St. Catherine of Sienna's first letter to Pope Gregory XI:
"Oh, sweet and true knowledge... if he loves himself for his own sake
and not for God - he cannot do other than ill, and all virtue is dead
in him. Such a one is like a woman who brings forth her sons dead."
(The Letters of Saint Catherine of Sienna, page 86)
This
letter seems to be speaking to the Vatican II school of the Nouvelle
Theologie (New Theology) which is apparently central in Francis's
thinking.
This theology appears to substitute man's becoming for God's being.
Francis says Cardinal Walter Kasper is "profound." The National Catholic
Reporter called Kasper "the 'pope's [Francis's] theologian.'" His
theology is one extreme example of this school of thought.
Kasper appears to not believe in being, but only in becoming because of his Hegelian philosophy.
The philosopher Thomas Stark said that one of Kasper's central beliefs
is "historical process," that is man's historical becoming or change.
Remember that Francis's two favorite words are process and change.
In "German Idealism and Cardinal Kasper's Theological Project" for The Catholic World Report, Stark wrote:
"Kasper's...'spirit' that--Kasper himself says--is not identical to the
third divine person, but is much more reminiscent of Hegel's absolute
spirit, who in a historical process, synthesizing it's dialectical
opposites in itself, develops into the whole."
Speaking of the less heretical theologians than Kasper and his disciple
Francis who were members of Nouvelle theologie who believe in process or
becoming and the dangers of this thinking, Fr. James McLucas, the
former editor of the Latin Mass magazine, in a lecture said:
"It appears to emphasis the Person of Jesus, the Person of the Holy
Spirit and the Person of the Father and the personal manner of each
individual's sanctification as being created in the image of God."
"But here is the key. This is all true.We certainly need this emphasis.
But personhood if it is not fully subjected to being and the objective
nature of God, then personhood becomes often the vehicle for the
substitution of man's becoming for God's being."
If one substitutes man's becoming for God's being then man is becoming nothing. Here is why:
If one believes in being, one believes a thing is a thing.
God is the fullness or total actuality of all things or being and is their creator. Our purpose or goal in life to go to God.
God is not a Kasperian "historical process" or change.
If one believes only in becoming without being, one believes nothing is becoming nothing or death.
G. K. Chesterton put it best:
"Most thinkers on realizing the apparent mutablility of being, have
really forgotten their own realization of the being and believe only in
the mutablility...It is only change."
"It would be more logical to call it nothing changing into nothing than
to say (on this principles) that there ever was a moment when the thing
was itself. St. Thomas maintains that the ordinary thing at any moment
is something, but it is not everything it could be...While they describe
a change which is really a change in nothing, he describes a
changelessness which includes the change of everything."
"Things change because they are not complete, but their reality can only
be explained as part of something that is complete. It is God." (The
Dumb Ox)
If man goes to God who is Being Itseft then he receives the gifts of grace, truth and eternal life.
If men like Kasper and his disciple Francis substitutes man's becoming
or change over and against God's Being or Changelessness then he gets
nothing and eternal death.
The question needs to be asked since Francis's favorite word is change
remembering what Chesterton said "it would be more logical to say it is
nothing changing into nothing" which is what one gets if one is a
disciple of Kasper:
Does Francis believe in nothing and eternal death according to G. K. Chesterton?
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
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- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
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