Posted on 10/05/2021 12:39:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
The Amoris Laetitia Reset Is About to Break
What Zmirak saw so clearly was that, if Amoris Laetitia could be interpreted as a pro-LGBT document, it would have a disastrous impact on our religious freedom. Gay activists could drag pastors into court and sue for discrimination for simply being denied the Eucharist. And the pope’s words would be used in those courts to condemn the faithful and to profane the Holy Eucharist:
Not just our faith’s integrity, but our religious liberty is endangered by the pope’s ill-chosen words.John Zmirak
All throughout this “Year of Amoris Laetitia,” we have seen countless examples of pro-LGBT messaging inside the Church. And many have attempted to link the pope to this pro-LGBT message. Here are a few reminders:
Next time I go to Church, I dare you to deny me Communion.Congressman Ted Lieu, Democrat
The pope has said and done nothing at all to distance himself from these attempts to link him to the gay heresy. This should set off alarm bells, especially as the German Synod is scheduled to conclude early next year. If the pope is seen in anyway as tolerant of the Germans’ pro-LGBT agenda, it will send a green light to activists to target the Catholic Church. In fact, they already have:
Zmirak Foresaw the Trajectory of Amoris Laetitia First
Within days of the publication of Amoris Laetitia, John Zmirak had it all figured out. It would take me five more years to connect all the dots. But, hey, he’s a Yale man; I’m just a public school kid trying to keep up. The mainstream Catholic media still hasn’t figured it out. Here’s what Zmirak wrote in an eerily prophetic piece for 1Peter5 back in 2016:
How soon will it be before pastors in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other post-Christian wastelands are authorizing transvestites to hand out Holy Communion, same-sex couples to teach pre-Cana classes, and activists promoting sodomy to serve as principals of Catholic schools and seminaries . . . ?
Under previous popes, faithful Catholics at least had firm, unambiguous papal statements to cite against such destructive local abuses, and to use in court when they had to defend their religious freedom against intolerant secular activists: “I’m sorry, Your Honor, but my Church explicitly requires this…” How long will it be until a well-informed judge, or a homosexual activist attorney, finds it useful to cite Amoris Laetitia against such beleaguered Catholics, and accuses them, in the pope’s own words, of “sitting on the chair of Moses”?
Not just our faith’s integrity, but our religious liberty is endangered by the pope’s ill-chosen words. From John Zmirak: “Through the Eye of a Loophole”
If only I had read Zmirak’s article when it came out. It would not have been necessary for me to publish a revised edition of my book to include exactly the same warning. But things had not been as clear to me as they had been for John. All of that changed in December of 2020 when Pope Francis declared that 2021 would be the “Year of Reflection on Amoris Laetitia.” I knew immediately, because of the research I had done for my book, that this was not a year of reflection but, instead, of implementation. And that meant the implementation of gay equality, as I wrote in my book and have discussed in many articles and interviews. [Click on the trojan horse for an example.]
The First Amendment is the key to our Church’s survival in the free and open public square. The Church will always survive with Jesus, of course, but that may take an underground form for a while. I think we can agree that it is desirable to avoid persecution and suppression whenever possible. So it makes sense to safeguard our First Amendment protections. And to do that we need to be vigilant about the statements of our Church leaders. If the pope rubber stamps the German synod, the Catholic Church will be magically transformed into a pro-LGBT church in the eyes of many ill-informed progressives, including many judges and journalists. And with the state weighing in to sanction the gay apostasy, it will become illegal to teach that homosexuality is a sin—”because it’s discriminatory”—”because Pope Francis said so”. . . . yada yada yada.
Thus, it is necessary to safeguard the deposit of faith. And the American bishops can do this. At their November conference, it is imperative that they condemn the German Synod by affirming the following:
A strongly worded statement to that effect would have two-thousand years of doctrine to back it up and would give us a leg to stand on when we are eventually dragged into court. Now it is time to get busy petitioning our bishops to do the right thing.
Ping
As it was in the days of Noah.
Bergoglio sources the Second Vatican Council at least 26 times in his heretical Amoris Laetitia.
So Amoris Laetitia is definitely another rotten fruit of VC II.
You speak for Catholics, but the disciples of The Way will likely be out of here in two days.
Whatever you do, Don’t take the mark.
Amoris laetitia - the joy of love.
Wow, talk about a click-bait headline.
LOL ... I’ll see you next week. _Guaranteed_.
Mr. Zmirak is not a constitutional lawyer, or a lawyer at all. I would be interested to hear what a constitutional lawyer with a special interest in 1A issues would have to say about his thesis. It seems to me that personal religious opinions trump “what the Pope says,” IOW, if I object to X because of my sincerely-held personal objections to it based on my own private religious convictions, that trumps the Pope saying “not X” as far as the 1A is concerned.
The mark may not be what one thinks it is.
Of course the purveyor of error quote GV2 to spread chaos Ebb. Just get it out if your head that the rotten is V2. It is the twisters who are rotten. And frankly, you are twisting the good of V2 into something bad.
Odd. That is only in the title, but nothing like it is in the text.
Are you saying you have authority to make a guarantee against Scripture? If you can make the math work out, I’d be interested.
“Salvavida’s wrong exegesis” is not “Scripture,” sorry. My guarantee is against your wrong exegesis.
What “vile hatred”, Murph?
I love the Church so I’ll defend Her from heretic modernists like Bergoglio and Bobby Barron.
Quit harassing other members or I’ll suspend you.
Please point out the error in the exegesis:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VoBinD3jDV9yXZpb_XVj_nBe867JaZ6fCKTMGqIAms/edit
There is no "secret rapture of the church," pre-trib, post-trib, or any other kind. The "rapture" verse in Thessalonians refers to an event that happens (to the living) on the same day the dead rise, that is, the Last Day. Which might be tomorrow, or next week, or 1000 years from now. But almost certainly, it's still a way off, so, as I say: I'll see you next week.
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