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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.”
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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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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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