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Pope Francis Catholic Truth Satirical, serious, Keeping the Faith. Telling the Truth. straight- talking www.catholictruthscotland.com Pursuing Pathways to a New Church Paganism by the front door… “reforms” of the Second Vatican Council. After all, if so much that has been cherished for 2,000 years is now open to radical change, even disposal, then why not change even more, why not dispose of troubling dogmas like the Trinity and Divinity of Christ to accommodate pagan beliefs and rituals? Mexican Mauricio Lopez Oropeza, executive secretary of the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) and member of the Pre- Synod Council speaks about the vast consultation process which took place in advance of the Synod; many communities in Amazonia were involved, and the preparation featured topics including a new way of being Church, respecting ‘our common home’, the role of women. Asked about “an Amazonia- style Church” he notes: “This is an expression made popular by Pope Francis. It implies a Pope Francis presided over an opening ceremony of the Amazon Synod of Bishops on 4 October, where Church that assumes the values, identity, the Indians from the Amazon offered prayers and praises to the earth. An Amazonian woman, wearing a struggles of the indigenous cultures and does traditional feather headdress, led a ritual in the Vatican gardens as part of a tree-planting ceremony. not pursue the perpetuation of a western She prostrated herself before the tree and a pair of statues of naked pregnant women. She shook a rattle ecclesial model, but incorporates the in an apparent blessing or incantation over the group. Some members of the group prostrated themselves populations in the shared construction of or knelt during the ceremony, while the Pope observed. See entire ceremony on YouTube* communitarian expressions of life in line with The atheist Italian journalist, Eugenio Scalfari and Holy Ghost. Why the need, if God wills all the project of the Kingdom in the context of has claimed that Pope Francis told him he religions? What’s “wise” about, where’s the Amazonia. To achieve this, it would be doesn’t believe in the divinity of Christ. The “wisdom” in commanding that we all belong necessary to change the model of formation Vatican scrambled - unconvincingly - to squash to one religion when, really, it doesn’t matter in seminaries in this perspective of respect for the claim. Archbishop Viganò (former nuncio at all? What kind of God does that? cultures, the adoption of their spirituality and to the United States) explains why the Vatican’s As we have pointed out many times over the intercultural dialogue.” 2 clarification is insufficient, despite explicitly years in this newsletter, the hierarchy of the Confused Catholics have accepted modernist referring to Jesus as “true God and true Man”: Church has long been diabolically disoriented infiltration of the Church since Vatican II but “[Because]Christians expect a clear answer to the extent that that it has lost sight of what pagan infiltration may just be a step too far. from the Pope himself. The thing is too is the very nature and purpose of the Church. If this dangerous new “pathway” is taken by important; it is essential: Yes, I believe that The truth is merely being crystallized in recent a pontiff clearly determined to re-fashion the Christ is the Son of God made Man, the only events, culminating in the paganism promoted Church for purposes contrary to God’s will - Savior and Lord,” Archbishop Viganò replied. from the very start of the Amazon Synod. such as promoting environmentalism to “save “All Christians await this clarification from the planet” instead of souls - then fasten your him, not from others,and by virtue of their The hierarchy has cast aside Christ’s final seatbelts. “God”, as St Paul warns, “is not command on this earth, to go out into the whole baptism have the right to have this response.”1 mocked.”(Galatians 6:7). Also, see p.16, world to convert everyone, baptizing them in Amazon Synod “Offensive & Racist”) The Pope’s words and behaviour are the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. increasingly utterly confusing: in February, he Various traditional Catholic commentators, Footnotes: signed the “Document on Human Fraternity” present at the October Amazon Synod, have 1 Abp Viganò urges Pope to personally answer claims with a Grand Imam Ahmad el-Tayeb which come to the same conclusion: this Synod, where he doesn’t believe in divinity of Christ, LifeSiteNews, 10/10/19 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vigano-scalfari states: “The pluralism and the diversity of the Pope participated in a pagan ceremony, 2 Pan-Amazon Synod. Opening New Pathways, South religions, colour, sex, race and language are where calls are being made for the wider World, News & Views from emerging countries. willed by God in His wisdom.” This, of course, Church to listen to, and learn from the pagan 1/4/19 https://www.southworld.net/pan-amazon-synod- is in direct contradiction to Christ’s command cultures of the indigenous Amazonian peoples, opening-new-pathways/ to convert all nations to belief in Father, Son, is the logical outcome of the rationale and * To see the entire ceremony on video, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUVWif9Iam8 Contents include… Page What Makes Someone “My Favourite Saint” / Relics Tour 3 Patricia McKeever A Date for your Diary: 23/5/20 4 Education Seminar Advertisement An Open Letter To Anti-Trump Catholics in America 6 Reflection ahead of the 2020 Election John Ingram Green Lesson From an Irritated Senior Citizen… 7 Environment Expert Letters 8 Ireland: Kerry Catholics Exhorted to learn from Female Protestant “Priests” 9 Ireland Correspondent Education - Thinking Through Catholic Truth 10 How to behave in church More Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Scotland - 12 Catholic schools under attack again… 1. Always be on time for Mass/services Education Correspondent 2. Take Holy Water when you enter 3. Make the Sign of the Cross News Round-Up 13 4. Walk quietly up the aisle 5. Genuflect on right knee/touch the floor Pope Francis: We Must Obey the U.N. 14 6. Kneel and say short prayer in your pew David Martin 7. Remember always that Jesus Himself is in the Tabernacle Solving the Crisis in the Church - by Schism? 15 8. Be devout. Say your rosary or read your Leah Mackie prayer-book 9. Pay attention to the sermon Editorial 16 10. Make a little visit to Our Lady’s altar First Saturday Intentions - How NOT to behave in church Clarification 1. Do not remain outside until last minute 2. Do not rush hurriedly/noisily up the aisle In our May newsletter, Issue No. 111, we drew readers’ attention 3. Do not whisper, laugh or talk to Sister Lucia’s letter to her Godmother (dated 1st November, 4. Do not turn around to stare at the choir 1927), in which she stated the need to explicitly make the 5. Do not disturb others by, e.g. coughing intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 6. Do not fail to kneel or sit up straight. Do for the 5 blasphemies committed against her Immaculate Heart, not lounge 7. Do not spread your arms over the back of before each of the elements - Confession, Holy Communion, the pew Rosary, meditation. I hadn’t known this myself, and so when I 8. Do not forget that you are in the presence tried to remember, I found that I was forgetting to make the intention each time of God (for example, before receiving Holy Communion). Surely, a broad intention, that 9. Do not rush for the door before the priest this Confession, Rosary, Holy Communion, meditation were being offered in has left the altar reparation, would suffice. I decided to check with the Fatima Center in Canada, 10. Do not push and shove others in your and received the following very helpful reply: haste to get out [It is acceptable] to offer the intentions for the 4 elements of the First Saturday all at once. I Taken from Jesus, Make Me Worthy, by mean I literally to do the following – often it is while I am driving to Church on the First Saturday Father Robert J. Power CM, a First Holy for fear I may forget when I get there: I state that I offer today’s Confession, Communion, praying Communion prayer book for children, the Rosary, and keeping Our Lady company for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries published by The Regina Press, New York, 1963. of the Rosary all with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, reparation specifically (or especially) for the 5 blasphemies committed against Her Immaculate Heart. That’s it. [Ed: it’s certainly easier than trying to remember to make the intentions separately. Thank you for that!] And I believe it is simple since it is in keeping with Catholic teaching and practice, which is that when we go to Mass, or pray certain prayers, the Rosary etc., we make our intentions and ask for the graces promised. For example the prayers for the Pope’s intentions at the end of praying the Rosary with a group …the possibility exists for gaining an indulgence if at the end of the Rosary, the group offers an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of the Pope – but that indulgence isn’t automatically given – besides the conditions necessary for the indulgence to be gained, such as being in the state of grace and no attachment to sin, etc. – the prayers for the pope must be prefaced with the words: prayers for the intentions of the Pope and to gain the plenary indulgence (or to gain the indulgence).
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