Lorenz's '5th Pastoral Letter'
Monday, April 14, 2003
Time: 16:13 Hours PST
-- JMJ - Pax et Bonum --
My Dear Brethren in Christ;Heresies
Here is my fifth Pastoral letter, to all of the followers of the True Faith of Our Lord
This is taken from the writings of Gordon Bateman Dated 23 March/2000:
Baptism of Desire & Baptism of Blood
Catholic Doctrine Answers the Feeneyite Error
There are those who claim that there no such things as Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood, and that Baptism of Water is the only means of Salvation. This is a serious error. The Church does indeed teach that Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood are means of Salvation to those who through no fault of their own have not received the Baptism of Water, but who have efficacious (working on it) desire to enter the Catholic Church or who give their life for the name of Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ. The Council of Trent when defining justification made it clear that the desire spoken of here has to do with the desire to receive the Sacrament of Baptism, not some kind of independent entities excluding the Baptism of Water. This doctrine has been given much clarification by Pope Pius XI and again by Pope Pius XII. It is addressed again at this time to crush the recent proliferation of the error that Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood do not exist, and to put this new resistance to the truth, to rest.
The Feeney Error
The chief architect of this error is Fr. Leonard Feeney. Fr. Feeney, a Jesuit Priest, was excommunicate in 1949 by the Vatican for his belief and teaching that one could be saved only by Baptism of Water. In 1958, Fr. Feeney, along with a Brother Francis, founded the St. Benedict Center in Harvard, Mass. USA. The excommunication was purged in 1972 by Paul 666 of the Novus Ordo Church, an act which that false religion, of course, had no authority to perform. Fr. Feeney died in 1978. His followers are called "Feeneyites," and even today, they continue to spread the errors of his teachings.
The Council of Trent
The Council of Trent, in the sixteenth century, stated the Baptism of Desire very clearly, albeit without defining the limits of the doctrine.
Those who would proclaim the "Feeneyite" error have misquoted the Council of Trent to support their own cause. They do this by leaving out one critical phrase given in the sixth session, chapter four. The English and Latin text are given here:
The English Text:
This trickery of words is the same tactic used in the Protestantism of Martin Luther, but in reverse. In order to make his Lutheran Religion, Martin Luther added a word to the Sacred Scripture. Scripture says: " We are saved by Faith." He added one word to that statement, and that made the foundation for his entire religion. The word he added was "alone." He said that: "We are saved by Faith alone." Martin Luther went berserk over adding the word "alone," and the "Feeneyites" go berserk over removing the phrase "or its desire." Both acts caused disaster!
San Simeon
There is a feast in the Church where San Simeon was the victim of Jewish ritual murder. He had not been baptized, but his death for Christ (the meaning of ritual murder) was and is accepted by the Church as the Baptism of Blood.
The heretics go about like a loose canon saying that God knows from all eternity, which persons are of good will. Hence, He would certainly send such persons a missionary. Just how do these Feeneyites understand the words of the Last Gospel of the Mass where it says that: "He illuminates every man that comes into this world?" It is not necessary to know how God does that, but it is sure He does it, missionary or no missionary.
Soul of the Church - a misused term
Many authors find it hard to explain a union with the Church without actual reception of the Baptism of Water. They use the term "soul of the Church," and that is most unfortunate. That expression must be eliminated. Instead, there is a proper way to express the Catholic Doctrine that: "Outside the Church there is no Salvation." Then where is Salvation? "Inside the Church there is Salvation."
In the most simple terms it goes this way: "Outside the laver of regeneration, or its desire there is no Salvation." Put it the other way around, it is stated like this: "Inside the laver of regeneration or its desire there is Salvation."
No Pope can question the infallible teachings of his predecessors. A Pope will not prove again what has been proved before, lest it seem that he has any doubts in the matters of faith or morals. All that is done to repeat former teachings and clarify points that still may be obscure.
The Catholic Church and Salvation
From the book "The Catholic Church and Salvation," by Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, (Imprimatur May 12, 1958, before the death of Pope Pius XII), on pages 55-56, it is written:
"Those who correspond with the graces He offers them will receive the answer to their Prayers."
This, then, is the teaching which Pope Pius IX insisted that the Bishops of the Catholic Church should give to their people, to keep them away from false Doctrines which could ruin their Spiritual Lives.
Singulari Quidem
"Singulari Quidem" (March 17, 1856) by Pope Pius IX, brings out the following teachings much more clearly and explicitly than previous Ecclesiastical declarations on the necessity of the Church for Salvation:
- It is a ruinous error to imagine that one can have grounds of hope, that people now dead, and those who have not entered into the Church in any way during their lives, are saved.
- The dogma that there is no Salvation outside the Catholic Church is in no way opposed to the truth that God is all-merciful and all just.
- The Doctrine that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church is a truth revealed by God through Jesus Christ, and a truth which all men must believe with the assent of divine faith. It is Catholic Dogma.
- Invincible ignorance, of the true Church or of anything else, is not considered by God as a sin. The dogma that there is no Salvation outside the Catholic Church in no way implies that invincible ignorance is sinful. (ADDED: this is what Feeneyites use to condemn non-Catholics)
- It is an impious and deadly error to hold that salvation may be attained in any religion. (ADDED: This is the heresy held and taught by Vatican II).
- It is not within the field either of our competence or of our rights to search out the way in which God's mercy and His justice operates in any given case of a person ignorant of the true Church or of the true Religion. We shall see how these divine attributes have operated in the light of the Beatific Vision itself.
- It is the business of the Church to work and to pray that all men will attain Salvation in the Church.
- God is never outdone in generosity. The person who tries to come to Him will not be forsaken. As a matter of fact, the movement toward God, like all other things, originates from God Himself.
Firstly the Feeneyites claim that anyone be it adult, child, or infant who dies without being Baptized with Water, automatically goes to hell, so even still born infants go to Hell. Well God (in my opinion) would not create a Soul and then condemn it to hell, for God is perfect LOVE in Himself. Yes, the Stain of the sin of Adam is on the new Soul, but since the infant has not committed any sin, (in my opinion) the Soul would go to either Purgatory or Limbo, but not hell.
For if all souls which are not Baptized went to hell, then there would not have been any need for Our Lord to come down from Heaven, be Crucified, have died, be buried, and have gone to Hell (Limbo) to release all the Souls of the faithfully departed from the time of Adam to His Coming.
Further the Feast of the Holy Innocents would not be a part of our beautiful Faith, even though they died so that Our Lord could live.
"AUT EIUS VOTO"
If a Candidate for Baptism dies, before being Baptized, lets say in a car accident, is not the desire for Baptism considered to be enough? Then say he was badly wounded but survived, well then he must be Baptized, under Water and the Holy Ghost.
Is a person, who is also a candidate to be Baptized, and who is put to death for being a follower of Christ as a martyr, considered to be a Saint? Of Course he is, because he had the desire to be Baptized, and gave his life for his Faith, so in this case we have the person being Baptized by his Desire and also his own Blood, which he shed for Our Lord.
Another Heresy which is spreading Recently
[The reference here is to Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher, OFM Cap., who organized, together with Gordon Bateman, a 'Conclave' in 1998, where he was elected and took the name of 'Pope Pius XIII' - Prax Maskaren.]
A certain man, who is a "Priest" but claims to be Pope, has been spreading another heresy, which was condemned by Pope Pius IX, Pope St. Pius X, Pope Pius XI, and Pope Pius XII to mention just a few, and there was a decree from Pope Pius XII, in 1939 that all Seminarians and Educators in Catholic Institutions refrain from using this device, which is much like a OUIJA Board, namely a Pendulum.
In fact the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, stated that if the device was used in one of the institutions, then the perpetrator should be requested to leave, and that the institution correct all members who were duped by this person, so that Satan could not get the better part of the candidates into his domain...
Well this "Priest" states that the pendulum was sent, to man, by the Holy Ghost to help him decide that which is safe or not safe to use, and he stated, in a newsletter, that it is a dogma of the Catholic Church, and it was a sin against the Holy Ghost not to believe in this device�
All people who argued with this "Priest/Pope" about his pendulum, like Gordon Bateman, Ken Mock, Fr. Kevin Vaillancourt, myself, and some others who shall be left unnamed, were all excommunicated by the "Priest," because we disagreed with him.
The "Priest" now considers himself to be POPE, because he rigged an election, with himself as the only candidate, since he had gotten rid of all other candidates, by excommunication. We all know the identity of this "Priest-Pope," I am sure.
We have to be very careful, to be able to discern "Heresy" from fact, because Satan loves to fool Good Catholic people, by using half-truth to form a heresy, and then gloat about having won another fool into his domain of Hell. This we have seen many times when a person takes a part of Scripture, and then drops the main part of it, or he takes a Papal Decree, and only uses that which suits his purposes, such as the above heresies.
What human being has the right to change, or alter TRUTH? Well the answer is none of us has, for the truth was given to the Church, and even the Pope only explains the truth, ex Cathedra, but he never changes the Truth, and the Church Councils have all been called to assist the Pope to make the Truth more clear, but not to change it.
Often a Church Council was called to refute a heresy, and explain the reason that the heresy had been started, this was true of all Councils except Vatican II, which was called to form a heresy, by changing the faith, for the unholy men of the Masonic lodge, so that the Modernist Heresy could finally rear up its filthy head, as has been tried for about 150 years or more.
We as members of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith, must do all in our power to reverse the effects of the above heresies, and bring the Church back out of this abyss of sin.
We must each contact a Bishop, of new Novus Ordo sect, and bring it to his attention, that we do not want him to continue in the ways of Satan, and the Vatican II sect, but we want to return to the Faith which was given to us by Our Lord and His Apostles, almost 2000 years ago.
Yes, we will receive a lot of flack, from them, but it is our duty to correct this error, since the main body of the Congregation of Christ are duped by this hierarchy.
An old Heresy which resurfaced in recent time
"Begotten not Made," is taken from the Nicene Creed, which we ascribe to, but the next heresies make this a statement of falsehood.
In the seventh century, about 630 AD, a man called Mohamed, the founder of the Moslem Cult, made a statement in his Koran, "A Begotten Son of God," because he was against the idea of THE HOLY TRINITY, since he stated that "there is ONLY GOD, and not a Trinity.
In 1830, about 1200 years later, the founders of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormon Cults, made a change to the statement of Mohamed in the words of the Gospel of John, first chapter, namely "One of the Begotten sons of God," instead of "the Only Begotten Son of God," and so they changed the purpose of the Mission of our Lord, Jesus Christ, since He was no longer God, but made by God, thus they did not need to believe in the Divinity of Jesus, or that Jesus was God.
The two cults, mentioned above, made it possible, for a further Heresy, in which they state that "every human can become a god, of their own planet in the solar system," and this can balloon into all kinds of further heresies.
The changes in the wording of Scripture have often been made, by Satan, to have a completely different meaning, and this is what makes the cults so powerful.
The Vatican II Heresy in the Mass
The Vatican II Cult/Sect made a change in the Holy Mass, by stating, "for all men," instead of "For you and for many," which is used in the Consecration of the Wine into the Blood of Our Lord, and this brought in the falsehood, "that all men will be saved" and then later "that all religions are equal." We Know from the teachings of the Church that both of these statements are false.
So we see how a heresy can change the original purpose of the teachings of Faith, by making small, often unnoticed word changes, and we must always be on guard for such subtle efforts to change the Words of Our Lord, which are recorded in the Holy Scriptures.
New cults are formed from changes or from direct falsehood, not by the need to upgrade the faith, but rather in subtle attempts to make it RENEWED or modern, or up to date, which is not needed, since God is never out of date, and neither is the Faith which He founded, from the time of Adam, and which He reiterated in Our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Another way that cults operate is to "LOVE flood" the future candidate, whom they wish to woo, and thereby take them away from the TRUE FAITH. So these cults often use Love Meals to convince the duped person in their purpose of Faith Destruction.
May Our Lord Bless, each of you and also your Families, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. AMEN!! The Lord's Name be Praised
Your brother in Jesus & St. Francis
+ Hans F. Lorenz, LBSF, OFM(min), CD
Rt. Rev. Dr. Hans F. Lorenz, LBSF, OFM(min), STD, ThD, DD, CD