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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 Fatima’s centenary.

In 1903, Pope St. Pius X declared himself “terrified” by humanity’s 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 today’s “widespread apostasy.”

In 1910, St. Pius X condemned the movement for a “One-World Church” without dogmas, hierarchy, or “curb for the passions”—a church which, “under the pretext of freedom,” would impose “legalized cunning and force.” How much more, said Cardinal Burke, do today’s “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 Fatima’s call for prayer, penance, and reparation. Let us be “agents” of the triumph of Mary’s 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 Vatican—and documented the “affinity” between “Luther’s ideas on law, justification, and marriage” and Pope Francis’s 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 Luther’s “statement that he would…kiss the feet of a pope who allows and acknowledges his gospel.”

Kasper says Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium, “without mentioning him by name,” makes Luther’s concerns “stand in the center.”

So it’s Luther’s “gospel of grace and mercy” behind, apparently, the high disdain for “self-absorbed promethean neopelagianis[ts]” plagued by a “soundness of doctrine” that’s “narcissistic and authoritarian” (EG 94).

So it’s Luther—the bizarre protagonist of “ecumenical unity”—behind 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 it’s 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 Luther’s faith in the “self-implementation of the word of God” gave him a heroic “openness to the future.”

Ultimately, Kasper’s Luther—a prophet of “openness” to futurity, a “Catholic reformer” waiting for a sympathetic pope—emerges as a symbolic father for Modernism’s struggle to change the Church from within. Modernism falsely claims that God evolves with history—making 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 man’s sake, because he claims for himself the dignity and honor that belong by right to man….

We must resist this God … also for God’s 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 pope’s theologian”: either embrace a mutable God who’s not an “enemy of the new”—or 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 creation’s 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, it’s “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 history’s last days, when humanity has heeded Kasper’s 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 Catholic—persecuted 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 woman’s confession before the “real priests”—the euthanizers—come.

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 “God’s 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.



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To: Luircin
How am I insulting you by calling you the hypocrite you are?

Go figure it out yourself.

1,261 posted on 12/06/2017 11:15:34 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Does St. Paul say plainly, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”?

Put up or shut up ebb; does he say it or not?


1,262 posted on 12/06/2017 11:16:08 PM PST by Luircin
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To: ebb tide
Lucifer was even wiser than Luther, but both fell by the sin of pride.

Thank God for Brother Martin. 😄😄👍

1,263 posted on 12/06/2017 11:16:50 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Luircin
When have you ever been civil with me?

See posts #1201, 1204 and 1205, Luircin.

Dominus tecum.

1,264 posted on 12/06/2017 11:29:05 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Riiiiight.

Did you read James 3 or not?


1,265 posted on 12/06/2017 11:34:30 PM PST by Luircin
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To: Mark17
Thank God for Brother Martin.

It's no wonder you have apostatized from the Catholic Faith.

1,266 posted on 12/06/2017 11:40:27 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; boatbums; MHGinTN; metmom
So everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ is saved, regardless of his works, or lack of works?

My opinion is, you are engaging in catholic speak. That means I am sure my definition of faith differs from yours. Yours might be some mental agreement with Jesus. My faith, resulted in a life changing experience. This is where the works enter in, after the faith experience, NOT BEFORE. Of course I agree with James. If some dude claims he had a “true faith” experience, but has no change in his lifestyle, I would say there is s decent chance the dude is lying. It’s between him and God. One of the prerequisites of the “faith experience” is to repent, so one cannot go out and sin boldly. If one does that, I would say there is a decent chance the dude is lying. Good works are a RESULT of or “faith experience” not the cause of it.
Now, I understand you would like to see people get saved. That’s good. So do the rest of us. Correct me if I am wrong, but as near as I can tell, the Catholic plan of salvation, is baptism, church membership, the Sacraments, works of mercy, and maybe other things too. The born again plan of salvation, is faith ( a life changing experience) that produces good works, not the works producing the faith.
One of the other proofs, at least to me, the change in my life, was something I knew I could never do myself, and for the first time in my life, I could understand spiritual issues, where as before, it was all foolishness to me. Things were different bro, REALLY different.
That is my answer, if you are honestly looking for an answer from me. It is the plan of salvation, Ebb. If you are not honestly looking for answers, then there isn’t any reason to continue this discussion. Later bro.

1,267 posted on 12/06/2017 11:47:36 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Mark17
My opinion is, you are engaging in catholic speak.

And that's just your opinion.

Ask me if I care.

1,268 posted on 12/06/2017 11:55:39 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Wow, deliberate Catholic mistranslations and propaganda again.

From a thirdhand source, no less, with no context.

That’s still real pathetic, ebb.


1,269 posted on 12/06/2017 11:56:00 PM PST by Luircin
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To: ebb tide

“So Christ “becomes” an adulterer, though he does not actually commit adultery with Mary or anyone else. He puts mercy front and center, and rejects the legalism which demanded that the woman caught in adultery be killed and the woman at the well and Mary Magdalene be shunned. The holy one becomes the sinner by putting himself into the situation of sinners, by loving and forgiving them, and ultimately by taking their sins on himself. For this gospel reason, Luther could also remark that God made Jesus “the worst sinner of the whole world,” even though he also acknowledged that the sinless, righteous Christ actually committed no sin himself.”

Sad, ebb. Real sad.


1,270 posted on 12/06/2017 11:59:34 PM PST by Luircin
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To: Luircin
The followers of Martin Luther don't deny that he said Christ committed adultery three times. They do debate, however, if he was drunk or just being sarcastic when he said it.
1,271 posted on 12/07/2017 12:00:47 AM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide; Luircin; boatbums; metmom
I guess you really aren’t trying to get people saved, and you appear to not be interested in going to Heaven. I believe you are a heretic, on the way to a warm place, 🔥 but that’s on you bro. You just keep doing Catholic speak. Ask me if I care. 👎 Praise God I apostasized from that cult. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I try to lead as many people out of that cult as I can. It’s a beautiful thing. Now, ask me if I care what you think about that. I can assure you, I don’t. I keep leading them out. 😇👍
1,272 posted on 12/07/2017 12:08:07 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: ebb tide

Oh look! As proof, ebby posts MORE Catholic propaganda!

http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2005/12/luther-said-christ-committed-adultery.html

Let me counter that. Even though I bet you’ll refuse to read it.

Sad.

By the way, did Paul write that by grace you have been saved through faith, not on account of works, or not?


1,273 posted on 12/07/2017 12:08:31 AM PST by Luircin
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To: Mark17; Luircin; boatbums; metmom

And why should I worry about what an apostate Catholic, who seems to love emotions, thinks about me?


1,274 posted on 12/07/2017 12:13:43 AM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Hahahah.

You obviously do care, or else you wouldn’t be whining about it to everyone you just posted to.

Cryin’ ebb, not understanding why people he insults day in and day out don’t like him.

Must be a very lonely life.


1,275 posted on 12/07/2017 12:15:28 AM PST by Luircin
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To: Luircin
I read your link, Luircin. And here's a quote from it:

Here is how it appears in the Weimar edition-in full, complete with the pertinent footnotes: 

"1472. (Schlag. 239; Clm. 943, 175) Christus adulter. Christus ist am ersten ebrecher worden Joh.4. bei dem brunn cum muliere, quia illi dicebant: Nemo (17) significat (18) quid facit cum ea? Item cum Magdalena, item cum adultera loan. 8., die er so leicht davon lies. Also mus der from Christus auch am ersten ein ebrecher werden, ehe er starb. 
"17) So ist wohl zu lesen und nicht mit Preger: Nro. 18) Text undeutlich: Stat oder Scat, oder ist scit zu lesen?" 
In literal translation: 
"1472. (Schlag. 239; Clm. 943, 175) Christ an adulterer. Christ first became an adulterer St. John 4 at the well with the woman, because they said: Nobody (17) indicates, (18) what is He doing with her? Again, with Magdalen; again, with the adulteress St. John 8, whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus the righteous Christ must first become also an adulterer before He died.

1,276 posted on 12/07/2017 12:21:08 AM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Good job! Now read the whole thing and think about it instead of posting gotchas.

Because unlike you, I’m smart enough to read the entirety of the links I post as evidence.

Now get to reading about how the quote is secondhand and without context.

And while you’re at it, read 2 Ephesians and tell me whether or not Paul wrote it or not.


1,277 posted on 12/07/2017 12:30:14 AM PST by Luircin
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To: ealgeone

Good ol ebb.

Blatantly ignores the words of Jesus while obsessing over Luther.


1,278 posted on 12/07/2017 12:46:47 AM PST by Luircin
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To: ebb tide; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; boatbums; metmom
And why should I worry about what an apostate Catholic, who seems to love emotions, thinks about me?

Committing mortal sins again? Ebb, I don’t care, if you don’t care. I will continue to lead as many Catholics out of the Catholic Church as I can. So far, I have been fairly successful. Once they are out, they quickly realize what a horrific cult they just came from. They thank me for my efforts. It’s a beautiful thing when people leave false religions like that. I am glad I came out of it too. It was the start of a new life. No more false religion for me.

1,280 posted on 12/07/2017 1:07:24 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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