Persecution and Apostasy?
Coming to a town near you?
One would really have to have their head in the sand not to recognize the wave of anti-Catholicism sweeping the planet. Almost every day on The View, Whoopi a former Catholic, brings up something Church related. It is no secret she has nothing but contempt for the Pope, the Vatican, and Catholic moral teaching. Today they were talking about the sacrament of penance. Whoopi didn’t exactly attack it or anything, but she gets her digs in about religion. Pop stars hate religion and they promote their hatred every chance they have a captive audience, which contributes to the lessening of respect for religious values amongst people. (Elton John is always shooting off his mouth on how religion should be banned, and of course Joni Mitchell recently released an anti-Catholic CD.)
Politically correctness.
Secular society, which has abandoned the natural law in favor of political correctness, is gradually putting the screws on those who uphold traditional moral values. In Britain a firetruck load of firemen were recently fined and suspended for flashing their lights on four homosexual men engaged in illegal public sex acts. In effect, the firemen, who committed no crime were charged with criminal activity while those engaged in illegal acts were excused.
Compromises with the State.
The recent decision of the Connecticut Bishops to allow the morning after pill in emergency room situations involving rape, has now been backed by the Catholic Health Association, according to the Connecticut Catholic Hospital spokesman, Barry Feldman. The Bishops gave into pressure from the the State and gave the go ahead to implement the policy. Pressure from the State resulted in a compromise of Catholic teaching and capitulation. At least, that is what it looks like to me.
Under the Cardinal’s nose.
Then Fr. McBrien, writing for Tidings, the newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese - Cardinal Mohoney’s paper - tells Catholics they do not need to listen to the Pope, who approved the recent CDF document on the Catholic Church as the one true Church. Huh? This McBrien guy, along with those Dominicans in Holland who are making up their own Mass, certainly are starting to sound a lot like apostates to me.
“In Portugal, the dogma of Faith will be preserved, etc….” - Our Lady, 1917
Reports have long been coming out of Fatima that the rector of the shrine, Luciano Guerra is not exactly the most orthodox Catholic, having allowed Hindu rituals at the altar of the Capella of the Apparitions. Today there is news that as the new auditorium style shrine Church is readied for the dedication on May 13, he intends to change the image of the Fatima shrine - he wants to forbid the “superstitious” pious practices of the Portuguese peasants, who walk to Fatima in pilgrimage, and finish the last hundred or so feet walking on their knees to the site of the apparitions. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say Hindu ritual is superstitious and forbid that kind of stuff instead?
As persecution intensifies from without, is there really apostasy surfacing from within? Maybe there is more to that 3rd Secret thing? Naw, can’t be.
[Photo: Hindu ritual at Fatima shrine. Source.]
October 5th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Looks like the Rapture should be happening any second now! (kidding)
But seriously, I wonder if the end times are near.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Oh gosh, at first glance, I thought those people (women?) were the cavemen characters from the television commercials..
Well, you know.. Jesus was not a morose guy whatsoever, He was not a mensch (sp?).. He was very very serious when He asked, “When the Son of Man returns, will He find any faith on earth?” That strikes me as the saddest question ever.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Oh, ow, I guess I should look up the meaning of words first.. He IS a mensch. The Supermensch.
But yes, anti-Catholicism is rife.. if anyone had told me years ago it would be this way, I could never have believed it would happen. It’s happening.
October 6th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Now that Portugal has a socialist government, they will give full faith and credit to any moves meant to secularize or dilute the Catholicity of the Fatima shrine.
Watch for homosexual events there next year. The Miracle of the Sun is something just meant for people who gambol nakedly.
October 6th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I totally believe that strong Catholic persecution is coming. It will happen against those Catholic’s who actually live Church teaching. The CINO’s will be safe-in this life anyway.
I don’t think it is the end-times.
I forsee a day when priests who refuse to preach that homosexuality’s practice is ok will be in jail. I also see a day when the sanctity of the Confessional is going to be forceably violated and the priests who refuse to go along are going to be in jail.
Laypeople that speak publicly about church teachings that are “difficult” could lose their jobs.
October 6th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Answer is: “Reluctant compliance”
Source: http://www.bishoploriblog.org/
October 6th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
The is a book by a Fr Charles Harris [may be out of print] geared to the layman. It covers the phenomenon, and the prayers, and the psychological aspects of demon possession, etc. I believe the title is “Resist the Devil”. He was, before his death, the official exorcist for a Catholic Diocese in the northwest [OR, WA- someplace out there]‘
October 6th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Thanks Uncle Jim for the info. (I actually have a real uncle Jim.)
Paula - yes - reluctant compliance.
Cath - I agree. It is beginning. We will have to keep doing funny posts to keep people’s spirits up.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:20 am
There was a priest who said that big changes were coming to Fatima and that even the shrine itself would be altered to be more politcally correct. To my shame I thought he was a nut. I have to apologize now.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Regarding the Hindu service at Fatima. We are indeed living in the end days. Have you seen the new “tennis racket shrine”, as it is so aptly called, that will soon be dedicated at Fatima to replace the old shrine there? What a disgrace. Surely, God and Blessed Mother are not pleased. But, theis no surprise. The visible Catholic Church has been in the hands of the enemy since John XXIII. The V2 church is a new church, with new sacraments, new teachings….in other words, it is a whole new religion. At least Martin Luther left. Is the pope Catholic? Hardly. Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing for the ones who were watching over the sheep were the ones to scatter them. The True church is presently in an eclipse and will rise up triumphantly when God so chooses. Pray for truth. God has never denied anyone the truth. There is only one true church. The wolves parading around the Vatican in sheep’s clothing, are just that…….WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING.