LETTERS TO POPE FRANCIS AND BISHOP KEVIN VANN # 2

LETTERS TO POPE FRANCIS AND BISHOP KEVIN VANN # 2 

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP:///WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MON. OCT. 8, 2018

 

    THE PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH (VERITAS) OUGHT TO BE AND MUST BE THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE U.S.A., AND THE VATICAN.  THIS IS REASONABLE AND COMMON SENSE. HOWEVER, WHEN EMERITUS POPE BENEDICT XVI VISITED AMERICA, HE FACED AN EXTRAORDINARY SECULAR AND NOT A CHRISTIAN MINDSET WITHIN THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

 

    HERE ARE BENEDICT'S OWN WORDS FROM HIS CLASSIC BOOK, "CO-WORKERS OF THE TRUTH" - MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR, 1992, IGNATIUS PRESS, SAN FRANCISCO, SEP. 13TH.

 

    "IN THE CHRISTIAN CATALOGUE OF VIRTUES, DESPAIR - THAT IS, THE RADICAL OPPOSITE OF FAITH AND HOPE - IS LISTED AS A SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT, BECAUSE IT FAILS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT HIS POWER TO HEAL AND TO FORGIVE AND THUS REJECTS REDEMPTION.

 

    CORRESPONDINGLY, IN THE NEW RELIGION, "PESSIMISM" IS THE SIN OF ALL SINS, FOR DOUBT IN REGARD TO OPTIMISM, PROGRESS AND UTOPIA IS A FRONTAL ATTACK ON THE SPIRIT OF THE CURRENT AGE: A CONTESTING OF ITS FUNDAMENTAL CREDO, ON WHICH ITS CERTAINTY RESTS, ALTHOUGH, IT IS , NONETHELESS, CONSTANTLY THREATENED IN VIEW OF THE WEAKNESS TO TALK ABOUT A "MAKE-BELIEVE" GOD.

 

    ALL THIS WAS BROUGHT TO MY MIND AGAIN BY THE DEBATE OCCASIONED BY THE PUBLICATION IN 1985 OF MY "REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE CHURCH" (PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH AS AS "THE RATZINGER REPORT, AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ON THE STATE OF THE CHURCH") (SAN FRANCISCO: IGNATIUS PRESS, 1985).

 

    THE INDIGNATION AROUSED BY THIS SIMPLE BOOK CLIMAXED IN THE CONDEMNATION: A PESSIMISTIC BOOK. IN MANY PLACES, ATTEMPTS WERE MADE EVEN TO PREVENT THE SALE OF IT BECAUSE A HERESY OF SUCH MAGNITUDE WAS JUST NOT TO BE TOLERATED.

 

    THOSE WHO SUBSCRIBED TO THIS PUBLIC OPINION PUT THE BOOK ON THE INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS: A NEW INQUISITION REVEALED ITS STRENGTH.

 

    IT WAS ONCE AGAIN EVIDENT THAT THERE IS NO GREATER SIN AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE THAN TO ONESELF IN A POSITION WHERE ONE CAN BE ACCUSED OF LACK OF OPTIMISM: THE QUESTION WAS CERTAINLY NOT.

 

"IS WHAT HAS BEEN SAID TRUE OR NOT TRUE? ARE THE DIAGNOSES RIGHT OR WRONG?

 

I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND NO EVIDENCE THAT ANYONE TOOK THE TROUBLE TO INVESTIGATE SUCH OUTMODED QUESTIONS, THE CRITERION WAS SIMPLE

 

"IS IT OR NOT OPTIMISTIC?"

AND GIVEN THIS CRITERION, THE BOOK WAS, OF COURSE, CONDEMNED.

  Respectfully yours,

George H. Kubeck, 

 

 P.S. The Church's reaction to the above is sickening. Why integrate the "The Catechism of the Catholic Church" within a priest's homily? Oh No! Isn't there one sentence in the Catechism that is negative to homosexuals? Hence, the whole book is condemned and set aside. Only 2 % of our population is homosexual. There are a large number of homosexual priests within the American Catholic Church.

    Consider the education of young people into their Catholic faith; by having them pray at abortion sites. That is definitely too negative!  Wouldn't that be an education for the guy;  getting a girl friend pregnant is a most serious matter? You, young man are responsible for that baby for at least one year!

Abortion is a cowardly cop-out; your baby can be adopted. There are parents waiting!