T -65: It Takes A Global Bathhouse

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Today a re-post for the record.

The article below  appeared on LifeSiteNews and explains very nicely how BIG GENDER operates in the US.

What should be of note is that these usual suspects, i.e. the foundations were the same folks that flooded Ireland with a crazy amount of overseas money (see here) over a ten-year period in the lead up to the aberro-sexual referendum. (see here) The takeaway from the above is that these advocacy operations are global.

Given the above, what are the chances that the above suspects are also playing a behind the scenes role in the lead up to the Stealth Sex Synod of 2015?

More on this in a future post.

Here is the Life Site New post (see original here)

Foundations pouring millions into campaign to eradicate religious exemptions on gay ‘marriage’

WASHINGTON D.C. July 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) — Revelations that a half dozen well-heeled liberal foundations are pouring millions of dollars into a concerted campaign to force religious organizations to accept same sex “marriage” have defenders of religious rights warning of a new “wave” of litigation.“

Attacking religious exemptions is the next big wave,” Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, told LifeSiteNews. “Gay rights are only the pretext. These groups won’t be satisfied till every trace of religion is erased from public life in America.”

After investigating their financial and annual reports, The Catholic News Agency has released the names of six foundations that have recently donated millions to groups and campaigns to eliminate any religious exemption under the First Amendment from federal, state or municipal human rights regulations, requiring couples in same-sex “marriages” be treated the same as heterosexual married couples.

The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, the Gill Foundation, the Proteus Fund, the David Bohnett Foundation, the Arcus Foundation, and the Ford Foundation have contributed $4.8 million to the cause of suppressing religious rights.

According to Scott Walter, executive director of the Capital Research Center, Tim Gill, the homosexual multi-millionaire behind the Gill Foundation, was instrumental in turning Colorado from “a reliably red state to a blue state,” in the course of a decade, first using his money to win both state chambers for the Democrats, then the governor’s mansion, and finally both federal Senate seats.“

It’s called the ‘Colorado Miracle,” said Walter. “If Gill is turning his sights onto religious exemptions from same-sex marriage rights, defenders of religious liberty need to be very, very nervous. Gill  has declared that homosexual rights is his number one interest. He has the money and he is incredibly effective.”

In Colorado Gill put together an alliance of like-minded donors and foundations, who funded or created public advocacy law firms, liberal financial watchdog groups, and paid for investigations and lawsuits, all without admitting their goal was getting Democrats into office.

The Catholic News Agency article quotes homosexual advocate Tim Sweeney, “a onetime program director of the Haas Fund,” as having told a conference of like-minded lobbyists early this year, “We are at a crossroads where the choices we make will mean we will fight religious exemptions for two to three years or have a protracted twenty year struggle on our hands.”

Sweeney warned the Out & Equal Executive Forum that victory was not complete with the Supreme Court decision overthrowing state laws defending traditional, heterosexual marriage. The homosexual and trans communities “face a new set of threats around religious exemptions to laws that protect us and our families,” he said.

Sweeney reportedly told his audience that state and federal religious freedom laws such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and judicial decisions like the 2014 Hobby Lobby case (allowing the Christian owners of the Hobby Lobby company an exemption from insuring employees for contraception) are “all about using religious liberty as an excuse to discriminate against LGBT people and others.”

But Bill Donohue of the Catholic League makes the counterclaim that organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union are fighting against religious exemptions “to use the gay issue as a lever to eliminate religion from every nook and cranny.”

Lawyer James Bopp of the James Madison Center for Free Speech agrees that what is at stake is religious liberty. “We are facing a group that will insist on conformity on anybody in the public square. Churches are especially vulnerable,” he said, “because they can be threatened through their tax-exempt status.”

If the foundations and the advocacy groups they fund get their way, Donohue warned, Christian colleges would be forced to allow same-sex couples to use their married student housing. Schools would be forced to hire or prevented from firing homosexual couples that have undergone “marriage” ceremonies.

Jeremy Tedesco, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, added, “The First Amendment protects more than just the freedom of religion, it protects the freedom of people to live and act according to their religious beliefs. These groups are wrongly attempting to relegate religious freedom to something that exists only in people’s churches and homes. That’s not religious freedom, it’s religious hostility.”

Peter Breen of the Chicago-based Thomas More Law Center told LifeSiteNews that states which have not pass laws legalizing same-sex marriage are particularly vulnerable to legal action restricting religious exemptions. Ironically, wherever states passed same- sex marriage laws, they included protection for religious freedom.

But states which never legalized same-sex marriage also never provided exemptions from anti-discrimination laws for Christians—whether bakers, or universities or churches with Scout troops. So States with old  laws on the books intending to protect heterosexual married couples from discrimination will now cover same-sex marriages too.“

We need to alert state legislators that they are not providing the protection for religious groups their citizens want. And we need to help them draft very well-written religious protection laws.” Breen said the six foundations exposed by the Catholic News Agency “will try to stop those laws being made.”

T -66: Wise Guys, Aye!

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Today we quickly look at an interesting development that has been brought to your humble bloggers attention on the Eponymous Flower Blog. (see here) But before we get into the subject matter, a few words to provide context.

In our post titled Synod of the Three Paragraphs that we originally published on the 14th of December 2014 (see here) we laid out our case, using our Pierce/Ockham methodology (see here), that the upcoming Synod of Bishops of 2015 will have as its main goal, what we termed the HIDDEN AGENDA, the changing of Catholic moral teaching regarding aberro-sexuality. Actually, we wrote that the upcoming Synod, which we dubbed the Stealth Sex Synod can be reduced to revolving around two words, i.e. INTRINSIC and DISORDERED. To be more precise, the Synod will be manipulated in order to purge Catholic moral teaching of natural moral law that states that aberro-sexual unions are INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED.

In a follow-up post titled Meet BIG GENDER from the 17th of February 2015 (see here), we established that what it behind this HIDDEN AGENDA is nothing more than the special interest groups that are lobbying for the introduction of Gender Ideology into various national legal statutes of targeted countries. In Germany, we have observed this BIG GENDER has use the German Bishops’ Conference hierarchy, i.e. Cardinal Reinhard “Bling” Marx to introduce Gender Ideology into the Church Labor law. Furthermore, it is this BIG GENDER that is now using the German representatives to the bi-Synods as a proxy in order to change Catholic moral teaching regarding sexuality by introducing Gender Ideology into the moral teaching of the universal Church.

In a post titled So It Was The Homo Agenda All Along from the 27th of May 2015 (see here), we provide anecdotal proof that we have been correct in our assertion (hypothesis) that… well… it was the homo agenda all along. It was this homo-agenda that served as the HIDDEN AGENDA at the Secret Synod of Bishops of 2014 and will serve as the HIDDEN AGENDA at the upcoming Stealth Synod of Bishops of 2015. The proof that we provided was in the form of a report from a “closed-door” meeting of the FORCES that are behind the attempt to subvert Catholic moral teaching, subsequently termed the “Alternative Synod”.  We noticed that the report from this secret one day meeting was exclusively focused on changing Catholic moral teaching with respect to aberro-sexuality. The other nominal issues, i.e. communion for divorced/remarried and concubinage was glanced over at best, suggesting that they are just fig leafs to cover up the HIDDEN AGENDA. We explained just this situation in our post titled Francis “Showing a Leg”. (see here)

Which brings us up to date and today’s additional evidence for our primary hypothesis that it is the change in Catholic moral teaching with respect to aberro-sexuality that is the TRUE AGENDA behind the bi-Synod of Bishop. If you dear reader recall, in a recent post titled Same-sex Union ⊂ Gender Ideology : The Cardinals Get It! from the 15th of June 2015 (see here), we laid out our observations that at least one cardinal, i.e. Card. Robert Sarah understands not only that same-sex unions are a SUBSET of Gender Ideology, but that Gender Ideology is the most dangerous of all the ideologies that the Catholic Church is fighting presently. Here is the relevant quote:

“ideologies to fight against today”[…] one of the most dangerous ideologies is that of gender,[…] that says that human sexuality does not depend on the identity of man and woman, but a sexual orientation, such as homosexuality…

Given that this is the case, it is with “amazement” that one reads the following text in the Eponymous Flower post titled Fight Against Human Trafficking, Fight for Gender-Ideology — From One the Vatican Distances Itself, the Other Not (see here): [emphasis added]

[There is] No distancing  from a children’s book series which will appear in the name of Pope Francis  for gender ideology. The Foundation Scholas Occurrentes, a worldwide network of schools was established on the initiative of Pope Francis in August 2013 at the Vatican. The Argentine newspaper Clarín have been publishing since spring 2015 in cooperation with the Pope Foundation in Spanish, the children’s book series, “With Francis at my side.” The children’s stories, which are now widely circulated in Spain, advertise homosexuality, transexuality and “new family forms”  on behalf of the Pope. The children’s book series is promoted with the image of Pope Francis, it was photographed at the Vatican.

Furthermore, the following is written:

The driving force behind the establishment of the foundation Scholas Occurrentes was also the Argentine Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo. The establishment took place in a ballroom  run by Sorondo’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Both Scholas Occurrentes and the Vatican wash their hands in innocence. Nobody wants to have known something or anything to do with the contents of the children’s book series. A distancing has not taken place until today, although the book series coincides with Pope Francis’ image, stabbing Catholic initiatives in the back with the portrait, trying to clarify the aims of  gender ideology and roll back their influence.

The newspaper publisher  Clarín continues, meanwhile, negotiations with other newspaper publishers to translate the children’s books into other languages ​​and spread them to other countries.

Concluding, how can one interpret this situation?

Just to briefly summarize what we are witness to:

Francis establishes the Foundation Scholas Occurrentes in 2013. The main driving force behind the Foundation initiative is Archbishop Marcelo “I hate Tea Parties” Sanchez Sorondo. This Foundation establishes a network of schools. This foundation is behind the publication of a series of children’s book that promote Gender Ideology. The Gender Ideology is promoted with images of Francis. The Vatican “washes its hands in innocence”, i.e. claims it doesn’t know anything about this situation. Yet the Vatican does nothing to stop it. Proof is that in the mean time, the publisher is continuing negotiations to publish these same Gender Ideology promoting books with Francis’ image with entities for translating and distribution into other countries and languages.

What can one say other than:

Wise Guys, aye!

T -122: Laudato Sii – Francis Throws Jesus Under the Bus

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Here is how the before and after word clouds for Laudato Sii look.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Can you spot the word “Jesus” in the “theologically structured” version of the encyclical? PS I circled it.

As you dear reader will no doubt notice, your humble blogger took out the “Page” from the Laudato Sii, but kept the settings at the most frequent 150 words. So “God” comes up to third most used word, after “human” and “world”.

As we can see, Jesus plays a minor role in this encyclical. Actually, we can rightfully claim that Jesus is a “prop” in this one. Jesus first appears in paragraph 82 and appears a grand total of 23 times out of 40,574 words with headings, footnotes and songs included. This strikes me as a bit odd since Jesus is central to the “teaching magisterium” of Francis. Here is a good example from the 22nd of January of this year: (see here)

That Jesus is savior and intercessor is the central point, and we do well to remember this. “Thus, the crowd seeks Jesus with that instinctive sense of hope that is proper to the people of God, which was at that time awaiting the Messiah, and they look to find in Him health, truth, salvation, for He is the Savior and as Savior even now, at this moment, intercedes for us. That our Christian life might be ever more convinced that we are saved, that we have a Savior, Jesus at the right hand of the Father, interceding. May the Lord, the Holy Spirit, make us understand these things.”

Apparently Jesus as intercesor and provider of hope in not required with respect to global warming. Which taken at face value, is a positive takeaway from this “encyclical”.

T -122: Religious Order Whose Mission on Earth is Coming to an End.

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More good news from the Restoration Front.

For regular readers of this blog, you will know that when we aren’t exclusively focusing on the upcoming Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015, our mission is defined as “dedicated to chronicling the “Restoration of all thing in Christ”.

As to The Restoration itself, one can reduce The Restoration into two categories. One will no doubt observe that there is a postive aspect to the Restoration and a negative aspect to The Restoration. And in both these cases, the figures are positive.

An example of a positive case for The Restoration can be see in a recent post that appeared on the New Liturgical Movement website. (see here) In the post, information is provided about another regular Immemorial Mass of All Ages coming online at the Church of the Assumption in the diocese of Nashville Tennessee. A big Deo Gratias!

An example of a negative case for the Restoration can be seen at the Catholic Heirarchy website. Here the news is also very good with resepct to the recently published 2014 statistics for the Society of Jesus. It would appear that in 2014, the Society lost a net 191 priests and net 279 male religious. The even better news is that it lost 38 parishes. Here is a snap shot of the results: (see here)

Furthermore, the news is even better. Seeing as we are already midway through 2015, it could be likely that the Society has fallen below 12,000 priests and definitely fallen below 17,000 male religious.

To paraphrase Francis, bishop of Rome, we are dealing with a religious order whose mission on earth is coming to an end.

“You Go Girl”!

PS Here is also a good article about heretics neo-modernist manipulations at Vatican II. (see here) Now there are two ways which we can look at this situation. One is as per article. The alternative interpretation is that once the last of the < 12,107 Society priest and their neo-modernist associates pass on, there will be no one to make the claim that Vatican II had anything to do with the Catholic Faith. 🙂

T -123: The Mood in Rome

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Ed. note: Below is an Op-Ed from the always very informative Fr. Pio Pace, a very wise, knowledgeable, and highly influential cleric, writing under a pen name, that appeared on the Rorate Caeli website.  (see here). I am reproducing it without comment.

ROME: THE AGE OF EMPTINESS

Father Pio Pace

The entire world was able to see on their screens, when of the recent papal voyage to Sarajevo, that the pontifical cross, that had broken, was taped back with surgical tape: “A complete symbol!” said with irony the prelates of the pontifical entourage. Yes, a complete symbol. The Church of Peter, in the 21st century, awaits an encyclical…on the environment. It is bad for one or two persons to be alone in a car because that increases the greenhouse-effect gases, so saith the Magisterium of the Holy Catholic Church…

I name my piece after the essay, The Age of Emptiness (in Italian, L’era del vuoto, Luni, 1995), written by the way with a completely different purpose than mine by French thinker Gilles Lipovetsky. But it seems to me to express well the impression that everyone shares today, more or less, about the current pontiff, now that the stunning “state of grace” from which he benefited for a time has decreased and that the crowds at the Wednesday general audiences go back to normal levels.

An article by Julius Müller-Meininger, in Die Zeit (Helmut Schmidt’s paper, which is somewhat like our Repubblica, but by the Rhine) on April 30, 2015, Jetzt hat es auch ihn erwischt, expresses well what the journalists who were most favorable to Francis now feel: “What does he want, after all?” Müller-Meininger, who cruelly remarks, by the way, that the inconsistency of the pontifical sayings are each time more openly mocked (“To be sick, is to have an experience of our fragility”), explains why the media are unsettled regarding the pope. He quotes Italian transsexual activist Vladimir Luxuria: “I do not understand him. He follows at the present time the policy of the carrot and the stick. In the beginning, the words are of opening, and in the present, an attack against gender ideology. Francis is in an impasse. I am disappointed.”

The impasse is that of a moral opening in a liberal sense that one must, in the end, either satisfy or deny. The matter that particularly concerns Müller-Meiningen is that of the proposal made by the French government of naming Laurent Stéfanini ambassador before the Holy See. A man who is very competent in religious affairs, a practicing Catholic, but a homosexual. As other ambassadors before the Holy See and, alas, as members of the diplomatic corps of the Holy See itself… Except that Stéfanini does not live scandalously as a couple. He is simply known for having bad tendencies to which he may perhaps — only his confessor could say it, and would never say it — fall at times.

Now, against his aides at the Secretariat of State, who remarked to him that there are Muslim, or Communist ambassadors before the Holy See, or those who are frequent goers to establishments of debauchery, etc., and that they were nevertheless accepted as ambassadors, Francis decided, him alone and all by himself, that Stéfanini would not receive the agrément by the Apostolic See. It is undoubtedly his personal animosity against François Hollande, that equals that he feels against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the president of Argentina, that explains this fit of authoritarianism, classic for him: he is convinced that François Hollande named Stéfanini out of anticlerical spite. Which is not impossible – but at the same moment in which he has this attack of “rigorism”, the same Francis went back on the ban of funds being given by the Holy See to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a ban decided by John Paul II due to the strong campaigns in favor of contraception organized or funded by UNICEF.

It is true that Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the mind begind this rapprochement with UNICEF is one of the Friends of the Pope — which, in today’s Rome, which has become more of a Court than ever, allows all things and covers all sins. Also a Friend of the Pope, the Secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Franciscan José Rodríguez Carballo, who was Superior of the Franciscans from 2003 to 2013, time during which stunning financial affairs brought the Order to the brink of bankruptcy. Also a Friend of the Pope, Monsignor Battista Ricca, in charge of all great priestly houses in Rome (via della Scrofa, via della Traspontina, Casa Santa Marta…), named prelate of the Vatican Bank, and who had left a scandalous reputation as diplomat in Uruguay. Also a Friend of the Pope, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Council for the Family, who has been placed under police investigation for criminal conspiracy, obstruction, fraud against the municipality of Narni, abuse of funds and embezzlement during the time when he was bishop of Terni. “Who am I to judge?”

The most annoying point in all of this is that we cannot see a clear line of government. One has the impression only of rehearsals — to avoid saying stubbornness — of a man who, despite his age, exercises his authority with passion, delivering decisions in all directions. How to explain, for instance, the apparent positive tone to the Society of Saint Pius X, and, on the other hand, the no to the Franciscans of the Immaculate? The activity is loud yet muddled, and the great announcements end up lost in the sand: no one still believes in an actual reform of the Curia, considering the totally inefficient way in which the group of nine cardinals in charge of it works. Even with more reason when we hear its chairman, the indescribable cardinal Maradiaga, announce for instance that all the courts of the Apostolic See could be united in a single body…

Under these conditions, the October Synod could well seem like an Epiphany…of emptiness. It is very likely that Francis has already found out that the theses of which Cardinal Kasper had been one of the greatest champions, could not lead to a modification of the doctrine of the Church without provoking significant divisions. Some think that he believed, in his somewhat impressionistic theological way, that formulas could be found to open the door to a permission, in a certain number of cases, granted to divorced and remarried persons, to accede to the Sacraments of the Church, by playing mercy against “rigorism”, “pastoral” against dogma.

But it is much more probable that the Pope measured precisely, since the beginning, what he should expect essentially from this immense undertaking: noise, a lot of noise, a huge amount of noise. Much noise for nothing. Because, if the Synod purely and simply confirms the traditional doctrine of the Church, the image of a pontificate that should lead to great changes will collapse. If, on the contrary, the Synod pleases the Kasperites, it will provoke a non possumus by a considerable number of cardinals and bishops. Well, then, the bishop will say nothing, with all the adequate balances to do so. Therefore, we will have had two assemblies of the Synod of Bishops, a considerable mass of ecclesiastical literature, of declarations, of press statements in all senses, a simmering not known since the last Council — all for nothing. For nothing? Except that the teaching of the Church in the name of the Gospel is left practically silent. Except that the sheep are left without direction: on the ground, the priests who wish to do so, give the Sacraments calmly to adulterous and homosexual couples, and even bless them in church.

We can then speak of a pontificate of revelation, of completion. 2015 is the year of the jubilee of the Council, that ended in 1965. Have you noticed that we do not mention the Council in Rome anymore? This is undoubtedly because, 50 years later, the Second Vatican Council is now fully realized, incarnated.

T -125: Losing One’s Way

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Seeing as we are quickly approaching the 100 day mark to the commencement of what we have termed the Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015, today we are 112 days away, and the release of the Global Warming Encyclical Laudato Sii, that will be released tomorrow, this blogger will continue the latter thread that we started yesterday. To be perfectly honest, this encyclical is actually a large part of the TEAMFRANCIS strategy Lord’s pastoral call to the run up to the Synod of Bishops, a topic that we will explore in greater detail in future posts.

Back to Laudato Sii. As anyone who has been following the scandal that is being caused by this “novel” Global Warming Encyclical, the proverbial fur has been flying. The “upset” parties for the most part, are members of the FrancisChurch, who feel that Francis, the orthodox schismatic and the atheist that will be presenting this encyclical to the world, have lost the BIG MO going into tomorrow’s release and conference.

Needless to say, the target of the FrancisHate™ is the Italian journalist Sandro Magister. To be more precise, the issue is whether Magister’s release of the encyclical, the one that he obtained from “his sources” in any way broke the embargo on the release of this official document. And I, your humble blogger got dragged into this heated argument on Fr. James Martin’s SJ Facebook page.

Just to set up this exchange, I was reading through FB, minding my own business when I ran across this entry:

And as you dear reader can see, your humble blogger made an attempt at a fraternal correction, not to mention getting another Spiritual Works of Mercy under my belt (to instruct the ignorant), to which a quite emotional response from Fr. Martin S.J. was forthcoming. On an aside, Fr. Martin is a Jesuit priest, a writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. (see here) But I digress…

So naturally, I attempted to present the facts:

And naturally, the response was we can clearly read above. Please note, at this point, we are dealing with a small “c”atholic priest who is… how shall I say this… “bearing false witness” against Sandro Magister. Not only that, he is also leading his readers (souls) astray due to his obstinacy, best case scenario. But back to the story…

At this point, some of Fr. Martin’s readers joined the conversation:

As we can read above, the subject matter starts veering off the road into a discussion typical for FrancisChurch, i.e. ethics, ethical dilemma’s, “antagonistic reporters, not to mention conspiracy theory, etc. Yet up to now, the argument is a “he said, she said” argument (logical fallacy – appeal to authority).

What is more than a bit disconcerting however, it still has not registered to these people…”catholics” that they might be running afoul of the 8th Commandment, Fr. Martin included. Here was my reply:

To which, the following appeared:

So this debate ended when the FrancisChurch designated “wizened US Vaticanista with no axe to grind” Mr. Allen confirmed that Sandro Magister did not break any “ethical” rules and that the document that he released was not under any embargo.

Concluding, the reason why I reproduced this thread is to demonstrate the dire situation of the mindset of the average US catholic layman and cleric 50 years after the “advent of the new springtime of Vatican II”. As we can see from the exchanges above, neither the laypeople or the cleric even considered that they could be wrong. They were acting instinctively. It is nothing different from them assuming that their political party was under attack, so they came into this discussion reflexively, with talking points in hand and guns blazing. They never even gave it a second thought that they could be wrong.

Furthermore, no matter how irrational the above behavior was at the time of the posting, not one of these individuals stopped to consider the severity of taking such a position with respect to their spiritual wellbeing afterwards. Not one of these folks stopped to considered that they were breaking the 8th Commandment. Wonder if they ever contemplated it? The reason that one needs to ask this question is that not one of these people came back and apologized since they most likely cast false aspersions on one of their fellow-man.

Looking at this less than seemly episode, is it any wonder that the institution that is the post conciliar church is disintegrating before our very eyes. One has to wonder what benefits or value does the post conciliar Catholic Church bring to XXI century society? If the Catholic Church is the faithful and if the catholic faithful are not taught nor understand the basic tenants of their faith, tenants that force these faithful to think rationally, objectively and critically, how in the world can they be in a position to propose positive, effective and meaningful “change” to the world that exists around them?

The short answer is that they can’t.

The longer answer is that these FrancisChurch people, whether it’s Francis, Archbishop Fernandez, Fr. Martin or his commenters, are not really in any position to bring anything worthwhile or meaningful to the wider global discussion, whether it’s spiritual or secular.

An excellent case in point of the above is the fate of the Aparecida Document, the brainchild of Cardinal Bergoglio (see here), that this document has suffered under the Francis papacy. To be more precise, not only do Francis’ coreligionists not put too great weight behind this document, they don’t even know what the thing means. Here is the relevant text from the Eponymous Flower blog: (see here)

The Fifth General Conference of Latin American Bishops’ Council in 2007 in Aparecida, whose final document was then still largely dominated by Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires,  was in the forefront  of Latin American church leaders. Pope Francis register [stated] “exactly” that there are cardinals and bishops who never mention Aparecida. In turn, [it] can be heard by high church officials that they did not understand the “reforms of Francis”. And ever is the “model Buenos Aires” simply not applicable to the whole Church. It would involve “an experience, but not “the” experience of the Church.

So the question than becomes, what is the point of creating another document, even with the “theological structuring” of this document safely in cardinal Muller’s hands, (see here) that is in fact a “son of Aperacida” ?

 

You dear reader will have to stay tuned to find out.

But I will give you a hint: It is not what you think it is!

I will write more on just this topic over the next couple of days.

T -126: The Laudato Sii Word Clouds w/Update The Encyclical Trailer

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Just finished speed reading the Laudato Sii encyclical.

The best way to depict this document is through a word cloud as per above. The above word cloud has the 150 most used words ex common words. A few observations are as follows:

1) The Bergoglian “Jesus” (Circled) does not figure prominently in this one I am afraid. I suspect this was done not to offend the heretics, heathens, … and the Muslims, a.k.a. the UN crowd. Atheists, masons and other free thinkers were completely sacrificed. But it was done for a good cause so I am sure they understand.

2) “King” appears more often than “Jesus”. I am assuming that Francis wants to get across that the  message is being “relayed” from up above, and the Big Guy up above is a serious Dude. So the notion of a “King” comes in handy.

3) “God” obviously is used quite often. Once again, it is to emphasis to those simpleton “catholics” that this matter is urgent. So important in fact, that the said Atheists, masons and other free thinkers were completely sacrificed.

4) “Human” is the big winner in terms of the word most often used. No surprise there. Has been that way since… oh….. 1965 or so. So it’s par for the course.

5) “Page” is the word that appears the most after “Human”. The reason that “Page” is used so often is due to this document being so long. 191 as I count it on the google translate. (Mea Culpa for using google goes out to Mundabor) NB: I just left the page numbers in the word selection so that you dear reader would get a feel for the length of this puppy.

6) “World” appears the most after “Human” and “Page”. It is the order of magnitude of these individual words, that give a good ideal as to the priorities of this document. And it has absolutely nothing to do with salvation of souls.

7) In terms of the word count “losers”, after “Jesus” is the word “Mercy”. I count one appearance. Oh well, so much for the Pontificate of Mercy.

8) “Justice” or “Injustice” is used 69 times. Yes!!!!! But the word “mercy” is not even on the same page as any of the “justices”.

9) Very self referential is also a good way to describe this document. Evangelii Gaudium keeps on being linked to repeatedly.

I will leave off here.

But before I sign off, this is how the 20,000 word cloud looks:

UPDATE 03:56 Tuesday 16 June 2015

I bring you, the epic Hollywood trailer for The Encyclical.

The Francis Papacy: Where reality and parody meet!

T -127: Same-sex Union ⊂ Gender Ideology : The Cardinals Get It!

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Today we pick up and continue the thread from our post titled Filling in the Blanks for Francis. (see here) This subject matter is of critical importance since it defines the essence of the HIDDEN AGENDA that played itself out at the Secret Synod of Bishops last year and will be the key issue at the upcoming Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015. And as we have demonstrated, as early as the 18th of December of 2014 to be precise, in our post titled Synod of the Three Paragraphs, (see here) this HIDDEN AGENDA is nothing other than to change Catholic doctrine with respect to aberro-sexuality.

In our analysis to date, this blog has provided numerous examples demonstrating that the determined effort to change Catholic doctrine on aberro-sexuality has very little if anything to do with addressing the issue of lapsed Catholics, in order to bring them back into the pews and back to the path of salvation. Hence the HIDDEN AGENDA. We could have used numerous anecdotal evidence from the experience of other protestant sects that changed their moral teaching with respect to same-sex unions, i.e. aberro-sexuality, only to realize that the change did not have the desired effect. Yet it is this desired effect that the German Bishops’ Conference hierarchy claim will be achieved if the Catholic Church follows those sects in instituting these disastrous changes.

The evidence that this blog has repeatedly used to demonstrate the disastrous effects of changing doctrine with respect to same-sex unions, i.e. aberro-sexuality, is the translation of the Markus Günther article that was published on December 29, 2014 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest and most reputable newspapers in Germany, and translated on The Radical Catholic blog, titled Church in Crisis: Diaspora Germany. (see here)  In this article, Herr Günther writes the following:

But why are the seekers no longer finding guidance? Why are the supply and demand no longer jibing? The most popular answer to this question is: because the Church is no longer relevant to the times. She must conform more closely to the realities of the lives of modern people. Initially, that sounds plausible, but under closer scrutiny reveals itself to be idiocy. For the Evangelical church in Germany has done nearly everything which is being demanded from the Catholic Church in order to become more relevant to the times: women priests, the elimination of celibacy, liberality in moral theology, the complete acceptance of homosexuals and the divorced. If these were the real reasons for the malaise of Christendom, the Protestants should be far better off than the Catholics. But that simply isn’t the case. A second error in thinking is introduced by the popular buzzword “relevant to the times” [German: zeitgemäß, which can mean “modern,” “suitable,” or even “appropriate,” and often carries all of these shades when applied to the Church]: Wherever the Church does not base herself upon timeless, incontrovertible truth, she reveals herself to be purely man-made. Political programs should be “relevant to the times,” entertainment programming, too; but a religion must take command of absolute truths – or it is no religion at all.

This blog uses this text quite frequently since it not only caused “something of a stir in the German Catholic community”, but the “stir” that it caused could not have went unnoticed by that part of the German Catholic Church hierarchy who are trying to institute these changes against evidence, anecdotal as it were for the time being, that clearly suggests that their stated efforts will be futile.

Therefore, if the German Episcopate hierarchy is claiming that the aim of their AGENDA is to bring the lapsed German Catholics back to the pews through changing Catholic Church teaching with respect to aberro-sexuality, then the above evidence suggests that their approach is at best misguided. Or to paraphrase Cardinal Kasper, this attempt to change Catholic doctrine should be reflected upon widely and the German Episcopate needs further study on the matter. Yet we hear nothing of the sort. This suggests that the REAL AGENDA of that part of the German hierarchy that comprises what we termed TEAMFRANCIS at the last Secret Synod is driven by something other than the intent to draw back those lapsed Catholics. Once again, hence the HIDDEN AGENDA.

Given the above, we have also noticed another problem with TEAMFRANCIS’ fallacious assumption that a change in the Catholic doctrine with respect to aberro-sexuality will draw back those lapsed Catholics, and that is this. The problem is simply due to the fact that the numbers of “catholics” that this change would affect is numerically insignificant. To demonstrate this point, this blog has linked to a post written by Louie Verrecchio at the Harvesting the Fruit blog, (see here) where the following back of the envelope calculation is provided:

Let’s take a moment to consider just how urgent that need is, or is not, by applying some common sense to what we know to be true; beginning with the fact that less than 2% of the population is “homosexual.”

Now, even though it’s no secret that homosexuals as a whole are notoriously promiscuous (i.e., they’re not exactly the “marrying” type), let’s just say for the sake of argument that every last one of them is in an allegedly “stable” (don’t laugh) so-called “same-sex union.”
This would mean that of the general population, less than 1% is comprised of a “unit” that one might consider a “same sex couple” (assuming that they connect in twos in spite of this being dangerously close to adhering to a “norm”).

The LBGT activist group known as GLADD claims that roughly one-quarter of same sex couples are raising children.

While there is every reason to suspect that this too is a deliberately inflated figure, playing along for the sake of argument would mean that less than .25% of the general population is comprised of that unit known as “people living in a same sex union raising children.”
Of this group, how many self-identify as Catholic?

In the United States, the figure among the general population is slightly less than 25%. Surely, it is lower among active homosexuals, but let’s just apply that 1-in-4 figure to these couples as well, setting aside the fact that both “partners” aren’t necessarily of the same religion, just for the fun of it.

This would mean that only .0625% (that’s roughly 6 out of 10,000!) of the general population is comprised of that unit known as a “same sex couple that identifies as Catholic raising children.”

Now, of this statistically insignificant group of people, how many are banging on the rectory door “requesting baptism” for their kids?

The obvious answer? Practically none!

Given these two pieces of evidence provide above, the common sense explanation as to the motivation behind the TEAMFRANCIS effort to change Catholic doctrine with respect to aberro-sexuality lies outside the simple explanation of drawing wayward “catholics” back into the pews.

Therefore, it is hard under normal circumstances to explain this obvious anomaly described above, i.e that not only is the number of lapsed “catholics” that will be affected by the change in Catholic doctrine with respect to aberro-sexuality insignificant, but the past experience of protestant sects that introduced these novelties, the introduction of these novelties did not translate into higher “return rates”. In fact, the introduction of these novelties only quicken the disintegration of their existing congregations. But this is for a different post and excuse the digression… Therefore, we have taken out our Peirce/Ockham pragmatic methodology and Occam’s razor, (see here) and our analysis has determined that the logical and most likely explanation of this observed phenomenon is that TEAMFRANCIS is trying to introduce Gender Ideology into Catholic moral doctrine.

The background to this contention we laid out in our post titled Meet Big Gender. (see here) In this post, we laid out our case for this hypothesis and made the following concluding statement:

And it would appear, that the Synod of Bishops of 2015 will be just the next battleground where the forces of BIG GENDER led by Francis, the Synod Manipulators and the German hierarchy will square off against the forces of Catholicism led by the Poles.

Given this third piece of evidence (data point) it would appear as if the goal of  TEAMFRANCIS is to change Catholic doctrine with respect to aberro-sexuality so as to, de facto introducing Gender ideology into the Catholic moral teaching and by extension into the Church’s Magisterium.

So given our assertion with respect to the situation described above, is there any evidence that Francis or the Catholic hierarchy understand that by introducing the acceptance of same-sex unions into Catholic moral teaching, this will be tantamount to introducing Gender ideology into the Catholic Magisterium through the back door?

To answer this question, it would appear as if someone, and at a very high level of not only the Catholic hierarchy but the Curia itself, Cardinal Burke aside, has figured this out. Here is a passage from an interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah that we quoted in our post titled Filling in the Blanks for Francis:

In answer to which ideologies to fight against today, the Cardinal unmasked the deceit and lack of true love behind them. “Today one of the most dangerous ideologies is that of gender, according to which there are no ontological differences between man and woman, and the male and female identity would not be written in nature. … To say that human sexuality does not depend on the identity of man and woman, but a sexual orientation, such as homosexuality, is a dreamlike totalitarianism, and is a real ideology which negates the reality of things. … I don’t see a future in such deceit.”

So just to restate what Card. Sarah said, he said that one of the “ideologies to fight against today”[…] one of the most dangerous ideologies is that of gender,[…] that says that human sexuality does not depend on the identity of man and woman, but a sexual orientation, such as homosexuality…

Could not have said it better myself!

Summa summarum, what we have from the information above is the following: a group of Catholic hierarchs are determined to change Catholic doctrine by introducing aberro-sexuality as an acceptable behaviour and compatible with Catholic moral/magisterial teaching. The evidence suggests that the number of lapsed “catholics” that this change would affect is insignificant. Furthermore, the evidence also suggests that the protestant sects that introduced similar novelties into their moral teaching, not only did not experience the desired effect but actually experienced a more rapid deterioration in the numbers of their existing congregations. Therefore, these stated reasons given by TEAMFRANCIS for the promotion of their AGENDA cannot possibly be the true reasons. And finally, these novelties that these Catholic hierarchs, collectively termed as TEAMFRANCIS are attempting to introduce, whether consciously or not, is none other than Gender ideology.

Other Catholic hierarchs in turn, are aware of this situation. To be more precise, other leading and influential Catholic hierarchs are aware that same-sex unions is a part of the larger Gender ideology.

And finally, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome has repeatedly warned, whether consciously or not about the dangers of Gender ideology, going as far as comparing it to “nuclear arms”. (see here)

So it would appear that it is simply a question of connecting the dots.

To make it even simpler and using mathematical terminology, “same-sex unions” are nothing more than a subset of “Gender ideology”.

The mathematical notation is as follows:

Same-sex Union ⊂ Gender Ideology

Now can someone please explain this to Francis!

T -129: “Theology” as the Work of Human Hands

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The below post appeared on the Rorate Caeli blog. (see here) The subject matter is of critical significance since this latest iteration of the “NOUVELLE THEOLOGIE” for the lack of a better term, of the Rev. Schockenhoff  serves as the “philosophical” underpinning for what this blog terms the Bergoglian/Kasperian “theology done on the knees”.

What is most important to understand when reading the below is that the degeneration of what can be termed “post neo-modernist theology” has gotten to the point where its adherents aren’t even hiding the fact that this “theology” directly contradicts man’s knowledge of his Creator as known through “divine revelation”. (see here) The key takeaway is the following observation made by the author of this text: [with ed. notes]

He [Schockenhoff] makes no attempt to square this bizarre fantasy [his “theology”] with the words of our Lord in Mark 16:16: “He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”

In concluding, what we are a witness to on the one hand, is incontrovertible evidence that this “neo-modernist theology” has detached itself from even a superficial attempt to justify itself with respect to that part of the Catholic Faith that comes to us “as known through “divine revelation”.

On the other hand, we are also witnessing incontrovertible evidence of the incompatibility of this “neo-modernist theology” with our knowledge of God as known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”, ie. natural law, evidence that we can observe in the attempt to change Catholic doctrine with respect to the issue of aberro-sexulaity by TeamFrancis at the Synod of Bishops.

In other words, this latest iteration of this “post neo-modernist theology” designated on this blog as the Bergoglian/Kasperian “theology done on the knees” is completely contrived. It bears no content that is grounded in the Catholic understanding of either of the two sources of Catholic Faith, i.e. as known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made” and as known through “divine revelation”. Furthermore, this latest version of “post neo-modernist theology” has degenerated to the point where its “inventors” can’t even hide this fact any longer.

On a higher level, what we now can observe is that during the short span of 50 years, the Catholic Church has gone from introducing a liturgy which was the “work of human hands” (see here), to attempting now to introduce a “theology” that is likewise the “work of human hands”. One can only understand this process of “normativization” as a logical progression.

Which raises one very important question for the Faithful, and that is this:

How much salvific value is contained in this Bergoglian/Kasperian theology done on the knees”… if any?

And now to the Rorate Caeli post and …

FOR THE RECORD

The Neo-Modernist Theology of Eberhard Schockenhoff

According to Edward Pentin, “the ‘mastermind’ behind much of the challenge to settled Church teachings among the German episcopate,” and “the leading adviser of the German bishops in the run-up to the synod” is Fr. Eberhard Schockenhoff, professor of moral theology at the University of Freiburg, about whom we have had occasion to report in the past. It is a sign of the state of theology in the German speaking world that Fr. Schockenhoff is considered a theological “moderate.” He is careful to quote the Fathers and Doctors of the Church to support his positions, and always makes a show of respect for magisterial teaching. This is probably the reason why the German bishops have chosen him, and not one of his more extreme colleagues to help them make the case for changing the unchangeable teachings of the Church on sexual morality.

Fr. Schockenhoff’s moderation is, of course, only a matter of style; an examination of his work shows him to be a dedicated neo-modernist. He lays out the fundamental principles of his theology in a remarkably clear and short book, Erlöste Freiheit [Redeemed Freedom], to which we refer in the page and section numbers bellow.

The fundamental principle of Schockenhoff’s theology is a certain understanding of revelation. According to Schockenhoff’s tendentious reading of Dei Verbum (which follows that of Max Seckler), Vatican II abandoned the traditional understanding of revelation as divine instruction and adopted a new understanding of revelation as “dialogical-communication” between God and man. This dialogical communication is a personal encounter with God, in which God communicates not truths that could be expressed in propositions, but rather simply His love. This entails a clear rejection of the definition of faith in Pope St. Pius X’s Oath Against Modernism: “a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source.” For Schockenhoff, faith is not assent to propositional truths proposed from without, but rather a personal encounter with God’s love

From this basic principle Schockenhoff draws some rather astonishing consequences. He argues that God’s dialogue of love with creatures implies a limitation of God’s omnipotence. God in creating free creatures to share His love allows Himself to be determined by human freedom (p. 54). This frankly blasphemous conclusion is part of a complete reworking of the relation between three terms that Schockenhoff takes to be the “fundamental values of Christianity”: freedom, truth, and love. He argues that abandoning the traditional understanding of revelation as divine instruction means that one can abandon the traditional idea that freedom and love both depend on truth (p.42). Instead, freedom and truth have to accompany each other:

The interior relation to the freedom of the subject follows necessarily from the epistemic presuppositions of revelation theory. Religious truth exists only concretely as the freely grasped subjective conviction of individual persons, and not as an abstract quantity, toward which the human person could have moral duties such as assent, acknowledgement, and obedience. (p. 44).

Thus religious truth takes on a particular personal form for each believer (p. 45).

The moral life on this account does not consists in ordering everything to God as final end, and thus in conforming to God’s will. Rather the moral life is a free dialogue of love with God, in which human persons freely cooperate in building up His creation (p.97). It is obvious that this approach can do away with the whole structure of traditional Christian morality. Moreover, Schockenhoff is quite clear that it excludes the traditional understanding of a great many doctrines of faith as well. Thus Schockenhoff explicitly states that his theology is not compatible with the teaching that Our Lord died in satisfaction for our sins (p. 58).

The case of Schockenhoff shows that present crisis is only superficially about sexual morality. The real issue is the nature of revelation and of faith. The fundamental problem with theologians such as Schockenhoff is a neo-modernist understanding of revelation. We are thus in full agreement with the insightful analysis recently offered at the traditionalist blog Laodicea:

Most of the particular controversies that have devastated the vineyard over the last hundred years are corollaries of the basic dispute, proxy wars for the real conflict. The basic question is this: is faith “a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious under the impulse of the heart and the motion of a will trained to morality” or is faith “a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source”?

As a kind of test to see how someone understands faith Laodicea offers the question as to whether explicit faith is necessary for salvation:

“can someone be justified after the age of reason without explicit faith in the Trinity and the Incarnation?” If you answer ‘yes’ to that question you are ultimately forced into accepting Modernism, if ‘no’ into rejecting it.

If one applies this test to Schockenhoff the result is entirely clear. In his discussion of eschatology, Schockenhoff argues that universal salvation is possible, but that God will make it depend on whether the victims of injustice freely choose to forgive those who harmed them. Only if the victims forgive will all men be saved (section 14.3). He makes no attempt to square this bizarre fantasy with the words of our Lord in Mark 16:16: “He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”

T -130: For Future Reference – The Encyclical w/Update

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With the date of the release of the papal encyclical regarding the climate change hoax just around the corner, the below is a description of the “encyclical”. (see here) The key in this below passage is the following:

As for the binding force of these documents it is generally admitted that the mere fact that the pope should have given to any of his utterances the form of an encyclical does not necessarily constitute it an ex-cathedra pronouncement and invest it with infallible authority. The degree in which the infallible magisterium of the Holy See is committed must be judged from the circumstances, and from the language used in the particular case.

Therefore, junk “science”, just like junk “theology” will not be able to withstand either the test of time, or the will of the Holy Ghost.

And not to mention the Catholic bloggers 🙂

FOR THE RECORD

According to its etymology, an encyclical (from the Greek egkyklios, kyklos meaning a circle) is nothing more than a circular letter. In modern times, usage has confined the term almost exclusively to certain papal documents which differ in their technical form from the ordinary style of either Bulls or Briefs, and which in their superscription are explicitly addressed to the patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and bishops of the Universal Church in communion with the Apostolic See. By exception, encyclicals are also sometimes addressed to the archbishops and bishops of a particular country. Thus this name is given to the letter of Pius X (6 Jan., 1907) to the bishops of France, in spite of the fact that it was published, not in Latin, but in French; while, on the other hand, the letter “Longinqua Oceani” (5 Jan., 1895) addressed by Leo XIII to the archbishops and bishops of the United States, is not styled an encyclical, although in all other respects it exactly observes the forms of one. From this and a number of similar facts we may probably infer that the precise designation used is not intended to be of any great significance. From the nature of the case encyclicals addressed to the bishops of the world are generally concerned with matters which affect the welfare of the Church at large. They condemn some prevalent form of error, point out dangers which threaten faith or morals, exhort the faithful to constancy, or prescribe remedies for evils foreseen or already existent. In form an encyclical at the present day begins thus — we may take the encyclical “Pascendi” on Modernism as a specimen: —

“Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Pii Divinâ Providentiâ Papæ X Litteræ Encyclicæ ad Patriarchas, Primates, Archiepiscopos, Episcopos aliosque locorum Ordinarios pacem et communionem cum Apostolicâ Sede habentes de Modernistarum Doctrinis. Ad Patriarchas, Primates, Archiepiscopos, Episcopos aliosque locorum Ordinarios, pacem et communionem cum Apostolicâ Sede habentes, Pius PP. X., Venerabiles Fratres, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Pascendi dominici gregis mandatum”, etc.

The conclusion takes the following form: — “Nos vero, pignus caritatis Nostræ divinique in adversis solatii, Apostolicam Benedictionem vobis, cleris, populisque vestris amantissime impertimus. Datum Romæ, apud Sanctum Petrum, die VIII Septembris MCMVII, Pontificatus Nostri anno quinto. Pius PP. X.”

Although it is only during the last three pontificates that the most important utterances of the Holy See have been given to the world in the shape of encyclicals, this form of Apostolic Letter has long been in occasional use. Almost the first document published by Benedict XIV after his election was an “Epistola encyclica et commonitoria” on the duties of the episcopal office (3 Dec., 1740). Under Pius IX many momentous utterances were presented in this shape. The famous pronouncement “Quanta cura” (8 Dec., 1864), which was accompanied by a Syllabus of eighty anathematized errors, was an encyclical. Another important encyclical of Pius IX, described as an “Encyclical of the Holy Office”, was that beginning “Supremæ” (4 Aug., 1856) in condemnation of Spiritualism. Leo XIII published a series of encyclicals on social and other questions which attracted universal attention. We may mention especially “Inscrutabilis” (21 April, 1878) on the evils of modern society; “Æterni Patris” (4 Aug., 1879) on St. Thomas Aquinas and Scholastic philosophy; “Arcanum divinæ sapientiæ” (10 Feb., 1880) on Christian marriage and family life; “Diuturnum illud” (29 June, 1881) on the origin of civil authority; “Immortale Dei” (1 Nov., 1885) on the Christian constitution of states; “Libertas præstantissimum” (20 June, 1888) on true liberty; “Rerum novarum” (16 May, 1891) on the labour question; “Providentissimus Deus” (18 Nov., 1893) on Holy Scripture; “Satis cognitum” (29 June, 1896) on religious unity. Pius X has shown the same favour for this form of document, e.g. in his earnest commendation of catechetical instruction “Acerbo nimis” (15 April, 1906) his address on the centenary of St. Gregory the Great (12 March, 1904), his first letter to the clergy and faithful of France, “Vehementer nos” (11 Feb., 1906), his instructions on intervention in politics to the people of Italy, and in the pronouncement on Modernism already mentioned.

Two officials presiding over separate bureaux still count it among their duties to aid the Holy Father in the drafting of his encyclical letters. These are the “Segretario dei brevi ai Principi” assisted by two minutanti, and the “Segretario delle lettere Latine” also with a minutante. But it was undoubtedly the habit of Leo XIII to write his own encyclicals, and it is plainly within the competence of the sovereign pontiff to dispense with the services of any subordinates.

As for the binding force of these documents it is generally admitted that the mere fact that the pope should have given to any of his utterances the form of an encyclical does not necessarily constitute it an ex-cathedra pronouncement and invest it with infallible authority. The degree in which the infallible magisterium of the Holy See is committed must be judged from the circumstances, and from the language used in the particular case. In the early centuries the term encyclical was applied, not only to papal letters, but to certain letters emanating from bishops or archbishops and directed to their own flocks or to other bishops. Such letters addressed by a bishop to all his subjects in general are now commonly called pastorals. Amongst Anglicans, however, the name encyclical has recently been revived and applied, in imitation of papal usage, to circular letters issued by the English primates. Thus the reply of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the papal condemnation of Anglican Orders (this condemnation, “Apostolicæ Curæ”, took the form of a Bull) was styled by its authors the Encyclical “Sæpius officio”.

Sources

Little has been written professedly on the subject of encyclicals, which in treatises on canon law are generally grouped with other Apostolic Letters. The work of BENCINI, De Literis Encyclicis Dissertatio (Turin, 1728), deals almost exclusively with the early church documents which were so styled; see, however, HILGENREINER in Kirchliches Handlexikon (Munich, 1907), I, 1310; and GOYAU, Le Vatican (Paris, 1898), p. 336; WYNNE, The Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII (New York. 1903); EYRE, The Pope and the People (London, 1897); and D’ ARROS, Léon XIII d’après ses Encycliques (Paris, 1902). On the authority of encyclicals and similar papal documents, see especially the very useful book of CHOUPIN, Valeur des Décisions Doctrinales et Disciplinaires du Saint-Siège (Paris, 1907); cf. BAINVEL, De Magisterio vivo et Traditione (Paris, 1905).