Are We all Children of God
... no
matter what?
While in Singapore,
Indonesia, Francis made the following statement:
“All religions are
a path to God. “They are
like different languages in order
to arrive at God, but God is God
for all and Since God is God for
all, then we are all children of
God. There’s only one God, and each
of us has a language to arrive at
God. Some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu,
Christian, and they are different
paths to God.” 1
Notice that Francis doesn’t say, “different
gods,” but rather, speaks in the
singular: God (one God) who he very
clearly identifies as the same God
worshipped differently in each respective
religion. Apart from recognizing the
historical significance of this openly
heretical statement, it is also that for
Francis to speak very clearly and
unambiguously about virtually
anything is extremely
rare and therefore noteworthy.
I will not attempt to parse the logical
contradictions glaringly inherent in such
a statement. I will leave logic aside and
let the different religions, or Francis’s
“different paths to God,” decide
the matter for us among themselves. What
do you say?
Muslims will strongly, and rightly,
disagree with the statement that the Holy
Trinity, that is to say, the Christian God,
and Allah, are the same. They are
not! The Muslim will tell you in
no uncertain terms — even vehemently
— that Francis is a liar!
The Muslim Imam knows this … but the Catholic
Pope, together with his coterie of Vatican
II Ecumenists, does not.
I wonder if he is prepared to correct
his Muslim “brothers” as he walks the
“Synodal Way of Accompaniment” with
them on the road to the Kaaba in
Mecca … where only Muslims are allowed
to enter.
So … Francis is very clear about both: who
we
are, and who
God
is:
-
“we are
all
children of God
-
and
there is
only one
God … Sikh, Muslim, Hindu,
Christian … it matters not:
-
all are
different
… but the same —
and the only ones who do not realize
this are the gods themselves and the
practitioners of each religion ...
-
nevertheless ... because the
distinction between them is ultimately
illusory in the “Ecumenical”
purview,
all differences and contradictions
are, in some incomprehensible manner,
fantastically reconciled such that,
despite all doctrines, teachings, dogmas,
creeds, beliefs, rituals, and
appearances,
they each and equally constitute
certain paths to the one same God.
Oh, yes ... and even
if my God calls your god an
idol and a demon — which our
God does:
“Declare his glory among the nations
... he is terrible to all the gods,
because all the gods of the nations
are demons, but the Lord made the
heavens.”
(Psalm
96.3–5)
God, then, is whatever and whomever we wish
him to be — and every path ... however
divergent from, and contradictory
to, every other path,
is a certain way to a god of our choosing
who, despite every conflicting ascription,
every incompatible predication — strangely
enough turns out to be our own god
... also! And we never knew it. This is
not just theological, but inescapably
logical nonsense.
But does it sound strangely familiar? It
should:
On June 14, 2017 Francis made the following
statement:
“Is it possible God has some children He
does not love?
No! We are all
God’s beloved children.”
2
In light of his vitriolic denunciation of
Catholic Tradition in favor of Ecumenism
— an altogether heretical concept prior
to Vatican II — and one which Francis
resolutely promotes at the cost of
authentic Catholicism, it is not
surprising in the least that he asks this
question — as though the question itself
is altogether rhetorical ... already answered
in its being asked: “Of course, not!”
And what is more troubling still … is
that this question is … in fact … received
by most post-Conciliar Catholics as merely
rhetorical as well! … that is to say, as
though the answer is already understood
in the asking — and that answer, of course,
is a resounding: “yes — of course!
After all, everyone goes to Heaven.
The pope himself routinely tells us so!”
— despite what Christ teaches us about the
“hard and narrow” way to Heaven:
“Enter in at the
narrow gate: for
wide is the gate,
and broad is the
way that leads to
destruction,
and many there
are who go that
way.
How narrow is the
gate, and strait
is the way that
leads to life:
and
few there are that
find it!
Beware of false
prophets, who come
to you in the clothing
of sheep, but inwardly
they are ravening
wolves.” (St. Mat.
7.15-23)
Oh, yes, concerning the “false prophets,
who come to you in the clothing of sheep,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves,”
may we suggest that you consider five:
1.
John XXIII
2.
Paul VI
3. John Paul I
4. John Paul II
3. and the APEX WOLF: Francis
That is to say, in short, every
pontiff who instigated, promoted, or was
complicit in what we have come to know as
Vatican II which decimated the Church and
Religious Orders, contemned and vitiated
Her teachings, effectively abrogated Her
Sacred Tradition, laid siege to Her Sacred
Deposit of Faith, outlawed her language
(Latin), abolished the Mass of the Ages
(Tridentine), defiled the Sanctuary with
women “Ministers” of Communion
(note that they are no longer designated
“Extraordinary-ministers”), secularized
the Liturgy, and homosexualized Her priests,
bishops, and cardinals — so this includes
every pope that you may have admired
since 1958).
Consider the following: Catholic Mass
attendance was 75+% in 1955 and plunged
to 20-30% in 2017. In 1970, 55 % of
American Catholics went to Mass every Sunday,
and in 2019 that figure dwindled to 20%.
“The Center for Church Management at
Villanova University projects an attendance
rate in the neighborhood of 12 percent by
next year or the year after.”
3 “Altar girls” vastly outnumber “Altar-Boys” and both are “socially/correctly”
called “Altar Servers” — thereby
abolishing any distinction in gender in
deference to the rise of “Woman Church”
and the poison of Feminism.
All this — all of it — is the
fruit of Vatican II ... every effeminate
and recreant priest, bishop, and cardinal;
the feminization and homosexualization of
nearly every aspect of the Catholic Church
— has left it in ruins, pallid and prostate
before the World which it loves more than
God. There are good and faithful
traditional priests — who are persecuted
mercilessly by their bishops, cardinals
... and even the pope. Good men. Manly men.
Priests of Almighty God! Men who do not
lisp — and who would die before kissing
the Muslim Quran! Not so Francis. Not so!
In our pursuit of Truth — Who is,
and Which is, nothing less than Jesus Christ
Himself — you must soberly ask yourself:
does Vatican II really sound like
a success story to you? If yes, then I suggest
that you go to the essay “Vatican
II: The Model of the Failed Corporation”
.
We might take the earlier citation from
Holy Scripture (St. Mat.7.15-23) as a prologue
merely to the many disagreements between
Francis and Jesus Christ in this matter
and many, many others. Consider the following:
Jesus Christ:
-
“You
do the works of your
father. Why do you not know
my speech. Because you cannot
hear my word. You are of your
father the devil, and the
desires of your father you
will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and he stood not
in the truth because truth is not
in him. He is a liar and the
father of lies.” (St.
John 8.41-44)
-
“He
that commits sin is of the devil:
for the devil sinned from the beginning.
In this the children of God are
manifest, and the children
of the devil: Whosoever
is not just, is not of God, nor
he that loves not his brother.”
(1 John3.8-10)
-
“Not
everyone that says to me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom
of Heaven: but he that doeth the
will of My Father who is in Heaven,
he shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven. Many will say to me in
that day: Lord, Lord, have we not
done many miracles in Thy name?
And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you:
depart from Me, you that work
iniquity.” (St. Mat.7.21-23)
Clearly, then, there are children whose
Father, according to Christ, is God
— that is to say, the children of
God; and there are children whose
Father is the devil — which is to say,
children of the devil!
And yet …according to Francis, “We
are all God’s beloved
children”
Whom do we Believe?
The point is simply this: whom shall we
believe? The Master or the servant? Truth
Himself — Who stood before Pontius Pilate
on the day He was crucified while Pilate
pedantically asked, “What is Truth?” ...
even as Truth bled in his presence
— or His feckless vicar who either
distorts … or contradicts the truth entrusted
to him?
In other words, are we to believe Truth
Himself …. or His recreant
proxy who speaks in open contradiction
to the Truth?
In 1521 Luther wrote to Philip Melanchthon
(Luther’s closest collaborator in heresy):
“Love God and sin boldly ... No sin can
separate us from Him, even if we were to
kill or commit adultery thousands of
times each day.”
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The correspondence between Francis’s,
“Is it possible that God has some children
He does not love? No! We are all God’s beloved
children.” and Martin Luther’s “No
sin can separate us from Him, even if we
were to kill or commit adultery thousands
of times each day.” is unmistakable.
This is the most manifest and deadly fruit
of the heresy called Ecumenism.
Therefore, despite all that Christ
taught us, no matter what we do,
say, promote, believe, or not believe, is
irrelevant. No sin is so heinous, no act
so horrendous, no belief so criminal, no
unbelief so absolute, that it can disqualify
us from going to Heaven with all the other
... “Saints” ... like Hitler, Josef Mengele,
Stalin, Hideki Tojo, Nero, Mao Zedong, Genghis
Khan, Caligula, and Diocletian, to name
a few. For Francis, these men — despite
the magnitude of their malevolence and the
enormity of their atrocities ... are nevertheless
“God’s beloved children.”
Who can so much as conceptualize God
uttering something like,
“These are my beloved children: Adolf and his brothers
Diocletian, Mao, Josef and Stalin;
Tojo, Nero, Genghis, and Caligula.”?
Who, indeed, is their father?
Are they the “beloved children of God” whom
Francis would have us believe — or are they
those of whom Christ spoke: “You are
of your father the devil.”
They cannot be both.
Either Christ is a deceiver —
or Francis is.
However, being God with the Father and
the Holy Ghost, Christ can neither deceive
nor be deceived.6
Francis can, will, and does.
“Such a harsh, even cruel statement!”
you will reproach me.
Less harsh, I will respond, and far less
frightening than the words of Christ at
the Last Judgment:
“And when the Son of Man shall come
… He shall separate them one from
another, as the shepherd separate
the sheep from the goats: He shall
set the sheep on His right hand,
but the goats on His left. Then
… He shall say to them also that
shall be on His left hand: depart
from Me, you cursed, into everlasting
fire which was prepared for the
devil and his angels.”
8
The god of Francis, it turns out, is
not the God of Sacred Scripture. He
fabricates his god to assuage the guilt
and fear of men — the better to accord with
the World, the Flesh, and primeval things
of darkness that have no place in the Light
...
Let us be Clear:
At this point, whether or not the Seat of
Saint Peter is vacant, is quite beside the
point:
That it is occupied
by a heretic, a polytheist, and a madman,
is by now very clear to anyone not on a
career path in Rome.
Some popes have been Saints. Some have
been scoundrels. Francis, regrettably, is
certainly and most notoriously among the
latter — and we will not, cannot, accept
his repudiation of Jesus Christ Himself
in Sacred Scripture together with the perennial
teachings of the Holy Catholic Church and
the many heretical credenda foisted on the
Church by that most unfortunate event called
Vatican II; that is to say, Francis’s chimerical
understanding of himself — as the paradigm
of Conciliar progressivism — and, lately,
polytheism, in not pantheism — and also
as the law-giver preeminent, the law-maker
who tolerates no dissent — indeed,
who punishes it ruthlessly — does
not coincide with the 2000-year-old
understanding of the Petrine Office in the
Economy of Salvation. Francis is a vicar
only. Not the Master.
Does a mere Vicar dare correct his Lord
or amend His mandates? Of course not!
Therefore does Christ say:
“Amen, amen I say to you: The servant
is not greater than his Lord; neither
is the Apostle greater than He that
sent him.” (St. John 14.16)
Must we therefore follow his teachings?
We will let Pope Innocent III,
arguably the most effective pope ever,
answer this:
“It is necessary to obey a pope in all things as long as he does
not go against the universal customs
of the Church, but should he
go against the universal customs
of the Church he need not be followed.”
9
Francis, however, has done something
more sinister still — something that no
other pope preceding him, however corrupt,
had done: He made the Catholic
Church unrecognizable.
Geoffrey
K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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1
https://cruxnow.com/2024-pope-in-timor-leste/2024/09/pope-in-multi-faith-singapore-says-all-religions-are-a-path-to-god
2
vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2017/documents/papafrancesco_20170614/we-dont-earn-gods-love-its-freely-given-pope-francis-says
3
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/04/17/the-american-church-going-going/
4 St.
John 14.24 — St. Mat.17.17-19 — St. John3.18
— St. John8.41-44 — 1 St. John 3.8-10.
5
St. John 14.6 “I am the way,
and the truth, and the life. No man comes
to the Father, but by Me.”
6
St.
John 18:38 “Pilate
saith to Him: What is truth?”
7
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/did-luther-really-tell-us-to-love-god-and-sin-boldly/
8
St. Mat 25.31-33 & 25.41
9
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08013a.htm