This is the headline of the front online page of Catholic Herald today! Sorry if it has been posted already elsewhere, but it is the most honest summary I have read of the current situation in the Church. Let’s pray for him and for other people with voice within the Church to speak up. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/new...eaching-under-subtle-but-well-defined-attack/ Fr Weinandy: Church teaching under ‘subtle, but well-defined attack’ by Staff Reporter posted Saturday, 24 Feb 2018 (CNS) The US theologian said the Church's catholicity is being dissolved The Church’s unity, apostolicity and Catholicity are under attack from its own leadership, the former head of the US bishops’ doctrinal committee has said. Fr Thomas Weinandy, a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, said the Church’s “four defining ecclesial marks” – the fact it is “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic” as defined in the Nicene Creed – are currently under a “subtle, but well-defined attack”. That threat is coming, he added, “regrettably from within Church leadership.” In a speech at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, Australia on February 24, Fr Weinandy called for a “robust defence” of the four marks, otherwise the Church’s identity will become “disordered”, which will “enfeeble” its ability to proclaim the Gospel. “This enfeeblement, then, will also be most visibly enacted within the Eucharistic liturgy which will not only cause scandal but also, and more importantly, demean the Eucharistic liturgy as the supreme enactment of the Church being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic,” Fr Weinandy added. Although the Church after Vatican II has been “rife with divisions”, there was never any doubt over official Church doctrine during the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, he said. “Such is not the case, in many significant ways, within the present pontificate of Pope Francis.” Although much of Pope Francis’s pontificate is “admirable and praiseworthy”, he has at times appeared to identify himself “not as the promoter of unity but as the agent of division,” Fr Weinandy said Much of this division stems from the fact some bishops have used Amoris Laetitia to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion. “For Pope Francis … as seen in Amoris Laetitia, to re-conceive and newly express the previously clear apostolic faith and magisterial tradition in a seemingly ambiguous manner, so as to leave confusion and puzzlement within the ecclesial community, is to contradict his own duties as the successor of Peter and to transgress the trust of his fellow bishops, as well as that of priests and the entire faithful,” Fr Weinandy said. The Pope’s approach “strikes at the very essence of the Petrine ministry as intended by Jesus and continuously understood by the Church”. “The successor of St Peter, by the very nature of the office, is to be, literally, the personal embodiment and thus the consummate sign of the Church’s ecclesial communion, and so the principle defender and promoter of the Church’s ecclesial communion,” he said. “Thus, a manner of proceeding that allows and even encourages doctrinal and moral divergences undermines the whole of Vatican II’s teaching on ecclesial communion, as well as that of the entire magisterial and theological tradition going back to Ignatius. “By seeming to encourage doctrinal division and moral discord within the Church the present pontificate has transgressed the foundational mark of the Church – her oneness.” Pope Francis’s “ambiguous teaching at times appears to fall outside the magisterial teaching of the historic apostolic ecclesial community” as it “fosters division and disharmony rather than unity and peace within the one apostolic Church. There appears to be, as a consequence, no assurance of faith.” In some ways, this is even worse than promoting heresy, Fr Weinandy added. “At least heresy is a clear denial of the apostolic faith and so can be clearly identified and as such properly addressed. Ambiguous teaching, precisely because of its murkiness, cannot be clearly identified, and so is even more troublesome for it fosters uncertainty as to how it is to be understood and thus how it is to be clarified.” The Church’s catholicity is also being undermined by Pope Francis’s concept of synodality, Fr Weinandy continued, which creates a kind of “theological anarchy”. “We are presently witnessing the disintegration of the Church’s catholicity, for local churches, both on the diocesan and national level, are often interpreting doctrinal norms and moral precepts in various conflicting and contradictory ways. Thus, what the faithful are instructed to believe and practice in one diocese or country is not in conformity with what the faithful are instructed to believe and practice in another diocese or country,” Fr Weinandy said. The Church’s holiness is also “under siege”, especially regarding the Eucharist. Allowing some civilly remarried couples to receive Holy Communion while not living in continence allows a “pastoral situation to evolve” in which “almost every divorced and remarried couple will judge themselves free to receive Holy Communion.” The moral commandments thus become no longer absolute laws but simply “ideals”. The result is an “overt public attack on the holiness of what John Paul terms ‘the Most Holy Sacrament’.” Any priest who allows someone who persists in grave sin to receive Communion implicitly acknowledges that “sin continues to govern humankind despite Jesus’ redeeming work,” Fr Weinandy added. “To allow those who persist in manifest grave sin to receive communion, seemingly as an act of mercy, is both to belittle the condemnatory evil of grave sin and to malign the magnitude and power of the Holy Spirit.” “The Church’s very identity, our ecclesial communion, is being assailed, and because she is the Church of Christ, Jesus himself is being dishonoured along with his saving work,” Fr Weinandy concluded. “What is presently being offered in its place is an anaemic Church, a Church where the Holy Spirit is enfeebled, and so a Church that is incapable of giving full glory to God the Father.” Fr Weinandy was sacked by the US bishops in November after sending an open letter to Pope Francis in which he said the current papacy was marked by a “chronic confusion”. He also accused the Pope of teaching with a “seemingly intentional lack of clarity”.
Their final aim is to do away with the Sacrifice of the mass. If they stop the mass they have won. This is the end game, what they building up towards. They will change the words of the consecration in such a way that the Sacrifice will cease. Mark my words , this is the End Game.
And to think, we are not yet dealing with the False Prophet and the Antichrist. They may not even need to show face, as the church is already in self-destruction mode.
I wonder about this sometimes. I really do wonder, things have gotten so very,very bad so very quick. I do wonder. Is it possible that the anti Christ and False Prophet are already here? maybe waiting in the wings? Much to pray over.
Thanks Jarg. A very important article! This is the essence of what is happening. The Church is under attack from the Vatican. Not all men in the Vatican, but a powerful clique. Imagine that! The attack is a stab in the back from those within not without. Et tu Brute? And how far we have fallen so fast is just incredible. It brings to mind the restrainer being removed in Thessalonians.
The speed of this downward spiral truly amazes me. Scary, but exhilarating at the same time. We all knew that these days were written and prophesied, but to be living it in the moment...WOW! Praise be to God, may his glory come soon. Let us pray for these knuckleheads that refuse him before it's too late.
Yes, its great to be postive. Huge graces around about at the moment ..for those who stay the course.
Officially he resigned as consultant to the USCCB. Here's the background: http://www.catholicnews.com/service...o-doctrine-committee-after-letter-to-pope.cfm
We don’t know for sure - I would not discard that possibility entirely. Yes and it seems there isn’t an end on sight to this process at least until there is a new conclave. But maybe just like Obama brought us Trump, pope Francis could bring someone like cardinal Sarah.
I have often thought that the ambiguity of the current Pope is a huge opportunity for the next Pope to bring clarity on so many matters. The next Pope could be amazing! Keep praying!
There is no doubt in my mind and plenty of credible prophecies from various messengers indicate both are on earth at this time. Yet, there time for exposing themselves as the 'saviors' of mankind will not come till after the Warning. After things "are at their worst". They will have all the answers that those desperate for help will be looking for. There love for God has grown cold and they seek things to comfort the flesh and these characters will be able to provide things of this world to appease their sufferings.
I believe the Devil has candidates for the False Prophet and Antichrist ready in every generation. All that it takes is for "the restrainer" to be lifted for them to be revealed. Thankfully, we haven't reached that point yet.
Cardinal Sarah: Widespread Communion in the hand is part of Satan’s attack on the Eucharist ROME, February 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the Vatican department overseeing liturgy is summoning the Catholic faithful to return to receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and kneeling. In the preface to a new book on the subject, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, writes: “The most insidious diabolical attack consists in trying to extinguish faith in the Eucharist, by sowing errors and fostering an unsuitable way of receiving it. Truly the war between Michael and his Angels on one side, and Lucifer on the other, continues in the hearts of the faithful.” “Satan’s target is the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Real Presence of Jesus in the consecrated Host,” he said. The new book, by Don Federico Bortoli, was released in Italian under the title: ‘The distribution of Communion on the hand: a historical, juridical and pastoral survey’ [La distribuzione della comunione sulla mano. Profili storici, giuridici e pastorali]. Recalling the centenary of the Fatima apparitions, Sarah writes that the Angel of Peace who appeared to the three shepherd children in advance of the Blessed Virgin’s visit “shows us how we should receive the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ.” His Eminence then identifies the outrages by which Jesus is offended today in the Holy Eucharist, including “so-called ‘intercommunion.’” Sarah goes on to consider how faith in the Real Presence “can influence the way we receive Communion, and vice versa,” and he proposes Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa as two modern saints whom God has given us to imitate in their reverence and reception of the Holy Eucharist. “Why do we insist on receiving Communion standing and on the hand?,” the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship asks. The manner in which the Holy Eucharist is distributed and received, he writes, “is an important question on which the Church today must reflect.” Here below, with the kind permission of La Nuova Bussola where the preface was first published, we offer our readers a LifeSiteNews translation of several key extracts from Cardinal Sarah’s text. *** Providence, which disposes all thing wisely and sweetly, has offered us book The Distribution of Communion on the hand, by Federico Bortoli, just after having celebrated the centenary of the Fatima apparitions. Before the apparition of the Virgin Mary, in the Spring of 1916, the Angel of Peace appeared to Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, and said to them: “Do not be afraid, I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.” (...) In the Spring of 1916, at the third apparition of the Angel, the children realized that the Angel, who was always the same one, held in his left hand a chalice over which a host was suspended. (...) He gave the holy Host to Lucia, and the Blood of the chalice to Jacinta and Francisco, who remained on their knees, saying: “Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” The Angel prostrated himself again on the ground, repeating the same prayer three times with Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco. The Angel of Peace therefore shows us how we should receive the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ. The prayer of reparation dictated by the Angel, unfortunately, is anything but obsolete. But what are the outrages that Jesus receives in the holy Host, for which we need to make reparation? In the first place, there are the outrages against the Sacrament itself: the horrible profanations, of which some ex-Satanist converts have reported and offer gruesome descriptions. Sacrilegious Communions, not received in the state of God’s grace, or not professing the Catholic faith (I refer to certain forms of the so-called “intercommunion”), are also outrages. Secondly, all that could prevent the fruitfulness of the Sacrament, especially the errors sown in the minds of the faithful so that they no longer believe in the Eucharist, is an outrage to Our Lord. The terrible profanations that take place in the so-called ‘black masses’ do not directly wound the One who in the Host is wronged, ending only in the accidents of bread and wine. Of course, Jesus suffers for the souls of those who profane Him, and for whom He shed the Blood which they so miserably and cruelly despise. But Jesus suffers more when the extraordinary gift of his divine-human Eucharistic Presence cannot bring its potential effects into the souls of believers. And so we can understand that the most insidious diabolical attack consists in trying to extinguish faith in the Eucharist, by sowing errors and fostering an unsuitable way of receiving it. Truly the war between Michael and his Angels on one side, and lucifer on the other, continues in the hearts of the faithful: Satan’s target is the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Real Presence of Jesus in the consecrated Host. This robbery attempt follows two tracks: the first is the reduction of the concept of ‘real presence.’ Many theologians persist in mocking or snubbing the term ‘transubstantiation’ despite the constant references of the Magisterium (…) Let us now look at how faith in the real presence can influence the way we receive Communion, and vice versa. Receiving Communion on the hand undoubtedly involves a great scattering of fragments. On the contrary, attention to the smallest crumbs, care in purifying the sacred vessels, not touching the Host with sweaty hands, all become professions of faith in the real presence of Jesus, even in the smallest parts of the consecrated species: if Jesus is the substance of the Eucharistic Bread, and if the dimensions of the fragments are accidents only of the bread, it is of little importance how big or small a piece of the Host is! The substance is the same! It is Him! On the contrary, inattention to the fragments makes us lose sight of the dogma. Little by little the thought may gradually prevail: “If even the parish priest does not pay attention to the fragments, if he administers Communion in such a way that the fragments can be scattered, then it means that Jesus is not in them, or that He is ‘up to a certain point’.” The second track on which the attack against the Eucharist runs is the attempt to remove the sense of the sacred from the hearts of the faithful. (...) While the term ‘transubstantiation’ points us to the reality of presence, the sense of the sacred enables us to glimpse its absolute uniqueness and holiness. What a misfortune it would be to lose the sense of the sacred precisely in what is most sacred! And how is it possible? By receiving special food in the same way as ordinary food. (…) The liturgy is made up of many small rituals and gestures — each of them is capable of expressing these attitudes filled with love, filial respect and adoration toward God. That is precisely why it is appropriate to promote the beauty, fittingness and pastoral value of a practice which developed during the long life and tradition of the Church, that is, the act of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and kneeling. The greatness and nobility of man, as well as the highest expression of his love for his Creator, consists in kneeling before God. Jesus himself prayed on his knees in the presence of the Father. (…) more.............
continued...... In this regard I would like to propose the example of two great saints of our time: St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Calcutta. Karol Wojtyła’s entire life was marked by a profound respect for the Holy Eucharist. (...) Despite being exhausted and without strength (...) he always knelt before the Blessed Sacrament. He was unable to kneel and stand up alone. He needed others to bend his knees and to get up. Until his last days, he wanted to offer us a great witness of reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. Why are we so proud and insensitive to the signs that God himself offers us for our spiritual growth and our intimate relationship with Him? Why do not we kneel down to receive Holy Communion after the example of the saints? Is it really so humiliating to bow down and remain kneeling before the Lord Jesus Christ? And yet, “He, though being in the form of God, [...] humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2: 6-8). St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, an exceptional religious who no one would dare regard as a traditionalist, fundamentalist or extremist, whose faith, holiness and total gift of self to God and the poor are known to all, had a respect and absolute worship of the divine Body of Jesus Christ. Certainly, she daily touched the “flesh” of Christ in the deteriorated and suffering bodies of the poorest of the poor. And yet, filled with wonder and respectful veneration, Mother Teresa refrained from touching the transubstantiated Body of Christ. Instead, she adored him and contemplated him silently, she remained at length on her knees and prostrated herself before Jesus in the Eucharist. Moreover, she received Holy Communion in her mouth, like a little child who has humbly allowed herself to be fed by her God. The saint was saddened and pained when she saw Christians receiving Holy Communion in their hands. In addition, she said that as far as she knew, all of her sisters received Communion only on the tongue. Is this not the exhortation that God himself addresses to us: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it”? (Ps 81:10). Why do we insist on receiving Communion standing and on the hand? Why this attitude of lack of submission to the signs of God? May no priest dare to impose his authority in this matter by refusing or mistreating those who wish to receive Communion kneeling and on the tongue. Let us come as children and humbly receive the Body of Christ on our knees and on our tongue. The saints give us the example. They are the models to be imitated that God offers us! But how could the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the hand become so common? The answer is given to us — and is supported by never-before-published documentation that is extraordinary in its quality and volume — by Don Bortoli. It was a process that was anything but clear, a transition from what the instruction Memoriale Domini granted, to what is such a widespread practice today (...) Unfortunately, as with the Latin language, so also with a liturgical reform that should have been homogeneous with the previous rites, a special concession has become the picklock to force and empty the safe of the Church’s liturgical treasures. The Lord leads the just along ‘straight paths’ (cf. Wis. 10:10), not by subterfuge. Therefore, in addition to the theological motivations shown above, also the way in which the practice of Communion on the hand has spread appears to have been imposed not according to the ways of God. May this book encourage those priests and faithful who, moved also by the example of Benedict XVI — who in the last years of his pontificate wanted to distribute the Eucharist in the mouth and kneeling — wish to administer or receive the Eucharist in this latter manner, which is far more suited to the Sacrament itself. I hope there can be a rediscovery and promotion of the beauty and pastoral value of this method. In my opinion and judgment, this is an important question on which the Church today must reflect. This is a further act of adoration and love that each of us can offer to Jesus Christ. I am very pleased to see so many young people who choose to receive our Lord so reverently on their knees and on their tongues. May Fr. Bortoli’s work foster a general rethinking on the way Holy Communion is distributed. As I said at the beginning of this preface, we have just celebrated the centenary of Fatima and we are encouraged in waiting for the sure triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary that, in the end, the truth about the liturgy will also triumph.
GERMAN FOOL’S MASS CALLED ‘BLASPHEMOUS’ AND ‘TASTELESS’ NEWS: WORLD NEWS by Rodney Pelletier • ChurchMilitant.com • February 14, 2018 143 Comments Mass featuring dancers, a cross-dressing priest and Holy Communion to a Protestant minister You are not signed in as a Premium user; we rely on Premium users to support our news reporting. Sign in or Sign up today! AACHEN, Germany (ChurchMilitant.com) - A German "carnival" Mass with dancing women, a cross-dressing priest and the giving of Holy Communion to a Protestant minister is drawing criticism. A video shot by West German Broadcasting (WDR) is showing a February 4 carnival Mass at the parish of St. Gangolf in Heinsberg — described by KathNews as causing "great horror among countless Catholics," adding that "believers expressed their disgust for this blasphemous tastelessness" on social media. The pastor, Fr. Marcus Bruns, is dressed in a costume and begins by telling the congregation, "We want to start this service a little unfamiliar, different from what you're used to." The video reveals women in short skirts line dancing into the sanctuary with some being held up or thrown into the air by male dancers. Willibert Pauels, St. Gangolf's deacon, declares to the congregation he gets a "thievish pleasure" discussing clerical celibacy, maintaining it is "sometimes so dogged as if it were about salvation or damnation." The congregation cheers after he notes that St. Peter — the first pope — was once married, adding, "That's something to think about. Sure thing!" Later on, Pauels is wearing clown-nose glasses and says, "I can feel what religion actually means." He then muses, "Religion is often abused, either as a guide to education and morality or as a museum which is dusting itself off." He adds, "when religion is well understood, it makes you healthy. Healthy is what brings you to yourself and what puts you ahead of things. Then you will be free and happy." Deacon Willibert Pauels Protestant Pastor Martin Jordan is shown receiving Holy Communion, remarking afterward, "This is not the first time that I was allowed to receive Communion here in the Catholic church of St. Gangolf." He continues, "There is no stronger sign of coalescence, of interdenominational solidarity than joint celebration." Father Rene Mertens, dressed like a woman, comments, "It is a deepening of the joy that we carry in our hearts, and when you experience such a service, your heart opens up. You can feel the joy even more that simply connects us, and you can have such a happy day every day if you like. Bruns called critics of the Fool's Mass "backwards," claiming, "For the faithful in Heinsberg, on the other hand, the Mass was a great experience. We have only received positive feedback." The diocese of Aachen comments, "Carnival and the Church belong closely together in view of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday. In the Rhineland in particular, the carnival influences the whole life, but the diocese of Aachen wants to talk with the clergymen." A German Catholic, born and raised in the diocese of Aachen, tells Church Militant, "What has happened here is not an exception but rather the rule." He notes that while there are faithful Catholics in Germany, it "has become a defiant missionary country. This Mass shows perfectly how dead faith often already is."
This not just Blasphemous and tasteless......... it is DIABOLIC ! I would even go so far as to say this is a 'satanic black mass'
