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Pope Leo made 3 key appointments

Pope Leo: 3 Key Appointments & Two Huge Errors

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Mainstream and alternative media alike continue to share the narrative that the new Pope, Leo XIV, is going to turn the Church away from its chaotic, Bergoglian-era path and onto a more peaceful pathway. However, as the Pope begins to make his Curial appointments, it is clear that this is just a furphy designed to make the synodal Ape of the Church more palatable for traditionalists.

These three key appointments show that Pope Leo’s agenda is simply a continuation, rather than a break with the pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio. Yet these pale into insignificance compared with the great errors being perpetrated by Leo and which are thankfully starting to be called out by traditionalist commentators: Universalism and Indifferentism.

Appointment #1: a feminist nun

The first unworthy appointment is the new Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Sr. Tiziana Merletti. This Dicastery oversees religious congregations and orders as well as secular institutes, including of course, many priests and brothers.

The feminist-driven International Union of Superiors General sent its official congratulations to Sr. Merletti, noting that she was a member of the Commission for Safeguarding operated jointly by the men’s and women’s unions of superiors. “Her contributions are a gift to our global network, promoting justice, care and integrity in consecrated life,” the statement said.

However, Sr. Merletti is yet to make her opinion known on the despicable case of Marko Rupnik, who has sexually abused dozens of nuns; it would appear that those traumatised women somehow fall outside the remit of the “safeguarding” Commission.

According to its website, the five heads of the Dicastery now include three women – in a direct violation of Scripture and canon law.

Appointment #2: a pro-contraception Prelate

Also in May, Pope Leo appointed Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro as the new President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The position was formerly held by the evil Cardinal Vincenzo Paglia but unfortunately, Paglia’s replacement is little better. As Dr. Thomas Ward, of the National Association of Catholic Families in the UK, noted, there’s no record of Pegoraro “disassociating himself from any of the egregious positions and comments of Archbishop Paglia.”

Pegoraro is in favour of contraception and has made worrying remarks about assisted suicide. He told the Wall Street Journal in 2022 that artificial contraception is admissible “… in the case of a conflict between the need to avoid pregnancy for medical reasons and the preservation of a couple’s sex life.”

Regarding assisted suicide, Pegoraro noted in 2022 that this was a preferable alternative to euthanasia:

“We are in a specific context, with a choice to be made between two options, neither of which — assisted suicide or euthanasia — represents the Catholic position.” However, he stated that, of the two options, “assisted suicide is the one that most restricts abuses because it would be accompanied by four strict conditions: the person asking for help must be conscious and able to express it freely, have an irreversible illness, experience unbearable suffering and depend on life-sustaining treatment such as a respirator.”

Pegoraro and Paglia appointed pro-abortion members to the Academy, including the notorious Mariana Mazzucato. Mazzucato, an atheist, is promoted by the World Economic Forum; the WEF website reveals that “Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.”

Mariana Mazzucato

Pegoraro and Paglia explained their rationale in this way: “In this sense, it is important that the Pontifical Academy for Life include women and men with expertise in various disciplines and from different backgrounds, for a constant and fruitful interdisciplinary, intercultural and interreligious dialogue.”

So while Catholic media continue to claim that by replacing Paglia, Pope Leo is exhibiting signs of orthodoxy, the truth is that the deckchairs are merely being reshuffled and that Paglia, rather than being kicked out was resigning due to his age – a ripe old 80.

Appointment #3 – an anti-Catholic Bishop

One of Pope Leo’s first alarming moves was to appoint a progressive bishop to Saint Gall in Switzerland. Many put that down to his ignorance of the man (unlikely since as Cardinal Prevost, he was in charge of the Dicastery for Bishops) or to the unique relationship between Church and state in Switzerland. (That situation is above my pay-grade.)

But there is a more recent appointment that is also raising alarm bells: Pope Leo has appointed Monsignor Raúl Martín as Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina. Martín is known for banning parishioners from receiving Holy Communion kneeling and on the tongue, for some minor liturgical abuses, and also for his persecution of orthodox priests.

While some say that due to Bergoglio’s activity, there are no decent bishops from whom to select, I can only compare it with the state of affairs here in Australia. While the majority of our prelates are progressive, here and there, some relatively decent ones exist. So it seems highly unlikely that there is absolutely no one else from whom to choose in Argentina.

Leo’s Universalism & Indifferentism

Universalism is the belief that all souls will ultimately be saved, while a related heresy is Indifferentism: the belief that all religions are equal or that all paths lead to heaven. Unfortunately, despite his Latin and lace, Pope Leo is a proponent of both of these errors, which are unsurprisingly, fundamental principles of Freemasonry.

Chris Jackson has done a great job of laying out Pope Leo’s recurring Universalist theme, so I recommend that you read the entire thing at his Substack. Here are a couple of pertinent excerpts:

This phrase, “for all,” was the defining liturgical lie of the Novus Ordo for nearly four decades. It misrepresented the Latin pro multis as a universalist formula, contradicting the teaching of Christ and the explicit theology of the Church. It was corrected under Benedict XVI, who ordered all vernacular translations to finally conform to pro multis: “for many.” But Leo XIV has now restored the deception in the most public and solemn setting possible, consecrating new priests under a cloud of doctrinal subversion.

Chris Jackson, Leo’s “For All”: The Resurrection of a Lie and the March to Universal Salvation

On May 14, Leo XIV gave an address during the Jubilee of Oriental Churches. In it, he approvingly cited Isaac of Nineveh, a seventh-century Nestorian bishop who died outside communion with Rome. Isaac belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East, rejected the Council of Chalcedon, and taught a form of mystical universalism. He has long been associated with the belief that Hell is not eternal, but rather a purgative experience that ultimately leads all souls, including demons, toward healing and reconciliation.

Chris Jackson, Leo’s “For All”: The Resurrection of a Lie and the March to Universal Salvation

One instance of Pope Leo’s promotion of religious indifferentism can be found in his address to participants at a conference on pursuing Catholic-Orthodox unity: he said that “what unites us is greater than what divides.”

Pope Leo said he saw the conference as “an invaluable opportunity to emphasise that, what we have in common is much stronger, quantitatively and qualitatively, than what divides us.”

For a start, there’s a thousand-year schism shows this is patently untrue. And “what divides us” includes the Orthodox rejection of papal authority, not to mention its leniency towards divorce and remarriage and also contraception.

Then compare Leo’s words with those of Pope Pius XII: “They shall also be on guard lest, on the false pretext that more attention should be paid to the points on which we agree than to those on which we differ, a dangerous indifferentism be encouraged…” (On the Ecumenical Movement, 1949.)

It certainly appears that ‘a dangerous indifferentism’ is being encouraged by the current pontiff. Although he has the power to rescind, or at he very least ignore, his predecessor’s indifferentist manifesto, the Abu Dhabi Document, he actually quoted from it in an address to non-Catholic representatives on May 15.

None of this bodes well for the trajectory of the apparent Pax Romana for which Leo is responsible. Rather, it reminds one of the Scripture verse: And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace. (Wisdom 14: 22)

Even Cardinal Pell has swallowed the Lie

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A few days ago, I reported on a new ecumenical initiative that is going ahead with the apparent support of the Vatican and which relies on the conciliar mistruth (heresy) that the three monotheistic religions worship the same God. This is the idea that religions who reject the Trinity and specifically reject the Redeemer, Our Lord Jesus Christ, are on their “own path” to heaven. Is this a parallel path?

Parallel universe is more like it.

This week, in one of his many interviews, Australia’s Cardinal Pell gave his support to the same error. The interview was for the occasion of the Cardinal’s 80th birthday and touched on his time spent in prison for a crime he did not commit. The interviewer asked the Cardinal,

“In your diary, you say that you often listened to the prayers of Muslim detainees from your cell. What did it feel like to pray while listening to those prayers?”

To this, Cardinal Pell answered,

“For me there is only one God, we are monotheists. The theological conceptions of Christians and Muslims are obviously different, but we all pray in different ways to the same God. There is no God of Muslims, Christians or other religions, there is only one God.”

Cardinal Pell to Fabio Colagrande, of Vatican News, June 8, 2021

Forget for a moment that the good Cardinal should not merely give his opinion, and that he has a responsibility to state clearly the doctrine of the Church he represents. That is bad enough. But the comments themselves show a teaching that was entirely new at the time of the Second Vatican Council and which has come to be seen as Magisterial.

While of course it is true that there is only one God – Scripture tells us that all other gods are in fact, demons – the Cardinal is quite wrong in stating that the monotheistic religions worship the same God. He himself seemed to reject that idea in the past. For example, in 2006, the Cardinal pointed out that Catholics, Christians and Muslims do not universally believe that they worship the same God.

He said that “It is difficult to recognise the God of the New Testament in the God of the Koran, and two very different concepts of the human person have emerged from the Christian and Muslim understandings of God.”

Has the Cardinal come to change his position? It certainly would appear so. Has the Pope’s Abu-Dhabi project, that great triumph of Freemasonic indifferentism, influenced the Cardinal so much so he renounces the Church’s consistent teaching on this fundamental truth? I certainly hope this is not the case.

Please note that I do not in any way suggest that the good Cardinal is connected in any way with Freemasonry – other than that he has almost undoubtedly been the victim of its assaults over the years.

I will be most upset – perhaps litigiously so – if anyone accuses me of saying such a thing.

I draw attention to his comments only to show how prevalent religious indifferentism is today, even in conservative circles. This indifferentism has its roots in Freemasonry and has long been one of its goals.

Before the Council, this was the constant teaching of the Church, and the clergy warned of the dangers of religious indifferentism. Ideas like those put forward in the 19th Century by the Freemasonic occultist, Éliphas Lévi, who hoped for a Catholic Church that allowed Jews and Muslims to worship within Her without a renunciation of their own faith, were condemned. The errors were clearly exposed for all the faithful.

Similarly, academics like Hilaire Belloc warned of the heresy implicit in Islam, explaining the movement began as a corruption of Christianity from which Mohammed excised all that is supernatural from and then taught an erroneous, oversimplified doctrine.

Less than a hundred years later, this error was to find itself being promulgated by the Church Herself, in such documents as Lumen Gentium, which states that Muslims and Catholics worship the same God.

Hence a grave error has been sown in the fabric of the Church – a great contradiction that exhibits the hallmarks of a hermeneutic of discontinuity.

As Bishop Schneider remarked when speaking on this topic in his book, Christus Vincit, “We have to call all non-Christians to the one true path to God., which is the Catholic Church. The Apostles and the entire Church taught this for two thousand years. The Church could not err for two thousand years.” (p 97.)

Bishop Schneider is, however, not one to ignore or condemn individual members of other faiths. As he stated in Christus Vincit, he has good relations with Muslims in Kazakhstan and has, at times, joined in efforts with members of the Jewish faith. He is not xenophobic, but neither does he shy away from the truth that someone who rejects the Trinitarian God of Christians does not pray to that God, but to another of their own making.

A brief look at some of the Church Fathers will further illustrate the traditional Catholic view:

St Augustine: “This heresy affirms that all heretics are on the right path and that al teach the truth. This is so monstrous an absurdity that it seems to me to be incredible.”

Pope Pius VII: “By the fact that the indiscriminate freedom of all forms of worship is proclaimed, truth is confused with error, and the Holy and Immaculate Spouse of Christ is placed on the same level as heretical sects…” – Post Tam Diuturnas

Pope Gregory XVI: “…. those who pretend that the way to [eternal] beatitude starts with any religion at all should be afraid and should seriously think over the fact that, according to the testimony of the Saviour Himself, they are against Christ, because they are not for Christ, and that they are miserably scattering because they are not gathering with Him…” – Mirari Vos

It is to be hoped that Cardinal Pell and other conservative, yet sadly quite Modernist, clergymen wake up to the errors that were promulgated by Vatican II and begin to teach the Faith in its entirely and totally in accordance with tradition. Perhaps then, these well-meaning but deluded men will pray with St Celestine:

Pray that the Faith may be granted to infidels, that idolators may be delivered from the errors of impiety, that the light of truth may be visible to Jews….

St Celestine, Council of Ephesus. 431