These Last Days News - April 15, 2024
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2-1. Cardinal Sarah Denounces ‘Atheistic’ Western Bishops Who Prefer the World to the Cross...
THE MAJOR ATTACK
"Pray for your clergy--your bishops, your cardinals, your pastors. The major attack from satan will be upon the clergy in My Son's houses. I beg you, as your Mother, to have great heart, to extend your charity of heart for your clergy. The darkness is deepening within My Son's House, and a Church in darkness wears a band of death about it. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer, My children."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, December 7, 1976
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
MISGUIDED OR FALLEN
"It must be known that My Mother's message they will seek to stifle, for they are not of the light. These misguided bishops and red hats, be they misguided or fallen, will not allow the world to accept My Mother's mission.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, August 21, 1974
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
CatholicHerald.co.uk reported on April 15, 2024:
Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah has accused Western bishops of worldliness and of succumbing to the temptation of “practical atheism” as they lose faith in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
The former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments said that so many bishops desired to be “loved by the world” that they have forgotten that Christianity calls them to be “signs of contradiction”.
The 78-year-old cardinal also repeated his criticism of Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican document that provides for the blessings of couples involved in same-sex unions, insisting that it’s not just traditional African culture but Catholic teaching itself which makes the document unacceptable.
Speaking to the episcopal conference of Cameroon, Cardinal Sarah accused many bishops of “a failure of nerve” when confronted by the successive cultural revolutions convulsing the West.
“Many Western prelates are tetanised [paralysed] by the idea of opposing the world,” the cardinal said. “They dream of being loved by the world; they’ve lost the desire to be a sign of contradiction.”
Cardinal Sarah told the Cameroonian bishops he believes “the Church of our time is experiencing the temptation of atheism”.
“Not intellectual atheism,” he explained, “but that subtle and dangerous state of mind [of] fluid and practical atheism.”
“The latter is a dangerous disease, even if its initial symptoms seem benign,” he said.
According to Cardinal Sarah, practical atheism is more insidious than its intellectual counterpart because it does not declare itself openly but seeps into every aspect of contemporary culture, including ecclesiastical discourse.
He asserted that the church and its leadership has been guilty of “accommodating, of complicity with this major lie that is fluid and practical atheism”.
“We pretend to be Christian believers and men of faith. We celebrate religious rites, but in fact we live as pagans and unbelievers,” said Cardinal Sarah.
He described “fluid and practical atheism” as a treacherous and elusive force. He compared it to being caught in a spider’s web, where efforts to escape only tighten its grip. This brand of atheism, he argues, is a masterful trap set by Satan himself.
He emphasised that this form of atheism preys on human frailties and on man’s tendencies to give in to its deceptions.
He urged that within the Church, there should be no factions or self-proclaimed saviours, as such divisions play into the adversary’s hands.
“We don’t have to create parties in the Church; we don’t have to proclaim ourselves the saviours of this or that institution,” he said.
“But each of us can decide today: the lie of atheism will no longer pass through me; I no longer wish to renounce the light of faith; I no longer wish, out of convenience, laziness or conformism, to allow light and darkness to cohabit within me.”
He continued: “To maintain the spirit of faith is to reject anything that undermines it and to view the world solely through the lens of faith, holding steadfastly to God’s hand.”
Cardinal Sarah condemned the “bitterness and partisanship” that have plagued the Church, suggesting that these issues are symptomatic of a deeper spiritual crisis.
He stressed that only a spirit of faith can foster genuine brotherly love and bring peace to a world ravaged by deceit and conflict.
He also exhorted the episcopate in Africa to defend what he called the “unity of faith” in the face of Western distortions.
Referring to the October 2024 session of the ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Cardinal Sarah praised the spirited defence African Church leaders have mounted of traditional doctrine and values.
“At the last Synod, the church in Africa forcefully defended the dignity of the man and woman created by God. Her voice was ignored and scorned by those whose sole obsession is to please Western lobbies,” he said.
“The Church in Africa will soon have to defend the truth of the priesthood and the unity of the faith. The church in Africa is the voice of the poor, the simple and the small.”
The cardinal noted that while the African Church today plays a critical role in upholding the word of God, Western Christians seem to be misled by their wealth into a false sense of enlightenment and modernity.
Cardinal Sarah highlighted the unique position of African bishops as guardians of the faith’s universality, standing against those, he said, who fragment the truth and promote a culture of relativism. He praised their role as messengers of divine truth, suggesting that God often chooses the seemingly weak and unpopular to confound the strong and well-regarded.
He also commended the bishops of Cameroon for their opposition to Fiducia Supplicans, saying their decision was a “bold and prophetic move” which upholds the unity of the Church and the truth of its teachings.
The cardinal rejected the notion – advanced by the Vatican – that the resistance of the African bishops to Fiducia Supplicans is rooted in traditional African culture, dismissing such claims as a form of intellectual neo-colonialism.
Instead, Sarah pointed to the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar’s statement, which outlined theological and doctrinal reasons for not adopting such blessings in Africa, including previous declarations on homosexuality, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Sacred Scriptures, and concerns about the language used in the Vatican document.
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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