Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More: Defenders of Holy Matrimony

In that horrifying 16th century, when King Henry VIII, tore England from the Rock of Peter, corrupting and turning the Church in England into the "church" of England, Catholics would do well to recall the witness to Holy Matrimony given by St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. 

Here we have one bishop (out of about 50 bishops. My times have not changed. In other words 98% of the English and Welsh hierarchy went along with the destroyer of the Church in England), and one layman (who gave up the temptations of riches and honour, and then his life to be loyal to Christ). 

These two great saints are a splendid example for the clergy and laity of our day. A remarkable example to to resist the evil clamor coming from the very men, the very churchmen, that a few years ago we would think unthinkable. Especially unthinkable would it be to consider that the very Pope, the man sitting on the Throne of Peter would utter such evil when he spoke last week that those living in grave habitual sin receive grace from God. 

If this be so, then the struggle between the Catholic Church and the despotic Tudor Tyrant was all for naught. Surely, the Pope of the day could have come to some arrangement with the lustful Monarch and winked at his "irregular situation" and even informed the King that he was receiving grace from God. 

No, it could not be so. The Church must be faithful to Christ and His beautiful teaching about Holy Matrimony. Fisher and More understood well the meaning of the Union betwixt Christ and His Church, and how it was reflected in the Union between a man and a woman; she truly obeying him, he delivering himself up for her. 

There can be no doubt that in our selfish world, the resistance to obey on the part of the woman, and the resistance to deliver himself up on the part of the man has removed the "holy" from Matrimony and, is seen  by the near universal manifestations in parish  weddings of the turning of something holy,  sober, dignified into a sad confusion about "partnership", "equality", coupled with the most foolish sentimentalism, superficiality and so on. 

This false understanding of Holy Matrimony, this surrender by churchmen to the world has precipitated an avalanche of profaned marriages. It should come as no surprise that so many marriages collapse when they are not founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ. When the very day of Nuptials is a disgraceful circus and call to  lust, rather than a quiet, sober religious ceremony. How many recall that that Louis and Zellie Martin - now canonized - formalized their marriage in a ultra discrete and private ceremony just before midnight? If only more Catholics would follow their example! 

The mockery of Holy Matrimony by society has not been strongly opposed by churchmen. To the contrary, they have enabled this denigration and mockery. We all witnessed and are feeling the effects of the disastrous Synod of the Family, and the cunningly composed Amoris Laetitia which deliberately injected confusion so as to play safe from explicit accusations of heresy. Nonetheless, the effect is the same as open heresy. 

Amoris Laetitia and the mad ravings of dissident churchmen is the compromise that Henry VIII was seeking. Amoris Laetitia contains within it the necessary tools that would have availed the corrupt King and a weak and vacillating Pope to come to an "agreement". An agreement, had it been made, that would have cast the teachings of Christ into outer darkness.  

Let us therefore without bending the knee to the god of compromise, without burning even one grain of sand to the idol of adultery or fornication reject all and any profanation of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. If something is proposed to us, be it from an "angel from heaven", or a Pope, bishop or priest that is not in accord with the unchangeable teachings of Christ and His Church - let him be anathema. The Pope may still be our father, but just as a father remains the head of the family, the children are under no obligation to obey when asked to sin. 

May the prayers of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, as well as all those English and Welsh martyrs for the Faith convert the heart of Pope Francis and the adulterists and homosexualists within the Church; to move them to repentance and to once again teaching the doctrine of Holy Matrimony without compromise. 

Jesuit Hubris: doctrine must evolve to fit with pastoral practice

Antonio Spadaro S.J., a very close advisor and confidante of Pope Francis has just tweeted happily an article by the Jesuit heretic Thomas P Rausch that doctrine must change to match pastoral evolution. The boldness of these liars and deceivers is such that they are now dropping any pretext of the monstrous lie that "doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge..." to openly admit that doctrine must be re-formulated to fit pastoral practices. Vox Cantoris accurately predicted that these men always had one thing in mind, the changing of doctrine. 

Now, we are informed in the neo-Modernist La Civilta Cattolica, that the "evolution of doctrine is not only possible, but necessary..." in response to pastoral situations. The Jesuit "De Suisse Romande" is emphatic: Amoris Laetitia opens the door for the divorced and "remarried" - in other words, ADULTERERS - to receive Holy Communion. 

De Suisse Romande gives a highly favourable  review by the arch-Modernist Jesuit, Rausch, who proposes that paragraph 305 of Amoris Laetitia opens the way to "recontextualize" doctrine in the service of the "pastoral mission of the Church". 

Such errors are not new, but as part of the doctrine of the Modernists were formally condemned by Pope St. Pius X. The holy Pope wrote: 

These errors are being daily spread among the faithful. Lest they captivate the faithful's minds and corrupt the purity of their faith, His Holiness, Pius X, by Divine Providence, Pope, has decided that the chief errors should be noted and condemned by the Office of this Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition.

Therefore, after a very diligent investigation and consultation with the Reverend Consultors, the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals, the General Inquisitors in matters of faith and morals have judged the following propositions to be condemned and proscribed. In fact, by this general decree, they are condemned and proscribed.

Condemned Propositions by Pius X in Lamentabili Sane: 

58. Truth is no more immutable than man himself, since it evolved with him, in him, and through him.

59. Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and all men, but rather inaugurated a religious movement adapted or to be adapted to different times and places.

63. The Church shows that she is incapable of effectively maintaining evangelical ethics since she obstinately clings to immutable doctrines which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.

Has the Vatican really endorsed Salt and Light TV - the channel that praised the arch-heretic, Gregory Baum?

Thomas Rosica, CSB., at an event in Vancouver, BC., stated the following regarding Salt and Light: 

"The Vatican has told me this is an extremely important way of evangelizing; a discreet, but constant, evangelization".

Fr. Rosica should provide us with the name of the churchman or churchmen who stated this. If the Roman authorities did indeed state this, were they aware of the same Fr. Rosica's praise for the arch-heretic and ex-priest, Gregory Baum. The lauding of Baum, hardly constitutes evangelization, discreet or otherwise. 

"... you have been for me and continue to be a real model of hope... you remain a faithful, deeply devoted Catholic; you love Jesus, the Church, the Eucharist".  

Fr. Thomas Rosica, addressing ex-priest/dissident theologian, Professor Gregory Baum. 

Many Catholics, having heard the scandalous interview with Baum will find it hard to believe that Rome approves of Salt and Light TV. On the other hand, perhaps the Modernist infiltration is so deep, so extensive, that indeed it may not be too difficult to find a wolf in sheep's clothing who will endorse as Catholic a media channel that praises Baum. 

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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