Fear Francis more than ISIS...
Bergoglio’s heresies are a direct
attack on the Body of Christ
This post is not going to make us a lot of friends, but we’ll publish it anyway, since our desire is to serve and please God, not man (cf. Gal 1:10).
We have all heard about the
horrific murders of men, women, and children by the ISIS terrorists. The
barbarism of these people is beyond comprehension — they are clearly tools
of the devil. In response to the most recent video that shows the beheading of 21
Egyptian men for professing belief in Christ, “His Holiness” Francis made
a statement on February 16, 2015. As it is very brief, we reproduce the entire
news clip from Vatican Radio below:
"Pope Francis on Monday denounced
the murder of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIL militants in Libya. The Islamist
terrorist organization released a video of the killings on Sunday.
Speaking in Spanish to an
ecumenical delegation from the Church of Scotland, the Holy Father noted those
killed only said “Jesus help me.”
“They were killed simply for the
fact they were Christians,” Pope Francis said.
“The blood of our Christian
brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard,” said the
Pope. It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts
or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their
blood confesses Christ.''
"Pope Francis said that in
remembering these brothers and sisters who have been murdered simply for
confessing Christ, Christians should encourage one another in the ecumenical
goal, noting the “ecumenism of blood.”
“The martyrs belong to all
Christians,” he said. (“Pope Francis: The blood of murdered Copts a ‘witness
that cries out’”, Vatican Radio, Feb. 16, 2015)
“Pope” Francis has promoted his idea of an “ecumenism of blood” before, but it is absolutely clear and unmistakableheresy — in direct contradiction to an infallible dogma proclaimed by Pope Eugene IV at the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century:
[This council] firmly
believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the
Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and
schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart
"into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels" [Matt. 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been
added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so
strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit
for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and
exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that 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 in the bosom and unity of the
Catholic Church. (Council of Florence, Decree Cantate Domino; Denz. 714;
underlining added.)
This absolutely, definitively, and infallibly excludes any possibility of an “ecumenism of blood.” No one dying for the name of Jesus Christ can attain to eternal life unless he is joined to the Catholic Church, either as a formal member, or, if invincible ignorance should prevent his becoming a member, through the genuine virtues of Faith, hope, and charity, the latter of which, to be true charity, must animate the sincere desire to enter the Catholic Church, even if this desire be only implicit.
As the great anti-Modernist Mgr.
Joseph Clifford Fenton explains:"...the forgiveness of sin and the infusion of the life of grace is available by the power of Christ only "within" His kingdom, His Mystical Body, which, in this period of the New Testament [i.e., as opposed to the time of the Old Covenant--NOW], is the visible Catholic Church.
"…Now, while it is possible to have
a desire to be within the Church, and, indeed even to be a member of the
Church, without having the love of charity for God, it is quite impossible to
have charity without being within the true Church, at least by an implicit
desire to dwell in it. The love of charity is, by its very nature, a sovereign
affection.
"…The love of charity is
essentially something in the line of intention rather than of mere velleity.
The man who loves God with the true affection of charity actually intends,
insofar as it is possible for him to do so, to do the will of God. It is
definitely the will of God that all men should enter and live within the
Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. It is impossible for a man who really loves God
with the affection of divine charity not to be within the Church as a member or
at least to desire with a sincere and effective, even though perhaps only an
implicit, intention to enter this company.
"Hence, if a man is not “within”
the Church at least by a sincere desire or affection, he has not the genuine
love of charity for God." (Mgr. Joseph C. Fenton, The Catholic Church and Salvation [Westminster:
The Newman Press, 1958], pp. 38-40.)
This scenario, under which someone
who objectively professes heresy but is subjectively not guilty of the sin of
heresy and instead possesses the love of charity and genuinely seeks
to believe all that God has revealed, is killed for professing Christ, is known
as the Baptism of
Blood. (The term ‘baptism’ here is to be understood
loosely, as it merely produces the grace of regeneration, not the sacramental
character [indelible mark], and many who profess heresy but are not
subjectively guilty of the sin of heresy already received a valid sacramental
baptism in their own church. Cf. Pietro Parente, Dictionary of Dogmatic
Theology, s.v. “Baptism”.)
It is possible, therefore, that
those poor ISIS victims were indeed saved. However, the Baptism of Blood is
infinitely far removed from the heretical notion of an “ecumenism of
blood” pushed by Francis, which holds that Catholics and heretics are
spiritually and/or theologically united by being killed for professing
allegiance to Christ. If this were so, then it would mean that the motive
of the killer can cause religious unity between Catholics and Protestants,
two religions that are exclusive of each other because their claims are
mutually exclusive and per se irreconcilable. It would also mean that
the Body of Christ has not “one Faith” (Eph 4:5) but several different
faiths which contradict one another. The unity of the Church would be
destroyed; but: “I believe in … one holy Catholic and apostolic
Church” (Nicene Creed).
Furthermore, whereas in a baptism
of blood the martyr dies within the Catholic Church of our Lord and
any adherence to heresy which may exist would be entirely accidental and not
intended (i.e. not pertinacious), in Francis’ proposed “ecumenism of
blood” anyone who professes allegiance to Christ is per se considered
united to the Church, regardless of any attachment to heresy or a false
religion. This is clearly condemned by the decree of the Council of Florence,
quoted above.
To put it succinctly: In the
baptism of blood, being united to the Catholic Church is a necessary precondition for
one's martyrdom to lead to salvation; whereas in the ecumenism of blood, unity
with the Catholic Church is, at best, the inevitable consequence of
the martyrdom. This would then make any and all martyrs ipso facto into
Catholics, and one might as well include Muslims then, too, for there is no
theologically satisfactory reason why if a Protestant who dies for his faith
goes to Heaven, this couldn’t also be affirmed of a Muslim dying for his religion.
The inevitable result of this is indifferentism, the idea that it ultimately
doesn’t matter what religion you profess. Indifferentism was sternly condemned
by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of
Errors (1864).
And thus we see that
an “Ecumenism of Blood” is an absurdity, simply the latest in
Modernist-indifferentist hogwash dressed up as Catholic theology and foisted
upon an unsuspecting populace by the enemies of the true Catholic Faith. Beware
of the Modernists, who cleverly seek to eliminate all distinction between true
religion and false religion (cf. 2 Cor 6:14; Gal 1:8-9), when for 2,000 years
Catholics went to the most cruel deaths rather than admit even the slightest
alteration to the true doctrine. In the 1500s, the Catholic Church was willing
to see the entire nation of England defect into schism and heresy, and people
like St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More to be martyred, rather than so much as
grant a fake marriage annulment or compromise on her doctrine by one
iota. How things have changed!
Some more words of clarification
are in order.
We understand that in the face of
these horrific acts perpetrated by ISIS, many people think theological disputes
between Catholics and Protestants are mere trifles by comparison and so view
Francis’ “ecumenism of blood” as a great and charitable approach to bring
Catholics and Protestants together in the face of such a terrifying threat. The
truth, however, is very different.
Our Blessed Lord counseled us to
fear not him who can kill the body, but him who can kill the soul: “And I
say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that
have no more that they can do. But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye
him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you,
fear him” (Lk 12:4-5). These are the very words of God Himself —
truer ones have never been spoken. “But God is true; and every man a
liar…” (Rom 3:4).
The atrocities committed by ISIS
are indeed cruel, but heresy is an infinitely greater danger, because heresy
attacks and destroys the soul: “Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in
the doctrine of Christ, hath not God” (2 Jn 1:9). Pope Clement XIII taught
likewise: “Meanwhile the matter is such that diabolical error, when it has
artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while
very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and
confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches
toward death” (Clement XIII, Encyclical In
Dominico Agro, n. 2).
What this means in practice is
that Francis is to be feared much more than ISIS. Islamist terrorists can harm
the body but the body alone — Francis, as a Modernist apostate, papal
impostor, and spiritual terrorist, has power to send souls to an eternity of
hell fire, “where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished”
(Mk 9:43). The jihadi terrorist presents himself clearly as a threat to your
bodily well-being, and once he has killed you, his terror is forever over. But
the Modernist “Pope” presents himself as an “angel of light” (cf. 2
Cor 11:14), as a kind and benevolent spiritual guide, poisoning your soul
gradually so you won’t notice. He is therefore the much greater danger and thus
much more to be feared. “[T]he moderate [Modernist] is the real Satanic type;
his is the masked evil” (Fr. Felix Sarday Salvany, Liberalism is
a Sin, Ch. 16).
Francis’ use of the slaughter of
Egyptian Copts to promote his heresy of an ecumenism of blood is shameful and
diabolical. Francis’ message here is ultimately that Christ’s Truth does not
matter, that the Church consists of many different faiths, that heresy is no
obstacle to salvation, and that in the end, none of this “doctrinal stuff”
is of any significance. Apparently, Saints Thomas More and John Fisher were
just idiots for going to their deaths over such “squabbles.” Francis is
essentially spitting Christ in His holy Face, who is “the way, the truth,
and the life” (Jn 14:6) and who must be worshipped “in spirit and in
truth” (Jn 4:23). Gone is the “one Faith” proclaimed by St. Paul (Eph. 4:5).
“Pope” Francis leads souls
astray in the most devious and clever manner possible: with words that sound
comforting and sweet but which in reality are but a cloak for the most
destructive poison.
Even if you, dear reader, are not
in agreement with us on this point and believe that Francis’ Ecumenism of Blood
is a great and noble concept, please recognize at least one thing: that what
Francis preaches is contradicted by the teaching of the Council of
Florence, as we showed above. And yet, the Cathoilc Church teaches that the
dogmas of her Faith cannot change, cannot “develop” under the pretext of
a “deeper understanding”:
"…[T]hat understanding of its
sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once
declared; and there must never be recession from that meaning under the
specious name of a deeper understanding…. “Therefore . . . let the
understanding, the knowledge, and wisdom of individuals as of all, of one man
as of the whole Church, grow and progress strongly with the passage of the ages
and the centuries; but let it be solely in its own genus, namely in the same
dogma, with the same sense and the same understanding.” (First Vatican Council, Dogmatic
Constitution Dei Filius, Ch. 4; Denz. 1800)
The religion promoted by Francis is not the Catholic religion of old. The man is not a Catholic, and he therefore cannot be the head of the Catholic Church.
Fear him, for he leads souls
to hell.
Image source: Scene from The Passion of the Christ, modified.
Source: Novus
Ordo Watch.
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