Nosotros no hemos recibido el espíritu del mundo, sino el Espíritu que procede de Dios (1 Cor 2, 12), el Espíritu de su Hijo, que Dios envió a nuestros corazones (Gal 4,6). Y por eso predicamos a Cristo crucificado, escándalo para los judíos y locura para los gentiles, pero para los llamados, tanto judíos como griegos, es Cristo fuerza de Dios y sabiduría de Dios (1 Cor 1,23-24). De modo que si alguien os anuncia un evangelio distinto del que recibisteis, ¡sea anatema! (Gal 1,9).
ROMA, 5 de enero de 2018 ( LifeSiteNews ) - El cardenal Janis Pujats, arzobispo Metropolitano de Riga, Letonia, se ha unido a tres obispos de Kazajstán y dos arzobispos italianos para firmar la "Profesión de verdades inmutables sobre el matrimonio sacramental", confirmó LifeSite. La adición de la firma del cardenal Janis Pujats eleva el número de signatarios a seis. A principios de esta semana, el obispo Athanasius Schneider, auxiliar de Astaná, Kazajistán, el arzobispo Tomash Peta, metropolitano de Astaná, y el arzobispo Jan Pawel Lenga de Karaganda, Kazajstán, emitieron una "profesión pública e inequívoca de la verdad" sobre las enseñanzas de la Iglesia sobre la indisolubilidad de el matrimonio como un "servicio de caridad en verdad" para la Iglesia de hoy y para el Papa. LEER MÁS: 'Tres obispos llaman 'EXTRAÑA'a la fe católica la lectura que hace el Papa sobre Amoris Laetitia La declaración de los Ordinarios Kazajos viene en respuesta a la interpretación del Papa Francisco y ciertos obispos de Amoris Laetitia para permitir a algunos divorciados "casados" (sin anulación y sin vivir en continencia sexual) el acceso a los Sacramentos de Penitencia y Sagrada Comunión. Los obispos afirman que tal lectura está causando "confusión desenfrenada", extenderá "una plaga de divorcio" en la Iglesia, y es "ajena" a toda la fe y Tradición de la Iglesia. La adhesión del Cardenal Letón a la Profesión viene después de la del ex nuncio de los Estados Unidos, el Arzobispo Carlo Maria Viganò, y el Arzobispo emérito Luigi Negri de Ferrara-Comacchio en el norte de Italia. Pujats asistió al Seminario Teológico en Riga, Letonia hasta que fue cerrada por la Unión Soviética en 1951. Dos meses más tarde fue ordenado en una ceremonia secreta por el Arzobispo Antonijs Springovičs . Fue nombrado arzobispo de Riga en 1991. El 21 de febrero de 1998 fue nombrado Cardenal por el Papa Juan Pablo II. Su cardenalato se hizo público en el consistorio el 21 de febrero de 2001. El cardenal Pujats fue uno de los cardenales electores que participaron en el cónclave de 2005 que eligió al Papa Benedicto XVI. Habla ruso, polaco, lituano, alemán y latín además de su letón natal.
Diane Montagna
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Nota: El cardenal Pujats es conocido por ser el único miembro del sínodo de obispos que habla exclusivamente latín cuando está al micrófono, tanto en los encuentros de 2001 como en 2005.
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La noticia ha salido en los medios más importantes:
Por supuesto que esta noticia[¡ya comienzan a hablar también los cardenales!] que considero de especial importancia, ha salido en muchos más medios de los que yo indico aquí. Sirvan éstos a modo de ejemplo. Es evidente (a mí me lo parece) que estamos en la Iglesia en una situación muy cercana al llamado cisma "formal" (como sabemos tal cisma ya existe, de hecho, en la Iglesia ... pero no está legalmente reconocido). Si tal ocurriera y, por lo tanto, Dios lo permitiera, sería sin duda un bien para la Iglesia. El cristiano, el católico, no puede permitirse vivir en una situación de ambigüedad. Ante Dios, manifestado en Jesucristo, fuera del cual no hay salvación(cfr. Hech 4, 12) hay que definirse con claridad: "El que no está conmigo está contra Mí"(Mt 12, 30). No cabe el nadar entre dos aguas. Y es que, como decía san Pablo - y la realidad viene a corroborar una vez más- "nada podemos contra la verdad sino en favor de la verdad" (2 Cor 13, 8)
When it gets down to the nitty gritty details of the Faith, you can bet on the Church of Nice crowd to fall absolutely silent. Their pathetic "reasonable hope all men are saved" argument falls totally flat when compared with authentic Catholicism.
That spiritual insanity fails to properly comprehend the truths of God, Hell, sin, and free will, as well as some other Catholic truths. They simply do not want to admit the supernatural realities, the stakes that are being played for in the spiritual warfare that all the saints spoke so eloquently and magnificently about.
When God said to the serpent, "I will put enmity between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers," just who exactly does the Church of Nice think God was referring to when He spoke of the offspring of Satan? They don't even consider this question. That's what happens when you dismiss Hell as just "a real possibility."
The problem is that for them, the possibility of someone going to Hell is so miniscule, so "can’t happen in a million years," that it can be easily dismissed in their catechesis and evangelization efforts. For the record, Our Blessed Lord did not dismiss it so easily. So let's look at an authentic understanding and consider the reality that Church of Nicers don't want to.
Every soul who is damned was, while on earth, someone's husband, mother, wife, son, uncle or grandson — someone. They had relationships with all kinds of people, people for whom they had an earthly love and affection and who loved and cared for them in return. That's part of human nature, even fallen human nature.
But what happens to those bonds when a person is damned? Let's take the adult son who dies in mortal sin owing to his sins of the flesh, whatever variety they might be — adultery, fornication, cohabitation, homosexuality, promiscuity, masturbation, lust and so forth. Those ties with whom he loved and cared for here on earth are immediately and eternally broken and turn into everlasting hatred for those people.
He is now confirmed forever as a "son of Satan," so to speak, a slave to the diabolical. He now is incapable of anything but authentic hate, a hate so deep that there is actually a different word for it: enmity. Enmity carries with it the understanding of not just hatred, but bearing ill will toward others, wishing for their demise, odium, loathing. This becomes for the damned the sentiment toward everything and everyone. They have willfully cut themselves off from everlasting life by their rejection of Christ in this life.
So in the next, they become completely the offspring of Satan, not biologically, of course, but even more powerfully, in spirit. God said He would put enmity between Satan and the Woman and between their two families of offspring. The damned hate God, they hate the Blessed Virgin Mary, and they hate their own earthly family and friends, most especially those who are in Heaven.
So if our sample sexually perverse son is damned and his mother is saved, he will hate her, and there will never be any going back from it because his reality is sealed forever at the point of death. He will have an everlasting loathing for her, no matter what his feelings may have been for her in this life. Our Blessed Lord made quick work of any appeal to earthly family when it stood in the way of salvation.
He said He came to bring the sword, that families would war with each other over him, that no one is saved based on his DNA or familial relationships, despite the Jewish leaders appealing to Abraham as their father. Our Lord rightfully pointed out that their father was the devil. Notice the use of the word "father."
Earthly relationships are not heavenly relationships. Even marriage, no matter how life-giving and spiritually beneficial it may have been in this life, comes to an end at the point of death. Our family in Heaven will be those with whom we are brothers and sisters in Christ, not those whom we might have shared biological DNA with on earth. Spiritual DNA will be the tie that binds.
And what of the relationship between the mother in Heaven and her son in Hell? It is almost impossible for us to wrap our heads around this, but she will not be mourning him or feel the slightest degree of sadness or longing for him. His father will be the devil, and her father will be God — and it will be as such for life everlasting.
In fact, various Doctors of the Church pointed out that the punishment meted out to her former son will be seen by her and rejoiced over by her as a manifestation of the justice of God. When the great thunderous cheer of final victory goes up on the Last Day from the elect as they are ascending to Heaven and the damned are falling into Hell, of course there will be many, many people on opposite sides who knew each other in this life and were even related. The cheer will resound from the saved, and one dynamic of that cheer will be that the damned are manifesting the justice of Almighty God.
This kind of stuff must be talked about because this is the final, ultimate reality. There will be a Last Day, a final accounting, and the reward and punishment of everlasting life or death. It is terrifying to think that someone we may have loved here on earth we will view entirely differently in the blinding light of the illumination of God. We will no longer see them as son or mother or daughter. We will see them as God sees them — as a human who has the devil as their father — and the saved will be perfectly conformed to Almighty God and will see them in the same light. The damned will be forgotten forever by the saved. Except for being a manifestation of God’s justice, they will have no regard for them.
This is how evangelization and catechesis needs to be done — the whole blinding, terrifying, glorious truth — so that we can be correctly motivated by the truth, not by our emotions. The goal is to save souls, not feel good about ourselves and experience an emotional high.
