1. SETTLING WHO IS RIGHT.
Pope Francis ended his talk to the Bishop’s Synod with threats on those who try to block the changes he is introducing in the Church. And labels them with names which are insults.
This is more the behaviour of a spoilt brat than a Pope. It is, in effect saying; do what I want or else….. Pope Francis had flattering words for the enemies of the Church while bad names for the holders of orthodox doctrines of the Catholic Church. In fact, in England, they have been compiling a book of insults hurled by Pope Francis on good Catholics. They have not compiled the heavenly praises he has given the enemies of the Catholic Church. Which makes us wonder whose side is he.
2. Basis for judging.
There are many conflicts in the world today, and it is difficult to see who is right and who is wrong. In the conflicts within the Church, it is easy to find out who is right and who is wrong because we have very solid bases for judging who is right and who is wrong. These bases are the dogmatic and moral teachings of the Catholic church that has been there for centuries.
Let us view a few of these religious conflicts and use only two bases to judge who is right and wrong; because we have to judge! We cannot afford to be wrong. We must be right because the very salvation of our souls depend on these decisions.
The two bases for judgment we have been using are; first, the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. And secondly, the three theological virtues. The first is available to all because they are signs that are in the natural level. The second is in the supernatural level, so it is limited to those who are in the life of grace. Let us try to use both.
The four visible signs are the four signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed. This is accepted by both the Orthodox and Protestant Church because all of them were still with the Catholic Church when that creed was formulated in Nicaea.
The three theological virtues are not acceptable to the Orthodox and Protestants because these virtues are in the supernatural level. These sects are not in this level because of their being separated through schism.
The theological virtues were used before in judging candidates for canonisation but it is not used anymore today because nobody in the Curia seems to have any of these virtues. But it was used by the Catholic Church before because it is the most reliable norm for judging candidates for canonization. Which means that today, we do not have any objective proof that our canonised saints are really in heaven because the most reliable means are not being used.
3. Using the four visible signs to resolve conflict.
Pope Francis threatened those who block his personal plans for the Church. The latest is ordaining women deacons.
We joined the Catholic Church to follow Christ to everlasting life. We did not join the Church to follow Bergoglio in his doubtful church of mercy that leads to where, we do not know.
Anyone who thinks he is going against the teachings of Christ, the apostles and the Fathers of the Church should stand up and be counted. Cardinal Arinze, very early in the Papacy of Pope Francis, called him a heretic for being guilty of liberalism, a heresy condemned by Pope Gregory xvi in ‘Mirari Vos.’ And Cardinal Arinze proved that Pope Francis was, indeed, a heretic and, therefore, should not be Pope. Arinze proved it and he was right.
4. Making a Catholic stand.
Confronted with similar incidents that has occurred in the last Bishop’s Synod, the bishops are obliged to stand up and block the obvious heresies of Pope Francis that are now pilling up. Otherwise those bishops who do not make a stand are guilty of serious sin. What? And the news stated that they even clapped after the reading of the apostolic exhortation. Clapping makes their passive sin of scandal into a positive sin of scandal.
It is sad to note that Bishops who, at first, bravely went against Pope Francis’ heretical proposals during the earlier Synods are slowly kowtowing during the latest Synods, specially in the latest exhortation ‘amores laetitia.’ Like in all sin of scandal, the Pope is literally dragging down to hell all the Bishops by means of threats.
I was surprised to hear that when the Philippine Bishop’s conference agreed to family planning in case of Zicka virus, the news stated that all the rest of the bishops agreed. I know that a few disagreed. But it seems they remained silent. That is unacceptable in the eyes of God. ‘He who denies My teachings before men I will deny before My Father.’ Imagine, the entire Bishop’s conference in the Philippines had silently agreed to a sin of scandal. They become accomplices.
5. The grave sin of scandal.
The threat of Christ for those guilty of scandal should give us sleepless nights. ‘ Scandal will come to the world. But woe to him through whom it comes. It is better for him to tie a mill stone around his neck and jump into a lake…..than to cause scandal.’
Who is right? The Pope or those who were brave enough to block his scandals? Answer; those who have the four visible signs of the true Church are the ones who is right. Those who do not have the four visible signs are wrong.
It is possible for a Pope to impose a truth and scandalise many people like when Pope Paul VI impose prohibition of family planning. Myriads of bishops, priests and laymen were scandalized to the point of rebelling against the Church. Paul VI was not guilty of scandal; but most of the bishops and priests were guilty of passive scandal. They were scandalised when they should not have been. They were like Judas who was scandalised when Mary washed the feet of Christ with perfume. Mary’s act was very good; it was not scandalous. But Judas was scandalized through a defect in him defined as passive scandal.
But when a person does something wrong and this causes others to commit sin this is called positive scandal; this is very wrong. And this is what Pope Francis committed; it is one of the worse sins. He did not only show a scandalous behaviour, he preached to people through an official papal document called ‘Apostolic exhortation’ to commit sin; by telling bishops and priests to tolerate adultery and sacrilegious communion. That is telling three levels of people, bishops, priests and couples, to commit sin. That is active scandal on two counts.
And Pope Francis encourage passive scandal. This happens when other people who heard what he said does not do anything; like the Filipino bishops who just kept quiet. That is what I would be guilty of if I do not say or write anything. I have read the scandalous things Pope Francis had been saying since the Bishop’s Synod of 2014 up to now, 2016. I know he is telling the world to commit sin, which is positive scandal. If I don’t say or react and make a stand I would be guilty of passive scandal, a very serious sin that can send me straight to hell.
6. I must find out who is right and make a stand. If I make a wrong stand I would be guilty of positive scandal.
Because Pope Francis had made an apostolic exhortation, if I stay quiet, I would be guilty of passive scandal. Still a very serious sin which would be the sin of the majority who do not make a stand.
To read the more than 200 pages of ‘Amores Laetitia’ is too tedious. I’ll just find out who is right; Pope Francis or the bishops he is threatening…..by finding out who has the visible signs of Catholicity.
If anyone applies the four visible signs of the Nicene Creed or the 15 Marks of the Church on Pope Francis, it will be obvious to everyone that he does not have any single sign of the true Church.
The bishops Pope Francis are threatening do not have the four complete visible signs either. But they have some partial visible signs. That is having more than what Pope Francis has. The choice is clear. Pope Francis is committing the very serious sin of positive scandal; worse, he is forcing men to sin through a Papal document. And he is threatening those who would block him. This is the height of scandal that even Christ could not imagine could happen.
The same visible signs can be used in judging the quarrel between the traditionalist and the novus ordo. Who is right? Neither the traditionalist nor the novus ordo, but the one who have the four visible signs of the true Church. Which neither of them have.
7. Difficulty in analysing the four visible signs from the Nicene Creed.
To detect the four signs, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, these signs must be there in their completeness. And the signs must be present in the community, parish or diocese. For example, ‘One’ means all the members of the Catholic Church must believe in exactly the same doctrines taught by Christ. To go around to find out if everyone have the same belief within the parish would be a tedious job. But in psychology we can use a process called ‘random sampling.’ If everyone you meet in the parish believe in the same truths we can safely say, the parish is ‘one.’
As had happened during the last Synod, some good Bishops went against Pope Francis in his personal belief that married people living in adultery may receive Holy Communion. These bishop were certainly right in blocking Pope Francis with their vote. But when other proposals were introduced that were in violation of Christ’s command, the same bishops succumbed, as in the case of some bishops succumbing to the errors of ‘Amoris laetitia,’ which is merely a rehash of the Bishop’s Synod 2014 and contained what the Bishops had already repudiated. Those things repudiated became the contents of the apostolic exhortations.
8. The good bishops.
There are many good bishops. They have partial visible signs of the true Church. Which make them partially Catholics. But they do not have the full four visible signs of the Church. This means that they are just in the process of knowing what these signs are and are just starting to acquire them. In which case their parish or diocese cannot have the four visible sign because they are not yet capable of teaching them on how to enter the Church. And this is the sad scenario in that we see many bishops ‘one’ with one another, as what happened during the Synod, but there was no unity in their diocese. We see priests who show signs of ‘Catholicity’ but there is none in his parish.
This is the case of the Orthodox and the Pius X group. They do not have the complete four visible signs. But they have the beginnings of the ‘third visible sign’ of the true Church, Catholicity. That is having more signs than what the Vatican have; and yet they want to leave their better condition to join a more schismatic Catholic church. When Kiril and Pope Francis met, the Orthodox head mentioned the right doctrines they believed in and the wrong doctrines Pope Francis was preaching. It was embarrassing for the Catholic Church. It appeared that the Church of Russia has more correct doctrines than the Church of Rome.
So we stand pat on the discovery that we cannot find parishes, diocese, religious congregations and lay institutes who have the four visible signs of the true Church. Though their priest and bishops have partial signs.This means the parishes and dioceses are not yet Catholic. This is of utmost importance for all of us because if we die and we do not have the four visible signs, we cannot enter heaven. And this is the precarious condition of Pope Francis since he does not have any single visible sign of the true Church. He, also, have visible mortal sins, like scandal (i.e, causing others to sin), documented in a Papal Apostolic Exhortation. He is going straight to hell with his errors and sins of scandal ….and he is forbidding everyone to stop him from doing so?
He is in a situation where God might chastise him by removing from him the grace of repentance because of the enormity of his sin. And no Jesuit is helping him. Well, the Jesuits are, also, guilty as an accomplice for having allowed his sin to have a domino effect upon the whole Church. They are guilty of the woeful passive scandal.
9. This was expected.
As we have mentioned, the events of the future had been prophesied in Divine Revelation. And what is happening today is no brilliant analysis of mine. It has been prophesied in Scriptures. And all good Catholic worthy of his name have been expecting these events.
The ‘Francis’ event had been watched by St. Bonaventure and many other saints like Blessed John Newman. It had been mentioned by popular writers liked Hugh Benson who described an anti Pope, named Francis, who will rise in the 18OO subservient to the ambitious head of the U.S. And described by Roger Coleridge, S.J, popular retreat master in his ‘Return of the King’ where he described an anti-pope who will start a new Protestant religion (just like Bergoglio , SJ. who authored the ‘Church of Mercy and Compassion, ‘ a new Protestant Church based on the heresy of Martin Luther.) It was to be expected.