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Archbishop Chaput: Francis Singapore Remark "extraordinary Flawed"

Archbishop Emeritus Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, USA, weighs in on Francis' Singapore controversy (FirstThings.com, Sept. 16). Key points.

- Francis has the habit of saying things that leave listeners confused.

- In Singapore, he suggested that all religions are paths to God.

- That all religions have equal weight is an extraordinarily flawed idea for the Successor of Peter to appear to support.

- Religions are not equal in their content or consequences. They have very different conceptions of who God is and what that means for the nature of the human person and society.

- St Paul condemns false religions and proclaims Jesus Christ as the reality and fulfillment of the unknown God worshipped by the Greeks (Acts 17:22–31).

- Not all religions seek the same God, and some religions are both wrong and potentially dangerous, materially and spiritually.

- We are called Christians because we believe that Jesus Christ is God.

- To borrow a thought from C. S. Lewis, if Jesus were just one of many, he'd also be a liar, because he emphatically claimed that, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).

- A loving God may accept the worship of any sincere and charitable heart — but salvation comes only through His only Son, Jesus Christ.

- To suggest that Catholics follow a path to God more or less similar to that of other religions is to deprive martyrdom of its meaning. Why give one's life for Christ when other paths can lead to the same God?

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Abp. Chaput: "To suggest, even loosely, that Catholics walk a more or less similar path to God as other religions drains martyrdom of its meaning. Why give up your life for Christ when other paths may get us to the same God? Such a sacrifice would be senseless. But the witness of the martyrs is as important today as ever. We live in an age when the dominant religion is increasingly the worship of the self. We need the martyrs—and each of us as a confessor of Jesus Christ—to remind an unbelieving world that the path to a genuinely rich life is to give oneself fully to another, to the other."

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Retired Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput reflects on the Pope’s comment in Singapore that all religions are paths to God

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Orthocat

It's no secret why Francis denied this man the red cardinal hat - he's {too} Catholic! 😉

"....hopefully what he said is not quite what he meant" - 'Abp.' Charles Chaput on Francis' scandalous remarks in Singapore Novus Ordo Watch on X: ""....hopefully what he said is not quite what he meant" - 'Abp.' Charles Chaput on Francis' scandalous remarks in Singapore - https://t.co/blQEK2ZO02 #catholictwitter" / X
Hirelings Bishops unfaithful to Christ and faithful to the Oath of Omertà to Bergoglio
2 Thessalonians 2:10-11 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition 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.
Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio saying 'all religions are a path to God' is apostasy - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Rafał_Ovile

Begone heretic Bergoglio and his spineless supporters !

mccallansteve

He doesn't have the courage to call it what it is: Heresy .

Simon North

+Chaput's response: Pathetically flawed.

To equate Christ with the founders of false religions is the worst blasphemy against the Most Holy Trinity
Archbishop Chaput falls short in denouncing the heresiarch Jorge Bergoglio because he does not clearly denounce this as a repeated public act of apostasy and repudiation of the Catholic faith by Bergoglio, as Archbishop Vigano has done.
Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio saying 'all religions are a path to God' is apostasy - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
In 1918, the great Cardinal Mercier of Belgium stated that the First World War was a punishment for the crime of men placing the one true Catholic religion on the same level with false creeds. Cardinal Mercier said, “In the name of the Gospel, and in the light of the Encyclicals of the last four Popes, Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, and Pius X, I do not hesitate to affirm that this indifference to religions which puts on the same level the religion of divine origin and the religions invented by men in order to include them in the same scepticism is the blasphemy which calls down chastisement on society far more than the sins of individuals and families.”

True Mass

Extraordinary flawed? Call it what it is. Yes it's good AB Chaput has spoken out but come on man! It's apostasy plain and simple. When will a Bishop who actually has a flock speak out? A bunch of Swishops all worried about holding onto the trappings. SPEAK OUT. BE A WARRIOR FOR JESUS CHRIST. May God Bless and protect AB Vigano - a true voice crying out in the wilderness.

Bergoglio blatantly violates the First Commandment which prohibits worship of false gods. According to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Bergoglio is not in communion with the Catholic Church. The Church teaches that we profess the faith of works and words. There is no doubt that Bergoglio has apostatized from the Catholic faith. The apostate Bergoglio, in addition to contradicting Jesus Christ and repudiating the Catholic faith, denied the necessity of Baptism for salvation. According to the apostate Bergoglio, neither Christ nor the Church are necessary. And in contradiction to the Word of God, Bergoglio calls pagans and idolaters who reject Jesus Christ as Redeemer children of God.

John 1:10-12
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.
Catechism of St. Pius X | EWTN
1 Q. Why is it said at the commencement of the Commandments: I am the Lord thy God?
A. It is said at the commencement of the Commandments: I am the Lord thy God, to show us that God being our Creator and Lord, can command whatever He wills, and that we, being His creatures, are bound to obey Him.
2 Q. In the words of the First Commandment: Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me, what does God command us?
A. By the words of the First Commandment: Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me, He commands us to acknowledge, adore, love and serve Him alone as our Sovereign Lord.
3 Q. How do we fulfil the First Commandment?
A. We fulfil the First Commandment by the practice of internal and external worship.
4 Q. What is internal worship?
A. Internal worship is the honour which is given to God with the faculties of the soul alone, that is with the intellect and the will.
5 Q. What is external worship?
A. External worship is the homage that is given to God by means of outward acts and of sensible objects.
6 Q. Is it not enough internally to adore God with the heart alone?
A. No, it is not enough internally to adore God with the heart alone; we must also adore Him externally with both soul and body, because He is the Creator and absolute Lord of both.
7 Q. Can there be external worship without internal worship?
A. No, in no way can there be external worship without internal, because unless external worship is accompanied by internal, it is destitute of life, of merit, and of efficacy, like a body without a soul
8 Q. What is forbidden by the First Commandment?
A. The First Commandment forbids idolatry, superstition, sacrilege, heresy, and every other sin against religion.
15 Q. What else does the First Commandment forbid?
A. The First Commandment also forbids all dealings with the devil, and all association with anti-Christian sects.

One faith, one baptism, one Lord.
Without Christ there is no salvation. None of the false religions that have a caricature of God are saved, not even the Jews who rejected Christ as the Messiah/as their Redeemer.
1 Corinthians 16:22
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
22 If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.

Thank God for abp. Chaput!