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Bergolgian Heresies + False Ecumenism = New Religion

True Ecumenism

For a faithful catholic, ecumenism is the effort, in charity and in faith, to bring nonbelievers to the Catholic Church; the Church that is, in the words of the Catechism, “  . . .the sole Church of Christ,” [Catechism of the Catholic Church, 811, 816];  the “ . . . one Church,” [Id., 814];  the “ . . one and only church of God,” [Id., 817].  This is true ecumenism.

False Ecumenism

Professor Alan Montefiore recognizes another type of ecumenism for those of different religions, even for those whose religions profess dogmas and beliefs that explicitly contradict each other. (Alan Montifiore, “Ecumenical Movements and Truth,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXI,  p.p. 145-158;  1997). For him, believers of different religions – to achieve an ecumenical goal – can accept that all believers are on an “equally valid path to religious fulfillment.” [Id.,  p. 145].  Religious truth, on this view, is relative, not absolute. This is based on an erroneous “equalization of truths.” This is false ecumenism.

The False Ecumenism Program

In practical reality, the view described here as “false ecumenism,” requires that proponents of the various religions who want to engage in fruitful ecumenism must jettison, or deny, one or some of their beliefs to create, a “new” religion with a “new and common ecumenical theology, a universal theology.”  This false ecumenism cannot be based on any agreement for the ecumenical partners to simply ignore dogmas and doctrines. Without doctrine-defeating , dogma-destroying ecumenical metanoia, no new religion can be achieved.

The “Problem” Of Truth – No Problem

For Professor Montefiore, various beliefs of the ecumenical partners can, and often do, exhibit “mutual incompatibility.”  Montefiore calls this the “problem of truth.” To achieve the new religion, there must be an approach beyond “mutual toleration,” because, in reality, principled “mutual respect” is not really possible.

If, however, one believes, or is committed to the belief, that everyone’s best hope, of virtue and/or salvation (however exactly they may be understood) must depend on the doctrinal nature of their religious commitment, one is bound to find a prima facie difficulty in the way of according equal respect to the commitments of those whose doctrines or practices one believes to be in some way mistaken. If I believe that my tradition provides the only true account of the nature of God and of what He requires from His creatures, it would be strange indeed if I did not also believe that it was of vital importance  to others that  they should come to accept that account – strange, though not, perhaps, logically inconceivable. (Id.,  p. 150).

It may be that a true believer of one religion can separate the believer of another religion from his or her beliefs (as some do in loving the sinner, hating the sin), but in real life,  says Professor Montefiore,  there can be a “tension” in trying to do this.  This true believer who also wants an ecumenical solution to the disunity among religions must confront an inescapable conclusion. What there is about the other’s beliefs that is “genuinely incompatible” with the true beliefs “must be false.” (Id.,  p. 155).

To achieve the ecumenical goal, the goal of false ecumenism, this tension is to be resolved not by bringing the other believer to the true belief, but by compromising, rejecting, changing, or  denying true beliefs:

If, then, full and equal respect for one’s ecumenical partner implies a recognition that their own spirituality and their own “way to God” is as religiously valid as one’s own, one may have in all consistency to accept the prospect of having to revise certain of one’s own basic and Jong-standing beliefs. (The same will, of course, be true for one’s partners as well.) It is not likely to be easy for It is not likely to be easy for all those concerned to admit that their ecumenism harbors within it an  acceptance of the  principle that there may be  more than  one equally valid expression of the recognition of God, more than one equally acceptable form of His worship, more than one superficially incompatible but in fact equally valid diffraction  of the one hidden Truth, but this, it does seem, must in the last resort be the inner sense of any really serious contemporary ecumenical  movement. (Id.,  pp. 155-156).

New Framework = New Paradigm

For faithful catholics,  Professor Montefiore  proposes that a “serious” effort at (false) ecumenism requires and demands a “new framework” within which even beliefs such as the Father’s sending of His Son Jesus Christ – alone – to redeem us must be rejected:

Their ecumenical commitment would seem, then, to include the perhaps initially hidden further commitment to the search for a new framework of discourse of God, a framework in the sense that it would somehow have to allow for, or make persuasively intelligible, an account of “God’s” necessary intervention in the ongoing contingencies of human history as having taken place at more than just one place and time and in more than just one way.(Id., pp. 156-157; emphasis added).

Such a “new framework” is a new paradigm. This is “paradigm” in the sense of that term in T.S. Kuhn’s celebrated work, The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions (1962) and the subsequent development of paradigm theory over the last half century.

Jorge Bergolgio’s New Paradigm For Catholicism In Toto –  Doctrine, Teaching,  & Dogma

Unfortunately, we have of late heard this “new paradigm” talk from Jorge Bergolgio and those who attempt to further his heresies. Bergoglian Cardinal Parolin has referred to the “new paradigm that Pope Francis is carrying out. Bergolgian Cardinal Cupich has proclaimed that the new paradigm is “nothing short of revolutionary,” and a “forced paradigm shift.”

Bergoglian Heresies

There is no doubt that Jorge Bergolgio’s “new paradigm” has served as the model framework and conceptual underpinning for the assertion of heresies and the attempt to proclaim them as “magisterial” teachings. These facts will not be discussed here, except for one comment.

Noted theologians, church historians, canon law experts, scripture scholars, bishops and cardinals have stated that Jorge Bergolgio has asserted heresies. At the top of the list is the new statement of the centuries old “mercy heresy.” The one comment is this –  Jorge Bergolgio appears to have stated  heresies. In response to the faithful souls who have requested him to explain what he has said so that it may be clear that there is no heresy, his response has been silence, and in his prolonged silence there is contempt for those who seek the truth. This is not what a pastoral shepherd of souls does. If he has not proclaimed heresy, in his silence he is not saving a single confused sheep.

Jorge Bergolgio’s heresies, which make ecclesial sense only within the meaning-giving role of his new heretical paradigm, are precisely what Professor Montefiore says is required for (false) ecumenism, and for the making of a new religion.

Curiously, more recently, there has been little chatter rom Bergoglian heretics about the new Bergoglian “paradigm.” Perhaps this is because the true significance of a new paradigm has been  made too crystal clear by one scholar and commentator after another. A new paradigm has nothing to do with correct and permitted doctrinal development. A new paradigm demands the overthrow of the old paradigm and the vehement denial of beliefs accepted under the old paradigm. Under accepted paradigm theory, a new paradigm for catholic dogma and doctrine can be nothing else but heresy.

How the Catholic Church can (Falsely) Ecumenate Successfully

The Catechism quotes the centuries-old church  teaching that “Ourside the Church there is no salvation,” and notes that it is “often repeated by the Church Fathers,” citing specifically Cyrprian (Catechism, 846).

For faithful catholics, Professor Montefiore asks this question:

So what becomes of the belief, to which orthodox Catholics at any rate were traditionally committed, that extra ecclesia, nullus salus  – that outside the Church there can be no salvation? Or to the many functionally equivalent analogues of this belief?  (Montefiore, p. 151)

Professor Montefiore, writing in 1997, had no idea that a man wearing papal white in the Roman Catholic Church would reject true ecumenism and provide the “new framework,” the paradigm  that has spawned the heresies that make false ecumenism possible for the Bergoglians.

Conclusion

Professor Montefiore concludes his article by saying that any ecumenical partner, [even one such as the Catholic Church],  must  engage in:

. . . an acceptance of the sacrifice of any traditional claims to uniquely valid conceptualizations of religious truth, of uniquely true prophets or of uniquely appropriate symbolizations or myths. (Id.,  p. 158)

None of this is a problem for the Bergoglians.

Jorge Bergolgio and his fellow Bergoglian heretics are now announcing that “ecumenism is not optional.” Any putative “ecumenical partner” seeking to ecumeniate and negotitate with the Bergoglians would do well to realize that they have no problem asserting heresies, which in many ways  is worse than dishonesty, worse than lying.

 

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Mary De Voe
Monday, March 25, AD 2019 9:59pm

Religion is a person’s response to the gift of Faith. Atheism is a belief. The world is flat is a belief.

Mary De Voe
Monday, March 25, AD 2019 10:05pm

Ecumenism is repudiated when the truth is not preached.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Tuesday, March 26, AD 2019 2:07am

We have had a false ecumenism since Vatican II. Pope Francis is just carrying it to it’s logical extreme which is to merge the Catholic Church with Protestants, Islam, etc. in order to create a One World Religion for the New World Order. In other words, the entire effort of ecumenism is political, not religious.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Tuesday, March 26, AD 2019 3:03am

“In response to the faithful souls who have requested him to explain what he has said so that it may be clear that there is no heresy, his response has been silence, and in his prolonged silence there is contempt for those who seek the truth.”

This fact is troubling beyond measure. An explanation can not be given without discrediting his own position so silence is his defense. This is tyrannical.

Thanks for sharing this article.
The harsh reality can not be ignored. Staying faithful and knowing that this storm isn’t perpetual gives me hope.

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Tuesday, March 26, AD 2019 11:55am

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Aqua
Aqua
Tuesday, March 26, AD 2019 12:26pm

Ecumenism is when the Catholic Church becomes the world.

Evangelism is when the world becomes Catholic.

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Wednesday, March 27, AD 2019 3:30am

“Ourside the Church there is no salvation.”

As Bl John Henry Newman noted, “Not to go to Scripture, it is the doctrine of St. Ignatius, St. Irenæus, St. Cyprian in the first three centuries, as of St. Augustine and his contemporaries in the fourth and fifth. It can never be other than an elementary truth of Christianity; and the present Pope has proclaimed it as all Popes, doctors, and bishops before him. But that truth has two aspects, according as the force of the negative falls upon the “Church” or upon the “salvation.” The main sense is, that there is no other communion or so called Church, but the Catholic, in which are stored the promises, the sacraments, and other means of salvation; the other and derived sense is, that no one can be saved who is not in that one and only Church. But it does not follow, because there is no Church but one, which has the Evangelical gifts and privileges to bestow, that therefore no one can be saved without the intervention of that one Church…”

He goes on to speak of “the doctrine of invincible ignorance—or, that it is possible to belong to the soul of the Church without belonging to the body; and, at the end of 1800 years, it has been formally and authoritatively put forward by the present Pope (the first Pope, I suppose, who has done so), on the very same occasion on which he has repeated the fundamental principle of exclusive salvation itself. It is to the purpose here to quote his words; they occur in the course of his Encyclical, addressed to the Bishops of Italy, under date of August 10, 1863. ‘We and you know, that those who lie under invincible ignorance as regards our most Holy Religion, and who, diligently observing the natural law and its precepts, which are engraven by God on the hearts of all, and prepared to obey God, lead a good and upright life, are able, by the operation of the power of divine light and grace, to obtain eternal life.’ Who would at first sight gather from the wording of so forcible a universal, that an exception to its operation, such as this, so distinct, and, for what we know, so very wide, was consistent with holding it?”

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