PAN-AMAZON SYNOD ORGANIZER WANTS WOMEN PRIESTS – Bishop Erwin Kräutler: John Paul II’s ban on female ordinations isn’t infallible
by Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th. • ChurchMilitant.com • October 2, 2019
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – An Austrian bishop tapped by Pope Francis to organize Rome’s Pan-Amazon Synod is continuing his heretical push for women priests.
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, member of the pre-synodal council and lead author of the synod’s widely criticized working document Instrumentum Laboris, told German media recently that Pope John Paul II’s teaching on the invalidity of female ordinations was not an infallible dogma.
“I know it is not easy to oppose exclusion of women from the ordained priesthood, as it has been cemented by Pope John Paul II in his 1994 apostolic document Ordinatio Sacerdotalis,” said Kräutler. “But, even if the Pope explained at the time that ‘all the faithful of the Church are definitely to hold this decision,’ it is nevertheless not a dogma.”
Kräutler was referring to Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he infallibly taught that it was impossible for women to validly receive holy orders:
Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.
John Paul II confirmed in 1995 that his teaching was an infallible dogma by having Cdl. Joseph Ratzinger, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, publish the following statement:
This teaching requires definitive assent, since, founded on the written Word of God, and from the beginning constantly preserved and applied in the Tradition of the Church, it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium. … Thus, in the present circumstances, the Roman Pontiff … has handed on this same teaching by a formal declaration, explicitly stating what is to be held always, everywhere, and by all, as belonging to the deposit of the faith.
A month later, Ratzinger asked the presidents of each episcopal conference around the world to send this official confirmation to their respective bishops. He said this was necessary so that “ambiguous and contrary positions will not again be proposed.”
Organizers of the synod kicking off in Rome on Sunday, however, have been proposing that females could and should be ordained. Following a secretive pre-synod planning meeting in Rome, a report summing up the meeting was published June 26, opening up the question of female deacons.
Kräutler, a pre-synod organizer, took part in the meeting along with fellow Austrian Cdl. Christoph Schönborn. Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna, himself is an advocate for ordaining so-called women deacons.
This definitive decision from Pope John Paul II is indeed a dogma of the Faith.
During the interview with German media mentioned above, Kräutler emphatically stated that the Amazon Synod “must admit women to the ordination to the diaconate.”
Some Catholics erroneously claim that females are only barred from ordination to the priesthood but could validly be ordained deacons. But Cdl. Gerhard Müller, former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explains that women are unable to validly receive the sacrament of Holy Orders, which includes becoming deacons, priests or bishops.
In a recent comment to LifeSiteNews, Müller explained:
It is certain without doubt, however, that this definitive decision from Pope John Paul II is indeed a dogma of the Faith of the Catholic Church and that this was of course the case already before this Pope defined this truth as contained in Revelation in the year 1994. The impossibility that a woman validly receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders in each of the three degrees is a truth contained in Revelation and it is thus infallibly confirmed by the Church’s Magisterium and presented as to be believed.
His teaching is reflected in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which, in paragraph 1536, teaches, “Holy Orders is the sacrament through which the mission entrusted by Christ to his apostles continues to be exercised in the Church until the end of time: thus it is the sacrament of apostolic ministry. It includes three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate.”
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Pre-Synod Report — Breaking Apart
Oct 2, 2019
THE MOTHER OF ALL MEETINGS
What a farce!
October 2, 2019
TRANSCRIPT
Lots of pre-synod posturing in Rome these days, where nearly every enemy of the Church and their allies have descended.
On Monday this week, homosexualist cheerleader James Martin had a private 30-minute audience with Pope Francis where, according to his tweet, it was just him and the Pope, one on one, with no one else but a translator present.
What a disgusting sight — truly.
Consider the underlying reality of this picture, a priest who advocates, routinely, for changing Church teaching on homosexuality sitting with the successor of St. Peter; the same successor of St. Peter who will not grant an audience to his own cardinals who signed the dubia letter pleading with him for clarification on Church doctrine.
In fact, Francis has put them off for so long that two of the original four have actually died. Talk about waiting out the opposition.
Martin has romped up and down the Church promoting sodomy, pretending he never challenges the teaching.
In truth, he spews the lies that God willfully made, intentionally created, men and women to be homosexual or lesbian.
And going further, he announces to gay Catholics, “God created you with special gifts and then called you into the church for a reason.”
Of course, none of this is that different from some of what Francis himself has said, which is why this meeting, while disgusting, can hardly come as a shock. Just as the unveiling of a statue in St. Peter’s Square, the first such statue in 400 years, could hardly be a shock.
It is an homage to what can be termed, the theology of globalism.
The statue depicts 140 migrants, matching the same number of saint statues on Bernini’s famous Colonnade. But that’s about where the comparison ends.
While Bernini’s statues depict many who gave up their lives for the true faith, this work depicts a political cause dressed up as religious.
The statue of fake spirituality will remain in St. Peter’s Square for a week and then be moved to the Vatican Gardens by order of Pope Francis.
Hopefully, some future pope will have it melted down and the bronze used to create a statue dedicated to the billion children murdered by abortion that no one here in the Vatican seems to care about.
It is supremely ironic that while Pope Francis scolds nations that care about their sovereignty by attempting to secure their borders, that he himself lives ensconced behind some of the most famous and largest walls in the world and is protected by one of the most elite security details in the world, armed to the teeth.
No one is saying the Vatican should tear down its walls, or hand over its guns. We live in an evil world where weapons and walls are necessary.
It’s just that the Pope shouldn’t be telling other countries to do so because, well, it’s more than a little hypocritical.
Likewise, there was another symbolic dynamic involving this immigration statue, and as far as we can tell, it went by completely unnoticed.
Francis unveiled the hypocritical statue in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Sept. 29. That’s the feast day of St. Michael.
But the Pope chose to essentially ignore that glorious Catholic feast and instead focus attention on the celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
And so it goes and will continue to go with this papacy, downplaying or ignoring virtually everything Catholic he can, while lifting up every worldly, even Marxist, globalist issue he can to near liturgical or doctrinal levels.
Consider, a meeting with Martin while ignoring his cardinals; showcasing a statue of largely non-Catholics, diverting attention away from Catholic martyrs; focusing on World Day of Migrants and Refugees while downplaying the Catholic feast of the protector of the Church.
The meeting between “Evil Jimmy” and Francis is symbolic of looming disaster in the Church.
What people need to understand is all of these things — all of this — is all part and parcel of the same thing, the plan to remake the Church.
It is a plan to use the Church to advance the Left’s globalist agenda and all of these are pieces of that puzzle, the normalization of homosexuality, immigration policy, the downplaying and even persecution of tradition.
That’s what’s going on with the disastrous Theodore McCarrick-engineered plan for Catholics in China that Francis signed on to.
And that’s the goal of next week’s Amazon Synod: to sacramentalize the ecological movement; to raise to nearly supernatural heights Mother Nature — not for its own sake but for the sake of gaining even more strength and power for globalists.
Globalists don’t care about the earth or creation or religion. If they did, they wouldn’t push for the murder of a billion children — and counting.
What they do care about is using the issue to convince democratic people that their governments need to abandon their national sovereignty in a common effort to “save the earth.”
The Church is useful in this regard because like Evil Jimmy distorts the teaching on the love of God for all people, these Churchmen distort the Church’s teaching on the required care of creation.
Both issues, rooted in authentic morality, are twisted into a theology of globalism where a false morality is asserted — a feel-good morality. Not a shred of this is Catholic.
Loving your neighbor does not mean abandoning your borders. And respecting the dignity of each person does not mean accepting their perverted sexual practices.
But in modernist Rome, these are the brass ring wicked men have been striving for, for decades.
The faithful must decry these evils, for that is what they are.
Faithful Catholics don’t hate migrants, refugees, homosexuals or the earth.
But we will not sit back silently while Church teaching is twisted in such a manner to supplant truth with falsehoods; to replace Catholicism with humanism — no way!
Coming to you from Rome.
Read the source: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-mother-of-all-meetings
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