Pope Benedict: Other Christian denominations not true churches... You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind. - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978 FoxNews reported on July 10, 2007: For the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and saying other Christian communities were either defective or not true churches. Benedict approved a document released Tuesday from his old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which repeated church teaching on Catholic relations with other Christians. While there was nothing doctrinally new in the document, it nevertheless prompted swift criticism from Protestants, Lutherans and other Christian denominations spawned by the 16th century reformation. It makes us question the seriousness with which the Roman Catholic Church takes its dialogues with the Reformed family and other families of the church, said the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which groups 75 million Reformed Christians in 214 churches in 107 countries. It makes us question whether we are indeed praying together for Christian unity, the alliance said in a letter to the Vaticans key ecumenical official, Cardinal Walter Kasper, charging that the document took ecumenical dialogue back to the pre-Vatican II era. One of the key developments from Vatican II, the 1962-65 meetings that modernized the church, was its ecumenical outreach. Another key change was the development of the New Mass in the vernacular, which essentially replaced the old Latin Mass. On Saturday, Benedict revived the old Latin Mass, saying it was wrong for bishops to deny it to the faithful because it had never been abolished. Traditional Catholics cheered the move, but more liberal ones called it a step back from Vatican II. Benedict, who attended Vatican II as a young theologian, has long complained about what he considers the erroneous interpretation of the council by liberals, saying it was not a break from the past but rather a renewal of church tradition. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said it was issuing the new document on ecumenism because some contemporary theological interpretations of Vatican IIs ecumenical intent had been erroneous or ambiguous and had prompted confusion and doubt. The new document -- formulated as five questions and answers -- restates key sections of a 2000 text the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, Dominus Iesus, which riled Protestant, Lutheran and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the means of salvation. Christ established here on earth only one Church, said the document released as the pope vacations at a villa in Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italys Dolomite mountains. The other communities cannot be called churches in the proper sense because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christs original apostles -- and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said. The Rev. Sara MacVane, of the Anglican Centre in Rome, said there was nothing new in the document. I dont know what motivated it at this time, she said. But its important always to point out that theres the official position and theres the huge amount of friendship and fellowship and worshipping together that goes on at all levels, certainly between Anglican and Catholics and all the other groups and Catholics. The document said Orthodox churches were indeed churches because they have apostolic succession and that they enjoyed many elements of sanctification and of truth. But it said they lack something because they do not recognize the primacy of the pope -- a defect, or a wound that harmed them, it said. This is obviously not compatible with the doctrine of Primacy which, according to the Catholic faith, is an internal constitutive principle of the very existence of a particular Church, said a commentary from the congregation which accompanied the text. Despite the harsh tone of the documents, they stressed that Benedict remains committed to ecumenical dialogue. However, if such dialogue is to be truly constructive it must involve not just the mutual openness of the participants but also fidelity to the identity of the Catholic faith, the commentary said. The top Protestant cleric in Benedicts homeland, Germany, complained that the Vatican apparently did not consider that mutual respect for the church status was required for any ecumenical progress. In a statement headlined Lost Chance, Lutheran Bishop Wolfgang Huber argued that it would also be completely sufficient if it were to be said that the reforming churches are not churches in the sense required here or that they are churches of another type -- but none of these bridges is used in the answers. The document, signed by the congregation prefect, American Cardinal William Levada, was approved by Benedict on June 29, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul -- a major ecumenical feast day. There was no indication why the pope felt it necessary to release the document, particularly since his 2000 document summed up the same principles. Some analysts suggested it could be a question of internal church politics, or that the Congregation was sending a message to certain theologians it did not want to single out. Or, it could be an indication of Benedict using his office as pope to again stress key doctrinal issues from his time at the Congregation. In fact, the only theologian cited by name in the document for having spawned erroneous interpretations of ecumenism was Leonardo Boff, the Brazilian who was a target of the former Cardinal Ratzingers crackdown on liberation theology in the 1980s. ******** How Old Is Your Church? If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex- monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517. If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry. If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560. If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century. If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582. If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744. If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774. If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829. If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605. If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder, because he originated your religion in New York in 1628. If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865. If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder. If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as Church of the Nazarene, Pentecostal Gospel. Holiness Church, Pilgrim Holiness Church, Jehovahs Witnesses, your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century. If you are Roman Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and it is still the same Church. We do not want division within the Church. That will solve nothing. You cannot separate yourself from the Holy Father in Rome. And once you are baptized as a Roman Catholic, you must die within the fold; you cannot reject it. There are many false prophets going throughout the world now seeking to take your soul to satan. They come as angels of light. - Our Lady of the Roses, September 27, 1986 Our Lady of the Roses awesome Bayside Prophecies... tldm.org/../Bayside/ These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995. ONLY TRUE RELIGION O My children, I will not go into a long discourse now with you about charity and love for your neighbor, but you must understand: you cannot judge your neighbor. You must pray for them. However, you cannot become weak and permissive. You must stand forth as bearers of the light, carriers of the truth. You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind. - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978 YOUR BIRTHRIGHT As in the past, rejection has been the start of a fallen man. Sin has become a way of life with many. You live in a delusion if you believe that you can offend the Eternal Father and then gain eternal life in the Kingdom. No, I say to you: many are called, but few are chosen. Ask and you shall receive, believe and you will be given the way. But you must merit the Kingdom. Your birthright was a start, but you must make your way to the Kingdom. Others may gain these graces for you by prayer and acts of sacrifice, but you will accept or reject the key. - Jesus, May 26, 1976 RELIGION OF THE CROSS There is only one religion that can save your country and all of the countries of the world: the religion of the cross and My Sons sacrifice upon that cross. - Our Lady of the Roses, November 25, 1978 SEPARATED BRETHREN O My children, pray much! We do not want to see a division in My Sons House. The Roman Catholic Church must remain one! But this does not mean, as the church of man states, that you will bring all manner of heretics and separated brethren in. No, My children, that is an error, a delusion from satan. You cannot change My Sons House and bring them in and change for them! They must change and come back to the original rule given by My Son and those who were with Him in the building of the foundation. I repeat, My child and My children: separated brethren must change. They have protested in the past; they have taken themselves away from the truth and the one true Church. They must reject the errors they have made in the past and come back and start again. They cannot bring their errors into My Sons House. You are opening the doors now for all manner of heretics, separated brethren. They do not come to unite in good spirit and heart; they come to take over. They seek to change you, O pastors, who are being deluded. And what do I see in My Sons House but separated brethren upon His pulpit! Even from the temples, the synagogues of satan, upon His pulpit! And for what? And who are My pastors now that have joined in this plan of destruction? Who ordained some of them? Not legitimate hands. They come to destroy. They come in like rats, burrowing, undermining My Sons Church! Do you think you are not watched? Are you above your Creator that you think you can deceive the world permanently? No, I say unto you! You are being given your time, for you who have given yourselves to satan are now exposing your true nature to the world. - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1977 ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST There are many deceptions taking place among you, and one being the falsification of the manner of the salvation of souls. When I was upon earth, I established the rules and I gave you My Church, My House. However, now I watch as many have gone forward with itching ears and novelty, and they are setting upon the world a new religion. - Jesus, May 20, 1978 WILL STAND Do not be deluded, My children, by the agents of satan among you in human form who preach doctrines of devils. The truth has been given to mankind through the ages. The Holy Roman Catholic Church of My Son will stand. The members shall be reduced to few. Only a remnant, My child, shall carry the banner Faithful and True. But the gates of hell shall fight a heavy battle against My Sons Church, but they shall not succeed. - Our Lady of the Roses, May 14, 1977 ONLY SANCTIFIED HOUSE Your children are wandering into the web of satan, going farther from the House of My Son. The truth is being removed from their hearts. They are setting among themselves groups. They shall not remove from their lives vows of My Son. As the only sanctified House upon earth, their souls will be destroyed when they are not given the Bread of living life. This Bread will only be obtained in the sanctified House of My Son. Satan seeks to remove the tabernacle from among you. - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1973 Directives from Heaven... tldm.org/directives/directives.htm D123 - Catholic Church, Part 1 PDF Logo PDF D124 - Catholic Church, Part 2 PDF Logo PDF D125 - Ecumenism PDF Logo PDF D127 - Vatican II PDF Logo PDF
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