Posted on 01/28/2023 5:45:50 PM PST by ebb tide
The Church is in ruins and the liturgy is secularised and in anarchy, Bishop Athanasius Schneider said in an interview in Lebanon on 26 January (English video below).
He warns that Francis wants to make the Roman Rite "disappear", calling it "a grave abuse of power" that will go down in history as "a great injustice on the part of the Pope and the Holy See".
For Schneider, the Synod on Synodality is an instrument to adapt the Church "to the way of thinking of the unbelieving world".
Christ didn't say to his apostles, "Go and ask opinions about the faith", but "Go and teach, and make the people obey what I have commanded", Schneider explains. For him, the Church is in the process of establishing a purely humanistic religion in opposition to divine revelation.
This new religion of relativism - promoted by the Vatican - is about worshipping creatures instead of God, "let's say nature, Mother Earth, Pachamama or man".
Schneider has doubts about Francis' dispensation of justice because he cancels Catholics while publicly praising heretics like Father James Martin and privileging sinners like Father Marko Rupnik: "Those in power in the Vatican [=Francis] tend to have sympathy for those who promote errors and heresies."
Ping
Bergoglio’s action are in keeping with him once again going after traditionalists, this time certain bishops, while he sticks up for worldly people.
He could have ignored these bishops who support anti-sodomy laws and not go the route of actually supporting legalizing sodomy in certain countries just like he ignores Fr James Martin pushing his worldly agenda or how he ignores heretic German “Catholic” bishops openly supporting gay marriage, but no.
It’s no accident that he called for those traditional Catholic bishops opposed to legalizing sodomy to go through a “process of conversion” while he fails to declare that certain German bishops or Fr James Martin are in dire need of conversion.
It’s par for the course for Bergoglio in fact...
Jorge Bergoglio is schismatic towards the Council of Florence, the Council of Trent, and Vatican I: he’s told Catholics there’s no need for protestants to convert and that they are united to the church through baptism. (This allows him to participate in services with heretics like he did with pro-abort Lutherans in Sweden). But protestant failure to believe a papacy even exists from Pope St. Peter onward, per Vatican I, Session 4, Chapter 3, means they aren’t united to the church via baptism.
Secondly...
2.) “… no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” ~ Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” Session 11, 1441.
3.) “...the Holy Roman Church] condemns, rejects, and anathematizes all who think opposed and contrary things, and declares them to be aliens from the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” ~ Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino, 1442, ex cathedra.
“Quoscunque ergo adversa et contraria sentientes damnat, reprobat et anathematizat et a Christi corpore, quod est ecclesia, alienos esse denuntiat.”
4.) “You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held.” ~ Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 13).
5.) “And just as baptism is of no profit to the man who renounces the world in words and not in deeds, so it is of no profit to him who is baptized in heresy or schism; but each of them, when he amends his ways, begins to receive profit from that which before was not profitable, but was yet already in him.” ~ St. Augustine, On Baptism, Against The Donatists, Book 4, Chap. 4.
6.) “For they who have received baptism from heretics, not having been previously baptized, are to be confirmed by imposition of hands with only the invocation of the Holy Ghost, because they have received the bare form of baptism without the power of sanctification. And this regulation, as you know, we require to be kept in all the churches, that the font once entered may not be defiled by repetition, as the Lord says, ‘One Lord, one faith, one baptism.’” ~ Pope St. Leo the Great, Letter 159.
7.) “But Monophysites and others are received by a true confession only, because the holy baptism, which they received among the heretics, then acquires in them the power of cleansing, when either the former receive the Holy Spirit by imposition of hands [thus joining the Church], or the latter are united to the bowels of the holy and universal Church by reason of their confession of the true faith.” ~ Pope St. Gregory I, Letter to the Bishops of Spain.
8.) “… no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, *
unless he has remained within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” ~ Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” Session 11, 1441
9.) “Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith.” ~ Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (#22).
These councils, and the popes after them, for over 500 years, agreed with them, the church cannot teach error for over 500 years, thus Bergoglio and the other modernists are/were in error. Just one of many in agreement with the Council of Florence and Pope Eugene IV:
10.) “With the admonition of the apostle, that ‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’ (Eph. 4:5), may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that ‘those who are not with Christ are against Him,’ (Lk. 11:23) and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate (Athanasian Creed).” ~ Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832.
And I haven’t even brought in the Council of Trent... Plus, Bergoglio participated in a service with openly pro-abort Lutherans in Sweden, cementing his schism and adding heresy to it as well, which fits in with him being silent on GriNdr bishops, German “Catholic” bishops who promote heresies, etc, while he openly goes after Trads.
Lastly, he seems to be slowly becoming protestant with him rolling out Martin Luther stamps, statues, etc, in Vatican City, elevating him, participating in a service w/ the Lutherans I spoke about earlier.
Wow! Abuser of power? That sounds like serious praise.
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