These Last Days News - July 13, 2023
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THE GOOD SHALL BE TRODDEN UPON
"My child and My children of grace, remember in the days ahead: your world and your country shall appear to all those in the light as though insanity has come upon them. The good shall be trodden upon, and the evil ones shall gain in worldly goods until all voices cry to Heaven: 'Lord, Lord! When shall you send Your vengeance upon them? Why do the wicked go about their way in gain while they trod underfoot the godly?'
"My children, the Eternal Father has a way that no human mind or man could understand. He is patient; He is all-suffering and long-suffering, never wishing that one should be lost to satan.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, April 2, 1977
FALLEN HIERARCHY
"I shall come soon to cleanse My temples, the churches. I shall cast out you who have given yourselves and set upon My Church a stigma of fallen hierarchy. Awaken from your slumber! Recognize the faces of evil about you, My pastors! Shall you please man, or shall you follow the rule of your God? No man shall save you from judgment. No man shall give you your reward. But satan has set on earth men who shall claim you for satan."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, November 20, 1975
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 13, 2023:
by John-Henry Westen
We all know that Vatican I infallibly taught that the Pope is the supreme governor of the Universal Church, with universal jurisdiction over disciplinary matters. But what would happen should we receive a bad Pope, and what can bishops do if said Pope attempts to oust them from their dioceses without cause?
My guest today on this important episode of The John-Henry Westen Show is Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. He discusses with me the role of bishops in the Church and their relationship with the Pope in light of the recent apostolic visitation paid to Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, an outspoken critic of Pope Francis. We also discuss the ousting of Puerto Rican Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres last year.
Kwasniewski discusses the role of bishops in the Church, beginning by stating that authority is part of natural law and intended by God. He also tells me that if an authority commands beyond what it is capable of commanding – commanding something ultra vires – then it is not a command at all.
Connecting the issue with the papacy and the removal of bishops, Kwasniewski holds that if the Pope were to command something ultra vires, such as remove a bishop without due cause, then people would not be bound to follow the command.
“I would argue … that if a pope removed a bishop arbitrarily for no good cause, there was no canonical process, there was no reason given and no reason could be discovered … then that act would be null and void,” Kwasniewski maintains. “The Pope can only remove somebody for just cause; he can’t arbitrarily remove people.”
“The papacy is not a tyranny, it’s a monarchy, and we have to remember that,” Kwasniewski continued.
Kwasniewski also explained the issue in light of what the Church teaches, referring to the document Lumen gentium of Vatican II. Reciting the document, Kwasniewski points out that the role of bishops in the Church is to “nurture” the whole flock of the Church, not just in their own diocese, as it is their duty to “safeguard the unity of faith and the discipline common to the whole Church,” something which they are bound to do by Christ’s ordinance. Nor are they to be considered as the Pope’s vicars.
He also goes into the nature of the episcopacy itself, stating that “if the Pope is not the source of [a bishop’s] episcopacy, then the Pope doesn’t have complete arbitrary authority over whether he gets to serve his flock as a bishop or not. That’s from Christ, it’s not from the Pope.”
“The Pope basically says, ‘You go to this diocese, I’m appointing you to this diocese, but it’s Christ who’s establishing you in authority over this diocese,’” Kwasniewski continued. “I’m not saying it’s an easy issue because these two spheres, they sort of collide in a way. The Pope has immediate supreme universal jurisdiction in the Church … which means, in practice he can do whatever is within the ambit of his authority to do, and nobody can stop him, and nobody is over him.”
Kwasniewski clarifies the position of the Pope’s authority by pointing out that it has limitations. Referencing the theological tradition of the Church, Kwasniewski states that theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Robert Bellarmine, Francisco Suarez, and others maintain that the Pope, should he abuse his authority, can be subject to fraternal correction, and “even be resisted and disobeyed.”
For more on this fascinating topic, tune in to this episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, as well as read the articles Dr. Kwasniewski recommends about the topic below.
CURIA
"My children, what I have warned you of the past is developing fast in Rome. The agents of 666 now are in full control of the Curia. O My children, I beg you, as your Mother, to pray and pray for your Vicar. Do much penance and acts of atonement for your bishops. Many shepherds have fallen asleep. Satan has poisoned the minds of many. The doors of the Eternal City of Rome were opened and demons entered to wreak havoc in the House of My Son.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1977
A GREAT DELUSION
“Pray constantly for your bishops, all of the clergy, the cardinals in My Son’s House. A great delusion has been set upon the world. It is a testing ground now for all of mankind.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, September 14, 1979
HAVE MISLED THE SHEEP
“Forewarning has been given from Heaven to all cardinals and bishops that the Eternal Father has looked upon them and finds that they have misled the sheep and are giving, in their blindness, the world’s people, mankind, over to satan and his agents.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, May 3, 1978
CARDINALS OVERSTEPPED THEIR BOUNDARIES
“You will inform Our bishops that intellectual pride has been their downfall. You will inform the Red Hats that they have overstepped the boundaries. They are like rodents burrowing into the structure of My Son's House. Many mitres shall fall into hell.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, July 15, 1972
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