Obamaism and the U.S. Catholic Church # 1
In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com -Wed. June 25, 2014
Preface: By Obamaism, I would include the gospel of Saul Alinsky. How was it possible for many in the Church to be duped by citizen Barack Obama? Today, Barack Obama owes his election to the so-called Catholic vote in 2008 and 2012. However in truth, a majority of practicing Catholic did not vote for him. However, the bottom line is that voters who called themselves Catholic voted for Obama. I wish a Russell Shaw or George Weigel would write a book on Obama's shameful and nefarious influence. There is fundamentally nothing authentically Catholic about Obamaism.
Here is an article which bears on this topic from lifesitenews.com.
Bishop Schneider: Church faces 'great crisis' as she's tempted to conform to the 'new paganism.'
By Hilary White, London, June 12, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com)
The Catholic Church is living through a 'great crisis' of belief and practice, facing 'new paganism' comparable to the first centuries of the Church, and in which many priests and bishops are actively collaborating. Bishop Anthanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhistan, said in an interview during a trip to the U.K.The bishop said the crisis has particularly manifested itself in the erosion of belief in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, which he says has a 'causal connection' to the denial of the Church's teachings on sex & marriage.
"This is the deepest evil," says Schneider, "man, or the clergy, putting themselves in the center when they change the revealed truth of God, for instance, concerning the Sixth commandment and human sexuality."The bishop's interview was conducted by Sarah Atkinson and published June 6 in the Catholic Herald. Atkinson is also editor of Mass of Ages, the magazine published by the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, which published the full transcript.
"We are living in an un-Christian society, in a new paganism," Schneider told Atkinson. "The temptation today is for the clergy is to adapt to the new world to the new paganism, to be collaborators. We are in a similar situation to the first centuries, when the majority of society was pagan, and Christianity was discriminated against."
He warned that Christians will likely be faced with the choice of apostasy, offered to those in the early Church, to pinch "one grain of incense into a fire in front of the statue of the emperor." This ultimation may even be supported from within the Church. It seems possible that Catholics who remain faithful "may, for a time, be persecuted or discriminated even on behalf of those who [have] power in the exterior structure of the Church," he said...
In our times, he said, clergy and bishops are not being asked to pinch incense to the emperor, but "to collaborate with the pagan world today in the dissolution of the Sixth commandment and in the revision of the way God created man and women." These clergy, he said, would be "traitors of the Faith, they are participating ultimately in pagan sacrifice."...
"When these things continue, I think, there will be an interior split in the Church of those who are faithful to the faith of their baptism and the integrity of the Catholic faith." This split, he said, will be between those who remain faithful "to the unchangeable Catholic truth" and those "who are assuming the spirit of this world and there will be a clear spirit, I think." ...
Bishop Schneider had particularly strong words for the prelates supporting the proposal of Cardinal Walter Kasper to admit divorced and remarried Catholics to Communion "after a period of penance." These he said, "operate with a false concept of mercy." He compared it to a doctor prescribing sugar for a diabetic "although he knows it will kill him. But the soul is more important than the body.... "The real crisis of the Church is anthropocentrism, forgetting the "Christocentrism." It comes 'when we place ourselves, including priests, as the center and when God is put in the corner and this is happening also materially." "Our first duty as human beings is to adore God, not us, but Him, unfortunately the liturgical practice of the last 40 years has been very anthropocentric," he said. ...
"The gates of hell, i.e. heresy," he said, will ultimately be defeated by the "Supreme Magisterium" of the Church which "will surely issue an unequivocal doctrinal statement, rejecting any collaboration with the neo-pagan ideas of changing e.g. the Sixth Commandment of God, the meaning of sexuality and of family. Those who have opposed the true teaching of the Church, he added, would then leave and would not longer call themselves Catholic...." George H. Kubeck
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