Both the liberal Jesuits: Spadaro and Francis it appears are total relativists, as are most Jesuits and all liberal theologians.
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Fr. George Rutler in his 2017 Crisis article said Fr. Antonio Spadaro, and by implication Francis since both he and Spadaro are liberal Jesuits, “grew up in a theological atmosphere of… Transcendental Thomism [which] was Karl Rahner’s attempt to wed Thomistic realism with Kantian idealism. Father Stanley Kaki, theologian and physicist, called this stillborn hybrid ‘Aquikantianism.'”
(Crisis, “The Mathematical Innovations of Father Spadaro,” February 22, 2017)
Both the liberal Jesuits: Spadaro and Francis it appears are total relativists, as are most Jesuits and all liberal theologians.
Rahner’s “Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook” says:
“The German Jesuit Karl Rahner (1904-1984) remains one of most influential theologians of the twentieth century.”
(Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook, https://booksgoogle.com>books)
Rahner was a disciple of Kant as Rutler said. Jaki, also, makes this clear in his books on Aquikantists.
Kant taught that one could only know the phenomena of the mind or ideas and not know reality. Jaki wrote:
“Kant, who begins with ideas and, as all the history of modern philosophy shows, never gets to reality.”
(Chesterton: A Seer of Science, page 19)
Kant and those who follow him thought God was only a thought. Jaki quotes Kant and explains the citation:
“‘God is not a being outside me but merely a thought within me.'”
“That man was his own God, if he needed one, was evidently Kant’s conclusion.”
(Angels, Apes and Men, page 10)
Rahner’s Kantian philosophy lead him to deny the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Fr. Regis Scanlon, OFM, Cap., wrote:
“In 1966 the late Fr. Karl Rahner stated that ‘one can no longer maintain today that bread is a substance, as St. Thomas and the Fathers of the Council (of Trent) obviously thought it was’.[12] [Theological Investigations, page 307] For Rahner the ‘substance’ of a thing did not include its < material and physical> reality, but the ‘meaning and purpose’ of the thing. [13] [Karl Rahner, S.J.., p.307; Engelbert Gutwenger, “Transubstantiation,” page 1754, pp. 34-35] So, according to Karl Rahner, transubstantiation meant that, after the consecration of the Mass, the physical bread remained physical bread but it now had a new ‘meaning’ of spiritual food because it was now a “symbol” of Jesus Christ.[14] [Engelbert Gutwenger, pp. 1754-1755]”
“Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx agreed with Fr. Karl Rahner that the physical bread and wine were only a ‘sign’ of Christ.[15] In fact, for Schillebeeckx, the ‘real presence’ of Christ in the Eucharist was not the consecrated bread and wine, but the < ‘assembled community’>.[16]”
(Modern Misconceptions About The Eucharist, PDF, St. Patrick’s Basilica > 2016/10, https://Basilica.ca, Provided courtesy of: Eternal Word Television Network)
Jaki thought the “archetype” figure of this type of philosophy which Rahner professed was “Lucifer”:
“Kant who once wrote of himself: ‘I am an Archangel!’ and went on to state repeatedly: ‘I am God.’ The archetype for this self-enrichment was none other than Lucifer. If one looks for the source of the pride, the self-sufficiency… one merely has to look in the direction of the camp that still breeds Aquikantists… Aquikantists were overjoyed when the invocation of Saint Michael was dropped as a first step towards the new liturgy.”
(Newman’s Challenge, pages 76-77)
Remember Aquikantists, specifically Rahner, have totally influenced all liberal theologians and many, maybe most, conservative ones.
Rahner’s influence even reached to the papacy of Pope John Paul II who believed in the Eucharist and objective morality unlike Francis who apparently may not believe in the Eucharist or objective morality.
John Paul because of philosophical inadequacies had a relativist inter-religious dialogue blindspot such as in the Assisi scandalous episode unlike Pope Benedict XVI. Scholar Fr. John Coleman S. J. wrote:
“John Hick’s pluralist model is based on a Kantian epistemology that undermines, at the outset, any notion of a normative revelation of God in history… In Danielou’s theology, the grace of Christ may mysteriously touch individuals outside Christianity but the other religions, their scriptures and rituals, remain purely human customs… Rahner did not make such a strict distinction… John Paul was closer to Rahner… Whereas Ratzinger had warned of the dangers of relativism in inter-religious dialogue.” (Inter-Religious Dialogue: Urgent Challenge and Theological Land-Mine, PFD Australian Catholic University>au)
Rahner’s influence has effected Francis as well as his inner circle, Catholic colleges, schools and children as well as youth catechism teaching books and their teachers who prepare them for the Sacraments.
Since all liberal Catholics and many conservative ones, knowingly or unknowingly, have been deeply influenced by Rahner’s Kantian “theology,” is it possible that the crisis in the Church, in large extent, is due to their unconscious and in some cases conscious disbelief in objective reality as well as objective “normative” revelation which leads to disbelief in the Eucharist and God.
Does this explain Francis’s panicked reaction against when Cardinal Robert Sarah gave a mild call for reverence at the Mass and the Holy Eucharist and his desire to explain away and in many cases openly reject God’s Ten Commandments?
It appears that Francis isn’t just a moral relativist, but apparently may not believe in the Eucharist.
Why do some traditionalists, recently, want to pretend that the Amoris laetitia total relativist Francis is exactly the same as Benedict and John Paul who both believed in the Eucharist and objective morality despite both having major philosophical inadequacies?
Is Francis a total relativist?
In my opinion, the evidence points to Francis being an apparent total relativist. Please read the following posts:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/11/evidence-francis-is-modernist-who.html?m=1
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2018/11/is-pope-francis-nihilist-who-doesnt.html
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1
– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.SHARE
ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 
While one may quibble as to whether the other “popes” that came after Pius XII were as bad as Francis or not, it is only a question of degree, not of essence. They were all non-Catholics, denying truths of the Catholic faith. And when you deny one doctrine, you deny them all, since you are making a fundamental rebellion against God. In particular, there is very little “space” between Wojtyła, Ratzinger and Bergoglio. Wojtyła and Ratzinger simply hid their appostasy more subtly and successfully than Bergoglio, who is quite prepared to wear his heresies on his sleeve. One may very clearly label Bergoglio as a relativist; but just as clearly label Wojtyła a universalist (since he believed that the incarnation automatically redeemed all human life); I am not sure whether there is a concise word to describe one who denies original sin, but it would apply to Ratzinger. Arguing about the relative demerits of these “popes” diverts attention away from the main work to be done today of denouncing the counterfeit Modernist church that they fostered, after its creation by Vatican II, and getting faithful Catholics to flee from it, for the good of their souls.