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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)
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“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.”
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“Proselytism
is solemn nonsense.
It makes no sense!”
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“We
[just] need to get to know each other.”
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“We
are
all
the
beloved
children of God” —
no matter what we do, say, promote, believe, or not believe. No
sin is so heinous, no act so horrendous, no belief so criminal,
no unbelief so absolute, that it can disqualify us from going to
Heaven”
(September 2022)
What is more:
The Apostle Saint
Paul argued the following:
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“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)
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“Woe
is unto me if I preach not the Gospel.”
(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.
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Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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Further
Reading on the Papacy of Francis:
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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