- "[T]he [Modernist] Blondelian schema holds that justification for the faith is to be found by turning inwards to the personal experience of the human subject. This turn to the subject is characteristic of modern philosophy, from Descartes right up to the Idealism of Kant and Hegel and beyond, and presented a major challenge to the traditional Catholic apologetics... If it were the case that inner experience justified the faith, if each person was to find the proof of God’s existence within their own life, then what would be the basis for the teaching authority of the Church?" - Neo-Modernist AnthonyCarroll
- "Between
[Modernist Maurice] Blondel's philosophy of action and Pope Francis'
pastoral action, there are significant coincidence."- Francis's close
longtime theological advisor Fr. Juan Carlos Scannone
At the Irving Convention Center in Texas on 2013, Pope Francis's closest
adviser and collaborator Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga apparently
declared himself a Modernist or at the very least at a Neo-Modernist and
appeared to claim that Modernism to some extent was Francis's agenda
and the "dreams of 'the next Pope":
"The Second Vatican Council... meant an end to the hostilities between
the Church and Modernism... Modernism was, most of the time, a reaction
against injustices and abuses that disparaged the dignity and rights of
the person."
(Whispers in the Loggia Website, "The Council's 'Unfinished Business,'
The Church's 'Return to Jesus"... and Dreams of "The Next Pope" - A
Southern Weekend with Francis' 'Discovery Channel,'" October 28, 2013)
Is Francis a Modernist?
Francis's close longtime theological advisor Fr. Juan Carlos Scannone
said there is "significant coincidence" or concurrence between Francis's
pastoral theology and Modernism:
"Between [Modernist Maurice] Blondel's philosophy of action and Pope
Francis' pastoral action, there are significant coincidence."
(La Civilta Catholics, 2015 III)
The greatest theologian of the twentieth century Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange explained the Modernism of Blondel:
"One sees the danger of the new definition of truth, no longer the
adequation of intellect and reality but the conformity of mind and
life... Maurice Blondel in 1906 proposed this substitution... Truth is
no more immutable than man himself inasmuch as it is evolved with him,
in him and through him. (Denz. 2058) One understands why Pius X said of
modernist: 'they pervert the eternal concept of truth 11 (Denz. 2080)"
(Archive.org, Catholic Family News Reprint Series, Where is the New Theology)
Simply put, Modernism is the denial of objective truth in which the individual's conscience and opinion or sentiment is supreme.
According to Pope John Paul II, the theology of Blondel leads to "the inescapable claims of truth disappear[ing]."
Below is the evidence that Francis is a Modernist heretic:
If Francis is a Modernist it explains why his teachings in Amoris
Laetitia as interpreted by his "authentic magisterium" Argentine Letter
are exactly the opposite of twenty centuries of Church doctrine and
Familiaris Consortio as well as deny the existence of objective truth
and objective morality according to Veritatis Splendor.
"Veritatis Splendor, entitled 'Lest the Cross of Christ Be
Emptied of Its Power,' warns precisely against the view that the demands
of the moral life are too difficult and cannot be lived with the help
of God’s grace. Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia appears to be exactly what St. John Paul II had in mind in writing Veritatis Splendor."
Pope John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio wrote:
This
means, in practice, that when, for serious reasons, such as for
example the children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the
obligation to separate, they take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts proper to married couples."[http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/5346/a_malta_laetitia.aspx]
John Paul II's above teachings reject the denial of objective truth and
situation ethics or the denial of objective morality, but Veritatis
Splendor explicitly says situation ethics by making the "individual
conscience... a supreme tribunal of... good and evil" leads or causes
"the inescapable claims of truth [to] disappear."
This article will show that Modernism, that is the denial of truth,
also, leads to situation ethics or the denial of objective morality.
Francis's Amoris Laetitia goes against the above teachings of John Paul
II because of his apparent denial of truth which leads to his promoting
"situation ethics" which by name was condemned by Pope Pius XII in 1956.
(CatholicCitizens.org, "Pius XII's Condemnation of Situation Ethics:
'Accusations of rigidity first attack the adorable person of Christ,'"
5-30-2017)
Theologian Dr. E. Christian Brugger, writing on AL 305, gives a quick summary of the Pope's situation ethics:
careful
not to fall into the temptation of making idols of certain abstract
truths. They can be comfortable idols, always within easy reach; they
offer a certain prestige and power and are difficult to discern. Because
the “truth-idol” imitates, it dresses itself up in the
words of the Gospel, but does not let those words touch the heart. Much
worse, it distances ordinary people from the healing closeness of the
word and of the sacraments of Jesus."
"If the truth could be an idol, then naturally any use of the Scriptures
to illustrate that particular truth would be a charade. But the truth
of God cannot be an idol because what God has made known to us is our
means of entering into His reality – the goal of our existence."
"Francis states that this 'truth-idolatry' in fact 'distances ordinary
people from the healing closeness of the word and of the sacraments of
Jesus.'”
"Here we have the interpretative key to what I think he is getting at. He is defending his decision in Amoris Laetitia to
allow some people who are living in adulterous unions to receive the
sacraments of penance and the Holy Eucharistic while intending to
continue to engage in adulterous relations."
"... The truth will set you free, it will not enslave you in error and
darkness. Those who seek to be healed by coming close to Christ in his
sacraments will only realize that goal by knowing and doing what Jesus
asks of them. To reject in practice his words about the permanence of
marriage and the obligation to avoid adultery, and then assert a right
to receive the sacraments risks making an erroneous opinion into an
idol." [https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/04/21/of-truth-and-idols/]
Francis because of his apparent denial of truth appears to be denying
objective morality and intrinsically evil acts. Professor Claudio
Pierantoni, a Patristic Scholar of Medieval Philosophy at the University
of Chile and Member of JAHLF (John Paul II Academy for Human Life and
Family), said that Francis's Gaudete et Exsultate appears to deny "the existence of intrinsically evil acts" and is promoting "situation ethics":
"[T]he document is read within the context of the present controversies in the Church, especially that about Amoris Laetitia and
situation ethics, one gets the strong impression that many passages are
directly aimed at harshly rebuking all those people (cardinals,
scholars, journalists and simple laypeople writing on blogs) that have
opposed the papal agenda about giving Communion to the divorced and
remarried, Communion to Protestants, permitting contraception in certain
cases, too mild opposition or silence in the face of anti-family and
anti-life legislation (pro-abortion, pro-birth control pro-euthanasia
and pro same-sex marriage). In this sense, the document brings no
progress or clarity in any of the most controversial and anti-doctrinal
stances of Pope Francis. Quite to the contrary, it seems to represent
one more step towards giving a kind of official approval to situation
ethics."
"So, the reading of this document should once more to urge us to plead before the Pope for an answer to the dubia, and in particular to dubium no.
2 about the existence of intrinsically evil acts, which are not
justifiable in any situation. We should not forget that to deny this
doctrine, or sow doubts about it, in any field of ethics, is the principal heresy of our times and the most dangerous enemy of sanctity." [http://m.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/professor-pierantoni-gaudete-et-exsultate-supports-error-of-situational-eth#.WuLDtN9lDqC]
Why does Francis deny truth which has lead to his promoting situation ethics?
Francis expert Austen Ivereigh points to how this happened:
"Bergoglio’s fascination with polarities began in the 1960s, when he
first began exploring as a Jesuit via Gaston Fessard’s 1956 monumental
anti-Hegelian work on the dialectics of grace and freedom in St.
Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Fessard Francis tells Borghesi, 'gave me so many of the elements that later got mixed in.'”
"Fessard was one of a 1950s group of Lyons-based jésuites blondéliens - that is, Jesuits inspired by Maurice Blondel - that included Henri de Lubac, Gaston Fessard and Michel de Certeau." [https://cruxnow.com/book-review/2017/11/18/new-book-looks-intellectual-history-francis-pope-polarity/]
Francis theological advisor Fr. Juan Carlos Scannone connects the final
dots of the close connection of Francis's thinking with Blondel's
teachings which explains why the Pope does not believe in truth and
promotes situation ethics:
"Between Blondel’s philosophy of action and Pope Francis’ pastoral action, there are significant coincidences,
probably because they both draw from the Spiritual Exercises of St.
Ignatius of Loyola. However, indirect links between the two should not
be excluded, for example, through the relationship between Gaston Fessard (strongly influenced by Blondel) and Miguel Ángel Fiorito, much appreciated by Bergoglio.
This article focuses first on the convergences regarding action; then
it compares the coincidences between the two authors regarding the
overcoming of social and existential conflicts. Finally, it studies the
parallelism between the «logic of love», nominated and applied by the
Pope, and the «logic of a moral life» by Blondel, focused on charity. (
La Civiltà Cattolica 2015 III / www.laciviltaca
Scannone connecting the Pope's thinking to Blondel is very important
because he is one of "Francis’ closest theological advisors" according
to an expert on Latin America and Francis's theology, Claudio Remeseira:
"In the almost fifty years since its appearance, the Theology of the
People has become the Argentine theological school by default. The
generation of its founders was followed by a second generation of
disseminators, the most prolific of whom is father Scannone... Scannone,
Galli, and Fernández are among Francis’ closest theological advisors.
["https://medium.com/@hispanicnewyork/pope-francis-per%C3%B3n-and-god-s-people-the-political-religion-of-jorge-mario-bergoglio-2a85787e7abe
]
Theologian John Lamont explains what Blondel taught:
"The neomodernists, due to their historical perspectivism, did not think
that the theology and dogma of previous epochs could satisfy this
understanding, but they did not want to dismiss them as false. They
accordingly held that dogma was true, but that its truth could not be
understood in Aristotle's sense. Garrigou-Lagrange saw them as reviving
the philosopher Maurice Blondel's rejection of the traditional
definition of truth as bringing the mind into conformity with reality
('adaequatio rei et intellectus') in favour of an account of truth as
bringing thought into line with life ('adaequatio realis mentis et
vitae'). While this definition of truth was not explicitly stated by the
neomodernists, the importance of Blondel for their thought makes this
interpretation a plausible one; Bouillard, for example, wrote
extensively and approvingly on Blondel.12 What
they did explicitly assert was that the truth of past dogmatic
pronouncements does not consist in their being an accurate description
of reality, and that a theology that was not relevant to the present day
('actuel') was untrue." [https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-christmastide-gift-for-our-readers.html?m=1]
Even liberal Neo-Modernist philosophy writer Anthony Carroll wrote:
"Conscious of the challenge to the traditional Thomist theory of
knowledge that had been ushered in by modern philosophy, Blondel, for
example, sought to identify the practical level of human action as the
place where one might find a new apologetic for the Christian faith. In
his L’Action (1893), he analyses the dynamics of human action and
argues that the distance between what we desire and what we actually
realise in our actions indicates that what we truly desire lies always
beyond the particular object that we are momentarily fixed upon. This
transcendental horizon of desire draws the mind and heart towards God as
the only One who can satisfy truly our infinite longings. For Blondel,
it is this Augustinian unrest that leaves a trace of the divine in our
human experience. Such a turn to the interiority of human experience as
grounds for the proof of God’s existence is what is meant by immanentism
in Pascendi."
"Rather than pointing towards the historical existence of Jesus, the
factual occurrence of miracles and the fulfilment of earlier prophecies
for proof of God’s existence, the Blondelian schema holds that
justification for the faith is to be found by turning inwards to the
personal experience of the human subject. This turn to the subject is
characteristic of modern philosophy, from Descartes right up to the
Idealism of Kant and Hegel and beyond, and presented a major challenge
to the traditional Catholic apologetics of the time, which had been
constructed on the basis that external revelation could be taken for
granted. With this turn to the interior experience of the human subject,
more than simply philosophical questions were raised. If it were the
case that inner experience justified the faith, if each person was to
find the proof of God’s existence within their own life, then what would
be the basis for the teaching authority of the Church?" [https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090724_1.htm]
Finally, the great theologian and teacher of Pope John Paul II, Fr.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., wrote about Blondel and why anyone who
was influenced by his teachings, directly or indirectly, would deny
truth, as apparently Francis is influenced according one of his closest
advisor's Scannone:
"One sees the danger of the new definition of
truth, no longer the adequation of intellect and reality
but the conformity of mind and life.™ When Maurice
Blondel in 1906 proposed this substitution, he did not
foresee all of the consequences for the faith. Would he
himself not be terrified, or at least very troubled?
What life" is meant in this definition of: "conformity
of mind and life"? It means human life. And so then,
how can one avoid the modernist definition: "Truth is
no more immutable than man himself inasmuch as it
is evolved with him, in him and through him. (Denz.
2058) One understands why Pius X said of the
modernists: "they pervert the eternal concept of truth. 11
(Denz. 2080) " [https://archive.org/stream/Garrigou-LagrangeEnglish/_Where%20is%20the%20New%20Theology%20Leading%20Us__%20-%20Garrigou-Lagrange%2C%20Reginald%2C%20O.P__djvu.txt]Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He want you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
- Tucker Carlson's Conservatism Inc.
Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever
Written" according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1
- A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
What
is needed right now to save America from those
who would destroy our God given
rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to
outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States
for God
to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use
a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: "Anitfa 'Agent Provocateurs'":
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God's Will and to do it.