«Christ – yes, Church – no. God – yes,
Christ – no. Finally the impious cry: God is dead; in fact: God has never been».
Corrispondenza Romana: Ma a quale chiesa appartiene papa Bergoglio?
Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza
Romana
October
19, 2016
Two anniversaries overlap each other in 2017: the
100 years of the Fatima apparitions, occurring between May 13th
and October 13th 1917, and the 500 years of Luther’s revolt,
beginning in Wittenberg, Germany, October 31st 1517. However, there are two
other much less discussed anniversaries which also fall next year: the 300
years of the official foundation of Freemasonry (London, June 24th 1717)
and the 100 years of the Russian Revolution of October 26th 1917
(the Julian calendar in use in the Russian Empire: November 8th according
to the Gregorian calendar). Yet, between the Protestant Revolution and the
Communist Revolution through to the French Revolution, the daughter of
Freemasonry, there runs an indissoluble red thread which Pius XII, in his
famous discourse Nel contemplare of October 12th 1952,
summed up in three historic phrases, corresponding to Protestantism, the Age of
Enlightenment and Marxist atheism: Christ – yes, Church – no. God – yes, Christ
– no. Finally the impious cry: God is dead; in fact: God has never been”.
The anarchic yearnings of Communism were already
implicitly present in the first Protestant negations – observed Plinio Corrêa
de Oliveira: “Whether from the point of view of Luther’s explicit formation,
all of the tendencies, all of the mind-set, all of the imponderable elements of
the Lutheran explosion, carried already in itself, in a very authentic and full
way, even if implicit, the spirit of Voltaire and Robespierre, Marx and
Lenin” (Revolution and Counter-Revolution, Sugarco, Milan, 2009,
pp.61-62).
In this respect, the errors the Soviet Russia
spread, starting from 1917, were a chain of ideological aberrations from Marx
and Lenin which went back to the first Protestant heresiarchs. The 1517
Lutheran Revolution can therefore be considered one of the most nefarious
events in the history of humanity, on par with the Masonic revolution in 1789,
and the Communist one in 1917. Further, the message of Fatima, which foresaw
the spreading of Communist errors throughout the world, contains implicitly the
rejection of the errors of Protestantism and the French Revolution.
The start of the centenary of the Fatima
apparitions on October 13th 2016 was buried under a blanket of
silence. That same day, Pope Francis received in the Paul VI Audience Hall, a
thousand Lutheran “pilgrims” and in the Vatican a statue of Martin Luther was
honoured, as appears in the images Antonio Socci published on his Facebook
page. Next October 31st, moreover, Pope Francis will go to Lund in
Sweden, where he will take part in a joint Catholic-Lutheran ceremony
commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. As can
be read in the communiqué drawn up by the World Lutheran Federation and the
Papal Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, the aim of the event is “to
express the gifts of the Reform and ask forgiveness for the division
perpetuated by Christians of the two traditions.”
The Valdese theologian and pastor, Paolo Ricca,
involved for decades in ecumenical dialogue, voiced his satisfaction “seeing
as it is the first time a Pope commemorates the Reform. This, in my opinion,
constitutes a step forward with regard to the important aims that have been
achieved with the Second Vatican Council, which - by including in its
texts and so giving value to some fundamental principles and themes of the
Reform – marked a decisive turning point in the relationships between Catholics
and Protestants. By taking part in the commemoration, as the highest
representative of the Catholic Church is prepared to do, means, in my view, to
consider the Reform as a positive event in the history of the Church which also
did some good for Catholicism. The participation at the commemoration is a
gesture of great relevance also because the Pope is going to Lund, to the home
of the Lutherans; as if he were one of the family. My impression is, in a
way I wouldn’t know how to define, that he also feels part of that portion of
Christianity born of the Reform.”
According to Ricca, the main contribution offered
by Pope Francis is “his effort to reinvent the papacy, that is, the search
for a new and different way of understanding and living the ministry of the
Bishop of Rome. This search – presuming my interpretation somewhat hits the
mark - might take us a long way, since the papacy – because of the way it
has been understood and lived over the last 1000 years – is one of the great
obstacles to Christian Unity. It seems to me Pope Francis is moving towards a
model of the papacy different to the traditional one, with respect to which the
other Christian Churches might take on new positions. If it were so, this theme
might be completely reconsidered in ecumenical circles.”
The fact that this interview was published on
October 9th by Vatican Insider, considered a semi-official Vatican
site, makes one think that this interpretation of the Lund trip as well as the
papal intentions, have been authorized and are agreeable to Pope Francis.
During his audience with the Lutherans on October
13th, Pope Bergoglio also said that proselytism, is “the strongest poison”
against ecumenism. “The greatest reformers are the saints – he
added - and the Church is always in need of reform”. These
words contain simultaneously, as is frequent in his discourses, a truth and a
deception. The truth is that the saints, from St Gregory VII to St. Pius X,
have [indeed] been the greatest reformers. The deception consists in
insinuating that the pseudo-reformers, like Luther, are to be considered
saints. The statement that proselytism or the missionary spirit, is “the
strongest poison against ecumenism” must, instead, be reversed: ecumenism,
as it is understood today, is the greatest poison against the Church’s
missionary spirit. The Saints have always been moved by this spirit, beginning
with the Jesuits who landed in Brazil, the Congo and the Indies in the XVI
century, while their confreres Diego Lainez, Alfonso Salmeron and Peter
Canisio, at the Council of Trent, fought against the errors of Lutheranism and
Calvinism.
Yet, according to Pope Francis those outside the
Church do not have to be converted. At the audience on October 13th,
in an off-the-cuff response to questions from some young people, he said: “I
like good Lutherans a lot, Lutherans who truly follow the faith of Jesus
Christ. On the contrary, I don’t like lukewarm Catholics and lukewarm Lutherans.”
With another deformation in language, Pope Bergoglio calls “good Lutherans”
those Protestants who do not follow the faith of Jesus Christ, but its
deformation and “lukewarm Catholics” those fervent sons and daughters of the
Church who reject the equalizing of the truth of the Catholic religion with the
error of Lutheranism.
All of this brings us to the question: what will
happen in Lund on October 31st? We know that the commemoration
will include a joint celebration based on the Liturgical Catholic-Lutheran
guide, Common Prayer, elaborated from the document From
Conflict to Communion. The Common Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of the
Reformation in 2017, drawn-up by the Catholic-Lutheran Commission for the
unity of Christians. There are those who rightly fear an “intercommunion”
between Catholic and Lutherans, which would be sacrilegious, since the
Lutherans do not believe in Transubstantiation. Above all, that it will be said
Luther was not a heresiarch, but a reformer unjustly persecuted and that the
Church has to recuperate the “gifts of the Reform”. Those who persist in
considering the condemnation of Luther proper and think his followers heretics
and schismatics, must be harshly criticised and excluded from the Church of
Pope Francis. But then again, what Church does Jorge Mario Begoglio belong to?
Translation: Contributor, Francesca Romana
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