Posted on 11/05/2016 9:08:48 PM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the guest celebrant of the Traditional Latin Mass at Mater Ecclesiae Parish on Sunday, October 23, 2016. Following the Mass Bishop Schneider gave a 40 minute conference on the topic of the Kingship of Christ. A Q and A period followed his presentation, during which time he answered a wide variety of questions related to the current state of the Church and the world.
Mater Ecclesiae, established in October of 2000, was the first canonically established Mission in the United States, owned by a Diocese and staffed exclusively by diocesan priests. All of its liturgies and sacraments are celebrated exclusively using the Traditional Rites of the Church. It is a flourishing parish with many vocations. Over the past 11 years Mater Ecclesiae has generated 7 vocations to the priesthood and religious life. This is a remarkable achievement from a parish that numbers fewer than 500 families.
Catholic Family News previously reported briefly on Bishop Schneider's comments at Mater Ecclesiae. You can find their coverage here. In addition to this report, Bishop Schneider was asked about Amoris Laetitia during the Question and Answer period. He made some very strong statements about communion for the divorced and remarried that are reproduced here by Pewsitter.
Q. Your asked for clarification on Amoris Lataetia, do you expect that clarification will eventually be done?
Bishop Schneider: The clarification of AL for which I asked in April, unfortunately it gets worse. Even in the diocese of the Pope in Rome in September, his Vicar General, the Cardinal, presented pastoral guidance for implantation which ultimately allowed the divorced to go to communion.
But what we can do, we can in this situation publicly state and confess our faith in the unchanging truth of marriage. We know that - of the previous and continuous Magisterium of the church. And there is a good initiative which I would recommend to you on the Internet, Declaration of Fidelity to the unchanging truth of marriage... Declaration of Fidelity, you can find this on the website filialappeal.org. And there you can give you signature and support to this. This is a public statement. We maintain firmly the truths that... , and then 27 statements. And then every statement is documented with quotations of the Magisterium, these are not our statements this is the Magisterium.
And I pray that the Pope may at least, issue a thing to the bishops in view of this very grievous situation of the diocese of Rome and other dioceses they already make norms to officially give communion to adulterers. It is very, very grievous. Very grave. And I think in the face of this situation, in my opinion, the bishops have to make a public request to the Pope to stop this.
Q. It seems to me that it is difficult to put the genie back in the bottle…. If communion for divorced and remarried people is allowed, how do you put a stop to it? Is there anyway besides a miracle that this could happen?
Bishop Schneider: I have already said about the Declaration of Fidelity to spread this. And next is to pray that the Pope may stop this, and he MUST stop this. Or the bishops, because the bishops are the colleagues of the Pope, the collegiality.. the bishops are members of the magisterium. Only the bishops. And so in my opinion the bishops have in this very serious situation extraordinary, the duty to admonish the Pope, reverently but publically, to stop this. And then to pray that God may intervene.
As a footnote, in addition to his comments on Amoris Laetitia, Bishop Schneider was asked a question about the refugee problem in Europe. That brief exchange is printed below:
Q. Would you share your thoughts on the future of the European Society if the Muslim population continues to grow and expand.
Bishop Schneider: Yes, it is very serious. We are witnessing an invasion. They are not refugees. No this is an invasion. It is an islamization of Europe which has been going on for 50 – 60 years. This is a global political agenda by the powerful of the world, to destroy Europe, culturally and religiously, to destroy Christianity ultimately in Europe.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider on Communion for the Divorced and Remarried: 'The Pope must stop this; pray that he will'
>The Pope must stop this ....
Claiming that islam is a valid and peaceful “religion”. Until then, Black Sabbath got it right about the pope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=towXzxmqkT0
I thought we already got the clarification?
That you would go to *them* as a source of opinions about the pope, tells me more about you than I had actually cared to know.
I understand. There was some youthful disillusion going on back then. Ozzy has long since led a more humble and life with belief for thee good. He is asking more questions than making statements now....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhhOU5FUPBE
Good to know. Thanks for this response, soycd.
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