"Some... assembled [Council] prelates advocated... harsh measures
towards the [Semi-Arian] Arianizers... Athanasius, however, proposed
more temperate measures... A decree was passed, that such [Semi-Arian] bishops as had
communicated with the Arians through weakness or surprise, should be
recognized in their respective sees, on signing the Nicene formulary;
but that those, who publicly defended the heresy, should only be
admitted to lay-communion... Yet it cannot be denied, that men of zeal
and boldness were found among the [Semi-Arian] Arianizers. Two laymen,
Flavian and Diodorus, protested with spirit against the [unambiguous
Arian] heterodoxy of the crafty Leontius, and kept alive an orthodox
[Catholic] party in the midst of the [Arian] Eusebian communion."
(The Arians of the Fourth Century, By John Henry Newman, Pages 198-199)
'Yet the men were better than their creed; and it is satisfactory to
be able to detect amid the impiety and worldliness of the heretical
party any elements of a purer spirit, which gradually exerted itself
and worked out from the corrupt mass, in which it was embedded. Even
thus viewed as distinct from their political associates, the
Semi-Arians are a motley party at best; yet they may be considered as
Saints and Martyrs, when compared with the Eusebians, and in fact some
of them have actually been acknowledged as such by the Catholics of
subsequent times. Their zeal in detecting the humanitarianism of
Marcellus and Photinus, and their good service in withstanding the
{300} Anomœans, who arrived at the same humanitarianism by a bolder
course of thought, will presently be mentioned. On the whole they were
men of correct and exemplary life, and earnest according to their
views; and they even made pretensions to sanctity in their outward
deportment, in which they differed from the true Eusebians, who, as
far as the times allowed it, affected the manners and principles of
the world. It may be added, that both Athanasius and Hilary, two of
the most uncompromising supporters of the Catholic doctrine, speak
favourably of them. Athanasius does not hesitate to call them brothers
[Note 7]; considering that,
however necessary it was for the edification of the Church at large,
that the Homoüsion should be enforced on the clergy, yet that the
privileges of private Christian fellowship were not to be denied to
those, who from one cause or other stumbled at the use of it [Note
8]. It is remarkable, that the Semi-Arians, on the contrary, in
their most celebrated Synod (at Ancyra, A.D.
358) anathematized the holders of the Homoüsion, as if crypto-Sabellians
[Note 9]."
[http://www.newmanreader.org/works/arians/chapter4-2.html]
- Cardinal John Henry Newman
How many conservative Catholics does it
take to screw a light bulb to see that the Communion for adulterers
heresy and the COVID hysteria are hoaxes?
Two: One to screw the light bulb to see their beloved Francis the almighty and a
second to say the Communion for adulterers heresy can't be corrected and
the COVID is really, really the Black Plague because the always infallible Francis the almighty says
so and he is definitely the pope no matter the evidence because there has never been an anti-pope in Catholic history and maybe some future pope can correct
the Communion for adulterers heresy and maybe tell us that the COVID wasn't the Black Plague and maybe that future pope will end
the banning of the Mass and etc...
Might Francis be a Modernist heretic?
Francis's closest adviser and collaborator Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez
Maradiaga apparently declared himself, Francis and all liberals to be
total Modernist heretics since Vatican II:
"The Second Vatican Council... meant an end to the hostilities between the Church and Modernism...
Modernism was, most of the time, a reaction against injustices and
abuses that disparaged the dignity and rights of the person."
(Whispers in the Loggia Website, "The Council's 'Unfinished Business,'
The Church's 'Return to Jesus"... and Dreams of "The Next Pope" - A
Southern Weekend with Francis' 'Discovery Channel,'" October 28, 2013 and see: //catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-evidence-that-pope-francis-is.html?m=1)
Conservative Catholic Milo Yiannopoulos in his book "Diabolical" reported:
"Since Vatican II, most popes have been preoccupied with holding
together the conservative [Semi-Modernist] and liberal [Modernist heretic]
factions that emerged in its wake."
Why are almost all the conservative present day
bishops and conservative Catholics so afraid of a schism with the
Modernist heretic faction?
Might
it be because like in the Arian crisis when there were Arians and
Semi-Arians so today there are Semi-Modernists who because of "weakness" don't want schism and want communion with the total Modernist heretics?
Remember what Cardinal Newman said:
"Athanasius, however, proposed
more temperate measures... A decree was passed, that such [Semi-Arian] bishops as had
communicated with the Arians through weakness or surprise, should be
recognized in their respective sees, on signing the Nicene formulary;
but that those, who publicly defended the heresy, should only be
admitted to lay-communion."
Semi-Arians
were those who attempted the practically almost impossible task of
being loyal to the traditional teachings of the Church while holding on
to Semi-Arian ambiguous teachings because they were afraid of being in
schism with the total Arian heretics.
So
today, it appears that most conservative Catholics like the
Semi-Arians have tried to do the
practically almost impossible task of being loyal to the infallible
teachings of the Church while holding on to Semi-Modernist
ambiguous teachings as well as the ambiguities of Vatican II because
they are afraid of being in schism with the Modernist heretics.
Newman said that during the Arian Heresy Crisis 80% of the
bishops were heretics which is probably similar to the number of bishops
who today have fallen into Modernism or Semi-Modernism.
Columnist Chris Jackson writes that the Semi-Modernist whom he says have the Neo-Modernist
faith by simple statistics show that their Modernism has led to
the collapse of the Catholic faith in America and the world:
"It is a shame that the [Semi-Modernist] Neo-Catholics interviewed
simply cannot make the obvious connection so many Traditionalists have
made before them. That far from protecting the faith of Catholics
against modern errors and temptations and helping to spread the Faith,
Vatican II and its reforms opened the Church up to the modern errors and
temptations and fed Her sheep to the wolves."
"...
In order to be meaningful to anyone, the Faith being offered must have
meaning to begin with. And Neo-Modernist faith does not. In fact, it is
not faith at all. The Neo-Modernist faith ascribes to a mythical god who
is not just, who punishes no sin, no matter how egregious, who works no
real supernatural miracles, who is merely a representation or allegory
of vague concepts, and who is to be used as a mascot to help attach
religious significance to merely naturalist and humanistic concerns.
Those who were poisoned by this 'faith' were right to leave it. Their
only mistake was not replacing it with the true Faith it is obscuring.
The answer to this exodus is not some desperate attempt to be even 'more
relevant' by infusing more of the same poison, but to make these people
aware of the true Catholic Faith that most of them have never even
experienced despite growing up as Catholics in the modern era."
"...
Sadly, the answer is no. What do they blame the mass exodus from the
Church since Vatican II on [is not Vatican II] ? You guessed it. [They
blame]Traditional Catholicism (aka Catholicism itself)."
[https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/4465-the-victims-of-vatican-ii-american-catholics-leave-the-church-in-record-numbers]
The attacks on the Open Letter appear to show that most conservative [Semi-Modernist] Catholics, not all, are Modernists
and appear to slowly be losing their faith in the same way they say a
frog will boil to death if the heat in the stove under the pot is heated
up slowly.
Open Letter signer Peter Kwasniewski said it best:
"Just a few short years ago, everyone who considered himself a conservative was up in arms about Amoris Laetitia
and skeptical of the elaborate rabbinical apparatus that attempted to
square it with the Church’s perennial teaching. Now it’s as if they’ve
given up; they shrug their shoulders and say, “I’m sure it’ll all be
fine someday. It’ll come out in the wash. Put credentialed theologians
and canonists on the case, and everything Francis says and does can be
justified.” We strain the canonical gnats and swallow the doctrinal
camel."
"It
seems that many simply do not wish to confront the weighty and ever
mounting evidence of the pope’s errors and reprehensible actions, of
which the letter provided only a sample
sufficient to make the case. This is not to say that Francis altogether
lacks true words and admirable actions. It would be nearly impossible
for someone to say false things or do bad things all the time. That is
beside the point. It is enough for a pope to assert a doctrinal error
only once or twice in a pontifical document, or to perform really bad acts (or omissions) of governance a few
times, in order to merit rebuke from the College of Cardinals or the
body of bishops, sharers in the same apostolic ministry. With Francis,
however, there is a lengthy catalogue, with no sign of coming to an end.
If this does not galvanize the conservatives into concerted action, one
has to wonder — what would? Do they have a line in the sand? Or has papal loyalism dethroned faith and neutered reason?"
"Things
that made everyone anxious just a few years ago are now taken in
stride: now we all just live in a post-Bergoglian Catholic Church, where
you can make exceptions about formerly exceptionless moral norms, give
Communion to those living in adultery, and say God wills many religions
as He wills two sexes, or — a point not addressed in the Open Letter —
dismiss the witness of Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium (trifecta!)
on the death penalty. The frogs have grown accustomed to floating in
ever hotter water and have decided to call it a spa."
[https://onepeterfive.com/normalcy-bias-chaotic-pope/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Onepeterfive+%28OnePeterFive%29]
Sadly, it appears that most conservative Catholics are Semi-Modernists who seem to be slowly becoming total Modernist heretics.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He want you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
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."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "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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