"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]
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The False Prophet will be in the service of the Beast
The False Prophet will be in the service of the Beast
Not long ago, Francis' niece, Cristina Bergoglio, said that she
sees "...the church as outdated," and added, "that's why I believe life
has put my uncle to renew this certain system of thought that was
getting stagnated."
That "certain system of thought" is Roman Catholicism.
As Randy Engel has said, "Catholicism is a religion of Tradition, Sacred
Scripture and the Magisterium, the fullness of the Faith, handed down
to us from the time of the Apostles. It never was, is, or will be a
religion of 'evolution' or 'change' related to dogmatic truths and
morals. Yet, Francis continues to maintain an inordinate fascination
with 'change,' which amounts to a 'divinization' of change.."
Precisely. What exactly does Francis mean by change? His is not the
change which is so necessary and so beautifully articulated by the Saint
for whom I was named. Writing to the Ephesians, St. Paul said, "Put off
the old man who is corrupted according to the desire of error, and be
renewed in the spirit of your mind: and put on the new man, who
according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth" (Eph.
4:22-24).
And as Dr. Von Hildebrand explains, "These words of St. Paul are
inscribed above the gate through which all must pass who want to reach
the goal set us by God. They implicitly contain the quintessence of the
process which baptized man must undergo before he attains the unfolding
of the new supernatural life received in Baptism." (Transformation in
Christ, p.3).
Dr. Von Hildebrand goes on to explain in this work of critical
importance that there is a certain type of man, "who, while not lacking a
certain elan, refuses to take account of his limitations and is thus
driven to magnify his stature artificially." He continues: "Suppose he
is present at some discussion of spiritually relevant topics: he will
take part in the debate as though he were fully equipped to do so; he
will claim impressions as deep as the others; he will not yield to any
other man as regards intellectual proficiency or even religious stature.
Thus he works himself up, as it were, to a level which he has not
reached in reality - and which he may not even be able to reach, so far
as it is a matter of natural capacities. He is not without zeal; but
that zeal is nourished at heart by pride. He misjudges the limitations
of the natural talents which God has lent him, and consequently lapses
into pretense. He is fond of speaking of things which far transcend the
limits of his understanding; he behaves as though a mere mental or
verbal reference to such subjects (however poorly implemented with
actual knowledge and penetration) would by itself amount to their
intellectual possession. This cramped attitude of sham spirituality is
mostly underlain by an inferiority complex, or by a kind of infantile
unconsciousness. Stupidity in its really oppressive form is traceable to
this pretension to appear something different from what one is in fact,
and by no means to a mere deficiency of intellectual gifts."
(Transformation in Christ, pp.23-24).
Why am I relating all of this? Because, Dr. Von Hildebrand teaches us
that such false self-appraisals actually hinder our readiness to change
or to "put on the new man" as St. Paul instructs us to do. And what Dr.
Von Hildebrand refers to as a "cramped attitude of sham spirituality" is
part and parcel of this papacy.
TradCatKnight Exclusive: The False Prophet
We are witnessing a pontiff who forgets that we stand on the shoulders
of giants. A man who believes it is the Church which must change and
that this is so because he is "wiser" than all previous Popes, Saints,
Doctors and Fathers of the Church.
It was Pius XII, in his encyclical letter Mystici Corporis, who taught
that:"..The Church, which should be considered a perfect society in its
own right, is not made up of merely moral and juridical elements and
principles. It is far superior to all other human societies; it
surpasses them as grace surpasses nature, as things immortal are above
all those that perish...The juridical principles, on which also the
Church rests and is established, derive from the divine constitution
given it by Christ.."
Authentic Catholics accept the teaching of Vatican I that, "...the
pastors and the faithful of whatever rite and dignity, both as separate
individuals and all together, are bound by the duty of hierarchical
subordination and true obedience, not only in things which pertain to
faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and
government of the Church which is spread over the whole world, so that
the Church of Christ, protected not only by the Roman Pontiff, but by
the unity of communion as well as of the profession of the same faith is
one flock under the one highest shepherd. This is the doctrine of
Catholic truth from which no one can deviate and keep his faith and
salvation." (Dogmatic Constitution I on the Church of Christ, Session
IV).
Sadly these authentic Catholics are not being fed by an authentic
Shepherd in Rome. Instead, they are being assaulted by a man who wants
to see the Catholic religion neutralized in preparation for the rise of
the Man of Sin.
It was Frere Francois de Marie des Anges, in his important work entitled "Fatima: Tragedy and Triumph," who warned that:
"The Apocalypse teaches us that the "false prophet" will act exteriorly
as exercising authority in the name of God and in His service, whereas
he will be in reality in the service of the Beast. Our Father Superior
comments:
I'm order to bend souls and not only bodies under his domination and
obtain their adoration, the political power instigated a religious power
completely to his service, and thus the lamb is going to become the
vehicle of error. The church of heresy, schism and scandal is going to
make itself voluntarily the slave of the beast and the dragon which have
conquered it, the spiritual animator of the empire of Satan. He will
use fire from Heaven, which is the Word of God, anathema, to disarm its
enemies and conquer Christians. Then the lamb will condemn what is holy
and consecrate what is of the evil one. Here we are at the most
extreme point of the triumph of impiety, at the hour of the most
complete victory of the mystery of iniquity....'" (Fatima: Tragedy and
Triumph, p. 285).

