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To
Protect The Faith
"We ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, not to be shaken out of your minds
suddenly, or to be alarmed either by a "spirit," or by an oral statement,
or by a letter allegedly from us to the effect that the day of the Lord is at
hand. Let no one deceive you in any way. For unless
the apostasy comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one doomed to perdition, who
opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so
as to seat himself in the temple of God, claiming that he is a god-- do you not
recall that while I was still with you I told you these things? " (2 Thes
2:1-5)
In the passage above St.
Paul tells us to be "on watch" for the Great Apostasy i.e. the great
falling away from the Faith. Further he tells us that such apostasy will
precede the second coming of Our Lord. We have heard this echoed from seers and
prophets since his time --- in both prophecy approved as worthy of belief and
prophecy yet-to-be approved as such.
We submit this writing not
to generally criticize or chastise any one or any group. We submit this writing
to remind the readers of the forthcoming Great
Apostasy and Great Schism, and to alert them to certain key elements
of Canon Law of the Catholic Church.
For it was St. Paul who
said also: "Brothers I beg you to be on watch
against those who cause dissension and scandal, contrary to the teaching you
have received. Avoid their company. Such men serve, not Christ Our Lord, but
their own bellies, and they deceive the simpleminded with their smooth and
flattering speech…I want you to be wise...Then the God of peace will quickly
crush Satan under your feet." (Rom 16:17-20).
Furthermore, in his first
letter to Timothy, St. Paul said: "Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by
paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the
hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences." (1 Tm 4:1-2)
Then in his second letter
to Timothy, he said: "I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ
Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his
kingly power: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or
inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound
doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will
accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted
to myths. But you, be self-possessed in
all circumstances; put up with hardship; perform the work of an evangelist;
fulfill your ministry." (2 Tm 4:1-5)
In the Diadache it is
written: " Watch for your life's
sake. Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ready, for you know not the hour in which our Lord will
come. But come together often, seeking the things which are befitting to your
souls: for the whole time of your faith will not
profit you, if you are not made perfect in the last time."
Shortly before he was
elected Pope, Pope
John Paul II stated: "We are now standing in
the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I
do not think that the wide circles of the American society, or the wide circles
of the Christian community, realize this fully. We
are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church,
of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel." (Notable & Quotable, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla (who became Pope John Paul II), Wall Street
Journal, Nov. 9, 1978.)
This writing is designed
as follows:
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Introduction |
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Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio AD TUENDAM FIDEM |
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Excerpt of the Second Letter of St. Peter |
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Excerpt of the Approved Prophecy of Our Lady of Akita |
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Excerpt of Message #486 of Our Lady through Fr. Stefano Gobbi - Imprimaturs (yet-to-be-approved) |
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church: A Summary of the True Faith |
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Acknowledgments and Linked URL's. |
NOTE TO THE READER:
Canon law is the body of
laws and regulations made by, or adopted by, ecclesiastical authority, for the
government of the Catholic Church and its members.
When reading AD TUENDAM
FIDEM pay particular attention to whom the Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio is "especially" addressed to. Once again,
we do not criticize, but merely point out the Holy Father's particular concern,
that you too may be watchful and not lead astray.
The following is H. H. John Paul II's Apostolic
Letter Motu Proprio in its entirety:
JOHN PAUL II
Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio
AD TUENDAM FIDEM,
by which certain norms are inserted
into the Code of Canon Law
and into the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
TO PROTECT THE FAITH of the Catholic Church against errors arising from certain members
of the Christian faithful, .especially from among those dedicated to the various disciplines of
sacred theology,.
we, whose principal duty is to confirm the brethren in the faith (Lk
22:32), consider it absolutely necessary to add to the existing texts of the Code
of Canon Law and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, new
norms which expressly impose the obligation of upholding truths proposed in a
definitive way by the Magisterium of the Church, and which also establish
related canonical sanctions.
1.From
the first centuries to the present day, the Church has professed the truths of
her faith in Christ and the mystery of his redemption. These truths were
subsequently gathered into the Symbols of the faith, today known and proclaimed
in common by the faithful in the solemn and festive celebration of Mass as the
Apostles’ Creed or the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.
This
same Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed is contained in the Profession
of faith developed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,(1) which must be made by specific members of the faithful
when they receive an office, that is directly or indirectly related to deeper
investigation into the truths of faith and morals, or is united to a particular
power in the governance of the Church.(2)
2. The Profession of faith, which
appropriately begins with the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, contains
three propositions or paragraphs intended to describe the truths of the
Catholic faith, which the Church, in the course of time and under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit "who will teach the whole truth" (Jn
16:13), has ever more deeply explored and will continue to explore.(3)
The
first paragraph states: "With firm faith, I also
believe everything contained in the word of God, whether written or handed down
in Tradition, which the Church either by a solemn judgment or by the
ordinary and universal Magisterium sets forth to be believed as divinely
revealed."(4) This paragraph appropriately confirms and is provided for in
the Church’s universal legislation, in canon 750 of the Code of Canon Law(5)
and canon 598 of the Code of the Canons of the Eastern Churches.(6)
The
third paragraph states: "Moreover I adhere with
submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman Pontiff or the
College of Bishops enunciate when they exercise their authentic Magisterium,
even if they do not intend to proclaim these teachings by a definitive
act."(7) This paragraph has its corresponding legislative expression in
canon 752 of the Code of Canon Law(8) and canon 599 of the Code of
Canons of the Eastern Churches.(9)
3. The second paragraph, however, which
states "I also firmly accept and hold each and
everything definitively proposed by the Church regarding teaching on faith and
morals," (10) has no corresponding
canon in the Codes of the Catholic Church. This second paragraph of the Profession
of faith is of utmost importance since it refers to truths that are
necessarily connected to divine revelation. These truths, in the investigation
of Catholic doctrine, illustrate the Divine Spirit’s particular inspiration for
the Church’s deeper understanding of a truth concerning faith and morals, with
which they are connected either for historical reasons or by a logical
relationship.
4. Moved therefore by this need, and after
careful deliberation, we have decided to overcome this lacuna in the universal
law in the following way:
A)
Canon 750 of the Code of Canon Law will now consist of two paragraphs;
the first will present the text of the existing canon; the second will contain
a
new text. Thus, canon 750, in its complete form, will read:
Canon
750 – § 1. Those things are to be believed by divine
and catholic faith which are contained in the word of God as it has been
written or handed down by tradition, that is, in the single deposit of faith
entrusted to the Church, and which are at the same time proposed as divinely
revealed either by the solemn Magisterium of the Church, or by its ordinary and
universal Magisterium, which in fact is manifested by the common adherence of
Christ’s faithful under the guidance of the sacred Magisterium. All are therefore bound to
avoid any contrary doctrines..
§ 2. Furthermore, each and everything set forth definitively by the
Magisterium of the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals must be firmly
accepted and held; namely, those things required for the holy keeping and
faithful exposition of the deposit of faith; therefore, .anyone who rejects propositions
which are to be held definitively sets himself against the teaching of the
Catholic Church..
Canon
1371, n. 1 of the Code of Canon Law, consequently, will receive an
appropriate reference to canon 750 § 2, so that it will now read:
Canon
1371 – The following are to be punished with a just
penalty:
1° a person who, apart from the case mentioned in canon 1364 § 1,
teaches a doctrine condemned by the Roman Pontiff, or by an Ecumenical Council,
or obstinately rejects the teachings mentioned in canon 750 § 2 or in canon 752
and, when warned by the Apostolic See or by the Ordinary, does not retract;
2° a person who in any other way does not obey the lawful command
or prohibition of the Apostolic See or the Ordinary or Superior and, after
being warned, persists in disobedience.
B)
Canon 598 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches will now have
two paragraphs: the first will present the text of the existing canon and the
second will contain a new text. Thus canon 598, in its complete form, will read
as follows:
Canon
598 – § 1. Those things are to be believed by divine
and catholic faith which are contained in the word of God as it has been
written or handed down by tradition, that is, in the single deposit of faith
entrusted to the Church, and which are at the same time proposed as divinely
revealed either by the solemn Magisterium of the Church, or by its ordinary and
universal Magisterium, which in fact is manifested by the common adherence of
Christ’s faithful under the guidance of the sacred Magisterium. .All Christian faithful are
therefore bound to avoid any contrary doctrines..
§ 2. Furthermore, each and everything set forth definitively by the
Magisterium of the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals must be firmly
accepted and held; namely, those things required for the holy keeping and
faithful exposition of the deposit of faith; therefore, anyone who rejects propositions which are to be held definitively sets
himself against the teaching of the Catholic Church.
Canon
1436 § 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, consequently,
will receive an appropriate reference to canon 598 § 2, so that it will now
read:
Canon
1436 – § 1. .Whoever denies a truth
which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or who calls into doubt,
or who totally repudiates the Christian faith, and does not retract after
having been legitimately warned, is to be punished as a heretic or an apostate with a major
excommunication; a cleric moreover can be punished with other penalties, not
excluding deposition..
§ 2. In addition to these cases, whoever obstinately rejects a teaching that the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops,
exercising the authentic Magisterium, have set forth to be held definitively,
or who affirms what they have condemned as erroneous, and does not retract
after having been legitimately warned, is to be punished
with an appropriate penalty.
5. We order that everything decreed by us
in this Apostolic Letter, given motu proprio, be established and ratified, and we prescribe
that the insertions listed above be introduced into the universal legislation
of the Catholic Church, that is, into the Code of Canon Law and into the
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, all things to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Given in Rome, at St Peter’s, on 28 May, in the year 1998, the
twentieth of our Pontificate.
(1)
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Profession of Faith and Oath of
Fidelity, (9 January 1989): AAS 81 (1989), 105.
(2)
Cf. Code of Canon Law, Canon 833.
(3)
Cf. Code of Canon Law, Canon 747 § 1; Code of Canons of the Eastern
Churches, Canon 595 § 1.
(4) Cf.
SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen
Gentium, 25; Dogmatic Constitution on Divine
Revelation Dei Verbum, 5; CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH,
Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian Donum
veritatis (24 May 1990), 15: AAS 82
(1990), 1556.
(5) Code
of Canon Law, Canon 750 – Those things are to be believed by divine and
catholic faith which are contained in the word of God as it has been written or
handed down by tradition, that is, in the single deposit of faith entrusted to
the Church, and which are at the same time proposed as divinely revealed either
by the solemn Magisterium of the Church, or by its ordinary and universal
Magisterium, which in fact is manifested by the common adherence of Christ’s
faithful under the guidance of the sacred Magisterium. All are therefore bound
to avoid any contrary doctrines.
(6) Code
of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Canon 598 – Those things are to be
believed by divine and catholic faith which are contained in the word of God as
it has been written or handed down by tradition, that is, in the single deposit
of faith entrusted to the Church, and which are at the same time proposed as
divinely revealed either by the solemn Magisterium of the Church, or by its
ordinary and universal Magisterium, which in fact is manifested by the common
adherence of Christ’s faithful under the guidance of the sacred Magisterium.
All Christian faithful are therefore bound to avoid any contrary doctrines.
(7) Cf.
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on the Ecclesial
Vocation of the Theologian Donum veritatis (24 May 1990), 17: AAS 82 (1990),
1557.
(8) Code
of Canon Law, Canon 752 – While the assent of faith is not required, a
religious submission of intellect and will is to be given to any doctrine which
either the Supreme Pontiff or the College of Bishops, exercising their
authentic Magisterium, declare upon a matter of faith and morals, even though
they do not intend to proclaim that doctrine by definitive act. Christ’s
faithful are therefore to ensure that they avoid whatever does not accord with
that doctrine.
(9) Code
of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Canon 599 – While the assent of faith is
not required, a religious submission of intellect and will is to be given to
any doctrine which either the Supreme Pontiff or the College of Bishops,
exercising their authentic Magisterium, declare upon a matter of faith and morals,
even though they do not intend to proclaim that doctrine by definitive act.
Christ’s faithful are therefore to ensure that they avoid whatever does not
accord with that doctrine.
(10) Cf.
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Instruction on the Ecclesial
Vocation of the Theologian Donum veritatis
(24 May 1990), 16: AAS 82 (1990), 1557.
End of Apostolic
Letter Motu Proprio, AD TUENDAM
FIDEM.
….Note: It reads that ALL
are bound to the true Faith; and ANYONE who contradicts established Catholic doctrine, from the Pope on down, is to be
punished as a heretic or an apostate with excommunication...
The Second Letter of St. Peter :
There
were also false prophets among the people, just as there
will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies and
even deny the Master who ransomed them, bringing swift destruction on
themselves. Many will follow their licentious ways, and because of them the way
of truth will be reviled. In their greed they will
exploit you with fabrications…
…the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial
and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment and
especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship…Their
eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people,
and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children! Abandoning the
straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing…but he received a
rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained
the prophet's madness.
These
people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of
darkness has been reserved. For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have
barely escaped from people who live in error. They
promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption,
for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him. For if they, having escaped
the defilements of the world through the knowledge of (our) Lord and savior
Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition
is worse than their first. For it would have been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy
commandment handed down to them. What is expressed in the true proverb has
happened to them, "The dog returns to its own vomit," and "A
bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire." (2 Pt 2:1-22)
Prophecy
of Our Lady of Akita - Approved by the Church (Excerpt only):
"The
work of the devil will infiltrate even the Church in such a way that one will
see cardinals opposing cardinals,
bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres…churches
and altars sacked, the Church will be full of those who
accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated
souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon will be especially implacable
against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is
the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be
no longer pardon for them." (Our Lady of Akita,
October 13, 1973, approved by the Church as worth of belief.)
Prophecy
of Our Lady Through Fr. Gobbi - IMPRIMATURS (Excerpt
only):
"…The great trial has come for
the Church, so violated by the evil
spirits, so divided in its unity, so darkened in its
holiness. See how error has flooded throughout it, error which leads to the loss
of the true faith. Apostasy is spreading everywhere.
.A special gift of my
Immaculate Heart for these times of yours is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which my Pope has
wished to promulgate, to be as it were his shining last testament. But how many
are those pastors who grope about in the mist, become speechless out of fear or
compromise, and who no longer defend their flocks from the many rapacious
wolves!
Many priestly and consecrated lives have become dried up by
impurity, seduced by pleasures and the search for comfort and well-being. The
faithful are being drawn in by the enticements of a world which has become
pagan, or by the countless sects which are spreading more and more.
The hour of its great trial has above all come for the Church,
because it will be shaken by the lack of faith, obscured by apostasy, wounded
by betrayal, abandoned by its children, divided by schisms, possessed and
dominated by Freemasonry, turned into fertile soil from which will spring up
the wicked tree of the man of iniquity, the Antichrist, who will bring his
kingdom into its interior…" (Message #486 from Our Lady to Fr. Gobbi).
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church: A Summary of the True Faith
In October 1992, H.H. Pope John Paul II issued his Apostolic Constitution
FIDEI
DEPOSITUM On
the Publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church Prepared Following the Second
Vatican Ecumenical Council.
Therein
he stated the following under the heading: 'Doctrinal Value of the Text':
"The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I approved
25 June last and the publication of which I today order by virtue of my
Apostolic Authority, is a
statement of the Church's faith and of Catholic doctrine, attested to or
illumined by Sacred Scripture, Apostolic Tradition and the Church's
Magisterium. I declare it to be a valid
and legitimate instrument for ecclesial communion and a sure norm for teaching
the faith. May it serve the renewal to which the Holy Spirit ceaselessly calls
the
"…This
catechism is given to them that it may be a sure and authentic reference text
for teaching catholic doctrine…"
Vatican Council I, in 1870, acting under the protection which Jesus
Christ Himself promised to the teaching of the successors of the Apostles,
taught, "We teach and define that it is a divinely revealed dogma that the Roman Pontiff, when
he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when functioning as the pastor and
teacher of all Christians, by his supreme Apostolic authority he defines a
doctrine on faith or morals to be held by the whole Church, through the divine
assistance promised him in blessed Peter, enjoys that infallibility with which
the divine Redeemer willed His Church should be equipped in defining a doctrine
of faith or morals, and .so, that such definitions of
the Roman Pontiff are irreformable, of themselves, and not from
the consent of the Church. If anyone-which may God
forbid-dares to contradict this our definition, let him be anathema."
Vatican II reaffirmed this teaching, "His definitions of themselves, and not from the consent of
the Church, are rightly called irreformable, for they are pronounced under the assistance of the Holy
Spirit promised to him in blessed Peter, and so they need no approval of
others, nor do they allow an appeal to any other judgment.".
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Thus we have the doctrine of the
Catholic Faith summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and such doctrine can NOT be changed or reformed…not by a Church Council, not even by a
Pope or Ex-Pope. This is key, as the Apostates
of the End Times including the Antipope,
will attempt to do just that.
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Ben J. Verdina, May 2005 (edited August, 2016) |
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orthodoxy goes with it;
but peace I reject if it is unrighteous and heterodox."
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Father of the
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