I was reading a CRUX article this morning that related the mix reactions of the almost 200,000 who have filed by Pope Benedict’s body in St. Peter’s.
This is what one person said:
“I think he was a great pope, he was very intelligent and a very religious man,” he said, saying he believes Benedict’s greatest contribution to the church was his desire for believers “to concentrate our personal belief and also the belief of the church, to concentrate on Jesus Christ, on the bible, on the sacraments, the seven sacraments, and also the holy Mass.”
My Comment: This is exactly what comforted and encouraged me during Pope Benedict’s papacy, the returned focus on Christ, the Word of God, the Sacraments and Divine Truth, the Deposit of Faith. For so many years after Vatican II, all we ever heard about was the reform of the Church, what Vatican II wanted or didn’t want. It was Vatican II, Vatican II, Vatican II. Vatican II had become a false God. Vatican II isn’t God!
Prior to Vatican II, Catholics were encouraged to stay close to God, His true Church, the Sacraments and to reform their lives if they were in a state of sin. Preaching the Council of Trent and what Trent said was never mentioned. We did not worship the Council of Trent prior to Vatican II!
Today, we are recovering the false god that Vatican II became for so many prelates and others in the Church. Now it is under the guise of “synodality” which is a new false god for so many. Only about 1% of Catholics throughout the world are moved by synodality. The rest of us are moved by the true God and the true Church!
I have written before about all the documents and statements of those into the false god of synodality usually have no words about God, salvation, the BVM, communion of saints, heaven or hell, death and judgment. NOTHING!
PRAY GOD THAT BENEDICT’S VISION AND THRUST RETURNS!
21 comments:
"Only about 1% of Catholics throughout the world are moved by synodality."
And what percentage might be "moved" by hypostasis or caesaropapism or pseudepigrapha or synthronus? Probably less than 1%.
Yet, these all have importance and can have extraordinary implications for the Church.
So...
Yes, thank you FRMJK for confirming my commentary. When those things and synodality or Vatican II become false gods for anyone, especially those in leadership, these false gods have “extraordinary implications for the Church, so…”
Yes, worshiping false gods as Catholics is an important heresy, sacrilege and blasphemy.
I left out Apostasy on that list of importance and extraordinary implications for the Church. Sorry.
It appears that synodality merges golden calfism and Babalism.
Alas, despite your fantasy, I have confirmed nothing. Without a serious rejoinder, you fall into your usual tomfoolery.
On the topic of False Gods, I would recommend to all the small book "Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters" by Presbyterian minister Timothy Keller. From a review: "In Counterfeit Gods, Timothy Keller shows how a proper understanding of the Bible reveals the unvarnished truth about societal ideals and our own hearts. This powerful message cements Keller's reputation as a critical thinker and pastor, and comes at a crucial time—for both the faithful and the skeptical."
His understanding of the healing of Naaman the Syrian (2 King 5:1-27) was especially enlightening.
Fr K,
You have reverted to type - insulting the host
Father McDonald,
This is interesting. I believe there should be no invite for bishops and priests who voted for him too!
Biden, a so-called ‘devout Catholic’ was told not to attend Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral.
K"
arine Jean-Pierre told White House reporters on Tuesday that America’s Ambassador to the Holy See will attend the funeral.
KJP said Biden won’t be attending the funeral “in line with the wishes of the late Pope and the Vatican.”
Biden was visibly irritated with the reporter asking why he won’t be attending the Pope’s funeral.
“You’re not attending [Pope Benedict XVI’s] funeral tomorrow, though. Why?” a reporter asked.
“Well, why do you think?” Biden retorted.
The reporter shot back: “You tell me.”
“You know why,” Biden said."
LOL
"For so many years after Vatican II, all we ever heard about was the reform of the Church, what Vatican II wanted or didn’t want. It was Vatican II, Vatican II, Vatican II. Vatican II had become a false God. Vatican II isn’t God!"
Father McDonald, we can thank our holy Popes, from Saint Paul VI, to Francis, for the endless chorus of "Vatican II, Vatican II, Vatican II."
For nearly 27 years, we heard, time and again, from Pope Saint John Paul II..."Vatican II, Vatican II, Vatican II."
Even to the end of his life on earth, Pope Benedict XVI would not let go of Vatican II.
Just two months ago, Pope Benedict XVI insisted that Vatican II was “not only meaningful, but necessary.”
In 2013 A.D., at the end of his Pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI had met with "THE PARISH PRIESTS AND THE CLERGY OF ROME." His topic: Vatican II.
Pope Francis is Vatican II, Vatican II, Vatican II.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas,
Newsflash: Vatican II has been an utter flop. Only a person detached from reality believes otherwise. Why not focus on a successful Council, like Trent? Trent, Trent, Trent!
As regards VII I offer the following real world example in my family:
When VII was being "operationalized" in my Diocese my Aunt was asked by the Bishop at that time to be part of a team that brought the roll-out to local parishes. Meetings were scheduled and people came to learn about what this all meant in practical terms. My Aunt was, and remains, a very outspoken advocate for the need to change our church. She currently embraces the schismatic Germans: Married Priests, women priests, same sex marriage, communion without annulment etc. She couldn't stand Benedict. She wholeheartedly believes in the "spirit of VII" and firmly believes it didn't go far enough. She cannot believe that the youth movement in our church today is not on-board with this thinking. She is very concerned that there is a turning back and that Benedict represented that faction. She is not open to any reasonable discussion of middle ground or "continuity". In short, she is a lay version of Pope Francis.
I offer this example to highlight my ongoing belief that as long as the hierarchy (HFPF on down) that came of age in the "age of Aquarius" is still in the driver's seat, we are going to have confusion and pseudo-gods like VII. Until this hierarchy is swept away and the generation founded through JPII, and even more so by Benedict, are able to move to the front, we will flip and flop along, losing whole congregations, and entire segments of potential faithful, tithing Catholics.
Father McDonald said..."THE FOCUS ON JESUS CHRIST!!! THAT IS WHAT POPE BENEDICT XVI RECOVERED AND WE ARE LOSING AGAIN This is exactly what comforted and encouraged me during Pope Benedict’s papacy, the returned focus on Christ, the Word of God, the Sacraments and Divine Truth, the Deposit of Faith."
Father McDonald, to say that Pope Benedict XVI had "recovered" and "returned" to the above...I wish to understand...
During, for example, the nearly 27-year reign of Pope Benedict XVI's immediate predecessor, did not Pope Saint John Paul II focus on Christ, the Word of God, the Sacraments and Divine Truth, the Deposit of Faith?
Father McDonald, thank you.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
The cult of the personality that surrounded this now sainted pope, JPII always was a distraction to me and a concern.
There are two poltergeists who show up at this blog to annoy the susceptible. Jut ignore them. Of course, one might be amused by their ignorance but commenting on their offerings is what brings them back. Teaching music to pigs is not worth the effort: it wastes one's time and just baffles the pigs.
TJM - You never leave type behind...
I too was uncomfortable with the cult following of John Paul II, but, in all fairness, it wasn't his fault. He was telegenic, articulate, media-friendly and a natural "movie star" type pope. It doesn't excuse the exaggerated adulation foisted upon him, but it's understandable.
I find it scandalous that John XXIII, Paul VI (who destroyed the Roman Mass) and John Paul II were canonized so quickly. It's a cult alright, the cult of Vatican II, a failed Council.
Tom Makin,
My condolences on your Aunt.
Fr K, look in the mirror or won’t your countenance appear?
Father McDonald, to add to the "Vatican II, Vatican II, Vatican II," discussion:
Our Vatican II Era holy Popes have assured us that the Council is the greatest ecclesial event of our time....and has blessed the Church abundantly.
On October 10, 2012 A.D., Pope Benedict XVI declared:
"This is the eve of the day on which we shall be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council...On the threshold of the third millennium Blessed John Paul II wrote:
“I feel more than ever in duty bound to point to the Council as the great grace bestowed on the Church in the 20th century: there we find a sure compass by which to take our bearings in the century now beginning.”
Pope Benedict XVI added that the "Holy Spirit" is "the true driving force of the Council."
We should not be surprised that our Popes have preached Vatican II to the hilt.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
MT,
Vatican II a “blessed event?” Maybe for Satan since millions have fled the Church since! You would have been a happy little guy in the Third Reich singing Der Fuhrer’s praise
"The cult of the personality that surrounded this now sainted pope, JPII always was a distraction to me and a concern."
The speed with which he was canonized, even if seamless relative to the process, concerns me as well. The optics of a rubberstamp, because of people holding signs and chanting "Santo Subito!" is what most people saw and will remember. It seemed reactionary, emotion driven even if it was not. It seemed as though the process might not have been objective, even if it was.
JPII was a great man, I'm not questioning this at all. It's just how the events themselves unfolded.
St. Joan of Arc and St. Thomas More, martyrs for the Faith in heroic fashion, were canonized hundreds of years after their respective deaths, which highlights the corrupt canonization process post Vatican Disaster II. No wonder the Church is losing her credibility and millions of the Faithful
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