Grave Concerns About Pope Francis’ Abu Dhabi Document - By Professor Josef Seifert
There are grave concerns among Catholics about the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together which Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, signed on February 4, 2019 in Abu Dhabi.
Nobody doubts that many truths about God and the natural moral law, and many semina verbi have been known by the pagans and are contained in many religions (except in the directly satanic ones), such as the “golden rule”.
Nobody believes that God cannot give the grace of eternal salvation outside the realm of the visible Church, its sacraments and conscious Christian faith. No one fails to see the many good and beautiful truths Pope Francis and the Imam confirm in the document.
However, to claim that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions" (colour, sex, race and language) are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings” goes far, far beyond all this. …More
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“Should no human aid against a tyrant be forthcoming, recourse must be had to God, the King of all...But to deserve this benefit from God, the people must desist from sin...Sin must be done away with in order that the scourge of tyrants may cease.” — St Thomas Aquinas, De Regno
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"The fifth reason for calling an ecumenical council is a suspicion of heresy in a Roman pontiff, if it should happen, or also incorrigible tyranny; for then a general council ought to be gathered, either to depose the pontiff, if he be found incorrigible, or at least to admonish him, if he appears to be incorrigible in his morals: for, as is said in the 8th Synod, last session, canon 21, general councils must take cognisance of controversies that arise concerning the Roman pontiff, though they must not pass sentence on him boldly" (St Robert Bellarmine, Controversies, 4th General Controversy, book 1, chapter 9).
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We are far too seldom reminded that just as church-going is not religion, so reading and writing are not knowledge, and voting is not self-government.
" THE SMOKE OF SATAN HAS BECOME A RAGING BONFIRE." FUELING THIS ENGULFING FIRE IS FRANCIS HERESIES ".