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Neo-Pelagianism
No, this is not a joke.
Here's what Gagliarducci wrote in his post of February 26th,
entitled, Pope Francis, How Are His Reforms Proceeding?
Quote,
In the offing, it also seems the Pope is going to write a new document,
perhaps an encyclical, on spirituality in the modern world,
with a strong accent against Neo-Pelagianism.
Unquote.
Now, this is pre-Pelagianism.
Priceless.
From the beginning, Francis has denounced what he claims
is a resurgence of the heresy of Pelagianism.
Now, that heresy is indeed a big problem in our day,
but it's not what Francis thinks it is.
For Francis, Pelagianism is basically the restorationist movements
of the conservative Novus Ordos and the semi-traditionalists,
like the Indult groups, such as the Fraternity of St. Peter
and the Institute of Christ the King,
and the resistance groups, like the Societalists,
and the Society of Sempais X.
We know this because he's mentioned it several times
throughout his fake pontificate.
For example, on June 6th, 2013,
he met with the board of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation
of Religious Men and Women.
Here is what he told them.
Quote,
I share with you two concerns.
One is the Pelagian current that there is in the Church at this moment.
There are some restorationist groups.
I know some.
It fell upon me to receive them,
and one feels as if one goes back 60 years before the Council.
One feels in 1940.
An anecdote, just to illustrate this.
It is not to laugh at it.
I took it with respect, but it concerns me.
When I was elected, I received a letter from one of these groups,
and they said,
Your Holiness, we offer you this spiritual treasure,
3,525 rosaries.
Why don't they say,
We pray for you.
We ask.
But this thing of counting.
And these groups return to practices and to disciplines that I lived through.
Not you, because you are not old.
To disciplines, to things that in that moment took place,
but not now.
They do not exist today.
Unquote.
So, that's Pelagianism for Francis.
Then, also in 2013,
while he was having fun at the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day,
Francis talked to the leadership of the Council,
the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean,
and he spoke to them about temptations against missionary discipleship,
including the following,
quote,
The Pelagian Solution.
This basically appears as a form of restorationism.
In dealing with the Church's problems,
a purely disciplinary solution is sought
through the restoration of outdated manners and forms,
which, even on the cultural level,
are no longer meaningful.
In Latin America,
it is usually to be found in small groups,
in some new religious congregations,
in exaggerated tendencies to doctrinal or disciplinary safety.
Basically, it is static,
although it is capable of inversion,
in a process of regression.
It seeks to recover the lost past.
Unquote.
Yet again in 2013,
Francis denounced the, quote,
self-absorbed,
Promethean Neopelagianism
of those who ultimately trust only in their own powers
and feel superior to others
because they observe certain rules
or remain intransigently faithful
to a particular Catholic style from the past.
Unquote.
And that's not from an interview or speech, by the way,
but from a supposed magisterial document,
namely from his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium,
number 94.
And then in an interview published on February 9th, 2017,
in the Italian Corriere della Sera,
Francis denounced as Pelagians
those who, quote,
want to go back to asceticism and do penance.
Unquote.
That's Pelagianism, huh?
Right.
Well, in any case, you get the idea.
So if Francis is preparing a document
about monarchy,
modern spirituality that denounces Pelagianism,
you can guess what sort of content
you're going to find there.
It's going to be a manifesto
against traditional Catholic spirituality and practice
and filled with talk about tenderness and joy
and counter-experience, cosmic transcendence
and probably some other ideas
he gets either from Teilhard de Chardin,
Richard Rohr, or one of his Talmudic Jewish buddies.
But, you know, I don't know.
I don't know.
But what actually is the heresy of Pelagianism, then?
Pelagianism is the doctrine of the 5th century monk Pelagius,
according to which, among other things,
man in his natural state is a friend of God
and supernatural grace is not needed for salvation.
The Pelagians held that we are justified
by our own human strength,
our mere works apart from the grace of Christ.
This was refuted by St. Augustine
and condemned by Pope St. Zosimas
and by the ecumenical councils of Ephesus and Trent.
It is a damnable heresy
that denies original sin and its consequences
and that denies the necessity of the redemption.
Now, who do you think is the chief promoter
of that heresy in our day?
Care to guess?
That's right, Francis.
Oh, the irony.
Francis is the one who continually speaks and acts
as though members of any and all religions go to heaven,
that everyone is a child of God,
that it doesn't matter what religion you are
because we're all trying to do good
and we're just meeting God in different ways
and we all have our own opinions and traditions
and the only certitude we have in religious matters,
as he explicitly stated in his first,
Pope video of January 2016,
the only certitude that we have in religious matters
is that we're all children of God.
On May 22nd, 2013,
Francis preached a sermon about doing good works
and he said that this is a necessity for a Christian
as much as it is for an atheist.
That is true,
but in typical modernist fashion,
Francis failed to draw the crucial distinction
between good works,
done from a purely natural motive,
such as wanting to ease our neighbor's suffering
for his own sake,
and good works done from a supernatural motive,
such as wanting to please God,
wanting to merit heaven,
or wanting to escape hell.
Francis lumps it all together,
denies original sin,
and like a true Pelagian, says,
quote,
the root of this possibility of doing good
that we all have is in creation.
The Lord created us in his image,
and likeness,
and we are the image of the Lord,
and he does good,
and all of us have this commandment at heart,
do good and do not do evil.
All of us.
But Father, this is not Catholic.
He cannot do good.
Yes, he can.
He must.
Not can, must.
Because he has this commandment within him.
Unquote.
Now what we have here is not outright lies,
but half-truths,
which make sense.
Makes what he said all the more dangerous.
Yes, an atheist can do good works,
in a natural sense.
But none of these good works
will do anything for his salvation.
They cannot merit anything for him.
Not the forgiveness of sins,
not reparation for sin,
not eternal beatitude.
They will always remain on the level of the natural,
and thus will die with him.
That is why we needed a Redeemer,
a Savior,
who merited,
the redemption for us,
and now dispenses to us supernatural grace,
so that our works can be united to faith and hope,
and thus blossom into eternal life.
Hebrews 11.6 says that without faith,
it is impossible to please God.
But this Francis does not believe.
He does not believe it,
because he is a Neo-Pelagian.
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