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Open Letter to Francis: Why Are You Destroying the Religion of the Saints?
The Remnant Newspaper ^ | November 1, 2023 | Robert Morrison

Posted on 11/02/2023 1:31:26 PM PDT by ebb tide

Open Letter to Francis: Why Are You Destroying the Religion of the Saints?

Dear Francis,

We write to you as fellow sinners, in great need of God’s mercy. In various ways — especially through your Synod on Synodality and persistent opposition to proselytism — you have asked Catholics to have respect for all baptized Christians and their particular religious beliefs. This openness to the religious beliefs of others encourages us to explain our religion to you.

We are Catholics who believe the same truths, and retain the same religious devotions, that all Catholics enjoyed prior to Vatican II. We often call ourselves Traditional Catholics, while others refer to us as rigid and backward.

 

As you know, prior to Vatican II many popes warned against Liberalism and Modernism because they sincerely believed that those ideas would harm Catholics. In general, they told us that “if you accept these errors, certain evil results will occur.” At Vatican II, John XXIII opened the door to ideas that had been condemned by his predecessors. Men like Yves Congar, Augustin Bea, and Henri de Lubac stepped in and persuaded the Council Fathers to accept the previously condemned ideas, many of which were disguised with ambiguity. What happened when Catholics accepted the errors the popes had warned about?

How can you be so very sure that God wills every religion in the world other than the Catholicism of your youth?

For over sixty years, we have seen a proliferation of all the evils in the Church about which the pre-Vatican II popes warned. Some people argue that these developments flow not from changes introduced at Vatican II but from broad societal change. This might be persuasive if it were not for the fact that those Catholics who retain the pre-Vatican II beliefs and practices have not experienced the same evils, at least not to the same extent. It is obvious that the pre-Vatican II popes were correct.

Certainly there are many nominal Catholics who want the Church to adopt the ideas that the popes had always condemned because they do not like what the Church has always said about non-Catholic religions and certain moral issues. But nobody is forced to be a Catholic. Those who do not want to accept what the Church has always taught could freely join one of the countless Protestant churches, or even form their own.

Going back to your opposition to proselytism, we can all understand your basic point, even though it conflicts with Our Lord’s call for us to teach the nations (Matthew 28:19-20). If you really believe that it is evil to try to change a single person’s religious beliefs through talking to them about Catholicism, how can you find it permissible to underhandedly change an entire religion from the inside, while telling believers that nothing has changed? Even a pagan or atheist would find such a devious project to be cruel and unjust, and yet is precisely what the innovators have done to Catholics. You also do this.

If we all need to stop eating meat to save the environment (because cow flatulence is so bad), what do they think nuclear bombs will do to the environment? These are the geniuses you would follow instead of the Church’s saints?

And here is another interesting thing about the Vatican II revolution. The ecumenical spirit obviously encourages all Christians to practice their chosen religion without being persecuted by Rome. You, as the man who represents himself to the world as the pope, would never think of condemning Baptists or Methodists, let alone shutting down their churches or persecuting them. Why, then, do you allow those in your hierarchy to do this to those Christians who happen to call themselves Traditional Catholic? Why, indeed, do you do these things to us?

You praised Blaise Pascal earlier this year and so surely you are familiar with his famous wager, in which he demonstrates how foolish it would be to act as though God did not exist. We can apply his same reasoning to the post-Vatican II ecumenism.

Suppose we all have to make a choice: you must either follow what the Church has always taught and be a Catholic, or else you can adopt any Christian set of beliefs (including Catholicism). If it is true that one must follow what the Church has alway taught to be saved, then those who do so will be saved, and those who follow non-Catholic religions will be lost. On the other hand, if all baptized souls can be saved by following any form of Christianity, then all baptized souls are saved regardless of which option they choose. Therefore, the only way you can be lost is by following a non-Catholic religion if, as the Church has always taught, there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church (absent the standard exceptions). Thus, the only logical choice is to follow what the Church has always taught.

We can apply this to you in two ways, both as a fellow sinner trying to make it to heaven, and in your capacity as the bishop dressed in white. As a fellow sinner, why would you bet your eternal salvation on the post-Vatican II ideas that have been so obviously disastrous? While you were in the seminary, you probably heard the grand forecasts that ecumenism would lead to unity and overflowing Catholic churches. Just the opposite happened — Catholics abandoned the Faith of their fathers in droves, filled with bitterness and sadness. All the prophets of change were wrong, and many were apparently malicious. Would you trust these fools with your eternal salvation?

May God grant you the grace you need to save your soul, honor God, and lead many souls to heaven. When He does give you the grace, accept it. Otherwise, we hope to never see the place that Satan has prepared for you.

But your situation is unique because you have taken such great responsibility upon your shoulders. It is bad enough that you will not choose to follow what the Church has always taught, but it is infinitely worse that you have occupied the papacy to prevent others from following the religion of all the saints. Indeed, you want to wipe that “rigid” and “backward” religion off the face of the earth, even though you would protect every other Christian religion. How can you be so very sure that God wills every religion in the world other than the Catholicism of your youth? All the saints would tell you that you have it exactly backwards.

Your occupation of the papacy exposes you to greater peril if you harm God’s Church and deprive Him of the love He wants to receive from souls. But it also allows you to do something heroic at this moment. You can choose between one of the lowest places in hell or a high place in heaven. Your role at this moment in salvation history therefore acts like a magnifier of the eternal consequences we all face. You can honor God and become a great saint if you reject the anti-Catholic spirit that has poisoned so many souls since Vatican II. With so many people praying for you, it seems that God will grant you the grace to do so.

But perhaps you would hesitate because so many “great people” support your efforts. Is it odd to you that many of your great friends who tell us to “trust the science” on the environment also tell us we are bigots if we say that men cannot become pregnant? And why are these great friends of yours pushing for World War III? If we all need to stop eating meat to save the environment (because cow flatulence is so bad), what do they think nuclear bombs will do to the environment? These are the geniuses you would follow instead of the Church’s saints?

You can be a great saint but you have to first be a great man, and you are running out of time. Many of us would offer our lives to help you convert, because we want to see you in heaven. May God grant you the grace you need to save your soul, honor God, and lead many souls to heaven. When He does give you the grace, accept it. Otherwise, we hope to never see the place that Satan has prepared for you. We pray that the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Undoer of Knots, intercedes on your behalf to obtain everything you need to choose heaven over hell. 

In Christo Rege,
Robert Morrison
Michael J. Matt | Editor, The Remnant



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To: Campion

“Didn’t Paul know that he could go directly to God? Why does he ask people to pray for him?”

It’s called intercessory prayer. We should all be so lucky to have people praying for us. (I’m pretty sure I don’t want anyone praying TO me, though.)


81 posted on 11/03/2023 3:41:03 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Normal" is never coming back.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

GMTA


82 posted on 11/03/2023 3:41:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Oh, yeah. I just saw that!

Really, doesn’t this guy see posts here every single day, “Please pray for so-and-so”, “Please pray for Jim Robinson”, etc.? And if anyone needed people praying for him, it was Paul, for sure!


83 posted on 11/03/2023 3:47:01 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Normal" is never coming back.)
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To: metmom

So do you think that Vatican 2 and Pope Francis came out of the blue out of a problem free organization?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Of course not. I cannot think of ANY such organization, can you? And in fact, I don’t recall ever hearing anyone proclaim that such an organization has ever existed on this planet! Even the twelve apostles had sinners and a traitor among them!

In your zeal to criticize and undermine religious organizations you seem not to know much about you have a habit of setting up straw men to criticize.


84 posted on 11/03/2023 4:25:53 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Elsie

I’m cleaning out My sock Drawer
Right Now!
.
Wait...
WHAT?


85 posted on 11/03/2023 5:39:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Elsie

Those Wackie Cathies sure come up
with some Silly Stuff I’ve not heard of
.
I thought the ‘Magic Cookie’ was weird.


86 posted on 11/03/2023 5:58:48 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: daniel1212

Caths Worship the created and
Not the Creator!
.
That’s Idolatry.
.
I’m binge watching ‘Ten Commandments’.
.
Idolaters getting swallowed up
Is My Favorite part!!


87 posted on 11/03/2023 6:04:46 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Elsie
If, on the other hand, the person is unable, or even unwilling, to wear it or carry it, it may even be slipped, unknown to them, into their clothes, possessions, home or work environments, etc."

IOW, engage in deception to force it on others against their will.

Nice........

88 posted on 11/03/2023 6:24:05 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Then what is wrong with my statement or conclusion that Vatican 2 and Pope Francis are both symptoms of the problems endemic in Catholicism as opposed to the cause of them?


89 posted on 11/03/2023 6:26:19 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: metmom

Then what is wrong with my statement or conclusion that Vatican 2 and Pope Francis are both symptoms of the problems endemic in Catholicism as opposed to the cause of them?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Your conclusion is simply a statement of your personal belief that is unsupported by the presentation of any corroborating evidence such as the endemic “problems” you allude to! It’s the kind of statement that would get you a failing grade in any sophomore English class.


90 posted on 11/03/2023 7:01:23 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Revel

I certainly call him out. I think he’s a fraud. A plant in the Catholic Church to try and destroy it.


91 posted on 11/03/2023 8:05:11 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (Catholic-lite Equals Catholic ZERO)
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To: Big Red Badger

Prayer and wackie just seem to attract one another...

https://novenaprayer.com/2020/09/11/saint-joseph-novena-2/

NEVER known to fail!


92 posted on 11/04/2023 5:06:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

Bubble bubble
toil and trouble...


93 posted on 11/04/2023 5:08:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

But the ‘opinion’ was formed after an apparition appeared!


94 posted on 11/04/2023 5:08:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: NKP_Vet
I think he’s a fraud.

It really doesn't matter what you THINK; does it?

You are called to OBEY.


 
Can a Catholic Ever Disobey a Pope? - OnePeterFive
 
 
Well; maybe not...

95 posted on 11/04/2023 5:15:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide

Quick reminder to you:

I am certainly a saint and yours is not my religion.


96 posted on 11/04/2023 5:34:20 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: ebb tide

People who are so obviously ignorant of the Word of God should:

1. Shut up until they,

2. Study... and rightly divide it.

Using e.g. Eph 1:1 that way DEMONstrates ignorance.


97 posted on 11/04/2023 5:40:28 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: daniel1212

My time is valuable. Value yours.


98 posted on 11/04/2023 6:03:27 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Vincible ignorance will not get anyone into Heaven.


99 posted on 11/04/2023 6:32:22 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: kinsman redeemer
I am certainly a saint...

ROTFLOL

100 posted on 11/04/2023 6:33:58 AM PDT by ebb tide
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