Commenti a: Pope Francis: What is the Real Enemy? https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy Vatican at a Glance Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Di: The German question risks putting the whole Church in crisis... - Salvation & Prosperity https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1355192 The German question risks putting the whole Church in crisis... - Salvation & Prosperity Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:54:52 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1355192 [...] is a lot of talk about the Church’s Protestantization, and the central role given to personal conscience in many issues seems to prove this theory right. [...] [...] is a lot of talk about the Church’s Protestantization, and the central role given to personal conscience in many issues seems to prove this theory right. [...]

]]> Di: Pope Francis, the German question risks putting the whole Church in crisis – On God's Payroll https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1355178 Pope Francis, the German question risks putting the whole Church in crisis – On God's Payroll Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:12:33 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1355178 [...] is a lot of talk about the Church’s Protestantization, and the central role given to personal conscience in many issues seems to prove this theory right. [...] [...] is a lot of talk about the Church’s Protestantization, and the central role given to personal conscience in many issues seems to prove this theory right. [...]

]]> Di: James https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1265512 James Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:18:15 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1265512 We are “pastored” by a bunch of old men continuing to endorse the catastrophic trajectory assumed when they were wet-behind-the-ears right out of the seminary, supporting at all cost the failed and ruinous “ecumenism” and its attendant notions. As they stand on the doorstep of eternity they leave behind, in reality, bequest of a three-quarter empty church constructed of matchsticks, plastic tape and mutilated paper-clips deconstructing each time someone takes a breath. The bloom is long off the rose. “The council” is old and moth eaten, particularly when its documents have been as abused as the entire enterprise was when it happened. It really doesn’t cut the mustard the way it used to. The heterodox find it antiquated, outmoded and, of all things, irrelevant. The orthodox faithful are tired of being hit over the head with an event that has only led to a Roman Catholicism well into looking and smelling like hell on earth. Now we must endure desperate efforts of those drowning in geriatric delusion, fortressed in Latin American “cha-cha-cha” and Teutonic hubris, commandeering all manner of confection to prop-up an unsupportable legacy. Mortifying to think that the scorn once heaped upon our beloved priests by the aberrant and the heretical just very well might be deserved. We are “pastored” by a bunch of old men continuing to endorse the catastrophic trajectory assumed when they were wet-behind-the-ears right out of the seminary, supporting at all cost the failed and ruinous “ecumenism” and its attendant notions. As they stand on the doorstep of eternity they leave behind, in reality, bequest of a three-quarter empty church constructed of matchsticks, plastic tape and mutilated paper-clips deconstructing each time someone takes a breath.
The bloom is long off the rose. “The council” is old and moth eaten, particularly when its documents have been as abused as the entire enterprise was when it happened. It really doesn’t cut the mustard the way it used to. The heterodox find it antiquated, outmoded and, of all things, irrelevant. The orthodox faithful are tired of being hit over the head with an event that has only led to a Roman Catholicism well into looking and smelling like hell on earth.
Now we must endure desperate efforts of those drowning in geriatric delusion, fortressed in Latin American “cha-cha-cha” and Teutonic hubris, commandeering all manner of confection to prop-up an unsupportable legacy. Mortifying to think that the scorn once heaped upon our beloved priests by the aberrant and the heretical just very well might be deserved.

]]> Di: FrankieB https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1265396 FrankieB Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:35:46 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1265396 James, great post. I think you posted it elsewhere where I saw it but glad you posted it here. James, great post. I think you posted it elsewhere where I saw it but glad you posted it here.

]]> Di: FrankieB https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1265395 FrankieB Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:32:35 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1265395 Andrea, the Pope and the Vatican are worried about reaching out to groups or individuals who for the most part do not CARE about the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, loyal Catholics are ignored or mocked. Mass attendance is plummeting worldwide and especially in Europe and the U.S., Catholic institutions are under assault, and yet the Pope and his advisors are focused on the temperature of the air. Is he kidding ? His favorite theologian is Kasper ? A guy who wants to turn Catholic teachings into Protestantism ? A guy who presides over a country where Mass attendance is close to 5% ? The Pope knows this -- he mentioned it in his recent trip to Germany or at least read the talking points -- so why in God's Name would he think that the German Church or any of its apostate leaders should be listened to ? Why is the Pope enamored with those who want to dilute Church teaching ? Does the Pope intend to 'reach out' and show 'mercy' by declaring that belief in God is optional ? Might be a good way to appeal to atheists. Andrea, the Pope and the Vatican are worried about reaching out to groups or individuals who for the most part do not CARE about the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, loyal Catholics are ignored or mocked.

Mass attendance is plummeting worldwide and especially in Europe and the U.S., Catholic institutions are under assault, and yet the Pope and his advisors are focused on the temperature of the air. Is he kidding ?

His favorite theologian is Kasper ? A guy who wants to turn Catholic teachings into Protestantism ? A guy who presides over a country where Mass attendance is close to 5% ? The Pope knows this — he mentioned it in his recent trip to Germany or at least read the talking points — so why in God’s Name would he think that the German Church or any of its apostate leaders should be listened to ? Why is the Pope enamored with those who want to dilute Church teaching ?

Does the Pope intend to ‘reach out’ and show ‘mercy’ by declaring that belief in God is optional ? Might be a good way to appeal to atheists.

]]> Di: James https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1264606 James Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:26:41 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1264606 Whenever I abandon hope in your perspective you return with a flourish. This article is an invaluable call to awareness of arguably the most pernicious offensive against Roman Catholicism, known since it was spawned, but now masked – primarily by Roman Catholic “scholars” enabled by duplicitous ecclesiastics – with the term ecumenism. You need be applauded for exercising the fortitude to discuss this glaring and disturbing reality. There are many who will not appreciate the raking light you bring to this reality. Protestant communities have no interest at all in unity with Roman Catholicism. They hold us in contempt at best, but tragically far more frequently we are termed a joke. They have no interest in us beyond the deconstruction of Roman Catholicism and the concurrent justification of their own historical aberrance – theological and moral. Many Catholics engaged in this endeavor appear to share that goal and are duplicitous, others are simply delusional or naïve. Having spent ten years working in a trans-denominational seminary of great repute, I assure you, this is the “oikoumene” reality. Mainline protestantism has devolved into some sort of "ethical" cultural society with no regard for the Creed. Roman Catholic theologians burdened with an academic inferiority complex acquired in the late nineteenth century, metastasized through the first half of the twentieth, vested themselves in speculative academic inquiry rooted in skepticism, abandoning authentic theological reflection rooted in religious fidelity sustained by prayer. To the extent Roman Catholicism has collapsed into this quagmire, we have advanced toward unity in disbelief. To the extent we have resisted this grievous gravitational force we are farther afield from each other than we were fifty years ago. I suspect ecclesiastics and theologians “in the know” have entirely abandoned Roman Catholicism and have yet to let any of us groundlings in on the secret. The spectrum of ecclesiastics presently holding the reigns makes me think this the likely scenario. The odor of sanctity is not to be detected here, rather the opposite. Pastoral care with benefit of the “wink and the nod” is fraudulent and the work of the Adversary. Accountability, something woefully absent in the post-conciliar Church, starts at the top. Does Pope Francis wish to confront and correct the protestant trajectory by which the Church is presently propelled, or is this agenda his, was it his mandate from the conclave? I know what I hope to be true, but the evidence appears to undermine this hope of mine. May the future find my fears unfounded and my hope affirmed and fulfilled. Whenever I abandon hope in your perspective you return with a flourish. This article is an invaluable call to awareness of arguably the most pernicious offensive against Roman Catholicism, known since it was spawned, but now masked – primarily by Roman Catholic “scholars” enabled by duplicitous ecclesiastics – with the term ecumenism. You need be applauded for exercising the fortitude to discuss this glaring and disturbing reality. There are many who will not appreciate the raking light you bring to this reality.
Protestant communities have no interest at all in unity with Roman Catholicism. They hold us in contempt at best, but tragically far more frequently we are termed a joke. They have no interest in us beyond the deconstruction of Roman Catholicism and the concurrent justification of their own historical aberrance – theological and moral. Many Catholics engaged in this endeavor appear to share that goal and are duplicitous, others are simply delusional or naïve. Having spent ten years working in a trans-denominational seminary of great repute, I assure you, this is the “oikoumene” reality.
Mainline protestantism has devolved into some sort of “ethical” cultural society with no regard for the Creed. Roman Catholic theologians burdened with an academic inferiority complex acquired in the late nineteenth century, metastasized through the first half of the twentieth, vested themselves in speculative academic inquiry rooted in skepticism, abandoning authentic theological reflection rooted in religious fidelity sustained by prayer. To the extent Roman Catholicism has collapsed into this quagmire, we have advanced toward unity in disbelief. To the extent we have resisted this grievous gravitational force we are farther afield from each other than we were fifty years ago.
I suspect ecclesiastics and theologians “in the know” have entirely abandoned Roman Catholicism and have yet to let any of us groundlings in on the secret. The spectrum of ecclesiastics presently holding the reigns makes me think this the likely scenario. The odor of sanctity is not to be detected here, rather the opposite. Pastoral care with benefit of the “wink and the nod” is fraudulent and the work of the Adversary. Accountability, something woefully absent in the post-conciliar Church, starts at the top.
Does Pope Francis wish to confront and correct the protestant trajectory by which the Church is presently propelled, or is this agenda his, was it his mandate from the conclave? I know what I hope to be true, but the evidence appears to undermine this hope of mine. May the future find my fears unfounded and my hope affirmed and fulfilled.

]]> Di: Mary https://www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-what-is-the-real-enemy#comment-1264354 Mary Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:49:12 +0000 http://www.mondayvatican.com/?p=2312#comment-1264354 Excellent article Andrea, God bless you. I am from the other side of the world (New Zealand) and all my life I have been made to feel uncomfortable and out of place because I am Catholic. In fact Catholics are often quietly really not even permitted to use the word Catholic. (Except when they are talking about homosexual pedophile priests). I have always had the thought that Protestantism is the Church's greatest enemy, especially because they have a deliberate and obstinate refusal to obey Christ's teaching and to accept His Church, in favor of their own thinking. Your article gives me strength and hope to be brave and not be afraid. I am not the only one who thinks like this. Excellent article Andrea, God bless you. I am from the other side of the world (New Zealand) and all my life I have been made to feel uncomfortable and out of place because I am Catholic. In fact Catholics are often quietly really not even permitted to use the word Catholic. (Except when they are talking about homosexual pedophile priests). I have always had the thought that Protestantism is the Church’s greatest enemy, especially because they have a deliberate and obstinate refusal to obey Christ’s teaching and to accept His Church, in favor of their own thinking.

Your article gives me strength and hope to be brave and not be afraid. I am not the only one who thinks like this.

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