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As a convert from Evangelical Protestantism, one of the things I treasure most about the Catholic Church is the authority of her Magisterium. The Second Vatican Council teaches in Lumen Gentium 25 “Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff… are to be respected as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth… and the faithful are to adhere to their teaching with religious submission of mind and will.” I accept the documents of Vatican II with that religious submission of mind and will. But the same passage makes something very clear. Individual bishops do not enjoy the prerogative of infallibility every time they issue a statement. Catholics are bound to the Magisterium of the Church, not to every memo or public accusation from a particular bishop. This matters because Bishop Bambera @BishopBambera has now decided to get involved in something he obviously didn’t watch or listen to. He misrepresents what I actually said. At the hearing I raised a straightforward question about free speech and modern definitions of antisemitism. According to the IHRA definition of antisemitism this is included: Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis Could one of the IHRA definitions be used to label parts of the New Testament itself as antisemitic? For example, St. Paul writes: “The Jews who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets…” - 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15 That is Sacred Scripture. Quoting the Bible is not antisemitism. Even Nostra Aetate states:“True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ.” The same document also teaches that this guilt cannot be charged against all Jews then alive or against Jews today. I accept that teaching fully, but it doesn’t take away from the historical fact of the Jews at the time who sentenced our Lord to death. Now here is the part of Bishop Bambera’s letter that makes this even more remarkable. He writes: “Catholics can appreciate the religious attachment that the Jewish people have to the land of Israel, but interpret the re-emergence in 1948 of a Jewish state in a historical rather than theological context.” That is precisely the point I made at the hearing. The Catholic Church does not teach that the modern State of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy. This is exactly what I said at stage at the hearing. The Holy See consistently interprets 1948 historically and politically, not theologically. In other words, the bishop’s own citation confirms the point he accused me of making improperly. Catholic doctrine is clear: The promises made to Abraham reach their fulfillment in Jesus Christ and the New Covenant. St. Paul writes: “The promises were made to Abraham… and to his offspring… and that offspring is Christ.” -Galatians 3:16 @BishopBambera You write this letter behind my back to the bishops and say “If God’s covenant with the Jewish people has not been revoked, what, then, of God’s promises to Abraham concerning, not only descendants, but land?” Are you following the post Vatican II like Pope Saint John Paul II? In Redemptoris Mater: According to Gal 4:4 and its context, “it is the coming of the Son of God that reveals that time has, so to speak, reached its limit. That is to say, the period marked by the promise made to Abraham and by the Law mediated by Moses has now reached its climax, in the sense that Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes the old law." So my question is, Your Excellency, are you following the Catholic magisterium? And would @Pontifex affirm the interpretation you are presenting to the bishops? 🧵⬇️

FR. RIPPERGER ON THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH A little over halfway through his appearance on @ShawnRyanShow, Fr. Chad Ripperger mentioned how demons have revealed during exorcism sessions “the very specific rituals and crimes that people in the hierarchy have committed.” In other words, they have revealed “the full complexion of what’s going on in the Church and the fact that it’s authority structure has been spiritually compromised,” i.e., infiltrated by wolves in sheep’s clothing (cf. Matt. 7:15). He also alluded to @rachelmastro85’s book, The Devil in Rome, which was released last December: liberchristo.org/liber-christo-… After they had moved on to a different topic, @ShawnRyan762 circled back to “the hierarchy and the occult within the Church.” He asked Fr. Ripperger, “Is there anything else you want people to know about that?” In response, Fr. Ripperger emphasized the need to “pray for the Church’s protection and pray so that God will give us holy leaders, a holy magisterium — we need to pray for it.” “The second component is, you get the leaders you deserve,” he said, noting that “a vast majority of the Catholics in the Church are leading habitual lives of grave sin, and they’ve got to stop it, because until we stop that, we can’t expect this to get cleaned up.” Source: youtube.com/watch?v=I2p_cf… On this sobering point, Fr. Ripperger is merely repeating what St. John Eudes (d. 1680) famously wrote in his book, The Priest: His Dignity and Obligations (pp. 9-10): liberius.net/livres/The_Pri… “The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds. Instead of nourishing those committed to their care, they rend and devour them brutally. Instead of leading their people to God, they drag Christian souls into hell in their train. Instead of being the salt of the earth and the light of the world, they are its innocuous poison and its murky darkness. … “When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people, and is visiting His most dreadful anger upon them. That is why He cries unceasingly to Christians, ‘Return, O ye revolting children…And I will give you pastors according to My own Heart’ (Jer. 3:14-15). Thus, irregularities in the lives of priests constitute a scourge visited upon the people in consequence of sin.” The truth sometimes hurts, but Lent is the perfect time to face the reality of sin and its devastating consequences. Now, this doesn’t mean that God positively wills the corruption which bad priests, bishops, and popes have wrought in His Church (He “permits” it, as St. John Eudes says); nor does it imply that the faithful are responsible for the individual sins and crimes of the clergy. What it does mean is that our personal striving for sanctity — or lack thereof — has a real effect, for better or worse, on the overall spiritual health of the Mystical Body of Christ. The best thing the average Catholic can do for the Church, then, is to take his own spiritual life seriously, strive for sanctity, and help others to do likewise, beginning in our own families. In due time, this will produce the good “fruit of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22) in our own hearts and lives, which in turn will contribute to “the edifying of the body of Christ…in charity” (Eph. 4:12, 16).

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FR. RIPPERGER ON THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH A little over halfway through his appearance on @ShawnRyanShow, Fr. Chad Ripperger mentioned how demons have revealed during exorcism sessions “the very specific rituals and crimes that people in the hierarchy have committed.” In other words, they have revealed “the full complexion of what’s going on in the Church and the fact that it’s authority structure has been spiritually compromised,” i.e., infiltrated by wolves in sheep’s clothing (cf. Matt. 7:15). He also alluded to @rachelmastro85’s book, The Devil in Rome, which was released last December: liberchristo.org/liber-christo-… After they had moved on to a different topic, @ShawnRyan762 circled back to “the hierarchy and the occult within the Church.” He asked Fr. Ripperger, “Is there anything else you want people to know about that?” In response, Fr. Ripperger emphasized the need to “pray for the Church’s protection and pray so that God will give us holy leaders, a holy magisterium — we need to pray for it.” “The second component is, you get the leaders you deserve,” he said, noting that “a vast majority of the Catholics in the Church are leading habitual lives of grave sin, and they’ve got to stop it, because until we stop that, we can’t expect this to get cleaned up.” Source: youtube.com/watch?v=I2p_cf… On this sobering point, Fr. Ripperger is merely repeating what St. John Eudes (d. 1680) famously wrote in his book, The Priest: His Dignity and Obligations (pp. 9-10): liberius.net/livres/The_Pri… “The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds. Instead of nourishing those committed to their care, they rend and devour them brutally. Instead of leading their people to God, they drag Christian souls into hell in their train. Instead of being the salt of the earth and the light of the world, they are its innocuous poison and its murky darkness. … “When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people, and is visiting His most dreadful anger upon them. That is why He cries unceasingly to Christians, ‘Return, O ye revolting children…And I will give you pastors according to My own Heart’ (Jer. 3:14-15). Thus, irregularities in the lives of priests constitute a scourge visited upon the people in consequence of sin.” The truth sometimes hurts, but Lent is the perfect time to face the reality of sin and its devastating consequences. Now, this doesn’t mean that God positively wills the corruption which bad priests, bishops, and popes have wrought in His Church (He “permits” it, as St. John Eudes says); nor does it imply that the faithful are responsible for the individual sins and crimes of the clergy. What it does mean is that our personal striving for sanctity — or lack thereof — has a real effect, for better or worse, on the overall spiritual health of the Mystical Body of Christ. The best thing the average Catholic can do for the Church, then, is to take his own spiritual life seriously, strive for sanctity, and help others to do likewise, beginning in our own families. In due time, this will produce the good “fruit of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22) in our own hearts and lives, which in turn will contribute to “the edifying of the body of Christ…in charity” (Eph. 4:12, 16).

Catholics are called to reject antisemitism and the lies and conspiracies that fuel it, and to stand clearly against hatred and violence directed toward our Jewish brothers and sisters. To defend religious freedom with integrity, we must also reject antisemitism. @ArchbishpSample @archdpdx Watch the full video at: ow.ly/sYF550Yw6cA

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