Conflicting Visions and Prayers for Protection
Two
little words are the key to true understanding, to the supernatural
life, and to Heaven itself –I Believe! To believe as the Church believes
must be the greatest happiness, for “He who believes and is baptized
shall be saved” (Mk.16:16). Before He suffered Jesus prayed for us to
the Father: “Father, the hour has come! Glorify thy Son, that thy Son
may glorify thee, even as thou hast given him power over all flesh, in
order that to all thou hast given him he may give everlasting life. Now
this is everlasting life, that they may know thee, the only true God,
and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ” (Jn.17:1-3).
We
believe because we trust in God Who is Absolute Truth, and whose word
is truth (Jn.17:17). In fact, all are obliged to believe when God
speaks, as He does through the pages of the Sacred Scriptures, and
through the teachings of the Church handed down to us from the preaching
of the Apostles. It is the only reasonable thing to do. We may doubt
the testimony of human beings because they are not always truthful, but
the testimony of God – never!
The
body of revealed truth called the “deposit of faith” which the Church
received at its beginning has been jealously guarded by the Church since
apostolic times. It is like that pearl of great price of which Our Lord
spoke, for which a man sells all he has in order to buy it (Mt.13:46).
The deposit of faith cannot be changed, nor can its contents be
diminished by deleting old doctrines, or increased by adding new ones.
It can be pondered, studied, written about by theologians, taught, and
preached, but never changed. It is God’s revealed word.
Lest the faith should suffer change at the hands of the Modernist heretics, Pope St. Pius X published a Syllabus of Errors (Lamentabili Sane,
July 3, 1907), in which he identified sixty-five Modernist errors which
were to be proscribed and condemned. In the same year he issued his
encyclical Pascendi (September 8, 1907), in which he referred to
Modernism as “the synthesis of all heresies.” To ensure obedience to his
decrees, the holy pope required an Oath Against Modernism
(September 1, 1910) to be sworn to by all clergy, pastors, confessors,
preachers, religious superiors, and professors in
philosophical-theological seminaries. Since then every Catholic priest
took the oath until it was abrogated by Paul VI in 1967.
Along
came Vatican II! The documents of the said council have been described
by no less an authority than Cardinal Josef Ratzinger (later Benedict
XVI) as a countersyllabus, a rebuttal of the condemnations of Pope St.
Pius X’s Syllabus of Errors. Hence to sign the documents would amount to breaking the Oath Against Modernism
imposed by St. Pius X. Therefore every bishop who signed the documents
at the end of Vatican II, must be held as guilty of breaking the solemn
oath made before God’s holy Altar at the time of his ordination to the
Holy Priesthood. Many bishops, of course, refused to sign them and
returned to their dioceses in sadness. The dismantling of the Catholic
fortress had begun.
And
the dismantling of the Catholic fortress continues. There is a
dismantling tool that has been used since Vatican II – the process of
dialogue. In a speech delivered in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 6, 2015,
Francis Bergoglio declared:
“Interreligious
dialogue here (in Sarajevo), as in every part of the world, is an
indispensable condition for peace, and for this reason is a duty for all
believers.” Francis also said: “Dialogue is a school of humanity, a
builder of unity, which helps build a society founded on tolerance and
mutual respect.”
Truth
matters! The way to freedom is the way of truth. The way to slavery is
through dialogue. It may not be ‘ecumenical’ to say that the other
religions are false. Must we be ‘ecumenical’ and respect their “truths”?
The answer to that is that we must have respect for all human beings,
but we can have no respect for their false religions. We can have no
respect for falsehood. It is the Church’s mission to teach the truth of
the Gospel to all nations.
On
Friday, May 6, Francis spoke to EU leaders after being presented with
the EU's Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unification.
“I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime but a summons
to greater commitment on behalf of the dignity of every human being,”
he said. “Today more than ever, their vision inspires us to build
bridges and tear down walls.” He has regularly railed against the
“indifference” of western societies to their plight and last month he
made a high-profile visit to Lesbos, the Greek island on the frontline
of the crisis, returning to the Vatican with three Syrian families
seeking asylum from the civil war ravaging their homeland. (Vatican
City, AFP, May 6, 2016).
Francis
should stop dreaming and study history. In the year 1571, the Islamic
Ottoman Empire threatened to overrun Christian Europe and make it part
of their Islamic Empire. The famous Battle of Lepanto took place on
October 7, 1571. Pope St. Pius had commanded the Holy Rosary to be
prayed throughout Europe on that day. In the afternoon of that same day, the 7th of
October, 1571, the Pope was walking about his room, listening to
business matters related by his treasurer, Mons. Busotti de Bibiana…
Then, suddenly inspired, the Pope stopped and went to the window, which
he threw open wide, leaning out, still silent and in the same listening
attitude. Then, said the pope, his face radiant with joy, “This is not
the time for business. Let us return thanks to God for victory over the
Turks.”
Francis
has a different vision. He now wants to “build bridges and tear down
walls” which will deliver Europe to the Muslim powers. They will impose
Sharia law throughout Europe and destroy the Vatican. Catholic shrines
and priceless monuments that have endured for two thousand years will be
reduced to rubble. May we now take up our Rosaries and pray with Pope
St. Pius V, that Our Blessed Mother, Mary, may intercede to save Europe
from the greatest catastrophe in its history.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us!
