Heresy
of the Week
By Bro. Michael
Dimond, O.S.B.
Introductory
Note: * A Heretic is a baptized person who rejects an authoritative teaching of
the Roman Catholic Church. A schismatic
is a person who refuses communion with a true Pope or refuses communion with
true Catholics. An apostate is a person
who rejects the Christian faith completely.
All heretics, schismatics and apostates sever themselves from the
Catholic Church automatically (Pius XII, Mystici
Corporis, June 29, 1943). Therefore,
if one is a heretic he is not a Catholic (Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896).
And most heretics convince themselves that they are not denying any
dogma when they actually are. The Heresy
of the Week changes every Monday. (All
emphasis, such as bolding, underlining, and italicization is not necessarily
that of the quoted author.) * Heresies
from Benedict XVI used in past Heresy of the Week columns are usually found in Benedict
XVI's recent heresies file.
His worst heresies are found in the article on: The
Heresies of Benedict XVI [PDF file] .
Other past Heresies of the Week are probably found in either the Heresy
of the Week Archive or the Some of the Recent Feature Articles
page or The Heresy of the Week Archive
for those from years back.
For this Week: (5/8/08): Benedict XVI praises the “invaluable
work of ecumenism”
Benedict XVI, Address to 250 Representatives of about 10 different “Christian”
denominations at Ecumenical Meeting, April 18, 2008: “Through you, I express my
sincere appreciation for the invaluable work of all those engaged in ecumenism:
the National Council of Churches, Christian Churches Together, the Catholic
Bishops’ Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and many others…
I thank you all.”[1]
To
praise ecumenism is heresy.
Last
week’s heresy is here:
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For this Week: (5/1/08): Benedict XVI states that he has “esteem
for the United Nations”
Benedict XVI, Address at the UN, to the representatives of the Member Nations, April
18, 2008: “The United Nations
embodies the aspiration for a greater
degree of international ordering… through binding international rules and
through harmonizing the day-to-day unfolding of the lives of peoples… If States
are unable to guarantee such protection,
the international community must intervene with the juridical means provided in
the United Nations Charter and in other international instruments… The
activity of the United Nations in recent years has ensured that public debate
gives space to viewpoints inspired by a religious vision in all its dimensions,
including ritual, worship, education, dissemination of information, and the freedom to profess and choose religion. It is
inconceivable, then, that believers should have to suppress a part of
themselves – their faith – in order to be active citizens. It should never be necessary to deny God in
order to enjoy one’s rights… The full guarantee of religious liberty cannot
be limited to the free exercise of worship, but has to give due consideration
to the public dimension of religion, and hence, to the possibility of believers
playing their part in building the social order… My presence at this Assembly is a sign of esteem for the United Nations,
and it is intended to express the hope that the Organization will increasingly
serve as a sign of unity between States and an instrument of service to the
entire human family… That is why the
Church is happy to be associated with the activity of this distinguished
Organization, charged with the responsibility of promoting peace and good
will throughout the earth. Dear friends,
I thank you for this opportunity to address you today, and I promise you of the support of my prayers as you pursue your noble
task. ”[2]
First,
Benedict XVI appears to be promoting a New World Order under the UN established
“through binding international rules.”
Second, he promotes the heretical idea that people should be able to
choose any religion and promote that false religion publicly in all ways. Third, he basically states that if members of
false religions are deprived of their right to publicly propagate their false
religion it would be to “deny God.” This
means that Benedict views the practice of false religions as worshipping the
true God. Fourth, he again promotes the
heresy of religious liberty. Fifth, he
says that he has “esteem for the United Nations.” This is also heresy because the UN is
officially involved in promoting sex education; it actively distributes condoms
and other contraceptive devices for men and women. This means that Benedict XVI esteems sex
education and contraception. Sixth, he
says that the Church is associated with the activity of the UN, and that the
UN’s task is “noble.” See the links
below from the UN’s official website and from others on how the UN actively
promotes population control, contraception, etc.
“… UNICEF has increasingly pushed
controversial sex education among children, population control and abortion
programs that risk alienating beneficiaries in developing Christian, Muslim and
traditional societies. This trend was
codified in the 1998 declaration in Geneva of a partnership of the Children's
Fund, World Health Organization and UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).
That partnership -- the Co-ordinating Committee on Health -- aligned UNICEF
with UNFPA's major partner agency, International Planned Parenthood, which
ranks second only to the Chinese government in the volume of abortions it
provides.” (See http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/oct/021030a.html)
“… the PRI says that through a September
investigation in China at the family planning facilities, the UNFPA sat back
and watched its Chinese counterparts enforce the very situations it claims to
avoid.
"We
located the family planning offices, and in that family planning office, we
located the UNFPA office, and we confirmed from family planning officials there
that there is no distinction between what the UNFPA does and what the Chinese
Family Planning Office does," said Scott Weinberg, spokesman for PRI.”(See
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/18/204424.shtml)
The
UN gave China its first UN Population Award in 1983 "for the most
outstanding contribution to the awareness of population questions." In 1983, the Beijing Review reported
China's family planning minister as saying that his award was "a symbol of
UN support and encouragement for China's family planning program."
Nor
does the UNFPA's support go unnoticed by those whose rights are violated. Renowned Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng
testified on this before Congress on February 3, 1998.
“…
the Chinese people have a very serious view of all U.N. activities in China in
the field of population control. ... When the United Nations gave the Chinese
government population control award, the Chinese people were flabbergasted.
They were asking, is the U.N. on the side of the Chinese government? And so the
Chinese people have a very negative image of the U.N. organization in this
field.” (See http://www.nrlc.org/news/1999/NRL399/chris.htm)
An example of how the UN supports abortion: http://www.zenit.org/article-21020?l=english
The
UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is actively
involved in supporting and actively distributing condoms and other
contraceptive devices. (See http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/programming.htm)
“In an effort to fight these meaningless deaths,
UNFPA, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the
International Federation of the Red Cross in 1996 looked at the reproductive
health needs of refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire in the Great Lakes
regions of Central Africa. As a result, about 220,000 displaced women of
child-bearing age received a package of reproductive health care services
together with other emergency supplies.” (See http://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/factsheets/FS6.HTM)
“In mid-April of 1999, the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation
(IPPF) announced emergency shipments of reproductive health services to Kosovar
refugees. …The list of reproductive health supplies sent to 350,000 Kosovar
refugees included an oral contraception kit, a sexually transmitted disease
kit, intrauterine devices (IUDs), a "complications from abortions"
kit, and condoms. The kits also contained emergency contraception pills that prevent
a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.
Critics charge that UNFPA promotes abortion in refugee camps, which are
among the most unsanitary and dangerous places on earth. "It is outrageous
that they are not providing basic health services for these people," said
Jeanne Head, chief UN lobbyist for International Right to Life Federation.
"Basic things, like clean water. UNFPA seems to be obsessed with
preventing people from having children.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Population_Fund)
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