Yes! I prayed for all of them today too. May your prayer go straight to heaven and all blessings and protections be upon them.
https://gloria.tv/article/9zT1XJabhgaW18jptURaSGX3m *** https://gloria.tv/article/A2C2HjrdJ6ik1Weii4DjY48d6
They sure are rushing things these rich German bishops. Do they know their time is short? Have they been given their marching orders? Hmmm. St John Vianney please pray for them lest the old Grappin lead them where in their right mind they would never wish to go.
I don't want to go on and on about Pope Francis. I would just like to forget about him and concentrate on Spiritual matters ( unlike himself for who spiritual matters are bottom of the list, Global Warming, migrants and being nice to homosexuals , abortionists and Socialism are way up there) . But it's like he keeps jumping up and down in the field of vision and demanding attention for his truly awful goings on. He's like some drunk in a pub who needs smacked on the jaw for being so atrocious. Here he goes again.
Vatican’s former doctrine chief sounds alarm on Francis’ plans to reorder curia Maike Hickson | https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/...ounds-alarm-on-francis-plans-to-reorder-curia May 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican’s former Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine has strongly criticized a draft document containing Pope Francis’ plans for an overhaul of the curia — where “doctrine” is expected to take a backseat to “evangelization” — stating that the plans do not contain a “convincing concept of the origin, essence, and mission of the Church,” and, pointing out that one passage of the document even contains “shocking theological cluelessness." Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, made his comments about the draft document of the curia reform plan, set to be promulgated at the end of June on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, in a new interview with German regional newspaper Passauer Neue Presse. The draft has been prepared by the members of Pope Francis' Council of Nine Cardinals, and it is titled “The Roman Curia and her service to the Church in the world today.” One of the German cardinal's objections to the current draft is that the Roman Curia “finds itself in a state of suspension [“ortlosen Schwebezustand”], because it is not anymore clearly oriented toward serving the Pope for the Universal Church.” For him, this “future 'Apostolic Constitution' is a conglomeration of subjective individual ideas, pious wishes, and moral pleas along with individual quotations from Council texts and statements of the current Pope.” Most importantly, explains Müller, there is a lack of clear distinction “between the secular institutions of the Vatican as a sovereign state, the Holy See as a subject of International Law, and the ecclesiologically founded primacy of the Pope” who is, “as bishop of Rome, in the succession of the Apostle Peter, the visible principle and foundation of the unity.” Here, Cardinal Müller sees that the “fatal mistake” Pope Paul VI's own earlier curial reform – which made the “Secretary of State the center of the Curia” – is now being worsened. According to Müller, the Secretary of State serves the Pope in the “fulfillment of his mission,” however, “the highest mission is his [the Pope's] Magisterium as a member and head of the College of Bishops.” “The secular duties,” the cardinal adds, “are only secondary and not at all fundamentally linked to the papacy.” On the contrary, sometimes the Secretary of State has even “darkened” the Pope's “essential mission.” “To now give today priority to the secular tasks over the spiritual mission is a mistake that urgently needs to be avoided,” Cardinal Müller states. Thus, he warns against a “secularization of the concept of the Church,” as if she is “to be run like an international company” and as if “it is about a balance of power" between a mother company and subsidiaries. Further commenting on the new organization of the different organs of the Roman Curia as described in the draft of the curial reform, Cardinal Müller tells the Passauer Neue Presse that “there is no Suprema [the supreme office – originally the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith] anymore, because all dicasteries are to be on the same level.” He sees here a “planless listing of 16 ministries who somehow are to serve the Pope, the individual bishops, and the bishops' conferences.” As an example, the Pope's alms office is now listed prior to the liturgy and the Sacraments, the prelate points out. Additionally, “evangelization comes on first place, even though it is a task of the Universal Church and not a specific task of the Pope.” Here, Cardinal Müller asks the crucial question: “What, then, is the difference between the Dicastery for Evangelization and the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which, too, is tasked to serve 'the Pope and the bishops in the proclamation of the Gospels in the whole world' [a quote from the draft itself]? Is there on the one side an evangelization without content and on the other side the proclamation of the 'Faith in Christ, the Son of the Living God'”? “Even though,” Cardinal Müller explains, “the Magisterium of the Universal Church is the very reason for the existence of the papal primacy, the teaching of the Faith is being mentioned in the draft merely as one random task of the Pope among many others, and most importantly, now to be subordinate to his secular duties.” Müller also points to one passage in the draft document, describing the duties of the new Dicastery for Doctrine, that contains "shocking theological cluelessness." The Cardinal also notices a “wrong and deviant use of fundamental notions of Catholic theology,” as well as a “secularized way of thinking” of those who demean the Congregation for Doctrine as a sort of “schoolmaster.” He also criticizes the notion of strengthening the “periphery” to the detriment of the “center,” Rome. This might sound “populistically plausible,” Müller explains, but “it sounds shrill and out of tune to a theologically formed ear.” As recently reported, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told LifeSiteNews that Pope Francis did not send to all his cardinals a draft of his curial reform. In light of the piercing critique by Cardinal Müller as presented here, this would be direly needed, for the good of the Church. Several media outlets had reported that the role of the Roman Curia as a whole will be revised. As Crux writes: “Once the text is approved – which will be on a 25-year “trial period” – the Vatican dicasteries will no longer be instruments for the pope to supervise local churches, but will actually be there to serve bishops from around the world. They will no longer be a 'body' in between the pontiff and the college of bishops, but an institution that serves both.” The largest change will be that a sort of “super dicastery” for evangelization is planned, which is to be more important than the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). Fr. Thomas Weinandy, a member of the International Theological Commission who was removed from his position as an adviser to the US Conference of Catholic bishops in 2017 following his criticisms of Pope Francis, told LifeSiteNews in a recent interview that there’s “no problem” with making Evangelization as the “primary pastoral work of the Church,” but “if it means that within that Evangelization, the role of doctrine is going to take second place, or placed on a lower level, then that would undercut the whole purpose of evangelization.” “The good news that is offered is precisely the Mysteries of the Faith -- the Church's doctrinal and moral tradition,” Weinandy said. “How can one preach the Gospel without telling others of the marvelous mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the saving death and resurrection of Jesus, or the great gift of the Sacraments, etc? Doctrine and the Church's moral teaching is what evangelization is all about. It is the Good News!” Without doctrine and moral teaching, “there is no evangelization,” he continued. “What may be proclaimed would simply be empty words that do not bring life -- here on earth and forever in heaven. It would be contrary to the Church's whole evangelistic tradition -- beginning with the Apostles themselves,” he said. *** Leading Catholics react to Open Letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy Dorothy Cummings McLean | May 6, 2019 Renowned philosopher signs petition calling on bishops to investigate Pope for heresy Maike Hickson | May 6, 2019 ‘The most terrible schism the world has ever seen’ Roberto de Mattei | May 6, 2019 [This is a repost of a Rorate-Caeli article which was posted on MOG a few days ago.]
Sr. Consolata Betrone satisfied the Justice of God with her love. Countless priests were saved through her sacrifice and suffering. Others also begged God's Mercy for the salvation of these priests who were teetering on the edge of hell. I'm hoping and praying for her influence and example to impact all, especially me, as I'm am finding it more difficult to find peace and maintain kindness towards our enemies.
Here we go again! It's so kind of the Bishop of Essen to let us know what to expect from a Synod ostensibly relating to the planet and indigenous peoples. ESSEN, Germany, May 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-homosexual German bishop has predicted that sweeping changes to the Catholic Church regarding sexual morality, the male priesthood, and priestly celibacy will follow the next Vatican-run meeting of bishops planned for later this year (the October ''Amazon Synod). According to Katholische.de, the official website of the German Catholic Bishops, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, the ordinary of Germany’s Essen diocese, told reporters that the October Synod in Rome will lead to a “break” in the Church and that “nothing will be the same as as it was.” Overbeck said the hierarchical structure of the Church, its sexual morality, and the general picture of what a priest is (“Priesterbild”) would be scrutinized, and the role of women in the Church would also be reconsidered.
Bp. Schneider: Pope must formally correct statement that God wills false religions By Maike Hickson | https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/b...rect-statement-that-god-wills-false-religions abu dhabi, athanasius schneider, catholic, pope francis, religious freedom May 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — In a new interview, Bishop Athanasius Schneider makes it clear that the pope’s private correction of his official Abu Dhabi statement — according to which the “diversity of religions” is “willed by God” — that Bishop Schneider himself was able to receive from Pope Francis on March 1 is not sufficient. The Abu Dhabi statement “is still valid,” and thus, says Schneider, “there is being proclaimed a new Gospel, a Gospel that is not the one taught by the Incarnate Word of God, that was loyally preached by the Apostles and passed on to the Church.” “There can be no doubt,” Schneider explains, “that Saint Paul would say today, concerning this controversial formulation in the Abu Dhabi statement: ‘But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema’ (Galatians 1:8–9).” Pope Francis signed the controversial “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” with Grand Imam Ahmad el-Tayeb in Abu Dhabi on February 4, 2019. “Up to now, neither the pope, nor an office of the Holy See speaking in his name, have made a public correction with direct reference to the dubious passage concerning the ‘diversity of religions’” in the Abu Dhabi statement, Bishop Schneider explains in an interview with Gloria.tv. “Therefore,” he concludes, “the formulation concerning the diversity of religions is still valid.” In the interview, Bishop Schneider goes over in detail the different developments concerning his discussion with Pope Francis about this Abu Dhabi statement. He insists that the correction given to him by the pope during an audience on March 1 has only a “private character,” and he explains that he gave the pope on the same day a letter asking him to “rescind” the formulation on the “diversity of religions.” Pope Francis, on March 5, answered Bishop Schneider in a letter, saying that in the Abu Dhabi document, the expression “is willed by God” means the “permissive will of God.” “I then wrote, on 25 March, yet another personal letter,” explains Schneider. In this letter, he asked the pope if he may repeat “publicly for the whole Church” what the pope had said and written to Schneider in private. Schneider asked him to do so “because of the confusion in the Church that is growing daily concerning the truth that the Faith in Jesus Christ as the only Redeemer of mankind is the only religion directly and positively willed by God.” Asked about the fact that Pope Francis, during the general audience on March 3, explicitly spoke about the “permissive will of God” with regard to the diversity of religions, and whether the pope thereby did not thus “remove the problem,” Bishop Schneider says: “With this formulation, Pope Francis does not make a direct reference to the much-discussed passage of the Abu Dhabi statement.” Additionally, the prelate states, there is no express teaching mentioned that the Faith of Jesus Christ “is the only religion positively willed by God.” Bishop Schneider mentions that Pope Francis did send to him personally a copy of that March 3 statement during the general audience. But he continues, saying that while this March 3 statement may be a “small step forward,” it is still the case that “the statement that is incorrect in itself and as it is to be found in the Abu Dhabi document continues to stand without a clear and authentic correction within the Church” and that “it even is being further spread with its objectively erroneous formulation.” “Thereby,” Bishop Schneider states, “the truth about the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as Redeemer of Mankind and, subsequently, the Faith in Him as the only religion willed by God is being relativized. This way, the danger grows increasingly that the essence of the whole Gospel and, with it, of the depositum fidei [deposit of the Faith] is being denied.” In the face of a growing relativization of the “uniqueness of Our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ,” explains the prelate, it is even more important now that the “whole Church and, in the first place, Pope Francis” openly speak about this matter. “The document of Abu Dhabi was, however, not helpful with regard to the main mission of the Church.” He also points out that the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent a February 21, 2019 letter “to all the Church’s universities” with the explicit request that they help spread, on all levels, the principles contained in the Abu Dhabi document. That letter then also quotes the controversial passage on the diversity of religions. (LifeSiteNews reported on this letter here.) Speaking about the consequences of the further spreading of the uncorrected Abu Dhabi document, Bishop Schneider points out that it will further “relativize the uniqueness of Our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and with it also the essence of the Gospel and of Divine Revelation.” In his last sentences, Bishop Schneider expresses his “burning desire” that daily “more and more voices among bishops, priests, and faithful will come who ask respectfully and lovingly from the pope that he unambiguously correct the statement in the Abu Dhabi document.”
This is what Our Blessed Mother told Fr. Gobbi (Marian Movement of Priests) about a schism: #352, May 17,1987 – Washington DC, USA: “Bishops of the holy Church of God, return to a full, humble and total unity with the Pope, because today you are running the danger of a most grave schism and because of this how great is your responsibility before God!” #375, Feb. 25, 1988 – Sao Paulo Brazil: “Schism and apostasy are menacing today the Church which lives in this nation of yours.” #385, June 29, 1988 – Knock Ireland: “The heart of the Pope is bleeding today because of one bishop of the holy Church of God who, through an arbitrary episcopal ordination carried out against his (the Pope’s) will, is opening up a painful schism in the Catholic Church.” #437, Nov. 15, 1990 – Malvern PA, USA: “How great is your responsibility O pastors of the holy Church of God! You continue along the path of division from the Pope and of the rejection of his Magisterium; indeed, in a hidden way, there is in preparation a true schism which could soon become open and proclaimed. And then, there will remain only a small faithful remnant…” #486, Jan. 1, 1993 – Rubbio Italy: “The hour of its great trial has above all come for the Church, because it will be shaken by the lack of faith, obscured by apostasy, wounded by betrayal, abandoned by its children, divided by schisms, possessed and dominated by Freemasonry, turned into fertile soil from which will spring up the wicked tree of the man of iniquity, the Antichrist, who will begin his kingdom into its interior.” #501, Sept. 15, 1993 – Tokyo Japan: “ The apostasy and the great schism in the Church is on the point of taking place, and the great chastisement about which I foretold you in this place, is now at the very doors.” #539, Mar 11, 1995 – Fatima, Portugal: “In the Church, the great apostasy, which will spread throughout the whole world, will be brought to its completion; the schism will take place though a general alienation from the Gospel and from the true faith.” #565, Feb. 22, 1996- Cuzco, Peru: “The powers of hell will not prevail, despite the fact that satan has broken loose, sowing divisions and schisms, these deep wounds which have shattered the unity of the Church, the Mystical Body of my Son Jesus. All the various Christian confessions, which in the course of the centuries have separated themselves from the Catholic Church, represents victory of the Adversary against the unity of the Church, that unity willed by Christ and ardently implored of the Father. And now the effort is being made to rectify all these errors by walking the path of reconciliation and ecumenism. However, the coming together of all the Christian confessions in the Catholic Church will take place with the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.”
Back when Father Gobbi wrote these messages we were dealing with a holy pope in complete harmony with all of God's truths. It us much differenent today and it requires great courage and wisdom to stay within the unchanging truths when they are not always held by the top office of the church.
German bishops’ vice president expects Amazon synod to propose married priests ‘with civil job’ Maike Hickson | https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/...nod-to-propose-married-priests-with-civil-job catholic, franz-josef bode, german bishops, married priests, priestly celibacy May 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, the Vice-President of the German Bishops, states in a new interview that he can “very well imagine that there are also priests with family and [civil] job, similar to our deacons, some of whom are married and have a job.” This model of married “priests with a civil job,” he predicts, will “probably be presented to the Pope by the Latin American bishops at the Amazon Synod in October.” Speaking with the regional newspaper Osnabrücker Zeitung, Bishop Bode makes it clear that he is in favor of “rethinking the link between celibacy and the priesthood.” “Priests with a civil job” could “celebrate the Eucharist” and also provide “the corresponding priestly services,” he says. In Bishop Bode's view, this model will “probably be presented to the Pope by the Latin American bishops at the Amazon Synod in October.” He explains that “the high and proper estimation of celibacy shall always be preserved, but it should be enriched by other priestly forms of life.” In that same interview, the German bishop also speaks in favor of female deacons “as a sign of recognition, esteem, and change of status of women in the Church who are today in large numbers active in charitable fields and in the field of the diaconate.” Bishop Bode's idea of a sort of part-time priest who is married and has a full-time civil job similar to a deacon is an idea that may be found in the writings of Bishop Fritz Lobinger of Aliwal, South Africa. Lobinger has written several books in which he calls for a new community-based priestly leadership that consists of a “team of elders” who all have their ordinary jobs and families and who together run a parish and celebrate Holy Mass and administer the Sacraments. He thinks that women should be able to become priests, as well. The problem with this model is that these “priests with a civil job” have very little time to receive a thorough theological formation. Lobinger thinks that the priestly formation could take place during the weekends and intermittently during a one-week seminar or so. The result could be a sort of a priest with an attenuated theological formation. Pope Francis, not long ago, publicly praised the work of Bishop Lobinger and his model of married priests who are not the same as the traditional priests who are celibate. Bishop Bode is now the second German bishop who points to the Amazon Synod as the moment where the Church will open herself, most probably, to some fundamental changes. Significant here is that Bishop Erwin Kräutler – a proponent of married male and female priests – is the author of the working document for the upcoming October 2019 Amazon Synod. Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen just made a similar statement, calling for a new “image of priest” in light of the fact that, in the Amazon region, there are often women religious who are influential in the local parishes. “The face of the local church is female,” explained Overbeck, who is himself the head of the German bishops' own Latin America commission, which provides financial and pastoral support to Latin America. Overbeck also recently called for a discussion of celibacy, especially in light of the current clerical sex abuse crisis. He now claims that the Amazon Synod will lead the Catholic Church to a “point of no return” and that, thereafter, “nothing will be the same as as it was.”
Pope Francis tells Swiss Guards: ‘Religious diversity’ is ‘human wealth’ Dorothy Cummings McLean | https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/p...ss-guards-religious-diversity-is-human-wealth abu dhabi, catholic, nostra aetate, pope francis, religious freedom, switzerland VATICAN CITY, May 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Pope Francis extolled the fact that not all people yet believe in Christ in a recent speech he gave to the Swiss Guards. On Saturday, May 4, the pontiff told the elite force who serve as his bodyguards that life in the barracks would prepare them for life in the wider, rapidly changing society outside. “Above all you have the opportunity to create healthy friendship and train yourselves to respect the peculiarities and the idea of others, learning to recognize in the other a brother and a companion with whom to share serenely a stretch of the road,” he said in Italian. “This will help you to live in society with the right attitude, recognizing cultural, religious, and social diversity as human wealth and not as a threat. This is particularly important in a world where there are, as never before, large movements of populations and people searching for security and a dignified life.” Pope Francis’s endorsement of religious plurality follows his February signing of a controversial statement called the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” which states that a “pluralism and diversity” of religious is “willed by God.” The document was also signed by Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar mosque, during an interreligious meeting in Abu Dhabi on February 4. The event was part of Pope Francis’s three-day apostolic visit to the United Arab Emirates, a journey meant to promote interreligious dialogue and support the country’s estimated 1 million–strong Catholic minority. The most obviously controversial passage of the document reads: Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept. The idea that “God not only permits, but positively wills, the pluralism and diversity of religions, both Christian and non-Christian” was presented as one of Pope Francis’s heresies by the authors of the April 30 “Open Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church.” The authors cited the “Document on Human Fraternity” in their letter. In February, a Dominican theologian, who wished to remain anonymous, told LifeSiteNews that the controversial passage “in its obvious sense is false, and in fact heretical.” “The various religions say incompatible things about who God is and how He wants to be worshipped. Therefore they cannot all be true. Therefore God, who is truth, cannot will all religions,” he stated. Responding to those who defended the pope’s statement by invoking God’s “permissive will,” the Dominican theologian said: God permits non-Catholic religions to exist; but permitting something is not a way of willing it, it is a way of not willing to prevent it. Thus God permits many innocent people to be killed, but He does not will it. We would not talk about God’s permissive will for Jews to be gassed, for example. Life in the barracks of the Swiss Guards is not religiously, culturally, or socially diverse. According to the Roman Curia, membership in the Swiss Guards is limited to a very specific kind of person. Even today, Swiss Guards are chosen from unmarried Swiss Catholic men aged between 19 and 30 who are over 174 cm (5’8.5”) tall.
Ha..I’m watching it now...not done...was just checking in. It’s good...because I agree with them on Everything! Lol
