Fr Tomasz Halik claims that the Church is not yet “one”. What about Credo?

Polish Catholicism cannot be cured of fascination with the Czech philosopher, Fr Tomasz Halik. This time the priest spoke to Catholics in the parish of St. Wojciech in London. There is no speech by Fr. Halik without uncertainty besides ecclesiological; so it was this time.

– There is much missing for the Church to be full what he was called to and what he is consecrated to be truly one, holy, universal and apostolic said Fr Halik quoted by KAI.

– In its fullness the Church will be one, holy, full Catholic (i.e. universal) only at the end of history, in the arms of God – he added.

He besides argued that on earth our religion “must” stay in suspense, for religion “cannot give us full assurance, certainty that removes all doubts.”

Finally, the priest combined atheism with... traditionalism. First of all, speaking of religion as an ideology, he stated that atheists would “quickly end up with the absence of God”, while traditionalists “don't have the courage to proceed in the secret of God’s hiding, they just keep repeating the sermons of catechism.”

First, God can be known by reason in a certain way. And the Vatican Council in the Constitution “Dei Filius” taught against atheists that although knowing God on the basis of Revelation is simply a higher form, man can besides know the existence of God through reason.

According to point 20 of the Constitution: Mother Church maintains and teaches that God, the beginning and intent of all things, can surely be known from things created by the natural light of human reason, "for from the creation of the planet his invisible qualities become visible to the head through his works."

Fr. Halik's assertion of the inability of a certain cognition so seems straight contrary to the teaching of this council constitution.

Fr Halik's statements on the Church are equally problematic. We'll focus on 1 mark, on unity. The Czech philosopher claims that the Church will truly be “one” only in God’s Kingdom. Thus, it suggests that there is presently not one.

However, Pius XI in the “Mortalium animos” wrote that the mistake is made by those who read Christ's words about the coming of 1 flock, as if they expressed “the want and request which are yet to be fulfilled.” specified people believe that “the unity of religion and leadership... has never existed before and does not be present either.” Calling specified false views, the pope pointed out that the real work on the unity of Christians is “that the sectarians should return to the womb of the one, actual Church of Christ, from which they, unfortunately, erstwhile fell away.”

He wrote: “We repeat that they should return to 1 Church of Christ, which is all things seen, and forever, by the will of his Founder, he will stay as he established him for the salvation of all men. The Mystic Bride of Christ for centuries has remained without plague and can never experience a plague; and then: “If this is the mystical body of Christ, the Church, 1 is, united and joined together like a physical body, a very foolish man would be 1 who would claim that Christ’s mystical body can be composed of separate, separate members. So he who is not united with the Church cannot be a associate of Him and has no connection with the Head-Christ. In this 1 Church of Christ is and will stay only 1 who recognizes the authority and authority of Peter and his legal successors, listening and accepting it."

It's not the Pope's exact terms, but the very content of his teaching. It is impossible to claim, as Fr Thomas Halik did, that the Church will be “one” only in the Kingdom of God, for the clear teaching of the Church is that there is 1 already today.

To claim that the Church is not holy and universal, is besides absurd, since in Creed let us confess precisely the other faith, that is, that is, it is both holy and universal. It may be believed that Rev. Halik wanted to talk of this "metaphoricly," referring, for example, to the sinfulness of the people of the Church in contrast to the holiness of God; but in expressing himself in this way, he alternatively creates in the minds of the hearers a belief that the Catholic Church is devised, which is an image characteristic of Protestant communities, trying to convince Catholics to the view that the "real" Church of Christ is embracing all Christians and does not be on earth.

The comparison of atheists with traditionalists and the criticism of the second as passive “readers” of Catechism should not even be commented; it is simply a simple invector in the mouth of the prophets of synodality.

Pache