Amoris Laetitia: A seminal moment is at hand

National Catholic Distorter is reporting that the dissident theologian Hans Küng has publicly confirmed receipt of a letter from Pope Francis responding to his request “to give room to a free, unprejudiced and open-ended discussion on the problem of infallibility.”

According to Küng, the pope gave him (and thus every other like-minded malcontent subversive in Catholic clothing) the green light to have at it.

Given that Francis’ letter “set no restrictions,” according to Küng, “he has thus responded to my request to give room to a free discussion on the dogma of infallibility.”

Notice the language that is used: Küng refers to infallibility as both a “dogma” and a “problem.”

This makes perfect sense as modernists, who operate from the conviction that doctrines can and must change over time, find the very notion of dogma (which by definition is incontrovertible) to be a major problem.

So, what exactly is the “problem” that Küng wishes to discuss, and presumably solve?

I suspect that when many hear “dogma of infallibility,” papal infallibility as defined at the First Vatican Council may immediately come to mind, but make no mistake about it – Küng has a much larger target in mind.

There are three organs of infallibility in the Church; i.e., the modes by which the immutable doctrines of the faith are made known to the faithful:

– Ordinarium magisterium – those doctrines that have been constantly held and taught (in “moral unanimity”) by the bishops of the world in union with the Roman pontiffs

With this in mind, let’s be perfectly clear about what Küng desires, and Francis finds no cause to restrict: An open-ended discussion on everything that is currently considered (by Catholics, at any rate) to be unchangeable.

In other words, these men wish to have an “open-ended” debate on what is henceforth considered to be true; one that starts not with the infallible doctrines of the Faith, but rather from scratch.

It has been clear to readers of this space for some time now that Francis sincerely believes that even matters settled long ago are now up for grabs. Nothing it seems is truly sacred to this man other than man himself, with the possible exception of Mother Earth.

If anyone had any lingering doubts on this note, Amoris Laetitia, which plainly undermines the indissolubility of marriage as taught by Jesus Christ Himself, should have removed them entirely.

Consider the mere fact that Francis directly contradicted the infallible Council of Trent almost verbatim by stating that “It can no longer simply be said that all those in any irregular situation (e.g., those featuring on-going adultery, fornication, gay sex) are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace” (AL 301).

This alone tells us rather plainly that absolutely, positively nothing is safe under this pope.

Again, this isn’t really news for “traditionalists” (aka Catholics) who have been looking at this disastrous pontificate with eyes opened wide from day one. For us, the only question that has ever really existed concerns just how far the allegedly faithful cardinals and bishops will allow Francis to go unchallenged.

Given the tepid reaction (and in most cases, the total silence) of such men in response to the heresy and blasphemy contained in Amoris Laetitia, the answer is rather obvious; not just to us, but more importantly, to Francis himself.

There can be no doubt that Francis is now more convinced than ever that he can do whatever the Hell he wants to do. The deposit of faith is like clay in his humble little hands. The Holy Catholic Church is his personal playground, and he’s the bully who gets to make up the rules.

And why shouldn’t he be emboldened? Amoris Laetitia was made public nearly three weeks ago, and the most noteworthy reaction from a bishop to date is an anemic call for an “authentic interpretation;” as if Holy Mother Church has failed to provide as much over the course of the centuries!

We’ve grown used to this sort of thing over the years as the Council’s assorted errors and ambiguities have been met, not with the condemnations they so richly deserve, but with calls an “hermeneutic of continuity.”

As such, it is tempting to believe that this is just another day under Francis; he who has been relentlessly attacking the faith (and the truly faithful) from moment one of his dreadful pontificate.

This point of view, however, represents a gross underestimation of the importance of Amoris Laetitia.

Make no mistake, my friends, this document is far more than just the next in a long series of attacks at the hands of a perfidious pope; it is a seminal moment in the ecclesial crisis that hearkens the dawn of a newly darkened day wherein war will be declared against objective truth far more openly and boldly than at any other time in the past.

Like proverbial frogs in a pot of water that is gradually inching its way closer to the boiling point, we have lost our perspective.

Imagine if at some point prior to Benedict’s flight for fear of the wolves, one was to propose that within a few short years the Roman Pontiff will issue a formal exhortation that:

– Opens the way to Holy Communion for unrepentant adulterers and fornicators, and even practitioners of gay sex

– Boldly proclaims that such persons are neither in mortal sin nor deprived of sanctifying grace

– Accuses God Himself of burdening man with impossible demands via the Divine Law

If this isn’t incredible enough, imagine if it was further predicted that in the aftermath of this terrible attack on the Faith from the very top of the Church, not one single solitary bishop or cardinal will step forward to rebuke the pope for his heresy and blasphemy!

I dare say that very few among us would have believed it. All of us, however, would likely realize that if such a thing was to ever occur, the madman pope – knowing full well that no one in the episcopate has the stones to oppose him – would then set about destroying the very foundation of the Holy Catholic Church; truth itself as infallibly defined, preserved, and taught throughout the centuries.

[NOTE: “Truth” is, of course, the person of Jesus Christ. As I’ve stated in the past, the very heart of the current ecclesial crisis concerns a Christological heresy wherein the Divinity of Christ is in doubt even to the highest places in Rome. Amoris Laetitia demonstrates as much with remarkable clarity. This was the topic of the presentation that I was honored to give at the Fatima Conference in Boston last weekend. I will go into more detail on this matter in a future post.]

And so here we are. The nightmare has become reality. Francis has issued a decree that undermines the very words of Christ. He has gone where few would ever have dreamed; not even Hans Küng, who said:

“I could not have foreseen quite how much new freedom Francis would open up in his post-synodal exhortation, Amoris Laetitia.“

With the publication of Amoris Laetitia, Francis not only committed the grave offenses contained therein; he has declared a new freedom to challenge the very existence of Truth itself; he has thus declared war on Christ the King.

As of this moment, the Shepherds have proven themselves to be little more than hirelings; mitred castrati who have been pleased to lay down their croziers in the face of the approaching wolf. The sheep are being scattered and there is none to protect them.

>>>The Roman Catholic Church is ending.

Never fear, the true Roman Catholic Church, which has been in eclipse for many decades behind this ‘bait and switch’ Vatican-2 false edifice, will always prevail, even in just its laity who hold the true Catholic Faith whole and entire as Christ commands us, while the false edifice constructed by apostates from within and without will feed on itself and will finally be destroyed by the Blessed Virgin Mary, vanquisher of all heresies.

I am enclosing below the description of a vision shown to the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich of a counterfeit Church of Darkness that was to be constructed in our times.

Also here is an excerpt on this subject written in 1948 by Bishop Fulton Sheen on a counterfeit Church that would be set up by Satan to ape the true Church. Unfortunately, when it occurred just a short fifteen years later, he either expected it to be set up outside the existing Church structure and only by forcibly co-opting some of her ministers as was done by the Communists in Red China, or when the design of Satan manifested itself by the election of a false shepherd, Roncalli, Sheen respected men not God, fell for it, and went along with it.

Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen

Communism and the Conscience of the West (1948)

“[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church. . . . It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”
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The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himsel as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”

Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect—and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?

The pre-Communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves. . . .

. . . The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion—one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God’s.

In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . .

. . . But the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism.

(Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West [Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948], pp. 24-25)

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Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich: vision of the two contrasting churches

September 12, 1820

“I saw a strange church being built against every rule…No angels were supervising the building operations. In that church, nothing came from high above…There was only division and chaos. It is probably a church of human creation, following the latest fashion, as well as the new heterodox Church of Rome, which seems of the same kind…”

“I saw again the strange big church that was being built there (in Rome). There was nothing holy in it. I saw this just as I saw a movement led by Ecclesiastics to which contributed angels, saints and other Christians. But there (in the strange big church) all the work was being done mechanically (i.e., according to set rules and formula). Everything was being done, according to human reason. I saw all sorts of people, things, doctrines, and opinions. There was something proud, presumptuous, and violent about it, and they seemed to be very successful. I did not see a single Angel nor a single saint helping in the work. But far away in the background, I saw the seat of a cruel people armed with spears, and I saw a laughing figure which said: ‘Do build it as solid as you can; we will put it to the ground’.”

“I saw that many of the instruments in the new Church, such as spears and darts, were meant to be used against the living Church. Everyone dragged in something different: clubs, rods, pumps, cudgels, puppets, mirrors, trumpets, horns bellows – all sorts of things. In the cave below (the sacristy) some people kneaded bread, but nothing came of it; it would not rise. The men in the little mantles brought wood to the steps of the pulpit to make a fire. They puffed and blew and labored hard, but the fire would not burn. All they produced was smoke and fumes. Then they broke a hole in the roof and ran up a pipe, but the smoke would not rise, and the whole place became black and suffocating. Some blew the horns so violently that the tears streamed from their eyes. All in this church belonged to the earth, returned to the earth. All was dead, the work of human skill, a church of the latest style, a church of man’s invention like the new heterodox church in Rome.”

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