BISHOPS BETRAINING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Let me tell you a story. It is a story of wickedness and betrayal. It is a demonic plan I have witnessed personally.

It is a story you won't hear from the 700 media personnel who have converged on Dallas for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' June 13-15 meeting. Their task is to report on how the bishops of the United States address the clerical sex-abuse scandals. Not one in a hundred, however, will report what is really happening in Dallas because they simply don't know which dots to connect. When the set of concealed dots is connected, the picture within the picture is harrowing.

An invisible war is being fought for the life of the Catholic Church in the United States – and it is a fight to the death. The war is more than a century old now, and this is a key engagement. The war is not about pedophilia or homosexuality, as repugnant as those two symptoms are. It is about an attempted coup d'état within the Catholic Church – one of only two global institutions on this planet. Whoever gets the Keys of St. Peter walks off with the power to change the world – or so the betrayers think. I'll tell you why.

At the turn of the 20th century the popes had spoken out forcefully against socialism and communism. Pope Leo XIII issued Rerum novarum (1891) that acknowledged workers' rights but upheld the right to private property, a foundation of freedom.

The Christian worldview was under attack. A new worldview, Rationalism, was menacing all of Western Civilization. Rationalism had cut deep gorges in Christendom. Many no longer believed in Christian Revelation, that is, the scripture. If man could not prove a premise, man need not be bound by any given premise. The created order as given in the Bible could be re-ordered according to man's design; communism, utopia – fill in the blank. With the aid of science and technology, man did not need God or His musty old laws. A new order was coming of age.

In 1899, the pope also sent a weighty letter to the bishops of the United States, Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, that warned against the dangers of "Americanism." Essentially, he warned the U.S. bishops that their primary identification had to be as Catholic shepherds. He cautioned against "new opinions" that some American bishops held that believed the gospel and doctrine should be accommodated to American culture: The Church must not "shape her teachings more in accord with the spirit of the age and relax some of her ancient severity and make some concessions …" or "to tone down the meaning. …"

Yet for a hundred years, many American bishops and theologians have believed that the American culture, dominant in the world, has something to teach the Church. They subordinated the command to evangelize the culture to their vision of an Americanized Catholic Church. For the first 50 years, these men were a small underground cadre of dissidents. By the close of the Second Vatican Council, the second generation of "modernists" had spread their Americanized vision of church in seminaries and universities.

Meanwhile, the American culture was growing ever more secular, and the sexual revolution, feminism and liberalism had a death grip on the foundational principles of the Christian worldview. Campus radicals and professors rebelled against authority – not parental or school authority, but the very idea of any authority with moral absolutes.

Catholic dissidents were swept up into the rebellion. They confidently talk of "structural change," meaning to shove over the Catholic Church and build a "democratic" church where "power is shared" and doctrine is determined by "consensus" rather than by scripture and Jesus' teachings.

These misguided "experts" would have us believe that if only the Church had been controlled by liberals, women priests and laity, this crisis would not have happened. Rubbish – they created the problem in the first place in an attempt to force changes in Church doctrine and discipline. If the U.S. bishops and theologians had been faithful to the teachings of the Church and their own vows, this crisis would be a footnote rather than a chapter in Church history.

It became fashionable for some American prelates to flaunt one's independence from the Church – to prove that they were not stodgy old time Catholics, but the sophisticated "American Catholics." Many of the bishops in Dallas today came of age in the '60s era of rebellion. They resent, as free Americans, being told what to do by the Vatican. As early as 1961, the Vatican issued an instruction, The Careful Selection And Training of Candidates For The States Of Perfection And Sacred Orders, prohibiting the admission of homosexuals to the seminaries. It was simply ignored by those bent on "changing the structure" of the Church to conform to the liberal American culture.

Others were weak and allowed the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to push them into acquiescence. Soon, the internal committees of the NCCB were composed of homosexuals and modernists, feminists and even New Age devotees. They have a death grip on the levers of power within the Conference. An example is the pastoral letter from the U.S. bishops on homosexuality, Always Our Children. This flawed "gay positive" document was drafted by a committee – not by the bishops – and issued before the majority of U.S. bishops had even read the document. They did not vote on its contents (so much for "consensus"). The Vatican finally forced a revision of this squishy "pastoral" instruction. Even now, in Dallas, a similar committee set the agenda for the deliberations.

By the mid 1960s, the Rockefeller family had formed an alliance with Fr. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame University and sought an audience with Pope Paul VI in order to "advise" the pope to permit birth control. The Rockefeller interests were promoting population control. Hesburgh and others at Notre Dame, including Fr. Richard McBrien seen on "The O'Reilly Factor," worked feverishly to change the Church's teaching – if not in doctrine, at least in the practices adopted in millions of Catholic bedrooms. McBrien's book, "Catholicism" was so flawed it was – finally – censored by the U.S. bishops. But it is still on the shelf at Notre Dame University, infecting a new generation of graduates.

The modernists were in lock step with American culture. Worse, they adopted Marxist strategies to achieve their goals. Msgr. Jack Egan, Chicago icon of liberalism in the '60s and '70s, befriended Marxist Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals," a manifesto for tearing down a community or institution and rebuilding it in the communist image. The Marxist vision of androgynous masses, where the State is Father and families are those who share a domicile portioned out by the State-Father, appealed to those who cry for "justice." This "justice" is enforced by an all-powerful state that would erase any distinction between groups of people; they call it "power-sharing." These rules were promoted as "liberation" and applied to major issues in the Church, such as "liberating" women from "patriarchy" or "liberating" homosexuality from homophobic old men in the Vatican.

They no longer believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church, but like communist moles, they burrow in to make changes from within. They are instructed to "defect in place" as feminist nun Miriam Therese Winter advises. Prominent theologians have taught that those who control religion control the culture. Defrocked theologian Hans Kung promotes a "Global Ethic" (not the gospel) that mirrors the agenda of world ideologues. He and American Catholic dissident organizations want a "Vatican III" where new structures will include a constitution for the Church and a lay co-pope. Those who have grand visions for a re-ordered world based on Rationalism rather than Revelation seek a means of global governance to enforce their vision of "peace and justice."

These and others, pernicious men and women, promote abortion as a "choice" and applaud population control as a religious duty that preserves the environment (they love the Earth Charter). They accept euthanasia as "merciful" and do not object that nations like Sweden have moved to make it a crime to preach or teach against homosexuality.

The liberal media in the U.S. understand this point. They also defend homosexuality in the culture. They do not want to use this crisis in the Church to advocate against homosexual activity but to promote changes in the Catholic Church: married priests, women priests and acceptance of homosexuals.

That's why CNN trots out folks like Anthony Padavano to advocate for married priests. But Padavano is also keynote speaker for the dissident organization Call to Action that promotes homosexuality in the Church. Or CNN's guest "expert," Sr. Bridget Mary Meehan, who calls for "structural changes" that allow laity greater say. Meehan and others of her ilk expect that once the laity is given control of the Church, it will relax sexual morality and resemble the Democratic Party, that is, liberal American culture. Because the American bishops have worried more about their independence from Rome than allegiance to the gospel, they have become more easily controlled by the liberal agenda – often without realizing it. The media has hushed up past foibles, but the price now is high – a lesson learned too late. The American bishops are a means to an end: The titanic battle is for the Keys of St. Peter – to control the structure and doctrine of the Church. The issue isn't homosexuality, it is to empty the Church from within of the truth of Revelation. But why?

To silence the lone international voice for morality, that's why. Hate the Catholic Church or love it, it must be admitted that it publicly teaches and preaches against the totalitarian, utilitarian worldview. The Catholic Church insists on the dignity and value of every person, born and unborn. The world ideologues howl when the Church stands up for life as sacrosanct. At Cairo, at Beijing, at the World Summit for Children and behind the scenes in nation after nation, the Church parries those who would impose a utilitarian global vision on us all.

The moral voice of the Catholic Church stands between modernists and their New World Order vision that is opposed to the old order of Revelation. What the ideologues need is to put a cork in the mouth of the Church and control the Keys of St. Peter in the near future. To use the Church and her universities and schools and hospitals the world over – to use them for their diabolical agenda.

Notice the timing of the Boston Globe's "breaking" story. The Globe and others have known for over a decade about the growing gay sub-culture in the Church, but the Globe and others simply winked – they are no less guilty of a cover up than Cardinal Law. It did not seem worthy of print. Until, that is, Pope John Paul II, the disliked "reactionary" pope faltered during Christmas masses and seemed so frail that new teams of correspondents were dispatched to Rome in anticipation of a papal conclave.

The goal among modernists, clerical and secular, is to use this crisis to create chaos so large that a new pope will have to deal with the crisis as his first order of business. If a momentum is built that insists that the old order is the problem, perhaps the cardinals can be stampeded into electing an unusual pope: a candidate approved by the New York Times and the United Nations.

Mary Jo Anderson is a contributing reporter to WorldNetDaily and a contributing editor to many Catholic publications, including Crisis magazine.

Yes, but still terrifying for the Faithful. I wonder what the FAITHFUL ones would do if this information were to be made very public and proved?

What the author maintains accounts as well as any explanation for what are -- in the main -- observable facts. When you say "the Faithful," do you mean what some would call "the little ones" -- those Catholics of whatever age who have a simple faith and perhaps not too much sophistication about history, philosophy, etc.?

Frankly, I wouldn't worry too much. They're unlikely to read this or hear about it, and if they did, they wouldn't get too worked up about it -- IMHO.

In other words, I really think those who hear the hypothesis and grasp the implications will have the inner resources to deal with it. Those who don't have the resources will likely never know.

To be honest, I know little about the Assemblies of God, and part of what I didn't know is that it's international. Whether the author was aware of that or not, I'm sure her main point is the sheer size and visibility of the Catholic Church.

AofG is normally counted in with the evangelicals I think. We're pentecostal. Had our convention a while back near here and had people from 6 continents and over 150 countries. Very strong missions program. Most churches growing strongly.

I agree on the size and visibility of the RCC. It is the 800 lb gorilla on the block. I just wanted everyone to be aware that there are other international churches.

GSA(P)

But the battle has been lost.

I would tend to agree were it not that the Holy Spirit is alive and well and very much at work. I trust the Holy Spirit to carry the Church through whatever. Under the Holy Spirit's guidance the Church has survived bad popes, bad bishops, bad priests, heresy, schism and apostasy. There is nothing new in all of this, and no cause for despair. My job is to support the good work with my prayers and my own quest for holiness, however inadequate. Trust God to know His job, and do it regardless of human obstructionism, perversion, blindness and just plain sin.

"When you say "the Faithful," do you mean what some would call "the little ones" -- those Catholics of whatever age who have a simple faith and perhaps not too much sophistication about history, philosophy, etc.?"

No. By FAITHFUL, I mean those in Catholics in America who remain faothful to the ROMAN Catholic Church. Lots of American Catholics are really Catholic in name only, as we well know. These people will probably follow their dissenting priests and bishops right OUT of the Roman Catholic Church and into the "American Catholic Church." A "simple" faith is not what is needed now. We must "be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." Whatever knowledge we have must be used to help us keep the wreckovators, infiltrators, and underminers from being successful.

"Among the strangest things that I saw, were long processions of bishops. Their thoughts and utterances were made known to me through images issuing from their mouths. Their faults towards religion were shown by external deformities. A few had only a body, with a dark cloud of fog instead of a head. Others had only a head, their bodies and hearts were like thick vapors. Some were lame; others were paralytics; others were asleep or staggering.

"I saw what I believe to be nearly all the bishops of the world, but only a small number were perfectly sound. I also saw the Holy Father-God fearing and prayerful. Nothing left to be desired in his appearance, but he was weakened by old age and by much suffering. His head was lolling from side to side, and it dropped to his chest as if he were falling asleep. He often fainted and seemed to be dying. But when he was praying, he was often comforted by apparitions from Heaven. Then, his head was erect, but as soon as it dropped again onto his chest, I saw a number of people looking quickly right and left, that is, in the direction of the world.

"Then I saw that everything pertaining to Protestantism was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence. Most priests were lured by the glittering but false knowledge of young school-teachers, and they all contributed to the work of destruction.

"In those days, Faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families which God has protected from disasters and wars."

Vision of Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich June 1, 1821

I like this one too:

I saw that many pastors allowed themselves to be taken up with the ideas that were dangerous to the Church. They were building a great, strange, and extravagant Church. Everyone was to be admitted in it in order to be united and have equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, sects of every description. Such was to be the new Church....But God had other designs."

Vision of Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich April 22, 1823

"I would tend to agree were it not that the Holy Spirit is alive and well and very much at work. I trust the Holy Spirit to carry the Church through whatever. Under the Holy Spirit's guidance the Church has survived bad popes, bad bishops, bad priests, heresy, schism and apostasy. There is nothing new in all of this, and no cause for despair. My job is to support the good work with my prayers and my own quest for holiness, however inadequate. Trust God to know His job, and do it regardless of human obstructionism, perversion, blindness and just plain sin."

Yes, I agree. We need to remember, even when things look the most discouraging, that God the Father is still on His throne, and the Power of His Holy Spirit is still with the Church. The old saying, "There are no new sins, but there are lots of new SINNERS" really is true. God is not shocked by sinful men, even though I am sure He is grieved by our stubborness and persistence in evil. But remember the Four Marks of the Church. She is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. To me, this means she is perfect and cannot teach error. But she is also made up of sinners. We, as true and faithful believers, are called to support her in prayer every day. We pray our intention at our daily rosary thus:" At our home, we pray for the restoration of Holy Mother Church and her liturgy; and for the purification of the priesthood."

But why?

This article explains so much of the insanity I've seen in the Church during my lifetime.

We're taking our country back from the Bolsheviks. It's time to take back our Church too.

We need to balance the VOTF groups with the Faithful Voice,or a group with similar aims.We need a travelling spokesmen,who is able to attract a lot of Catholics to come and listen to him as he goes from city to city.We need to have a simple,clear list of talking points with which to to hammer away at fellow Catholics,catholics and non-Cathlics who are interested in saving Christianity and our country.

First talking point should be the importance of Peter and the Papacy and our union with them.Second should be teach truth in accord with the Catholic Catechism.Third,live the moral teachings of the Church.Fourth,uphold the official documents of the Pope and his Sacred Congregations.Fifth,dismantle and disband the USCCB.In my estimatiion the only function they serve is to be divisive middle men between the Catholic Church and Christ's people on earth,including many of their orthodox brother Bishops and to provide a paycheck to their "special friends" who they have appointed to positions that only further confuse and compound problems.

Remember that poignant passage in scripture when Christ asks the twelve if they were going to leave him too. And,Peter responds,"Where else would we go,Lord?" That's key and the enemy knows it.

Romulus and eastsider,how are we doing?

Thank you, yes I have some info for you.

TAN books and publishers carries a few books. The one I took the quotes from was "Catholic Prophecy The Coming Chastisement" by Yves Dupont.

And they also have a two volume set of books entitled: "The Life Of Anne Catherine Emmerich" By Rev. Carl Schmoger These books have all her visions, prophecies and life story-her sufferings, stigmata etc. Great books.

Their website is: www.tanbooks.com/index.htm

I beg your pardon.I had just decided that Mahoney's monument to victory has turned to ashes.I think the "opening celebration" was designed to herald in that new Amchurch with tributes and accolades to the new reigning "Prince".I think that instead,it has been the butt of a lof of nasty jokes and comments and has served nothing so well as to show how barren,crass and ugly this whole new concept of church is.I believe the opening was the funeral of the new church.I think they may realize it too.

May it long stand as a memorial to what happens when man tries to be god,or just as pleasant to think about,may it stand until an earthquake causes it to tumble down.Some night when no one is in it.Now if that isn't full of faith,hope and charity.

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