Insight

Thanks for posting this Kathy. I needed to hear it... for more reasons than the contents of this thread...

 

Didn't the abomination of desolation happen in the first century when the Romans attacked Jerusalem and worshipped one of their idols in the Temple holy of holies, prompting the first Christians to flee Jerusalem?

As far as I know, the Church has a procedure to de-sanctify churches before they are sold off, and any relics are removed from altars. The sign that we Catholics must watch out for is when the Eternal Sacrifice of the Mass will be banned throughout the world.

 

This is exactly what is needed.
Thank you.

 

http://www.markmallett.com/blog/joy-in-gods-law/

 

Hi all. Have been looking at your discussions on the subject of the crisis in the Church for over 2 years now. As I reflected om these matters , four points came to mind on what I should do, this brought me peace. (1) Pope Francis, what ever you feel about him, is the Pope. He is not an anto Pope or false prophet, nor will he become so We all should pray for Him, as you would do for a beloved Father.
(2) Remain in the boat, the Church.
(3) Remember we are all brothers and sisters in Christ parts of His mystical Body. If we start fighting among ourselves, we do great harm to His Church.
(4) Remain faithful to the truth and defend it, to the point of death. the truth is to be found in the Gospels and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Most of the hot button issues have been dealt with by JP2. in his long papacy, he has given us all the answers. All on the forum know this . We all know that a divorced and civilly remarried persons who refuse to amend their lives can not receive the Eucharist, that contraception use is intrinsically evil, never to be used. That there is no good at all to be found in sexual unions between people of the same sex. They do great harm to their bodies and souls.
.Do not be confused, keep it simple, if someone contradicts the truth they are wrong even if it is the Pope.
Care is needed when you post remember the whole world if they want can read this,do not come to rash judgments about any person.
GODS BLESSING Peace and Joy.

 

According to my studies of prophecy this Pope is not the antipope or false prophet.
Your insight make sense, except for the person of the false prophet. and it is possible that we will have a mistaken and precipitated schism. this schism will benefit the future and real fale prophet.

 

Thank you Kathy, this is really helpful, time to 're focus on walking the narrow path looking neither right or left.

 

Cardinal Sarah on modern paganism

The atheistic West is endangering the whole world

Cardinal Sarah is aware of the great dangers to the entire world of today’s situation in especially the European Union, the United States and Canada.

p.146 I think that the immense economic, military, technological, and media influence of a godless West could be a disaster for the world. If the West does not convert to Christ, it could end up making the whole world pagan; the philosophy of unbelief feverishly seeks followers in new parts of the globe. In this sense, we are facing an atheism that is proselytizing more and more. The pagan culture is determined to extend the domain of its struggle against God. In order to bring about their rebirth, the former countries of the old Christian tradition need to re-energize by embarking on a new evangelization.

 

Me too! Thank you.

 

Mark Mallett's writings are so needed at this time on this forum. Please allow me to post just the initial paragraphs:


MUCH has been said in this Jubilee Year of Mercy about the love and mercy of God toward all sinners. One could say that Pope Francis has really pushed the limits in “welcoming” sinners into the bosom of the Church. [1] As Jesus says in today’s Gospel:

Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn the meaning of the words, I desire mercy, not sacrifice. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.​

The Church does not exist, as it were, to be some kind of a spiritual “country club”, or worse, a mere custodian of laws and doctrines. As Pope Benedict said,

So often the Church’s counter-cultural witness is misunderstood as something backward and negative in today’s society. That is why it is important to emphasize the Good News, the life-giving and life-enhancing message of the Gospel. Even though it is necessary to speak out strongly against the evils that threaten us, we must correct the idea that Catholicism is merely “a collection of prohibitions”. —Address to Irish Bishops; VATICAN CITY, October 29, 2006​

And yet, I think there is a gap today in the Church’s missionary activity between the extremes of “mercy without the law” and the “law without mercy.” And it is the witness of those who proclaim not only the great joy in knowing God’s love and unconditional mercy, but the joy that comes from following His laws. Indeed, the world’s protagonists do a good job of painting the doctrines of the Church as stifling, fun-killing statutes. But in truth, it is precisely in living God’s Word that a soul’s thirst for peace is quenched and the bread of happiness is consumed.

Yes, days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD. Then shall they wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east In search of the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. (Today’s first reading)
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It is hard not to read Amos’ prophecy and see its fulfillment in our day, for those who preach the fullness of the Good News are few and far between. And the Good News is not only that God so loved us that He sent His only Son to die for us, but that He has left us a means to abide in that love: His commandments.

 

Ah there you are Kathy!

 

Mark likes to play the field and doesnt actually say anything.A few quotes and nothing.

 

It makes me so sad to read your response, Mac. Because it reveals how 'closed' you are. The Holy Spirit can only speak to an open heart. I suspect your heart is still open but that your brain is dominating everything. You are holding on to intellectual beliefs and are dismissing anything that challenges them.

There is honesty in your response and, I suspect, you provide a witness to your family and those around you that actually conflicts with the words you post on this forum. Read Mark's piece in full because the article is about the importance of the witness of our faith to those around us.

 

I did only read your highlights. I will read the full article.

You are holding on to intellectual beliefs ..

Well, Ive never been accused of holding anything intellectual before. Thankyou [I think]

 

here is some insight

 

Geeeez Mac. Take a break and recheck your charity and judgement on Mark. You have taken your smite to new lows.

 

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=28736
Pope preparing for Protestants to receive Communion?
Catholic World News

July 01, 2016

Veteran Vatican journalist Sandro Magister argues that Pope Francis is preparing the way for Protestants and Catholics to share the Eucharist, in an essay for L'Espresso.

Magister points to an article in La Civilta Cattolica, the influential Jesuit journal, that argues the Pope's advice to a Lutheran woman represented a change in papal teaching, similar to the change that Pope Francis introduced in Amoris Laetitia regarding the reception of the Eucharist by Catholics who are divorced and remarried. The Pope is not suggesting an outright change in Catholic doctrine, the Civilta Cattolica article contends, but is taking "small steps forward" by encouraging individuals to act in accordance with their own consciences.

The intepretation put on the Pope's words by Civilta Cattolica is particularly important, Magister observes, because articles in the Jesuit journal are approved in advance by the Holy See. In fact, Magister reports, the Pope himself "reviews and adjusts the articles that most interest him before their publication."

References:

• Communion For All, Even For Protestants (L'Espresso)

 

Modern day Pharisees. So sad. But I'll keep praying for them

 

This better Mac? Geesh is right.

 

http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2610-the-gall-of-the-st-gallen-mafia
The Gall of the St. Gallen Mafia Featured
Darkness descended onto Piazza di San Pietro into the evening hours of March 13, 2013, as the successor to the resigned Benedict XVI, was introduced to the Cat holic Church.

Invited onto the balcony, a mere arm’s length from the new Pontiff, Cardinal Godfried Danneels surveyed the massive crowd during the announcement of the papal election of Jorge Bergoglio. There, on the Loggia of St. Peter’s, he stood, sending a message with his smug triumphant gaze.

Rewarded for his unstinting loyalty and ecclesial political prowess, he stands prominently with the Pontiff, as an acknowledgement from his peers that Danneels’ handpicked choice is finally elevated to the Chair of St. Peter.

Decked out in his ceremonial scarlet, Belgian Cardinal Danneels proudly stood as the victorious mastermind behind the clandestine St. Gallen group of European prelates who plotted since 1996 to elect a radical reformer pope. Early on, the St. Gallen group identified their prime papal contender as Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, confident that he would radically transform and modernize the Catholic Church in their image and likeness. They kept their scheme and racket carefully under wraps.

They nearly won the turf war in 2005 when John Paul II died. The St. Gallen group scrambled for their opportunity to install their man, yet fell short. Their papal politicking tallied a second place papal ballot finish for Bergoglio, but ultimately he lost out to the conservative Car dinal Ratzinger. Media reports state that the St. Gallen group never met after 2006. Perhaps, they never met again in St. Gallen, or possibly they changed their name and met elsewhere.

Frustration was building. They were running out of precious time, as the St. Gallen group aged and, more importantly, Jorge Bergoglio was rapidly growing too old for papabile. The dream of modernizing the Church was slipping through their ecclesial fingers. Worst of all, a relatively healthy Benedict occupied the Chair of Peter as an impenetrable impediment to their plans.

Apart from the devil, there is no more unforgiving enemy, than random Father Time.

The clock was ticking. Without divine intervention, Benedict appeared firmly ensconced in the Seat of Peter. The St. Gallen Prelates couldn’t wait another 3 or 4 years for his earthly demise. Besides Cardinal Bergoglio was already 76, and soon, he would be too old to be elected Pope.

Then, the unthinkable happened. Lightening struck St. Peter’s.
“You can’t hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don’t be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You’re a very lucky fellow.” ~Mario Puzo,The Godfather

Lightning struck, when Pope Benedict, the man who had stood in the way of Bergoglio’s papal fortunes, abdicated the throne of Peter. With a crack of thunder out of the dark blue sky, the long-awaited plans of St. Gallen would enfold behind the conclave curtain.

Danneels and his St. Gallen co-conspirators quickly and skillfully engineered the election of their designated pope-in-waiting, the Cardinal of Buenos Aires. Bergoglio was elected Pope by the College of Cardinals, and the rest, is heresy.

Having successfully engineered their papal takeover, Cardinal Danneels couldn’t contain his bravado. The pompous prelate needed public credit for his masterful plot. At the release of his biography, the Belgian Cardinal broke the cardinal (‘scuse the pun) rule of Omertà, the strict code of silence, by proudly bragging that the St. Gallen group anointed Bergoglio. Daneels laughingly disclosed at the book press conference that the St. Gallen group was dubiously christened by the group as the “mafia.”

For nearly 2 decades, this secret cabal schemed and plotted to install Jorge Bergolio of Buenos Aires as the 266th pontiff to drastically reform the Catholic Church.

Godfried, the Godfather sought acclaim for the Bergoglio election, thus demonstrating the famous line of the Godfather, “vanity is my favorite sin.”

What does it say about the papal selection of Bergoglio that one of his chief promoters characterizes the papal plotters as mafia?

What kind of man, a Prince of the Church, no less, flippantly brags about being a member of the St. Gallen group which he describes as the ‘mafia’?

What kind of man, a Cardinal, proudly proclaims that he and his clandestine group of prelates named themselves after the violent criminal organization that kills for money and power, terrorizes and blackmails ordinary citizens, and dominates with murderous savagery and intimidation?

What kind of papabile surrounds himself with supporters who boast that they are the mafia?

What manner of high Church officials call themselves the mafia, after the criminal organization that strong arms the weak, silences the vocal, and flexes political muscle with intimidation?

It’s not the first time that Danneels, the Bergoglio kingmaker and St. Gallen Don, tried to silence a victim. In 2010, he attempted to cover up years of sex abuse involving his close friend and fellow bishop. Worse yet, the child abuser was the victim’s uncle, Roger Vangheluwe, Bishop of Bruges, Belgium. In the meeting with the victim, the intimidating Cardinal Danneels directed the abuse victim to remain silent about the abuse and “ask for forgiveness” and to “acknowledge your own guilt.”

Danneels got caught covering up this clergy sex scandal when the victim secretly recorded the conversation (a successful government tactic often used against the mafia). Over the years, Danneels honed his intimidation skills to silencing victims and covering up clergy abuse. Yet the powerful Cardinal suffered no consequences and continued to plot and scheme for the election of Jorge Bergoglio as Pope.

This man fears no one and is not constrained by Church doctrine, biblical teaching or the Magisterium, all of which he swore to uphold in his episcopal vows. Despite that solemn vow, Danneels encouraged the Belgian King to sign an abortion law and supported a gay marriage amendment in Belgium. Yet, despite Danneels’ public scandals, Francis chooses him as his personal representative to the Synod on the Family!

Loyalty is the most prized virtue in the Mafia, “Loyalty is everything, Loyalty is royalty,” apparently, also among the Princes of the Church.

Others of the St. Gallen members have been rewarded for their loyalty to Jorge Bergoglio: in particular, German Cardinal Walter Kasper who serves as powerful doctrinal capo in the Francis papacy.

The haunting question still lingers: what caused Pope Benedict to abdicate?

Did the St. Gallen Mafia put heat on Ratzinger to step down?

Did the Mafia Monsignors make Benedict an offer he couldn’t refuse?

Did the St. Gallen Mafia strong arm Benedict?

Did they blackmail Benedict?

Pope Francis remains in the Seat of Peter, as the hand picked choice of the St. Gallen Mafia.

In every mafia, there lurks a mole, a man with a nagging conscience.

Someone knows what happened the night that lightening struck St. Peter’s.

Be not afraid to speak.