Posted on 09/11/2017 5:51:05 PM PDT by ebb tide
One of the keynotes of Father Gruner’s assessment of the crisis in the Church from the Fatima perspective was his exposure and condemnation of the disastrous post-Vatican II policy of Ostpolitik (the politics of the East), according to which the Vatican, acting through its Secretary of State, would conciliate and compromise with communist dictatorships, reversing the Church’s condemnation of communism and her staunch opposition to the tyranny of communist regimes oppressing the Church.
Even during the Second Vatican Council, that emerging policy resulted in the Council’s infamous failure to condemn or even mention the evils of Soviet communism in the very document which, ludicrously enough, called for “scrutinizing the signs of the times.” In return for this act of betrayal, which Jean Madiran rightly described as “ecclesiastical treason,” the Kremlin agreed to permit two Russian Orthodox bishops, puppets of the Soviet state, to attend the Council as John XXIII had so ardently desired.
Father Gruner never ceased to condemn the error of Ostpolitik because he could see that the policy had persisted and is still in operation today. Thus, the Vatican Secretariat of State continues its absurd negotiations with Beijing over how to share control over the Church with a communist government.
In his column on this endless farce, Sandro Magister notes that the Vatican’s own publishing house has engaged in what appears to be an effort to give the appearance of regularity to the bishops consecrated without papal mandate and installed as puppets of Beijing in its pseudo-Church, the Catholic Patriotic Association. The Vatican has published the biographies of these schismatic prelates in the same book as the biographies of “75 bishops in China who have died between 2004 and today, all of them crushed by years or decades of imprisonment, forced labor, reeducation camps, house arrest, policemen constantly tagging along.”
The idea behind this book, apparently, is to convey the impression that the puppet bishops and the persecuted bishops of the true Catholic Church in China, which is still forced to operate underground, are on equal footing. They are all just Catholic bishops, you see, although some have been treated badly by the government. Yet the Vatican’s own publicity stunt has made it clear, to quote Magister, that “[i]f this is the treatment that the communist regime inflicts on the Chinese bishops in the field, it is clear that all of this must cease before the Vatican could agree to sign an accord with the Beijing authorities on the appointment of future bishops.”
Magister itemizes some of the more recent examples of Beijing’s brutality toward the true Catholic bishops of China:
Yet, despite the evident futility of negotiating for the freedom of the Church with godless tyrants, “negotiation is underway between the two sides, with meetings every three months alternating between Rome and Beijing,” writes Magister. And this despite the fact that, as he notes, “the Chinese episcopal conference, which would be responsible for selecting the candidates [for bishop], is currently made up only of the bishops officially recognized by Beijing, without the thirty or so ‘underground’ bishops who instead are recognized only by Rome; and there is no way to convince the Chinese authorities to include these as well.” Moreover, of the “seven ‘official’ bishops who the regime claims have also been recognized by the Holy See… three have been publicly excommunicated and a couple have lovers and children.”
“In the face of all this,” Magister concludes, “the optimism that Pope Francis shows every time he touches on the question of China can be explained only as an exercise of Realpolitik [i.e. Ostpolitik] pushed to the extreme.” Proving once again that Father Gruner’s diagnosis of the evil of Ostpolitik was not alarmism, but rather a sober assessment of the reality of our situation, which has only worsened under this pontificate.
Only Russia’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary can bring an end to the insanity of negotiating God’s rights with God’s enemies.
Given the pope’s present actions, we should start a pool on when the first mosque is in Vatican walls.
Totally not kidding.
I predict the Vatican Walls will become a Mosque, and much sooner than I care to even contemplate.
Pope Francis is a Communist. #NotMyPope,,,,,,,
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unset-apart, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of YHWH; Having a form of reverence, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
(2Ti 3:1-7)
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