Lay Catholics are currently desperate for leadership in the hierarchical Church. Not finding any, they prop up fake-leaders. Why? There have been numerous psychological studies that show (in both secular and religious culture) men are more desirous of security than truth. Thus, Catholics today are following the normal patterns of humanity in this crisis. However, it’s more dangerous for Catholics because modernists (and apparently even trads) are now projecting true Catholicism on a non-Catholic leader (who has the whole world deceived as to leadership and devotion.) This is going to have dire eternal consequences upon countless souls.
At this point, many Catholics think I am taking the dangerous road of salvation in implying such things. But I will show you today from Scripture and Tradition (and in later articles via Church history) that it is quite the opposite: I am taking the safe-route in calling out wolves-in-shepherds’-clothing (now in nicer clothing than ever.) I warn you not to follow such wolves for all the reasons in my articles the last three months, but for more reasons today.
In last Sunday’s Gospel, Our Lord said: For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.—Mt 5:20. This line is of supreme importance. Many people once-baptized into the Catholic faith currently live horrible lives. One of many reasons for this is because they have shielded their conscience within the advice (or even open lifestyle) of certain heretical prelates.
Will such lay Catholics be saved due to reduced-culpability in this Church crisis because they couldn’t have known better with such rotten examples at the top? I hope so, but last Sunday’s Gospel seems to imply they will not be saved unless they buck the example of bad spiritual leadership “above” them and move far beyond them in following Christ. Again, Our Lord said in Sunday’s Gospel: Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.—Mt 5:20. In other words, you are not going to be graded “on a curve” against your average modernist priest or bishop, but against the saints.
Thus, it’s time to become a saint.
Yet perhaps even my most devoted readers are tired of me using terms like “Stockholm Syndrome” and “cult-like behavior” to describe Catholics. Look, I don’t mean this out of judgment or even wittiness to gain readers. I mean anytime you are ignoring the evidence of heresy in a religious leader (even one who wears white) in putting him ahead of Jesus Christ, you are displaying traits of a cult.
But wait! What Fr. David is saying sounds like Protestantism that we are to put his view of Christ ahead of the hierarchy! No, rather, I am saying you are to judge any prelate against the true and perennial Magisterium of the Catholic Church and if he doesn’t appear Catholic, then trust your gut instinct: He is not Catholic. (Even if he occasionally faces the right way for Holy Mass.) Real Catholicism has never had anything to do with being a cult that puts a Conclave-imposter (and his spiritual son who sits on the same throne of lies) ahead of Christ and His own dogma.
As I wrote earlier, there have been numerous psychological studies that reveal that men and women are more desirous of security than truth. Thus, you have to make the firm decision to put truth ahead of group-security if my writing is going to make any sense to you going forward.
Last week was the feast of St. Veronica Giuliana, an Italian stigmatist who died in 1727 and is now incorruptible. (See the image of her at the top-right.) Our Lady showed her how many of the clergy went to hell. (And this was in the 17th century!) In these seven “sites” of hell, notice how many of these include prelates and religious, and see why they went there.
Before reading it, let me state I am putting this here not because I am predicting any living-cleric is going to hell. I’m writing this to say you lay Catholics shouldn’t hang your hat on a hook that can’t hold it. That includes anyone from you-know-who to your local bishop to even me. This cult-like behavior of lionizing clergy needs to end because this is what Our Lady told St. Veronica about some of the worst spots in hell:
Daughter, I want you to describe the seven sites, the most painful, that are in Hell, and for whom they exist. The first is the location where Lucifer is shackled, and with him is Judas, who serves as his seat, and there are all those who were followers of Judas. The second is the location where all the ecclesiastics and the prelates of Holy Church, since being elevated in dignity and honors they have most perverted the faith, trampling the Blood of Jesus Christ, my Son, with many enormous sins… In the third location that you saw, there are all the souls of the male religious and the female religious. In the fourth, there are all the confessors, for having misled the souls of their penitents. In the fifth, there are all the souls of judges and of the governors of justice. The sixth location, instead, is that one destined for all the superiors of the religious. In the seventh, lastly, there are all those who wanted to live according to their own volition and have committed every sort of sin, especially carnal sins.” (D IV, 744).
On another occasion, the Virgin turned to the Saint saying to her: “In a moment of rapture, you were brought into Hell to undergo new sufferings and, upon your arrival; you saw that many souls were plummeting down, and each one had their own place of torment. It was made known to you that these souls were from various nations, from all sorts of states, that is, of Christians and of infidels, of religious and of priests. These last ones are closer to Lucifer, and they suffer so much that the human mind cannot comprehend it. Upon the arrival of these souls, all of Hell celebrates and, in an instant, they experience all the torments of the damned for offending God.” (D IV, 353).
Of course, I don’t think even my own salvation is “in the bag” (so to speak) just because I am more orthodox than most priests. I beg your prayers that I do not join the unfortunate lot of priests shown to St. Veronica by the Immaculate Virgin Mary.
Oremus pro invicem.