Pope Benedict: Quest for justice and peace without respect for life is "substitute for religion"

Pope Benedict: Quest for justice and peace without respect for life is "substitute for religion"...

"Many years ago I promised you an era of great peace. Your world now cries peace, and there is no peace. Does that not make you wonder? Are you looking for peace in the right places? No! You have turned to man to find your peace, and science. There will never be peace in the world unless My Son regains His rightful place in the hearts of His children, and the esteem accorded their God." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 28, 1972

LifeSiteNews reported on November 17, 2006:

Pope Benedict XVI warned that the quest for peace and social justice becomes a "substitute for religion" for many people when the sanctity of human life is excluded. The Pope told the Swiss Bishops on their ad limina visit to Rome that the Church must exert itself to ensuring the themes of peace, justice, and respect for the environment are "inseparably united back to the moral teaching of the Church's defense for life."

"Modern society is not simply without morality, but it has, so to speak, 'discovered' and professes a part of morality", the Pope told the Swiss bishops. "These are the great themes of peace, non-violence, justice for all, concern for the poor, and respect for creation."

However, the Pope warned that these "great moral themes" have "become an ethical complex that, precisely as a political force, has great power and constitutes for many the substitute for religion, or its successor."

"It is only if human life is respected from conception to death that the ethics of peace is also possible and credible," concluded the Pope. "It is only then that non-violence can express itself in every direction; only then that we truly welcome creation, and only then that we can arrive at true justice."

The words of Benedict strike directly at the heart of liberal Christian theology, where the rejection of the Church's moral teaching has manifested itself in a sort of "anti-morality" that attempts to profess concern for peace, justice, and the natural way, but rejects the dignity of human life from conception to natural death by embracing anti-life teachings.

Fr. Frank Pavone of the Priests for Life told LifeSiteNews.com that the reason the West has seen so many embrace what Benedict called the "substitute for religion" is because Christianity has become diluted into more of an ethical code of "virtues" or "values" rather than "following and obeying [Jesus Christ]".

"We end up seeing our religion as 'promoting values' or 'ethics' rather than promoting a real, personal and community relationship with Jesus Christ," said Fr. Pavone. When, however, everything is seen in the light of that relationship, then we cannot exclude something as basic as respect for the right to life - because it all flows from Christ's dominion over us, over our freedom and our choices."

Judie Brown, President of American Life League, commented to LifeSiteNews.com, "The Pope is very courageous to consistently point this out. If every bishop in the United States and around the world did the very same thing thundering the message over and over again from the pulpits of the churches of this country I think we'd see some change."

"When a nation, country, or society looses its respect for the dignity of the human person, whose life begins at conception, it's not a far stretch to say that that same society will never be at peace," Judie Brown told LifeSiteNews.com citing the loss of respect for life in America and all over the world has brought a concomitant increase in violence. "It will never be able to provide justice for any member of society and it certainly will become more and more steeped in violence of every kind."

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TRUE PEACE OF HEART
"It is only in following the rules set down by the Eternal Father that man can find a true peace of heart. There will be no peace upon your earth without My Son. Reject Him, and you will reject life. You will follow the rules given by the Eternal Father, your Commandments, for if you break these rules, you will break your spirit." - Our Lady, February 10, 1975

CONSECRATE RUSSIA
"For peace, My child . . . there is much asked for peace upon earth. I must tell you this: There will be no peace, My children, until what has happened in the past with My visit to Fatima is consummated. Now this has to be done, My children: I repeat this anew, as I have repeated it, as I have gone hinder and yon across the earth to try to enlighten My children as to the road to true peace-you must now cast aside, abrogate the union of Rome with Russia. For Russia must be consecrated to My Immaculate Heart for a true peace." - Our Lady, June 6, 1987

FOLLOW THE RULES
"You have in your midst a group united to promote peace and security. You cry 'peace and security' and there is no peace or security; for there shall not be peace or security unless you follow the rules given by your God. Man shall not replace them by a man-made set of rules based on humanism and modernism. The way to Heaven is a simple way, and in your sophistication you reject it." - Jesus, May 3, 1978

PENANCE, ATONEMENT, SACRIFICE
"Your friends, those who govern the nations, the foreign nations of your world, are not your friends, My children. They plot and plan behind your back. While they cry peace, peace, peace, they prepare for war! There shall be no peace among mankind unless you follow the direction of Heaven. The plan for peace was simple as given to you, My children: penance, atonement, sacrifice to your God." - Our Lady, December 31, 1976

UTOPIA?
"My children, the world, your world cries peace, peace, when there is no peace, for they are looking for peace without their God. In their arrogance, as satan whispers to them, they believe that they have risen far above their God and can establish a utopia upon earth. They run about like chickens without heads, crying peace, peace, and love and brotherhood. Better that they get down upon their knees and ask their God for enlightenment." - Our Lady, November 1, 1976

NO PEACE WITHOUT PENANCE
"My children, I cannot promise you an easy way to the Kingdom. I cannot promise you peace without penance. I can promise you hope, for the eventual victory over evil is with My Son.
"You must now make your choice. The time is now! What was to happen in the future shall be now! The sides are now being divided. My Son's House is now being divided. Shall you restore it now while you have time, or shall you accept slaughter within your country-death, death in such magnitude that there will not be time nor people to bury your dead? The Ball of Redemption will soon be upon mankind, and many shall die in the great flame of the Ball of Redemption." - Our Lady, December 24, 1976

A DELUSION
"A delusion has been set upon mankind. The Eternal Father has deemed that man shall go along now and reap what he has sown. Man is forever searching for peace-peace of heart, peace in armaments. But the more he cries for peace the farther he flies from it. There shall be no peace upon earth unless man returns to his God." - Our Lady, March 18, 1978

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