News Item: : Chilling Words in the Wall Street Journal
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Wednesday 23 May 2018 - 14:42:07

The spread of false teaching within the Church is a grave attack on Christ and on His Faithful.

Homoheresy

Rorate Caeli has drawn attention to a troubling piece in the Wall Street Journal, which has been issued in the wake of Pope Francis' un-Catholic ''God made you gay'' line.

In reflecting on Cardinal Reinhard Marx's ''proposal'' to perform blessings for some same-sex pairings, the Wall Street Journal's knowledgable Journal Rome correspondent has spoken of a ''civil war'' happening with the Catholic Church.

The Wall Street article concludes:''As more governments around the world legalize same-sex marriage, the Catholic Church's internal debate over whether to recognize such unions - and if so, how - is likely to get only more intense and fractious.''

As has so often been the case, the blasphemous nature of Francis' words have seriously undermined every single priest, parent, teacher, catechist and ordinary person at the workplace who tries to hand on the truths of the Faith to those under their care, or to those around them.

However, in this instance, given the very fact that governments are not only introducing same-sex ''marriage'' laws, but are increasingly clamping down on the ''thought-crimes'' of those who disagree, Francis has not only undermined them, but has even left them dangerously exposed to the winds of persecution.

A Troubling Realization

About 10 years ago, I was standing in our back garden thinking about the latest betrayal of some of our hierarchy in the field of atheistic sex-education, as well as their invitation to a pro-abortion MP to give a talk at an education event. Against the complaints of some priests and many lay people, including ourselves, the bishops in question doubled down.

In that time in the garden I was suddenly struck with the earth-shaking realization that, when the persecution of Catholics comes and increases, not only will some of the hierarchy not protect us, but they will even be involved in leading that persecution straight to us.

Ten years ago, that might have sounded a little extreme to some folks.

And I myself originally imagined it happening only in the field of sex-education and the spreading acceptance and enforcement of homosexual ideology.

From Euthanasia to Homosexuality

I could never have imagined back then that it would even include euthanasia.

Back then I never thought for one minute that we would ever witness scenes like we did recently here in Liverpool: wherein courts, a national health service and dozens of police officers prevented devoted parents from taking their own child out of a hospital to seek ongoing healthcare for their child; to instead uphold the forced euthanasia of that good and innocent child.

And never in my wildest nightmares would I ever have imagined that all of this would have been done with the full backing, nay blessing, of the bishops.

Or that some of those bishops would even force out a good priest who was defending the family, providing pastoral care and explaining Catholic Truth to opponents.

No, I never saw any of that coming.

Still, now it has happened and now we all do know exactly where we stand.

And so, to get back to the issue of homosexuality and the persecution of those who uphold Christ's teaching, as it has been securely handed down by the Sacred Magisterium through twenty centuries - it becomes ever more clear that key members of the hierarchy will not merely undermine the faithful, but will even leave them dangerously exposed to a hostile culture. Perhaps they will go so far as to take part in the persecution. It sure looks like they have already started to do so.

But this has all been coming down the pike for a long, long time.

To these realities, we can also factor in the speeches which Francis has given around the world, which label orthodox Catholics as ''rigid'' and as ''extremists''.

Hermeneutic of Continuity? Tsk!

We must contrast Francis' words this week with those of Pope Benedixt XVI; given at what would prove to be his final Christmas on the Chair of Peter in December, 2012.

Back then, in his annual speech to the curia, His Holiness reflected: ''According to the Biblical creation account, being created by God as male and female pertains to the essence of the human creature. This duality is an essential aspect of what being human is all about, as ordained by God.''

His Holiness next critiqued the post-modern rejection of masculinity and feminity, its rejection of the God-given ordering of human relations and the sexual faculty, and its denial of family life and the rights of children.

He concluded: ''When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker Himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God, as the image of God at the core of his being. The defence of the family is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears. Whoever defends God is defending man.''

That clear speech certainly upset some powerful movers and shakers in the Church and in the world. The mainstream media and LGBT leadership were up in arms.

How remarkable that, just two months later, Benedict shocked the world with his strange and sudden abdication.

How spooky, too, that just weeks after that Francis emerged into the night and began to enforce the final stages, towards the end game of the new paradigm.

Reaching the End Game

With his latest ''God made you gay'' line, a phrase which has now reached every corner of the globe, and which according to 1 Peter 5 is already being used against faithful Catholics in learning institutions like Providence College, Francis has moved even beyond his own earlier subversive ''Who am I to judge?'' comment.

And we've all seen the way that has been used to undermine Church teaching and practice.

Keep the Faith with God's Grace

Dear readers, the gravity of these times must not lead us to despair.

However, it is necessary to understand just where we are all at in the Church; as well as spiritually and culturally.

We need to keep going with Holy Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, Confession, Rosaries and periods of silent prayer with Our Lord each day.

In the end, we know victory is assured to those who remain faithful. But it looks like we are all in for a rough ride. May God strengthen us all.

Fruits...

Who is he to judge? 

Well, let's all keep watching and praying.

Matthew 7:16: By their fruits, you shall know them.

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