PANDEMIC IS GOD'S CHASTISEMENT FOR 'INFIDELITY' OF TOP CATHOLIC SHEPHERDS

PANDEMIC IS GOD'S CHASTISEMENT FOR 'INFIDELITY' OF TOP CATHOLIC SHEPHERDS

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSTOP.COM - MON. NOV. 30, 2020

 

By Martin Burger, April 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) - Italian priest and [Vatican] theologian Nicola Bux has identified both the sins within the Church as well as the sins of the world as the root of the current pandemic and its effects on the daily life of Catholics. Like Archbishop Vigano Bishop Schneider, the former consulter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith characterized COVID-19 as a chastisement from God.

 

    In a lengthy statement published as a video on You Tube March 24, as well as by Chiesa e post conciliation in written form, Bux said "we can read this virus as 'sign of the times,' in the sense above all of warning to the world."  "We must now abstain, as a punishment," he explained, "from so many embraces and so many relationships, even against nature. We have defied natural law and committed 'sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.'"

 

    What about infidelity and indifference, of those who live in practical atheism, and postulate a nature emancipated from God," Bux asked. "And then adultery, abortions, divorces. We have violated the rights of God and put in their place those of man." Specifically talking about the sins within the Church, Bux began by mentioning idolatry, which he called "the gravest sin."                                     

 

    "We gave in to idolatry ... by kneeling before heaps of earth and worshiping idolatrous statues even in St. Peter's Basilica. We turned Churches into shelters and inns when we had much better facilities to accommodate the poor and migrants. We have forgotten what a church is for and why it is dedicated with solemn rite. We have committed abuses, profanations in the sacred liturgy and unbearable deformation, insults and irreverence, we have gone so far as to say that the grave of God can coexist with a situation of habitual sin, authorizing sacrilegious Communions given to unrepentant sinners."

 

    Bux continued, "We sowed confusion among God's people, with the coexistence of the two popes and encouraged the handing over of the faithful to the civil authorities of atheistic states such as China. Paul VI's warning resounds regarding the self-demolition of the Church. Have atheism and loss of faith taken root among the men of the Church?"As such, the COVID-19 pandemic is "a warming to the men of the Church, who, in the name of 'paradigm shift,' subordinate Christ's teaching to the reality of the world."

 

    "They say they do not understand non-negotiable principles. They consider inequality and not sin as the root of all evils. They have allowed the gnostic and neo-pagan scene on the facade of St. Peter's. They have abandoned the mission of the Gospel and the need for conversation, in favor of complacent dialog with religions ... They have presented Luther as medicine for the Church. They have endorsed situation ethics instead of moral principles."

 

    With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still especially affecting Italy, many of the problems and evils have come to a sudden halt. "Now the Pope, so worried about the 'pueblo,' has remained without people. Priests, so intoxicated with participation, are without the faithful. The faithful, so accustomed to community liturgies, suffer abandonment."Most Catholics, Bux explained, "have not been trained in adoration, recollection on their knees, personal prayer done in secret, where the Father alone sees us." "The churches are desolate, faithful and pastors are now as exiles," the theologian said...

 

    Bux the begged God to deliver his people from the "wrath of judgment." "Great is our sin, but greater is your love. Take away our sins for the glory of you name. In the intimacy of the soul, we prostrate ourselves and implore divine mercy. From the wrath of judgment, deliver us ... Forgive us our mistakes ... Forgive us our mistakes, heal out wounds, guide us with your grace to the Easter victory," Bux prayed.                                                                                                                                   

 

 Theologian and liturgical scholar concluded by calling the chastisement "providential," expecting it to bear fruit.                                                                                               

 

George H. Kubeck