domingo, 7 de enero de 2018
sábado, 6 de enero de 2018
Noticias varias (Del 4 al 6 de enero)
Dubia Cardinal urges faithful: Hold fast to tradition amid Church confusion (4 enero. Life Site News)
En los tiempos difíciles en los que nos encontramos ... por el cardenal Raimond Burke (4 de enero. Gloria TV)
Lex orandi, lex credendi (misas con payasos y tango del cardenal Bergoglio) (4 de enero. Rorare caeli)
Monseñor Luigi Negri explica las razones por las que firmó la Profesión de las verdades inmutables respecto al matrimonio sacramental (4 de enero. Secretum Meum Mihi)
¿Qué más debe pasar en esta Iglesia?(4 enero. Dominus est)
Los obispos alemanes recaudaron 7.100 millones de dólares el año pasado de los contribuyentes (4 enero. Life Site News)
Los cinco Obispos no son los únicos en preocuparse por la Santa Comunión (4 enero. The Catholic Herald. Visto en Dominus est)
"The Dictator Pope" (Reseña del libro por Christopher A. Ferrara (4 enero en Catholic Family News)
La Escritura es "el único material fuente" para una nueva película sobre San Pablo (4 de enero. Jim Caviezel. Life Site News)
Pasión del actor de Cristo: debemos ser "guerreros" listos para arriesgar nuestras vidas por el Evangelio (4 de enero. Jim Caviezel. Life Site News)
ÚLTIMA HORA: Cardenal firma declaración de Profesión de Fe sobre el Sacramento del Matrimonio de los Obispos kazajos (5 enero. Dominus est) ¡Ya son seis jerarcas importantes los que firman esta declaración!
Misterio Bergoglio. Por qué el general de los jesuitas no lo quería obispo (5 de enero. Sandro Magister en Il Settimo Cielo)
Chesterton contra la Amoris Laetitia (5 de enero. El Oriente en llamas)
Dubia, si el Papa guarda silencio, el cardenal [Brandmüller] responde por sí mismo (5 de enero. Marco Tossati en La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana)
“Es una especie de Blasfemia” el que los pecadores “pidan acceso a la Santa Comunión”: Mons. A. Schneider (5 enero. Steve Skojev, de One Peter Five. Visto en Dominus est)
RETOS LITÚRGICOS 2018 (5 de enero. De Liturgia y Tradición católica)
El consejero pro-gay del Vaticano sugiere que el catecismo católico contribuye al suicidio de los jóvenes LGBT (5 de enero. José Sciambra. Life Site News)
Las mejores historias de NCR de 2017, por tiempo total de lectura (6 de enero. National Catholic Reporter)
Reflexiones de Epifanía sobre la vocación cristiana (6 enero. Verónica A. Arntz. Rorate Caeli)
Visita de los Reyes Magos en La Ciudad Mística de Dios (6 enero. Catholic Family News)
COSTUMBRE TRADICIONAL: Marcar la puerta para la Epifanía (6 de enero. De Liturgia y Tradición católica)
UN POCO DE MEMORIA HISTORICA (I) (5 de enero. Capitán Ryder de Iota Unum)
UN POCO DE MEMORIA HISTORICA (II) (6 de enero. Capitán Ryder de Iota Unum)
La crisis que estamos viviendo (6 de enero. P. Gerald E. Murray para The Catholic Thing)
Austrian bishop signs statement calling Pope’s reading of Amoris Laetitia ‘alien’ to Catholic faith (6 enero. Diane Montagna. Life Site News)
Nueva biografía sobre el papa Francisco: El Pastor perdido (6 de enero: Katholischen)
Ahora son 7. Obispo austriaco firma declaración que llama ‘ajena’ a la Fe Católica la lectura de ‘AL’ del Papa (6 enero. Dominus est)
Selección por José Martí
El obispo Andreas Laun firma la Declaración de Kazajistán sobre el matrimonio (Maike Hickson)
Hoy, en la Fiesta de la Epifanía, otro valiente obispo se une a los otros seis prelados que ya han firmado la declaración de los tres obispos de Kazajistán que profesan las verdades inmutables sobre el matrimonio sacramental y se opone a la alteración o ablandamiento de la Iglesia. enseñanza sobre la posible admisión de los divorciados "casados de nuevo" a los sacramentos.
El obispo emérito Andreas Laun, ex Obispo Auxiliar de Salzburgo, Austria, ha dado su apoyo público a esta declaración de lealtad hacia la enseñanza de Cristo sobre el matrimonio. El obispo Athanasius Schneider, uno de los signatarios originales, confirmó la adición del nombre de Laun en apoyo del documento.
El obispo Laun también firmó la Campaña filial publicada en 2016, que incluía las firmas de "miles de obispos, sacerdotes y fieles católicos preocupados que declaran su fidelidad a las inmutables enseñanzas de la Iglesia sobre el matrimonio y su disciplina ininterrumpida".
En diciembre de 2016, el obispo Laun concedió a Onepeterfive una entrevista en la que defendió a los cuatro cardenales dubia por haber escrito y publicado sus preguntas sobre el documento del Papa Francisco sobre el matrimonio, Amoris Laetitia .
De ese esfuerzo, Laun dijo:
¡He leído las preocupaciones de los Cuatro Cardenales y estoy de acuerdo con ellos! Además, conozco personalmente a los Cardenales Meisner y Caffarra y sé lo competentes que son. ¡Con ellos, estoy en la mejor compañía!
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¡La conducta de los cardenales [dubia] es un servicio a la enseñanza de la Iglesia! En la historia, hay muchos ejemplos de críticas, también de un Papa. Sin embargo, tienen que seguir la "moralidad de la crítica": es decir, decirlo educadamente, objetivamente, con justicia, nacer en el amor y con mucha comprensión para el que debe ser criticado porque cada crítica también duele más o menos.
La adición del Obispo Laun trae el número de sucesores apostólicos en apoyo de la Declaración de la Verdad sobre el Matrimonio a siete - seis obispos y un cardenal.
Maike Hickson
Una Iglesia rica para los ricos (Carlos Esteban)
Después de todo, la opción preferencial por los pobres no es exactamente un invento de la Teología de la Liberación; está en la raíz misma de nuestra fe, en las palabras y en la vida del propio Cristo. La Iglesia ha hecho de la atención al pobre, al que sufre, al olvidado en cada momento por la sociedad de que se trate, un rasgo característico por el podía reconocerse su acción en cualquier rincón del planeta. Allí donde la Iglesia tiene alguna implantación surgen albergues, hospitales, comedores para indigentes, lazaretos, desde mucho antes de que se denominase a estas expresiones de la caridad “acción social”.
Este principio, por lo demás, ha tenido en la historia su comprobación empírica: cada vez que la Iglesia ha descuidado este principio, cuando se ha acomodado y enriquecido y ha dejado a los pobres en un segundo plano -porque olvidarlos, no los ha olvidado jamás-, ha surgido una crisis y, con ella, su cura en forma de un movimiento de vuelta a la simplicidad evangélica, como el de franciscanos y dominicos en el S. XIII.
En cuanto a las periferias, no solo conviene poner el foco en ellas porque son donde están los pobres entre los pobres, porque son tierra de misión, sino porque poner excesivo acento en el centro, en esta Europa nuestra, parece retraer un tanto a la nota de universalidad -católico- que caracteriza a nuestra Iglesia.
Hay un solo problema en este programa renovador e ilusionante: que no se está cumpliendo en absoluto. Examinada con frialdad, la tendencia parece ser exactamente la contraria, la de hacer una pastoral a la medida del rico, y del rico occidental.
¿Cuáles han sido, por ejemplo, las disputas eclesiales que han copado la atención los últimos años?
La comunión de los divorciados vueltos a casar y un caminar en la cuerda floja en cuanto al tratamiento de las relaciones homosexuales.
¿Son esas las preocupaciones de los católicos de África, de China, de los países islámicos, del Sudeste Asiático?
No, en absoluto: son las demandas de las iglesias nacionales más ricas, especialmente de la alemana, cuyo alto nivel de vida y sistema de financiación hace singularmente tentador ‘abrir la mano’ en cuestiones sexuales para no perder ‘clientes’. De hecho, los cardenales con más poder en Santa Marta, los más cercanos, son gente como Reinhard Marx o Walter Kasper, que no proceden exactamente de Bangladés o Burundi.
Quizá esta nueva obsesión por ‘las periferias’ -el Tercer Mundo, para entendernos- debería haber significado el encumbramiento de prelados como el Cardenal Prefecto para el Culto Divino, Robert Sarah. Nacido en una aldea de una minoría étnica en la República de Guinea, hijo de conversos del animismo, ha sufrido persecución y ha vivido la pobreza de su nación, que cuenta con una renta per cápita de 1.394 dólares (la de Alemania es 47.535). Y, sin embargo, sería ingenuo pretender que no ha sido y sigue siendo ninguneado y ‘puenteado’, como en el caso del motu proprio ‘Magnum principium’, que apareció con la firma de su ‘número dos’ y cuya interpretación se vio obligado a rectificar en medios públicos.
Incluso en asuntos que, superficialmente, podrían interpretarse como favorables a esas periferias, como el entusiasmo inmigratorio de Su Santidad, la impresión es del todo engañosa. Despoblar las periferias de sus elementos más dinámicos, jóvenes y emprendedores es una extraña manera de favorecerlas.
En la práctica, las reformas no sólo no duelen en absoluto a ‘los ricos’, sino que éstos las aplauden hasta pelarse las manos.
Los grandes elogios a los nuevos aires llegan de TIME -que ha hecho al Papa Persona del Año-, del New York Times, del Wall Street Journal.
¿Por qué no? ¿Quién apoya a nivel mundial la ‘acogida’ masiva de inmigrantes, a quién beneficia especialmente? A las grandes empresas y, en lo que tiene de debilitamiento de las identidades nacionales y la fronteras, a bancos y gobernantes.
De hecho, hace unos días nos hacíamos eco de la alerta lanzada por prelados africanos contra esta inmigración masiva que pone en peligro la vida de sus compatriotas y vacía sus diócesis.
La última defensa de la doctrina católica inmutable sobre el matrimonio tampoco ha partido del Primer Mundo, sino de Kazajistán, un enorme país de Asia Central con un 70% de musulmanes y sólo 55.000 católicos. Más ‘periferia’, imposible.
Carlos Esteban
Solemnidad de la Epifanía del Señor o fiesta de los Reyes Magos (6 de enero)
De las tres Epifanías del Señor que celebra la Iglesia, la que más importancia tiene en Occidente es la que se produjo ante los Reyes Magos de Oriente.
"Epifanía" significa "manifestación", en este caso del Señor, que se dio a conocer a los paganos (Epifanía ante los Magos de Oriente), a los judíos (Epifanía del Bautismo del Señor por medio de San Juan Bautista), y a sus discípulos (Epifanía de las Bodas de Caná, que dio lugar al comienzo de su vida pública por intercesión de su Madre, la Santísima Virgen María).
Aunque las Sagradas Escrituras no proporcionan los nombres de los Reyes Magos, la Tradición sí lo ha hecho:
Melchor, al que tradicionalmente se representa como un anciano de barba blanca, ofreció oro al Niño Jesús, en señal de la realeza de Cristo.
Gaspar, el rey de barba castaña o rojiza, le trajo incienso, como reconocimiento de la divinidad de Cristo.
Y Baltasar, el rey negro, le regaló mirra como símbolo de su humanidad, del sufrimiento que padecería y de su muerte (la mirra se usaba entonces para embalsamar los cadáveres).
Feliz día de Reyes a todos los lectores del blog.
CATHOLICVS
viernes, 5 de enero de 2018
ROMPIENDO: El cardenal Pujats firma una declaración llamando a la lectura del Papa sobre Amoris Laetitia 'EXTRAÑA' a la fe católica
La adición de la firma del cardenal Janis Pujats eleva el número de signatarios a seis.
A principios de esta semana, el obispo Athanasius Schneider, auxiliar de Astaná, Kazajistán, el arzobispo Tomash Peta, metropolitano de Astaná, y el arzobispo Jan Pawel Lenga de Karaganda, Kazajstán, emitieron una "profesión pública e inequívoca de la verdad" sobre las enseñanzas de la Iglesia sobre la indisolubilidad de el matrimonio como un "servicio de caridad en verdad" para la Iglesia de hoy y para el Papa.
LEER MÁS: 'Tres obispos llaman 'EXTRAÑA'a la fe católica la lectura que hace el Papa sobre Amoris Laetitia
La declaración de los Ordinarios Kazajos viene en respuesta a la interpretación del Papa Francisco y ciertos obispos de Amoris Laetitia para permitir a algunos divorciados "casados" (sin anulación y sin vivir en continencia sexual) el acceso a los Sacramentos de Penitencia y Sagrada Comunión.
Los obispos afirman que tal lectura está causando "confusión desenfrenada", extenderá "una plaga de divorcio" en la Iglesia, y es "ajena" a toda la fe y Tradición de la Iglesia.
La adhesión del Cardenal Letón a la Profesión viene después de la del ex nuncio de los Estados Unidos, el Arzobispo Carlo Maria Viganò, y el Arzobispo emérito Luigi Negri de Ferrara-Comacchio en el norte de Italia.
Pujats asistió al Seminario Teológico en Riga, Letonia hasta que fue cerrada por la Unión Soviética en 1951. Dos meses más tarde fue ordenado en una ceremonia secreta por el Arzobispo Antonijs Springovičs . Fue nombrado arzobispo de Riga en 1991. El 21 de febrero de 1998 fue nombrado Cardenal por el Papa Juan Pablo II. Su cardenalato se hizo público en el consistorio el 21 de febrero de 2001.
El cardenal Pujats fue uno de los cardenales electores que participaron en el cónclave de 2005 que eligió al Papa Benedicto XVI. Habla ruso, polaco, lituano, alemán y latín además de su letón natal.
Diane Montagna
Nota: El cardenal Pujats es conocido por ser el único miembro del sínodo de obispos que habla exclusivamente latín cuando está al micrófono, tanto en los encuentros de 2001 como en 2005.
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La noticia ha salido en los medios más importantes:
Katholischen
Secretum Meum Mihi
CATHOLICVS
(5 de enero. Steve Skojev, de One Peter Five)
DOMINUS EST
La Fede Quotidiana
Un primer cardenal firmó la declaración de fidelidad a la disciplina de siempre en el matrimonio y la Eucaristía (5 de enero. Michele M. Ippolito)
Infovaticana
Chiesa e post Concilio
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José Martí
Best of the Vortex—Hating Your Mother (Michael Voris)
Duración 8:34 minutos
TRANSCRIPT
When it gets down to the nitty gritty details of the Faith, you can bet on the Church of Nice crowd to fall absolutely silent. Their pathetic "reasonable hope all men are saved" argument falls totally flat when compared with authentic Catholicism.
That spiritual insanity fails to properly comprehend the truths of God, Hell, sin, and free will, as well as some other Catholic truths. They simply do not want to admit the supernatural realities, the stakes that are being played for in the spiritual warfare that all the saints spoke so eloquently and magnificently about.
When God said to the serpent, "I will put enmity between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers," just who exactly does the Church of Nice think God was referring to when He spoke of the offspring of Satan? They don't even consider this question. That's what happens when you dismiss Hell as just "a real possibility."
The problem is that for them, the possibility of someone going to Hell is so miniscule, so "can’t happen in a million years," that it can be easily dismissed in their catechesis and evangelization efforts. For the record, Our Blessed Lord did not dismiss it so easily. So let's look at an authentic understanding and consider the reality that Church of Nicers don't want to.
Every soul who is damned was, while on earth, someone's husband, mother, wife, son, uncle or grandson — someone. They had relationships with all kinds of people, people for whom they had an earthly love and affection and who loved and cared for them in return. That's part of human nature, even fallen human nature.
But what happens to those bonds when a person is damned? Let's take the adult son who dies in mortal sin owing to his sins of the flesh, whatever variety they might be — adultery, fornication, cohabitation, homosexuality, promiscuity, masturbation, lust and so forth. Those ties with whom he loved and cared for here on earth are immediately and eternally broken and turn into everlasting hatred for those people.
He is now confirmed forever as a "son of Satan," so to speak, a slave to the diabolical. He now is incapable of anything but authentic hate, a hate so deep that there is actually a different word for it: enmity. Enmity carries with it the understanding of not just hatred, but bearing ill will toward others, wishing for their demise, odium, loathing. This becomes for the damned the sentiment toward everything and everyone. They have willfully cut themselves off from everlasting life by their rejection of Christ in this life.
So in the next, they become completely the offspring of Satan, not biologically, of course, but even more powerfully, in spirit. God said He would put enmity between Satan and the Woman and between their two families of offspring. The damned hate God, they hate the Blessed Virgin Mary, and they hate their own earthly family and friends, most especially those who are in Heaven.
So if our sample sexually perverse son is damned and his mother is saved, he will hate her, and there will never be any going back from it because his reality is sealed forever at the point of death. He will have an everlasting loathing for her, no matter what his feelings may have been for her in this life. Our Blessed Lord made quick work of any appeal to earthly family when it stood in the way of salvation.
He said He came to bring the sword, that families would war with each other over him, that no one is saved based on his DNA or familial relationships, despite the Jewish leaders appealing to Abraham as their father. Our Lord rightfully pointed out that their father was the devil. Notice the use of the word "father."
Earthly relationships are not heavenly relationships. Even marriage, no matter how life-giving and spiritually beneficial it may have been in this life, comes to an end at the point of death. Our family in Heaven will be those with whom we are brothers and sisters in Christ, not those whom we might have shared biological DNA with on earth. Spiritual DNA will be the tie that binds.
And what of the relationship between the mother in Heaven and her son in Hell? It is almost impossible for us to wrap our heads around this, but she will not be mourning him or feel the slightest degree of sadness or longing for him. His father will be the devil, and her father will be God — and it will be as such for life everlasting.
In fact, various Doctors of the Church pointed out that the punishment meted out to her former son will be seen by her and rejoiced over by her as a manifestation of the justice of God. When the great thunderous cheer of final victory goes up on the Last Day from the elect as they are ascending to Heaven and the damned are falling into Hell, of course there will be many, many people on opposite sides who knew each other in this life and were even related. The cheer will resound from the saved, and one dynamic of that cheer will be that the damned are manifesting the justice of Almighty God.
This kind of stuff must be talked about because this is the final, ultimate reality. There will be a Last Day, a final accounting, and the reward and punishment of everlasting life or death. It is terrifying to think that someone we may have loved here on earth we will view entirely differently in the blinding light of the illumination of God. We will no longer see them as son or mother or daughter. We will see them as God sees them — as a human who has the devil as their father — and the saved will be perfectly conformed to Almighty God and will see them in the same light. The damned will be forgotten forever by the saved. Except for being a manifestation of God’s justice, they will have no regard for them.
This is how evangelization and catechesis needs to be done — the whole blinding, terrifying, glorious truth — so that we can be correctly motivated by the truth, not by our emotions. The goal is to save souls, not feel good about ourselves and experience an emotional high.
Michael Voris
jueves, 4 de enero de 2018
Obispo Athanasius Schneider entrevistado por Rorate Caeli con respecto a la llamada "Profesión de las verdades inmutables" y a la comunión para los "divorciados y vueltos a casar"
El obispo Athanasius Schneider, auxiliar de Astana, Kazajstán, y uno de los tres redactores originales de la Profesión de las Verdades Inmutables de esta semana en respuesta a Amoris Laetitia y la aprobación oficial del Papa Francisco concediendo la Sagrada Comunión a algunos católicos "divorciados y casados", participó una entrevista con Rorate Caeli después del lanzamiento del documento.
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RORATE CAELI (RC): Your Excellency has personally been out in front in terms of restoration of the traditional liturgy for many years. Now Your Excellency, Archbishop Peta and Archbishop Lenga have come out publicly, and forcibly, in defense of marriage in the aftermath of Amoris Laetitia. Why did the three of you decide now was the time to respond?
BISHOP ATHANASIUS SCHNEIDER (BAS): After the publication of Amoris Laetitia, several bishops and Bishops’ Conferences started to issue “pastoral” norms regarding the so-called “divorced and remarried”. One has to say that, for a Catholic, there is no divorce because a valid sacramental bond of a ratified and consumed marriage is absolutely indissoluble and even the bond of a natural marriage is per se indissoluble as well. Furthermore, for a Catholic, there is only one valid marriage being his legitimate spouse still alive. Therefore, one cannot speak of a “re-marriage” in this case.
The expression “divorced and remarried” is consequently deceptive and misleading. Since this expression is commonly known, we use it only in quotation marks and with the previous remark “so-called”. The mentioned pastoral norms regarding the so- called “divorced and remarried” -- norms masked with a rhetoric bordering on sophism -- foresee ultimately the admittance of the “divorced and remarried” to Holy Communion without the requirement of the indispensable and Divinely established condition that they may not violate their sacred marriage bond through their habitual sexual relationship with a person who is not their legitimate spouse. A certain peak has reached in this process of implicit recognition of divorce in the life of the Church, when Pope Francis ordered to publish in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, his letter of approval of similar norms which issued the bishops of the Pastoral Region of Buenos Aires.
This act was followed by a declaration that this papal approval would belong to the authentic Magisterium of the Church. In view of such pastoral norms which contradict Divine Revelation with its absolute disapproval of divorce and contradict also the teaching and sacramental practice of the infallible Ordinary and Universal Magisterium of the Church, we were forced by our conscience, as successors of the Apostles, to raise our voice and to reiterate the immutable doctrine and practice of the Church regarding the indissolubility of the sacramental marriage.
RC: Has the Kazakh conference officially released an interpretation of Amoris Laetitia? Do they plan to do so, or does this letter mean that the conference believes Amoris Laetitia cannot be understood in an orthodox way or is in any way compatible with the Catechism and with Scripture and Tradition?
BAS: The text of the “Profession of truths” is not a document of the Bishop’s Conference of Kazakhstan, but a document only of those bishops who signed it. Our Bishop’s Conference considered it not necessary to issue pastoral norms as an interpretation of AL. Even though in our society the plague of divorce is widespread, a consequence of 70 years of Communist materialism, and we have also in our parishes cases of so-called “divorced and remarried”, yet the same “divorced and remarried” would not dare to ask to be admitted to Holy Communion, since the awareness and conscience of sin is, thanks be to God, very deep routed in the souls, and even in the civil society.
In our country people commit sin as elsewhere, but our people still acknowledge that sin is sin, and therefore for such sinners there is hope for conversion and Divine mercy. It would be for our people -- and even for the so-called “divorced and remarried” among them -- a kind of blasphemy to demand access to Holy Communion while continuing to cohabitate with a person who is not their legitimate spouse. Therefore, our Bishops’ Conference did not see the necessity to issue relevant norms.
RC: We’ve had the famous dubia sent to the Pope and a filial correction – mostly by laymen – sent as well. Neither have garnered a response. However, many feel Francis has already responded in a sense, when he officially endorsed the Buenos Aires bishops’ apparently heretical instruction to the divorced, remarried and still cohabitating. Should we still expect anything more from Francis on this matter?
BAS: The Buenos Aires bishops’ instructions do not express directly a heresy. Yet they allow, in individual cases, “divorced and remarried” people to receive Holy Communion in spite of the fact that they do not want to stop sexual relationships with their non-conjugal partner. In this case the mentioned pastoral instructions deny in practice, and hence indirectly, the Divinely revealed truth of the indissolubility of marriage. The sad circumstance is that the Pope approved such instructions. By this way the Pope gave, in my opinion, directly an answer to the first point and indirectly to the four other points of the dubia. We can only expect through our appeals, prayers and sacrifices, that Pope Francis may answer in a most unequivocal manner to the five points of the dubia according to the relevant teaching of the Ordinary and Universal infallible Magisterium.
RC: The threat to the Faithful has been clear, not only since Amoris Laetitia was promulgated, but just from the discussions alone at the synods. The confusion it has all caused cannot be questioned. However, much like the usefulness of Humanae Vitae was lessoned due to how long it took for it to be published, is all this now too late to stop the damage, especially when the Pope has now officially given permission for some divorced and remarried to receive Holy Communion?
BAS: We have to bear in mind that the Church is not in our hands, and not even in the hands of the Pope, but in the almighty hands of Christ, and therefore we cannot say that all this is now too late to stop the damage. We can also apply the following affirmation of Saint Paul to our situation inside the Church: “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” (Rom. 5:20). God had permitted this current extraordinary doctrinal and moral confusion in the Church for the aim that, after this crisis, the truth will shine brighter and the Church will become spiritually more beautiful, especially in the married couples, in the families and in the popes.
RC: We have heard now, for over a year, that a formal correction coming from the cardinals is imminent, yet nothing has happened. What do you believe is the hold up?
BAS: In the face of the current temporal and partial eclipse of the function of the Papal Magisterium concerning concretely the defense and practical enforcement of the indissolubility the marriage, the members of the episcopal and of the cardinalitial colleges have to assist the Pope in this Magisterial duty through public professions of the immutable truths which the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium -- that means what all the Popes and the entire episcopate during all times - have taught concerning the doctrine and the sacramental practice of the marriage.
RC: If a formal correction is made by a number of cardinals, and Francis continues to officially approve of bishops’ conferences giving Holy Communion to some divorced and remarried, then what?
BAS: There exists the following principle of the traditional Catholic doctrine since the first centuries: “Prima sedes a nemine iudicatur”, i.e., the first episcopal chair in the Church (the chair of the Pope) cannot be judged by anybody. When bishops remind the Pope respectfully of the immutable truth and discipline of the church, they don’t judge hereby the first chair of the Church, instead they behave themselves as colleagues and brothers of the Pope. The attitude of the bishops towards the Pope has to be collegial, fraternal, not servile and always supernaturally respectful, as it stressed the Second Vatican Council (especially in the documents Lumen gentium and Christus Dominus). One has to continue to profess the immutable faith and pray still more for the Pope and, then, only God can intervene and He will do this unquestionably.
RC: For the typical Catholic, who goes to Mass but maybe doesn’t follow the politics of the Church like Rorate readers do, the casual Catholics whom hear the Supreme Pontiff saying numerous confusing things over the past few years, things that appear contrary (hopefully) to what they’ve been taught their entire lives, what does Your Excellency say to them? And how do serious Catholics push back when, at every turn, they’re asked by modernists if they think they’re “more Catholic than the Pope”?
BAS: First, these faithful have to continue to read and study the immutable Catechism, and especially the great doctrinal documents of the Church. Such documents are theme here, e.g., the Decrees of the Councils of Trent about the sacraments; the encyclicals Pascendi from Pius X.; Casti connubii from Pius XI; Humani generis from Pius XII; Humanae vitae from Paul VI; the Credo of the People of God from Paul VI; the encyclical Veritatis splendor from John Paul II; and his Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris consortio. These documents do not reflect a personal and short-lived meaning of a Pope or of a pastoral synod. Instead, these documents reflect and reproduce the infallible Ordinary and Universal Magisterium of the Church.
Second, they have to bear in mind that the Pope is not the creator of the truth, of the faith and of the sacramental discipline of the Church. The Pope and the entire Magisterium “is not above the Word of God, but serves it, teaching only what has been handed on” (Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum, 10). The First Vatican Council taught that the charism of the ministry of the successors of Peter “does not mean that they might make known some new doctrine, but that, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles” (Pastor aeternus, chap. 4).
Third, the Pope cannot be the focal point of the daily life of the faith of a Catholic faithful. The focal point must instead be Christ. Otherwise, we become victims of an insane pope-centrism or of a kind of popalatry, an attitude which is alien to the tradition of the Apostles, of the Church Fathers and of the greater tradition of the Church. The so called “ultramontanism” of the 19th and 20th centuries reached its peak in our days and created an insane pope-centrism and popolatry. To mention just an example: There had been in Rome in the end of the 19th century a famous Monsignor who led different pilgrim groups to the Papal audiences. Before he let them enter to see and hear the Pope, he said to them: “Listen carefully to the infallible words which will come out of the mouth of the Vicar of Christ”. Surely such an attitude is a pure caricature of the Petrine ministry and contrary to the doctrine of the Church. Nevertheless, even in our days, not so few Catholics, priests and bishops show substantially the same caricatural attitude towards the sacred ministry of the successor of Peter.
The true attitude towards the Pope according to the Catholic tradition has to be always with sane moderation, with intelligence, with logic, with common sense, with the spirit of faith and of course, also, with heartfelt devotion. Yet there has to be a balanced synthesis of all these characteristics. We hope that after the current crisis the Church will reach a more balanced and sane attitude towards the person of the Pope and toward his sacred and indispensable ministry in the Church.
"El documento de los obispos de Kazajistán no es una simple profesión de fe sino una corrección real de las ambigüedades y errores contenidos en Amoris Laetitia", según Aldo María Valli
Duración 2:46 minutos
Restaurant Atmosphere: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe has turned his cathedral into a big and noisy pizzeria in order to feed – quotation marks - “the poor”. 600 people were served different types of pizza, traditional sandwiches and milk products. The food was prepared on the yard of the cathedral. The lunch was served by Cardinal Sepe, priests, nuns and seminarians. It was accompanied by classic Neapolitan songs in the background creating a restaurant atmosphere in the cathedral.
Resistance Bishops: On December 31, three Kazakhstan bishops issued a statement against Pope Francis’ wish to distribute Communion to adulterers. They are Astana Archbishop Tomasz Peta, Retired Karaganda Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga, and Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider. On January 2, two Italian archbishops have joined the group, the former nuncio in the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, and Retired Archbishop Luigi Negri of Ferrara, Italy.
A true Correction: The very moderate Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli writes that Pope Francis will not be able to ignore the document of the Kazakhstan bishops because this is not simply a profession of faith, but a real correction. Quote, “It is in fact a correction of the errors and ambiguities contained in Amoris Laetitia."
2018: Año de los homosexuales (Michael Voris)
Duración 7:29 minutos
TRANSCRIPT
2018 is already shaping up to be "The Year of the Gay" in the Church, and we are barely a few hours into it. From that horrific so-called Nativity display in St. Peter's Square, complete with a practically naked, buffed-up so-called homeless guy and various other "gay-themed" displays woven throughout it, to the coming out in Mass during his homily a couple weeks ago of Milwaukee archdiocesan priest Fr. Gregory Greiten greeted with a standing ovation from the parishioners and the fawning public approval of his archbishop Jerome Listecki - -
to the news reports that the man many consider the second most powerful man in Rome - Cardinal Maradiaga - has been protecting a close bishop back in Honduras who has embezzled huge sums of money to keep up his flamboyant and extravagant gay lifestyle - -
not to mention the constant gay drum being pounded non-stop in the background by Fr. James Martin - yep 2018 sure feels like the year that the gay mafia is gonna’ hit the motherlode in the Church.
Still think there’s not a homosexual clergy problem in the Church?
And now - so open and so bold has the homomafia in the Church become that they can openly refute not just Church teaching in the realm of sexual morality - but ANY teaching they can use to promote their evil.
Latest example - Arthur Fitzmaurice - one of the leading lights of the extremely effeminate feminized clique in the Church.
This man has been allowed to say anything he wants at Catholic events that flat-out deny Church teaching.
He has been a regular invitee at the abominable Los Angeles archdiocesan Religious Education Congress - also known as REC.
Last year at the REC - he sponsored a talk on how the Church needs to accept and welcome transgenderism - you know - the mental illness where you convince yourself you are the opposite sex.
He did so the previous year as well - all with the approval of Archbishop Jose Gomez - who is much more interested in immigration reform than perverted doctrine flowing from the stage at his conference.
Well - look at what Fitzmaurice tweeted out about Our Blessed Mother on December 8 - the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception :
Jesus immersed Himself among the sinful. God is bigger than sin! With due respect to those who choose to believe in human doctrines not taught by Jesus, we don’t need to believe that Mary was sinless in order to believe Jesus was not conquered by sin #ImmaculateConception #AdventThe Archdiocese of Los Angeles also included his tweet on its own website in the part reserved for gay stuff.
The whole gay thing going on in the Church - from approval by bishops, to the swarm of gay priests infesting parishes and schools, to the speakers’ circuit populated by professional perverts - the whole thing is aimed at destroying - destroying the Church because it stands there like a rock condemning their consciences which are filled with rage.
They will stop at nothing to destroy - from raping altar boys to perverting doctrine to covering up for one another to theft and embezzlement to promoting each other to keep the attacks going - absolutely nothing is off limits to this crowd.
And all the while - Church leaders are at least silent and complicit at worst.
Consider how many billions of dollars you have put in the plate that have been used to pay for this perversion - and not just the homosexual clergy sex abuse payouts - but the salaries to keep these men in place, the expensive tuition bills and travel for their bishops to send them to Rome to get a fancy degree so they can come back and give an intellectual spin to their perversion of the Faith.
The Church needs to be purged of this evil - and those men who allow it to continue will pay with their souls in the fires of hell for eternity.
Right now - given the emasculation of the culture - there are huge numbers of young men who are confused about their sexual identity - they don’t know what it means to be a man - and they are being exposed to these perverts in collars and miters who are preying on them - setting them up to ensnare them in their own evil.
That the bishops would be going on non-stop about Trump and the DACA program while this sinister business is taking place right in their own parishes, at their own conferences, heck - on their own websites will not go well for them at their judgments.
Lay people are gonna have to be the ones to call this out and demand change - and withhold your money which helps fuel this gay juggernaut.
After all - it’s your young men that this whole movement wants - your sons and grandsons.
It wants them not only for sex, but also to accept and welcome homosexuality as something perfectly fine - it wants their intellects deadened against it so all manner of evil can be accepted as well.
It’s been subtle - sort of - up to now. But wait for the lid to blow off all this in 2018.
The leadership of the Church in America is unable to respond because too much of the leadership is either threatened by this homomafia - or are actually gay themselves.
And if you think the gay mafia which runs the Vatican right now is gonna’ be of any help - well just remember the so-called Nativity scene - where the Holy Family was almost an afterthought.
Michael Voris
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