News Item: : October 13th - A Significant Date in Salvation History - Part 2
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Friday 14 October 2016 - 22:04:57

The Demise of Irony: Pope Francis with an idol of the iconoclast Martin Luther...

Since writing the earlier article on the importance of October 13th in salvation history, we have come across two other related pieces of information.

Rome - 2016

The first is the fact that Pope Francis met yesterday, during the 13th October, in an ecumenical meeting with a large group of German Lutherans in the Pope Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. The above picture reveals the singular fact that a statue of Martin Luther was actually given prominence during the event. This is not only remarkable as the first time in history that a Catholic Pope would appear alongside such a thing, but also because a hallmark of Protestantism has long been the rejection of images and statues of Catholic saints, never mind Protestant leaders!

Perhaps more disturbing, is the content of some of the questions and answers during the session. To give a flavour, Pope Francis was asked what he likes and dislikes about the Lutheran 'church'. He responded: ''I really like the good Lutherans, the Lutherans who follow the true faith of Jesus Christ... However, I do not like lukewarm Catholics and I do not like lukewarm Lutherans.''

Whilst it perhaps makes a positive change to hear Francis alluding to the fact that he must therefore ''like'' commited Catholics - as opposed to his more typical accusations against ''fundamentalism'' - his answer appears heretical.

Why?

Because, the true faith of Jesus Christ is the Catholic Faith, founded by Christ on the Apostles and handed down to us through their successors.

To put this simply: Any Lutherans who were following the true faith of Jesus Christ would have ceased to be Lutherans and become Catholics.

As Blessed Cardinal J.H. Newman remarked with some perspicacity: ''To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.''

To have a reigning Pontiff giving answers like this to a large group of Lutherans in the presence of a statue of Martin Luther, instead of teaching them the True Faith in charity, is nothing short of apocalyptic.

Especially given that this unprecedented event took place on October 13th...

It calls to our minds the prophecy of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich from the 1st June 1821: ''Then I saw that everything pertaining to Protestantism was gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence... In those days, faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families that God has protected from disasters and wars.''

Of course, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich's visions point to a final restoration of the One True Faith after a period of unprecedented trial for the Church.

This all reminds me once again of the traditionalist magazine that I read some time in the late 1990's. This suggested that, when Martin Luther was being hailed as some kind of saint figure in the Catholic Church, then this would be evidence that the Marxist infiltration would be almost complete. At that time, this claim seemed so outlandishly far-out as to be impossible. And yet, here we are seeing pictures like that above in October 2016.

And the hierarchy don't even seem to have blinked!

If that doesn't look like the Great Apostasy warned about in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, then I don't know what does.

To sum this part up: Pope Francis will be remembered as the Pope who publicly honoured the excommunicated heretic and forerunner of Antichrist, Martin Luther, instead of Our Lady of Fatima, on October 13th, 2016.

Prepare your souls through a good Confession, because I daresn't think what comes next.  

Rome - The Early Church

I am afraid we still can't get links to work within this news/blog page. It is most frustrating! However, I strongly commend you to look up the Keeping it Catholic blog of Marianna Bartold.

I came across a splendid article there today regarding the importance of October 13th in Church history.

It seems that, according to research by the respected epigraphologist and archeologist Margherita Guarducci, St. Peter was crucified in Rome on 13th October, 64 A.D.

There's that date again.

Not only that, but the Emperor Nero ascended the Imperial throne ten years earlier on 13th October, 54 A.D.

It is traditionally held that Nero, this early precursor of Antichrist, began to suffer the calamaties which would end his reign on the date of St. Peter's martyrdom.

And so we have this incredible juxtaposition between the first clear precursor of Antichrist and the first Pope in Rome. The revelation of the spiritual battle between Christ and Antichrist, Church and anti-church, could not be more clear. As with the Crucifixion of Christ, the suffering and martyrdom of the First Pope and of the True Church seemed to be the end. The enemies of the Church must have thought it was. Perhaps, like the Apostles on Good Friday, some of the Catholics did too. However, such darkness merely precedes the glories of the Resurrection and the undoing of Satan's plans. This is because, being only a creature, he cannot ever outwit God. We need to remember that in these times. 

And all of this has been connected to October 13th throughout Church history...

I urge you to read Marianna Bartold's article because there is so much more depth than I can do justice to in the time available tonight. Her thorough research and conclusions will likely give folks, who take the time to read it, some renewed hope in the face of the present spiritual onslaught.

Keep the Faith friends!

Our Lady of Fatima - Pray for us!

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