Bergoglio Doubles Down: ‘The Diversity of Our Religious Identities is a Gift from God’

The apostate once again confirms his apostasy…

Bergoglio Doubles Down: ‘The Diversity of Our Religious Identities is a Gift from God’!

Today ‘Pope’ Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) gave a one-word message to all ‘popesplainers’: checkmate!

Of course he didn’t quite say it like that, but he did make absolutely clear, with no plausible deniability, that the existence of many different religions is a positive good that is actively willed by God because it enriches humanity. You can’t make this stuff up!

In a video message published by the Vatican on the occasion of the “Med24” meeting in Tirana, Albania, the false pope states:

[Italian original, as reported by Vatican:]

Imparate insieme a leggere i segni dei tempi. Contemplate la diversità delle vostre tradizioni come una ricchezza, una ricchezza voluta da Dio. L’unità non è uniformità, e la diversità delle nostre identità culturali e religiose è un dono di Dio. Unità nella diversità. Crescete nella stima reciproca, come testimoniano i vostri antenati.

[English translation via DeepL:]

Learn together to read the signs of the times. Contemplate the diversity of your traditions as a wealth, a wealth willed by God. Unity is not uniformity, and the diversity of our cultural and religious identities is a gift from God. Unity in diversity. Grow in mutual esteem, as witnessed by your ancestors.

[official Vatican translation:]

I invite you to learn together to discern the signs of the times. Contemplate the difference of your traditions like a richness, a richness God wants to be. Unity is not uniformity, and the diversity of your cultural and religious identities is a gift of God. Unity in diversity. Let mutual esteem grow among you, following the witness of your forefathers.

There are some other problematic elements in his message, but they pale in comparison with this frighteningly blasphemous statement of apostasy that basically claims that the many false religions are God’s gift to the world!

In other words, Francis is claiming that the world would be poorer if Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Mormonism, etc. did not exist. He is claiming that God is pleased with the unbelief of the Jews, the idolatry of the pagans, the Arianism of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the countless heresies of the Protestants, the apostasy of the Unitarians, and so forth. This is such a perverse and evil doctrine that it defies belief that anyone could possibly hold it!

As a divinely-willed enrichment for humanity, false religions could not be obstacles to salvation but instead would have to lead their adherents to God, for an all-good God could not actively will the existence of religions that lead people to damnation. And so, lo and behold, the notion that all religions are paths to God is precisely what Bergoglio told youngsters in Singapore last Friday, Sep. 13:

• Francis Tells Interreligious Youths: All Religions Lead to God!
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Technically, this is not something new of Francis to say. Although it is not widely known, he has said essentially the same thing on prior occasions. Here are but a few examples: At an interreligious roundtable in the Vatican three years ago, he proclaimed, “If in the past, our [religious] differences set us at odds, nowadays we see in them the richness of different ways of coming to God…” (source). Speaking to an interreligious group of youths in Mozambique, he told them that their religious differences were “necessary” (source). As part of an encounter with university students in Africa, Francis warned them to stay away from the “supermarket of salvation” the various religions offer; instead, “We’ll find the path in our heart”, he claimed (source). And addressing his own Swiss Guards some time ago, he told them that “the right attitude” for living in society is to “recognize cultural, religious, and social diversity as a human wealth [enrichment] and not as a threat” (source).

Who reported on this, you wonder? Novus Ordo Watch did. Perhaps also a few others, but certainly not many.

The reality is, of course, that only one religion is willed by God, and that is the true religion, the Roman Catholic religion: “…the only true religion is the one established by Jesus Christ Himself, and which He committed to His Church to protect and to propagate” (Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Immortale Dei, n. 7).

Every false religion is necessarily and per se a hindrance to salvation. It is a deception of the devil that, if followed, will ruin a man’s soul eternally, for which reason God established the Catholic Church as the only Ark of Salvation for mankind: “Faith orders Us to hold that out of the Apostolic Roman Church no person can be saved, that it is the only ark of salvation, and that whoever will not enter therein shall perish in the waters of the deluge” (Pope Pius IX, Allocution Singulari Quadam, Dec. 9, 1854).

Perhaps the most forceful statement of the Catholic Church’s dogma concerning her own uniqueness as the only Ark of Salvation is that published by the Council of Florence in the 15th century, approved by Pope Eugene IV:

[This council] firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” [Mt 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.

(Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino; Denz. 714.)

Francis does not believe this, however, as he has now proved again and again, regardless of what orthodox things he may say at other times. As Pope Pius VI warned, this

cannot be excused in the way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly shocking affirmations in one place are further developed along orthodox lines in other places, and even in yet other places corrected; as if allowing for the possibility of either affirming or denying the statement, or of leaving it up to the personal inclinations of the individual – such has always been the fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish error. It allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of excusing it.

(Pope Pius VI, Bull Auctorem Fidei, preamble)

Interestingly enough, when it comes to ecumenism, that is, to the interdenominational ‘search for Christian unity’ that rejects conversion of all non-Catholics to Catholicism as the only legitimate goal, Bergoglio is happy to decry the divisions among ‘Christians’ as a scandal that must finally be overcome; whereas now that he is addressing people of many other religions (not just ‘Christian’ ones), he regards the multiplicity of creeds as a great human wealth that is supposedly the very will of God, whose infinite Wisdom is allegedly reflected thereby.

Francis is not consistent in the anti-Catholic ideas he spouts, except that they’re always detrimental to Catholicism.

These most recent apostatical remarks by the fake pope are a vindication of Novus Ordo Watch and other traditionalists who have long said that Bergoglio considers false religions not as an evil to be tolerated but as a positive good to be cherished and celebrated. This became abundantly clear in February of 2019, when he signed a document in Abu Dhabi saying God wills the diversity of religions. At the time, ‘popesplainers’ were busy explaining away the writing on the wall, but those chickens have now come back to roost:

• The Apostate Abu Dhabi Declaration on Human Fraternity
• No Ark of Salvation: A Critical Look at Francis’ ‘Ark of Fraternity’ Speech
• Francis Lies to ‘Bp.’ Schneider, tells him he meant God wills Diversity of Religions merely Permissively
• Naturalism at Full Blast: Francis on the Existence of All Religions
• Apostate Adrift: Francis Says Fraternity is ‘Anchor of Salvation for Humanity’
• Francis to Muslim Elders: ‘Transcendence and Fraternity Alone will Save Us’

We might point out that, unlike his comments in Singapore on Sep. 13, on this present occasion Francis’ remarks were not given off the cuff but were read from a prepared script. In other words, he said what he said with full deliberation and prior preparation.

The 16th-century Catechism of the Council of Trent, composed under the direction of St. Charles Borromeo and ordered to be published by Pope St. Pius V, teaches that heretical sects are “guided by the spirit of the devil” (p. 67). How much more so, then, must religions be guided by the spirits of hell that are not merely heretical but infidel or apostate?

Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903) hit the nail on the head when he identified as “the great error of this age” the heresy of Indifferentism, which holds “that a regard for religion should be held as an indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike. This manner of reasoning is calculated to bring about the ruin of all forms of religion, and especially of the Catholic religion, which, as it is the only one that is true, cannot, without great injustice, be regarded as merely equal to other religions” (Encyclical Humanum Genus, n. 16). That is the heresy Bergoglio is now proclaiming.

Pope St. Pius X (d. 1914) warned of people like Bergoglio when he wrote: “They are proposing a universal apostasy even worse than the one that threatened the age of [St.] Charles [Borromeo]. It is worse, We say, because it stealthily creeps into the very veins of the Church, hides there, and cunningly pushes erroneous principles to their ultimate conclusions” (Encyclical Editae Saepe, n. 18).

For all those wondering what in the world has happened to the Catholic Church, this video presentation should prove immensely helpful:

• Eclipse of the Church: The Case for Sedevacantism

Let us never forget in our chaotic days that St. Paul himself prophesied that there would arise an “operation of error” in the last days once the restraining force had been removed:

Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.

(2 Thessalonians 2:3-11)

If we suppose, as is possible, that the restraining force holding back the mystery of iniquity is the Pope (the Papacy), then suddenly what has happened since the death of Pope Pius XII (d. 1958), the last true Pope, begins to make sense.

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