“Declaration
of the Truths
relating to some of the most Common Errors
in the Life of the Church of our Time”
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Cardinal
Raymond Leo Burke,
Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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Cardinal
Janis Pujats,
Archbishop emeritus of Riga |
Athanasius
Schneider,
Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in
Astana |
Jan Pawel
Lenga,
Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Karaganda |
Tomash
Peta, Archbishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in
Astana |
May 31, 2019
To say that confusion,
doubt, misunderstanding, disorientation,
uncertainty, and a loss of faith has characterized the Catholic
Church for the past 60 years — and has become pandemic
under the corrupt papacy of Francis — is an understatement. In every
practical sense it has ceased to be
what it had been for 2000 years — and since 1964 has been
trying to define what it is apart from what it was
and wished to be no longer because it was an impediment to rapprochement
with the world. As a consequence, the post-Catholic-Conciliar-Church
became increasingly intimate with the world, ignoring the admonition
of Saint James:
“The
world’s friendship means enmity with God, and the
man who would have the world for his friend makes
himself God’s enemy.”
(Saint James 4.4)
In
many ways it appears to be making every effort to be effectively
indistinguishable from the world in the way of teaching and
morals — the very mandates
with which she was entrusted with the Keys of Saint Peter. She wishes
to be acceptable to world at the cost of becoming
unacceptable to God.
What Cardinal Burke, and Bishops
Schneider, Pujats, and Peta have done is nothing short of revitalizing
our genuine Catholic
Faith, teachings, and morals in the absence of sound teaching and
example in a misguided, corrupt, and in many ways malevolent pontiff
who has left the sheep scattered and frightened — and
who himself seeks to throw open the gates to the sheepfold.
But where the wolves abound, a handful
of faithful Shepherds remain — undaunted by enemies
within and without; and they are many and powerful. But God is Power
Absolute — and He Himself upholds the good shepherds.
These few brave men — only four
— among the 5000 bishops worldwide are very reminiscent of Gideon
and the Midianites (see the Book of Judges
chapters 6-8).
So few can do so much!
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There is a Hell
and those who go there suffer for eternity
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Current Church
teaching can never contradict what was previous
Church teaching
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Muslims do
not offer to God the same supernatural worship as do Christians
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Ecumenism discourages
non-Catholics from entering into the Catholic Church
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God does not will
the diversity of religions
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No one has a natural
right to choose the moral evil of sin
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Anyone in a state
of grace has the God-given strength to live a moral life
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Intrinsically evil
actions such as abortion or euthanasia are wrong in all circumstances
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Sexual acts are
only moral within a valid marriage and when open to life
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Christ is truly,
really and substantially present in the Eucharist
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Prior to receiving
Holy Communion all mortal sins must be confessed in number and
kind
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Holy Communion
can’t be given to those living in a public state of objectively
grave sin
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Holy Communion
can’t be given to those who reject the Catholic Faith
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Only men can be
ordained priests
Unfortunately, for many Catholics
— or those who deem themselves Catholics — what these cardinals
and archbishops are stating — has been held by the Catholic Church
for over 2000 years!
It
is not even old:
it’s ancient!
It is a commentary unto itself that
it must be re-stated for many Catholics today who would view it
as shocking and new.
Much of the credit for
this appalling state of affairs goes to Francis who has defiled
the Seat of Peter; and virtually all of it to the
heretical Second Vatican Council (really, how tiresome novelty
becomes after 60 years!). Only one (perhaps more) truth should be
added to these, for it is in dire need of repeating:
The Mass is a Sacrifice!
And it is enacted upon an Altar — not “the table of
the Lord”
— and by a Priest — not a “Presider”!
The Third Rail
Most Catholics do not
understand, or fail to grasp the fact that the Mass is “the Most
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”.
They had never been taught this absolutely central mystery,
this most vital tenet of Catholicism — apart from which Catholicism
is incomprehensible. Why? It is a fair question. The answer
is as simple as the question is fair: No one told them. Not
their CCD teachers, nor did they learn it from their glossy, expensive,
and utterly useless CCD books, and most sadly, not even from their
priests. It is the Third Rail of Ecumenism: touch it and
you perish. It is too Catholic, too un-ecumenical, too redolent
of the Catholic Church of two millennia — and to hold that this
is true, of course, means that your Protestant, Jewish, or
Muslim neighbor is wrong in disagreeing with this Catholic
dogma. “Disagreement” is expunged from the Ecumenical Lexicon,
for disagreement foments rational discussion, and is understood
as (inexplicably) engendering “hostility”. In fact, the word “wrong”
has no place in the Ecumenical Lexicon either. We are all right
even when our propositions are contradictory. This is called Ecumenism.
It is also known as illogical, or the Hegelian Wonderland
where all utterly intractable contradictions are “reconciled”.
Francis
and Friends — "at Table"
Why, we ask, (apart from
reference to the curious absence of the definite article concerning
the table) is the sacrificial nature of
the Mass either unrecognized or so widely misunderstood? We have
already provided two reasons (Francis and Friends — and Vatican
II) but the third is less obvious because we have been exposed to
the banality of it for over half a century: The presence
of “a table” and the absence of “an altar.”
You have your luncheon at a table. You sacrifice at an altar. What
could be clearer?
Protestants have “tables” and “communal meals” — Catholics witness
and participate in the most sublime sacrifice in history
— every Sunday and at every Mass! The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ
on the Cross re-presented as though Calvary were right there
before them — which it is!
Subjecting Christ on the Cross to Laughter —
again
That, too, is why some “liturgical novelties” are
so offensive — even blasphemous: one does not:
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strum a guitar
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bang on a drum
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play a flute
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break the “monotony
of sacred silence” with incessant piano strains more appropriate
to a lounge.
-
“sing” miserable
pop music
-
perform “liturgical
dances”
-
show off ones instrumental
skills or (presumed) vocal talent
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Applause
Think
of it: when
we commit any of these obscenities, we subject
Christ on the Cross to them: our laughter, our absurd
skits, and — and of all things blasphemous — our applause
... we vigorously clap our hands as Christ suffers and dies on the
Cross!
In an adaptation of one of the protestant
“Old
Plantation Hymns” — popular in today's Catholic Church,
“Were you there when they Crucified
my Lord?”, we must ask — and you must seriously
answer this: “Were you there”
... would you do these things? Laugh? Applaud? Make jokes. Emphasize
your vocal mastery? Bang on your drum? Play a piano? Rehearse
with a flute? Discuss mundane things with the person next to you?
Well
...? Would you?
This is Calvary,
people! Not the Hard Rock Café! You would do well
to recognize your venue.
Back to Basics
In other words back to
what was, is, and ever will be genuinely Catholic for all time.
We do not have the time
to enumerate all that is uniquely and distinguishably Catholic that
has been jettisoned since Vatican II in an effort to make the Catholic
Church a member in good standing with the 349 members of the
Protestant World Council of Churches. It would be too long and
too depressing.
We have lost so, so
much of what is Catholic — at Mass, in our lives,
in our devotions, in the way of continuity with the thousands of
Saints and Martyrs who preceded 1964 and the Second Vatican Council.
Under Francis, it appears
that all things are negotiable, all things are on the table
— nothing is certain, even “the
most cherished beliefs”
that,
Cardinal Cupich (close advisor to Francis) tells us
we must be prepared to abandon.
Perhaps to Francis ...
and Cupich ... and so many, many other weak-kneed, invertebrate,
cardinals, bishops, priests, “theologians”
and “ecumenists”.
But not to these four men (vir) who appear to be the only
4 pillars preventing the collapse of Catholicism altogether as a
distinguishable religion among many that have made their peace (and
place) with the world at the cost of Communion with Christ
through the Communion of Saints and their rejection of
perpetual and indefeasible doctrines and dogmas of Holy Mother the
Catholic Church for 2000 years:
Not Cardinal Raymond Leo
Burke, not Bishop Athanasius Schneider, nor Cardinal Janis Pujats,
or Archbishop Tomash Peta.
And definitely not me!
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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Post
Script:
We are not asserting that Francis
is not the pope elected by the 120 cardinal electors on 13
March 2013. Whether he was legitimately elected, or elected
through collusion by a group of disaffected prelates who secretly
met in St. Gallen, Switzerland to overthrow pope Benedict
and have “their Man” (Cardinal Jorge Bergolglio, now Pope Francis)
installed — much as
Cardinal Godfried Danneels proudly proclaimed — is something
we are likely never to know. We must choose the most charitable
interpretation and presume, despite the bluster of Danneels, that
Francis is, in fact, legitimately the Pope — I refrain, however,
from calling him “Our Holy Father”.
It is certainly at least
by God's permissive will that he reigns as pontiff. In other
words, God permits it for reasons we cannot determine — but
permitting it is not to actively will it. He may
have permitted the evil collusion of men to their own evil ends
— for a good far beyond our comprehension. This is not
actively willing the evil they perpetrate, anymore than allowing
oneself to be struck is wishing oneself to be struck. We
may permit the present and temporary evil in order to obtain a good
that far exceeds the temporary evil (read Christ's Sermon on
the Mount: St. Matthew chapters 5-7)
It nevertheless remains
that, as more than one writer has observed, “we deserve this
pope”; our perverse, willful, utterly secular and evil generation
warrants such a man, bred in this evil generation and nurtured on
its permissiveness and perversity. He is the man for our
times, and God, it appears to me, has justly afflicted him upon
us, for his agenda increasingly seems to be that of the world
— not God's.
“Nescitis quia amicitia huius mundi inimica est
Dei?”
— Do you not know
that the friendship of the this world is the enemy of God? (Saint
James 4.4)
Totally Faithful to the Sacred Deposit of
Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti
verbum Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power,
and yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My
Name.”
(Apocalypse 3.8)
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