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Harsh Words for Priests and Bishops Who Do Not Condemn Sin

St. Bridget Relates Jesus’ Harsh Words for Priests and Bishops Who Do Not Condemn Sin

Today, more than ever, we traditional Catholics are labeled extremest and punished if we criticize the changes that have been made in the Church or condemn sin.
557074_224730011016053_307635482_nI was looking for St Bridget’s statement where she told about seeing a family member cast into hell.  I remember her saying this was the worst thing she had ever experience.  I did not find that quote.  But I did find in Christ’s revelations to her many more very important things for us traditional Catholics who Love Jesus and His Church.
Here is a small part about what Jesus says about priests and bishops who do not correct sinners.
The bad example of many priests leads many people gradually into spiritual blindness and to become complacent in sin, and then to even boast about it, even if 
previously they had been ashamed of it (4. 132). 

Priests and religious are accused by Christ of being deficient and often totally 
negligent in their preaching and instructing the people 
in the faith. 
Christ complains to Bridget: "They do not speak of my 
wonderful deeds nor do they teach my doctrine, but instead they teach 
love of the world" (4.132). 
Bridget writes that many priests succumb to the temptation to avoid preaching 
and teaching about the "hard sayings" of Christ in order not to offend people and to be well received by them, and also for monetary gain. They yield to the 
demands of the world because they fear and cannot endure being persecuted 
and hated by the world. By presenting what is agreeable to people, Christ's 
justice remains hidden and the people blindly live in presumptuous 
confidence of their salvation. 8 

Massys_Ecce Homo_Madrid, Prado_c.1515One is reminded of Christ's denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees of his time: "Woe to you... you hypocrites! You who shut up the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to" (Mt 23:13); Compare this with Jn 15:19: "If you were of the world, 
the world would love [you because you are] its own; but because you are not of 
the world, because I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates 
you"; Mt 10:22: "and you will be hated by all for my name's sake."* 

Bridget hears the devil tempting a certain bishop: 

Of what concern is it to you how this or that person lives? Why should you offend and correct those by whom you could be honored and loved? If they don't offend you and your loved ones, why should you care how they live or whether they offend God? If you are good yourself, why should you judge others? (3.2; cf. 4. 126). 
Bridget states that many priests follow this advice, to their own damnation. They 
ignore sin that should be corrected. They choose to forget, on account of their 
worldly and carnal attachments, as well as inordinate concern for human respect, that reproving the sinner is a spiritual work of mercy the neglect of which they 
will be held accountable before God (3.15). She also accuses bishops of 
tolerating and ignoring the great scandal of priests living unchaste lives 
(1.23). 

http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2013/11/23/st-bridget-relates-jesus-harsh-words-for-priests-and-bishops-who-do-not-condemn-sin/

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