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Rome’s Understanding of ‘Christian Unity’ Since Vatican II Is Wrong and Dangerous to Souls...

"My child and My children, you are all My children.  I judge you not by color or race, and I do not judge you by your creed; however, should the knowledge of the One True Church be given to you, and the way to Heaven along the narrow road be given to you, you will follow it or you will be rejected." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985

ECUMENISM
"My Son, His heart is torn asunder by His representatives in the priesthood who now are Judases in His own House. They consort with the enemies of your God. In the manner of humanism and modernism, and an ecumenism that has been designed from hell, man now is plunging fast into making ready the full capitulation of My Son's Church and the world under a dictatorship of evil.
   "When the world and My Son's Church becomes as one, when the evil men of the cross have sought to destroy My Son within His own House, know that the end is near at hand. I say unto you, as your Mother: as you sow, so shall you reap!" - Our Lady, November 22, 1976

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on January 19, 2018:

by Stephen Kokx

Since the early 20th century, the Vatican has observed what is now called “the week of Christian unity.” Held from Thursday, January 18, until Thursday, January 25, the 8-day long initiative is intended to bring about the realization of Our Lord’s prayer in the Gospel of John: “That they all may be one.”

While such an event might sound like something Catholics can rally behind, they cannot support it in any way. Not only is it at odds with the purpose for which it was established under Pope St. Pius X in 1908, it is directly contrary to the Church’s ordinary and universal magisterium as defended and taught by multiple popes before Vatican II.

What have modern churchmen said?

In 1997, John Paul II wrote a letter to Anglicans, Protestants, and the Orthodox to celebrate the occasion. In his message, he told them that God is “at work in us.” He also insisted that recent “ecumenical developments” give them “a foretaste of the joy that full communion will bring when it is finally achieved.”

Benedict XVI repeated his predecessor’s outlook in 2012. “The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is in itself one of the most effective expressions of the impetus the Second Vatican Council gave to the search for full communion among all Christ’s disciples.”

Benedict wrote about the need for “all Christians” to be in “full communion” during his 2008 message as well. “When the prophetic wind of the Second Vatican Council began to blow, the urgent need for unity was felt even more deeply. The patient journey of the search for full communion between all Christians continued after the Council.”

Pope Francis has repeated those words and has followed through on them with his actions over these last ten years. In May 2015, he welcomed to the Vatican a delegation from the Lutheran Church of Sweden. He referred to their leader, “Archbishop” Antje Jackelén, as his “esteemed sister.” That same month, he sent the following message to an ecumenical meeting in the United States:

I feel like saying something that may sound controversial, or even heretical, perhaps. But there is someone who ‘knows’ that, despite our differences, we are one. It is he who is persecuting us. It is he who is persecuting Christians today, he who is anointing us with (the blood of) martyrdom. He knows that Christians are disciples of Christ, that they are one, that they are brothers! He doesn’t care if they are Evangelicals or Orthodox, Lutherans, Catholics or Apostolic… he doesn’t care! They are Christians.

What is the goal of this year’s week of unity?

The theme for this year’s event is “You shall love the Lord your God… and your neighbor as yourself.” A PDF with instructions for Catholics on how to celebrate the week (including tips for an “ecumenical worship service”) has been released by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Christian Unity. The document notes the influence that non-Catholics have exerted on the event following Vatican II. “Since 1968, the texts have been prepared by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity,” it reads.

As part of the 2024 celebration, last Friday Francis welcomed representatives from Finland. “Thanks to ecumenism, we use 25 different temples that are non-Catholic; they’re Lutheran or Orthodox churches,” Bishop Raimo Goyarrola of Helsinki told Catholic News Agency at the time. “This is a gift. This is ecumenism in Finland.”

To cap off this year’s event, a seven day “Growing Together” summit will be held at the Vatican with Anglican and Catholic clergy. They will spend time together in prayer and touring holy sites. On January 23, Anglicans will sing Evensong, the equivalent of Catholic Vespers, inside St. Peter’s.

On January 25, Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican community, will perform an “Anglican Eucharist“ at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew in Rome. This has earned criticism former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who described the act as a form of desecration.

According to Vatican News, later in the day on Thursday, Welby and Pope Francis will send out Anglican and Catholic clergy “in pairs to be witnesses to Christian unity.”

Where did this understanding of ‘unity’ and ‘full communion’ come from?

Unitatis Redintegratio, the Second Vatican Council’s document on ecumenism, says that non-Catholic “ecclesial communities” can “enrich” the “Church of Jesus Christ.” Baptized members of these communities, it further claims, are “in communion with the Catholic Church even though this communion is imperfect.”

The Council’s document Lumen Gentium reiterates this outlook. Christ’s Church “subsists in the Catholic Church” and “many elements of sanctification and truth can be found outside her structure.” These “elements” are “gifts properly belonging to the Church of Christ” and “impel towards catholic unity.”

Taken collectively, the council says that there exists a larger structure than the Catholic Church called the “Church of Christ” and that it includes all baptized Catholics, Protestants, and other self-identified Christians. Catholics should therefore not act “polemically” towards non-Catholics and instead work for “visible unity” with “all Christians” so the “Church of Christ” can be realized.

Since the close of Vatican II, this attitude has been adopted throughout the Church.

“A basic unity… must replace the idea of conversion, even though conversion retains its meaningfulness for those in conscience motivated to seek it,” Father Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, wrote in 1966, one year after the close of the council.

“The deliberate targeting of another Christian or group of Christians for the sole purpose of getting them to reject their church to join another, is not allowed,” a press release issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 18, 2009, said. “Some people may feel called in conscience to change from one tradition to another, but ‘sheep stealing’ is unacceptable,” it also remarked.

Francis himself has instructed Catholics to not convince others that their beliefs are wrong.

“Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense,” he infamously remarked in October 2013. While visiting the nation of Georgia in October 2016, he said it is a “very grave sin against ecumenism” for Catholics to try to convert the Orthodox. While still a cardinal, he urged Pentecostal minister Tony Palmer to not become Catholic. He told Palmer that the Church needs “bridge-builders” instead. Francis repeated that attitude when at a meeting with Lutheran pilgrims in the Vatican in October 2016, he rebuked an 8-year-old girl who asked about converting her friends. “It is not licit that you convince them of your faith; proselytism is the strongest poison against the ecumenical path,” he said.

What did the popes before Vatican II teach about ‘Christian unity’?

Christian unity has always been desired by the Catholic Church. Division is certainly not what Christ wants for His children. Up until the Second Vatican Council, the Church consistently taught that unity can only come about not when different sects put aside doctrinal questions but when non-Catholics give up their erroneous ideas and embrace the one true faith.

If “those who are separated from Us… humbly beg light from heaven, there is no doubt but that they will recognize the one true Church of Jesus Christ and will, at last, enter it, being united with us in perfect charity,” Pius XI affirmed in his 1928 encyclical letter Mortalium Animos (On Religious Unity).

Pius XII reiterated that teaching in Mystici Corporis Christi (On The Mystical Body of Christ) in 1943. “Those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of the true Church of Jesus Christ,” he recalled. “They err in a matter of divine truth who imagine the Church to be intangible, by which many Christian communities, though they differ from each other in their profession of faith, are united by an invisible bond.”

Catholics were not only being taught this definition of Christian unity from the popes in the first half of the 20th century, they also learned it from those who reigned in the 19th century.

In 1899, Leo XIII consecrated the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The prayer he recited begged Our Lord to be a King to those who “are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that soon there may be but one flock and one shepherd.”

“Scattered and separated members cannot possibly cohere with the head so as to make one body,” he also taught in his encyclical Satis Cognitum (On the Unity of the Church) three years prior.

The Fathers of the First Vatican Council, which was held in St. Peter’s from 1869 until 1870 and presided over by Pius IX, definitively declared the same: “The whole multitude of believers should be held together in the unity of faith and communion.”

The Catholic Church is the Church of Christ

The popes before the Second Vatican Council would not have agreed with the council’s definition of the Church of Christ. For them, the “Church of Christ” was synonymous with “the Catholic Church.” As such, they, like every pope before them, understood that when Christ prayed “that they all may be one” He was praying that all men would be Catholic.

“There is but one Church, who alone is called Catholic, and it is she who begets by virtue of that which remains her property in those sects who are separated from her unity, no matter who possesses them,” Saint Augustine taught.

“The Church of Christ is one and the same forever,” Pope Leo XIII affirmed in 1896. “Those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ… leaving the path of salvation they enter on that of perdition.” 

“To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it,” Pius XI reiterated.

Two American priests helped lay Catholics living in the United States before the 1960s greatly understand the teachings of these popes. Their names are Fathers Leslie Rumble and Charles Carty. Together, they published a three volume-set titled Radio Replies in the 1930s and ’40s. The series included thousands of answers to pressing theological, doctrinal, and moral questions. The books were endorsed by the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen and serve as a reminder of the power of the Church’s doctrinal clarity before the 1960s. Below are just a few of the many responses Rumble and Carty made to inquiries they received about the meaning of “Christian unity.”

“Christ established a definite Church to last for the rest of time… and that definite Church of Christ is the Catholic Church. To her men must return,” they plainly observed in the Volume III edition. “Non-Catholic Churches are not members of this one true Catholic Church,” they added. “All true followers of Christ should be united in one great Church which is not national, but international. There is such a Church – the Catholic Church.”

They continue: “If men really wish for unity, the remedy is there before them. Let them return to the Catholic Church.”

“Non-Catholic Churches will never secure unity,” they summarize. “Unity will be possible only when they renounce their independent existence, and their members, one and all, return to the Catholic Church.”

This wholly rebukes what is and has been taught by post-Vatican II churchmen.

“The old concept of ecumenism of return today has been replaced by that of a common journey, which directs Christians towards an ecclesial communion comprised as a unity in reconciled diversity,” Walter Cardinal Kasper said in the year 2000.

“The Council implicitly taught that the united church of the future will not come about by a capitulation of the other churches and their absorption into Roman Catholicism,” the late Cardinal Avery Dulles (1918-2008) stated during a conference in the 1970s.

Dulles would have surely won the ire of St. Pius X, who in a 1910 letter directed to the Orthodox, declared that all who wish “to defend the cause of unity… to work unceasingly in this most heavenly enterprise, and God… will hasten the day when the nations of the East shall return to Catholic unity… after casting away their errors.”

It is entirely correct for Philippine Cardinal Luis Tagle to have admitted in 2015 that “the understanding of Church changed radically” at Vatican II.

‘Discontinuity’ with what came before

It is clear that what “Christian unity” means before and after the Second Vatican Council are two radically different things. This is confirmed not only by the teachings and papal pronouncements regarding “the Church of Christ” and “full communion” already mentioned. It is evident in the remarks of those who were at the council as well.

In the 1970 book “Dissent in and For the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae,” co-authored by Charles Curran (born 1934), the following paragraph is found on page 80:

Pius XII, in Mystici Corporis (1943) and again with more emphasis in Humani Generis (1950,) insisted that the mystical body of Jesus on earth was simply identical with the Roman Catholic Church. In Humani Generis, the Pope insisted that his teaching on the matter was to settle the discussion among theologians. Vatican II has produced a different teaching. The theology adopted by Vatican II acknowledges the ecclesial reality of other Christian churches, and does not exclude that the Church of Christ in some way exists in them and, therefore, that the mystical body of Christ cannot be simply identifiable with the Roman Catholic Church.

Belgian Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenes (1904—1996) was one of the leading progressives at the council. He confessed in the 1966 book Twelve Council Fathers that certain changes were adopted because they were what non-Catholics wanted:

By our attention to the fact of the collegiality of the bishops, we will show the Orthodox what we are thinking along a line that means so much to them. Moreover, by stressing the role of the laity in the Church, we will reassure the Protestants that we hold something very dear to them – the sharing of the people in the royal priesthood of Christ. Thus, the Second Vatican Council will be an act of charity to our separated brethren – Orthodox, Anglicans, and Protestants.

Cardinal Richard Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston during Vatican II, likewise admitted in the same book that “we are not trying to make converts. We are not yet at the state of discussing practical means of union. We are just trying to understand each other… we are not attacking the assertions of other faiths… The unity willed by Christ and sought by the Church is not an absorption, not a Latinization, not a diminution.”

Author Thomas Guarino conceded in The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II that there is a “discontinuity” with what came after the 1960s and what came before.

“Mortalium Animos casts doubt on the entire ecumenical enterprise.” It “forbids Catholics from engaging in the movement,” he writes. On the other hand, the conciliar document Unitatis Redintegratio “warmly welcomes ecumenism, encouraging intelligent and active participation in it.” The “discontinuity between the two documents is the source of consternation for some Catholics.”

Catholics need to promote authentic Christian unity

19th century English Cardinal Henry Edward Manning once said that “separation from the visible Body of Christ is separation from the presence and assistance of the Holy Ghost Who inhabits it.” He advised Catholics to “choose your friends from among the friends of God. Be not united with any that are separated from Him.”

Catholics today wishing to stay faithful to the Church’s traditional teachings on Christian unity should listen to Manning’s wisdom and remind those who occupy positions of authority in the post-Vatican II church that true unity can only come about when non-Catholics return to the one true faith. As 19th century English Bishop John Cuthbert Hedley (1837-1915) once said:

The religion of Jesus Christ – which Catholicism alone adequately presents to the world – is intended to take possession of every heart, to influence all the actions of men, and to be the grand rule and arbiter in all the world’s concerns, whether public or private, whether social, commercial, or political.

Catholics should take seriously the true implications of the theme of this year’s Week of Christian Unity: “You shall love the Lord your God… and your neighbor as yourself.” Below is the original prayer the Church composed for the initial Week of Christian Unity established in the early 1900s. It expresses a true love of neighbor in that it seeks to help souls who are in ignorance about the Catholic faith and bring them out of spiritual darkness and into the life of grace so they can get to heaven. Full text below:

For the conversion of those in error; for the recomposition of all schisms and the return of the Orthodox and the Eastern Church under papal authority; for the conversion of the Lutherans and Protestants of Europe; for the conversion of the Anglicans; for the conversion of the Protestants of America; for the conversion of lapsed Catholics; for the conversion of Jews; for the conversion of Muslims and the faithful of other religions. 

ROAD  TO  HELL
"Pastors in My House, you are scattering the sheep with your teachings, false teachings created by demons. You will bring a bloodbath to Rome. Turn back from your folly. Have you not now seen the results, the bad fruits that you have grown? The road to hell is paved by good intentions.
   "We will not tolerate division in My Church. Satan knows to divide is to conquer. The captains always remain upon the ship, even when it is sinking. The strong, those with faith, shall bail it out, the ship, keep it afloat until help arrives from Heaven.
   "All manner of heretics and unbelievers seek to enter My House, My Church upon earth. You must not compromise the Faith, for you will not win souls by lowering the standards. I gave you through the prophets the rule, the way, for I am the way, the truth, and the light!" - Jesus, March 18, 1978

OPENED  THE  DOORS
"My children, the way has been given you. I am the way; I am the light. If you cast Me out of your life, you enter into darkness. And the prince of darkness is satan, the corrupter of souls, the master of deceit, the ruler of your world now! You have opened the doors to My Church, allowing all manner of evil to enter upon it. You have been deluded by error, and the rulers have given themselves to wantonness. Pastors, I say unto you: you are scattering My sheep. And I say unto you that I shall come and cast you out of My House." - Jesus, December 7, 1976

"You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978

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The following is taken from the booklet, "Faith and common sense", + Imprimatur: Most Reverend John F. Whealon, Archbishop of Hartford:

     After Christ left this world, His Church did spring into action, fully prepared to carry on His work. This Church was not something vague in character. Christ said precisely what He wanted it to be. His Church was to be built upon the Apostles. It would continue down to the end of time in the same way, ruled by the successors of the Apostles. That is perhaps the clearest thing of all.
     He also intended it to be one Church, not a number of churches. The Church He had in mind was to be for all men. It would work for their sanctification and salvation. These qualities were so clearly built into the Church that they were marks setting off the true Church of Christ from all other institutions claiming the name. Catholics say that these marks are unity, catholicity, holiness and apostolicity.
     When we examine the early Church as it appears in the time of the Apostles, we find that it had all these qualities. One Church and only one is in existence today which clearly shows the same four marks. This is the Catholic Church.
     Around the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome are inscribed the words, “Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Those words are as true of the present Pope as they were of St. Peter. The Pope is the successor of Peter, and he has the same authority as the Prince of the Apostles once had.
     That is a truth which can be amply proved by the facts. No other religious society can trace its heritage back through the centuries to St. Peter.
     Pope Paul VI, the present Bishop of Rome [Note: Paul VI was Pope at the time this article was written], is a successor of St. Peter. Year by year the succession can be traced back to the time of the great Apostle himself. Some of the Popes lived for only a few years or months; some have had very long terms of office. Some of them have been great leaders in world affairs; some relatively obscure. But they are all known to history.
     Today in the Catholic Church the Pope holds the fullness of power the same as Peter did in the early Church. He is not like a democratically-elected president whose power depends on the consent of the governed. Like Peter he has been made the shepherd of the flock by the Lord, and he has the same absolute power as Peter.
     Under him in the administration of the Church are the Bishops and priests. Their power comes from God, as once the power of the Twelve came from Christ. St. Paul said to the presbyters of Ephesus, “Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to rule the Church of God” (Acts 20:28).
     There is no doubt that the Catholic Church today is apostolic in the line of succession of its Bishops and the Pope, and that it possesses an authority which was once given to the Apostles.

UNITY OF RULE, BELIEF, RITUAL
     St. Paul told the Ephesians to remember that they had “one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism” (Eph. 4:5). The Catholic Church does have that unity of rule, belief and ritual.
     All Catholics everywhere recognize the authority of the Pope, the Vicar of Christ. He is the representative of the Lord, and presents the final judgments or decision on matters of faith and morals. Catholics do not accept the official pronouncements of the Pope only when they agree with them. They accept them at all times because they recognize his authority.
     All Catholics believe the same faith. There is no difference in the essential doctrines which various priests teach. One Bishop does not have his own truths about religion which are different from the beliefs of another Bishop. Both are explaining the doctrine of the Catholic Church, not their own ideas about doctrines. The manner of preaching may be different; the doctrine is the same throughout the world. There is “one faith” in the Catholic Church.
     So also there is but one “Baptism.” The term embraces all those essential rites which the Catholic Church practices. The most important rite of the Catholic Church is the Mass. The Mass is the re-enactment of the Last Supper, as was commanded by Christ. All Catholics are obliged to attend Mass every Sunday and on the important religious festivals of the year. This obligation is world-wide. So is the Mass. Our soldiers serving in foreign countries are always at home when they go into the Catholic churches of those nations; they find the Mass essentially as they knew it in the United States. The Mass is celebrated in every Catholic church throughout the world and consists of the same essential rite of the consecration of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
     The seven sacraments–Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Matrimony, Holy Orders and the Anointing of the Sick–are the same throughout the world. They are administered in the same way in all places. Every Catholic is obliged to make use of them at appropriate times; there are no national differences.

THE MARK OF HOLINESS
     Not only does the Catholic Church have that mark of unity which Christ wished His Church to have; it also has the mark of holiness. Christ instituted His Church to make men holy and to bring them to heaven. The Catholic Church does just that. None of its teaching ever leads men away from God; none ever twists human nature into some frightening form. All its practices and teachings tend to make men better.
     Moreover, the Catholic Church provides men with the means to become better. It does not simply offer the “consolation of religion.” It does something about man’s ceaseless struggle to become better. To those who are conscious of sinfulness, it does not merely say, “Repent in the secret of your heart and try to do your best in the future.” It says, “Go to the sacrament of Penance; have your sins forgiven, and receive the grace which that sacrament provides to help you avoid these sins for the future.” At the bedside of those seriously ill, the Catholic priest does not merely exhort the Catholic to be sorry for his sins and cast himself upon the mercy of God. The Catholic Church has a rite, the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick which forgives sins and brings the spiritual and physical help which men need in grave sickness.
     “Is any one among you sick?” asks St. James. “Let him bring in the presbyters of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him” (James 5:14-16). That is what the Catholic Church does for her members.
     Finally, the Catholic Church is world-wide. That is a fact today as it has been a fact for all these centuries past. The membership of the Catholic Church consists of people of all nations, from every part of the world.
     That is not an accident or the result of good salesmanship. It is the result of the very nature of the Church of Christ. He sent His Apostles to make disciples of all nations. The doctrine and practices which He left them were of such a nature that they appeal to all nations. There has never been a nation which found the doctrine of the Catholic Church contradictory to its own culture or thought.
     When Pere Marquette journeyed down the Mississippi, preaching the Gospel, he found Indians who were anxious to listen to the story of the death of Christ upon the Cross. They were baptized and accepted Christianity wholeheartedly. When St. Francis Xavier reached Japan, he found the natives eager to hear the message. So firm were they in their faith that for two centuries during persecution they held on to that faith despite martyrdom. The Catholic Church is an ancient faith in Japan today, not a recent development.
     So it has been everywhere. The Catholic Church has not been the product of one culture or one nation. Catholicism followed the Spanish armies into this country, and the Spanish armies were defeated. It has little to do with the English colonization of the eastern seaboard. Yet today the Catholic Church is the largest single religious body in the United States and a native part of our culture. The Catholic Church is universal in its appeal. That is why it is called “Catholic,” for catholic means universal.

THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST
     These are the qualities which mark out the Catholic Church today as the one religious organization in the world which is identical with the Church which Jesus Christ founded. It is one, holy, catholic and apostolic, just as was the Church in the time of the first Apostles.
     These four marks point out the Catholic Church as the true Church of Christ in another way. Only God can work a miracle. Now these four qualities in a society are obviously miraculous.
     Take unity, for example. We have erected a society called the United Nations to make something of that unity. But it seems the more nations we have in it, the less unity there is.
     Political parties meet in convention to draw up a “platform” of action. But the platform cannot be too definite. There have to be compromises in deference to sharply conflicting views. The more divergent the factions in the party, the less agreement can be reached. All things human show the same tendency to disintegrate under the pressure of expansion.
     The truths held by all Catholics are numerous and detailed; sometimes they are involved. For example, all Catholics believe in transubstantiation. Transubstantiation is the term applied to the change of the whole substance of bread into the Body of Christ and the change of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ, the appearance of bread and wine remaining. That is a very definite belief, though a rather involved one. It is not the kind of truth people would come to know and believe on their own. All Catholics hold it with equal belief and with complete acceptance.
     So it is with many other points of Catholic belief. The unity of the Catholic Church is something which is not matched anywhere else in the world. It is not that the Catholic Church is a little more united than other societies. It is that the Catholic Church is unified in a way which no other society was ever united. The ordinary laws of sociology do not apply here. That is what we mean by a miracle. Such unity cannot be explained on any natural basis.
     Take the case of the Church’s apostolic tradition. It is just not reasonable that a society which has lived so vigorously as the Catholic Church should not have burned itself out by this time. Every other society which was in existence when Christ founded His Church–the Roman Empire, nation of the Gauls, the great universities of Greece–has passed away. Groups have broken off from the Catholic Church during its almost two thousand years of existence. They have followed the curve of disintegration which governs all natural societies. They have waxed strong for a while, grown old and they have passed away.
     As the man in the Gospel who was born blind said after receiving his sight, “If this man were not from God, he could do nothing” (John 9:33). If the Catholic Church were not from God, it could not continue to possess, as the Catholic Church does, the four marks which Christ’s True Church must possess–apostolicity, catholicity, unity and holiness. Any church may claim these symbols of authenticity and authority. But only one may truly possess them.

"You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978

"I gave you a simple plan with the construction of My House, My Church, upon earth. But now you want to reform it, until you will split My House asunder with many denominations, many new denominations. I ask that My Church be universal, apostolic, and the saver of souls. However, there are rules to be followed, doctrines to remain unchanged." - Jesus, September 7, 1978

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STANDARDS  OF  HIS  GOD
"Many questions arise, My child, about My Son's House. There is only one true foundation-that is the House of My Son with Peter as the first ruler and head, and now your Vicar, Paul VI. All others have protested against the law and rule and broken away. They must be returned to the fold. However, My children, you are proceeding along a path of delusion. You will not bring these souls back to My Son's House by changing to meet their standards. Man must change to meet the standards of his God!" - Our Lady, December 6, 1974

JUSTIFIED RULINGS
"You must understand that none shall come to the Eternal Father except through My Son. You ask, My child, of the thousands of lives upon earth, those who do not accept My Son, what has become and what will become of them? If they have received the knowledge of My Son and reject Him willfully, they cannot be saved. Of course, My child, the Eternal Father is all-merciful; We cannot condemn, He cannot condemn the innocent of heart. However, there are rules of Heaven, too, justified rulings, that none shall see the Beatific Vision unless they come through My Son.”  - Our Lady, May 29, 1976

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
"I must warn you at this time, as your Mother, that you must remove yourself from this gathering of world churches. My Son has given you His true Church upon your earth. All others have left it, as they could not follow the rule. As protesters, they have cast side the truth.
     "You must not compromise My Son's Church by bringing in the measure of humanism and modernism, for you have opened the door to satan.
     "Do not be swayed by the fallacy that all will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, for only 'many,' My children, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven--if they follow the rule.
     "In the coming Chastisement only a few shall be saved.
     "I shall clarify my former statement, My child. You must remove yourself from the World Council of Churches. It has become an instrument of the adversary. There is but one Church, My children--the Church as set forth by My Son under Peter.”  - Our Lady, September 13, 1975

"YOU  WILL  LOSE  SOULS"
"The clergy upon earth, in all denominations, cannot give themselves over for experimentation, change with errors. For many souls shall be lost to Heaven. Clergy in My Son's House in Rome, under the direction of the Seat of Peter, you must recognize that the world is closing in upon you, and you will die on the vine if you conform with it.
   "Convert the unbeliever. All Heaven cries for conversion. Do not go forward with the delusion any longer that you will bring souls into My Son's House, His Church, by change. You will find you will lose souls, for a Church in darkness wears a band of death about it." - Our Lady, July 25, 1978 

ONLY  TRUE  RELIGION
"O My children, I will not go into a long discourse now with you about charity and love for your neighbor, but you must understand: you cannot judge your neighbor. You must pray for them. However, you cannot become weak and permissive. You must stand forth as bearers of the light, carriers of the truth. You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978

YOUR  BIRTHRIGHT
"As in the past, rejection has been the start of a fallen man. Sin has become a way of life with many. You live in a delusion if you believe that you can offend the Eternal Father and then gain eternal life in the Kingdom. No, I say to you: many are called, but few are chosen.
   "Ask and you shall receive, believe and you will be given the way. But you must merit the Kingdom. Your birthright was a start, but you must make your way to the Kingdom. Others may gain these graces for you by prayer and acts of sacrifice, but you will accept or reject the key." - Jesus, May 26, 1976 

ONE TRUE CHURCH
"My child and My children, you are all My children. I judge you not by color or race, and I do not judge you by your creed; however, should the knowledge of the One True Church be given to you, and the way to Heaven along the narrow road be given to you, you will follow it or you will be rejected." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985

RELIGION  OF  THE  CROSS
"There is only one religion that can save your country and all of the countries of the world: the religion of the cross and My Son's sacrifice upon that cross." - Our Lady, November 25, 1978

SEPARATED  BRETHREN
"O My children, pray much! We do not want to see a division in My Son's House. The Roman Catholic Church must remain one! But this does not mean, as the church of man states, that you will bring all manner of heretics and separated brethren in. No, My children, that is an error, a delusion from satan. You cannot change My Son's House and bring them in and change for them! They must change and come back to the original rule given by My Son and those who were with Him in the building of the foundation.
   "I repeat, My child and My children: separated brethren must change. They have protested in the past; they have taken themselves away from the truth and the one true Church. They must reject the errors they have made in the past and come back and start again. They cannot bring their errors into My Son's House.
   "You are opening the doors now for all manner of heretics, separated brethren. They do not come to unite in good spirit and heart; they come to take over. They seek to change you, O pastors, who are being deluded. And what do I see in My Son's House but separated brethren upon His pulpit! Even from the temples, the synagogues of satan, upon His pulpit! And for what?
   "And who are My pastors now that have joined in this plan of destruction? Who ordained some of them? Not legitimate hands. They come to destroy. They come in like rats, burrowing, undermining My Son's Church! Do you think you are not watched? Are you above your Creator that you think you can deceive the world permanently? No, I say unto you! You are being given your time, for you who have given yourselves to satan are now exposing your true nature to the world." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977

ESTABLISHED  BY  JESUS CHRIST
"There are many deceptions taking place among you, and one being the falsification of the manner of the salvation of souls. When I was upon earth, I established the rules and I gave you My Church, My House. However, now I watch as many have gone forward with itching ears and novelty, and they are setting upon the world a new religion." - Jesus, May 20, 1978 

WILL  STAND
"Do not be deluded, My children, by the agents of satan among you in human form who preach doctrines of devils. The truth has been given to mankind through the ages. The Holy Roman Catholic Church of My Son will stand. The members shall be reduced to few. Only a remnant, My child, shall carry the banner Faithful and True. But the gates of hell shall fight a heavy battle against My Son's Church, but they shall not succeed." - Our Lady, May 14, 1977

ONLY  SANCTIFIED  HOUSE
"Your children are wandering into the web of satan, going farther from the House of My Son. The truth is being removed from their hearts. They are setting among themselves groups. They shall not remove from their lives vows of My Son. As the only sanctified House upon earth, their souls will be destroyed when they are not given the Bread of living life. This Bread will only be obtained in the sanctified House of My Son. Satan seeks to remove the tabernacle from among you." - Our Lady, August 5, 1973 

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