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The Mysterious Creatures of the Bible: Jonah’s Great Fish and Saint Maximus the Confessor’s Interpretation

The confrontations of Our Lord Jesus Christ with the priests became all the more intense as His earthly life approached its end. After presenting Him as a dangerous sorcerer who performed exorcisms with the help of demons ( Luke 11:15), they began to continuously tempt Him with questions designed to give his adversaries the opportunity to incriminate Him. Mockingly, they even asked Him for miracles: “Master, we would see a sign from thee.” ( Matthew 12:38) However, knowing the hardness of their hearts, the Savior only offered them one sign: “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.” ( Matthew 12:39)

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Key Considerations Often Omitted from the Debates on the Crisis of the Papacy

In all of these years of the best men in the Church (such as Archbishop Lefebvre) thinking about this issue, none have been able to set forth unambiguous Church teaching that definitively resolves the relevant questions of how to respond to a catastrophe like the one we face with Francis. If Archbishop Lefebvre had lived to see Francis, perhaps he would have concluded that it is “clearly obvious” that Bergoglio is not the pope. Even if he had determined that Francis was not the pope, however, would he and the remaining faithful bishops and cardinals have been able to take action to resolve the matter?

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ON EVE OF SYNOD: 5 Cardinals Challenge Pope to Reaffirm Church Teaching

We, members of the Sacred College of Cardinals, in accord with the duty of all the faithful “to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church” (can. 212 § 3) and, above all, in accord with the responsibility of Cardinals “to assist the Roman Pontiff … individually … especially in the daily care of the universal Church” (can. 349), in view of various declarations of highly-placed Prelates, pertaining to the celebration of the next Synod of Bishops, that are openly contrary to the constant doctrine and discipline of the Church, and that have generated and continue to generate great confusion and the falling into error among the faithful and other persons of good will, have manifested our deepest concern to the Roman Pontiff. By our letter of July 10, 2023, employing the proven practice of the submission of dubia [questions] to a superior to provide the superior the occasion to make clear, by his responsa [responses], the doctrine and discipline of the Church, we have submitted five dubia to Pope Francis, a copy of which is attached. By his letter of July 11, 2023, Pope Francis responded to our letter.

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