
Against Pharisees

A Stunning Interview
with Bishop Athanasius Schneider
concerning the Corruption in Amoris Laetitia
“The Church and the world
urgently need intrepid and candid witnesses of the whole truth of the
commandment and of the will of God,
of the whole truth of Christ’s words on marriage. Modern clerical Pharisees
and Scribes, those bishops and cardinals who throw grains of incense
to the neo-pagan idols of gender ideology and concubinage, will not
convince anyone to either believe in Christ or to be ready to offer
their lives for Christ”, said + Athanasius Schneider Auxiliary Bishop
of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan in an interview
with Izabella Parowicz of Polonia Magazine
EXCERPTS:
Izabella Parowicz: Your Excellency, what is Your Excellency’s opinion
about the Synod? What is its message to families?
Bishop Schneider:
“During the Synod there had been moments of obvious manipulation
on the part of some clerics who held key positions in the editorial
and governing structure of the Synod. The interim report (Relatio
post disceptationem) was clearly a prefabricated text with no reference
to the actual statements of the Synod fathers.
In
the sections on homosexuality, sexuality and “divorced and remarried”
with their admittance to the sacraments the text represents a radical
neo-pagan ideology. This is the first time in Church history that such
a heterodox text was actually published as a document of an official
meeting of Catholic bishops under the guidance of a pope, even though
the text only had a preliminary character.
Thanks
be to God and to the prayers of the faithful all over the world that
a consistent number of Synod fathers resolutely rejected such an agenda;
this agenda reflects the corrupt and pagan main stream morality of
our time, which is being imposed globally by means of political pressure
and through the almost all-powerful official mass media, which are loyal
to the principles of the world gender ideology party.
Such a synod document, even if only preliminary,
is a real shame and an indication to the extent the spirit of the anti-Christian
world has already penetrated such important levels of the life of the
Church. This document will remain for the future
generations and for the historians a black mark which has stained the
honour of the Apostolic See.
Izabella Parowicz: Those groups of people who had been expecting a change in the
Church’s teaching with regard to the moral issues (e.g. allowing
divorced and remarried people to receive Holy Communion or granting
any form of approval for homosexual unions) were probably disappointed
by the content of the final Relatio. Isn’t there, however,
a danger that questioning and discussing issues that are fundamental
for the Church’s teaching may itself open doors for serious abuses
and for similar attempts to revise this teaching in the future?
Bishop
Schneider:
“In fact a Divine commandment, in our case the sixth
commandment, the absolute indissolubility of the sacramental marriage,
a Divinely established rule, means those in a state of grave sin cannot
be admitted to Holy Communion. This is taught by Saint Paul in his letter
inspired by the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 11, 27-30, this cannot
be put to the vote, just as the Divinity of Christ would never be
put to a vote. A person who still has the indissoluble sacramental
marriage bond and who in spite of this lives in a stable marital cohabitation
with another person, by Divine law cannot be admitted to Holy Communion.
To do so would be a public statement by the Church nefariously legitimizing
a denial of the indissolubility of the Christian marriage and at the
same time repealing the sixth commandment of God: “Thou shalt not
commit adultery”. No human institution not even the Pope or an
Ecumenical Council has the authority and the competency to invalidate
even in the slightest or indirect manner one of the ten Divine commandments
or the Divine words of Christ: “What therefore God has joined together,
let man not separate.” (Mat. 19:6).
Regardless of this lucid truth which was taught constantly
and unchangingly — because unchangeable — through all the ages by the
Magisterium of the Church up to our days as for instance in “Familiaris
consortio” of Saint John Paul II, in the Catechism of the Catholic
Church and by Pope Benedict XVI, the issue of the admissibility to Holy
Communion of the so called “divorced and remarried” has been put to
the vote in the Synod. This fact is in itself grievous and represents
an attitude of clerical arrogance towards the Divine truth of the Word
of God. The attempt to put the Divine
truth and the Divine Word to a vote is unworthy of those who as representatives
of the Magisterium have to hand over zealously as good and faithful
rules (cf. Math 24, 45) the Divine deposit.
By admitting the “divorced
and remarried” to Holy Communion those bishops establish a new tradition
on their own volition and transgressing thereby the commandment of
God, as Christ once rebuked the Pharisees and Scribes. (cf. Math
15: 3) And what is still aggravating, is the fact that such bishops
try to legitimize their infidelity to Christ’s word by means of arguments
such as “pastoral need”, “mercy”, “openness to the Holy Spirit”.
Moreover they have no fear and no scruples to pervert in a Gnostic
manner the real meaning of these words labeling at the same time
those who oppose them and defend the immutable Divine commandment and
the true non-human tradition as rigid, scrupulous or traditionalist.
In fact the bishops who support Holy Communion for “divorced remarried”
are the new Pharisees and Scribes because they neglect the commandment
of God, contributing to the fact that out of the body and of the heart
of the “divorced remarried” continue to “proceed adulteries” (Math 15:
19), because they want an exteriorly “clean” solution and to appear
“clean” as well in the eyes of those who have power (the social media,
public opinion).
[It is]
a sad reflection on the spiritual quality of the Catholic episcopacy
in our days.
It
will surely only increase the doctrinal confusion among the priests
and the faithful, being in the air, that Divine commandments and Divine
words of Christ and those of the apostle Paul are put at the disposal
of human decision making groups. One Cardinal who openly and strongly
supported the issue of Holy Communion for “divorced and remarried” and
even the shameful statements on homosexual “couples” in the preliminary
Relatio, was dissatisfied with the final Relatio, and
declared impudently: “The glass is half-full”, and analogously he said
that one has to work that next year at the Synod it will be full.
We must believe firmly that God will dissipate the plans of dishonesty,
infidelity and betrayal. Christ holds infallibly the rudder of the boat
of His Church in midst of such a big storm. We believe and trust in
the very ruler of the Church, in Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the truth.
Izabella Parowicz: We are currently
experiencing a culmination of aggression against the family; this
aggression is accompanied by a tremendous confusion in the area
of science about human and human identity. Unfortunately, there
are certain members of Church hierarchy who, while discussing these
matters, express opinions that contradict the teaching of Our Lord.
How should we talk with those people who become victims of this
confusion in order to strengthen their faith and to help them towards
salvation?
Bishop Schneider:
“We have to encourage ordinary Catholics to be faithful
to the Catechism they have learned, to be faithful to the clear words
of Christ in the Gospel, to be faithful to the faith their fathers and
forefathers handed over to them. We have to organize circles of studies
and conferences about the perennial teaching of the Church on the issue
of marriage and chastity, inviting especially young people and married
couples.
We have to found and promote youth groups of pure hearts,
family groups, groups of Catholic spouses, who will be committed to
the fidelity of their marriage vows. We have to organize groups which
will help morally and materially broken families, single mothers, groups
who will assist with prayer and with good counsel separated couples,
groups and persons who will help “divorced and remarried” people to
start a process of serious conversion, i.e. recognizing with humility
their sinful situation and abandoning with the grace of God the sins
which violate the commandment of God and the sanctity of the sacrament
of marriage.
Izabella Parowicz:
During the Synod, Archbishop Gądecki from Poznań
and some other distinguished prelates were publicly expressing their
disagreement with the fact that the results of the discussions departed
from the perennial teaching of the Church. Is there a hope that,
amid this confusion, there will be an awakening of members of clergy
and those faithful who were so far unaware of the fact that, in
the very Church’s bosom, there are people who undermine the teaching
of Our Lord?
Bishop Schneider:
“Cardinal
George Pell characterized the liberal sexual agenda and the alleged
merciful and pastoral support of Holy Communion for “divorced remarried”
during the Synod very aptly, saying that this is only the tip of the
iceberg and a kind of a Trojan horse in the Church. That in the very
bosom of the Church, there are people who undermine the teaching of
Our Lord became an obvious fact and one for the whole world to see
thanks to the internet and the work of some Catholic journalists who
were not indifferent to what was happening to the Catholic faith which
they consider to be the treasure of Christ.
I was pleased to see that some Catholic journalists and
internet bloggers behaved as good soldiers of Christ and drew attention
to this clerical agenda of undermining the perennial teaching of Our
Lord. Cardinals, bishops, priests, Catholic families, Catholic young
people have to say to themselves: I refuse to conform to the neo-pagan
spirit of this world, even when this spirit is spread by some bishops
and cardinals; I will not accept their fallacious and perverse use
of holy Divine mercy and of “new Pentecost”; I refuse to throw grains
of incense before the statue of the idol of the gender ideology, before
the idol of second marriages, of concubinage, even if my bishop would
do so, I will not do so; with the grace of God I will choose to suffer
rather than betray the whole truth of Christ on human sexuality and
on marriage ... Modern clerical Pharisees and Scribes, those bishops
and cardinals who throw grains of incense to the neo-pagan idols of
gender ideology and concubinage, will not convince anyone to either
believe in Christ or to be ready to offer their lives for Christ. ...
We can add: the revealed and unchangeably transmitted Divine truth about
human sexuality and marriage will bring true freedom to the souls inside
and outside the Church. In midst of the crisis of the Church and the
bad moral and doctrinal example of some bishops of his time Saint
Augustine comforted the simple faithful with these words: “Whatsoever
we bishops may be, you are safe, who have God for your Father and His
Church for your mother” (Contra litteras Petiliani III, 9,
10).
+ Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint
Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan.
This interview was published in the latest issue of “Polonia
Christiana” magazine.
Note:
All emphases in the way of bold text have been added.
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