Bergoglio ignored the Petition to rescind pontificial honor to abortion & LGBT activist

Francis Honors Dutch Abortion Activist with Pontifical Medal of Knighthood and despite the protest of the faithful after the scandal the papal honor has not been revoked

BERGOGLIO IGNORED THE PETITION to rescind pontifical honor to abortion activist.

Francis makes pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Dutch politician, Lilianne Ploumen, a “Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great” 

Last year, Ploumen founded a pro-abortion organization called She Decides, which offers funding and support for international NGOs that provide, facilitate or campaign for abortion.

The approval of candidates for this high honor must be given by the pope himself.

In an email to the Catholic Herald, Ms. Ploumen said that she was “very honoured” by the pontifical medal, which was sent via the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs last month.

In an interview with Dutch radio, Ploumen said she views the honor as a sign of the pope’s progressivism, as well as acknowledgement for her work in supporting abortion rights.

Ms. Ploumen said that the award came after much personal investment in contacts with the Vatican, which she defined as “lobbying.” (Breitbart)

(Lepanto Institute) A longer interview on BRN Newsradio in the Netherlands reveals additional assertions from Ploumen, in which she implies that the Vatican gave her the award as a personal “prize”, rather than as a pro-forma honor bestowed upon her entire delegation. She tells the interviewer that this was done even though she believes the Vatican was aware of her work for SheDecides, and that she sees it as confirmation of her work.

ChurchMilitant.com Faithful Catholics are questioning the Vatican's integrity
The Lepanto Institute reported Friday that Lilianne Ploumen, a Catholic and former Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Netherlands, was inducted into the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great in 2017, given the title of Commander.

In an interview, Ploumen referred to the papal honor as "a high award from the Pope." She went on to say that "the Vatican probably knows that I started She Decides and they gave me this prize — very special."
When asked by the reporter whether she saw it as "confirmation" of her abortion activism, she replied, "Yes, that, and also, the last couple of years I invested a lot of time in establishing contacts with the Vatican."

Hichborn notes a discrepancy between the Holy See's official statement and what's being reported to media outfits through Vatican officials. Although the official statement claims the honor was merely diplomatic, the U.K. paper The Tablet quotes Vatican sources as saying that the Holy See's protocol office itself had suggested conferring the award on Ploumen.
"So, on the one hand, the official statement gives the impression that this honor is conferred as standard fare at diplomatic meetings like this," Hichborn noted, "while a source in the Vatican is saying that this was a unique instance."
"Considering that the cardinal of Utrecht felt compelled to publicly state that he was not involved in the application for the title nor was he aware of the fact that this papal award was requested for her," he continued, "it is clear that the conference of this award to Ploumen was a serious breech of protocol."


A petition  has been started to rescind the papal honor, claiming it must be revoked because Ploumen "is a militant abortionist."
Hichborn agrees. "The Holy See should at least denounce Ploumen for her despicable self-promotion in the name of the honor conferred upon her," he commented to Church Militant. "But more properly, the Holy See should request that the honor be returned and that Ploumen publicly apologize for leveraging her pro-abortion work in the name of her papal honor."

Creator of Safe-Abortion Fund Claims Papal Award is “Confirmation” of Her Work

The petition ignored by Bergoglio denounces:

• From 2004 to 2007 Ploumen was the director of programs and on the board of directors for CORDAID, the Dutch Catholic aid relief agency that was caught funding Planned Parenthood and dispensing contraception.

• In February 2010, Ploumen called on LGBT activists to disrupt Mass at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in the Netherlands, wearing pink triangles with the words “Jesus excludes no one.” 

• In 2014, Ploumen ended Dutch foreign aid to Uganda for passing a bill banning sodomy and same-sex “marriage.”

• In January 2017, she established a progressive global initiative called “She Decides,” an organization that has raised over $300 million and seeks to promote “access to modern contraception, to sexual and relationship literacy and safe abortion.” 

Cardinal Zen: Pope Francis is Backing a “Fake Church” in China

Veritas Vincit: The Truth Shall Prevail  | February 27, 2018/

In an unprecedented act that appears to be an act of surrender to China’s communist regime, the Vatican has asked legitimate Chinese bishops to step down from their post in order to make way for the installation of new, illegitimate bishops, hand-picked by the atheistic government.

The Vatican has asked Bishop Peter Zhuang Jianjian to retire in order to allow a state-sanctioned and excommunicated bishop to take his place while “another Vatican-appointed bishop was asked to downgrade himself as the assistant of an illicit bishop,” according to a report in AsiaNews.

Bishop Peter Zhuang Jianjian of Shantou was forced to travel to Beijing last December 2017 where an unnamed Vatican prelate (which sources speculate to have been Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, a negotiator between the Vatican and China) asked him to step aside to allow a communist-appointed bishop to take his place.

Bishop Zhuang was secretly ordained with Vatican approval in 2006. The Chinese government wants to replace Zhuang with excommunicated Bishop Huang Bingzhang, who is a member of the National People’s Congress. Huang was previously excommunicated because he was ordained without Vatican approval.

Two months prior to the meeting with the Vatican prelate, on October 26, 2017, Bishop Zhuang received a letter demanding the 88-year-old bishop to resign to give way to the excommunicated bishop, whom the Holy See is going to recognize. Bishop Zhuang at that time refused to obey and rather “carry His Cross” for being disobedient.

A Crackdown on Religion in China

The news also comes amid reports of Christian churches being demolished in China while clerics and other faithful are being jailed for their associations with churches not sanctioned by the state.  More than 1,500 Catholic and Protestant churches in China’s Zhejiang province alone “have been targeted for demolition or cross removals in recent years, sources have said in a campaign against churches not coming under state control,” according to the UCANews report. “Chinese authorities are increasingly using property regulations to remove crosses and demolish churches.”

Is the Pope backing a “Fake” Church in China?

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the first Cardinal from China and a key adviser to Pope Benedict XVI regarding China-Vatican relations, denounced a Vatican agreement with the Chinese atheistic Communist government. The Cardinal indirectly accused Pope Francis of backing a “fake” church in China.

“But the whole thing is fake. They [the Vatican] are giving decisive power to the government … how can the initiative of choosing bishops be given to an atheistic government? Incredible. Incredible,” he said at that time.

For the most part, the genuine Catholic Church in China has, and continues, to operate underground, while the government runs the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, a counterfeit church of communist-approved and monitored clerics. Bishops and priests of the underground church, which have been loyal to the pope and not the communist government, have faced imprisonment for their loyalty to the successor of Peter.

Cardinal Zen: Do not follow the Pope into an agreement with Beijing

Last year, Cardinal Zen, the Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong and China’s highest-ranking prelate, pleaded with the Vatican not to “sell out” China’s Catholics by striking a deal with the Communist government, which seeks nothing less than “total surrender.”

In a blog post in June, 2016, Cardinal Joseph Zen told Chinese Catholics that they could not follow the pope into an agreement with Beijing. According to La Stampa journalist Giannie Valente, who quoted that post in a disapproving piece that same month, Zen had advised the faithful in China that any agreement between the Vatican and Beijing would “most certainly have the pope’s approval,” and that “at the end of the day, one’s conscience is the ultimate criterion for judging our behaviour. So, if your conscience tells you that the content of whatever agreement goes against the principle of our faith, you should not go with it”.

He warned against the capitulation of Vatican authority to appoint bishops into the hands of an atheist government.  On January 2016, Cardinal Zen said:

Do our officials in Rome know…that the so-called Episcopal Conference is not only illegitimate, but simply does not exist? What exists is an organism that is called “One Association and One Conference”, namely the Patriotic Association and the Bishops’ Conference always  work together as one body, which is always chaired by government officials (there are pictures to prove it, the Government does not even try more to keep up appearances, it starkly flaunts the fact that they now manage religion!). Signing such an agreement means delivering the authority to appoint bishops into the hands of an atheist government.

A Catacomb Situation for Faithful Chinese Catholics

Cardinal Zen said then that he will “disappear” into a monastic life if an agreement is reached with China by the Vatican:

On the day that an agreement is signed with China…I disappear, I will start a monastic life to pray and do penance. I will ask the forgiveness of Pope Benedict for not being able to do what he was hoping that I could do…The innocent children were killed, the angel told Joseph to take Mary and the Child and flee to safety. But today would our diplomats advise Joseph to go and humbly beg for dialogue with Herod!?

In August, 2016,  Zen made clear that he foresaw today’s events, and that, in his view, they would bring about a “catacomb situation” for faithful Chinese Catholics. In an article written personally by him and published in Asia News, he said:

We know that in China the atheist regime has always wanted to totally control the religions. Until now large groups of Catholics, both underground and in officialdom, making great sacrifices, remain faithful to the Church founded by Jesus on Peter and the Apostles. But today a specter appears in the horizon, of a statement coming right from the authority of the Church, that tells them to change course. What was declared as opposed to the doctrine and discipline of the Church will become legitimate and normal; everyone will have to submit to the Government that manages the Church; everyone will have to obey bishops who until today are illegitimate and even excommunicated. So, they have been wrong for decades these poor “confrontationists”?

My appeal is to prepare the minds for such an eventuality, which once seemed impossible, now it looks very likely. What to do? Accept to go back, as Valente says, to the catacomb situation, which is not the ordinary situation. But, when the ordinary is illegitimate and the legitimate is not allowed, there is no choice but to hold to the legitimate in an extraordinary way.∎

Mark Jacobs, Veritas Vincit

140,000+ Polish Catholics urge bishops to defend the faith in (heretic) Amoris Laetitia controversy

KRAKOW, Poland, February 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Over 140,000 Poles have signed a petition asking the nation’s bishops to defend Catholic teaching on marriage in the wake of the Pope’s controversial exhortation Amoris Laetitia.

Polonia Semper Fidelis, a group sponsored by Krakow’s Father Piotr Skarga Institute, posted the petition in January 2018, asking Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish Bishops Conference, to preserve the faith in Poland from the “German errors.”

Specifically it calls on the bishops to affirm the indissolubility of marriage and the inadmissibility of divorced-and-remarried Catholics to the sacraments.

The letter warns that the problematic interpretations of Amoris Laetitia, promulgated especially by the German bishops, adds to the immense confusion already faced by believers in the midst of today’s relativistic culture.

“In this exceptionally difficult situation in which Christian marriages and families found themselves, the lack of an official document clearly confirming the Church's current position on these issues, expressed ... by the Holy Father John Paul II in the Familiaris Consortio, contributes to the growing number of doubts and deviations from centuries of study and practice in relation to the sacrament of marriage and the Eucharist,” the letter states.

“Bearing in mind the resolute position of Polish bishops who during the synods dedicated to the family stood up in defense of the teaching of the Church and the spiritual heritage of the Polish Pope, I await the confirmation of this teaching by the Polish Bishops' Conference with love and trust,” it adds.

Among the signers of the petition is Darius Kowaski, a famous Polish actor who stated that it was “not only an honor, but an obligation” to support the petition.

“I consider it my duty because I am a father--maybe I will be a grandfather--[and] I am a man,” Kowalski stated in a video presentation. “I know that the family is the most important foundation of all human life. Thanks to the family, the person can fully develop. He can fully embrace love, and then he can give it in return.”

Kowalski extolled Pope John Paul II as the pope of the family, saying that he fulfilled that role not only during his papacy, but today.

“In his document Familiaris Consortio, [the late pope] wrote that marriage between the baptized is one of the seven sacraments of the New Covenant,” the actor continued. “We are in a Covenant with God.”

Liberal interpretations of Amoris Laetitia’s notorious Footnote 351, such as have been developed by the German and Maltese bishops, have been accused of contradicting Familiaris Consortio, which stipulates that divorced-and-remarried couples who continue to live together must not be sexually active if they wish to receive the sacraments of reconciliation and communion.  

Kowalski noted that Poland has many physical monuments memorializing John Paul II and urged Poles to consider if they ought not to raise one more “from our hearts” in signing the petition.

Other high-profile Poles who have signed the petition include politician and filmmaker Grzegorz Braun, Jacek Kotula, who introduced Canadian pro-life prisoner-of-conscience Mary Wagner to Poland, and newspaper editor Tomasz P. Terlikowski.

“Polonia semper fidelis” (Poland forever faithful) is a centuries’ old motto expressing the belief that Poland is defined by her thousand-year Catholic faith and will never betray Christ, no matter how much the nation is made to suffer.   

The full letter, translated from Polish:

Venerable Prince Archbishop

As a faithful lay person concerned about the fate of Catholic marriages and families in our homeland, I am fervently asking the Archbishop for a confirmation by the Polish Bishops' Conference of the Church's teaching on the indissolubility of marriage, as well as on the reception [of Holy Communion] by people living in so-called non-sacramental relationships.

After Pope Francis announced the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, disturbing interpretations appeared - especially from the German Episcopate - which were publicized by the media and eagerly snatched up by some Catholics as evidence that the teaching of the Church on the above-mentioned issues had changed.

Unfortunately, the dissemination of this type of opinion contributes to the growing confusion in the souls of many believers who, despite the pressures of [the sexual] revolution and the relativization of moral principles, continue to persevere in fidelity to Christ's teaching about marriage.

In this exceptionally difficult situation in which Christian marriages and families found themselves, the lack of an official document clearly confirming the Church's current position on these issues, expressed ... by the Holy Father John Paul II in the Familiaris Consortio, contributes to the growing number of doubts and deviations from centuries of study and practice in relation to the sacrament of marriage and the Eucharist.

Bearing in mind the resolute position of Polish bishops who during the synods dedicated to the family stood up in defense of the teaching of the Church and the spiritual heritage of the Polish Pope, I await the confirmation of this teaching by the Polish Bishops' Conference with love and trust.

Father Meiattini: Amoris Laetitia disorients the Christian families instead of confirming them in the faith

Amoris Laetitia Turns Indissolubility of Marriage into “Phantom”

en.news Father Giulio Meiattini, a Benedictine of Madonna della Scara Abbey in Noci, Italy, has published the book “Amoris Laetitia? I sacramenti ridotti a morale” (Amoris Laetitia? The Sacraments Reduced to Morals).

Meiattini explained to La Fede quotidiana (February 24) that Amoris Laetitia disorients the Christian families instead of confirming them in the faith because its Chapter 8 introduces a relativistic practice and does not properly consider the sacramental foundation of moral theology.

According to Meiattini Amoris Laetitia preserves the indissolubility of Christian marriage only in theory. In the light of the Buenos Aires interpretation which Pope Francis has called the only and official interpretation of Amoris Laetitia and which Meiattini considers “badly written” it is “impossible to say that the principle of indissolubility is respected.“

“One can insist with words that the indissolubility of marriage is sacrosanct, but if one allows those who live in notorious and stable infidelity to access to the sacraments, the indissolubility becomes a phantom”, Meiattini adds.

For him it would have been “not only opportune, but dutiful and polite” and “a sign of respect and willingness to listen” if Francis had answered the Dubia of the four cardinals regarding Amoris Laetitia.

Archdiocese NY Parish Mardi Gras Celebration Hosted by Gay Drag Performer

Joseph Sciambra 

Archdiocese NY Parish Mardi Gras Celebration Hosted by Gay Drag Performer

On February 13, 2018, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish, in the Archdiocese of New York, celebrated Mardi Gras with “an evening of comedy” hosted by Jay Malsky. St. Francis de Sales is the home of the “Gay Straight Catholic Alliance” with Malsky serving as its “contact” person. Malsky is a well-known New York City drag performer who headlined his own production “Jay Malsky Slept with My Boyfriend;” in a still from the performance, Malsky is pictured holding a large dildo. According to a description for the show:

“Jay Malsky has slept with a number of straight men. Some of their girlfriends have found out! Now they are putting Jay through his own Salem Witch Trial.”

Recently, Malsky posted a video to his social media sites in which he impersonates transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner; along with the video, Malsky wrote:

“Last night at Drag Race, the Queen hosting called me “Caitlyn Jenner” after I won a raffle. I was offended cuz I think this is a lazy f***ing punchline and she should know better. So here’s a Caitlyn Jenner thing I wrote that’s not f***ing lazy.”

St. Francis de Salas is a diocesan parish staffed by priests of the Archdiocese of New York. The current Pastor is Philip J. Kelly.

Also at St. Francis de Sales: 

On February 25, 2018, as part of the Lenten Vespers series at St. Francis de Sales, the “guest presider” will be Alex Lavy. According to the Parish:

“Alex Lavy is a Physics Teacher at Xavier High School in Manhattan. Alex is the co-founder of Xavier’s Gay Straight Alliance and coordinates the ‘Ally Week.’ He is a sought-after retreat director and speaker whose areas of expertise include vocations, the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius, and diversity.”

In 2017, the “Xavier High School Gay-Straight Alliance” raised funds for the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center which provides a number of health services targeting the LGBT community, including hormone therapy for teens.

In 2016, Lavy married his same-sex partner.

Please contact:

Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Phone: 212-371-1000

Monsignor Edward Weber
Phone: 212-371-1011 Ext. 2931
Email: Msgr.Edward.Weber@archny.org

FL Cathedral Offers Memorial Mass for 33rd-Degree Freemason

by Alexander Slavsky  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  February 22, 2018     

Freemasonry still excommunicable offense

VENICE, Fla. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Florida diocese is allowing for a Memorial Mass for an active Free Mason.

An obituary for Robert Vanecek, a 33rd-degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, indicates that Epiphany Cathedral in the diocese of Venice offered him a Memorial Mass on Tuesday, which was confirmed by John Cazalet, a member of Church Militant's Venice Resistance chapter.

His Mass was said by Fr. Charles Ruoff, parochial vicar. The obituary asked that donations in his honor be given to the Shriners Hospital for Children.

Freemasonry is incompatible with the Catholic faith, and it remains the most condemned belief system in the Church's history — what some consider Satan's select instrument for attacking the Catholic Church. It is a cult-like society that promotes philosophies like indifferentism, communism, relativism and naturalism. 

Read More at: ChurchMilitant.com

Bergoglio is a member of the Masonic Rotary Club of Argentina since 1999

Father Weinandy: Francisco challenges the four marks of the Catholic Church

Sandro Magister

February 24 2018

THE CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH AND THE EUCHARIST

by Thomas G. Weinandy

Granted the post-Vatican II Church was rife with divisions – disputes over doctrine, morals and the liturgy. These disagreements continue still. However, at no time during the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI was there ever any doubt as to what the Church teaches concerning her doctrine, morals, and liturgical practice. […] Such is not the case, in many significant ways, within the present pontificate of Pope Francis.

Challenge to the Church’s Oneness

[…] At times it would appear that Pope Francis identifies himself not as the promoter of unity but as the agent of division. His practical philosophy, if it is an intentional philosophy, seems to consist in the belief that a greater unifying good will emerge from the present bedlam of divergent opinions and the turmoil of the resulting divisions.

My concern here is that such approach, even if unintentional, strikes at very essence of the Petrine ministry as intended by Jesus and as continuously understood by the Church. The successor of St. Peter, by the very nature of the office, is to be, literally, the personal embodiment and thus the consummate sign of the Church’s ecclesial communion, and so the principle defender and promoter of the Church’s ecclesial communion. […] By seeming to encourage doctrinal division and moral discord within the Church the present pontificate has transgressed the foundational mark of the Church – her oneness. How, nonetheless, does this offense against the Church’s unity manifest itself? It does so by destabilizing the other three marks of the Church.

Challenge to the Church’s Apostolicity

Firstly, the apostolic nature of the Church is being undermined. As has often been noted by theologians and bishops, and most frequently by the laity (those who possess the "sensus fidelium"), the teaching of the present pontiff is not noted for its clarity. […] As seen in "Amoris Laetitia", to re-conceive and newly express the previously clear apostolic faith and magisterial tradition in a seemingly ambiguous manner, so as to leave confusion and puzzlement within the ecclesial community, is to contradict his own duties as the successor of Peter and to transgress the trust of his fellow bishops, as well as that of priests and the entire faithful.

Ignatius [of Antioch] would be dismayed at such a situation. If, for him, heretical teaching espoused by those who are only loosely associated with the Church is destructive to the Church’s unity, how much more devastating is ambiguous teaching when authored by a bishop who is divinely charged to ensure ecclesial unity. […]

Moreover, […] to appear to sanction an interpretation of doctrine or morals that contravenes what has been the received apostolic teaching and magisterial tradition of the Church – as dogmatically defined by Councils and doctrinally taught by previous popes and the bishops in communion with him, as well as accepted and believed by the faithful, cannot then be proposed as magisterial teaching. […] In the matter of faith and morals the teaching of no living pope takes apostolic and magisterial precedence over the magisterial teaching of previous pontiffs or the established magisterial doctrinal tradition. […] That Pope Francis’ ambiguous teaching at times appears to fall outside the magisterial teaching of the historic apostolic ecclesial community thus gives cause for concern, for it, as stated above, fosters division and disharmony rather than unity and peace within the one apostolic Church. […]

Challenge to the Church’s Catholicity

Secondly, […] the universality of the Church is visibly manifested in that all of the particular Churches are bound together, through the college of bishops in communion with the pope, by professing the same apostolic faith and by preaching the one universal Gospel to all of humankind. […] This mark of catholic oneness is also presently challenged.

Pope Francis’ espousal of synodality has been much touted – the allowance of local geographical Churches more self-determinative freedom. […] As envisioned, however, by Pope Francis and advocated by others, this notion of synodality, instead of ensuring the universal oneness of the Catholic Church, an ecclesial communion composed of multiple particular Churches, is now employed to undermine and so sanction divisions within the Church. […]

We are presently witnessing the disintegration of the Church’s catholicity, for local Churches, both on the diocesan and national level, are often interpreting doctrinal norms and moral precepts in various conflicting and contradictory ways. […]  The Church’s mark of oneness, a unity that the pope is divinely mandated to protect and engender, is losing its integrity because her marks of catholicity and apostolicity have fallen into doctrinal and moral disarray, a theological anarchy that the pope himself, maybe unwittingly, has initiated by advocating a flawed conception of synodality. […]

Challenge to the Church’s Holiness

Thirdly, this brings us to the fourth mark of the Church – her holiness. This mark is equally under siege, most especially, but not surprisingly, in relationship to the Eucharist. […]

Francis Blessed Adulterous Liaison

To participate fully in the Church’s Eucharist, […] one must embody the four marks of the Church, for only in so doing is one in full communion with the Church so as to receive communion – the risen body and blood of Jesus, the source and culmination of one’s union with the Father in the Holy Spirit. […]

The first issue […] pertains specifically to holiness. While one must profess the Church’s one apostolic faith, faith itself is insufficient for receiving Christ in the Eucharist. Referencing Vatican II, John Paul II states that “we must persevere in sanctifying grace and love, remaining within the Church ‘bodily’ as well as ‘in our heart’” (Ecclesia de Eucharistia 36). At the beginning of the Second Century, Ignatius, made this same point – that one can only receive communion “in a state of grace” (Ad. Eph. 20). Thus, in accordance with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Council of Trent, John Paul confirms: “I therefore desire to reaffirm that in the Church there remains in force, now and in the future, the rule by which the Council of Trent gave concrete expression to the Apostle Paul’s stern warning when it affirmed that in order to receive the Eucharist in a worthy manner, ‘one must first confess one’s sins, when one is aware of mortal sin’” (ibid.). In accordance with the doctrinal tradition of the Church, John Paul, therefore, insists that the sacrament of Penance is “necessary for full participation in the Eucharistic Sacrifice” when mortal sin is present (ibid. 37). While he acknowledges that only the person can judge his or her state of grace, he asserts that “in cases of outward conduct which is seriously, clearly and steadfastly contrary to the moral norm, the Church, in her pastoral concern for the good order of the community and out of respect for the sacrament, cannot fail to feel directly involved” (ibid.). John Paul intensifies his admonition by quoting Canon Law. Where there is “a manifest lack of proper moral disposition,” that is, according to Canon Law, when persons “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin,” they are “not to be permitted to Eucharistic communion” (ibid.).

Here we perceive the present challenge to the Church’s holiness and specifically the holiness of the Eucharist. The question of whether divorced and remarried Catholic couples, who engage in marital acts, can receive communion revolves around the very issue of “outward conduct which is seriously, clearly and steadfastly contrary to the moral norm,” and, therefore, whether they possess “a manifest lack of proper moral disposition” for receiving communion.

Pope Francis rightly insists that such couples should be accompanied and so helped to form properly their consciences. Granted that there are extraordinary marital cases where it can be rightfully discerned that a previous marriage was sacramentally invalid, even though evidence for an annulment is unobtainable, thus allowing a couple to receive communion. Nonetheless, the ambiguous manner in which Pope Francis proposes this pastoral accompaniment permits a pastoral situation to evolve whereby the common practice will swiftly ensue that almost every divorced and remarried couple will judge themselves free to receive Holy Communion.

Pope Pius XII condemned the “moral situation” of Amoris Laetitia.

This pastoral situation will develop because moral negative commands, such as, “one shall not commit adultery,” are no longer recognized as absolute moral norms that can never be trespassed, but as moral ideals – goals that may be achieved over a period of time, or may never be realized in one’s lifetime. In this indefinite interim people can continue, with the Church’s blessing, to strive, as best as they are able, to live “holy” lives, and so receive communion. Such pastoral practice has multiple detrimental doctrinal and moral consequences.

First, to allow those who are objectively in manifest grave sin to receive communion is an overt public attack on the holiness of what John Paul terms “the Most Holy Sacrament.” Grave sin, by its very nature, as Ignatius, Vatican II and John Paul attest, deprives one of holiness, for the Holy Spirit no longer abides within such a person, thus making the person unfit to receive holy communion. For one to receive communion in such a, literally, disgraced state enacts a lie, for in receiving the sacrament one is asserting that one is in communion with Christ, when in actuality one is not.

Similarly, such a practice is also an offense against the holiness of the Church. Yes, the Church is composed of saints and sinners, yet, those who do sin, which is everyone, must be repentant-sinners, specifically of grave sin, if they are to participate fully in the Eucharistic liturgy and so receive the most-holy risen body and blood of Jesus. A person who is in grave sin may still be a member of the Church, but as a grave-sinner such a person no longer participates in the holiness of the Church as one of the holy faithful. To receive communion in such an unholy state is, again, to enact a lie for in such a reception one is publicly attempting to testify that one is a graced and living member of the ecclesial community when one is not.

Second, and maybe more importantly, to allow those who persist in manifest grave sin to receive communion, seemingly as an act of mercy, is both to belittle the condemnatory evil of grave sin and to malign the magnitude and power of the Holy Spirit. Such a pastoral practice is implicitly acknowledging that sin continues to govern humankind despite Jesus’ redeeming work and his anointing of the Holy Spirit upon all who believe and are baptized. Jesus is actually not Savior and Lord, but rather Satan continues to reign.

Moreover, to sanction persons in grave sin is in no manner a benevolent or loving act, for one is endorsing a state wherein they could be eternally condemned, thus jeopardizing their salvation. Likewise, in turn, one is also insulting such grave-sinners, for one is subtly telling them that they are so sinful that not even the Holy Spirit is powerful enough to help them change their sinful ways and make them holy. They are inherently un-savable. Actually, though, what is ultimately being tendered is the admission that the Church of Jesus Christ is not really holy and so is incapable of truly sanctifying her members.

Lastly, scandal is the public pastoral consequence of allowing persons in unrepentant manifest grave sin to receive Holy Communion. It is not simply that the faithful members of the Eucharistic community will be dismayed and likely disgruntled, but, more importantly, they will be tempted to think that they too can sin gravely and continue in good standing with the Church. Why attempt to live a holy life, even a heroic virtuous life, when the Church herself appears to demand neither such a life, or even to encourage such a life? Here the Church becomes a mockery of herself and such a charade breeds nothing but scorn and disdain in the world, and derision and cynicism among the faithful, or at best, a hope against hope among the little ones.

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Six apostate bishops of Brazil "concelebrated" with two Protestant heretic women

en.news On February 13, at the 41st so called “Earth Pilgrimage” in Mampituba, Brazil, six bishops concelebrated Holy Mass allowing two female Protestant ministers to join in.

FratresInUnum.com (February 21) points out that a recording of the Mass shows how during consecration the two women stand at the altar wearing robes and stole, extending their hands as if they were concelebrating.

The Mass was presided by Osório Bishop Jaime Kohl. The following prelates concelebrated:

Archbishop Jacinto Bergmann of Pelotas

Bishop Carlos Romulo of Monte Negro

Bishop Alessandro Ruffinoni of Caxias do Sul

Auxiliary Bishop Adilson Busin of Porto Alegre

Auxiliary Bishop Aparecido Donizeti of Souza Porto Alegre

Retired Bishop José Mario Stroeher of Rio Grande.

Heretic German Bishops Introduce Communion For Protestants

Immediately write to the Apostolic Nunciature of Brazil, to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. These bishops need to  be excommunicated immediately.

Magisterium of the Catholic Church
• ipso facto deprivation of all ecclesiastical office for heresy
• ipso facto excommunication for those who favor heretics
• Nullity of all promotions or elevations of deviators in the Faith.
• The faithful should not obey but avoid the deviant in Faith

APOSTOLIC NUNCIATURE
Excellency Most Rev. Giovanni D’Aniello, Apostolic Nuncio
Av. Das Nações, Quadra 801 Lt. 01 / CEP 70401-900 Brasília – DF
Cx. Postal 0153 CEP 70359-916 Brasília – DF Phone
: (61) 3223-0794 or 3223-0916
Fax: (61) 3224-9365
E-mail: nunapost@solar.com.br
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH
Excellency Most Reverend Dom Luis Ladaria Ferrer
Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, 00120 Città del Vaticano
E-mail: cdf@cfaith.va – Tel. 06.6988-3438 Fax: 06.6988-5088
CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE CULTURE AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS
Eminence Reverend Father Robert Sarah
Piazza Pio XII, 10
00120 CITTÀ DEL VATICANO – Holy See – Tel. 06-6988-4316 Fax: 06-6969-3499
e-mail: cultidiv@ccdds.go; vpr-sacramenti@ccdds.va

Apostate Germany’s bishops in full communion with Bergoglio approve sacrilegious Communion for Protestant spouses

 INGOLSTADT, Germany, February 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Germany’s bishops have decided to allow the Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion in individual cases, the bishops’ news service is reporting.

Munich’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German Bishops Conference, announced the decision today during a press conference at the end of the conference’s four-day Spring Assembly in Ingolstadt.

According to the conference’s news service, Katholisch.de, the great majority of the German bishops approved of an “orientation guide” with regard to mixed marriages and Holy Communion.

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Heretic German Bishops Introduce Communion For Protestants

en.news The bishops of the [formerly] Catholic Church in Germany sink deeper and deeper into the mud of heresy and disbelief.

During their meeting in Ingolstadt which ended today, they voted by a large majority in favour of giving [sacrilegious] Holy Communion to Protestants, who are married to a Catholic spouse. For the Church, this decision is utterly void and null because the bishops have no right to take it.

According to katholisch.de (February 22) the bishops defined "conditions" for receiving sacrilegious Communion, for instance, "talking to a priest" and "deciding in ones conscience" that one affirms the Catholic faith. But who affirms the Faith must in conscience convert to the Church.

Further: How can a Protestant receive Communion, if he did not go to confession beforehand as required by the Church?

Notorious Munich Cardinal Marx called the bishops' act of apostasy “a positive progress” announcing that the new policy will be introduced using the "case by case" trick. He further stated the heresy that a Protestant need not to convert to Catholicism in order to receive Holy Communion.

The decision is an attempt to "legalise" the fact that in Germany Non-Catholics are generally invited to receive Communion. This abuse is mitigated by the fact that the liturgy in Germany has degenerated so badly that often the Eucharist is not celebrated validly which means that only a piece of bread is distributed to the faithful which, obviously, can also be consumed by Protestants.