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Show 193: The 7 Principal Virtues and Vices, Obedience and Disobedience · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We will continue today
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with the seven virtues and their corresponding vices, and today
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we will be starting with obedience. We'll get into that
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please do consider that for your Christmas shopping. Now let's
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start with where we left off. The questioner is asking
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the priests in radio replies several questions about the Bible,
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and they have just explained to them that many, really
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all Bibles are full of errors, a lot of which
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had to do with translation, some of which were very
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purposeful changing the words of Christ to fit Lutheran doctrine,
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cutting out entire books that they didn't agree with. You know, so, really,
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the Catholic Bible is the only true Bible, and the
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person asks them, how does it help to know Hebrew
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and Greek? And they answer, because one must know what
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the original words meant and the language in which Scripture
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was written. A knowledge of Hebrew and Greek. She soon
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shows that the translators do not always find an English
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word to express the exact sense of the original And
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I would add to that aramaic. By the way, God
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inspired the thoughts of the original writers, not the work
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of the translators. If you read a sense into Scripture
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which God did not intend at all, you no longer
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have God's word. Person says, but Christ chose poor fishermen,
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not learned men, And they answer, he trained them personally
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and infused into their minds an exact knowledge of his doctrine.
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We cannot claim to have received some of a revelation
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that we should rank ourselves with them. And the person says,
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then Catholics have to just believe what the priest likes
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to tell them, and they answer, the priests cannot tell
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people just what he likes. He is obliged to teach
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just what Christ taught and which has been taught in
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the name of Christ by the infallible Catholic church. Person says,
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is your church afraid that people will firm opinions for themselves.
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And they answer, if we consider some of the onions
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people have formed for themselves from their private reading of Scripture,
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there is need to be afraid. Christ's method was to
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establish a teaching church. Protestants have used a peculiar method
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of their own, But you cannot blame the Catholic Church
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for not using the Protestant method, a method which has
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led to nothing but uncertainty and widespread unbelief. A person says,
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admitting the necessity of guidance, are not our Protestant ministers
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as capable as Catholic priests in telling us what scripture means?
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And they answer they might be if priests had not
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an infallible Catholic Church to guide them. The Catholic Church
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rejoices in the special assistance of the Holy Spirit, and
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the priest has the help of her defined doctrines and
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the constant Catholic tradition as a safeguard. But your Protestant
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ministers do not claim to be a spokesman of an
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infallible church on their own principle. They have to admit
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that they are possibly wrong, and as a matter of fact,
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we're all priests. And as a matter of fact, where
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all priests are agreed in the essential teachings of Scripture,
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your ministers come to all kinds of contradictory conclusions. The
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unity of teaching among Catholic priests is a greater indication
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of capability than the chaos which prevails outside of the
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Catholic Church. But the capability of Catholic priests has little
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to do with relative personal attainments. It is derived from
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the authority of an infallible church.
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Speaker 3: The person says, you.
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Speaker 1: Speak of authority of the church and the weight of tradition,
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But I have been taught that scripture is the only
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rule of faith, that is the basis of all pros
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of belief. And they answer, you have been taught wrongly.
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Scripture itself denies that it is the only rule of faith.
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The last verse of Saint John's Gospel tells us that
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not all concerning our Lord's work is contained in scripture.
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Saint Paul tells us over and over again that much
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of Christian teaching is to be found in tradition. One
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who clings to the readings of the Bible only might
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be able to cy hundreds of texts yet not know
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Christian doctrine by any means. In fact, the adoption of
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the Bible only has led to as many opinions as
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there are men among non Catholics. Finally, Scripture tells us
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most clearly that the Catholic Church is the rule of faith,
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the Church which Christ sent to teach all nations, and
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which he commanded men to hear and obey. He who
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believes in Scripture as his only guide ends by believing
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his own mistake and interpretation of the Bible, and that
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means he ends by believing in himself. And the person
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answers quite ignorantly, I would say, I mean, this is
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what many presents believe, is not the church built on
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the knowledge it gets from the Bible? And they say no,
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The Catholic Church was built by Christ and upon Christ.
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Before a line of the New Testament was written. She
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received her doctrine immediately from the lips of Christ and
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is safeguarded from error in her teachings by the Holy Spirit.
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Between forty and eighty years after her foundation, some of
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her members wrote the Books of the New test If
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the Gospels were the only rule of faith, then before
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they were written, there could have been no Christian rule
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of faith at all. Always remember, especially when speaking in Protestants,
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Jesus did not leave us a Bible. He did not
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hand a book to Saint Peter. Okay, he left us
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a church. The Church then wrote the Bible. Before they
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wrote the Bible, and by which I mean, they chose
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the scriptures from the Old Testament, guided by the Holy Spirit,
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that were necessary for Christians. Then they wrote the Gospels,
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the Acts, the various epistles, and the Book of Revelations,
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which was somewhere around eighty a d. Saint John living
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the longest, the only one that didn't die of martyr,
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he lived in exile and lived to be a very
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old age. Before they even wrote those, they wrote the
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d dot K, the Writings of the Twelve which gave
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the basis of Christian faith. When we were to go church,
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which was Sunday. You can show to all your Seven
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day Adventists and etc. Jove's witness Torah observant friends that
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the first Christians did go to church on Sunday, specifically
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rejecting the Jewish Sabbath in favor of the day that
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Christ rose from the grave. And there's a reason for that.
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And you can explain the reason from that if you
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have the d dot K, the basic tenets of Christian belief,
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how we worship, how we were to receive the Eucharist
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at Mass, and the book written by the apostles, the
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d dot K, which predates the Bible by a good
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twenty to forty years, actually is perfectly describes the Catholic
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Church of today. The languages may have changed, certain customers
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may have changed. I mean, for instance, catacumins before becoming Catholic,
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I believe it took about four years of learning Christian
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doctrine before you could receive the Eucharist. And before receiving
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the eucharst the catechic cumans were dismissed. They were not
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allowed to be in the church when during that part
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of Mass in which one receives the Eucharist. Of course
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that has changed, many traditions have changed. But you will
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recognize the Catholic Church in the d do K as
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being the same as the Catholic Church today. And it
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is also, of course very true what they said that,
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as I said, Jesus didn't leave us a book, he
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left us a church. The church wrote the Bible. It
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was almost one hundred years after the crucifixion and resurrection
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of Christ, before there was.
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Speaker 3: Even a Bible.
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Speaker 1: It was another approximately three hundred years before it was
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translated into a language that everyone can understand. Parts of
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were in Hebrew, parts of it were in Greek, parts
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of it were in Aramaic. There was a little Latin
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here and there. Saint Jerome gave us the Bible as
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we pretty much know it today. The Biblias Sacravolgata was
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made the official Bible of the Catholic Church. I believe
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about one hundred years later, the four eighties or four sixties,
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so for longer than America's been a nation. Put it
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in that perspective, almost twice as long as America has existed,
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there was a Christian Church, and only one Christian Church,
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the Catholic Church, that didn't have a Bible. So if
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you base your belief on the Bible alone as the
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soul authority, we would have to say there was no
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valid Christian Church for nearly four hundred years between the
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resurrection and the official publishing of the Bible in a
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language everybody can understand. That doesn't really make any sense,
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does it, Because if there wasn't a valid church. You
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don't have a valid Bible because the apostles wrote the books.
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I mean, the Church wrote the Bible. So if you
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say there was no valid church without a Bible, if
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the Bible is are so authority, you can't even believe
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the Bible, and therefore your entire faith falls apart, your
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entire basis for your doctrine falls apart. And that's why
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was it John Cardinal Newman may have been well anyway,
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one of the great British saints, who was a convert
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from Anglicanism, said to be deep in history has to
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become Catholic, and that's or to cease to be Protestant.
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He said, if Protestants were actually taught Christian history, there
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would be no Protestantism. The Protestants who rail against you know,
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icons and payings of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all that.
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You know.
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Speaker 3: Was it Saint.
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Speaker 1: Timothy who painted I think it was Timothy a portrait
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of the Blessed Virgin Mary in one of the first
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Christian churches, and it's still there today in Rome. What
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about all the paintings and icons and all the the
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churches in the caves like in Turkey or the Catacombs
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of Rome, or you know, you can go through it.
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They can't really reconcile, well they can't. There is actually
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no factual or rational way to reconcile Protestant doctrine with history.
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They'll say, you know, well they were you know, they
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just called Christians the way, and the people had house
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churches and all that, and there was you know, the
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Catholic Church only asserted as authority and like four hundred something, right,
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you know, And you can go back and say, well,
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wait a minute. You know, here's the writing of Pope
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Saint Clement of Rome, the third Pope, who was ordained
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I believe by Saint Peter. I believe this right, No,
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Saint Paul. I believe he was ordained by Saint Paul.
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Could have been Peter. I'd have to look that up.
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But anyway, writing in like one si AD, and he
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references specifically the Catholic Church and his signature as being
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a pope. Okay, there is no way to reconcile the
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Protestant belief. I mean, say to them, show me your churches.
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Show me a church that existed before five hundred a d.
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That wasn't Catholic.
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Speaker 3: Show it to me.
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Speaker 1: Show me your Baptist church, your Methodist church, well, you
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know those were just founded in the last couple hundred years.
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Show me what church existed that was not Catholic. I
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can show you the Catholic churches, and I can show
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you the heretical Gnostic churches, which well not the buildings,
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but I can show you the writings of those who
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followed Simon the Magician, who was condemned when he tried
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to buy the Holy Spirit from Saint Peter. You can't
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show me a Protestant church that existed before the late
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fourteen hundreds. There wasn't one. There were various, you know,
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heretical sects and such that were condemned by you know,
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polycarp and Origin and Ironaeus, and you know, go through
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the list Saint Clement of Alexandria. We have history on
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our side, we have archaeology on our side, we have
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writing on our side, and we also have just basic
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common sense, which says the Bible wasn't written completed until
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almost one hundred years after the Resurrection, was not formalized
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and translated for almost four hundred years. So if Christianity existed,
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there had to be a Christianity without a Bible, and
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therefore the Bible alone cannot be the sole authority. Plus
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the Bible says it's not the sole authority. Such as
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when you know, as Saint John said, all of what
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Jesus said and taught and did could not be contained.
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Speaker 3: In all the books of the world. Was what was.
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Speaker 1: Necessary for you to believe, for you to be convinced
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and begin to believe the teaching Church, which is Catholic.
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All right, now, let's get into our virtue and our
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vice for the day. And the virtue is obedience. Coming
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from Father Spirago's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church, he writes,
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obedience consists and in being ready to fulfill the behest
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of one's superior Thus, obedience is not merely consistent doing
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what one is commanded, but in being ready and willing
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to do what is commanded. Many obey, but obey grudgingly.
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In that case, obedience is no virtue. Moreover, obedience is
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not a virtue unless it is for God's sake that
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one subjects one's will to that of another. Abraham was
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a pattern of obedience when he offered a Isaac, the
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son of God himself practice obedience, for he was subject
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to two of his creatures, Mary and Joseph. The creator
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of all things obeyed an artisan, the Lord of Glory,
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a lowly maiden, whoever herd or saw anything to compare
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with that, Christ was more obedient to his heavenly Father,
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even to death on the cross Philippians two eight. By
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obedience of one many shall be made just. Romans five nineteen.
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I admire, says Saint Francis, to sell the infant of Bethlehem.
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He is all powerful, and yet does whatever he has
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told without a word. Children are required to obey their parents,
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or those who hold the place of parents to them, wives,
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their husbands, servants, their masters, and all men who are
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placed in authority over them, whether ecclesiastical or secular rulers,
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in order to ignite all his creatures in harmonious In
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a harmonious hole, God has established a certain relationship between them,
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a mutual dependence. The moon revolves around the Earth, and
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the planets of our solar system around the Sun. The
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angels stand in the same relationship to one another as
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men do on Earth. In the fourth Commandment, God enjoins
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upon children obedience to their parents. This is due to
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them as being God's representative. Saint Paul's says, children, obey
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your parents in all things Colossians three twenty. And again
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those who are disobeyed at their parents are worthy of
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death Romans one point thirty. Teachers are are the parents representatives.
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Wives must obey their husband so far as God has appointed.
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He said to Eve after the fall, thou shalt be
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under thy husband's power, and he shalt have dominion over
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thee Genesis three sixteen. The very origin of the woman
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proves her subject demand, for she was made of his
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flesh and thus belongs to him. As a mark of inferiority,
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the woman's head must be covered first Corinthians eleven seven.
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Saint Peter teaches servants their duty toward their masters and
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the following words, servants, be subject to your masters with
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all fear, not only to the good and general, but
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also to the froward, froward or harsh one Peter two eighteen.
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Our Lord admonishes us to obey our ecclesiastical superiors, saying,
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whosoever will not hear the church, let him be unto
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thee as a heathen and the publican. Matthew eighteen seventeen.
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And therefore all Protestants are in disobedience of the words
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of Christ, and all feminists are in disobedience to the
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words of God. And actually, I hate to say it,
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but I have come to believe that it was a
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very bad thing when we started having revolutions in this world,
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both the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution.
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I could go on because God put the leaders in place,
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and it was rebelling against God, to rebel against the king.
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Even though we had a very bad king, the government
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of England had gone astray and embracing Anglicanism. Therefore, you
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could say the king relinquished his authority given to him
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by God when he stopped being a subject of the
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Catholic Church. I can definitely agree with that. But the
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idea of replacing a Protestant king with a secular, well
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constitutional republic that has devolved in democracy has not worked
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out particularly well. Uh. Actually, George Washington, they wanted him
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to be a king. Do you know what happened at
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the ends of George Washington's life? He converted to Catholicism.
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Our history books don't really tell us that. Imagine what
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a different country America would be instead of being led
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by mostly Freemasons in the chaos of democracy, we had
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had a Catholic king, we'd be a very different nation
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and probably a much more moral and just nation. Imagine
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the economic power.
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Speaker 2: The the uh would my word be entrepreneurship, the inherent
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dignity of the American man in our enshrine in our constitution.
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Speaker 1: Under a Catholic king, who could really lead us to
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fulfill those ideals? We have to say, would a Catholic
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king have a Catholic lineage? Would his you know, son
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have come the next Catholic king? You know, I don't know.
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That's all it for speculation, but you know, America has
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perpetrated great evils, great evils. We been forced for good
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in many ways, many ways. But you know, abortion, gay marriage,
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the nuclear bombs in World War Two, where were they aimed?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 1: One of those cities in Japan was for reasons no
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one seems quite to be able to explain the largest
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concentrations of Catholics in Japan. You know, why did we
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drop the second bomb? Was it justified? I don't know,
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I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to judge the people who did it.
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But in hindsight.
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Speaker 1: But why was it Catholics were actually targeted in the
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bombing that ended World War Two? Why is it that
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America turned its backs on the Catholics in China and
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essentially facilitated Mao's Revolution? Why after.
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Speaker 4: It was the name of it in the nineteen nineties,
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when the tanks rolled through, guys right off the tip
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of my tongue, the square there in China and the
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Chinese people were ready to overthrow the Communist government of China,
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and many, many Chinese Catholics were very much part of that.
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Why did the very high ranking Freemason George H. W.
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Bush send Skrocoft over there and cut a deal with them,
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allowing China into the World Trade Organization, propping out the
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Chinese government, and allowing for the slaughter of millions of
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Catholic Chinese.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have that answer. I don't
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have that answer at all. I following the Spanish American War,
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did our generals and leaders, all of whom were Freemasons,
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go occupy Catholic countries like well, to some extent, the
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Philippines and uh Puerto Rico and make whether protectorates or
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US territories put essentially Catholic nations under American governance. Why
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did we help? Why did we actually overthrow the Catholic
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ruler of Vietnam? Have him well, the CIA basically had
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him assassinated on the tarmac. I could go, you know,
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maybe I'm getting into a territory here. That's a little murky.
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But how different would things have been if George Washington
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had agreed to be king and was a Catholic king
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of the largest, most powerful nation on the face.
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Speaker 3: Of the earth.
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Speaker 1: We do have to speculated, well pondered. At least history's
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history is what it is. But anyway, because of disobedience,
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because of obedience required, because of the obedience required of Christians.
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He calls them sheep, and those that are set over
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them pastors. We ought to obey the secular authorities because
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they have.
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Speaker 3: Power from God.
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Speaker 1: Saint Paul says, there is no power but from God,
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and those that are are ordained of God. Therefore, he
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that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God. And
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yet in our constitution we say that power comes from
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the people, don't we. That's a little humanist sence. It
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actually sounds more like what Satan would say. It is
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something to think about, and I mean it's the ultimate
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expression of Protestantism. They throw off the authority of the Church,
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say I can interpret scripture from myself. And then you
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have the Masonic Order, which was, you know, association of
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such you know people, And within just a few hundred
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years of the Protestant Reformation, you have the French Revolution,
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the American Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, you have and the
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Masonic Order is dedicated to the overthrow of the Catholic
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Church and all monarchies. Now why would they target both
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the monarchies and the Catholic Church. Why would they be
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equally against the Anglican King of England and the Catholic Church.
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Could it be because they're actually very Satanic at their core?
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The Freemasonry is essentially a Satanic religion. You can read
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their texts and see what they actually believe. They're humanistic,
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as they say, Satan worshipers don't actually worship the devil,
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they worship themselves and Freeze Masonry worships humanism, secularism, believing
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it can bring about a perfect world through the work
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of men who throw off the shackles of religion and monarchy.
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What is does that sound like to you, would it
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be the devil who said he would rather ruin hell
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than worship in heaven? Or submit? I think is actually
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the word that was used, could be, could be anyway.
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Yet obedience has certain limits. We are not required to
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obey our suppiers and matters in which are not within
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their jurisdiction, and we ought not to obey them if
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they command us to do with the law of God forbids.
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In other words, the King of England had no right
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to demand that everyone renounced Catholicism and become Anglican, but
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he did so and then had thousands, if not hundreds
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of thousands of people executed and confiscated their lands and
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all that. King Henry the eighth was a really bad dude,
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really bad dude, And that was the end of any
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kind of superiority in British culture, such as they would
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claim it to be. I mean, everything's gone downhill. Since
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this subject is fully treated under the Fourth Commandment. Obviously
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obedience is the most difficult and at the same time
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the most excellent of all moral virtues. Saint Thomas Aquinas
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said that, or it's a paraphrasing. If we said obedience
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is Saint bonaventure is a sacrifice of one's own will,
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and it is a great sacrifice for man when what
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is commanded is contrary to his inclination and to his advantage.
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By obedience, the understanding does penance. It is a kind
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of moral mortyrdom. Original sin is the cause which men
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are under the yoke and dominion of one another. Where
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sin enters freedom, as the throned servitude takes its place.
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Obedience is the most excellent of all virtues. Man can
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offer to Almighty God, nothing greater than the submission of
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his will to that of another for God's sake. Obedience
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is the most acceptable burnt offering that we can sacrifice
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to God upon the altar of the heart. Obedience is
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better than sacrifice first Kings fifteen twenty two. And for
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this reason, in a sacrifice, we offer our flesh to
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another in obedience, the oblation of our will our own self.
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By your obedience, by our obedience, we accomplish the will
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of God most surely, and we attain certainty certainly and
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quickly to a higher degree of perfection. By obedience, we
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accomplish the will of God most surely. For our superiors
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or God's representatives therefore their commands are God's commands. That
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is anathema to the American cultural beliefs, without a doubt
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that that's what I'm saying. We are so at odds
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with Catholic teaching. It's amazing to ponder, and I don't
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have an answer for it, because unless and until America
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becomes a Catholic nation and says Christ is king and
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the Opus is representative on Earth, I don't know how
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to fix.
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Speaker 3: That problem at all.
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Speaker 1: We ought not to consider who it is who issues
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the behest, but only the will of God, which is
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made known to us by the mouth of our superior.
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He who obeys will not be required to give an
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account of what he has done. The one who commands
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has to do that. Obedience gives value to all that
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we do. The simplest action done out of obedience has
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greater value in God's sight than the most austere works
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of penance. Eating and sleeping, if done in obedience to
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the will of God, are more pleasing to Him than
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voluntary fastings and visuals of a hermit. By obedience, we
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attain certain certainly and quickly, to a high degree of perfection.
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Obedience is the means of avoiding many sins the antidote.
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It is the antidote of pride. By the practice of
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the other virtues, we combat the spirits of evil. By obedience,
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we vanquish them. And this is just for since they
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fell through disobedience. By our obedience, we show our superiority
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to them. Saint Augustine cause obedience the greatest of virtues.
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It is the parent and source of every other virtue.
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Saint Teresa declares that no path leads so quickly to
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the summit of perfection as the path of obedience. Hence,
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the evil enemy endeavors by all means to deter us
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from the practice of virtue. Obedience is the key that
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opens the portals of heaven, the ship that carries us
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to the celestial harbor. Disobedience closed heaven and opened hell. Obedience,
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on the other hand, opens heaven willingly with the wishes. Obedience,
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on the other hand, opens heaven and closes hell. Learn
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says Saint Francis, to sell to comply willingly with the
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wishes of thy equals, and thus thou wilt learn to
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feel cheerfully the commands of thy superiors. Above all, when
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you obey, obey promptly do not stop deliverate, for reasoning
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is only hindrance to obedience. Boy, that's also very much
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against what our culture says. Remember that Eve began to
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waiver as soon as she allowed herself to argue about
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the divine command. As the saying goes, we are a
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nation of rebels. Well, let's look at the dedication of
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Saul Olinsky's book. Saul Olinsky, the communist who was the
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mentor to Hillary Clinton and many others, including the teacher
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of Barack Obama and many many others, who dedicated his
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book to Satan, in quotes the first rebel as an irishman,
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I have very, very, very rebellious nature. I have to
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fight that. When I became Catholic, you know, it really
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just cleared up so much. I could say, you know,
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there's an infallible Church, and I accept all its teachings,
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and I don't have to figure it out for my
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own Now that many people in America, many of our
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most esteemed prestigious thinkers and politicians and philosophers, would just
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recoil in absolute disgust at my saying that. But if
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I believe that Jesus Christ is God, and I believe
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his words. He left us an infallible church guaranteed by
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the Holy Spirit. Therefore, in my opinion on something doesn't
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matter whatsoever. If Jesus is God, he can't lie. He's
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the author of all that's you know. That has actually
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been a great source of comfort for me in my
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life since becoming Catholic. If we would just do that
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in our culture and our politics, we wouldn't have abortion,
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we wouldn't have, you know, acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage,
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and we wouldn't have human trafficking and pornography. We wouldn't
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have the violence that is plaguing us. We would just say, hey,
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you know what, God said, thou should not kill. Therefore
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thou shalt not kill. God says, thou shalt not still.
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Therefore thou shalt not still. God says, thou shalt not
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commit adultery. He said absolutely, no divorce whatsoever. And we
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would have intact, happy, working families in a society without
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violence and greed and all the things we got. But
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until and at last people are willing to submit, to
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be obedient to the word of God as given to
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us through the Holy Catholic Church, it's just not going
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to happen, and now we're to point where people won't
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even recognize the truth of God's word, the validity, the
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authority any authority.
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Speaker 3: It's not good. It's not good.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying America's lost. I mean I have great
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hope for America, especially since President Trump's been re elected.
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He's certainly no choir boy or saint. He would do
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well to be more obedient to the teachers of the church.
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But he's a whole lot better than Joe Biden, the
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so called Catholic. You know, I think anyone would have
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to agree. Joe Biden may be many things, but a
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good Catholic is not one of them.
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Speaker 3: Anyway.
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Speaker 1: Now let's get into the shall we say reflectory or
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vice that is in opposition to obedience, and it.
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Speaker 3: Was course disobedience.
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Speaker 1: Disobedience consists in not fulfilling the commands of one's superiors.
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Our first parents in Paradise are an instance of disobedience.
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He who does not obey his superiors is like a
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palsied limb which does not move as the will commands.
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Disobedience brings temporal misfortunes and eternal misery upon every man,
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even in this world of misery. Even in this world.
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Misery is a result of disobedience. Think of the fatal
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consequences of original sin. Adam's offense was the means of
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bringing evil upon all posterity. Pharaoh's disobedience brought sad calamities
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upon himself and his subjects. Remember the plagues of Egypt
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and the destructure of the king and his army in
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the Red Sea. The prophet Jonas had a bitter cause
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to rule his disobedience. Eternal perdition is also the consequence
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of disobedience. God rejects the disobedient as the money changer
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rejects the counterfeit coin. The disobedient must expect a severe
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sentence in the day of judgment, for in despising their superiors,
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they have despised not them, but Him whose representatives.
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Speaker 3: They are.
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Speaker 1: Disobedient deprives us of all merit. No virtue is acceptable
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to God. If it is marred by the stain of disobedience,
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it has then changed from virtue to a vice. Disobedience
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also deprives us of many graces which we might have
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obtained through obedience. And we will wrap it up there.
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Remember the words of Saint Padre Pio pray, hope and
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don't worry, and I'll talk to y'all next time.