Sts Louis and Zelie Martin
Dr Anca-Maria Cernea, President of the Association of
Catholic Doctors of Bucharest (Romania), made the following intervention at the Ordinary Synod on the Family on
Friday, 16 October. Dr Cernea spoke in English.
I have added some [comments] and emphases.
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 overcome 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. [In my native Republic of Ireland last May voters re-defined marriage under the banner of 'equality' even though everyone was already free to marry, ie, one man and one woman, within the limitations of the law.]
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 (Matthew 6:33).
The Church’s mission is to
save souls. [Pope Francis reminded the judges and advocates of the tribunal that the highest law is the salus animarum – the salvation of souls.] Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not from income disparity or 'climate change'.
The solution is:
Evangelization. Conversion. [Conversion is a theme that runs through Laudato Si'.]
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. ['Reproductive health' includes abortion, as then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated unequivocally in 2009. In 2013 the Irish government legalised abortion under the name 'Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act' if a mother was threatening suicide. The government totally ignored the advice on this matter given by psychiatrists, advice that it had asked for.]
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 (Matthew 3:2).
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