See the previous post below. Now read this tweet of Father Martin's.
Thanks to everyone who came to the Seven Last Words at St. Matthew's Cathedral in DC and thanks to @Cardinal_Wuerl for inviting me to preach pic.twitter.com/HcikLCq8uO
I believe him when he says Cardinal Wuerl invited him to St. Matthew's to preach. We might ask "why"? The question is rhetorical. Cardinal Wuerl and Father Martin clearly think very much alike on key doctrinal and moral issues. If they didn't, the Cardinal would never have asked him to preach at his Cathedral.
On Wednesday I posted the sad news that Father James Martin, Jesuit heretic (was that redundant?), was appointed as Consultor to the Vatican Communications Office. Cal-Catholic informs us that Martin will be handling the Pope's twitter account. Well, Martin certainly is prolific with his tweets, so no one, not even the pope, can claim ignorance of his heresies. To wit:
Martin retweeted a complete botch-job of the story of St. Patrick. He is not to be likened to an illegal immigrant sneaking across our borders. He was captured as a slave and brought to Ireland against his will. As for being "undocumented", his capture and enslavement was probably quite legal, relative to the laws of the Irish chieftans of the time. This lame attempt to justify amnesty for illegal immigrants would be quite humorous if people were more educated regarding Church history and less inclined to swallow that tripe "hook, line and sinker".
Here is a tweet of Martin's, that someone saved. It no longer appears in his twitter feed. One can see why he did so, as this would not be the sort of thing that would be an asset on the resume of a Vatican official.
No wonder New Ways honored him. He is the poster boy for perversion-enabling clergy. This particular tweet was pulled, but anyone can go to his feed and see all sorts of nonsense. In fact, while looking for this "trans" tweet, I stumbled on his St. Patrick gaffe. Anyway, you'll see all kinds of tweets blathering on about "immigrants"(never differentiating between law-abiding and law-breaking), "climate change", even one claiming that Hillary really won the election. Not once did I see anything dealing with baby-murder or contraception.
Now that Martin will have his hand in papal twitter feeds, they'll probably become even more heretical. The Vatican knew about this when they brought him on staff. Now no one can claim that the pope is "at the mercy of poor translators". He owns this mess. Instead of cleaning it up, he's dirtying it even further.
This Easter season, pray for wide-spread conversion to the One True Faith within the Vatican walls.
Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, recently elected Superior General of the Jesuits, has proven himself to be quite the water-carrier for Pope Francis. He voiced approval of the Pope's treatment of the dubia and of the Cardinals who published them. He has recently caught some flak for his attempt to cast doubt on Jesus' words concerning marriage (in what probably is an attempt to boost the credibility of Amoralis Lamentia). In a saner time, any priest who cast doubt upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition would have been defrocked. Instead though, because he is obviously of the same mind as the pope, he remains head of a major religious order.
Today we learned of another Jesuit dissident being rewarded for his heresy. Father James Martin, another Jesuit (yes, this one), has been named a consultor to the Vatican communication office. To my friends who insist on blaming the pope's statements on "bad translations", you can no longer invoke the "mistranslation" canard and maintain integrity. Bear in mind that Martin has shown himself, over and over again, to be a shill for the gay agenda. He is just another voice, like Abascal, to aid in the deconstruction of Christ's teachings on marriage, sexuality and family life. Personnel is policy, as they say. With personnel such as these two Jesuits, we know what the Vatican policies now are.
Here's another consideration regarding Martin's appointment. Recall that he is editor of the Jesuit dissident rag called America. One of Martin's predecessors in that role was Father Thomas Reese. Reese was editor when Pope Benedict XVI assumed the papacy. One of Benedict's first acts was to eject Reese from his editor position because of his dissidence. Now we see another dissident editor of America exalted because of his dissidence. Might this appointment by Pope Francis be a disguised insult to the Pope Emeritus?
Three months ago, I wrote that the bishops of Malta are allowing divorced/remarried Catholics, that is, Catholics embroiled in the mortal sin of adultery, to receive Holy Communion while continuing with their adultery. They compounded their sin by ordering their priests, on pain of suspension, to imperil their own souls by thus complying with mortal sin and sacrilege. What was Pope Francis' response to it? Why, he thanked them for their interpretation of Amoralis Lamentia. If nothing else, he at least removed any reasonable doubt as to what he intends Amoralis Lamentia to do.
Just days later comes the news that one of the Maltese bishops, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, is stating that contraception is permissible. Oh, yes, right now he's stipulating that only married couples should use it, but we see how that worked out in 1930 for the Anglicans, didn't we? Remember - this is just days after the Pope approved their interpretation of Amoralis Lamentia. It is reasonable to believe that this lurch into immorality also meets with the Pope's approval. Has Amoralis Lamentia paved the way for the Catholic version of the 1930 Lambeth Conference? Remember - at that time, the Anglicans allowed for disobedience to God's commands for sexuality and marriage "only in limited circumstances. Eighty years later they celebrate baby-murder, sodomy, etc. They've gone so far as to recognize lesbian "bishops". God forbid that this poison progresses much further in Holy Mother Church.
But the poison has manifest itself in another, more insidious way. One Peter Five has news of a troubling homily that the pope gave within this past week. I ask you to read it in its entirety as it features a translation of the homily by my friend Andrew Guernsey. Both men are correct in saying how the theology is mostly accurate, but for the gross error thrown in there. In other words, we're talking of a healthy, nutritious meal laced with just a little bit of arsenic. In a nutshell, the pope isn't merely saying that Christ took on our sins for our redemption, he's saying that Christ became the devil. This is both a horrid blasphemy and a logical absurdity. Let's not kid ourselves. He knows exactly what he is saying. While he may wish to hide under the "lovable bumpkin who gets his words jumbled sometimes" veneer, one must admit that excuse is getting rather old. You might recall that the pope once said that the boy Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness from His parents when He remained behind in Jerusalem. Last month he joked that "the Holy Trinity is arguing behind closed doors".
Yes, these quips are blasphemous, but they also betray an abysmal lack of appreciation for Who God is. If that is lacking, is it any wonder that doctrinal errors spew forth from the Vatican on a regular basis? Without an adequate intellectual and philosophical understanding of God and His Holy Nature, there will be no sound basis for proclaiming the laws dictated by God. With that kind of willful ignorance at the helm of Holy Mother Church, it behooves us all to pray, frequent the Sacraments and educate ourselves regarding the tenets of our Faith. We will also have to actively resist error as it slaps us and our loved ones in the face. Read some words of wisdom from Venerable Fulton Sheen on this topic. Now I'll end with a recording of a homily regarding Amoralis Lamentia.
One year ago today, the world was scourged with Amoralis Lamentia, a piece of pig poop that has already cast doubts upon the teachings of Jesus Christ Himself, leading to the peril of many souls and most likely the damnation of more than a few who have passed to their judgments during this past year.
Many of us have been sounding the alarm regarding this spiritual poison while its shills have been "circling the wagons" around Amoralis Lamentia as they attempt to put some lipstick on that pig. One of those lame attempts was published by Crud, authored by Cardinal Wuerl who played a pivotal role in tweaking the results of the two sin-nods to justify the publication of AL. Please have this link open (should be in separate window) as we unpack this mess.
"avoiding the constraints of a perspective that focuses solely on certain aspects" That's the end of the second paragraph. Now just what might be these "certain aspects"? Might these "certain aspects" include minor details such as the Sixth Commandment and the Church's laws on marriage and receiving Holy Communion worthily?
"This apostolic exhortation, which follows on the Synod of Bishops that met in October of 2014 and another in 2015 to discuss the challenges to marriage and family today, reflects the consensus of those meetings and many voices." Whom does he think he's fooling? We all know that the final report of the extraordinary sin-nod contained three paragraphs that were voted out by the bishops in attendance. We all know these reports were compiled too quickly after the discussions; the only logical explanation is that these reports were created before the discussions, if not before the synods themselves.
"Holy Father points the way to how the Church might take steps to support married couples and families in their lives, and to mercifully bring hope and healing to those who find themselves in broken and wounded situations, with a sensitivity toward the diversity of particular relationships and cultures," Are we truly to believe that for the past 2000+ years of Christianity the Church has not known how do deal with these "broken and wounded situations"? Those means of healing remain exactly the same for the words of Jesus Christ Himself are immutable. We'll spell it out. Any underlying sin must be eradicated and confessed to a priest. The occasion of sin must be abandoned. God's Commands transcend "particular relationships and cultures". Therefore, these "relationships and cultures" must be brought to conformity with God's commands, not vice versa.
"Even for those in a marriage that does not reflect entirely the Church’s teaching, continues the Pope, Christ inspires the Church to turn to them with love and affection to assist them in overcoming the trials they face." Again, this is no mystery. The underlying sin must be eradicated and repented of in the Sacrament of Confession. The occasion of sin must be eradicated and/or abandoned. Important edit: If this "marriage" involves a "spouse" who was married to another and was civilly divorced without a proper annulment, then no real "second marriage" exists. Rather, the situation is an adulterous shack-up. Any priest worthy of his collar will tell the parties in no uncertain terms to immediately cease and desist their mortal sin of adultery.
"Without claiming to present an entire pastoral plan, the Holy Father calls for a family apostolate that offers more adequate catechesis and formation, not only of engaged and married couples and their children, but also priests, deacons, seminarians, consecrated religious, catechists, teachers, social workers, medical professionals, and other pastoral workers." If that catechesis involves absolute and unwavering fidelity towards the teachings of Holy Mother Church as she has taught over the past several hundred years, this might be one tiny silver lining to an otherwise very gloomy cloud.
The hermeneutic required for a fruitful appropriation of the document’s teaching on this point is based on the understanding that none of the teaching of the Church has been changed: This includes the doctrine on the indissolubility of marriage, the directives of the Code of Canon Law, and also the role of individual conscience in the determination of personal culpability. If that individual conscience acts in disobedience to God's commands, even if it is aware of the demands of God's law, full culpability exists. If the sin is inherently serious, in the case of full knowledge that sin is very likely mortal. No "hermeneutic" will change that.
"The exhortation does not create some sort of internal forum process in which a marriage can be annulled, or in which the objective moral order can be changed. Instead, the exhortation places greater emphasis on the role of the individual conscience in appropriating those moral norms in the person’s actual circumstances". Got that? We give the perfunctory nod to the "objective moral order" but if it contradicts these "actual circumstances", well, "objective moral order" be damned. That's what's really being said.
"In this context, the role of the priest in listening and offering affirmation or challenge to persons as they work through their own understanding of their situation becomes central to the type of pastoral work with married couples needed today. It is the very heart of the ministry of accompaniment that the exhortation calls for." Let's cut through the flim-flam, shall we? Working through the situation boils down to conformity with God's laws and nothing else. If these laws are being transgressed, that transgression must cease immediately, and the sin be confessed, along with the resolution to avoid the near occasion of that sin. If the priest eschews these simple truths in the pursuit of this "ministry of accompaniment" he will likely find himself in the unenviable position of cooperating with mortal sin via his silence. By the way, can anyone tell me just where in the Church's 2000+ years of tradition can this phrase "ministry of accompaniment" be found?
"The apostolic exhortation calls for a compassionate pastoral approach to many people - married, single, and divorced - who are struggling to face issues in life, the teaching of the Church, and their own desire to reconcile all of this." Desire to reconcile - or - desire to justify the continuance of mortal sin?
I'll close this piece with one last quote. "In the action of going out, encountering, sharing, and accompanying, moreover, we also recognize that in the journey, we - ourselves - are also drawing closing to the Lord." I'm copying/pasting these excerpts right from the article so I guess "drawing closing" is a typo that was supposed to mean "drawing closer". If so, that statement is brashly presumptuous. Amoralis Lamentia is one giant screed designed to exalt man's faulty, unformed and uninformed conscience over God's transcendent, immutable commands. Any deviance from those Divine commands is sin, "hermeneutics" and "accompaniment" notwithstanding.
I pray that the four "dubia" Cardinals see their way to issuing the formal correction since it is apparent that the pope has no intention of answering the dubia. Cardinal Wuerl's piece, for what it's worth, reflects the intentions of the pope regarding Amoralis Lamentia. To follow this path that the pope and his collaborators set forth is to flirt with eternal damnation. We must pray, speak the truth and resist this evil onslaught.
John Vennari, editor of Catholic Family News, passed away yesterday after a bout with cancer. Catholic Family News, along with the Wanderer and the Remnant, was at the forefront of Catholic media who told the truth about the massive deconstruction of the Faith that was being masterminded by progressives during the 20th century. They started their work long before the advent of the internet. Faithful Catholics owe men like Vennari much gratitude. Let us pray for the eternal repose of his soul and for consolation for his family and friends.
Below is a talk that Vennari gave sometime last year in Chicago. It may well be the last public address that he was able to give. Anyway, he exposes the foundations of Amoralis Lamentia as being the heresy of situation ethics, and why acceptance of AL would greatly undermine Catholic moral theology.
I urge all to watch this, but first let's engage in a rather amusing digression. Vennari and others helped pioneer the new Catholic media, of which this blog is a small part. Not all greet us with enthusiasm. The mainstream progressives, with their loyal lemmings, take great umbrage with us for depriving them of their monopoly over the public forum of Catholic ideas. Take, for instance, this piece posted on Crud. Notice how we are described as "cornered animals who snarl and bite"? Then Longenecker quotes from Father Rosica, who in his suit against Vox Cantoris, did indeed play the biting and snarling animal. Perhaps John Vennari can read this from his vantage point and have a chuckle while praying for us as we pray for him.
President Trump has removed US funding from the United Nations Population Fund. He did so because the UNFPA participates in China's policies of forced abortion. LifeSiteNews has more details. At the very least, US tax dollars will not be used to drag women into abortuaries so that their babies can be violently ripped out of their wombs. It is very possible that quite a few babies will be saved on account of the abortion apparatus being cash-crimped.
One can now hear the screeching and howling of feminazis and population-control wonks everywhere. By the way - about which population-control guru have we been hearing? That's right! Paul Ehrlich! This forced-abortion shill was invited by the Vatican to address its "biological extinction" conference last month. I suppose the "biological extinction of the human race" is near and dear to Ehrlich's heart, but I digress. Given the bevy of pro-aborts who have been invited to speak at the Vatican and who have lent input into Laudato Si, we can imagine that they are not enthused about the defunding of the UNFPA. Never have I thought that I'd see the day when the White House would be more pro-life than the Vatican, but such seems to be the case these days.
The population-control ghouls are not the only ones who sense that the gravy train is pulling into the station. Church Militant has an article about an association of witches who are casting hexes on Trump. The invocation of demons is very serious business. At least they grasp the magnitude of the spiritual battle, albeit from the wrong side. Do we? Pray for protection of Trump and for all good people. Pray for conversion of those embroiled in sin. Do so now.
I need not spend too much time reinventing the wheel as it were. Suffice it to say that if one has had their eyes open and if they haven't been given over to a pollyanna-esque happy-clappy self-deception, they will understand the dangers to souls that have been coming from the Vatican, at the apparent instigation of the pope. The Wild Voice put together a chronology (not all-encompassing, by their own admission) of doings and sayings of Pope Francis that have been, at best, most unseemly for a Vicar of Christ.
I will post after the jump break two videos. One is a talk given by John-Henry Weston, one of the two co-founders of LifeSiteNews, given at the same conference at which Michael Hichborn spoke when he spoke of "Catholic Charities and the Culture of Death". Weston addresses the various things that the pope has done to undermine the Faith and he does so from the perspective of the Fatima predictions.
The one following that is a homily posted by Sensus Fidelium entitled "The Road To The Dubia: Amoris Laetitia". In it the priest lays out just why that document is a deliberate attack on three Sacraments: Confession, Communion, Matrimony. He calls Amoralis Lamentia "a Henry VIII moment in the Church". In the very beginning, he also gives definitions of Church Tradition, public revelation, etc. Please invest the time to listen to these talks and to be informed. If some, particularly parents, claim not to have the time to do so, understand that the eternal salvation of your children may well depend on you being informed about the spiritual wolves that are waiting to devour your children. As Weston states, we must be informed so that we can both pray properly and speak in defense of the truth. Now the videos:
