Posted on 04/29/2020 9:52:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
April 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — During an interview with LifeSite co-founder John-Henry Westen yesterday, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan said the “persecution” of the church being carried out by governments across the world during the COVID-19 outbreak is causing “a kind of underground Church” to emerge and that this may be a vehicle for God to purify the Church.
“It could be that we are going through a time of the catacombs — a kind of underground Church,” he said. “But we needn’t be fearful. We have to be courageous, because the Church has a lot of ... experience being a catacomb Church, an underground Church. And in those times of catacombs, God gave plenty of spiritual fruits for the renewal of the Church.”
Schneider pointed to the heavy-handed restrictions placed on churches in the United Kingdom and elsewhere as proof that governments are using the coronavirus as a “pretext” to “implicitly persecute” the Catholic Church.
England’s lockdown laws are “completely against every reasonableness of proportionality,” he remarked. They are “a kind of discrimination and persecution of the Church.”
His Excellency continued: “The bishops and the bishops’ conferences — and even the Holy See — should insist on the governments to give to the churches at least the same rights ... as they give to the stores where people can buy food.” “If the government denies the Church the same rights as they give to a store, then this is discrimination of the religion.”
Schneider wondered if this particular time in history is “an intervention to purify the Church through a persecution” due to the widespread nature of “heresies in doctrine and morals [and] in the liturgy” in the Church.
Schneider wondered if “a time of catacombs would be good for the Church” in that it could be “a very strong intervention by divine providence to awaken the Church.”
His Excellency added that Catholics need to pray so God may “illuminate” Pope Francis so he will “make acts of reparation together with the cardinals” for the “outrages against our Lord, in the Eucharist ... committed inside the church” and for sins like abortion that are “committed outside the church.”
“It is the Lord who will determine the time of the catacombs, the time of persecution, not the government’s,” he concluded.
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His Excellency added that Catholics need to pray so God may “illuminate” Pope Francis so he will “make acts of reparation together with the cardinals” for the “outrages against our Lord, in the Eucharist ... committed inside the church” and for sins like abortion that are “committed outside the church.”
Ping
We started in the catacombs.
We can go back to the catacombs.
And we will emerge stronger.
When Walmart is open but churches are not allowed to be it tells you something is really not right. As far as I know churches were not given an option to do anything to stay open. Abortion clinics open for business! That is unbelievable to me and at this point I will believe almost anything!
Socialist politicians are for sure using this to further their agenda. Churches and gun shops closed. Baby murders are not only allowed but now considered essential. Very obvious and most will still say you are a conspiracy nut if you talk about it. When it is happening right in front of us in broad daylight. Amazing.
It’s so catacomby that even the devout don’t know where the priests are
The Catholic church is the institution most responsible for the plague of Marxocrats that have destroyed this country over the past hundred years. And with Pope Anti-Christ at the helm today, duly elevated by a totally corrupt clerical class, the damage they’ve caused is now complete. You can thank the community of Catholics who have consistently “ate fish on friday, go to mass on Sunday, and vote Marxocrat on Tuesday” for the criminality, abortion, sodomy, and communism that has laid this country low. And you can expect this evil craziness to happen again this fall, when the majority of Catholics will again vote in large numbers for every satanic Marxocrat candidate that appears all up and down the ballot in every city and state in what’s left of America.
And I write this as a church-going Catholic who knows my neighbors very well indeed.
Trump carried the Catholic vote in 2016.
Sez who? The media? I come from a large Catholic family. I’m the only one in my extended family that ever votes Republican excepting my mother-in-law. And all my nieces and nephews are liberals, to go along with their parents, my own siblings and other in-laws. Cafeteria Catholics every one. And the only time they go to church is a funeral. They don’t even bother to get married there anymore. Welcome to the Novus Ordo Vatican II anti-catholic church of what’s happenin’ now!
Tell your family if they vote for a pro abortion candidate they can not call themselves Catholic. A Novus Ordo priest never will. Their too worried about losing a dollar. . I go to a Traditional Mass. My priest has no problems telling the truth.
“The victorious Trump-Pence ticket received 52% of Catholics’ votes compared to Clinton-Kaine’s 45%..”
That’s per Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_politics_in_the_United_States
Ignore any liberal poll that’s came out since the election that says Clinton won the Catholic vote. She received 800,000 illegal votes. Thats why these sleezeball democrats want all mail voting. Makes it so much easier to cheat.
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