Pope Francis’ ‘All Religions’ Discourse Was an Attack on Christ’s Divinity
Pope Francis’ recent comments during an interreligious meeting with young people at Catholic Junior College in Singapore regarding the smorgasbord of different “paths to reach God” – “[s]ome Sikh, some Muslim, some Hindu, some Christian” – encapsulate the poisonous ideology that has permeated the Catholic Church over the past several decades. It has seeped into the pulpits, seminaries, and classrooms, corrupting the Church Militant. Whether as converts or cradle Catholics, many of us were infused, at some point, with this pernicious, any-road-up-the-mountain toxin.
It is certainly not the first time Francis has espoused religious indifferentism. Buried within his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, Francis stated that, while for Christians the wellspring of human dignity and fraternity is in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “others drink from other sources.” It was a scandalous and deceptive comment. That it was written by the successor of St. Peter, the rock upon whom Christ built His Church, and who consented to be crucified upside down for love of the Savior, was distressing. Until last week, Fratelli Tutti was, in my mind, Francis’ worst moment as Pope. His observations amounted to so much more than a deviation from Church teaching. Together with his recent address in Singapore, they represent a direct attack on the divinity of Christ and His dominion over all Creation.
It’s no accident that, according to a 2021 Pew Research study, Catholics are twice as likely as Protestants in general, and over three times as likely as Evangelical Christians, to say that people who do not believe in God can still go to heaven. Only 16 percent of Catholics – compared with 38 percent of Protestants and 50 percent of Evangelicals – believe that their religion is the one true faith leading to eternal life in heaven. Whichever way you dice it, a Catholic who accepts the heterodox view that salvation is possible without Christ, has, somewhere along the road, been deluded into believing that, at the end of the day, the whole Jesus thing is a nice story, but just isn’t essential. Such blasphemy isn’t the unfortunate result o
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