Tuesday, December 28, 2010

POPE SAYS REVISED GOOD FRIDAY PRAYER IS NOT FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS ? EARTHQUAKE SHIFT IN CATHOLIC TEACHING ?

Holy Father concedes to Zionists.Changes apostolic teaching and contradicts the Gospel of St. John. The rejection of an ex cathedra dogma is a mortal sin. In this state one is not in communion with the Church. Confession and a public clarification is the requirement according to Canon Law before celebrating Holy Mass. 

 
Pope Benedict XVI finally admited that he revised the Good Friday Prayer ‘in such a way that it contained our faith, that Christ is salvation for all.’ (This of course does not say that all Jews are on the path to Hell unless they convert as the Church has taught.) The pope says ‘that there do not exist two ways of salvation’( i.e. there is only one way of salvation and Jews are saved in general through this one way; Christ and the Church, and so they do not have to convert. This is an evil doctrine. It is a falsehood.) The pope continues ‘and that therefore Christ is also the saviour of the Jews, and not only of the pagans ‘(Christ is the saviour of the Jews and pagans and they are saved, even if they do not enter the Catholic Church?)
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Judaism
I must say that from the first day of my theological studies, the profound unity between the Old and New Testament, between the two parts of our Sacred Scripture, was somehow clear to me. I had realized that we could read the New Testament only together with what had preceded it, otherwise we would not understand it. Then naturally what happened in the Third Reich struck us as Germans, and drove us all the more to look at the people of Israel with humility, shame, and love.

In my theological formation, these things were interwoven, and marked the pathway of my theological thought. So it was clear to me – and here again in absolute continuity with John Paul II – that in my proclamation of the Christian faith there had to be a central place for this new interweaving, with love and understanding, of Israel and the Church, based on respect for each one’s way of being and respective mission[. . .]

A change also seemed necessary to me in the ancient liturgy. In fact, the formula was such as to truly wound the Jews, and it certainly did not express in a positive way the great, profound unity between Old and New Testament. For this reason, I thought that a modification was necessary in the ancient liturgy, in particular in reference to our relationship with our Jewish friends. I modified it in such a way that it contained our faith, that Christ is salvation for all. That there do not exist two ways of salvation, and that therefore Christ is also the savior of the Jews, and not only of the pagans. But also in such a way that one did not pray directly for the conversion of the Jews in a missionary sense, but that the Lord might hasten the historic hour in which we will all be united. For this reason, the arguments used polemically against me by a series of theologians are rash, and do not do justice to what was done. - Benedict XVI, “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times”, Ignatius Press, 2010. (From the website La Chiesa)(Emphasis added)
Cardinal Tarcisco Bertone, Vatican, Secretary of State has also denied the ex-cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. In a front page article in the L’Osservatore Romano (April 4, 2008) a statement was issued to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to prevent war and to resume dialogue. The report said that Jews in the present times do not have to convert.


At that time the Italian daily Il Messaggerro reported that there was a threat of war with Israel. So when Pope Benedict issued the Revised Prayer he probably saved his life and those of many others in the Vatican. He also then went to Israel as the guest of the Israeli government.His visit was welcomed with advertisements placed in Israel by the pro abortion, pro homosexuality, pro euthanasia, Jewish Anti Defamation League.


'A change also seemed necessary to me in the ancient liturgy' the pope tells Seawald.


The Zionist ADL could have been a factor in the recent installation of the Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl, as cardinal. He continues to give pro abortion politicians the Eucharist.


On Sept.22, 2009 Cardinal Bagnasco President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Italy (CEI) issued a directive before two liberal Rabbis in his office, stating that the Revised Good Friday Prayer for the Conversion of the Jews was not for their conversion and that Jews do not have to convert in the present times. This is a negation of the Bible and a rejection of the ex cathedra infallible dogma outside the Church there is no salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus). The dogma is supported by the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Vatican Council II and has been called an ‘infallible’ teaching by Pope Pius XII (Letter of the Holy Office 1949)


Cardinal Walter Kaspar criticized Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Ecclesia di Eucarestia in 2003. In a front-cover report, of the magazine 30 Giorni he said that no one believes in extra ecclesiam nulla salus. He was disappointed this was the ecclesiology of Ecclesia di Eucarestia.


Cardinal Walter Kaspar wrote the front page article in the L’Osservatore Romano saying that Jews in the present times do not have to convert. The article was presented to the Chief Rabbi of Israel it seems with the approval of the pope. The Israeli threat to the Vatican ended. It is evil when in the name of expedience, wrote G.K Chesterton Catholic theology and doctrine is exchanged. It is the work of the devil.


Cardinal Kaspar can receive the Eucharist even though it is a grave sin to reject the solemn dogma, extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Cardinals Bertone and Bagnasco also celebrate Mass as usual. The pope concelebrates Mass with them.

36. Invisible communion, though by its nature always growing, presupposes the life of grace, by which we become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet 1:4), and the practice of the virtues of faith, hope and love. Only in this way do we have true communion with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Nor is faith sufficient; we must persevere in sanctifying grace and love, remaining within the Church “bodily” as well as “in our heart”; 72 what is required, in the words of Saint Paul, is “faith working through love” (Gal 5:6).-Ecclesia di Eucarestia (Emphasis added)
Jews and other non Catholics do not have Sanctifying Grace which is received in general through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church.(Dominus Iesus).They are not “bodily” in the Church. Their souls are in danger of being eternally lost. It is not an act of charity by the cardinals to tell them they do not have to convert. Neither is it an act of charity by the pope.When one rejects an ex cathedra dogma does one not also lose Sanctifying Grace?

37. ‘…The judgment of one's state of grace obviously belongs only to the person involved, since it is a question of examining one's conscience. However, in cases of outward conduct which is seriously, clearly and steadfastly contrary to the moral norm, the Church, in her pastoral concern for the good order of the community and out of respect for the sacrament, cannot fail to feel directly involved. The Code of Canon Law refers to this situation of a manifest lack of proper moral disposition when it states that those who “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin” are not to be admitted to Eucharistic communion.-Ecclesia di Eucarestia.
Not to convert into the Catholic Church for Jews in general is a grave sin. To be informed and to still remain a Jew is a grave sin which is being committed with full knowledge.


So we now have a new Eucharistic issue created in the Catholic Church. It is an apostasy approved by the Vatican Curia cardinals and acknowledged in writing by the pope. It is a sacrilege of the Eucharist. It is creating confusion with a teaching that is contrary to Dominus Iesus, the Notification of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the book by Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J, Ad Gentes 7,Vatican Council II and, the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation. It is completely against the teachings of Pope John Paul II.


From the Catholic perspective this is a denying of Jesus as the only and unique Saviour and a denying of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.It is the denial of the Church. It is presenting Jesus without the Church. Affirming the teaching outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation is obligatory for all Catholics as is our belief in the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Both are ex cathedra, infallible teachings.


This would mean, according to Cardinal Bagnasco and Cardinal Bertone that either the popes of the past were fallible or that Pope Benedict XVI is fallible on a faith issue. It would mean that Pope Benedict XVI, according to the two Italian cardinals, is contradicting the Catholic teaching on the infallibility of popes on issues of faith. The cardinals indicate that the Holy Father is also contradicting the solemn ex cathedra teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The Holy Father has confirmed the worst.


Pope John Paul II has said that Judaism is not a path to salvation and Jews need to be oriented into the Catholic Church (Notification, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ref. Fr. Dupuis, 2001 by Cardinal Ratzinger).Even though Jesus died for all people, they need to respond for this salvation by entering the Church His Mystical Body (Dominus Iesus 21).Cardinal Bagnasco, Bertone and Kaspar were refuting the teachings of Pope John Paul II and indicated they had the approval of the Holy Father.


Does Pope Benedict XVI now reject an ex cathedra dogma when he as a cardinal ex communicated Fr. Tissa Balasuriya OMI for rejecting the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady?


This does not change our beliefs as Catholics.


Since the present people of Israel are not ‘the chosen people ‘of God. Neither are they the people of the New Covenant. They reject the Messiah.Judaism presently does not have the Temple, nor the Ark of the Covenant, nor the Sacrifice within the Temple, nor the Promised Jewish Messiah. All they have is a remembrance.


It is those who follow Jesus who made a New Covenant with his Blood, who are the Chosen People of God. They are the Elect, the people of the New Covenant. They are the Chosen People in the only Church Jesus found. It is to this church that the Bible refers often. Jesus called this church, “my church”.


The Jews were the Chosen People, the people of the New Testament, and God made covenants with Abraham, Moses and the other Jewish prophets which was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.


Those who remain in this Church with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water and who live the Gospel are the Elect, the new Chosen People of God, the continuation of the Jewish religion, the people of New Covenant.


It’s the Catholic Church which has the Sacrifice at Mass. It replaces the old Temple.


The Ark of the Covenant is the Presence of God in His Body, Blood and Divinity in the Eucharist.


And all of this was created by the Promised Jewish Messiah for whom Israel was waiting and for whom the non Messianic Jews are still waiting.


Until all the Jews today, Messianic and non Messianic, convert into the Catholic Church they face eternal death.(Cantate Domino, Council of Florence,1441, Ex Cathedra, on extra eclesiam nulla salus, Pope Pius XII's Letter of the Holy Office 1949, which referred to the 'infallible' dogma, Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7), Pope Paul VI's Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975),Catechism of the Catholic Church 845,846,Dominus Iesus 20,Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican Notification on Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J 2001,Pope John Paul II Ecclesia di Eucarestia (2003) etc).


MORTAL SIN AND VERITATIS SPLENDOR


According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church when the subject of a sin is grave matter, and it is committed freely and knowingly then it is a mortal sin. According to Veritatis Splendor a mortal sin is always a mortal sin and the external action indicates the internal intention.It is always a mortal sin to reject an ex cathedra dogma.


Grave matter: The Holy Father denies/changes the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.This 'infallible' teaching (Pope Pius XII,Letter of the Holy Office 1949) must be firmly believed.It is not to be denied in public by Catholics.


Knowingly: He continues a policy on this issue which is the same as the enemies of the Church (Zionists).
Freely: His life is threathend and so are of millions of other Catholics. Whether he was free to reject an ex cathedra dogma God will judge.


Here is the ex cathedra dogma which the pope has never affirmed directly. In charity we have always given him the benefit of the doubt.

1
. “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). Ex cathedra.


2.“We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.).Ex cathedra.

3.“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex cathedra – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/
Also the Catechism has never specified that those saved with invincible ignorance refer to implicit salvation. The Holy Father as Cardinal Ratzinger did not know of personal cases of people with the baptism of desire or invincible ignorance. Only God knows explicit (visible) cases of the baptism of desire or invincible ignorance. We do not know of a single case in the present time.So  LG 16  does not contradict the dogma but the Vatican never ever mentioned it..


Those saved with implicit-to-us invincible ignorance are known only to God and so it does not contradict Cantate Domino.

The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex cathedra
Since invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are not explicit to us it does not contradict Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7).

Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door.-Ad Gentes 7,Vatican Council II.

Those saved with invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire which is only a concept for us does not contradict the Catechism of the Catholic Church, CCC 847,848 does not contradict CCC 845,846.

To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son's Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is "the world reconciled." She is that bark which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world." According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.-Catechism of the Catholic Church n.845

"Outside the Church there is no salvation"

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.-Catechism of the Catholic Church 846 (Emphasis added. Note: To enter as through a door was the term used by the Church Fathers for the rigorist interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.)
LG 16 and CCC 847,848 do not oppose Dominus Iesus 20. Since the reference to implicit salvation does not contradict the need for explicit entry into the Church for salvation but never did the Vatican issue a clarification when the Zionist media continued with lies on this issue and that of Fr.Leonard Feeney.


Above all else, it must be firmly believed that “the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mk 16:16; Jn 3:5), and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through baptism as through a door”.77 This doctrine must not be set against the universal salvific will of God (cf. 1 Tim 2:4); “it is necessary to keep these two truths together, namely, the real possibility of salvation in Christ for all mankind and the necessity of the Church for this salvation”.-Dominus Iesus 20 (Emphasis added)
So to say Jews do not have to convert in the present time is also contrary to Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Ecclesia di Eucarestia (2003) which indicates that everyone needs the Eucharist in the Catholic Church for salvation.


1.There can be Jews saved who are in invincible ignorance etc and THEY WILL BE KNOWN ONLY TO GOD.


2.While everyone WITH NO EXCEPTION, every Jew, needs to be a formal, visible member of the Catholic Church to got to Heaven avoid Hell.


To say Jews do not have to convert is promoting the Freemason, Zionist teaching.

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Letter of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone on the Revised Good Friday Prayer for the Conversion of the Jews.
Bertone, Tarcisio
Città del Vaticano, 2008/05/14

Mr Oded Wiener
Director-General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Beit Yahav
80 Yirmiyahu Street
P.O. Box 36016
Jerusalem

Dear Sir,

I write with reference to the Statement issued by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in response to the publication of the Note of 4 February 2008, altering the Oremus et pro Iudaeis prayer in the 1962 edition of the Missale Romanum.

In this regard, I would point out that – by means of the "Communiqué of the Secretariat of State" which appeared in the daily edition of L'Osservatore Romano on 5 April 2008, and subsequently in the weekly language editions of the same publication – the Holy See has clearly emphasized the Catholic Church's firm commitment, especially in the wake of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, to promote and develop relations with the Jews through dialogue marked by profound respect, sincere esteem and cordial friendship. This commitment remains unchanged, especially in view of the spiritual links that exist between Jews and Christians.

As you have observed, particular prominence has also been given to a substantial and detailed article on the subject by Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism. This article appeared on the front page of L'Osservatore Romano on 10 April 2008, as a sign of the importance attributed to the text and the fact that what it says about the new version of the Prayer for the Jews in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal is commonly held. Among other things, the Cardinal emphasized that a sincere dialogue between Jews and Christians is possible, on the one hand, on the basis of our common faith in the one God, Creator of heaven and earth, and in the promises made to Abraham, but on the other hand, through respectfully acknowledging the fundamental difference over faith in Jesus as Christ and Redeemer of all mankind. As Cardinal Kasper clearly explains, the new Oremus et pro Iudaeis is not intended to promote proselytism towards the Jews and it opens up an eschatological perspective. Christians, however, cannot but bear witness to their faith, in full and total respect for the freedom of others, and this leads them also to pray that all will come to recognize Christ.

Likewise, on his recent visit to the United States of America, the Holy Father gave a number of indications of his sentiments towards the Jews. Indeed, after meeting the representatives of various religions, the Pope particularly wanted to receive a group of Jewish religious leaders in order to hand over to them a special Message on the occasion of the great feast of Pesah, devoted to celebrating the great marvels that Almighty God has worked for his people.

In New York, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI visited a synagogue in order to meet personally a Jewish community whose Rabbi was a survivor from the Nazi extermination camps. He wanted to manifest his sympathy, affection and closeness to the Jewish people, and to demonstrate, through a tangible and special gesture, the Holy See's commitment to respectful and loving dialogue, which leads to ever deeper relations of friendship and understanding.

In the hope that this letter may serve to dispel any remaining doubt on the part of the Chief Rabbinate over the Catholic Church's stance towards the Jewish people and over the intentions behind the alteration of the Oremus et pro Iudaeis of the 1962 Missale Romanum, I remain

Yours sincerely,
Tarcisio Card. Bertone

Secretary of State

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