Posted on 09/26/2013 7:26:42 AM PDT by cleghornboy
Albert Drexel, in Ein Neuer Prophet? (Stein am Rhein: Christiana, 1971) explains that: "The modernism or neo-modernism within Christianity, and especially within the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, is above all characterized by a turning away from the supernatural and an exclusive predilection for this world, the Aggiornamento of Pope John XXIII interpreted one-sidedly and hence misapplied. Teilhard's ideology was was a definitive precondition for this. Inasmuch as he turned his back to the past, fused God and the supernatural with the process of a universal evolutionism, and proclaimed religion to be an active participation in a progressive development ending in Point Omega, the basis was given for a humanist cult of the secular." (p. 115).
In the New World Order, man will no longer believe in a God whom he cannot control. Man will worship himself and his new leader who will, like Hitler, be deified: the man spoken of by Saint Paul as the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition.
The new worship which is emerging is man-centered. And it is reflected in various liturgical actions such as banal pop-style music "concerts" and spontaneous applause over human achievement. Pope [Emeritus] Benedict XVI - while still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger - wrote a book entitled "The Spirit of the Liturgy," in which he warned that, "Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment.
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might I enquire as to where the Cross entwined by the serpent is located??
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its so indictative of much of the “modern chucrh”
“The new worship which is emerging is man-centered. And it is reflected in various liturgical actions such as banal pop-style music “concerts” and spontaneous applause over human achievement.”
My only quibble with this otherwise insightful statement is that the new worship is not really emerging, it’s pretty much ingrained. The Church of Come as You Are, Do as You Please has been around for a while, unfortunately. As a friend of mine put it, after attending a “contemporary service”, “sorry, but I like a little church in my church”.
I thought that to Catholics, the Pope is channeling God and that he has been selected by God.
If the Pope were "channeling God," that would mean that everything he said was what God wanted to be said, which would mean that everything he said was under inspiration.
Nobody since Jesus has had that quality. Even the human authors of Scripture were only under inspiration when they were actually writing Scripture.
I thought they banned you from entering the church!
That is the next step ...
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