A Special Report

The Apostasy Within the Church Accelerates

by Coralie Graham
The Church is not experiencing great pastoral advances today. Rather it is in
decline. This is clearly seen from the statistics and projections of David Barrett,
the authentitive compiler of the World Christian Encyclopedia.

The Catholic Church is Losing Rapidly

Catholicism is only growing at 1.5% annual growth rate which is more than ten
times less the annual growth rate of the Moslems which is 16%.
According to these trends by the year 2000 the Catholic Church will be
surpassed by the Moslems as the world's largest religious body.
But the rate of growth 1.5% shows something even more disturbing: Because
the world's population is increasing by more than 1.5% each year, it means that
the Church is not even keeping up with population growth.
Is it because married Catholics around the world are contracepting themselves
and thereby preventing new children of the Church from being born? Or is it
that they are not bringing their children to be baptized? Either way it is a major
crisis.

Missions at a Standstill
Furthermore this extremely low growth rate means that the Church's missionary
effort in effect is at a standstill. But it is even worse than that!
First we should note that of those who call themselves Catholic, many do not
practice their faith. Officially 39% of Europe is still Catholic and 25% of the
USA. Yet less than 50% go to Mass each Sunday. In some places it is only 2%.
But that is not all! Latin America, of which almost all the population up to a few
years ago was at least nominally Catholic, today is fast losing souls to false
religions.
Already 10% of the Latin American population has been deceived out of the
Church by the combination of the preachers of other religions while the Catholic
clergy in part are being taken over by the Marxists to spread Communism in the
guise of liberation theology.
Malachi Martin in his book The Jesuits tells the sad story of how the Jesuits led
the way to taking thousands of souls out of the Church into Marxism. They did it
through "Liberation Theology" which maintains the use of Catholic terms but
gives a Communist meaning and message to them.
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In some places the inroads of the Pentecostal sects into Catholic Latin America
is even higher. 20% of Guatemala is already Protestantized and 14% of Chile.
Puerto Rico which was 93% Catholic 30 years ago at the present rate of its
apostasy will be less than 50% Catholic by the year 2000!
In Asia the one Catholic country, the Philippines, about 200,000 souls fall for
one or another of the many evangelical sects.

Missions Betrayed from Within

But as bad as all that is, it is not all! The missions have been betrayed from
within the Church itself. Various religious orders which traditionally have been
entrusted with missionary work have Superiors at or near the top who do not
believe in the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation.
Some of them seem to heretically hold that "Outside the Church a person can
save his soul." For example, Michael Amaladoss of India, one of the four general
assistants of the Society of Jesus openly questions the need for Baptism and the
need to proclaim Christ as the only Savior.
To publicly call into question a Dogma of the Faith is to be a heretic or at least
suspect of heresy. Yet nothing is done to stop this. We know that it is a Dogma
of the Catholic Faith - that the Church has always taught and held - and must
hold until the end of time that "In order to be saved one must be a member of
the Catholic Church." Outside the Church there is no salvation. And in the
Athanasian Creed which goes back to the early Church, we find: "Whosoever
wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic faith; for unless a person
keeps this faith whole and entire he will undoubtedly be lost forever."
It is the teaching of Sacred Scripture that only in the name of Jesus Christ can
anyone be saved and Christ has entrusted the job of teaching and baptizing to
His Church without which there is no salvation.
Yet these fundamental dogmas have been attacked openly even by writers and
priests and religious superiors of some of the most powerful and respected
orders.

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Pray, pray for the Holy Father. Is John Paul II the Pope referred to in the Third Secret?

Cardinal Tomko is Worried

Cardinal Tomko, appointed by Pope John Paul II as the Prefect of the Roman
Congregation in charge of world missionaries, is already concerned and
rightfully so. On October 5, 1988, at the International congress on the theology
of the missions held at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, he spoke about
several theological theories which he believed were responsible for obscuring
and even paralyzing the missionary consciousness of the Church.
These theories attacked the fundamental claim of Jesus Christ to be "The Way,
the Truth, the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. He who does
not believe (in Me) is condemned." Jesus is the sole Savior of all men. There is
no salvation outside of Jesus Christ. Yet this truth of the faith is called into
question in missionary orders of all places.
Cardinal Tomko sharply criticized Paul Knitter an American who used to be a
member of the Divine Word missionary order and who wrote two books which
are published in the United States by another Missionary Order, the Maryknoll
Fathers (which raises about 35 million dollars from the lay people each year for
their so-called "missionary work.")
The two books Knitter published through Maryknoll are titled No Other
Name? and The Myth of Christian Uniqueness.
Is it any wonder with books that are openly written and published by "Catholic"
authors and publishing houses which apparently doubt and call into question the
unique and necessary role for the salvation of souls of Christ and His Church
that the Catholic missionary effort is paralyzed and worse.

Bishops Seem Helpless

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We should remember that for anyone to call into doubt Catholic Dogmas of the
faith is by that fact alone excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Yet the
pastors of the Church seem helpless against these attacks on our Church.
"What is taking place today is actually a 'demissionization' of the Catholic
Church" says Father Giovanbattista Mondin, the vice rector of the Pontifical
Urban University. Mondin says the "suicide of the missions" began at the end of
the 1960's. Mondin points out that the theoretical source was Karl Rahner's false
thesis of the "anonymous Christian" and "the salvific function of the nonChristian religions."
Father Salvatore Zavarella, the director of the Franciscan Missionary Center in
Assisi is aware of the crisis in Catholic missionary work. He says "I certainly
hope that the encyclical we are waiting for on missions will be written because
the things to clarify in this field are not few and only Rome can do it. There has
been a great deal of confusion in these last few years about the idea of
mission."
He further states "Today truth is relativized. Theorists insist that mission must
be replaced by dialogue or by enculturation. But while we are discussing
ecumenism the fundamentalist Protestant churches financed by the United
States are moving towards the conquest of Latin America.
"At the same time without us noticing Africa is becoming Moslem with the
money of Qadhafi and the wealthier Arab nations. The sad thing is that the
secularized mentality has permeated even the men of the Church."
This rapid and accelerating decline of the Catholic Church worldwide reminds us
of the third part of the Fatima Secret which Cardinal Ratzinger has read and
publicly commented on.
In the light of the spreading Apostasy and dangers to our own faith and
salvation it is most important that we reflect on his commentary.
Cardinal Ratzinger, referring to the Third Secret of Fatima said it contains "A
radical call for conversion; the absolute importance of history; the dangers
threatening the faith and the life of the Christian and therefore of the
world. And then the importance of the last events at the end of time."
The Cardinal went on to say, "Conversion and penitence are the essential
conditions for salvation."
The Third Secret is meant for our time. Our Lady revealed to Sister Lucy that
She wanted it revealed to the Catholic Faithful by 1960. Father Alonso the
Archivist of Fatima tells us that the Third Secret also refers to the guilt of the
upper hierarchy of the Church for the present day Apostasy going on. Frere

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Michel further comments on the Third Secret and the Pope. His article "Dramatic
Predictions About the Pope" is found in this issue.
We must more than ever pray for the Pope that he save our Church by
consecrating Russia and resisting the Modernist Catholics in the missions and in
the religious orders who betray their sacred trust.
"Pray, pray a great deal for the Holy Father" Jesus told Sister Lucia of Fatima.
We must indeed pray for him. He has many trials and we must help him now
more than ever.

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