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Episode 8: The Authority of the Church, part 3 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all. Continuing our series on the teaching authority will actually the authority
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in general of the church in matters of teaching, doctrine, governance. I
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will continue to read, view a few or discuss a few excerpts from my
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book Confirmation, Autobiography of Faith, and I think this is really interesting.
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You know, one of the biggest influences on me in terms of Catholic writers.
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Some of the other day said, you know the three a's Augustine A.
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Quintas. I'm blanking on the third right now, just like you know
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Rick Perry and the presidential debate, never say three things because you're only going
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to remember two of them. That was so cool when he did that,
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because Ron Paul, I mean, I love Rob Paul, and you know
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he talks like the the aunt on the Wizard of Oz and Rick Perry turns
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round Paul, He's like, what was the third thing? I don't know,
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could it be oil drilling? But you know, to really pretty good
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guys. Actually I don't agree with Rick Perry and everything, and are Ron
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Paullen on everything? But that was a real, you know, kind of
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Texan to Texan moment when they with a legitimate human concern or the other one
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trying to help him out. So that was actually one of my favorite moments
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from a presidential debate. And I sure miss Ron Paul being in the mix
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because just about everything he predicted has come true, military industrial complex, the
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death of the dollar, etc. Etc. And Yeah, I've been too
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libertarian for me on some things, but I do tend to consider myself more
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libertarian than a Republican, but conservative more than either. So anyway, let's
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get into one of this books that really influenced me and continues to influenced me
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of the day. I keep reading it over and over. Father Spiago Spirago,
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who knows you know, he wrote a book Hunting exhaustive explanation of the
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Catechism, and I think, like the eighteen nineties, and you want to
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talk prescient, his chapters on society, on the rise of socialism, social
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democracy, social democrats. I mean, he called him out by name as
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being anti Christian, a political system built on the first sin, the sin
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of Satan, which was envy. That's what socialism, communism, liberalism is.
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It's envy and saying you have a right to what another person has earned.
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That's the first sin. And yes, it is actually quite satanic.
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I say liberalism as a mental disorder. It may actually be worse than that.
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It is satanic. Actually. You know, we'll get into that at
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some point. We'll talk about the seeds of the French Revolution, how horrific
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it was. We'll talk about the Bolsheviks, we'll talk about the modern Democrat
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Party and the Chinese government and everything in between. But today on religious topics,
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I mean Attorney's father's parago. And he had a way of saying things
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so very concisely. Even though his book is like seven hundred fifty pages.
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He actually was quite man. He could hitch him with the truth and say
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it in a way that really gets your attention. He said. In regard
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to the structure of the church and the authority of the church, he said,
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the ministers of the church fall into three classes of distinct dignity and power,
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Bishops, priests, and deacons. These were foreshadowed in the High Priest,
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the priests and the levites of the Temple, as well as on our
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Lord, the apostles and the disciples. To the apostles, our Lord said,
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as the Father has sent me, so I send you to the disciples
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merely go behold, I send you. It's very important. You know,
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I said yesterday how one of the biggest mistakes Protestants make, and probably some
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Catholics too. I don't need to just single about the Protestants on this um.
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They actually, you know, obviously tend to be more biblically literate than
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many Catholics, which is a real shame. And you know, popes and
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many of our great church leaders have instructed Catholics to read the Bible and to
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it's an ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of God. What was that,
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Pope, Piously, I don't know, a tempt night. I'm not sure
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I think that's who it was. Um. And of course Saint Pope,
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Saint John Paul a second said it many times, Benedict, you're supposed to
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read your Bible. Well, the mistake is thinking that everything in the Bible
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is applicable to every person. No, Jesus actually specifically said to his apostles,
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as the Father has sent me, so I send you. He who
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hears you hears me. He who rejects you rejects the one who sent me.
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That is great authority. He only invested that in the eleven apostles at
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that time, and then Saint Matthias who replaced Judas. No one else had
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that authority. Yeah, I mean you could say Saint Paul would have been
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included in that group as well, as he said, as one untimely born,
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he was, you know, in a different sort of a different category
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than the others. But to the disciples, which were his other followers,
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he didn't give that power. And like I said, Bob Smith, reading
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the Bible today does not have the authority Jesus gave to his apostles very important,
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especially if you drive through rural areas in the South, you'll see like
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Church of God and Pentecostal Church. He will say, apostle John Powers is
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going to speak today. That man's not an apostle. He doesn't have a
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right to that title. Jesus names his apostles. He gave his apostles the
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ability to bind and loose, the ability to ordain bishops and priests. You
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know, they don't have that. No one has that because the authority comes
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from Jesus himself, to the specific twelfth fathers. Farago goes on to say
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the apostles were sent to all nations of the earth the disciples only to those
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places where the Lord himself was to go. The bishops are nally as successors
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of the apostles. That's according to the Council tread. Hence, the bishops
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are of higher rank than priests because they belong to a higher order of the
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clergy and have higher orders. Besides that, they have greater powers, being
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the only real pastors of the flock, and in virtue of their jurisdiction deciding
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how for anyone else, how far anyone else may share in the government of
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those committed to their charge. The bishops alone can give orders, says Saint
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Germe. That's what three hundreds right. According to Saint Cyprian, he is
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the only ordained minister of confirmation. The bishop used to be the only one
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that could confirm new Catholics. They have delegated that responsibilit the priests, mainly
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just simply because America is such a big country. The bishop just can't be
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in all the parishes. But in the eighteen nineties, the bishop, and
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that's still true in many churches, but in certain circumstances, with the permission
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of the bishop, the priests can ordain. And I was actually the priests
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can confirm. Sorry, the priest can confirm. I was confirmed by my
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priest, not in the Easter season, believe it or not. I spoke
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with my priest, and at the time, my job had me traveling all
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over the state and I never knew what church I was going to be in
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on a Sunday, And he said, you have a specific circumstance. I'm
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going to call the bishop. He got on the phone with a bishop.
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He said, you know, this member of soon to be member of my
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parish needs to be confirmed. Can I go ahead and do it today?
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That was a surprise, and so we go to the church. There were
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literally three people that showed up for a week day mass that stood as witness.
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And I and my mother were both ordained just before Christmas, so really
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really unique circumstances. I'm very grateful to Father Gober for doing that. Father
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Christopher Gober great person. He made that happen when most priests wouldn't. He
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also understood I couldn't go to r r CIA classes because I couldn't be in
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town on a regular schedule. I was working in journalism, and he sat
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with me and we went through the Catechism and the teachings of the church,
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and he said, okay, you're good to go. So priests can have
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a great leeway, but only under the authority of the bishop as father.
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So Farrago goes on to say, the Council Trent assigned to bishops many other
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privileges beyond those enjoyed by other members of the church. In addition, they
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have a judicial vote in counsel's Priests rank higher than deacons, having higher orders
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and greater powers. They can offer the holy sacrifice and forgive sins, as
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commanded by Jesus Christ himself. Yes, my Protestant brothers and sisters, Jesus
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Christ said, those who sends you forgive, they are forgiven. Those who
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sends you retain, They are retained. If you do not believe in going
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to a confession to a priest, you disobey the words of God. They
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have higher orders and greater powers. They can offer the holy sacrifices, the
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euchasts. They can forgive sins, as I said, while deacons can only
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baptize, preach, and give communion, help hand out the Euchrist. This
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hierarchy was in force in the time of the Apostles. That's why this is
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so germane to this conversation. We see in the scriptures Timothy appointed what Timothy
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appointed with powers to judge priests. We see in the scriptures that Timothy was
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appointed with power to judge priests. That's verse Timothy, verse nineteen. Ordain
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them first Timothy, verse twenty two, and to appoint them to various cities
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Titus I think book five, I'm not sure. Saint Ignatius of Antioch in
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one of seven a d just very early, you know, one of the
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very first church fathers. You have to remember the church was only about seventy
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years old at the time. Okay, seventy four years old, names the
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three orders. He says, let all obey the bishops as Jesus obeyed the
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Father. Let them obey the priests as the apostles, and honor the deacons
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as being messengers of God. Did you hear that? Listen to the bishops
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as if they are Jesus, because they speak with Jesus's authority. Let all
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all obey the bishops as Jesus obeyed the Father. Let them obey the priests
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as the apostles, and honor the deacons as being messengers of God. Similar
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expressions occur in Clement of Rome, Saint Clement we quoted yesterday one d even
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you know earlier, really the first of the church followers to do a lot
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of writing, and Clement of Alexandria in two seventeen eight D. There was,
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however, a certain vagueness in the use of the terms apostles. Priests
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were called elders or overseers. The former title ODIs origin to the Jewish converts,
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the latter to the Heathen. In every community there were several priests,
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according to First Timothy fourteen first time of the book, four chapter fourteen.
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If I'm sometimes I have trouble reading my own writing, sorry, my handwriting
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is abominable, abysmal. I'm actually trying to learn to do a little calligraphy
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just so I can write legibly. It's not going well. Seriously, anyway,
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of whom one was the superior high priests, known in later times as
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a bishop. He was often called priests merely because he was in reality a
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priest. Even the apostles Peter and John called themselves priests. That's first Peter
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and John two anyway, The episcopal and priestly office was instituted by Christ himself.
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The deaconate by the apostles. The deacons. The deacons were appointed by
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the apostles to distribute alms and were consecrated to this duty by the laying on
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of hands and accompanied with prayer. Again, I know in the Methodist Church,
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for er, they have people called deacons, and the Presbyterian Church they
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have people called they're not deacons because they're not ordained by priests who were ordained.
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Going back to the apostles, there is no authority. Always ask yourself
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by what authority and if the authority doesn't come directly from Jesus, not some
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guy who picked up the Bible and came up with a completely different idea of
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it than Jesus and his apostles taught, or that was believed by the church
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for over a thousand years, fifteen hundred years, they have no authority.
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I know that's hard to understand. I know that's hard to accept because it
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really goes against our American ethics of all people, you know, essentially being
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equal. All people aren't equal. If you think all people are equal,
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all right, go play against a basketball against a professional basketball player. If
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you're not a professional basketball player, he's got the skills. You don't go
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play golf against Tiger Woods or somebody. He's got the skills, you don't.
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Those skills were given to him by God and cultivated by his hard work.
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It's really pretty insane when we think that Jesus said this is my kingdom,
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and he appointed officers in his kingdom. For someone to come up and
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say, well, I'm gonna start my own kingdom and I'm going to call
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it the Kingdom of Jesus. Jesus didn't say you could do that. The
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Bible doesn't say you can do that. That's one of the biggest fools.
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He's a Protestantism that anyone can read the Bible and will understand it. The
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Bible, itsel says, you won't. You remember the Eunuch. We'll get
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to that. You know, he's going along, he's reading the Bible.
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I can't remember which of the apostles ran and caught up with him and said,
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do you understand what you're reading? He said, how can I unless
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someone explains it to me. That's in the Bible. You can't understand the
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Bible because it's written in very archaic and difficult languages. In language in several
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chapters, I mean think about the Book of Revelations. People have come up
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with a million different interpretations of the Book of Daniel, the Book of Revelations.
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You have to have a church with authority to teach, guaranteed by the
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Holy Spirit, authorized by Jesus Christ, to understand the Bible. Anyway,
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let's see that by laying of hands. We said that deacons were consecrated by
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the laying on of hands by the apostles and priests. They also had spiritual
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functions preaching, as in the case of Saint Stephen, who was a deacon,
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baptizing, and as in the case of Saint Philip. In early ages
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there were also deaconesses. There were female deacons, Yes, there were,
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all you feminists. To get so upset, They were widows who tended the
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sick and taught young girls. They were not part of the hierarchy. Since
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it was a fixed principle of the church that no woman should preach. That's
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in First Corinthians. What is that fourteen thirty four? No woman should preach.
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That's why we have male priests. That's why women have specific roles in
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the church, such as nuns and teachers and Catholic schools, not preachers.
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They can be catechists, but they can't. They can teach, but they
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can't preach. Sorry, if that offends you, that's what God said to
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do. If you've got a problem with it, take it up with God
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because you okay, And it says in First Timothy that's because the woman is
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subject to man and was first led astray in paradise. You don't like it,
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take it up with the Bible, all you Protestant, female Methodist ministers
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and Anglican Episcopal ministers. The Bible says you shouldn't have that office. You
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don't like it, well, are you writers God right? If you're right,
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then God's wrong. If God's wrong, he's not God. Your whole
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ministry is a farce. I know, I know. There are many many
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PRIs and female ministers. You have no right to that position, according to
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the very words of the Bible. Yes, it's controversial. I'm sure it's
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going to upset you. There are many roles you have. Specifically, the
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role of motherhood is the highest office on earth. I mean, someone said
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the other day, I think it was a quote from Saint Augustine. Perhaps
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it said he said, don't worry about loving Mary too much because you can't
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love Mary more than Jesus loved his mother. We actually, as Catholics,
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respect motherhood and the Mother of God more than any other denomination on earth.
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It's certainly not anti feminists, but each person has a role. Just as
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I can't be an apostle, just as I can't be a priest. I
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mean, I'm not going to go to the seminary and go through all that
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rigorous obedience and be ordained as a priest. I'm not going to. I
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can't. I can't do the Euchrist. No, only a priest can.
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I can't forgive sins. Only a priest can. Neither can you. Well,
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I can't do it because I am not suited to be a priest and
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that's not my calling. You can't do it because neither of you. Because
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you're a woman, and that's what God said. So you can love God,
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you can teach, you can write, you can debate men to defeat
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me in probably many debates. That's fine that you are absolutely authorized to do.
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But you can't give the Euchrist. You can't call yourself a priest,
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and you certainly can't be a bishop. Sorry, life isn't fair, but
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that's the way it is. Besides these three classes, there are other degrees
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varying in their powers, for example, Pope, cardinals, and archbishop.
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The distribution of authority is the basis of this classification. All without exception o
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obedience to the pope. The bishop rules all clergy and his diocese. The
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clergy are in authority over those committed to their charge. That's first Peter five,
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five Hebrews eight seventeen. The Church has its differences of rank like an
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army. According to the Council of Trent. Without these grades, it would
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be a society without organization. And the Church is organization. I mean a
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lot of really French producing groups say there's no church and they only have house
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churches, and there's no ministers and whoever is led by the spirits and preachers.
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God is not the God of disorder. God is the author of creation.
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God is the ultimate order. Disorder, disunity, disharmony are always always
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in conflict with the will of God, always without exception. That is of
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the devil Father's Paragua went on to say, he instructs us in the teachings
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of the Catholic Church. The unction which we have received from him teaches us
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of all things. That's a quote from First John to twenty seven. Whoever
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has not the Holy Ghost may indeed study the truths of the Christian religion,
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but their significance escapes him. It is an unfruitful knowledge. You receive a
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measure of the Holy Spirit at baptism. You receive the full measure of the
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Holy Spirit when you're confirmed into a Catholic church. That is also in the
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Bible. It says that until the apostles laid their hands on those who have
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been baptized, they did not receive the Holy Spirit. Why do so many
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Protestants get things wrong and have female ministers and gay ministers and all that approve
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of gay marriage, deny many of the teachings of Christ, like confessing to
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a priest, or being baptized, or receiving the Eucharist, etc. Because
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they don't have the fullness of the Holy Spirit. There are many spirit filled
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Protestants, but the most holy spirit filled Protestant will never have the fullness of
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the Holy Spirit that the least intelligent or aware Catholic receives in the sacrament of
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confirmation. That's what the Bible says. Again, if the Protestants want to
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believe in the Bible is the sole authority. How about believing the words of
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the Bible, He says, just as a book cannot be read in the
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dark without the help of a light, so the word of God is unintelligible
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without light from the Holy Ghost. Though it is quite true that whatever the
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Holy Ghost imparts to us is free from error, yet we require to be
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certain that what we have received is indeed imparted by the Holy Spirit. Hence,
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no matter what a man's lights may be, he must keep fast hold
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of the teachings of the Church. And whoever fails to do this has not
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the Holy Spirit in him. That's First John four six. If you do
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not hold fast to the teachings of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,
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you do not have the Holy Spirit in fullness within you. You will not
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be prevented from error. The minute Martin Luther, for instance, rebelled against
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the Church, he lost all certainty of understanding the very Bible he essentially worshiped,
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almost as an idol, but changed to suit his will to become a
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reflection of his doctrine. He could no longer understand. And that's actually pretty
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sad isn't it. There is a great amount of evidence for the presence of
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Saint Peter in Rome from the year forty four to sixty nine. Saint Peter
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writes about the year six the church that is in Babylon. Babylon was code
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word essentially saluteth you and so doth my son mark. Babylon was the name
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given to the early Christians to Rome on account of its great greatness and immorality.
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At that point, Christians in Rome were being fed to lions. Many
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again, fringe Protestant churches say that because Rome is the seat of Saint Peter's
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Basilica and the Vatican, that's the horror of Babylon. No, Actually,
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that was pagan Rome. That was pagan Rome, that was persecuting Christians.
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And if frankly, if you just opened a history book, you wouldn't really
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have any doubt the pagan Rome before it became Christian Rome under the Holy Roman
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Emperor's Charlotte Main and constantin all that was a very wicked place, very wicked
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place. And after that it became a seat of Christiandom, without which you
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would not even have the Bible or your Protestant church. So that's so called
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horror of Babylon. You keep claiming that we are worshiping. You don't have
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a church without it either, So you better open a secular history book and
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get it straight, or you're well again. You're undermining your own faith,
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not mine. Pope, say Clement Rights of Rome about the year one hundred.
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You know Peter and Paul were with an enormous number of Christians martyred in
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Rome. They were killed for their faith. Tertullian, a priest of Carthage,
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about the year two hundred, congratulates the Church of Rome because Peter died
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there crucified like his lord, and Saint Paul died like another John the Baptist.
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In other words, one was crucified and the other was beheaded. Saint
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Peter, if memory serves, was crucified upside down because he said he didn't
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deserve to be crucified with the dignity of Christ. In addition, the grave
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of Saint Peter was long ago discovered. His body laid a catacomb under Nero's
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circus. The third Pope erected a small chapel over it, to be replaced
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by the beautiful edifice built by Constantine in three twenty four when this fell into
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disrepair. The present building of Saint Peter's was erect in sixteen twenty nine.
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As I said yesterday, the Basilica of Saint Peter's is built on the bones,
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on the very grave of Saint Peter. He is the rock upon which
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Jesus built his church. His church is literally sitting on his bones. The
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apostles always play Saint Peter first Matthew ten two, Mark one thirty six,
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Acts two fourteen, etc. And Saint Paul, after his conversion, regarded
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as his duty to present himself to Saint Peter Escalatians one eighteen two two.
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I think Saint Peter was Bishop of Rome for some twenty five years and died
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bishop of Rome, and the dignity and power of Saint Peter descended to the
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succeeding bishops of Rome. The Bishops of Rome have always exercised supreme power in
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the church, and that power has always been acknowledged. When dissensions arose in
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the Church of Corinth about the year one hundred, Remember we talked a lot
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about Corinth yesterday. The matter was referred not to the apostle Saint John at
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Ephesus, but to the Bishop of Rome Saint Clement. About the year one
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ninety the Pope Victor commanded the people of Asia Minor to conform to the Roman
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usage in the celebration of Easter. That's right again, regardless of what the
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tour observe at Christians say. Christians were celebrating, and the Seven day Abbas
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and the Jehovah's witnesses, they all seemed to consider Easter a pagan holiday,
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even though it's the day we commemorate our Lord being raised from the dead.
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Pope Victor wrote extensively about it in one ninety a d and those who demurred
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were threatened with excommunication, whereupon they yielded. About the year to fifty popes.
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Stephen forbade the Bishop Shops of North Africa to rebaptize those who returned to
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the bosom of the church. I remember, you're only baptist once one baptism
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for the units of sins, and he excommunicated those who resisted. The Bishop
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of Rome had the first place in all general councils. When heresy broke out,
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the Bishop of Rome always inquired into it, and to him other bishops
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appealed when unjustly oppressed. Thus when Saint Anthon Nazius, I think is how
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you pronounced it was deposed by the Emperor. The Pope reinstated him. From
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the earliest time, the title's High Priests and Bishop of Bishops had been given
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to the Bishop of Rome. When at the Council of Chalcedon the letter of
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Pope Leo has read these to the assembled bishops, they cried out with one
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voice. Peter has spoken by Leo. Let him be anathema who believes otherwise,
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cut off anathema which, like Saint Paul said, give that man over
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to the devil if he will not listen to the Church. It's a little
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harsher, isn't it. That's the Bible again, you know, good reason
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to read the Bible. That's why I base so much all of my book
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essentially on the Bible and the writings of the very first church fathers, the
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early Church Peter. See the Vatican Council declares that it is the will of
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Christ that till the end of the world there will be successors to Saint Peter.
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Upon Saint Peter Jesus founded his church, the gates of Hell will not
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prevail against it. It will be a shining city visible to all ages.
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It's the only institution in humanity that has lasted for two thousand years since Jesus
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said that unchanged, and it will be visible until the end of time,
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until the apocalypse the second coming of Jesus. The Catholic Church will not fail,
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will not teach error, because it's guaranteed by the Holy Spirit, and
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it will be visible. As for the authority to make such decorations, he
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explains, citing I think First Timothy three fifteen, and measures decided upon the
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apostles and the Council Jerusalem were introduced with the words for it has seemed good
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to the Holy Ghost and to us Acts fifteen twenty eight. It is no
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reas of belief that the Church is infallible long ago origin rights as in the
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heavens. There are two great sources of light, the Sun and the moon,
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which barrows its light from the Sun. So there are two great sources
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of our interior light, Christ and the Church. Christ is the light of
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the world and shares his light with the Church, and she enlightens all the
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earth. In the words of Saint Irenaeus, which I believe is right around
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two hundred eighty or so, where the Church is there is also the spirit
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of God. The Apostles in the year fifty one held the First Council Jerusalem
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and announced their decision is coming from God. The first four general counsels.
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Saint Gregory the Great asserted that he held them in equal honor with the four
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Gospels. Why not the very apostles wrote those gospels. You can't have it
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both ways. The Church either has authority to write the Bible infallibly and to
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teach infallibly, or it doesn't, and if you don't believe it does,
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you can't believe the Bible, and therefore you can't believe Jesus, and you
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can't call yourself a Christian. The consensus of the bishop through living apart,
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though living a part of the time, was infallible, because the Holy Spirit
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is not confined by limitations of place. We'll get into that a lot more
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later when we talk about saints and such. Nor was this solemn declaration necessary.
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It was quite sufficient that all the bishops told teach in the same sense
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in regard of any given subject, to make that teaching infallible where it otherwise
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the Church would be capable of teaching heresy or falling away from the truth.
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Hence, the Vatican Council declared that not only must one that, not only
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must that be accepted which has been solemnly defined by the Church, but also
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whatever is proposed by the lawful and general teaching authority. The Pope makes an
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infallible definition when his teacher and guide of the Church, he proposes to the
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universal Church a doctrine of faith or morals. These decrees are called doctrinal.
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The Vatican Council of eighteen seventy decree that all doctrinal decisions of the Pope were
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infallible. This is the logical consequence of the words of Christ. Saint Peter
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thou Art Peter out upon this rock, I will build my church. If
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the foundation of the church were to fail, it would not be a rock
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but quicksand very good point. Moreover, Saint Peter was appointed shepherd of the
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apostles and the faithful in these words of our Lord. Feed my lambs,
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feed my sheep, and he received the power to confirm his brethren in the
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faith. Luke twenty two thirty two. I believe, if then the Pope
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were to teach error, our Lord's promise would come to naught. Decisions and
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matters of doctrine were held in the greatest reverence from the earliest times. When
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the Roman Sea condemned in four seventeen, the areas Pelagius, Saint Augustine and
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cried out, Rome has spoken. The cause is at an end. As
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Saint Cyprin says, no heretic can gain admitutes into the church, admitts to
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the church. I should say, even general councils call the Bishop of Rome
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the father and teacher of Even general councils call the Bishop of Rome the father
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and teacher of all Christians. That's from the Council Florence fourteen thirty nine.
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And the Roman Church the mother and teacher of the faithful, that's Council of
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latter in twelve fifteen. The Pope must be infallible for this reason too,
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that he has full power to govern the whole church Council Florence again, for
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with this power is necessarily linked the authority to teach. The supreme teaching office
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of the Church involves infallibility in according with the divine province of the assistance of
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the Holy Ghost. In consequence of this decision. In consequence of this the
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decisions of the Pope are infallible of themselves, quite independently of the consent of
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the bishops. It's according to the Council of the Vatican. Were it otherwise,
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the rock or successor of Saint Peter would derive its strength and solidarity from
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being raised upon it the Church. It would, however, be quite wrong
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to a search that the Pope is infallible in all things, for he is
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a man and can make mistakes as other men. In writing speaking center,
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I mean the Pope is only infallible in official Church teachings on doctrine and morals.
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It's the only thing he could be, you know, in Pope Francis,
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who seems to stick his foot in his mouth every other day. Sorry
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if that offends you, but he does not a very clear speaker. He
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has not changed the doctrine of the Church. I realize there are those that
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do not believe he is a valid pope regardless to this point, and certainly
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have no reason to believe otherwise, given the teachings of the Church, that
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the one who does sit on the chair of Saint Peter will be prevented from
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all error. We've even had some a couple of really bad popes. You
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know, in the history of the church, they were not allowed by the
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Holy Spirit to change the doctrine or moral teachings of the church. Neither has
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been Francis. And actually he came out the other day and said that homosexuals
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shouldn't be admitted into priestly orders. But was pretty obvious. Obviously we've had
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with the scandals we've had with you know, pres molesting little boys. He
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said that they should not go to seminary, and that is boy, that's
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going to rot the liberal forces in the church, the satanically liberal forces that
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have been trying to undermine such teachings. That was pre darned surprising. Actually,
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okay, he said, And unhappily some of the popes led very scandalous
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lives. When it was like two of them that were really bad. Actually,
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it's not too bad in the space of two thousand years, especially given
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that one of Jesus's own hand picked apostles was Judas. Will always have some
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bad ones. When the pope gives a decision on a doctrinal matter, it
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is Christ who keeps him from error by the agency of the Holy Ghost.
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Moreover, the bishops are always consulted before any decision is made. Doctoral decisions
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are usually accompanied by a sense of excommunication against those who refuse to submit to
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them. Again, once the Bible say, if a man will not listen
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to the Church, let him be to you as a heathen. Yeah,
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there is a church with authority. Hence, such decisions are binding for all
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Catholics, really for all Christians, if you think about it, all the
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Pope is infallible in his solemn decisions. General counsels are not for that reason
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superfluous, for they can confer a greater external soleimnity of the Pope's decrees,
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and the teachings of the Church can be more thoroughly examined in these counsels.
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The Church pronounces infallible judgments in the following cases on doctrine, on faith and
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morals and their meaning and interpretations on the Holy Scripture. Again, the only
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reason you have that Bible, Protestant friends, is because of the Catholic Church
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and tradition and their interpretation and their interpretation. If, for instance, the
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Church declares that the punishments of hell are eternal, the declaration is infallible,
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for this has made a doctrine of faith. Or again, if it declares
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that the observance of Sunday is a command of God. The declaration turns on
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the teaching with regard to morals and is therefore infallible. Yes, shall you
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try or observant Christian Seven Day adventice Messianic Jews, the Church with the authority
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of Christ, says we observe Sunday, not the Jewish Sabbath, and that
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is infallible, guaranteed by God. If you don't believe it, you don't
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believe in the apostles, and you really don't believe in Jesus. Christ made
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special a special promise to his apostles that the Holy Ghost should teach them in
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all truth John sixteen thirteen all truth. If the apostle has got it wrong,
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you have no foundation for your faith. In other words, that the
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Holy Ghost would teach them all truth bearing on religion, and that religion includes
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morality as well as the belief may be gathered from the words of Christ just
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before his assent into Heaven, going therefore teaching all nations, teach them to
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observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And with regard to the last
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order, he promised in the Assistant the assistance of the Holy Ghost and consequently
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infallibility. Since the Church derives her doctrine from two sources, holy scripture and
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tradition, that's the oral tradition of the apostles just as valid as the Bible.
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The Bible just happens to be what they wrote down, it must be
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infallible in its interpretation of both. Moreover, it is certain that the Church
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is infallible what it declares, that any given opinion or on faith or morals
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is contrary to revealed teachings. As also in the canonization of the Saints.
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It is the common opinion of theologians that the Church is infallible and judging whether
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a proposition is opposed to revealed teaching it. For example, the Church where
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condemned the assertion that man is the offspring of a pair of apes is concentrated
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to revelation, it would be acting quite within the limits of its infallibility,
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and on a subject most intimately conducted with revealed doctrine. Again, I tell
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you fathers Barago was quite prescient. I mean here he was condemning the man's
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descent from the apes, the evolutionary Darwinism, and what the eighteen nineties.
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I mean he was very aware of what was going on in the world.
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If the Church can see truth, it must also be able to recognize error.
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From the earliest times, the Church is condemned error, whether taught by
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writing or word of mouth. At the Council of Nicia in three twenty five,
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errors of areas were condemned by the bishops. Up to the present day,
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the Pope has continually condemned books which have attacked faith or morals. Yes,
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the Church used to ban books. It authored a exercise censorship if it
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said a book such as the Communist Manifesto would undermine people's faith and cause them
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to be atheists and to overthrow legitimate governments. It said, Catholics, you
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shouldn't read this book, and people used to respect that. I am not
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a free speech absolutist. I don't believe the devil's lies should be spread.
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I don't believe children should be reading books pornographic books in school. You know
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I'm not for I'm not saying you can't write a book. I'm saying it
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can't be published. But just as we say school children can't shouldn't be reading
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pornography and explicitly sexual or books advocating drug use or suicide. School childrens not
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be reading books that tell them go home and kill yourself. The church has
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that same authority over its flock, and it has the ability to say,
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look, y'all, look at fellow Catholics, this book is not good for
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your soul. Don't read it. And it's up to you whether you follow
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that or not. And if you don't follow it, you're committing a sin.
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But if the book is bad in the first place, to enjoy reading
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books on you know, about violence and perverse sexual behaviors and all that,
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that's sinful in the first place. The church really doesn't even need to say
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that. This is really a pretty ridiculous debate, but it's very much in
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the news these days. It's pretty ridiculous at all. Truth, I mean,
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Christian morality has stood for two thousand years, and now we're just supposed
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to accept there is none. Do whatever you want and watch the society fall
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apart, the family fall apart, kids coming suicide, people overdosing on drugs.
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But hey, it feels good to it right anyway. So y'all on
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tomorrow, if we continue on this topic, bensil what comes up between now
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and then we'll talk about what the Bible says about the governments of the church,
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and yeah, it's not going to lead much doubt so, as always
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in the words of Saint Piter, pray, hope and don't worry. Have
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a great evening and I will talk to you tomorrow