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\u2026as the Church\u2019s one and only indivisible magisterium, It is not a question of being \u2018pro-\u2019 Pope Francis or \u2018contra-\u2019 Pope Francis. <\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n BEFORE<\/strong> he passed away, almost a year ago to the day at the very start of the pandemic, the great preacher Rev. John Hampsch, C.M.F. (c. 1925-2020) wrote me a letter of encouragement. In it, he included an urgent message for all my readers:<\/p>\n To obey the Gospel implies heeding the words of Jesus \u2014 for his sheep listen to his voice <\/strong>(John 10:27) \u2014 and also the voice of his Church, for \u201cwhoever listens to you listens to me\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Luke 10:16).\u00a0For those who renounce the Church his indictment is rigorous: \u201cThose who refuse to listen even to the Church, treat\u00a0them as you would a pagan\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Matt. 18:17)\u2026 <\/strong>God\u2019s battered ship is wildly listing now, as it often has in past centuries, but Jesus promises it will always \u201cstay afloat\u201d \u2014 \u201cto the end of the age\u201d <\/em><\/strong>(Matt. 28:20). Please, for love of God, don\u2019t jump ship! You\u2019ll regret it \u2014 most \u201clifeboats\u201d have no oars!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n At that time, Fr. John would not have known that soon the hierarchy would shut the doors of their churches and deprive the faithful of the Sacraments; he would not have known of the Pope’s and bishops’ wholesale support of experimental vaccines developed with aborted fetal cells; he would not have known of the Church’s silence in the face of vaccine mandates that are tearing communities and nations apart; he would not have known that some bishops would even ban the “unvaccinated” from the Holy Eucharist.[1]<\/sup><\/a>eg. stjosephsparishgander.ca<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nthe pope and the bishops in union with him,
\ncarry<\/strong>\u00a0the gravest responsibility that no ambiguous sign
\nor unclear teaching comes from them,
\nconfusing the faithful or lulling them
\ninto a false sense of security.\u00a0
\n<\/strong>\u2014Cardinal Gerhard M\u00fcller, <\/span>
\nformer prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith<\/span>
\n First Things<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>April 20th, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIt is a question of defending the Catholic faith, <\/strong><\/span>
\nand that means defending the Office of Peter <\/strong><\/span>
\nto which the Pope has succeeded.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2014Cardinal Raymond Burke,\u00a0The Catholic World Report<\/a><\/em>, <\/span>
\nJanuary 22, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n\n