Antipope John Paul II is condemned again for promoting Modernist Worship

Heresy of the Week, Week of 2/20/04 By Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond For more see: Heresies of the Week – Miscellaneous Articles and Issues

Antipope John Paul II, Chirograph for the Centenary of the Motu Proprio Tra le Sollecitudini, Nov. 22, 2003: “The music and song requested by the liturgical reform – it is right to stress this point – must comply with the legitimate demands of adaptation and inculturation.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 28, 2004, p. 6.)

Comment: I could bring forward hordes of statements from Antipope John Paul II on inculturation in the liturgy, the idea that the worship of the Catholic Church should conform to the various customs of peoples and cultures. In fact, Antipope John Paul II has taken part in many events, both in Rome and abroad, where a native pagan ritual is included in the liturgy.  These rituals spring from cultures which are entirely demonic and satanic in every aspect of their organized religious practices, yet are included in many of Antipope John Paul II’s liturgical events.  But the reader should note that what Antipope John Paul II teaches above, that the liturgy must comply with adaptation to various cultures and peoples, which is also what we see all over the Vatican II sect, is exactly what Pope St. Pius X condemned as Modernist worship in Pascendi.

Pope Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (# 26), Sept. 8, 1907, On the Worship of Modernists: “THE CHIEF STIMULUS IN THE DOMAIN OF WORSHIP CONSISTS IN THE NEED OF ADAPTING ITSELF TO THE USES AND CUSTOMS OF PEOPLES, as well as the need of availing itself of the value which certain acts have acquired by long usage.”

But the heretical idea of inculturation in the liturgy expressed above, which was condemned by the Catholic Church in the person of Pope St. Pius X, was officially taught by the Vatican II sect in the Vatican II document Sacrosanctum concilium.

Vatican II Document, Sacrosanctum concilium # 37: “… (the Church) cultivates and encourages the gifts and endowments of mind and heart possessed by various races in peoples… Indeed, it sometimes allows them into the liturgy itself, provided they are consistent with the thinking behind the true spirit of the liturgy.”

Please notice that Vatican II is allowing the customs of various peoples into liturgical worship.

Vatican II Document, Sacrosanctum concilium # 40.1: “The competent local Church authority should carefully and conscientiously consider, in this regard, which elements from the traditions and particular talents of individual peoples can be brought into divine worship.  Adaptations which are adjudged useful or necessary should be proposed to the apostolic see, and introduced with its consent.”

Notice again that Vatican II is calling for the customs and traditions of various peoples to be incorporated into the liturgy.  This is exactly what Pope Pius X solemnly condemned in Pascendias Modernist worship above.  Here is what Pope St. Pius X decreed about those who would defend any of the propositions condemned in Pascendi, such as that the liturgy should be adapted to various cultures.

Pope St. Pius X, Motu proprio, "Praestantia Scripturae," Nov. 18, 1907: "...Modernists, who by sophisms and artifices of every kind endeavor to destroy the force and efficacy not only of the Decree, 'Lamentabili sane exitu'... but also of Our Encyclical Letter, 'Pascendi Dominici gregis,' given on the eight of September of this same year by Our Apostolic Authority, We repeat and confirm not only that Decree of the Sacred and Supreme Congregation, but also that Encyclical Letter of Ours [Pascendi], adding the penalty of excommunication against all who contradict them; and we declare and decree this: if anyone, which God forbid, proceeds to such a point of boldness that he defends any of the propositions, opinions, and doctrines disproved in either document mentioned above, he is ipso facto afflicted by the censure imposed in the chapter Docentes of the Constitution of the Apostolic See, first among those excommunications latae sententiae..."

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