Posted on 06/03/2024 1:51:41 AM PDT by JosephJames
A few years ago after our monthly meeting with Cardinal Bassetti and with all the priests of the diocese of Perugia, Italy (May 2018), at lunch I talked to a priest from Nigeria, who was helping out in a parish in Perugia (Olmo) on the weekends, while studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome for his doctorate. During our conversation, HE INDICATED CLEARLY THAT IT IS FINE AND NORMAL AND RIGHT FOR EACH PERSON TO INTERPRET THE TRUTH AND REALITY AS HE OR SHE BELIEVES WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO DIVINE REVELATION summarized in the documents of the Church and the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC). But notwithstanding this base of subjectivism and relativism, he did not know what subjectivism and relativism are, but insinuated toward the end of our conversation that I had a problem or a mental sickness which is called “objectivism”! More than 60 years ago it was very important for seminarians to understand what subjectivism is which is one of the fundamental traps of the devil for souls, and the foundation of Protestantism. I never heard of the word “objectivism”, but I could guess that it was the opposite of subjectivism. When I got home, I did not find this word in the dictionary but I discovered on the WEB that it is A NEW WORD TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE WHO STILL BELIEVE THAT THE OBJECTIVE TRUTH EXISTS! But the objective truth is God (Jn 14:6)!!! Thus according to this priest, and so many priests today formed in the modern seminaries, I have a problem, or rather a mental sickness, of believing that God exists!!!
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More than 60 years ago, ECCLESIASTICAL MAS0NRY, with the help of many Mas0nic bishops and cardinals, entered into a great number of Catholic seminaries and universities to fundamentally change, in a very sly and hidden way, the theological and philosophical teachings of the Catholic Church. This was done in a very intelligent way, printing many books and pamphlets, including APPEALING TO THE PRIDE OF THE YOUNG STUDENTS in that we can interpret reality and truth according to themselves, instead of having the humility to seek the proper interpretation according to God found in Divine Revelation explained in the documents of the Catholic Church and in the writings of the saints for 2000 years. To have an idea of how the ecclesiastical mas0nry works, read the messages of Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi, May and June of 1989 (https://our-lady-priests.blogspot.com/2015/10/our-lady-priests-1989.html).
With this pride based formation, there is an automatic negative reaction to those who try to explain that the Truth comes from God and does not change with the world!
The very numerous priests and bishops today, formed in this pseudo Catholicism of subjectivism, believe they are Catholic and have no idea that their formation is FUNDAMENTALLY NOT CATHOLIC!!! They do not realize that their “truth” and their interpretation of their truth comes from creatures like themselves and no longer from the Creator as was taught for 2000 years in the authentic documents of the Catholic Church. There is also no longer offered in modern seminaries courses on logic and metaphysics, so that seminarians do not learn how to distinguish between right and wrong according to God, and are no longer able to distinguish what is good for souls and what is harmful for souls. Thus the small minority of true Christians who follow and live the unchanging Truth of God are considered today heretics, and ridged, and antiquated! “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us’” – Saint Anthony the Great!
A few months before Pope Paul VI died, on September 8, 1977, he confirmed this grave judgment in a conversation with Jean Guitton. Here are the words of Paul VI recounted by the French philosopher:
"There is a great disturbance at this moment in the world and in the Church, and what is in question is the faith. It happens now that I find myself repeating the obscure saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Luke: 'When the Son of man returns, will he find faith on the earth?' It happens that books are published in which important points of the faith are undermined, that the bishops are silent, that these books are not found to be strange. This, according to me, is strange. I read again every once in a while the Gospel of the end times and I realize that in this moment there is emerging some signs of the end times. Are we near the end? This we will never know. It is necessary to always be ready, but everything can still last quite a while. What strikes me, when I consider the Catholic world, is that a non-Catholic type of thought seems to predominate sometimes within Catholicism, and this non-Catholic thought might become the stronger one within Catholicism in the future. But it will never represent the thought of the Church. A small flock must remain, however small it may be." (http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/23572?). (Find my article with duckduckgo: “The Final Confrontation – John Paul II”; also: “Priests Systematically Brainwashed”).
After many years of work by the ecclesiastical mas0nry, especially within the Catholic Church, there is now a very strong and general rejection and rebellion against the idea that there are certain Truths that are immutable, unchangeable, that is OBJECTIVE Truths from the immutable Creator! Man wants to be able to change anything as if man is God! Today we have arrived to the point that in modern man emerges the tendency to put aside God, considered too demanding and inconvenient. Under the influence of many factors, man wants to simply eliminate from his own life God as a superfluous and useless Being. What is going on here in this attitude is a certain culture, which, taking its impetus from the achievements of science, would like to convince us that scientific and technological progress will put man ever more in the position to arrive by himself to resolve all of his problems and to the conquest of the universe. And so modern man, and here is his great sin, he considers himself SELF-SUFFICIENT!
THE TRUTH COMES FROM GOD, NOT FROM THE CHURCH. The Church is the servant of the Truth, not the Author of the Truth (Jn 14:6). The Church must protect and defend the precious gift of the Truth, not modify or change the truth in a hidden sly way to please the world. Thus no priest, bishop or pope can change the Truth of Divine Revelation given by God throughout the history of mankind, infallibly explained by the Catholic Church, and well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC); ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM).
THE TRUTH OF GOD DOES NOT CHANGE with the world or with the many rebellious and arrogant bishops, priests and lay people in the “modern church” today who do not want to follow and live the CCC. The truth of the world changes continually according to the whims and arrogance of men who want a Christianity without the cross and without humility! IN HEAVEN THERE IS ROOM FOR ONLY ONE GOD, not two! In hell everyone believes they are God and they make war among themselves for all eternity! I PREFER TO BE UNDER A BENEVOLENT GOD in heaven than under a malevolent dictator, Satan, in hell for all eternity! “The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs” (CCC 1035). I prefer to live the uncomfortable Truth of Christ (Jn 14:6) and to suffer with Christ rather than to live the easy and attractive lies of Satan (Jn 8:44) in this short life and then afterwards to suffer for all eternity without Christ who created me and died for me on the cross! What is happening in the world and in the Catholic Church today is our fault, since very few put into practice the Ten Commandments (as the history of the world clearly shows) explained by the Church (Ex 20:2-17; Deut 5:6-21; CCC 1858-2557), especially regarding human sexuality.
A very significant recent example in this period of rebellion against the saving law of God was the great rebellion against Pope Paul’s prophetic encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae’, 1968, which reaffirmed the teaching of Christ regarding the use of artificial means of birth control, which the Church still puts forth today with enlightened wisdom (read the message of October 13, 1989, “To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/). Three years before, in 1965, Saint Michael the Archangel at Garabandal, Spain, sent by Our Lady, said: “Many Cardinal, many Bishops and many Priests are on the road to perdition and with them they are bringing many souls”! Our Lady revealed to Jacinta of Fatima between December 1919 and February 1920, when Jacinta died: "More souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason. (…) Certain fashions will be introduced which will offend Our Lord very much. WOE TO WOMEN WANTING IN MODESTY"!
We are living in a world more full of falsehoods than ever before - beautiful deadly lies from “the father of lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44), presented as if they were the truth, hidden destructive deceptions - such as the devil, hell and sin no longer exist!!! The great majority of the pastors today “are all DUMB DOGS, they cannot bark” (Is 56:10) to warn the sheep of the very sly wolf, Satan! These poor pastors, who seek to please men instead of God (Jn 5:44; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18; Gal 1:10), offer misguided compassion and half truths (which are worse than lies!), especially to speak only about love and mercy without “GO AND SIN NO MORE” (Jn 8:11; 5:14)! Our Lady continually asks us to pray for priests and bishops!
WE ARE NOT ANIMALS WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY for our actions, as Satan and the highly controlled mainstream media would have us to believe. The forces of evil, with the elite superrich in the secret s0cieties, have worked for years to make us less capable of reacting (dumb-down) by working to destroy the Catholic Church and the Eucharist, as well as using very advanced technologies, so as TO MANIPULATE US MORE EASILY. But we were created in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27) and thus we can (1) freely choose to struggle against these evil influences, and also (2) we will live for eternity whether we want to or not. Did God give us the Ten Commandments for our good or for our harm? Do we trust God or do we trust ourselves? Today legislators who do not respect the Ten Commandments are called progressive instead of regressive or destructive!
Dead bodies float down with the current of relativism which surrounds us everywhere today; live bodies swim upstream against the current by remaining faithful to the Truth which does not change with the rebellious world! Very few people have the strength to resist these powerful highly developed techniques of brainwashing us today because very few pray and live their prayer. Very few live the Ten Commandments, and thus they are not able to distinguish between the beautiful lies of the enslaving TV and the Truth of God that sets us truly free (Jn 8:32)! Their gospel has become the TV! Those who persevere in prayer and live their prayer, “THY will be done”, not “MY will be done”, save themselves. Those who do not pray damn themselves! Desired and embraced IGNORANCE is NOT BLISS after death! The people in hell are not able to commit suicide! Here on earth, if we were to see one instant heaven, we would die immediately of joy. If we were to see one instant hell, we would die immediately of terror. God does not show us heaven and hell here on earth so as to respect our free will, otherwise we could not help but choose to do His holy Will.
Satan knows well that the soul of the world is the Catholic Church, and the Eucharist sustains the Church. The EUCHARIST is “the source and summit of the Christian life”.” (Vat. II: LG 11; CCC 1324). Satan, in a great number of ways, leads a great number of Catholics to lose the faith and humility before God in the Eucharist. With the help of God through the frequent reception of the holy Sacraments and prayer, especially the Rosary, one can overcome the temptations of the devil and make it to heaven. SAINT PADRE PIO said: "It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the HOLY MASS." This saint also said: “The ROSARY is the weapon for these times”! A good CONFESSION (a Sacrament) is more powerful than an exorcism (a sacramental)! “One day through the Rosary and the (brown) SCAPULAR, I will save the world” – Our Lady to Saint Dominic (1214).
IF A CATHOLIC STOPS going to CONFESSION at least once a month, and stops praying the ROSARY every day, this Catholic will automatically lose the faith in the Most Holy EUCHARIST, and everything else! The Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ!
The first target of Satan is the true Church, the Catholic Church, and thus also the priests and bishops who will lead many souls with them to heaven or to hell for all eternity. Pray for priests and bishops!!! Saint Padre Pio said that in this period of time of the world, in this period of the great apostasy (2Thess 2:3) and confusion, hold on to the documents of the Church and the writings of the saints; do not listen to anything else!
I prefer to be accused of “OBJECTIVISM” and to remain “RIGID With Christ the Immutable Truth!” (find my article at my Website), instead of taking the easy way which leads to hell (see Diary of St. Faustina, no. 153)!
May God bless you and Mary guide you!
Father Joseph Dwight
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Just for the record:
The “Catholic Church” isn’t the true “Church”
I know you disagree with that truth.
You have free will.
One choice you make in life makes an eternal difference.
“Just for the record: The ‘Catholic Church’ isn’t the true ‘Church’”
Right. It’s more accurately called the “Catholic denomination”.
I notice that this meeting was held in Perugia. My cousin has been a Baptist minister in Perugia since the ‘70s. He has had some interesting conversations with some of the Priests there.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
With Mary (the “mother of God) guiding everyone (instead of the Holy Spirit), saving the world through the rosary and scapular (instead of through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ), and communication with passed saints (demonic posers), this isn’t even a denomination. It’s truly a heretical cult of half-truths that bolsters dangerous deception.
Ask him if its objectively true that there is nothing that is objectively true.
True. A powerful cult with its foundation in the ancient mother-son co-redemptrix pagan sects.
The Catholic Church is not a denomination. Denominations are those diverse chiefly Protestant communities of faith that exist precisely because they are in one way or another different from the rest.
The Catholic Church does not exist in order to protest something or differ from something. It is, quite simply, The Church.
Now, due to some unfortunate historical events, the Church is in disunity. The separated parts of the Church are the Eastern Orthodox local churches. But neither we, nor they, call them “denominations”. They are true Churches, we share the same historical root with them our theologies are identical or at least highly compatible (depending on whom you ask), we all grieve that we are not yet united, and one day we will be.
A community of faith is a church not by nominating it so, but through continues historical succession of her bishops from the Holy Apostles. It, further, is in unity will all Catholic or Orthodox Christians who died and went to heaven; they comprise the Communion of Saints. Most importantly, a church is united with Christ mystically through the Holy Eucharist. When a communion is celebrated in a non-Catholic (nor Orthodox) worship, no real presence of Christ occurs in the bread or wine (or grape juice). So sometimes we speak of the Church as a single communion of all saints united through our sacraments; and sometimes we speak of churches such as the Roman Catholic church, or Greek Orthodox church, etc. We also refer to the pre-chalcedonian churches, such as Armenian or Coptic as churches, again because of their historical succession form the Apostles.
Denominations is a Protestant idea and should properly be used in the context of Protestant communions of faith.
When we need to speak of all Christian communions of faith, regardless of the validity of sacraments or degree of apostolic succession, if you don’t like “communion of faith”, you can use its synonym, “confession”. E.g. Baptist confession, Methodist confession, Catholic confession.
Ken, just for the record, the Catholic Church, along with the Eastern Orthodox, the Oriental Orthodox and the Assyrian Church is the One True Church.
Founded by God at the Pentecost in 33 AD.
Jesus left us a Church, not a book. Jesus Himself is the Word of God
For the record, I see what you imagined.
Nah, it’s a historical fact - the Catholic/Orthodox church was founded by Jesus at the Pentecost in 33 AD.
Imaginations are all the modernist philosophies since the early 1800s - Mormonism, Dispensationalism, jehovahw Witnesses, seventh Day Adventists, Christadelphians, Christian scientists, Oneness pentecostals etc. etc.
For the record, I see what you imagined.
Eternal damnation is set before those who perish in their imaginations and false delusions.
2 Thes 2:11
Enjoy your pleasure while it lasts.
Have your last word now:
We will all find out after death, but after death it will be too late to change our minds for all eternity!
The poor priests brainwashed today are not able to even understand your question. Their brains have been fried!
You might find interesting another article that I wrote:
Priests Systematically Brainwashed
https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2019/12/priests-systematically-brainwashed.html
You have probably read also this:
The Prophecy of Fr. Joseph Ratzinger in 1969
“We will soon have reduced priests to the role of social workers and the message of faith reduced to political views. Everything will seem lost, but at the right moment, right in the most dramatic stage of the crisis, the Church will be reborn. She will be smaller, poorer, almost catacombal, but even more holy. For it will no longer be the Church of those who seek to please the world, but the Church of the faithful to God and His eternal law. Rebirth will be the work of a small remains, seemingly insignificant yet indomitable, passed through a purification process. Because that’s how God works. Against evil, a small flock resists. “
The Catholic Church, which has over 1.3 billion members or 50.1% of all Christians worldwide, is not a denomination, but the original pre-denominational Church.
The total non-Catholic western Christian population has reached around 1.047 billion in 2024, accounting for about 39.8% of all Christians.
The total number of Baptists in all of Italy is 15,000, so the number in Perugia is probably around 1 to 5 thousand - small and unappealing.
I went to Baptist buildings for services in the UK, Texas, Tennessee and Delaware and it seemed incomplete, about half a mass - focusing on the Divine Liturgy or singing the psalms to the exception of the wider worship of God.
The weirdest thing was the way the Baptist services put the pastor at the center - which is strange compared to orthodoxy where Jesus is front and center.
To Catholic and Orthodox eyes (and also when I’ve asked an Ethiopian Oriental Orthodox), this seems mis-focused on the preacher man rather than on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who made you a judge of souls?
Catholic Church is a denomination or, more specifically, a cult. A human’s words and teachings takes priority over God and His Word. Making up stuff that is extra-Biblical is a definite sign of a cult.
The only “pre-denominational” group was/is the entire church body, i.e., “catholic”, not “Catholic”.
Total membership is not a factor in the designation of “denomination”. Where in the world did you ever get the idea that the two were connected?
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