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"And I beheld, and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth....
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 8:13]

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Fr. Campbell, "An Uncertain Sound"

Fr. Campbell, "An Uncertain Sound"

In early Advent, when we should be free to concentrate on preparing for the holy Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, we find it necessary to do damage control. It must be done if we expect to have a future in which to be free to offer fitting worship to our Divine Savior. 


During his return to Rome from his visit to Africa, Francis Bergoglio, pretender to the papal throne, spoke to reporters on the plane about “religious fundamentalism”, which, he says, exists in all religions. In the Catholic Church he says there are many fundamentalists, by which he means those who hold to the traditional teachings of the True Catholic Church, commonly known as “Traditionalists”. We are the Catholic equivalent of the ISIS terrorists. We must be stopped. The following quotation comes from the Catholic News Service, Monday, Nov 30, 2015:

“When asked a question about religious fundamentalism, in the light of the attacks by ISIS terrorists on Paris, the Pope responded by saying that ‘we are all God’s children, we all have the same Father… we need to live peacefully alongside one another, develop friendships.’
He then went on to discuss fundamentalism within the Church. ‘Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions,’ said the Pontiff. ‘We Catholics have some, many, who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil… Religious fundamentalism must be combatted… ‘religious fundamentalism isn’t religion, it’s idolatry,’ said Francis, adding that ideas and false certainties take the place of faith, love of God and love of others” (Catholic News Service, Monday, 30 Nov 2015).

Well, we must insist that of course we have the absolute truth! Is our Religion only relatively true? Perhaps his religion is relatively true, but mine is absolutely true. We do not have “false certainties,” we have the certainty of faith. Francis prayed with the Muslims in an African mosque, because he thinks the religion of Islam is relatively true too. Well, if all religions are relatively true, that would mean, of course, that they were all relatively false as well.

If I thought our Holy Catholic Religion was only “relatively true” I would lay aside my vestments right now, and walk out of the church. But no, we have the absolute truth, revealed to us by God, who IS Absolute Truth. Our religion is a revealed religion. Its truth does not depend on human judgment, but on the truth of God Himself, whose revealed Word is absolutely true. We are obliged to believe in the Absolute Truth that Jesus Christ, the Divine Son of God the Father, has revealed to us. Furthermore, Jesus promised to send forth from the Father the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Ghost:

“But when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will teach you all the truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he will hear he will speak, and the things that are to come he will declare to you. He will glorify me, because he will receive of what is mine and declare it to you” (Jn.16:13,14).

Now Francis thinks that if we believe that our religion is absolutely true, we despise those of other religions, “dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil”. Oh, he says, “religious fundamentalism isn’t religion, it’s idolatry,” and that, “ideas and false certainties take the place of faith, love of God and love of others.”  

Well, this brings those who follow Francis face to face with a terrible dilemma. Either they believe in the Absolute Truth of the Holy Catholic Religion, which means “dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil”, or they start believing that the Catholic Religion is only “relatively true”, so they can have “faith, love of God and love of others”.

But this is a false dilemma. Perhaps poor Francis was deprived of proper religious instruction as a child. Perhaps he never learned his prayers, such as the Act of Faith:

“O my God, I firmly believe that you are one God in three divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I believe that your divine Son became man and died for our sins, and that he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the holy Catholic Church teaches, because you have revealed them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived.”

We do not hate those who belong to the other religions. On the contrary, we love them enough to be honest with them and tell them the truth, that in order to save their souls they must be baptized and belong to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Ark of Salvation.

But if we were liars, we would tell them all to stay where they are, and not bother about Baptism. This is what Francis tells them. It’s OK, he says, because we all worship the same God. So he will pray with the Muslims in their mosques, but he will not preach the Gospel to them, or encourage them to be baptized. Is an insult to try to help them save their souls? St. Paul says, “If the trumpet give forth an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?” (1Cor.14:8). Francis gives forth “an uncertain sound”, and no one climbs aboard the Ark.

Francis is out there preaching about climate change, while the European Union, with Germany in the lead, is about to go over the moral cliff by making legal all kinds of grossly immoral perversions, including pedophilia. Will Francis repeat his famous words, “Who am I to judge?” When Noah heard from God about the Great Flood, he could have gone on a Bergoglio style speaking tour about climate change, but the Flood would have come anyway, and no one would have been saved. 

Let us hear from a true Holy Father, Pope Leo XIII (Sapientiae Christianae, Jan. 10, 1890):

“We have fallen upon times when a violent and well-nigh daily battle is being fought about matters of highest moment, a battle in which it is hard not to be sometimes deceived, not to go astray and, for many, not to lose heart. It behooves us, venerable brethren, to warn, instruct, and exhort each of the faithful with an earnestness befitting the occasion: that none may abandon the way of truth.”