Highlights of the Rome Life Forum 2019

ROME LIFE FORUM

City of man vs City of God

GLOBAL ONE WORLD ORDER VS CHRISTENDOM

ANGELICUM, ROME, 16-17 MAY 2019

H.E. BISHOP ATHANASIUS SCHNEIDER Video address on the hopelessness of the city of man without God “The reign or city, that is against and without God, leads by its intrinsic logic to the tyranny of egoism, of narcissism, it leads to a society led by the law of the jungle, to a society of cruelty and mercilessness, to a society with no aff ections, to a society with a continuous spiritual winter, without spring, without fl owers, without summer, without fruits, without true joy and beauty. In such a society there is no warmth of a true humanity. A society and a city that is against God and without God is not even capable of having a sense of humour, neither is it capable of mourning.”

“The city of man contains at its root the impulse to totalitarianism, to global totalitarianism which will demand total submission and which will not tolerate the reign of the true king of this world and of humankind, who is the Incarnate God, Jesus Christ.”

“True liberty, true humanity, true social progress of an individual and of the society as a whole is guaranteed only when the will of God the Creator in His Commandments and the will of God in His Revelation in Christ is accepted and observed and when Christ’s kingship over human society is recognised.”

H.E. JĀNIS CARDINAL PUJATS Video address on topical issues for the family and for society “Christ has said: ‘Seek ye therefore fi rst the kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.’ Christ also tells us how to achieve this goal: if you want to enter the Kingdom of God and inherit eternal life, you must keep the Commandments.”

“...at all times there are signals coming either from Heaven or from Hell; but there has never been any signal coming out of nothingness. So, an unbeliever has nowhere to hide from responsibility. But those who believe and follow God’s Commandments, consider life as a service to God, which is a normal behaviour and way of life in this world.”

“It is scandalous and strange that in many countries, the legalisation of ‘same-sex marriage’ is justifi ed by referring to so-called ‘sexual orientation’. It seems that in reality this ‘orientation’ is most often acquired in practice, just like an alcoholic acquires the habit of drinking. Just like every other vice acquired by practice, it is not an orientation but simply a vice.”

“The Holy Scripture says that every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. This is the diff erence between God’s requirements and human laws. God’s Commandments fi rst require us to love God more than anything else in our life. And each and every person as ourselves.”

“God’s Commandments protect the inner freedom of the person. They give him independence from sinful habits that enslave him. There are many people who are spiritually and materially devastated because they serve their vices like slaves.”

“[M]an has fl esh and an immortal soul. Concerning human fl esh, science and medicine have suffi ciently explored it. It does not contain any special secrets. But as far as the human soul and his spiritual life are concerned, it is unique to every man, and everyone keeps it secret. No one can look into another man’s soul. Even the most sophisticated technical devices are unable to hear and to determine a man’s thoughts. The inner life is real, very secret and very rich. A person’s reason and will, his plans and good intentions, his skills and talents, faith and virtues, his relationships with God and men, the unfathomable treasury of his memory – all that is a very rich reality hidden in the depth of every man’s soul. This reality is unique to every person and inimitable. It is a witness to the existence of the human soul. With this spiritual treasure, the person will stand before God at the end of his life. He can also end up in the claws of Satan, depending on how he lived his life.”

H.E. WALTER CARDINAL BRANDMÜLLER An insight into the pre-history of Humanae vitae

“Today … we are confronted with the results of a process of erosion initiated at the 1930 Lambeth Conference which, from the approval of artifi cial contraception, has led us to the monstrosity of what is today known as procreative medicine, by which man has seated himself on the throne of the Creator.”

“Goethe’s Prometheus said: ‘I am here and I create men in my image …’ These words, written more than two hundred years ago, in fact mirror this notion of self which, today, is driving the protagonists of so-called reproductive medicine to carry out these experiments, through which they sacrilegiously violate the sanctity of human life. These are interventions - and there are almost no words to describe them – of an almost diabolical monstrosity, today heralded as spectacular breakthroughs … It only remains for for us to wait until these Prometheic fi gures reach the same destiny as their mythical hero.”

“Humanae vitae provides an extraordinary example of the workings of the process of parodosis, which means trans-

mission of the doctrine of the Church. When the truth of faith is received, adopted and transmitted, what happens is that what is received, when adopted and transmitted, responds with deeper understanding and more precise expression to the needs of the respective present, while continuing to be identical to itself. In all of this, contradiction between yesterday and today is impossible: it is the Holy Spirit who acts in the Church of Jesus Christ to guide this process of paradosis. It is the Holy Spirit who ensures that the faith of the Church develops in the course of time, just as an adult person continues to be identical to the infant it was in the past, an intuition formulated by Vincent of Lérins as early as 430 and elaborated upon by Blessed John Henry Newman.”

H.E. RAYMOND LEO CARDINAL BURKE Questions and answers; for Cardinal Burke’s presentation on fi lial piety and national patriotism, please go to p.40 “To resist large-scale Muslim immigration, in my judgement, is to be responsible in the sense of making sure that those who are immigrating to the country remember that the defi nition of the Church’s teaching is that the individuals are not able to fi nd a way of living in their own country. And this is not true of immigrants who are opportunists and in particular in the case of Islam, which by its defi nition believes itself to be destined to rule the world, coming in large numbers to countries.”

“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what has happened, for instance, in Europe, in countries like France and Germany and also here in Italy. And it is also happening in the United States. There is a very interesting book written called No go zones which records places in the United States, where in fact Muslim immigrants set up their own legal order. In other words they resist the legitimate legal authority of the state and so to be opposed to large-scale muslim immigration is in fact a responsible exercise of one’s patriotism. People who are true refugees, who cannot live in their own country – yes, we must receive them and help them in every way, but this is not the case when you have simply a large scale immigration.”