Not a Buffet – “Jesus Christ did not found Protestantism or Anglicanism – and it doesn’t take much imagination (Catholic or otherwise) to see the Church he did establish at Pentecost.” The Sacramental Vision and Fullness of Faith (The Catholic Thing)
Heretical Views – “It’s 2022, but Arianism and Pelagianism are steadily making a comeback, according to the State of Theology report.” Top 5 Heresies Among American Evangelicals (Christianity Today)
Uncaused Cause – “[I]f reality were materially random, i.e. lacking order at the level of materiality, experimental science would be impossible.” When Randomness Becomes Superstition (Catholic Stand)
A Healthy Society – “One of the primary aims of our politics should be empowering mothers and fathers to better live out their obligations to each other, to their children, and to their communities.” Envisioning a Pro-Family Policy Agenda: A Statement of Principles (Ethics & Public Policy Center)
Italy’s Culture War – “Italians often say that the system is too stable. General elections just reshuffle members of the political class, which rarely change very much. Except maybe this time.” A New Sign of Our Times (The Catholic Thing)
Priest Hunters – “The priest hole in England was the secret place built into a home, behind a staircase or fire place, where Catholic priests who were invited to celebrate the Latin mass were hidden from the authorities.” A lesson from history: recusant architecture and the Latin Mass (Catholic Herald)
Triumph of the Immaculate Heart – Our Lady’s been promised a victory, but we are called to help bring it about, to rally under her banner and reclaim our world “The Greatest Historical Confrontation Humanity Has Ever Experienced” (SpiritualDirection.com)
Catholic Hall of Famer – “Gil Hodges was a legend both on and off the field. So we’re cheering at the recent news that he’s been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.” 3 Life lessons from Catholic baseball Hall of Famer (Aleteia)
God’s Handiwork – “In civilization after civilization, science has been ‘stillborn’ — but in Christendom, science has flourished and has brought achievements like the James Webb Space Telescope.” The Catholic Church Is the Mother of Modern Science (National Catholic Register)
Prince of the Heavenly Host – “On September 29, a new film Saint Michael: Meet the Angel will air in select theaters across the United States, Poland, and the United Kingdom.” St. Michael Movie Premieres (Catholic Vote)
Catholics in Northern Ireland – “More people in Northern Ireland now identify as Catholic than Protestant for the first time in the history of the jurisdiction, new census figures reveal.” Northern Ireland census shows more Catholics than Protestants (Detroit Catholic)
Catholic Education – “Working with an endowment that currently sits at $10 million, the [CSEF] has been able to provide financial support for families in about half of western Oregon’s 39 Catholic elementary schools.” Foundation aims to make Catholic education affordable (Catholic Sentinel)
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@Italy’s Culture War. “The Italian bishops will now in a difficult spot between papal preferences and popular sentiment. It will be interesting to see if they can all get past the slurs about ‘fascism’ and help Europe come to grips with a populism that is not without its perils – a challenging new sign of our times” (Robert Royal).
In his usual scholarly objective, though quietly partisan manner, an art, Royal favors events in Italy as a fortuitous turn of events. That in respect to the Francis’ ideology [as this writer perceives it, more evidently expressed here than Robert Royal’s similar expressions] of unlimited massive emigration [mainly Muslims] destroying Christian cultures, tacit approval of LGBT agendas of cultural political domination, saving the planet at the cost of infants in the womb.
Ursula von der Leyen [born in Flemish Belgium Ursula Albrecht] married to a German nobleman Heiko von der Leyen, Ursula member of German parliament, Chairman European Commission, now Giorgia Meloni’s arch enemy [Ursula darkly said she has ‘tools’], and likely a major issue for the EU’s, UN’s great ideological patron, Pope Francis. It’s the old British march The World Turned Upside Down, in real life tempo [allegedly played marching in surrender by a defeated British army at Bunker Hill]. By golly, even liberal Sweden, Royal reports, just voted in a conservative govt.
Drama. Will His Holiness call in his seers, Fr Spadaro, Austen Ivereigh, cardinal Kasper? I would say it, though it sounds trite, lacking appropriate rules of humor, will he secretly offer sacrificial homage to environmental goddess Pachamama. But I won’t.
“Not a Buffet”
Protestantism is ‘Faith Alone’, while Catholicism is Catechism 2068 . . . the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments.”
Possessing Faith in Jesus great enough to Move Mountains, Yet Jesus burns them in hell as ‘Evildoers’.
Matthew 7:21 The True Disciple.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. When that day comes, many will plead with me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ have we not prophesied in your name? have we not exorcized demons by its power? Did we not do many miracles in your name as well? Then I will declare to them solemnly, I never knew you. Out of my sight, you evildoers!
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Excellence of the gift of love.
Now I will show you the way which surpasses all the others. If I speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and, with full knowledge, comprehend all mysteries, if I have faith great enough to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
John 14:15
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
1 John 5:3
For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates my Father. If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’
John 5:27
“The Father has given over to him power to pass judgment because he is Son of Man; no need for you to be surprised at this, for an hour is coming in which all those in their tombs shall hear his voice and come forth. Those who have done right shall rise to live; the evildoers shall rise to be damned.”
Matthew 11:20 Reproaches to Unrepentant Towns.
Then he began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum: ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Deuteronomy 7:9
“Understand, then, that the LORD, your God, is God indeed, the faithful God who keeps his merciful covenant down to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments, but who repays with destruction the person who hates him; he does not dally with such a one, but makes him personally pay for it. You shall therefore carefully observe the commandments, the statutes and decrees which I enjoin on you today.
Catechism of the Catholic Church; Ten Commandments
Catechism 2068 The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the justified man is still bound to keep them; The Second Vatican Council confirms: “The bishops, successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord . . . the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments.”
Catechism 2055 When someone asks him, “Which commandment in the Law is the greatest?” Jesus replies: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets.” The Decalogue must be interpreted in light of this twofold yet single commandment of love, the fullness of the Law: The commandments: “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Catechism 2052 “Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?” To the young man who asked this question, Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the “One there is who is good,” as the supreme Good and the source of all good. Then Jesus tells him: “If you would enter life, keep the commandments.” And he cites for his questioner the precepts that concern love of neighbor: “You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.” Finally Jesus sums up these commandments positively: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Catechism 2083 Jesus summed up man’s duties toward God in this saying: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This immediately echoes the solemn call: “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.” God has loved us first. the love of the One God is recalled in the first of the “ten words.” the commandments then make explicit the response of love that man is called to give to his God.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P78.HTM
What exactly is the purpose of all this and why is it here? How does any of this specifically relate to the content of this piece?
“Top 5 Heresies Among American Evangelicals (Christianity Today)”
“Among evangelicals, 94 percent believe “sex outside of traditional marriage is a sin” and 91 percent believe abortion is a sin, both the highest levels since the survey began.”
I had a coworker run a route with me. He was a Pentecostal minister on his honeymoon. He had convinced one of his flock that she was ‘unevenly yoked”. So the young 28 year old, married mother of four, divorced her husband, as advised by her minister. The minister then realized the immediate need for her and her children to have a caretaker, so he in his fifties, married her, in his Assemblies of God, ‘church’. I responded, “Well couldn’t you have cared for her and her family, Without Having Sex with her?”
The Protestants believe in sex outside of Traditional Marriage is a sin, but they have manipulated Traditional Marriage to include the divorced and remarried. I read online where a Protestant Pentecostal minister was astounded at all the old men with young wives in his congregation.
Jesus makes it clear, if you want to go to heaven, do not commit Adultery through divorce and remarriage.
Mark 10:6
At the beginning of creation God made them male and female; for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and the two shall become as one. They are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore let no man separate what God has joined.” Back in the house again, the disciples began to question him about this. He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and the woman who divorces her husband and marries another commits adultery.”
Mark 10:17
“Good Teacher, what must I do to share in everlasting life? Jesus answered, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; You shall not commit adultery;'”
@Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. “We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the Antichrist” (Archbishop Krakow Karol Wojtyla 1976 Philadelphia).
Our future John Paul II was prophetic. Perhaps a sense of things to come through his great devotion to the Mother of God, and our Mother, lovingly conferred to us by Christ from the Cross.
Cardinal Carlo Maria Caffarra was appointed 2006 by John Paul II to the executive Committee of the Pontifical Council for the Family. Caffarra was also devoted to Our Lady and like John Paul believed we were actually in end times, that becoming his conviction following publication of Amoris Laetitia perceived by him as a threat to the traditional family. Accordingly he participated [with Cardinals Walter Brandmüller, Raymond Burke, and the late Cardinal Joachim Meisner] in drafting the Dubia forwarded to Pope Francis, a list of questions regarding sections that suggested change to doctrine on marriage and reception of the Eucharist, to which Francis has declined to respond.
Cardinal Caffarra had met and befriended Sr Lucia Dos Santos, one of the three Portuguese children to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima. They exchanged letters, the substance of which was Lucia’s belief in an alleged revelation [private revelation is always considered private, and not necessarily actual by the Church unlike public revelation such as the mysteries of Christ, the Virgin birth] that the final battle would be centered on the sanctity of the family.
Whether that assumed revelation to Lucia was actual, what is undeniable is that events since support it.
A Christian family is the nucleus of the Church faithful, and the major institution of a cohesive society [see social scientist Emile Durkheim]. If the family is deconstructed by Church recognition of homosexual unions, which is precisely a main agenda of the Synod on Synodality, already proposed as doctrine by the German Synodalweg, the Bishop of Rome relegating himself [virtually] and other bishops as mere facilitators the Church will inevitably divide, an anti church in opposition to Christ’s Mystical Body.
Neuer Anfang, a faithful German Catholic body in opposition to Synodalweg, and the latter’s heretical assumption of doctrine opposed to the universal Christian definition of marriage, of sexual identity, of Holy Orders, of Christ, and the Eucharist foresees that divide in Germany. Although, this break with Christ is linked to the Synod on Synodality, which severs the Magisterial head from the body, in effect severing Christ from the Church [the infallible authority invested by Christ in the Chair of Peter the visible link that maintains spiritual coherence].
If such occurs, inclusive of the bishop who claims the Chair of Peter, we can be assured that Christ will support and guide the faithful Body. Should it be the end, Christus Vincit.
Fr Morello, you are a brave and honest man! Bless you for setting out the consequences of any change in the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding Homosexual acts.
The church seems to hurtling helter skelter to schism and suicide over this of all issues!
It’s beyong amazing that the proponents of this development cannot see that all the churches throughout the world that have already gone down this road are in steep (in some cases terminal) decline.
Once this one issue has been ‘relativised’ there will be no stopping as the flood gates will be opened to every strange doctrine that there has ever been.
And the Catholic Church too will have relinquished all claims that it may make to antiquity, as in Apostolicity, Orthodoxy, Catholiciity and Holiness.
Yes James, what you said 2022 on the proliferation of the evil of homosexuality is true, that it will open the floodgates “to every strange doctrine that there has ever been”. Now becoming increasingly apparent 2023.