The Philippines: Another Lost Catholic Nation

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JMJ

But yet the Son of man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, Faith on earth?
(St. Luke 18.8)

"In Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved, etc."

(Our Lady of Fatima in Sr. Lucia, C.D., Fourth Memoir)

Yesterday, day of the 'canonization' of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, ABS-CBN News Channel carried a top Agence France-Presse story with the title, "Catholic Philippines celebrates new [S]aint." On September 21, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published an article in its Lifestyle section, "We are not just the Roman Catholic Republic of the Philippines."

The Filipino nation has long ceased to be a Roman Catholic Nation since the Constitutional repudiation of Catholicism as its official Creed - that is, the Constitutional adoption of the Masonic "inviolable separation of the Church and the State" principle. 'Liberal Catholicism' then has supplanted Catholicism in the country - retaining still some trappings of Catholicism but professing that the 1789 Revolutionary tenets of Freemasonry can be reconciled with the Gospel Christ has entrusted to His Church built on "Cephas" (the "rock" plain and simple in the original Aramaic); in practical effect, the practice of some external forms of Catholic devotion but a denial that one's life, private and social, is Christ's dominion (Ps. 21.29 - DRV): subject to the Traditional Catholic Order of things ruled by the Holy See "for obedience to the Faith" (Rom. 1.5). Blessed Pope Pius IX has this to say against the 'Liberal Catholics': "the worst enemies of the Church... these liberal Catholics."

A Roman Catholic is bound in conscience to completely adhere to the "ex cathedra" pronouncements of the Chair of Peter under pain of excommunication "ipso facto" (automatic excommunication). The Masonic principle of "separation of the Church and the State" was repeatedly anathematized by the successors of St. Peter; it was listed as proposition 55 in the "Syllabus of Errors" of Blessed Pope Pius IX.

Moreover, that many 'Catholic' Filipinos in fact openly disregard, and even question, in their daily living  traditional moral teachings which members of the local Neo-Catholic hierarchy are still vocal with points to the incontrovertible: "Something has changed with the Church, and replies given by the Pope to the most urgent questions such as priestly celibacy and birth control, are hotly debated within the Church itself; the word of the Sovereign Pontiff is questioned by bishops, by priests, by the faithful. For a Freemason, a man who questions... is already a Freemason without an apron" (Jacques Mitterand, a French Freemason, in  Fr. P. Kramer, ed., The Devil's Final Battle, Good Counsel Publications, 2002, p. 62)

In reply to the author of the Inquirer Lifestyle article, the Roman Catholicism you have very poorly conceived (as every "Bible-only" sectarian critique also reveals) highlights your fallacy thus: mistaking some of the external trappings of Catholicism with its essence. You have just very well imbibed also the Communist propaganda designed to inflict a most devastating effect on the minds and hearts especially of the Catholic faithful as was revealed by Ms. Bella Dodd, the former Secretary-General of the US Communist Party who defected and converted to Catholicism, in her voluminous testimony before the US Congressional "Un-American Activities" Committee and in her lectures at the Fordham University in the 1950s: "In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood... they were working to bring about CHANGE... and even to USE THE INSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH, if possible, TO DESTROY THE FAITH through the PROMOTION OF A PSEUDO-RELIGION: SOMETHING THAT RESEMBLED CATHOLICISM BUT WAS NOT THE REAL THING" (cf., "The Year that was 1929"). Important distinctions - necessary to every intelligently objective critique - between the Catholic Church in its broadest sense and the institutional Church in its limited temporal sense, on the one hand; and, the Church, like her Head, as both human and divine, on the other were not even lost on the revolutionaries. It is discreditable and disgraceful to make a critique of something one does not understand and  to adhere still to the Synagogue-driven 'historical revisionism' (that is, the 'Enlightenment' mythification) in an attempt to amend the incontrovertible and inevitable Lordship of Christ through His Church (cf., "Anti-Christian Conspiracy...").