The current clerical and “catholic” media condemnations of various faith-filled catholics includes those ironically sometimes referred to in a derogatory manner as “traditional catholics” and those, e.g., Bishop Barron has referred to as sinners, including
calumniating catholics who attack each other,
catholics who attack a person arguing, not the argument itself
catholic members of the the culture of contempt
catholic grifters, trolls, catholic nay-sayers and catholic flamethrowers.
Others have referred to faithful catholics as: bullies, racists, homophobes, capitalists, conservatives, and those who ‘demand’ Holy Communion on the tongue. An auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles has even condemned what he refers to as vocal “anti-Francis” seminarians who have referred to their seminary as a” FFZ,” a “Francis Free Zone.” And one priest has been condemned for not speaking the truth with the correct “tone.”
All these condemnations are contrary to the current Bergolgian and Barronist (“B&B”) heresies that proclaim, “we all be goin’ to heaven,” sometimes obfuscated by saying “we hope.” These heresies are simply modern-day restatements of the centuries-old “mercy heresy,” or “universalist heresy” which implied that God could do better than the possible eternal fires for some He proclaimed in His Holy Scripture.
Why Do Clergy Do What Is Contrary To Jorge Bergoglio’s Doctrine ?
So how can they condemn anyone? For anything? Embracing the new mercy magisterium, how can the Bergoglians and Barronians not welcome, not accept publicly, not integrate into the parish community, and not joyously celebrate rigid, rad, fundamentalist, and ‘bully’ catholics ? This question applies no matter how these condemnations are disguised; e.g., even if they are presented as “chidings,” “accusations,” “charitable encouragements,” “shepherd’s caring,” or “fraternal correction.”
A Program For Preferring Certain Sinners Over Good Catholics
As originally proclaimed, there were no exceptions to the get-out-of-hell-free mercy of Bergoglio. This had to be done this way to establish the status of this heresy as based on moral “principle.” Moral principles state objective standards that always apply. To elevate his mercy heresy to the status of “principle,” and truth, Bergoglio was compelled to say, in his Exhortation Amoris Laetitia,
“No one can be condemned for ever, because that is not the logic of the Gospel! Here I am not speaking only of the divorced and remarried, but of everyone, in whatever situation they find themselves.” [AL, 297]”. . . “Hence it is can no longer simply be said that all those in any “irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace.” [AL, 301].
Now that many are exposing the true nature of the B&B heresies, those supporting them – including many persons, both clergy and laity, actively and freely choosing to regularly engage in homosexual acts – could either keep silent or attack those proclaiming the truth. Is anyone really surprised that they have no problem with hypocrisy? Is anyone surprised that Jorge’s mercy does not extend to those saying, “The Pontifex Maximus has has no clothes” ?
For Jorge Bergoglio and his homoarchy, the mercy heresy is the doctrinal lynchpin for the magisterium-changing attempt to make voluntary homosexual acts not only not sinful, but also for their diabolical transmutation of intrinsic evil into acts of loving virtue. If they do not attack and condemn those exposing this evil, they implicitly admit to their diabolical agenda.
Conscience
As it must to transmute sin into virtue, the Bergolgian heresy had to deny the doctrines of Holy Mother Church on conscience. The Catechism makes it clear that
Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man.” CCC 1860. (emphasis added).
This is crystal. No one can say they are faithfully following their conscience and then believe they can engage in actions contrary to natural law. They are not simply deceiving themselves if they do this; they are going against their consciences which tell them, always, that what they are doing is wrong. The principles of the natural law are not suggestions or ideals. Something that is an intrinsic evil cannot be changed into virtue by someone saying, “I followed my conscience.” It is not possible for anyone’s conscience to tell them that a grievous sin is not a sin. To say so would make God – who is the Voice of conscience – a liar.
Here is how the B&B heretics nullify the teaching about conscience:
Pastoral discernment, while taking into account a person’s properly formed conscience, must take responsibility for these situations. Even the consequences of actions taken are not necessarily the same in all cases”.[AL, 302]. . . . Yet conscience can do more than recognize that a given situation does not correspond objectively to the overall demands of the Gospel. [AL, 303]
Selectively and intentionally aborting an unborn child, or then killing the child if the child survives the abortion attempt are always wrong, as are violent, forced rape and voluntarily engaging in homosexual actions. Exoneration or justification cannot be based on “But I did not know Holy Mother Church taught that.” The wrongness of these and other actions is already there in everyone’s conscience, written in every person’s heart by God who made them. So it is not possible for anyone to not know that such actions are gravely evil. Or to form their conscience correctly to say otherwise.
God made me this way
Popular headlines in the media earlier this year trumpeted Jorge Bergolgio’s telling a young man who is choosing freely to live a homosexual life that he should be happy because God made him that way.
Instead of condemning faithful catholics who speak the truth, why do the priests, bishops, cardinals and Jorge Bergolio not tell those they now condemn:
Be happy being a rigid RadTrad, God made you that way.
Be happy being a bully fundamentalist, God made you that way.
Be happy being a racist, capitalist critic of Jorge Bergolio, God made you that way.
What possible explanation could there be – if consistency is a standard for logical argument – for not applying the “God-made-you” justification to any sin- even the sin of being a faithful catholic?
Conclusion
Jesus had some words for those today who promote the Bergoglian and Barronian heresies and who then condemn their critics:
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew 23:27-28).
So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matthew 23:28).
St. Peter was inspired by God to warn us about those who would spread the Bergoglian and Barronian heresies:
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,[a] putting them in chains of darkness[b] to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard). if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh[c] and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from[d] the Lord. But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish. (2 Peter 2-9; emphasis added)
From the time the Bergoglian heresy was first published and now with the proclamation of its Barronian counterpart, people – including priests, bishops, cardinals, theologians, scripture scholars, philosophers, and lowly laity – began to point out the flaws, contradictions, errors, lies, and the heretical status of what Jorge Bergoglio had said. To date, neither he nor any of his minions has addressed these spot-on criticisms, nor has any of them recanted the heresy.
God made me this way, to “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” (Eph 5:11)
Further Sources
https://the-american-catholic.com/2018/02/14/dear-jorge-you-have-provided-me-the-justification-for-virtuously-disobeying-everything-you-say-strolling-into-heaven-head-held-high/.
https://catholicstand.com/joyful-fruitful-racism/.
https://catholicstand.com/mercy-uber-alles-st-irenaeus-says-heresy/.
https://the-american-catholic.com/2019/09/13/joyful-fruitful-schismatics-whatever-going-to-heaven/.
https://the-american-catholic.com/2019/04/17/god-made-me-this-way-so-i-cannot-sin/.
https://catholicstand.com/amoris-laetitia-mercy-robots-sinning-heaven/.
Thanks Guy. The B & B mercy heresy has with us since Vatican II where individual conscience was exalted and more or less rendered immutable. This immutability was made permanent by the absence and/or watering down of Catholic moral teaching. Proof of this is the few folks who go to Confession which nearly everyone goes to Communion.
The devil has been in the Church now for a long time. The appearance of Bergoglian Catholicism is merely the full ‘coming out’ of Vatican II. The outrageousness of Bergoglian heterodoxy should be a clear sign to us that the devil has usurped the Papacy as has been prophesied by many.
We are now in a place in time where divine intervention should be expected and this terrible situation in the Church eventually resolved in God’s favor.
Thank you for reading. Hope you and yours [and all here] have a fullofwonder weekend. MD, as much as I would like to take up arms and wield the Sword of the Word, the Spirit of Truth, and bring the fire, I think most of us in our daily lives can 1. wait for the divine intervention to which you refer; and 2. try to act as charitably as possible and with attempted holiness day all long. Funny, I’ve been doing that confession sacrament more often lately. End times? Bring it on-only spare me, Lord. God bless all in your house, and in this one. Guy, Texas
Amen, Guy and Michael.
Guy, this is the best capsule summary of what we are now facing from our putative shepherds I have yet seen. Many thanks for composing it. I plan to send it as far and wide as I possibly can. And let’s all, as you suggest, keep fighting to maintain holiness and taking advantage of the marvelous grace of the Sacraments as often as we can.
God bless all here.
I enjoyed reading this, it summarizes the situation very well.
Bergoglio saves his particular venom for actual Catholics. Look, the man is a profaner, a blasphemer, a worshiper of false idols, what do we expect. He broke the First Commandment of God on sacred ground, in front of all of our eyes, yet he continues to occupy the Chair of Peter. Why wouldn’t we expect this man to attack those who are trying to be Catholic and faithfully follow Christ. He could have been handled. There should have been an uprising when it was realized he would not kneel before Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, but there was not. The hierarchy of Cardinals and bishops have followed him, and have led many into error, where they remain. He is now openly Communist, he fears no one. He knows he is untouchable. He does not believe there is a God to reach him.
The “singular ‘they'” is used throughout this article. The “singular ‘they'” is a weapon of the Cultural Marxist/Gender Chaos ideology. All Catholic writers, especially, should purge it from all their writing.
Thank you, Arthur. Will try to notice henceforth. God bless you and yours. Guy, Texas
Well written…….