"I will not stand for My priests who condone homosexuality and allow it in My priesthood!...I will not stand by and allow My priesthood to be destroyed!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, June 18, 1982
"In no way will homosexuality be accepted, for it means damnation and destruction."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, July 1, 1985
BISHOPS: CLEANSE SEMINARIES
"I ask, as your Mother, that the clergy, bishops in rule, must cleanse their seminaries and places of teaching. All heretics must leave. Discipline must be restored in My Son's Church. You will not compromise My Son's Faith, and House. You will not condone sin with permissiveness."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1977
SEMINARIES INFILTRATED
"Yes, My child, I want you to let the world know that Our seminaries were not pure. Many had entered for this very day to try to destroy the Faith and the Church of My Son. You must know that the Eternal Father will not permit this."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, May 17, 1986
DOCTRINES OF DEMONS
"Theologians in My Son's churches and seminaries have implemented doctrines of demons in My Son's House--Church. Theologians have set many onto the path to hell."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, August 4, 1979
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
[About Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo..]
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo is the Archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a prominent figure representing the African Catholic Church. Cardinal Ambongo strongly supports the Church's traditional doctrines and teachings, emphasizing the importance of preserving African Catholic faith and cultural values independently of Western secular influences or progressive theological shifts. His leadership plays a crucial role in enabling the African Church to maintain an independent stance on issues that might challenge its foundational beliefs.
Cardinal Ambongo has taken a firm position on the issue of blessings for same-sex couples. He has expressed strong opposition from the African bishops to the Vatican’s proposal in Fiducia Supplicans, a document that suggests the possibility of blessing same-sex couples. Cardinal Ambongo stated unequivocally, "There is no place for blessing same-sex couples in Africa," underscoring that any blessings must align with God’s will. He adheres to the traditional doctrine that same-sex orientation is inconsistent with God's teachings, as stated in both the Bible and Church doctrine.
While he acknowledges that blessings can be given to individuals to encourage their transformation, Cardinal Ambongo clarifies that this act aligns with the Church's stance that same-sex orientation diverges from God’s will. He is also cautious about potential financial or political pressures from outside sources and insists that the African Church should remain independent in its doctrinal decisions.
As a defender of traditional beliefs and doctrines, Cardinal Ambongo amplifies the voice of the African Church within the global Catholic community, advocating for the preservation of core Catholic values without compromising with secular ideals. His influence extends not only within the African Catholic community but also across the global Church.
[9-9] Progressive Cardinal-to-Be Denies Dissing African Bishops over Homosexuality...
Breitbart.com reported on October 23, 2024:
By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
Gay-rights activist Father Timothy Radcliffe has denied reports that he attributed the African Church’s resistance to homosexuality to an influx of foreign money, insisting that his words were “misinterpreted.”
Radcliffe, who is slated to be made a cardinal by Pope Francis in December, seemed to blame African opposition to homosexuality on “intense pressure” from outside influences like wealthy American evangelicals.
In an October 12 article in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Father Radcliffe asserted that the Catholic Church must be open to everyone, whoever they are, “the divorced and remarried, gays, transgender people.”
“But in some parts of the world, welcoming gays is seen as scandalous,” he wrote. “Many Catholic bishops in Africa see it as an attempt to impose a decadent Western ideology on the rest of the world.”
The UK priest noted with sadness that Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa, president of the organization that represents all the Catholic bishops of Africa, had traveled to Rome in December 2023 to explain to Pope Francis why the African bishops could not embrace a Vatican text titled Fiducia Supplicans that opened the possibility of granting priestly blessings to gay couples.
“Never before had all the bishops of a continent repudiated a Vatican document,” Radcliffe stated. “Every attempt was made to calm the crisis.”
“Is the refusal to bless gays in Africa an example of inculturation or a refusal to be a nonconformist?” Radcliffe asked. “Inculturation for one person is another person’s rejection of the nonconformist Gospel.”
Oddly, in his attempt to explain why the African bishops had united in rejecting a proposal to bless gay couples, Father Radcliffe did not reference biblical teaching on homosexuality nor the Church’s unchanging doctrine condemning gay sex.
Instead, he suggested that “African bishops are under intense pressure from Evangelicals, with American money; from Russian Orthodox, with Russian money; and from Muslims, with money from the rich Gulf countries.”
In other words, he seemed to say that if the African bishops are rejecting the idea of blessing same-sex couples, it cannot be out of fidelity to Christ and his Gospel; it must represent a caving to external pressures.
Yet Cardinal Ambongo had already offered an explanation for the African bishops’ action, stating that in Africa “there is no place to bless homosexual couples. Not at all.”
Blessings for individual persons are given “in the hope that the grace of the blessing can help them convert,” the cardinal said. “And if we bless a homosexual, it is also to say that ‘your sexual orientation is not in accordance with the will of God and we hope that the blessing can help you change because homosexuality is condemned in the Bible and by the magisterium of the Church.’”
“We cannot be promoters of sexual deviation. Let them do it in their homes, but not in ours,” he said.
Nonetheless, on Wednesday, Father Radcliffe denied suggesting that the African bishops had been swayed by foreign money in their rejection of Fiducia Supplicans.
“I never wrote or suggested that positions taken by the Catholic Church in Africa were influenced by financial considerations,” the priest said in an official communiqué from the Vatican Synod office.
“I was acknowledging only that the Catholic Church in Africa is under tremendous pressure from other religions and church which are well funded by outside sources.”
What the cardinal actually wrote was:
The African bishops are under intense pressure from evangelicals, with American money; of the Russian Orthodox, with Russian money; and Muslims, with money from the rich Gulf countries. There should have been a discussion with them before, and not after, the publication of [Fiducia Supplicans]. Whatever we think about the declaration, when it comes to dealing with tensions, and to overcome them, we all need to think and engage with each other on a deep level.
In a further wrinkle worthy of an ecclesiastical soap opera, Cardinal Ambongo himself also weighed in, saying he couldn’t believe that Father Radcliffe had actually written such things.
Reading an English-language report on what Radcliffe had said in his L’Osservatore Romano article, the cardinal said that he had “read this article in which we are accused of having taken money from Russia, from the Gulf countries, and from the United States, through the Pentecostal churches.”
“But we are at the synod, and we follow the teachings of Father Radcliffe, and I do not recognize at all what Father Radcliffe said in the article you are mentioning,” he replied to a journalist who asked about Radcliffe’s article.
“Father Radcliffe has never said these things, and this does not correspond at all to his personality,” Ambongo said, “and I can assure you that this is something that is totally untrue.”
In his communiqué Wednesday, Father Radcliffe asserts that “Cardinal Ambongo’s reply did not refer to the article published in L’Osservatore Romano, but to one by Phil Lawler in Catholic Culture of 17 October.”
In that article, Lawler cites Father Radcliffe’s L’Osservatore Romano article at length, highlighting the “intense pressure” felt by African bishops because of all the American Evangelical, Russian Orthodox, and Muslim money flowing in.
"I will not stand for My priests who condone homosexuality and allow it in My priesthood! I will not stand for My priests who allow the murder of the unborn with their permissiveness! I will not stand by and allow My priesthood to be destroyed!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, June 18, 1982
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will also be mitres."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Rose, October 6, 1980
"It was, My children, a sinister plan from the depths of hell to remove the knowledge of the divinity of My Son from among you."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, February 10, 1978
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