Francis the Hun
by Thomas A. Droleskey
Taking up with the Lutherans right where is German predecessors, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI left off, Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis has wasted no time whatsoever in making "nice nice" with the theological and ecclesiastical descendents of the insidious, lecherous, drunkard named Martin Luther whose revolution against the Divine Plan that God Himself instituted to effect man's return to Him through the Catholic Church is what is principally responsible for plummeting men and their nations in the depths of the abyss.
Religious conflict among those who believe themselves to be Christians?
Blame Martin Luther.
The rise of doctrinal and moral relativism as a result of the rejection of the dogmatic truth that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ instituted a visible, hierarchical Church and founded it upon the Rock of Saint Peter, the Pope?
Blame Martin Luther.
The prevalence of individualism as the means to "interpret" the words of Holy Writ and to act as one wants in the fallacious belief that men are "saved' by making a profession of faith in the Holy Name of Jesus in their hearts and on their lips?
Blame Martin Luther.
The rise of authoritarian and totalitarian statism that is plaguing every so-called "civilized" nation on the face of this earth today?
Blame Martin Luther.
Does Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis understand this?
Don't make me laugh at such an absurd question on this great Feast of Pope Saint Leo the Great:
On Monday morning, Pope Francis received in audience Dr. Nikolaus
Schneider, Präses (“President”) of the Evangelical Church (Lutheran) in
Germany, who was accompanied by his wife, and a small group of
associates.
The head of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico
Lombardi, SJ, described the meeting as “very friendly”, noting the
Präses expressed his appreciation for the choosing of the name Francis,
“because it is the name of a saint that truly speaks to all Christians
in a very effective manner.” The Evangelical leader also spoke about his
concern for the victims of the recent flooding which has caused so much
suffering in Argentina.
Father Lombardi said their ecumenical
discussions focused on the value of the ecumenism of the martyrs, to
which the Pope gives particular weight, since the blood of the martyrs
is something which profoundly unites the various Christian denominations
in a common witness to Christ.
Dr. Schneider also spoke about the
upcoming anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, which is of course an
extremely important commemoration for the Evangelical Church in Germany.
The Pope took the opportunity to remind the Präses of the words of Pope
Benedict XVI in Erfurt, where Martin Luther lived and worked, which
have a particular ecumenical significance in regards to the figure of
Luther in particular, as well as for relations between the Catholic
Church and those ecclesial communities emerging from the Reformation. ( Francis the Hun meets head of German Non-Evangelical Sect Founded by Lecherous Drunkard Named Martin Luther.)
Ecumenism of the martyrs?
Excuse me, Jorge, baby, you fool and heretic, the Catholic Church teaches otherwise:
It [the Holy Roman Catholic Church] 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. (Cantate Domino, February 4, 1442.)
Who is a member of the Catholic Church?
Well, not Dr. Nikolaus Schneider or the members of his Lutheran sect:
Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church
who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been
so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or
been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. "For in one spirit" says the Apostle, "were we all baptized into one
Body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free." As therefore in
the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one
Lord, and one Baptism, so there can be only one faith. And
therefore, if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be considered -
so the Lord commands - as a heathen and a publican. It follows that
those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the
unity of such a Body, nor can they be living the life of its one Divine
Spirit. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)
Protestants have no "Christian witness" to give. Period. End of discussion.
Praise for the person of Martin Luther?
Let's examine exactly what Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI said in Erfurt, Germany, on Friday, September 23, 2011, the Feast of Pope Saint Linus:
As I begin to speak, I would like first of all to say how deeply
grateful I am that we are able to come together. I am particularly grateful to
you, my dear brother, Pastor Schneider, for receiving me and for the words with
which you have welcomed me here among you. You have opened your heart and
openly expressed a truly shared faith, a longing for unity. And we are also
glad, for I believe that this session, our meetings here, are also being
celebrated as the feast of our shared faith. Moreover, I would like to express
my thanks to all of you for your gift in making it possible for us to speak with
one another as Christians here, in this historic place.
As the Bishop of Rome, it is deeply moving for me to be meeting you here in the
ancient Augustinian convent in Erfurt. As we have just heard, this is where
Luther studied theology. This is where he was ordained a priest. Against his
father’s wishes, he did not continue the study of Law, but instead he studied
theology and set off on the path towards priesthood in the Order of Saint
Augustine. And on this path, he was not simply concerned with this or that. What constantly exercised him was the question of God, the deep passion and
driving force of his whole life’s journey. “How do I receive the grace of
God?”: this question struck him in the heart and lay at the foundation of all
his theological searching and inner struggle. For Luther theology was no mere
academic pursuit, but the struggle for oneself, which in turn was a struggle for
and with God.
“How do I receive the grace of God?” The fact that this question was
the driving force of his whole life never ceases to make a deep impression on
me. For who is actually concerned about this today – even among Christians?
What does the question of God mean in our lives? In our preaching? Most people
today, even Christians, set out from the presupposition that God is not
fundamentally interested in our sins and virtues. He knows that we are all mere
flesh. And insofar as people believe in an afterlife and a divine judgement at
all, nearly everyone presumes for all practical purposes that God is bound to be
magnanimous and that ultimately he mercifully overlooks our small failings. The
question no longer troubles us. But are they really so small, our failings? Is
not the world laid waste through the corruption of the great, but also of the
small, who think only of their own advantage? Is it not laid waste through the
power of drugs, which thrives on the one hand on greed and avarice, and on the
other hand on the craving for pleasure of those who become addicted? Is the
world not threatened by the growing readiness to use violence, frequently
masking itself with claims to religious motivation? Could hunger and poverty so
devastate parts of the world if love for God and godly love of neighbour – of
his creatures, of men and women – were more alive in us? I could go on. No,
evil is no small matter. Were we truly to place God at the centre of our lives,
it could not be so powerful. The question: what is God’s position towards me,
where do I stand before God? – Luther’s burning question must once more,
doubtless in a new form, become our question too, not an academic question, but
a real one. In my view, this is the first summons we should attend to in our
encounter with Martin Luther.
Another important point: God, the one God, creator of heaven and earth,
is no mere philosophical hypothesis regarding the origins of the universe. This
God has a face, and he has spoken to us. He became one of us in the man Jesus
Christ – who is both true God and true man. Luther’s thinking, his whole
spirituality, was thoroughly Christocentric: “What promotes Christ’s cause” was
for Luther the decisive hermeneutical criterion for the exegesis of sacred
Scripture. This presupposes, however, that Christ is at the heart of our
spirituality and that love for him, living in communion with him, is what guides
our life. (Meeting with representatives of the German Evangelical Church Council in the
Chapter Hall of the Augustinian Convent Erfurt, Germany, September 23, 2011.)
Worthy of praise?
Although Martin Luther was gifted with a keen
intellect, his sins and his overweening pride and disordered self-love
darkened that intellect and turned it into an instrument of the evil
that is still deceiving souls yet today. Father Patrick O'Hare explained
the true identity, which is far different from the Ratzinger/Benedict's hagiography, of Martin Luther:
"Anointed," as Luther was, "to preach the Gospel of
peace," and commissioned to communicate to all the knowledge which
uplifts, sanctifies and saves, it is certainly pertinent to ask what was
his attitude towards the ministry of the divine word, and in what
manner did he show by speech and behavior the heavenly sanctions of law:
divine, international and social?
As we draw near this man and carefully examine his career, we find that in an evil moment he
abandoned the spirit of discipline, became a pursuer of novelty, and
put on the ways and manners of the "wolf in sheep's clothing" whose
teeth and claws rent asunder the seamless garment of divine knowledge
which should have been kept whole for the instruction and the comfort of
all who were to seek the law at his lips. His words lost their
savor and influence for good, and only foulness and mocking blasphemy
filled his mouth, to deceive the ignorant and lead them into error,
license and rebellion against both Church and state. Out of the
abundance of a corrupt heart this fallen priest, who had departed from
the divine source of that knowledge, which is unto peace, shamelessly
advanced theories and principles which cut at the root of all order,
authority and obedience, and inaugurated an antagonism and a disregard
for the sanctity of law such as the world had not seen since pagan
times. His Gospel was not that of the Apostles, who issued from the
upper room of Jerusalem in the power of those "parted tongues, as it
were of fire." His doctrine, stripped of its cunning and deceit, was
nothing else, to use the words of St. James describing false teaching,
but "earthly, sensual, devilish"; so much so, that men of good sense
could no longer safely "seek the law at his mouth" and honestly
recognize him as "the angel of the Lord of Hosts" sent with instructions
for the good of the flock and the peace of the nations. Opposed to all
law, order and restraint, he could not but disgrace his ministry,
proclaim his own shame, and prove to every wise and discerning follower
of the true Gospel of peace, the groundlessness of his boastful claims
to be in any proper sense a benefactor of society, an upholder of
constituted authority and a promoter of the best interests of humanity.
Luther, like many another framer of
religious and political heresy, may have begun his course blindly and
with little serious reflection. He may never have stopped to estimate
the lamentable and disastrous results to which his heretofore
unheard-of-propaganda would inevitably lead. He may not have directly
intended the ruin, desolation and misery which his seditious preaching
effected in all directions. "But," as Verres aptly says, "if a man
standing on one of the snowcapped giants of the Alps were to roll down a
little stone, knowing what consequences would follow, he would be
answerable for the desolation caused by the avalanche in the valley
below. Luther put into motion not one little stone, but rock after rock,
and he must have been shortsighted indeed--or his blind hatred made him
so--if he was unable to estimate beforehand what effect his
inflammatory appeals to the masses of the people and his wild
denunciations of law and order would have." He should, as a matter of
course, have weighed well and thoroughly the merits or demerits of his
"new gospel" before he announced it to an undiscriminating public, and
wittingly or unwittingly unbarred the floodgates of confusion and unrest.
Deliberation, however, was a process little known to this man of many
moods and violent temper. To secure victory in his quarrel with the
Church absorbed his attention to the exclusion of all else, and,
although he may not have reflected in time on the effects of his
revolutionary teachings, he is nonetheless largely responsible for the
religious, political and social upheaval of his day which his wild and
passionate harangues fomented and precipitated. Nothing short of a
miracle could have prevented his reckless, persistent and unsparing
denunciations of authority and its representatives from undermining the
supports by which order and discipline in Church and state were upheld.
As events proved, his wild words, flung about in reckless profusion,
fell into souls full of the fermenting passions of time and turned
Germany into a land of misery, darkness and disorder. (Monsignor Patrick
F. O'Hare. The Facts About Luther, published originally in
Cincinnati, Ohio, by Frederick Pustet Company in 1916, reprinted in 1987
by TAN Books and Publishers, pp. 215-217.)
No man can be said to have led
a Christocentric life who made war upon the very reality of the
visible, hierarchical Church that He founded upon the Rock of Peter, the
Pope. There is no true Christocentric life without the Catholic Church.
It is that simple, something that Ratzinger, much like Luther before
him, is not.
Luther was concerned about "Christ's cause." No, he
was not. No man who denies the very reality of His Holy Church is
advancing anyone's cause except that of Lucifer himself.
Here is a brief review of the principal errors of the Lutheran strain of Protestantism:
(1) That Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did not create a visible, hierarchical Church.
(2) That there is no authority given by Our Lord
to the Pope and his bishops and priests to govern and to sanctify the
faithful.
(3) That each believer has an immediate and
personal relationship with the Savior as soon as he makes a profession
of faith on his lips and in his heart, therefore being perpetually
justified before God.
(4) Having been justified by faith alone, a
believer has no need of an intermediary from a non-existent hierarchical
priesthood to forgive him his sins. He is forgiven by God immediately
when he asks forgiveness.
(5) This state of justification is not earned by
good works. While good works are laudable, especially to help
unbelievers convert, they do not impute unto salvation. Salvation is the
result of the profession of faith that justifies the sinner.
(6) That grace is merely, in the words of Martin Luther, the snowflakes that cover up the "dung heap" that is man.
(7) That there is only one source of Divine Revelation, Sacred Scripture.
(8) That each individual is his own interpreter of Sacred Scripture.
(9) That there is a strict separation of Church
and State. Princes, to draw from Luther himself, may be Christians but
it is not as a Christian that they ought to rule.
These lies
have permutated in thousands of different directions. However, they have
sewn the fabric of the modern state and popular culture for nearly half
a millennium, serving as a good deal of the foundation of conciliarism
itself and its own devastation of souls.
Here below are explanations of these lies and their multifaceted implications for the world in which we live:
(1-2) The contention that Our Lord did not create a
visible, hierarchical church vitiates the need for a hierarchical,
sacerdotal priesthood for the administration of the sacraments. It is a
rejection of the entirety of the history of Christianity prior to the
Sixteenth Century. It is a denial of the lesson taught us by Our Lord by
means of His submission to His own creatures, Saint Joseph and the
Blessed Mother, in the Holy Family of Nazareth that each of us is to
live our entire lives under authority, starting with the authority of
the Vicar of Christ and those bishops who are in full communion with
him. The rejection of the visible, hierarchical church is founded on the
prideful belief that we are able to govern ourselves without being
directed by anyone else on earth. This contention would lead in due
course to the rejection of any and all religious belief as necessary for
individuals and for societies. Luther and Calvin paved the way for
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution that followed so closely
the latter's deification of man.
(3-6) Baptism is merely symbolic of the Christian's
desire to be associated with the Savior in the amorphous body known as
the Church. What is determinative of the believer's relationship with
Christ is his profession of faith. As the believer remains a reprobate
sinner, all he can do is to seek forgiveness by confessing his sins
privately to God. This gives the Protestant of the Lutheran strain the
presumptuous sense that there is almost nothing he can do to lose his
salvation once he has made his profession of faith in the Lord Jesus.
There is thus no belief that a person can scale the heights of personal
sanctity by means of sanctifying grace. It is impossible, as Luther
projected from his own unwillingness to cooperate with sanctifying grace
to overcome his battles with lust, for the believer to be anything
other than a dung heap. Thus a Protestant can sin freely without for
once considering that he has killed the life of sanctifying grace in his
soul, thereby darkening his intellect and weakening the will and
inclining himself all the more to sin-and all the more a vessel of
disorder and injustice in the larger life of society.
(7-8) The rejection of a visible, hierarchical
Church and the rejection of Apostolic Tradition as a source of Divine
Revelation protected by that Church leads in both instances to
theological relativism. Without an authoritative guide to interpret
Divine Revelation, including Sacred Scripture, individual believers can
come to mutually contradictory conclusions about the meaning of
passages, the precise thing that has given rise to literally thousands
of Protestant sects. And if a believer can reduce the Bible, which he
believes is the sole source of Divine Revelation, to the level of
individual interpretation, then there is nothing to prevent anyone from
doing the same with all written documents, including the documents of a
nation's founding. If the plain words of Scripture can be deconstructed
of their meaning, it is easy to do so, say, with the words of a
governmental constitution. Theological relativism paved the way for
moral relativism. Moral relativism paved the way for the triumph of
positivism and deconstructionism as normative in the realm of theology
and that of law and popular culture.
(9) The overthrow of the Social Kingship of Jesus
Christ as it was exercised by His true Church in the Middle Ages by the
Protestant concept of the separation of Church and State is what gave
rise to royal absolutism in Europe in the immediate aftermath of
Luther's handiwork. Indeed, as I have noted any number of times before,
it is arguably the case that the conditions that bred resentment on the
part of colonists in English America prior to 1776 might never have
developed if England had remained a Catholic nation. The monarchy would
have been subject in the Eighteenth Century to same constraints as it
had in the Tenth or Eleventh Centuries, namely, that kings and queens
would have continued to understand that the Church reserved unto herself
the right to interpose herself in the event that rulers had done
things-or proposed to do things-that were contrary to the binding
precepts of the Divine positive law and the natural law and/or were
injurious of the cause of the sanctification and salvation of the souls
of their subjects. The overthrow of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ
deposited power first of all in the hands of monarchs eager to be rid of
the "interference" of the Church and ultimately in the hands of whoever
happened to hold the reins of governmental power in the modern
"democratic" state. Despotism has been the result in both cases.
Despite all of this, however, men such as Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Joseph Alois Ratzinger have seen fit to praise the horrible, lecherous drunkard named Martin Luther. This places them slightly at odds with Pope Leo X, Luther's contemporary:
Therefore we can, without any further
citation or delay, proceed against him to his condemnation and damnation
as one whose faith is notoriously suspect and in fact a true heretic
with the full severity of each and all of the above penalties and
censures. Yet, with the advice of our brothers, imitating the mercy of
almighty God who does not wish the death of a sinner but rather that he
be converted and live, and forgetting all the injuries inflicted on us
and the Apostolic See, we have decided to use all the compassion we are
capable of. It is our hope, so far as in us lies, that he will
experience a change of heart by taking the road of mildness we have
proposed, return, and turn away from his errors. We will receive him
kindly as the prodigal son returning to the embrace of the Church.
Therefore let Martin himself and all those adhering
to him, and those who shelter and support him, through the merciful
heart of our God and the sprinkling of the blood of our Lord Jesus
Christ by which and through whom the redemption of the human race and
the upbuilding of holy mother Church was accomplished, know that from
our heart we exhort and beseech that he cease to disturb the peace,
unity, and truth of the Church for which the Savior prayed so earnestly
to the Father. Let him abstain from his pernicious errors that he may
come back to us. If they really will obey, and certify to us by legal
documents that they have obeyed, they will find in us the affection of a
father's love, the opening of the font of the effects of paternal
charity, and opening of the font of mercy and clemency.
We enjoin, however, on Martin that in the meantime he cease from all preaching or the office of preacher.
{And even though the love of righteousness and
virtue did not take him away from sin and the hope of forgiveness did
not lead him to penance, perhaps the terror of the pain of punishment
may move him. Thus we beseech and remind this Martin, his supporters and
accomplices of his holy orders and the described punishment. We ask him
earnestly that he and his supporters, adherents and accomplices desist
within sixty days (which we wish to have divided into three times twenty
days, counting from the publication of this bull at the places
mentioned below) from preaching, both expounding their views and
denouncing others, from publishing books and pamphlets concerning some
or all of their errors. Furthermore, all writings which contain some or
all of his errors are to be burned. Furthermore, this Martin is to
recant perpetually such errors and views. He is to inform us of such
recantation through an open document, sealed by two prelates, which we
should receive within another sixty days. Or he should personally, with
safe conduct, inform us of his recantation by coming to Rome. We would
prefer this latter way in order that no doubt remain of his sincere
obedience.
If, however, this
Martin, his supporters, adherents and accomplices, much to our regret,
should stubbornly not comply with the mentioned stipulations within the
mentioned period, we shall, following the teaching of the holy Apostle
Paul, who teaches us to avoid a heretic after having admonished him for a
first and a second time, condemn this Martin, his supporters, adherents
and accomplices as barren vines which are not in Christ, preaching an
offensive doctrine contrary to the Christian faith and offend the divine
majesty, to the damage and shame of the entire Christian Church, and
diminish the keys of the Church as stubborn and public heretics.} . . . (Pope Leo X in Exsurge Domini, June 15, 1520.)
Did God permit Pope Leo X to be in error about all of this? Was he, like
the popes of the Nineteenth Century, the "prisoner" of subjective
considerations that render Exsurge Domini to be "obsolete in
the particulars in which it contains"?
Given the fact that a Catholic
understands the answer to both of these questions is a resounding NO!,
how can any thought of praising Martin Luther enter into a Catholic's mind, no less pass from his lips as an adherent of Lutheranism is reaffirmed in his false religion and is not exhorted to convert?
Although the great saint and doctor of Holy Mother Church whose feast we celebrate today, Thursday, April 11, 2013, Pope Saint Leo the Great, courageously rode on horseback to meet Atila the Hun as he was about to ransack Rome in the year 452 A.D. and was able to prevail in his entreaty as the fearsome Mongol marauder saw a vision of Saint Peter threatening to kill him if he dared defy Pope Leo the Great, the Huns did manage to invade and ransack Rome.
Who are these Huns?
Let's name a few.
Angelo Roncalii
Giovanni Montini.
Albino Luciani.
Karol Wojtyla.
Joseph Ratzinger.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
These latter-day Huns and their foot soldiers have ransacked and pillaged every aspect of of Catholic Faith, Worship and Morals, sparing not even the architecture and art of Catholic church buildings, adopting much of what Luther and John Calvin and Thomas Cranmer and other Protestant revolutionaries taught and practice, resulting in a counterfeit church of such sacramental barrenness that a large percentage of baptized Catholics today behave the barbaric Huns themselves.
Senor Bergoglio (I much prefer the work of the late Señor Wences to that of Senor Bergoglio, don't you?) has done his own share of ransacking in the past twenty-nine days (it seems a lot longer!) as he has divested what little remained of papal dignity in the exercise of the conciliar function known as the "Petrine Ministry." He is truly a latter day Hun.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis is indeed a latter day Hun. He seeks every opportunity to cozy up to Protestants and Talmudists and Mohammedans and just plain old ordinary Huns in political life who support contraception, abortion, perversity and the statist take-over of every single aspect of human life in the name of "compassion" and "justice" and "concern for the poor."
Let us turn the to man who turned away Atila the Hun for inspiration on his feast day during this Easter season of rejoicing:
IV. We must have the same mind as was in Christ Jesus.
We must not, therefore, indulge in folly amid vain pursuits, nor give way to fear in the midst of adversities. On the one side, no doubt, we are flattered by deceits, and on the other weighed down by troubles; but because “the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord,” Christ’s victory is assuredly ours, that what He says may be fulfilled, “Fear not, for I have overcome the world.” Whether, then, we fight against the ambition of the world, or against the lusts of the flesh, or against the darts of heresy, let us arm ourselves always with the Lord’s Cross. For our Paschal feast will never end, if we abstain from the leaven of the old wickedness (in the sincerity of truth). For amid all the changes of this life which is full of various afflictions, we ought to remember the Apostle’s exhortation; whereby he instructs us, saying, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God counted it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, being made in the likeness of men and found in fashion as a man. Wherefore God also exalted Him, and gave Him a name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven, of things on earth, and of things below, and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father++++++.” If, he says, you understand “the mystery of great godliness,” and remember what the Only-begotten Son of God did for the salvation of mankind, “have that mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus,” Whose humility is not to be scorned by any of the rich, not to be thought shame of by any of the high-born. For no human happiness whatever can reach so great a height as to reckon it a source of shame to himself that God, abiding in the form of God, thought it not unworthy of Himself to take the form of a slave.
V. Only he who holds the truth on the Incarnation can keep Easter properly.
Imitate what He wrought: love what He loved, and finding in you the Grace of God, love in Him your nature in return, since as He was not dispossessed of riches in poverty, lessened not glory in humility, lost not eternity in death, so do ye, too, treading in His footsteps, despise earthly things that ye may gain heavenly: for the taking up of the cross means the slaying of lusts, the killing of vices, the turning away from vanity, and the renunciation of all error. For, though the Lord’s Passover can be kept by no immodest, self-indulgent, proud, or miserly person, yet none are held so far aloof from this festival as heretics, and especially those who have wrong views on the Incarnation of the Word, either disparaging what belongs to the Godhead or treating what is of the flesh as unreal. For the Son of God is true God, having from the Father all that the Father, with no beginning in time, subject to no sort of change, undivided from the One God, not different from the Almighty, the eternal Only-begotten of the eternal Father; so that the faithful intellect believing in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost in the same essence of the one Godhead, neither divides the Unity by suggesting degrees of dignity, nor confounds the Trinity by merging the Persons in one. But it is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father’s nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man’s restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was “no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved,” the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassible passible: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power. (On the Lord's Resurrection, II.)
Pope Saint Leo the Great also has words for those who believe that they can be silent about the offense given to God and His Holy Truth by supposed "popes" who praise a diabolically-inspired rebel such as Martin Luther, those who believe that they are not required to oppose error or to flee from any contact with men who show themselves to be open enemies of Christ the King and of the souls He redeemed by every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross:
But it is vain for them to adopt the name of catholic, as they
do not oppose these blasphemies: they must believe them, if they can
listen so patiently to such words. (Pope Saint Leo the Great, Epistle XIV, To Anastasius, Bishop of Thessalonica, St. Leo the Great | Letters 1-59 )
Flee the Francis the Hun and his fellow barbarians. Flee from them once and for all. They are not Catholic. They are enemies of the Holy Faith.
Isn't this pretty easy to see as we ask Our Lady for the graces to persevere in our resolution to have nothing whatsoever to do with these latter-day Huns?
Once again, let us turn to Pope Saint Pius X, who warned us as Patriarch
of Venice about men such as Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis and Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and their band of fellow Huns:
"How necessary
it is to stir up again the spirit of faith, at a time when there is a
growth of that malignant fever which would discredit everything and deny
every dogma of revealed religion! How necessary it is at this present
time when people are trying to dismiss the mysteries of our faith, when
people are claiming to explain them--while Christ has demanded the
submission of the intellect--when they are casting doubt on the most
established prophecies, when they are denying the most manifest
miracles, whey they are rejecting the sacraments, deriding pious
practices, and discrediting the magisterium of the Church and her
ministers!
Cardinal Sarto,
clearly, had in mind not only the rationalists outside the Church, but
also those who, inside the Church, were beginning to dismiss her dogmas
because of their own historical presuppositions and their erroneous
philosophies. Even if the name Modernism does not appear in this
pastoral letter [dated May 21, 1895], Cardinal Sarto had identified its
initial symptoms, as he had in Mantua. It was during this period,
moreover, that he began to take notice of the works of [notorious
Modernist] Alfred Loisy, "forcefully reproving the affirmations contrary
to the faith," which they contained, as a witness in the beatification
process tells us." (Yves Chiron, Saint Pius X: Restorer of the Church. Translated by Graham Harrison. Angelus Press, 2002, p. 95.)
With Pope Saint Pius X, we reject those who reject
and mock the integrity of the Holy Faith no matter how many times a
putative "pope" does and says things that have been condemned repeatedly
by Holy Mother Church.
We must always cling to the
spiritual weapons given us by Our Lady to fight the forces of the world,
the flesh and the devil, the forces, that is, of Modernity in the world
and Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, especially by
praying as many Rosaries each day as our state-in-life permits.
Our Lady will help us to be ever ready to defend
the honor and the glory of the Blessed Trinity to Whom she is Daughter,
Mother, and Spouse. She will lead us to be ever mindful of making
reparation for our own many sins by offering our daily penances to the
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate
Heart, ever desirous of spending time with her at Holy Mass and in front
of her Divine Son's Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament as a
foretaste of the Heavenly glories that will await us if we die in a
state of Sanctifying Grace as members of the Catholic Church.
The possession of the glory of the Beatific Vision
in Heaven is our goal. And that goal cannot be achieved by a
participation in or even silence about the apostasies, blasphemies and sacrileges of conciliarism.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death Amen
Isn't it time to pray a Rosary now?
