Posted on 03/10/2018 5:22:28 PM PST by ebb tide
Before his death in 2012, Cardinal Carlo Martini eerily called himself an ante-pope, a precursor and preparer for the Holy Father.
Martini was the leading antagonist to Popes John Paul II and Benedicta Jesuit famous for groaning that the Church was 200 years behind. In Night Conversations with Cardinal Martini, he cringed at the major damage caused by Humanae Vitae. The Church spoke too much about the sixth commandment and sin. He said legal abortion was, ultimately, positive.
For Martini saw himself as a dreamer who kept us open to the surprises of the Holy Spirit. Hadnt the prophet Joel said that your sons and daughters would prophesy and your old men would dream dreams? The old cardinal dreamed of young prophets whod criticize the Church and a strong middle generation whod effect changes.
Martini said that in preparation for the 2005 papal election, he and others discussed the new answers that the next pope would have to give on sexuality and Communion for adulterers. For Martini was the leader of the St. Gallen mafia, the anti-Ratzinger group that wanted a much more modern Church under Cardinal Bergoglio.
According to Austen Ivereighs The Great Reformer, Cardinal Bergoglio quoted Martini frequently and was introduced by him to the Gallen group after the two Jesuits reconnected in 2001. Cardinal Bergoglio placed second in the 2005 conclave, amidst a dramatic struggle. The group reportedly ceased meeting the following year, and Martinilong sick with Parkinsonsdied in 2012.
But in a fiery last interview published immediately after his death, the ante-pope burned with disdain.
The Church was tired, its rites were pompous, and he who had dreamed of a young church now stared at countless ashes. How he wanted the embers beneath the ashes to burn! Where were the men who burned for the spreading of the spirit? Where were the men who would preach discernment and carry the Eucharist to those in complex family situations?
Are we afraid? Fear instead of courage? he cried.
As Ivereigh notes, Cardinal Bergoglio could soon be heard quoting the jeremiad, telling the embers to burn beneath the ashes of a Church that kept Jesus tied up in the sacristry.
Months later, the Martini Popeas Sandro Magister puts itnow reigned. Pope Francis soon praised Martini as prophetica father for the whole churchand hailed his agenda of focusing on synods. In 1999, Martini had a dream of hurtling the Church into permanent synodalitythat is, permanent revolution. The decentralized, synodal Church would foment changes on marriage, sexuality, penitential practice, priestly celibacy, women in the Church, ecumenism.
So at the rigged Synod on the Family, one Gallen alumnus, Cardinal Kasper, pushed for Communion for adulterers and anotherwho had told a king to legalize abortion and a sexual abuse victim to seek forgivenesswaxed poetic about the womb of mercy. A leading Martini disciple, Archbishop Bruno Forte, drafted the interim report on the positive aspects of sins against purityand later laughed that Pope Francis had promised to draw out the conclusions for Kaspers proposal because speaking plainly wouldve made a terrible mess.
Cardinal Baldisseriwho, according to The Rigging of a Vatican Synod?, was overheard explaining how hed manipulate that synodcalls this years synod on young people a continuation of the subject of the family. He says the youths bemoaning Church prohibitions via web surveys and Facebook will marvelously prophesy what Christ wants to cut out.
As in the days of Samuel and Jeremiah, young people know how to discern the signs of our times, indicated by the Spirit, the synods preparatory document intones. That text, as Matthew McCusker shows, is pervaded with Modernism, which heretically claims that doctrines come from experience and thus must evolve.
Modernistsas Pope St. Pius X warnedhold that truth is no more immutable than man himself, since it evolved with him, in him, and through him.
At a pre-synodal planning seminar with Baldisseri, one young prophet invoked her sage experience to lament how closed the Church is to those with radical views on issues like transgenderism. In other remarks published by the Vatican, she extolled a fourteen-year-old who need[ed] to create her own religion to find one that is welcoming.
Another young prophet announced: The pope asked us to make chaos, thats precisely what were doing.
Indeed, Pope Francis had urged the youngspecifically agnostics, those estranged from the Church, and atheiststo criticize the Church in fulfillment of Joel 3:1-2. The old will dream dreams, and the young will prophesy, namely, with prophecies they will take concrete things forward, he explained.
He was quoting Martini once again, for the ante-pope had dreamed all this, too. Grandiosely invoking Joel in Night Conversations, Martini presaged that the things we are waiting for would gust in via the uninhibited qualities of young people. The Church cant teach young people anything. It can only help them to listen to their inner master. Being taught by the young is a new pastoral principle.
They were Martinis glowing coalsworking to save the world with their leftist politics, forging new beginnings with their less inhibited approach to sexuality. Were they still interested in criticizing us, the Church?
For their sake, Martini had dreamed of a pope whod admit Humanae Vitaes mistakesa pope who wouldnt need to retract the encyclical because hed just write a new one.
In 2014 Pope Francis was asked if the Church could take up again the topic of contraception, for Cardinal Martini believed it was now time. He replied that it all depends on how Humanae Vitae is interpretedand now one of his top theologians, a Pontifical Academy for Life member, says some circumstances require contraception under Amoris Laetitia.
Other members of the deconstructed pro-life academy defend aborting children and say weve evolved past that wispy term intrinsically evil because Pope Francis says time is greater than space. The new dean of the similarly subverted John Paul II Institutewho wrote books with Martini and organized a radical shadow synodsits on the commission set to re-interpret Humanae Vitae on the sly.
If it gets too peaceful in the Church, the ante-pope taught, just recall Christs desire to throw a flaming torch of inspiration onto the earth.
So once the ante-popes torch has burned into Humanae Vitae, burned into the very notion of intrinsic evil, the permanent revolution will blaze forward. It will show us why Martini called Luther a great reformer and said you cannot make God Catholic; why next years Amazon synod will crusade for married priests and women deacons; why the Germans are letting some Protestants receive the Eucharist and a respected Vaticanist says an ecumenical mass is being readied; why Pope St. Pius X cried of the Modernists: What is there left in the Church which is not to be reformed according to their principles?
Then, like some strong and ominous wind, it will sweep aside the ashes to unveil the ante-popes utopia, where everyone ends up transparent and accepted by everyone else. Then the prophets will cry, with the dreamer, that the times are long gone when the Church could talk you into having a guilty conscience. Then the sons and daughters will prophesy thataccording to the logic condemned by Ven. Fulton Sheenthere is no Hell, no sin, no judge, and no judgment and so evil is good and good is evil.
Then it shall be as the old ante-pope had dreamed.
That is why we must pray and make reparation and speak out, now.
That's Baldiserri in the zuccchetto in a mural he personally commissined, and approved, for his cathedral.
Closeted sodomite.
Closeted sodomite.
Undoubtedly a proponent of the Joy of Love.
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