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“A GREAT MOVEMENT OF APOSTASY IS BEING ORGANIZED IN EVERY COUNTRY”

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In an obscure encyclical issued in 1910, Pope St. Pius X clearly identified the seven major components of the Apostasy being organized worldwide today to subvert the Catholic Church.

CHURCH OF MAN

"We fear that worse is to come: the end result of this developing promiscuousness … can only be a Democracy which will be neither Catholic, nor Protestant, nor Jewish. It will be a religion more universal than the Catholic Church, uniting all men to become brothers and comrades at last in the 'Kingdom of God: We do not work for the Church, we work for mankind.'

ONE RELIGION

"A miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy (is) being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church …

REIGN OF CUNNING: NO DOGMAS, NO DISCIPLINE, NO CURB ON THE PASSIONS

"… which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer.

A GOSPEL OF FEELINGS AND OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT

"We know only too well the dark workshops in which are elaborated these mischievous doctrines … the exaltation of their sentiments, the undiscriminating good-will of their hearts, their philosophical mysticism, mixed with a measure of illuminism, have carried them away towards another Gospel which they thought was the true Gospel of Our Savior.

JESUS CHRIST IS NOT GOD

"To such an extent that they speak of Our Lord Jesus Christ with a familiarity supremely disrespectful, and that -- their ideal being akin to that of the Revolution -- they fear not to draw between the Gospel and the Revolution blasphemous comparisons for which the excuse cannot be made that they are due to some confused and over-hasty composition. As soon as the social question is being approached, it is the fashion in some quarters to first put aside the divinity of Jesus Christ …

FALSE MERCY

" … and then to mention only His unlimited clemency, His compassion for all human miseries, and His pressing exhortations to the love of our neighbor and to the brotherhood of men.

NO CROSS (NO SALVATION)

“He did not announce for future society the reign of an ideal happiness from which suffering would be banished; but, by His lessons and by His example, He traced the path of the happiness which is possible on earth and of the perfect happiness in heaven: the royal way of the Cross. These are eminently social teachings, and they show in Our Lord Jesus Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent humanitarianism."

NOTRE CHARGE APOSTOLIQUE (Our Apostolic Mandate)

- Given by Pope Pius X to the French Bishops August 15,1910

If you have questions or concerns, please read the document. Please remember the rich 2,000 year history that accompanies these writings. If you still have questions, find a strong Catholic (preferably a priest or someone who has spent years studying these documents).

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