| | | OFFLINE | | Post: 32.532
Post: 14.618 | Registrato il: 28/08/2005
Registrato il: 20/01/2009 | Administratore | Utente Gold | |
|
I didn't quite know how to go about posting this. It's the biggest news of the day on the ecclesial front but it has not yet been reported by the Vatican media - at least not as of
1:00 am Tuesday, Feb 5, 2019, Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
It does not appear on the Vatican Press Office bulletin for February 4, but because of refernces to it in canon212.com's afternoon headline postings, I started looking it up online -
and was referred to the website of the 'Human Fraternity Meeting' which carried the photo above, as well as the full text of the document that was signed (of which I have
reproduced only the most alarming statement that the first Catholic commentators remarked upon). My own interest was piqued by why such a document was co-signed by
the pope and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in Egypt, implacable foe of Benedict XVI but apparently now a Bergoglio BFF.
The item that pointed me to that website had the following headline:
Muslim Council of Elders' 'Global Conference of Human Fraternity' outlines a vision of global fraternity in Abu Dhabi
which startled me! The reigning pope actually went to Abu Dhabi to attend a 'human fraternity meeting' convoked by the world's Muslim Council of Elders!
Yet the Vatican in announcing the pope's trip to Abu Dhabi last December only said this:
Vatican City, Dec 6, 2018 (CNA/EWTN News)- Pope Francis will travel to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates Feb. 3-5 to participate in an international interfaith meeting, the Vatican announced Thursday.
“This visit, like the one to Egypt, shows the fundamental importance the Holy Father gives to inter-religious dialogue. Pope Francis visiting the Arab world is a perfect example of the culture of encounter,” papal spokesman Greg Burke said Dec. 6.
The papal trip is the second visit to a Muslim country scheduled for 2019; Pope Francis will also visit Morocco March 30-31.
The Abu Dhabi trip’s theme is “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace,” a line taken from a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi, with a focus on “how all people of goodwill can work for peace,” according to the Holy See Press Office.
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued an invitation to Pope Francis, along with the Catholic Church in United Arab Emirates.
“We look forward to the pope’s historic visit aimed to maximize opportunities for dialogue and coexistence among nations,” the crown prince said, according to Al Arabiya...
What the Vatican never disclosed was this about the 'human fraternity meeting' - which it never even mentioned in the December 6 announcement.
Taking place under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the
UAE Armed Forces, the conference is convened by the Muslim Council of Elders, an Abu Dhabi-based independent international organisation
headed by His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Al Sharif, Dr Ahmed El-Tayeb, to discuss the encouragement of fraternity as a core human value.
Dr Sultan Faisal Al Remeithi, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Elders, said: “This distinguished forum in Abu Dhabi reflects the important cultural and
humanitarian role that the UAE plays in promoting a global culture of peace and reinforcing the key concept of citizenship while remaining respectful of diversity
and tolerance of different faiths.”
The conference is being held in conjunction with the inaugural visit of His Holiness Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City
State to the UAE. Under the theme “Make me a Channel of Your Peace”, Pope Francis’s visit – the first of its kind to the Arab Gulf region - represents a call for
global fraternal collaboration based on peaceful dialogue and cooperation, mutual tolerance, and a rejection of extremism and violence...
So now we know why Al-Tayyeb figured in the signing of the document - this was his project all along, into which he corralled the man who happens to be the world's most willing dhimmi. Which explains the otherwise puzzling words in the introductory paragraphs of the document, as follows:
This transcendental value [human fraternity] served as the starting point for several meetings characterized by a friendly and fraternal atmosphere where we shared the joys, sorrows and problems of our contemporary world. We did this by considering scientific and technical progress, therapeutic achievements, the digital era, the mass media and communications. We reflected also on the level of poverty, conflict and suffering of so many brothers and sisters in different parts of the world as a consequence of the arms race, social injustice, corruption, inequality, moral decline, terrorism, discrimination, extremism and many other causes.
From our fraternal and open discussions, and from the meeting that expressed profound hope in a bright future for all human beings, the idea of this Document on Human Fraternity was conceived. It is a text that has been given honest and serious thought so as to be a joint declaration of good and heartfelt aspirations. It is a document that invites all persons who have faith in God and faith in human fraternity to unite and work together so that it may serve as a guide for future generations to advance a culture of mutual respect in the awareness of the great divine grace that makes all human beings brothers and sisters..."
My first reaction on reading those two paragraphs was: "Wait, the pope has not even been in Abu Dhabi for 24 hours - how and when could these meetings have taken place?" I assumed the meetings meant he had met with most of the conferees - when it turns out the meetings referred to were the prior meetings he had had with Al-Tayyeb, resulting in a document that obviously was prepared way beforehand, and whose blathering platitudes, insincerities and hypocrisies I would not waste any time with. But others will, because there is so much to fisk in this document.
But obviously one cannot ignore the statement claiming that "The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings." It is, 'at best', Bergoglio's familiar religious indifferentism - unforgivable in a pope - now formally expressed in a document that he and Al-Tayyeb want to circulate to all the leaders of the world.
Yet a pope professing religious indifferentism is, in effect, apostasizing from the faith, as the first commentators on the document seemed to agree upon. An opinion expressed in the strongest terms, as follows:
Bergoglians are the party of apostasy...
by The Editor
February 4, 2019
Today, if not beforehand, Jorge Mario Bergoglio publicly and manifestly apostatized from the Catholic Faith, when he signed the “Human Fraternity Document” which professes all religions to be “willed by God in His wisdom.”
The Human Fraternity Meeting official website gives the text of the document: the outrageous affirmation is found under the second bullet point, which reads:
Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives.
Apostasy is apostasy, whether you apostasize in the bathtub or on the papal throne; whether you do so out of fear of being slain by a Jihadi or whether you do so for a mess of pottage, an invite form George Soros, or a photo op. The reason or cause or motive can be different, but the result is the same: you reject faith in the One True God.
While a man may apostasize by embracing a non-Christian Faith, such as Judaism or Islam, he can apostatize also by affirming that which destroys the entire faith. Thus, its apostasy to say such things as, “God does not exist” or “God is a devil”.
If you were to say God wills that religions be different and many, then you have also apostasized, because you are saying that God is indifferent to religion. But the god who is indifferent to religion is not the Christian God. So by saying such a thing, you have taken as your god, the Father of Lies.
Some of the most fundamental names of God, of which no Christian can feign ignorance, is that God is True, One, Good and exists. To deny any of these is apostasy....
In canon 1364 §1, the Pope levels excommunication latae sententiae against all apostates, even if they be the Pope. This is how the Pope in promulgating the Code of Canon Law protects Catholics from future popes who apostatize. Those who have not the faith will say, the Code of Canon law does not bind the pope (though canon 38 contradicts them), or that to deny God is the author of only one true religion is not apostasy (they will attempt to pretend that Judaism of old still exists, and that Talmudic Judaism is not another false religion). But Catholics know better.
Finally, they will call Catholics names for saying what I just said. Maybe they will even call me a “sedevacantist” — I am not, becauase I hold with Canon 332 §2 that Benedict is still the pope — but no Catholic, even those who still think that Benedict’s resignation is valid, are sedevacantists for holding such things, as it is simply common sense to say that Bergoglio is an apostate when he publicly signs a document which contains such a statement.
Please put your local priest on notice about what Bergoglio said, and INSIST that his name no longer be mentioned in the Canon. Catholics are right to disrupt the Mass, if need be, to shout down anyone who thinks otherwise. [That's in the same overwrought, hyperbolic and unrealistic tone as don Minutella's dictum that any Mass in which the priest mentions this pope in the Te igitur is thereby invalid because Bergoglio is not the legitimate pope.] We have this right, because God is a God of Truth, He is no condoner of falsehood of any kind. And our Baptism requires that we hold fast with God in this.
Please put your Favorite Cardinal on notice. Write or call or email him, however you can contact him. Remind him, that if he will not stand up and defend God as the author of One True Religion, he is an apostate too. [By that standard, all of the current crop of cardinals are apostates. If they didn't even have the backbone to join the Four Dubia cardinals in opposing Amoris laetitia, does anyone expect them to question an open apostasy by this pope?]
Remind the clergy, in particular, that if some sort of division arises among those who say that Bergoglio is by this an apostate and that he is not by this an apostate, that the division is not caused by those who say he is, but by Bergoglio for signing such a document, and by those who refuse to acknowledge the magnitude of that sin.
A gloria.tv commentary pointed out the following implication of Bergoglio's religious indifferentism:
This means that Francis considers Aztec human sacrifice rituals a God-willed religion like Islam or Judaism which explicitly contradict the Church regarding the Trinity and Christ's divinity.
The claim that "God" wills the existence of mutually exclusive religions implies that Francis's "God" equally wills the truth and the denial of it and therefore is, like the devil, a principle of contradictions.
But leaving aside the apostasies of Bergoglio for now - I have been saying all along that his sin is apostasy far more than just heresy - is it not revolting how duplicitous the Vatican was in presenting this trip to Abu Dhabi under false pretenses? This was obviously something concurred upon by Bergoglio and al-Tayyeb long before the Vatican's surprise annpuncement of the trip last December 6. A fait accompli they didn't even have the common sense to delay making public till the last day of the visit... Oh, Bergoglio's cabal with Al-Tayyeb also explains the inspiration for Bergoglio's word of the year - brotherhood, or fraternity. The inspiration was Muslim not Masonic, even if 'the brotherhood of man' happens to be one of the most famous of Masonic mantras. The Muslims expressly choose to use the word 'fraternity'.
P.S. L'Osservatore Romano does not come out on Mondays because the staff and press cannot work on Sundays, so I checked just now on today's issue of OR - and sure enough,
the Abu Dhabi document is duly 'immortalized' therein, with an editorial by Andrea Tornielli that leads off, not surprisingly but still outrageously, by evoking the meeting of
St. Francis of Assisi with an Egyptian sultan 800 years ago - as if there were any parallels at all between that episode and this pope's latest apostasy:
Does anyone really think that anything in the Abu Dhabi document will make the Muslim world give up their raison d'etre of world conquest,
or stop Islamist terrorist acts and random individual aggressions committed almost everyday by Muslims in 'Eurabia' against 'infidels'?
Is it not rather Bergoglio formalizing his dhimmitude and gladly handing to Islam what the Christian defenders at Tours, Vienna and Lepanto
had denied it?
NO! NO! NO!
[ [
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
'The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings'
- Document co-signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb
This mendacious piece of encumenospeak by two eminent religious leaders is astounding in its audacity. Neither party could possibly hold to such a statement, or sustain it with integrity, in concert with their co-religionists.
The challenges of the famous dubia (about aspects of Amoris Laetitia) are as nothing beside the defence which will be required of this unequivocal statement of divine indifferentism.
Not for the first time a pronouncement by Francis sounds more like Anglicanism than Catholicism. And more like empty virtue signalling than coherent theology.
Father Z has a very charitable take on the statement, giving Bergoglio every benefit of the doubt
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2019/02/francis-signed-document-saying-that-god-willed-the-pluralism-and-diversity-of-religions-whats-up-with-that/
- whereby Fr Z distinguishes between God's 'active and positive will' which can only be for the good, the true and the beautiful,
versus his 'permissive will' whereby he "allows evil and brings forth greater goods from the evil He permits"...
On the other hand, Aldo Maria Valli interviews a perplexed St. Francis of Assisi to whom Valli recounts what his namesake
has done in Abu Dhabi. I shall post the item as soon as I have translated it.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 05/02/2019 16:09] |