[Greek] κοσμικός (kosmikos), [Latin] saeculum, [German] zeitgeist: worldly, earthly, mundane, pertaining to the world; Tit.2:12, Heb.9:1
Cardinal Sarah actually describes the Synodal Church accommodating the world and paying lip service to Church teachings. This Synodal Church is now being remade in the image of man and his lived experiences.
Background information:
Greek Hellenism: This term means world, worldly, secular, and belonging to the world.
Secularism: This is a philosophy seeking to interpret life on principles derived solely from the material world without recourse to religion. French secularism in the Age of Enlightenment was based on Gallicanism, which emphasized state supremacy, anti-clericalism, and materialism.
New Testament: This term, suggesting hostility to God, means worldly, earthly, and which belongs to the world.
Tit.2:12: “And training us to reject godless ways (ungodliness) and worldly desires and live temperately, justly, and devotedly in this age.” (Ungodliness and worldly desires: offensive acts (words), things that have nothing to do with the life to come, worldly lusts (desires), ACTIONS (DEEDS) WHICH DO NOT LAST, sinful desires, unlawful desires, selfishness, pride, idolatry and paganism, and superstition.)
Heb.9:1: “Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.” (The Old Covenant permitted all the priests to enter the Holy Place, but only the high priest was permitted to enter into the Holy of Holies once a year.)
Cardinal Sarah denounces “atheistic” Western bishops who prefer the world to the cross.
- Too many bishops desire to be “loved by the world” and that they have forgotten that Christianity calls them to be signs of contradiction.
- The Synodal Church continues to focus more on MAKING A BETTER WORLD/SEEKING FAVOR WITH THE WORLD rather than on BRINGING SOULS INTO HEAVEN.
- Many bishops are more concerned with inclusion, being “pastoral”, tolerance, false compassion rather than with forgiveness, conversion of heart, sin, and Jesus’ statements on sin.
- Sin is no longer talked about. As a result, many souls will be put in eternal mortal peril [ex. homosexual lifestyles among laity and clergy].
- Practical atheism is more insidious because it seeps into every aspect of contemporary culture, including ecclesiastical discourse.
- Many in the Church and its leadership, accommodating to the world, fall in this trap of PRACTICAL ATHEISM (PAYING LIP SERVICE TO GOD).
- This brand of atheism is a masterful trap set by Satan himself.
- Satan only needs for one to forget about God, not necessarily “possess” someone.
- Vatican II naively brought in worldliness and the “smoke of Satan” [spirit of undermining] into the Church so that the Church “can get with the times.”
- Synodality is doubling down on what Vatican II has started. What does say about Synodality? Making the Church look more like the world.
Practical atheism (“paying lip service to God”):
- Pope Leo appointed a bishop who stated that homosexuality (sodomy) is no longer sinful.
- Pope Leo appointed a bishop who participated in a Panchamama idol service in Peru. Then an earthquake later happened in Peru. God will not be mocked.
- Fiducia Supplicans officially stated Catholic Church teachings against homosexuality and then later allows for “informal blessings” on same-sex unions.
- German parents pleaded to Pope Leo to stop the German Bishops pro-LGBTQ sex education. Pope Leo stated official Catholic Church teachings and DID NOT STOP OR PREVENT the German bishops from doing this. This is complicity of inaction by Pope Leo!
Vatican II’s “ecumenical” efforts to “Protestantize” the Mass: ===> Novus Order Mass
- The Novus Order Mass was designed to appeal to Protestants.
- The sacrificial nature of the Mass (more suited to Catholics) was diminished in favor of a community meal (more suited for Protestants).
- Pope Paul VI meet with six Protestant theologians who were part of a commission to “Protestantize” the Mass. LET THAT SINK IN.
- Mass attendance has decreased since Vatican II. Fewer percentage of Catholics believe in the Real Presence. How is that working out for Catholics?
- The sacrificial nature and meaning of the Mass has lost among Catholics.
- The Latin Mass’s separation of clergy from the laity has been replaced by the Novus Order Mass’s commingling of clergy and laity in the sanctuary.
- We now have an extraordinary number of “extraordinary” Eucharistic ministers on the altar performing a function originally done by the clergy.
- “We must discard from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything that could constitute the slightest obstacle from our separated brethren (Protestants)” Fr. Annibale Bugnini
Pope Paul VI posing with six Protestant theologians engaged in a commission to “Protestantize” the Mass ===> Novus Order Mass
How Pope Pius X predicted that Modernists/Synodalists would gravitate toward pantheism:
- Vital immanence: Modernists (Synodalists) seek to find an explanation for religion INSIDE THEMSELVES (sentiment, lived experiences, experiences), producing changing dogma.
- Modernists (Synodalists) seek to ignore external objective supernatural reality (God) because it is outside of their lived experiences and religious sentiment.
- God is reduced to an internal force animating human consciousness and nature. This supernatural reality is flattened into the natural world.
- Then the boundary between God and creation is erased. Creation attains the level of God. This allows for ecological sin and sins against creation. (News flash: creation is a created thing! You can’t sin against a created thing! But the Modernists/Synodalists would say otherwise.)
- Pope Pius X: “If He [God] is not distinct [from the world], then Modernism is pantheism.”
- Now we have the Vatican speaking about, ecological sins, ecological spirituality, equating creation with God, “getting right with the environment to solve modern society’s malaise”, excessive focus on the environment/water/icebergs, social sin, the Mass is an ecological school in climate change, ecological conversion, Eucharist encouraging ecological conversion
New human traditions: The Vatican developing the concept of “ecological sin”:
- This becomes a Vatican warning (a theological and ethical requirement) to take care of the environment.
- Worshipping and deifying creation [created things], raising the environment to the level of God ===> ecological sin (this is how Modernists/Synodalists rationalize this idea)
- Ecological spirituality: ecological sin is “an action or omission against God, against one’s neighbor, the community, and the environment.” (This now includes sinning against created things (environment, trees, water, icebergs, etc.)
- How must the Synodal Church respond to modern society’s underlying malaise? One must “get right” (live in a balanced way with the environment). (God, Truth, morality, Church teachings/doctrine, supernatural Truths, sin are totally excluded from the picture. This is pantheism and eco-paganism!)
- How does traditional Catholic respond to modern society’s underlying malaise? (Many people are spiritually sleep-walking, unaware of the spiritual eternal state. They are divorced from supernatural realities, Truth, morality, Church teachngs/doctrine, scripture, sin, and repentance.)
Etymology:
- The Greek noun kosmos means order, good order, and orderly arrangement.
- The Greek verb kosmeo means to prepare, to order, to arrange, and to adorn.
- The Greek adjective kosmetikos means skilled in adornment and arrangement.
Conclusion:
Zeitgeist, cosmic, microcosm, cosmetic, secular
The French Revolution (The Reign of Terror) is most notably known by atheism and the persecution of the Church in France in the late 1700’s.
Scripture makes an important distinction with temporary worldly actions (belonging with the world) and with eternal actions in doing God’s will (not belonging to this world).
Update: Satan is the prince of the world (Jn.12:31) ===> worldliness and the “smoke of Satan”
Pope Leo recently appointed Bishop Sithembele Sipuka as archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. This bishop seeks to inculturate pagan and polytheistic practices in the Catholic liturgy. Shocker.
In his March for Life address, Vice President Vance compares abortion to pagan human sacrifice. The baby is being sacrificed on the “altar of convenience.”
Unfortunately, there continue to be many bishops who feel empowered to further implement Traditiones Custodes in their dioceses.
The Traditional Latin Mass illustrates this separation between the clergy and laity. While The Novus Order Mass seems to commingle clergy and laity in the sanctuary.
The Synod of Synodalities seeks to remake (decentralize) the organizational structure of the Church. Sounds like making a Protestant Church. The Synod also seeks to share the decision-making authority between the clergy and laity. Laity deciding doctrine and dogma! What could possibly ever go wrong with this???
As schism, heresy, error, and evil have entered into the Church and society, still too many clergy (Cardinals, bishops, and priests) have remained cowardly silent and indifferent in speaking against out these concerns. We also must acknowledge that the Devil may influence some clergy in undermining the Church.
Rather than stopping the movement of acceptance of homosexuality in the Church, Pope Leo is seeking to encourage this movement by his SILENCE and INACTION. Silence ===> tacit acceptance.
Satan and his minions are seeking to undermine the Church by upending God’s moral laws (teachings) and confusing and corrupting man.
Quotes by G. K. Chesterton, often rightly called the “apostle of common sense”:
“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as it because it cannot recover the normal.”
“Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.” (Right and wrong must not be determined by worldly secular values.)
“Progress should mean that we are changing the world to fit the vision. Instead we are always changing the vision.”