Pope Francis receives Pachamama statue in Vatican gardens during indigenous ceremony, Rome, Oct. 4, 2019.
Posted on 04/03/2020 12:54:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis receives Pachamama statue in Vatican gardens during indigenous ceremony, Rome, Oct. 4, 2019.
April 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Italian priest and theologian Nicola Bux has identified both the sins within the Church as well as the sins of the world as the root of the current pandemic and its effects on the daily life of Catholics. Like Archbishop Viganò and Bishop Schneider, the former consulter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith characterized COVID-19 as a chastisement from God.
In a lengthy statement published as a video on YouTube March 24, as well as by Chiesa e post concilio in written form, Bux said “we can read this virus as ‘a sign of the times,’ in the sense above all of a warning to the world.”
“We must now abstain, as a punishment,” he explained, “from so many embraces and so many relationships, even against nature. We have defied natural law and committed ‘sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.’”
“What about infidelity and indifference, of those who live in practical atheism, and postulate a nature emancipated from God,” Bux asked. “And then adultery, abortions, divorces. We have violated the rights of God and put in their place those of man.”
Specifically talking about the sins within the Church, Bux began by mentioning idolatry, which he called “the gravest sin.”
“We gave in to idolatry … by kneeling before heaps of earth and worshiping idolatrous statues even in St. Peter’s Basilica. We turned churches into shelters and inns when we had much better facilities to accommodate the poor and migrants. We have forgotten what a church is for and why it is dedicated with solemn rite. We have committed abuses, profanations in the sacred liturgy and unbearable deformations, insults and irreverence, we have gone so far as to say that the grace of God can coexist with a situation of habitual sin, authorizing sacrilegious Communions given to unrepentant sinners.”
Bux continued, “We sowed confusion among God’s people, with the coexistence of the two popes and encouraged the handing over of the faithful to the civil authorities of atheistic states such as China. Paul VI’s warning resounds regarding the self-demolition of the Church. Have atheism and the loss of faith taken root among the men of the Church?”
As such, the COVID-19 pandemic is “a warning to the men of the Church, who, in the name of ‘paradigm shift,’ subordinate Christ’s teaching to the reality of the world.”
“They say they do not understand non-negotiable principles. They consider inequality and not sin as the root of social evils. They have allowed the gnostic and neo-pagan scene on the facade of St. Peter’s. They have abandoned the mission of the Gospel and the need for conversion, in favor of complacent dialog with religions … They have presented Luther as medicine for the Church. They have endorsed situation ethics instead of moral principles.”
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still especially affecting Italy, many of the problems and evils have come to a sudden halt.
“Now the Pope, so worried about the ‘pueblo,’ has remained without people. Priests, so intoxicated with participation, are without the faithful. The faithful, so accustomed to community liturgies, suffer abandonment.”
Most Catholics, Bux explained, “have not been trained in adoration, recollection on their knees, personal prayer done in secret, where the Father alone sees us.”
“The churches are desolate, faithful and pastors are now as exiles,” the theologian said.
Bux pointed out the difficulty many people have with the idea of a God who punishes. Up until the previous century, processions took place and vows were made in order for chastisements to stop, he recalled.
“Today, the word ‘chastisement’ arouses scandal even among churchmen, because they have forgotten that, at the beginning of world history, after love, there is sin, anger, and judgment.”
“It is true that, in Jesus Christ, we adore the mystery of divine love which, with patience and mercy, obtains the conversion of the sinner,” Bux said. However, “ignorance, plague, hunger, war, suffering, and death reveal to man his situation as a sinner.”
Bux then begged God to deliver his people from the “wrath of judgment.”
“Great is our sin, but greater is your love. Take away our sins for the glory of your name. In the intimacy of the soul, we prostrate ourselves and implore divine mercy. From the wrath of judgment, deliver us … Forgive us our mistakes, heal our wounds, guide us with your grace to the Easter victory,” Bux prayed.
The theologian and liturgical scholar concluded by calling the chastisement “providential,” expecting it to bear fruit.
Ping
Good. That’s gonna leave a mark.
So buggering KIDS is infidelity now??? Who’d of thought...
Bowing to the PRCs I guess aint anything.
Submitting to the musscums aint anything.
Preaching Climate Change I guess is God’s work?
Cowtowing to the lgbtqxyzs I guess is God’s work?
B.S.
Why? Then what does the “top Catholic shepherds” and the Corona Virus have to do with Iran, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and all the other non-Catholic, or not majority Catholic populations in the world? Is it that “well ‘G-d’ has OTHER reasons THEY have received the virus”? Or is the claim just B.S. I think it’s B.S.
Laughable, but for the pathetic and Self-Excommunicating use of our Lord’s Words and Commandments, coming from the Vatican, on “Obedience”. To those Vatican pretenders of the Faith who mock it, but employ it for reasons of destroying it, they have a long wait for obedience from the Traditional Catholic faithful.
Judas had no faithful followers among the faithful disciples nor from the Apostles, whom the disciples later became, following Christ Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven and the Descent of the Holy Spirit.
“ Just, ‘No’ “.
Yes, let’s blame God for every natural disaster, drought, and pestilence. Maybe if we throw a virgin in the volcano he will be appeased.
Perhaps, you’re more inclined to agree with Pope Francis and blame the pandemic not on a chatisement from God, but rather on “Nature throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her”?
I figured it was the Catholic’s fault. /sarc
“Truth to power.” Public repentance is in order!
Amos 3:6 (ESV): Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
Nope.
By the time you find a virgin they will have accepted HCQ as the proper medication and Dr Fauci is nowhere to be found.
Dude is channelling his inner Pat Robertson here..... These types of misguided humans speak for themselves or of their own theology.......
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This thinking runs counter to all Liturgy of the Church.......
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God is not our magic genie or our puppet master......
Neither.
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