TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Friday, May 5th, 2017.
Let me tell you about something that Francis said during Easter week.
At his general audience on April 19th, and I've taken this straight from the Vatican website,
Francis declared that, quote,
God is greater than nothingness.
An absolutely brilliant observation.
I mean, considering that anything, anything at all, is greater than nothing.
Like a cockroach, for example.
But, hey, that is Bergolian theology.
But that's not even what I want to focus on today.
Instead, I'd like to look at something else that he said in the same audience.
Namely, quote,
Accepting that Christ is dead and that he died crucified is not,
an act of faith.
It is a historical fact.
Believing he is risen, on the other hand, is, unquote.
Really?
Christ's crucifixion and death are not objects of faith?
Let's see.
What do we pray in the Apostles' Creed?
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
and born of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Holy Spirit,
and born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
Ah, there we go.
Not a part of our faith, huh?
Just historical fact.
As though something of faith could not also be historical.
Which is, indirectly, what Francis is saying about the resurrection,
that it's not a historical fact.
Yes, I know that at first he repeatedly calls it a fact,
during that audience,
but then he proceeds to clarify what he means by it,
and it's not historical fact,
but what he might call religious fact,
because he's obviously juxtaposing historical fact
with dogma of the faith,
so that the conclusion one is being asked to draw is
that something is either a matter of faith
or a matter of history, of historical fact.
Which is heresy?
And it also doesn't make any sense.
Obviously, God has revealed to us, in sacred scripture,
lots of historical facts.
Just because something is historical fact
doesn't mean God hasn't also revealed it.
And similarly, the existence of God, for example,
is both a dogma of the faith,
as well as knowable by reason alone.
It is both.
The one does not exclude the other.
In fact, curiously,
it is a dogma that the existence of God
can be known by reason alone.
And that was defined at the First Vatican Council in 1870.
You can see that in Denzinger 1806.
The modernists have always had a problem with miracles,
and especially with the bodily resurrection of Christ,
which is, of course, the ultimate miracle.
On July 3rd, 1907,
Pope St. Pius X published the Syllabus of Modernist Errors,
which condemned,
with 65 specific propositions,
including this one,
quote,
That is condemned by the Pope,
St. Pius X,
in the decree Lamentabili Sane,
number 36,
and you can find it in Denzinger,
2036.
Now, Francis, of course,
is by no means the only one questioning the resurrection
in the Vatican II Church.
For example, let me quote to you
what Gerhard Ludwig Müller believes about the resurrection.
Now, that's the man who was put in the position
of chief enforcer of doctrinal orthodoxy
in the Vatican's so-called
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Here's what Müller wrote in his book Catholic Dogma,
which is available,
only in German,
but I've translated it for you.
So, here we go.
Quote,
A running camera would not have been able to make
an audio-visual recording of either
the Easter manifestations of Jesus
in front of his disciples,
nor of the resurrection event,
which, at its core,
is the consummation of the personal
relation of the Father
to the incarnate Son
in the Holy Ghost.
In contrast to human reason,
animals and technicalities
are not capable of a transcendental experience
and thus also lack the ability
to be addressed by the Word of God
through perceptible phenomena and signs.
Only human reason in its inner unity
of categoricality and transcendentality
is determinable by the Spirit of God
to enable it to perceive
in the sensory-cognitive image
triggered by the manifestation event
the person-reality of God.
The person-reality of Jesus
as the cause of the sensory-mental
cognitive image.
Unquote.
Folks, these people do not believe
in the dogma of the resurrection.
And again, this was,
what you just heard was Cardinal,
so-called Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller,
the supposed guardian of orthodoxy
in the Vatican II sect,
who was put there, by the way,
by Benedict XVI,
who, I might add,
also denies the resurrection
and, of course,
Müller is still in there
in this position under Francis.
The quote that I gave you
is a translation of what appears
in the eighth edition of the book
Katholische Dogmatik, page 300.
And you can actually find this
together with the scan of the actual page
on our blog at
novusordowatch.org
slash wire.
Just go to the search box
and put in deniers,
of the resurrection.
And you will find a post there
that gives this quote
and the scanned page
from the book.
And you will also find information there
about how Benedict XVI,
Joseph Ratzinger, denies the resurrection
and also Walter Casper.
So, like I said,
these people do not believe
in the resurrection.
They are heretics.
They are not Catholics.
And for this reason, they cannot hold
any authority in the Catholic Church.
Now you know why we call
Müller's department at the Vatican
the Congregation for the Destruction
of the Faith.
Because that's what it's all about.
Destroying the faith in souls.
Have nothing to do
with these people.
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