Catholic Views on Modern Prophets

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In Scripture, a prophet is a man inspired by God to speak the words God gives him. And so in the Old Testament a prophet will give a prophecy, and end with “says the Lord.”
Sometimes, the word is used simply to speak of someone who courageously speaks the truth to other people. This actually is not a religious sense.
I think it best to simply accept the meaning that is assigned to words.
However, it is best not to use the word prophet in the second, non-religious sense, while suggesting as if the person speaking was speaking in first Biblical way.
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There is sometimes a problem with RCIA teachers in the United States, who teach something quite different from what the Church teaches in one matter or another. It is unfortunate when it happens. Then it becomes necessary then to simply dismiss what is being said and go on. If I were in that situation perhaps though I would move to another parish for RCIA instead.
 
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Highly recommended if you can afford it;
or take note when it airs again on EWTN;
“A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” __
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A speech made by Ven. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen before 1950,
if you can find it that describes a new humanitarian Church
complacent toward moral relativism, and lukewarm toward massive bloodshed.
That most people would not even recognize what has transpired.
There is also the writings of Leo xiii and many others warning of what
was incrementally by subterfuge coming into the Church.
Things things are prophetic just like Humanae Vitae is prophetic.
Things that are happening, if not opposed growing into the future for worse atmosphere.
And if you are not opposed to non Catholic Evangelists; you would be astounded
at what David Wilkerson, of ‘Cross and The Switchblade’ fame; (he walked the walk
in for the Name of Jesus Christ) said in 1973 would be future events in the world and Church. It is so accurate that it was if Jesus Christ transported him to our day;
and put him back to 1973. He did not want to give the address, it is so shocking.
Peace and perseverance be with you.
Jesus Christ will never let His Church fall.
Have a blessed night.
 
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Yes, but Clodovis Boff’s article published in 2007 seems to have put him on the other side of the debate ─ at least in the view of his brother Leonardo and other hardline liberationists, who accused him at the time, in harsh terms, of enthusiastically endorsing everything Pope Benedict had said about Liberation Theology when, as Cardinal Ratzinger, he was the head of the CDF.

I haven’t managed to find the article online but you may have better luck than I did. Here is the reference: Teologia da Libertação e volta ao fundamento - Dialnet
 
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Since I know you are coming from the Mormon Church with a definition of a prophet being narrowed down to what they claim Joseph Smith is; it is not the same in the Catholic Church.
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I know very well about that. That’s even one of the reasons why I’m no longer a Mormon.

However, I sense that lately there’s a strong wave of ideas and people pushing down any of the miraculous and saint aspect of Jesus, and His things.

These days Jesus is no longer The Son of God, He is our brother. He didn’t do any miracles, He is instead, more of a Che-guevara in a crown of thorns, instead of the guerrilla hat. The prophets a nothing more than a well informed man, with good speech skills.

I do not condone with that.
 
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However, I sense that lately there’s a strong wave of ideas and people pushing down any of the miraculous and saint aspect of Jesus, and His things.

These days Jesus is no longer The Son of God, He is our brother. He didn’t do any miracles, He is instead, more of a Che-guevara in a crown of thorns, instead of the guerrilla hat. The prophets a nothing more than a well informed man, with good speech skills.
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The USA went through this in the 60s and 70s. Fortunately, it seems to have died down a bit as many of the people pushing the purely-social-justice-Jesus idea either ended up leaving the Church, or are just aging out of the Catholic population. The supernatural and devotional aspects of faith practice are much more emphasized now than they were when I was growing up.

If you cannot switch to a different RCIA, just know that a lot of other people have had to sit through the same type of biased presentations in RCIA or even in Catholic school religion classes. You are free to focus on the more mystical aspects of Jesus, especially if that helps you get closer to God. I think some people turn to the Holy Spirit for that type of thing, since Jesus is more humanized.
 
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The Church is in severe crisis because of the watering down of The Truth,
Jesus Christ is Lord.
He did NOT give watered down moral teaching at all.
He did NOT teach socialism at all.
He did NOT teach compromise anything in The Law or The Prophets;
but He Fulfilled Them, and not one dot nor tilde would change.
He taught woe to those who teach those who belong to Him astray,
it would be better that a millstone be put around their neck and cast into the sea
than what will happen them on judgement day.
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I pray for a wake up call. Thank God He stopped me from rationalization;
and gave me the joy of salvation. +
 
That is good Scripture. And so is the one included in this reply, with the ebb and flow of crisis in The Church.
Our current crisis has been going on a very long time. And sound teachers have been telling us this for decades.
It is interesting that they, also, convey the watering down of the Truth and worse.
(i.e. https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-City-God-Explained/dp/0918477182
a 1993 printing of a book by Dietrich von Hildebrand with a forward by John Cardinal O’Connor)
"Evil in the Last Days"
“1But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, 4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!”
  • 2 Timothy 1-5
 
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