We can get a sense of de Lubac’s profound influence by reading the words of Cardinal Ratzinger’s 1988 forward to de Lubac’s famous book, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man:
Quote:“It is now almost forty years since, in late autumn of 1949, a friend gave me a copy of de Lubac’s book Catholicism. For me, the encounter with this book became an essential milestone on my theological journey. . . It was not only for me that de Lubac’s book marked such a turning point. It fascinated theologians in the fifties everywhere and his fundamental insights became the patrimony of theological reflection. The narrow-minded individualistic Christianity against which he strove is hardly our problem today. Everyone is teaching about the social dimension of dogma.”
Because, according to Cardinal Ratzinger, “everyone” was teaching de Lubac’s ideas in 1988, it should come as little surprise that relatively few Catholic clerics and theologians have any sense of the immutable nature of Catholic truth today.
Of course the most striking illustration of this failure to appreciate the immutable nature of Catholic truth is the ongoing Synod on Synodality — with its listening sessions to discern how to change Catholic teaching — but we can see an even more important example in Benedict XVI’s final address to the clergy of Rome. In it, the follower of de Lubac explained how various historical changes during his lifetime had led to theological changes. One of the most unfortunate comments related to the development of the pernicious teaching on ecumenism, which has effaced the teaching that there is no salvation outside the Church (absent standard exceptions):
Quote:“Finally, ecumenism. I do not want to enter now into these problems, but it was obvious – especially after the ‘passions’ suffered by Christians in the Nazi era – that Christians could find unity, or at least seek unity, yet it was also clear that God alone can bestow unity. And we are still following this path.”
According to Benedict XVI, the Nazi era caused theologians to rethink the teaching that the only path to unity was through a process of non-Catholics accepting immutable Catholic truth. But Pope Pius XII had condemned the key components of today’s ecumenical movement in Humani Generis, from 1950 (which was after the Nazi era). So perhaps it was “obvious” to some theological opportunists that the time was ripe to try to reshape fundamental Catholic teaching, but it was evidently obvious to Pius XII that Catholics had a duty to resist the false ecumenism that dominates Rome today. Unfortunately, we know which side prevailed at the Council.
Why is all of this important today? Historicism has caused the evil against which Pius XII had warned:
Quote:“There is also a certain historicism, which attributing value only to the events of man's life, overthrows the foundation of all truth and absolute law, both on the level of philosophical speculations and especially to Christian dogmas.”
The foundation of all truth and absolute law has been overthrown. Many Catholics rightly applauded Benedict XVI as he responded to the problems in the Church by trying to restore what his predecessors had demolished, but at best he was building on the same bad foundation. His conservative-leaning work masked the fact that the foundation of immutable truth continued to deteriorate.
When we abandon the foundation of immutable truth, we offend God and, in a sense, deserve to lose the helps He wants to give us to overcome the current crisis. Why, in other words, would He intervene to resolve any of our more visible problems if we remain content to live with the damaged foundation that is of itself a rejection of God’s truth? We can even see all that is happening in the Church and world today as a fitting punishment for the collective abandonment of His divine truth.
The edition of SiSiNoNo cited above argued that restoration can only come by going back to the foundation of immutable truth:
Quote:“From what we have just seen, it logically follows that true restoration can only come by traveling along in a reverse direction from the one which led to the rupture or breaking away from the Doctrinal Tradition of the Church: a return to constant and durable philosophy, and therefore to Scholastic Theology, therefore to the Dogmatic tradition of the Church in faithful obedience to the constant directives and teachings of the Magisterium of all the Popes.”
This is not nearly as difficult as it may seem. Unlike the political realm in which our voices and votes count for nothing, in God’s Holy Catholic Church those who tell the truth have the power to build while others are destroying. So long as we act with charity, we never have to fear “offending the authorities” if we insist on immutable Catholic truth and reject the errors contrary to it. And today we have more reason than ever to know that the pre-Vatican II popes were correct when they denounced the Modernist and Liberal errors: we know this because we see firsthand the same damage they said would occur when Catholics abandoned truth and embraced errors.
God is God. You cannot reject the holy and salutary truths He gave us without causing tremendous damage. We need saints, but we cannot have saints without the immutable Catholic Faith. We need a Catholic pope, but there is little hope of a Catholic pope until Catholics want immutable Catholic Faith. We need to overturn the godless schemes to erect a New World Order, but we can do that only with the immutable Catholic Faith God gave us. Hence, the most pressing need in the world today is to restore belief in the immutable Catholic Faith.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
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