BERGOGLIO'S HEADING THE GERMANS OFF AT THE PASS

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Take a gander at what the Catholic Church has been spared - and by none other than Jorge Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis. 

Marianne Arndt, preaching at Holy Mass at St Isabel 'Catholic' Church, Cologne Germany, May 15

The woman pictured ab0ve is a 'parish assistant' at the Archdiocese of Cologne, but evidently one with vaulting ambition. She's preaching during Mass in St. Isabel Catholic Church. Behind her, naturally, the altar is decked out with a rainbow flag. 

This initiative is part of the so-called Synodal Way taken by the Catholic Bishops in Germany, an avant-garde model striving to approve  deaconesses and homosexual "marriage."  German women want to receive sacred orders and have decisive power in the Church; same-sex unions are being blessed in Catholic churches right across Germany. 

Outdoor blessing of same-sex unions at Church of Christ Resurrection in Cologne

Dr Taylor Marshall reckons Jorge Bergoglio (Marshall refers to him more politely, as 'Pope Francis') and his inner-Vatican buddies have got the wind up good and proper,  and hope to cut these rebellious Germans off at the pass, so to speak.

Because on Tuesday morning, Pope Francis promulgated a revised Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which contains the penal law of the Latin Church. Included within its provisions is a new, far more explicitly outlined crime on the attempted ordination of women, in what could prove to be a pointed action directed at the Church in Germany.

The revised canon 1379 provides that “both a person who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See,” and that the one who attempts to ordain a woman “may be punished by dismissal from the clerical state.”

While this is not, strictly speaking, an innovation in the law, it makes explicit what was formerly only implied by a much broader canon, and closes the scope for a potential loophole in the language to be argued by someone attempting to confer ordination at any level on a woman. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/how-the-popes-canonical-reform-closes

An outfit calling itself Womensordination.org is, understandably, not happy. It complains: 

Pope Francis’ June 1 changes to the Code of Canon Law (Book VI) on offenses and punishments fail to correct the mischaracterization of the “grave crime” of women following their authentic vocations to ordained ministry. While not new, the revised canon 1379 is a painful reminder of the Vatican’s patriarchal machinery, and its far-reaching attempts to subordinate women. https://whww.womensordination.org/2021/06/updates-to-canon-law-fail-to-correct-the-crime-of-womens-ordination/

So Dr Taylor Marshall, author of "Infiltration - The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within" (a must-read) gives us the rundown on YouTube at https://youtu.be/4OwUhygA-2k: 

He explains that you have to be a baptised male to confer or receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders. That baptism and maleness is proper matter for the sacrament. A woman does not qualify as proper matter for the sacrament. "So why," Marshall asks rhetorically, "can't a woman be 'proper matter'? Women are more spiritual, they pray more, they go to Mass more often ..." 

But the priest, in the liturgy, is 'in persona Christi'. The Catholic Church is a patriarchal religion. God is God the Father. We call our priests Father. (How do you address a woman priest? 'Mother'? How do the Anglicans manage it?)

The Vicar of Christ (although Bergoglio has deleted that title from his pontifical list) is called 'Papa Francesco', meaning 'Pope Francis'. Pagan cultures (like Maori) had male and female priests because they have male and female gods, but Jews and Catholics don't have women priests. 

Catholics believe the Blessed Virgin Mary, the 'Theotokos' (Mother of God) is esteemed more highly than St Peter. In heaven she has the highest seat. God chose Mary Magdalene to be the witness to the Resurrection. But Jesus Christ didn't give the priesthood to the Blessed Virgin Mary or to Mary Magdalen. 

Jesus Christ wants the priesthood to reflect the fatherhood of God. (Also, one might add, to show the spousal relationship of the priest with the Church. If women became priests the Church would find herself to be in a lesbian relationship.) The Church is female. The relationship in the Holy Trinity begins in God the Father: the Church therefore is patriarchal.

'Sacred Orders' are conferred only on bishops, priests and deacons. 

A latae sententiae excommunication means automatic excommunication. Anyone procuring an abortion, for example, Marshall explains, receives a latae sententiae. Everyone involved in an abortion is automatically excommunicated. The surgeon, the nurses, the mother, the father - even anyone who drives a woman to a clinic for an abortion - they all receive a latae sententiae, an automatic excommunication which removes you from the visible Church. 

Excommunications are not always infallible. Joan of Arc for example, died excommunicated but was canonised a saint. 

This latae sententiae on the ordination of women (on both the woman and the 'ordaining' bishop, says Marshall, is reserved to the Apostolic See, making it what Marshall calls A Big Deal. Because if you were to commit this crime of getting ordained and later repented, only Rome can do the remission of the excommunication, not a priest in confession, or a bishop.

"You got to kick it upstairs," says Marshall. To Rome. And Rome might remit the excommunication - but they might also laicise you. They might dismiss you from the clerical state. That's what the media love to call being 'defrocked'.

Dr Taylor Marshall reports that commentators are saying this revision of Canon 1379 is merely a distraction; we have German priests giving blessings to same-sex unions wholesale and that this move is just tossing a bone to the traditionalists. 

But Marshall dismisses the worries about first, second and third drafts of a document restricting or suppressing the Latin Mass. "I don't think they're going to take down Summorum Pontificum. I think that's ridiculous. We should have latae sententiae excommunication of priests who give blessings to same sex couples, and excommunication of the couples. 

"I think PF and his inner circle are panicking about the German sitation. They know the CDF (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) put out a statement saying we don't bless same-sex unions. The Germans called pope's bluff and the pope did nothing. 

"I think the pope realised the Germans and other liberals are, like, we're going to do what we like, we're going to ordain women deacons. We thought you were our liberal bro and you're not. 

"So the Vatican inner circle said we have to cut them off at the pass. We'll put the latae sententiae in canon law. I think the Vatican officials are shaking in their boots - or their italian slippers. I think they realise the Germans are going to call their bluff. 

"The latae sententiae excommunication is reserved to the Holy See which means the pope can say, "I'm the only one who can actually reinstate you."  https://youtu.be/4OwUhygA-2k

"Lets increase our devotion to the Blessed Mother."