"A fraud (specifically, a religious fraud; but since he is the prime fraud, he deserves the title without qualification) is a person who poses as a model Catholic, an exemplar of holiness and learning, but who does not have the Faith. He is a person who tries to make you believe that the Catholic Faith, as it exists here and now in the United States of America, is somehow essentially different from the Faith as it existed elsewhere in ages past, that it is not quite the same as the Faith that the saints of the Middle Ages held and the martyrs of Rome died for, that it has changed and adjusted itself to keep up with the times.

A fraud is a person who, because of his own fears, ignorance, and ambitions tries to deceive non-Catholic Americans on the subject of their eternal salvation, telling them or letting them think that he has told them, that the Church does not teach, at least not any more, that it is necessary for them to become Catholics to save their souls, but that they need only to follow faithfully the precepts of their own religions. The frauds want to destroy the impression of the Church as the single, clear, unequivocal way to salvation and to substitute for it the impression of a good-natured, democratic, successful organization, a beneficent influence on community morals, a strong bulwark against Communism, something staid, harmless, and acceptable, something that would never be so presumptuous as to set itself above other religions or to claim for itself exclusive custodianship of the gate of Heaven.

Although all frauds have the same general intention, there are as many different varieties of them as there are different excuses for being ashamed of the Faith in the presence of non-Catholics. For example, there is the pious fraud, the archetype of them all, who boasts of his daily attendance at Mass, but who is equally anxious to tell you that those who do not have, or do not want, this Mass, can please God just as much in other ways; there is the intellectual fraud, who has a difficulty about the ignorant native that just has to be solved before he can see his way clear to evangelize the Protestant next door; there is the sociological fraud, who perceives that his first duty to non-Catholics is to give them a higher standard of living, and not the Body and Blood of Our Lord; and there is the patriotic fraud, to whom the Bill of Rights and the Apostles’ Creed are all one thing and who tries to make it appear that God, like America, regards neither race, color, nor creed.

It does not require a lot of study recognize a fraud or a reasoned argument to prove that that is what he is. The Faith is wonderfully simple and uninvolved, being for children and the childlike and providing not merely reasons but insights. It equips you to make judgments that are swift, sure, and just; and there is nothing so easy to spot, for the pure of heart who truly have the Faith, as a fraud.

Take Bishop Sheen, for instance, dressing up in his episcopal robes to present to the five million Faith-hungry Americans who listen to him on television a “non-sectarian” message that he himself has devised. Every Catholic knows that he is not speaking as a true bishop should.

To detect a fraud, there is no surer way than this: If a man says he believes that the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ are really and truly present in the Blessed Eucharist and, yet, does not tell non-Catholics about this Eucharist, he is a fraud. If a man pretends that he loves non-Catholics and — as evidence of this love — offers them some other gift, like social improvements or assurances of his own goodwill toward them, rather than the great Gift of the Bread of Life, he is a fraud. If a man pretends to love the Eucharist and at the same time defends those who scoff at it and blaspheme it and says they are good and sincere people who are on the way to saving their souls, he is a fraud. It does not matter who he is, or what prestige and dignity he might have either in the world or in the Church, or what reasons and excuses he might be able to offer for his behavior, if he acts in this way, you can know, without any doubt, that he is a fraud. It is that simple." - From Point Magazine edited under Fr. Leonard Feeney http://fatherfeeney.org/point/53-apr.html

The apparently well-meaning Father Feeney excommunicated himself.  Evangelizing with his words seems unfruitful for the purpose of bringing people into the Church.  May as well quote Luther.  

Father Feeney is anathema to the conciliar Church and the modern mind, which has been shaped by it, simply because he is Catholic.

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Although all frauds have the same general intention, there are as many different varieties of them as there are different excuses for being ashamed of the Faith in the presence of non-Catholics. For example, there is the pious fraud, the archetype of them all, who boasts of his daily attendance at Mass, but who is equally anxious to tell you that those who do not have, or do not want, this Mass, can please God just as much in other ways;

Excellent.

Thanks for posting this!

Your welcome. I think the whole magazine is worth a read if you are not already familiar with it. Just follow the link in my original post.

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Father Feeney is anathema to the conciliar Church and the modern mind, which has been shaped by it, simply because he is Catholic.

Father Feeney's words also brought down the pre-Vatican II Church on him. Feeneyism is not the solution, it is another problem.  

The enemy of my enemy is not by that my friend.

Yes, he ran afoul of the heretics. He was not the problem, he was the clarion call which the modernists smothered, leaving us now with a Church, where everyone can be saved, excepting , those who do not believe that everyone can be saved.

And this is the devil speaking through him again:

"The good Buddhist, the good Confucianist, the good Moslem, are all saved by Christ and not by Buddhism, or Islam, or Confucianism but through their sacraments, their prayers, their asceticism, their morality, their good life." Fulton Sheen (p. 148)  ,Treasure in Clay

GJC is indeed in the 1% percent  :smile:

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And this is the devil speaking through him again:

"The good Buddhist, the good Confucianist, the good Moslem, are all saved by Christ and not by Buddhism, or Islam, or Confucianism but through their sacraments, their prayers, their asceticism, their morality, their good life." Fulton Sheen (p. 148)  ,Treasure in Clay

13. Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the admonition of the apostle that "there is one God, one faith, one baptism" may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that "those who are not with Christ are against Him," and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore "without a doubt, they will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate." - Pope Gregory XVI Mirari Vos http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Greg16/g16mirar.htm

By the time Fr. Feeney was censored for defending EENS, the vast majority of the world’s bishops had already been tainted with Modernism. Most of the world’s bishops had already embraced the heresy of indifferentism, which explains why almost all of them signed the Vatican II docuмents just a short time later. They had already embraced the heretical idea that “invincible ignorance” saves those who die as non-Catholics. The stage had already been set up for rupturing with Church tradition and timeless truth.