Is the Vatican, intentionally, leading the Church away from Heaven?

 

Genesis 19:23-26

Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.

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Like many wholesome Catholics, I have been confounded by the actions of Pope Francis. Each day I cautiously open my laptop to see what is new in today’s Catholic world. (Politics is of no consequence to me because I feel, as I wrote in my last blog post, politics is not going to clean our mess… we must, somehow, get God back into the public arena. Only God can help us.)

The latest bad news was reported in The National Catholic Register on July 1. 

Pope Francis, on July 1, appointed Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández to head the Vatican's doctrinal office, tasking his longtime fellow-Argentine theological adviser to chart a new course for the office once responsible for investigating theologians for doctrinal orthodoxy. 

In a letter to the archbishop, published on July 1, Francis sent a clear message that the purpose of the influential office once known as "the Inquisition" was not to control theologians, but to promote new ways of evangelization and doing theology in the modern world. 

"The dicastery over which you will preside in other times came to use immoral methods. They were times when, rather than promoting theological knowledge, possible doctrinal errors were pursued," Francis wrote. "What I expect from you is certainly something very different."

"The different lines of philosophical, theological and pastoral thought, if they allow themselves to be harmonized by the Spirit in respect and love, can also make the church grow," the pope continued. "This harmonious growth will preserve Christian doctrine more effectively than any mechanism of control." (my emphasis)

The words I emphasized are examples of Francis’ ambiguity. What I’m trying to figure out, like many others, is what he actually means. With many examples over the years, Francis demonstrated his tolerance, almost acceptance of the sodomy lifestyle. The argument, by he and Catholic modernists, is we, the Catholic Church, must be a welcoming church by demonstrating love for all who feel left out. 

Francis seems to be confusing love with charity. On one hand, it is the virtue of charity that obligates Catholics to invite all to Catholicism. I welcome with open arms. However, if the people who wish to be included as members of Christ’s Church don’t like the rules (commandments and doctrine), and therefore do not intend to obey such rules, then it is at that point where they have the option of committing to the Church or going elsewhere. And, I think this is where the Vatican gets it wrong.

Drawing a very rough analogy, I can’t think of any club that would allow a member to join that intentionally violates the bylaws and regulations of said club. Comparing this to Holy Mother Church, the ‘love’ Francis speaks of is an injudicious love. It’s a love of lust, impulsiveness and rash. If a love relationship between 2 men were truly of the agape nature, they wouldn’t need lust and the desire for sexual relations. But, that’s how I see it.

So, I consulted a blog, written by Steve Skojac of OnePeterFive.com, titled, “Just How Evil is Sodomy? The Saints Weigh In”. This blog was penned in 2015 but does an excellent job of arguing the likes of Jesuit James Martin. It begins by describing the sins that cry out for vengeance:

In light of recent events, a theological concept that I’ve seen dusted off and put back into use with increasing frequency is that of a “sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.”

There are four such sins – murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages. Each of these is considered especially egregious to God. While there were, until recently, civil legal restrictions on all four, the first two in particular have been losing battles in the courts for at least half a century, with sodomy making huge legal advances in both Ireland and the United States in the past sixty days.

Mr. Skojac didn’t make this up. In the article he quotes St. Peter Damien, who authored The Book of Gomorrah and St. Catherine of Siena who writes of sodomy in what appears to be not her own mind, but God’s:

But they act in a contrary way, for they come full of impurity to this mystery, and not only of that impurity to which, through the fragility of your weak nature, you are all naturally inclined (although reason, when free will permits, can quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that this sin stinks before me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a divine judgment, my divine justice being no longer able to endure it. This sin not only displeases me as I have said, but also the devils whom these wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because their nature was originally angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin.

According to a January 28, 2023 article in the National Catholic Register, they write:

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, is one of Pope Francis’ closest aides and a leading figure of the Synod on Synodality. He has singled out critics of the process, calling them afraid of a “Church on the move” and saying they “know they won’t be able to stop” the synodal experiment. (my emphasis)

Regarding homosexuality, this same man, in February, 2022 stated, "I believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer true,". This year he claimed that Holy Scripture never addressed the subject. Leviticus 18:22 jump starts his stupid assertion, “Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.” only to be followed when St. Paul strongly adds: 1 Corinthians 6:9 “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites,” (my emphasis) 

What got my attention, recently he stated, in an open forum, that the synod isn’t about the “teachings of the Church”. That is a very scary statement. Not about the teachings of the Church? Christ’s Church? The Church that has lasted nearly 2,000 years in spite of people like him? An even more concerning question, has his idol worshiping of power replaced God? With papal aides like this, who needs enemies? 

So I ask, is Pope Francis intentionally leading to the wide road (of the abyss) as opposed to the narrow path? I will not go so far as to claim so, but I certainly don’t think he has Mother Church, the Bride of Jesus Christ, at heart either. True Charity would be to consider the number of Catholics sitting on the fence, deciding who they should follow. Unfortunately many Catholics are modernists. But there are those who simply can’t decide what path they should take. It breaks my heart to see this ‘blind obedience’ occur.

I will never deny our Lord and therefore will oppose the likes of Cardinal Hollerich by continuing to follow the teachings of Holy Mother Church. I pray for the Pope, his aides and especially for those drawn to the dark side of the church. Please join my if offering your daily rosary (if you don’t pray the rosary, start). We need our Blessed Mother to intercede for us. 

God Bless you