Unhappy Hope
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| Vatican II: The Robber Council which the rotten source of the prevailing unhappy hope -the fruit of the false Christianity having the synthesis of heresies as its foundation... |
Among the most common fundamental assumptions of our times the following have a pride of place:
- Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
- Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.
- Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.
- Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.
"The devil always strives to deceive heretics, by suggesting to them that they can be saved in their belief. This was what Theodore Beza said to St. Francis de Sales, when hard pressed by him on the importance of salvation: “I hope to be saved in my own religion.” Unhappy hope! which only keeps them in error here, and exposes them to eternal perdition hereafter, when the error cannot be remedied, I think the danger of eternal perdition, by dying separated from the Church, should be a sufficient motive to convert every heretic. It was this that made Henry IV. forsake Calvinism, and become a Catholic. He assembled a conference of Catholics and Calvinists, and after listening for a time to their arguments, he asked the Calvinistic Doctors if it was possible a person could be saved in the Catholic faith; they answered that it was; “then, said the king, if the faith of the Roman Church secures salvation, and the Reformed faith is at least doubtful, I will take the safe side, and become a Catholic.”
All the misfortunes of unbelievers spring from too great an attachment to the things of this life. This sickness of heart weakens and darkens the understanding, and leads many to eternal ruin. If they would try to heal their hearts by purging them of their vices, they would soon receive light, which would show them the necessity of joining the Catholic Church, where alone is salvation. My dear Catholics, let us thank the Divine goodness, who, among so many infidels and heretics has given us the grace to be born and live in the bosom of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and let us take heed and not be ungrateful for so great a benefit. Let us take care and correspond to the Divine Grace, for if we should be lost (which God forbid), this very benefit of Grace conferred on us would be one of our greatest torments in hell".
The Root cause of this unhappy Hope Today
The fact that many who glory in the Catholic name are promoters of such an unhappy Hope has its cause in that rotten stew of Modernist manifesto: the so-called Vatican II council.
The Modernists, having infiltrated and usurped Catholic institutions and places of authority, wasted no time to use their pretended authority - the authority to teach in the name of Christ.
To prepare for solemn unveiling of the Modernist impious manifesto in the so-called Second Vatican Council, the first Modernist Papal impostor, apostolate Card. Roncalli, taught explicitly in the fourteenth paragraph of his pretended encyclical "Pacem in Terris" that:
"Also among man's rights is that of being able to worship God in accordance with the right dictates of his own conscience, and to profess his religion both in private and in public."
One can easily see how that paraphrases the 1st of the condemned propositions noted above. it must be quickly noted that man can only have the right to believe and practice the True Religion: not anyone his false conscience dictates. To accord such right is to sanction right to impiety.
Having set the stage, the Robber Council called by him, and continued by his chosen successor, would teach thus:
"This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits." [Dignitatis Humanae no. 2]
This declaration claims and defends for everyone freedom of conscience in religious matters. Now, Pope Gregory XVI, writing in 1832 had condemned such as absurd and erroneous. He had he following to say after condemning indifferentism:
"This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it" [Mirari Vos, no. 14]
Now, presupposing the second of the condemned propositions above, the same Robber Council would teach that:
"Men expect from the various religions answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men... The Church, therefore, exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life, they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men" [Nostra Aatate 1&3]
Meanwhile, presupposing both the 3rd and 4th condemned propositions above, the same Robber Council would teach that heretics and schismatics (those who, being baptized, do not profess the Faith entirely or do not preserve communion) have the right to the Christian name; are joined to Catholics in a real way in the Holy Spirit -Who give them also His gifts and grace and is operative among them with His sanctifying power. [See Lumen Gentium, no. 15].
All of these taken as given, the need for "ecumenical dialogue" on equal footings between Catholics and heretics and schismatics would therefore be affirmed; also affirmed is the need for an ecumenical service which is the visible ritual expression of the unity envisaged by ecumenism; a unity in indifference; - meanwhile, do not forget that ecumenism is "tantamount to abandoning the religion divinely revealed by God", i.e. apostasy [see Mortalium Animos, no.2]
Re-stating the Source of True Hope
There can be no doubts that this false and unhappy hope is born of a false Christianity quite alien to the One Church of Christ; sadly, many have been easily deceived by the outward appearance of good which this false hope enjoys just like every other falsehood. How many there are, who, so deceived, holds religious truth to be relative, having no toleration for any claim to objectivity or any attempt to affirm the objective!
It must be simply stated that:
"...there can be no true religion other than that which is founded on the revealed word of God: which revelation, begun from the beginning and continued under the Old Law, Christ Jesus Himself under the New Law perfected. Now, if God has spoken (and it is historically certain that He has truly spoken), all must see that it is man's duty to believe absolutely God's revelation and to obey implicitly His commands; that we might rightly do both, for the glory of God and our own salvation, the Only-begotten Son of God founded His Church on earth..." [Mortalium Animos, no. 6]
Thus, it is obvious that to entertain a true hope for salvation, one must profess the true Faith whole and entire, which Faith must be a living faith, working by charity: not a bare speculative or dead faith.
Indeed:
...With the admonition of the apostle that “there is one God, one faith, one baptism” may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that “those who are not with Christ are against Him,” and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore “without a doubt, they will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate.” Let them hear Jerome who, while the Church was torn into three parts by schism, tells us that whenever someone tried to persuade him to join his group he always exclaimed: “He who is for the See of Peter is for me.” A schismatic flatters himself falsely if he asserts that he, too, has been washed in the waters of regeneration. Indeed Augustine would reply to such a man: “The branch has the same form when it has been cut off from the vine; but of what profit for it is the form, if it does not live from the root?” [Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos no. 13]
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