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Cardinal Cupich: “We must let go of “cherished
beliefs”
Cupich and the now disgraced and
defrocked apex homosexual predator Theodore McCarrick receive “the
Spirit of Francis” award Chicago July 2018
“By their fruits you
shall know them”
(Saint Matthew 7:16)
Where do we go when the “Church of Discernment”
Replaces the Holy Catholic Church?
U.S. Cardinal
Blase J. Cupich appointed by Francis to the powerful Vatican Congregation
for Bishops made the following
unimaginable statement:
“If Catholics want to engage in “discernment” like Pope Francis
does, they must let go of “cherished beliefs”
and outlined the “rebuilding and re-imagining of the Church through
“discernment” and “dialogue” — nouveau concepts dear to Pope
Francis’s vision of a new Church emerging from the ashes of 2000
years of history, teaching, and tradition that Vatican II ignited
and Pope Francis is determined to consume in a conflagration that
will obliterate all distinctions between Catholics and Protestants
— and perhaps a totally “inclusive” pan-religious “Faith Community”
that will abolish the Roman Catholic Church — much as the Communist
Revolution was to abolish all class distinctions in the “withering
away of the State”. It will be, as Cupich flatly states, “a revolution”,
a process and a Church that will necessarily have
its “own vocabulary”.
“Graduation
Day”
for Catholics?
Indeed, Cardinal Cupich
maintains that we must graduate from our Catholic “adolescence”
into what we presume he understands as a largely Protestant spirituality
based on conscience:
According to Lifesite News, “In June,
the Cardinal interpreted the Pope’s 2016 exhortation Amoris
Laetitia (Joy of Love) as a call for Catholics to graduate
from “an adolescent spirituality into an adult spirituality”
where they will be able to use their “freedom of conscience”
to “discern truth” in their life ... Cupich has argued that
active homosexuals should be able to receive Holy Communion
and is a public supporter of Jesuit priest and homosexualist
Vatican adviser James Martin.” 1
How are we to understand his clearly pejorative description
of genuine Catholic spirituality as “adolescent”? After 2000 years
is it in need of maturation? Is it not much more a matter of accommodation
— specifically ecumenical accommodation to better align Catholic
with Protestant doctrine and spirituality? Indeed, the admiration of
Pope Francis for the arch-heresiarch Martin Luther and his recent ebullient
“Commemoration” of the Reformation is unmistakable ... and deeply regrettable.
It is an exuberance equally shared by Cardinal Cupich.
2
What does it say, however, to the faithful of the past
2000 years? That they have lived in spiritual immaturity, replete
with all the devotions and practices that characterized Catholics before
(and even after) Vatican II — and which were the very beliefs and practices
which Luther reviled, and many Protestants since?
An
“Imaginary”
Church?
First let us be clear
about terms — specifically the word “re-imagine”.
We can only re-imagine what was first
imaginary to begin with. If we “imagine”
something, it is clear that what we envision does not exist (or,
possibly, once did and no longer does) — it is so remote
from recollection, so distant in the past, that we no longer have a
clear idea of what it really was and certainly no contemporaneous
connection with it — hence we must resort to imagining
what it was, which is to say that our concept of it is imaginary:
it does not pertain to what actually exists, but but to a mental
fabrication, a mere ideological construct that has no correspondence
in reality. At best, it is what we imagine might possibly
exist or what had existed in some long-forgotten
primeval haze ... but no longer does, or is no longer present to us.
Does this describe the Holy Catholic Church? Is Cupich,
then, an imaginary cardinal since the Church that conferred this
office upon him is itself imaginary — as are, eo ipso,
her sacraments, doctrines, dogmas, teachings, and discipline?
Where will Catholics faithful to the Magisterium
and the Sacred Deposit of Faith go once this revolution materializes?
To what Church — after the Roman Catholic Church has been
“re-imagined” — indeed, we hold that it was never imaginary
at all (and therefore in no need of re-imagining)
to begin with, but a beautiful reality in the ugly and impoverished
world of the City of Man? To the nearest Lutheran or Episcopal “church”
with a female priestess — or, for that matter, even a transgender
male-female/female-male “officiant”? The logic of “ecumenism”
does not exclude this blasphemy — indeed it does not even exclude
the mosque!
Of course this sounds nonsensical. Why? It
is nonsense! We cannot go to a Lutheran church or
a mosque — however ecumenically magnanimous we are urged to be —
for nowhere else apart from the One, True, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
Church will we find Jesus Christ — in the most Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass, in Holy Communion, and in the Most Blessed Sacrament of
the Altar.
An “imagined” or “re-imagined” church has none
of these — and never will. In a word such an “imagined” church
— even were “re-imagination” possible — would be an
utter imposter: not the beautiful and spotless Bride
of Christ, but a meretricious harlot with many “lovers” upon the
altars of many religions in the world — and
of the world. (1 John 2:15)
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1
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholics-must-let-go-of-cherished-beliefs-to-discern-like-pope-francis-u.s
2
https://www.archchicago.org/news-release/-/article/2017/10/24/the-archdiocese-of-chicago-and-the-metropolitan-chicago-synod-of-the-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-america-to-commemorate-the-500th-anniversary-of-th
Geoffrey K. Mondello
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