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The Odor of Sulfur ... not Sanctity
“Get
thee behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto Me: because
thou savorest not the things that are of God, but the things
that are of men.”
(Saint Matthew
16.23)
These
were Christ’s words ... to Saint Peter
— the first pope — when, of himself,
Peter
decided the way that Jesus should go ... the way that he himself
deemed the best path. Imagine ... for that moment — Peter was Satan!
... And now it is Francis!
Who
has not Smelled it?
Obedience
to the pope presumes the pope’s obedience to Christ,
and to the nearly 2000 year old Sacred Deposit of Faith that
Christ entrusted to His Bride the Church. In Holy Scripture,
in Sacred Tradition, and in the Deposit of Faith we find
the fullness of truth and the unerring certainty of the will of God
in all things. Who defects from any of the three defects from all and
who teaches otherwise teaches heresy. He is separated from the Church.
1
No one is exempt because no one is immune to grievous sin — sin
so grave that excommunication is incurred latæ sententiæ (automatically:
as soon as the sin is committed). Canon Law 1463 states:
“Certain
particularly grave sins incur excommunication, the most severe ecclesiastical
penalty, which impedes the reception of the sacraments and the exercise
of certain ecclesiastical acts, and for which absolution consequently
cannot be granted, according to canon law, except by the Pope,
the bishop of the place or priests authorized by them.”
But what if the
pope himself is the excommunicate (latae sententiae) ...
or even worse?
Who is not confused?
In
the face of the near daily assaults — by the present papacy itself and
an episcopacy in apparent complicity with him — on 2000 years of the
consistent teaching of the Church, on the very Deposit of Faith, and
on the validity of Sacred Scripture itself, what Catholic has not asked
— in the fearfully deep and most secret recesses of his soul — the question
“Whence?” From whom and from what comes this relentless
scourging of faith — even at the vertex of the Church itself — this
overwhelming defection from all that is holy to all that is vile?
“There is smoke in the sanctuary” and instinctively
we perceive it, recoil from it. It is proffered as incense but is pungent
to our senses — as the fume of smoldering sulfur.
We
are confused between the Word of God become Man and the word
of man become god.
What
a fearful divide rends the Body of Christ anew! See how the
sheep are scattered! Need we tell you who is the father of confusion
and lies ...?
No Longer Inconceivable ...
Imagine
... the pope himself as the principle cause of confusion
— and defection — in the Catholic Church. It is nothing less
than ... diabolically clever.
It is
Francis indeed whom satan has sought to sift like wheat
2 — and sadly, it would appear, with much success and
to great measure.
Manifest Complicity with Evil — and
the
“Father
of Lies”
himself
In
our obligation to Charity (one of the three Theological Virtues:
Faith and Hope being the other two), we should pray that Francis, together
with the cardinals and bishops complicit with him, should renounce
their complicity with satan, the father of lies and their collaboration
with the manifest evil that they have embraced and propagated — and
through which they would pull down the walls of the Church and make
Christ a liar! Indeed, did not Jesus speak of this current Brood
of Vipers when He said:
“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. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.”
(St. John 8.44)
Mass Defection
A frightening number
of
cardinals, bishops, and priests have lost their faith altogether
and no longer believe what Christ Himself and Holy Mother the Church
taught for 2000 years. Formally, this is called apostasy. They
have defected from the Bride of Christ because She is pure and
their desires are evil — She is not of this world — but
they are! Her Body is chaste and their desires are perverse,
corrupt, and defiled. It is precisely in the paradigm of the
The Third Temptation of Christ that we find the provenance of this
defection (apostasy). What Jesus Christ spurned (worldly “power and
glory”
),
they have lusted for — and in exchange for it have given
the required tribute to the “father of lies” — satan — who openly
boasts of
the “power” and
“the glory of this world”, that:
“to me they are
delivered, and I give them to whom I will”
(St. Luke 4.5-6).
The Tribute due to the father of lies
And what is that
tribute? LIES.
If the father
is a liar, then his brood can only be liars, too. Christ has
already told us:
“the desires
of your father you will do ... for he is a liar, and the father
thereof.”
In exchange for power and perversion they have traded lies: lies
about Christ’s teaching, lies about the authentic teaching
of the Catholic Church, lies about the Sacred Deposit of Faith, lies
about Catholic Doctrine and Dogma, lies about morals, lies about Heaven
and Hell — lies about Sacred Scripture itself! They have
lusted for power — perhaps even more than they have shamefully
and perversely lusted for other men — and to acquire this power
they have traded truth for lies!
It is, we will find,
through the Faithful, the Laity, that the Church will be delivered
— just as it was in the days of the early heresies when miter and crozier,
cardinal and bishop, were bent in submission to apostasy from the Faith
— apostasies to which the laity, having learned the truth in holy simplicity,
gave no heed. They could smell a wolf under the greatest abundance of
wool.
Christ Himself is the
Good Shepherd.
“The
sheep follow Him, because they know His voice. But
a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know
not the voice of strangers.”
(Saint
John 10:4-5)
Hold fast to the Faith
of our Fathers! Cleave to Christ and to what He has taught
us, to what Holy Mother Church taught us prior to Vatican
II — and fear nothing, and no one — no matter his power or how ruthlessly
he demands submission.
“For
there is no other name under Heaven given to men, whereby we must be
saved.”
(Acts 4.12)
Did not Christ Himself
promise:
“I
will not forsake you.”
(Saint
John 14.18)?
Nor must we ever forsake
Him through any inducement to sin — by whomsoever.
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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication_(Catholic_Church
)
2 Saint Luke 22.31
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Further
Reading on the Papacy of Francis:
Totally Faithful to the Sacred
Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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