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FOR THE RECORD:
Below is an article from the National Catholic Register. (see here) The reason that I am reproducing this article in its entirety is that it adds more data points that strongly confirm two themes that this blog has been pursuing.
The first theme is that the two Synod’s were called due to a HIDDEN AGENDA, a HIDDEN AGENDA that this blog identified as “changing Catholic moral teaching on aberro-sexuality”. Reading the below, it becomes obvious that communion for remarried is just a side issue, as was the billing as a Synod about the family. The side issues were needed to create the impression that the HIDDEN AGENDA encompassed more than just the fraction of the 1% of Catholics who may suffer from any of the “objective intrinsic disorders” that collectively comprise aberro-sexuality. We laid out the case for this in a series of post that culminated in our post titled The Three Paragraphs. (see here)
The second theme that we have been pursuing is that of the Soap Bubble Papacy™. We have demonstrated that the entire Francis Effect at its base, is nothing more than a VIRTUAL REALITY, a media created illusion that Francis is “popular”. This aspect of the Francis Effect was very poignantly summed up by Cardinal Brandmuller when he made the following observation: “It is superficial. Were this a religious movement, the churches would be full”. We illustrated this Soap Bubble Papacy™ in posts such as Searching for the “Illusive Francis Effect” (see here) and A Grand Ole Time Had By All (see here).
When reading the below, please keep the above in mind for context. (with emphasis added)
Confidential Meeting Seeks to Sway Synod to Accept Same-Sex Unions
ROME — A one-day study meeting — open only to a select group of individuals — took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Monday with the aim of urging “pastoral innovations” at the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Family in October.
Around 50 participants, including bishops, theologians and media representatives, took part in the gathering, at the invitation of the presidents of the bishops’ conferences of Germany, Switzerland and France — Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Bishop Markus Büchel and Archbishop Georges Pontier.
One of the key topics discussed at the closed-door meeting was how the Church could better welcome those in stable same-sex unions, and reportedly “no one” opposed such unions being recognized as valid by the Church.
Participants also spoke of the need to “develop” the Church’s teaching on human sexuality and called not for a theology of the body, as famously taught by St. John Paul II, but the development of a “theology of love.”
One Swiss priest discussed the “importance of the human sex drive,” while another participant, talking about holy Communion for remarried divorcees, asked: “How can we deny it, as though it were a punishment for the people who have failed and found a new partner with whom to start a new life?”
Marco Ansaldo, a reporter for the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica, who was present at the meeting, said the words seemed “revolutionary, uttered by clergymen.”
French Biblicist and Ratzinger Prize-winner Anne-Marie Pelletier praised the dialogue that took place between theologians and bishops as a “real sign of the times.” According to La Stampa, another Italian daily newspaper, Pelletier said the Church needs to enter into “a dynamic of mutual listening,” in which the magisterium continues to guide consciences, but she believes it can only effectively do so if it “echoes the words of the baptized.”
The meeting took the “risk of the new, in fidelity with Christ,” she claimed. The article also quoted a participant as saying the synod would be a “failure” if it simply continued to affirm what the Church has always taught.
The closed-door meeting, masterminded by the German bishops’ conference under the leadership of Cardinal Marx, was first proposed at the annual meeting of the heads of the three bishops’ conferences, held in January in Marseille, France.
The study day took place just days after the people of Ireland voted in a referendum in support of same-sex “marriage” and on the same day as the Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops met in Rome. Some observers did not see the timing as a coincidence.
The synod council has been drawing up the instrumentum laboris (working document) for the October synod on the family. Integrated into the document will be the responses of a questionnaire sent to laity around the world. Those responses, particularly from Switzerland and Germany, appeared to be overwhelmingly in favor of the Church adapting her teachings to the secular world.
Why the Lack of Publicity?
No one would say why the study day was held in confidence. So secret was the meeting that even prominent Jesuits at the Gregorian were completely unaware of it. The Register learned about it when Jean-Marie Guénois leaked the information in a story in Le Figaro.
Speaking to the Register as he left the meeting, Cardinal Marx insisted the study day wasn’t secret. But he became irritated when pressed about why it wasn’t advertised, saying he had simply come to Rome in a “private capacity” and that he had every right to do so. Close to Pope Francis and part of his nine-member council of cardinals, the cardinal is known to be especially eager to reform the Church’s approach to homosexuals. During his Pentecost homily last Sunday, Cardinal Marx called for a “welcoming culture” in the Church for homosexuals, saying it’s “not the differences that count, but what unites us.”
Cardinal Marx is also not alone, among those attending the meeting, in pushing for radical changes to the Church’s life. The head of the Swiss bishops, Bishop Büchel of St. Gallen, has spoken openly in favor of women’s ordination, saying in 2011 that the Church should “pray that the Holy Spirit enables us to read the signs of the times.” Archbishop Pontier, head of the French bishops, is also known to have heterodox leanings.
The meeting’s organizers were unwilling to disclose the names of everyone who took part, but the Register has obtained a full list of participants. They included Jesuit Father Hans Langendörfer, general secretary of the German bishops’ conference and the leading figure behind the recent reform of German Church labor laws to controversially allow remarried divorcees and homosexual couples to work in Church institutions.
Father Schockenhoff
Among the specialists present was Father Eberhard Schockenhoff, a moral theologian. Some are particularly disturbed about the rise to prominence of Father Schockenhoff, who is understood to be the “mastermind” behind much of the challenge to settled Church teachings among the German episcopate and, by implication, at the synod on the family itself.
A prominent critic of Humanae Vitae (The Regulation of Birth), as well as a strong supporter of homosexual clergy and those pushing for reform in the area of sexual ethics, Father Schockenhoff is known to be the leading adviser of German bishops in the run-up to the synod.
In 2010, he gave an interview in which he praised the permanence and solidarity shown in some same-sex relationships as “ethically valuable.” He urged that any assessment of homosexual acts “must take a back seat” on the grounds that the faithful are becoming “increasingly distant from the Church’s sexual morality,” which appears “unrealistic and hostile to them.” The Pope and the bishops should “take this seriously and not dismiss it as laxity,” he said.
Father Schockenhoff has also gone on record saying that moral theology must be “liberated from the natural law” and that conscience should be based on the “life experience of the faithful.”
He has also insisted that the indissolubility of marriage is “not seriously called into question” by admitting remarried divorcees to holy Communion and that the term the “official Church” should be done away with because of a growing gap between the institutional Church and the Church of the faithful.
Also present was Marco Impagliazzo, president of the Sant’Egidio lay community; Jesuit Father Andreas Batlogg, professor of philosophy and theology and chief editor of the liberal periodical Stimmen der Zeit (Voices of the Time); and Salesian Msgr. Markus Graulich, prelate auditor of the tribunal of the Roman Rota — one of very few Curial officials to attend. Some of those participating, such as Msgr. Graulich, took part in the previous synod.
Media Participation
Also noted were the large number of media representatives. Journalists from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German broadcasters ZDF and ARD, the Italian daily La Repubblica and French-Catholic media La Croix and I-Media were also present. Their presence was “striking,” said one observer, who predicted they will be used to promote the agenda of the subject matter under discussion in the weeks leading up to the synod.
Monday’s meeting is just the latest attempt to subtly steer the upcoming synod in a direction opposed by many faithful Catholics. A statement on the study day released by the German bishops’ conference May 26 said there was a “reflection on biblical hermeneutics” — widely seen as code words for understanding the Bible differently from Tradition — and the need for a “reflection on a theology of love.”
This, too, is seen as undermining Church teaching. By replacing the theology of the body with a “theology of love,” it creates an abstract interpretation that separates sex from procreation, thereby allowing forms of extramarital unions and same-sex attractions based simply on emotions rather than biological reality. Gone, say critics, is the Catholic view of marriage, which should be open to procreation.
The statement, which conspicuously failed to mention sin, ended by saying that “further discussion on the future of marriage and family is necessary and possible” and that it would be “enriched by a further, intensive theological reflection.”
This, too, is code for wanting a change in teaching, giving the impression that the doctrine in these areas is open to change. But for the Catholic Church, it is a settled issue.
“Imagine if the Church accepted homosexual relationships,” said one source speaking on condition of anonymity. “Ultimately, that is what these people want.”
I rest my case!
Concluding, somehow I am not shocked,… shocked that the HIDDEN AGENDA of the Secret Synod of Bishops of 2014 and the upcoming Stealth Sex Synod of Bishops of 2015 was and will be all about “changing Catholic moral teaching on aberro-sexuality”.
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S. Armaticus said:
Exactly. It is the Gender Lobby that is at work here. We saw it in Ireland. We also see it in Poland. We saw it under Zapatero in Spain. We see it with the pizza parlor in Indiana.
This is where the big bucks are.
This is the reason for the closeness between Obama, the UN and Francis.
Please see my response to Deacon Augustine.
S.A.
S.A.
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DJR said:
Anyone catch the fact that Cardinal Baldisseri was in Poland not too long ago? My goodness me, whatever for?
Good luck with the Slavic hierarchies, Your Eminences.
We need open fighting among the clergy now, and the laity needs to press the orthodox clergy to “come out.” The other side has been “coming out” for quite awhile.
DJR
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S. Armaticus said:
Dear DJR,
We know that card. Marx & co. tried to get the Poles onboard for a joint position at the upcoming Stealth Sex Synod, but were rebuffed. Appears that no amount of money is going to sway the Polish Episcopate.
If you put a gun to my head, I would imagine that it was in this context that card. Baldiserri was in Poland.
Also please keep in mind that card. B is from the diplomatic core and a protege of card. Sodano, JPII’s sec of state.
Therefore, he would have contact with card. Dziwisz, JPII assistant, and now the archbishop of Krakow. Having said that, card. Dziwisz has been completely sidelined in Poland due to his politically naive support of a supposed “conservative” party in Poland that ended up being in the pocket of Big Gender.
Please consider the above idle speculation.
S.A.
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ColdStanding said:
The independent Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones is claiming some credit for a stiffened resolve in the Polish Episcopate thanks to his recent (close to but less than one year ago) speaking tour of the land where he lectured upon the theme of sexual liberation as social control because it is really sexual domination. Libido Dominandi is the work of his he lays his thesis out in.
Plausible?
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S. Armaticus said:
Hard to say.
I think that the Polish bishops are very receptive to academic arguments. If there was any influence, then it was more a question of a higher degree of stiffening post lectures.
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Bai Macfarlane said:
thanks for getting the word out !!
If you are not already aware, I imagine you would be interested in seeing what the Catholic canon law says about separation and divorce. As director of “Mary’s Advocates” a non-profit organization upholding marriage, I prepared a document for bishops before the October 2014 synod and have received warm thank you letters from Cardinals Raymond Burke, Timothy Dolan, and George Pell; Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, John Nienstedt, and Timothy Broglio; and Bishop Frank Caggiano.
In the United States, Catholics are withdrawing from marital life (abandoning marraige) for no morally grounded reason. The leadership in the U.S. has for decades taught that the Church has no interest in separation or divorce because, supposedly, only the the merely civil effects of marriage are involved when one spouse forces a no-fault divorce on his family.
Document is titled: “Mary’s Advocates Observations: Separation, Divorce, and Annulment, The Pastoral Care Described in the Catechism, and The Canon Law and the Prevalent Pastoral Practice in the United States”
If you Email me your your shipping address , I’d be pleased to send you a paperback version with big fold-out flowcharts. Or you can find text on our website. http://www.MarysAdvocates.org.
Thank you,
Mrs. Bai Macfarlane
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S. Armaticus said:
Thank you for your comment.
S.A.
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indignusfamulus-grandparents said:
This picture is still worth a thousand words. When God cleans House, it ain’t gonna be a pretty sight. But He will clean it. And it IS still HIS.
May they all repent and do penance before that moment comes and catches them unprepared– like a thief in the night.
.
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Thomas Lewis said:
Define “abomination of desolation siting in the Holy of Holy’s.”other than Sodomites running Rome. I don’t think is an alternative.
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indignusfamulus-grandparents said:
Dear Thomas,
We agree. Been studying the Book of Revelations for many years now, and this moment in time is the closest we’ve come to it being word for word fulfilled.
“And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird”
Plagues in a single hour are foretold.
” For her sins have reached unto heaven, and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities”.
Take cover, folks, and keep praying.
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indignusfamulus-grandparents said:
P.S. to Thomas and SA,
Rorate Caeli just published a post on this very topic, taken from one of our all-time favorite sources (Sheed and Ward) It’s not too long to re-post here, we think:
Sins that Tend to the Destruction of the Human Race
A striking passage from a manual of theology of the last century, once widely used in seminaries:
The sins that cry to heaven for vengeance are: Wilful murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, defrauding labourers of their wages. This category of four grievous sins is not a class of the worst possible sins, for none of them are opposed directly to God, but of sins that must provoke God’s anger in a way that we do not attribute to His Divine anger against many other sins, and because Holy Scripture speaks of them as a class apart and as crying to God for vengeance.
In the four sins mentioned above, the offence is directly opposed to nature and natural instincts, and therefore to the order in this world which God has taken supreme care to establish. Thus, wilful murder is directly opposed to God’s sovereignty, Who alone is master of life; sodomy is a perversion of the true natural sexual instinct, which is designed to perpetuate the race; oppression of the poor extinguishes the ingrained sense of pity in the human heart; defrauding labourers of their wages is opposed to the social instinct that safeguards the property of the members of the body politic. It is obvious that these sins tend to the destruction of the human race.There is good warranty in Holy Scripture for putting these four sins in a class apart and considering them very heinous crimes. Thus : “The voice of thy brother crieth to Me from the earth;” “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous;” “I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;” “Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth” (Gen. 4, 10 : 18, 20 : 19, 13; Exod. 3, 7 ; Deut. 24, 14 ; Jas. 5, 4). [Rev. Henry Davis, S.J., Moral and Pastoral Theology, 4th ed. (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1943), pp. 214-15].
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indignusfamulus-grandparents said:
Thinking about the above, it’s obvious that when men go against their natural instincts for long enough, it changes them into something more like beasts. Once enough people become animalistic like that, the worst outrages take place against God’s people who stand against them. Ergo, God must intervene as Scripture says,
lest no one would be saved…..
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Magdalen said:
If the day were to come that such sexual SINS are accepted by the Church then it is no longer the Bride of Christ and no longer the Roman Catholic Church and satan and hell have prevailed. It is getting harder to trust but I keep in mind that all the machinations of men are little in the workings of God. And that when many prelates wanted the approval of contraception even the weak Paul VI held the line.
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S. Armaticus said:
Our Lord promised us that the gates of hell shall not prevail, and when He comes again, an indefectible Church will be waiting.
We always need to be cognizant of this fact.
S.A.
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ChronicSinner said:
Does anyone here know what became of the dossier concerning the state of the sodomite infiltration into the clergy and hierarchy that was supposedly given to Pope Benedict XVI just prior to his abdication? Was it given to Pope Francis?
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S. Armaticus said:
All of us are wondering likewise.
The Remnant and we asked this question.
Last sighting was here: http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-good-day-for-papal-insults-bad-day-to.html
Hope that helps.
S.A.
PS At this point, all one can do is laugh. And keep fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ChronicSinner said:
Very helpful. Thanks.
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Deacon Augustine said:
Do we know for sure that the dossier was about the sodomites or was it about something else such as Vatileaks?
If it was the former, this Pope will bury it or burn it.
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Tamsin said:
Father Schockenhoff: serpent.
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S. Armaticus said:
Yes he is.
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steveesq said:
Reblogged this on EX MAGNA SILENTIUM or EX MAGNO SILENTIO and commented:
A meeting of homos, heretics and whores . . .
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Deacon Augustine said:
“Below is an article from the National Catholic Reporter”
When I got to the bit which spoke about the heterodoxy of one of the participants, I couldn’t believe the “H” word was being used in the National Catholic Reporter!!! When I clicked on the link it was actually an article by Ed Pentin at the National Catholic REGISTER!!!
Nevertheless, it shows that your analysis of the true agenda behind the synods has been correct all along. This is an act of war by apostates against Christ Himself. It is time to mobilize the faithful – if there are still any left.
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S. Armaticus said:
Thks.
As to the NCR, I caught my mistake. Corrected it.
As to the aberro-agenda, it is what it is.
They can not hide it any longer. The 5 cardinal book blew their cover and blew their sophistic arguements out of the water.
Now these heretics will have to face a Synod that is 90% orthodox.
In the end, Francis can do whatever he wants to do. And we will see how much control card. Muller has over the Francis teaching office.
Should be interesting.
S.A.
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