The Archbishop Speaks On False Ecumenism, The Pope & Sedevacantism - March 30, 1986
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EVER
SINCE the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century,
society has revolted more and more against God. The apostasy
is growing year by year, and slowly, slowly, all society has
been coming under the influence of the freemasonic principles
of liberty and independence from God—no more law, no more
authority, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion. At the beginning
of the 20th century, Pius X warned that these errors were
penetrating inside the Church, into the clergy. At Vatican II
we saw a conspiracy between churchmen and freemasons, and
now the Pope, Cardinals and nearly all Bishops accept man's
independence of conscience, the principle of religious
liberty and its consequence, the ecumenism whereby all religions
are good. This is absolutely against Jesus Christ Who taught us He
is the door of heaven, and there is no other way to get into
heaven.
For twenty years since the Council, we have waited for the Vatican to realize the error of its ways.
The Society has waited for the Pope to realize that the
result of these false principles is the self-destruction of the Church.
However, we are bound to recognize that the situation is only
getting worse, that the false ecumenism is escalating, that
since last year's Synod in particular the crisis is merely
advancing faster and faster towards the total destruction of
the Church.
Since
the Council we have been seeing the situation get graver and
graver, year by year, but the Synod was gravest of all
because there they said, "We are continuing! Despite all
difficulties, the Council was the work of the Holy Ghost, a
second Pentecost. We must continue in the spirit of the
Council. There will be no restrictions, no reprimands, no return to
Tradition." So now we see them saying, "Let's go even faster!"
Naturally, since there were no objections at the Synod to the
spirit of the Council put into practice over 20 years, and
since all agreed with the changes in the Church, then there
is no reason not to continue even faster, and we are arriving
at the total destruction of the Church!
The
escalation of this Church-destroying ecumenism is taking
place in broad daylight. In Morocco last year the Pope told a
crowd of Mohammedans that they pray to the same God as
Catholics do. But it is not true. Mohammedans teach that to
kill a Christian is good because he is an idolater, worshipping
the man Jesus Christ as God. Also last year, in Togo, the Pope poured
out on the ground a pagan sacrifice to the god of the
animists or African spirit-worshippers. Early this year, in
India, he let some Hindu "priestess" mark him on the forehead
with the sign of her sect! Incredible! "All gods of the pagans are devils," says Scripture (Ps. 95, 5).
How can the Pope receive the sign of the devil? Whatever god
is not Jesus Christ is not the one and only true God. And
most recently, the Pope has been into the synagogue of the
Jews in Rome. How can the Pope pray with the enemies
of Jesus Christ? These Jews know and say and believe that
they are the successors of the Jews that killed Jesus Christ, and
they continue to fight against Jesus Christ everywhere in the
world. At the end of the Pope's visit, the Jews sang
a "hymn" that included the line "I believe with all my heart
in the coming of the Messiah," meaning they refuse Jesus as
the Messiah, and the Pope had given permission for this
denial of Christ to be sung in his presence, and he listened,
with head bowed! And the Holy See announces that in the near
future he will visit Taizé to pray with the Protestants, and
he himself said in public at St. Paul Outside of the Walls that
later this year he will hold a ceremony gathering all religions of
the world together to pray for peace at Assisi in Italy, on
the occasion of the Feast of Peace proclaimed by the United
Nations due to take place on October 24.
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Now all these facts are public, you have seen them in the newspapers and the media. What are we to think? What is the reaction of our Catholic Faith? That is what matters. It is not our personal feelings, a sort of impression or admission of some kind. It is a question of knowing what our Faith tells us, faced with these facts.
Let me quote a few words—not my words—from Canon Naz's
Dictionary of Canon Law, a wholly official and approved
commentary on what has been the Catholic Church's body of law for
nineteen centuries. On the subject of sharing in the
worship of non-Catholics (after all, this is what we now see
Pope and bishops doing), the Church says, in Canon 1258-1:
"It is absolutely forbidden for Catholics to attend or take
any active part in the worship of non-Catholics in any way
whatsoever." On this Canon the quasi-official Naz Commentary says, and I quote, "A
Catholic takes active part when he joins in heterodox; i.e.,
non-Catholic worship with the intention of honouring God by
this means in the way non-Catholics do. It is forbidden to pray,
to sing or to play the organ in a heretical or schismatic temple, in
association with the people worshipping there, even if the
words of the hymn or the song or the prayer are orthodox." The
reason for this prohibition is that any participation in
non-Catholic worship implies profession of a false religion
and hence denial of the Catholic Faith. By such
participation Catholics are presumed to be adhering to the beliefs
of the non-Catholics, and that is why Canon 2316 declares
them "suspect of heresy, and if they persevere, they are to
be treated as being in reality heretics."
Now
these recent acts of the Pope and bishops, with Protestants,
animists and Jews, are they not an active participation in
non-Catholic worship as explained by Canon Naz on Canon
1258-1? In which case, I cannot see how it is possible to say
that the Pope is not suspect of heresy, and if he continues,
he is a heretic, a public heretic. That is the teaching of the Church.
Now
I don't know if the time has come to say that the Pope is a
heretic; I don't know if it is the time to say that. You
know, for some time many people, the sedevacantists, have
been saying "there is no more Pope," but I think that for me
it was not yet the time to say that, because it was not sure,
it was not evident, it was very difficult to say that the
Pope is a heretic, the Pope is apostate. But I recognize that slowly,
very slowly, by the deeds and acts of the Pope himself we begin
to be very anxious.
I
am not inventing this situation; I do not want it. I would
gladly give my life to bring it to an end, but this is the
situation we face, unfolding before our eyes like a film in
the cinema. I don't think it has ever happened in the history
of the Church, the man seated in the chair of Peter partaking
in the worship of false gods.
What
conclusion must we draw in a few months if we are confronted
by these repeated acts of partaking in false worship? I
don't know. I wonder. But I think the Pope can do
nothing worse than call together a meeting of all religions,
when we know there is only one true religion and all other religions
belong to the devil. So perhaps after this famous meeting of Assisi, perhaps we must say that the Pope is a heretic, is apostate. Now
I don't wish yet to say it formally and solemnly, but it
seems at first sight that it is impossible for a Pope to be
publicly and formally heretical. Our Lord has promised to be
with him, to keep his faith, to keep him in the Faith—how can
he at the same time be a public heretic and virtually
apostatize? So it is possible we may be obliged to believe this pope
is not pope.
For
twenty years, Msgr. de Castro-Mayer and I preferred to wait;
we said it was more prudent and more in conformity with
Providence to wait because it is so important, so tragic,
when it is not just a bishop, archbishop or cardinal, but the
man in the chair of Peter. It is so important, so grave, so sad,
that we prefer to wait until Providence gives us such evidence,
that it is no longer possible to refuse to say that the Pope
is a heretic. So, to say that I think we are waiting
for the famous meeting in Assisi, if God allows it! Maybe
war will break out, and here I take the opportunity to
congratulate America and its President on their resolute action in
Libya against an enemy of all civilization. In Europe they are all
afraid, afraid, afraid of the Communists. Why? Until the
Communists occupy all Europe. But President Reagan's action
may have delayed war by making the Communists afraid; we
don't know, because they are fanatics and could start war any
time just to take power.
Now
some priests (even some priests in the Society) say that we
Catholics need not worry about what is happening in the
Vatican; we have the true sacraments, the true Mass, the true
doctrine, so why worry about whether the Pope is a heretic
or an imposter or whatever; it is of no importance to us. But
I think that is not true.
If
any man is important in the Church, it is the Pope. He is
the center of the Church and has a great influence on all
Catholics by his attitudes, his words and his acts. All men
read in the newspapers the Pope's words and on television
they see his travels. And so, slowly, slowly, many Catholics are losing
the Catholic Faith by the scandal of the Pope's partaking in
false religions. This ecumenism is a scandal in the true
sense of the word, an encouragement to sin.
Catholics
are losing faith in the Catholic Church. They think all
religions are good because the Pope in this way befriends men of
all religions. When the scandal comes from so high in the Church,
from the man in the chair of Peter and from almost all the
bishops, then poor Catholics who are thrown back on their own
resources and who do not know their Faith well enough to
keep it despite all, or who do not have priests by their side
to help them to keep the Faith, these Catholics are
completely at a loss what to do. They are no longer practicing the
Faith, or they give up praying, or they are losing the Faith
altogether and are joining some sect or other. I ask, what
people are keeping the Faith? Where are they? Where are they?
And I ask even the Traditionalists!
For
I think that many Traditional Catholics enjoy the
traditions; they like the old Mass, they like the old
sacraments, they like the old teaching of the Church, but
they do not really believe in Jesus Christ as the one and only Savior,
God and Creator. That is the bad influence of all the
modern errors coming through television and the media—they
are so bad, so pagan, so opposed to Jesus Christ and the
Catholic Faith that few people remain true Catholics wholly
faithful to Jesus Christ. That is why we can't be
indifferent to these scandalous events in Rome, we must judge them
in the light of our Faith and help Catholics, traditional
Catholics, to see that this bad example of the Pope is a
great scandal, very dangerous for their souls.
It
is very sad. Never in my life did I think I could be saying,
the scandal of the Pope, but it is true. What can I do about
it? I think we must pray, and pray, morning, noon and night
and study our Catholic doctrine very deeply to stay true
Catholics and keep the Faith.
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Someone
may say, I am on the way to saying the Pope is not Pope, in
order to consecrate a bishop. That is not true. They
are two different problems. Ever since the Council, year
after year, I have been praying to God that Providence by the
facts and the unfolding of events should show us what we must
do. I pray for it to be clear beyond doubt, wholly evident.
And I think that now we are in this time, I think that it is
the answer of God. I would much prefer Providence to be
showing us the Vatican returning to Tradition, but instead we
see the Vatican plunging into darkness and error. And
so it is sure that now it is not as difficult to see as it
was one or two years ago, it is more clear and evident that they
are no longer truly Catholic. No
persecution or revolution in all history has so destroyed
the Church as these years since the Council, because today
the Faith is being destroyed by men of the Church, by the Pope
himself, by Cardinals, by bishops, priests and nuns. It is the
wholesale, worldwide and radical destruction of the Faith.
Yet
it is a great grace for us to live in this time. From before
the destruction, we were chosen by God to continue the
Catholic Church. Even if we are condemned by Rome, even if we
are persecuted by the bishops, that is not important. What
is important is to stay Catholic, to keep the grace we received
at baptism, to save our souls. Nobody can say we are heretics or
schismatics for believing as the Popes, Saints and Church of
old believed for twenty centuries. It is a great grace of God
to have been chosen to continue the Faith and the Church,
but it is a great responsibility, and we must pray and remain
very humble in order to be faithful to the grace that we
receive.
You
seminarians especially, future priests, must study the true
Faith to become true missionaries of Our Lord, even if you
have to shed your blood, as the martyrs did in olden times.
Then young girls would suffer heroic deaths rather than make
one sacrifice or breathe one prayer to the pagan gods of
ancient Rome, but now, no problem! You want me to say a prayer to
your god? Sure! And so they are abandoning Jesus Christ and the
true Faith in order to be friends with the enemies of the
Church!
We refuse. Instead we resolve to follow the non-ecumenical martyrs, the Saints. Tomorrow at Ridgefield the Church will have three more priests. That is very important. It is not a question of numbers, it is a question of quality, it is a question of true priests. Jesus Christ began with twelve apostles so we need not feel bad that we are so few.
Our work is really nothing compared with the world's needs.
But that is not our problem, it is God's problem. He asked us to work and to believe in Him and to have confidence in Jesus Christ and in the grace of Jesus Christ. Success lies in God's hands. You
know we have much to suffer, many, many sufferings, even in
the Society. But we must carry the Cross of Jesus Christ and
with the courage and resolution He gives us, we must have a great hope
that one day the kingdom of Jesus Christ will return to this
world.
Mary rose
and went with all haste to a town of Juda…and there
entering in she gave Elizabeth greeting. No sooner had
Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, than the child leaped
in her womb; and Elizabeth herself was filled with the
Holy Ghost; so that she cried out with a loud voice,
"Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb. How have I deserved to be thus visited by the mother
of my Lord? Why, as soon as ever the voice of thy greeting
sounded in my ears, the child in my womb leaped for
joy. Blessed art thou for believing; the message that
was brought to thee from the Lord shall have fullment."
