Roberto de Mattei
Corrispomdenza Romana
May 1, 2019
On February 4, 2019, at Abu Dhabi,
Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Ahmad Al- Tayyeb, signed the
document on “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together”. The
declaration opens in the name of a God, who, if he has to be a God common to
all, cannot be anything other than the Allah of Muslims. The God of Christians, in fact, is one in
nature, but Triune in persons, equal and distinct, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Since the time of Arius and thereafter, the Church has been battling the
anti-Trinitarians and the Deists who deny, or set aside this mystery, which is
Christianity’s greatest. Islam, on the
contrary, rejects it in horror, as the Sura
“of authentic worship” proclaims: “He, God, is one! God, the Eternal One! He
will not generate, nor was he generated, and none is equal to him!” (Koran,
112, 2,4).
Actually, in the Abu Dhabi declaration, worship
is not given either to the God of Christians or to the God of Islam, but to a
secular divinity, “human fraternity”, “which embraces all men, unites them and
renders them equal.” We are not dealing here with “the spirit of Assisi - which
in its syncretism recognizes, nonetheless, the primacy of the religious
dimension over that of the secularist - but with an affirmation of indifference.
In no point, in fact, is a fundamental metaphysic
of the values of peace and fraternity mentioned, but these are continually referred
to. The document, when it affirms that “pluralism and the diversity of
religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom,
through which He created human beings”, does not profess the ecumenism
condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium animos (1928),
but the religious indifferentism condemned by Leo XIII in the encyclical Libertas (June 20, 1888), which he
defines as “a doctrinal system teaching each is free to profess the religion he
likes and even not to profess any at all.”
In the Abu Dhabi declaration, Christians and
Muslims submit themselves to the core principal of Freemasonry, whereby the French
Revolution values of liberty and equality should find their synthesis and
attainment in universal brotherhood. Ahmad
Al-Tayyeb, who along with Pope Francis drew up the text, is a hereditary sheik
of the Confraternity of Sufis for Upper Egypt, and, in the Islamic world, Al
Azhar, the university of which he is rector, is characterized for its proposal
of Sufi esotericism, as “an initiatory bridge” between Eastern and Western Freemasonry
(cfr. Gabriel Mandel, Federico II, il sufismo e la massoneria,
Tipheret, Acireale 2013).
The document in an insistent and repetitive manner,
calls upon “the leaders of the world as well as
the architects of international policy and world economy, intellectuals,
philosophers, religious figures, artists, media professionals and men and women
of culture in every part of the world”, to work strenuously to spread “the
culture of tolerance and of living together in peace,” expressing “the
firm conviction that authentic teachings of religions invite us to remain
rooted in the values of peace; to defend the values of mutual understanding, human fraternity and
harmonious coexistence”. These values, it stresses, are the “anchor of
salvation for all”. Thus, “the Catholic Church and Al Azhar” ask that “this
Document become the object of research and reflection in all schools,
universities and institutes of formation, thus helping to educate new
generations to bring goodness and peace to others, and to be defenders
everywhere of the rights of the oppressed and of the least of our brothers and
sisters.”
On April 11, at Santa Marta in
the Vatican, the Abu Dhabi document was sealed by a symbolic gesture. Francis prostrated
himself on the ground before three political leaders from Sudan and kissed their
feet, imploring peace. This gesture should be judged not so much for what it
affirms: the submission of the Church to political powers, but for what it negates: the rejection
of the Kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who represents Christ, in
Whose Name every knee shall bend in heaven and on earth (Philippians 2, 10) must
receive homage from men and nations and not pay homage to anyone.
The words of Pius XI in the
encyclical Quas primas, (1925)
resonate: “Oh, what happiness would be Ours if all men, individuals,
families, and nations, would but let themselves be governed by Christ!
"Then at length," to use the words addressed by our predecessor, Pope
Leo XIII, twenty-five years ago to the bishops of the Universal Church,
"then at length will many evils be cured; then will the law regain its
former authority; peace with all its blessings be restored. Men will sheathe
their swords and lay down their arms when all freely acknowledge and obey the
authority of Christ, and every tongue confesses that the Lord Jesus Christ is
in the glory of God the Father.”
The gesture made by Pope Francis at Santa Marta
also negates a sublime mystery: The Incarnation, Passion and Death of Our Lord
Jesus Christ, the only Savior and Redeemer of mankind. By denying this mystery,
the salvific mission of the Church - called to evangelize and civilize the
world - is denied. Will the Amazonian Synod which takes place next October, be
a new phase in this rejection of the Church’s mission, which is also the
rejection of the Vicar of Christ’s mission?
Will Pope Francis kneel before representatives of the indigenous people?
Will he ask them to transmit to the Church their tribal wisdom of which they
are carriers?
What is certain is that three days later, on
April 15, the Cathedral of Notre Dame (a descriptive image of the Church) went
up in flames that devoured the spire, leaving the foundation intact. Does this
not signify that, despite the collapse at the very top of the Church, Her
Divine structure endures, and nothing will be able to demolish that?
A week later, other events shook up Catholic
public opinion. A series of terrorist attacks, incited by the followers of that
same religion Pope Bergoglio submits to, transformed Easter of the Resurrection
into a day of Passion for the universal Church, with 310 dead and more than 500
wounded. Even before it consumed the bodies, the fire consumed the illusions of
those Catholics, who with applauds and guitars intone the alleluia, while the
Church is experiencing Her Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
Some may object that the bombers in Sri Lanka,
even if they were Muslim, do not represent Islam. Yet not even the Imam of Al
Ahzar, who signed the document of peace and fraternity, represents all of
Islam. Pope Francis, on the other hand does certainly represent the Catholic
Church. But for how long?
There is no true fraternity outside
the supernatural, which does not come from relationships among men, but from
God (1 Thessalonians, 1,4). In the same way, there is no peace possible outside
that of Christian peace, since the source of true peace is Christ, Incarnate Wisdom,
Who “preached peace to you that were afar off,
and peace to them that were nigh” (Ephesians, 2, 17). Peace is a gift
from God, brought to mankind by Jesus Christ, Son of God and Sovereign of
Heaven and Earth. The Catholic Church founded by Him, is the supreme depositary
of peace, since She is custodian of the truth and peace is founded on truth and
justice.
Neo-Modernism, entrenched at the very
top of the Church, preaches false peace and false fraternity. But false peace brings
war into the world, just as false fraternity brings schism, which is war inside
the Church. St. Luigi Orione had dramatically foreseen it all on June 26 1913: “Modernism
and semi-Modernism cannot go on – sooner or later it’s going to be
Protestantism or a schism in the Church which will be the most terrible that
the world has ever seen.” (Writings, vol.43, p.53).
Translation: Contributor Francesca
Romana
