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The Truth about Assisi. Never-Before-Seen Words from Benedict XVI

"I will do everything I can to make a syncretistic or relativistic interpretation of the event impossible." In a letter from the pope to a Lutheran pastor, the real reason for the convocation of the encounter

by Sandro Magister

ROME, October 26, 2011 – The following is an extract from a letter written by Benedict XVI on March 4, 2011 to Lutheran pastor Peter Beyerhaus, a longtime friend who had told him about his fears over the new convocation of the day of Assisi:

"I understand very well," the pope writes, "your concern about participating in the encounter of Assisi. But this commemoration would have been celebrated in any case, and, in the end, it seemed to me the best thing to go there personally, in order to try to determine the overall direction. Nonetheless, I will do everything I can to make a syncretistic or relativistic interpretation of the event impossible, and to make it clear that I will always believe and confess what I had called the Church's attention to with 'Dominus Iesus'."

This is the original German of the passage from the letter:

"Ihre Sorge angesichts meiner Teilnahme an dem Assisi-Jubiläum verstehe ich sehr gut. Aber dieses Gedenken mußte auf jeden Fall gefeiert werden, und nach allem Überlegen erschien es mir als das Beste, wenn ich selbst dort hingehe und damit versuchen kann, die Richtung des Ganzen zu bestimmen. Jedenfalls werde ich alles tun, damit eine synkretistische oder relativistische Auslegung des Vorgangs unmöglich wird und klar bleibt, daß ich weiterhin das glaube und bekenne, was ich als Schreiben 'Dominus Jesus' der Kirche in Erinnerung gerufen hatte."

These never-before-seen words from pope Joseph Ratzinger were made public last October 1, with the authorization of the recipient of the letter, Pastor Beyerhaus, at the beginning of a conference organized in Rome by the association "Catholica Spes" on the meaning of the encounter in Assisi.

And previously, Beyerhaus had referred to it in an interview with the German newspaper "Kirchliche Umschau" last April.

But the matter went unnoticed. Only on the eve of the October 27 encounter was it revisited and reissued by a few traditionalist websites.

One of the speakers at the conference was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, who said among other things:

"There are a number of dangers that such an encounter could bring in terms of the mass media communication of the event, of which – as it is clear – the pontiff is well aware. The means of mass media communication will say, even with the images alone, that all religions have come together to ask God for peace. A poorly formed Christian could draw from this the gravely mistaken conclusion that one religion is as good as another, and that Jesus Christ is one of the many mediators of salvation."

For an overview of the day to be celebrated tomorrow in Assisi, see the following article from www.chiesa:

Actions speak louder than words.

Ratzinger could say he will make sure the Traditional Latin Mass is said in all churches for all time, and say he will abolish the Vatican II council's teachings.... BUT if he still lets the church continue on as it is doing without enforcing his words, he is worthless.

Which is exactly what is going on here.


Nice try , you serpent you, Santo Subito.

If the "Pope" really doesn't approve of religious indifferentism and sycretism, he should tell those present that they must convert to Catholicism or they face damnation.

But he's interested in praising Luther, etc, and if his words "Never before seen" - it's entirely his fault.

People to whom words mean nothing will call agnostics "Pilgrims of Truth" They will pretend to adhere to all the dogmas of the Church but they prove by their actions they have simply redefined all the terms so as to tolerate and accept any belief.  And their actions prove that that is what they do.

And look up the word "Islam" on the internet. The first definition is "the people of the Muslim faith". John Paul II asked St. John to protect the people of that faith from evils

You approve the Pope calling on the greatest Catholic prophet to protect an anti-Catholic movement follows a false prophet and that rejects Christ because you're an indifferentist who approves of idolatry and false worship and pretends they can be pleasing to God.

Real Catholics tell non-Catholics they must convert.  False Catholics call on Catholic saints to protect anti-Catholic religions.

I haven't found an answer to that question that satisfied me. Catholic should always deepen their understanding of their faith.

And there, sir, is your problem. The answer is not supposed to satisfy you , primarily. It should be assented to as truth, and if you don't "feel" it, then your feelings need to change.

Just saying it how it is.

I believe in it, but I have trouble understanding that one point. Why can't you ever give a charitable interpretation of someone's statement? You JUDGE OUR HOLINESS THE POPE?

Why don't you answer my mass question that

And did you look up that verse in Acts or not?

No one is judging your holiness the Pope. All sedevacantists do is recognize who he is not, and go off that. We aren't going to his door step with a paper judgment against his so-called reign to the papacy.

Ipso facto one is removed from their office by heresy, anyways...with or without proclamation by any Church official. Do you know of the SSPV, CMRI, or independent chapels that have been existing ever since Vatican II bloomed? They are places of safety in this storm of evil that has been rocking the world for 50 years now.

It shouldn't be surprising that people who approve of false worship approve of calling on saints to protect the worshippers of a false religion, and confirming them in that religion, by suggesting St. John the Baptist will protect them in that false worship.  What's surprising is that they call themselves Catholic.  No true Catholic could ever do that.  No quibbling over words can change that.  It's false Christianity.  It's indifferentism.

And Tele, I really like your sig.