Benedict’s Feelings
When Benedict makes Redemption all so nice… Then Christ becomes no
more than sugar and spice.
When
two months ago an interview given in October of last year by Benedict XVI to a
Jesuit priest was published in Italy, some misguidedly “pious” Catholics took
it to mean that the former Pope was returning to Traditional doctrine on the
absolute need to belong to the Catholic Church for salvation. Alas, the
interview shows in reality an unrepentant modernist measuring not modern man by
Catholic Truth, but that Truth by what modern man can or cannot understand and
accept. In fairness, the interviewer raised four serious questions, and
Benedict did not dodge them. Here is another cruelly brief but not essentially
unjust summary of the interview, with comments added in italics:—
Q. Does FAITH come through a
community, which is in turn a gift of God?
A. Faith is
a personal living contact with God, mediated through a living community,
because in order to believe I need witnesses to God, i.e. the Church, which is
not just a set of ideas (true, but a set of ideas is the very object of
faith believed in. Benedict shares in modern subjectivism). Through
the Church’s sacraments (in accordance with the Faith’s objective parameters) I
enter into living contact with Christ.
Q. Can modern man understand
Paul’s JUSTIFICATION by FAITH? (Notice modern man’s priority)
A. For modern man, God cannot
let most men suffer eternal damnation (same comment). The
concern for personal salvation has mostly disappeared (so what? So the
doctrine must
change?). But modern man still perceives his own need of
mercy, so he does know his own unworthiness. In fact he expects a saving love,
which is God’s mercy, which justifies him (so man sins, expects God’s
mercy, and that justifies him? This is sheer Protestantism!). On the
contrary the classic idea of God the Father killing his own Son to satisfy his
own justice is incomprehensible today. Rather, the Father and the Son had the
same will (but Jesus as God and man had two wills!), and the
mass of the world’s evil was overcome as it needed to be by God’s sharing in
the world’s suffering, in which Father and Son shared alike (but the
Father as God could not suffer, and only as man could Christ suffer! This new
doctrine empties out the Incarnation, the Cross, mankind’s sin, God’s justice,
our Redemption! What is left of Catholicism?).
Q. Has the Church’s teaching
on HELL evolved in modern times?
A. “On this
point we are faced with a profound evolution of dogma” (sic! But dogma
cannot evolve. As a modern man, Benedict has no notion of a truth unchanging
and unchangeable). “After Vatican II, the conviction that the
unbaptised are forever lost was finally abandoned” (as though Vatican
II could change Church teaching!). But then arises a problem –why
still be a Christian (good question!)? Rahner’s solution
of all men being anonymous Christians leaves out the drama of conversion (only
“drama” – not “absolute necessity”?). The Pluralists’ solution
whereby all religions suffice for salvation is inadequate (true). De
Lubac’s solution is that Christ and the Church somehow stand in for
all mankind, let us say by believing in, practicing and suffering for the
truth. At least a few souls are needed to do so.
Q. If evil must be repaired,
does the sacrament of CONFESSION repair it?
A. Christ alone can repair
evil, but Confession does always put us back on the side of Christ.
In
view of such an interview, can anyone still doubt that the Society of St Pius X
leaders are seriously deluded who think the Society can safely put itself under
these Romans? From humanism and Protestantism a false view of the Redemption
has soaked into modern bones, and from modern bones finally into the Catholic
churchmen. Vatican II teaches and preaches a Christianity without the Cross. It
is highly popular, but utterly false. May God have mercy on these churchmen!
Kyrie
eleison.
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