When Dissidents Write Encyclicals They Fill Them With Heresy

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Either crazed or startled by the light

Crazed or just startled by the light?

After seeing how the Catholic media stepped over itself to hide the Pope’s welcome for a communist crucifix, and knowing that they have also done their best to cover the lies and heresy in the Laudato Si’ encyclical, why should it be surprising that its sinister contributors keep popping up?

Rorate Caeli reports:

The New Yorker published last week a long opinion piece (A Radical Vatican?) by Naomi Klein, a radical eco-feminist (and abortion supporter who has publicly disparaged pro-lifers) who was specifically invited by the Vatican to be one of the four speakers at a major press conference held on July 1 in the Aula Giovanni Paolo II, organized by the Holy See Press Office and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The press conference’s goal was to introduce the international conference “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course” held in the Augustinianum on July 2-3. The conference was co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace along with CIDSE, an international alliance of 17 Catholic Development Organisations; predictably it focused to a great extent on Laudato Si. Klein also served as a panelist during the conference at the Augustinianum.

“A Radical Vatican?” is noteworthy not only as an example of how secular figures that the Vatican itself considers as allies are treating the encyclical as an epochal break from Catholic tradition, but also for its passages about the theological intentions behind the encyclical. (See below; emphases ours.) Here we find Naomi Klein quoting Fr. Seán McDonagh, who is part of the “administrative team” of the ultra-liberal and theologically dissident “Association of Catholic Priests” (ACP) in Ireland — and was involved in drafting the encyclical. McDonagh’s role in drafting Laudato Si is trumpeted not just by the ACP’s website (which calls him “one of the chief advisors to the Vatican in the composition of the encylical”) but by his own congregation (the Columbans — see this) and by Vatican Radio, which not only acknowledges that he was one of the theologians consulted for the encyclical, but also chose to interview him about its importance. (Keep in mind that it is exceedingly rare for any of the actual drafters or advisors for an Encyclical to be publicly identified by official Church sources.)

Is it a shock to find a dissident ‘theologian’ guiding this unCatholic reorientation of man and nature, weakening our natural rights against the all-powerful state?  Not in FrancisChurch it’s not.

Rorate goes on to make an analysis of Fr. McDonagh’s impact on the Pope’s hysterical manifesto.  We should expect ‘deep change.’  Communist crucifixes are the tip of the iceberg.

We have to ask ourselves now: In FrancisChuch, with error not only holding power but reigning and having sway, and a muscled-out Pope still appearing in white; what is the relationship between a Catholic united to the true Church and Francis?  What is our obligation toward this hostile coup?

Staring like silent spectators at the pillage can’t possibly be Christian.

 

Stupid Catholic Climate Change Dances in the Rain: You Can Get Trapped School Kids to Do Anything

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This must be one of those calamities happening

This must be one of those calamities happening.

This story out of India would already be terrifying even if it weren’t Catholic.

Supporting Pope Francis’ global call for urgent action on climate change, children in New Delhi took to the streets to create awareness for the environment.

“People tend to ignore the need to preserve the environment and carry on with their lives. I hope they will take into consideration what the pope has said on the issue,” Kalpana Singh told ucanews.com.

Singh was among the 7-15 year-olds taking part in a dance event on New Delhi streets July 12 using colorful umbrellas, unicycles and holding banners, despite the heavy downpour.

Deepak, who uses only one name, told ucanews.com, that he was concerned about the increasing number of natural calamities across the world. “We have caused this harm to our mother Earth and we will have to take steps to rectify it. The sooner we start, the better.”

Why does Deepak only use one name and when am I going to get one of these calamities?  They give you weeks home from work and they bring the whole neighborhood out for barbecues.

This kind of thing is so widespread, reaching now even to the infamous pen of the replacement Pope, that it may not seem like much.  But take your mind back to when you were a child.  Only in a dystopian sci-fi novel would you have found children mouthing creepy robotic nonsense and being ordered to dance in the rain.

Pope Francis  recently released the encyclical Laudato si’ (Praise be to you — On Care For Our Common Home). Addressed to every person on the planet, the pope blamed human greed for the critical situation “Our Sister, mother Earth” now finds herself in.

“This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her,” he wrote.

The better part of that ‘encyclical’ is just insulting propaganda from one acting as the Vicar of Christ.  There’s almost nothing Catholic about it.

The Earth isn’t my sister. I don’t care what St. Francis might have said.  My sister is my sister and the Earth is a planet.  Is that what it means to be religious now?  We have to say stupid things and pretend they mean something?

The New Delhi event, a part of the Pope4Planet campaign, was organized by the Church-based social organizations Caritas India, Chetnalaya and Nine is Mine.

Caritas is not a church-based organization.  It is a statist machine pretending to be Catholic. Atrocities like this don’t originate from actual people or the true Church.  They come only from governments intent on control.

More than 250 people signed petitions addressed to world leaders in the U.N. Climate Summit to be held in Paris in November, asking them to take responsibility for climate change and take steps to control it.

This Paris meeting is very, very important to FrancisChurch and its worldly accomplices.

“People are just waiting for an opportunity to do something for the environment,” Amrit Sangma, spokesman of Caritas India, told ucanews.com.

No they’re not.  They ‘re getting paid to say things like this, and kids will do anything to get out of government jail-schools, even dance around like fools in the rain.

 

Maybe They Didn’t Take Away The Old Mass Because They Like Us

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By their fruits...

By their fruits…

The terrific Pat Archbold has the latest in a series of interviews with old-school Catholic and freedom fighter, Ann Barnhardt.  In it she makes two ‘transformational’ (as the Left likes to say) points about the Mass.  One regarding Vatican motivations, so alive once again in this seemingly sinister Francis Era; and the other about grace.

Before there can be any discussion of the Novus Ordo the concepts of  “validity” and “licitness” must be understood.  If a Mass is INVALID, Our Lord does NOT come down on the altar, the Eucharist is NOT confected and the Holy Sacrifice is NOT offered.  If a Mass is ILLICIT, the Eucharist is confected and Our Lord does come, but He is, depending on the severity of the infraction and motivation of the malefactor, in a range from displeased to very, very angry.  But with whom is He angry?  According to St. Thomas Aquinas, Our Lord is angry not only with the priest, but also with the PEOPLE who tolerate and embrace the liturgical faults and crimes of the clergy.  In fact, St. Thomas said that people who consent to liturgical abuse do not “obtain the reality of the sacrament”.

“Sometimes the one celebrating the sacraments differently [than prescribed] does not vary those things that are essential to the sacrament [i.e., the form and matter], and in that case, the sacrament is indeed conferred; but one does not obtain the reality of the sacrament unless the sacrament’s recipient is immune from the fault of the one celebrating it differently.”  (In IV Sent., d. 4, q. 3, a. 2, qa. 2, ad 4)

Now, when Thomas says they are not obtaining the “res,” or reality of the Sacrament, he doesn’t mean they are not receiving Jesus really, physically, substantially present in the Eucharist. Oh they absolutely receive our Lord, but not the benefit of receiving Him, not the grace. Rather, as St. Paul says, they eat and drink their own damnation. If one pauses and thinks about the gravity of what the Angelic Doctor said, one quickly realizes how the following statistics are not only possible, but entirely predictable given the Novus Ordo paradigm:

  • As of 2001, only 17% of Catholics in the U.S. attended Mass every week, which is, of course, obligatory under pain of mortal sin.
  • Of those who attend Mass “regularly”, less than 30% believe in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.  For a non-trivial percentage of the 70% who do not believe in the Real Presence, it is because they have never been told or taught of the Real Presence in any way.
  • Among white Catholic Americans, 54% voted for Barack Obama in 2008.  That number dropped to a MERE 50% in 2012.
  • Among Hispanic Catholic Americans, 72% voted for Obama in 2008, and 75% in 2012.
  • In excess of 60% of American Catholics support sodomite “marriage”, and Catholics have consistently “led the way” in polls on this question.
  • All over the world, support for and active use of contraception among Catholics is in excess of 90%.
  • 55% of American Catholics support abortion in all or most cases.

I agree with Ann and many others that the Church, and the world along with it in our time, is suffering from a lack of Christian grace brought on by the suppression of the Mass.  The act of supreme faith and worship is much missed.  Although blindingly obvious, without eyes of faith it is impossible to see how much the Mass had elevated civilization, or how much it’s absence has debased it.

The Novus Ordo Masses are mostly valid, but the amount of grace flowing into the people, if what St. Thomas teaches is true, is little to none, not only because so many of them are receiving Holy Communion in unconfessed mortal sin, but also because the only way for an adult to receive the graces flowing from the Novus Ordo is to spend the entirety of the Mass begging God’s mercy and making reparation for the illicit liturgical actions freely chosen by the priest and consented to by the people, and further begging God’s mercy and making reparation for the massively compromised nature of the Novus Ordo itself, created as it was with full malice aforethought by Freemasonic-Communist-sodomite infiltrators of the Church, and again, consented to by the people, who have historically been the last and most strident line of defense against liturgical abuse.

What? Communists infiltrating the Church?  That would never happen, right?

Can we at least agree that the only Pope who ever, ever had the hubris to force his own version of the Mass may perhaps have been motivated by something other than a loving faith?

Or are you one of those weak-Jesus Christians who blames the world for the Church?