“If in the difficult times in which Our lot is cast, Catholics will give ear to Us, as it behoves them to do, they will readily see what are the duties of each one in matters of opinion as well as action. As regards opinion, whatever the Roman Pontiffs have hitherto taught, or shall hereafter teach, must be held with a firm grasp of mind, and, so often as occasion requires, must be openly professed.”
Pope Leo XII, Immortale Dei p.41, 1 November 1885
Keep those words in mind as you read the following, while remaining totally convinced that Bergoglio is 100%, obviously, absolutely zero evidence to the contrary, the pope.
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ROME — Christians must embrace the “imbalance” of the gospel rather than trying to put everything in order, Pope Francis said, which leads to a “dictatorship of functionalism.” HERE
It is an error to try to “fix” things and impose order on the world or the Church, the pope told participants in a diocesan assembly in Rome, adding that it is a “temptation” to think we can “reorganize the city, reorganize the diocese, put everything in order.”
Having everything in order converts the Church into a “museum,” Francis said, which would mean “taming things, taming young people, taming people’s hearts, taming families” and making everything “perfect.”
“But this would be the greatest sin of worldliness and of the anti-evangelical worldly spirit,” he said.
“Today we have been called to embrace the imbalance. We cannot do anything good or evangelical if we are afraid of imbalance,” he said. “We must grasp the imbalance in our hands: this is what the Lord tells us, because the Gospel — I believe you understand me — is an ‘unbalanced’ doctrine. Take the Beatitudes: they deserve the Nobel Prize for imbalance!”
The apostles did not get this, Francis suggested, because they had fallen into the clericalism of right thinking and a desire for order and balance.
“This is the illusion of the balance of ‘Church’ people,” he said.
We do not need “a beautiful, functionalized diocese,” he said, where “clericalism and functionalism” reign. The pope says he knows of a diocese that has more employees than the Vatican, and “that diocese is getting further away from Jesus Christ because it worships ‘harmony,’ harmony not of beauty, but of functionalist worldliness.”
“And in these cases we have fallen into the dictatorship of functionalism,” he said. “It is a new ideological colonization that tries to convince us that the Gospel is a wisdom, it is a doctrine, but it is not an announcement, it is not a kerygma.”
“We need the Holy Spirit,” he continued, “and the Holy Spirit gives the table a kick, knocks it over and starts over from scratch,” he said.
That last sentence really drives the point home, doesn’t it? Welcome to the Doctrine of Chaos. As a layman, do you submit to this? Or as a priest? Or as a bishop, or as a Cardinal…DO YOU SUBMIT TO THIS?
When the divine Founder decreed that the Church be one in faith, and in government, and in communion, He chose Peter and his successors in whom should be the principle and as it were the center of unity. . . . But, order of bishops, as Christ commanded, is to be regarded as joined with Peter, if it be subject to Peter and obey him; otherwise it necessarily descends into a confused and disorderly crowd…there is absolute need of true authority and a supreme authority which the entire community should obey. . . . Hence those special expressions of the ancients regarding St. Peter, which brilliantly proclaim him as placed in the highest degree of dignity and authority. They everywhere called him prince of the assembly of disciples, prince of the holy apostles, leader of that choir, mouthpiece of all the apostles, head of that family, superintendent of the whole world, first among the apostles, pillar of the Church. . . . But Roman Pontiffs, mindful of their office, wish most of all that whatever is divinely instituted in the Church be preserved…
Denz. n.1960, 1962
Disorder is the goal….What utter nonsense. Am I allowed to say I abhor this pretender.
Yes, because Benedict, not Bergoglio, is the Pope.
Those who now cling to this man, as pope, are in dangerous waters. They have jumped out of the barque in a desperate attempt to keep it from being swamped. What they should have done is thrown the demonic babbler overboard.
The bishops will bear the brunt of the coming judgment. As they should.
John, you are so right, and here’s why in case you’ve not seen it yet..
A meditation on the present crisis in the Catholic Church
by Fr. David R. Belland
It is my belief that the words of Our Lord and/or Our Lady pertaining to an urgent and public
warning about the Church is more worthy of belief than any sensible situation, event, “prudence” or
judgments of the natural order. This can be understood by the fact that the Consecration of Russia
not having been done as yet–a so called prudential decision by Pope John XXIII and his successors–
has led to the crisis we have today.
Our Lady at Akita told Sr. Agnes: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a
way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals and bishops against other bishops. The priests
who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres. . . churches and altars sacked; the
Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demons will press many priests and
consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.” (This is an approved apparition by Bishop Ito of
the Diocese of Niigata wherein Akita is situated, but due to a diplomatic decision Cardinal Ratzinger
did not officially approve it as head of the CDF, although he privately approved it and urged its
promotion worldwide.) FACT #1
Words of Sr. Lucia to Bishop Caffarra when, having been asked by Pope John Paul II to set up the
Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family (“The Institute’s establishment was to be
announced at the Holy Father’s Wednesday audience on May 13, 1981. Because of the attempted
assassination, the Institute’s Apostolic Constitution, Magnum Matrimonii Sacramentum, was
instead given on October 7, 1982, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary”–From the Institute’s Web
Page): “The final battle between Satan and Christ will be over marriage and the family.” (Although
stated by Sr. Lucia these do not come from Sr. Lucia herself, but from Our Lady or Our Lord, because
Sr. Lucia never makes a categorical statement concerning a prophecy on her own. If she draws a
conclusion from our Lady’s words or speculates on something said by Our Lady, she always qualifies
it by indicating it is her own thought. Personally I believe that this a discrete warning that actually
comes from the unrevealed part of the 3rd Secret). FACT #2
Of course there is the statement by Pope Paul VI about the Smoke of Satan having entered the
Vatican “through some crevice” and also Father Amorth, while the chief exorcise of Rome, was
shouting from the housetops that Satan was in the Vatican, that there are Bishops, Monsignors and
Priests who do not believe in God. (I have the documentation for this). FACT #3
Francis is systematically destroying the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, He betrayed the
True Church in China turning it over to the Communists, about whom Our Lady warned at Fatima,
and this alone ought to be enough to recognize the involvement of the demonic in the Church. He
resurrects, protects, covers for, promotes and employs those whose lifestyle is nothing but
demonic, but also promotes other practices absolutely contrary to and destructive of Marriage and
Family as well as contrary to the Law of God. And NO FAITHFUL CATHOLIC questions his attack on
Marriage and the Family!!! Is is not precisely this attitude and program of Francis that causes the
division between Cardinals and Bishops? FACT #4
It is my opinion that it is tantamount to heresy to say that God would allow that someone under the
control of Satan can have Official Power to destroy Christ’s Church. Would any Superior General of
the SSPX, Fr. Gruner when still living, or Fr. Ripperger even though they are not the Church, allow
someone under the control of Satan to take over those apostolates? So why would Our Lord allow
such a situation—even IF the Church is Infallible and Indefectible? SR. LUCIA TOLD CARDINAL
CARRARRA THAT THE FINAL BATTLE BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN WOULD BE OVER MARRIAGE AND
THE FAMILY. IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL–A BATTLE BETWEEN
GOD AND SATAN NO LESS–HOW CAN ANYONE BELIEVE THAT EVIL, I.E., ONE UNDER THE CONTROL
OF SATAN, COULD HAVE OFFICIAL CONTROL OF THE CHURCH? SUCH A STATE COULD ONLY BE
DESCRIBED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOING BATTLE AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, A TRULY
INSANE REALITY WERE IT POSSIBLE TO BE TRUE!!!
Yet, practically the whole Catholic world, including Prelates, the Intelligentsia, the so courageous
Theologians believe that this can BE! On the other hand, they just don’t seem to understand the
possibility that God in his Providence uses secondary causes to accomplish his Plans. And because
Pope John XXIII and Successors refused to make the Consecration of Russia, which Consecration
would have eliminated Satan’s plan to take over the Church and destroy Marriage and the Family,
GOD USED PLAN B. That Plan was to have Benedict maintain the Papacy so that Satan, through
Francis and his legitimate successors, could not destroy, in an official way, the Catholic Church.
Beside that, Benedict was being forced to do what he know was wrong and prevented from doing
what he know ought to be done through the use of the Media which was under demonic control (of
the Freemasons and Communists); thus, by his Renunciation on 11 February 2013 he only placed
himself in a position, in an official way, that was analogous to a Pope in captivity (Pope Pius VII), a
Pope in hiding (Pope Caius) or a Pope in exile (Pope Gregory the Great). In my book, Benedict has
saved the True Church of Christ! He had to forgo the great personal good of Martyrdom, in order to
salvage the much greater Common Good of the One, Holy Catholic, and Apostolic Church founded
by Christ. Nevertheless, he will still be martyred, as the Pope in the Vision of the Third Secret. But
he is hated today, and those who cheered him on during his Active Pontificate have turned their
backs on him. Could it be said that they are modern day Judases. They do not understand what he
really did.
Then, to add insult to injury well meaning and kind hearted men wishing not to offend against
Charity, as if it is charity to let an impostor act as if he is Pope, lay aside common sense and a basic
principle of Philosophy, namely, “Actio sequitur esse” (“Action follows being”). Not only do our
shepherds ignore a once cheered Pope walking around the Vatican where Popes usually live with
white Papal soutane, demanding he be called His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and having
as his Secretary the Prefect of the Papal Household! But furthermore, with the intellectual attitude
that we don’t have to believe in so-called “private” revelation, the vision of Jacinta, described by Sr.
Lucia in here Third Memoir is dismissed like the stub of one of those oh so dangerous cigarettes
being discarded with the flick of a finger. In that vision Jacinta saw: “the holy Father in very a big
house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the
house there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and
using bad language. Poor Holy Father, we must pray very much for him” (Third Memoir of St. Lucia).
Another example which truly demonstrates the Indefectibility of the Church, if you don’t mind,
concerns Pope Paul VI. The paragraph immediately below is a comment on One Peter Five by Steve
Skojec; the paragraph following is my comment:
“Paul VI, in October 1967, during the first Synod of Bishops held in the Vatican, had the Cardinal
Secretary of State ask for an opinion on contraception in view of the publication of the encyclical.
Only 26 of the 200 bishops present produced a written response. Of these, most said they were in
favor of some opening to the pill, while 7 were against. But Pope Montini, who had already
removed the subject from the Council discussion and had listened to the opinions of a commission
of experts (the majority of whom were in favor), did not believe that there was any reason to
change the position held up to that moment by his predecessors and promulgated a few months
after his Humanae vitae, which came out in July – fifty years ago – lacking however the chrism of
infallibility, as some would have liked.”
Let’s take a closer look at what happened in 1968. Of those who responded to a request for an
opinion on Birth Control a mere 27% were opposed. Without doubt those who never responded
most likely could be considered to have been in favor of changing the Church’s constant and
consistent teaching against B.C.; otherwise, given the hot topic it was, the ones against a change
would have replied. Then there are the majority of “experts” who wanted a change. But when push
came to shove, P. VI surprised the whole world and condemned B.C in his Encyclical Humanae vitae.
What had happened? I don’t think it can be denied that because of the protection promised to St.
Peter by Christ that the gates of hell shall not prevail against It (the Church)–Mt 16:18 and the
further serious prerogative: “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven….”–Mt 16: 19.
Note that Our Lord DID NOT say “WHATEVER IS INFALLIBLE THAT YOU BIND ON EARTH WILL BE
BOUND IN HEAVEN….” And then with His prayer for Peter that “thou being once converted, confirm
thy brethren” Lk, 22:32, the words and protection of Christ are eternal and provide the protection
which is called the “Gift of Indefectibility”. Please read and reread the following quote from the Old
Catholic Encyclopedia:
“The GIFT OF INDEFECTIBILITY is expressly promised to the Church by Christ, in the words in which
He declares that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it…. It is manifest that, could the storms
which the Church encounters so shake it as to alter its essential characteristics and make it other
than Christ intended it to be, the gates of hell, i.e., the powers of evil, would have prevailed. It is
clear, too, that could the Church suffer substantial change, it would no longer be an instrument
capable of accomplishing the work for which God called it into being. He established it that it might
be to all men the school of holiness. This it would cease to be if ever it could set up a false and
corrupt moral standard. He established it to proclaim His revelation to the world, and charged it to
war all men that unless they accepted that message they must perish everlastingly. . . .
“It was said above that one part of the Church’s gift of indefectibility lies in her preservation from
any substantial corruption in the sphere of morals. This supposes, not merely that she will always
proclaim the perfect standard of morality bequeathed to her by her Founder, but also that in every
age the lives of many of her children will be based on that sublime mode. Only a supernatural
principle of spiritual life could bring this about (The Catholic Encyclopedia 1913, Vol. 3 under
“Church” Pg. 756).
Can it not be said that what happened to P. VI, that that which prompted him to go against a
tsunami of opposition was the protection of Our Lord through the gift of Indefectibility? Can
anyone really in all sincerity and certitude say that this in fact happened or is happening with
Francis? BE HONEST DEAR FRIENDS. If one can’t, the question that cannot but arise is: is Francis the
true Pope? God’s protection extends only to a TRUE POPE. Now the old dictum of St.Ambrose is
most appropriate here, Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia–where Peter is, there is the Church. And if Francis is
not Pope, then who is the most likely candidate when there is an elderly figure dressed in white and
living in that “big house” in the Vatican walking around? The only alternative at this point is
Benedict by reason of his Renunciation only from the “exercise” of the Powers of Governing,
Teaching and Sanctifying, who is called “Pope”, dresses as a Pope, lives where a Pope lives (Actio
sequitur esse) and has provided a certain “expanded” ministry, as Dom Ganswein puts it, whereby
the two MEMBERS, not two Popes, of that expanded COOPERATORES VERITATIS, namely, Dom
Ganswein and Benedict, (or it could be taken as Benedict and Our Lord) provide an abbreviated
personal form of the Power of Sanctifying, due not only to the right Benedict has to the Papacy,
though prevented from “exercising” it for the good of the Church, but also as Pope, he is as Christ’s
Vicar, the Supreme Lawmaker and guardian of the Church and without doubt legitimately puts the
virtue of Equity into practice!!! Equity or, as it is also referred to, Epikeia, is that virtue which comes
into play when, due to an unprecedented situation that Canon Law could not foresee, the existing
law is compensated for so that that existing law does not bring about harm to the Church.
And since the primary element in the Visibility of the Church is the Pope, we MUST recognize that
there is an “emperor” without clothes who presents himself as Pope and turn our attention to the
True Pope. Furthermore, because social unity, i.e., the unity of the Faithful, must first and foremost
begin through embracing of the unchangeable and integral Doctrine of the Church, as provided by
Sacred Scripture and Tradition, these fonts of Revelation MUST be observed by the true Successor of
Peter. And only to the extent that the integral Unity of Doctrine and PRACTICE is based upon Sacred
Scripture and Tradition can there be true unity of the Faithful. Indeed, ONLY with the true unity of the
Faithful can the Church be Visible. It’s about time those in authority act like true shepherds taking
the bull by the horns, thereby giving encouragement to the Faithful and in return receiving the
respect due to those whom Christ has chosen as Pastors for His Church..
Father Belland, thank you for your Meditation on the Present Crisis in the Catholic Church. Your work on unraveling the roots is much appreciated as is your vocation to serve Our Lord and His sheep.
evil old goat; fasle-prophet forerunner of the anti-christ.
Don’t forget that last week he said that, ‘the Church must learn to abandon old traditions’.
Not so very long ago Fr. Clovis said, “The Catholic Church and the anti-church currently co-exist in the same sacramental, liturgical and juridical space”. Looks like bergogloio is finally making the visible, undeniable split.
God help those who follow this flaming demon into the fire.