We are living in our times, a very special time of a deep crisis of faith.
inside the church, and so it is not a secret, it is very evident,
and a lot of people, the simple people, the simple faithful are suffering,
and because of this situation of confusion,
it is very urgent that the Pope
may state more clearly
in a very unambiguous manner, in such a manner which will not leave any space for misinterpretations.
The issue of...
of family, of sacredness, of marriage, and especially the topic which is now causing
very much confusion in the Church after the publication of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia,
the topic on the...
admittance of the divorce and remarried to Holy Communion.
Once admitting the divorce and remarried to Holy Communion...
without demanding them to live in continents and to not violate their
sacramental bounds of marriage, not demanding them to repent and to make a
very serious intention not to sin in future. And so dispensing them from this
We are at the same time destroying, desecrating three sacraments which Christ gave us.
The sacrament of penance, the sacrament of Eucharist and the sacrament of marriage.
It's urgent.
that our Holy Father, Pope Francis, may issue, or may order, that the Holy See may issue
a very precise and ambiguous declaration clarifying that it is impossible.
and against the uninterrupted.
and unchangeable doctrine and practice of the Church.
It is against the Word of God to destroy
with one strike three sacraments, admitting the divorced
to Holy Communion, without demanding them
the continents and
a conversion, a series.
Right from the beginning of Pope Francis' reign, we found some very difficult things to deal with, particularly as the pro-life movement.
There's been a lot of ambiguity, purposeful ambiguity, leaving things open so that there's confusion.
And I think...
It does a great deal of harm.
You have this scenario where people start to wonder what exactly the teaching is.
This is a horror that...
Catholics who believe in love and faith are now confused on the fundamentals of the faith
in these areas where the teaching means life or death.
And I don't mean only physical life or death, it means eternal life or death
in the exhortation Amoris Deititia.
He writes that we, the Catholic Church,
has almost, in marriage preparation,
has almost an exclusive focus on procreation,
to the exclusion of the unity and love and so on in marriage.
And I don't know about you, but I know lots of people who have gone through marriage preparation.
When do they mention procreation? Ever!
And this loss of touch with reality, the reality of what's actually going on in the church is one of the most concerning things I see.
I love the Holy Father. I pray for Him every day. And I say this out of great love for the church.
But we need to work for Christ, for His truth, and I need to defend my own family.
And it's a threat to the faith of my children.
I say this with huge reverence for the Holy Father and with attention to common advantage.
What He has written...
is justifying adulterous acts, we're already hearing of couples who on the basis of what
you have written, Holy Father, have decided to give up.
their heroic virtue and fall into objective mortal sin.
and to come forward to receive the body and blood of Jesus.
Jesus Christ. I know of Catholics, as I'm sure many Catholics know, of people who've
been deserted by their spouse, who's gone on to live in an adulterous second union,
and they're left with the children, or perhaps left without the children, but the children
And on the basis of what you've written in Amoris Laetitia,
they see the mother and father who's deserted the family nest going to Holy Communion.
What message does that send them about the indissolubility of marriage?
It sends the message that marriage is not indissoluble at all.
How is it possible to reconcile what you have written with the teaching of the Church, with the tradition of the Church?
This is, I say this with great reverence, a grave error.
I should be writing to my own local bishop to the same effect and I will be asking everybody
I know to do the same.
Because I think this is arguably the worst thing that's happened in the history of the church.
You can change that.
And I pray for you every day, Holy Father.
Holy Father there are so many things during your pontificate that have
troubled our souls and I write to you I want to come and see you I want you to
meet our family and to show you on the
On the ground level, how our families live, what are the deep concerns deep in our soul
and for the so many Catholic families that are living heroic and good wholesome lives,
but they want to be encouraged by you, Holy Father.
They want you to know that you care, that it's not irresponsible to have more than two or three children.
That it's indeed honourable to bring up young Catholic families.
They are the future of our church, the future of society.
But we have this deep pain, deep in our soul.
And I want to tell you personally, I want you to meet our children with Down Syndrome.
We want you to meet our little girl who's deaf and has severe heart defect.
We want to meet our psychiatrically disturbed son and our daughter and our grandchildren.
And you know when I wrote to your Holy Father, I was prepared, my husband, my darling husband
was prepared to take a mortgage on our home to come.
That's what we want to do.
We will sell everything out to come, to Santa Martha.
to meet you personally and to present our family to you as an example of
many many families who are suffering around the world
living courageous lives and who love their faith
The ambiguous statements that we read, the confusion that we see on a daily basis,
it hurts us deeply and we want to know personally from you.
Is it the media? Is it people behind you?
Because we can't believe that our beloved Holy Father doesn't say this or says that.
We want you to tell us personally, can you do that for us Holy Father, please?
Some 34 years ago, I was a deindeer deacon in the Cathedral Immaculate Conception.
And I remember very clearly the Archbishop giving me the scriptures and saying,
Believe what you read, preach what you believe, practice what you preach.
And this has always remained with me.
And the one thing that, as a Catholic, I've always appreciated is the clarity with which Holy Mother Church speaks and in particular the successor of Peter, our whole father, the Pope.
As a Catholic, I love the Pope. Catholics love the Pope because, as Saint Catherine of Satan says, he is sweet Jesus on earth for us.
In the last two years, things have become very difficult for us Catholics because our
My Holy Father, you have not been speaking clearly and have left much confusion.
Our much concern among the faithful who have only one desire to love God above all things
and to love our neighbours ourselves and this for the sake of our salvation.
And we love you very much Holy Father.
And what we ask especially with this exhortation
Amoris Laetitia, we ask for clarity, for certainty in what we believe.
We ask for confirmation of the Church's perennial teaching, not just the Church's teaching,
but what Christ himself has said to us, has told us about the sacredness of marriage,
of the dignity of the human person.
The family is the foundation of society. We know this.
But if the foundation, if the cornerstone is removed, the whole society will collapse.
And so I besiege you, Holy Father, for our salvation.
for the salvation of each and every little one for the little ones to give us again the clarity
and the certainty of what our Lord Jesus Christ has given to the apostles and to us for the sake
of the salvation of our souls and we all of us throughout the world will continue to pray for you
and to ask you to be a father to us.
I'm an evangelical Anglican, the Pope, as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, are
facing huge challenges from the pansexual revolution.
I think they're trying their best.
I'm very worried about what they are not saying.
Particularly, how we are losing the freedom of conscience, number one.
Number two, we are not addressing the LGBT agenda, I think, in the best way.
And see, we don't seem to be aware of how this revolution is taking over the entire West.
So I pray for them and encourage you to do the same.
We are facing a quite complicated situation in the church right now
because our Holy Father
says and does things that create a lot of confusion amongst the faithful and now we have
an important church document, the exotatio Amoris Letitia, which
seems to be open for several interpretations
and which can be read through several so-called hermeneutics.
And I think this is a problem because we had church documents in the...
past, for example Familiaris Consortio, which was crystal clear as, for instance, the documents
of the Council of Trent were crystal clear.
The faithful really don't know whose interpretation they should follow, so I would beg the Holy
Father to make clear what the Church teaching is, to make clear that the Church teaching
can't be changed.
And the Holy Father should say that the Church teaching has been the same until our Lord Jesus Christ has founded it.
So I would say we should pray for the Holy Father and for the wisdom and for the Holy Spirit to help him
to make clear what the Church teaching is and to end this confusion that we have amongst the Catholic faithful.
We need a lot of leadership from the top.
We need leadership to teach, to show young people who are founding families
how to found them, how to make solid bases for it,
and particularly something which is absolutely being lost,
the joy of big families.
And I think in the joy of love, which our Holy Father has spoken so beautifully about,
there was not enough said about the joy of the big family.
And I think that we need our hierarchy.
particularly our bishops and after them, our priests, to speak to couples and to warn them.
of the dangers of the contraceptive mentality.
The dangers of shutting, shutting God
out, of having a say in how many children you're going to have.
This business of, no, I'm only, we're going to have two and that's
it. Contraception has destroyed a number of churches already.
Today, the Anglican Church is empty.
They have few vocations.
And it's because this vital, vital connection between the love of a husband and wife and
the love of the church, the love of God and trust in his providence.
was broken in the Anglican Church, and now it would seem it is being broken in the Catholic Church in spite of Paul VI
agonized but inspired
Encyclical Umanevite. Well, I'll quote Bishop Gore who was the Anglican Bishop who spearheaded the defense and lost
the Anglican Church in the 30s, he said, if the church accepts contraception, the
church will be destroyed. And that was his main cry, and in fact that is what
happened. And if the Catholic Church
Finally, finally gives in the contraception, the church will be destroyed and this is something
which is being lost so quickly.
I just implore him to speak about the importance of the numerous family and the dangers of the contraceptive mentality.
Teach our bishops that they must stand strong and they must explain that the contraceptive mentality destroys families,
it destroys countries and it will destroy our Christian civilisation.
Being an English Catholic the papacy is very important because many of our
martyrs died for the papacy and we have great reverence for the papacy and what
we've always found over many centuries is that the papacy is a rock of the truth
of
clarity leading us to Christ and so in these difficult times when we look towards Rome and
see confusion and we don't see any longer a clear profession of our faith.
It is very disconcerting for very many people.
Today, when the family is under such great attack from national governments, international
organisations, we need more than ever that clarity from the Holy See that we've had
for so many centuries.
And so this is why it's so difficult for so many people when we see misleading statements,
even erroneous statements in a more isolated tier and in other documents.
And so we really do pray for the Holy Father and request of the Holy Father
great clarity in teaching that we can all be led into the joy of the truth and the joy of living
in accordance with the truth.
I like to say, first of all, that ever since the Holy Father was elected Pope, I've been
praying for him. He's been a perpetual intention for me every single day. We see that the family
is under attack. The family is under attack. It's in the state of crisis, and we know the
family is the basic cell of society. And when the basic cell of society becomes rotten,
it drags all society down with it.
The situation only becomes worse, however, when added to the fact that the family is crumbling,
some people, including some Catholics, maybe even a large number of Catholics, come to think
or believe that marriage can be dissolved, which of course it cannot be.
And we see the effects this has in society when, given this circumstance, this situation
that the West certainly finds itself in, that, at her stage right, Amoris Laetitia is brought
on the scene.
And instead of receiving what we would look to hope to find a buttressing and strengthening
of the sacred institutions of holy matrimony and marriage,
and the family, we see something like gasoline being thrown on the fire, and this is very, very
troubling to us. So what we would really hope to see is that this would be turned around. We need
to pray for the Holy Ghost to inspire the church, to inspire our leaders, to inspire the Holy Father,
as I mentioned, for whom I pray every single day, to help turn the situation around, to strengthen
the family. Because if not, I fear we perish.
That's what people do the day of their marriage.
They choose an absolute truth.
Now, that dogma is in danger today,
and I think it's very good to defend that dogma.
That reminds me of the very, very, very first council
ever organized in the church.
when St. Paul called St. Peter to help the church establish clarity and clarity about intercommunion with other religions.
about marriage because the conclusion of that very, very, very first council, if
Jerusalem was, that you shouldn't go to inter communion with other faiths, other
religions and you should not commit adultery. And it's kind of odd that due
to the lack of clearness in some of the footnotes of Amoris Letizia, we are back
at this first council.
It reminds me of the extreme gravity of the office of St. Peter.
And I hope we get clarity today again so that we can really live a life according to the truth.
There are thousands, if not millions, of souls whose faith is like a bruised red.
A flickering flame.
I plead with you. I love you. I love your paper say. I love your office. I plead with you to
clarify the ambiguity of Amoris Laetecia for the sake of the salvation of souls. God bless you.
I think one of the things that I am most concerned about was I look at this
papacy in Pope Francis. First thing number one I have to say that I pray for him
daily, absolutely daily, because I realize that the position that he's in
and the world climate that he's come into is just unprecedented.
But I do feel that he needs to be more explicit because of the climate that he's in.
I think some of the statement that he's been making is causing incredible confusion and
almost scandal within the laity.
I look just even to families that I'm dealing with in the work that I do in the marriage
and family work that I'm involved with.
you hear stories all the time of our young children, our our teenagers being
totally confused by the comments that are coming out of the Vatican coming out
from
You know, from Pope Francis himself, things about, you know, homosexuality is just a lifestyle,
the divorce issue, divorced couples receiving Holy Communion, this is very, very confusing
for young people that have been brought up in the faith whose parents have done the best
that they can to impart the faith to their children and then to have this kind of confusion
coming from, and many times it's been passed on through the pulpit.
So we need to do something to be able to help, to pray for the Pope for sure,
but also to be able to somehow express to the papacy and to the Vatican
that this kind of confusion is destructive.
In my opinion, we live in a very difficult moment,
one perhaps of the more dramatic moment of the history of the Church.
The problem is serious because the current crisis is within the church itself.
I'm sure that this solution can come only by the Holy Father.
And the evidence, it is that the last...
Pontifical document, the exaltation and more is that it is a document which has catastrophic
consequences as an historian and as a simple baptized man, I see the concrete consequences
in the life of the church.
And the consequence, the terrible impact of this document,
it is that many souls are today in a deep crisis of conscience.
There is the possibility that a greater number of...
souls lose their eternal life.
In my view, the true life is above all the spiritual life,
and more than the physical life, the spiritual life of soul is today in a great danger.
We have to react against this.
In the words of our Holy Father, I am a son of the Church, and I pray regularly for the
Holy Father.
But I have to express grave concern about the new apostolic exhortation, amorous litatia,
which is causing confusion.
confusion among the faithful and leading to different interpretations and
practices on the issue of communion for the divorced and remarried. It's all the
more difficult to understand why these synods were necessary when I think that
there already was a perfectly good apostolic exhortation.
familiaris consortio, which was written by John Paul II.
And what I see now is that there will be grave confusion between which one is the more correct.
So, what I see is confusion rather than...
What I would like to see is that the current exhortation should be withdrawn in favor of the original one familiaris consortio, which really says everything we need to know.
I have a lectured
in many countries on the issue of the parent, the primary educator and indeed protector of his children.
And this is vitally important because if we lose civil rights on all aspects, we still must protect our children.
So, I want to touch upon the primary educator, section 84, in the apostolic exhortation.
And I must say this is a good part, a fine part of the exhortation.
I quote some points, that the parental right to educate is an overall most serious duty.
It is a primary right.
It is in the essential and it is inalienable.
Now, the section, two sections of the exhortation,
84 and 85, look fairly early on in the exhortation.
Many, many sections later on section 280.
Separate and almost distinct from the real issue of sexual education, we learn this.
There is an emphasis on psychological aspects, educationalists, teachers, there's no mention
of parents, and this is in a section headed the need for sexual education.
The document says that the institutions have failed.
But still, they make no mention of parents.
It speaks of a new and more appropriate language for teaching sexuality.
I know who produces that language.
It's a birth control lobby.
It speaks of a healthy sense of modesty.
Teaching a healthy sense of modesty in class.
It's only the family and the parents who can do this.
It asks, who speaks of these things today?
I say parents do.
Who is capable of taking young people seriously?
Parents are.
Who helps them to prepare seriously for a greater and generous love parents do?
My question is, why are parents excluded?
It goes on to say, but it is also true that masculinity and femininity are not rigid
categories.
How can anyone say this when we have this onslaught of gender madness, gender ideology?
When I look at this document, I'm deeply, deeply saddened.
And so, let us pray for our Holy Father, which we love Him that He may have the courage to speak with the same clarity and with the same courage as Christ spoke, as Peter spoke.