Undermining The Truth And Culmination Of Evil – Bishop Athanasius Schneider

Interview Organization: Zion Catholic Media
Date: July 21, 2022
Bishop Schneider criticizes idolatrous acts in the Vatican, particularly the veneration of Pachamama, calling them apostasy and a culmination of doctrinal ambiguity. He urges prayer, reparation, and faithful defense of Christ and the Church, imploring the Pope to lead reparation and defend divine truth against relativism and pagan influences.

I never in my life imagined that I should one day, publicly or privately, ask the Holy Father to condemn such acts which he supports. As it was with the Abu Dhabi statement on the equality or diversity of all religions, which I did, and now with these horrible acts of idolatry in the Vatican. I could never imagine that I would have to defend the first commandment in the church, the most basic truth that idolatry is against divine revelation, that you cannot perform idolatrous acts in the Catholic Church. This is for me already the peak, the culmination of all the evils that were accumulating in the past century and in the past decades. It is a demonstration of the extent to which evil, apostasy, and the betrayal of Christ have penetrated the church with this manifestation, and even Pope Francis, unfortunately, defends the veneration of these Pachamama idols by saying there was no idolatrous intention. But how can we discover intentions? We cannot see the heart. Only God sees the hearts of the people. We can only observe the exterior acts, and the exterior acts were clearly acts of a religious cult, bowing, kneeling, and even praying toward a wooden statue that does not represent a saint. It was demonstrated, and even the Pope said, that this was Pachamama.

Pachamama in the entire culture of the indigenous South American people is a concept of a kind of goddess. It is against evidence to deny that this was idolatry. So we have to say it was idolatry, and we have to ask the Pope, as I ask, to condemn this, and not only to condemn it but to make acts of reparation. The Pope should be the first in the Basilica of St Peter to make a prayer service of reparation to Divine Majesty, and also in the church of Transpontina. But the evil has a logic in itself, and evil wants to reach its culmination. When you start to deny one truth or to obscure one truth or to present it in a relativistic or ambiguous manner, it is already like a virus in the body. It develops, and when you do not resist, it will, in time, conquer the entire body, as cancer cells spread. It is sufficient for one cancer cell not to be controlled, and then it will conquer.

Now we have the evil of doctrinal relativism and doctrinal ambiguity, which we already have partly in some expressions of the Second Vatican Council, such as that we are all together with the Muslims the one God, or that man is the center and culmination of all that exists on Earth, or that you have a natural right by your nature to choose the freedom of religion. It can be explained that you cannot be forced into another religion, which is another meaning, but it also means that you have the liberty to choose a religion. Even though the text of the council says that every person has the obligation to seek the truth, which is the Catholic Church, it further says that you have the freedom of religion rooted in your nature.

This is in the text of Dignitatis Humanae, and it is ambiguous. It is not clear. The consequences after the council were that in almost all Catholic seminaries, theological faculties, the episcopate, and even the Holy See, they promoted the doctrine that every person has a right to choose their religion. No. You have no right to choose idolatry. You have no right to offend God through idolatry or blasphemy. This is already rooted here. If you have a right given by God to choose acts of idolatry like the Pachamama, then it means it is rooted in your dignity even to choose a Pachamama religion. This is the last consequence of this council expression. The expression is ambiguous and should have been formulated differently to avoid these applications in the life of the Church, which we also saw in the Assisi meeting of Pope John Paul the second in 1986 and later meetings, where even idolatrous religions were invited to pray in their manner for peace. We see these moments already.

Now, what we witnessed in the Vatican, the formal performance of idolatrous acts in the Catholic Church, in the heart of the Catholic Church, in St Peter, is the triumph of evil in this manner. But we have to pray and make reparation for this and implore divine intervention. God will intervene because it is His Church. It is not our church. The church is not in our hands. Now, many Catholics have the temptation to take this into their own hands and resolve it, to say enough is enough. This is human behavior. You can behave this way at a party or organization, but not in the church. The head of the church is Christ. Some say we will declare the Pope no longer Pope for several reasons, or that the See of Peter is vacant, or that Pope Benedict was the true Pope. These solutions are simply human solutions, which will not bring clarity but will confuse. They are human and are running away from the Golgotha of the church. We have to say no. Stay with us under Golgotha. The church will resurrect if we have faith. Golgotha is not the last station; it is the twelfth, and then comes the resurrection.

Oftentimes, when the enemies think they are powerful, they are proud of what they did in the church, destroying the Catholic faith, destroying the Catholic liturgy, adapting the church to the world. They think they have power, that they have reached their goal of adapting the Catholic Church to the world, even to paganism. Then God will say you are foolish, and He will show them that He is the Lord. As Our Lady, our Blessed Mother Mary, says in the Magnificat, He deposes the powerful from their throne and exalts the humble, the little ones in the church. This will come. We have to believe this and have a supernatural spirit. We have to make a net, a kind of spiritual army of prayer, a chain of acts of reparation. This is our army. These are our weapons. Also, a chain of public acts of profession of faith, defending our faith, apologetics, and training the spirit of the militant church. We must train ourselves also in the spirit of martyrdom. We must be prepared for persecution, even the persecution of the entire church. This will bring the true flourishing of the church. We must not fear this short passing life on Earth.

St Paul writes that if we believed in Christ only in this life, we would be the most unhappy people on Earth. He writes about the resurrection. If Jesus Christ is not risen, and we believe only in the earthly Christ, we would be pitiable. The same is true if we only want to be here on Earth and do not have confidence that our homeland is heaven, and that God will reward all we have done with a sincere heart and pure intention for His kingdom, even if we suffer more than we triumph. This will bring us heavenly glory and happiness in God, and we will have made an efficacious contribution to the restoration and renewal of the church. We must have confidence, even inner joy, in the midst of darkness. I know in whom I have believed. I know to whom I belong. I know that I belong to the army of the winners, the conquerors, because Christ is our chief. He is Christ the King, and we are His spiritual soldiers. We have Our Lady. She has the title that she conquered all heresies, that she destroyed all heresies. We are happy to be in the army of Jesus Christ the King, and happy to be children of Our Lady, our heavenly mother, who destroys all heresies, our heavenly mother who gave us her Immaculate Heart in these difficult times in Fatima. She said, This is your refuge. My Immaculate Heart is your refuge.

We will continue to love our Mother Church, not abandon her, and implore divine intervention in due time, in the time God knows. We will pray for the Pope, our Holy Father, to have the supernatural vision of his ministry, the Petrine office, no matter who occupies it. We will be faithful to the Cathedral of Saint Peter, even ready to give our lives for the truth of the primacy of Peter and his successors, because this is the divine constitution of the church. We will pray for the Pope, for the current Pope, that God may fill him with His spirit and touch his heart. We hope our prayers will help him. We are the best friends of Pope Francis, his best friends. He has only one soul.

Each of us must save our own soul, and we must be charitable and have love for our neighbor and also for Pope Francis, imploring that when he appears before the judgment of God, our prayers for him now will bring him consolation at that moment. He may remember that there were many little souls in the church, maybe those he condemned as rigid, who were praying for him and demonstrating supernatural love for him, continuing to venerate him as the Vicar of Christ.

We will do this, and we hope God may fill him with the true spirit of St Peter and of all the holy and martyr popes, that he may recognize the dangers, errors, and ambiguities in which he has collaborated in these past years. We will say most holy father, we are your best friends, and we want only your good, that you save your soul, that you will have a merciful judgment before God, and that you will be, in your work and words, a true successor of the holy and martyr popes, defending Christ the truth, even to the extent of giving your life for the truth, not for Mother Earth, not for climate change, not for Pachamama, not for the ideas and agenda of the already partly apostatized clergy. You must not give your life for introducing female ordinations or changing the divine constitution of the church or the apostolic rule of priestly celibacy. Give your life for Christ, defending the treasure He gave you.

All the little ones in the church who love the church will continue to pray for the church, for the Pope, and for the triumph of Christ the King and our heavenly mother.