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Bishop Athanasius Schneider: We have to pray for the Pope, that he may once again regain clarity and all the necessary gifts of the Holy Spirit, in order to resume his task. That task is, namely, to confirm and strengthen the bishops and all the faithful in the clarity of the faith without ambiguity, and without any signs of collaboration with the current worldly ideologies. But today, we see that individual clerics, churchmen occupy the highest positions at the Holy See, and they are collaborating with the dominant global ideologies. This collaboration serves to undermine the clarity of divine revelation, particularly through the promotion of doctrinal relativism.
Doctrinal relativism means the assertion that truth is changeable. This is contrary to divine revelation. It transforms the Christian faith, the Catholic faith, into merely one option among many, like an item on the shelf of a supermarket of religions. It reflects a kind of cowardly yielding to the powerful elites who aggressively promote gender ideology.
This must be clearly stated. And we must pray that our Holy Mother Church may once again shine throughout the world, that the See of Peter may again be the “cathedra veritatis,” the chair of truth. It is currently eclipsed, we might say, obfuscated, but it remains the Chair of Peter.
So again, we must pray for the Pope that he may regain clarity and receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit to fulfill his duty to confirm and strengthen the faithful in the truth.
What are we to do in this situation? You asked this, and it is a good question.
There was a saint in the fifth century, Saint Vincent of Lérins. In his famous work, the Commonitorium, he gave us a rule. He asked: What should we do if there comes a time when even those in authority begin to promote novelties in doctrine? Or if these novelties become so widespread that the majority in the Church begins to accept them, what should we do then? He answered: We must hold fast to antiquity. We must cling to that which the Church always taught before the crisis. This rule, from the fifth century, has been followed by all generations of Christians, and we must also follow it in our time.
We already know what to do. We have the old, crystal-clear catechisms. We have the clear, consistent teaching of the Magisterium, especially prior to the Second Vatican Council, on things such as the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the uniqueness of the Catholic Church, and the necessity for every human society and government to obey God and Christ, and to proclaim Him as King. This is evident in divine revelation. We are called to preserve zealously the purity and dignity of the Holy Liturgy and of the Christian life.
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