The Holy Catholic Church is the Church physically founded by Jesus, and has remained the largest and strongest Christian Church all through the millenniums. During the early days of the Church in its formative years, other churches sprung out teaching errors to draw souls away from Christ. Some of those who preached the heresies were one time strong leaders of the Church.
The Catholic Church survived all these, but as the centuries rolled by, more and more people, who I will call anti-Catholics, became more and more determined to convince the rest of mankind that this first church has been and is actually a false church made up of demon worshippers.
One of the ways adopted was to attack any speech, especially, read in uncommon languages like Latin, and interpret it to mean a statement supporting Satanism.
The immediate example I can give is the Easter Exsultet, sung in Latin, in which they claim Lucifer is invoked. They translate the final part of that powerful prayer from the Latin, “Flammaseiusl?cifermatut?nusinvéniatille, inquam, l?cifer, qui nescitoccásum, Christus Filiustuus, qui, regréssus ab ?nferis, humánogéneriserénusill?xit,
Ettecumvivit et regnat in saeculasaecul?rum. Amen!” as “Flaming Lucifer finds Mankind, I say: Oh Lucifer who will never be defeated, Christ is your son, who came back from hell, shed his peaceful light and is alive and reigns in the world without end. Amen”
The mischief is very obvious, even to a beginner in study of the Latin language, as the English version, which is also often sang, goes like this: “May this flame be found still burning by the Morning Star, the one Morning Star who never sets, Christ your Son, who coming back from death’s domain, has shed His peaceful light on humanity and lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen!
The Latin word, Lucifer, is used in this prayer is the Morning Star and not the fallen angel. In Isaiah 14:12, we read: “How have you fallen from the heavens, O Morning Star, son of the dawn! How are you cut down to the ground, you who mowed down the nations!” In Latin it reads, “quomodocecidisti de caelo lucifer qui mane oriebariscorruisti in terram qui vulnerabasgentes.” Lucifer here is referred to the angel of the morning, Son of the Dawn, and in actually fact, it is about Lucifer the fallen angel.
In 2 Peter 1:19 Lucifer again appears when St. Peter was talking about the new dawn,
“Moreover, we possess the prophetic message that is altogether reliable. You will do well to be attentive to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts.”
In the Latin translation this message reads, “Et habemusfirmiorempropheticumsermonem cui bene facitisadtendentes quasi lucernaelucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescatet luciferoriatur in cordibusvestris.” The Day Star/Morning Star or Lucifer here refers to Jesus Christ, as prophesied in Numbers 24:17 “… A Star shall advance from Jacob.”
It becomes easy for people to use a translation of uncommon languages and interpret it their way, and then have grounds to call the Holy Catholic Church an evil church.
Ever since he took over the Chair of St Peter, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has been having a hell of a time with anti-Catholics who choose to misinterpret whatever he says in Latin, Italian and Spanish into English, and use words that would place the Pope in the category of the godless leading a church of godless people.
Unfortunately for Pope Francis he speaks fluently in Italian and very little English, and so when the anti-Catholics want to create mischief they transcribe their messages into the mouth of the Pope, and make it seem was what he was saying.
Over six years ago, the Pope spoke in Italian in a message on Christian Unity to a Pentecostal Conference. In January 2014, Anthony Joseph Palmer was sent by Pope Francis as a special envoy to a Charismatic Evangelical Leadership Conference, hosted by Kenneth Copeland, where the Pope’s recorded message was delivered. In it the Pope began by saying there are two rules, Love God above all else and love your neighbour. He went on to say how concerned he was about separated families, because it was sin that separates families. He recalled how because of sin, Joseph and his brothers got separated but later reunited. He quoted a famous Italian author, Manzoni, who once said: “I’ve never seen God begin a miracle without Him finishing it well.” The Pope prayed that God will complete this miracle of unity.
However, a group of anti-Catholics would not have that, so they twisted the message and transcribed the whole video recording to make it seem that the Pope was at last acknowledging that the Catholic Church was the Mother of Harlots. Adding that Sunday was not the Sabbath Day of the Lord, but it was actually on Saturday, and ending by asking everyone to put away their sins and repent, otherwise they will not be ready… now was the time to wake up.
Last week, good Christians were woken up by news spreading wild from international media houses like CNN, new York Times and Washington Post, which put it this way: “Pope Francis Calls For Civil Union Laws For Same Sex Couples, that the Pope had endorsed homosexuality and same-sex marriages in a documentary made about him in Spanish.
What the Pope said was this: “Homosexuals have the right to be in the family. They are children of God: they have the right to a family. No one can throw them out of the family or make life impossible for that.” In Spanish he called for Convivencia Civil, which translates as “Civil Coexistence” and Not Civil Union Law.
Ideally, what the Pope said was no different from what he and the Church have been saying about homosexuality, and that is “Show love to the sinner, but hate the sin.”
Here he only went further to ask that things are put in place where the gay and the lesbian will feel they belong in the family.
I believe the whole world must give this thought. Assuming, in a family, one of the children started exhibiting homosexual tendencies, it is for the parents and siblings to show true to him and get him out this danger. If the parents are intolerant, that child will go outside to seek answers and comfort, and that is what we do not want.
If a child feels he or she is in a family where the parents care and are ready to help them, they will never hide anything from them, but open up. Such children can easily be moved out of bad situations.
Assuming a child starts pinching a few things at home and he or she is thrown out, they will sooner than later become armed robbers, and that is the worse option. If they feel they do belong in a family that is when they can be led out of stealing.
In a way, looking at what the Pope said, some Christians, including Catholics, are saying that by advocating for civil coexistence is that not going to in conflict with laws which outlaw homosexuality and all forms of LGBTs?
In St John 8:11, after the woman caught in adultery suddenly found out that those who brought her to Jesus to be stoned to death, according to the very Laws of Moses, which were God’s own laws, had left without condemning her, she responded to the Lord that “none is around to condemn me.” Jesus then spoke these wonderful words of life: “Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.”
Is St. John 8:11 not in conflict with Jesus condemning sinful souls into eternal damnation? Does St. John 8:11 mean that when we all appear at His Judgment Throne, Jesus will rather turn to us and say, “I condemn you, not?” If that is to be the case, then the teachings of Jesus are in conflict with each other.
But there was no conflict here. Jesus beheld a troubled woman who knew she had willingly allowed herself to sin. This woman knew she had sinned before God and might have regretted what she did. Instead of home and society feeling pity for her and encouraging her out of this, she was rather brought to judgment to be stoned to death, so that the world becomes a better place, minus one prostitute.
She submitted herself to God and must have been praying that in the end if she were stoned her soul should be received by God. She never knew that she was standing in front of God who saw what was happening in her heart and mind.
However, around her, and in especially those who brought her to be stoned, were people who were as much sinners as she was. They were unrepentant, but calling for the death of another sinner. So Jesus asked them: “Any of you without sin, cast the first stone.” It was then that true justice was served and the woman’s accusers left, one after the other, beginning with the elders.
There are many reasons why children get into homosexual tendencies, and when the home environment does not help, it can make matters worse. A mother, who ill-treats everyone at home, including her husband, can make her sons feel very uncomfortable with the opposite sex and find comfort in males only. So is the case when the father is the terror and beats up all, including his wife. The daughters may decide to have nothing to do with males and seek warmth, love and pleasure in other women.
The Pope is saying, and the Catholic Church is saying, that instead of making life a hell for homosexuals at home, they must be made to feel they also belong. It is only through this that they can be encouraged out of this practice.
The Pope is not endorsing same-sex relationship, and the Catholic Church’s matter on this issue remains as it was in the beginning; it is same now, and so shall it be.
Hon Daniel Dugan
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s editorial stance
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