How to Destroy a Church in Eight Easy Steps...

These Last Days News - March 24, 2015

How to Destroy a Church in Eight Easy Steps...

"You will continue, My children, to pray for your bishops. It is through misdirection and loss of grace, because of too few prayers, that they now have set themselves into the darkness.
"A church in darkness wears a band of death about it. Remember that, My pastors. A church in darkness shall close its doors! But My Church shall not be extinct or destroyed, for the church of man cannot transcend the spirit." - Jesus, April 17, 1976

Stream.org reported on March 11, 2015:

by John Zmirak

As some of us remember, Catholic bishops were among the leading advocates for Obamacare. (There were also Protestant churches involved in the effort, but let me stick with my specialty.) Conflating the church’s “preferential option for the poor” with one for the federal government, or even “for liberal Democrats, except on social issues,” bishops and their lobbyists worked the phones and Capitol Hill — just as they are doing today on behalf of Obama’s amnesty for immigrants. In both cases, there were financial incentives as well — tens of millions of dollars that would benefit Catholic hospitals, whose indigent clients who would then gain health insurance, and millions in federal contracts granted Catholic agencies that aid illegal immigrants. Of course, where there are incentives, there are potential penalties.

We know how Obamacare worked out for the bishops: With astonishing bravado, their “social-justice” allies stabbed the bishops in the back, imposing the HHS mandate that requires coverage for contraceptives and abortifacients — on the pain of crippling fines affecting every Catholic institution from Notre Dame to the Little Sisters of the Poor. It turns out that the loss of liberty can harm everyone, even clergy.

Now the daggers are out on the immigration issue. The Obama administration didn’t even wait for the courts to unfreeze its unconstitutional power-grab over amnesty before it rubbed the bishops’ noses in their mess of pottage: New regulations will require any social service agency, including religious ones, to steer its “refugee” clients toward abortionists and the abortion pill. At stake is millions of dollars in federal money. Such agencies must also “train their staff in ‘LGBTQI’ and to identify ‘transgender and intersex’ unaccompanied minors.”

Again, as with Obamacare, the church faces a choice between retreating from part of its mission, or abandoning fundamental Christian moral principles. It is unclear how the bishops will choose.

But how did they dig themselves into such a hole in the first place? How will they, inevitably, dig the next such hole and then the hole after that? I have analyzed both issues, and come up with an eight-step process for destroying a church’s witness.

Distort your church’s doctrine, by pretending that it clearly supports just one side and one solution in a complex political issue that balances the interests and rights of millions of citizens. Instead, side unconditionally and unthinkingly with . . .

A particular “victim” group that includes millions of voters, potential church members, or potential clients that can serve as magnets for federal money. Insist that the government help this group by . . .

Growing the government and taxing the middle class, while also . . .

Directing federal funds to church agencies or institutions. Now instead of performing the “corporal works of mercy” as Christians, they are simply working for pay as federal contractors. This has the added benefit that it will . . .

Make the churches partly dependent on the whims of the federal government, whose bureaucrats and leaders are firmly opposed to Christian moral teachings on the sanctity of life and of marriage. Soon these secular leftists will . . .

Impose laws and regulations that would force the church to abandon core moral principles. At this point church leaders will . . .

Whimper, and flail around, pretending that the First Amendment protects their right to spend federal money however they wish, regardless of the federal government’s preferences. After this, look for . . .

One of three results:

a) Church officials and agencies cave completely, and do not even pretend to put up resistance. This happened when the Obama administration decreed that Catholic agencies receiving federal money had to hire gay and “transgender” employees.

b) Church officials and agencies find a loophole through which they can fulfill the letter of church law, while flouting its spirit — for instance, through the HHS “compromise” accepted by the Catholic Health Association, which created a formal “buffer” between Catholic employers and the abortifacients they were effectively paying for.

c) The Church stands up prophetically against the real evils (#6 above) that would be required to obtain federal money (#4 above), and renounces the distortions of doctrine (#1 above) that dug them this hole in the first place.

I wish I had a news link to illustrate option 8c in action.

For such a prophetic witness to actually happen, churchmen would have to admit that it is not Christian to farm out the works of the Gospel to the government, to pretend that mercy is justice and use the state as a bully stick for dubious schemes of economic and social engineering. They would have to buy back their freedom of conscience by spurning millions of dollars, and ask their congregations to give from the heart in order to serve the poor and the vulnerable in an honest Christian spirit. They would have to run Catholic agencies along the lines of crisis pregnancy centers — those embattled and underfunded places that really do fight on the front lines against injustice, staffed by volunteers and fed by private charity. You know, like St. Benedict’s monasteries, St. Vincent de Paul’s soup kitchens, and all those parochial schools which we Catholics built in the teeth of an openly hostile government.

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"When one becomes blind of spirit, you walk then in darkness. A house and a church in darkness, My children, wears a band of death about it! A church that falls into heresy and continued error will close its doors.
"I have asked you, My suffering little children, to remain in your parish churches. Pray and be an example. Do not abandon My Son's Houses in your district. For while the doors are open--and My Son is the door though thieves have entered, and robbers--My Son is the door, and if you come through that door you will be received with the light." - Our Lady of the Roses, July 15, 1978

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THE GREAT APOSTASY
"Do not accept the fallacy that any man upon earth and mankind are gods. There is but one God. And no man shall set himself above his Master. O My children, cannot you recognize the signs of your times? The great apostasy is upon you!" - Our Lady, December 7, 1976

USING RANK TO DESTROY
"Those who have the highest places in My Son's Church are now using their rank to destroy the truth. You cannot build on the carnal nature of mankind, the fallen nature of mankind.
     "You must now, My children, read the direction given you by Saint John. He was given the prophecy of your times. You are in those days, My children, the days of apostasy." - Our Lady, October 6, 1975

THE SWORD
"Mankind shall feel a sword upon his world. The Eternal Father has endured your apostasy, your arrogance, your heresy much too long! As an errant and ungrateful generation given to sin and abominations of the flesh, you shall be forced to your knees by trial." - St. Michael, July 15, 1975

TRAITORS
O ye of little faith, pride and arrogance in worldly knowledge! But you have closed the door to My sheep! Scattered them, become traitors to the Seat of Peter! I say unto you: You cannot understand, with all of your knowledge and your pride, the ways of the Eternal Father! There is a plan for each and every one of you in Heaven. You shall receive a just punishment for your arrogance, your apostasy, and your destruction of souls." - Jesus, October 6, 1978

UNHOLINESS, PAGANISM, IMPURITY
"For I say unto you now, all bishops and cardinals, all that is rotten will fall. You consort with the enemies of your God for money and power, and they are waiting to pick your bones clean. You will not bring about a conversion of those who are presently apostate by compromising your Faith or changing the construction of the exterior lines of My Church; and by that I mean the physical appearance and the manner in which you conduct the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
     "Many are giving My Body in a manner that can only be called blasphemy. Many are accepting My Body in the Eucharist in a manner that defames the Divinity, and also promotes unholiness, paganism, and impurity of heart and actions during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass." - Jesus, May 26, 1979

TURNED AWAY
"Parents, protect your homes and your children. Give them a firm foundation of faith, for there will be many tears and gnashing of teeth in woe set upon the world by the agents of hell. Many catastrophes of nature, accidents that are not accidents, murders, robberies, fornication, immorality, and apostasy. These, My children, are the fruits of a generation that has turned away from their God." - Jesus, June 10, 1978

MUCH DISCORD
"Do you understand Me, My children? I ask you not to abandon My Son's Church in the crisis of Faith* now, but to keep the Bark of Peter afloat. I ask you not to remain silent when you meet with wrongdoing, but to speak out and act to correct a situation that is offensive to your God and destructive to your soul." - Our Lady, November 20, 1979

* "We are at a moment of a crisis of the Faith, a crisis which has repercussions indeed on other domains, on our whole religious, moral and social life." (Pope Paul VI, Discourse of June 29, 1971, Documentation catholique, 1971, col. 706).

STAY AND FIGHT
"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil. Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church. Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy. Many prayers are needed, for many are on, now, the road to perdition and taking many others with them.
     "My children, do not cast aside your sacramentals. They are your armor in the days ahead. Do not desert My Church. Do not ignore it by the man who has stood there in ignorance or in pride and changed it until it will almost be unrecognizable. I am still with you, My children. Do not leave. You must stay and fight. In this manner, My children, shall the sheep be separated from the goats. It is a form of cleansing." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

THE HIGHEST PLACES
"Go forward, My child, now, and bring this message to the world: satan has entered into the House of God. He rules now from the highest places. The world and the Church of God is in deep darkness. Those who are in command—many have fallen away. Pray, My children, much, for with your prayers and sacrifices they, too, can be recovered." - Our Lady, April 13, 1974

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Cardinal Oddi on the REAL Third Secret of Fatima: "The Blessed Virgin was alerting us against the apostasy in the Church"
http://www.tldm.org/news7/ThirdSecretCardinalOddi.htm

Fr. Alonso, official archivist of Fatima: The REAL Third Secret of Fatima warned of apostasy in the Church
http://www.tldm.org/news7/ThirdSecretFatherAlonso.htm

Sister Lucy talked about the "diabolical disorientation" in the Church as 1972 approached
http://www.tldm.org/news5/1972.htm

Turn back: you are on the wrong road
http://www.tldm.org/directives/d193.htm

Statistical decline of the Catholic Church since Vatican II
http://www.tldm.org/news6/statistics.htm

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