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What are Traditional Catholics to think of Ratzinger?
(Excerpt, author Gary Giuffre) On 19 April 2005, the Catholic world was assaulted by yet another brain-numbing illusion staged by the conciliar church in Rome and its obliging accomplices in mass deception, the Judeo-Masonic controlled news media. From the conclave emerged yet another agent-provocateur of the “Church of Darkness,” masquerading as the new Vicar of Christ, but who is in reality the fifth actor in a series of modern-day, revolutionary antipopes since 28 October 1958, when Angelo Roncalli, a.k.a., “John XXIII,” first appeared on the papal balcony, pretending to be head of the Catholic Church.
In lock-step with the conciliar church, the secular news apparatus has assured the public that Joseph Ratzinger, a.k.a., “Benedict XVI,” is a “strict conservative,” a “doctrinarian,” and “hardliner.” Indeed, to play his role convincingly as a “friend” of Catholic tradition, Ratzinger recently lashed out at what he called “the dictatorship of relativism”; he denounced the ordination of women as a “serious attack on the unity of the Church”; and he condemned homosexuality as “a moral evil.” Throwing a few bones like these to naive Catholics is apparently all it takes to convince them that Ratzinger, who was a member of the Modernist “Rhine group” at Vatican II, is now a of champion Catholic orthodoxy.
And what exactly are the views of Joseph Ratzinger, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the basic teachings of the Catholic Church? For the answer, the reader does not have to look any further than Ratzinger’s revealing book, “Principles of Catholic Theology; Building Stones for a Fundamental Theology,” 1987, Ignatius Press, New York. The following passages, taken from this work, tell much about the faith of the conciliar church’s new “conservative” leader:
On the historical reality of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
“The Resurrection cannot be a[n] historical event in the same sense as [was] the Crucifixion ...” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 186)
On Truth
“Both the Catholic and Protestant interpretation of Christianity have meaning each in its own way; they are true in their historical moment ...Truth becomes a function of time ... fidelity to yesterday’s truth consists precisely in abandoning it in assimilating it into today’s truth” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 16)
“The truth is whatever serves progress, that is, whatever serves the logic of history.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 17)
“...ultimately in the truth, he [man] becomes one with his ego.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 300)
On the Church
“Baptism forms a link between the Christian faith and the religions of the nations, which as cosmic religions seek a God in the elements of the world and are actually on [t]his trail, albeit at a distance.” (Page 29)
“We ourselves have become uncertain about our Christian faith.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 42)
“The Eucharist is the Church.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 53)
On Ecumenism
“The Catholic does not insist on the dissolution of the Protestant confession and the demolishing of their churches, but hopes rather that they will be strengthened in their confessions and in their ecclesial reality.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 202)
“The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .. proposes to meet the crisis by a positive presentation of Catholic doctrine...not exc1uding those who hold opposing views.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 229)
On Evolution
“The impetus given by Teilhard de Chardin exerted a wide influence. With daring vision it incorporated the historical movement of Christianity into the great cosmic process of evolution.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 34)
Please note: On 30 June 1962, the Holy Office declared the works of Teilhard de Chardin (shown at left) to “abound in ... serious errors as to offend Catholic doctrine ...” In his 1950 encyclical, “Humani Generis,” Pope Pius XII denounced the “fictitious tenets of evolution which repudiate all that is absolute, firm and immutable”
On sin
“Many a false anxiety about sin, created by a narrow-minded moral theology, and all too often nourished and encouraged by spiritual advisers, avenges itself today by leading people to regard the Christianity of the past as a kind of harassment that kept man constantly in opposition to himself; instead of freeing him for open and anxiety-free co-operation with men of good will.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 56).
“Morality and immorality seem to ens1ave man to make him joyless and empty.” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 141).
“Luther’s historical instinct is clearly proving itself right” (Joseph Ratzinger, page 141)
Please note: Martin Luther taught: “Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly ... No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Weimar Edition, Vol. 2, page 372; “Letters I,” Luther’s Works, American Edition, Vol. 48, page 282.)
On 3 January 1521, Luther (pictured at left) was condemned by Pope Leo X with the papal bull of excommunication, “Exurge Domine.”
On the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist
Now, for insights into Ratzinger’s beliefs on the Eucharist, the reader is directed to the following passage from his book, “Die Sakramentale Begrundung Christlicher Existenz” (The Sacramental Reason for Christian Existence) 1966, Kyrios Publishing, Freising-Meitingen (Germany):
“Eucharistic devotion such as is noted in the silent visit by the devout in church must not be thought of as a conversation with God. This would assume that God was present there locally and in a confined way. To justify such an assertion shows a lack of understanding of the Christological mysteries of the very concept of God. This is repugnant to the serious thinking of the man who knows about the omnipresence of God. To go to church on the ground that one can visit God Who is present there is a senseless act which the modern man rightfully rejects.” (Joseph Ratzinger)
More of the same
So far, Joseph Ratzinger has never repudiated the ideas in his published works thus cited, nor abjured his blatant heresies, nor recanted even his blasphemous denial of the central doctrine of the Catholic Faith, as quoted above. Yet his followers include many “conservative” novus ordo Catholics, and even some “traditionalists.” They seem unaware of his defection from the Faith of Jesus Christ, or even if they are conscious of it, have imagined, through wishful-thinking, that he will correct course, reject the policies of the conciliar “popes,” and bring about a halt in the direction that the Vatican has been headed during the last 47 years. Such notions should have been dispelled, however, when on the day after his “election,” Ratzinger pledged to continue the implementation of Vatican II, thus guaranteeing that, for a while longer, the demolition operation against the Catholic religion will go on unabated, from the pinnacle of the ecclesiastical headquarters in Rome. To a great extent, Ratzinger choreographed the activities of his mentor, Karol Wojtyla, during the last 15 years of his life. And now, after remaining partly behind the curtains, the puppet-master has emerged upon center stage.
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Jesus' Doctrine has stood the test of 20 centuries.
One of the awful, fatal mistakes that non-Catholics make is to say that there are many good churches and you can take your choice. Nothing is more at variance with the Holy Bible teaching than this idea of various conflicting churches which are not unified all over the world in the Gospels, nor are they in name. They pick and choose from Scripture what they want to believe.
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Who is good?
Sometimes we meet persons who believe they are good, although they are disobedient to Jesus Christ, the Gospels, the Church of the Bible. They imagine they are good, but how do they stand before God? Christ tells us, "He that will not hear the church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican." St. Matthew 18:18. This is truly an awful state of affairs.
Great must be the peace of mind of the Catholic, guided by the greatest teaching power in the world. He rests securely on that teaching. He ought to, for he is listening to God. "He that hears you, hears Me," said Christ Jesus. Nothing can exceed this.
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The Catholic Church owns America
In regards to the "Faith of our Fathers", America owes it's beginning to the Catholic Church. Do you believe that Catholics would destroy or suffer others to destroy this American Republic, which, except for them, would never have existed? America was discovered by a Catholic - Christopher Columbus. If you say that Columbus was not its discoverer, then what was the Columbian Exhibition intended to celebrate? What was Columbus Day intended to celebrate? Did Ericson discover America? Be it so. Ericson was a Catholic. But Columbus and Ericson only touched upon our borders. It was left for other Catholics, missionaries and explorers, to press onward to the interior. The northern lakes were discovered and made known by Champlain, a Catholic.
The Mississippi valley and all this fertile western country might not, even yet, have been opened to you and me and our children after us, were it not for the intrepidity and self-sacrifice of such men as Hennepin, Duluth, Joliet, Marquette, La Salle - Catholics every one of them. One of the greatest republican clubs in this country, the Marquette Club of Chicago, was named after Marquette, the Catholic missionary and explorer. Catholic missionaries were preaching to the American Indians as early as 1526, long before a Protestant or secularist had ever set foot on American soil. It was a full 100 years later that Protestants, English settlers, or "secularists" landed in the Mayflower. They were constitutionally opposed to being happy themselves or permitting anybody else to be happy.
At the Battle of Bunker Hill, that first real test of heroic patriotism, there were engaged on the American side 1,500 troops, and of these 20 percent at least were Irish Catholics. Why, America's first commodore was a Catholic, who, to the demand of a British man-of-war as to who or what he was, sang out: "I'm Jack Barry, half Irish and half Yankee. Who are you?" But, American patriotism, American valor, American prowess, enlisted as they were in a righteous cause, could not of themselves have brought our Republic into being. Those were times to try men's souls. Freedom staggered and groped wildly in the dark. Her naked feet left their bloody imprint in the snows of Valley Forge. Patrick Henry, with the trumpet voice of a prophet, had declared to the Virginia delegates, "We shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. What is a friend, my countrymen? Someone has said that a friend is the first one who comes in when all the world goes out." That friend of America, of Liberty, of God - write it on your hearts, countrymen for that friend was France - Catholic France.
The rest of the Catholic explorers were Cabot, Verazzani, Gomez, Ponce de Leon, and Pineda. The Catholics discovered and colonized America. The Catholics discovered and colonized Greenland, and had cathedral, church, and convent there. Also, Florida. Leif Ericson and his Catholic Northmen discovered and visited Vinland, and was followed by Catholic bishops and priests.
The languages of American Indians were studied by Catholic missionaries and scholars who published books on them before English settlers ever arrived. The languages of the Florida tribes were studied by Father Pareja who published books on the Timuqua. The great authority for the language of Maine is the dictionary prepared by Father Sebastian Rale and embodying the language of the Abnakis. Our knowledge of the Illinois language is due mainly to the grand work of Father Le Boulanger. The Franciscans preserved the languages of Texas and California. Bishop Baraga gave us the best dictionary and grammar of the Chippewas; Bishop D'Herbomez, of the Yakimas, the Jesuits, Mangarini and others the best works on the Selish and languages of the Rocky Mountains.
Cartier, also a Catholic, discovered and named the St. Lawrence. Champlain, Catholic, made known and mapped the upper lake which bears his name. The true Jesuits first gave the maps of Lake Ontario and Lake Superior. The Sulpician Dollier De Capon drew the first map of Lake Erie. Fathers Joques and Raymbaut planted the Cross at Sault Ste Marie. The Catholic, De La Verendrye first reached the Rocky Mountains. Menendez, Catholic, and Onate, Catholic, founded our two oldest cities, St. Augutine and Santa Fe, which in their very names tell of their Catholic origin.
Even George Washington abolished "Pope-Day", a hateful Protestant celebration against Catholics in which the effigies of the Pope and of the devil were taken in procession through the streets of Boston, and having received the taunts and insults of Protestants, those effigies were burnt.
The Fathers of the Faith are all those mentioned in the first 6 paragraphs, and many more Catholics who immigrated to America. The Faith of the Fathers is Catholic. It is they who are the true Founding Fathers. America owes its debt to them and the Catholic Church, the true Church of 2000 years, despite the imposter one - the modernist one in Rome which is only 43 years old, but will not last. God owns America. God has the true claim to the ownership of America.
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CATHOLIC INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
Catholicity created a representative form of government; founded the system of trial by jury; spread Christendom with its benevolent institutions; commanded its bishops to protect and defend the poor and oppressed; created arts, literature, and languages, and every modern science; invented in the 10th century the system of arithmetic by the monk Gerbert; algebra by the monk Lucca di Borgo; Bishop Numiscus discovered the circulation of the blood in the 4th century; the laws of anatomy by Fallopius, Canon of Modena, whose very name is still given to a certain part of the human anatomy; the laws of light by a Sicilian Abbot Maurolgio; the laws of electricity by two ecclesiastics, Lun and Brecaria; conceived the force of attraction, steam, use of power, aerostatics; magnetism, by the monk Roger Bacon; modern astronomy by Canon Copenicus and Cardinal de Cresu; established the laws of mineralogy by a Canon of Paris; invented clock mechanism by Richard, Abbot of St. Albans; 4th century, telexcopes invented by monks; spectacles by a Domincan, Alessandro Spina; lightning conductors by a Moravian priest, Procopius Divish; telegraphs by the Abbe Chappe; the first piano was constructed in 1711 by an English Catholic monk in Rome, Rev. Father Wood; the first book printed in the New World was the Spiritual Ladder of St. John Climacus, printed in Mexico; discoverer Jesuit Father Simon Le Moyne, 1654, of the Salt Springs at Onondaga, NY.
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CHANGE OF CREED
Long ago the Lord's Prayer was supplemented by a closing phrase for the use of various Protestant sects. Then, during the summer of 1896, the Methodist Protestant church in general conference in Kansas City voted to strike out the word "Catholic" from the Apostles' Creed, because it needed frequent explanation to distinguish it from Roman Catholic. Already, the conciliar, robber church of Rome has supplemented the Lord's Prayer, a phrase similiar to the Protestant's. We wonder what else will be changed in the Lord's Prayer since ongoing change of doctrine has become the thing to do most in the conciliar church. Already it has denounced the Faith and the Catholic Church.
Protestant Sects - Anabaptists, founder Nicolas Stock, Germany, 1581; Baptists, founder Roger Williams, Rhode Island, 1639; Free-will Baptists, founder Benjamin Randall, New Hampshire, 1780; Free Communion Baptists, founder Benijah Corp, New York; etc. etc., all found by men from 1581 to present. The conciliar church in Rome was founded by Roncalli in 1958. But, the Catholic (Katholikos, Grk, "all nations", "universal") Church, "Mother Church", was founded by Jesus Christ, Jerusalem, 33, with the first Catholic Council in Jerusalem (New Testament).
It is manifest that all these Protestant organizations which are divisive over the Bible and appropriate to themselves the names of churches started 1500 years AFTER the Foundation of THE Church by Christ. They are mere modern inventions, no more founded by Christ than Mohammedanism was.
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PRINT OF OUR LORD'S FEET ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
When Our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven on Ascension Day, He left printed on the rocky surface of Mount Olivet the marks of His sacred feet. Here is what I have read on this subject in the "Travels of Baron Geramb," who visited the Holy Land in 1833: "On the center of the summit of the mountain, ,in a species of chapel, is seen in the rock the print made by Our Savior's left foot, at the moment when He quitted the earth to ascend into Heaven. |
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ORIGINAL INFANT OF PRAGUE STATUE
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