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By Robert Lazu Kmita, Remnant Columnist, Romania, The Remnant, May 7, 2024
Today’s reality doesn’t allow us any escape: things are as we see them. So the Savior’s statement that the “gates of hell” will not overcome the Church can only mean one thing: just as it happened during His first coming to earth, the faith revealed by the heavenly Father to Peter will remain unbeaten – until the end of the world – in those unknown and disregarded true Christians (disregarded by both Church hierarchs and political leaders).
The Troubling Question
Recently, an acquaintance belonging to the schismatic Eastern “Orthodox” Church asked me directly and without reservation: “Well? What about the statement of the Savior Jesus ‘That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’? Does it apply to Pope Francis? Or hasn’t the visible Church been defeated by the gates of hell?” As you might easily suppose, he knows almost everything about the current crisis in the Church. Christian websites in countries like Romania, Greece, Russia, and Serbia are often the scene of critical presentations and condemnation of declarations such as Fiducia supplicans. With that specific jubilation of those who believe they are always right, Eastern schismatics point fingers at us when saying: “See, we told you that the papists (i.e., Catholics) are heretics!” It is certainly not easy to deal with their criticism in a context like the one we find ourselves in today – absorbed as if in a vortex. …
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