Jonathan Ekene Ifeanyi
Doug Mainwaring
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| Catholic Bishops of Nigeria |
This brief
article is a warning to all Catholics in Nigeria against Nigerian heretical
bishops who are championing the heretical teachings of “Pope” Francis in
Nigeria and are now enforcing these teachings in various parishes across the
nation.
Last two
weeks, or thereabouts, I walked into my old beautiful but now “Protestantised”
parish—Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos—on Sunday. Normally, I do this from time to
time whenever I’m around even though I don’t participate in their putative
“sacrament”—particularly reception of Holy Communion—due to the various
scandals going on there and because some Vatican II “priests” clearly have
questionable identities as Catholic Priests.
There is this programme the parish
usually holds after the second mass, entitled “Faith Sharing”. Just like I do
in the case of “Holy Communion”, I also normally do not participate in this
programme whenever I visit there—my usual attitude is rather that of a
faithful observer. On that day, however, I was forced to
participate in the programme due to the topic they were discussing. The title
was “Women Priesthood” and the priest treating the topic was the cathedral’s
administrator “Fr.” Marcellinus Teko. This was the scandalous “priest” I once
wrote against in the article Does the
Catholic Church recognise Anglican Ordinations as Valid?
Notice the
topic—“Women Priesthood”—and think about the upcoming demonic Amazon Synod! Put
simply, “Fr” Teko promotes EVERYTHING “Pope” Francis stands for! This is a
“priest” who, from time to time, would have the audacity to announce in the Catholic Church programmes
taking place in Protestant “churches” and encourage poor Catholics to attend!
During Christmas period, for instance, he is well known to be encouraging
unsuspecting Catholics to attend “Christmas” programmes in Protestant
“churches”—in the spirit of ecumenism, and so on!
With his
“Women Priesthood” Faith Sharing, “Fr” Teko was
preparing his parishioners for the Amazon Synod. He started by stating the
teaching of the Church with regards to women priesthood—like a Faith defender
indeed!—then he gradually led them to the main issues: women
can play excellent roles in the Church..., ...there is nothing wrong about
women deacons..., ...expect altar girls soon in the Cathedral, and so on!
During
questions and contributions from the audience, I asked him a simple rhetorical question
which surprisingly became an embarrassment to him. Before the parishioners, I
told “Fr” Teko that he was contradicting himself by pretending to be against
women priests even when he is at the same time championing the poisonous ideas
of “women deacon”, “altar girls”, etc. When I asked him to show us—outside the
Vatican II Church period—where we can locate his new teachings within the 2000
years of Catholic history, he got angry and started attacking me—even telling
me to “go and build your own Church” if I can’t accept the changes! But I was
happy with the good people of Holy Cross Cathedral on that day because not one
person agreed with him!
We live in
the worst of times and this is the right time for all Catholics to open their
eyes and come out boldly to defend the Church from monster priests and bishops,
and devilish “Pope” Francis. This is time to stop behaving like cowards. It is
time for faithful Catholics around the world—SSPXers, Sedevacantists and others
who have been scattered by Vatican II heretics—to unite and defend the Church.
There are no two or more Catholic Churches. There is ONLY ONE Catholic Church
and we must defend this One Church from these monster-enemies NOW.
As I said,
with his “Women Priesthood” Faith Sharing “Fr”
Teko was systematically preparing his unsuspecting
parishioners for the upcoming diabolical Amazon Synod.
Now,
just a week after, his bishop, the Archbishop of Lagos Alfred Adewale Martins,
read the following announcement—published online—to the same poor
parishioners:
“The Second Plenary Meeting of the
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) was held at the Divine Mercy
Pastoral Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State from 11 September to 20 September 2019.
“In their Communique issued at the
end of the plenary, the Bishops particularly criticise those within the Church
who are attacking Pope Francis.
“The Holy Father Pope Francis has
come under attacks in recent times. Of more serious concern are the attacks
coming from some higher levels of the Church in some parts of the world. As
members of the Episcopal College, of which the Holy Father is the Head, we
regard these attacks as the proverbial ill wind that blows no one any good,
bearing in mind that there are other more legitimate and traditionally tested
avenues of expressing our opinions to the Holy Father,” the Bishops said.
“The Roman Pontiff is the successor
of St Peter
“According
to the Nigerian prelates, “To be able to lead the flock of Christ in the right
direction in a world filled with many contradicting and confusing voices, we as
a College must speak with one voice. We, therefore, recognise that ‘The Roman
Pontiff, as the successor of Peter, is the perpetual and visible source and
foundation of the unity both of the Bishops and of the whole company of the
faithful’ (Vat II, Lumen Gentium 23). We reaffirm our faith in and commitment
to the Pontificate of the Holy Father Pope Francis. Consequently, we pledge our
loyalty and availability to him in the exercise of his Petrine office, and we
promise to continue to cooperate with him fully in the discharge of his divine
mandate as the Pastor of the Universal Church (cf. Code of Canon Law, Cann.
331, 334),” reads the Communique.”
From this announcement, we can
now see clearly where Nigerian monster-bishops and priests stand in
the current war against Catholicism. An example of these critics of
the “Holy Father” they refer to is German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one
of the dubia cardinals, who
recently charged that Francis’ Amazon synod is being organised in order to
implement both “the abolishment of celibacy and the introduction of a female
priesthood - starting first with female deacons,” citing lines from the
heretical instrumentum laboris that speak of opening “new
spaces” and creating “new ministries” in the region, also for women. See German Cardinal
says Amazon synod is heretical, must be rejected. Other
examples of people who are attacking “the Holy Father” are the people you will
read about in the article below, which—though still promoting the heretical
idea that Jorge Bergoglio is the Catholic Pope—warns against the same Amazon
Synod:
Lay Catholic leaders warn about Amazon
Synod: ‘Pope Francis has gravely harmed the faith. It is time to say it out
loud.’
Doug Mainwaring
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| Listen to their speeches HERE. |
ROME, October 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Lay Catholic leaders from around
the world, increasingly alarmed about the upcoming Amazonian Synod and how it
threatens to disfigure and “Protestantize” the Church, gathered not far from
the Vatican today to discuss their grave concerns.
The roundtable discussion, titled “Our Church – reformed or deformed?” was hosted by the international
pro-life association Voice of the Family. Over 5,000 people across the
continents tuned in.
On the eve of the synod, they described the multifaceted diabolical menace
to the Catholic Church it portends to be. Their choice of strong language
reflects the peril they sense: That after the synod, what will emerge will no
longer be the Catholic Church.
“We have arrived. This week the Amazonian Synod will be underway,”
said John-Henry Westen, co-founder and editor-in-chief of
LifeSiteNews. “It is expected to be the most severe calamity for the faith the
Church has ever known and let’s pray that it won’t turn out as dire as it
threatens.”
“A few cardinals have warned of apostasy and heresy in the working
document prepared for the Synod, but most have remained silent,” continued
Westen. “We, the faithful, cannot remain silent because it is the faith of our
children that is being threatened. It is our right as Catholics to have the
faith of Jesus Christ handed down faithfully by our priests and bishops and
especially the Pope.”
“There are, at this moment, two religions within the Catholic Church,”
declared Professor Roberto de Mattei.
“The first is the traditional Catholicism, the religion of those who, in
the current confusion, continue to be faithful to the immutable Magisterium of
the Church,” said de Mattei.
“The second, until a few months ago without a name, now has a name: it
is the Amazonian religion because, as declared by the person currently
governing the Church, there is a plan to give the Church ‘an Amazonian face,’”
explained de Mattei.
“Two religions cannot coexist within the same Church,” he
reaffirmed.
“At the Pan-Amazon Synod, will we see the Church abandon that Divine
Commission to convert and baptize all nations?” wondered Michael Matt,
publisher of The Remnant, who spoke about the disappearance of traditional
missionaries and religious orders.
He asked: “Will the Vatican bless and approve a certain indigenous
theology whose animating principle is essentially pagan? Will the Church teach
that pagan cultures themselves are of God because to suggest otherwise would be
to engage in a sort of religious supremacism that holds Christianity as the
only true religion?”
“Now we face a synod of bishops that promises to embrace an indigenous
theology that would essentially abandon the Church’s missionary effort
altogether while embracing an eco-theology that would send forth missionaries
of climate change to teach all nations to listen to the cry of Mother Earth,”
declared Matt.
“Please God, may this not come to pass, for if it does it will surely
represent the Catholic Church’s formal surrender to the world and to the spirit
not just of the age but also the jungle,” he pleaded.
José Antonio Ureta,
a leader of the international Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) movement in
France, warned that if the synod fathers and Pope Francis approve the measure
in the Instrumentum laboris (working document) to ordain elderly
married men as priests, “neo-Lutheranism will have defeated the Council of
Trent.”
“But, alas! Such new ecclesiastic structure based on a non-ministerial
and non-hierarchical priesthood will no longer be the Catholic Church,” said
Ureta.
“Pope Francis and his clerical allies are creating a globalist
organization with a Catholic-appearing face,” said Church Militant’s Michael
Voris. “What is emerging is not Catholic. The façade should be dropped and
for once truth be allowed to prevail.”
Voris explained that Pope Francis has moved the Church to “align with a
counterfeit kind of theology inspired by godless atheism, and in the rush to
advance this, he’s surrounded himself with numerous clerical scoundrels — some
who have been complicit in the performing of or cover-up of sex abuse of minors
or young adults, mostly male.”
“The Catholic Church has been infiltrated from within and this
infiltration goes back at least to the pontificate of Pope Pius IX,” said
Catholic author Dr. Taylor Marshall. “It is an attack on the
supernatural faith, miracles, divine revelation, and upon the origin of our
creation: God’s identity of male and female, the institution of human
matrimony, and the natural law precept to be fruitful and multiply with
marriage. Moreover, it is a resurrection of paganism ‘that you might become
gods.’”
“Pope Francis has signed a document in Abu Dhabi which contains a
sentence which has explosive consequences for the Catholic faith,” said
Italy’s Marco Tosatti. “Here it is: ‘The pluralism and diversity
of religions, colour, gender, race and language are willed by God in His
wisdom.’ The implications of a sentence of this kind are evident: if God has
willed … that several religions should exist, it can be inferred that all
religions are the divine will and therefore any person is free to choose the
religion most suited to him or her.”
“This sentence is profoundly wrong from a Christian – and Catholic –
standpoint,” said Tosatti.
“Personally, I believe that this declaration is one of the most devastating
sentences for Catholicism ever uttered by a Pope, and that it is a substantial
affirmation of relativism,” he added.
“Among the most obviously threatening innovations that are being
introduced by the upcoming Amazon Synod is the promotion of some form of
ordained ministry for women,” asserted French journalist Jeanne
Smits.
She warned that the Indian theology which the synod will promote demands
the ordination of women as ministers. “It is within the logic of traditional
indigenous spirituality, that is, paganism. Or if you want to take it a bit
further: idolatry.”
“The Amazon Synod will be arguing about the role of women in the Church,
when the Church already has the most beautiful answer to that argument: the
Virgin Mary,” declared Smits. “When God made the Cosmos – which means beauty –
He was making a fitting earthly home and dowry for His Daughter, Mother, and
Bride. She is our Queen, the Queen of the universe and even the Queen of the
Angels, much to Satan's discontent, since he must submit to and be conquered by
a mere woman, by a mother who can communicate to us eternal life through the
sacrifice of her Beloved Son.”
“Our vision of woman is defined by that. What more could we possibly
want?” asked Smits.
Accusation, fervent intercession, and a ‘time for heroes and saints’
“With all respect owed to the ecclesiastical authorities, I accuse all
those who have approved, or will approve, the Instrumentum laboris on
the Amazon, of polytheism and, more specifically, polydemonism because, quoting
Psalm 95, ‘All divinities of the Gentiles are Demons; our Lord has instead
created the heavens,’” said de Mattei.
“I call upon the cardinals and bishops who are still Catholic to raise
their voices against this scandal. If their silence continues, we will continue
to seek the intervention of the Angels and Mary Queen of Angels, to save the
Holy Church from every form of reinvention, distortion, and reinterpretation,”
added de Mattei.
John-Henry Westen pointed out that despite all the grave concerns raised
by the panelists, This “is not to say that we don’t love Pope Francis. Indeed,
it would not be love at all to gloss over these monumental concerns and be
silent about them, because they harm him most of all. He will have to answer to
Christ at judgement just like we all will.”
“We must continue to pray for the Pope every day, pray for his
conversion,” said Westen.
“It doesn’t take a theologian to recognize when the faith is being
distorted,” he added. “We won’t leave the Church; it is the One True Church and
there is no other. We shall fight for Christ’s truth in the Church because we
are ready to die for this faith.”
During the question and answer period, when the inevitable question
about the possibility of schism was raised, Professor de Mattei said we must
pray for “a real counter-reformation, a counter-revolution, a restoration of
the real Christianity.”
Though we are waging war against the forces of chaos in the Church, “The
division of our enemy is our strength,” said de Mattei.
“This is a scary moment,” said Michael Matt. “If this synod goes as
predicted by several cardinals, this is the biggest news story in the history
of the world with the exception of the crucifixion of God. Nothing is bigger
than the Bride of Christ raising, hoisting the flag of surrender.”
“If this happens, this is a huge story and great people are going to
come to the defense of the Church – heroes and saints,” proclaimed Matt. “Let’s
prepare our children for a crusade, and let’s inspire them.”
LifeSiteNews is pleased to publish the text of the addresses given at
the Amazon Synod Roundtable:
