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Peter Honors Judas

By Father Celatus

The Catholic Church has its holy days, the secular world has its holidays and the modernist church has its sacrileges.

This year there was a convergence among these three entities and their respective activities. As the Catholic Church celebrated All Saints Day and commemorated All Souls Day the secular world celebrated Halloween and the modernist church celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

The Reformation celebration was very much like a Halloween party, with Protestants disguised as Christian clergy and a man named Jorge dressed up like a pope. Truth be told, there were more tricks than treats.

Sacrilege is not too strong a word to describe the activities of the modernist church. Consider a most recent example of modernist sacrilege: the commemorative postage stamp newly released by the Vatican on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The stamp depicts Christ Crucified with the two Protestant rebel architects Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon beneath the Cross and the city of Wittenberg in the background. A Vatican press release describes the two postage heretics in these words: With a penitential disposition, kneeling respectively on the left and right of the cross, Martin Luther holds the Bible, source and destination of his doctrine, while Philipp Melanchthon, theologian and friend of Martin Luther, one of the main protagonists of the reform, holds in hand the Augsburg Confession, the first official public presentation of the principles of Protestantism written by him.

It requires no more than a quick glimpse of this stamp by any devout Catholic to recognize that it is an unholy parody of the scene of the Crucifixion. The two most sacred individuals who are traditionally represented beneath the Cross, the Blessed Mother and the Apostle John, have been replaced with two heretics. Better to have depicted one of them as the unrepentant thief and the other with a bag of silver!

We should be scandalized but no one should be surprised by this sacrilegious FrancisVatican stamp. We have come to expect as much from a man who claims to be guided by the God of Surprises, which means whatever Jorge wants. And Jorge wants to celebrate the Reformation and honor his ancestral mentors, who pale as heretics by comparison to Jorge the Heretic, who undermines the Church from within.

A most recent area in which Jorge has undermined Church teaching regards Purgatory. It is well known that Martin Luther denied the existence of Purgatory, thereby denying the Suffering Souls therein of any spiritual assistance from the prayers of the Church Militant; not to mention how many souls have been lost the past 500 years because they were misled out of the one true Church and into a false denomination.

For Luther, Purgatory was unnecessary, because of his twisted heretical view that sin is never, ever taken away from the repentant sinner. According to Luther, it is not that sin is removed from the individual but that God overlooks sin in those who profess faith in Christ.

There is no ontological or real change in the person who has been forgiven. No wonder Luther was known to say, "No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to murder or commit adultery thousands of times each day!" A favorite image employed by Luther to illustrate this was that the forgiven sinner is a dung heap covered by snow, beautiful on the outside but filthy inside. This, by the way, is the operative theology in the popular hymn, Amazing Grace: "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." Once a wretch, always a wretch… What about Jorge? Does he believe in Purgatory? Almost certainly he does not. In our last installment of The Last Word we demonstrated that Francis of Rome does not believe in Hell; instead he subscribes to the heresy that souls that fail to achieve the Beatific Vision are annihilated. In this regard Jorge the Heretic shows himself to be heretical even beyond Martin Luther, who believed in Hell for the damned.

With regard to Purgatory, Francis made some remarks recently that are eerily close to the view of Luther: Heaven is not a dream place or an enchanted garden. Paradise is the embrace with God, infinite Love, and we enter it thanks to Jesus, who died on the cross for us. Where Jesus is, there is mercy and happiness; without Him there is cold and darkness. In the hour of death, a Christian repeats to Jesus: "Remember me." And if there isn’t anyone who remembers us, Jesus is there, next to us. He wants to take us to the most beautiful place that exists. He wants to take us there with the little or the lot of good that was in our life, so that nothing is lost of what He already redeemed. And He will bring to the Father’s House all that is in us that still needs to be redeemed: the failures and mistakes of a whole life.

In the Lutheran view, Heaven is populated by snow covered dung heaps, otherwise known as saints. In the Bergolgian view, the redeemed are brought to Heaven as they are, including "all that is in us that still needs to be redeemed: the failures and mistakes of a whole life." Sounds like snow covered dung to me!

While on the topic of Purgatory, on the Feast of All Souls, Jorge the Heretic showed his utter callousness toward the poor souls of World War II on the occasion of his visit to the American cemetery in Nettuno, Italy, wherein are interred 8,000 soldiers who sacrificed their lives to rescue Europe from Mussolini and Hitler. Using prayers for the dead as a pretext, Francis used the occasion to deliver his tirade against war: Hope is so often born and puts down its roots in so many human wounds, in so many human sufferings, and that moment of sorrow, of soreness, of suffering, makes us look to Heaven and say, "I believe that my Redeemer lives, but stop, Lord." And perhaps this is the prayer that we all utter, when we see this cemetery. "I am sure, Lord that these brothers of ours are with you. I am sure," this is what we say. "But, please, Lord, stop.

No more. No more war. No more of this useless butchery." It’s better to hope without this destruction: young men… thousands, upon thousands, upon thousands, upon thousands of broken hopes. "No more, Lord." And we must say this today, when we pray for all the dead, but in this place we pray especially for these young men; today, when the world is once again at war, and is preparing to go to war even more intensely. "No more, Lord. No more." With war, all is lost.

Contrary to what Francis said, those men did not die with broken hopes. They died with the hope that by their own ultimate sacrifice for the common good, the world would be rescued from a most terrible evil. Shame on you, Francis of Rome, for misleading souls from the truth and dishonoring American heroes! ■

New Vatican stamp replaces Our Lady and St. John with two excommunicated heretics