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The never-ending synodal process has become a serious trial to those who love the Church. One wonders why the bishops have continued to participate and even wax enthusiastic while these events fulfill the rallying cry of Francis to "make a mess." In view of the confusion and, even questionable doctrinal novelties accompanying the process, one would expect a little hesitancy and even push back from the bishops. But there's been precious little of that from the majority who undermine their own authority as they carry out the Vatican demands to "listen" to the vox populi, especially those who want to turn the Church into another Protestant sect.
Fr. Gerald Murray recently spoke about ecclesial authority in light of the on-going synodal confusion. "The shepherds govern the flock," he told the National Catholic Register. "The flock does not govern the shepherds."
According to the doctrine of the Church, that's the right order of authority, but the Synod on Synodality has turned things upside down. Fr. Murray continued:
“The authority of the episcopal college, under and in union with the Pope, to teach, sanctify and govern the People of God, comes from Christ and cannot legitimately be made subject to any arrangement which parcels out that exclusive authority to an assembly made up of priests, deacons, religious and laypeople,”
But that's what the Vatican is doing with the three-year implementation of the Synod and their plan for an "ecclesial assembly" in 2028. The "assembly" will be made up of a minority of bishops with many other voting members from "the people of God." They are expected to make proposals affecting "the entire Church." And we can easily imagine what those "proposals" will be.
I've been around for a lot of disastrous "assemblies." We are still suffering from the wretched 1976 Call to Action [CTA] Conference held in Chicago that called for "parish renewal." In 2013 Stephanie Block, an expert on Alinsky organizing, wrote an article titled, A Little Catholic “Education” History: Getting Alinsky into the Catholic Parish. Alinsky, a communist, found approval from a number of progressive priests including Msgr. Jack Egan, a mover and shaker in Chicago, who became a board member of Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. The two men were influential in founding the Campaign for Human Development (Later the "Catholic" Campaign...) in order to let community organizers pick the pockets of pew sitters with a faux Catholic agenda claiming to help the poor. Here's a bit from Stephanie's article:
...many of [the Call to Action recommendations]... were too radical for implementation. However, a “Project for Parish Renewal” was approved as a “major priority” for every US diocese and Catholics for Truth in Education watched the process, as it unfolded in Chicago, closely.
From the advantage of 35 years in the future, one can see that, for some, “renewal” was an honest endeavor. To them, it meant simply a reinvigoration of parish life that might include building new schools, improving resources, or developing ministries. For the reformers, however, “renewal” was consciously and deliberately ordered toward ideological “transformation.” A transformed parish would have little resemblance to a Catholic community. The third “open letter” [The reformers issued, at least 9 after the CTA conference.] documents the push of various Network clergy for women and married priests, acceptance of divorce, homosexuality, and birth control, as well as belief in a non-hierarchical Church structure that was to be separated from Rome. The Network “theological adviser,” a philosophy professor hired to conduct talks in Chicago-area parishes about Network’s vision for restructuring, is quoted spouting pure liberation theology. “Someday this world will be The Kingdom,” he assures listeners. “The Kingdom is the state of affairs – the here and now.”
Maybe somebody’s Kingdom, but not Christ’s.
Did Jesus Christ establish a democratic Church to be run by the laity? Did he give the keys of the Kingdom to Sr. Frankie and Fr. Randy? The Old Testament book of Leviticus indicates not. God emphasized to the chosen people the hierarchical nature of the future Church with a priesthood anointed to celebrate the sacrifices. They were the only ones authorized to touch the ark of the covenant and were to carry it before Israel. When a layman touched the ark (which was on a cart where it didn't belong) to steady it, he was struck dead. The Church is not, and never will be, a democracy with a code of law made by a popular vote of the people. God gave the people the Ten Commandments through his representative, Moses. It is our bishops and his delegates today who have the authority to teach, govern and sanctify the flock.
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The moles at the Vatican with the enthusiastic support of Pope Francis prefer a Catholic Church molded by modern Martin Luthers They are trying to implement it through a reign of terror that rewards heretics, cancels orthodox priests and bishops, bans tradition including all the sacraments practiced for 2000 years, etc.
Unfortunately, many of our shepherds are hirelings who don't care much for the flock. They've stood by and watched the wolves enter the sheepfold and scatter the sheep. Some have become rabid participants in the scattering. Many enable the assault on Holy Mother Church by their silence.
It's time for the good bishops to push back and just say no. They should refuse to authorize the assemblies in their dioceses and organize rosary crusades instead.
Now isn't that a novel idea.
...excerpts from decades old articles.....
ReplyDeleteDietrich von Hildebrand identifies (democracy, liberalism) as ‘the great secularizing error of our time: the idea that religion should be adapted to man rather than man to religion.’ (Trojan Horse in the City of God). The heresy of Americanism penetrated the Church and found its way into the very bloodstream of Catholicism: into the American Church, through such agents as Bishop Carroll and Cardinal Gibbons: into the Universal Church through the dark machinations of such liberals as Cardinal Spellman and Cushing and Fr. John Courtney Murray……transforming the dogmatic Church of Christ into the democratic ‘church’ of man, no thought is given to the integral sacredness of holy orthodoxy, holy traditions of antiquity, to the teaching and governing Magisterium….etc.
The Modern Church has indeed, in many ways, been transformed into just another democratic institution with so many destructive initiatives like bishops’ conferences, priest senates and parish councils…..the drive to break asunder the monarchical model of the Church and convert it not a people’s church. Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, ‘Gaudium et Spes’, was easily interpreted by liberals.
The Church establishment reached a climax when some 24 sisters signed their names to a full-page ad in the NY Times challenging the Vatican’s unshakable position the murder of unborn children. It was a scandal which shocked the whole of Christendom…..it was only the beginning. Priests for Equality with 2100 members in 34 countries, and the National Federation of Priest’s Councils in United States were calling for clerical marriage and an end of celibacy. In 1989 the collective voice of 163 European theologians in the ‘Cologne Declaration’; calling for an ‘open Catholicism’ and attacking the Church’s position on sexual morality. In 1990 a pastoral letter demanding a dramatic reform in the Church published again in NY Times, with the names of 4,505 American Catholics attached. Nuns, priests, bishops, theologians, and scores of lay people have sought, by every means possible, to democratize the Church which Christ Himself set up as a monolithic, hierarchical, and dogmatic institution.
WHERE THE REFORMATION INTRODUCED PROTESTANTISM TO THE WORLD, LIBERALISM AND MODERNISM INTRODUCED PROTESTANTISM TO THE CHURCH DEMOCRACY – AMERICANISM – WAS THE MOST DECISIVE INTERMEDIARY IN EFFECTUATING THIS PROTESTANTIZATION OF CATHOLICISM, AND THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL GREATLY ACCELERATED THE DRIVE………THE RIGHTS OF MAN, WHICH HAD BEEN GRADUALLY EATING AWAY AT THE RIGHTS OF GOD FOR 500 YEARS, WERE NOW ATTACKING LIKE A FRENZIED BLOOD ORGY OF KILLER SHARKS.
ReplyDeleteALL THESE POST-VATICAN II POPES – JOHN XXIII, PAUL VI, JOHN PAUL II, AND BENEDICT XVI (FRANCIS) – HAVE FAILED TO PROCLAIM THE TRUE FAITH TO MODERN MAN, AND THEIR FAILURE HAS LED THE WORLD TO REJECT THE REAL CHRIST HIMSELF, AND HIS TEACHING, AND TO EFFECTUATE HIS UNIVERSAL DETHRONEMENT.
THE FAILURE OF THE SHEPHERDS IS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST SCANDAL OF MODERN TIMES.
Can you provide links?
ReplyDeleteSome of the articles have no link, those days the article would be just copied, but all written by persecuted soldiers of Jesus Christ, who are no longer with us.
ReplyDeleteThis should suffice: https://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/SiSiNoNo/1993_August/Simon_Against_Peter.htm
https://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/SiSiNoNo/1993_August/They_Think_Theyve_Won.htm
"Did Jesus Christ establish a democratic Church to be run by the laity?"
ReplyDeleteYes. Because when Paul tells Timothy/Titus to "ordain" boshops/presbyters, the word translated ordian in Greek cheir...something, means "to vote by raising the hand". The laity vote on their local bishop. Not supposed to be a pope appointing bishops and making them all as liberal as him.
"bans tradition including all the sacraments practiced for 2000 years"
ReplyDeleteWhat sacraments have been banned? i didn't hear anything about this.
In our diocese all marriages must be according to the Novus Ordo rite. While the TLM is allowed in a number of places outside the parish church (Traditional parishioners helped pay for the church but are excluded from it.), none of the.other sacraments are permitted in the traditional rite. That's one of the reasons the SSPX chapel in Linden is attracting so many parishioners. Several couples were refused a traditional nuptual Mass in the diocese so they joined our chapel and were married there. The goal is to stamp out traditionalism. It isn't going to happen! The Holy Spirit won't allow it!
DeleteMary Ann, I have been to the SSPX chapel in your area. A “pretty” place it is not and I hope they will either acquire a church or have the funds to build one. But regardless, that’s where the Faith resides and I commend the SSPX for serving the Faithful which they certainly do. I will (politely) confront any Catholic who tries to tell me the SSPX is in schism. They are most certainly not and as the antichurch continues to get away with it’s shenanigans, the SSPX at this rate will be the remnant True Church at some point soon.
ReplyDeleteThe antichurch? Is that the whole NO Church you're referencing? Or do you believe the NO Church is only partially antichurch?
DeleteAs to the SSPX soon becoming the remnant true church, think someone better mention that to the two remaining bishops, so they consecrate a few more bishops. Unless, of course the SSPX no longer believes, as Abp. Lefebvre did, that NO ordinations are doubtful and their consecrations are certainly invalid.
.....from 'the catechism of the crisis in the Church', (Angelus Press)
ReplyDelete'Simple common-sense shows, and experience confirms, that it is currently impossible to fully live and defend the Catholic Faith while being approved by Conciliar Rome. Following upon the episcopal consecrations of 1988, Rome conceded the celebration of the former liturgy to a few communities, but in return these were obliged to recognize the New Mass as fully legitimate rite and to refrain from any criticism of Vatican II. In particular, they had to accept (or at least not criticize) religious freedom and ecumenism. Such a silence constitutes 'per se' culpable complicity.
"Conciliar Rome was bothered by these episcopal consecrations because they assured the survival of Tradition.......YES, the episcopal consecrations of 1988 constitute a great victory for the Church. They saved the traditional Mass, the Sacraments, but also by protecting a small part of the Church's flock against the conciliar errors, (that continue to ravage the Church till today....my emphasis). The slow but real progress of the Mass within the Church is an incontestable fruit of the consecration......it is therefore necessary to keep a distance from the Roman authorities. The definitive victory is yet to come."
In God's good time, saint to be...... Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ora pro nobis!