Nobody will ever know now the truth. According to this blogger, he had a deep love for both Christ and the Church and, faced with an ultimatum, he buried/massaged his conscience as an act fidelity to the Church: https://teilhard.com/life-of-teilhard-de-chardin/crisis-of-obedience-1924-1926/ Sounds to me like Jesuit speak for he wanted to have his cake and eat it but we must be careful not to speak ill of the dead, especially the Jesuit dead. Lord have mercy on his soul. Wouldn't your heart go out to a priest "exiled" to pursuing his interests around the world when no doubt he yearned to be a humble priest. Maybe these modernist Jesuits and their students have already been drawn closer to the Omega Point than the rest of us because they sure seem to inhabit a different planet than the one I'm living on. Incidentally, Teilhard's beliefs don't seem all that different than something Moses Hess described as doing the rounds in Protestant Germany when he was making his journey towards Zionism.
My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I read this. Shock, horror, shock; then some. I feel numbed; horror stricken
It's just another "Brick in the Wall"! The Wall of Division, Confusion and Spiritual Turmoil that has become the legacy of Pope Francis' Reign. God Wills It! Let us therefore focus on Jesus in whom we TRUST!! Good Friday is a fine day to focus on Jesus, The Cross, Eternity and our Salvation! GOD SAVE ALL HERE!
Yes, good analogy...numbed horror strickened. Had all I could do last night not to cry my eyes out at adoration of our Lord. This Lent has put me through an emotional wringer and yesterday I became a train wreck. How long O Lord?
After 5 sit downs with this Pope, Scalfari, the atheist, at his ripe old age, doesn't appear to have been converted to belief....and I think I can understand why!!
More than likely this is what the world is surmising (and priests put on the spot are already using - some really good ones replying to questions about this as just more "fake news").....due to how these things, like the historical pattern now is being established, continue to be handled at the top....w/o responsibility. Does it appear to be a kind of deliberate tactical manipulation of minds and hearts? Vatican Refuses to Disavow Pope’s Alleged Denial of Hell In reaction to reports that Pope Francis has denied the existence of hell, the Vatican has released a carefully worded statement that does not refute the substance of the claims. ....In other words, the Vatican denies that the article contains a faithful transcription of the pope’s “exact words” without taking issue with the basic content of the conversation. What is interesting is what is not said. The statement does not say that the author’s reconstruction of the conversation is erroneous, and nor does it deny that the pope said that hell does not exist. ......... Over the years of his pontificate, the pope has given a number of informal interviews to Mr. Scalfari and it has been generally understood that he uses this vehicle to get his ideas out, especially more controversial ones, while always maintaining a certain degree of plausible deniability if something Scalfari relates causes problems. After one such papal interview with Scalfari in 2013, veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen offered advice as to how these conversations should be read. He noted that though the words may not always be precise (since Scalfari does not record his conversations or take notes, but recreates them from memory), the content is generally trustworthy. “Look, Italian journalism has many strengths, but a passion for factual accuracy is not among them. It is what it is,” Allen said. “The takeaway is, the big picture is accurate,” he said. “I don’t think, in any fundamental way, he misrepresented the pope’s thought. But I also think it’s impossible to know where Francis ends and Scalfari begins, at the level of detail. I would just be very careful. I, myself, will not take any direct quotes out of that interview and present them as coming from the pope.” http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/03/30/vatican-refuses-disavow-popes-denial-hell/ Pray very hard for this Pope. Satan's goal is to take down the place of Peter/the authority, and can use the weaknesses of the individual occupying that place as his means. This current "softening", in the background, of the backbone, before going in for the kill, is what seems to be permeating the world via the Illuminati/means of worldly communications/social media, etc. Reminds me of when the picadors are sent into the arena with the job of wounding, with their spears, the strong neck muscle of the bull, so it will drop its head into a more favorable position to a greater advantage for the matador to use his sword for the final kill. The ego has a strong pull for all.
First of all, I send greetings for a Blessed Easter for all. Second, I am willing to guess that Pope Francis has a hard time saying the Fatima prayer, "O my Jesus, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of Your mercy." Divine Mercy novena starts today, don't miss the opportunity for complete remission of the penalties due to sins.
I think Satans goal is not to pull down the authority of the Chair of Peter but clearly to use it to his own ends. When we look at the membership of not only the Catholic church but also the Protestant churches we see the same things. Decline and the intentional subversion of the Traditional for modernism. This is no coincidence. This also is playing out for the Masons as well with declining membership in their organization. The world, is either becoming very pagan or it is abandoning all thought of God and worshiping at the alter of hedonism and luxury. This makes mankind so incredibly easy to control when there is no higher truth than ones own base desires.
Albert Pike said it best; ‘We will unleash the Nihilists and atheists, and we will provoke a formidable social catastrophe which, in all its horror, will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, original savagery, and the most bloody turmoil. ‘Then everywhere the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the majority of world revolutionaries, will extinguish the destroyers of civilizations; and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that time without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out to the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general revolutionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.’
Yes, I have to agree that satan is trying to use the authority of the Chair of Peter to use for evil purposes. Why would CNN make an entire series about the Pope? They call the series Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History It's like they want to prop up the Pope now that we have Pope Francis, but in all the episodes they don't show orthodox popes in a favorable light, they only feature the popes who were questionable in their morality. Perplexing times that we are enduring. May God help us in the struggle.
Good Friday So, again we see the same Holy Father. We see it on airplane interviews as well as with this elderly journalist. He uses these two events to say something controversial and the whole world begins to debate. I have seen it on conservative... as well as liberal websites. I'm not sure if it is positive but it is the first time hell has been in the global conversation. It will make many stronger but hopefully it won't lose souls. Not sure of the Holy Fathers intentions but when you have this type of debate globally it is very interesting. As for his alleged statement. Reminder nothing is recorded. "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls."[75] There is some truth to statement. In the last judgement, God will either welcome you or not let you in to His kingdom. It's not really punishment. The individual soul made his/her decision. So God doesn't punish. We punish ourselves for not believing in God. And yes when you don't enter the kingdom of God you disappear. But you disappear from the very essence of God. That means you are in the opposite of what God is. Opposite of goodness, charity, love, Justice, and many other attributes. So, that place you disappear to...is a place absent of God. Which means it is a place evil, greed, selfishness, hate and lies. There is no hell but a place devoid of God. In our material world we call this place hell. And have used it as a way to teach generations. The Holy Father is not really wrong but without some serious explanations...it might turn a lot of people away from the truth. But it also makes many of us stronger. Yes Hell is real...but Hell is only a word to explain a spiritual place. It's meaning is a mystery. May Gods Will be Done
It is not kind to do this to his children. Leave us in confusion as to what he could possibly have meant. I cried for a time last night in fear for the possible loss of souls this could cause. It is not kind. May the Lord have mercy.
Hell is what Jesus mentioned more than once in the Scriptures, and it is also what Our Lady showed to the children at Fatima, and what Our Lord showed to St. Faustina, among others. So there is no mystery in my mind about Hell.
If the Pope did not say this then the Vatican should say "The Pope did not say this. He believes in Hell, the eternal life of all souls, and all Catholic teachings." To say "These are not exact quotes." is not enough.
"Show me the tape recording" is becoming something of a fall-back of Vatican deniability. The last time they used it was when they were suggesting that the Apostles misquoted Jesus on marriage and adultery. Are there no tape recorders in the Vatican which the Pope could use to accurately record interviews with journalists they claim have a habit of misquoting him?
let us remember Our Lord's words Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Mark 9:43 And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire: Matthew 5: 27-30 You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 28But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell. 30And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell. and more..
And if a Pope scandalizes thee? continuously? Are there any prelates left to cut him off? Divine intervention cant be too far away.