Erasing The Work of Saint Patrick Once and For All
by Thomas A. Droleskey
Ireland, once the Land of Saints and Scholars, is running out of latter day reverts to Druidism, whose paganism has arisen once again in the land that Saint Patrick converted to the Holy Faith, starting the conversion of the chieftains on Easter Sunday in the year 433 A.D. The doctrinal heterodoxy and sacramental sterility of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, assisted quite a bit by the systematic cover-up of clerical abuse scandals, have done the unthinkable by reversing almost all of the apostolic work done by Saint Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, to lead the people of the Emerald Isle out of bondage to the devil and into the freedom that comes from yoking oneself to Our Divine Redeemer, Christ the King, as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church.
Yes, the Land of Erin, is permitting itself to give sway not only to the Druidism of its pre-Catholic past but also to give Mohammedans the widest space possible to practice and thus propagate their diabolical religion in what was once the most Catholic country on the face of the earth, a land that suffered much under Protestant English occupation and repression. The Mohammedans have established a foothold, and they are not interested in "inter-religious dialogue." They are interested in conquest, and it does not matter to them how they achieve it, although they will take it when it is given to them on a silver platter in the name of the madness known as religious liberty:
The Emir of Qatar, who has long
cultivated an image as a pro-Western reformist, has vowed to "spare no
effort" to spread Wahhabi Islam throughout Europe. Wahhabism — which not
only discourages Muslim integration in the West but actively encourages
jihad against non-Muslims — threatens to radicalize Muslim immigrants
in Ireland.
City planners in the Irish capital, Dublin, have given the go-ahead
for the construction of a sprawling mega-mosque complex that will cater
to Ireland's burgeoning Muslim population.
The massive €40 million ($50 million) "Islamic Cultural Center" will be built on a six-acre site in Clongriffin, a new and as yet unfinished suburb at the northern edge of Dublin.
According to the Dublin City Council,
which approved the project on March 7, the Clongriffin Mosque will
consist of: (a) a three-story domed mosque and cultural center with
towering minarets; (b) a two-story conference center including a
reception foyer, conference room, restaurant, banquet hall, kitchens and
ancillary accommodation; (c) a three-story 16-classroom primary school
and a two-story 12-classroom secondary school; (d) a two-story fitness
center with a gym, sauna, steam room and an Olympic-sized indoor
swimming pool; (e) a bookshop, library and mortuary; and (f) three
four-story blocks of two-bedroom apartments with ground floor shops.
The Clongriffin Mosque will cater to some of the 30,000 Muslims
living in Dublin, which is home to around 60% of the estimated 50,000
Muslims living in Ireland.
Although the number of Muslims in Ireland is relatively small (1.07%
of the overall population), when compared to other European countries,
the rate of growth of the Muslim population in Ireland has surged
exponentially (1,170%) over the past 20 years, and Islam is now the
fastest growing religion in the country. The total population of Ireland
is 4.6 million.
According to Irish census data for 1991,
the number of Muslims in the country was 3,875. After 1991, the Muslim
population jumped, due to the arrival of Muslim refugees and asylum
seekers from Bosnia, Kosovo and Somalia. According to the Irish census data for 2002, the number of Muslims was 19,147; by 2006, that number had swelled to 32,539. In the 2011 census, the number of Muslims was 49,204.
Ireland's Muslim population is projected to almost triple over the
next twenty years, according to the Washington, DC-based Pew Research
Center. A report entitled, The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030 forecasts that there will be 125,000 Muslims living in Ireland by 2030.
The Clongriffin Mosque is being promoted by a Dublin-based Muslim
organization called the Dublin Welfare Society Limited, an opaque group
that was incorporated in April 2010 and has no formal activities other
than to lobby for the mosque project.
The mega-mosque will be developed by a local real estate mogul, Gerry Gannon, on extensive land he owns at Clongriffin. According to the Irish Times,
the project is a "coup" for Gannon, who hopes to sell hundreds and
possibly thousands of newly built homes to Muslim families using the
cultural center.
Clongriffin is located about 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Dublin. Also known as the North Fringe,
most of the land on which Clongriffin is being built was previously
farmland. In July 2003, the Dublin City Council granted permission to
begin developing a new suburb comprising houses and apartments, as well
as schools, retail stores, supermarkets and a multi-screen cinema.
But construction in Clongriffin came to an abrupt halt after the Irish property bubble burst in 2009, and the country needed to be rescued in November 2010
with an €85 billion ($109 billion) bailout by the European Union and the
International Monetary Fund.
Before Ireland's real estate crash, Gannon invested millions of euros
on developing Clongriffin, including the construction of a railway
station linking the suburb to downtown Dublin. With the approval of the
mega-mosque project, Clongriffin suddenly has a new lease on life... and
so does Gannon.
Planning documents show that the Dublin City Council has approved the construction of
3,678 new homes near where the mega-mosque will be built. Gannon hopes
the Clongriffin Mosque will fuel demand for the homes he is eager to
sell.
But critics worry that Clongriffin is in danger of becoming an
exclusively Islamic suburb on the outskirts of Dublin where Muslims will
establish a parallel society rather than integrate.
An Islamist website called "Islamic Vanguards: Spearheading Ireland's Transition"
recently warned that Gannon's greed would be Ireland's undoing: "If
there's one thing the west yearns, it is money. For it has worshiped
this false god without fail for as long as they have departed from the
worship of the true God. And it is this weakness, nay addiction that
will see what they hold precious being wrenched from their spindly
hands. Already as we speak vast swathes of the London metropolis are in
Muslim hands, Dublin is set to follow as the wealth that Allah has
blessed His servants with is used to reclaim the land for His glory."
In any event, the Clongriffin Mosque will not be the only mega-mosque
in town: the new mosque on the northern edge of Dublin will compete
with another mega-mosque, located in Clonskeagh on the southern edge of
Dublin.
The mosque complex at Clonskeagh, which also goes by the name "Islamic Cultural Center," has been in operation since 1996. Its sprawling four-acre campus was financed by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the deputy ruler of Dubai.
The Clonskeagh Mosque is home to the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), an Islamist group which seeks to have Islamic Sharia law recognized throughout Europe.
The ECFR is an integral part of the Brussels-based Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), an umbrella group that unites more than 30 Muslim Brotherhood
organizations in Europe, and acts as the main vehicle for propagating
Muslim Brotherhood ideology in Europe.
The ECFR is chaired by the Egyptian-born, Qatari-based Yusuf
al-Qaradawi, the influential Islamic scholar who is also a senior leader
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Qaradawi -- a spiritual advisor for the Palestinian terrorist
group Hamas who has defended suicide attacks against Jews as "martyrdom
in the name of Allah" -- has been banned from entering Great Britain and
the United States.
Al-Qaradawi speaks openly about the goals of Islam:
"What remains, then, is to conquer Rome. (...) This means that Islam
will come back to Europe for the third time, after it was expelled from
it twice. (...) Conquest through Dawa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we
will conquer America! Not through sword but through our Dawa."
According to a leaked US State Department memo dated July 7, 2006, the Muslim Brotherhood is stronger in Ireland than
anywhere in the world outside of Qatar, and al-Qaradawi "runs Islam in
Ireland."
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is heavily influenced by the extremist ideology of Wahhabism, subsidized by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, may be about to tighten its grip over Islam in Ireland even further.
Rumors abound that the new mega-mosque at Clongriffin will be financed by Qatar, which has been engaged in a multi-million euro spending spree to spread Wahhabi Islam around Europe.
Wahhabism -- which not only discourages Muslim integration in the
West, but actively encourages jihad against non-Muslims -- threatens to
radicalize Muslim immigrants in Ireland, according to the Irish Times.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who has long
cultivated an image as a pro-Western reformist and modernizer, has vowed
to "spare no effort" to spread the fundamentalist teachings of Wahhabi Islam across "the whole world." (Ireland to Build One of Europe's Largest Mosques.)
As always, the lords of Modernity in the realm of civil government and the lords of Modernism in the counterfeit church conciliarism believe that Mohammedans can be "assimilated" in the remnants of once Catholic countries that have reverted to paganism so that they will accept the joys that are said to come from "pluralism," "diversity," "multiculturalism," "dialogue," "ecumenism" and "religious liberty.
Ever eager to project onto Mohammedanism others a religious indifferentism that they do not share and indeed are contemptuous of, leaders of Western governments and the spiritual robber barons of conciliarism have convinced themselves that "liberal" gestures such as letting Mohammedans build and expand mosques and to permit them to migrate to formerly Catholic lands in large numbers will "pacify" the believing disciples of the false prophet Mohammed over the course of time. Mohammedan leaders know that their pretended friends are fooling themselves, and they have the patience to outlast them as they win by procreation and by what is forbidding by "ecumenism," proselytism, to convert large majorities of people either to Mohammedanism itself or, at the very least, an acceptance of it and of the "rights" of Mohammedans to live by Sharia law in formerly Catholic countries.
Gone are the days when Charles Martel defeated the Mohammedans at the Battle of Tours (also known as the Battle of Poitiers) on October 10, 732, as the infidels who followed the false prophet Mohammed attempted to move northward from southern France. The Mohammedans are present today in France in large numbers, creating a "multiculturalism" there that had not previously existed. The French, victims of the falsehoods of the French Revolution that were "baptized" by the Sillon and then incorporated into the liturgy and pastoral praxis of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, have contracepted and aborted themselves, something that has been exploited by the Mohammedans, who are welcoming children in abundance. The same is happening in Ireland now as has happened throughout the continent of Europe where one formerly Catholic nation after another has come to view Mohammedanism as "sacred" and beyond criticism, no less public sanction.
Ah, but what does true history and the Catholic Faith mean to the conciliar revolutionaries? Nothing. Nothing at all. So much for Charles Martel.
Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade on November 27, 1095 at the Council of Clermont to wage a war, sanctioned by God Himself, in defense of the Catholic churches and holy places in the Holy Land that had been sacked and taken over by the bloodthirsty Mohammedans. Here is an account of his speech:
"If among the churches scattered about over the whole world
some, because of persons or location, deserve reverence above
others (for persons, I say, since greater privileges are accorded
to apostolic sees; for places, indeed, since the same dignity
which is accorded to persons is also shown to regal cities, such
as Constantinople), we owe most to that church from which we received
the grace of redemption and the source of all Christianity. If
what the Lord says namely, 'Salvation is from the Jews,' accords
with the truth, and it is true that the Lord has left us Sabaoth
as seed, that we may not become like Sodom and Gomorrah, and our
seed is Christ, in whom is the salvation and benediction of all
peoples, then, indeed, the very land and city in which He dwelt
and suffered is, by witnesses of the Scriptures, holy. If this
land is spoken of in the sacred writings of the prophets as the
inheritance and the holy temple of God before ever the Lord walked
about in it, or was revealed, what sanctity, what reverence has
it not acquired since God in His majesty was there clothed in
the flesh, nourished, grew up, and in bodily form there walked
about, or was carried about; and, to compress in fitting brevity
all that might be told in a long series of words, since there
the blood of the Son of God, more holy than heaven and earth,
was poured forth, and His body, its quivering members dead, rested
in the tomb. What veneration do we think it deserves? If, when
the Lord had but just been crucified and the city was still held
by the Jews, it was called holy by the evangelist when he says,
'Many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;
and coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they
entered into the holy city and appeared unto many,' and by the
prophet Isaiah when be says, 'It shall be His glorious sepulchre,'
then, surely, with this sanctity placed upon it by God the Sanctifier
Himself, no evil that may befall it can destroy it, and in the
same way glory is indivisibly fixed to His Sepulchre. Most beloved
brethren, if you reverence the source of that holiness and I .
you cherish these shrines which are the marks of His footprints
on earth, if you seek (the way), God leading you, God fighting
in your behalf, you should strive with your utmost efforts to
cleanse the Holy City and the glory of the Sepulchre, now polluted
by the concourse of the Gentiles, as much as is in their power.
"If in olden times the Maccabees attained to the highest
praise of piety because they fought for the ceremonies and the
Temple, it is also justly granted you, Christian soldiers, to
defend their liberty of your country by armed endeavor. If you,
likewise, consider that the abode of the holy apostles and any
other saints should be striven for with such effort, why do you
refuse to rescue the Cross, the Blood, the Tomb? Why do you refuse
to visit them, to spend the price of your lives in rescuing them?
You have thus far waged unjust wars, at one time and another;
you have brandished mad weapons to your mutual destruction, for
no other reason than covetousness and pride, as a result of which
you have deserved eternal death and sure damnation. We now hold
out to you wars which contain the glorious reward of martyrdom,
which will retain that title of praise now and forever.
"Let us suppose, for the moment, that Christ was not dead
and buried, and had never lived any length of time in Jerusalem.
Surely, if all this were lacking, this fact alone ought still
to arouse you to go to the aid of the land and city -- the fact
that 'Out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of Jehovah
from Jerusalem!' If all that there is of Christian preaching has
flowed from the fountain of Jerusalem, its streams, whithersoever
spread out over the whole world, encircle the hearts of the Catholic
multitude, that they may consider wisely what they owe such a
well-watered fountain. If rivers return to the place whence they
have issued only to flow forth again, according to the saying
of Solomon, it ought to seem glorious to you to be able to apply
a new cleansing to this place, whence it is certain that you received
the cleansing of baptism and the witness of your faith.
"And you ought, furthermore, to consider with the utmost
deliberation, if by your labors, God working through you, it should
occur that the Mother of churches should flourish anew to the
worship of Christianity, whether, perchance, He may not wish other
regions of the East to be restored to the faith against the approaching
time of the Antichrist. For it is clear that Antichrist is to
do battle not with the Jews, not with the Gentiles; but, according
to the etymology of his name, He will attack Christians. And if
Antichrist finds there no Christians (just as at present when
scarcely any dwell there), no one will be there to oppose him,
or whom he may rightly overcome. According to Daniel and Jerome,
the interpreter of Daniel, he is to fix his tents on the Mount
of Olives; and it is certain, for the apostle teaches it, that
he will sit at Jerusalem in the Temple of the Lord, as though
he were God. And according to the same prophet, he will first
kill three kings of Egypt, Africa, and Ethiopia, without doubt
for their Christian faith: This, indeed, could not at all be done
unless Christianity was established where now is paganism. If,
therefore, you are zealous in the practice of holy battles, in
order that, just as you have received the seed of knowledge of
God from Jerusalem, you may in the same way restore the borrowed
grace, so that through you the Catholic name may be advanced to
oppose the perfidy of the Antichrist and the Antichristians then,
who can not conjecture that God, who has exceeded the hope of
all, will consume, in the abundance of your courage and through
you as the spark, such a thicket of paganism as to include within
His law Egypt, Africa, and Ethiopia, which have withdrawn from
the communion of our belief? And the man of sin, the son of perdition,
will find some to oppose him. Behold, the Gospel cries out, 'Jerusalem
shall be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles
be fulfilled.' 'Times of the Gentiles' can be understood in two
ways: Either that they have ruled over the Christians at their
pleasure, and have gladly frequented the sloughs of all baseness
for the satisfaction of their lusts, and in all this have had
no obstacle (for they who have everything according to their wish
are said to have their time; there is that saying: 'My time is
not yet come, but your time is always ready,' whence the lustful
are wont to say 'you are having your time'). Or, again, 'the times
of the Gentiles' are the fulness of time for those Gentiles who
shall have entered secretly before Israel shall be saved. These
times, most beloved brothers, will now, forsooth, be fulfilled,
provided the might of the pagans be repulsed through You, with
the cooperation of God. With the end of the world already near,
even though the Gentiles fail to be converted t the Lord (since
according to the apostle there must be a withdrawal from the faith),
it is first necessary, according to their prophecy, that the Christian
sway be renewed in those regions either through you, or others,
whom it shall please God to send before the coming of Antichrist,
so that the head of all evil, who is to occupy there the throne
of the kingdom, shall find some support of the faith to fight
against him.
"Consider, therefore, that the Almighty has provided you,
perhaps, for this purpose, that through you He may restore Jerusalem
from such debasement. Ponder, I beg you, how full of joy and delight
our hearts will be when we shall see the Holy City restored with
your little help, and the prophet's, nay divine, words fulfilled
in our times. Let your memory be moved by what the Lord Himself
says to the Church: 'I will bring thy seed from the East and gather
thee from the West.' God has already brought our, seed from the
East, since in a double way that region of the East has given
the first beginnings of the Church to us. But from the West He
will also gather it, provided He repairs the wrongs of 1 Jerusalem
through those who have begun the witness of the final faith, that
is the people of the West. With God's assistance, we think this
can be done through you.
"If neither the words of the Scriptures arouse you, nor our
admonitions penetrate your minds, at least let the great suffering
of those who desired to go to the holy places stir you up. Think
of those who made the pilgrimage across the sea! Even if they
were more wealthy, consider what taxes, what violence they underwent,
since they were forced to make payments and tributes almost every
mile, to purchase release at every gate of the city, at the entrance
of the churches and temples, at every side journey from place
to place: also, if any accusation whatsoever were made against
them, they were compelled to purchase their release; but if they
refused to pay money, the prefects of the Gentiles, according
to their custom, urged them fiercely with blows. What shall we
say of those who took up the journey without anything more than
trust in their barren poverty, since they seemed to have nothing
except their bodies to lose? They not only demanded money of them,
which is not an unendurable punishment, but also examined the
callouses of their heels, cutting them open and folding the skin
back, lest, perchance, they had sewed something there. Their unspeakable
cruelty was carried on even to the point of giving them scammony
to drink until they vomited, or even burst their bowels, because
they thought the wretches had swallowed gold or silver; or, horrible
to say, they cut their bowels open with a sword and, spreading
out the folds of the intestines, with frightful mutilation disclosed
whatever nature held there in secret. Remember, I pray, the thousands
who have perished vile deaths, and strive for the holy places
from which the beginnings of your faith have come. Before you
engage in His battles, believe without question that Christ will
be your standard-bearer and inseparable forerunner."
The most excellent man concluded his oration and by the power
of the blessed Peter. absolved all who vowed to go and confirmed
those acts with apostolic blessing. He instituted a sign well
suited t so honorable a profession by making the figure of the
Cross, the stigma of the Lord's Passion, the emblem of the soldiery,
or rather, of what was to be the soldiery of God. This, made of
any kind of cloth, he ordered to be sewed upon the shirts, cloaks,
and byrra of those who were about to go. He commanded that
if anyone, after receiving this emblem, or after taking openly
this vow, should shrink from his good intent through base change
of heart, or any affection for his parents, he should be regarded
an outlaw forever, unless he repented and again undertook whatever
of his pledge he had omitted. Furthermore, the Pope condemned
with a fearful anathema all those who dared to molest the wives,
children, and possessions of these who were going on this journey
for God. . . . (Guibert de Nogent: Historia quae
dicitur Gesta Dei per Francos.)
What does this mean to the conciliar revolutionaries? Nothing. Nothing at all:
4. Let us forgive and ask forgiveness! While
we praise God who, in his merciful love, has produced in the Church a
wonderful harvest of holiness, missionary zeal, total dedication to
Christ and neighbour, we cannot fail to recognize the infidelities to the Gospel committed by some of our brethren, especially
during the second millennium. Let us ask pardon for the divisions which
have occurred among Christians, for the violence some have used in the
service of the truth and for the distrustful and hostile attitudes
sometimes taken towards the followers of other religions.
Let us confess, even more, our responsibilities as Christians for the evils of today. We
must ask ourselves what our responsibilities are regarding atheism,
religious indifference, secularism, ethical relativism, the violations
of the right to life, disregard for the poor in many countries.
We humbly ask forgiveness for
the part which each of us has had in these evils by our own actions,
thus helping to disfigure the face of the Church.
At the same time, as we confess our sins, let us forgive the sins committed by others against us. Countless
times in the course of history Christians have suffered hardship,
oppression and persecution because of their faith. Just as the victims
of such abuses forgave them, so let us forgive as well. The Church today
feels and has always felt obliged to purify her memory of those
sad events from every feeling of rancour or revenge. In this way the
Jubilee becomes for everyone a favourable opportunity for a profound
conversion to the Gospel. The acceptance of God's forgiveness leads to
the commitment to forgive our brothers and sisters and to be reconciled
with them. (Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, Day of Pardon, March 12, 2000.)
Pope Saint Pius V, a spiritual son of Saint Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Order of Preachers, begged that Catholics everywhere pray Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary, which she had given to Saint Dominic in the year 1208, for the defeat of the Turkish fleet in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571:
We have already met with the names of
several Pontiffs on the Paschal Calendar. They form a brilliant
constellation around our Risen Jesus, who, during the period between his
Resurrection and Ascension, gave to Peter, their predecessor, the keys
of the kingdom of heaven. Anicetus, Soter, Caius, Cletus and
Marcellinus, held in their hands the palm of martyrdom: Leo was the only
one who did not shed his blood in the cause of his divine Master.
To-day there comes before us a holy Pope who governed the Church in
these latter times; he is worthy to stand amidst the Easter group of
Pontiffs. Like Leo, Pius V was zealous in combating heresy; like Leo, he saved his people form the barbarian yoke.
The whole life of Pius V was a combat. His
pontificate fell during those troubled times when Protestantism was
leading whole countries into apostasy. Italy was not a prey that could
be taken by violence: artifice was therefore used, in order to undermine
the Apostolic See and thus develop the whole Christian world in the
darkness of heresy. Pius defend the Peninsula with untiring devotedness
from the danger that threatened her. Even before he was raised to the
Papal Throne he frequently exposed his life by his zeal in opposing the
preaching of false doctrines. Like Peter the Martyr, he braved every
danger and was the dread of the emissaries of heresy. When
seated on the Chair of Peter, he kept the innovators in check by fear,
roused the sovereigns of Italy to energy and by measures of moderate
severity drove back beyond the Alps the torrent that would have swept
Christianity from Europe had not the Southern States thus opposed it.
From that time forward, Protestantism has never made any further
progress: it has been wearing itself out by doctrinal anarchy. We repeat
it: this heresy would have laid all Europe waste, had it not been for
the vigilance of the pastor who animated the defenders of truth to
resist it where it already existed, and who set himself as a wall
against its invasion in the country where he himself was the master.
Another enemy, taking advantage of the
confusion caused in the West by Protestantism, organized an expedition
against Europe. Italy was to be its first prey. The Ottoman fleet
started from the Bosphorus. This again would have meant the ruin of
Christendom but for the energy of the Roman Pontiff, our Saint. he gave
the alarm, and called the Christian Princes to arms. Germany and France,
torn by domestic factions that had been caused by heresy, turned a deaf
ear to the call. Spain alone, together with Venice and the little Papal
fleet, answered the summons of the Pontiff. The Cross and the Crescent
were soon face to face in the Gulf of Lepanto. The prayers of Pius V
decided the victory in favor of the Christians, whose forces were much
inferior to those of the Turks. We shall return to this important event
when we come to the Feast of the Rosary in October. But we omit to
mention to-day the prediction uttered by the holy Pope, on the evening
of the great day of October 7, 1571. The battle between the Christian
and Turkish fleets lasted from six o'clock in the morning till late in
the afternoon. Towards evening, the Pontiff suddenly looked up towards
heaven, and gazed upon it in silence for a few seconds. Then turning to
his attendants, he exclaimed: 'Let us give thanks to God! The Christians
have gained the victory!' The news soon arrived at Rome; and thus,
Europe once more owed her salvation to a Pope! The defeat at Lepanto was
a blow from which the Ottoman Empire has never recovered: its fall
dates from that glorious day. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)
What does this mean to the conciliar revolutionaries. Nothing. Nothing at all. Here is a brief account of Giovanni Montini/Paul VI's act of treachery in 1964 in which he returned the flag of the flagship of the Turkish fleet that had been captured during the Battle of Lepanto:
Indeed, such subtlety [Paul VI's removal of his tiara] seemed designed to bear a very special sort of fruit. So did Paul's visit one year later to the United Nations headquarters in New York, where he told delegates:
"We are conscious that you are the interpreters of all that is paramount in human wisdom. We would almost say: of its sacred character. For your concern is first and foremost with the life of man, and man's life is sacred: no one may dare to interfere with it."
Presumably "no one" does not included God. Paul's performance at the United Nations, an organization long viewed with suspicion by the Church for the obvious reasons, sent many a Catholic reeling. So did papal act just two months later, when Paul gave back to the Muslims the Standard of Lepanto. The history of the flag was venerable. It was taken from a Turkish admiral during a great naval battle in 1571. While Pope St. Pius V fasted and prayed the Rosary, an out-numbered Christian fleet defeated a much larger Moslem navy, thus saving Christendom from the infidel. In honor of the miraculous victory, Pius V instituted the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary to commemorate Her intercession.
In one dramatic act Paul renounced not only a remarkable Christian victory, but the prayers and sacrifices of a great Pope and saint. Worse, he appeared to be rejecting the intercession of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary--again. "The wars of religion are finished for good." Paul told the Turks by way of explanation. Their immediate response was not recorded, but the rise of militant Islam in the last three decades indicates that yet another of Pope Paul's prophecies has gone awry. (Mark Fellows, Fatima in Twilight, Marmion Publications, 2003, p. 193.)
King Jan Sobieski of Poland used Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary to lead his Catholic forces in battle against the Turks as they attempted to storm the Gates of Vienna on September 12, 1683, defeating the last effort by the Mohammedans to invade Europe until they were welcomed in recent decades by the formerly Catholic nations of Europe where the labor pool had shrunk as a result of contraception and abortion:
In 1683 Turkish forces threatened once again to
overrun Europe. They carried the war into Austria for the purpose of
annihilating the Catholic religion. Kara Mustapha, Grand Vizier of
Mahomet IV, had boasted that he would not rest until he had stabled his
master's horses at Saint Peter's in Rome. With an army 300,000 strong,
the leader of the infidels arrived at the gates of Vienna and laid siege
to the city. Days of enemy assaults, fire, and disease had reduced the
Austrian capital to the last extremity. A small garrison of exhausted
men, under the command of the courageous Imperial General, Count
Starhemberg, himself wounded in the attack, fought desperately, with no
earthly help in sight.
Pope Innocent XI urgently appealed to the princes
of Europe on behalf of the beleaguered city and, on the feast of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, the "Unvanquished Lion of the North",
John Sobieski, King of Poland, mounted his war-horse, going forth to
battle for the glory of the cross and the preservation of all
Christendom. (Letter to Blessed Pope Innocent XVI)
Before Our Lady's altar in Her sanctuary in
Czestochowa, the King raised his sword and vowed not to sheathe it until
the mighty Queen of Heaven had given victory. The army asked Her
blessings on their enterprise. Marching towards Vienna, the men prayed
the Holy Rosary, Sobieski, wearing an image of Our Lady of Czestochowa,
gave his soldiers their battle cry: In the Name of Mary: Lord God, help!
Joining up with the Imperial army, under the
command of Charles, Duke of Lorraine, John Sobieski, whose tranquil
presence in the midst of fiercest combat had such power with his own
forces, had been unanimously chosen to lead the united armies of Europe.
Many a time had his fearless leadership routed the Moslem invaders!
At five o'clock on the morning of September 12, the
Holy Sacrifice was celebrated by the papal legate, Father Marco
d'Aviano, on the heights of Mount Kalemberg, overlooking the Austrian
capital. The King yielded to no one in the honor serving that Mass. The
armies of Christendom knelt in humble prayer. Later on that same day,
Father Marco was to see a white dove hovering over this very king and
his men while the battled raged, a sign of the victory to come.
The King gave a signal. Drums rolled, cannons
roared and the great human avalanche plunged down the steep mountain
precipices shouting, Jesus! Mary! Sobieski! Jesus! Mary! Sobieski!
Many were the separate and terrible combats on that
memorable day, but suffice it to say that by five in the afternoon, the
warrior king brandished his sword and charged upon the tent of the
Turkish leader, shouting the words of the prophet king [David], Non
nobis Domine exercituum, non nobis, sed Nomini tuo da gloriam. Not to
us, O Lord of Host, not to us, but to Thy name give the glory. [Psalm
113:9]
The name of Sobieski spread panic throughout the
enemy camp. Kara Mustapha, trembling in his boots, turned to the Tarter
Khan, Selim Gieray, Can you not save me? he pleaded. I know the Polish
king, Selim replied, where he is, flight is our only refuge. Look out
upon the firmament and you will see that God Himself is against us. (The
two armies saw the crescent moon fade in the skies.) The Moslem army
fled in terror. Sobieski and his men attributed their victory to God and
the power of Our Lady's name.
We are now on our march to Hungary, the king wrote,
taking advantage of their distraction to defeat the remainder of their
scattered troops. I have all the princes of the Empire my companions in
this enterprise, who tell me they are ready to follow such a leader not
only into Hungary but to the end of the world...Thanks be to Heaven, now
the half-moon triumphs no longer over the Cross.
Blessed Pope Innocent XI, established the Feast of
the Holy Name of Mary to be celebrated on the twelfth of September each
year as a perpetual memory of the victory of Vienna. (The Garland of Roses.)
What does this mean to the conciliar revolutionaries? Nothing. Nothing at all.
These victories against the false religion of Mohammedanism meant a lot to the Catholic Church. They were included in a summary of the history of Christendom provided by Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885:
21. There was once a time when States were
governed by the philosophy of the Gospel. Then it was that the power and
divine virtue of Christian wisdom had diffused itself throughout the laws,
institutions, and morals of the people, permeating all ranks and relations of
civil society. Then, too, the religion instituted by Jesus Christ, established
firmly in befitting dignity, flourished everywhere, by the favour of princes
and the legitimate protection of magistrates; and Church and State were
happily united in concord and friendly interchange of good offices. The State,
constituted in this wise, bore fruits important beyond all expectation, whose
remembrance is still, and always will be, in renown, witnessed to as they are
by countless proofs which can never be blotted out or ever obscured by any
craft of any enemies. Christian Europe has subdued barbarous nations, and
changed them from a savage to a civilized condition, from superstition to true
worship. It victoriously rolled back the tide of Mohammedan conquest; retained
the headship of civilization; stood forth in the front rank as the leader and
teacher of all, in every branch of national culture; bestowed on the world the
gift of true and many-sided liberty; and most wisely founded very numerous
institutions for the solace of human suffering. And if we inquire how it was
able to bring about so altered a condition of things, the answer is-beyond all
question, in large measure, through religion, under whose auspices so many
great undertakings were set on foot, through whose aid they were brought to
completion. (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885.)
As we know so very well, the conciliar revolutionaries are celebrating the virtual conquest of Europe by the Mohammedans, using the slogan of "multiculturalism" to do so, going so far as to praise the "inculturation" of Mohammedanism on the soil of once Catholic Europe. The conciliar "bishops" of Italy have been particularly aggressive in this regard in the past dozen years of so:
The second meeting of delegates from the Bishops Conferences in
Europe for relations with Muslims in Europe took place in Turin (Italy)
from May 31 to June 2, 2011. The Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of
Europe (known by its French initials CCEE) brings together the
presidents of the 33 European bishops’ conferences. Presiding over this
meeting was Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux and vice-president of the CCEE. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, was also present.
On June 1, Archbishop Maroun Lahham, Archbishop of
Tunis, spoke, emphasizing that the number of initiatives from the Muslim
side in the Islamic-Christian dialogue is clearly increasing. “In this
there is an overcoming of a psychology of fear or doubt with regard to a
topic,” he remarked somewhat optimistically. Archbishop Lahham does
not forget that there are violent demonstrations when an Islamic
personage or dogma is called into question (caricatures of Muhammad, the
pope’s lecture in Regensburg….), while noting that this sort of violent
action is becoming less frequent. But he declared: “the family, the
school and the mosque do not educate people in a basic view of equality
between Arab Christian and Arab Muslim.” Later in his talk he added,
“We must not forget that Islam presents itself as a unique,
all-encompassing system in which everything is related (faith, worship,
family, children, morality, prophet, economic life, inheritance, etc.).
Therefore it is enough to touch just one point in this larger system,
and Islam per se feels that is it threatened or offended.” In the same
way, the notion of religious freedom has quite
different meanings for Christians and Muslims. According to Abp.
Lahham, “In Muslim countries (with rare exceptions), the Christian
minorities have freedom of worship, in other words, the freedom to
practice their faith, in private and in public. Now the Christian
concept of religious freedom, especially after Vatican II, means freedom
of conscience, in other words, the freedom to choose one’s religion or
to choose not to have any religion.”
After this second meeting, the delegates of the Bishops’ Conference
published a newsletter online on the CCEE’s website. The bishops
confirm that the Catholic Church is following with much interest the “progressive enculturation of Islam in Europe,
with a tendency to manifest more its religious and moral than its
political dimension.” And that “in order to provide their religious
leaders – imams or teachers – with a theological and cultural formation
that will allow them suitably to play their religious role in the
European context.” In the perspective of the creation of a chair of
Islamic theology in the State universities, the Church – they go on to
say – is in favor of confessional teaching of religion in public schools being made available to other religious traditions, including Islam.
The bishops candidly declare that they “share with sympathy in the
expressions of a desire for democracy, freedom, and of a call for
respect of persons, of which the youth from different Arab countries
have made themselves the promoters during these months of great
political changes, and they express a wish that the process underway may
lead to the establishment of a true freedom of religion in these countries, so that Arabian Christians may also enjoy this freedom in the context of an egalitarian citizenship.” – Which only goes to show that, far from what Archbishop Lahham claims,
freedom of religion is not guaranteed to the Christian minorities in
these countries.
These delegates next claim to have made “a critical evaluation of the term ‘islamophobia’ used
to describe the reactions of hostility towards Islam”, and to prefer
the terms ‘fear’ and ‘hostility’. They also “exhort Muslims to form
positive and transparent relations”…in order to dissipate a hostile
attitude towards them. To conclude, the bishops repeated “their
conviction that the Catholic Church will pursue the dialogue with the
Muslims with renewed commitment, in the footsteps of Vatican Council II and following the teaching of Benedict XVI”, in which Christians and Muslims are finally called to express their faith sincerely without imposing it. – No comment.
One goal among others of the Counsel of the Episcopal Conferences of
Europe (CCEE), is to assure the exercise of collegiality in the
hierarchical communion cum et sub romano pontifice; the
promotion of the new evangelization on the European level; the support
for the ecumenical collaboration in Europe, and to reestablish the unity
of Christians. These meetings generally take place every three years,
and examine the principal questions related to evangelization and the
enculturation of the Gospel in the European context. (sources: ccee/apic
– DICI#236, June 11, 2011) (Conciliar "Bishops" in Italy Favor "Inculturation of Islam" in Europe.)
This is madness. Sure, it is a madness that is, quite sadly, very commonplace in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. It is madness nevertheless, which is why Magi Cristiano Allam has left the conciliar church, knowing that its endless concessions to Mohammedanism are diaoblically inspired (see Francis And Other Judases Abound In Holy Week.
Aping the false "pontiff emeritus,"Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, and his successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis, the conciliar "bishops" of Italy, the conciliar "bishops" of Italy believe that it is important for "Christians" in Europe to welcome Mohammedans in the name of "religious liberty," believing that their own gestures of warmth and support for the propagation of the blasphemous lies of this false religion will be reciprocated by the Mohammedans in their own countries, including Ireland. How does a sickle look on the flag of Ireland?
In other words, Mohammedans must be "converted" to the conciliar falsehood of "religious liberty," in and of itself a rejection of the immutable teaching of the Catholic Church, and not to the Catholic Faith. Indeed, this completely mad, insane belief was the very foundation of Ratzinger/Benedict's Assisi III (see Another Year of the Same Conciliar Apostasy, Part One 1-3 Another Year of the Same Conciliar Apostasy, Part Two, Another Year of the Same Conciliar Apostasy, Part Three, Not Interested in Assisi III, American Pots Lecturing Egyptian Kettles, Blood Flows Freely in America and Libya and Outcome Based Conciliar Math: Assisi I + Assisi II + Assisi III = A-P-O-S-T-A-S-Y).
The true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, in Whom Mohammed could not believe, hates each and every false religion. The Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, did not become Man and then suffer and die on the wood of the Holy Cross so that the rational creatures He redeemed by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood could be left in errors of one sort of the other. He commissioned the Eleven to convert men and their nations to the true Faith, the Catholic Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. False religions have no right from God to exist, less yet to propagate themselves publicly or to have their false doctrines taught to Catholics in the concentration camps of propaganda known as "public schools."
Alas, the conciliar revolutionaries have "thanked" the Mohammedans for having brought "God" back to Europe even though the Mohammedans do not worship the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, and that their goal is the elimination of all other religions and the triumph of Mohammedanism. This is what Jean-Louis "Cardinal" Tauran, the President of the "Pontifical" Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said in 2008:
PARIS (Reuters) - A senior
Vatican cardinal has thanked Muslims for bringing God back into the
public sphere in Europe and said believers of different faiths had no
option but to engage in interreligious dialogue.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Catholic
Church's department for interfaith contacts, said religion was now
talked and written about more than ever before in today's Europe.
"It's thanks to the Muslims," he said in a
speech printed in Friday's L'Osservatore Romano, the official daily of
the Vatican. "Muslims, having become a significant minority in Europe,
were the ones who demanded space for God in society."
Vatican officials have long bemoaned the
secularisation of Europe, where church attendance has dwindled
dramatically in recent decades, and urged a return to its historically
Christian roots. But Tauran said no society had only one faith.
"We live in multicultural and multireligious
societies, that's obvious," he told a meeting of Catholic theologians in
Naples. "There is no civilisation that is religiously pure."
Tauran's positive speech on interfaith dialogue
came after a remark by Pope Benedict prompted media speculation that the
Vatican was losing interest in it. Some Jewish leaders reacted with
expressions of concern and the Vatican denied any change.
The "return of God" is clearly seen in Tauran's
native France, where Europe's largest Muslim minority has brought faith
questions such as women's headscarves into the political debate after
decades when they were considered strictly private issues.
Tauran said religions were
"condemned to dialogue," a practice he called "the search for
understanding between two subjects, with the help of reason, in view of a
common interpretation of their agreement and disagreement."
That seemed to clarify Benedict's statement on
Sunday that interfaith dialogue was "not possible in the strict sense of
the word". Church officials said a strict definition would include the
option that one side is ultimately convinced by the other.
Dialogue participants could not
give up their religious convictions, Tauran said, but should be open to
learning about the positive aspects of each others' faith.
"Every religion
has its own identity, but I agree to consider that God is at work in
all, in the souls of those who search for him sincerely," he said.
"Interreligious dialogue rallies all who are on the path to God or to
the Absolute."
The uncertainty about the Vatican view coincided with increasing contacts among world religions.
Early this month, the Vatican held a pioneering
conference with a delegation from the "Common Word" group of Muslim
scholars who invited Christian churches to a new dialogue.
A week later, Saudi King Abdullah gathered world
leaders at the United Nations as part of a dialogue he launched with a
conference of faith leaders in Madrid last July.
Christianity and Islam are the world's two
largest faiths, with two billion and 1.3 billion followers respectively.
The latest interfaith efforts are meant to counter growing tensions
between these two after the Sept. 11 attacks.
An Indian prelate, speaking after the Mumbai
attacks began, said in Rome that a lack of courage to meet across faith
lines was often behind religious violence in his country.
Archbishop Felix Machado of Nashik diocese, just
east of Mumbai, told Italian priests the violence was caused by
"inequality, a lack of justice and understanding and, above all, a lack
of courage to dialogue," the Vatican daily reported. (Vatican thanks Muslims for returning God to Europe.)
"Interreligious dialogue rallies all who are on the path to God or to the Absolute"? This is not what the Catholic Church teaches":
From a purely objective point of view, regardless of the doctrinal teaching professed by Mohammedans and Catholics, it is evident that Almighty God is the God over both. God exists. His existence is not dependent on the acknowledgement of mankind that He exists. Nor is God's existence dependent upon any religion. He is the Creator and the Providence of the Universe: the whole of creation, the entire cosmos, of all existing things, whether they be angels, human beings, animals or plants, animate or inanimate. He is also the Savior and the Judge of the living and the dead, having redeemed mankind and must judge Catholics and Mohammedans, believers and atheists. Their god is but another strange god. On every essential point concerning the true God and the nature of the true God, the Mohammedan belief radically and seriously conflicts with the established and revealed Dogma of the Catholic Church.
Subjectively:
Again from a purely subjective thinking the Muslims might think and believe with a firm confidence that they are worshiping the true God, "Allah" yet the reality is quite the contrary as objectively speaking we can only affirm the contrary. This point is clear from Scripture "Whosoever does not continue in the doctrine of Christ does not have God". - II St. Jn 1:9
The teaching and the beliefs of Catholicism and Mohammedanism are different and contrary. Their concept of, and their approach to God, diverge and conflict. Catholics indeed accept as dogmatic truth the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation and the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Moslems vehemently and vociferously deny the Blessed Trinity [2], the Incarnation [3], the Crucifixion of our Divine Lord and the Divinity of Christ [4]. The Mohammedans have such a carnal notion of heaven that St. Alphonsus did not hesitate to declare "The Mohammedan Paradise, is only fit for beasts; for filthy sensual pleasure is all the believer has to expect there." [5]
The Catholic and Christian God is 'The Trinity,' and our Lord Jesus Christ, the second Person of that Trinity, is the Creator and One true and merciful God. Despite monotheistic appearances, we do not have the same God; we do not have the same mediator. How then can it be that " together with us they (The Moslems) adore the one, merciful God." [6] This is incredible!
The Catholic Teaching: "Without faith it is impossible to please God." - Heb. 11:6
Mohammedans are infidels for "broadly speaking, infidels are those who do not possess the true faith; while in the strict sense infidels are the un-baptized"[7]. They are divided into monotheists (Jews and Moslems), polytheists (Hindus, Buddhists, etc.), and atheists.
From a Catholic perspective the Islamic worship is another form of false worship given to a "strange god" for as we read in scripture "All the gods of the Nations are Idols" - I Para 16:26
It would be blasphemous to declare that these false religions are the working of God. On the Contrary ''all faithful disciples of Jesus Christ well know that the false religions are only instruments of the devil to deceive souls and place them beyond Salvation" - [8a]
Pope Pius X long ago put forward that the modernist if they take logically there doctrine, would have no grounds for denying the Muslims there "experience" of " god" as being just as valid as that of another "believer" and hence he states:
"Here it is well to note at once that, given this doctrine of experience united with that of symbolism, every religion, even that of paganism, must be held to be true. What is to prevent such experiences from being found in any religion? In fact, that they are so is maintained by not a few. On what grounds can Modernists deny the truth of an experience affirmed by a follower of Islam? [8b]
What a prophetic insight, Pope Pius X was so accurate that not even the Modernist came to deny what he stated, but only affirm the above with great audacity.
The Baltimore Catechism (No. 3) states as follows:
Q. 1148. How do we offer God false worship?
A. We offer God false worship by rejecting the religion He has instituted and following one pleasing to ourselves, with a form of worship He has never authorized, approved or sanctioned.
Islam clearly comes under the notion of false worship that (objectively speaking) is not render to God.
The psalmist tells us that "All the Gods of the Gentiles are Devils" (Psalm 96:5) and hence to whom do they render their worship? The Scriptures tell us clearly " They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. " (Deut 32:16- 17 Cf. also Baruch 4:7)
They "sacrificed to devils and not to God" - regardless of whether or not they might have believed they were rendering homage to the True God, the reality is quite the contrary! It is an erroneous proposition to qualify a prayer addressed to the devil as authentic prayer.
Islam is a false Religion. A false religion is any non-Christian religion "in so far as it is not the religion that God revealed and wants to see practiced. Moreover, every non-Catholic Christian sect is false in so far as it neither accepts nor faithfully practices the entire content of Revelation." [9]
Christ tells us who the true worshipers shall be: "But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth." (Jn. 4:23).
These words go directly against the terminology now used by the modernist hierarchy. They speak from a subjective position wishing to dogmatize and "opinion" which goes directly against the mind of the Church on this point.
This religious subjectivism, which she has always condemned under the names of indifferentism or latitudinarianism, and which "seeks to justify itself under the pretended claims of liberty, failing to recognize the rights of objective truth which are made manifest either by the lights of reason or by Revelation." [10]
This subjectivism only leads to that Religious indifferentism, which is "one of the most deleterious heresies" and which "places all religions on an equal footing," inevitably leads one to consider the truth of religious belief as merely a matter of utility for a well-regulated life.... "One ends by considering religion as an entirely individual thing which can be adapted to the dispositions of each one, letting everyone form his own personal religion, and by concluding that all the religions are good even though they contradict each other." [11]
The Church is not concerned with the subjective dispositions of men. This is for God to Judge. The Church is concerned with objective facts. Her judgments are objective. Pope St. Pius X, for this reason declared that "those who die as infidels are damned." [11a]
1907 “In answer to a question as to whether Confucius could have been saved,wrote:’It is not allowed to affirm that Confucius was saved. Christians, when interrogated, must answer that those who die as infidels are damned.’ ”
Revelation is a reality, a fact, a truth accredited by God by sure signs. This revelation of God can in no way be placed on the same footing as those erroneous beliefs of infidels. We may say that the Mohammedans worship a false god, the god of their own making, which a deviation from the right worship of the true God.
Further we might rightly ask with St. Paul, "How then shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed?" - Rom 10: 14
Although the modern terminology used might not seem to be "explicitly heretical" in nevertheless leads one down this path to apostasy. This vague terminology, which has been employed to put forward an erroneous notion of the faith so that we may be deceived along the path of syncretism. Yves Marsaudon, in his book Ecumenism as seen by a Traditional Freemason, commented favorably on the ecumenism that was nurtured at Vatican II. He said:
"Catholics and especially the conservatives must not forget that all roads lead to God. And they will have to accept that this courageous idea of free-thinking, which we can really call a revolution, pouring forth from our Masonic lodges has spread magnificently over the dome of Saint Peter’s." [12]
This is precisely path of deception to which the enemies of the Church hope to direct her. For this reason St. Pius X, who could see where this disorientation in precise terminology was leading, required every would-be Catholic priest to recite the following words at the feet of his Ordinary:
"I condemn and reject premises from which it follows that dogmas are either false or doubtful". [13]
The Council of Florence, clearly sets down the four notes of heresy as follows:
1) a pertinacious adherence to teachings expressly contradictory to that which has been defined by the Church;
2) an opinion opposed to a doctrine not explicitly defined by the Church nor clearly proposed dogmatically as an article of Faith;
3) a proposition that, although not directly contradictory to the Faith, nonetheless necessarily entails logical consequences against it; and
4) a speculation which reaches a certain degree of probability of being against the Faith.
The Modernist's in using these subjective terms to formulate their erroneous notions that "We together with the Muslims worship the same God" go directly against the above statements of the Council of Florence. This formulation works directly against the Churches dogma "Outside the Church there is No Salvation" [14]
Pope Leo XIII, affirms in his encyclical "Satis Cognitum": "Nothing is more dangerous than the heretics who, while conserving almost all the remainder of the Church's teaching intact, corrupt with a single word, like a drop of poison, the purity and the simplicity of the faith which we have received through tradition from God and through the Apostles."
Although it is true to say that the reason that those outside the Church are not saved is not purely because they worship a false 'god' nevertheless there is still a clear connection. When Christ states, "No one comes to the Father but through me" (Jn. 14:6), this precisely means, if you don't posses Christ, you can't posses the Father (God) for Christ is that door to the Father. Hence without Christ there is no salvation from God. The relation is evident. Again this is confirmed by St. Irenaeus who wrote, "Thus, without the Holy Spirit, we cannot see the Word of God; and without the Son no one can go to the Father." [15a]
The only authentic prayer is true prayer addressed to the true God. Pope Leo XIII declares without hesitation that "the fitting and devout worship of God, which is to be found chiefly in the divine sacrifice and in the dispensation of the sacraments, as well as salutary laws and discipline . . . The (Catholic) Church alone offers to the human race that religion" [15b]
Pope Pius XI declares the same saying that "In her (the Catholic Church) alone is Christ believed with a faith whole and entire, worshiped with sincere homage of adoration, and loved with the constant flame of ardent Charity" [15c]
What happened to the 1st Commandment?
I am the Lord thy God...Thou shalt not have strange gods before me....Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them..." (Ex. 20:2-5).
If all religions worship the true God by simply claiming to be doing so, then one could not violate the 1st Commandment since all worship of any “god” would be tantamount to worshiping the true "God" according to the post the modernist element in the hierarchy, yet this would not only render the 1st Commandment obsolete but make it seem as though God had given us and absurd command. God does not command anything in vain.
The first commandment is not optional. A man cannot worship in any way that which he does not believe in, for the Law of Praying determines the law of believing, and vice-versa. If Mohammedans believe in a one-person deity, that is what they worship, and in no way can we logically argue that they worship with us the Holy Trinity.
We are not unfamiliar with the notion that claims that they implicitly worship the trinity, yet we cannot maintain this from an objective stand point for the simple reason that we can not hold that one worships implicitly what he explicitly rejects.
In our day and age it is often too easily forgotten that all non-Catholic worship is offensive to God and clearly violates the first commandment. This is because the "first commandment may be broken by giving to a creature the honor which belongs to God alone or by false worship." [16a]
The Church has always regarded the worship of Non Catholics as mere acts of superstitions since "there are four kinds of superstition, namely, illegitimate worship of the true God, idolatry, divination, and superstitious practices. The first consists in a false worship, though applied to the living God; for instance, if you worship Him (God) according to the Mosaic law, which is contrary to all the precepts of the Gospel; or if you adopt a new religion in opposition to the doctrine if the universal Church." [16b] Hence it is clear that "any public worship of the true God, outside the Catholic Church constitutes a superstitious worship of God as no other Church is authorized to give public worship to God. [16c]
Religion has an intellectual foundation, that is, it is based on knowledge. To be true religion its basis must be truth. The basis must be true both speculatively and practically. In other words, true religion must be based on a correct knowledge of God as existing and worthy of all honor, and of the manner and obligation of worshipping Him. On the other hand, religion is false if what is not God is considered to be God, and worshipped as God, or if there is error in the worship of the true God. Therefore, God is not truly worshipped when erroneous signs are used in His worship, as those of the Jews, or when superfluous ceremonies are employed, as by pagans and may heretics. [16d]
Although subjectively, it is the virtue of religion which prompts a man to render to God the worship and reverence that is His by right. [16e]
It is to be noted that an act based on a false religion cannot be really an act of virtue. For a virtue requires a morally good work. But in the cult (worship) of a false god, or in the false and superstitious worship of the true God, there can be no moral goodness, since such worship is opposed to right reason. [16f]
St. Pope Pius X, truly the Pope of our Age, could see where such absurd reason of the Modernists was leading the Church as he affirmed:
"... a great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, nor discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world the reign of legalized cunning and force, the oppression of the weak, and of those who toil and suffer." [17a]
True ecumenism with the Muslims
"Those who have learned theology well," says St. Basil, “will not allow even one iota of Catholic dogmas to be betrayed. They will, if necessary, willingly undergo any kind of death in their defense." [17b]
One of the greatest frauds presented to us by a great number of the current hierarchy is the false notion of ecumenism, which in reality is not ecumenism but simple "syncretism" going by the name of "ecumenism. True Ecumenism requires all those outside the Church to come to the Ark of Salvation so that they may not perish.
True ecumenism can be effectively defined as follows:
"The unity of Christians cannot otherwise be obtained than by securing the return of the separated to the one true Church of Christ from which they once unhappily withdrew. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, that stands forth before all and that by the will of its Founder will remain forever the same as when He Himself established it for the salvation of all mankind." [18]
This has been the constant teaching of the Church. Holy Mother Church has always taught that true unity cannot be effected, except by a unity in faith and government. [19]
Pope Pius IX condemned in his syllabus of errors the following false notions:
"Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true." (Proposition XV).
"Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation and arrive at eternal salvation." (Proposition XVI).
The real problem with this false ecumenism (which lead to indifferentism) is not only the fact that Catholics are being deceived but in the same process so are the infidels and non-believers and they sadly continue on the road to perdition without being told to recant their errors.
Catholics often forget that those faithful living on earth come under the title of "Church Militant". What is a Catholic who does not confess his faith or worse yet a Catholic who does not believe his faith?
St. Peter Canisius puts it this way: "Who is to be called a Christian? He who confesses the doctrine of Christ and His Church. Hence, he is truly a Christian thoroughly condemns and detests, the Jewish, Mohammedan, and the heretical cults and sects." [20]
What did St. Peter Mavimenus tell the Mohammedans? Did he say, "We worship the same God, all is well" No! He told them the truth, he put it this way to them "Whoever does not embrace the Catholic Christian religion will be damned, as was your false prophet Mohammed." [21]
Again we read that Blessed Nicholas Tavilich was just as stern as he openly states, "You Mohammedans are in a state of everlasting damnation. Your Koran is not God's law nor is it revealed by Him. Far from being a good thing, your law is utterly evil. It is founded neither in the Old Testament nor in the New. In it are lies, foolish things, buffooneries, contradictions, and much that leads not to virtue and goodness but to evil and to all manner of vice." [22]
St. Alphonsus attests to the fact how the Holy Monk St. Goerge of San Saba openly confessed to the Mohammedans: "But the holy monk (St. George of San Saba) having declared that Mahomet was a disciple of the devil, and that his followers were in a state of perdition, he also was condemned (to martyrdom) with his companions." [23]
The same we read in the testimony of the five disciples of St. Francis of Assisi, who when reproached by the followers of Koran for preaching against Mohammed, simply responded by saying "We have come to preach faith in Jesus Christ to you, that you will renounce Mohammad, that wicked slave of the devil, and obtain everlasting life like us" [23a]
Further we read in the life of St. John Vianney how he stated openly to a Protestant who believed that his worship rendered to God should do him just as well in his Protestant Sect as it would have in the Catholic faith, The Saint responded to him with the contrary advice saying "My friend, there are not two ways of serving Our Lord; there is only one good way, and it is to serve Him as He wishes to be served".[24]
This is the truth we must speak in charity and honesty to these lost souls who without the grace and redemption of Christ can't be saved for By nature, men are "children of wrath" (Eph. 2:3); by Him, we have been reconciled with the Father (Col. 1:20), and it is only by faith in Him that we can have the boldness to approach God with entire confidence (Eph. 3:12). To Him was given all power in heaven and on earth (Mt. 28:18), and at His name every knee must bend, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth (Phil. 2:10,11). No one goes to the Father save by Him (Jn. 14:6), and there is no other name under heaven given to man by which he must be saved (Acts 4:12). He is the Light that enlightens every man who comes into the world (Jn.1:9), and whoever does not follow Him wanders in darkness (Jn. 8:12). Who is not with Him is against Him (Mt. 13:30), and who does not honor Him also dishonors His Father who sent Him (as the Jews do) (Jn. 5:23).
Christ says, " Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No I tell you but division?" With the truth, division must come. This should not dishearten the man of God for "If God is for us, who is against us" - Rom 8:31 (Do Catholics and Muslims worship the same God, by Raymond Taouck.)
What does Jorge Mario Bergoglio, otherwise known as Petrine Minister Francis, believe about Mohammedanism? Well, let's put to to you this way: it's not what is taught by the Catholic Church:
Argentine Muslims have welcomed the election of Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. In an interview with Buenosairesherald.com, Sheij Mohsen Ali and CIRA Secretary General Dr. Sumer Noufouri praised Pope Francis’s “pro-dialogue” nature.
“He always showed himself as a friend of the Islamic community. He visited the At-Tauhid Mosque (located) in the neighborhood of Floresta and the Arab-Argentine Ali Ibn Abi Talib School strengthening our relations”, the Director of the House for the Diffusion of Islam Sheik Mohsen Ali said and described a personal anecdote with the man that has now become “the Pope of the end of the world.”
“In Suipacha Street, at the headquarters of the Argentine Episcopacy, his humility drew my attention. I went there with Sheij Abdul Karim Paz. There was a small wicker chair and some soft armchairs. He took the little chair for himself and left us the comfortable armchairs,” the Sheij Mohsen Ali recalled now that Catholics around the world learn that their religious leader used to take the subway while being a Cardinal in Buenos Aires.
More sensitive issues, political arguments, also seem to prove the nature of the two times president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference. “By the time of the 2006 Lebanon War, I held an argument with one of his assistants. He received me and understood my position. He acted like a friend, not a personal friend because we did not have the time to deepen our relation, but he has been a friend," the Muslim leader affirmed.
Regarding the tensions between Pope Francis and the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kircher, Sheij Mohsen Ali called for dialogue. “Everyone knows the position Bergoglio has about the government of Cristina, a model I support. Channels of dialogue must come up. As in life, we all have lights and shadows. I wish Francis becomes even better and shadows can dissipate”, one of the most renowned voices among Argentina’s Islamic community hoped for.
“With joy and expectation of strengthening dialogue between religions”, Secretary General of the Islamic Center of the Republic of Argentina (CIRA) Dr. Sumer Noufouri told Buenosairesherald.com to resume how news about Bergoglio’s appointment were received by the institution he presides.
Considering ties between the CIRA and now Pope Francis “excellent”, Dr. Noufouri explained that the one-decade relation has helped to build Christian-Muslim dialogue, something “really significant in the history of monotheistic relations in Argentina”. A “joint work”, CIRA head added, “that we have never given up on”.
Mario Jorge Bergoglio is a “respectful, pro-dialogue person who knows the Islam”, the CIRA Secretary General said and, just like Sheij Mohsen Ali. he chose an anecdote to picture the personality of the elected pontiff.
“When Bergoglio attended the CIRA to have lunch with the board, he told us that in Rome, when he talked about the relation he had with Muslims saying that he came to the CIRA and that we congratulated him on Christmas, they just could not believe it, it shocked them,” Dr. Noufouri said and affirmed that “Argentina is a model of dialogue and coexistence that, God willing, could be exported to the world.” (Argentine Muslims: Pope Francis 'a friend of the Islamic community'.)
Apostasy has consequences, yes, even for Ireland, even for Ireland as the work of Saint Patrick to convert the pagans of the Emerald Isle to the true Faith is being erased by conciliarism's desire for its own self-destruction at the hands of the Catholic Church's enemies in the name of "religious liberty."
We must look beyond the apostasies and blasphemies and sacrileges of the present moment as we trust completely in the mercies of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, rendering unto that Heart of Hearts all of our prayers and penances and mortifications and sufferings and humiliations through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart out of which It was formed, the Immaculate Heart of Mary itself. Our trust must be in the Eucharistic piety and total Marian consecration as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our freely chosen states in life permit. We must resolve, once and for all, not to be anxious about anything in the world as we trust totally in the mercies of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and and the intercessory power of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
We must stand up to evil in our own lives, rooting it out from our souls in cooperation with the graces sent to us by Our Lord through Our Lady's loving hands as the Mediatrix of All Graces, and fear never to call it by its proper name in the world or in the counterfeit church of conciliarism that has made its reconciliation with its false, anti-Incarnational and religiously indifferentist premises.
May the offerings we make in this Easter Octave to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary help to transform a world of lies into a world where He, the Way, the Truth and the Life, is recognized as the One and only Redeemer of men, that His truths have been entrusted for all eternity to the authority of the Catholic Church, which will forever champion His Social Reign over men and nations as the conciliar revolutionaries and their insane schemes are vanquished once and for all.
Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey!
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
