Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, Doctor at the Center for Diagnosis and Treatment Victor Babes and President of the Association of Catholic Doctors of Bucharest, from the formerly Communist country of Romania, made the following presentation to Pope Francis and the Synod bishops in Rome on October 17, 2015.
For a more detailed explanation of Cultural Marxism-Leninism, see the following video: https://www.youtube.com/Cultural Marxism
“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.
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.
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.” (As reported by LifeSiteNews)
For a more detailed explanation of Cultural Marxism-Leninism, see the following video: https://www.youtube.com/Cultural Marxism
The Solution to Cultural Marxism
The growth of Cultural Marxism as the dynamo for the creation of the new social order referred to by Benedict XVI as the “Dictatorship of Relativism” has only been possible because of the massive disintegration of Catholic identity among the majority of Catholics since the 1960s.
Statistical evidence for this is not lacking as anyone willing to refer to well-reputed sources such as the Pew Foundation recognize. It has also been frankly admitted by the popes of this epoch, see for instance the speech of John Paul II, Discourse of February 6, 1981 as reported in the official Vatican newspaper, “L’Osservatore Romano”, February 7, 1981.
To play its role in rebuilding Catholic identity, the Society of Ignatians will strive:
- To restore the institution that for centuries educated Catholics in their identity, above all those in the leadership ranks of the Church ‒ the classic Roman liturgy. Since the praxis of the traditional liturgy proved itself over the millennia to be a magnificent pedagogue of the Catholic Faith in its integrity, sublimity, and beauty, it provides the cultural matrix for creating a new Catholic culture in society.
- To form Catholics with the philosophical and theological thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
- To create Creative Catholic Minorities