As shown above, Putin signed a "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation" with Communist #China (July 16, 2001), "with the hope of promoting and establishing a just and fair NEW WORLD ORDER...." voltairenet.org/article173177.…
Moreover, just 20 days ago Putin and #XiJinping renewed their nations' strong ties via a lengthy joint statement, the essence of which is 'Eurasia vs. the West': washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
According to Sister Lucia of #Fatima: "Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion [i.e., the First Saturdays], along with the consecration [of Russia] to the Immaculate Heart of Mary." — Letter to Fr. Jose da Silva Aparicio, March 19, 1939
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#Russia has still not been validly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, since no pope has ever met all the conditions specified by Our Lady herself (see below): fatima.org/about/consecra…
.@BishopAthanas1 concurs in "Christus Vincit" (@AngelicoPress, 2019): "It has not yet been made in the manner Our Lady requested. In my opinion, the consecration has to be made more perfectly, and this means with the explicit mention of Russia..." (p. 300) angelicopress.org/christus-vinci…
"The current events have nothing to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of #Ukraine and the #Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending #Russia from those who have taken Ukraine hostage...." — #VladimirPutin, Feb. 24, 2022
"The promotion of the pre-Vatican II liturgy as somehow more holy or prayerful than the current liturgy 'is not basically a liturgical problem, it is an *ecclesial* problem,' the archbishop said."
BREAKING: @Pontifex has declared St. Irenaeus of Lyons (d. ca. 202 A.D.), a very important early Church Father, a Doctor of the Church "with the title of Doctor unitatis ['Doctor of unity']." press.vatican.va/content/salast…
St. Irenaeus' five-volume work "Adversus haereses" ("Against Heresies") is one of the most important Patristic texts of the 2nd century A.D. — a text which thoroughly proves the Catholicity and Apostolicity of the early Church. Here is a sample: newadvent.org/fathers/010330…
As others have pointed out, @ThomasJTobin1, "Recognize and Resist" has been around for decades and is based on St. Paul's example (Gal. 2:11) plus such texts as the following from St. Robert Bellarmine:
"Therefore, just as it would be lawful to resist a Pontiff..." 1/4
2/4 "invading a body [i.e., threatening physical harm], so it is lawful to resist him invading souls or disturbing a state, and much more if he [the Pope] should endeavor to destroy the Church. I say, it is lawful to resist him, by not doing what he commands, ..."
3/4 "and by blocking him, lest he should carry out his will; still, it is not lawful to judge or punish or even depose him [the Pope], because he is nothing other than a superior." — St. Robert Bellarmine, On the Roman Pontiff, Book II, Ch. 29 mediatrixpress.com/product/on-the…
This morning in Rome, @Pontifex presided over a "Moment of Reflection" in preparation for the official opening of "the synodal Journey" tomorrow.
"The Synod," said Francis, presents "a great opportunity for a pastoral conversion in terms of mission and ecumenism..." 1/4
However, said @Pontifex, the #Synod "is not exempt from certain risks," including "formalism", "intellectualism", and "complacency".
Invoking the Holy Spirit, Francis prayed: "keep us from becoming a 'museum Church', beautiful but mute, with much past and little future." 2/4
@Pontifex also quoted Fr. Yves Congar (below, with a young Fr. Ratzinger), a progressive Dominican peritus (theological expert) at Vatican II, who "once said: 'There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church' (True and False Reform in the Church)." 3/4