1. The Ideal union of Church and State.
The Catholic Church is an institution that is in the supernatural level. The state is an institution in the natural level. The Church is in a level that is superior to the natural level. And the ideal arrangement is for the supernatural to guide the natural, for very obvious reasons. It is like a kindergarten child being guided by a Professor with a Doctorate’s degree. The one who knows more must guide the one who knows less.
Faith is a gift of God to the Church wherewith she grants her both natural and supernatural knowledge to enable her to guide both.
But if the church descends down to the natural level, then she will turn out worse than those in the natural level. ‘Corruptio optima est pessima.’ The corruption of the good is worse than the bad. A bishop who descends to the natural level is worse than a corrupt politician.
A bad bishop is one without Faith; he does not have the four visible signs of Catholicity mentioned in the Nicene Creed or the expanded 15 Marks by St. Robert Bellarmine. And as a consequence his diocese and the parishes under him do not have the four visible signs of the true Church.
When the Church had deteriorated and had ceased to be supernatural, then a separation of Church and state is best for all. We would not want bad bishops to be guiding corrupt politicians, since bad bishops would be worse than the corrupt politicians. All the more should we observe separation of church and state when the politicians are better than the bishops in their knowledge of Catholic doctrines, as at the time of Garcia Moreno of Ecuador, so the bishops do not contaminate the good state.
We can see this in the presidential candidate in the U.S. who is not a Catholic, who is more Catholic than Pope Francis who had sided with Obama, Clinton and Sanders, all of them having leftist leanings. This is obvious in all the Vatican News. Pope Francis’ preaching on no walls and no doors and total welcoming of immigrants is totally un-Catholic and sounds more like Soros, therefore, destructive of civilisation and destructive of souls.
Catholic teaching encourages the building of walls and locked doors. The epistles of St. Paul is repetitious in encouraging Christians not to talk, not to associate and not even to eat with people like those immigrants.
Monasteries and convents are surrounded with walls and locked doors. And to avoid immigrants, monasteries are built on mountain tops and in the middle of forests to avoid immigrants and even bad Christians.
The reason is obvious; like all worldly things they are vehicles of temptations, of sins and possible possession of the devil. Judas was wide open. So open that Satan entered into him without even knocking.
2. Union of church and state is possible if there is union of minds and hearts. Union of minds means, all are united in believing the same truths. Union in heart is when all love God and neighbour. Ordinarily there is no union of minds and hearts between church and state because the church should be focused on spiritual things while the state is focused on earthly matters.
But today, while the state is focused on earthly matters, the church is not focused on spiritual matters but on self aggrandizement. Union, at this point, would be a disaster because both would be going down to destruction.
While in the US, a Protestant presidential candidate is more Catholic than Pope Francis, here in the Philippines the President is more Catholic while the President of the Bishop’s conference is more Protestant.
At the beginning, the nation’s president believed in the Catholic teaching of the validity of capital punishment, well explained by St. Augustine and St. Thomas of Aquinas. While the bishop is against this Catholic teaching, just like Pope Francis who is against many Catholic teachings, including this teaching on capital punishment.
Capital punishment is a man’s last opportunity to repent. Abolish capital punishment and he is deprived of his last chance to repent. Pope Francis and Bishop Villegas like that.
3. Cardinal Sin and people’s power.
‘Mirari Vos,” Encyclical by Pope Gregory XVI in August 25, 1832 forbids the removal of a head of state through people’s power, so called. Other people can use people power as they so wish but it is forbidden for Catholics. Why? People’s power is pure anarchy similar to the crowd that crucified Jesus, similar to the Bolshevik and French revolution, that was aimed, primarily, at the destruction of the Catholic Church. It is complete disregard for standing laws. It is a perverted imposition of one’s own personal selfish desires on a nation by a few. It is identical to the revolt by Lucifer in heaven. It is a sin before the eyes of God.
Cardinal Sin committed multiple serious sins that day; disobedience to the Catholic teaching mentioned in the above encyclical, disobedience to the Pope who through the nuncio told him to desist in participating in that political process and the countless sins of scandal he committed by encouraging the crowd to commit the vices of envy, anger, unforgiveness, injustice, etc.. The president that time might have his defects but that does not give anyone the right to commit sins. The end does not justify the means.
The more serious sin of the Cardinal to which Christ said; ‘it is better for you to tie a mill stone around your neck and jump into a lake’ is the sin of scandal. He led countless souls to commit serious sins. And he did not repent; since his sin was public, restitution must also be public. And no one ever heard him make restitution.
He did not teach the people who followed his bad example to repent for violating Catholic teaching in ‘Mirari Vos.” Most of them are dead now. Unrepentant, because they, erroneously, thought they were doing the right thing, where do you think did they go?
Bishop Villegas, former secretary of Cardinal Sin wants to repeat the same mistake as seen in his sermon prepared for the Feast of the Holy Rosary. He has not learned his lesson, it seems, because he did not have a good teacher. In his homily on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary he gave a list of defects of the President which are mere emotional rantings. Because he did not prove them to be defects. If those where defects he should have given the alternative solution; which he did not do. Then he suggested anarchy which for practical purposes are Satanic solutions as during the Reign of Terror in France. Let us go through his homily.
‘I am confused and sad….’ Well, when he said at his opening speech to the bishops that the Catholic Church established by Christ and apostles were old and sick; and we need to follow a new protestant sect from Argentina…..well, he really confused himself. Why blame the country?
He mentioned ‘orchestrated lies,’ but does not mention even one. So what lies is he talking about. ‘Twisted upside down values and errors,’ like what? No answer again.
Here is an emotional line; ‘the downward course of my beloved Philippines.’ If there is a downward course, it is a spiritual downward course and this is because of bishops like him.
As solutions he offered ‘hearing of Masses.’ Masses filled with Liturgical abuses that are probably invalid? And ‘communions’ ……remember that video in You Tube of sacrilegious communion in Manila which Bishop Villegas defended. ‘Obey all the commands’…..I am sure he does not know all the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament.
And he ends his homily with a call for an act of anarchy as condemned by ‘Mirari Vos.’ Heresy! He was putting souls in a state of heresy and then inviting them to march. What if a truck crashes through them like in France. In that state of soul, they will go straight to hell. Unless, like Pope Francis, Bishop Villegas who worships the Pope, also, believes that no one goes to hell.
4. On the other hand the President of the nation is more Catholic than the President of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference; just as the US Protestant presidential candidate is more Catholic than the Pope and most US Bishops.
Let us rush through a few facts. The President wants to restore Capital punishment. That is a Catholic doctrine defended by St. Augustine and St. Thomas of Aquinas. The President wants to rid the country with drug pushers who are destroying souls, not only bodies. Unless anyone has a better idea they should just keep quiet, because the program is solving the problem. The US should be silent because there drug addiction is completely out of control. That includes, also, the UN who has not solved any national problem .
That the penal system be reformed is a most worthy project because today criminals get worse in our over crowded jail. Garcia Moreno of Ecuador had a very effective program of reform for prison.
That the country have nothing to do with the US and Europe is very good because those two countries are a great source of moral evil. The stand of the Southern states to be independent from the North in the US was a wise move. But the North suppressed the South in a civil war for their selfish purposes, just as they are suppressing the whole world today. A United State is a very bad idea and so is a European Union. So England is wise in exiting the EU. When the EU sinks in evil, the effect on England will be minimal. We should chose wisely our allies.
The east is, also, evil but in a lesser degree. Kick out the American forces; yes, because they promote prostitution of our women.
In general, the president of the nation is doing much better than the president of the bishop’s conference. The same thing will happen if that US candidate wins. He will run the US better than Pope Francis runs the Vatican.
5. What’s wrong with the world.
Everybody is asking that question. Wouldn’t the Blessed Virgin know best what is wrong with the world. Bishop Villegas in his homily enumerates what is wrong with this country. His list is merely a list of emotional ranting with no intellectual explanations. Mary’s list from her apparition in Quito, Ecuador, down to Akita and Kibejo is a complete list. Not one of the bishop’s complain is in her list.
It seems there is nothing wrong with this nation. But I think there is. Because the greatest complain of Mary, expressed specifically in Fatima, is that most of the cardinals, bishops and priests are going to hell and dragging many souls with them. The problem is that this bishop is one of them, in that, his diocese and most of his parish do not have the four visible signs of the true Catholic church as enumerated in the Nicene Creed. In that state, will any of his parishioner go to heaven keeping in mind that ‘there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church?’
And, now, he is telling people to disobey the teachings of the Church, be in the state of sin and then march endangering their lives and souls.
There should be no union of church and state here. Because the church will just mess up the state. (By the way, the rest of the bishops are not in favour of what their president is saying. In fact, they have advised him to be quiet. But he insist in talking independently of the rest of the bishops and give the wrong impression that his view is the view of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. It is not.)
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