"The Pope’s Role Is Bound More Specifically By The Divine Positive Law — That Which Is Expressly Revealed By God — And The Natural Law."

 Let me repeat the title of my article: "The Pope’s Role Is Bound More Specifically By The Divine Positive Law — That Which Is Expressly Revealed By God — And The Natural Law."

That quote is taken from an article from lifesitenews.com and written by Emily Mangiaracina

Where were the hierarchy when the Freemason heretic, "Archbishop" Bugnini proposed the disastrous new "mass" to the very weak Pope Paul VI? 

I should mention, however, that there were at least two cardinals, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and Antonio Cardinal Bacci, who warned the pope of the horror of the new "mass".

The following is the editor's note of The Ottaviani Intervention: A Critical Study of the New Mass...

(The entire letter can be read here: THE OTTAVIANI INTERVENTION.)

The New Order of Mass was introduced on April 4, 1969. On June 5, 1969 Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, and Antonio Cardinal Bacci, along with a group of Roman theologians, presented Pope Paul VI with a Short Critical Study of the New Order of Mass. The Study contained a cover letter signed by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, which warned that the Novus Ordo, "represents both as a whole, and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent". Among other points, the Study maintains that the faithful "never, absolutely never, asked that the liturgy be changed or mutilated to make it easier to understand." "On many points," the study says, "it has much to gladden the heart of even the most modernist Protestant." Furthermore, "the definition of the Mass is thus reduced to a 'supper'." "The altar is nearly always called the table." "The instruction recommends that the Blessed Sacrament now be kept in a place apart ...as though it were some sort of relic." "The people themselves appear as possessing autonomous priestly powers." "He [the priest] now appears as nothing more than a Protestant minister." For these and many other reasons, the Critical Study concludes that to abandon our liturgical tradition in favor of a liturgy "which teems with insinuations or manifests errors against the integrity of the Catholic Faith is . . . an incalculable error." 

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Now the article from lifesitenews.com...

Mon Oct 28, 2024 - 8:20 pm EDT

"(LifeSiteNews) — Renowned exorcist and theologian Father Chad Ripperger clarified that the pope cannot change the Mass in contradiction to Divine Positive Law, such as by changing the consecration in a way “that would invalidate it.”

Amid concerns that the Vatican could promulgate or allow further changes to the Mass after the Synod on Synodality, Fr. Ripperger recently discussed his book The Limits of Papal Authority Over the Liturgy with Dr. Robert Moynihan and Matt Gaspers of Inside the Vatican.

The exorcist first made the important distinction between power and authority, with power being the “ability to effect change,” whereas authority gives a person the right to determine something or enact change. “The only one who has absolute authority is God,” he pointed out. 

In his book, Fr. Ripperger shared a quote from then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) that expresses the limits of the pope’s authority over the liturgy, read aloud by Gaspers during September’s interview:

“The pope is not an absolute monarch whose will is law; rather, he is the guardian of the authentic Tradition and, thereby, the premier guarantor of obedience. He cannot do as he likes … His rule is not that of arbitrary power, but that of obedience in faith. That is why with respect to the Liturgy, he has the task of a gardener, not that of a technician who builds new machines and throws the old ones on the junk pile.”

The pope’s role is bound more specifically by the Divine Positive Law — that which is expressly revealed by God — and the natural law, Fr. Ripperger explained.

A key example of how the pope cannot change the liturgy is by changing the “words of the consecration” in a way “that would invalidate it,” said Fr. Ripperger, because this would violate the Divine Positive Law commanded by God when Christ said during the Last Supper, “Do this in commemoration of me.”  

This also means the consecration — by which the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ Jesus is made present in the Eucharist — cannot be omitted, which it is speculated may occur in the experimental, so-called “Amazon Rite” of the Mass, according to Return to Tradition’s Anthony Stine.

The pope also cannot “insert something into the liturgy … that is contrary to the natural law,” such as the” worship of pagan idols,” the exorcist added. 

“It’s his obedience to those things that is precisely what his office is ordered towards,” Fr. Ripperger said regarding the pope.

Gaspers highlighted the priest theologian’s point that because the Catholic faith is unchanging, and because the liturgy is based on the faith, changes to the Mass regarding its fundamentals are unthinkable.

“Given the fact that the deposit of Faith does not change and constitutes the Lex or the law around which the liturgical development hinged only an organic development can legitimately be envisioned,” Gaspers quoted from Fr. Ripperger’s book.

The exorcist said he stressed in his book that “It’s not up to us to determine how we worship God,” pointing to the Old Testament as evidence of this, since God was “very exact” in dictating how the liturgy is supposed to be done at the time.

“Even Christ said, ‘Do this in commemoration of me.’ So he’s being very specific about certain things that have to be done” in the liturgy, Fr. Ripperger said. “And it’s up to God to make those determinations.”

He noted that the pope does have “a little bit of latitude” regarding the “accidental” parts of the Mass — that is, its externals, which have in fact “developed over time” — but these cannot attempt changes to the fundamentals: the faith itself, Divine positive law and natural law.

“Ultimately,” we must recognize that God has determined how we are to worship Him, Fr. Ripperger said, which is why “tradition is so key,” and he delves into the importance of this in his book.

“Because it’s precisely through tradition that what God taught us about these matters comes to us,” said the exorcist, noting that Scripture is also considered part of tradition.

“So the point being is that it’s precisely through these things that are passed on to us from the very beginning, from the time of the Apostles until now, that we actually know this is what we’re supposed to do,” he continued.

In other words, “the longer something is in the liturgy, the more we know it’s the will of God that it be used there,” Fr. Ripperger said.

His analysis appears to suggest problems with the Novus Ordo Missae, as well as warn of potential coming changes to this Mass, or of a new Mass (“Mass”?) altogether. Indeed, Fr. Ripperger, Gaspers and Moynihan alluded to the damage the Novus Ordo inflicted on people’s faith due to the sudden onset of many radical changes to the liturgy.

“When you have that many number of changes” to the Mass, “ultimately … what happens is … it gives them the impression that the faith itself could change, or the content of the faith could change,” said Fr. Ripperger, adding that he is “not the only person that’s drawn attention to that particular issue.”

In fact, according to Fr. Ripperger, St. Thomas Aquinas himself said that if the law is changed too frequently, the force of the law is eventually eroded."

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The new "mass" was -- and still is -- a chastisement for our lukewarmness, and, in some cases, the complete disregard of the precious gift of the faith won for us from the Sacrifice of the Cross by Our Lord!

We get what we deserve, don't we?

Pray for the defeat of those modernists who are still wreaking havoc in the novus ordo, synodal "church," and for the conversion of Bergoglio to orthodoxy and the true Catholic faith!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

"...The Male-Only Ordained Orders Relegated To A Side Show."

 This may very well be the face of the new novus ordo, synodal "church"!

On October 21, 2024, I posted this article: 

Time Not Ripe For Women Deacons Says Pope. ..."For The Moment"...

But!  It might happen sooner than you or I think!

Here is the latest nonsensical -- heretical!! -- lunacy from those masters of modernism appointed to the most powerful and influential offices in apostate Rome by Bergoglio: Cardinal Fernández says question of female deacons is not closed, citing Pope Francis - LifeSite

The above article from lifesitenews.com was written by Michael Haynes,

Snr. Vatican Correspondent

Commnet: It appears that even that which is declared as infallible by a previous pope holds no weight or water, and can be ignored by a future "pope" and his henchmen as has been illustrated many times since the installation of Bergoglio back in 2013...

The idea that females can be ordained to the diaconate -- or even the priesthood -- has been thoroughly squashed since the beginning of the true Church.  But that doesn't stop the modernists from trying to make the novus ordo "church" into their own image and likeness, devoid of the Holy Ghost and sanctifying grace which is absolutely necessary for salvation.

These thugs are so emboldened they don't even try to hide their heresy and apostasy!

The following article will show you, in spades, how no means yes, evil is good, orthodoxy and tradition is evil because it is too "rigid" and archaic...

Fri Oct 25, 2024 - 1:02 pm EDT

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"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — While meeting with members of the Synod on Synodality, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández informed them that the topic of female deacons is not closed, but simply “not ripe” for making “a decision today.”

In a 90-minute meeting on Thursday afternoon, Cardinal Fernández once again peddled confusion on the topic of female deacons, in the latest development of a furor which emerged in the Synod hall in recent days.

One of the most contentious topics pertaining to the Synod on Synodality, the issues of women in the Church and also that of female deacons, are officially designated to Study Group 5, lead by Monsignor Armando Matteo of Fernández’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF).

Synod members, especially buoyed by vocal voices outside the Synod and in the press, expressed consternation when Fernández briefed Synod members at the beginning of the month about the issue, saying that no approval would be given to female deacons at the moment but that “in-depth study” would continue until 2025.

A meeting between Synod members and some DDF personnel proved unsatisfactory and a “disaster,” prompting Thursday’s event attended by some 100 Synod members and participants.

The cardinal repeated his prior phrase of female ordination not being “ripe,” but gave considerable hope to those who still advocate for it:

The expression that the topic of diaconate for women is not ripe to make a decision today. This is a phrase of the Pope, not less.

By that phrase, said Fernández, Francis “doesn’t want” to be “closing the issue of the diaconate.”

No, he says one can still study with patience and without obsession, without haste. One can continue to study and that is very important. But he thinks things are not yet mature.

As LifeSite has reported often, calls for a new prominence for women in the Church – made in conjunction with demands for female ordination – appear increasingly likely to end up in attempts at divorcing the diaconate from the sacrament of holy orders, in order to allow men and women to access it.

In order to do so, a push would be made to remove ecclesial governance from holy orders, thus having leadership open to men and women, and the male-only ordained orders relegated to a side show.

Fernández has given repeated indications of this, but none more visibly than during his meeting on Thursday.

“It is crucial to clarify in which areas in the Church authority and leadership flow from ordained ministry and which do not,” he told the assembled Synod participants. “Leadership tasks and functions do not require ordained ministry as much as specific skills and personal aptitudes. Such deepening will help us to be a more synodal Church.”

Fernández’s personal opinion

The Argentine cardinal is no stranger to controversy, perhaps most notably of all in his book on kissing.

Perhaps aware of possible controversy on this issue also, Fernández attempted to partially assuage the activist of female ordination and Catholics attentive to preserving Church teaching.

Giving his “personal opinion” on the topic as “a theologian, not as a prefect,” he stated that he could see arguments for and against female deacons.

READ: Top Synod cardinal says ‘female deacons’ are a ‘natural deepening of the Lord’s will’

“I think the fundamentals for ‘no to the female diaconate’ are reasonable, but they are not sufficient,” said Fernández, thus revealing that he does not align with the Church’s clear prohibition on the topic.

“The grounds for ‘yes’ [to female ordination] are still not enough to answer the negative opinions,” he added.

The Argentine acknowledge that thus position would not please either side:

And with this sincere opinion I am not pleasing anyone, I do not get from the right or the left. Conservatives will say ‘he is a fool who did not understand that it is impossible to ordain deaconesses, that contrary to dogma, tradition and so on.’

Progressives will say I didn’t understand that there is nothing logical or reasonable about refusing ordination, that it’s just medieval fixism, etc.

Waving aside both forms of criticism, Fernández urged immediate action of some kind regarding the “clear steps forward for an empowerment of women in the Church, distinguishing what is absolutely inseparable and sacred from what is not.”

“In this point, however, I believe we must already move forward without waiting,” he noted.

Study Group and Catholic teaching

The Study Group is run by, and largely comprised of, the DDF members. Some of the consulters are Francis’ favored canonist Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda and the pro-contraception theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi, along with leading Synod on Synodality personnel such as Fathers Giacomo Costa and Dario Vitali.

Additional members, including some of the cardinal consulters to the DDF, are Cardinals Cristophe Schönborn, Jose Tolentino de Mendonca, Marcello Semararo, Claudio Gugerotti, and Archbishop Bruno Forte.

Fernández also added that the Amazon’s Cardinal Ulrich Steiner “will help us in this sense,” namely in advising the Study Group about his experience in the Amazon, where – as he has attested – women largely take the role of clergy and even receive a laying-on of hands from Steiner to perform their duties.

READ: Amazon cardinal ‘lays hands’ to confer ‘ministry’ on women going to ‘celebrate a sacrament’

In addition, a commission set up in 2020 to study the question of female deacons, and which is led by Cardinal Guiseppe Petrocchi, has been reconvened alongside Study Group 5.

Notwithstanding the ongoing discussion about female deacons, the Catholic Church clearly and firmly prohibits the practice. In his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Pope John Paul II taught, “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.”

In 2018, then-prefect of the DDF Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., defended the teaching of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis as bearing the mark of “infallibility,” with John Paul II having “formally confirmed and made explicit, so as to remove all doubt, that which the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium has long considered throughout history as belonging to the deposit of faith.”

Additionally the Vatican’s International Theological Commission wrote in 2002 that the much misrepresented so-called “female deacons” of the early church – cited by activists today – were not in fact deacons as understood today, and were certainly not ordained to any ministry.

With Study Group 5 due to report in June 2025, it remains to be seen how closely Catholic teaching will be adhered to by the members in their recommendations to the Pope."

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These modernist monsters will never give up, they will use incrementalism (or mission creep as we say in the military) to get their way and establish the foundation for the anti-Christ -- the man of sin! -- to rein from the Chair of St. Peter!

Pray for their defeat and for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

The Betrayal Of Faithful Chinese Catholics Will Continue -- For FOUR MORE YEARS!!!

 The treasonous apostates that currently occupy and control the workings of the (new!) novus ordo "church," have cemented -- and renewed -- their diabolical deal with the Red Chinese Communists, that, for all practical purposes, is leading to the dismantling of the Catholic faith on mainland China.

If you can believe it, instead of the deal being approved for two years, it has been extended for four years!

What this "deal" is supposed to do is to let the Reds choose the bishops for the so-called "Catholic Patriotic Association" and have those bishops then approved by the pope.  But, in reality, those demons, dressed in sheep's clothing, are installed in those bishoprics regardless of the Vatican's input.

So much for "dialogue," yet all in for betrayal of those underground faithful Chinese Catholics through appeasement and compromise...

Remember, this demonic plan to wipe out true Catholicism in China was implemented by the pervert-apostate, McCarrick, at the behest of Bergoglio!

Truly sick!

Here is an article from lifesitenews.com and written by Michael Haynes,

Snr. Vatican Correspondent

Vatican renews its secretive deal with China for appointing bishops - LifeSite

Tue Oct 22, 2024 - 6:17 am EDT

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"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Holy See has renewed its secretive deal with China, according to a spokesman for the Chinese government today.

During a regular press conference October 22, Beijing spokesman Lin Jian revealed that the Chinese government has renewed its 2018 deal with the Holy See, this time for four years instead of the previous norm of two years.

“The achievement and the implementation of the agreement have been commended from both sides,” Lin stated, referring to the 2018 deal on the appointment of bishops in China.

He added:

Through friendly consultations, the two sides have decided to extend the agreement for another four years. The two sides will maintain talks with a constructive spirit and continue to advance the improvement of China-Vatican relations.

Emblematic of the deal in recent years, it was China who announced the renewal of the deal some hours before the Vatican gave any comment.

In the customary noon press release, the Holy See stated:

In light of the consensus reached for an effective application of the Provisional Agreement regarding the Appointment of Bishops, after appropriate consultation and assessment, the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China have agreed to extend further its validity for four years from the present date.

The Vatican Party remains dedicated to furthering the respectful and constructive dialogue with the Chinese Party, in view of the further development of bilateral relations for the benefit of the Catholic Church in China and the Chinese people as a whole

 The officially secret deal is believed to recognize the state-approved church in China and allows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to appoint bishops. The Pope apparently maintains veto power, although in practice it is the CCP that has control. It also allegedly allows for the removal of legitimate bishops to be replaced by CCP-approved bishops.

In a 2018 letter to Chinese Catholics, Francis described the deal as forming a “new chapter of the Catholic Church in China.” Speaking on the papal plane recently, Francis affirmed his pleasure with how the relationship is proceeding: “Yes, I’m pleased with the dialogues with China. The results are good. Even for the appointment of bishops, things are progressing with good will.”

The Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin confirmed to this correspondent earlier this year that the Holy See aimed to renew the deal. Parolin has served as the Vatican’s secretary of state and chief diplomat since October 2013 and has been in the Holy See’s diplomatic service since 1986. Intimately involved in orchestrating the deal from the beginning, he has emerged as the foremost public defender of the deal alongside the Pope.

Speaking in July 2023, Parolin defended the secretive nature of the deal, stating that “the text is confidential because it has not yet been finally approved.” The deal “revolves around the basic principle of consensuality of decisions affecting bishops” and is effected by “trusting in the wisdom and goodwill of all,” said Parolin last summer.

Various Vatican sources also confided to certain members of the Vatican press corps that relations between Beijing and the Vatican have apparently “made progress” of late. This, the officials said, was largely due to the current bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J., who has highlighted a spirit of “dialogue” between the two parties.

However, so marked have been Chow’s signs of appeasement to Beijing that a report warned that his Diocese of Hong Kong was actively working with the CCP to effect “sinicization” – the process of CCP state-assimilation and control.

Numerous China experts have also criticized the Vatican for the deal, and then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in 2020 that “(t)he Vatican endangers its moral authority, should it renew the deal.” He linked to an article he penned on the subject in which he stated that “it’s clear that the Sino-Vatican agreement has not shielded Catholics from the Party’s depredations.”

The highly secretive deal has been styled by Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, as an “incredible betrayal,” with the much-loved cardinal further accusing the Vatican of “selling out” Chinese Catholics.

While Parolin has defended the deal as a necessary means of “dialogue” with the Communist authorities, the deal has led to a heightened increase in religious persecution since it was signed. The ink had barely dried on the deal in 2018 before AsiaNews, a website that regularly documents the abduction and torture of underground Catholics, reported that “(u)nderground Catholics bitterly suspect that the Vatican has abandoned them.”

Such persecution the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China described as a direct consequence of the deal. In its 2020 report, the commission wrote that the persecution witnessed is “of an intensity not seen since the Cultural Revolution.”

READ: Pope Francis said Chinese Catholics will ‘suffer’ under his deal. They are

The commission’s latest 2023 report released this May – covering the period from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023 – highlighted a similar situation:

The Chinese Communist Party and government have continued their efforts to assert control over Catholic leadership, community life, and religious practice, installing two bishops in contravention of the 2018 Sino-Vatican agreement and accelerating the integration of the church in Hong Kong with the PRC-based, state-sponsored Catholic Patriotic Association and its Party-directed ideology.

“During the Commission’s 2023 reporting year, officials exerted pressure on both registered and unregistered Catholic communities, taking coercive action against churches and detaining members of the clergy,” the report reads.

It gave evidence of priests arrested by the Chinese authorities and subjected to “a program of political indoctrination, after which several consented to join the official church, while authorities have kept those who did not consent under surveillance and prevented them from exercising their pastoral ministry roles.”

“All bishops who refuse to join the Catholic Patriotic Association are being placed under house arrest, or disappeared, by the CCP,” China expert Steven Moser told LifeSiteNews earlier this year. “Although the Vatican said several years ago that the Sino-Vatican agreement does not require anyone to join this schismatic organization, refusal to do so results in persecution and punishment. And the Vatican stands by and does nothing.” 

Only days ago, one of the two CCP bishops present at the Synod on Synodality lauded the Sino-Vatican deal on the synod floor.

READ: Chinese bishop lauds ‘the sinicization of Catholicism’ and Vatican’s secret deal with the CCP

Bishop Joseph Yang Yongqiang added that in China “we effectively adapt to society, serve it, adhere to the direction of the sinicization of Catholicism, and preach the Good News.”

It remains to be seen now whether the Vatican considers that the deal – renewed for four years at the start of its sixth year of existence – is still to be kept confidential, or whether in fact it has been officially approved by either party."

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Please pray for those faithful Chinese Catholics and their continued perseverance in the face of the treasonous actions by the supposed "leaders" of the (novus ordo) church in Rome!

Pray too for strength and honor because if Trump does not win next month, then we in the U.S. may face the same fate as our Chinese brothers and sisters in the faith.  I can assure you that is not hyperbole!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

Time Not Ripe For Women Deacons Says Pope. ..."For The Moment"...

 For the moment???

But what about tomorrow or next week or next month or next year???

Bet your bottom dollar (which is sinking fast!) that heretical female ordination will happen...

Here is classic doubletalk from apostate Rome: Time not ripe for women deacons says pope

Time not ripe for women deacons says pope© Provided by ANSA

"(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 21 - The time is not ripe for women to be ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has said according to the head of the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog speaking Monday. The Pope has closed the door, "for the moment", to the ordination of women to the diaconate, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, told the Synod of Bishops. "The Pope has (said) that at this moment the question of the female diaconate is not ripe and has asked that we not dwell on this possibility," Fernandez told the members of the Synod. (ANSA)."

Pray for the defeat of these traitors and modernist monsters!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

The Modernists Feel Safe And Secure Now That All Religions Are Paths To God!

 The following information is nothing new, but it is important to see where the heresies proclaimed by apostate Rome have led: everyone can now get to Heaven, so they say, regardless of whether you believe in Christ and are Baptized into His one, true, Catholic Church, founded on the rock of St. Peter, or not!

It should also be noted that almost every day of the week, the secular, mainstream media -- especially on-line media -- run puff pieces on the errors, heresies, scandal and confusion of the Bishop of Rome, Bergoglio, and his deviant crew of heretics and, dare I say, sodomites?

I'll post this entire article but be forewarned: you will read massive heresies and errors proclaimed right before your eyes!

I might add, this is all planned as part of the new, novus ordo synodal "church," made in the image and likeness of man, devoid of the Holy Ghost and the sanctifying grace that is absolutely necessary for salvation of every human creature...

Pope Francis: ‘All religions are paths to God’ written by 

Story by Dr. José Mario Bautista Maximiano and Thaddeus Noel G. Laput

"In his famous work, “Anonymous Christianity,” the great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner claims that the benefits of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice are not confined to the boundaries of any particular religious tradition or by our awareness or acceptance of Christian doctrine.
To which German theologian Hans Küng responded by saying that “any sincere Jew, Muslim or atheist would assert it is presumptuous to claim that he is an ‘anonymous Christian.”

 

Recall now the fatherly presence of Pope Francis last month in an ecumenical nation. Singapore is a city state like the Vatican, but unlike the Vatican, it is a sovereign nation of minority Catholics living in harmony with various religious groups.

During the “Interreligious Meeting with Young People” in that nation, the Holy Father highlighted the importance of interfaith dialogue and the pursuit of peace, emphasizing that different religions can lead individuals to God.

The Holy Father articulated his thoughts and said, “All religions are paths to God.”

In his long-standing commitment to fostering a spirit of collaboration and mutual respect among various faith traditions, His Holiness suggested the possibility of the grace of salvation outside the boundaries of the Christian community, nearly along the line of reasoning of Karl Rahner’s “Anonymous Christianity.”

Nonetheless, this single statement has sparked significant discussions and even outrageous debates, particularly concerning its implications for Catholic teaching.

For centuries until Vatican Council II (1962-1965), the prevailing doctrine was this: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, or “outside the Church there is no salvation.”

While some critics view the Pope’s statement as a deviation from traditional Catholic doctrine, a closer examination of Pope Francis’ inclusivism is deemed consistent with the teachings of Vatican II, particularly Lumen Gentium (LG), the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Nostra Aetate (NA), the Declaration on Interreligious Dialogue and Ad Gentes (AG), the Decree on the Mission of the Church.

“Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related in various ways to the People of God” (LG 16).

Others may be saved “who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and, moved by grace, strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience” (LG 16).

“Nor does Divine Providence deny the helps necessary for salvation to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God and with His grace strive to live a good life” (LG 16).

“One final goal [of all] is God. His providence, His manifestations of goodness, His saving design extend to all men, until that time when the elect will be united in the Holy City, the city ablaze with the glory of God, where the nations will walk in His light” (NA 1).

“The seeds of the Word which lie hidden among their fellows [other religious traditions…] sometimes planted by God in ancient cultures already prior to the preaching of the Gospel” (AG 18).

The Pope’s statement is not off the cuff. That “all religions are paths to God” must be viewed in the context of his pastoral ecclesiology and synodality. The only correct interpretation is along the lines of the hermeneutic of continuity and the hermeneutic of reform.

First, it means the Holy Father is committed to continuing the complete implementation of the pastoral ecclesiology and reforms of Vatican II.

And secondly, while all the baptized are specifically called to take part in the synodal process, no one—no matter what their religious affiliations are—is excluded. It means that not only those who believe in Christ are called to participate, for Vatican II teaches with authority that “all human beings are called to the new people of God” (Lumen Gentium, 13), hence listening to and conversing with all religions are meaningful.

Synodality and dialogue with other religions do not mean forgetting that Jesus Christ is the definitive revelation of God, the one Savior of all, and the unique Mediator between God and humankind (Catechism of the Catholic Church 480).

Synodality and the attitude of respect and dialogue, far from opposing the proclamation of the Gospel, prepare it like planting the seed of the Word (AG 18).

If we scrutinize more deeply, Pope Francis’ statement, “All religions are paths to God,” encourages a humble acknowledgment that God can operate in ways beyond human comprehension and within diverse cultural and spiritual contexts.

 “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26)."

José Mario Bautista Maximiano is the author of the 3-volume work on Church Reforms (Claretian, 2023, 2024, 2025) and the author of the 3-volume work on 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines (Claretian, 2021, 2022). Thaddeus Noel G. Laput is a Catholic philosopher and a hospice chaplain in Los Angeles, California.

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Notice the heretic referenced in the article?

Notice that being in the true Church of Our Lord is not necessary for salvation?

Notice the cavalier attitude, in other words, the feeling that these modernist monsters now feel safe and secure in their ability to reach God by the back door, without having to enter through the narrow gate of the true Church!?

 

This is what the "teachings" of Bergoglio has wrought since his installation in 2013.

  

Keep in mind that he wants a "different church," his words not mine...

We must resist to the face these traitors to Christ and His Elect flock -- and for their conversion!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla