ANTICHRIST
(Part 2: Aggiornamento, Radio-talk, 45, by Rev. Father Vida Elmer)
In my previous talk I told you about Pope John XXIII and about the Second Vatican Council which - for the sake of AGGIORNAMENTO (modernization) - passed several ambiguous resolutions which, later, in the hands of liberal committees were used to change the Catholic religion into a Protestant sect.
Pope John convoking the Council, told us that he acted under the inspiration of the Spirit. But today, seeing the disastrous consequences of that Council, we can be sure that his inspiration did not come from the spirit of God.
Every educated Catholic will readily admit that this terrible destruction of the Church in the wake of Vatican II could not happen without the manipulation of Satan. Pope Paul VI himself testified to this when he said: "The smoke of Satan entered the Church". (He meant: heresy, immorality, revolt against God.)
How could the smoke of Satan enter the Church? How could Satan gain influence and spread his poisonous errors inside the Church, if not by deception?
The guardians of the true faith: priests, bishops and especially the Pope would never allow satanic errors to enter the Church, were not these errors well disguised in innocent looking attire.
It was necessary for Satan to devise a disguise, attractive enough for contemporay men, through which he could carry his poisonous smoke into the inner circles of the Church. Satan is a good psychologist. He knows that modern men worship progress in sciences. He knows how everybody in our society wishes to keep up with progress and to adopt himself to the latest developments in housing schools, medicine, travel, entertainment, etc., which is in itself all right. E.g. you do nothing wrong if you trade in your old car or refrigerator for a new, more efficient one. (But it would be different with your old Catholic religion!)
Thus, Satan, in the idea of AGGIORNAMENTO offered an irresistible appeal to the pride of modern men, including churchmen. With the offer came a suggestion, that if AGGIORNAMENTO is useful in material things, it should be useful also in spiritual things. The AGGIORNAMENTO, therefore, was offered as a blanket-cover to all the phases of human life - material and spiritual.
Here lies the trap, the deception for human soul. If you are unable to discover this trap, you will necessarily fall victim to Satan. Nobody is immune to this danger, not even the Pope. Also (you can bet on it) Satan will reach for the top prize, which is seduction of the Pope. Then, through obedience to the Pope, he can gain practically the whole Church. The infallibility of the Pope does not protect him from falling into sin, if he does not protect himself by using the ordinary means of sanctification.
This is exactly what happened. Satan deceived the Pope. The Pope deceived the bishops, with a few praiseworthy exceptions. The bishops deceived the priests, again with a few praiseworthy exceptions. The priests deceived the people, again with a few intellectual exceptions.
Those who belong to the privileged exceptions, are the building blocks of the REMNANT CATHOLIC CHURCH, - as St. Paul said: "... at the present time there is a remnant, selected out of grace." (Romans II,5)
This REMNANT CATHOLIC CHURCH carries on the true doctrine, the true Sacrifice of the Mass and the promise of Christ that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against His Church.
In June 1980 the Vatican decided to learn, how many people, and what kind of people in the Church are determined to keep the immemorial Latin Mass against the New Mass. Thus, Cardinal Knox sent out an inquiry to all the bishops of the formerly Latin Rite. Interesting to note that the bishops did not bother to poll the people for their choice. They sent in their answers to the Vatican Survey without learning the wish of the people.
Among the several comments that the bishops sent to the Vatican, there was one of particular interest to us. One part of the report said that most of the traditional Catholics have an "uncommon level of culture". In plain English it means the the majority of traditional Catholics possess an intellectual capacity which is higher than the average educational level.
Indeed, these are the people whom the ecumenical brainwashers could not poison with the heresy of Modernism. (Survey printed in NOTITIAE, Dec. 1981) These are the people who do not worship the beast of the Antichrist. These are the people whose names are written in "the Book of Life." (Rev. 13,8)
These people were able to discover that AGGIORNMENTO was a satanic trap which did not bring progress, but degradation to the once great Catholic Church. The corruption came from the top. John XXIII let himself be fooled by an evil spirit. It cannot be otherwise. Seeing the terrible consequences which came upon the Church from this Council, we are sure that these did not come from the Holy Ghost; they came from another spirit, whose name is Satan.
What was the point at which Pope John comitted his fatal mistake?
His fatal mistake was that he did not heed the advice of the Apostle St. John. He did not check out the spirit which brought him the so-called "inspiration".
St. John the Apostle in his first letter to the disciples gave an explicit warning regarding inspirations. He said: "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world. By this is the spirit of God known: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is of God. And every spirit that severs Jesus, is not of God, but is of Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he is coming, and now is already in the world." (I. Jn. '4, 1-3)
According to this teaching, Pope John XXIII should have submitted his inspiration to the judgment of those who were experts in the knowledge of discerning the spirits. But he did not do it. Actually, several Cardinals expressed their concern that this was not the time to convoke a general Council which might produce some undesirable consequences. But Pope John did not listen to them. He went ahead with his plan. He convoked the Second Vatican Council which opened its sessions on Oct. 11., 1962. The blanket concept of the AGGIORNAMENTO blinded the Pope and bishops, as the satanic plan was put into motion.
A sound Catholic mind will understand that AGGIORNAMENTO (modernization) is justified in material things, where God has given mankind the task: "Subdue the earth". (Gen. 2,28) But AGGIORNAMENTO is absolutely impossible in the realm of truth revealed by God. Whoever makes an attempt to do it, will not bring forth progress, but destruction. Exactly that was what happened to the Church in the wake of Vatican II; an unparalelled destruction in her entire history.
(On the next occasions I will give you some specifics on the terrible losses of the Church regarding priests, nuns and institutions.)
Pope John XXIII did not live long enough to see the terrible consequences of his mistake. He died on June 3, 1963.
It was, then, the job of his successor, Pope Paul VI, to continue the "auto-demolition" of the Church. In that endeavor - no doubt - he proved himself as the greatest demolition expert in the history of the Church.
1982.
(To be continued)
Rev. J. Vida Elmer
St. Michael's Chapel
P.O Box 85
Glenmont, NY 12077
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