Will there be a reform within the Focolare movement?
9 May 2016
To priests and members of the Focolare movement
1) Positive aspects of the Focolare movement:
When the war drew to a close, Chiara Lubich, the founder, and her friends went through a deep spiritual experience that could be an encouragement in faith to many.
Today, the greatest positive aspect is that the Focolare priests meet regularly. When Archbp. J. Graubner was an assistant priest in Valašské Klobouky, some people came to visit him but unfortunately he was not home. The notice board displayed a busy timetable of religion classes, but Tuesday was free. He set it apart for meeting with the Focolare priests. This is praiseworthy. The other Focolare priests likewise set apart this time for this purpose. Other priests in the diocese failed to do so. They were individualists, although many of them were very zealous in repairing churches, in catechesis or pastoral care. But they did not care much about spiritual fellowship with brethren; they thought of it as wasted time. Regular meetings of Focolare members were really something revolutionary within the individualistic structure. When other priests wanted to meet together for fellowship in prayer, God’s Word and mutual encouragement, it always failed after several attempts.
True criticism of the Focolare movement, which we present here, is a manifestation of pure love and a desire for them to strive for true unity with Christ crucified and to walk in the Spirit of truth. May they become the light and an example in this time of severe testing which the Church undergoes today not only in the Czech Republic.
2) Negative aspects of the Focolare movement:
The Czech Bishops’ Conference (CBK) under the leadership of the Focolare movement is to blame for the following crimes:
The pro-Focolare CBK was silent on the legalization of registered partnership of homosexuals.
Both the Focolare and the CBK are silent on the perverse gender ideology!
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on the law on social and legal protection of children – de facto a system of stealing children from their parents.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on gay pride parades in Prague.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on the Lisbon Treaty, which is an anti-Decalogue.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on the legalization of narcotics.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on antidiscrimination laws which establish a homodictatorship.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are not only silent on the spread of Freemasonry and its various forms but also promote it in a discreet manner.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on the legalization of prostitution.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on the legalization of the adoption of children by homosexuals.
Both the CBK and the Focolare are silent on the repeated Havel’s Forum 2000 with T. Halík and the Dalai Lama, advancing the New Age and the NWO.
This silence is the fruit of the fact that the CBK did not respond to an appeal and was silent on the heresy of Archbishop Zollitsch who denied the redemptive death of Christ on the cross.
Interestingly enough, the CBK and the Focolare are not silent when it comes to promoting Islamization in the Czech Republic. They even received 200 million Czech crowns from the state to let Islamists in the Czech Republic under the guise of Charity. They turned out to be “sluníčkáři” (pro-refugee activists) in the Church due to their protection and promotion of crime.
The Focolare CBK leadership demanded and obtained restitution. However, they failed to demand that the long-time head of the Focolare movement, the current Bishop Hučko, should return the property he had stolen from Dr. Šutková, a widow.
The Focolare wants to hypnotize the faithful: Hypnotist M.K. received the doctorate of theology in Košice for occult hypnosis which he introduced as a novelty in pastoral practice. The responsibility falls on the rector Doc. A. Konečný, a Focolare member. Hypnosis is prohibited in the Orthodox Church to this day as an element associated with the occult and torturing the human mind. Bishop L. Hučko (Focolare) founded a social and legal advice bureau under the aegis of which the hypnotist M.K. can practise “beneficial” hypnosis on the believers.
Pseudo art and the Focolare: There was an “art” exhibition in Prague which presented a naked woman on a cross and similar works of “art”. The believers asked the leadership of the CBK to protest against insulting the Christian faith. The CBK spokesman, who interpreted the attitude of the Foco-Cardinal M. Vlk, said that “these are valuable works of art and if anyone takes offence, he does not have the Catholic faith”. This Cardinal uttered a heresy on television (2016), saying that the Allah of Islam is our God, i.e. the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Does the Cardinal still have the Catholic faith?
What about the Focolare Archbishop J. Graubner? He allowed the liberal spirit to destroy the seminarians. Graduates of the Catholic school under Charity openly profess Buddhism rather than Christianity. This is thanks to the professors of the Faculty of Theology. Graubner also allowed re-education of religious at the theological faculty in Olomouc in the spirit of liberalism and New Age. This culminated with Zen Buddhist spiritual exercises at Hostýn! A woman was appointed the Dean of the Theological Faculty. This progress of false feminism also affected the Bishops’ Conference – the CBK spokesman was a woman, a member of the Focolare movement. It is as if doctors appointed an outspoken hairdresser as their spokesman, or a hockey team chose a kindergarten teacher as their coach.
After the fall of Communism in the Czech Republic, Card. M. Vlk and Archbishop J. Graubner, both being members of the Focolare movement, were chairmen of the CBK. There were seven members of this movement in the College of Bishops. Thus, the Church power was (and still is) fully in the hands of the Focolare movement. How great an opportunity! Over a period of 26 years they could foster a true spiritual awakening. They could provide priestly formation in seminaries in depth. They could then apply the effective evangelistic models implemented by the movement which has the strongest base of active lay people in the Czech Republic. They could present a model of true Christianity after the example of the early Christians. Unfortunately, we must conclude that there was no spiritual revolution; on the contrary, the Focolare leadership bears full responsibility for the mass apostasy from 5 to 4 million Catholics in the Czech Republic in just 10 years.
The question of (de)formation of seminarians: Card. Vlk and Archbishop Graubner have never come forward against real spiritual cancer which is atheistic philosophy contained in the historical-critical method (theology). They have never spoken against the promotion of syncretism with paganism, quite the contrary, following the example of Chiara, they advocated it. They have never spoken against the promotion of homosexuality or against the ordination of women or against the spirit of the New Age. These destructive theories advanced by professors and seminarians were tolerated. Being ordinaries of the Focolare movement, they have never condemned these cancerous foci and therefore they have responsibility for the advanced stage of this deadly disease, both in the seminaries and among the faithful.
This spiritual blindness is the official position of the whole Focolare movement.
a) Syncretism of the Focolare
The worship of God coupled with the worship of demons in animals is syncretism.
“14 June. In the lobby of the Centro Mariapoli there is an unusual notice: Bhakti – the way of love. Unity with God and universal brotherhood of Hinduism and Christianity.” (New City 10/2002)
Bhakti is not the way of love but a false way of self-divinization and idolatry. Christianity cannot be in universal brotherhood with Hinduism. Why? Because Christians worship one God and Hindus worship demons – gods with a small ‘g’ (cf. 2Co 6:14f). The First Commandment clearly forbids this syncretism: “I am the Lord your God! … You shall have no other gods…” (Deu 5:6-7; 14-15)
Chiara, the founder of the Focolare movement, received several honorary doctorates from Hindus and Buddhists and, moreover, her so-called Prem Yoga is a testimony to the spirit of unity of the Focolare with Hinduism and Buddhism. This is apostasy from the saving faith. It is a sin against the Holy Spirit – rejection of the Spirit of truth and adoption of the spirit of lies and death! This is a public betrayal of Jesus Christ. Archbishop Graubner’s statement in the struggle for restitution in fact fully applies to Chiara and the Focolare: “A change of attitude would have to mean an admission of guilt, repentance and rectification. But this is a too demanding requirement for people rejecting (one) God and spiritual values in general!” The Focolare movement with the spirit of New Age is preparing autogenocide of Christianity not only in the Czech Republic! Therefore, this movement must repent of apostasy! Considering its unity with the heresies of syncretism and neo-Modernism, “an admission of guilt, repentance, and rectification” is a too demanding requirement for the Focolare movement. “Nothing is impossible with God.” (Lk 1:37) Is there at least one humble person in the movement to say his “yes” to God with all his life together with Mary?
b) Prem Yoga
Chiara L. introduced so-called Prem Yoga (foco yoga), which is the fruit of spiritual syncretism of the Focolare movement. She said that while meditating with Hindus, she experienced spiritual vibrations. God in Hinduism is not a person; demons they worship manifest themselves in a kind of vibration. If this vibrant spirit, which Chiara Lubich received, has penetrated into the whole Focolare movement, which she founded and led, then it is necessary to repent publicly thereof! (For more details see “Four Words from Ukraine”, http://community.org/dwnld/4words_eng.rar) The tragedy is that Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate (1965) and John Paul II in Assisi (1986) opened the door to this heretical syncretism. This led to the declaration of anathema on Vatican II and posthumously on John Paul II. Without it, a true restoration of the Church would not be possible.
c) Sect
Many of those who left the Focolare give shocking testimonies. Focolare ex-members studied the analysis by PhDr. G. A. Galanti who investigated into the Moon sect – so-called Unification Church – and came to the conclusion that more than 10 different “brainwashing” techniques are used not only by the Moon sect but also by the Focolare movement. These techniques have been described in the book by Robert J. Lifton “A Study of ‘Brainwashing’”.
d) New Age
The founder of the Focolare movement, Chiara Lubich, received the Trentino Alto Adige/Südtirol 2001 Rotary award. The Rotary Club is closely related with Freemasons. Rotary representative Mr Mattarollo says: “We have similar goals … we also want unity.” (New City 9/2001) For what kind of unity did Chiara receive the award? For such unity which a physician would create with a funeral parlour, providing a sufficient number of the dead.
e) The heretical Focolare government in the Czech Republic
In 2002, the Focolare Cardinal M. Vlk de facto dissolved the Catholic Theological Faculty in Prague. He dismissed the orthodox Catholic teachers: Prof. ThDr. V. Wolf, Prof. ThDr. J. Polc and others. Today, the faculty officially proclaims heresies and promotes immorality. In 2005, a certain student twice failed the final state examination in dogmatic and moral theology because he said that on the basis of Holy Scripture homosexuality is a sin.
“Prophetic” statement by Ch. Lubich: “Do you not think that the unity of the world in which we firmly believe is now even closer? … Therefore, all together we make a new step towards this goal.”
The NWO and the New Age have the same goal. The Lord Jesus prayed for unity of those who are not of the world and the world hates them therefor (cf. Jn 17:14).
Today the Focolare movement has more than 300 bishops and more than 10 cardinals. Are these shepherds, who are in unity with the apostasy of their founder, blind? They all have one thing in common: they refuse true repentance, without which no one will be saved (Lk 13:3). Sincere Focolare members form the basis for a spiritual elite which, however, is not in unity with the Holy Spirit but with the spirit of the New Age. It is similar to the Freemasons. The ordinary members are convinced that they serve the good and humanity. How the secret ruling elite 33 works towards the genocide of humanity, they know not. Both the Masonic and the Focolare elites have their degree of secrecy so that they can effectively manipulate their subordinates.
Currently, we see the fruits of Vatican II aggiornamento on pseudo Pope Francis Bergoglio. Does the Focolare movement agree with his “pro-gay” policy? Or do they still repeat the same mantra: “Do not insult our Holy Father!”? The fact is that Bergoglio is excommunicated from the Catholic Church for his heresies. He holds the office illegitimately. In the US these days the Jesuits – Bergoglio SJ is a member of the Jesuit Order – had the courage to organize a conference entitled: “Is this Pope Catholic?” However, the Focolare is in unity with him – always the same song about “love” and now about “mercy” too. They have not yet followed his example of kissing the feet of transsexuals but they vehemently promote Islamization. The Foco Bishop Radkovský is to blame too because he promoted Holub, an open Islamophile and heretic, as his successor (2016). The aim is to create the conditions for Shariah in the Pilsen diocese, and thus in the whole Czech Republic.
3) Conclusion:
Dear Members of the Focolare movement, we are aware that there are among you many sincere Christians who wish to serve God and the Church and need a community. We must admit that mere formal Christianity and a mere official community in the churches fail to create the necessary conditions for spiritual life. The Focolare movement offered you an irreplaceable element of community and you saw it as an opportunity to develop your Christian life. We hereby address primarily sincere priests in this movement who are looking with pain at what direction the Focolare leadership has taken and are forced under obedience to accept this path. Therefore we hereby encourage them: Do not be afraid! You who are sincerely seeking, carry out an internal reform and return to the sound roots and to the true Spirit of the apostles and martyrs! If you should be excommunicated, start an orthodox branch that will rightly be called “The Work of Mary”. The Holy Mother of God is Queen of prophets. Saint John, who stood beside her by the cross, was not only an apostle but also a prophet, fully open to the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of God. Do not be afraid to start! May this year’s Pentecost (15 May 2016) be a spiritual breakthrough in the Focolare movement in the Czech Republic and may this breakthrough become a model of a true reform in the whole Church!
Praying for this intention,
+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
+ Methodius OSBMr + Timothy OSBMr
Secretary Bishops
http://vkpatriarhat.org/en/?page_id=9564
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