News Item: : Kasper and His Exceptions - Sophisticated Predictive Programming
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Friday 16 December 2016 - 12:18:21

Kasper's Next ''Exception''

LifeSiteNews has shared the story that Walter Kasper has announced his hopes for the Pope's ''next declaration'' to open the way for ''shared Eucharistic communion'' between Catholics and Lutherans in certain special cases.

In a recent interview for the Italian Avvenire newspaper, Kasper stated: ''Personally, I hope that we can use an unofficial text, prepared by a commission in the bishops' conference of the United States, regarding this subject.''

Seeking to extend the strategic principle behind his sacrilegious proposal for ''re-married'' persons to also include couples in mixed-marriages between Catholics and Lutherans, Kasper has called for an ''exception'' to the rule to be made in certain special cases.

In discussing such supposed exceptions, Kasper's discussion let something slip which seems to have gone unnoticed so far. That is, that his suggestion seems to be less of a mere hope than it is, perhaps, a foregone conclusion.

For it seems that Kasper also declared to Avvenire: ''The next declaration will open the Eucharistic sharing in particular situations, especially in mixed marriages and families and in countries like Germany and the United States where this pastoral problem is extremely pressing.''

Engineering Consent

Too few people in our society are aware of the concept known as ''predictive programming''. This describes the sophisticated use of media, events and reportage to incrementally condition large social groups to accept changes toward pre-planned future scenarios.

Predictive programming can be useful to subversives when their pre-planned future scenarios are so radical as to upset the present status quo and meet with widespread cultural resistance. It thus forms part of the ''boiling frog'' approach, wherein changes are signalled and introduced gradually so as not to distress the target group until it will be too late for them to resist effectively.

The Kasper Proposal 

It certainly appears that such a sophisticated strategy has been employed from the very earliest days of the sacrilegious Kasper proposal.

Alert Catholics were dismayed when, just four days after his election as Pope and in his very first Angelus address, Francis flagged up the fact that he had been reading Kasper's book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life. He even went so far as to say the book had done him good; whilst also describing the already notorious Kasper as a ''talented theologian''.

The revolutionary trajectory had been set and announced, but too few cared, or perhaps dared, to notice.

For this foundational move to have been made so early in the Francis-papacy, and given what is already known about the St. Gallen mafia and its long-term aims, it is easy to conjecture that this trajectory was more than just four days old when it came into the limelight.

On 8th October, 2013, Pope Francis next announced the two synods on marriage and family, which would be held in that same month during the following two years. That rang a second alarm bell for those who were paying attention.

Having witnessed several times how ''consultations'' can be used by Modernists to engineer the appearance of consent to their own pre-ordained outcomes, Angie and I were very worried when Baldisseri's Secretariat suddenly issued pre-synodal questionnaires to every bishops' conference in the world; inviting all Catholics to contribute their own ''opinions'' on marriage and family life. Based on our previous experiences, we certainly felt that participation would be a waste of time.

Then, on 20th February 2014, Kasper was invited by Francis to address the pre-synodal consistory of Cardinals with his infamously sacrilegious proposal. The alarm bell was by now ringing off the hook. Perhaps none of us need reminding of what happened in the months and years that followed...

Given the gift of hindsight, and the obvious unfolding of a structured sequence of events, none but the most naive can now fail to see that we were all being set up for a revolutionary onslaught on the Church's teaching from the earliest first days of the Francis pontificate.

Taken together, these various events don't half look like a textbook example of predictive programming...

The Next Stage of the Game-Plan

Having demonstrated the manner in which the original ''Kasper proposal'' was signalled and then developed, let us now consider the recently announced extension of this plan in relation to Catholic-Lutheran ''intercommunion''.

A brief review of some key events will remind us that this is neither so recent, nor as random, as we might at first think.

In his latest Avvenire interview, Kasper states that he hopes an ''unofficial document'' of the US Bishops' conference can be used to lever an opening for, what he describes in classically reductionist terms, ''Eucharistic sharing''. Perhaps an ''unofficial'' document will give Kasper and friends another chance to slickly subvert official teaching ''without touching doctrine''. Then again, maybe the resistance to the synodal manipulations and Amoris Laetitia has taught these strategists to seek a new approach. 

That ''unofficial'' US Bishops' document was, of course, big news in 2015. One key paragraph in that text suggests: ''The expansion of opportunities for Catholics and Lutherans to receive Holy Communion together would be a significant sign of the path toward unity already travelled and a pledge to continue together on the journey toward full communion.''

How that all fits with the constant teaching of the Magisterium remains to be seen...

This document came further into the limelight when a Lutheran lady, called Anke de Bernardinis, asked a seemingly random question of Pope Francis during his visit to a Lutheran temple in Rome in November, 2015.

Anke asked: ''Like so many in our community, I'm married to an Italian, who is a Roman Catholic Christian. We've lived happily together for many years, sharing joys and sorrows. And so we greaty regret being divided in faith and not being able to participate in the Lord's Supper together. What can we do to acheive, finally, communion on this point?''

Faithful Catholics were naturally disturbed when Pope Francis, having first quipped that it was difficult for him to answer with ''a theologian'' like Walter Kasper present in the audience - notice how that generates a psychological connection in the hearer's mind with his first Angelus address that paved the way for the first Kasper proposal! -, then gave a rambling ambiguous answer that included ''answering'' Anke with ''another question''.

Francis' concluding advice to, ''Pray and then go forward'' was particularly ambiguous and disturbing.

At the time of this meeting, I remarked to Angie that it was all beginning to look like predictive programming.

In light of that year's ''unofficial report'' from the US Bishops' conference, the Lutheran lady's question did not look so random after all. This sense was only reinforced when the relevant sections of the report became increasingly highlighted in the media.

Of course, Catholics everywhere were anxious that Pope Francis might pull some kind of ''intercommunion'' stunt at the shocking Lund meeting this October. Whilst this did not happen, it is worth revisiting an article we wrote here in the days immediately prior to that meeting.

On 24th October, 2016, we highlighted an interview given by England's Bishop William Kenney, co-chair of the international dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF).

Bishop Kenney's interview was remarkable because his interviewer - none other than Crux's Austen Ivereigh! - had tried to rewrite the history of the Reformation as just ''a big misunderstanding''.

Not only did Bishop Kenney acquiesce in this absurdly reductionist historical revisionism, but he also pointed out his desires for a ''pleasant revolution'' in Lund: namely, that Pope Francis might allow persons in mixed-marriages - specifically between a Lutheran and a Catholic - to receive Holy Communion together.

Bishop Kenney actually said to Ivereigh: ''The sort of thing that I would like to see is that in a so-called ecumenical marriage, the non-Catholic party can always go to Communion with his or her partner.''

This was like an answer to Anke's question all over again.

Indeed, there is some further backdrop to Bishop Kenney's suggestion, because similar desires were expressed to the media by the leftist, female Lutheran ''Archbishop'' Antje Jackelen.

For example, in January 2016, she pushed the notion into the culture by saying to Sweden's daily Dagen newspaper: ''We would like to officially receive approval for a joint celebration of the Eucharist. It is still something troublesome for a family in which one is Catholic and the other Lutheran, that they cannot go to the same communion table in a Catholic church.''

Indeed the Lutheran Church of Sweden even displayed the following message on its web-page during the controversial Lund visit:''What we foremost wish is that the common celebration of the Eucharist will be officially possible. This is especially important for families where members belong to different denominations.''

Bringing all of this right up to date, we now have Kasper's latest interview to Avvenire; in which he both expresses a desire for future ''inter-communion'' between members of mixed-marriages and even, if we are reading the translation correctly, lets slip that the Pope's declaration will allow this to happen.

And that whole unfolding of events looks like the fulfillment of a planned trajectory; with some predictive programming thrown in to gradually condition the populace to accept the seemingly inevitable.

It is also worth noting that this particular desire of Kasper's could not really have been acheived until the major battle over giving Holy Communion to adulterers had gotten underway. After all, if Holy Communion is allowed for unrepentant Catholics, then who is there left to stop anyone from giving Holy Communion to non-Catholics?

In this light, these developments might be seen as Part II of the Kasper proposal.

If you want to guess what Part III will entail, then just keep watching Kasper, Francis and their media favourites for more upcoming signals and trial balloons...

Called to Communion

April 1993 in the sacristy at English Martyrs church in Litherland, Liverpool: That's me in the middle of my family, with the Confirmation Chrism still glistening on my forehead, on the day that I was recieved into the Catholic Church. Mum, Dad and I became Catholics in three stages between 1989 - 1993. 

As a convert from Protestantism to the holy Catholic Faith, I would like to conclude with a brief point.

If any Lutheran, or any other non-Catholic, wishes to receive Holy Communion in a Catholic Church, then the process is really quite straightforward.

Receiving Holy Communion really gives witness to the fact that someone accepts that Jesus is Really Present in the Blessed Sacrament, that the Holy Mass is one with the Holy Sacrifice of Calvary, that Christ founded the Holy Catholic Church on St. Peter, the Apostles and their successors, and that everything the Catholic Church hands on in Sacred Scripture, Tradition and Magisterium is objectively true and necessary for salvation.

If you, by God's grace, come to believe all these things, then you are most welcome to seek instruction to be joyfully received into the Catholic Church and experience the deepest possible union with God and your spouse that is possible on this earth. This is what Christ desires for all of us.

If you still do not accept all, or even some of these things, then receiving Holy Communion would not only give a false sign of unity. It would also be a sacrilege against God, a grave harm to your own soul and a source of effective disunity in your marriage and the Church.

These are the truths that all people need to hear in order to come to salvation and sanctification. This is so, because none of us can save ourselves. We all need Jesus Christ and His full truth. Outside of the Catholic Church, there is no salvation.

Don't let anyone give you short change by leading you into sinful errors in this regard; whoever they happen to be, or whatever sophisticated means they have used to prepare you for their lies.  

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