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Successfully Pounce on
Them
Prepare Yourself for the Manifestation of the False Christ
Because
If You Fall for that Mistake, You Will NOT Be Given a Second Chance
INTRODUCTION
Some time ago (1)
, Rod Dreher, an American Roman Catholic journalist - who had written a
lot about the abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and expressed
his disgust with the Hierarchy - announced that he has become a member
of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Many of the Roman Catholic responses
have been astounding ... including some that clearly paint the picture
of the Roman Catholic Church which perfectly describes it as being an
authority cult. According to several different commentators, it is the
same thing to follow the Church as to follow Christ. Furthermore, to be
Catholic requires submission to all past, present, and future
teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. This goes back, at least, to
the writings of Cardinal Newman in the mid-1800s.
We will quote key commentaries from the
press. At the end we will comment upon this most spiritually dangerous
situation.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this publication is to
show those who wish to know how the Roman Catholic Church Hierarchical
Administration (and those who serve these Administrators and their very
worldly agenda) are training their "guilt guns" on the spiritually
undernourished, ill-Evangelized and quasi-perpetually disoriented
Faithful.
With this kind of spiritual attack by the defenders of "the Church" (not
defenders of the Faith), very few will act as God Wills that they do before
it is too late for them.
Bold added by The M+G+R Foundation.
I. An ex-Anglican convert (Alvin
Kimel) to the Roman Catholic Church says (2)
:
Quotes:
« In light of Dreher's departure
from the Catholic Church, I only have one question: Was he in fact a
Catholic? I do not have access to Dreher's heart and soul, and I
certainly do not condemn him for his decision. I regret that he has
left the Catholic Church, and I grieve the sins of the Church that led
him to renounce the divine authority of the Vicar of Christ. I pray
that I may never be so tested.
My interest at this point is purely
theoretical. How are we to understand a person who enters into the
communion of the Catholic Church and then departs from that communion?
John Henry Newman raises precisely this question in his Grammar of
Assent: (3)
A man is converted to the Catholic Church from his admiration of its
religious system, and his disgust with Protestantism. That admiration
remains; but, after a time, he leaves his new faith, perhaps returns to
his old. The reason, if we may conjecture, may sometimes be this: he
has never believed in the Church's infallibility; in her doctrinal
truth he has believed, but in her infallibility, no. He was asked,
before he was received, whether he held all that the Church taught, he
replied he did; but he understood the question to mean, whether he held
those particular doctrines "which at that time the Church in matter of
fact formally taught," whereas it really meant "whatever the
Church then or at any future time should teach." Thus, he
never had the indispensable and elementary faith of a Catholic, and was
simply no subject for reception into the fold of the Church. This
being the case, when the Immaculate Conception is defined, he feels
that it is something more than he bargained for when he became a
Catholic, and accordingly he gives up his religious profession. The
world will say that he has lost his certitude of the divinity of the
Catholic Faith, but he never had it.
To become Catholic, to be Catholic, is to
surrender one's private judgment to the magisterial teaching of the
Church. It is to believe that what the Church teaches and will
teach as belonging to the deposit of revelation is from
God. One may investigate the rational grounds for de fide
dogmas; but one may not doubt them nor inquire whether or not they
may be true. As Newman remarks, a Catholic "cannot be both inside
and outside of the Church at once."
I wonder how many priests and RCIA
instructors understand what Catholic assent is. I wonder how many
converts to Catholicism have been instructed in the irrevocable,
definitive, full assent to magisterial teaching that is being asked of
them when they enter into the communion of the Catholic Church.
»
Note added on June 10, 2012: Rev. Alvin Kimel joined the
Orthodox Faith in August 5 2011. (4)
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II. An earlier post by Kimel on the
same subject (5).
The occasion for this post was the
surfacing of rumors 5 months ago that Dreher was about to become
Orthodox:
Quotes:
« A hundred and fifty years ago
Newman clearly saw that the ideology of modernity must, logically and
inevitably, lead to relativism, skepticism, and atheism. He also saw
that the claims of a historically-given divine revelation cannot be
rationally defended against modernity in the absence of a
divinely-directed institution that can infallibly identify the content
of the divine revelation. As Newman put it so well in his Essay on
the Development of Doctrine (6); "A
revelation is not given, if there be no authority to decide what it is
that is given." Newman became convinced that the Catholic Church,
the communion of churches gathered around the bishop of Rome, did in
fact enjoy this divine authority and charism to accurately identify and
proclaim the apostolic revelation. Hence Newman's famous words in his Letter
to the Duke of Norfolk (7): "We must
take things as they are; to believe in a Church, is to believe in the
Pope."
Newman's logic is compelling and
inexorable. If the Catholic Church is the Church of Jesus Christ, then
we must believe in the Catholic Church, or give up Christianity
altogether. Or as Newman wrote to William Todd in 1850: "To deny
Catholicism is logically to deny religion." »
and
« Thus Newman would emphatically
urge his correspondents who were seriously contemplating conversion to
the Catholic Church, to count the cost, including the cost of
intellectual submission. "Can you accept as from God whatever the
Catholic Roman Church has taught and shall teach? »
and
« This formulation - "the act of
faith in Christ and the Church is one act of faith" - helpfully states,
I think, the understanding of Newman. Christ is so united to his
ecclesial body that surrender to the Church is surrender to Christ,
for the Church is the "oracle of Christ." She dogmatically speaks in
his name, with his authority, under the guidance, direction, and
protection of his Holy Spirit. Hence Newman (8)
can provocatively and offensively insist: "A man may inquire before
he is a Catholic, he may not after." »
and
« To be Catholic is to refuse to
doubt the de fide teachings of the Catholic Church, for to
doubt these teachings is to doubt Christ himself: "It is, then,
perfectly true, that the Church does not allow her children to
entertain any doubt of her teaching; and that, first of all, simply for
this reason, because they are Catholics only while they have faith, and
faith is incompatible with doubt. No one can be a Catholic without a
simple faith, that what the Church declares in God's name, is God's
word, and therefore true. A man must simply believe that the Church
is the oracle of God; he must be as certain of her mission, as he is of
the mission of the Apostles (Faith and Doubt (9)).
It is hard for me to think of anything
more scandalous today than the Catholic proscription of doubt. »
and
« We return to the problem that
provoked this article - namely, the Catholic who is tempted to abandon
the communion of his Church because of her scandals. This is an
impossible possibility. A Catholic can only seriously entertain this
possibility by stepping outside the circle of faith. At that moment he
has ceased to believe. At that moment he has placed his immortal soul
in peril. »
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III. It is claimed that joining
the Roman Catholic Church is, if correctly understood, a one-way trip
(10).
Quotes:
« But the important matter for a
potential convert is this: properly understood, conversion to
Catholicism is a one-way trip.
To become Catholic is to accept
Catholicism totally, and submit your personal judgment to the Church.
If you do that, and accept the infallibility of the Church, then your
trip to Rome is one way. There is no logical means by which you can
turn back.
Was this presented to me in RCIA? Was I
told that this was a one-way trip once I accepted the Church? I was
not. It wasn't until a few years later that I encountered the idea of
submitting my will to the Church with regards to its teachings. I was
not deterred by this, and with my free will I accepted the Church under
those terms as well. No convert should entertain the idea of
Catholicism as a simple change of venue for their Sunday worship.
It's far more profound than that. »
and
« There have been many a time that
I've sat in the pew on Sunday and wondered what on earth the priest was
thinking. "Was that actually heresy, or did I hear that wrong?" The
Church isn't perfect. It's made up of a collection of fallible human
beings. Individuals within the Church are capable of doing evil, just
like everyone else on earth. That's ok. The Church herself is not
capable of fallibility. That fact is ensured by the Holy Spirit. For
that reason, I willingly submit to the Church. No one should swim the
Tiber without understanding what it means to stand on this bank. It
sounds a whole lot scarier than it really is, but it is something that
needs to be considered. »
==============================
IV. A canon lawyer seems to want
decrees of excommunication to be issued against people who leave the
Roman Catholic Church (11).
Quotes:
« 1. By all accounts Dreher has
committed a formal act of schism; according to 1983 CIC 1364, he is
liable to latae sententiae excommunication. But, as I and
others have often said, the provisions of 1983 CIC 1323-1324 render
very complicated, often nugatory, one's confidence regarding automatic
censures in a particular case; it is tiresome to have to stop every
time and debate the intricacies of the canonical penal process at the
expense of focusing on the offensive behavior that needs correcting. I
repeat: it is time to abandon the latae sententiae operation
of sanctions, and to restrict the application of penalties to ferendae
sententiae procedures.
2. Dreher brought his wife and, more to the point, his young children
with him into the Orthodox Church. Even assuming that parents can
remove their children from the Church (at least in a way that such
children would later need to be readmitted formally to enjoy the
benefits of full communion), the "sincerity" of a parental decision to
deprive a Catholic child of his or her religious heritage does not
rehabilitate that decision. 1983 CIC 1366 authorizes "a censure or
other just penalty" against parents who "hand over their children to be
. . . educated in a non-Catholic religion."
3. Apparently most Orthodox Churches receive Roman Catholics into their
communion by the celebration of the sacrament of confirmation or
chrismation (12). The Catholic Church, in
contrast, presumes the validity of Orthodox chrismation and does not
re-confirm those coming into full communion with us (instead, Orthodox
converts to Catholicism make a profession of faith). Assuming the
40-year-old Dreher was already confirmed in the Catholic Church, if he
underwent this Orthodox rite (I cannot verify (13)
either point in his case), his "second" confirmation would be
invalid and objectively sacrilegious as an attempt to re-confer a seal
sacrament (1983 CIC 845, 1379).
In brief, there seem to be several aspects of this matter that warrant
closer attention.
Let me say, I don't think that all the ills of the Church are reducible
to violations of canon law, nor is perfect adherence to law a guarantee
of sanctity; but I do think that disregard for Church law has caused or
worsened many of the problems we face today. Dreher would be right to
decry the anomian attitudes that pervaded various hierarchies in recent
decades.
But no one should think that serious violations of canon law are
unique to the clergy, nor should one underestimate the harm caused when
someone, especially of a high profile, violates Church law in protest
against those who violate Church law. »
COMMENTS
Our general and infallible (yes, we have said "infallible")
comments regarding what the above Vatican "Party Line" sampling
promotes, are not from us. That is why they are truly
Infallible. They are from God - directly. To wit:
Matthew 12: 30 He
that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me,
scattereth. [Understand this in the light of Mark 9:37-39
below]
Mark 9: 37 John answered him, saying: Master, we
saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us, and we
forbade him.
38 But Jesus said:
Do not forbid him. For
there is no man that doth a miracle in my name, and can soon speak ill
of me. 39 For he that is not against you, is for you.
Luke 9: 52 And he sent messengers before his
face; and going, they entered into a city of the Samaritans, to prepare
for him.
53 And they received him not, because his face was of
one going to Jerusalem.
54 And when his disciples James and
John had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to
come down from heaven, and consume them?
55 And turning, he
rebuked them, saying:
You know not of what spirit you are.
Matthew 12: 1 At that time Jesus went
through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began
to pluck the ears, and to eat.
2 And the Pharisees seeing them,
said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on
the sabbath days.
3 But he said to them:
Have you not read
what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: 4 How
he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of
proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that
were with him, but for the priests only? 5 Or have ye not read in the
law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the
sabbath, and are without blame?
Mark 2: 27 And he said to them:
The sabbath
was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. [Just like
the Church was set up for man and not man created for the Church: man
was created for God and the Church IS NOT God.]
Matthew 23: 2 Saying:
The scribes and the
Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. 3 All things therefore
whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to
their works do ye not; for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy
and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a
finger of their own they will not move them. 5 And all their works they
do for to be seen of men. (14)
Matthew 16: 23 Who turning, said to Peter:
Go
behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest
not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.
[This was
before the Pentecost]
Galatians 2: 11 But when Cephas was come to
Antioch, I (Paul) withstood him (Peter = Cephas = Head)
(15)
to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that
some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were
come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the
circumcision.
... 14 But when I saw that they walked not
uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them
all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and
not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the
Jews? [This was
after the Pentecost]
Matthew 24: 5 For many will come in my name saying, I
am Christ: and they will seduce many.
Ephesians 2: 20 Built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner stone.
Then, the Truly Infallible One went one step further and warned His
Children, through Luke 12, about those who promote the aforementioned
Vatican "Party Line". To wit:
Beware ye of the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that
shall not be revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known.. ... 4 And
I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and
after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will shew you whom
you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to
cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.
Personally, we choose to obey, and
recommend to all to do the same, the key teaching of Peter, which is
clearly stated in Acts 5. To wit:
29 But Peter and the apostles
answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.
Wherever the Vatican "Party Line" deviates from the crystal clear core
teachings of Jesus Christ, they are to be rejected just as
our immune system rejects the worst infection or, as Jesus clearly
identified it: The leaven of the Pharisees
EPILOGUE
The Truly Infallible One said - [Luke
11: 5] Woe to you (canon) lawyers, for you have taken away
the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those
that were entering in, you have hindered.
It is our duty and responsibility - without question - to pray for
those who are, in effect, pushing the true Children of God in the
direction of Gehenna. Didn't the Only Infallible Master also
teach us through Matthew 5 44 to ....Love your enemies: do good to
them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate
you...
For a glimpse of what their future may be, thus, how necessary our
prayers on their behalf are, once again, we had recourse to the
Infallible One through Matthew 11:
21 Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to
thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles
that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in
sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou
Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even
unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been
wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day. 24 But I say
unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in
the day of judgment, than for thee.
Capernaum's transgression was unbelief; lack of faith in Jesus Christ.
In spite of the mighty works which Jesus Christ did in Capernaum they
refused to believe in Him. Remember Fatima? (16)
La Salette? (17) Rosa Mystica? (18)
Kibeho? (19) That alleged "prudence" is sheer
unbelief ; lack of trust in Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians 1: 9 For it is
written [Isaiah 29:14]: I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.
The
true Children of God
do not believe in the Vatican
sanctioned "Just Wars", i.e. Killing with a Divine License; however,
the true Children of God
must believe and practice:
Love
your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that
persecute and calumniate you:...
That is
the only remedy that will stop evil on its tracks.
Do you see now why millions upon millions of Masses and Rosaries
offered have been, and continue to be rejected by God? If you
still cannot, please, allow the Prophet Isaiah to explain it to you
better
(20).
If you do not believe this, then,
we beg of you, do us all a
favor: Do not call yourself a Christian.
NOTES
Please note: Some of the quoted sources have been moved
to other locations or simply disappeared from the net. We do not have
the time nor resources to track down all of the missing sources. If you
do not trust our word, just move on - you just do not belong among the
Elect.
(1) Week of Oct 9, 2006
(2) (New)
Source
(3) Grammar
of Assent
(4) Rev.
Alvin Kimel joined the Orthodox Faith in August 5 2011
(5) Source
(6) Essay
on the Development of Doctrine
(7) Letter
to the Duke of Norfolk
(8) Newman
(9) Faith
and Doubt
(10) Source
(11) Source
(12) About
Orthodox Churches receiving Roman Catholics into their communion.
(13) Verification
(14) This partially explains what He manifests through
miguel de Portugal who defends the basic tenets of the Catholic Faith
like the Church Hierarchical Administrators do not even try to do,
while denouncing the excesses and ridiculous claims of the
Administration as well as their self-serving teachings which go
directly against the teachings of Jesus Christ.
(15) For example a "Cephalogram" is an x-ray view of the
head. The Vatican spin-masters turned cephas into "rock" to pretend
that the Church was founded upon the rock of Peter when it was founded
upon the Rock of Christ, which Peter identified as such. Then, to
fulfill Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 24:5 it was claimed that the
Pope of Rome WAS Christ on Earth. To "Represent" and to "Be" are two
totally different situations. and, in this case, a matter of Life and
Death.
(16) The Marian Apparitions in
Fatima and The Roman Catholic Church Administration
(17) The Apparitions of Our Lady
in 1846 at La Salette - France
(18) Apparitions of Our Lady -
Rosa Mystica at Montichiari-Fontanelle
(19) "Yes, the Virgin Mary Did
Appear in Kibeho"
(20) God Tells His People Why Their
Prayers Are Not Heard. Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Chapter No.1
Published on October 21,
2006 - European Union - USA
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