“Is the ‘Risen Crucifix’ Catholic?

by Joseph Saraceno

crucif4November 18, 2015 – Dedication of the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul
Double Major Feast
A Reader Asks: “Is the ‘Risen’ Crucifix Catholic
Or just Another Anti-Catholic Symbol Used by the Newchurch of the New Order?”
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
‘Risen’ Crucifix
The Anti-Catholic “Risen” Crucifix
Which the Newchurch of the New Order Is Using
Is Part of the “Oecumenical” Heresy
Falsely Taught by the Vatican II Anti-council
Not Only Is It a Contradiction of History
But Also It Is a Linguistic Catachresis

Dear TRADITIO Fathers:

I recently visited someone in a Newchurch hospital, where I noticed a crucifix on the wall. The Christ was not depicted as crucified, but with his arms outstretched as if to fly — already anti-chronologically resurrected, with the cross as a mere backdrop. I have seen such crosses taking over at New Order churches, replacing the traditional crucifix. Is this just another anti-Catholic symbol used by the Newchurch of the New Order?

The central teaching of the Catholic and Christian Church is that Christ, the incarnated Son of God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, endured death on the cross to redeem the sin of mankind. The seminal verse from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians (2:8/DRV), which is so hauntingly chanted day after day during Holy Week, gives the Christian teaching unequivocally: Humiliavit semetipsum factus obediens usque ad moretem, mortem autem crucus [He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross]. The cross was the well-known instrument of Roman capital punishment, which Christ endured to redeem the sin of mankind. It is not a flying machine!

Newchurch’s use of the “risen” crucifix is in fact a replacement of the traditional Catholic theology with an heretical New Order version, in which everyone, repentant or not, goes to Heaven, all religions are equal, all gods are the same, and we all worship the same god. This is part of the “Oecumenical” Heresy falsely taught by the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). Not only is the “risen” crucifix a clear contradiction of history but also it is a linguistic catechresis, as the word crucifix itself does not apply to the New Order “flying” Christ. It comes from the Latin crux, meaning cross, and figere, to affix. Crucifigere is to affix to a cross for the death penalty. It certainly does not mean to rise and fly!