Tradcast Express, it's Wednesday, June 7th, 2017.
Folks, we have a new heresy from Francis.
Not that it's a new heresy per se, we've just never heard it before from him.
In his general audience catechesis today, Francis spoke about the fatherhood of God
and said this, quote,
We can be far, hostile, we can even say we are without God, but Jesus Christ's gospel
reveals to us that God cannot be without us.
It is he who cannot be without us, and this is a great mystery, unquote.
Yeah, great mystery, my eyes.
Anyway, it's heresy.
To say that God needs creatures is to say that God created out of necessity, and this
is something explicitly condemned by the church.
For example, the First Vatican Council declared as follows, quote,
This sole true God, by his goodness and omnipotent power, not to increase his own beatitude,
and not to add to, but to manifest his perfection by the blessings which he bestows on creatures
with mercy.
Most free volition, immediately from the beginning of time fashioned each creature
out of nothing, unquote.
And that's Denzinger 1783.
So, Francis has added yet another heresy to his ever-growing list.
Well, what's one more heresy at this point?
I mean, might as well.
Although, mark my words, you probably won't hear anything about this from Cardinal Raymond
Berg or Bishop Athanasius.
Schneider or any of the other supposed heroes of orthodoxy in the conciliar cult, because
it's not about, you know, impurity.
It's not about matters related to the Sixth or Ninth Commandments.
And so, it's not sensational enough.
It's just too academic.
So, don't expect to see any petitions, open letters, or anything of the kind from the
Remnant or Araticelli or whatever.
Heresy like this is small potatoes for them.
Anyway.
We've got a few more interesting developments today, and we'll get to those in a minute.
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All right, back to business now.
Francis has released his message for World Mission Sunday,
which falls on October 22nd this year.
And Francis being Francis, he made clear, of course,
that if there's one thing World Mission Sunday has nothing to do with, it's mission.
At least, not in the sense that the Catholic Church understands the term.
And so he said, quote,
The Church's mission is not to spread a religious ideology,
much less to propose a lofty ethical teaching.
Unquote.
Then, NovosOrdo columnist John Allen reports that Francis might remove Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller this summer
since he's obviously not heretical enough for him.
And he might replace...
Well, he didn't say that, but, you know.
And he might replace him with Smoochie, the so-called Archbishop Victor Fernandez of Argentina.
That's the guy who...
Who wrote that book on the art of kissing back in 1995.
And he already ghostwrites many of Francis' documents, including Amoris Laetitia.
And that's why we've called him the Jorge Whisperer here in the past.
And lastly, the English Diocese of Hallam has published guidelines on its website about how to properly venerate pagan idols.
I'm not kidding.
You can't make the stuff up.
According to a post published at LifeSiteNews.com on June 6th,
quote,
The Catholic Diocese of Hallam, run by Bishop Rolf Heskett, encourages Catholics to bring flowers to Buddha,
bow to the Hindu Murtis, image of the deities, and bow to the Sikh holy book.
Catholics are also encouraged to eat the food offered to them that has been blessed in Hindu and Sikh rituals.
Unquote.
Now, by the way, the chap who authorized this, this Mr. Heskett, was first appointed bishop by...
Want to take a guess?
Benedict XVI, of course, back in 2010.
Well, what you see here, folks, is simply the next step of interreligious dialogue.
It's true, of course, that back at the time of Moses, God enjoined in his first commandment,
Thou shalt have no strange gods before me.
But...
Thanks to Amoris Laetitia, we now know that this is not really a commandment at all,
but more like a really good suggestion.
You know, just an ideal for heroes that you should strive for, perhaps,
but that only heroes will really ever attain.
And who's going to be a hero?
Yeah, sure, there were the three young men who would rather go into the fiery furnace
than to bow to the statue that the pagan king demanded they worship.
And there have been...
Countless Catholic martyrs who underwent the most cruel tortures
rather than offer a single grain of incense to a false god,
but as we all know, that was before Vatican II.
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