The Portugal News
"The Portugal
News" published in English the
first and only article against this Conference in all of Portugal entitled "Fatima to Become an Interfaith
Shrine". Mostly from this article came the controversy. They have published the
false claims of the false organization called "Vatican Investigators Inc.",
and organization that does not exist. Since
the Portugal News is located in the Algarve, a six hour drive from Fatima, has
a distribution of only a few thousand,
and reports mostly on the happenings of the retired people from England in the
Algarve, why are they reporting on anything in Fatima or anything Catholic,
since their readers are mostly Protestants from England. Although the source of these reports comes
from those people who have a long history of conflicts with the Fatima Shrine
(Father Gruner, The Pius X Society, The Portugal News), I
cannot find a way to condone the invitation of Father Jacques Dupuis as a
speaker.
Father Jacques
Dupuis is not new to me. Because I have
been in the ecumenical movement for many years and in fact this is why I call
my company "Unity Publishing", I have had to learn what "Ecumenical"
means to a Catholic. To the Holy Father
and to all true Catholics it means "dialogue to the truth of
faith". It does not mean "pluralism"
which is a heresy. The Holy Father
stressed this many times but most forcibly
in "That they may be One" and in the "Spender of
Truth". To a Catholic
"dialogue to truth" will lead all religions to join the Catholic
Faith because we, and we alone, possess the truth and we are confident that we
can prove this in pure and scientific dialogue. To do this successfully we must hold fast to the teachings of the
faith and not compromise truth.
Father Jacques
Dupuis stands for everything that I stand against in the ecumenical
movement. He is a notorious pluralist
and therefore a notorious heretic. He
has not been declared a heretic yet, but he has been censured by the Vatican
and his writings have been censured.
However, the very statements that the Vatican required of him to include
in his writings are the very statements that he repudiated at this
conference. I will assume now that he
will be called to task by the Vatican and have to recant or be excommunicated.
At the Congress,
Father Dupuis said that the purpose of dialogue is NOT to convert
the non-Catholic but rather to help "the Christian to become a better
Christian, and the Hindu a better Hindu
- Christians and ‘the others’
are co-members of the Reign of God in history - the Holy Spirit is present and
operative in the sacred books of Hinduism or of Buddhism - He is present and operative
in the sacred rites of Hinduism".
In reference to the doctrine of "outside the Church there is no
salvation proclaimed again at the Council of Florence, Father Jacques Dupuis
said, "There is no need to
invoke here that horrible text from the Council of Florence in 1442".
Father Dupuis
stated that: "Christians and ‘the
others’ are co-members of the Reign of God in history - the Holy Spirit is present and operative in the sacred books of
Hinduism or of Buddhism. That He is present and operative in the sacred rites
of Hinduism".
All these
statements are heresy, the heresy of pluralism. They are everything that the ecumenical movement stands against. They are in fact Masonic and Antichrist
doctrines. They are the goals of the
Masons, and what is said to be the religion of the Antichrist when he
comes. A Religion of no truths but
where everyone will decide him or herself what they want to believe or how they
want to worship, what is moral and what is not, each person being his own tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
Although I know
that Fatima will never be corrupted by "pluralism", Masons, or the
Antichrist, someone will have to answer as to why they allowed Father Dupuis to
speak at this conference.
The Cardinal of
Lisbon should also explain what he meant by "Sister Lucy is no longer a point of reference today since we
have such a good one in the Second Vatican Council".
Another
conference almost identical to the one held here in Fatima in October was just
held in Buenos Aires. Archbishop
Michael Fitzgerald, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious
Dialogue, revealed in Argentina that the Holy See is preparing a new document
on the spiritual dimension of inter-religious dialogue.
Dialogue
with believers of other religions "is not a hobby or an extra activity but
a duty within the mission of the Church," Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald said.
"The problem that arises is how to reconcile dialogue as part of
the mission of the Church with Jesus' mandate to go out and preach."
The
archbishop said this to the representatives of the Jews, Muslims, Buddhists,
Hindus, Anglicans, Methodists, evangelical Baptists, Waldensians, and others,
at the headquarters of the Argentine Catholic bishops' conference. "The Church must dialogue and proclaim,
two tasks that are different but not opposed," the British archbishop
said. "We must discover what the Spirit wants from that dialogue."
This
is very different than what is said
about the Fatima Conference. The
archbishop revealed that the finishing touches are being given to the new
document on the spiritual dimension of dialogue. He said the text will address
the reasons for engaging in and maintaining dialogue.
WHO WE ASSOCIATE WITH
Knowing that Rome
will not let Fatima become an interfaith shrine does not take away from the
fact that speakers at this conference were allowed to quote heretics like Father
Edward Schillebeeckx or have speakers speak out against the Catholic faith or
to say that "Sister Lucy is no
longer a point of reference". I
will be asking these questions in Fatima to whosoever will talk with me until I
get some answers. In the mean time this
is not the last Newsletter on this subject you can be assured.
Sorry for taking so
long to write about this but as you can see answers are not easy to get here.
Richard P. Salbato