Despite sagging funding Apprising Ministries continues covering the falling away of the largely pretending to be Protestant evangelical community.

As I just reminded you again in “Inward Journey” Taught By Mystics Like Richard Foster Is Divination, a major reason why is the infestation of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas Willard and his spiritual twin Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster.

One of the first fruits of CSM is a sinful ecumenicism as it ends up creating a not really Protestant and not really Roman Catholic practitioner, i.e. they are now essentially Protholic.

Next they are led into the demonic deception that apostate Roman Catholicism is a viable form of the Christian faith and that the Church of Rome is merely another Christian denomination.

This really shouldn’t come as a surprise because the CSM divination of Foster-Willardism, never taught by Jesus or His Apostles, flowered in Rome’s antibiblical monastic traditions.

Sadly, now evangelical pastors and leaders are dabbling with these things, e.g. John Piper, Rick Warren & Foster-Willardism and Gospel Coalition Contributor Mike Cosper Defends Retreat With Roman Catholics.

As such, a story like this has moved a lot closer to your own evangelical church than you may even have known. It begins with a March 18, 2010 CNN report Pope ‘distraught’ by German sex abuse scandal:

Pope Benedict XVI is distraught by news of a scandal involving allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany, Germany’s highest-ranking Catholic said Friday.

Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, president of a conference of German bishops, discussed the scandal in a meeting with the pope Friday…

Zollitsch’s meeting with the pope unfolded against the backdrop of a growing scandal involving sex-abuse allegations in Catholic Church institutions in Germany.

Nearly every day since the end of January, people have come forward to report cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the nation. News reports put the number of cases at about 170. (Online source)

Well, that’s not the only problem with the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. The other day in German Bishops caught in massive porn scandal at LifeSiteNews we’re told:

After ten years of being internally warned by faithful Catholics, including in a 70-page dossier sent to all of Germany’s main bishops, the scandal of the German bishops’ ownership of a publishing company that sells a large volume of porn has hit the mainstream media.

Last week the mainstream media outed the fact that the German bishops are 100% owners of one of the most profitable book companies in Germany.  The huge company, in addition to offering many religious and other ethical books and items, also peddles 2500 porn titles and additional books highly offensive to Christian principles.

A spokesman for the bishops promised immediate corrective action. However, the false pretense of ignorance about the situation has only served to add to the scandal, especially for faithful Catholics who were treated with silence and even disdain when they repeatedly attempted for years to bring the scandal to an end out of public view.

WELTBILD, is the second largest bookselling company in Germany. It is wholly owned by the German bishops and has a $1.7 billion annual turnover.  Its 2,500 porn titles (with covers too sexually explicit to reproduce) include perverse sexual fantasy of every type. WELTBILD also sells books promoting Satanism, the occult, esoterism, and anti-Christian atheist propaganda.

More than that, the bishops are also 50% owners in another company – Ver-lagsgruppe Droemer Knaur – which actually produces the pornographic novels.

German Catholic author Gabriele Kuby, who has for years pointed out to bishops various shortcomings in the Catholic Church in her nation, said that the worst thing about the current public scandal is the hypocrisy.

Each of the affected bishops received 70 pages of documentation in 2008 detailing the fact that the publishing company was selling the pornographic titles, Kuby told LifeSiteNews.  She noted that most bishops ignored the communications, not even bothering to reply.

The Archdiocese of Munich did reply, said Kuby, but she says their response was “arrogant and spiteful.” (Online source)

The arrogance is corroborated in German bishops’ company: It’s not porn, just erotica, so we’re suing the ‘slanderers’  where LSN’s John-Henry Westen reports:

 In a press release, the major German publishing company owned by the Catholic Bishops of Germany says the company is considering suing the “slanderers” who have accused it of profiting from porn, because the erotic offerings sold on its website does not meet the legal definition of pornography.

Last week the secular media in Germany reported that the company WELTBILD, 100% of the shares of which are held by German dioceses and the bishops conference, carries 2,500 porn titles. The press also reported that the bishops had ignored the pleas of faithful Catholics who had tried to have the matter corrected internally for a decade.

Following the publication in the German media, LifeSiteNews verified that there were hundreds of pornographic images – mostly book-covers – on the WELTBILD site.  Some of the covers featured full frontal nudity and explicit photos typical of the covers of pornographic magazines like Playboy. (Online source)

We’ve not even seen the Seeker Driven Prophet Führers like Steven Furtick take it that far…yet. Who knows, maybe a German Roman Catholic Bishop will even join Furtick for Elephant Room 3.

Finally, R. Cort Kirkwood brings this all together for us in German Catholic Bishops Selling Porn and shows us what’s also been going on:

Sexual corruption in the Catholic priesthood goes even deeper than anyone thought. Yet while the scandal of homosexual priests molesting teenage boys has nearly bankrupted some parishes in the United States, the sexual perversion in Germany is making the German bishops a mint…

the German episcopacy is peddling pornography and satanism through a major publisher it owns. Even worse, the bishops can’t claim they didn’t know what the publisher sells. Concerned lay persons have been trying to stop it for at least a decade…

And that isn’t the only perversion the bishops are peddling. They also own 50 percent of another bookseller that publishes pornographic novels. But worse than the publishing itself is the response Catholic laity received when they tried to put a stop to the scandal…

In an opinion piece for LifeSite, Steve Jalevac explained that the exposure of a sodomite underground that appears to control the hierarchy, doesn’t seem to have done much good, and he praises the secular media for bringing the terrible scandal to light.

“Once again,” he wrote, “even though they have a strong anti-Christian bias, secular media are owed thanks for exposing important facts that Church leaders and their tightly controlled Catholic media withhold from the public.”…

Jalevac also wrote that the sexual corruption mainly involves homosexuality and that it runs from the hierarchy through the priesthood down through seminaries and Catholic colleges.

“Active homosexuality and acceptance of homosexuality among the clergy, including bishops and even cardinals and among religious, and in Catholic colleges and schools, and in the literature and programs in these institutions, has to a large degree still not been faced and firmly dealt with,” he wrote. (Online source)

You also need to realize that the pro-homosexual agenda is about to detonate within evanjellyfish as well…

See also:

RICK WARREN, JOHN PIPER & CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM

ROMAN CATHOLICISM SPAWNED THE CURRENT APOSTASY IN EVANGELICALISM