What
would Jesus say about
the Catholic Church?
Question for Jesus:
I am not a Catholic, and I have no axes to grind with the Catholic Church.
Nevertheless, based on what you are saying, it seems to me that you
would like to see the Church change. I would like to give you the opportunity
to comment on what kind of changes you would like to see.
Jesus: Let me first say something about the relativity
of the lower mind. One of the main goals of religion has been to make
people understand that God has created certain laws that are above and
beyond, and therefore completely unaffected by, human beliefs. The law
is no respecter of persons. Unfortunately, the lower mind is not able
to accept or understand this concept. The lower mind is constantly seeking
to come up with relative arguments for why this or that situation is
an exception to the laws of God. The lower mind can justify or condemn
anything, and that is why human beings are quick to find fault with
others. People create a double standard and feel that they are right
while all others are wrong. That is why I used the parable of the mote
in your brother’s eye and the beam in your own eye.
People who belong to a particular religion are quick to see certain
faults in the followers of other religions. Yet the relativity of the
lower mind causes such people to believe that because they belong to
the only true church, they are somehow above and beyond the faults they
see in others. This applies to both members and leaders of the Catholic
Church, and for that matter to members and leaders of every other organized
religion.
I have told you that there is an ongoing process of change on this planet
and that this process is directed by the Ascended Host. We want to see
change, or rather growth, on this planet, including the field of religion.
We want to see every church evolve and grow so that it can continue
to meet the changing needs of its followers. From our perspective it
is obvious that the Catholic Church is no exception to this. Unfortunately,
many Catholics, leaders and members alike, are not willing to see or
accept the need for change.
If, and that is a big if, the Catholic Church is to be reformed, I would
like to see change come from within. What I would like to see happen
is that a critical mass of Catholics follow the path of individual Christhood
and establish conscious contact with their Christ selves. Once a person
has established that contact, members of the Ascended Host can use that
person to bring forth ideas for renewing the Church. There are already
a large number of Catholics, members and leaders (unfortunately, primarily
low-ranking leaders) who have started this process. However, much more
could be done if these people would become consciously aware of the
process and make a determined effort to establish contact with their
Christ selves.
The next thing that needs to happen is for Catholics to overcome the
tendency to take a passive approach. Too many Catholics are in a passive
state of mind and think all they can do is pray for God to save or reform
the Church. Everything on Earth is subject to the free will of human
beings. I simply do not have the authority to step in and change the
Catholic Church against the free will of its members and leaders. So
it does little for Catholics to pray to me, “Jesus, please save
the Church, please reform the Church.”
Instead, Catholics need to change their paradigm and take an active
approach. They might pray, “Jesus, please show me how I can help
save the Church. Please show me how I can play an active role in reforming
the Church.” If people were to do this with sincere hearts and
open minds, I can assure you that both I, and many other members of
the Ascended Host, most notably my beloved Mother Mary, would respond
immediately. We would pour out such a blessing of guidance and direction
that even an organization as complex and calcified as the Catholic Church
could be reformed into a church that could continue to meet the needs
of its followers for generations to come.
What I am trying to show you is that we of the Ascended Host do not
want the Catholic Church to collapse or disappear. This is not because
we have some kind of loyalty to the Catholic Church. The Church is,
as I said earlier, simply one tool among many that we use to raise the
consciousness of humankind. The reason I would like the Catholic Church
to be reformed into a modern church is that I have great love for the
millions of sincere Catholics who would feel lost without the Church.
Many souls are currently disturbed by the challenges facing the Church,
such as the sexual abuse by priests. I do not want to see these souls
lose their faith in the Catholic Church because that would throw them
into a crisis, and they would feel like they are in a vacuum. I would
like to avoid having so many Catholics thrown into such a crisis because
I know they are ill-prepared to handle it.
My foremost desire is to see a large number of Catholics walk the path
of personal Christhood so that they can preserve their faith in God
and Christianity no matter what happens to the outer Church. Millions
of Catholics are in a vulnerable position of feeling that their faith
in God and Jesus Christ depends on the outer Church. Obviously, based
on everything I have said in this book, that is a situation I would
like to see changed as quickly as possible.
If you are concerned about spiritual growth, you cannot allow your faith
in God to be affected by any of the relative conditions found in this
world. You cannot allow your faith in God to be based on the shifting
sands of the human consciousness. It must be based on the rock of Christ,
the rock of the Christ consciousness that can only be attained by going
inside yourself.
The most important general change that could happen in the Catholic
Church would be that the Church as an organization would make an effort
to abandon the concept that the Church has to be infallible. If you
look at the history of the Catholic Church, you will see that the claim
of infallibility has created numerous problems for the Church and its
followers. As one obvious example, take the fact that the medieval Church
created doctrines which stated that the Earth was flat and that it was
the center of the universe. The Church claimed that these doctrines
were infallible. When the first scientists discovered evidence that
contradicted church doctrine, the Catholic Church had no other option
but to try to suppress those findings. Obviously, every modern Catholic
realizes that the Earth is not flat and that it is not the center of
the universe. The only logical conclusion is that the so-called infallible
doctrines of the medieval Church were not infallible. Most Catholics
realize this, but they fail to take the next step.
The Catholic Church makes the claim that a doctrine is infallible because
the Church claims that the doctrine came directly from God. If it came
from God, then it should be correct. Medieval Catholics did not know
that the Earth was round but surely God did. So the only logical conclusion
is that the church doctrine about the Earth being flat could not have
come from God. Most Catholics fail to accept the logical conclusion.
If it is proven that at least two doctrines were not infallible, and
therefore could not have come from God, then how many other church doctrines
did not come from God?
There are many reasons why Catholics do not want to think about these
things. One is the fear of losing their faith in the Church and being
left in a vacuum. Nevertheless, if the Church is to be reformed, it
is absolutely necessary that Catholics make a sincere effort to take
a look at the history of the Church and determine when the Church went
astray from the true teachings of Christ and instead became engulfed
in human power plays that sprang from the relativity of the lower mind.
I think it should be obvious to anyone that some of the atrocities perpetrated
by the Catholic Church, be it the Crusades, the Inquisition, the massacre
of the Cathars or the violent split over the issue of Christ’s
divinity, simply could not have come from God and could not be approved
by God. I completely fail to understand how people can claim to be followers
of Jesus Christ and at the same time believe that the teacher who gave
the sermon on the mount could condone the use of violence by the Catholic
Church. How is it possible that human beings can fail to see that I,
Jesus Christ, never wanted to create a Christian church that oppressed
people in the same way that the Jewish religion oppressed people.
Don’t people see that I was in constant opposition to the leaders
of the Jewish religion? Don’t they understand that I denounced
those leaders because they had set themselves up as the only link between
the people and their God? Don’t they understand that the essence
of my message was that you do not need any outer, or human, authority
in order to reach God? You can reach God directly in your heart by doing
what Saint Paul said, “Let that mind be in you, which was also
in Christ Jesus.”
How can anyone fail to see this? How can anyone fail to accept the only
possible conclusion, namely that the Catholic Church has not always
been in alignment with the true teachings and the true intent of Jesus
Christ. When you see that the Catholic Church is out of alignment with
the true intent of Christ, isn’t it obvious that people need to
make a sincere effort to bring the Church back in alignment with the
teachings of Christ?
Unfortunately, this is obvious only to a person who has reached some
measure of personal Christhood. It is not obvious to a person who is
still trapped in the relativity of the lower mind. As long as people
remain trapped in the lower mind, they will refuse to see any evidence
that speaks against their chosen beliefs.
I hope you can sense that I am very passionate about these things. I
feel a strong passion for helping people see beyond the lower mind and
see what needs to happen, not only to the Catholic Church but to every
religion on Earth.
Nevertheless, I am also at peace in my acceptance of the Law of Free
Will. I accept that Catholics have the right to do whatever they want
with their church. However, if they do decide to do whatever they please
with the Church, I would much prefer that they would stop claiming that
it is the only true Church of Jesus Christ. If the Church is influenced
by the relativity of the lower mind instead of the rock of the Christ
mind, then it simply cannot be the Church of Jesus Christ.
So I accept that Catholics have a right to do whatever they want with
their church. However, I will not fail to warn them of what will happen
if they continue down the path that the Church has been following for
over 1,500 years.
The problem with the concept of infallibility is that it gives absolute
power to the relativity of the lower mind. When you have a set of church
leaders who are influenced by the relativity of the lower mind, and
yet those leaders claim (and their followers believe) that they are
bringing forth the infallible word of God, you have suddenly put the
relativity of the lower mind in a position of absolute power. This leads
to a suppression of the truth and a denial of error. This leads to a
tension that will continue to build and has now been building in the
Catholic Church for 1,500 years.
What you have seen in recent years in terms of an exposure of the sexual
abuse by Catholic priest is only the tip of the iceberg of what is waiting
to be exposed in terms of corruption and wrongdoings within the Catholic
Church. I can assure you that there is a mountain of wrongdoings waiting
to be exposed. So far, Church authorities have managed to keep the lid
on these wrongdoings, but their time is quickly running out.
Spiritual cycles have changed, and it is no longer possible for the
Catholic Church to hide behind its claim of infallibility. In the coming
years and decades, there will continue to be the exposure of corruption
and wrongdoings within the Catholic Church. If the Church resists this
and refuses to openly admit its errors and reform itself, it will lose
members at an accelerated rate until it literally becomes an insignificant
church.
If the Church is willing to openly admit the errors of the past and
make sincere efforts to correct those errors, the Church could indeed
be transformed without losing or destroying the faith of its members.
The key issue is that the Church must abandon the concept of infallibility.
In this book I have attempted to make the point that you will never
find an infallible doctrine on planet Earth. It is not possible to bring
forth, in this relative world, an infallible or absolute description
of God. All descriptions of God are incomplete, and they will naturally
be expanded as people raise their consciousness. The claim to infallibility
is unnecessary and counterproductive. It never served the cause of Christ,
and it never served the true cause of the Catholic Church.
In the past, it has served to bring the Catholic Church into a position
of power, but that is not in the interest of Christ and it is not in
the true interest of the Church itself. We have now reached the point
of no return, and the Catholic Church cannot keep hiding behind its
power. If it will not openly and willingly change, it will simply collapse
under its own weight, the weight of 1,500 years of the misuse of power.
I realize this is a very stern message. I realize that many Catholics
do not want to hear this message. I realize that you, Kim, do not want
to be the instrument for bringing forth this message. Nevertheless,
you allowed me to speak freely, and I have spoken freely. Let those
who have ears, hear my words.
Other pages about
the Catholic Church:
Can
the Catholic Church be saved?
The sexual abuse in the
Catholic Church
Should priests be
allowed to marry?
Follow
me—not Peter!
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