The Catholic Faith is not an " encyclopedia of truth!"??

The Catholic Faith is not an " encyclopedia of truth!"??

Address to the USCCB Committee for Ecumenical & Interreligious Affairs

Fr. Thomas Rosica
Baltimore  
Your Excellencies,
Dear Bishops of the United States,
Dear Friends,

Fr. Thomas Rosica

 I am very grateful to my friend, Bishop Denis Madden, for his invitation to address you today during your Fall Meeting in Baltimore.  It is both a privilege and a daunting task to stand before many good shepherds of local Churches in the United States who carry immense burdens of holding the flock together these days.  You have invited me to share some reflections on Pope Francis’ outreach to Christians of other churches and to people of other "faith communities" ?? I do so not just as an outside observer, critical theologian or biblical exegete, seasoned ecumenist or catholic journalist, but most especially as one who has worked closely with the Holy See Press Office since that historic night of March 13, 2013, when something new happened in the Roman Catholic Church and in the world. A new form of outreach was inaugurated that night and we are slowly trying to assess and understand its impact and meaning in our ecclesial communities.
 
Four Biblical Reflections and Four Perspectives
 
I would like to begin by recalling four daily homilies of the Bishop of Rome over the past 19 months that may very well be a hermeneutical key to understanding Pope Francis’ ecumenical and interreligious efforts. One month after his election to the See of Peter, in his daily homily in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae on May 13, 2013, Pope Francis stressed the courageous attitude of St. Paul in the Areopagus, when, in speaking to the Athenian crowd, the Apostle to the Gentiles sought to build bridges to proclaim the Gospel. Francis called Paul’s attitude one that “seeks dialogue” (these modernists do not teach conversion because that is actually Catholic) and is “closer to the heart” of the listener. The Pope said that this is the reason why St Paul was a real pontifex: a “builder of bridges and not of walls.” The Pope went on to say that this makes us think of the attitude that a Christian ought always to have.
 
“A Christian must proclaim Jesus Christ in such a way that He be accepted: received, not refused – and Paul knows that he has to sow the Gospel message. …Paul does not say to the Athenians: ‘This is the encyclopedia of truth. Study this and you have the truth, the truth.’  No! The truth does not enter into an encyclopedia. The truth is an encounter - it is a meeting with Supreme Truth: Jesus, the great truth. No one owns the truth. The we receive the truth when we meet it.” (Protestantism; truth does not change with or through experience)

 The Pope warned that, “Christians who are afraid to build bridges and prefer to build walls are Christians who are not sure of their faith, not sure of Jesus Christ.” The Pope exhorted Christians to do as Paul did and begin to “build bridges and to move forward.”
One year ago on October 13, 2013 in the Chapel of the Domus, Pope Francis warned Christians against behaving as though the “key is in [their] pocket, and the door closed.” He reiterated that without prayer, one abandons the faith and descends into ideology and moralism. “Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge!” (Luke 11:52)
 
Francis continued: “Jesus speaks to us about the image of the lock; it is “the image of those Christians who have the key in their hand, but take it away, without opening the door. Worse still, they keep the door closed and don’t allow anyone to enter. In so doing, they themselves do not enter. …The lack of Christian witness does this, and when this Christian is a priest, a bishop or a Pope it is worse.”
 
“But how does it happen that a Christian falls into this attitude of keeping the key to the Church in his pocket, with the door closed?”

Pe. Jurgen Wegner (neo-FSSPX),
Dom Bernard Fellay (neo-FSSPX) &
Pe. Thomas Rosica (Novus Ordo)

 “The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology. And ideology does not beckon people. In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. …And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: (truth does not have boundaries sayest these modernists; they are relativists) he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.”
 
“The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people. But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/documents/detail/articolo/ecumenismo-ecumenism-ecumenismo-37469/

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TradCatKnight:
As if we needed any more proof from these modernists of their subjectivism, Fr. Rosica, has clearly demonstrated himself to have lost the faith. Francis is no different. This is very much something you would hear from an evangelical protestant but certainly not a Catholic. Vatican II NewChurch is very much protestant and examples continue to manifest themselves on a daily basis. You cannot follow these Vatican II modernists and their teachings and call your self a catholic. Join the Resistance!