Posted on 11/13/2019 12:35:56 PM PST by ebb tide
As LifeSiteNews has just reported (Nov. 12): “An international group of 100 priests and lay scholars published a statement today to protest the pagan worship of Pachamama that took place last month during the Amazon Synod in Rome with Pope Francis’ active participation and apparent support.”
I am one of the signatories and drafters of this document. Quite simply, it is a declaration by concerned clergy and laity alike that an already wayward pontificate has gone completely off the rails into the realm of outright sacrilege, much of it perpetrated in Saint Peter’s Basilica itself.
If that claim seems extreme, consider the particulars of our protest, lodged on the Internet here:
Moreover, as the statement notes, even before its publication, “Different features of these proceedings [were] condemned as idolatrous or sacrilegious by Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Bishop José Luis Azcona Hermoso, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, and Bishop Marian Eleganti. Lastly, Card. Raymond Burke has given the same assessment of this cult in an interview.”
Among these prelates, however, only Archbishop Viganò, the first signatory of the statement, has had the courage and the candor to protest Francis’ direct involvement in the scandal. He alone among the entire world episcopate has explicitly protested the Pope’s participation in blatant sacrilege and idolatry in the very basilica where the remains of Saint Peter are enshrined at the heart of the Catholic world.
What this protest attempts to do is to rally the rest of the bishops of the world, who unanimously refuse to identify the Pope as the source of one papally-initiated scandal after another. As the statement concludes, “We respectfully ask all the bishops of the Catholic Church to offer fraternal correction to Pope Francis for these scandals, and to warn their flocks that according to the divinely revealed teaching of the Catholic faith, they will risk eternal damnation if they follow his example of offending against the First Commandment.”
Without the support of the episcopacy, no mere statement of protest from the faithful, even from priests and deacons, will effect a change in the disastrous course of this astounding pontificate. Pope Francis has not only proved impervious to such entreaties, but on the contrary has doubled down on the demand that his “Magisterium” be imposed, as if the Magisterium were the property of a single pope who would be free to disregard the perennial Magisterium to which every Pope is bound.
Hence, as LifeSiteNews further reports, the apostolic nuncio to the United State, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, has issued a Vatican diktat that the “Magisterium of Pope Francis” and “[t]he pastoral thrust of this pontificate must reach the American people.” As Pierre put it, “Especially, as families continue to demand of parishes and dioceses the accompaniment envisioned by Amoris Laetitia.”
Meaning, of course, admitting public adulterers in “second marriages” to Holy Communion while ramping up the annulment factory to crank out as many annulments as possible in keeping with Francis’ demand, announced by the Dean of the Roman Rota, that the Church undergo a “‘conversion’, a change of mentality which convinces and sustains them in following the invitation of Christ, present in their brother, the Bishop of Rome, to pass from the restricted number of a few thousand annulments to that immeasurable [number] of unfortunates who might have a declaration of nullity….”
Yes, we have a Pope who dares to proclaim via one of his subalterns that Christ Himself, speaking through Francis, is calling for an “immeasurable number” of quickie annulments — along with Holy Communion for public adulterers who have not yet obtained a rubber stamp annulling their “first marriage.”
The lay faithful and numerous priests have done what they can to resist this out-of-control papacy. But where are the bishops, including certain cardinals who fret about “confusion” and “error” in the Church without having the fortitude to confront their obvious primary author “to his face,” as Saint Paul did with the first Pope at Antioch? (Cf. Gal 2:11)
We can only hope and pray that this statement will prompt at least a few bishops, and perhaps a cardinal or two, to emulate the example of Saint Paul in keeping with their duty to defend the Faith against anyone, including a wayward Pope — especially a wayward Pope — who would undermine it.
Meaning, of course, admitting public adulterers in “second marriages” to Holy Communion while ramping up the annulment factory to crank out as many annulments as possible in keeping with Francis’ demand, announced by the Dean of the Roman Rota, that the Church undergo a “‘conversion’, a change of mentality which convinces and sustains them in following the invitation of Christ, present in their brother, the Bishop of Rome, to pass from the restricted number of a few thousand annulments to that immeasurable [number] of unfortunates who might have a declaration of nullity….”
Ping
In addition, one has to wonder...
Being this pope also ultimately espouses a socialistic style sovereign global government, does not attack idolatry and immorality, but frequently attacks the idea of individual liberty loving nation’s (like America), if this pope is actually a long standing “liberation theology” guy, planted by the old KGB in South America.
It was a real and long term targeted plan of the KGB, to infiltrate the Roman Catholic Church in South America, and to turn its members into communists, who would support a global government.
This guy really is dangerous.
If he’s a heretic, is he really Pope?
The Catholic bishops as a group will remain silent. Quite frankly, they make me sick to my stomach. The thought that most bishops are men of God is not supported by the evidence.
bkmk
A lifelong Catholic here-—HE NEEDS REMOVED!!!!
Just a lay person here, but an excellent question. Canons 1040-41 concern prohibitions from reception of Orders (ordination), including heresy, apostasy or schism. Canon 1044 prohibits exercise of the office for any person who commits heresy, apostasy or schism, among other things, and canon 1364 imposes excommunication for apostasy, heresy or schism. Canon 1331: Excommunication would prohibit any person from exercising their office, participating in Holy Mass, or receiving financial support from the Church.
So, Francis could be in a heap of trouble, but he thinks he will impose sanctions on anybody who opposes him. A sort of inter-religious conflict with the potential to fragment the Church into infinite pieces.
any ramp up the anullment factory. That is reserved for the rich and famous who can pay for them. If you are kennedy you can do what you want and the Roman Church will bless it. If you are a Jones or Smith not so much.
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