Blessings, gratitude, sacredness, and divinity — these are the words you would expect to hear from a bishop during a sermon at the consecration of a church.
After the Second Vatican Council, those phrases have all too often been used to describe what the Church prior to the 1960s referred to as profane, heretical, sacrilegious, and diabolical.
On June 12, Edward Weisenburger, the Archbishop of Detroit, confirmed his adherence to the conciliar religion of man by using those terms to describe the grand opening of a $16 million mosque in Dearborn Heights, Michigan.
“There is nowhere that I feel greater honor, fraternity, and kindness … there is no place, I think, that I feel more at home,” he said. “This is a truly wonderful and sacred place.”
Such comments are not only scandalous but outright blasphemous.
Anyone who claims to be a Catholic bishop should feel the most “at home” at the altar of Our Lord, where his vocation is realized as he offers the Body and Blood of Christ in reparation for the sins of mankind.
Moreover, the only house of worship that a Catholic should describe as being “sacred” is a church, as that is where God Himself is present.
For Weisenburger to say the exact opposite is to betray the apostles he purports to be a successor of.
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Not only that, he tramples on the graves of the holy popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and laymen who fought the scourge of Islam throughout history. None of them considered mosques to be holy ground.
Weisenburger’s devotion to false ecumenism was on display elsewhere in his remarks.
“From the moment I drove onto this beautiful property today, I very fully felt the sense of the Divine presence … we are members of the same human family. All churches, all mosques, all synagogues, all places where God reaches out and touches with His finger are sacred.”
This is pure Freemasonry. In a single sentence, Weisenburger contradicts multiple Scripture passages, as well as Christ’s own words in Luke 13:35 on how the “house” of Israel will be left “desolate.” He also violates immutable Catholic doctrine on no salvation outside the church, original sin, and sanctifying grace.
Of course, in saying these things, Weisenburger is simply following the erroneous teachings of Vatican II.
“The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself,” Nostra Aetate alleges.
“Separated Churches and Communities … though we believe them to be deficient in some respects … the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation,” Unitatis Redintegratio claims.
“Many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its [the Church of Christ’s] visible structure,” Lumen Gentium maintains.
These are just a few of the many egregious deviations from the Church’s perennial magisterium contained in the Council’s documents.
Before he took the stage, Weisenburger was praised by the event’s emcee as being a champion of dialogue between “different faith traditions.” But that cannot be as there is only one faith: the Catholic faith.
Any man who purports to be a representative of that faith but lacks the courage to mention the name of Jesus Christ — as Weisenburger failed to do in his remarks — is a hireling who need not be obeyed.
