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Pope Pius XI
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For decades the churchmen were not teaching what has always been taught. To accommodate their corruption they began to obfuscate the Liturgy. No where is this more reflected as in the pre-1955 Holy Week Liturgy.
It was "offensive" to unbelieving men, so it had to be changed. So we had the tri-fold surrender to Protestantism, Judaism, and Freemasonry, which logically opened the door to false ecumenism, and the de facto rejection of the Catholic Church as the exclusive path of Salvation. It also led logically to pandering to religions that had their origins in paganism.
The only question any man has to answer is the the question asked by Our Lord: "Who do you say that I am?". To which Peter, the first Pope answered, "Thou art the Messiah, the Son of the Living God". (Matthew 16:15-16).
He who denies Jesus Christ came in the Flesh is of the spirit of Antichrist (John 1:4:3).
In the face of this calamity of the acceptance of a false ecumenism we need to follow St Teresa of Avila: "let nothing disturb you". As such, we must be aware of the Truths of the Faith, and hold fast to them. We will be betrayed, even by fellow Catholics, who will accuse us of bigotry for exclusively holding to the Faith. But we can reply to these people, calmly, soberly, in the words of St. Peter when he told the unbelieving Jews: "there is no name under Heaven by which we are saved, but that of Christ Jesus". No other Name. No exceptions. God rewarded Peter's trust, for on that day 5000 men alone were converted.
During this dark time, be peaceful, be calm. Let us pray for our bishops, and especially for Pope Francis.
From Pope Francis' interview with La Croix. As you read the following, note the present Pope's obsession with (a misguided and false) understanding of being a son or daughter of God, and of "personal dignity". Only those baptized in Christ Jesus are brothers and sisters. Yes, on a merely natural level we are all related, but we are NOT brothers and sisters with those who do not profess Jesus Christ. Those who do not profess Jesus Christ debase what should be their only true dignity. After all, Jesus Christ is God, He is the Creator of the Universe, He is Universal King by His being Divine and shedding His Blood for us. No man can have dignity and freedom as God wants it, unless he believe and be baptized. No man, no exceptions.
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.
These "ecumenical" delusions and evils did not appear in 1962, but had been around much earlier. One well known 19th churchman, Felicite de Lamennais, did not impress Pope Gregory XVI, who replied with Mirari vos. It was followed by (to mention just two examples) Pius IX's Quanta cura and The Syllabus of Errors. Those pronouncements were a source of embarrassment to a significant number of bishops and laity who were already compromising the Faith as liberals.
In the United States, the bishops went out of their way to downplay and "reinterpret" the Syllabus, whilst paradoxically, various anti-Catholic sects knew very well what it meant. Already those cowardly bishops believed being a "good" American was as important as being a good Catholic. They believed in Masonic "religious liberty" more than the Truth of Jesus Christ. They believed the lie that society is founded on liberty, and not truth. Along with the apostate "rapture" evangelical cults, they presided over the moral collapse of the United States, brought her to her knees, and marked her out for the grave of history. It is not just the United States; the same grotesque play, with local variations, is played out in every formerly Christian nation. The Popes were proven correct.
It was therefore no coincidence that American prelates played a major role in forging what would become the dagger at the heart of the Church: the ambiguous "Nostra Aetate". Two generations of Catholics would be brought up officially on what most Catholics unofficially already believed: "Catholicism - yes it is the true religion - but other religions are good too, or have good in them ". The problem is not with the good in the false religions, it is the bad. Most reject Our Lord's Divinity. A few reject the Church. They may well strike a few "good notes on the piano, but they play far too many wrong notes. It is this pandering to wrong notes that led the churchmen from "from Nostra Aetate to Pachamama". Pachamama is but a logical consequence of the fantasy that all religions are a different path to God. The fact is, different paths, lead men to different destinations.
We have Our Lord Jesus Christ's word on it: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me". John 14:6.
Pray that the Pope and the bishops will clarify the dangerous errors of religious liberty and false ecumenism.
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