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In Istanbul, in the seat of the patriarchate, Bergoglio deeply bows before the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople and asks a blessing for himself and for the Church of Rome. The patriarch places his hand on the head of Bergoglio and kisses his skullcap.
On the same day Bergoglio attends to a worship in silence, barefooted, in Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmet Mosque, better known as “Blue Mosque”. Bergoglio remains with his hands clasped above his pectoral cross, bowed face down, closed eyes in front of the “mihrab”, the niche indicating the direction of the Mecca. Bergoglio remains in meditation for a few minutes beside the imam, while the latter declaims acclamations. (Bergoglio’s gestures on November 29^th, 2014 on the occasion of the so-called “apostolic visit” to Turkey 28-30 November 2014).
All this, is also highlighted by Father Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, that at the question: “Which images, in your opinion, will remain of this trip?”, he answers: “The images that have impressed me are those of the moment of the silent adoration in the Mosque, those of the Pope asking for blessing, and receives a blessing and a kiss from the Patriarch … “

These gestures of Bergoglio, that have drawn the attention of all the “media”, are considerably equivocal and destabilize the Christian teachings about the existence of an absolute Truth that in Christ, Way, Truth and Life, is manifested in fullness. The one who is called to represent Christ, only in Christ possesses the unique Truth and, in the Truth of Christ, is called to adore, to have everyone adore and respect the Will and teachings of the unique God: One and Triune.

Faced with a scene where Bergoglio participates to a moment of “silent adoration“, in a place symbol of another religion and in company of who in that moment is its representative, every Catholic Christian should ask himself a question: «What God is worshiped in a place of another religious cult? ».

Moreover, in the gesture of bowing before the patriarch of Constantinople, declaimed and appreciated by many as a gesture of humility, how can the attitude of who debases and sells-off the evangelical meaning of Peter’s primacy not be seen?
What value does the investiture of Peter have: “You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church“, if Peter (represented by his successor) bows in reverence before his brother Andrew (represented by the Patriarch of Constantinople) by invoking his blessing?
Peter is called to represent Christ and it is Peter that should, in the name and on behalf of Christ, bless Andrew, the apostles and the whole church. It is Peter that should invoke God’s blessing on each brother and on the whole community to give the blessing of the One who conferred to him the primacy.

Is this the sense of the ecumenism of Bergoglio: unclothing himself of the values, symbols and teachings of his own faith saying to move towards others?

In this regard, it cannot pass by unnoticed what was made, at the meeting occurred on June 8^th 2014, between Bergoglio, the Israeli President Shimon Peres, the Palestinian President Abū Māzen and the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, to start what Bergoglio has called «a new journey to search what unites and in overcoming what divides». In this meeting Bergoglio wanted to sacrifice, in the name of a human respect, the symbols of the Catholic Christian faith. In fact, it is known that the four moved to the Vatican Gardens for the “prayer for peace”, considered a neutral zone because devoid of religious symbols.

Faced with this behaviour, a question appears legitimate: Can a representative of a religion, which welcomes the representatives of other religions in his own home, abdicate to the symbols and to the signs of his own faith just to not hurt the susceptibility of those who profess a different faith?
Did the Muslim Imam, at Bergoglio’s trip to Turkey, do the same?
In the case at hand, in Turkey, the moment of prayer with the representative of the Muslims was not consummated in a neutral place, but rather in the “Blue Mosque of Istanbul”, the symbol place of the Muslim faith. That’s where Bergoglio went, entering it even barefooted in respect of Muslim traditions, to live a moment of “silent adoration”. Bergoglio’s behaviour is singular and makes think, because on one hand he respects the symbols and traditions of others, and at the same time he renounces his own symbols and traditions to move towards others.

Is this the attitude of who should be called to represent Christ and bring, with “holy pride” (that is dignity), Christ to the world?

What is becoming of the Peter’s primacy wanted by Christ? What road is the Church of Christ taking under the guidance of who should defend her and should make known the true God to the whole world, bringing everyone to the knowledge of the unique Truth (absolute) that is Christ?

Bergoglio said: “Proselytism is a solemn nonsense, does not make sense“. (Scalfari’s interview to Bergoglio – published on the Repubblica newspaper on October 1^st , 2013).
Jesus said: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you …” (Mt 28, 19-20). Therefore, has Bergoglio in his heart, the desire to carry out the Petrine mission, to lead men to believe in the true God and His only begotten Son Jesus Christ? Is this his aim or does he follow a different purpose? What really lies behind the ecumenism of Bergoglio? Is it ecumenism or religious syncretism? What is the plan that he intends to accomplish?

Bergoglio expressed his thoughts on many occasions through gestures and words, such as those uttered during the visit of July 28^th, 2014 to the Pentecostal Church of Reconciliation in Caserta, when, meditating on the action of the Holy Spirit, he said:
“What does the Holy Spirit do? … The Holy Spirit does the “diversity” in the Church. … He makes the diversity! And really this diversity is so rich, so beautiful. But then, the same Holy Spirit makes the unity, and in this manner the Church is one in the diversity. And, to use a nice word of an evangelical person that I love so much, a “reconciled diversity” by the Holy Spirit. He does both things: makes the diversity of charisms and then makes the harmony of charisms. … We are in the epoch of the globalization, and think about what is globalization and what would be the unity of the Church: perhaps a sphere, where all the points are equidistant from the centre, all the same? No! This is uniformity. And the Holy Spirit does not make uniformity! What kind of figure can we find? We think of the polyhedron: polyhedron is a unity, but with all its different parts; each one has its own peculiarities, its charisma. This is the unity in the diversity. It is in this way that we Christians do with what we call with the theological name of ecumenism: we try to ensure that this diversity may be more harmonized with the Holy Spirit and become unity … “.

It is remarkable that Bergoglio enunciates this meditation to an evangelical community, almost to imply that in this is manifested one of the charisms which belongs to the diversity of the charisms generated by the Holy Spirit; just as if even the evangelical community (to which he speaks) was a face of the one body made up of many faces which together constitute a single polyhedral figure that for Bergoglio is the ecumenical church, where every face is a creed, or rather, a religion.

Likewise, Bergoglio proposes a similar meditation during his apostolic trip to Turkey, in the homily proclaimed in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul, on November 29^th2014, the same day in which Bergoglio before whispers to Patriarch Bartholomew I: “His Holiness, Bless me and the Church of Rome” and then bows before the same patriarch which blesses him. On the same day Bergoglio visits the “Blue Mosque” for a few moments of “silent adoration”.
In this homily of the 29/nov/2014, Bergoglio says:
“It is true that the Holy Spirit brings forth different charisms in the Church, which at first glance, may seem to create disorder. Under his guidance, however, they constitute an immense richness, because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of unity, which is not the same thing as uniformity. Only the Holy Spirit is able to kindle diversity, multiplicity and, at the same time, bring about unity. When it is us that try to create diversity, but are closed within our own particular and exclusive ways of seeing things, we create division. When we try to create unity through our own human designs, we end up with bringing uniformity and homogenization. If we let ourselves be led by the Spirit, however, richness, variety and diversity will never create conflict, because the Spirit spurs us to experience variety in the communion of the Church“.

Once again a garbled speech, incomprehensible to most people, but it actually has a very specific purpose, that is to pass the concept that the different churches (Catholic Christian of Rome, Orthodox Christian of Constantinople, Muslim, etc …), in the diversity of their expressions of belief, are the different charisms of the Holy Spirit, which would not generate uniformity. Bergoglio insists on the idea that uniformity does not belong to the Holy Spirit.

Is this the profound meaning of the teachings of the Catholic Christian faith of the Holy Scripture?

In reference to the charisms given by the Holy Spirit, St. Paul says: “I don’t want there to be any misunderstanding concerning spiritual gifts. You know that when you were unbelievers, every time you were led to worship false gods you were worshiping gods who couldn’t even speak. So I want you to know that no one speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is cursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are different spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. There are different ways of serving, and yet the same Lord is served. There are different types of work to do, but the same God produces every gift in every person. The evidence of the Spirit’s presence is given to each person for the common good of everyone. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. The same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge. To another person the same Spirit gives courageous faith. To another person the same Spirit gives the ability to heal. Another can work miracles. Another can speak what God has revealed. Another can tell the difference between spirits. Another can speak in different kinds of languages. Another can interpret languages. There is only one Spirit who does all these things by giving what God wants to give to each person. For example, the body is one unit and yet has many parts. As all the parts form one body, so it is with Christ. By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether we are Jewish or Greek, slave or free, God gave all of us one Spirit to drink. … You are Christ’s body and each of you is an individual part of it”. (1 Cor 12, 1-27)

These are profound words that must be understood in their essence. It should be well understood the diversity of charisms and the revelation of the Spirit that cannot be uniform in the contents. Unique is the content of the evangelical message of Christ. In this passage St. Paul speaks of a unique church founded on Christ, a unique church animated by a unique doctrine, a unique divine thought, revealed by the Holy Spirit, which is based on Jesus Christ and no one else, because there cannot be love and union without Christ who is love made person.
The charisms are neither the different interpretations of the doctrine, nor the various expressions of belief nor the different forms of religion. The charisms, of which St. Paul speaks, are quite another thing: the language of wisdom, the language of science, the gift to healing, the gift to predict, etc., but all this is contextualized within the unique Mystical Body of Christ, the unique church baptized in one, comforter, defender and revelatory Spirit that manifests the uniform thought of God. In this sense, therefore, the Holy Spirit means uniformity of God’s thought. in fact, those who have different charisms cannot have a different thought of God and of His manifestations.

Yet, despite these evidences, many people are fascinated by the gestures and the draft of Bergoglio to build what he calls the “civilization of love”.

“As Christians we are called to defeat together the globalization of indifference that today seems to have supremacy and to build a NEW CIVILIZATION OF LOVE and solidarity” (Homily of Bergoglio in the patriarchal church of St. George in Istanbul during the “apostolic visit” in Turkey – 30.nov.2014)

But the expression of “civilization of love” brings back to a similar project promoted by Sai Baba.
Sai Baba is an Indian guru who proclaimed himself God and has lived (and perhaps is still living in the heart of someone, but not in ours) with the aim of uniting all the world’s greatest religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism) in the name of a “love” general and supreme at the same time. Generic because it aims to welcome and “collect” all. Supreme because it aspires to be the uppermost, therefore, even of Jesus Christ, no longer considered to be equal as God. So, according to this logic, Sai Baba is God, Jesus Christ not.

At this point it is to wonder: what price is needed to realize the so-called “civilization of love”? At the cost of what sacrifice? What sacrifice must be renewed to prevent this from happening?

Christ, that is Love, is the only fulfilment of all.
Who proclaims Christ, that is Love, not just with words but with deeds by giving substance to the words pronounced, is from God.
Who does not proclaim Jesus Christ the Son of God with the example of life, for another love, is not from God.

A union not founded on Christ, although built in the name of a vaunted all-embracing love, is not the true union in God, wanted by God. It is a human union, which is based on a false love, that charms and fascinates only those who have never met and do not know the Love, Jesus Christ, Way, Truth and Life.

What, then, is the project of the ecumenism of Bergoglio? On what is it based? What is its purpose? Is its purpose similar to that of Sai Baba that in the word “love”, which is opposed to Jesus Christ Love, wants to find a common denominator among the greatest religions, preconizing the unique religion? So that even Christianism, when it is deprived and emptied of its essence, Christ, Way, Truth and Life, becomes in fact a philosophy among many, where truths are all relative.

We understand, then, that all this leads in a direction contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Christian faith, that we want to defend: the teachings proclaimed by Christ and embodied by Peter, Paul and all those who over the centuries, from the early Christian communities, have sacrificed themselves for the sake of the Truth that is Jesus Christ.
The primogeniture must not be sold-off for a plate of lentils represented by the pursuit of a personal project. We believe in a Catholic God! We believe in the absolute Truth: Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, the Son of God! Jesus Christ, Way, Truth and Life, the One who saves: only in Jesus Christ there is salvation! Who professes Him by words and by deception and does not implement it with actions and with concrete facts, is anathema.