Catholic Cathedral Used for Catholic-Muslim Prayer Service

by Christopher A. Ferrara

        The meltdown of the human element of the Church since Vatican II seems to accelerate with each passing day. Sacrileges and abominations in the Holy of Holies have become the staple of an ever more bizarre "ecumenism" and "inter-religious dialogue." As just one of innumerable examples, consider the report by News 8 of Austin Online (Aug. 11, 2003): "Catholics and Muslims Combine Prayer Service."

        The report details how Bishop Gregory Aymond of the Austin diocese allowed his cathedral — St. Mary’s in downtown Austin — to be used for a joint "prayer service" on Sunday, August 10. News 8 recounts approvingly how "dressed in their respective sacred robes, Catholic and Muslim priests recited verses from the Bible and the Koran in different languages, but the message was universal: Love thy neighbor."

        Imagine what Pope St. Pius X would have thought of this outrageous spectacle in a Catholic cathedral. It was Pius X, after all, who condemned the Sillon movement in France as a direct threat to the foundations of the Catholic faith precisely because it sought to have the members of the various religions hold hands in a movement for "peace and brotherhood," and a "new civilization" based on "common values." The great pope denounced this movement as part of a "great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a one-world Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy; neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions…." He reminded the faithful that only Christian civilization, the Catholic city, is the basis for a truly just and peaceful society.

        But Pope Pius X was denouncing only a social movement that would promote religious indifferentism. He could never have imagined that within one human lifetime of his death this evil, indifferentist social movement would work its way into the very marrow of the Church and that Catholic cathedrals would be given over — on Sunday no less — to "joint prayer services" with Muslim clerics who regard the Incarnation and the Holy Trinity as heresies worthy of damnation.

        To Bishop Aymond, however, who is so typical of the diabolically disoriented clergy who have presided over the deconstruction of Roman Catholicism over the past 40 years, this kind of thing is perfectly wonderful. "Though they are very different, the two religions are very different, there is much more in common than any of us first realized," he enthused. Is that so?

        What can one say about such a prelate, who defiles his own cathedral by turning it over to the ministrations of Muslim clerics — who would never, of course, allow their Muslim congregations to be sermonized by Catholic priests in any sort of "joint prayer service." For ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue are one-way streets: the Catholic hierarchy insanely opens the Church to the influence of other religions, while other religions insist on maintaining their own identities, "undefiled" by the one true religion.

        "In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved etc." We can know with certainty what is contained within the mysterious "etc." that Sister Lucy wrote in her diary, to hold a place for the contents of the Third Secret she did not dare to write at that time. We can see the prophecy of the Third Secret being fulfilled before our very eyes; and when the Vatican finally reveals what is contained within the hidden "etc.", it will only confirm what we already know. May Our Lady of Fatima intercede for us, and soon.