Francis vs. Jesus Christ

A Very Serious
Matter of
contradiction
is the Servant
greater than his Master?
I wish
to invoke several absolutely vital, indeed, indispensable, passages from
Holy Scripture
— words of Our Blessed Lord Himself,
and of His Apostles.
I
then wish to present the words of Francis.
Sacred Scripture is clear about the matter at hand,
and
Francis’s words are
equally clear and unambiguous.
However,
a reading of the two,
both in conjunction and contraposition — apart from the profoundly questionable
theological adaptation of
the German
philosopher
Martin Heidegger’s
“hermeneutics” and the German “Emeritus” Benedict’s adjunct “of continuity”
— reveals not simply a disjunction (semiotic or otherwise) but much
more importantly a contradiction.
We are
well aware of the Scriptural references adduced, but perhaps less aware
of Francis’s repudiation
of them.
I think
it important to make them clear, and to allow the Catholic reader to
make the necessary inferences — even deductions — entailed, completely
explicit — to such a point that even the most disinterested reader will
arrive at an ineluctable conclusion at which he will recognize either
correspondence
or contradiction.
The conclusion is of the utmost importance, involving as it does, the
raison d'etre
and concomitantly the primary mission of the Catholic Church:
Salus Animarum,
or the Salvation of Souls.
Prologue:
“Peter
and John replied: Do you think that God wants us to obey You
— or Him?”
(Acts of the Apostles 4.19)
Jesus Christ
uttered the following:
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“Go therefore, and teach all nations;
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost. Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you.” (Saint Matthew 28.19-20)
-
“Go into
the whole world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but
he that believeth not shall be condemned.” (Saint Mark 16.15-16)
Francis,
contradicting Christ,
uttered the following:
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“Do you need to convince
the other to become Catholic?
No!
No!
No!
Go
out and meet him. He is your brother.
This is enough.”
-
“Proselytism
is solemn nonsense.
It makes no sense!”
-
“We
[just] need to get to know each other.”
On the other hand, the
Apostle Saint John argued the following:
-
“How
then shall they call on Him, in whom they have not believed? Or
how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And
how shall they hear, without a preacher? And how shall they preach
unless they be sent ...? ”
(Romans 10.14-16)
And the Apostle Saint
Paul was absolutely clear:
”
(I Corinthians 9.16)
God
or Francis: but not Both
The obvious
question is “How do we reconcile these quite disparate
and apparently contradictory utterances?”
The answer
is equally clear: we cannot. They are contradictory. What
Christ, Saint John, and Saint Paul teach is not simply incompatible
with what Francis teaches — but, much more seriously — irreconcilable.
Three are
wrong, or one is wrong.
Not all can
be wrong, but not all can be right.
It is a
matter of Freshman Logic 101: The Principle of Non-Contradiction which holds
that “contradictory propositions cannot both be true, e. g. the
two propositions “A is B” and “A is not B” are mutually exclusive.
Formally, this is expressed as the tautology ~(p & ~p)” and The
Law of the Excluded Middle which “states that for any proposition,
either that proposition is true, or its negation is.”
The Frightening
Conclusion? Francis is either a heretic — or non compos mentis
(not of a sound mind).
He can be both. But he cannot be neither.
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
January 10, 2020
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