Bergoglio’s Generic God: Betraying Jesus Christ for the Sake of Interreligious Harmony

False pope visits mosque in Indonesia…

Bergoglio’s Generic God: Betraying Jesus Christ for the Sake of Interreligious Harmony

At 87 years of age, ‘Pope’ Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) just began the longest trip of his ‘pontificate’. From Sep. 2-13, 2024, the Argentinian apostate is visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Singapore.

The reason for his travel is not, of course, to urge all the inhabitants there to convert to Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church — that’s something he dismisses as ugly ‘proselytism’, which according to him can even be a “great sin against ecumenism” — but to spread some Naturalist message about unity, harmony, and climate change.

In fact, his busy itinerary in Asia also includes two ‘interfaith’ meetings — motley assemblies in which Bergoglio likes to focus on the lowest common denominator and relegate the rest to mere ‘religious traditions’ we may rightly cherish but that are ultimately dispensable.

A Tunnel and a Declaration

The first such meeting took place on the morning of Sep. 5, 2024, when Francis visited Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. The gathering was held in a tent set up just outside the Islamic house of prayer, but upon his arrival, the false pope first visited the ‘Tunnel of Friendship’ together with his host, Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar. The tunnel, built in 2021, connects the mosque with the Catholic (now Novus Ordo) cathedral across the street.

The Vatican reports:

Upon arrival, the Pope was welcomed outside the Mosque by the Grand Imam, Professor K. H. Nasaruddin Umar, MA. Together they visited the Tunnel of Friendship, where the Holy Father greeted those present. Then, as a welcome song was sung, they approached the large marquee where the gathering took place.

After the singing of a passage from the Qur’an and the reading of a passage from the Gospel according to Luke, the Grand Imam delivered his welcome address to Pope Francis, followed by the reading and signing of the “Joint Declaration of Istiqlal 2024”. The Holy Father then delivered his address.

(Source)

The so-called Istiqlal Declaration they signed is entitled ‘Fostering Religious Harmony for the Sake of Humanity’ and regurgitates some familiar themes: human dignity, dialogue, fraternity, shared ‘religious values’, the ‘abuse’ of religion to foster division, man-made climate change, etc., ad nauseam.

It is the address of the ‘Holy Father’, however, not the declaration, that we will focus on in this post. Before we do so, here is the video showing the entire meeting, released by Vatican News:

At the ‘Tunnel of Friendship’, Francis made a few spiritually misleading remarks and concluded with a reference to “God, the Creator of all”, conspicuously omitting mention of the Holy Trinity or the only Redeemer of mankind, Jesus Christ, whose vicar he claims to be.

The day prior, at a meeting with children participating in his beloved Scholas Occurrentes educational project, he had ended the encounter by imparting a generic blessing “valid for all religions”, omitting the Sign of the Cross and any reference to the Holy Trinity or the Lord Jesus Christ:

Having engaged in a back-and-forth dialogue with some of the young people involved, the Pope announced he would impart a final blessing. With the group being composed of a number of different religions – Scholas is not a Catholic organization – Francis’ blessing assumed a multi-religious nature.

“I would like to give a blessing. A blessing signifies to say well, to wish something well,” he began. Continuing his prayer of blessing to the assembled crowd, which included Catholics and Muslims, Francis added:

Here, you are from diverse religions, but we have only one god, he is only one.

And in union, in silence, we shall pray to the lord and I shall give a blessing for all, a blessing valid for all religions.

May God bless each of you.

May he bless all your desires.

May he bless your families.

May he bless you present (here).

May he bless your future. Amen.

In closing, Francis did not make the Sign of the Cross as is standard practice for a Catholic cleric when giving a blessing, [n]or did he invoke the name of the Holy Trinity.

(Michael Haynes, “Pope Francis skips Sign of the Cross to impart blessing ‘valid for all religions’”, Life Site, Sep. 4, 2024)

With a ‘Catholic Pope’ like this, who needs Freemasons? What appears to the secular world to be praiseworthy because exhibiting interreligious sensitivity, is in fact nothing short of a tacit denial of the Most Holy Trinity. It is lowest-common-denominator-ism at its finest worst.

How different that is from genuine Catholicism can be seen, for example, when we look at how St. Francis of Assisi — supposedly ‘Pope’ Francis’ hero — acted in the presence of a Muslim sultan:

The Sultan Meledin asked him who sent them, and for what purpose they came? [Saint] Francis answered with courageous firmness: “We are not sent by men, but it is the Most High who sends me, in order that I may teach you and your people the way of salvation, by pointing out to you the truths of the Gospel.” He immediately preached to him, with great fervor, the dogma of One God in Three Persons, and the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind.

(Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, The Life of S. Francis of Assisi [New York, NY: D. & J. Sandlier & Co., 1889], pp. 197-198)

If Jorge Bergoglio had been around, he would have immediately blasted St. Francis as a dangerous fundamentalist whose “proselytism” disrespects the religious traditions of the sultan, traditions that are a richness to humanity and willed by God as an expression of His infinite wisdom!

The false pope would have accused St. Francis of lacking in compassion and charity, whereas in actual fact “there is no genuine fraternity outside Christian charity. Through the love of God and His Son Jesus Christ Our Saviour, Christian charity embraces all men, comforts all, and leads all to the same faith and same heavenly happiness” (Pope St. Pius X, Apostolic Letter Notre Charge Apostolique).

Bergoglian Lies and Half-Truths

Turning now to ‘Pope’ Francis’ address given just outside Istiqlal mosque on Sep. 5, here is how the papal pretender began:

I am happy to be here, in the largest Mosque in Asia, together with all of you. I greet the Grand Imam and thank him for his words, reminding us that this place of worship and prayer is also “a great house for humanity”, where everyone can enter and take time for themselves, in order to make space for that yearning for the infinite that each one of us carries in our hearts, and to seek an encounter with the divine and experience the joy of friendship with others.

And just like that, in half a sentence or so, the ‘Vicar of Christ’ whitewashes the worship space of Muslims into a house of prayer for all — as if a Catholic were permitted to pray inside the holy place of infidels!

As Catholic moral theology teaches us: “The most extensive denial of faith is found in infidelity, which rejects both Christ and His revelation. To this form of unbelief belong[s] … Mohammedanism (founded in Arabia in the 6th century A.D.), which makes Mohammed and his religion superior to Christ and Christianity, and rejects the Trinity and the Incarnation” (Fathers McHugh and Callan, Moral Theology, n. 822a).

The fake pope continues:

Moreover, I would like to recall that this Mosque was designed by the architect Friedrich Silaban, a Christian who won the design competition. This testifies to the fact that throughout the history of this nation and in the very fabric of its culture, the Mosque, like other places of worship, are spaces of dialogue, mutual respect and harmonious coexistence between religions and different spiritual sensibilities. This is a great gift that you are called to cultivate every day, so that religious experiences may be reference points for a fraternal and peaceful society and never reasons for close-mindedness or confrontation.

Indeed, the mosque was designed by one Friedrich Silaban, but he was a Lutheran. All this primarily testifies to is the fact that a heretic was happy to design a worship space for infidels — whoop dee do.

One can see how eager Francis is to adapt, and subordinate, religion to temporal concerns. That is because for him, religion has nothing to do with supernatural divine revelation that is objectively true and valid for all of humanity and that therefore imposes an obligation on all who have knowledge of it. Rather, for him religion is an “immanent transcendence”, as he once called it, a subjective human experience of sorts whose primary purpose is the betterment of the temporal world. That’s why he said in Morocco in 2019 that “being a Christian is not about adhering to a doctrine…” — you can’t make it up!

After lauding the ‘Tunnel of Friendship’ connecting the Catholic cathedral with the Islamic place of worship for the potential it has to facilitate “a genuine experience of fraternity, a caravan of solidarity, a sacred pilgrimage” (quoting himself in Evangelii Gaudium, n. 87), he adds:

I encourage you to continue along this path so that all of us, together, each cultivating his or her own spirituality and practicing his or her religion, may walk in search of God and contribute to building open societies, founded on reciprocal respect and mutual love, capable of protecting against rigidity, fundamentalism and extremism, which are always dangerous and never justifiable.

Notice how Bergoglio is not interested in the least to help the Muslims abandon their false religion and embrace the Gospel. On the contrary, he bends over backwards to point out how he wants them to keep “cultivating [their] own spirituality and practicing [their] religion”! It is no accident that he once encouraged a group of Muslims to keep reading the Koran and continue the practice of the ‘faith’ their parents instilled in them.

He does not consider Islam a danger to souls as long as it can be accommodated to that which he really cares about, namely, the worldly and temporal interests of harmony, coexistence, dignity, peace, and the climate. Rather, Bergoglio sees the real danger in “rigidity, fundamentalism and extremism” — in other words, in taking religion too seriously, perhaps even tying it to such spiritual things as the love and worship of God and the salvation of souls. Intolerable!

Next, Francis advises his hapless listeners to “always look deeply” and points out — oh, the irony! — “the important fact that the visible aspects of religions – the rites, practices and so on – are a heritage that must be protected and respected.” Unless, of course, they are the religious rites and practices of the Roman Catholic religion, then they can be suppressed, trashed, and mocked as a rigid clinging to a nostalgic past that must yield to “irreversible” liturgical and theological ‘progress’!

The Argentinian apostate then blathers about

the one root common to all religious sensitivities: the quest for an encounter with the divine, the thirst for the infinite that the Almighty has placed in our hearts, the search for a greater joy and a life stronger than any type of death, which animates the journey of our lives and impels us to step out of ourselves to encounter God. Here, let us remember that by looking deeply, grasping what flows in the depths of our lives, the desire for fullness that dwells in the depths of our hearts, we discover that we are all brothers and sisters, all pilgrims, all on our way to God, beyond what differentiates us.

It would have been the perfect opportunity for this ‘Pope’ now to point out that although we may all wish to see God and be eternally happy with Him, there is only one Way that can take us there: Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God and the Redeemer of the World. He who said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me” (Jn 14:6); and whose first Vicar said about Him, “This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:11-12).

But then, such religious ‘details’ are rather divisive, and since Francis’ message was to be one of unity, the Gospel just didn’t fit into it:

Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it

(Matthew 10:32-39)

These words are not easy to hear, but they are nonetheless true because they are the words of God.

Towards the end of his insufferable speech, the unbelieving ‘Pope’ declares:

Dear brothers and sisters, “fostering religious harmony for the sake of humanity” is the path that we are called to follow.

Notice how Francis here cleverly and conveniently uses passive voice. He states that we “are called” to follow this particular path. But who’s calling? Just who or what is “calling us” to this path? It’s certainly not the Most Holy Trinity. It’s not Jesus Christ. It’s not the Gospel.

The last portion of Bergoglio’s address we will comment on is the following:

I thank you for the common path you are taking. Indonesia is a great country, a mosaic of cultures, ethnicities and religious traditions, a rich diversity, which is also reflected in the varied ecosystem.

Notice the smooth phrase “religious traditions”. In recent years it has been used more and more in Vatican documents and ‘papal’ speeches. It is a euphemism for the blunter and starker term “religions”. As such, it is a clever rhetorical device Bergoglio makes use of to allow his message to appear less problematic.

The truth is quite simply that if the powers that be eventually want to unite all religions under the one humanistic meta-religion of the Antichrist, it will be a lot easier to accomplish that if people think of religions in terms of mere traditions — something that has been handed on, whether true or false, good or bad, from God or from the devil.

If people are to be persuaded that all religions ultimately adore the same god — remember Bergoglio’s words to the Scholas Occurrentes children! — and that they all preach more or less the same core doctrines and that no one possesses the truth anyway because it is infinitely beyond us, it will be much easier to do that with the term “religious traditions”. Without noticing, the noun has been switched from religions to traditions. The adjective — religious — will go under very quickly. It is a clever linguistic sleight of hand that will escape many, but not Novus Ordo Watch!

Francis has already laid the groundwork for the condemnation and perhaps eventual imprisonment or execution of those ‘fanatics’ who will still dare to claim that religious supremacy or exclusivism — placing one religion above others or even saying that theirs alone is the true religion, while all others are false. He has made clear that there is no room in his oh-so ‘tolerant’ anti-Catholic ideology for “rigidity, fundamentalism and extremism, which are always dangerous and never justifiable”!

A Final Reality Check

To conclude, we will recall two relevant exerpts from real Catholic Popes of the not-too-distant past as a fitting reality check for the above tripe Bergoglio has spouted.

First, a warning from one of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical letters against Freemasonry:

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

(Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Custodi Di Quella Fede, n. 15)

Secondly, a demonstration of the absurdity of the Modernist position regarding religious experience:

Here it is well to note at once that, given this [Modernist] doctrine of experience united with that of symbolism, every religion, even that of paganism, must be held to be true. What is to prevent such [subjective religious] experiences from being found in any religion? In fact, that they are so is maintained by not a few. On what grounds can Modernists deny the truth of an experience affirmed by a follower of Islam? Will they claim a monopoly of true experiences for Catholics alone? Indeed, Modernists do not deny, but actually maintain, some confusedly, others frankly, that all religions are true. That they cannot feel otherwise is obvious. For on what ground, according to their theories, could falsity be predicated of any religion whatsoever? … In the conflict between different religions, the most that Modernists can maintain is that the Catholic has more truth because it [the experience] is more vivid, and that it deserves with more reason the name of Christian because it corresponds more fully with the origins of Christianity.

(Pope St. Pius X, Encyclical Pascendi, n. 14)

What Francis just did outside Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque is simply the latest installment in his ongoing denial and betrayal of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and His holy Gospel.

The warning given by St. John the Apostle 2,000 years ago remains as valid today as ever:

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God: 3 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

(1 John 4:1-5)

The world is progressing ever onward to the point at which, having rejected the true Christ, it will enthusiastically accept the Antichrist: “I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive” (Jn 5:43).

Jorge Mario Bergoglio seems to be doing all he can to make sure it will happen sooner rather than later.

Image source: YouTube (screenshot)
License: fair use