{"id":6454,"date":"2016-02-19T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T15:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2016-02-19T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:02:27","slug":"replace-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=6454","title":{"rendered":"Replace Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6495\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/francis-and-benedict-kneel.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6492\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6495\" class=\"wp-image-6495 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/francis-and-benedict-kneel.jpg?resize=525%2C350\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/francis-and-benedict-kneel.jpg?w=525&amp;ssl=1 525w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/francis-and-benedict-kneel.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazing how my day has finally come to free the peoples<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The world is reacting to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/rorate-caeli.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/the-most-confusing-papal-interview-ever.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">spate of Catholic attacks<\/a> from the man in white.\u00a0 Most will agree with him on contraception.\u00a0 Many will be furious about countries, borders, and the true freedom of the Gospel.\u00a0 All of them will feel a despair somewhere deep within their souls.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/another-head-buster-did-pope-really-say.html\" target=\"_blank\">Faithful voices<\/a> are clear-headed and angry.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews\/~3\/a0o_rm01C8U\/\" target=\"_blank\">respectable catholic press<\/a> has closed ranks with some contempt for decent people.<\/p>\n<p>Does it make your skin crawl to hear Francis say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/what-did-pope-francis-actually-say-about-contraception-47196\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Blessed Paul VI?&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only Christian who feels discouraged and helpless in the face of this statist political tool, &#8216;Pope Francis.&#8217;\u00a0 The entire world and its machine honor him as Pope and perhaps he is, but it really doesn&#8217;t matter because he&#8217;s not Catholic.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not part of the Church Militant.\u00a0 Many may read this and say it&#8217;s sedevacantism, but it&#8217;s not.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not claiming to know Francis&#8217; actual status.\u00a0 I&#8217;m simply saying that spiritually what difference does it make to God when you&#8217;re in the Hell line anyway?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re standing in the Hell line, does Christ consider you part of His Church?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask, &#8220;Are you saying Francis is going to Hell?&#8221;\u00a0 Well, he&#8217;s a heretic, and despite what so many &#8216;catholics&#8217; say today, Heaven is for the faithful departed.\u00a0 Simply put, Francis is a pope who teaches heresy.\u00a0 Do the conditions exist for canonical heresy?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know, but I suggest any canonist who continues to dismiss the Pope&#8217;s heresy should place himself before the throne of God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contraceptive sex is not a moral response to any possible negative consequence of birth, much less so for a trumped-up political and faux-scientific health reason.<\/li>\n<li>It is not unChristian or anathema for a politician to protect and control a country&#8217;s borders.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s sacrilege for Lutherans to receive Holy Communion if their consciences happen to approve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These things are all blatantly heretical and there are many, many more. Don&#8217;t spin me about context, formality and interpretive angles. The Church cannot be led by a heretic.\u00a0 It will only die, and it surely is dying.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter if if someone funds a new building to teach Human Ecology at Fordham.<\/p>\n<p>The Church Militant is being smothered by an official parasite Church.\u00a0 Francis has made the reality even more stark.\u00a0 Today everywhere is China.\u00a0 There is the state church and the true Church.\u00a0 But unlike the Chinese underground Church in our time, we can no longer look to another land for a vicar who speaks the truth.\u00a0 Still, that doesn&#8217;t mean we can forget Christ or the Church&#8217;s doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>We now have a false and organized Church.\u00a0 We also have a group of faithful who either sinfully enable the false part of the Church or refuse to resist it.\u00a0 Are they part of the Church Militant?\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s not very militant.<\/p>\n<p>The question is:\u00a0 How do we, the true and faithful Church, respond to a false Church and its unCatholic Pope?\u00a0 What does God want us to do?\u00a0 I can think of two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We must shore up and organize into a group which preserves the teachings and the economy of God&#8217;s grace in union with the Church.<\/li>\n<li>We must never honor anything falsely.\u00a0 We must never ever treat something or someone pretending to be Catholic like part of the Church.\u00a0 WE ARE NOT THAT.\u00a0 THAT IS NOT US.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In doing so, we need to call for Francis to be removed or step down simply on the grounds that he is not a believer.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not Catholic.\u00a0 To do so would be the appropriate and measured amount of honor we should give him as Christians.\u00a0 It&#8217;s impossible for the Church to be led by a Protestant, if he can even be called that, and it has dire need for a faithful leader today and always.\u00a0 We must have no fear of being called schismatics and heretics by schismatics and heretics, <em>no matter who they are.\u00a0<\/em> Christ was calumniated the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Catholics don&#8217;t worship popes.\u00a0 They are led by popes to Christ.\u00a0<strong> Francis should be removed and replaced by a Catholic Pope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In all things we need to draw the line.\u00a0 Build the wall.\u00a0 Then we can attach the arches and spires.\u00a0 The Church is a living thing.\u00a0 It can always slowly rise up again through a crack in the bleak and crumbling sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is reacting to the latest spate of Catholic attacks from the man in white.\u00a0 Most will agree with him on contraception.\u00a0 Many will be furious about countries, borders, and the true freedom of the Gospel.\u00a0 All of them will feel a despair somewhere deep within their souls.\u00a0 Faithful voices are clear-headed and angry.\u00a0 <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=6454\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,335,769,19,770,771],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contraception","tag-heresy","tag-mexico-plane","tag-pope-francis","tag-trump-border","tag-zika"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}