Pope Francis contradicts Pius XI's Quas Primas and Church teaching on the Kingship of Christ

Pope Pius XI

From Pope Francis' interview with La Croix. 

Pope Francis: 

States must be secular. Confessional states end badly. That goes against the grain of History. I believe that a version of laicity accompanied by a solid law guaranteeing religious freedom offers a framework for going forward. We are all equal as sons (and daughters) of God and with our personal dignity. However, everyone must have the freedom to externalize his or her own faith*. If a Muslim woman wishes to wear a veil, she must be able to do so. Similarly, if a Catholic wishes to wear a cross. People must be free to profess their faith* at the heart of their own culture not merely at its margins.

From Pius XI's Encyclical, Quas Primas. 

Pius XI: 

It would be a grave error, on the other hand, to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs, since, by virtue of the absolute empire over all creatures committed to him by the Father, all things are in his power... If We ordain that the whole Catholic world shall revere Christ as King, We shall minister to the need of the present day, and at the same time provide an excellent remedy for the plague which now infects society. We refer to the plague of anti-clericalism, its errors and impious activities. This evil spirit, as you are well aware, Venerable Brethren, has not come into being in one day; it has long lurked beneath the surface. The empire of Christ over all nations was rejected. The right which the Church has from Christ himself, to teach mankind, to make laws, to govern peoples in all that pertains to their eternal salvation, that right was denied. Then gradually the religion of Christ came to be likened to false religions and to be placed ignominiously on the same level with them.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Faith:

* To the contrary, Faith is a supernatural virtue; thus, a false religion is not a faith; be it, a form of Protestantism or Mohommedanism. 

153. When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh and blood", but from "my Father who is in heaven". 24 Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. "Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and 'makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.'" 25

Michael Rossmann S.J: another "Jesuit scholastic" promoting a bi-sexual deviant as a "theologian"

"Fr" Duffell and "Lady Gaga"

The Jesuit Post, continues to plumb the depths of depravity. Last year, it was Jason Welle S.J., who distinguished himself - even amongst a group of militant pro-homosexualists - with his support of the blasphemous and sacrilege contention that two persons of the same sex can enter into Holy Matrimony. 

Seemingly for his efforts in profaning Holy Matrimony, so arrogantly and disgustingly, Welle was rewarded by being ordained to the Diaconate on Oct 24th, 2015. This blog, along with Vox Cantoris, exposed Welle's filthy and evil mind pursuant to his activities on social media (see link here).  

Now, we have effeminate Michael Rossmann S.J., promoting a "singer" by name of "Lady Gaga", as a "theologian". The insulting result of his aforementioned premise is that Rossmann's condescending notion that "he probably too much fun" while writing this post gives the appearance of admitting something sinful, perhaps? Certainly at the very least, it is in poor taste. Upon examining Rossmann's mental excrement one discovers that the aforementioned "Gaga" is associated with the dissident Fr. Duffell who seem to have just stepped out a St. Patrick's Day Parade. 

The Hegelian Fantasy of Thomas Rosica, CSB ~ how a new apostate religion is created by trying to fuse truth and error

Thomas Rosica CSB and ex-priest, arch-heretic Gregory Baum 

 

Thomas Rosica CSB, has just received an award from a self-proclaimed "communications ministry" office of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Rosica claims that "Francis has rebranded Catholicism". What does he mean? Rosica, further  develops an Hegelian dialectic where he suggests that contrasting positions [theses and antithesis] are "forged" in a "new, better consensus" [synthesis]. Just what are these "contrasting positions" that need to be forged via a "consensus"?

The inability of some media commentators to pigeonhole Francis into a single category is frustrating to some people. Francis does not compromise on the hot-button issues that divide the Church from the secular West – a gap that liberals would like to close by modernizing doctrine. Yet he is also not a Pope for the Catholic Right. For him contrasting positions, held together in tension, loyal to fundamentals but open to the action of the Holy Spirit, are necessary to forge a new, better consensus and the differences make for an honest, open discussion.
The full text may be read here. 

A Profound Observation on Fulton J Sheen and Today's Social Media

“Jesus loves you.” #JN3:16 #Easter #risn “Pray. Hope. Don’t worry.” #faith #believe “Preach the Gospel at all times” #Francis #peace #prayalways Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and countless other platforms are filled with almost empty Christian one-liners and other messages. Oftentimes trite sayings are re-tweeted or shared along with some kind of exhortation to “spread the word.” Since you’re a Christian, you can feel guilted into supporting this sort of thing, to do your share of evangelization. Believe me, I’m committed to building up a Christian culture, but sometimes I can be downright ashamed of that content. In the most extreme cases it can feel like not sharing whatever image or quote “because you’re a Christian” is a denial of Jesus himself. 

So what about social media evangelization? Is tweeting 140 characters going to convince someone of the Gospel? The Church refuses to be absent from the conversation—that alone tells us something important. Pope Francis (@Pontifex) has some 5.87 million followers on the English language account (over 15 million if all the eight language groups are added together). The Church is called to be leaven for the world, and that means continuing to share the light and hope of the Gospel message, even on the web. Msgr. Paul Tighe puts it this way, “If we withdraw, then we’re leaving those areas to the trolls. We’re leaving it to the bullies.” 

While few people may think that the Church should absent herself from the “new media,” many might wonder what good it all does. Will seeing a Scripture passage in someone’s Facebook news feed actually help infuse a soul with an abundance of actual graces, even the grace of justification? It seems unwise to just close that door. The workings of Providence are mysterious, and the Creator loves using instrumental causes to achieve his aims. Far be it from this theologian to declare the internet an option banned from God’s playbook. 

The Holy Father offers one helpful way to define our Catholic web presence in light of the following goal: building a culture of encounter. “The great challenge,” says Pope Francis, “the great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.” Genuine evangelical encounters demand authentic relationships and true exchanges. This is our aim, then, to use the web to nourish these encounters, which prompted and directed by God’s grace, may bear fruit in countless lives. 

But who can we look to as an example for how to do this? The innovations of the “new media” are by definition without precedent. Nonetheless, I think we ought to appeal to the life and teaching of Fulton Sheen. By mining the example of his life and teaching, we can deduce some principles to guide our e-preaching. 

Source: Posted at Dominica Blog by Br. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P.

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Ascension of the Lord ~ Traditional Latin Mass for the Toronto area

Also:
St. Lawrence the Martyr, Scarborough, Read (Low) Mass 

7:00 A.M.

Holy Family Church, Read (Low) Mass

11:00 A.M.

Amoris Laetitia is open to interpretations against the Catholic Faith

Sandro Magister has just published an article that should make all Catholics seriously reflect on the growing damage that Amoris Laetitia has created in the Church. The ambiguity, the confusion, the refusal to reaffirm - without any equivocation - Familiaris Consortio No. 84, is a grave error. The Pope has a solemn obligation before Christ to reaffirm with charity, but with clarity. Indeed, there is no charity, without clarity. 

It does not matter that Amoris Laetitia has many beautiful and true things in it. That is not the problem. The problem is, it contains a small, but dangerous bit of poison. 

Magister provides us with a serious critique of Amoris Laetitia by E. Christian Brugger, Professor of Moral Theology at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver: 

For Catholics who feel weary about the abuse that the Christian family has lately suffered at the hands of militant secularism, Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation "Amoris lætitia" (AL) has many encouraging things to say: e.g., its forthright assertion that “no genital act of husband and wife can refuse” the truth that “the conjugal union is ordered to procreation ‘by its very nature’” (AL 80; cf. 222); its ardent rejection of the killing of the unborn (no. 83); its unapologetic affirmation that every child has “a natural right” to have a mother and a father (no. 172), and its needed treatment – the lengthiest in any papal document of the last 50 years – of the importance of fathers for children (no. 175).

But though the text says many true and beautiful things about “love in the family,” Chapter 8 (entitled “Accompanying, Discerning and Integrating Weakness”) allows – and seems intentionally so – for interpretations that pose serious problems for Catholic faith and practice.


I focus here on five such problems:

1. The way it presents the role that mitigated culpability should play in pastoral care
2. Its inconsistent notion of “not judging” others
3. Its account of the role of conscience in acquitting persons in objectively sinful situations
4. Its treatment of moral absolutes as “rules” articulating the demands of an “ideal” rather than binding moral duties on everyone in every situation
5. Its inconsistency with the teaching of Trent

Mary Wagner: pro-life heroine free after spending over 4 months in maximum security

Photo: copyright 2016, Andrew Kumar (Goniec) 

Yesterday, at the Old City Hall Courts in downtown Toronto, Mary Wagner was convicted of mischief and probation violation. 

About 50 supporters turned up, many carrying white roses. Court resumed at 2:15 p.m. A letter written by a citizen to the court raising a point of order on abortion was dismissed by Judge Katrina Mulligan as "inappropriate".  The Crown Counsel displayed a sneer on her lips as she turned from her podium, where a copy of the letter lay. 

Probation Officer, Liana Mischianti, was recalled to the stand. The Crown claimed she had "...one outstanding issue...I wish to prove she was on probation". The Judge acknowledged that Miss Wagner was on probation. 

The trial concluded, the Crown Counsel, Tania Monteiro, made her submission. She wanted "maximum time". Mary had shown ".... flagrant disregard for the law... she knows exactly what she did at the abortion clinic... she did it intentionally...flagrantly...she deliberately seeks to break the law...she had deep convictions... these convictions aside... there are no reasons for breaking the law". 

The Crown droned on: "... there were other procedures...D and C... makes Miss Wagner's behaviour that much more tragic... Miss Wagner has no idea why women went there... women attend in the throes of grief". The Crown claimed Mary's actions were "...grossly aggravating... her actions and beliefs are affecting people". 

The Crown continued, "her behaviour has been condemned in previous courts... blatant disregard of court orders". She then compared Mary to Linda Gibbons, denouncing Linda being in "violation of the community... condemned". Mary was "...a zealot like Miss Gibbons... she will continue to violate the rights of others". 

The Crown then asked for six months as the only "appropriate length that is possible". With probation being "...three years at least". "This particular clinic is not her only target. There is no specific deterrence on Miss Wagner". 

Having concluded, the Judge intoned: "I am of the opinion that you have the time I can legally impose upon you... maximum sentence on this offense". The Judge continued that she "...did find your actions extremely selfish and narrow minded. You interfered with their lawful enjoyment of their property". 

The Judge spoke of "denunciation". The need to impose a massive sentence to "deter others; how important it is to obey the law... just because you have a personal moral code against the law. I place you on three years probation". 

Court adjourned at 3:20. Mary then attended Mass at St. Stephen's Chapel. 

It is important to take careful note of the warped mindset of the Judge and the Crown Counsel. These two individuals in placing the State as the supreme arbiter of morality - thought they no doubt would deny it - are actually professing fascist ideology. "...the Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.(Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932). 

Dear friends, though Mary is free, the killing of the unborn continues unabated in this country. Please keep our dear sister in your prayers and all her intentions. 

Protestant-Modernism is the heresy behind the idea that "doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge..."

Liberal protestant theology is behind the "Christological heresy" that proposes that pastoral practice can contrast with doctrine. For some background on this issue, please see an earlier article I wrote.  

Consider the words of Cardinal Muller: "Any separation of theory from practice of the faith would be a subtle, but serious Christological heresy".

Now consider this:

Modernist theologian, Richard Gaillardetz, articulated it in this manner on September 25, 2013: 

Will this pope rewrite controversial church doctrines? No, but that isn't how doctrine changes. Doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particular doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's transforming love. Doctrine changes when the church has leaders and teachers who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights.

Thomas Rosica, CSB, and the English language Spokesman for the Holy See Press Office, phrased it in an extraordinarily similar manner in a lecture at Assumption University. The original video may be watched here.  

Will this pope rewrite controversial church doctrines? No, but that isn't how doctrine changes. Doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particular doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's transforming love. Doctrine changes when the church has leaders and teachers who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights.

But is this actually true? Can doctrine change when pastoral practice shifts? Can Christ's unchangeable truths actually change? The answer is obvious. 

Now, we come to a recent interview granted by Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the attempt to subordinate doctrine to pastoral practice. 

Although these paragraphs state that the individual judgement of the conscience of these couples must be made according to the doctrine of the Church, there remains a lack of clarity. Those who promote the Communion for the divorced and remarried, as for example Cardinal Kasper and his group, state openly that while the doctrine of the Church remains, there is definitely the possibility that the divorced and remarried may receive Communion. So they acknowledged the possibility of a contrast between doctrine and practice. This is also the typical position of Protestantism. You keep the theory or the doctrine, the works are not so important and necessary. This is the dangerous principle of salvation only by faith.

Finally, let us recall how this liberal protestant Hegelianism ultimately finds it home in the sewer of all heresies, Modernism: 

From no: 27. Hence, studying more closely the ideas of the Modernists, evolution is described as resulting from the conflict of two forces, one of them tending towards progress, the other towards conservation. ... The progressive force, on the contrary, which responds to the inner needs lies in the individual consciences and ferments there - especially in such of them as are in most intimate contact with life. Note here, Venerable Brethren, the appearance already of that most pernicious doctrine which would make of the laity a factor of progress in the Church. (Pius X, Pascendi).