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Show 97: ON THE ABSENCE AND LOSS OF FAITH · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome to today's Wow. Has it
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been a busy Monday? Who? First of all, I released my new
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book today. This is the twelfth book I've written. It's my second specifically
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Catholic book. Although my book, The Christian History of Herbal Medicine, is
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very Catholic. I mean, you know, there was only one Catholic Church
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for most of the history of Christianity. You know, the Orthodox branched off,
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but I mean Protestantism. It is only about five hundred years old,
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so most essentially the history of medicine up until I'm going to say, really
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the seventeen hundreds was firmly rooted in Catholic tradition. You know, the Benedictines
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and other orders founded monasteries all throughout Europe and free hospitals and practiced herbal medicine.
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The Holy Roman emperors Arlamagne actually signed the capitul Air which demanded that they
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know, the first medical schools were all Catholic. Even after Protestant you know,
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so called Reformation in Germany and England, the schools that were eventually mostly
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taken over, especially in England by Protestants. All the books were written in
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Latin by Catholics, all the knowledge they had of medicine. First medical school
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in the world in Salerno was founded by Catholic, a Jew and a Muslim,
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I mean, and all its writings were mostly well, yeah, I
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think all of them are in Latin. I mean, it wasn't until the
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late fifteen hundreds when the Protestants fully took over the institutions and started banning Catholics
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from teaching and practicing medicine, started forming ULDs and such. But yeah,
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well into the late eighteen hundreds, the influence of Catholicism on herbal medicine was
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not too worried about that. So anyway, y'all, let's get into the
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radio replies, question answer, and then we'll get into a very interesting entry
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from Father Spirago. But remember, my book is a daily Catholic devotional reflections
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on the Daily Mass readings January through June twenty twenty four by Judson Carroll.
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I really hope you'll enjoy it. I think you will. If you like
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uncensored Catholic I just tell it like it is, the way I see it.
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And yeah, there's some I make some pretty stride up statements, especially
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about so called Catholic politicians. You know that really should be excommunicated. But
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anyway, let's get on to the questions and answers. So last time we
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left off with someone asking about supposed inconsistencies in the New Testament, and they're
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getting into the genealogy of Jesus. Now, I usually skip that part in
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the Bible. I have to admit I skip a lot in Leviticus, and
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I skip a lot in the genealogies of Jesus. Doesn't mean I haven't read
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them several times. I just don't need to keep reading the same kind of,
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you know, dry information, over and over and over. But the
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person says, Saint Matthew gives forty two generations, Saint Luke seventy two.
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Why well, the answer neither intended to give all the generations. The present
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Prince of Wales, could I say, could say I was born George the
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fifth, That's who was prince in the nineteen thirties, who was descended from
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Queen Victoria. Another writer could say the Prince of Wales was born joined the
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George the fifth, who was born of Edward the seventh, who was born
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of Queen Victoria. Both accounts would be right, although one would be inadequate.
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Why did Saint Matthew Shoes write to give only forty two generations only?
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Well? Because he wrote for the Jews and wish to show that the Christ
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was the Messiah, the son of David. In Hebrews, David's name consists
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of three letters, those letters numerically signifying fourteen. Thus DVD has the numerical
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significance of four six four. Following a Jewish custom, Saint Matthew gives three
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times fourteen i e. Forty two generations of the Davidic generation. Saint Luke,
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on the other hand, chose seventy two because, having been the companion
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of Saint Paul the Apostles to the Gentiles, he wrote for the Gentiles.
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Jewish tradition held that there were seventy two races of men throughout the world,
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and Saint Luke wished to show that Christ would call all nations his religion to
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his religion. This may seem complicated to us, but it was not to
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the Jews of those time. The person continues, but even granted no real
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inconsistency of the numbers, there seems to be a great inconsistency in the regard
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to the names. Also, how could Jacob be the father of Joseph,
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as Saint Matthew says, yet Heli or yeah, I guess that's why you
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pass it be his father according to Saint Luke's account, they answer. Many
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scholars have replied that Jacob and Heli were half brothers. Upon Heli's death,
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without issue, Jacob married his widow in accordance with the levitical law to provide
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children to Heli. Joseph would thus have been the natural son of Jacob and
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the legal son of Helio. In these cases, since Saint Matthew gives the
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natural genealogy in Saint Luke the legal genealogy, we have two different, yet
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correct lines of ancestry. Person asks, can you prove the solution is correct?
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And they answer the obligation to do so does not rest with me.
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An advisary has failed to prove contradiction until he has succeeded in proving it incorrect,
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it would be very difficult to do so. Meanwhile, the theory certainly
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has its own probability in accordance with the levitical law. That's something I think
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we often forget in apologetics when someone makes an accusation, all say about the
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inquisitions only killed millions of people, or such nonsense as that. The onus
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the responsibility, or you know, I love that word onus. I brought
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this up before. My grandfather used it all the time. He was was
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a justice of the peace for a while. He is probably where he picked
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it up. It means the burden is upon you, You bear the responsibility
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when someone makes an outrageous statement like that. It's actually upon them to prove
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the truth of it, not for you to disprove it. You can simply
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say to them that's not true. There's no hystetic historical evidence to support that.
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There is not a single legitimate history book you can point to that would
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state this. There's no contemporary account that says it. You believe something false,
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and the burden, the onus is on you to prove the falsehood to
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be credible, and then they're going to have to go back and start researching.
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He'll probably come up with a bunch of anti Catholic writers who've written in
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the last twenty to fifty years, mostly probably articles off the internet, and
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you just say, they have cited no legitimate historical sources. Show me the
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grave, show me the documents, Show me the court records, because those
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were court proceedings in the inquisition, and there were extensive records cap of each
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one. So you say, what you're saying is false and you cannot prove
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it is true, and therefore I don't have to address it. I call
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it utter nonsense. That's usually them the conversation. They'll say, well,
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I believe what I believe because I believe it, and you say, well,
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okay, good for you, good for you. Had a very interesting
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message from someone today who said that the Judaism and Islam and Christianity were all
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founded essentially by teachings that were brought to us by aliens who landed in Israel
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some thousand of years ago. And do I bother to address it. I
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could say, show me the evidence of your aliens. That would probably be
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about the end of that conversation, because they have no archaeological evidence. They
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have no historical evidence. The only thing they can say is that the oh,
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how do you pronounce it? A nakim anakim or something where the Bible
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says that the it has been misinterpreted according to Father's According to the priest here
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and radio replies that angels lusted after the daughters of men and the Ghet a
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race of giants, and as they explained, I guess about two shows ago,
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it was actually the descendants of the sons of God, which have been
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interpreted as angels, were actually those who followed the religion that God gave to
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Abraham, whereas the sons of Man in this regard were those who followed after
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pagan religions and the inner marriage of essentially Jews and Pagans. As the priests
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said, Begat a race that were giants of immorality, although they also may
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have been rather physically large, because there are some there is some archaeological evidence
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that people have certain you know, as I talked all about Andre the giant
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and the genetic disposition to gigantism and all that it's a recessive gene and certain
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tribes may have been quite large, but it was not a matter of angels
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coming to have children with human women. It was a matter of a parable
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an analogy that people of the pure religion, the religion given to Abraham by
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God, had mixed with the false religion, pagan religions who worship demons.
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And you know, that's been that's a problem throughout the entire Old Testament.
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I mean that is like literally the story of the Old Testament. The Jews
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intermarry with the pagan tribes around them and everything falls apart. They start worshiping
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idols, and God punishes them and they get enslaved by another country and the
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you know, the temple gets raised to the ground. And I mean that
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is literally the story that is over and over and over in the Old Testament.
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So that really does stand to reason, you know, especially as angels
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are purely spiritual beings that have no physical bodies. And it's Jesus said that
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in heaven we be like the angels, neither marrying nor given to marriage,
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So angels would not be lusting after human women and coming and having relations with
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them and begetting a race of giants. That's a huge misinterpretation. But this
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you know, very intelligent man actually who's quite misguided when it comes to religion,
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believes that that's an analogy for aliens who came to Earth. But his
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only historical evidence is a misinterpreted story from Genesis. There's no archaeological evidence,
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there's no contemporary histories, there's nothing. So I mean, it's not upon
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me to disprove his fable. It's upon him to prove it. And it
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can't be done. And I guess we'll go ahead and get into Father Sparago
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because time is passing and I am trying to keep these around thirty minutes,
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all right, So Father Sparago says in his explanation of the Catechism this we're
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now on chapter seven on the absence and loss of faith. Very interesting.
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I was just writing an article for this on this very subject for Missy Oday.
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You'll read it on Thursday if you are signed up for my newsletter through
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Substack The Uncensored Catholic I sent it out to everybody, or you can read
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it on missi Oday's site. Faith is the road to Heaven. Unhappily,
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there are very many who are wanderers and strangers to the Christian faith. Those
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who do not possess Christian faith are either one heretics, or two infidels.
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That strong language we don't really use anymore, but it's very accurate, and
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we really should speak in those terms. One Heretics are those who reject some
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one or more of the truth revealed by God. Heretics are those who hold
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some of the doctrines revealed by God and reject others. Those who induce others
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to false belief are called leaders of heresy or arch heretics. It is always
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pride that leads them away from the truth. Among these arch heresies was Arius,
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a priest of Alexandria, who denied the divinity of Christ and was condemned
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at the Council of Nicea in three twenty five, Macedonius, who denied divinity
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of the Holy Ghost and was condemned in the Council of Constantinople in three eighty
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one, And most importantly to us in this ten time, Martin Luther,
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who assailed the divine institution of the papacy and the right of the Church to
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teach. King Henry the eighth King of England, who threw off the authority
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of the Pope and proclaimed himself the head of the Church of England because the
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Pope refused to declare invalid his marriage with the Queen Catherine Dolinger, who was
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a professor at the University of Munich and was celebrated for his literary labors.
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But on definition of infallibility, the Pope refused to accept the dogma and was
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excommunicated. He died in eighteen ninety without being reconciled or giving any sign of
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repentance. Dolinger was the chief mover in the establishment of the sect of Old
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Catholics most I mean, you know, these days we don't really say that
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Martin Luther and King Henry the eighth were heretics and that their churches they founded
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are heretical. But it's truelute because they were checked the treats of Christ and
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his Church. And if we could be a little more, you know,
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we have to be charitable and speak reasonably with people, especially Protestants, when
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we're trying to bring them into the Catholic Church, but when we have that
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knowledge that their doctrine is heretical and ours is true and the only true Christian
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doctrine, because there's only one truth, unchangeable, and it's the one given
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to the church by Christ two thousand years ago. Not something Martin Luther came
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up with five hundred years ago. Unchanging throughout time, we can have the
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confidence to stand our ground. And you know, like another one of those
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uh when someone says something crazy like about aliens and such as that being the
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true founders of our religion and you know all that crap that really comes from
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the Masonic order that I mean, that's which comes from the Gnostics. I
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mean, I could, you know totally just prove this stuff in an instant,
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But the onus is not on me to disprove. The onness is upon
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them to prove it, and they can't do it. Well. The same
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thing when a protest says, well the Bible says this, or where does
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it say that in the Bible? The Bible doesn't say what the Catholic Church
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teaches you say, so what where does the Bible say? It's the sole
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authority. Who do you think gave you the Bible? As Father Spirago said,
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Jesus did not commission writers, He commentioned preachers and teachers. He did
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not leave us a Bible, he left us a church. As Saint Augustine
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said, I would not believe the Bible were true unless the Holy Catholic Church
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tell me so. Most of the founders of heresy were either bishops or priests.
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They are like coiners of false money who put into circulation worthless metal in
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place of the pure gold of truth, or like a dishonest traitors who mix
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the pure wine of the Gospel with some injurious compound. They are murderers of
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soul, for they take the men away from the road that leads to eternal
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life, and tempt them into that which leads to eternal death. It is
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of them our Lord says woe to them by whom scandals come. And again,
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beware of false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep,
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but inwardly they are ravening wolves. I mean. Always remember, Protestants may
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have a very strong faith, and they love Jesus, but the founders of
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their church are exactly those people Jesus just described. And they are heretics,
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and their doctrine is heretical. And we can gently lead them into the fullness
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of the truth, but only if we have the confidence so to do.
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Their object is not to spread faith in its purity, but to satisfy their
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own evil inclinations. Their pride their sensual desires or their love for money.
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Their religious teaching is only a cloak for these. They look out for the
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weak side of human nature as Satan does. Thus loose their attempted princes with
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the churches and monasteries, and priests with the bate of marriage. To the
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class of heretics belong all those schismatics who accept a professor or who accept a
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profess to accept all Catholic doctrine, but would not acknowledge the supremacy of the
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Holy See. Thus, the Greek Church is a schismatical church, though its
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denial of papal infallibility constitutes constitutes it sense of Vatican Council heretical. Also,
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that's a very difficult sentence to say. Basically, he's saying Greek Orthodoxy is
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heretical because it denies the authority of the Pope. Heresy is one of the
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greatest of all sins when it is not the result of invincible ignorance. Saint
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Paul writes to the Galatians that if an angel from heaven preach to them any
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gospel different from that that they had received, he was to be anathema or
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a cursed saint. Jerome says that there is no one so far removed from
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God God as a wilful heretic. At the same time, he who lives
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in heresy through ignorance for which he himself is not to blame, is not
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a heretic in the sight of God. That's what I was just trying to
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explain about how most Protestants don't know their doctrine's faults. Thus, those who
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are brought up in Protestantism and have no opportunity of obtaining sufficient instruction in the
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Catholic religion are not heretics in the sight of God, for in them there
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is no obstinate denial or doubt of truth. They are no more heretics than
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a man who takes the property of another unwittingly is a thief. Number two.
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Rationalists or unbelievers are those who will not believe anything unless they can perceive
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it with their senses or comprehend it with their understanding. Thus, Saint Thomas
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was an unbeliever when he refused to believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ unless
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he should put his finger into the sacred wind of Our Lord's hand and feet,
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and put his hand into his side. There are many in the present
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day. Like Saint Thomas, they will believe nothing except what they can see
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with their eyes or grass for their reason, all else e g. All
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mysteries of the faith, they reject. Unbelief, says Saint John Christostom is
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like a sandy soil that produces no fruit, however much rain falls upon it.
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The unbeliever does God the same injustice that a subject would do his king
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if he refused to acknowledge his authority in spite of the clearest proofs for it.
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Unbelief springs, for the most part from a bad life. The sun
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is clearly reflected in pure and clear water, but not in dirty water.
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So it is with men. A man of blameless life easily finds this way
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of the truth. But the sensual man does not perceive the things that are
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of the spirit of God. A mirror that is dim reflects badly or not
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at all. So the soul, which is a mirror on which the light
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falls from God, cannot perceive the truths of faith. If it be dimmed.
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By Vice UH Part two, a faith, for the most part is
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lost either one by indifference to the doctrines of the faith, two by wilful
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doubt respecting the truth of the faith. Three by reading books or other literature
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that are hostile to the faith. Four by frequently frequenting the assemblies of those
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who are hostile to the faith. Five by neglecting the practice of one's religion.
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He who, through culpable indifference, does not trouble himself about the doctrines
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of the faith gradually loses the gift of faith. He is like a plant
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that is not water to the lamp that is not filled with oil. Such
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men know that they are very ignorant of their religion, and yet they take
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no pains to get instructed. They are engrossed with this world. They never
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pray or hear a sermon, And if they are parents, they take no
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pains to get their children properly instructed. Perhaps they fancy themselves men of the
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Enlightenment and look with pitying contempt on those who are conscientious and earnest in the
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practice of their religion. I think that would oh, let's say, most
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of the political and legal and academic classes America, medical profession, most of
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the professional classes in America these days, would fall into that category. The
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body must be nourished, else it would perish from hunger. The soul must
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be nourished, else it too will perish. Its nourishment is the teaching of
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Christ. He himself says in his conversation with a woman of Samaria, that
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the water that he would give her I e. His divine doctrine, should
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be her well of water springing up into life. It's her life everlasting.
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And in the Synagogue of Kafarnum he said, I am the Bread of life.
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He that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on
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me shall neverffer thirst. That is why the careful instruction of children and converts
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is so all important. When converts fall away, the cause very often is
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that they have not been well instructed before their reception to the church. Very
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true, it's very hard to become Catholic by the way. You have to
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go through rcia and all kinds of stuff, because they want to make sure
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you really know what you believe before you join and accept it. The Catholic
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must not suppose that he is freed from the study of the doctrines of faith
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because he has been duly instructed in his youth. The plant must be watered
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even when it has grown up. The soul of the adult needs to renew
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its acquaintance with the truth of faith by hearing sermons, reading pious books,
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et cetera. Els it will soon lose the vigor of its faith. He
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who allows himself willingly to doubt any of the doctrines of the Church commits a
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serious sin against faith, and is sure, little by little to lose his
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faith altogether. Seeing that happen very I can't tell you how often I meet
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old folks who I'm a lapsed Catholic. Well, I you know, I
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was raised Catholic, I went to Catholic school, I went to a Catholic
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university. I was even in the seminary for a while. And now they're,
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you know, totally falling away. And it's a shame. And it's
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often to cause his politics. They become liberal Democrats and they've come to turn
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against the teachings of the Church. You cannot be a liberal Democrat and a
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Catholic. I'm sorry, it's not compatible. You cannot say killing babies is
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okay and be a Catholic. The house is sure to fall, of which
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the foundations are loosened. He who doubts any revealed truth seriously offends God.
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Sarah doubted God's promise that she should bear a son in her old age,
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and was reproved by God for her incredulity. Zacharias doubted the announcement of the
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Angel that John the Baptist should be born to him, and as a punishment
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for a time he lost the power of speech. Yet, doubts that come
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into our minds involve no sin if we do not willfully consent to them.
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If doubts come to any If doubts come into our minds, we should not
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argue with them, but should make an act of faith and pray for more
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faith. Those whoever, who are outside of the church and have not the
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faith, are bound if they doubt, to search and inquire until they have
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found the truth. With them, doubt is no sin, so long as
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their search after the truth is made in a spirit of humility and with a
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sincere desire to of the truth. In this way, John huss who disseminated
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the false doctrine over Bohemia, is said to have been corrupted by the works
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of the English writer Wycliffe. It was the writings of Luther that chiefly contribute
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to the apostasy of Calvin, and I've never known how to pronounce this guy's
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name. Zwingley z w I n g l I. Julian the Apostate ad.
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Three sixty three is said to have lost his faith by reading the writings
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of the heretic Libanius during his expedition to Nicodemia. In present day, the
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books against the faith are countless. Among the most mischief mischievous works are the
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works of Rousseau, Voltaire, Zola, Rinan, Gibbon, Ingersoll, Huxley,
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etc. Yeah. Yeah, most of the books you're encouraged to read
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in high school and college. You ever wonder why? Yeah? Yeah.
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The Church like a good mother, seeing how books dangers of the faith were
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on the increase, established in fifteen seventy one, the Congregation of the Index,
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through which the Apostolic See forbids to Catholics a number of books which are
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judged to be a source of danger to faith or morals. I am actually
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very much in favor of that. I mean, I do think the Catholic
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churches, I know the Catholic churches the authority to say, any faithful Catholic
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may not read this book because it's an evil book. It to be injurious
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to your faith. They also have the responsibility to do so. And people
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say, oh, I'm against censorship. I'm against censorship. We have a
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choice, be a Catholic and follow the teachers of the Catholic Church, or
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don't go to help. You know. Anyway, anyone who reads such books,
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prints them, or even has them in his possession without permission from ecclesiastical
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superiors incurs the penalty of excommunication reserved to the pope. Church doesn't really do
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this anymore. I think they should bring it back, is what I'm saying.
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However, is not incurred by anyone who reads such a book without knowing
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that it was forbidden. At one time all books had to be sanctioned by
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the bishop of the diocese it, but this was afterwards limited to books touching
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on religion. By these means, the Church sought to preserve the purity of
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the Christian doctrine. Many too, have lost their faith by habitually reading newspapers
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hostile to the faith. I see how our media has encouraged our culture to
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become opposed to all Catholic teaching. Nothing new. Father Sparago was talking about
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it in the eighteen hundreds, as the body cannot remain in health if it
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is fed with unwholesome foods. So the mind becomes diseased and corrupt. If
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a man feeds it with unwholesome and pernicious literature. The process may be a
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slow one, but is like the solid rock which wears away little by little
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as the drops of waterfall upon it. Now, just imagine Father Sparago in
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our time with rampant pornography, and that has been of the most negative deleterious
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influences on our society. I mean, if not the worst bad reading is
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like un wholesome unwholesome food which are eir long induced in sickness and even death
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among the enemies of the faith of the Freemasons in Protestant countries, they seem
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harmless enough. And many converts have belonged to the Masonic Order have borne witness
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that they have never encountered anything in it which was opposed either to the throne
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or the altar. But the real object aimed at by the leaders of Freemasonry
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is to destroy all authority that comes from God and all revealed religion. We're
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going to get into that a lot. The freedom of the Masonic Order is
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really dangerous and really behind most of the evil in this world. I mean
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they, I mean Masonic Order is Satanic. Their secret oaths of obedience,
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taken as it is without any reserve, is absolutely unlawful, and the symbolism
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of many of its lodges is grossly blasphemous and insulting to Christianity. The idea
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of Freemasonry is taken from the Masonic guilds of the Middle Ages, the members
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of which employed themselves in the construction of cathedrals and churches. It possesses to
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have for its object the construction of a spiritual temple to humanity and enlightenment.
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But Freemasons are invariably bitter foes of Christianity and of the Catholic Church. Everyone
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joining them is ipso facto excommunicated, and actually poke France has just reiterated this
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last month. Catholics may not join the Masonic Order, the two are completely
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completely at odds. But every person, every Catholic who joins the Masonic Order
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is ipso facto excommunicated, and the Pope alone can restore him to the membership
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of the Church, except at the hour of death, when any priest has
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the power to do so number three and this is the final point. We'll
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wrap it up here. All men who, through their own fault, die
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without Christian faith are, by the just judgment of God, sentenced to an
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eternal perdition. Unhappy are, indeed, are those who have not faith.
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They sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Our Lord says,
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he who believeth not shall be condemned. And again he who believeth not is
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condemned already. Of heretics, Saint Paul says that they are condemned by their
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own judgment. We ought to pray often for heretics and unbelievers, that God
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may, in his mercy, bring them to the true faith. All right,
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y'all, let's wrap it up there. Well, I mean there's a
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lot in there, and I mean a lot of controversial statements, So we're
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going to revisit this a lot. But I mean, Father Sparagas is so
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forcefully and plainly, I mean, I don't think anybody could misunderstand. So
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I think we can. Yeah, we can leave it there, and in
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the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and
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I will talk to you tomorrow.