Author: Odon De Castro

1. The most important topic for Catholics today is ecclesiology, i.e. the four visible signs of the Church of Jesus  Christ. The battle lines have to be drawn between the City of God and the City of man, of which the devil is the ruler. Both cities have to be described properly. So each man may know where he stands. For where he stands will be the basis of his judgment.
     The City of God is where Christ is king, and inhabitants obey Christ’s commands mindful of what Christ said; ‘If you love Me keep My commandments.’ That love comes from a dogma filled Faith.
     The City of Man, on the other hand, is ruled by the devil. It is inhabited by men, who, like the devil, wants to be like gods and obey their own will while imposing the same will on others like a tyrant. 

2. The signs of the true Church, the City of God,  should settle the bugging  question who are the members of the true Church of Christ who will go to heaven. This should shatter the countless presumptions that makes every one think he will go to heaven whatever kind of life he lives. 
     
3.  In Gregorian Chant, these four visible signs sound like the  triumphant finale of the Nicene Creed as if the existence of the Church with her visible sign is the glorious end of all the truths in the Creed. 

4. We must believe, the Nicene Creed states,  that the characteristics of the Church of Christ is that she is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. And we should judge the true Church with absolutely no other norms, as Protestant usually do.  
     The Canonization of the saints is based, first and foremost, on the proof that he is a Catholic with the four visible signs. Then proving the heroic practice of the theological virtues. 
     Today we canonize out of political whim; and many times we easily call a group  Catholic or not based on a whim showing total ignorance of the dogmas on the visible sign of the true Catholic Church established by Divine Revelation.

5. One or Unity is a resulting characteristic of the Church that results from  her Apostolicity in all her teachings.  Evidently most communities are not one; either lay ecclesial communities, religious communities or even Bishop’s conferences and Synods, just like the just concluded Synod in Rome. 

6. If I were a parish priest and want to start a Catholic community I must start with the fourth visible sign, Apostolic. As the community’s knowledge of the Apostolic teachings is perfected, the community becomes gradually one in heart and mind. When the visible sign of unity appears that will be accomplished by the Holy Spirit alone,  then  the members begin to become  holy. And as each member of the community becomes Holy, that is the only time to sent them all around the world as witnesses and missionaries for the Church to become Catholic or universal. Pope Francis’ Missionaries or Mercy is just a group of tourists sent around the world without a single visible sign of the true Church. 
     Again, each sign must be perfected gradually  before the next sign appears….and so on…..until all the four visible signs are present. This could takes years to accomplish.

7. Often what we see in ourselves and others are signs of the true Church in different stages. The Church with four perfect visible sign seems to be non-existent yet, though that is how the true Catholic Church should be.

8. The good bishops and cardinals in the Synod are showing different degrees in the development of the visible signs of the Church. This is seen in their defense of a few doctrines, like the indissolubility of marriage and their condemnation of same sex marriage. Their defense is a partial sign of the true Church. But by apostolicity they must exhibit all the teachings of the Church. 
     But as we have shown, to have one or two signs is a hint that they could have all the signs hidden in them or better still that they are still on the way to perfecting the visible signs one by one as usually the case.
                                                   

9. Putin and Orthodox Russia. Netangyahu and Israel. Fellay and the Pius X group.
    They used to be considered schismatics and heretics but, now, 
 they have more visible signs of the true Church than the Vatican in Rome.
     Netangyahu being a Jew knows the O.T. and has more signs of the true Church than many modernist Catholic priests who no longer believe in Divine Revelation.
     Putin and orthodox Russia uses both the O.T. and the N.T.  Purer in their Faith, they are more intelligent. The most Catholic voice in the last Bishop’s Synod was Hilarion from the Moscow Patriarchate speaking on behalf of Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. He puts Francis to shame. 
     Fellay lives by the New Testament, too, and the Fathers of the  Church.  So their Faith is even stronger. Their group attracks many Catholics because of their traditional orientation.
     Pope Francis and those close to him in the Synod, are disobeying both the Old and New Testament.  With their proposals and two ‘Motu Proprios’ on Catholic divorce, their actions are sinful and heretical according to the ‘Syllabus.’   The chastisement for their infidelity is ‘stultitia.’ For the Orthodox, the Jews and for Bishop Fellay, joining the Catholic Church is jumping from the frying pan into the fire. 

10. An ominous sign.
     An ominous sign appeared on Good Friday which the Catholic world had been waiting for with great expectancy to re-appear on, what St. Bonaventure called, the sixth day. And which Pope Benedict expounded in a talk putting together St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas of Aquinas.
     The ominous sign is a day when the whole world which includes most of the men of the Catholic Church (like the Scribes and the Pharisees)  will persecute the Body of Christ (as on Good Friday), while the Faithful (like the apostles) are in hiding (in contemplative prayer) and anyone looking for the truth will find it nowhere. 
     As the persecutors of Christ was headed by a Chief priest and a traitor apostle, it will appear that the head of the destroyer of the  present Church will be holding a very high office in the Church.
     The persecutors will have a common denominator; due to their sins and heresies, they will have none of the visible signs of the true Church  while having what St. Bellarmine described as the signs of the Protestant churches.   

 11. Cardinal Arinze and Mario Bergoglio.
     Almost as soon as Mario Bergoglio became Pope, Cardinal Arinze spoke in Nigeria. He was the former head of the Congregation on Divine Worship and the discipline of the Sacraments. He was ‘papabili’ during the conclave that elected Ratzinger. He knew Mario Bergoglio, having lived with him during Vatican II and during the subsequent conclaves. He is also a very good theologian and is very influential among the Bishops of Africa. He is at present often quoted during the last Bishop’s Synod though he was not attending;
     He knows his catechism specially the visible signs of the true Church. His article can be read in AFRIPOL ( Africa Political and Economic Strategic Center). Cardinal Arinze said; Pope Francis is in a journey to redefine (i.e. to change)  the Roman Catholic Church and to make it inclusive in a likeness of a liberal religious institution. Arinze described Pope Francis as believing ‘that all religions are true and added that, today, we should no longer judge. Like a loving Father we never condemn our children. Arinze further quoted  Pope Francis saying; our church is big enough for heterosexuals and homosexuals, pro-life and pro-choice, conservative and liberals, even communists. Francis continues; we worship the same god.
     The article ends with Cardinal Arinze analyzing the teachings of Pope Francis noticed that truth and morals are relative according to Francis and all  his talk on love and tolerance is hallow.
     Then Cardinal Arinze makes these conclusion based on his premises; I charge Pope Francis is a heretic. He cannot be a valid Pope. Francis is not even a Catholic. 

 12.  Let us check Arinze’s facts with more facts. Pope Francis is, indeed, redefining the Catholic Church, taking away from it everything pre-Vatican II and putting in new things taken from his book ‘Church of compassion.’ This church is totally a new Protestant denomination. All his activities had been focused on selling this new church. Pope Francis’  ‘Year of Mercy’ is advertisement for his book. And Francis’ Missionaries of Mercy are sellers of his heretical book. Remember all those posters on ‘Mercy’ during the papal visit? This was not the ‘mercy’ of the Beatitude. It is Bergoglio’s mercy, we do not know where it came from. Bergoglio is surely introducing a new sect with absolutely no connection with the Church of Christ, of the apostles and of the Fathers. 
     All religion are true, is the heresy of indifferentism condemned many time in the past by the Catholic Church 
     Pope Francis believes we should not condemn.  But God will condemn us. It is by condemning ourselves that God relents condemning us. 
     The Church is big enough for all of us. Notice Pope Francis’ list who should join us inside the Church. It contains those sinners that St. Paul writing to the Corinthians wrote; that we should cut them out of our gathering and we should have nothing to do with them. Lest in our weakness we become contaminated. Do not eat with them, St. Paul wrote. We can return to them and save them when we are perfect.
     Then Arinze condemns Pope Francis’ heretical tendencies towards liberalism and modernism, heresies that Arinze properly defined based on the ‘Syllabus’ of Pius IX and Pius X.
     The sentence that Pope Francis is an invalid Pope, a heretic and not a Catholic is based on St. Robert Bellarmine’s ‘De controversiis’. Pope Francis’ proposals on the annulment of matrimony in the two ‘Motu proprio’ further confirms his disobedience to the commands of Christ. And almost everyday he says something against the teaching of the Church; from his ‘there is no Catholic God,’ ‘don’t reproduce like rabbits,’ ‘keep the doctrine but change the discipline.’ But his Church with his ego as god is the desire ‘to be like gods’ that was the first sin of the angels.’
     Sadly, though I hate to admit it, His Eminence Cardinal Arinze was right in his definitions, logical in his reasoning and sound in his conclusions. 

13. Cardinal Arinze described Pope Francis as guilty of the heresy of liberalism, modernism, and treason for starting a new sect with himself as god. But the ominous sign is that most cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen are just like him.This is the  sign mentioned by St. Hildegard of Bingen (1179)  in her mystical-prophetic work ‘Scivia, liber vitae meritorum.’  Declared Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict, St. Hildegard wrote that when this ominous sign appears, which will be preceded by the last anti-pope,  we have just run out of time working to possess the four visible signs of the true Church……we have just run out  of time saving our souls. 

14. There is a force that is moving two groups to two extremes, the left and the right. The two extremes are in place; and the names of their inhabitants can even be listed down from the news. Then there are those that are still in the center and are beginning to move. Those previously on the left that have suddenly swung to the right can easily be known from the same news. There is Forte and Dolan who were known to be in the left during Synod 2014 and now are on the right together with the more permanent rightist, the Bishops of Poland and Africa. We have not noted anyone from the right that had swung to the left where the permanent inhabitants are Pope Francis, Baldiserri and Tagle. 
     Those in the left and right are the hot and cold. Those in the center are the lukewarm. The lukewarm  did not take an early stand because of lack of knowledge. They are in danger of being influenced by sophistry, arguments and even by bribes and, therefore, an object of our worry. Thousands of bishops fall under this category; they usually do not have the visible signs of the true Church. The reason for our continuous shout; ‘check if you have the four visible signs of the Catholic Church’ is the salvation of souls.

     Pope Benedict mentioned in a Christmas address that with this sign, the entire world will go into total decline which no one can stop. That is the spiritual decay of the Church together with the total destruction of society. There is no stopping it. The only thing we can see are futile efforts to slow down the decline. 

1. Who is a Catholic.
     Everybody calls themselves Catholic because nobody knows the description of a true Catholic. Even ‘Lumen Gentium’ could not define the Catholic Church clearly. God knew that this would happen. So He gave His  Church visible signs by which all men can know which is the Church He established. 

2. God gave us visible signs
     God gave His Church four official visible signs. And these are found in the Nicene Creed. They are:  One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. There is absolutely no other way of knowing the true Church. To have a baptismal and marriage certificate are fine but they are not signs of one’s Catholicity. 


                      

3. The Protestants are giving erroneous Biblical signs of being the true Church.
     Every religion and especially  every Protestant sect are  presenting proofs that theirs is the true Church. Yes, their signs are biblical but they are not the ones considered as the biblical signs of the true Church. 
     The Protestants, for instance, mentions memorizing the entire Bible as a sign of belonging to the true Church. St. Bellarmine states that even the devil have memorized the Bible but that does not make him a Catholic. 

4. The official signs. And other signs like liturgical signs
     Aside from the four official visible signs, the Church has many other ways of knowing which is the true Church. A more popular but deeper way of understanding is through the Liturgy. 
     The Gospel of All Saints day enumerate eight signs that make up the perfection of the Catholic Church. These are called the Beatitude. Holy Mother the Church tells us that to have the first Beatitude ‘to be poor in Spirit’ is already a sure sign of Catholicity.

5. Most of the signs, even the official signs are difficult to understand. Like One and Holy.
     Most Catholics, both the clergy and the laity do not know the four official visible signs of the Church because some signs are partly supernatural in nature. It is almost impossible to find out if a Church is One unless you live with that Church or community for at least 10 years. It is even impossible to find out if the people are Holy. In fact, the only visible sign that is easy to understand is Apostolic. 

6. The expanded list of St. Robert Bellarmine
     Being more specific the 15 Marks of the true Church described by St. Robert Bellarmine, Jesuit saint and Doctor of the Church is popular specially today since it was translated into English only months ago. It is selling like hot cakes and everyone who reads it is convinced they are not really Catholic. 
     The Bishop’s Synod 2015 is of interest in that some fathers showed they had some visible signs, like the 12 Cardinal signatories of the manifesto to Pope Francis; also, most of the Bishops of Africa and Poland showed visible signs of true Catholicity. 
     But what is worrisome is that some fathers did not show any visible signs; like some German bishops, specifically Baldisserri, Cardinal Tagle and a few more. Remember these are visible signs for all men to see. So we can see who has them and who do not have them. 

7. As expected by Pope Gregory XVI, Pius IX and Pius X. Not only most priests, bishops and cardinals will lose the Faith. Even the possibility of the rise of an anti-Pope. This was revealed to Pope Pius IX as the ultimate goal of the enemies of religion. They would accomplish this by contaminating the hierarchy with sin and heresies through the atmosphere of liberalism, gradualism and naturalism. These same bishops will build up a new Protestant denomination to replace the Old Catholic Church. 
     Most dioceses and parishes today, if we get Bellarmine’s book, go around and analyze them, are mostly Protestant because their bishops and cardinals had first fallen into the spirit of modernism. Those who were meant to lead souls to heaven are, instead, dragging souls to hell; as prophesied in Fatima. Who will warn the laity of this danger? When they are looking up with great reverence to modernist heretics? It is impossible to find a priest free from the evils mentioned in the ‘Syllabus.’ Just read the last three heresies in Pope Pius IX’s list. Most priests are guilty of them. And they could be your parish priest, if not your own bishop.  

8. It is possible for individual bishops to show signs of Catholicity without  their diocese or parishes showing the same.
     As noticed in all the news, many individual African and Polish bishops show signs of true Catholicity. While others, like the Germans, show signs of being at enmity with Christ. 

9. True Catholics live quiet lives. They are busy perfecting their visible signs of being true Catholics while at the same time instructing those who get in contact with them to do the same. 
      The non-catholics are noisy, constantly accusing others to be non-catholics when they themselves do not even know the visible signs of true Catholicity because they do not have them; and by nature they will persecute the true Catholics because not being for Christ they will be against Christ.
     Polarization takes place when God demands that each Catholic make a stand, whether they are for Christ or against Christ. Life for Catholics is a continuous battle wherein he is made to continuously show whose side he is. 

10. Is is a great favor for the Church to detect and expose Catholics who do not have the visible signs of Catholicity.  I am amazed at the ignorance of Catholics on this truth in the Nicene Creed. In polyphonic music, renaissance composer usually go slow and majestic when reaching the words ‘et unan, sanctam, catholicam. Et apostolicam Ecclesiam.’ Yet most know nothing about these signs. Well, not anymore. The ‘De controversiis’ of St. Robert Bellarmine had been translated into English, published, and is on sales in bookstore. That book alone with the four visible signs are the only signs by which we can know if this or that is the true Catholic Church founded by Jesus  Christ.

1. The Supreme Good.
     The Supreme Good is the goal of all. The angels, down to the animals and plants, aim at what is good for them. Man, like the angels, is unique in that he can know what is his Supreme Good and desire the same. 
     For Catholics, the Supreme Good is God, referred to as the uncreated good or Beatitude. The way that leads to the supreme good is referred to as the created good or, also, Beatitude. 
     So, our goal is the life of Beatitude. And the steps that lead to it is, also,  called Beatitudes. While God is the perfect Beatitude, the eight created Beatitudes are the seven different degrees that leads a soul towards God.

2. The Beatitudes.
     They show the different degrees of perfections within the Catholic Church. Those who are within the Beatitudes are true Catholics. Those who are outside the Beatitudes are not yet Catholics. 
     Consequently, those falling within the 8 different Beatitudes will naturally have the visible signs of the true Church. While’st those who are outside the 8 Beatitudes will surely not have the visible signs of the Church; either the four visible signs enumerated in the Nicene Creed or the 15 ‘Notae’, the expanded signs by St. Robert Bellarmine.
                                                   

3. The Beatitudes in the Gospel of All Saints is a preparation for Christ the King.
     We are approaching the end of the Liturgical Year. It ends with the Feast of Christ the King, which reminds us of the General Judgment each man will undergo. What will the basis by which God will judge each men? The Beatitude!!! If we have one of the Beatitudes we are saved. If none, we shall be condemned.

4. Degrees of perfection.
     As mentioned, the Beatitudes are the different degrees of perfection within the Catholic Church. We begin with the first and end with the seventh. The eight is the overall crown of the Beatitudes. To be saved it is enough to reach the first Beatitude, ‘to be poor in spirit.’

5. The three sources of human happiness.
     The three sources of human happiness are first; happiness that comes from satisfying the senses. This is the lowest kind man has in common with the animals. Call it sensual happiness. 
     The second is a higher kind called human happiness that satisfies the intellect and the will. It is the active life represented by Martha. and is the proper disposition necessary for the third. 
     The third is the highest and is called the contemplative life. It is spiritual happiness represented by Mary. 

6. Sensual happiness. 
     Since sensual happiness is an impediment or obstacle to the spiritual life sensual happiness must be minimized to almost nothing. And the first three Beatitudes are meant to do that. The first source of sensual happiness are possessions. So the Gospel narrative declared;  go home, sell your possessions and give it to the poor. This is how ‘poor in spirit’ is developed.
     The second source of sensual happiness is absence of enemies. The Beatitude tells us not to desire the absence of enemies; but to allow evil from enemies but overcome evil with good. So. blessed are the meek.
     The third source of sensual happiness is to have human consolation. The Beatitude tells us not to desire human consolation but instead to mourn; thus blessed are those who mourn.

7. Active Life.
     Beatitude 4 and 5 describes the active life, so called. It is the proper disposition necessary to be able to rise up to the contemplative life, which is the perfection of the theological virtue of Faith. 
     The beginning of the active life is the virtue of Justice. We must give all what is their due. The virtue of Justice is important because the next virtue, Mercy, depends on it.
     The next Beatitude of the Active Life is Mercy, when we give others what they do not deserve. It is the extra mile Christ wants us to accompany those who has to be accompanied without them having to ask for it. With Justice and Mercy we can now proceed to the contemplative life, the life of Perfect Faith.

8. Contemplative Life.
    The first requirement for the contemplative life is a ”clean or pure heart.” With the mind and hearts focused on God alone is the ‘pure heart’ that can see God. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. 
     A soul with pure heart is a person at peace with himself; thus he can become a peace maker for others; Blessed are the peace maker for they shall be called children of God. 

9. Pope Francis
     The Pope, of course, is the personification of all Catholic priests. His interests are Global warming, migrants, adulterers, sodomists, Evangelical Pentecostals, Synodal liturgies, homos, liberalism, modernism, atheists, the sad old age, the unemployed youth, the Statue of Liberty, establishing new protestant sects  and other peripherals. His interests are sensual if not outright sinful as it appeared during the Bishop’s Synod 2015. These are precisely what the first three Beatitudes are contradicting. Wouldn’t this be a sign that many priests do not even have the first Beatitude? 
      Because he does not have the first Beatitude, his concept of mercy, which is the fifth Beatitude is not preceded by Justice, the fourth Beatitude. And it is not followed by ‘pure in heart,’ the sixth virtue. Which means that his mercy is not Catholic but the heretical  ‘mercy’ of the spirit of liberalism first condemned by Pius IX and Pius X; and during the recent Synod, condemned by Cardinal Arinze accusing Pope Francis of being a heretic.

10. The ‘mercy’ of the fifth Beatitude.
      The Beatitude on ‘mercy’ has ‘Justice’ before it and ‘pure in heart’ after it. St. Thomas writes that these three, like all the beatitudes,  are intertwined; one being born from the previous one. St. Ambrose wrote; ‘The merciful lose the benefit of his mercy(5th Beatitude) unless he shows it from a pure heart (the 6th Beatitude). St. Thomas of Aquinas adds; ‘ Justice(4 Beatitude) and mercy(5th Beatitude) are so united that the one ought to be mingled with the other. Justice without mercy is cruelty, mercy without justice is profusion.’

     If the Pope does not even have the first, wouldn’t that mean he is outside the Catholic Church and would certainly will not be able to show that he has the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ? And, therefore, he would not have the 15 ‘Notae’ of the true Church described by St. Robert Bellarmine? Would it not mean that as Bellarmine’s ‘de Romano Pontifice’ states,  he cannot be the Pope?
     If this is a possibility, can’t any of his Jesuit confrere have the fraternal charity to sit down with him and sort this out? Or, maybe, his companions are, also, outside the life of Beatitude and, therefore, outside the Communion of Saints?

1. The Introit.
     “Seek the Lord…..seek always the face of the Lord.” The psalm states that salvation is seeking  the face of God and so we beg God ‘not to hide His face from us.’ That we see His face. 
     All man are born blind, because of original sin. Though we can see all of earthly creation, we cannot see God and the spiritual realm. And man must accept that he cannot rise up from the natural to the supernatural without help from God. A help that can come only when we beg for it.

2. The commands of God.
     God gives us His help in the form of a command that we must obey. When we obey,  He gives His help.
     Just as we have four levels in our worldly education, kindergarten, elementary, high school and college before we can work and earn money, there are, also, four levels of education man must undergo before he can see the ‘Face of God.’ These four levels are commandments that gradually becomes more difficult which we must obey for us to pass His tests and receive a favorable judgment on the approaching feast of Christ the King. 

3. The four levels are levels of knowledge directed towards the intellect. The mind must possess this knowledge to be able to see the Face of God.
     The first level is knowledge of the commands of God as found in the Old Testament. These commands can be summarized in the Golden Rule or the 10 commandments of God given to Moses. Ex. ‘Do not covet your neighbor’s wife.’ And ‘Do not commit adultery.’ Obedience to the commands in this level qualifies us to go to the next higher level. Disobedience to these commands disqualifies us from the Church. 

 4.The second level is knowledge of the commands of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament. These commands can be summarized in Love of God and Love of neighbor. Though both Old and New Testament commands of God can be read in a book or learned from a man, Scriptures does not interpret these commands. So we have to go to the third level. 

5. The third level is knowledge of the Fathers of the Church who interpreted the commands of the New Testament. By doing so they indirectly interpret, also, the commands of the Old Testament since the former is the perfection of the latter. Needless to say, this third level is more difficult to understand than both the Old and New Testament. 

 6 The fourth level is knowledge that comes from contemplative prayer. No one can teach this fourth level except God, Himself. It cannot be learned from books, from human teachers, from seminaries or even from theology schools abroad. It can be learned, only, within the Liturgy of the Sacrifice of the Mass, 
                                              

7.The 30th Sunday in Ordinary time shows us the importance of the first level of knowledge which is knowledge of the 10 commandments of the Old Testament.  The blind man Bartimaeus is the Symbol of men. Because of original sin all men were born intellectually blind. He does not know how to save his soul. He must go through the four levels; from knowledge of the commands of God in the Old Testament up to ‘how to pray’ which he can learn through his personal unceasing contemplative prayer. Then he can see the face of God and follow Him. The Gospel is telling us the importance of the first level, i.e. knowledge and obedience to the commands of God in the Old Testament without which man remains blind.

8. Bartimaeus took the first step with obedience of Faith, wherein he obtained the first level of knowledge.  It happened this way. 
     The blind man felt Christ was passing by. He knew it was Christ,  the Son of Man. So he called on him that he might see. Not merely physically which would make the story too shallow but for him to see the truth intellectually, which is always the deeper meaning of the Gospels. 
     Christ gave him a command to come to Him. Christ was, in fact, telling them to do something that needed Faith. Bartimaeus was blind he wouldn’t have any idea where Christ was. For him to obey will need great effort.              
     Though blind, he cast off his cloak, jumped up and came to Christ. That was quite a feat for a blind man. But not for one who has Faith. 
     The obedience of Bartimaeus to Christ’s command though he did not know why Christ is commanding him to do something he could not do well due to his blindness,  was the first level of intellectual knowledge necessary to progress. Bartimaeus’ obedience to a command he did not quite know how to obey because he was blind,  made it an act of Faith. Bartinaeus’ ‘obedience to one command is equivalent to obedience to all the commands of Christ, wrote St. James.  If Bartimaeus did not move from where he was sitting and, probably complained ‘I can’t go to you because I cannot see you,’ he would never had been cured and follow Christ. Note that the obedience of Bartimaeus was not pure and simple obedience. It was obedience of Faith as Scriptures would aptly describe it.
     
9. Obedience.
     Bartimaeus is the personification of a man who have obeyed either one command perfectly which is equivalent to obeying all the commands of God, according to St. James.. Doing this he begun to see Christian truths intellectually. 
      On the other hand, he who disobeys the commands of God in the Old Testament, by committing adultery or being gay  has not yet asked Christ to cure the blindness of his intellectual eyes. He is still blind and can only be a blind leading the blind. 

10.  All those studying for the priesthood from the 1800 up to now do not have a complete knowledge of their sins and, therefore, are still blind. This, according to Pope Gregory XVI, Pius IX and Pius X is due to their embracing the heresies of liberalism and modernism that leads them to establish a new Protestant sect. Hardly any priest or bishop know the list of 80 heresies condemned by the “Syllabus of Pius IX”  and the 65 errors of the Modernist by Pius X. All of those errors are heresies. All priests are guilty of them especially No. 78, 79 and 80 of the former. Almost all priests are blind to these errors.
     So far, only Cardinal Arinze came out publicly in Nigeria showing how Pope Francis is guilty of most of the heresies. Which made him conclude that Pope Francis is disqualified from being Pope. A principle confirmed by St. Robert Bellarmine in his ‘De Romano Pontifice.’ This stand had influenced the African Bishops who are now behind the Polish bishops and led by the ‘now’ popular 13 Cardinals during the on-going Bishop’s Synod 2015, led by Cardinal Pell, who are defending the Catholic concept of the family against the modernistic heretical notion being proposed by Pope Francis.

11. They do not know their sins. They were blind to their sins.
     To know one’s sin is the beginning of the journey of a soul to God. How can you repent if you do not know your sins. Bartimaeus had to know his sins that caused his blindness. And he must obey the command contrary to that sin to qualify and receive this first degree of intellectual knowledge.  
      All candidates to the priesthood were born blind with original sin. They must go through this first step and know their sins to begin their journey towards the curing of their sight so they can follow Christ and led others to Him. But as the 12 Popes from Pius IX to Benedict mentioned this was never taught in the seminary during their Papacy. Though they ordered this first step to be taught to open the eyes of all seminarians it was never taught. So most priests and bishops remained blind. Why? Because of their continuous disobedience to the commands of Christ that caused them to remain blind. The monastic movement was, precisely, the cure for this. But the monastic movement waned during the Papacy of these so-called Marian Popes. 
     The continuous violations of the 10 commandments specially of the 6th and 9th commandment caused seminarians to more easily fall into the other sins like the heresies mentioned in the ‘Syllabus’ by Pius IX and X. Those sins are no ordinary sins. They are sins with anathemas and excommunications attached to them. 

12, Some Synod Fathers do not know their sins, thus, they are blind beggars that need first to be healed by Christ. 
     The above mentioned 12 Marian Popes had already warned the Church of the spread of heresies which they described one by one because they were already contaminating the hierarchy during their Papacies. 
      Pope Pius IX even received the information that these new breed of heretical priest aimed at putting one of their kind in the Papal throne to accomplish their goal of changing the true Catholic religion into one that is made according to their private consciences.

13. The height of the heresy of Modernism.
     The final aim of the heresy of Modernism is to replace the Church of Christ and the Fathers with a new Protestant denomination made, as usual, by man like the Hermeneutics of discontinuity or the Church of Compassion and mercy. The Jubilee Year of Mercy and the Missionaries of mercy are meant to spread this new sect. 
      How can they be recognize? They are sinning against the commandments of God, the commands of Jesus Christ, the commands of the Magisterium as enumerated in the ‘Syllabus.’ And they don’t know that they are sinning. In fact, they think they are even doing service to God. 
      The Synod is filled with good bishops and cardinals. How did they escape the contagion of the heresy of modernism that had affected all priests?  Personal study, personal prayer, personal industry that God saw and blessed them for it.   

14.The shouts heard around the world today are; ‘Free us from the chains of an unhappy marriage.” Give us freedom to chose our marriage partner.’ ‘Let us immigrate where ever we want.’ ‘Prevent global warming.’ ‘Save the elephant tusk.’ This is the cacophony of sounds in the world. 
     No one is hearing ‘Lord, that I may see.’ 

1. 29 Sunday in Ordinary time.
    James and John asked Christ two things. One was  according to Christ’s Will. The other was according to the will of James and John;…..in fact their mother’s will. 

2. The Catholic way of life is making  ‘Thy Will be done’  our contemplative prayer that is unceasingly put into practice.

3.The Apostles should not be committing any more mistakes four lessons before graduation, on the Feast of Christ the King, the end of the Liturgical Year.  Four Sundays before graduation wherein their knowledge must be perfect, James and John were still committing mistakes, though small mistakes.  The knowledge of the apostles must be perfect; the bishop’s knowledge must be perfect even if their lives are not perfect. That is an obligation for all bishops and up to the Pope, according to St. Thomas of Aquinas.
     The mistake of James and John was very small. But it was a mistake that is not allowed. ‘Not an iota lacking, not an iota in excess, not an iota of mistake. “Do not think that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 
     “Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same shall be called least in the kingdom of God.”
                                                   

4. What was right in the prayer of James and John? Their desire to be in the Kingdom of God. And Christ reminded them what they had to do to obtain their request, which was in accordance to the Will of God. The first Beatitude is the requirement to be in God’s kingdom; and the requirement is that James and John must be ‘poor in spirit.’ To be poor in spirit is the goal of the life of repentance that consist in drinking the cup or be baptized in the same bath of pain; in short, the goal of monastic life, according to St. John Chrysostom, is to drink the cup or be baptized in the same bath of pain; in short, to be poor in spirit. This is the first obligation for all to enter the kingdom of heaven.  

5. What was wrong with the request of James and John. They wanted Christ to do their own family will.  Though their own will look very good, to be in the left and right side of  Christ, it was still wrong because it was imposing their own will on Christ rather than doing Christ’s Will. All are invited to salvation but  rewards are only for those who deserve them, like those who have attained the eight Beatitude; ‘your reward shall be great in heaven.’ They attain salvation plus they receive a deservedly great reward.

6. The big mistakes of the men in the Church today is the heresy of liberalism. This heresy is when they do not do God’s Will, they even disobey God’s Will, and they command God to do their own puny human wills.   A third in the current on going Bishop’s Synod are not even asking God permission to disobey His commands. They are, in fact, imposing, not even their own wills but the wills of adulterers and sodomists upon the whole Church. They do not want to change just an iota but to change the whole Catholic religion with a local personal Argentinian church. 
     What do you think Christ will say? ‘You do not know what you are asking for. You cannot even live the life of repentance which I imposed on James and John. In which case you cannot even go to heaven. And what are asking for? To commit adultery and homosexuality? Get behind me, Satan. Your ways are not God’s way.
     Now, wait  a minute. The above statement to Peter is not because Peter did something wrong. He was trying to do an act of kindness by preventing Christ from entering into His Passion. Maybe the more appropriate response of Christ should be; ‘it is better for you to tie a millstone around your neck and jump into the sea.’ For a portion of Bishops and Cardinals attending the Synod are committing the grievous sin of scandal. And leading them is Pope Francis.

7. At least imitate James and John who had  only small mistakes since there are only four lesson to go before General Judgment day. .  Like James and John, we should know what we should pray for and not ask for rewards. James and John were asking for a reward they did not deserve. That was wrong but not so bad.   Pope Francis is changing Christ’s commands and allowing us to sin. Shall we expect salvation and a great reward in heaven?  That will never be.

1. There are two events that are happening; one contradicting the other. The first is the 2015 Bishop’s Synod on the Family. The second is the canonization of Louis and Zellie, parents of St. Therese of the Child Jesus. The life of the parents shows that what is going on in the Bishop’s Synod is all wrong. Now, why would two contradictory events happen at the same time in the Catholic Church? Because the canonization is saying that something in the Bishop’s Synod is very wrong.

2. The marriage of Louis and Zelie.
     Louis and Zellie are typical very good French Catholics. They had no plan to marry. They were only open to God’s Will; but if there was a need they would only do it if it is God’s Will. Notice that while Louis and Zellie were always awaiting God’s Will, some cardinals and the Pope, disregarding God’s Will, are zealous in imposing their own will on others. Note the contradiction?
     Louis and Zellie became certain that it was God’s Will for them to marry so they did marry in a most Catholic way. And as the practice of very religious people after the wedding, they continued to observe chastity which both treasured as necessary for their eternal salvation. In short, they did not consummate their marriage. 

3. The reason why they continued to observe chastity and did not immediately consummate their marriage is because of their love for virtue which they noticed greatly increased their love for God and for one another.  So, it was with reluctance that they consummated their marriage believing the priest who told them that it was God’s Will for them to have children for whom they must work to sanctify. Their desire for personal sanctification became an integral part of their desire to sanctify their children. 

4.  The point is this; how come Louis and Zellie were convinced that they were more married observing chastity than when they were having children? Because they were more married observing chastity rather than when they were having children. Love for God and for one another are acts of a theological virtue called Charity which exist more when you are chaste rather than when you are having children. They were more married when chaste rather than when they were acting as husband and wife. I know this sounds weird but it is the truth.

5. Separation and Divorce.
     In Moral theology, a couple may be separated or divorced if it can be proven that there was no marriage ‘ab initio,’ i.e. that there was no marriage from the beginning. And the usual example given is if and when the marriage is not consummated; like when the couple is immediately separated after the wedding because they had to go somewhere in a hurry. Then the marriage can be annuled because there was no marriage from the beginning and each can remarry. In Catholic theology there is no other valid reason for annulment or divorce. But today, after Vatican II, divorce for almost any reason is allowed in the new established  Church of Compassion and Mercy, founded in Argentina.
      Note that in the marriage of Louis and Zellie they knew that they were more married when they were living chastely after marriage rather than when they were living as man and wife. The idea here is that one can be more married after marriage even if the marriage is not consummated because both want to live chastely, rather than when they live as husband and wife.
       Their happiness was glorious as chaste husband and wife, and this is very evident in their biography. Was this pure emotionalism? No. They felt that way because there was true marriage even if the marriage is not consummated because they chose to live chastely. Which means that the only one reason why marriage can be annulled in the Catholic Church, that it is not consummated, is not a valid and acceptable reason for annulment or divorce; because even if the marriage is not consummated, there is a valid marriage. And the proof is Joseph and Mary. Like Louis and Zellie, St. Joseph and Mary were married but their marriage was, in fact, never consummated and yet they are recognized by the Catholic Church as Husband and Wife. No one can say that because their marriage was not consummated therefore, there was no marriage from the beginning and, therefore,  their marriage can be annulled. Joseph and Mary were so married no one, not even God, can annul their marriage. 
      How come so many mere men want to annul and divorce people who are very much more married than Joseph, Mary, Louis and Zellie? 

6. Moses and the decree of divorce.
     Yes, the readings said Moses allowed the decree of divorce because of the people’s hard headedness. There, you see it. They were given a decree of divorce because of their hard headedness. 
Moses did not say that after they got the divorce they went to heaven. Did he? Of course not. If they remained hard headed naturally they would go somewhere else. So why did Moses give them the decree of divorce? Because they asked for it. If someone insist on going to hell can you stop him?  
     Moses was in the Old Testament. During those times there was no grace yet. So couples had a difficult time bearing each other. Grace, however, would come in the New Testament.  Without grace, it was impossible for the Jews to control themselves when they see the Hittite women were prettier than their Jewish wives.
     But in the New Testament, with grace, there was no excuse. With grace nothing is impossible with man. So, now, there is absolutely no excuse for divorce because with God’s grace everything is possible. The usual ‘non-consummation’ of marriage as an excuse for annulment is only for hard headed. And like during Moses’ time hard headeds don’t go to heaven. So if you want a divorce, go ahead. But don’t expect to go to heaven. Heaven is for Joseph’s, Marys, Louis and Zellies. 

7. Annul the marriage of Joseph and Mary.
     The message of the canonization of Louis and Zellie for the on going Bishop’s Synod 2015 is; if you can annul Joseph and Mary’s marriage, then go ahead and annul everybody else’s marriage. If you cannot even though their marriage was not consummated, do not touch any body else’s marriage lest you put asunder what God had joined together.