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"His Eminence Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald hosted the first service at His Holiness Francis Church earlier today." Read that again. That's the Abrahamic Family House tweeting about the "Catholic" component of the "interfaith shrine" in Abu Dhabi which houses also a mosque and synagogue. Other news outlets call it the "St Francis Church", "recognising the work of His Holiness Pope Francis".
His Eminence refers to it as the "St Francis of Assisi Church". He'd better. Or he'd be guilty of blasphemy. Not to mention apostasy. Catholic churches are never named after anyone living, not even someone with such vaulting ambition as Jorge Bergoglio.
This vulgar display of obscene wealth and paganism is his pet vanity project. This is where the World Economic Forum is setting up its New World Church, a non-church, the Anti-Church which is Anti-Christ, the Masonic Church which has been in the making since the days of the French Revolution.
For a terrific video on this and related subjects go to https://youtu.be/o7d2U6GfswY
"Worship opens us up to others, instilling in us a care for justice, encouraging us to act with integrity," the cardinal emphasized on Sunday.
His Eminence rejoices in quite a reputation for heresy. He's said to have been exiled to Egypt, on his election, by Pope Benedict XVI only to be fetched back straight away by Bergoglio and given a red hat. (This is only Twittering and may be disregarded as gossip.)
Worship of course, opens us up primarily to God, and only secondarily to others. Here we see the Second Commandment trumping the First, exactly as you'd expect from a fruit of the Novus Ordo (as the Abu Dhabi exercise is), the NO being all about worshipping one another in "community".
"We cannot truly pray to God without remembering the other members of the Abrahamic family, and indeed of the human family."
Please take a look, your Eminence, at Bernini's "Transverberation of St Teresa". Do you really think that St Teresa, in ecstasy, in the highest form of true prayer, was "remembering the other members of the Abrahamic family" etc? It looks like she was actually totally engrossed in God, loving Him, worshipping Him.
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| Pondering on other members of the Abrahamic family? Really??? |
"The father of the prophet John the Baptist (known to Muslims as Yahya) asks God to bless his son," +Fitzgerald said. "He is asking this of the God of Abraham, the Merciful Lord of Mercy, al-Rahman al-Rahim."
The cardinal, a former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, told the congregation that Muslims had earlier prayed the Maghrib prayer in the mosque section of the shrine on Thursday evening.
Interreligious dialogue is a manifestation of the heresy of indifferentism, that all religions are equal - which makes Jorge Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, a heretic. St Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, makes current criticism of the current pontificate seem mild. See De Romano Pontifice, Bk II, Chapter 30:
A Pope cannot be deposed either through secret heresy, or through manifest heresy. This recalls and refutes Bishop Turrecremata (loc cit) [Bellarmine is noting in the previous point, citing this Bishop, where he rejects that a secret heretic can be judged] and certainly is an improbable opinion. Firstly, that a heretical Pope can be judged, is expressly held in Can. Si Papa dist. 40, and with Innocent III (serm. 2 de consec. pontif.) And what is more, in the 8th Council, (act. 7) the acts of the Roman Council under Poperes. acts of the Roman Council under Pope Hadrian are recited, and therein contained, that Pope Honorius appears to be justly anathematized, because he had been convicted of heresy, which is the only reason permitted for inferiors to judge superiors. It must be noted, that although it is probable that Honorius was not a heretic, and that Pope Hadrian II was deceived from corrupt examples of the VI Council, and Honorius was reckoned falsely to be a heretic, nevertheless we cannot deny, in fact Hadrian with the Roman Council, nay more the whole 8th general council had sensed, in the case of heresy a Roman Pontiff can be judged. Add, what would be the most miserable condition of the Church, if she would be compelled to acknowledge a manifestly prowling wolf for a shepherd.”https://mediatrixpress.com/2014/11/08/st-robert-bellarmine-on-judging-a-pope/
Muslim Prayer Anathematizes Christians
"Remarkably, Cardinal Fitzgerald, an acclaimed Islamic scholar, ignored the fact that the Maghrib prayer contains Surah Al-Fatiha, which is one of the most anti-Christian and anti-Jewish texts in the Qur'an," a Muslim jurist who converted to Christianity told Church Militant.
"The inclusion of this prayer, which is considered indispensable in Muslim worship, tells us everything we need to know about how serious Muslims are about interfaith dialogue," the convert, who faces the death penalty for apostasy from Islam, added. After asking Allah to guide Muslims "to the straight path," verse 7 defines this way as the "path of those whom you have favored, not of those who have earned your anger, or of those who have gone astray," the convert explained.
Islamic tradition and commentaries from the Hadith of Sahih Bukhari to Tafsir al-Jalalayn identify "those who have earned Allah's anger" as the Jews and "those who have gone astray" are the Christians.
"The repetition of this identification in Bukhari is an indication of how strong the identification is of those who have earned Allah's anger with the Jews and those who have gone astray with the Christians," writes Robert Spencer in his bestseller The Critical Qur'an.
Some Western commentators find it inconceivable that the central prayer of Islam "anathematizes Jews and Christians," the renowned Islamic scholar notes. "But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology."
"The Abrahamic Family House has not led and will not lead Muslims to abandon core Islamic doctrines regarding how Christians wrongly proclaim Christ's divinity and are under the curse of Allah as a result (cf. Qur'an 9:30; 5:17)," Spencer told Church Militant.
Spencer, author of 23 books on Islam and the Middle East elaborated, "As in all other cases, Muslim/Christian dialogue is seen on the Muslim side as an opportunity to proselytize for Islam and intimidate Christians into fearing to discuss the rampant Muslim persecution of Christians, for fear of harming the dialogue."
"The interfaith shrine is Pope Francis' house of cards," Spencer warned. "It will result in nothing lasting except the continued ignorance and complacency of Catholics regarding the threat of Islamic jihad. Liberal Catholics who think this is a positive step are being naive (at best)."
NZ Catholics who read the Remnant will be up with the play on this but most won't think it's a positive step, they just won't think about it at all.
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| Interior of the "Catholic" church: no crucifix, no altar, nothing Catholic |
'Abomination of Desolation'
Kevin J. Jones, a reporter for EWTN's Catholic News Agency, hit back at faithful Catholics expressing outrage against the shrine. Jones tweeted. "Catholic commenters here are not behaving themselves. The Abrahamic Family House is a positive step and positive efforts from Muslims deserve a charitable response."
Kevin J Jones sounds like a teacher's pet. EWTN is apparently not what it used to be.
While establishment Catholics, Muslims and Jews praised the interfaith shrine, hundreds of evangelical Christians and orthodox Muslims condemned the new temple as the "abomination of desolation" and a Masonic "headquarters for the One World Religion."
Michigan-based Salafist preacher Sheikh Al-Imām Ahmad Musa Jibril slammed the "newly manmade cocktail religion" called "Abrahamic religion" which is "used to cover the poison of kufr [a derogatory term for "unbeliever"] and interfaith."
"If you are against interfaith and Abrahamism and you hate it and you hate those who call for it, then you are the true followers of Ibrahim, not the opposite," Jibril said in a lengthy video that YouTube identified as "inappropriate or offensive to some audiences."
In 2020, Pope Francis invited Judge Mohamed Abdel-Salam, secretary general of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, to the Vatican to discuss the progress made on building the Abrahamic interfaith shrine, Church Militant reported.
An HCHF statement stressed that, during the meeting, the Holy Father expressed his "keenness to activate the [human fraternity] document globally" and "turn its principles into reality."
In 2021, a coalition of Jews, Christians and Muslims laid the foundation stone of a 47-million-euro interfaith shrine on the ruins of the 12th-century St. Peter's Catholic Church in Berlin.
L'Osservatore Romano, the pope's official newspaper, praised the project as an "innovative project that creates a common space for the three great, monotheistic religions."
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| A crucifix hidden in a "baptistery" |
Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, who attended the shrine's inauguration, called it "a concrete example for people of different religions, cultures, traditions, and beliefs to return to the essential: love of neighbor."
Elsewhere, Cardinal Fitzgerald has argued that "Muslims believe in one God, and since there is only one God, they believe in the same God as us."
But in their book Not the Same God, Islamic scholars Sam Solomon and Atif Debs write that "the Allah of Islam as expressed in the doctrine of Islamic Monotheism (i.e. Tawheed) is the diametric opposite of the Triune LORD God of the Bible."
"The Qur'an, although seemingly innocent — its main objective was and is to undo the message and mission of Christ," Solomon and Debs warn.
The St. Francis of Assisi Church will be consecrated at a later date, which will allow Catholic sacraments to be celebrated there.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/cardinal-opens-francis-abu-dhabi-inter-faith-shrine
Bishop Paolo Martinelli, the apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia, speaking at the prayer service, said “We have entered a new phase in the history of religions.”
He characterized the church as a gift to Pope Francis and he described its namesake St. Francis of Assisi as “the saint of universal brotherhood, peace, and reconciliation, and the saint of the custody of creation.”
The three places of worship are in separate buildings intentionally built at the same height and at the same external dimensions. Each building is cube-shaped, with each side 30 meters, about 98.4 feet, in length.
Following each religion’s building traditions, the mosque is oriented toward Mecca, the synagogue is oriented toward Jerusalem, and the church is oriented to the east, the direction of the rising sun.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2023/02/21/catholic-leaders-open-new-church-in-uaes-interfaith-abrahamic-family-house/
Our probably inadequate understanding is that Catholic churches are oriented towards Jesus Christ, the Light of the world. But what would we know, compared with Catholic World Report?
Christ and the Woman of Canaan by Rocco Marconi O woman, great is thy faith; be it done unto thee as thou hast asked
- Gospel, Thursday First Week of Lent
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