Bands, dances, personal testimonies, loud cheering, feverish emotion are characteristics of focolare.
The monastic community in Bose is mixed; with members from both sexes. Non-Catholics, a Swiss Reformed pastor, two Protestants, and a former archbishop now Orthodox monk have full membership there.
Focolare is a sect.
There is a support site for Focolare and ex-Focolare members: here
People from 98 countries came together for Chiara Lubich launching the “Volunteers for God” (a branch of the Focolare Movement) in a spectacular celebration in Budapest, September 2006.
“…in a message from Chiara in which she also explained that, if those living in a Focolare centre are like a ‘soul’, nurturing the ideal of unity, the Volunteers are the ‘body’, fully engaged with the world, in every aspect of life, yet committed to bringing the divine wherever they are.” @
And I suppose the “soul” is Lubich herself…
The Focolare movement is BIG in Europe! How big? So big there is cause for concern. And the Czechs are not amused. Well… not all of them.
Here is a letter written by three priests, Fr. Eliáš A. Dohnal ThD. OSBM, Fr. Markian V. Hitiuk ThLic. OSBM, and Fr. Metoděj R. Špiřík ThD. OSBM*.
*Order of St. Basil the Great, of the Greek-Catholic Church
It was sent to His Holiness Benedict XVI and to Chiara Lubich, the founder of the Focolare movement, dated in Pidhirtsi, on the 7th of April 2006. Translated from original:
2. The Inculturated Mass: Forerunner of the Abomination Unto Desolation?
Cornelia R. Ferreira
Talk given at the CFN*
Conference, Los Angeles. Feast of Christ the King, October 25, 2009 *Catholic Family News
EXTRACT: We already have basic Christian communities and ecclesial movements like Focolare that are their own church enjoying papal support.
3.


World Youth Day – From Catholicism to CounterChurch
http://www.canisiusbooks.com/wyd.htm Cornelia R Ferreira and John Vennari
A thorough expose of Focolare, the “reincarnation” of Sillonism and the inspiration for World Youth Day. Shows how this influential “Catholic” group funnels [Free]Masonic principles into the Church, leading Catholics into the New World Order as members of the Counterchurch.
FROM THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX GREEK-CATHOLIC WEB SITE
1. Declaration: Letter to Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church Part I 7.4.2006
Public opinion on the Focolare movement is even in the highest Church circles very positive.
The Focolare is seen by many as a renewal and a model of the tomorrow Church. Unfortunately, the reality is different. Two papal authorizations from the past were gained by a cheat as it was kept in silence that there was a different gospel, a different spirit and different Christ (cf. 2Cor 11:4) there.
A) Diagnosis of the roots of Focolare
B) Focolare rule in the Czech Republic
C) Reform in the Czech Republic
THE TRUE FACE OF THE FOCOLARE
Diagnosis of the roots of Focolare
In the entrance hall of the Mariapoli Centre there was an unusual notice hanging: Bhakti, way of love. Unity with God and universal brotherhood of Hinduism and Christianity (New City 10/2002).
Another article mentions that Chiara received several doctorates of honour from Hinduists and Buddhists whereat she is also speaking about so-called unity and so-called love. What is one to say as for true love and unity with God?
In Hinduism there is not one Highest God, they have a plenty of gods with small g (demons). What kind of god or deity is it with which Christianity, according to Chiara, is to make unity?
Chiara L. has established a so-called prem-yoga (foco-yoga), which is a fruit of the spiritual syncretism of the Focolare movement. She pronounced that during her meditation with Hinduists she had experienced spiritual vibrations. In Hinduism god is not a person but only some kind of vibration.


In case this “vibratile spirit”, which Chiara Lubich received, has penetrated into the whole Focolare movement which she founded and leads, then it is necessary to publicly repent of it! (see Four Words from Ukraine, http://www.community.org.ua)
Many of those who left the Focolare movement give shocking testimonies. The ex-members of Focolare studied the analysis by G.A. Galanti Ph.D. who investigated into the Moon’s sect, a so-called Unification Church (Church of unity), and in their study they came to a conclusion that over 10 different techniques of so-called ‘brainwashing’ are used not only by the Moon’s sect but also by the Focolare movement. 22.
These techniques have been described by R. J. Lifton in his book “Study of Brainwashing”.
The founder of the Focolare movement Chiara Lubich receives the Rotary award of the Tridentine Alto Adige Südtirol 2001. The Rotary Club is closely related with Freemasons. A Rotary representative Mr. Mattarolo says: “We have similar aims… we also want unity” (New City 9/2001).
Which are those similar aims and what kind of unity is it that the Focolare movement and this organization have in common?
In Focolare one comes across a confusion of terms, confusion of truth, confusion of spirit. Because of a false love and unity, sin is not called as sin and truth as truth, therefore Jesus cannot be here as the only and exclusive Saviour and the only way to salvation! Here we have to do with a hidden spirit of the New Age inside the Catholic Church.
The tactics of Focolare is to flee from a direct confrontation with the truth, to mask heresies and by means of phrases and psychological manipulation remove those who point at them. In this covert fight every bishop of the Catholic Church has a responsibility to warn in his diocese against this latent and guileful spirit of Jezebel.
Thereby we are publicly calling the founder of the Focolare movement Chiara Lubich, all bishops, priests, religious as well as believers who are members of this movement, for public repentance!


Focolare rule in the Czech Republic [Focolare Cardinal M. Vlk]
In 2002 the Focolarine Cardinal M. Vlk by help of state authorities de facto liquidated the Catholic Theological Faculty in Prague. The faithful Catholic professors were dismissed: Fr. V. Wolf Prof. ThD., Fr. J. Polc Prof. ThD. and others. Now there are already heresies officially preached here and immorality propagated. In 2005 a certain student was twice failed by the examiners in his final exams in dogmatic and moral theology because on the base of the Holy Scripture and Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357-59 he said that homosexuality is a sin.
In 2003 Cardinal M. Vlk and Cardinal A. Sodano, despite a big resistance of the believers, enforced a liberal Focolarine L. Hučko as bishop to the forefront of our Byzantine Church in Czech Republic (CR). The Communist regime granted him a scientific degree “professor” which was granted only to members of the Communist party, or to collaborators of secret police. In CR our Church was a kind of variant against the Focolarine liberal dictatorship. Here 95% of believers are Ukrainians and these were claiming, according to the Eastern canon law, an establishment of a Ukrainian Church sui iuris with a true and faithful Catholic Ukrainian bishop. Liquidation of the orthodox spirituality and usurpation of the rule in our Church was performed by the Focolare movement with an assistance of state authorities. By help of state authorities likewise, Bishop L. Hučko illegally liquidated the OSBM Order in Czech Republic and then took possession of (stole) all its property for the sake of his exarchate. Neither the protest of the General Superior nor of the Apostolic Nuncio Mons. J. Ender succeeded. One part of the property stolen from the OSBM Order consisted of two real estates donated by a widow, Dr. K.Š. When she came to know that, she applied to Bishop L. Hučko for a return of the property. To his cynical attitude she reacted by an indignant letter addressed to the Czech Episcopal Conference (CEC). How was this affair settled by the Focolare leadership in CR?


Bishop L. Hučko sent his vicar general and his secretary to the widow, with them also coming the advocate of Cardinal M. Vlk. They were threatening the old widow and shouting at her that by her letter she offended a representative of God on earth and they forced her to dissociate herself from that letter. She thus for fear signed a “declaration on word of honour” prepared in advance by Bishop L. Hučko. When, after they had left, she read in quiet a copy of the paper she had signed, she was horrified. Among other things it included “her” declaration that the property donated to the OSBM Order in 2001 and 2003 she wanted to donate to the exarchate and that the OSBM Order deceived her. Therefore in presence of a notary she immediately wrote a declaration of invalidity of an enforced subscription and of a criminal act (cheat and intimidation) committed by Bishop L. Hučko and his accomplices. According to the state as well as ecclesiastical law this criminal offence is covered by sanctions.
Influence of the Focolare in CEC
The seat of chairman has continually been occupied by the Focolarines only. CEC is thereby paralysed, so that it is unable to react adequately and in truth to demoralization and liberalization of the Church. For all that time there has not been a single pastoral letter written that would bring a clear word on actual problems (historic-critical theology, false respect for other religions, spread of occultism in a mass measure, homosexuality, abortions, euthanasia, demoralization). There was an art exhibition in Prague which exposed a cross with a naked woman on it and also pictures of similar character. Believers asked CEC to protest against offending of the Christian faith. The CEC spokesman, who interpreted the attitude of Cardinal M. Vlk, pronounced that “this is a matter of worthful art and those who take offence at it do not have Catholic faith”.
Bishop in the first place has responsibility for true Catholic teaching and sound Catholic morals. Yet the Focolare leadership is doing quite the opposite. An evidence of this is that at the beginning of this year 2006 CR approved an act of registered homosexual partnership.


The CEC leadership has not seen to an adequate reaction of the Church concerning this moral issue, yet on the contrary, as early as 2004 Fr. J. Balík, leader of the Pastoral Youth Centre in Kunratice – Prague 4, was withdrawn by Cardinal M. Vlk from that function as well as from the parish for the reason that he publicly expressed himself against homosexuality. The consequence of this CEC (Focolare) policy is that within a period of ten years the number of believers in CR has decreased from 5 to 4 millions.
What is most mean and wily about the Focolare movement is that the leading caste does not follow the principles and the spirit of the Gospel, but it has the same spirit and methods as the Freemasons movement. The Focolare movement abuses and deceives its common members who stand as its base and in sincere faith blindly fulfil the instructions and orders of their superiors. These genuine faithfuls have not the least idea of the aims and secret intrigues of the ruling caste. However, as soon as one begins critically discerning (syncretism, moral laxism covered behind the catchphrase about love, en effort to usurp all power structures in the Church as well as in the state etc.), one is immediately reproved by words: “Brother, you are not in unity!” Yet if one still continues his independent thinking, it is followed by sanctions.
The spirit of Focolare is the spirit of the world abusing the Christian terminology. This antichristian spirit which cannot bear genuine repentance and truth is but displayed in its real looks not until some critical situation, and this is then in most cases already by a sin against the Holy Spirit. The question here is a conscious denial of the saving truth! (cf. Rom 8:9)
Responsibility for a liquidation of the true faith, for a promotion of liberalism at theological faculties and for a moral devastation of the Church and the nation falls above all on Focolarines Cardinal M. Vlk and Archbishop J. Graubner.
Reform in the Czech Republic
We propose the following solution towards the healing of CEC and of spiritual life in Czech Republic:
1. A rightful step in relation to Czech faithfuls would be a withdrawal of Cardinal M. Vlk for retirement. Archbishop instead of him may be e.g. his vicar general M. Slavík ThD.


2. Relocating Archbishop J. Graubner e.g. to Plzeň as diocesan or auxiliary bishop, or as Apostolic Nuncio to some country. In his place in Olomouc appointing non-liberal Fr. V. Wolf Prof. ThD. and likewise appointing him cardinal. Here through the theological faculty he can begin a renewal of true Catholic faith in the Church. One can presuppose opposition and intrigues from the side of liberal professors (who should be released afterwards).
The aim of preparation for clerical service is not to form scientific workers, who moreover have heretic attitudes, but to form faithful and moral spiritual shepherds who will struggle for eternal salvation of the sheep entrusted!!
3. Transferring Bishop L. Hučko as auxiliary bishop of the Byzantine Church in Hungary (one of his parents is of Hungarian nationality). In his place appointing a true Catholic Ukrainian.
4. Assigning Fr. P. Dokládal and Capuchin Fr. P. Uhřík to the Apostolic Nunciature as bishops who along with the Apostolic Nuncio will be responsible for orthodoxy of faith and morals in CR.
As CR was to become a false model of the Church by means of the Focolare, so may it now become a model of a true reform!
Fr. Eliáš A. Dohnal ThD. OSBM
Fr. Markian V. Hitiuk ThLic. OSBM
Fr. Metoděj R. Špiřík ThD. OSBM
Pidhirtsi, 7th April 2006
Copies to: His Holiness Benedict XVI, Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, Prague
The true face of the Focolare
Public opinion on the Focolare movement is even in the highest Church circles very positive. The Focolare is seen by many as a renewal and a model of the tomorrow Church. Unfortunately, the reality is different.
The tactics of Focolare is to flee from a direct confrontation with the truth, to mask heresies and by means of phrases and psychological manipulation remove those who point at them.


In this covert fight every bishop of the Catholic Church has a responsibility to warn in his diocese against this latent and guileful spirit of Jezebel.
2. Declaration: Letter to Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church Part II 9.5.2006
Spirit of antichrist in the Church
1) Spiritual diagnosis of the Focolare movement
2) State Secretariate of Vatican
3) Antichristian system and Dalai Lama
4) False spirit after the Second Vatican Council
5) Through repentance to resurrection
1) SPIRITUAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE FOCOLARE MOVEMENT
In the paper “The True Face of the Focolare” (from 7th April 2006) one points at the founder C. Lubich. Following her syncretism (prem-yoga), her opening to the spirit of the New Age and avoiding the spirit of repentance and truth, Jesus is no longer the only and exclusive Saviour. And this is the heretical foundation of the Focolare movement.
A “model” of Church administration of the Focolare is represented by the Czech Republic (CR).
A) Cardinal M. Vlk:
a) Liquidated true Catholic professors at the Theological Faculty in Prague and appointed liberal ones.
b) For the liquidation of our Greek-Catholic Church he used every endeavour at installing a focolarine L. Hučko as bishop.
c) To the key posts in the Church he assigned people who purposefully liquidate the Church and he gives consent to it by his silence.
d) On the contrary, he immediately reacts so as to liquidate anything truly Catholic and vital (he withdraws a priest who said a clear word against homosexuality, by his statement he liquidates a truly Catholic journal “Report”, he attacks a beginning journal “Te Deum” etc.).
e) Whenever there emerges an atmosphere favourable to repentance (floods 2002), he does away with it by phrases.
f) The main blame for the enforcement of the Act of homosexual marriage falls upon Cardinal M. Vlk!
B) Archbishop of Olomouc J. Graubner (a focolarine) has responsibility for:
a) The theological faculty where he shelters liberal professors who among other things are promoting the ordination of women and false feminization.


b) Religious sisters who are separately studying theology here, besides being transmitted the liberal spirit of the faculty underwent even a recollection led by a buddhist, so that they could thus open to demons that are behind the pagan buddhist religion! This is a way to apostasy!
C) Bishop L. Hučko (a focolarine):
a) By help of state authorities he stole the property of the OSBM Order.
b) Together with Cardinal M. Vlk he prevented from establishing an exarchate for the Ukrainian emigration.
c) Both of them likewise, by way of their subordinates, impulsed a moral pressure and deceit on an old widow in the matter of her property. The legal proceedings with Bishop L. Hučko before the Tribunal of the Roman Rota have already been started.
Certainly there are also good bishops among focolarines; however, since they are in a system which liquidates everything truly Catholic and alive, the responsibility falls in a full measure even upon them. During a long-time rule of theirs in CR these bishops have not given a clear word to any topical issue. In fact, this spirit does not permit any spiritual awakening or spiritual life but sooner or later liquidates it. However, on the other hand it supports and shields liberalism, syncretism and makes unity with the spirit of the world and New Age, calling all this a love.
The Focolare movement built up a huge centre in Castel Gandolfo, thereby leaving an impression of true Catholicity and unity with the Holy Father. Focolare, New Age and Freemasons are not interfered by religiousness and pious phrases but they are interfered by living Jesus who is the Truth and the Life (Jn 14:6). Two papal authorizations were gained by a cheat, because Focolare has a different spirit, a different Gospel and a different Christ (2 Cor 11:4).
C. Lubich self-confidently pronounced: “One day, the Church will wake up and everything around and inside will be focolarini!”
1) What kind of spirit is behind the Focolare? Unfortunately, we have to state that governing here is the spirit of antichrist.
2) What is the aim of the Focolare?


C. Lubich, Cardinal M. Vlk, Archbishop J. Graubner, Bishop L. Hučko could give the answer: To control the whole Church, here the true Divine life is not built but liquidated!
3) What kind of method is used here? When they are to voice their opinion, to call truth as truth, sin as sin, they keep silent, thus giving the sin their consent. Whenever there is someone who defends the truth and the true Catholicity, they put him to silence with a catchphrase that he has no love. As a method they use lie, half-truth and psychological manipulation. Similarly to Freemasons they are covering the real substance and through personal contacts, by means of half-truths, they are liquidating in the backstage all their opponents.
2) STATE SECRETARIATE OF VATICAN
Let us put a question: Who has the responsibility for the catastrophical state in the Church? Some will say: the Pope John Paul II.
We answer: Not him but the machinery which already existed here before him and which practically could not be abolished by him because it would have removed him as it evidently removed John Paul I., and till the present time it is questionable who in fact impulsed the assassinator in 1981. Maybe even as early as then John Paul II recognized that he was not able to fight against the covert spirit which gained control over the State Secretariate and which appears as the supreme spiritual power in the Church. The cryptic antipopes, Cardinal Cassarolli and Cardinal Sodano, were often doing quite the opposite of what the Pope ordered. So the Holy Father was practically a prisoner of this Vatican–antichristian machinery. Upon the question whether in the conditions of that time he could stand up against this machinery one can answer: Practically not!
So who has the guilt for the catastrophical state in the Church?
During the process with the war criminals in Norimberg the whole system which had on its conscience the death of millions was condemned. Not only once in God’s judgement but even now the antichristian system must be condemned; that system which is roofed by an antipapal state secretariate and has on its conscience millions of souls which are rushing into perdition. Therefore Cardinal A. Sodano must be withdrawn and punished adequately.


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Work of Mary
The Movement was officially approved within the Catholic Church under the name “Work of Mary”. It carries this name because “of its characteristic spirituality, modeled upon Mary, gives Christ spiritually to the world in the diversity of its composition, its worldwide spreading, its relationship with Christians of other Churches and ecclesial Communities, with people of various religious faiths and with persons with no particular religious affiliation, and for the fact that its President is a lay woman”.
(General Statutes, art.2)
Faced with the challenges of modern-day society, ever more multi-cultural and multi-religious, important fruits of peace in ongoing dialogue with persons of different faith traditions have grown and flourished since the 70s.
Chiara and the Movement have initiated contacts not only with individual leaders or followers of different religions but also with entire Movements.
Buddhists – the first Christian woman to do so, Chiara Lubich shared her spiritual experience, in 1981, in a temple in Tokyo before 10.000 Buddhists, and in 1997 in Thailand to Buddhist monks, both men and women.
Muslims – a few months later, in the historic Malcolm Shabbazz mosque in Harlem, New York, before 3000 African-American Muslims;
Jews – that same year in Buenos Aires Chiara was welcomed as the guest speaker of a widespread Jewish organization.
Hindus – In 2001 she visited India: a new page opened in the ongoing work of dialogue between members of the Focolare and the Hindu world.
In 1994 she was nominated honorary president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP).


The antichristian system in Vatican must be deprived of the spiritual rule and the spiritual power must be secured against an abuse.
The war criminals in Norimberg felt innocent because they had only obeyed orders of their superiors. The document of Freemasons Alta Vendita states: “The heaviest blow upon the Church will be struck through the so-called holy obedience. Bishops, priests, majority of religious while thinking that they are marching under the banner of St. Peter’s keys, will actually be marching under our banner… Reforms will have to be performed in the name of obedience.”
Preventive protection against the spirit of antichrist in the Church is to contain the following: it must be clearly formulated when believers must not obey the Church authority which is abusing its office, circumventing God’s law and liquidating life in the Church! We proposed abolishing of all dicasteries (and replacing them by another, safer system) and leaving only one of them – namely the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Providing that there is some other, more effective project, let it be realized!
3) ANTICHRISTIAN SYSTEM AND DALAI LAMA
Dalai Lama is not only head of the nation which was persecuted by Communism but at the same time also head of the Tibetan lamaism. He considers himself, and the lamaists likewise consider him, a reincarnated god. They give him a divine respect and this is idolatry. He is put on an equal level with Jesus Christ. The title “His Holiness” with the Dalai Lama is understood ontologically whereas with the Pope symbolically!
When the Dalai Lama visited the Holy Father, this visit was abused. In Catholic journals and calendars this documentary photograph was given a misleading commentary, which forced such a conviction upon the reader that this was a gesture of and an attempt at a unity with all religions. What was the aim of such commentaries? To dull the Catholic identity and enforce the thoughts of the New Age and the spirit of relativism that in essence all religions are the same. This but is a cheat! It is a liquidation of every kind of apology and mission!
The visit of the Dalai Lama in post-Communist Christian countries of Europe.


Two months before the visit of the Pope in CR, the theological counsellors with the spirit of antichrist advised the president that before the visit of the Holy Father, who represents Christ Himself, first he should invite the Dalai Lama, who visibly represents antichrist.
These theologians gave instructions how the 90-year-old Cardinal F. Tomášek was to behave as well as how the visit was to be commented in the by that time already free Catholic press. The Catholic journals presented articles which troubled waters, with headlines like: “His Holiness Dalai Lama…” In all these journals there was not a single commentary which would within the framework of truthfulness and love in relation to their Catholic faithfuls truly explain who actually the Dalai Lama was and what was the true and biblical attitude that we should take towards the spirit which was behind him. Nothing objective was written. Only an uncritical and dangerous euphoria! Dalai Lama gave Cardinal F. Tomášek a big wreath around his neck which had not only a symbolic but also a magic intention. Soon after the Dalai Lama also visited neighbouring Poland and on the pattern of CR he decorated in the same way even the Polish primate Cardinal Glemb. This disoriented President L. Walensa; he did not meditate with the Dalai Lama like the Czech President V. Havel. At first he was refusing the visit, yet later he received it. Dalai Lama pronounced in the massmedia that in the sky he had seen a magic-augural sign very positive for him. Within a short time the political atmosphere in Poland changed, President L. Walensa began to lose his authority and presidential elections were won by an anti-Catholic opposition.
Both Czechs and Poles should think this over and repent in truth with regard to the sphere of the First Commandment! Otherwise the religious syncretism will continue its destructive work upon their Church and nation. Regrettably to say, the Catholic University in Lublin along with some other theological faculties in no way lag behind the liberalism and the antichristian spirit of the West. Here it is necessary to repent radically!
4) A FALSE SPIRIT AFTER THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL
For about 40 years one has been speaking in the Church with respect about yoga and zen, but this is a great deceit.


No Catholic yoga or Christian zen or oriental meditations solve the crisis of faith; on the contrary, they lead to a total apostasy! The priests are so confused that many of them are not only approving of these practices, but they are literally agitating for them. It is necessary to know that yoga, zen, oriental martial art are related with a spiritual world behind which is the spirit of death, and with a philosophy contradictory to the Gospel and the Christian tradition… Yet this is purposefully kept in silence and that is why the deceived Christians themselves are assisting in building up anti-Christian centres throughout Europe. The point here is not an innocent meditation or a neutral sport. This is a way, a spiritual system! (see Four Words from Ukraine, http://www.community.org.ua)
It is necessary to say the shocking truth that the so-called post-council spirit, which brought a false interpretation of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, especially of Nostra aetate, is the spirit of antichrist. Today we can see it by the fruit – a total decay of the Church. This spirit did not want to reform but to deform! After the council we likewise opened ourselves to the historic–critical theology (HCT). This theology lays its base on so-called historical Christ and Christ of faith. Hinduism also speaks of Christ as avatar. However, these are false christs that have nothing in common with true Jesus Christ who is the only and exclusive Saviour (Acts 4:12) and the only way to salvation (Jn 14:6). HCT and false respect for religions lead into one antichristian religion having the spirit of the New Age.
This new spirit is already accepted as the new form of thinking in theology and as the new fundament in place of the true fundament represented by living Jesus Christ! He has already been thrown out of the new theology, and this is the biggest crime of the theology of the 20th century! This crime must first of all be repented of in earnest by every bishop, every teacher of faith and every priest.
5) THROUGH REPENTANCE TOWARDS RESURRECTION
Now is the time of sieving of the spirits, it is a historic moment. Today we can see the fruit of the spirit of death in the Church, which has been ruling here for several decades and has led the Church into collapse.


Now is the time of polarization, pulling off masks, so that it can be shown and known who is who!
Now it is necessary to radically stand up for the Holy Father Benedict XVI who visibly represents Jesus Christ Himself and who likewise represents both the sound teaching of the Gospel and the Spirit of Christ. The fight against him is a fight against Christ Himself and against the Church. He is counterworked especially by a cryptic antipapacy hitherto represented by Cardinal A. Sodano and by a whole system built up within those years. This system has its people in the local Churches all over the world, predominantly at theological faculties. Therefore it is also necessary to think over a new clerical formation and an institution of discipleship! (Jesus did not study at a theological faculty: still, he had disciples.)
Now it is necessary to repent and not trouble waters with empty and misleading phrases which lead away from the substance and from life. Every hierarch and every religious, priest, even a layman has to put a question to him-/herself: Who am I actually serving? Christ or antichrist?
Supposing that you were, though unconsciously, pulling antichrist’s cart and thereby even the Church and living Christ to execution, now stop and make a turn and take up Christ’s cross. Here on this cross the root of the sin must be crucified, the sin which is in us that is the old self which makes unity with the spirit of antichrist and which must be crucified with Christ and immersed even in His death (2Cor 4:10f), so that it can bring the resurrection with Christ and be experienced as by an individual so by the Church!
Now is the high time for a reform to come. The Church is bleeding with streams, turning into a sheer cemetery of murdered souls. What is but worst is that there is almost nobody who would take notice of it any longer. This sad, or better said a catastrophical picture is revealed by the Lord Himself through Ezekiel the Prophet (Ez 37) and this picture can be fully applied to our Church. The present-day Church, present-day Israel is a spiritual cemetery, a valley of dead bones.
The solution is the prophetic authority which is to mediate the living word of God according to 1Cor 14:1-3, in order to: a) exhort, b) upbuild, c) encourage.


As soon as this prophetic team starts prophesying, that means preaching in power the Word of God instead of poisoned theologies, there comes a violent reaction, a big rumble, the bones begin to clash upon one another and are made up into skeletons (a fundament).
In the second phase the prophet is to call with pleading that the Spirit of God may descend upon these slain so that they may live. He was to call that the Spirit may come from the four cardinal points, from the four spiritual centers. The cross has four sides, it is a symbol of salvation, it was here that the devil was vanquished and it was here that the old self was and is crucified with Christ (Rom 6:6). The key of the prophet’s power is his absolute obedience to God, that means renouncement of his good, his truth, his will: “I prophesied as I was commanded” (Ez 37:7.10). Similarly – the mystery when the power of God begins to work is found with Elijah the Prophet on mount Carmel. “Let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel (in the Church), and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word.” (1Kings 18:36) Through the obedience of Elijah fire came down from heaven. Through the obedience of Ezekiel a spiritual resurrection comes.
So when Ezekiel was prophesying (calling on the strength of God’s word) unto the Spirit, it gave rise to a spiritual resurrection and the cemetery turned into a great army of warriors (Ez 37:10), “martyres” (Acts 1:8).
Who was it that had antichristian spirit and who crucified Christ? It was the chief priests, the elders, the Pharisees, the scribes and the Sadducees. Who is it that nowadays represents and follows this religious caste? John the Apostle writes: “Now many antichrists have come. They went out from us, but they were not of us.” (1Jn 2:18-19)
Today there is only one way for us and that, to receive the spirit of repentance and renounce the spirit of antichrist. This is the first step. And the second one is to call upon the Holy Spirit that He may give a resurrection of the spiritual cemetery – the Church!
Fr.


Metoděj R. Špiřík ThD. OSBM., Fr. Markian V. Hitiuk ThLic. OSBM., Fr. Eliáš A. Dohnal ThD. OSBM
Pidhirtsi, 9th May 2006
Copy to: His Holiness Benedict XVI
3. Letter to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone
State Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Città del Vaticano
concerning the affair of Bishop S.W. in Poland at the turn of the years 2006/2007 we want to draw Your attention to the fact that collaboration of the clergy with the State Security Committee (KGB – StB in the Czech Republic) is not only a problem of Poland, but of all postcommunist states. There was practically no priest that would not come into contact with KGB at that time and would not be included in the documentary records which were rendered by KGB employees. However, this does not mean that all who were recorded there really collaborated with KGB.
An example of one of us: Father Eliáš Antonín Dohnal served as a priest in the Roman-Catholic Church from 1972 to 1991, later he joined an Eastern religious order and changed the rite thereby. He explained to us the whole problem as well as his personal experience in more detail. After a car accident in 1976 he was visited by an officer of StB. After the talk related to the accident the officer asked him to sign a paper which stated that he would be silent on that visit. 27.
He signed, but immediately afterwards he visited several neighbouring priests and informed them about the visit he had. When the StB officer came for the second time, he threw him out fully aware of the consequences, that he will probably no longer be allowed to serve publicly as a priest. Nothing happened at first, but later on when a spiritual awakening started in the parish, he was transferred to a remote place where a monstrous process was constructed against him. Called up by StB in Opava he was told – either a trial and at least five years of prison, or a voluntary visit to a psychiatrist at the “needs” of StB.


Finally neither of these was realized, it was settled by a mere deprival of the function of parish priest (administrator) and for the next two years he served under supervision as a chaplain. Thereout one year he was in a village where about 400 sisters from 14 religious institutes were concentrated. Afterwards, he was assigned to supposingly the worst parish as its administrator. At this new place he wrote and mimeographed (which was a punishable activity) essays on the defence of faith against spreading liberalism and occultism. There was a group of students who cooperated with him. This period of time also includes the report about Fr. F. Lobkowicz (in the present time the bishop of the Ostrava diocese) which was published at the end of the year 2006 in the Czech Republic (CR) with the aim to compromise this bishop. However, he did Fr. E. no wrong. It seems that the compromising attack on Bishop F. Lobkowicz comes from liberal circles which are displeased at the fact that this bishop is not in so-called full unity with them or with the Focolare leadership. In his place of Bishop of Ostrava they were pushing a Focolare priest I.F.
Regarding Poland, we were shocked by the response of Bishop S.W. He refused lustration with words: “Only after my admission in Warsaw.” Bishop S.W. knew that when he will already be archbishop, cardinal and primate of Poland (the post in Warsaw is automatically connected with these Church positions), then for the sake of higher good both the Polish Church and Vatican will be forced to shield his offences and egoistic interests.
An even more serious case is the Greek-Catholic Exarch L. Hučko in the Czech Republic. Before his consecration (May 2003) the Ukrainians (Greek-Catholic majority in CR) silently demonstrated for about two weeks in front of the Apostolic Nunciature in Prague holding a placard: “We demand lustration of L. Hučko”. Pressures towards the publication of the whole affair in the massmedia were strong, but unlike Poland the Focolare movement by help of its net and its contacts reduced the massmedia to silence. Cardinal M. Vlk pronounced: “We saw to it that nothing of it be published.” Still, an edition of “Metro” published a short article.


L. Hučko along with an advocate of Cardinal M. Vlk immediately turned to police. The police inquired into the matter and decently announced that “the article contained no defamatory information, only such that was generally known”. So the police itself had to bring both Focolare leaders into line. Why instead of visiting the police and intimidating and silencing those who were demanding lustration did L. Hučko himself not ask with manfulness for this lustration? If he had been innocent, he would have nothing to fear. By this gesture he would have disarmed all enemies. However, he refused the lustration. Cardinal M. Vlk and Cardinal A. Sodano covered all this by pointing at the fact that “he had been appointed by the Holy See and the Holy See cannot be wrong, naturally”.
And so L. H. became a bishop. When two years later the archives of the State Security Committee were uncovered, although they included records of both Greek-Catholic bishops of Slovakia – Exarch M. Chautur CSsR and Bishop J. Babjak S.J. – the records of Bishop L. Hučko “disappeared”. How could they disappear? It is generally known that there are at least two Focolarines employed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is a public secret that the Focolare movement had a permission from its leadership to cooperate with the Communist regime. So right after the fall of Communism they managed to secure key positions in the Church and a great influence in the state departments. That was also why Cardinal M. Vlk could forbid all newspapers in CR from publishing the report about the compromising past of L. Hučko. For 20 years L. Hučko was the leader of Focolare in the former CSSR (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic). This movement should have been specially watched by StB because: 1) the centre of the movement was in a foreign country, 2) it belonged to the Catholic Church, 3) it worked especially with the youth. Or could StB miss the fact that this movement was organizing so-called secret gatherings (Mariapoli) which were participated by a multitude of youth – or maybe StB had beforehand been informed of that and therefore let them be?


Moreover, L. Hučko as the leader of a secret Church organization worked at that time even in a production sphere which was strategic (Slovnaft concern) and achieved the scientific degree of “candidate of sciences”. Everyone who lived in those times knows that such degree could be achieved only by a member of the Communist party, or by an agent or spy of StB. It is ridiculous to claim that StB did not know who L. Hučko was. Supposing that all records of L. Hučko disappeared, or that there had never been any, then a question arises: Was his cooperation not on a higher and more covert level than the cooperation of those who were found in the StB records?
In 2003, when L. Hučko was consecrated a bishop, there was a law in effect in CR that everyone who held a higher office had to go through so-called lustration. It is a big shame to the Church that she not only avoided lustration but even denounces those who demand it to the police. The blame falls on the leadership of Focolare in CR and therefore they must repent of it adequately. In this case as well as for other of his offences (robbery, deceits, lawless liquidation of a delegature of pontifical right) L. Hučko must be withdrawn from the office of Greek-Catholic Exarch in Prague. In addition, his forcible installation by Cardinal M. Vlk and Cardinal A. Sodano, in spite of all protests of believers, is an injustice to this Eastern Church in CR where almost 95% of the believers are Ukrainians. These were thus precluded from an opportunity to have their own exarchate and their own bishop in the same way as it is in other states of Europe.
It is necessary to bring to light the whole activity of Focolare in CR and to expose the antichristian substance of the whole movement. Surely, there are ordinary members who are not initiated into the higher politics of the movement and certain obscurities are explained to them only one-sidedly and thus submitted to be believed by them. These members are convinced of absolute innocence of the movement. 28.
What is the true face of Focolare love and unity?


Where sin is not called sin and evil is not called evil, but all is covered with a phrase of love, it is not possible to speak about true repentance and Christianity at all. Love without truth does not exist!
Nowadays, when the world is full of impurity, occultism, all kind of sin and rebellion against God, it is a false vision for Christians to try to make unity with the world which has not received Christ and lies under the sway of the wicked one (cf. 1Jn 5:1), or with pagan religious systems which are soaked through and through with demonic powers and with the spirit of antichrist (cf. 1Cor 10:20-22).
Spiritual programme of the Focolare movement:
1) Unity with the world without respecting the Decalogue, without discernment of sin, good end evil, truth and lie, without discernment of Christ and antichrist!
2) Unity and mergence with pagan religions and with their magic practices.
This is what the Focolare movement calls love today.
Older priests and professors of theology warned us of the danger of this movement especially with regard to the sixth commandment (i.e. keeping the celibate)! Someone even uttered a term: “Focolare harlot house”. We understood that term in such a way that as there is a woman standing in the forefront, the whole movement is led by womanish spirituality, sensitivity, by various side ways avoiding directness and confrontation with the truth. At one meeting with bishops Chiara L. said: “I felt like Christ among the apostles.” Providing that she repented, she could perhaps say “like Mary Magdalene among the apostles.”
We also thought that the above-mentioned term was pointing at the question of the doctrine of the faith and at the violation of the first commandment (religious syncretism).
Today we know that these older priests meant the sixth and the ninth commandment. No wonder! If this movement does not emphasize truth and repentance, nor does it tolerate any mention of the reality of spiritual fight, and if it does not radically fight against sin and against the pressure of the demoralized world, then the injured human nature regularly causes that impurity and carnal pleasures are not called a sin but love!
An example of this is the enforcement of the act of registered homosexual partnership in CR, for which the biggest blame falls upon the Focolarine Cardinal M. Vlk.


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Ways to Dialogue within one’s own Church
Ways to Dialogue among Christian churches
Ecumenism. A difficult journey, yet guided by the Holy Spirit who after centuries of division, urges the Churches to be reconciled and to give the world, wounded by conflicts, the witness of Christian unity.
In the climate of fraternity that is growing among Christians, the need for spirituality is growing, a fitting way to speed up the progress to full visible communion.
It is the Holy Spirit himself who in these times Has brought to life in the different Churches New charisms, new spiritual currents Through movements, communities, associations, groups, to renew Christian Life.
One of the specific contributions that the Focolare Movement makes to the cause of ecumenism is at the level of Spirituality, with a “dialogue of life” and “dialogue of the people”. 4.
An ecumenical spirituality
Among Christians there is a new awareness that we are called to live the commandment that Jesus calls “his” and “new”: “love one another as I have loved you”, and so contribute to the fulfilment of the Testament of Jesus: “That all may be one” (cf. Jn 17:2).
A dialogue of life, a “dialogue of the people”
The spirituality of unity, lived in daily life, breaks down centuries of prejudice, and brings about a “dialogue of life”.
As Chiara Lubich said at the World Council of Churches, “Through that dialogue we already feel like a family: from different churches, we feel ourselves to be one Christian people, involving laity, ministers, and bishops, even though full and visible unity between our churches has yet to be achieved. This is not a dialogue that contrasts with or stands alongside the dialogue between the leaders of the Churches, but one in which all Christians can take part.
This Christian people is a leaven in the ecumenical movement. It is our hope that the other forms of dialogue, like that of charity, of common service, of prayer, and of theology, may be strengthened by the “dialogue of life”.