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LUTHERAN - ‘CATHOLIC’ JOINT DECLARATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION: AN ANALYSIS |
On the 31 October, 1999, Card. Edward Cassidy and a representative of the Lutheran World Federation, bishop Christian Krause, signed a document in Augsburg, Germany. The title of this document was the “Official Common Statement by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church.”
This is obviously a gravely faulty misnomer. The document was signed by two individuals, not by the Catholic Church!
This ‘common statement’ was based on previously drawn up “agreements reached in the ‘Joint Declaration’ on the doctrine of Justification”. Both this ‘Joint Declaration’ and this ‘common statement’ have been analysed by the “Australian Marian Academy of the Immaculate Conception”. This analysis is now presented here for wider study. (Frits Albers.) |
| Part I: Reaching a Consensus with Lutherans on the Doctrine of Justification |
| Part II: Explicating this Consensus on the Doctrine of Justification |
| Part III: Significance and Scope of the Consensus and Common Statement |
| Part IV: Cardinal Cassidy’s attempts at Squaring-off the Joint Declaration with Catholic Teaching |
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VATICAN II |
The neo-Modernists’ concepts and constructs of the Holy Catholic Church were caught out in the fine filter of the Second Vatican council. Yet their advocates are everywhere in charge: so much so that by far the great majority of bishops in the Church are looking over their shoulders to see how much dilution and even pollution of Catholic doctrine they can syphon off from the Modernists and transfer into their (arch)dioceses. The result is a frozen wasteland across the face of the earth: a veritable doctrinal and religious ice-age.
With this analysis, the Australian Marian Academy of the Immaculate Conception is offering its readers and all concerned Catholics a serious study of what went wrong in the post-conciliar turmoil, and where the true greatness of Vatican II shines out. (Frits Albers) [In the Postscript the author spells out in a succinct manner the thoughts developed in each of the five chapters.] |
| Preface and Introduction |
| Chapter One: The pre-Vatican II Catholic Scene |
| Chapter Two: The Filter |
| Chapter Three: The Bypass |
| Chapter Four: Wide is the Road that Leads to Perdition, and Many Take it |
| Chapter Five: The Good Will Be Martyred |
| Postscript: Some Thoughts on the Document Called “Vatican II” |
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ON CONSCIENCE AND CONSCIENCE FORMATION |
| This timely study throws abundant light on both the nature and operation of a human faculty that has become thoroughly darkened in Catholics by the inroads of modernism. This study is carried out from the perspective of what human reason can discover for itself without Divine Revelation. (Frits Albers) |
| Introduction: Conscience and the Australian Bishops |
| Conscience in the Light of Thomistic Philosophy |
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| THE HUMAN MIND |
| This penetrating analysis shows how the human mind is obliged to give
glory to God by seeking Truth, both Natural and Supernatural. It also shows what happens to
the human mind when used deliberately to obfuscate or destroy Catholic Truth, in itself, and
in the minds of others. (Frits Albers) |
| Introduction |
| Two Dispositions of the Human Mind Toward God |
| One Example of ‘Darkening’ of the Human Mind taken from Modern History |
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| GENESIS 1
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This article solves the apparent dilemma of either a ‘six day creation’ or a ‘millions of years of evolution equals creation’ by studying God’s Creative Act from a philosophical perspective to show that neither of the horns of this topical dilemma is right. (The AMAIC Executive) |
| Part I: The Nature of God’s Creative Act |
| Part II: Genesis 1 as a Book |
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