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Protestantism, Modernism, Atheism
Crisis Magazine ^
| November 28, 2017
| Julia Meloni
Posted on 11/28/2017 12:09:34 PM PST by ebb tide
The reality of the apostasy of faith in our time rightly and profoundly frightens us, said Cardinal Burke in honor of Fatimas centenary.
In 1903, Pope St. Pius X declared himself terrified by humanitys self-destructive apostasy from God: For behold they that go far from Thee shall perish (Ps. 72:27). How much more daunting, said Cardinal Burke, is todays widespread apostasy.
In 1910, St. Pius X condemned the movement for a One-World Church without dogmas, hierarchy, or curb for the passionsa church which, under the pretext of freedom, would impose legalized cunning and force. How much more, said Cardinal Burke, do todays movements for a single government of the world and certain movements with the Church herself disregard sin and salvation?
In Pascendi, St. Pius X named the trajectory toward the annihilation of all religion: The first step
was taken by Protestantism; the second
by [the heresy of] Modernism; the next will plunge headlong into atheism.
So let us, said Cardinal Burke, heed Fatimas call for prayer, penance, and reparation. Let us be agents of the triumph of Marys Immaculate Heart.
A few weeks after that speech, the Vatican announced its shining tribute to the Protestant revolution: a golden stamp with Luther and Melanchthon at the foot of the cross, triumphantly supplanting the Blessed Virgin and St. John.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider has asked how the Vatican can call Luther a witness to the gospel when he called the Mass
a blasphemy and the papacy an invention of Satan. The signatories of the filial correction have expressed wonderment and sorrow at a statue of Luther in the Vaticanand documented the affinity between Luthers ideas on law, justification, and marriage and Pope Franciss statements.
At a 2016 joint commemoration of the Protestant revolution, Pope Francis expressed joy for its myriad gifts. He and pro-abortion Lutherans with female clergy jointly declared that what unites us is greater than what divides us. Together they raise[d] their voices against violence. They prayed for the conversion of those who exploit the earth. They declared the goal of receiving the Eucharist at one table to express their full unity.
In Martin Luther: An Ecumenical Perspective, Cardinal Kasper confirms that the excommunicated, apostate monk is now a common church father, a new St. Francis of Assisi. This prophet of the new evangelization was forced into calling the pope the Antichrist after his call for repentance was not heard. But Kasper finds ecumenical hope in Luthers statement that he would
kiss the feet of a pope who allows and acknowledges his gospel.
Kasper says Pope Franciss Evangelii Gaudium, without mentioning him by name, makes Luthers concerns stand in the center.
So its Luthers gospel of grace and mercy behind, apparently, the high disdain for self-absorbed promethean neopelagianis[ts] plagued by a soundness of doctrine thats narcissistic and authoritarian (EG 94).
So its Lutherthe bizarre protagonist of ecumenical unitybehind the demand for a conversion of the papacy that gives genuine doctrinal authority to episcopal conferences (EG 32). Sandro Magister says the pope is already creating a federation of national Churches endowed with extensive autonomy through liturgical decentralization.
So its Luther behind the demand to accept the unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our
ways of thinking (EG 22). Kasper says Luthers faith in the self-implementation of the word of God gave him a heroic openness to the future.
Ultimately, Kaspers Luthera prophet of openness to futurity, a Catholic reformer waiting for a sympathetic popeemerges as a symbolic father for Modernisms struggle to change the Church from within. Modernism falsely claims that God evolves with historymaking truth utterly mutable. So Kasper the Modernist says dogmas can be stupid and Church structures can spring from ideology and denying the Eucharist to adulterers because of one phrase from Christ is ideological, too.
Kasper baldly calls the changeless God an offense to man:
One must deny him for mans sake, because he claims for himself the dignity and honor that belong by right to man
.
We must resist this God
also for Gods sake. He is not the true God at all, but rather a wretched idol. For a God
who is not himself history is a finite God. If we call such a being God, then for the sake of the Absolute we must become absolute atheists. Such a God springs from a rigid worldview; he is the guarantor of the status quo and the enemy of the new.
A shocking ultimatum from the man hailed as the popes theologian: either embrace a mutable God whos not an enemy of the newor profess absolute, unflinching, hardcore atheism.
Kasper says the Church must be led by a spirit that is not primarily the third divine person. That ominous spirit, says Thomas Stark, is apparently some Hegelian agent of creations self-perfection. Pope Francis, against all the sourpusses (EG 85), describes our final cause as the utopian future (EG 222). Because God wants us to be happy in this world, its no longer possible to claim that religion
exists only to prepare souls for heaven (EG 182).
But Christ said, In the world you shall have distress (Jn. 16:33). The 1907 dystopian novel The Lord of the World hauntingly imagines the travails of historys last days, when humanity has heeded Kaspers call to resist God with absolute atheism if necessary. By this point, Protestantism is dead, for men recognize at last that a supernatural religion involves an absolute authority. Those with any supernatural belief left are Catholicpersecuted by a world professing no God but man, no priest but the politician.
More and more clergy apostatize. Man has learned his own divinity. Yet Fr. Percy Franklin still adores the Eucharistic Lord, still believes that the reconciling of a soul to God is greater than the reconciling of nations. He secretly hears a dying womans confession before the real prieststhe euthanizerscome.
Her daughter-in-law, Mabel, scoffs that the new atheism has perfected Catholicism:
Do you not understand that all which Jesus Christ promised has come true, though in another way? The reign of God has really begun; but we know now who God is. You said just now you wanted the forgiveness of Sins; well, you have that; we all have it, because there is no such thing as sin. There is only Crime.
And then Communion. You used to believe that that made you a partaker of God; well, we are all partakers of God, because we are all human beings.
Mabel and the rapt multitudes ritually worship Man. God was a hideous nightmare. Their spirits swoon before a politician promising the universal brotherhood of man.
That savior of the world is the Antichrist. All must deny God or die.
For history, like the novel itself, ends not with rapturous utopia but with tribulation, apostasy, martyrdoms, and Gods triumph over the revolt of evil [in] the form of the Last Judgment (CCC 677). In the throes of his own tribulation, Fr. Franklin calls us to cling to the faith and those refuges of old:
The mass, prayer, the rosary. These first and last. The world denies their power: it is on their power that Christians must throw all their weight.
TOPICS: Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: francischurch; oneworldchurch
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To: ebb tide; metmom
Yes, assurance of salvation is a beautiful thing. Sorry you dont have any, but that is your problem bro, not mine.
I still have Bible studies with my catholic friends. Most of the Catholics that live around here, are of the Berean type. They search the scriptures, but I tell them to take off their Catholic blinders first. Now, some of them have left the OTC, and have assurance of salvation. Its beautiful thing. You need to try it. 😂👍
1,061
posted on
12/06/2017 4:29:55 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: ebb tide
Of all the stupid posts I’ve seen from you I think that’s #1.
To: ebb tide
You won’t even affirm or deny if you believe John 5:24. Which is it? Yea or nay?
To: Mark17; metmom
Yes, assurance of salvation is a beautiful thing.Hate to break to you, but none of us has "assurance" until our final Judgement by Jesus Christ at our deaths.
Or do you dare presume you know better than Christ?
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posted on
12/06/2017 4:35:19 PM PST
by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: ebb tide; metmom; ealgeone
Interesting. You think the sin of presumption is a "beautiful thing"? So did Lucifer. One big difference. Lucifer doesnt believe, to the saving of the soul. I do, but lately, I have been wondering about another certain individual, who will remain unnamed. 🔥🌋👎🤣🐐
1,065
posted on
12/06/2017 4:37:57 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: ealgeone
Of all the stupid posts Ive seen from you I think thats #1. Unregenerate man.
1,066
posted on
12/06/2017 4:39:40 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Mark17; metmom; ealgeone
One big difference. Lucifer doesnt believe, to the saving of the soul.You don't know what Lucifer believes.
And just for your information why does Luther do his best to prevent souls from being saved?
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posted on
12/06/2017 4:43:03 PM PST
by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: ebb tide
John 5:24.....you affirm or deny? It’s a simple answer.
To: ealgeone
Well, it's only you protestants and muslims who think they already have assurance of salvation despite any future sins they commit.
1,069
posted on
12/06/2017 4:50:33 PM PST
by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: ebb tide; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; metmom
Hate to break to you, but none of us has "assurance" until our final Judgement by Jesus Christ at our deaths.Hate to break it to you, but millions, including me, completely disagree with your theology, like that has never happened before. 😁 If you want to wait till you croak, to find out whether you go to Heaven or Hell, knock yourself out. I have to warn you, however, if you wait that long, be prepared to yield to the downward pull of that slightly warmer place. 🔥 Have a nice eternity bro. I intend to. 👋
1,070
posted on
12/06/2017 4:55:57 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: ebb tide
Well, it's only you protestants and muslims who think they already have assurance of salvation despite any future sins they commit. Continuing our discussion of interreligious dialogue, today we will reflect on dialogue with Muslims, who together with us adore the one, merciful God (Lumen gentium, n. 16; cf. CCC, n. 841). The Church has a high regard for them, convinced that their faith in the transcendent God contributes to building a new human family based on the highest aspirations of the human heart.
2. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. Today I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection (Insegnamenti, VIII/2, [1985], p. 497).
https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_05051999.html
Verga played a better game of chess than you do.
To: ebb tide
You don't know what Lucifer believes.So tell me oh wise one, what does Lucifer believe? I know he starts false religions, like the one in Rome.
I dont know a whole bunch about Brother Martin, but if he opposed the OTC, then I agree with him. It must aggravate you to know you will have to spend eternity kneeling next to Luther, that is, if you make it. I am not sure you will, so will you? 🤣🙃
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:08:54 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: editor-surveyor
Except for the Ark of the Covenant, which only Wyatt was allowed to see, the sites are there and well verified. How convenient.
Nobody can disprove his claim.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:18:34 PM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: ebb tide
I didn’t ask about the Trinity.
I asked who the Catholics identified with and that doesn’t tell me.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:20:11 PM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: ealgeone
I guess some popes think they and the Muzzies have a lot in common. I am not sure all the rank and file Catholics do, some might, but I dont know even one true Christian who does. 👎🙃 On the other hand, I DO know a few ex Muslims. They know what they have been delivered from. There seems to be a growing number of ex Muslims here. Guess what? They are not flocking to the OTC. 😂👍
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:20:41 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Mark17
I guess some popes think they and the Muzzies have a lot in common. Their church...they gotta believe it! Unam Sanctam!
To: ebb tide; Mark17
Hate to break to you, but none of us has "assurance" until our final Judgement by Jesus Christ at our deaths. Or do you dare presume you know better than Christ? Jesus tells us different and I will go with what Jesus says over what ebb tide says.
John 3:3-8 Jesus answered him,Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:23:55 PM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: metmom
ebb’s given his answer...the Roman Catholic Church.
To: metmom; ebb tide
And he still won’t affirm or deny John 5:24. Amazing.
To: Mark17
So tell me oh wise one, what does Lucifer believe? How would I know? I just know he's damned to Hell for eternitiy.
But you apparently think you do know better. So did Martin Luther and Mohammed. Who do you think tempted those individuals?
And, finally, may almighty God prevent me from spending eternity kneeling next to Luther for surely I'll then know I'm not in Heaven.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:25:03 PM PST
by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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