contrast the present Pope (I refer to him as ‘Hippy Frank’) to this imaginary Pope in this video.
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that’s interesting... from what I was able to ascertain from the show, none have been able to find out who elected the guy. His explanation was that he prayed extremely hard for the job so that he could make his mark for God and so The Lord gave it to him (the younger man). Therefore this younger pope feels he is on a mission. That’s how the show unfolds. That First Video , with the college of cardinals is his plan to get it rolling... one that was directly from the ‘Shock and Awe’ playbook. If the RCC had a Pope of that caliber, the world wood be a very different place... at least that’s my opinion.The title young Pope got my attention. They'd never bring in a young Pope. Too long to get rid of him if he became not liked. They like the old guys ole around 80.
These are the two topics which I shall address today: first, the apostasy of John Paul II and its theological consequences; and second, the truly Catholic response to this apostasy.Yes, another leader in the mold of St. John Paul II would do nicely. Pope Francis is indeed a weak leader and his kowtowing to the Chinese over the appointment of Bishops in that country is proof. If it's one thing we have learned since WW2, it is that hardline dictatorial leaders and Communist governments cannot be appeased.
These are the two topics which I shall address today: first, the apostasy of John Paul II and its theological consequences; and second, the truly Catholic response to this apostasy.
The Apostasy of John Paul II
Notice that I have not chosen the word heresy, but rather apostasy. John Paul’s errors truly constitute an apostasy, and not merely a heresy.
Heresy is to doubt or deny a particular truth of the faith, or perhaps some truths of the faith, e.g., the divinity of Christ, the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, the Mother of Christ is the mother to all in Christ, etc. You are probably familiar with some of the well-known heretics of history: Arius, Luther, Calvin. Luther of course was correct concerning indulgences but it did not have the same result of Paul's confronting of Peter. That is because those men that Luther confronted, who practiced such heresy as SELLING "Indulgences" were nothing like Peter the ROCK , upon whose character the church is built. Those false Peters would not accept correction, like our Rock did. Instead of treating Luther as Peter did Paul , in accepting his admonishment , these heretic men rejected Luther and injured him instead of receiving Luther as Peter did Paul.
The faithful men of God should work together, not use their positions to inflict harm upon another. Luther's treatment lead to his falling into heresy which ended with his attitude toward the Jews becoming the same way as hierarchy was to him . Hitler even quoted Luther and used his hateful words to justify his actions. The hierarchy were heretics who helped design the heretical behavior of Luther and his predecessors .
Apostasy though, is to completely reject the Christian faith . For example, the emperor in the fourth century, Julian, utterly repudiated the faith and became an apostate, embracing the cult of the Roman gods of old. He is known as Julian the Apostate. This is not so with Protestants , but for sure they are in heresy .
So why do I use this strong word with John Paul II, who professes to be a Catholic, and who even from time to time said edifying and pious things?
It is because he did not adhere to any of the articles of faith which he professed to believe. He did not adhere to them because for him these sacred truths do not exclude what is opposed to them. What contradicts these truths are not, for him, false.
Why did he not hold them to be false? Because first and above all, John Paul II was an ecumenist, and not a Catholic. An ecumenist is someone who believes that all religions contain a certain measure of the truth, some more, some less, and that they all therefore have a certain value. All religions, for the ecumenist, are true religions. Some are merely better than others.
The most that they give to the Catholic Church is that it has the “fullness of truth,” whereas the others have only “partial truth.” But when they talk about the Catholic Church, are they speaking about the Catholic Church which you and I know? No, they are referring to this reformed Catholicism, this new religion of Vatican II, an ugly fake of the true faith.
They also distinguish between “The Church” and the “Catholic Church.” “The Church” for them is all humanity, since, as Vatican II said in Gaudium et Spes, Christ united himself in some way with every man because of His Incarnation:
Human nature, by the very fact that it was assumed, not absorbed, in him [Christ], has been raised in us to a dignity beyond compare. For, by his incarnation, he, the Son of God, has in a certain way united himself with each man. (Gaudium et Spes, no. 22)
John Paul repeated this in his first encyclical, and indeed has made it the central theme of his doctrine. Let us listen to some other texts of John Paul. He speaks about the pan-christian ecumenical day of Assisi (October 27, 1986) and says that:
Such a day seemed to express, in a visible manner, the hidden but radical unity which the Word has established among men and women of this world... the fact of having come together at Assisi is like a sign of the profound unity of those who seek spiritual values in religion... The Council has made a connection between the identity of the Church and the unity of the human race. (Lumen Gentium 1 and 9; Gaudium et Spes, 42)
Therefore every man, inasmuch as he is united to the Word by virtue of His Incarnation only, is a member of the Church of Christ. The Church of Christ is nothing else than the whole human race without any exception. In the same speech, he continues this theme by explaining that the divine order of things is the unity of all men who seek religious values. The differences of faith and morals which exist among the various religions are the effect of human beings who have corrupted the divine order. Thus the goal, for John Paul, was to make religious differences disappear, and make the divine order — that is the pantheistic order — prevail. Let us cite his speech:
Religious differences reveal themselves as pertaining to another order. If the order of unity is divine, the religious differences are a human doing and must be overcome in the process towards the realization of the grandiose design of unity which presides over creation. It is possible that men not be conscious of their radical unity of origin and of their insertion in the very same divine plan. But despite such divisions, they are included in the grand and single design of God in Jesus Christ, who united himself in a certain way with every man (Gaudium et Spes, 22) even if he is not conscious of it.
From these words we perceive the apostasy of John Paul: all men belong to a pantheistic Christ who is united to each man, whether he knows it or not, by virtue of his Incarnation. Listen again to John Paul II:
To this catholic unity of the people of God all men are called, to this unity belong, in diverse forms, the catholic faithful and those who look with faith towards Christ and finally all men without exception.
These words of John Paul give us the key to understanding the enigma of this man: on the one hand to profess the truths of the Catholic Faith, to recite the Catholic Credo, but on the other hand to profess at the same time a complete repudiation of the Faith by abominable acts against the First Commandment.
John Paul II saw the value and utility of the Catholic Faith and of the Catholic Church as the instrument of uniting humanity, not indeed by leading them to the true Savior, but rather to this pantheistic Christ who embraces all men despite their religious differences. He has, in short, created a dogma-less Church which seeks to unite humanity under a dogma-less Christ. Because the Catholic Church is so useful toward this end, transformed as it is by Vatican II, John Paul II professes many Catholic doctrines. But does he adhere to these doctrines with the certitude and firmness of divine faith? By no means! For anyone who truly has the Catholic Faith could not:
� kiss the Koran, the Mohammedan “Bible.”
� say that all men are united to Christ solely by virtue of the Incarnation. (That is to say Christ was born in sin. IN COMING TO AND ACCEPTING CHRIST is when men are united and in that case it is not the many but the few.)
I could go on and on about PJP2's beliefs and how they are at odds with TRUE CHRISTIANITY, but that would be too long a post and this post is already too long.
You would have to go back to John 23 to see the slide from conservative church to casual socialist ... folk charismatic mass and all. No Pope from that time on never put restriction homosexual priests, indeed the seminaries became homosexual bastions. Politics was permissive to the point that Joe Biden and Nancy Piloci can support abortion and not be excommunicated. In fact Biden was told by the Bishop of Scranton he could receive the sacraments but was ignored by Biden.... and then what did they do... nothing.These are the two topics which I shall address today: first, the apostasy of John Paul II and its theological consequences; and second, the truly Catholic response to this apostasy.
The Apostasy of John Paul II
Notice that I have not chosen the word heresy, but rather apostasy. John Paul’s errors truly constitute an apostasy, and not merely a heresy.
Heresy is to doubt or deny a particular truth of the faith, or perhaps some truths of the faith, e.g., the divinity of Christ, the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, the Mother of Christ is the mother to all in Christ, etc. You are probably familiar with some of the well-known heretics of history: Arius, Luther, Calvin. Luther of course was correct concerning indulgences but it did not have the same result of Paul's confronting of Peter. That is because those men that Luther confronted, who practiced such heresy as SELLING "Indulgences" were nothing like Peter the ROCK , upon whose character the church is built. Those false Peters would not accept correction, like our Rock did. Instead of treating Luther as Peter did Paul , in accepting his admonishment , these heretic men rejected Luther and injured him instead of receiving Luther as Peter did Paul.
The faithful men of God should work together, not use their positions to inflict harm upon another. Luther's treatment lead to his falling into heresy which ended with his attitude toward the Jews becoming the same way as hierarchy was to him . Hitler even quoted Luther and used his hateful words to justify his actions. The hierarchy were heretics who helped design the heretical behavior of Luther and his predecessors .
Apostasy though, is to completely reject the Christian faith . For example, the emperor in the fourth century, Julian, utterly repudiated the faith and became an apostate, embracing the cult of the Roman gods of old. He is known as Julian the Apostate. This is not so with Protestants , but for sure they are in heresy .
So why do I use this strong word with John Paul II, who professes to be a Catholic, and who even from time to time said edifying and pious things?
It is because he did not adhere to any of the articles of faith which he professed to believe. He did not adhere to them because for him these sacred truths do not exclude what is opposed to them. What contradicts these truths are not, for him, false.
Why did he not hold them to be false? Because first and above all, John Paul II was an ecumenist, and not a Catholic. An ecumenist is someone who believes that all religions contain a certain measure of the truth, some more, some less, and that they all therefore have a certain value. All religions, for the ecumenist, are true religions. Some are merely better than others.
The most that they give to the Catholic Church is that it has the “fullness of truth,” whereas the others have only “partial truth.” But when they talk about the Catholic Church, are they speaking about the Catholic Church which you and I know? No, they are referring to this reformed Catholicism, this new religion of Vatican II, an ugly fake of the true faith.
They also distinguish between “The Church” and the “Catholic Church.” “The Church” for them is all humanity, since, as Vatican II said in Gaudium et Spes, Christ united himself in some way with every man because of His Incarnation:
Human nature, by the very fact that it was assumed, not absorbed, in him [Christ], has been raised in us to a dignity beyond compare. For, by his incarnation, he, the Son of God, has in a certain way united himself with each man. (Gaudium et Spes, no. 22)
John Paul repeated this in his first encyclical, and indeed has made it the central theme of his doctrine. Let us listen to some other texts of John Paul. He speaks about the pan-christian ecumenical day of Assisi (October 27, 1986) and says that:
Such a day seemed to express, in a visible manner, the hidden but radical unity which the Word has established among men and women of this world... the fact of having come together at Assisi is like a sign of the profound unity of those who seek spiritual values in religion... The Council has made a connection between the identity of the Church and the unity of the human race. (Lumen Gentium 1 and 9; Gaudium et Spes, 42)
Therefore every man, inasmuch as he is united to the Word by virtue of His Incarnation only, is a member of the Church of Christ. The Church of Christ is nothing else than the whole human race without any exception. In the same speech, he continues this theme by explaining that the divine order of things is the unity of all men who seek religious values. The differences of faith and morals which exist among the various religions are the effect of human beings who have corrupted the divine order. Thus the goal, for John Paul, was to make religious differences disappear, and make the divine order — that is the pantheistic order — prevail. Let us cite his speech:
Religious differences reveal themselves as pertaining to another order. If the order of unity is divine, the religious differences are a human doing and must be overcome in the process towards the realization of the grandiose design of unity which presides over creation. It is possible that men not be conscious of their radical unity of origin and of their insertion in the very same divine plan. But despite such divisions, they are included in the grand and single design of God in Jesus Christ, who united himself in a certain way with every man (Gaudium et Spes, 22) even if he is not conscious of it.
From these words we perceive the apostasy of John Paul: all men belong to a pantheistic Christ who is united to each man, whether he knows it or not, by virtue of his Incarnation. Listen again to John Paul II:
To this catholic unity of the people of God all men are called, to this unity belong, in diverse forms, the catholic faithful and those who look with faith towards Christ and finally all men without exception.
These words of John Paul give us the key to understanding the enigma of this man: on the one hand to profess the truths of the Catholic Faith, to recite the Catholic Credo, but on the other hand to profess at the same time a complete repudiation of the Faith by abominable acts against the First Commandment.
John Paul II saw the value and utility of the Catholic Faith and of the Catholic Church as the instrument of uniting humanity, not indeed by leading them to the true Savior, but rather to this pantheistic Christ who embraces all men despite their religious differences. He has, in short, created a dogma-less Church which seeks to unite humanity under a dogma-less Christ. Because the Catholic Church is so useful toward this end, transformed as it is by Vatican II, John Paul II professes many Catholic doctrines. But does he adhere to these doctrines with the certitude and firmness of divine faith? By no means! For anyone who truly has the Catholic Faith could not:
� kiss the Koran, the Mohammedan “Bible.”
� say that all men are united to Christ solely by virtue of the Incarnation. (That is to say Christ was born in sin. IN COMING TO AND ACCEPTING CHRIST is when men are united and in that case it is not the many but the few.)
I could go on and on about PJP2's beliefs and how they are at odds with TRUE CHRISTIANITY, but that would be too long a post and this post is already too long.
Yea, the Polish still venerate him... he did stand against communism. I can still go into Garfield and see his picture on their walls.Along with President Reagan, he led the good fight against the evil Soviet communists - and that was a good thing. In fact, as a young man he also stood up to the Nazi's and held the line as the Bishop in Poland. Did he make some mistakes? Sure, he was only human after all.
You would have to go back to John 23 to see the slide from conservative church to casual socialist ... folk charismatic mass and all. No Pope from that time on never put restriction homosexual priests, indeed the seminaries became homosexual bastions. Politics was permissive to the point that Joe Biden and Nancy Piloci can support abortion and not be excommunicated. In fact Biden was told by the Bishop of Scranton he could receive the sacraments but was ignored by Biden.... and then what did they do... nothing.
Now Catholics have Hippy Frank and his social agenda to contend with. The wheels are falling off. Once you’d be proud to be a Catholic.
You said it. Clearly other men too fought against communism even less than Christian men did. Many even lost their lives. I am not talking about just fighting against wrong but preserving truth as well. PJP2 chose to call himself a shepherd and enroll in an army that is to preserve the teachings of Christ, on that front he was not a Christian solider. Satan has many heads communism , ecumenism etc.....so forth and so on......There are many ways to try and destroy TRUTH!Along with President Reagan, he led the good fight against the evil Soviet communists - and that was a good thing. In fact, as a young man he also stood up to the Nazi's and held the line as the Bishop in Poland. Did he make some mistakes? Sure, he was only human after all.
You said it. Clearly other men too fought against communism even less than Christian men did. Many even lost their lives. I am not talking about just fighting against wrong but preserving truth as well. PJP2 chose to call himself a shepherd and enroll in an army that is to preserve the teachings of Christ, on that front he was not a Christian solider. Satan has many heads communism , ecumenism etc.....so forth and so on......There are many ways to try and destroy TRUTH!
Yea, the Polish still venerate him... he did stand against communism. I can still go into Garfield and see his picture on their walls.
No. To get me , you would have to understand the Song of Solomon and how it pertains to the time we are in. If you wish to discuss what is going on, I would love to.Are you a follower of the SSPX movement?
I am a ex catholic raised to not trust catholic priests. My own mother for years instructed me to stay away from them least they try to physically pervert you. She was a faithful catholic until gross pedophile stories surfaced, then she became despondent. Had there been strong men, not willing to compromise RCC values and address the homosexual issues publicly and punitively then she could have held her head up high, but did not happen.
Lastly, I believe that the RCC still has an obligation to get it right. Their hierarchical system will require men at the top who are committed Christians to root out the evil... otherwise pull it down because God cannot be fooled. My heart goes out to the Polish who I believe sometimes stand alone in their quest for solidarity (to Christ).
Oh sister, if you are aligned with Christ then we are family. However I am a Radical Christian who goes back to the root causes of things in order to discern the present and future. Roman Catholics are not the only ones with issues, just look at the Baptist Church with their agenda to modernize, blend reform theology with errr, non reform (traditional) theology.... what a mess. Personally I’m content to put God first ( Trinity), live a life in His pattern and let the chips fall where they may. And in it sister I am content.You are a very sensible person. You are not bashing a denomination with bias or partiality in what you have written here. That tells me you are for all who profess Christ as Lord and Savior. Though you identify as baptist, I see, you are for Christ and truth more than bashing denominations on behalf of the one you align most with. You definitely are showing the spirit of charity which has grown cold in most , but not you. God Bless you , I am confident that Christ is definitely increasing you.
James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. ( You are not showing partiality but concern for the well being of all souls you seem to recognize the faults in all denominations and the good.)
Romans 12:15-17
Forgiveness
…15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. 16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited. 17Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.…
No. To get me , you would have to understand the Song of Solomon and how it pertains to the time we are in. If you wish to discuss what is going on, I would love to.