Haeresis Pluralismi Religiosi

Pope Francis Kisses Grand Imam of Egypt

THE HERESY OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

Once again Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) has done the idiotic. He has signed a statement with Muslim clerics during his visit to the United Arab Emirates which asserts in part the following:

“Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept….”

Father Zuhlsdorf at his blog tries to put a positive spin on this by saying that there is God’s perfect will of one and only one Faith in Christ Jesus, and God’s permissive will wherein people have freedom to choose what faith to believe. Father’s effort is admirable. But this episode is merely a continuation of all the other nonsense that has come out from Jorge Bergoglio’s horrible Pontificate.

Father Hunwickie in the United Kingdom discusses this whole issue at his blog, Mutual Enlightenment, where he quotes what Blessed John Henry Newman said in the 19th century:

"For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion. Never did Holy Church need champions against it more sorely than now, when, alas! it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth ... Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily. It is inconsistent with any recognition of any religion, as true. It teaches that all are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion, [that] revealed religion is not a truth, but a sentiment and a taste; not an objective fact, not miraculous; and [that] it is the right of each individual to make it say just what strikes his fancy."

There are some things we authentic Christians need to grasp, whether we are Catholic, Protestant or Eastern Orthodox:

(1) The ONLY true religion is the Christian one, and yes, it is a religion – a binding together in Christ as the original Latin word (religare = to bind) means.
(2) Islam and all the rest of the world’s religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, etc. are false.
(3) God wants everyone to come to the saving knowledge of the truth; He does NOT will false belief.

St. Paul addressed this whole issue in his sermon on the Aeropagus in Athens as Acts 17:22-31 records:

22 So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. 23 For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ 29 Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. 30 Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”

Now some people in a fit of misunderstanding will say that the Pope is supposed to be infallible, so how can this happen? Vatican Council I back in the late 1800s addresses this as follows:

“For the Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles.”

Pope Francis for the entirety of his Pontificate has been shooting off his mouth about stuff in which he has no expertise, no knowledge and certainly no charism (or gift) (e.g., climate change, economics, gun control, immigration, etc.). A great deal of what he has said and done has been contrary to Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. Therefore, what Vatican Council I states more than 100 years ago applies: he is NOT infallible (just the opposite in fact) when he contradicts Sacred Scripture and 2000 years of Judeo-Christian Tradition. I do not base what I just said merely on my own interpretation of Sacred Scripture contrary to what 2nd Peter 1:20-21 states:

20 First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 21 because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Rather, I base it on the continuous Tradition of Holy Mother Church from the early Church Fathers in the first four centuries after Christ. Do we for a second imagine that St. Ignatius of Antioch (the man who was taught by St. John the Apostle) believed in the legitimacy of a plurality and diversity of religions when he refused to offer incense to Caesar and Caesar’s gods and goddesses, preferring instead to be eaten by lions in the Coliseum? He even said, “I am the wheat of God and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.” Would that man say as Pope Francis did, “The pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom?” I think NOT!

Pray for Pope Francis, that the Holy Spirit will take the baseball bat of common sense and hit him straight across the head with it so he’ll wake up and fly straight.

Immigratio et Hispana et Islamica

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

NOTE: before I begin, in the essay below I describe an instance of what I do to help those in need. I was challenged by this elsewhere at a different forum. I use this example simply because it is personal. There are many others who have done far more than I am capable of doing. May God bless them. However, if I complain about illegal immigration and do not point out what I did do to help with the problem, then I shall be called a hater. And if I complain and I do point out what I did, then I shall be called bitter. It is much like what Matthew 11:16-17 records:

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

There is no winning with those who persist in obstinate defiance.

TEACHING OF THE CHURCH

First, often I have heard the sanctimonious and pious declare:

"Pray for all the persecuted people of the world."

If one does not directly care for the persecuted, then the prayer is worthless. I did not say that. St. James did in verses 5-17 of chapter two in his epistle:

If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

Do NOT abdicate unto Caesar what Scripture commands you personally to do. "Render unto God the things that are god's and unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." It is NOT Caesar's job to welcome the alien. That is our personal and individual moral responsibility.

Second, section 2241 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states the following:

2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.

Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

Note the last sentence which states that immigrants are required to obey the laws of the host country. This is consistent with what St. Paul writes in Romans 13:1-7:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Therefore, illegal immigration is prohibited.

HISPANIC ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

In all the discussion about illegal immigration of Hispanics, what is not being examined is the root cause for which Hispanics flee Mexico and South America to come to the US. That cause originates in what happened to Mexico (and elsewhere) in the early 20th century. The Mexican people voted for President of their country an atheist by the name of Plutacro Elias Calles. Once in power, he began a compaign of persecution against Christianity in general and the Catholic Church specifically. The barbarity of his actions was exceeded only by Josef Stalin in the USSR, Adolf Hitler in National Socialist Germany, and Hirohito in Imperial Japan. In the Cristeros War of the 20s and 30s bishops and priests were executed, and Christian men, women and children were tortured to death. The United States stood mute and impotent to do anything about it. Catholic Christianity was almost wiped out from the popular culture of Mexico except for superstition that did not threaten the secular government. With the emasculation of Catholicism from the public life, it is no wonder that the satanic influence of drug peddling and drug addiction arose. Thus today we have a Mexico suffering the aftermath of its de-Christianization.

Similar things happened in Argentina with the rise of Juan Peron and later Eva. It is no wonder therefore that the man from Argentina sitting on the Papal throne is a heretical Marxist Peronist who happily received a communist crucifix from a Latin American tin pot dictator, and encourages adulterers and fornicators to receive Holy Communion.

Therefore, I say that NONE of the problems afflicting the Hispanic people will be or can be fixed until they return to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. They flee what they have caused. They are reaping what they have sown in having elected such leaders as Calles and Peron. No matter how much money the US throws at illegal immigrants, no matter how welcoming we are to people fleeing from the very system of government for which they so willingly voted, they cannot and will not be helped. They must repent first because repentance comes BEFORE and NOT AFTER health and prosperity.

Further, I say that this same lesson applies to us in these United States. We sanctify the filth of homosexual sodomy and we legitimatize the infanticide of the unborn. We therefore fully merit the fate that has befallen Mexico and Argentina. The ONLY way to avoid that is repentance and conversion, not some new fangled worthless useless social justice program that cannot eradicate the sin in men's hearts which causes these problems in the first place.

Get with it, folks. Social justice does not, cannot and will not work. Bowing in abject humility before the Holy Crucifix however always does work.

MUSLIM IMMIGRATION

Islam - a religious political system and NOT a race of people (just in case any liberals reading this are confused) - is a dangerous and false belief system created by a pedophile false prophet who raped and pillaged his way across the sands of Arabia in the 7th century AD, and ever since that time, Islam has spread by the sword, either subjecting conquered peoples to the enslavement of dhimmitude or executing those deemed unfit to live like Jews and Christians. All of the Middle East and North Africa was Christian prior to Mohammed, and he and his demented followers changed that. They invaded all the way to Tours, France in the mid-8th century, and by the 11th century, after 400 years of Islamic persecution of the Christians in the Byzantine Empire, the West launch the Crusades as a defensive action. The effectiveness of that lasted only so long and by the 16th and 17th centuries Islam was again invading Europe all the way to the gates of Vienna, Austria, to be turned back by the Catholic Poles. Here is a video summarizing what happened:


Islam is not a religion like Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism and others. It is a political system of enslavement and forced conversions. In Islam there is no secular government and separate religious authority. Just look at Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi Sunni Islam, or the mad mullahs of Shiite Islam in Iran. Women are treated as second class people, children are taught to be suicide bombers, and testosterone crazed, demonically possessed men decapitate or immolate Christians and Jews at will.

Now many will say that the majority of Muslims do not behave that way, and that there are just and sane Muslim nations. Jordan is a prime example. King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania are indeed righteous and just people. But they are the exception to the rule. Furthermore, let us posit that a majority of Muslims are not terrorist fanatics. Let's assume that a mere 5% of the Muslim population are that way. Out of 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, that leaves 80 million Jihadists. If there were 160 M&M candies in a jar and only 5% were poisonous, would you reach your hand into the jar to grab some to eat, knowing that 8 M&M's might kill you?

This is why all further Muslim immigration must stop. Yes, let's rescue the refugees - Christians and Jews. But let's leave the Muslims with the religion and the system of governance that they believe in - Sharia Law. Every time they are allowed to come into Western countries, they create enclaves in which even police dread to go; they rape the local women (as is happening in Sweden); they bomb shopping centers (as happened in France); they shoot innocent civilians (as happened in the United States).

Now ask yourself this: why are these Muslims fleeing their native countries and coming here to set up their Sharia Law? Why? Their rejection of the One True God - the Triune God - for the demon god Allah is why they have all the problems which they have. Until they repent, let them live in peace where they are and keep them out of Western countries.

Of course the flip side of that is this: we need to extricate ourselves from their countries. We need to stop buying their oil and natural gas, and start converting our economy over to nuclear energy instead of relying on mineral slime and mineral gas in lands of Islamic fascism. But that's a topic for a different day.

One last thing on this topic of Muslim immigration: in the Old Testament God told the Children of Israel to keep themselves unpolluted and undefiled by contact with their pagan Canaanite neighbors. We should follow that same advice, for Winston Churchill said it best:

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Liberal progressive feminists in the Church often invoke Matthew 25:31-46 when saying that as a nation we have to care for the sick, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the imprisoned, and welcome the alien. They say that, but what they really mean is this:

"Government should do it."

They do not want to get their hands personally dirty by doing corporal works of mercy for the unfortunate. They do not want to be bothered by such problems. But they damn sure do want to feel sanctimoniously self-justified and piously self-righteous by jumping on the "Trump is mean" and "Republicans are haters" bandwagon for no other reason than we insist on following the due process of the law for everyone equally, immigrant and citizen.

And yes, I do not want my tax money going to help welfare recipients and illegal immigrants and what not. I have helped both on my own without Caesar's damnable assistance and I have done a better job than Caesar ever could. For six months I cared for two immigrants in my apartment free of charge until they were able to stand on their own two feet. So until all the liberals out there put their money where their mouth is and actually DO good works for the poor, they have no justification to whine.

Don't go quoting Matthew 25:31-46 unless YOU do it personally.

Gubernatores Russiani Christiani Erant

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

Regardless of whether the recent flights of Russian jets violated Turkish airspace by less than 5 miles or not (something Turkish jets routinely do with impunity over Greek airspace), photographs of the belongings recovered from the murdered pilots of those jets reveal that they were Christian, as the one provided below shows. This was obtained from an article at the UK's Daily Mail. Clearly visible is a Cross or Crucifix (it appears shown from the back side) and an upside down small icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary with baby Jesus on a black rope.



Russian Pilot's
Christian Artifacts

What we know for certain is that Barack Hussein Obama as a liberal progressive Democrat ingratiates himself with Muslims, advocates the infanticide of the unborn and sanctifies the putrid filth of sterile sexual perversion, whereas Vladimir Putin for all his obvious and deplorable faults in having annexed the Crimea and having invaded Ukraine yet openly defends Christian Orthodoxy in the Middle East and basic Christian sexual morality at home and abroad. So the question is this: do we side with Muslim Turks and liberal progressive President Obama, or with the Christians? Sometimes the question really has to be that simple in order to elicit the only logical and correct answer. And pray for the repose of the souls of the pilots whom the Muslims murdered, and for the consolation of their families.

Responsum Praefeci Obamae Impetis Islamicis in Lutetia, Gallia

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

The response of President Barack Hussein Obama to the recent Muslim terrorist attacks in Paris, France is frankly beyond belief. He is the epitome of effeminate, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, cowardly liberal progressivism that typifies the Democratic Party in the United States.



There is however only one proper response to Islam, but a decadent secular humanist politician is incapable of such a response:

Bellum in Syria

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

The following video from Vox describes well the anarchy that is the current civil war in Syria from which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) arose. This war has killed at least 250,000 people and displaced 12 million. To understand how Syria got to this place, it helps to start at the beginning:

Syria's war: A 5-minute history

Political Map of Syria

Islamismus contra Europam - Cruciatae: Responsum Defensionis Invasioni Islamica et Expansioni

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

The following You Tube video gives a good summary contrasting the spread of Islam with the Christian Crusades:

Pauci Verbi de Islamismo ab Archiepiscopo Marcel Lefevbre

Amici et Amicae,

A few words from Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre from SSPX are in order:

Sir Winston Churchill on Islam

Orate pro Gallia

France

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

Pray for France:

• That we all repent and fall prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament in fear and trembling
• That the victims of the vicious attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13 may be comforted
• That the souls of the deceased may have eternal rest
• That the perpetrators and their accomplices may stand before Eternal Justice
• That both Pope Francis and President Obama may come to their senses
• That the Eldest Daughter return to her Mother the Church
• That both liberal progressivism and Islam may be eradicated from the face of the Earth.

In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen!

The French Tricolor