THE DEVIL IN ROME

The Vortex by Michael Voris, October 17, 2015

INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS or INSTRUMENTUM SACRILEGIUM?

Comment at The Vortex by Will Branson

Clearly, the only thing this Synod is NOT about is pastoral care. In reality, it’s between the forces of light and darkness, just like the battle of the good angels and bad angels that took place in heaven eons ago. The whole purpose of creation was to establish God’s kingdom in heaven.

Our church consists of the church militant, the church suffering and, of course, the church triumphant. The last includes the angels and saints united to God in heaven by perfect charity. It should hardly be surprising what occurs on earth mirrors what happens in heaven since both man and angels, if faithful, are destined to share the same eternal abode

Because the angels were not created in beatitude, they too had pass through a wayfaring state just as we do. In that sense, there was an angelic “church militant” which had to fight against the angels who surrendered to their thirst for self-made glory instead seeking it through obedience to their creator. Because the angelic nature is far superior to our own, they do things a lot quicker and more resolutely than us, so their wayfaring state was much briefer. Aside from that, the beginning of God’s kingdom in heaven with the angels mirrors his kingdom on earth. For the church militant down here must battle the forces stifling obedience to our common creator. Just like the bad angels, the rebellious bishops, through pride and hatred for God, seek to desecrate the Word Incarnate by disobedience to his commands and the promotion of blasphemy to his Real Presence via Eucharistic sacrilege.

In retrospect, the parallel may be closer than we think since the original angelic test of obedience probably required the worship of an incarnated God-man and his mother who they were told would be the progenitors of a new species created to share the divine glory. After all, in the Protoevangelium (pregospel) of Genesis 3:15, Satan appears to be already familiar with the god-man and his mother.

I suspect that it might have been God’s plan to choose a man like Jorge Bergoglio instead of one like Raymond Burke. Had he picked the latter, this apparently destructive Synod would never have been called. Why is that good? Because the rebellious forces in the Church have been allowed to build up year after year, and gain strength after strength, despite the fact that 3 superlative popes preceded Francis. The years of tension build-up between the tectonic plates of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, obedience and rebellion, darkness and light, grace and sin, darkness and light inevitably result in an earthquake, rupture or schism. The rebel bishops, having grown and gathered their forces, are convinced that now is the time for a takeover – a change in management, as it were. But the insurrection planned by the unfaithful prelates and their shadow councils isn’t at all like the lightning angelic war in heaven was. Lucifer lost the last one, and he’s not about to be fooled again. This time the take-over is more sly and stealthy, a gradual erosion and attrition, so glacially slow that most observers aren’t even aware there is a war going on. More like a slow chess game where the opponent is gradually maneuvered into a corner and checkmated. And what better corner than Rome, itself?

One poster today complained that Pope Francis should intervene and send all the wayward bishops home. Jorge Bergoglio worked briefly as a bouncer in Buenos Aries after graduation but I responded by saying that wasn’t the way it happened in heaven, nor can it be that way on earth. Bishops must be free to choose just as were the angelic leaders and their followers.

If Francis intervened and demanded a pledge of allegiance to Church dogma, and sent home those who refused, what would be accomplished? They would belittle Francis and ask him why he even called a synod in the first place. The Kasper crowd would continue to spread their poison unabated. Moreover, most of unfaithful bishops would lie and then, like Judas, return home and continue to
spread their poison.

The schism that Gerhard Muller warned about is catastrophically serious, however, as Aquinas points out, the worst sin of all is unbelief or a complete renunciation of the faith. Schism is a sin against ecclesiastical unity which is a participated good while unbelief is a sin against God himself, who is the highest good (Question 39, Art. 2, Part II-II). Thus it’s better for the Body of Christ to be without those parts infected with cancer, for if they’re not cut off, the whole body will die. Deacon Nick Donnelly warned about the temptation to schism for loyal Catholics were the Synod to recommend the Eucharist for the divorced and remarried AND Pope Francis accepted their intention. But I think that scenario is impossible despite classical arguments to the contrary from Suarez and Bellarmine.

In contrast, the alternative scenario of the German and European bishops splitting from the church is quite possible. Still, it’s hard to say what they would do if push came to shove. Unlike ultra-traditionalist schismatic clerics (like SSPX) who have devoted and generous followers, ultra-liberal clerics usually have flaky and pusillanimous devotees (cheapskates). That would be an issue if German state taxes for the church were not transferable. It would be awfully hard for the bishops to take public transit to work – like Francis did as an archbishop – instead of a BMW 750.

Some argue that we should try to keep such bishops in the fold because one schism leads to another and another. Indeed it does, which is why we now have 40,000 Catholic Church simulacra. Regrettably, there is nothing you can do about that. Maybe after the Synod there will be 40,001. However, the remaining Church will still be One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. And the non servium bishops who leave will have done so by their own will, just as the bad angels did. Because serving Jesus Christ, on earth or in heaven, is hell for those who hate him. Hence their real agenda of insulting the throne of God and Our Lord by attempting to institutionalize sacrilege at the Church’s very core.

 

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