We're In, But Only For God ~ Enemy at the Wall (07-15) - Pope

The speaker, believed to be the Pope, declares that the Church will no longer engage in evangelization, ecumenicalism, or tolerance. The Church will focus solely on God and will become closed off from the outside world. The Pope emphasizes the importance of truth and the need for absolute love and devotion to God. The liturgy will become harder and sin will no longer be easily forgiven. The Pope expects obedience and warns of the consequences of disobedience. The word compromise is banned and the Pope compares himself to Jesus, unwilling to make compromises. Knock, knock, knock, knock. We're not in. Brother Cardinals, from this day forward, we're not in, no matter who's knocking on our door. We're in, but only for God. From this day forward, everything that was wide open is going to be closed. Evangelization, we've already done. Ecumenicalism, been there, done that. Tolerance, doesn't live here anymore. It's been evicted. It vacated the house for the new tenant, who has diametrically opposite tastes in decorating. We've been reaching out to others for years now. It's time to stop. We're not going anywhere. We are here, because what are we? We are cement, and cement doesn't move. We are cement without windows, so we don't look to the outside world. Only the church possesses the charisma of truth. I thank Ignatius of Antioch. He was right. We have no reason to look out. Instead, look over there. What do you see? That's the door. The only way in. Small and extremely uncomfortable, and anyone wants to know us has to find out how to get through that door. For other cardinals, we need to go back to being prohibited, inaccessible, and mysterious. That's the only way we will once again become desirable. That's the only way great love stories are born, and I don't want any more part-time believers. I want great love stories. I want fanatics for God, because fanaticism is love. Everything else is strictly a surrogate, and it stays outside the truth. With the attitudes of the last papacy, the church won for itself great expressions of fondness from the masses. It became popular. Isn't that wonderful? You might be thinking, we received plenty of esteem, lots of friendship. I have no idea what to do with the friendship of the whole wide world. What I want is absolute love and total devotion to God. Does that mean a church only for the few? That's a hypothesis, and a hypothesis isn't the same as reality. But even this hypothesis isn't so scandalous. I say, better to have a few that are reliable than have a great many that are distractible than indifferent. The public squares have been jam-packed, but the hearts have been empty of God. You can't measure love with numbers. You can only measure it in terms of intensity, in terms of blind loyalty to the imperative. Fix that word firmly in your soul. Imperative. From this day forth, that's what the Pope wants. That's what the church wants. That's what God wants. And so the liturgy will no longer be a social engagement. It will become hard work, and sin will no longer be forgiven at will. I don't expect any applause from you. There will be no expression of thanks in this chapter. None from me, and none from you. Courtesy and good manners are not the business of men of God. What I do expect is that you will do what I've told you to do. There is nothing outside your obedience to Pius XIII. Nothing except hell. A hell you may know nothing about. I do. Because I built it. Right behind that door. Hell. The past few days, I've had to build hell for you. That's why I come to you belatedly. I know you will obey. Because you've already figured out that this Pope isn't afraid to lose the faithful if they've been even slightly unfaithful. And that means this Pope does not negotiate on anything with anyone. And this Pope cannot be blackmailed. From this day forth, the word compromise has been banished from the vocabulary. I just deleted it. Jesus willingly mounted the cross. He was not making compromises. Neither am I. Amen.