I got into trouble with a Monsignor in Taupo a week ago for contradicting the Pope. Since then, Pope Francis had back-pedalled on what he said in February about a diversity of religions being "willed by God".
I had told the Monsignor that was heresy. The Monsignor said I was "incorrect".
Pope Francis has since declared that "God willed to permit (a diversity of religions)". Permit", meaning God allows a diversity of religions.
Yes, God allows us many religions in the same way as He permits or allows us to sin. But He never wills us to sin, and willing people to sin was in effect implied by the statement signed by the Pope in Abu Dhabi in February with the Grand Imam. Because in the Qur'an Islam commands its followers, inter alia, to "strike off the heads of the disbelievers" - which in Christian terms is a serious offence against God.
"Willed by God" means 'wanted by God'. But if God 'willed' or 'wanted' Islam, why would He send his apostles out expressly "to baptise all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit"? God wanted Islam to be baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity, Whom Islam refuses to recognize, and Whose adherents (Christians and Catholics), must be converted, the Qur'an says, to Islam. Otherwise, as commanded by the Qur'an, non-believers (Christians, Catholics and Jews) must be slain as idolaters wherever they are found.
God allows Islam because He gave us a free will. If we want to sin, He allows it. If we want to be Muslim, He allows us to be Muslim. If an evil man wants to walk into a mosque and slaughter 50 worshippers of Allah, God allows it. And if Muslims want to massacre Christians and Catholics, as they do so still in many parts of the world, believing that such massacre guarantees them a prime place with Allah in eternity, God allows it.
Of course the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful people. The Christchurch mosque massacre was horrible and heinous, an evil unprecedented in the history of our nation.
'And what about the Crusades!' Please, spare me. Catholics once slaughtered Muslims, yes. But that was and still is a crime against God and the Catholic religion, and proscribed by the Bible. Slaughter of non-believers is not proscribed by the Qur'an, but rather advocated.The good Monsignor in Taupo wanted me to read the documents of Vatican II, which would prove me "incorrect", and prove God does "will" or "want" us to have many religions. But even if Vatican II's statements, taken in context, had indeed said that, Vatican II's documents are still man-made and if they conflicts with the Gospel we must "obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).
And Vatican II is not the god that the NZ Church of Nice has made it out to be. Vatican II was only a pastoral council, not a doctrinal or dogmatic council, which means it was not intended by the Church to give definitive teaching. Indeed, it is liable to correction.
Please remember that, people, next time you hear "the spirit of Vatican II" invoked as Gospel and proof that we should entertain more post-Vatican II ideas such as 'ministers of the Eucharist', or Communion in the hand, or girls serving the Mass - or reject the Traditional Latin Mass, which produced countless saints, countless priests and countless converts to the Catholic Faith.
Paul Collits says:
V2 has been weaponised by revolutionaries and the useful idiots of revolutionaries. The hermeneutic of disruption.
I say: Indeed. But there are counter-revolutionaries! Thank God.
Just in case you didn't know, 'hermeneutic' means 'interpretation'. Pope Benedict XVI talked about Vatican II in terms of a 'hermeneutic of continuity', interpreting Vat II as having no rupture with Tradition. However there are conciliar texts which are ambiguous and which have opened the door to pronouncements and practices contrary to the Tradition and doctrine of the Church.
Such as, for instance:
- separation of Church and State
- Mass in the vernacular
- ecumenical prayer meetings
- 'eucharistic ministers'
- abolition of the death penalty which for 2000 years was permitted, albeit in very rare circumstances
- altar girls
- Communion in the hand
- and now, promotion of sacrilegious Holy Communion for:
- hetero couples living together outside marriage
- couples divorced and 'remarried'
- homosexual couples
- non-Catholics
In short, what we have with Vatican II is what Paul calls a 'hermeneutic of disruption'.
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