From
http://www.courageouspriest.com/. This is perhaps one of Fr. Longnecker's better articles:-
"There
are many problems in the Catholic Church that might be thought to be the ‘smoke
of Satan’ entering the church, but for my money one thing, above all others,
has been the successful work of Satan, which has undermined the church,
emasculated her ministry, sabotaged the aims of the Holy Spirit and captured a
multitude of souls.
It is the
modernist re-interpretation of the Catholic faith. The reductionist results of
modern Biblical scholarship and the infiltration of a modernist, rationalistic
and materialistic mindset meant that the supernatural was assumed to be
impossible, and therefore the Bible stories (and also any supernatural elements
of the faith) had to be ‘de-mythologized.’ Everything supernatural within the
Biblical account and within the lives of the saints and within the teaching of
the church were assumed to be impossible and had to be ‘re-interpreted’ so they
would make sense to modern, scientifically minded people.
So the
feeding of the five thousand wasn’t a miracle. Instead the ‘real miracle’ was
that everyone shared their lunch. Everything had to be questioned and
‘re-interpreted’ in such a way that it could be accepted and understood by
modern people. So when we call Jesus Christ “God Incarnate” what we really mean
was that he was so fully human, and that as he reached his potential as a man
that he shows us what divinity looks like. When we speak of the Blessed Virgin
we mean she was ‘a very good and holy Jewish young woman.’ When we speak of the
‘Real Presence’ we mean that we see the ‘Christ that is within each one of us.”
I hate this c**p.
It’s the
smoke of Satan, and it’s
virtually triumphant within the mainstream Protestant churches, and
sadly, the modern Catholic Church in the USA is riddled through with the
same noxious heresy. The reason it is so obnoxious and disgusting is because
priests and clergy of all sorts still use all the traditional language of the
liturgy, the Scriptures and the creeds, but they have changed the meaning of it
altogether. They never actually stand up and say that they have changed the
meaning, and that they no longer believe the faith once delivered to the
saints. They don’t discuss the fact that they have not only changed the
meaning, but robbed it of meaning altogether. Instead they still stand up week
by week and recite the creed as if they think it is true, but what they mean by
‘true’ is totally different from what their people mean.
So Father
Flannel stands up on Easter Day and says, “Alleluia! Today we rejoice in the
glorious resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.” His people think
he really believes that Jesus’ dead body came back to life by the power of God
and that he went on to live forever. In fact what Father Flannel really means
is that “in some way the beautiful teachings of Jesus were remembered and
continued by his followers long after his tragic death.” The people don’t know
why Father Flannel’s Catholic life is so lightweight and limp and they don’t
know why his style is so lacking in substance, and they go on in their muddled
way thinking that he really does believe the Catholic faith when, in fact, he
doesn’t at all.
Priest Has No Message
Consequently,
Fr Flannel doesn’t really have much of a message at all. He doesn’t believe any
of the gospel except as some sort of beautiful story which inspires people to
be nicer to each other. All that is left of his priesthood, therefore, is to be
a nice guy to entertain people with inspirational thoughts and get everyone to
be nicer to one another and try to save the planet.
The poor
faithful have swallowed this stuff for two or three generations now, and they don’t even know what
poison they’re swallowing because the lies are all dressed up in the same
traditional language the church has always used. It’s like someone has put
battery acid into a milk bottle and given it to a baby, and never imagined that
there was anything wrong with doing so–indeed thought it was the best thing for
baby.
The
faithful don’t know why their church has become like a cross between a Joan
Baez concert and a political activism meeting. They don’t understand why they
never hear the need for confession or repentance or hear about old fashioned
terms like ‘the precious blood’ or ‘ the body, blood, soul and divinity of Our
Lord and Savior” The fact of the matter is Father Flannel doesn’t really think
that sort of thing is ‘helpful’.
This is
why evangelization of the American Catholics in the pew is probably the most
difficult task of all. They don’t know what they don’t know. For three
generations now they have been given watered down milk and been told it was
wine. They actually think that Catholic lite is what it’s all about, and are
astounded to think that there are some of us who think that they have actually
been fed a version of Christianity that is scarcely Christianity at all."
From
http://www.courageouspriest.com/. This is perhaps one of Fr. Longnecker's
greatest articles:-
"There
are many problems in the Catholic Church that might be thought to be the ‘smoke
of Satan’ entering the church, but for my money one thing, above all others,
has been the successful work of Satan, which has undermined the church,
emasculated her ministry, sabotaged the aims of the Holy Spirit and captured a
multitude of souls.
It is the
modernist re-interpretation of the Catholic faith. The reductionist results of
modern Biblical scholarship and the infiltration of a modernist, rationalistic
and materialistic mindset meant that the supernatural was assumed to be
impossible, and therefore the Bible stories (and also any supernatural elements
of the faith) had to be ‘de-mythologized.’ Everything supernatural within the
Biblical account and within the lives of the saints and within the teaching of
the church were assumed to be impossible and had to be ‘re-interpreted’ so they
would make sense to modern, scientifically minded people.
So the
feeding of the five thousand wasn’t a miracle. Instead the ‘real miracle’ was
that everyone shared their lunch. Everything had to be questioned and
‘re-interpreted’ in such a way that it could be accepted and understood by
modern people. So when we call Jesus Christ “God Incarnate” what we really mean
was that he was so fully human, and that as he reached his potential as a man
that he shows us what divinity looks like. When we speak of the Blessed Virgin
we mean she was ‘a very good and holy Jewish young woman.’ When we speak of the
‘Real Presence’ we mean that we see the ‘Christ that is within each one of us.”
I hate this ****.
It’s the
smoke of Satan, and it’s
virtually triumphant within the mainstream Protestant churches, and
sadly, the modern Catholic Church in the USA is riddled through with the
same noxious heresy. The reason it is so obnoxious and disgusting is because
priests and clergy of all sorts still use all the traditional language of the
liturgy, the Scriptures and the creeds, but they have changed the meaning of it
altogether. They never actually stand up and say that they have changed the
meaning, and that they no longer believe the faith once delivered to the
saints. They don’t discuss the fact that they have not only changed the
meaning, but robbed it of meaning altogether. Instead they still stand up week
by week and recite the creed as if they think it is true, but what they mean by
‘true’ is totally different from what their people mean.
So Father
Flannel stands up on Easter Day and says, “Alleluia! Today we rejoice in the
glorious resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.” His people think
he really believes that Jesus’ dead body came back to life by the power of God
and that he went on to live forever. In fact what Father Flannel really means
is that “in some way the beautiful teachings of Jesus were remembered and
continued by his followers long after his tragic death.” The people don’t know
why Father Flannel’s Catholic life is so lightweight and limp and they don’t
know why his style is so lacking in substance, and they go on in their muddled
way thinking that he really does believe the Catholic faith when, in fact, he
doesn’t at all.
Priest Has No Message
Consequently,
Fr Flannel doesn’t really have much of a message at all. He doesn’t believe any
of the gospel except as some sort of beautiful story which inspires people to
be nicer to each other. All that is left of his priesthood, therefore, is to be
a nice guy to entertain people with inspirational thoughts and get everyone to
be nicer to one another and try to save the planet.
The poor
faithful have swallowed this stuff for two or three generations now, and they don’t even know what
poison they’re swallowing because the lies are all dressed up in the same
traditional language the church has always used. It’s like someone has put
battery acid into a milk bottle and given it to a baby, and never imagined that
there was anything wrong with doing so–indeed thought it was the best thing for
baby.
The
faithful don’t know why their church has become like a cross between a Joan
Baez concert and a political activism meeting. They don’t understand why they
never hear the need for confession or repentance or hear about old fashioned
terms like ‘the precious blood’ or ‘ the body, blood, soul and divinity of Our
Lord and Savior” The fact of the matter is Father Flannel doesn’t really think
that sort of thing is ‘helpful’.
This is
why evangelization of the American Catholics in the pew is probably the most
difficult task of all. They don’t know what they don’t know. For three
generations now they have been given watered down milk and been told it was
wine. They actually think that Catholic lite is what it’s all about, and are
astounded to think that there are some of us who think that they have actually
been fed a version of Christianity that is scarcely Christianity at all."
From
http://www.courageouspriest.com/. This is perhaps one of Fr. Longnecker's
greatest articles:-
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