The Other Blasphemy at Assisi

It has been nearly a week since the Holy Father led the third Assisi meeting in order to fittingly commemorate, so he thought, the original meeting of 1986, led by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. Seeing the doves flying around the leaders of the false religions invited by the Successor of Saint Peter, one is less impressed by the ceremony than by the fact that again God had been placed ignominiously on the same level as those gods referred to by the Scriptures as "demons". While Saint Paul might have asked what was common to Christ and Belial, the modern churchmen seem to answer "nearly everything". It might well be asked how peace is to be served by the violation of the first commandment of God wherein He demands that only true worship be offered to Him, and to Him alone. It might be objected that the Pope did not actually pray to these other divinities, nor join with the other adherents of these religions to adore God falsely or to actually adore false gods. This might be true strictly speaking, but this does not lessen the gravity of his actions. He did in fact invite the adherents of false religions to worship falsely, and this is a direct scandal leading others to commit what is objectively a mortal sin. By scandal, one is to take this in its strict meaning of causing another to fall. While the non-believer may or may not have committed mortal sin with due knowledge and consent, it must be assumed that the Pope knew that these members of other religions were not offering the true God the only worship accepted by Him, namely the worship of the Catholic Church, His own Immaculate Bride. How grave will judgement be for one who knowingly led others to break the First Commandment of God! Yet however grave this public demonstration of indifferentism might be, many have overlooked another blasphemy at Assisi. This is not the promiscuous invitation given to believer and unbeliever alike resulting in various forms of false worship, but rather the blasphemy from the mouth of the Pope himself.

What is this blasphemy? What are these words overlooked by the so-called traditional Catholics of the "Ecclesia Dei" variety who revel in papolatry even while doing nothing to take a stand for the Immaculate Bride of Christ the Church? The following words of the Holy Father in his address to the infidels and heretics is enough to cause the angels to weep:

"As a Christian I want to say at this point: yes, it is true, in the course of history, force has also been used in the name of the Christian faith. We acknowledge it with great shame. But it is utterly clear that this was an abuse of the Christian faith, one that evidently contradicts its true nature. The God in whom we Christians believe is the Creator and Father of all, and from him all people are brothers and sisters and form one single family. For us the Cross of Christ is the sign of the God who put "suffering-with" (compassion) and "loving-with" in place of force..."

Behold the other blasphemy hidden in the honeyed words of a false piety. The Pope again offers an apology for the actions of the Church's past. But what are these actions, and from what understanding do they flow? Supposedly, the Christian abhors "force". Use of force is an "abuse of the Christian faith". Now only that, but it "contradicts its true nature". Now who are those who have misunderstood the nature of the Christian faith? Why nearly everyone before the "New Pentecost" of Vatican II, of course. The Pope alone understands Christianity, so unlike his obscurantist predecessors who called for crusades, established the Inquisition, punished evildoers! Poor, poor saints and popes of the past who have not reveled in blasphemy and heresy! I fear that the loving gaze of Jesus, so extolled by this pope, is liable to send him to join those so well described by Dante in the Inferno, for there is no love of truth without hatred of error. Let us pray he repents of his deeds before it is too late.

Let us remind ourselves of Blessed Urban II calling the First Crusade, of the Ecumenical Councils extolling Christians to fight the infidel, of Pope Saint Pius V calling Christendom to fight the Turk and joining this war to a rosary crusade to insure the defeat of the infidel at Lepanto! And what of Saint Bernard, the force behind the Second Crusade, of Saint Peter Martyr, Inquisitor for Lombardy, martyred by the heretics even as he sought to destroy the monster of Catharism? The entire history of the Church resounds with the voices of popes and saints calling Christendom to fight the enemies of Christ with prayer, but also with sword. We see Saint John Capistrano, humble Franciscan friar, leading the Christian forces against the Turks in the 15th Century; we see the Capuchin, Marco D'Aviano rousing the Austrians to fight the Turk in the 16th Century; we see the Catholic kings of Spain fighting the Moors and delivering Granada back to the Faith, while at the same time God granting them the fruits of a "new world". That is Catholicism, not the love-in at Assisi which is little less than the opening to Antichrist.

If we wish to push the matter further, are we to conclude that the Old Testament is only a book of lies about God, who gives Josue the instruction to destroy the pagans in the Promised Land? What of Judith and her violence against the enemy of Israel, whereby she cuts off his head and is declared forever blessed? What of God striking down the priests of Baal by command of the Prophet Elias? What of the Maccabees who take arms against Antiochus? Is this all a misunderstanding? or has the Pope dared to raise his voice against the Most High? God deliver the Church from liberals and blasphemers, and restore to us a Pope who actually is Catholic.