TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Monday, April 17th, 2017.
Happy Easter, everyone.
Most people probably missed it because of Easter preparations, but we didn't.
On Holy Saturday, April 15th, Pope Francis preached a sermon
in which he claimed that our Lord rolled back the big rock in front of his tomb.
Here's what Francis said verbatim.
Quote,
That's Matthew 28, 2.
In the famous traditional Catholic HADOC commentary on Sacred Scripture, we read,
Quote,
The angel did not remove the stone to afford a passage,
to Christ when he arose, for Christ most certainly arose before the angel appeared.
But he removed the stone to prepare the way for the women
and to show the soldiers that Christ was arisen.
Unquote.
Now, you might say, big deal.
Does it really matter who rolled back the stone?
Oh, yes, it does, because our Lord, being God, is above and outside the laws of nature.
I mean, he created the laws of nature.
It's not like Christ needed to roll back the stone
in order to be able to do that.
No, Christ exited the tomb even before the stone was removed simply by passing through
the rock, just as he entered the womb of the Blessed Mother at the Annunciation, and just
as after his resurrection, he entered the room where the disciples were gathered, even
though the doors were shut.
St. John talks about it in chapter 20, verse 19 of his gospel.
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Now, when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut where
the disciples were gathered, he entered the room where the disciples were gathered, and
when the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood
in the midst and said to them, Peace be to you.
Unquote.
And the Hadar commentary on this passage says, quote,
His glorified body entered by penetration through the doors, as he did at his resurrection.
Unquote.
And for Francis to say that Christ rolled back the stone of the tomb calls all of this
into question, not directly, of course, but by inference.
Then, the so-called Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, turned 90 years old on Easter Sunday.
Now, for all those who are perhaps now reminiscing about how wonderful things were under the
great Orthodox Pope Benedict, we put a little birthday present together for him on our blog.
See the entry dated April 16th, which lists 49 reasons why his birthday is really nothing.
Yeah, it's a little reality check on just who Joseph Ratzinger really is.
See, a lot of people are taken in by beautiful externals, right?
Eloquent, Latin, lots of incense, and that veneer of dignity and orthodoxy.
But behind Ratzinger's mask is a very dangerous individual, much more dangerous than Francis,
in fact, precisely because of this appearance.
For example, did you know that Joseph Ratzinger was tagged suspect of heresy by the Holy Office
under Pope Pius XII as early as the 1950s?
Did you know that he was forced to change the dissertation he had written to be allowed
to teach at university on account of modernist tendencies?
Did you know that at the Second Vatican Council, some conservative bishops denounced Ratzinger
as a heretic who was a heretic?
Did you know that at the Second Vatican Council, some conservative bishops denounced Ratzinger
as a heretic who denies hell?
Did you know that his 1968 book, Introduction to Christianity, was banned by Cardinal Wyszynski
in the Archdiocese of Warsaw, Poland, for being a danger to the faith?
Did you know that Joseph Ratzinger denies the dogmas of the bodily resurrection of Christ,
infant baptism, no salvation outside the church, and papal primacy, for example?
Now, I could go on and on, but it would get really boring.
See our blog post entitled, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Turns 90, and find all this
information with the necessary documentation, all collected and linked there for you.
It's novusortowatch.org slash wire, novusortowatch.org slash wire.
Joseph Ratzinger is not a Roman Catholic, so if you were throwing a birthday party for
the great Pope Benedict...
I've got four words for you.
The party is over.
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