Posted on 08/24/2018 7:43:17 AM PDT by ebb tide
DUBLIN, August 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – An English family doctor has suggested that recent developments in the war against the family coming from the highest levels within the Catholic Church indicate the arrival of the final battle between God and Satan.
“Is this the final greatest historical confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, the Gospel and the anti-gospel,” said Dr Thomas Ward at a family conference this week running concurrent to the Vatican’s LGBT-affirming World Meeting of Families (WMOF) in Dublin, Ireland.
“Frankly, are we at this moment seeing an intent at a Vatican revolution which would be a culmination and fulfillment of all three previous revolutions [French (1789), Communist (1848), and sexual (1968)]?” he added.
Dr. Thomas Ward, National Association of the Catholic Families, speaks at the 2015 Rome Life Forum. Steve Jalsevac / LifeSiteNews
Ward looked for evidence of a current “Vatican revolution” against the family among examples of how top leaders within the Church, including Pope Francis and many cardinals, have essentially caved in on perennial Catholic teaching about “marriage, contraception, abortion, homosexualism, and parental rights.”
Ward, president of the National Association of Catholic Families, detailed the history of the revolution against the family and God’s plan for human sexuality in an address he gave to the Conference of Catholic Families this week in Dublin. Well over 400 gathered in Dublin for the two-day conference (August 22-23) that was live streamed. It featured several leading voices of Catholic orthodoxy, including Cardinal Raymond Burke (video address), Fr. Thomas Weinandy, Dr. Robert Royal, Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, LifeSiteNews' John-Henry Westen, John Smeaton, Edward Pentin, Bishop Athanasius Schneider (video address), and others.
In the written version of his speech, obtained by LifeSiteNews, Ward underscored that both Sister Lucia of Fatima and Saint John Paul II had implied, in their prophetic statements, that there would be a final battle over the Gospel and the family.
Ward believes the first major attack on the family was launched during the outbreak of the French Revolution when, in 1789, the notorious Marquis de Sade, writer of pornographic novels, was freed from the Bastille prison.
“[He] then became a revolutionary advocating the total uprooting of Christianity, claiming that blasphemy, theft, homicide, every type of sexual perversion, incest, rape and sodomy were revolutionary achievements which were only considered to be criminal deceptions by the [Catholic] Church,” Ward stated.
The next attack on the family began in 1848 with the writing of The Communist Manifesto. In their most famous work, Marx and Engels advocated that the state wrest responsibility for the education of children from parents.
“Communism was based on the abolition of the family and specifically targeted the abolition of the ‘hallowed’--their word, i.e. God-given--right of parents to be the primary educators of their children,” Ward wrote.
When Marx’s ideas were put into practice in Russia, the leaders of the 1917 October Revolution hoped to replace the natural family “with a great universal socialist family.” Divorce was legalized in 1918, abortion in 1920, and homosexual acts in 1922.
Some of Lenin’s pioneering sexual revolutionaries fell into disfavor under Stalin. One of the survivors, Georg Lukacs, fled to Germany where he helped to found the culturally revolutionary society known as the “Frankfurt School.” When it was closed down, its members joined the faculties of such leading American universities as Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Berkeley.
“From these hub universities they successfully spread their ideology of world revolution using the vast commercial, media, and academic resources of the United States,” Ward explained.
These Cultural Marxists sought to transform American society by using the Freudian concept of “pansexualism” to undermine the specific roles of the mother and father and traditional relationships between men and women.
Ward wrote: “Faithful to Marx they strategically attacked the rights of parents when, as primary educators and protectors of their children they opposed the violation of innocence, modesty and chastity by school-based sexual and homosexual indoctrination.”
An emphasis on birth control is a particular concern of those who wish “the parental state” to replace biological parents as the guides of children.
“In the West the removal of parents rights as primary educators and protectors started with the provision of contraception for children and the indoctrination of contraception through sex education,” Ward said. “It has memetastasizedo include underage abortion, general medical services, school homosexual and gender theory indoctrination and, in Germany, even imprisonment of [homeschooling parents].”
“The removal of parents rights reached its final logical but evil culmination - to the nightmare of every parent- with the scandalous case of Alfie Evans.”
Alfie Evans was a brain-damaged infant whose parents fought England’s National Health Service through several courts to stop doctors from removing him from life supporting equipment. After judges ruled that it was not in Alfie’s best interests “to remain alive," the child’s ventilator was removed and he died a few days later.
The next blow to the family came from the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and such thinkers popular to the era as Marquis-de-Sade-fan Herbert Marcuse, Saul Alinsky, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler---a new generation of Catholic churchmen.
For the rest of his talk, Ward compared and contrasted the statements of a number of Catholic bishops, including Pope Francis, regarding Catholic doctrines concerning marriage, contraception, abortion, population control, homosexuality, and parental rights. Because of the current confusion in the Church stemming from the influence of so-called “progressives,” Ward suggested that a new stage in the battle against the family has now been unleashed.
“Ladies and gentlemen because of Amoris Laetitia and of the deeply disturbing possibility of a revision of Humanae Vitae these questions must now be asked,” he wrote. “Has, in the field of sexuality, the teaching of the Church on the right of the parent [as[ the primary educator been revoked in this Pontificate? And, if so, who will protect millions of Catholic children from indoctrination by the wolves in the population and homosexualist lobbies and their powerful allies in the Vatican?”
“Where will our children hide?”
Ward encouraged Catholic families to strive for holiness.
"You are the frontline in this providential, decisive battle between the Lord and Satan," said Ward. "The holiness of your marriages and your children's marriages and their families is being opposed in every way in this country.”
"But you're not alone," he said "Your referendums have shown that in spite of huge international pressures and huge clerical betrayal that every servant, man and woman, in Ireland is with you in the fight. That's a lot.”
"Above all, the mother of God is with you," he said. "Do not be afraid. The people who are your enemies in this country should be afraid. You are still here. You have a third of the population with you. You have the Queen of Heaven with you."
Oh how I use to scoff at the “POPE=ANTICHRIST” Chick like rantings. Now I do fear that this Pope is certainly helping lay the groundwork for his arrival.
If further breaks to the teachings of the Church happen under PF’s watch at what point do faithful Catholics decide that the Seat of Peter is occupied by an anti-Pope?
“[He] then became a revolutionary advocating the total uprooting of Christianity, claiming that blasphemy, theft, homicide, every type of sexual perversion, incest, rape and sodomy were revolutionary achievements which were only considered to be criminal deceptions by the [Catholic] Church,” Ward stated. Switch “Catholic Church” with White, Christian Conservative and you have Barack Obama trying to be the notorious Marquis de Sade.
Why is God going to send a strong delusion in the end times?The Bible makes it clear why God is sending a strong delusion in the end times:
“They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”Simply put, God sends a strong delusion to those who chose not to believe the gospel of Christ. Those who take delight in mocking and rejecting Him, He will condemn.
—2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 It is man’s choice whether to accept and believe the truth of Jesus Christ as presented in the Scriptures. To receive the truth and the love God offers is in keeping with its teachings, “This is love for God: to obey His commands” (1 John 5:3). Conversely, to know the truth and not obey it is to face the wrath of God: “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Romans 1:18). Frankly speaking, there is no more dangerous condition for man than to know the truth and refuse to obey it. To do so is to harden the heart and make God’s condemnation sure.
When one knows the truth and refuses to obey it, he is subject to any lie, any deception, any untruth that man can conjure up. “For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:21-22). Paul goes on in the next few verses to describe the mindset and behaviors of those who disbelieve (see Romans 1:29-31). As a result of man’s foolishness and his arrogant disdain of the things of God, “God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done” (Romans 1:28). And correspondingly, “Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them” (Romans 1:32).
Isaiah puts it succinctly: “They have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations; so I [God] also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring upon them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in My sight and chose what displeases Me” (Isaiah 66:3-4).
When men know the truth and refuse to receive it, when they refuse to obey it and hold it in unrighteousness, “they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:12 NLT).
“God is love” (1 John 4:16). He is not some cruel monster who deliberately and inwardly delights in preparing people for everlasting condemnation. But He earnestly and lovingly proclaims the gospel of Christ, “not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). Throughout the Scriptures, God urges people to accept the truth. But when people reject Him and spurn His message, then—and not until then—God hardens them and turns them over to a deluded mind to wallow in their wickedness to their eternal damnation. This is what the Lord says about those who choose to reject the truth: “They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the Lord does not accept them; He will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins” (Jeremiah 14:10).
RELIGION & LIBERTY, 2010: The Principle of SubsidiarityOne of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization.... This principle is a bulwark of limited government and personal freedom. It conflicts with the passion for centralization and bureaucracy characteristic of the Welfare State.
...Pope John Paul II took the “social assistance state” to task in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus. The Pontiff wrote that the Welfare State was contradicting the principle of subsidiarity by intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility. This “leads to a loss of human energies and... increase of public agencies... accompanied by an enormous increase in spending.”
In spite of this clear warning, the United States Catholic Bishops remain staunch defenders of a statist approach to social problems...
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Jorge Bergoglio is abusing the office and ministry of "The Pope" to promote evil things.
Ping!
Never. The See of Peter may well be vacant; there may be an individual pretending to occupy it who is a manifest heretic ... but by the very act of heresy, he ceases to be Pope.
A "Pope" who contradicts doctrine, while pretending to "develop" it, has committed heresy.
Yes, that was my thinking as well. Thanks.
I agree. I do believe that he will have to answer one day for the souls lost because of the confusion he has sown or at the very least been silent on.
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