πBeatification Process for Bishop who Allowed Indigenious Youths to Touch his Private Parts 
2 Corinthians 11:14-15Darby Translation14 And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Matthew 18:7Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition7 Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.
Synod of Laodicea (363-364 AD)
Can the power of baptism be greater or of more avail than confession, than suffering, when one confesses Christ before men and is baptized in his own blood? And yet even this baptism does not benefit a heretic, although he has confessed Christ, and been put to death outside the Church, unless the patrons and advocates of heretics declare that the heretics who are slain in a false confession of Christ are martyrs, and assign to them the glory and the crown of martyrdom contrary to the testimony of the apostle, who says that it will profit them nothing although they were burnt and slain. (1Cor 13:3) (Saint Cyprian of Carthage, Epistle LXXII to Jubaianus, no. 21)
Adulterers, bandits, assailants, murderers, and all criminals suffer many torments; I, your martyr, also suffer countless torments, but “distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy” (Ps 42: 1). They may suffer what I suffer, but they do not have the same cause. In the furnace, I am purified, they are reduced to ashes. The heretics also suffer such things, many times through their own doing, wishing to be taken as martyrs. But against them have we sung: Defend my cause against all ungodly people. It is not the suffering which makes the martyr, but the cause. (Saint Augustine. Sermon 327, n.1)
But since there are many that suffer this, be it due to their own sins, or due to their crimes, one must be attentive in distinguishing not so much the hardship suffered, but the cause. A criminal could receive a chastisement similar to that of a martyr, but the cause is different. Three were crucified: one was the Savior, the second was saved, and the third, condemned. The suffering was the same for all three, but the cause was far different. […] Suffering is the same for the good and the evil. That is why what makes martyrs is not the suffering, but the cause. If it were merely suffering that made martyrs, all mines would be full of martyrs, all chains would bind martyrs, all of those wounded by the sword would be crowned. Therefore, let us carefully discern the cause. May no one say: I am just, for I suffer. (Saint Augustine. Ennaratio in Psalmum 34/2, n.1, 13)
Archbishop Fulton Sheen explained that Satan wanted Christ to become a Marxist—a so-called "liberation theologian"—and turn stones into bread, so that he wouldn't become a Redeemer and people wouldn't abandon sin. Instead, like Judas, he wanted a false Christ who would (apparently) solve people's social and material problems. In this case, these Marxist apostates, waging war against God and the Church, succeed in getting people to continue violating the First Commandment and rejecting the true God through idolatry/paganism. And through their practices of sexual immorality, such as sodomy, polygamy, pedophilia, incest, etc., they succeed in getting people to continue rebelling against God's laws and Catholic morality, thus working for the Antichrist, closing the doors of salvation to them and opening the door to eternal damnation. These Marxist apostates preach a false Marxist Christ who does not save those who reject the authentic Gospel of Jesus Christ and are neither baptized nor converted. Therefore, these Marxists have closed the doors of salvation to them, leading them to reject the true Jesus Christ. Saint Paul condemns these Marxists as cursed, for they deceive the masses and preach a false gospel to them.

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