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.