Thank you for posting! I had not seen this before. I am glad this holy prelate, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, has stepped up. He is in very good company, together with Archbishop Tomasz Peta, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, Fr. Mark Goring, Fr. Chris Alar, and many others. “I had another vision of the great tribulation. It seems to me that a concession was demanded from the clergy which could not be granted. I saw many older priests, especially one, who wept bitterly. A few younger ones were also weeping. But others, and the lukewarm among them, readily did what was demanded. It was as if people were splitting into two camps…” Sr. Anna K. Emmerich – April 1820 https://onepeterfive.com/anne-catherine-emmerich-and-the-two-popes/ “It is not to be excluded that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church.” 'Pope Francis' – December 2016 https://onepeterfive.com/pope-francis-reported-words-might-go-history-split-church/ But we need not worry. We know what the final outcome will be: “Again I saw in vision St. Peter’s undermined according to a plan devised by the secret sect while, at the same time, it was damaged by storms; but it was delivered at the moment of greatest distress. Again I saw the Blessed Virgin extending her mantle over it. In this last scene, I saw no longer the reigning Pope, but one of his successors, a mild, but very resolute man who knew how to attach his priests to himself and who drove far from him the bad. I saw all things renewed and a church which reached from earth to Heaven.” Sr. Anna K. Emmerich – 13 May 1820 (Fatima day, almost 100 years before Fatima actually occurred) https://onepeterfive.com/anne-catherine-emmerich-and-the-two-popes/
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
I try to be positive or at least learn something positive from dark, grave events. I think one thing is that we did not get to this dark place by accident. The finger of accusation must return to ourselves. We get the Spiritual Leaders (and Secular Leaders) we deserve. I recall Pope Saint John Paul 2 once said that what the Church needed most was saints. One French writer said that the only failure in life was not to have been a saint. So we have all of us, unless we are saints, contributed to this mess one way or another by not taking out Faith seriously enough. I really can't think much else for us to do but fasting and prayer as laypeople. Like Our Lady ,waiting patiently in prayer for the Lord to act to save His people. Trusting, hoping, waiting. One thing does puzzle me a little though. Some Catholics are wide awake and bushy tailed about what is going on . They know can can see the danger, others cannot they sleep whilst the wolves are right in the sheepfold eating the sheep. Others sound the alarm very fiercely and raise a great commotion. Others simply sleep, snoring loudly as though nothing were happening. A puzzle. I will tell you something that happened at Mass the other day that cheered me up a lot and put me in a very good mood. A demon that looks kinda like a cross between a snake and a great centipede has been causing me some trouble at night times. Not too much as I have kinda grown used to him and the others as you get used to anything after a while. Anyway after just receiving the Eucharist and I recalled this is the very best time for a prayer of petition, to ask a favour from the Lord. So I was inspired to ask the Lord to do pay back on this particular demon for me. All at one I saw the eyes of the Lord turn towards this demon and and I was shown it as though on a great frying pan getting roasted and in the most incredible agony writhing in torment. I don't think I will be seeing that particular demon about anytime soon. If it were possible to feel sorry for demons I would have felt sorry for it. But this reminds me of the demons in the Church. All we have to do is ask the Lord to turn His eyes towards them and they will get a good frying. As Scripture tells us, trust in the Lord and He will act. Psalm 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.
I reckon it's a spiritual thing. Similarly with the 'vaccines'. 70-80% in the Western world have taken them, most notably highly intelligent and educated people. This phenomenon cannot be explained unless seen from a spiritual point of view, I think. It has to do with grace, which has to do with humility and being willing to see the truth.
Zephaniah 1 14 The great day of the Lord is near— near and coming quickly. The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter; the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry. 15 That day will be a day of wrath— a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness— 16 a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers. 17 “I will bring such distress on all people that they will grope about like those who are blind, because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung. 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
We must pray that this catastrophe will knock some sense into the eligible Cardinals, that they will vote for a Pope Mueller, who seems to resemble the "mild, but very resolute man" envisioned by Sr Emmerich. If Bergoglio tries to pack the conclave with a certain type of lay person, the Cardinals will surely be within their rights to reject this-when Bergoglio is dead, so will be his legal remit. The Pope is dead, long live the (new) Pope (Mueller, please God).
Matthew 5:37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
Do you feel sorry for a mosquito when it bites you, sucks your blood and you smack it dead? I don't. My .02 for the day.
My thoughts on blessing same sex couples. "sure you can be blessed" says the Priest. " would you like to attend church and receive the blessing at the end of Mass with everyone else? Or come on the Feast Day of St.Francis when we bless the animals?" Sorry I am feeling grumpy today.
One thing , without upsetting people further , for I know folks are very,very upset already, but one thought. Maybe when we are all calmed down a bit to think and pray about. Can someone we believe to be Pope actually be Pope when he openly teach the most abominable and blasphemous heresy? Is this possible? Is it possible for someone to be a Pope and the very worse kind of heretic at the same time? Is it possible for someone to be a Shepherd and at the same time to feed his flock to wolfs? Is is possible to lead people to both heaven and to hell at the same time? For someone to be both evil and good? Can someone who holds heresy consider himself Catholic? Can a Pope who is not Catholic be considered to be Pope?
[QUOTE="Michael_Pio, post: 436646 “I had another vision of the great tribulation. It seems to me that a concession was demanded from the clergy which could not be granted. I saw many older priests, especially one, who wept bitterly. A few younger ones were also weeping. But others, and the lukewarm among them, readily did what was demanded. It was as if people were splitting into two camps…” Sr. Anna K. Emmerich – April 1820 https://onepeterfive.com/anne-catherine-emmerich-and-the-two-popes/ “It is not to be excluded that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church.” 'Pope Francis' – December 2016 https://onepeterfive.com/pope-francis-reported-words-might-go-history-split-church/ “Again I saw in vision St. Peter’s undermined according to a plan devised by the secret sect while, at the same time, it was damaged by storms; but it was delivered at the moment of greatest distress. Again I saw the Blessed Virgin extending her mantle over it. In this last scene, I saw no longer the reigning Pope, but one of his successors, a mild, but very resolute man who knew how to attach his priests to himself and who drove far from him the bad. I saw all things renewed and a church which reached from earth to Heaven.” Sr. Anna K. Emmerich – 13 May 1820 (Fatima day, almost 100 years before Fatima actually occurred) https://onepeterfive.com/anne-catherine-emmerich-and-the-two-popes/ [/QUOTE] God allows this abomination for a reason: to separate the sheep from the wolves "that the hearts of many will be revealed". Cardinals, bishops and priests have started making known their positions, so we know exactly where they stand. The bishops who firmly prohibit the priests in their dioceses from blessing same-sex couples are good shepherds, keeping their sheep in the fold. Those who are deceived or in denial are betraying or denying Our Lord Jesus, "accompanying" the lost sheep on the wide and easy path to perdition or scattering the flock. Those who do nothing are equally accountable to the Lord for abandoning their sacred duty to teach, lead, and feed the flock.
God bless LifeSiteNews and the people behind it for taking a brave stand. See the petition below: URGENT: Tell your bishop to prohibit the “blessing” of sinful unions in your diocese. Petition Text: Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández have issued a text allowing “blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex” in contradiction to the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful relationships. We must petition our bishops to prohibit such “blessings” in our dioceses, lest this abomination in God's eyes take hold at the local level. Violating Divine Revelation and the constant Magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church, the Declaration “Fiducia Supplicans” allows Catholic clergy to provide “blessings” for same-sex couples, along with the norms outlined by the cardinal and the Pope. Such relationships cannot receive God's blessing, however, since they entail objectively sinful acts that contradict God's Word. Indeed, in his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul states that homosexual actions are sinful, explaining that “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers” will “inherit the kingdom of God,” but rather, according to his letter to the Romans, those who practice homosexuality will receive “in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” Under the leadership of Cardinal Ratzinger in 1986, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) admonished bishops to ensure they, and any “pastoral programme” in the diocese are “clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral”: “But we wish to make it clear that departure from the Church’s teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. The neglect of the Church’s position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care they need and deserve. “Therefore special concern and pastoral attention should be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not.” As recently as 2021, the CDF stated clearly that the Church does not have the “power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex.” The CDF stated that it is “not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex.” We must oppose Pope Francis' error before this diabolical practise takes hold in our parishes and dioceses. SIGN: Tell your bishop to prohibit the “blessing” of sinful unions in your diocese Please share this petition widely before we send it to all bishops of the Catholic Church. More information at LifeSiteNews.com https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/b...ssed/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa
[QUOTE="padraig, post: 436650, I really can't think much else for us to do but fasting and prayer as laypeople. Like Our Lady ,waiting patiently in prayer for the Lord to act to save His people. Trusting, hoping, waiting. All we have to do is ask the Lord to turn His eyes towards them and they will get a good frying. As Scripture tells us, trust in the Lord and He will act. Psalm 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. [/QUOTE] --- Brothers and sisters in Christ and Mary, Can we please unite in praying a continuing chain of novenas for our Holy Mother Church (this, of course, includes every soul, starting from the top -- the Pope, the rest of the clergy, the nuns, other consecrated souls and down to us -- whether faithful, fallen away or lost flock, converts, those who are or were considering converting, etc.). Since this is the Christmas season, how about starting with a novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague (from December 23 to 31)?
INFANT OF PRAGUE NOVENA PRAYER O Jesus, Who has said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened," through the intercession of Mary, Your Most Holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted. (Make your request) O Jesus, Who has said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name, He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask your Father in your name that my prayer will be granted. (Make your request) O Jesus, Who has said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away but My word shall not pass away," through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted. (Make your request) PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Divine Infant Jesus, I know You love me and would never leave me. I thank You for Your close Presence in my life. Miraculous Infant, I believe in Your promise of peace, blessings, and freedom from want. I place every need and care in Your hands. Lord Jesus, may I always trust in Your generous mercy and love. I want to honor and praise You, now and forever. Amen. ------------------------------------------------------- Provided courtesy of: Eternal Word Television Network https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/novena-to-the-infant-jesus-of-prague-11875
Aren't the minimum qualifications for someone to be pope that they were validly elected and that they're male and baptized?
1364— § 1. An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of can. 194 § 1 n. 2; he or she may also be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. https://www.catholicculture.org/news/definition.cfm?glossID=91 A latae sententiae excommunication is incurred automatically, under the terms of the Code of Canon Law, as the punishment for certain offenses. In the case of a latae sententiae excommunication, there is no requirement for formal trial or announcement; in fact, the individual brings the punishment upon himself. 'When we take the Word of God seriously, this is not possible, to bless homosexual couples is blasphemy.” Cardinal Mueller
Excommunication doesn't remove baptism. The only thing I see that says that a heretic can't be pope, or that a valid pope would lose their office through heresy, is that quote from Bellarmine or other similar quotes from saints. I don't think there's any canon law or anything magisterial on the subject (I'd love to see it if it's out there).
