Nicola Bux

Nicola Bux in 2019

q:it:Nicola Bux (1947) is an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

Quotes

  • God had spoken many times and in many ways... finally, He spoke through His Son Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, who is the only one through whom man can be saved. The Church must return to celebrating the Holy Sacrifice, not a festive dinner, in order to have the authority to admonish man to make sacrifices. The world is an altar on which the sacrifice of Christ is offered every day, to which are added the sufferings of many, especially the innocent. The antidote to moral collapse is sacrifice.
  • The Church is not just any people, but the people gathered from the four winds, those who recognise God as Father, confess the Son Jesus Christ, and have been baptised in the Holy Spirit. That is why it is called the ‘people of God’. The Church must be concerned above all with souls, inviting them to conversion in view of eternal salvation. This is the work of Redemption.
  • In the Church, except for the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing is irreversible, because it is ‘semper reformanda’ (always reforming). This allows us to proceed with zeal and without fear of obstacles.
    • Is it not clearly visible the succession of words and actions of priests who contradict other priests, of lay people who oppose other lay people, encouraged by the division among bishops on what constitutes the Catholic faith and morality? For a growing number of Catholics, the magisterium is no longer a sign of unity: it is well known, in fact, that one cannot invoke magisterial authority unless one first adheres to Catholic truth.
    • Claudio Cartaldo, Il collaboratore di Benedetto: "C'è apostasia dentro la Chiesa", il Giornale.it, 27 September 2017
  • (Regarding Summorum Pontificum for Holy Mass and the liturgy in Latin}} What person of common sense would think that following traditional cuisine is contrary to innovative cuisine? Yet ideology is such that it denies reality: many young people and adults are rediscovering the faith (often discovering their vocation) by participating in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite. This evidence is denied: it is always ideology. Anyone who wanted to annul the motu proprio would find themselves facing a great movement of resistance, an antagonistic Church, a growing and irrepressible reality, for the simple fact that it experiences the reform of the liturgy as a rebirth of the sacred in hearts, not as a spasmodic search for novelty drawn from current fashions.
  • St. Basil in his “'Moralia”' opens with a strong recommendation to ‘those who believe in the Lord’ to do penance. He states that those who do not comply with this fundamental duty will suffer a more severe punishment than those who lived before the proclamation of the Gospel: he is convinced that the transition from the Old to the New Covenant entails an increase in responsibility for those who profess to be Christians.

Don Nicola Bux: "Francesco ha una visione schizofrenica della Chiesa"

From an interview of Michele Ippolito, lafedequotidiana.it, 12 January 2019.
  • Interviewer: Better atheists than Christians who hate? Mgr. Bux: I believe that the problem arises when the Pope strays from the script prepared for him and looks up at the audience. My feeling is that certain statements, in addition to a certain self-satisfaction, stem from the annoyance he feels towards the Church. Pope Francis prefers a vision of the Church as an indistinct people rather than one understood in the true sense. He does not realise, however, that he is slipping into a contradictory and Peronist vision, a schizophrenia that clashes with the very idea of mercy that is so widespread and followed. [...] Certain assertions, if they fall on weak or uninformed groups, are dangerous and have deleterious effects. We risk emptying the churches even more.
  • Can the Pope propagate his private ideas over those of perennial Catholic truth? No. He is not a private doctor, and it is unthinkable to modify at will or give versions that clash with Catholic doctrine and the deposit of faith, which is not a museum, and even here there would be much to say.

"I vescovi rincorrono il protestantesimo e la sinodalità può distruggere la Chiesa"

From an interview of Michele Ippolito, lafedequotidiana.it, 31 May 2019
  • The first task that must arise from the moral upheavals of our time is to begin again to live for God, turning to Him and in obedience to Him. From this springs love for our neighbour who, as St Thomas teaches, is our neighbour: for an Italian, this is first and foremost the poor Italian. Otherwise, one gives the impression of being involved in politics.
  • Bishops should...know the social doctrine of the Church and teach it correctly. Another teaching is also to teach the contents clearly and also to hierarchise them. Developing democracy in Europe is less important than defending life and the family. The truth about God, man and the world is the non-negotiable principle of order and social good. This is our way of knowing, loving and serving God.
  • In a de-Christianised world, without Jesus, without God, it is useless to defend “values”, as they derive from the encounter with Christ. Dostoevsky said that if God does not exist, everything is permissible. There is no ethics without ontology, there are no values without Christ – they would be like Christmas decorations without a tree – and today, said Don Giussani, “the Church is ashamed of Christ”.

"L'unità si fa nella verità"

From an interview of Aldo Maria Valli, lamadredellachiesa.it, 13 October 2018
  • The authentic unity of the Church is achieved in truth. The Church was established by its Founder – He who said, ‘I am the truth’ – as ‘the pillar and foundation of truth’ (1 Tim 3:15).

Without truth, there is no unity, and charity would be a sham. The idea that the Church is a federation of ecclesial communities, somewhat like Protestant communities, would make it difficult for the Pope to profess the Catholic faith. In fact, after the last two synods, a faith and morality have emerged that we could define, at least, as two-speed: proof of this is that in some places it is not possible to give communion to remarried divorcees, while in others it is.

  • Interviewer: If there is no confrontation? Mgr. Bux: I fear that apostasy will deepen and the schism will widen. [...] The definition of “anti-evangelical” in relation to the death penalty: this definition was made, in a questionable manner, by changing an article of the Catechism of the Catholic Church according to a decidedly historicist view, and it raises a number of problems.
Purely out of conscience. All the more so since previous catechisms, such as the Roman or Tridentine ones or the so-called Major Catechism of St. Pius X, taught the legitimacy of capital punishment and its full conformity with Divine Revelation.
  • The Orthodox – Eastern Christians separated from Rome – are so called precisely because they emphasised the primacy of the true faith as a condition of the true Church. Otherwise, the Church ceases to be the pillar and foundation of truth. Consequently, those who do not defend the true faith fall from every ecclesiastical office, patriarchal, eparchial, etc.
  • Interviewer: In the case of heresy, just as a heretical Christian ceases to be a member of the Church, does the pope also cease to be pope and head of the ecclesial body, and lose all jurisdiction? Mgr. Bux: Yes, heresy undermines faith and membership in the Church, which are the root and foundation of jurisdiction. This is the thinking of the Church Fathers, especially of Cyprian, who had to deal with Novatian, antipope during the pontificate of Pope Cornelius (cf. “'Lib. 4, ep. 2”'). Every believer, including the pope, separates himself from the unity of the Church through heresy. It is well known that the pope is at the same time a member and part of the Church, because the hierarchy is within and not above the Church, as stated in Lumen Gentium (n. 18).
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