Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894 - 1941) "One day the flag of the Immaculate Virgin Mary will flutter over the Kremlin (center of communist power), but first the red flag will flutter over the Vatican."
Francis: “You Are Really Communists! Congratulations, Go Ahead"
Two communists, Andrea Ferroni, and a female companion, with a shoulder bag featuring Antonio Gramsci (+1937), a founding member of the Italian Communist Party tried to enter the Vatican on October 27.
They were immediately stopped by police but answered that "we have an appointment with the Pope." Francis’ secretary confirmed that this was true.
The two belong to the youth section of Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation Party) which still uses hammer and sickle, a symbol outlawed in many countries.
Repubblica.it (October 29) explains that “the similarities in thinking between Jorge Mario Bergoglio's social message and the radical left's criticism of the capitalist model are well known.”
Ferroni told the newspaper after the meeting that “we talked for a few minutes.” When Francis saw Gramsci’s face on the bag, he said, “You are really communists! Congratulations, go ahead."
The self-righeous Communist told Repubblica.it later that “notwithstanding the contradictions of an institution such as the Church, today it is impossible for us not to appreciate Francis radical position in questioning, in revealing the injustices and iniquities of the economic system."
The leader of Rifondazione Comunista, Maurizio Acerbo, was excited about the visit and said that “at the party congress a few days ago, I mentioned the Pope and thanked him for welcoming back our comrade Eugenio Melandri.”
The Communist added that in the Italian parliament nobody thinks like us, “except the Pope” but he admitted that the Communists – only on the surface - have “different visions on many issues” such as aborting children, the Vatican-Italy Concordat, and homosex propaganda.
Pope Pius XI– The Communist system, with its authors and abettors condemned
-Communism is intrinsically wrong and no one may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith– Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication
Pope John XXIII– No Catholic can subscribe even to moderate Socialism – opposition between Communism and Christianity is fundamental.
-Communism is intrinsically wrong and no one may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith– Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication
Pope John XXIII– No Catholic can subscribe even to moderate Socialism – opposition between Communism and Christianity is fundamental.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication
Questions:
1. Whether it is lawful to join Communist Parties or to favour them;
2. whether it is lawful to publish, disseminate, or read books, periodicals, newspapers or leaflets which support the teaching or action of Communists, or to write in them;
3. whether the faithful who knowingly and freely perform the acts specified in questions 1 and 2 may be admitted to the Sacraments;
4. whether the faithful who profess the materialistic and anti-Christian doctrine of the Communists, and particularly those who defend or propagate this doctrine, contract ipso facto excommunication specially reserved to the Apostolic See as apostates from the Catholic faith.
1. Whether it is lawful to join Communist Parties or to favour them;
2. whether it is lawful to publish, disseminate, or read books, periodicals, newspapers or leaflets which support the teaching or action of Communists, or to write in them;
3. whether the faithful who knowingly and freely perform the acts specified in questions 1 and 2 may be admitted to the Sacraments;
4. whether the faithful who profess the materialistic and anti-Christian doctrine of the Communists, and particularly those who defend or propagate this doctrine, contract ipso facto excommunication specially reserved to the Apostolic See as apostates from the Catholic faith.
The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Fathers entrusted with the supervision of matters concerning the safeguarding of Faith and morals, having previously heard the opinion of the Reverend Lords Consultors, decreed in the plenary session held on Tuesday (instead of Wednesday), June 28, 1949, that the answers should be as follows:
To 1. in the negative: because Communism is materialistic and anti-Christian; and the leaders of the Communists, although they sometimes profess in words that they do not oppose religion, do in fact show themselves, both in their teaching and in their actions, to be the enemies of God, of the true religion and of the Church of Christ;
to 2. in the negative: they are prohibited ipso iure (cf. Can. 1399 of the Codex Iuris Canonici);
to 3. in the negative, in accordance with the ordinary principles concerning the refusal of the Sacraments to those who are not disposed;
to 4. in the affirmative. (Replies confirmed by Pius XII on June 30) (Denzinger-Hünermann 3865. Decree of the Holy Office, July 1, 1949)
To 1. in the negative: because Communism is materialistic and anti-Christian; and the leaders of the Communists, although they sometimes profess in words that they do not oppose religion, do in fact show themselves, both in their teaching and in their actions, to be the enemies of God, of the true religion and of the Church of Christ;
to 2. in the negative: they are prohibited ipso iure (cf. Can. 1399 of the Codex Iuris Canonici);
to 3. in the negative, in accordance with the ordinary principles concerning the refusal of the Sacraments to those who are not disposed;
to 4. in the affirmative. (Replies confirmed by Pius XII on June 30) (Denzinger-Hünermann 3865. Decree of the Holy Office, July 1, 1949)
St. Hildegard of Bingen
“He (the Antichrist) will grant entire freedom from the commandments of God and the Church and permit everyone to live as his passions dictate. By doing so he hopes to be acknowledged by the people as deliverer from the yoke, and as the cause of prosperity in the world. Religion he will endeavor to make convenient. He will say that you need not fast and embitter your life by renunciation…It will suffice to love God…He will preach free love and tear asunder family ties. He will scorn everything holy, and he will ridicule all graces of the Church with devilish mockery. He will condemn humility and foster proud and gruesome dogmas. He will tear down that which God has taught in the Old and New Testament and maintain sin and vice are not sin and vice…He will ally himself with the kings, the princes and the powerful ones of the earth; he will condemn humility and will extol all the doctrines of pride. His magic art will feign the most astonishing prodigies.”
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