A Leaven In The World… Losing The True Sources Of Faith
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
The enemies of the faith have been hiding in plain sight all along. Now they have simply burst into the open in more obvious ways thanks to the internet and social media accessible in every home and on every cell phone.
What we see in the promotion of sodomy as “pride”, same sex simulation of marriage as “love” and abortion as “choice” on social media accounts and in online news sources is not a new reality.
The Jesuit James Martin with 300k followers on Twitter is simply taking advantage to a large extent of a superficial social phenomenon of the attractiveness of transgressive behavior.
Largely adolescent and by no means proven to be Catholic, these denizens of the virtual are capable of seeming monolithic until one posits the highly manipulable nature of virtual “reality.” It’s not real.
For one example of the untrustworthiness of the internet, anyone with online access and an email account can create multiple fake accounts.
What is real are the young 20- and 30-something Catholics coming to weekday adoration and holy Mass. What truly matters are the families and elders who attend each Sunday at my parish and remain for lunch together every week.
These are the real numbers of God. They cannot and probably will not ever be measured by the social media mavens. But in the perspective of what is real, of God and eternal life, they truly matter.
And these numbers continue to grow as the last vestiges of a new Catholic reality promised and seemingly built up in the 1960s is torn down piece by piece. This is being done by the enemies of the Church in high places, abetted by their agents on the ground who have worked their way into the power structures.
Souls are waking up as the illusions fomented in recent years are shattered and the traditional Faith is revealed as the perennial source of unity in Christ.
Eternal life with God matters. When we follow our Faith and put that first, because it truly lasts, our perspective on the superficialities, the appearances of this world, takes on its true value. That which cannot last must not have value for us.
There is a constituency for gutting the Faith of its difficult teaching, especially in areas of sexuality and human life, that has been in place for a long time and will be with us for a long time. It’s simply the result of free will and the concupiscence remaining after Baptism. The Lord Himself was undermined and betrayed by such troubled and tempted souls.
Let us not forget the infamous footnote in Amoris Laetitia,
There is a plan afoot among the enemies of the Catholic Church to make it unrecognizable from other religions. Or make a one world religion.
Particularly disturbing was a report from Catholic News Agency about Pope Francis’ talk to a group of Italian seminarians — at least the passage below was disturbing:
- + + Pope Francis Thursday [June 10] urged a group of Italian seminarians to avoid rigidity, which, he said, lacks humanity, and encouraged them to ask God for the gift of docility
“Clericalism is a perversion of the priesthood: it is a perversion. And rigidity is one of the manifestations,” the Pope said June 10.
“When I find a rigid seminarian or young priest, I say ‘something bad is happening to this one on the inside.’ Behind every rigidity, there is a serious problem, because rigidity lacks humanity.” - + + The Pope did warn the seminarians about excessive reliance on social media.
But rigidity, as we know, has too often been leveled at those who insist on orthodoxy in doctrine and tradition in liturgy.
Any man who believed in truth, which by its nature cannot be changed, was seen as some kind of “danger” and in some cases systematically rooted out. This is one reason why the enemies of the faith have been hiding in plain sight for many years, long before the present pontificate. They have planted themselves in positions of power in chanceries, seminaries, colleges and parish staffs all over this country.
People will either know the faith better because they’ve had to debunk so many erroneous sounding utterances or will fall victim to deceits from many Church leaders and receive Communion uselessly and sacrilegiously, like so many Bidens or other Catholic pro-abortion/sodomy disgruntled individuals. Such people demand to receive Communion at weddings and funerals as though they’re just as Catholic as Mother Teresa.
With the Pope’s changing of the Lord’s Prayer, kneeling to kiss the feet of African leaders, or washing Muslim feet on Holy Thursday, it seems like the veneration of the faith is being lost.
And let us not forget the infamous footnote in Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, opening the door to allow the divorced and remarried to receive Communion. As reported by Catholic World News on September 12, 2016, “Pope Francis has strongly endorsed a document in which the Catholic bishops of Argentina say that Amoris Laetitia allows for Catholics who are divorced and remarried to receive Communion under some circumstances.”
The true disciples and lovers of the Lord do not confirm sinners in their error but rather imitate Christ by patiently teaching the truth in authentic Christian accompaniment. Catholic parishes everywhere led by priests of the true Faith offer this authentic charity of accompanying love. Souls thirsting for Christ respond to His presence and life in those Catholic parishes which defend our traditional holy Faith.
The faithful united in truth have awoken and are now fighting to take back our Church. The inspiring sight this month of parishioners guarding their pastor around the clock to defend him against the unjust treatment by a bishop, who summarily ordered him to vacate his rectory without recourse to the procedures outline in canon law, inspires and galvanizes all of us everywhere who keep the faith.
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