The

Church of Accompaniment’s

War on the Family

By Paul Krause

Amid the crises of the church and secular culture’s ongoing war against life and the family, there can no longer be any denying that part of Pope Francis’s support for "pastoral counseling" and other such listening initiatives in the name of "compassion" are means to circumvent Catholic truth. Cardinal Marx is guilty culprit number one in Europe, and Fr. James Martin is probably the public enemy of the truth in America, with Cardinal Cupich not far behind. From homosexuality, adultery, and "environmentalism," this pastoral church of compassion is setting itself up as the personal church of Francis standing against the authentic magisterium.

The ingenuity of the pastoral approach is that it corrupts the language of pastoral shepherding to give it a cloak of Christianity while condemning authentic Christianity for not being compassionate and loving enough.

~ See War on Family/ Page 8

Church of Accompaniment’s War on Family

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Rather than shepherd the flock to the truth, this initiative is a means to affirm lost sheep in their sin. Moreover, it is the most effective way of softening the wishy-washy moderates into privately, then publicly, accepting blasphemy and heresy. The end-game of the "listening" and "pastoral counseling" church is to use this rising tide of confused opinion to ignore Catholic revelation at best or attempt to call good evil and evil good at worst.

Cardinal Marx has spoken about this pastoral approach regarding homosexuals and adulterous Catholics.

Listen, he says. Healing, he utters.

"Spiritual encouragement," he corrects himself later. Spiritual encouragement, not blessing, simply means to encourage sinners in their sin rather than to shepherd sinners into new life.

Like Satan, these clerics engage in doublespeak. They walk the fine line of not rejecting Catholic truth outright.

Though some go as far as even doing this, most speak the language of compassion, tolerance, and multiple interpretations to embrace the chaos of the grey-zone where they can act out their fantasies.

Traditionally, Satan is not only the great deceiver but the great corrupter. Unable to majestically create like God, Satan only corrupts and confuses. In an age when Objective Truth is, in fact, desired, clerics and their journalistic allies in the mainstream media continue to muddy the waters of life with doublespeak which leaves souls confused and malnourished—all in the name of listening and tolerance.

Faithful Catholics, including many well-intentioned but shortsighted "conservatives," are now awakening to the crisis the Holy Church is in. These clerics and their media-savvy allies may not deliberately reject Catholic truth in their sayings or writings, but functionally they do. For the role of the clerics is to shepherd the lambs to the nourishing waters of Truth revealed by God to man and contained in Sacred Scripture and affirmed by Tradition and propagated down the centuries by the faithful to the next generation. The "pastoral" church circumvents this.

Francis’ pastoral church, with its conniving and scheming heretics within the ranks of the clergy, is creating a false counter-church to the True Body of Christ of which the authentic magisterium is the foundational structure. The hope of these willful heretics couldn’t be clearer. Through the pastoral church they hope to establish and control the mechanisms to propagate the desires of their fallen and scornful hearts. From communism to homosexuality and adultery to transgenderism, the pastoral church setting itself up as the counter to the authentic Body has one glaring thing in common: hatred of the family as God intended.

Cardinal Marx is living up to his name. Karl Marx also despised the family. In the German Ideology, Marx identified the sexual division of labor and the nuclear family—headed by the man—as the root of all inequality. The sexual division of labor was the genus of inequality with male headship the structure that reinforces it.

Ignoring the realities of sin and biology, the pastoral church has fallen prey to Marxists who agree that the sexual binary of man and woman and the patriarchal headship of the family is the root of all evil. From this starting point the solution to the world’s problems is the destruction of the "first structure of inequality": the family. The push to de-masculinize the Trinity by stripping away God the Father and God the Son is the exhaustive end to this "egalitarian" thinking.

In worshipping upon the altar of egalitarianism, the crypto-Marxists of the pastoral church advance pastoral initiatives that help hasten the attack on the family rather than shepherd families to more wholesome and stable lives.

The impetus of all the pastoral initiatives that functionally exhaust into blasphemy and heresy all do damage to families. Adultery, which is what divorce and "remarriage" is, is an attack on the family. Homosexuality and Transgenderism also affront the natural order of sexual relationships and cannot, by natural law, bring new life into the world. Communism and socialism too have always aimed at replacing real families with the false family of collective brotherhood and sisterhood where one’s parents are everyone and no one.

The pastoral church, which is neither pastoral nor a church, is the final construction in the all-out assault against the family. It is the end-game of all who deny the most fundamental truths of Catholic revelation: the centrality of the family. It is the end-game to the first corruption Satan engaged in during his seduction of Eve.

One cannot deny that, along with man’s ruptured relationship to God, the result of the Fall was the destruction of the first family. This is why Christ restores the family by becoming Incarnate through the Holy Family. The story of redemption is also the redemption of family.

Catholic truth has always defended the family. Family is what God always intended. Jesus reaffirms the family and makes clear the sacramental nature of marriage when he says, "What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."

What God joined together was one man and one woman. God’s blessing through the sacrament of marriage is one of the distinctive elements of Catholicism in contrast to Protestantism. And in the war against the family we see, clearly now, the spiritual ruination that the war on the family has wrought. Broken homes, broken societies, and broken individuals. The pastoral initiative does nothing but try to tear asunder what God has joined together. Catholics must always, now more than ever, defend the family against the forces of Babylon that conspire against it. And that includes perfidious forces within the ranks of the Church who are doing Satan’s bidding to destroy the family. We are living in the final throes of the great battle over the sanctity and sacramentality of the family. The Church should be doing more to buttress against these Satanic efforts, not "counsel" or dialogue with the devil.

Only then will she be rejuvenated and direct the world back to God rather than play hospital and positive psychology for a secular society and its disordered passions. ■