Romanian doctor makes blunt, powerful plea to pope and bishops in her Synod talk LifeSiteNews staff   

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Sat Oct 17, 2015 - 3:39 pm EST

Romanian doctor
makes blunt,
powerful plea to
pope and bishops in
her Synod talk
LifeSiteNews staff

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 Climate Change , Cultural Marxism ,
Evangelization , Pope Francis , Synod On The
Family
The Church’s mission is to save souls.
Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not
from income disparity or “climate
change”.
ROME, October 17, 2015 (LifeSiteNews ) -
Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, Doctor at the
Center for Diagnosis and Treatment-
Victor Babes and President of the
Association of Catholic Doctors of
Bucharest (Romania) made the following
presetation to Pope Francis and the
Synod bishops on Friday:
Your Holiness, Synod Fathers, Brothers
and Sisters, I represent the Association
of Catholic Doctors from Bucharest.
I am from the Romanian Greek Catholic
Church.
My father was a Christian political
leader, who was imprisoned by the
communists for 17 years. My parents
were engaged to marry, but their
wedding took place 17 years later.
My mother waited all those years for my
father, although she didn’t even know if
he was still alive. They have been
heroically faithful to God and to their
engagement.
Their example shows that God’s grace
can overcame terrible social
circumstances and material poverty.
We, as Catholic doctors, defending life
and family, can see this is, first of all, a
spiritual battle.
Material poverty and consumerism are
not the primary cause of the family
crisis.
The primary cause of the sexual and
cultural revolution is ideological.
Our Lady of Fatima has said that
Russia’s errors would spread all over the
world.
It was first done under a violent form,
classical Marxism, by killing tens of
millions.
Now it’s being done mostly by cultural
Marxism. There is continuity from
Lenin’s sex revolution, through Gramsci
and the Frankfurt school, to the current-
day gay-rights and gender ideology.
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Classical Marxism pretended to redesign
society, through violent take-over of
property.
Now the revolution goes deeper; it
pretends to redefine family, sex identity
and human nature.
This ideology calls itself progressive. But
it is nothing else than the ancient
serpent’s offer, for man to take control,
to replace God, to arrange salvation
here, in this world.
It’s an error of religious nature, it’s
Gnosticism.
It’s the task of the shepherds to
recognize it, and warn the flock against
this danger.
“Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of
God, and His justice, and all these things
shall be added unto you.”
The Church’s mission is to save souls.
Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not
from income disparity or “climate
change”.
The solution is: Evangelization.
Conversion.
Not an ever increasing government
control. Not a world government. These
are nowadays the main agents imposing
cultural Marxism to our nations, under
the form of population control,
reproductive health, gay rights, gender
education, and so on.
What the world needs nowadays is not
limitation of freedom, but real freedom,
liberation from sin. Salvation.
Our Church was suppressed by the soviet
occupation. But none of our 12 bishops
betrayed their communion with the Holy
Father. Our Church survived thanks to
our bishops’ determination and example
in resisting prisons and terror.
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Our bishops asked the community not to
follow the world. Not to cooperate with
the communists.
Now we need Rome to tell the world:
“Repent of your sins and turn to God for
the Kingdom of Heaven is near”.
Not only us, the Catholic laity, but also
many Christian Orthodox are anxiously
praying for this Synod. Because, as they
say, if the Catholic Church gives in to the
spirit of this world, it is going to be very
difficult for all the other Christians to
resist it.