I, for one, am tired of all the “news” stories
floating around the internet concerning Pope Benedict’s resignation and the
upcoming conclave to elect a successor.
It seems like every day another “plot” or “secret” deep within the
Vatican Curia is “brought to light”. My
gut feeling is that all of this is nonsense and just an attempt by Satan to do
what he cannot do—bring the Church founded by Jesus Christ to an end. Are these stories true? I don’t know, and frankly the only thing I
care about in all of this is the souls of the sinners if they are true.
I find Jeremiah verse 18, chapter 18 eerily
similar to our events today:
“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against
Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from
the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue.
Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”
This whole drama surrounding the Church, the
Vatican and especially the Pope and his motives reminds me of the potter in the
verses earlier in the same chapter of Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 18:1–12]. The lesson
of the potter is that God has the power to destroy or restore, changing his
plans accordingly as these nations disobey him or fulfill his will. (Jon 3:10).
For over a generation God's love has been
misrepresented, redefined as His unconditional forgiveness for wrongdoing,
virtually abolishing the concept of sin. This week’s readings refute such
notions; sin is shown to be an abomination before God and forgiveness
contingent upon our repentance and a return to living by His moral precepts. If
this were not so, the Father would not have sent us His Son to suffer and die,
to take upon Himself the death sentence we deserve for our sin; nor would He
have given us the Holy Spirit to sanctify us, make us holy.
Our error began long before Vatican II when
modernist theologians separated God's truth from His love. They failed to see
that God's love cannot coexist with idolatry, greed, adultery, false witness,
covetous- ness, thievery, killing, etc. God cannot negate the conditions of
living out His love, approve of His children ravaging one another.
Our Church's rebirth in the new millennium should
perhaps begin with a call to repentance of our "separated" prelates
and clergy, their embrace of the true Faith rather than their secularized
version and a re-education of our people (starting with our own families) in
the genuine meaning of "God is Love."
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