Pope and progressives subvert Catholic traditions Editor: Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland stated that he is being removed from his office because he “threatened some of the powers that be with the truth of the gospel.” We know from reports that factions in Rome led by Pope Francis want the gos- pel changed and ignored – the truth that is gloriously not going to go away. The truth that is Jesus Christ, his mystical body, which is the Church, all the wonders that the martyrs died for and the saints lived for through almost 2,000 years since Christ died and rose. According to LifeSiteNews, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the pope’s U.S. apostolic nuncio, earlier confronted Strickland and said he needed to stop talking about the deposit of faith, and that there is no deposit of faith. Catholic teaching is the deposit of faith carried down through the centuries from Jesus’ teaching through the apostles and church fathers. It is shocking this pope wants to change the deposit of faith to suit progressive ideology. Traditionally, if you don’t believe in the deposit of faith, you’re not Catholic. Deposit of faith is what the church has always taught. The Scriptures tell us that Jesus Christ is the face of truth. Truth does not change from when he died on the cross and rose for us. He is the same Lord; he is the way, the truth and the life. Those who want to change or contradict the word of God will not prevail, according to church teaching. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former U.S. apostolic nuncio, said, “This affair will reveal who stands with the true Church of Christ and who chooses to stand with his declared enemies. To remain silent… is to make oneself complicit with a subverter.” The declared enemies of Jesus and his faithful are progressives, now including clergy. Jerry Notaro Kelayres. (Includes a photo of Pope Francis.)
Thoughts on the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper. Oh yes I have thoughts. Chloe Humbert Oct 17, 2024 The letter author quoted Carlo Maria Viganò – the archbishop who was excommunicated by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church a few months later. I think people are perfectly within their rights to have and express publicly their thoughts of sedevacantism or to criticize the Pope. The issue I had with it was that it linked this criticism more broadly to a specific political group (and clergy) as a “declared enemy” – specifically stating that “progressive ideology” means that certain people aren’t “real Catholics” (including clergy), and are in fact “declared enemies of Jesus and his faithful”. The headline may have been by the letter author but most headlines for my LTEs were written by the opinion page editor, and the headline for this LTE was: “Pope and progressives subvert Catholic traditions.” Calling people “subversives” has been used historically in the U.S. in McCarthyism, to name enemies to blacklist or persecute, and McCarthyism is a direct precursor to Trumpism, Rachel Maddow’s podcast Ultra maps that out in very well researched detail. This is quite clearly the type of language known to incite stochastic violence by people who believe themselves to be vigilantes.