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Show 148: WHAT COMMANDMENTS (OR LAWS) HAS GOD GIVEN US? · The Uncensored Catholic

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A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I'm so glad I actually
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get to do a third show this week. You know, that's what I
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always shoot for, it's three or four shows a week. But the past
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couple of months things have just been crazy. I mean, oh, I
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had a bad viral bronchitis, and it was really difficult just to even do
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one show a week, and then deadline on book, deadline of magazine articles,
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various dog had a stroke and that was very stressful. But this week
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things have actually come together. Thank God, I'm able to do regular shows,
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and I'm excited to announce we're going to start a new chapter of Folar
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of Spiago's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church, and it will begin the Ten
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Commandments. You know, if you know your catechism, it starts with the
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Creed explaining what we believe and why and all the implications, and then you
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get into the commandments, the moral doctrines of the Church. And this is
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not dry to all stuff. For the Father of Sparago. You're going to
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have insights like you've never had before. I love his book. You know,
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I'm really beginning to think that the late eighteen hundreds may have been my
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favorite era for at least more modern Catholic writing. I mean, you've got
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Saint Terisilisso's a story of a soul. You've got fallow of Sparago's exhawesome Catechism
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of the Catholic Church, and one that I'm probably going to actually start on
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after I finished the Catechism. It's a really controversial book. It's a fascinating
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book. It's the end of this present world and the mysteries of the life
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to come, by Father Charles old Gully. It's a French name. How
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you pronounce it, i'm in, i'mignan probably i'mignan a m I n j
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o n. It was a very influential book on Saint Teresolaso and it talks
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about the end times and the Catholic teaching on the end times, plus the
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nature of heaven and hell and purgatory and all kinds of stuff. But the
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main thrust of it is, you know, armageddon and the end times,
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right, and it is probably the best book written on the subject. Now.
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Of course, I enjoyed Scott Hans's book The Lambs Supper, and there
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have been much you know, many more recent books that have been very good
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to me. Though this is the classic, and it was basically forced out
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of print after Vatican Two. It was considered not to be ecumenical enough.
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You know, Catholic teaching has traditionally held that the Antichrist will be Jewish and
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that they will believe him to be the Messiah, and he'll perform miracles through
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the power of Satan, and then he'll be killed by God and the will
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convert to Catholicism before the end of the world. Okay, apparently that's not
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considered politically correct anymore, and there's some other points in there that you can
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understand while they would be just say, not politically correct. Now, I
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certainly do not believe that's the reason to throw out one of the greatest Catholic
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works of all time, especially as it was such an influence when Saint Teresa
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was so who has been called the greatest saint of the nineteenth century. Definitely,
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I mean, it's right up. Her other big influence was the imitation
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of Christ. Nobody doubts the positive influence that the Imitation of Christ had on
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her, but she actually spoke about equally as much of the end of this
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present world and the mysteries of the life to come. And I think it's,
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like I said, it's gonna be a little controversial, but we're gonna
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you know, take everything, see everything in the context of the time it
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was written. And you know, I always say in my podcasts and in
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my articles, we are so not at the end times. I mean,
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the end times started with the you know, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
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Okay, so, but to God, a thousand days is a day,
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and a day is a thousand years. Is as a day and a day
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is a thousand years. The signs of the actual end of time, you
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could say, they've been occurring, you know, earthquakes and various astrological phenomenon
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since the crucifixion of the Lord. Right, But like the conversion of Jews
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to Catholicism, the rise of the actual Antichrist, the one that will actually
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perform miracles and such, not there yet. Things are bad and they're going
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to get worse. But and remember the Blessed Mother said that she'll lead the
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Muslims to convert to Christianity, to Catholicism. Actually, all Protestants will convert
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to Catholicism. Now we are so far away from that. I'm sorry.
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If you think we're the end of times, go listen to any Protestant minister.
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They're not Catholic. They have not converted yet, trust me, especially
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those that talk about the end times all the time. They just have divorced
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themselves from history and doctrine, the teachings of the Apostles. You know what
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Jesus taught the Apostles that he that they then gave to the Church through sacred
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tradition. They're so divorced from it that they read the Bible and they think,
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oh, that's happening right now. Well, actually people have thought that
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for hundreds of years, and we've got at least hundreds of years to go,
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and yeah, we're not there yet. So in many ways, this
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book's going to give you a great deal of comfort in that regard, and
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other parts of it's going to scare the crap out of you. I mean,
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honestly, when he starts to get explaining describing what hell is actually like
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and such, trust me, you're not gonna want to go there. Okay,
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but this is like, you know, real hardcore pre vaticant to Catholicism,
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and I love it. And I think you're gonna love it. And
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it's just a shame, you know. That's the thing about like Father Sparago,
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like the Father Charles Armagnon, like Saint Teresa Lessoua, or the Imitation
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of Christ. For so many of the older Catholic writers, they were very
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blunt, they were very straightforward. They said exactly what they meant, and
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you could understand it the way person the uneducated could understand what they were saying.
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Now, Catholic books, especially and anything issued from the Vatican is written
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in such convoluted, ridiculous language that basically two people can read the same document
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and understand two different things. And I think they do it purposefully. I
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don't think they're necessarily trying to confuse people. They just don't have the guts
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to say what they mean. You know, they didn't. They don't want
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to offend anybody. I mean, it's ridiculous, and that's one of the
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main reasons I do this prob cast. It's the uncensored Catholic. I don't
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purposely offend anyone, but I don't pull any punches, and I don't use
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big words that no one understands unless you have you know, been to a
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Catholic college and gotten a degree in theology. If I do need to use
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a big word, I then define it for you. There's no reason that
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a simple statement or a letter from the Vatican, letter from Pope Francis,
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should be so difficult that people should have to sit there with a dictionary and
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the code of canon law and be flipping back and forth trying to figure out
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what the heck he means? And now does he do it purposefully? Do
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they do it purposely the Vatican? I think probably Otherwise we're in worse shape
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because I mean it's everything is so ambiguous and confusing, and that's not the
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way things are supposed to be. I mean, that's really you know,
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Jesus criticize the religious scholars of the time for making things overly complicated so that
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people couldn't understand them and follow the you know, pure faith that God had
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given them. So anyway, I think we need we need to get back
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to those basics. And if I don't know, if it's a matter of
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trying not to hurt people's feelings, a matter of trying to be politically correct,
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or these people that are in charge have are what's the old phrase educated,
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but beyond their capacity of understanding, educated, beyond common sense, beyond
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reason. You know, some of our greatest priests and saints, some of
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our greatest saints have not been greatly all that greatly educated. Yeah, I
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mean most of them got religious education such but it's fairly recent phenomenon that you
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got to a degree in psychology or something as well. And yeah, I
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think we have an over educated elitist class that's really doing more harm than good.
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And I would say that directly to the Pope or to the cardinal.
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I would say, look, common sense and truth hasn't changed since Jesus gave
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the commission to the apostles. Look At how plain spoken the early church fathers
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were. Look at how plain spoken the Bible is. Look at how plain
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spoken the doctors of the church were. And now look at what you're issuing
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and that no one can understand. Who are you trying to impress? You're
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not reaching the common man. And if you want, you really need a
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clean house of the over educated people, educated beyond their ability to apparently communicate
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with people. I mean, what are they just trying to impress people with
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how big brains are? Trust me, people who are really intelligent, and
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I know some of the most I know some incredibly intelligent people. I've known
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some of the greatest thinkers in modern America. I mean just a friend I
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talked to regularly. I mean, he ran the French Stock Exchange, He
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ran the entire country economy of Monaco. He worked for the International Bankers Associated
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and Association and A. Rockefeller. He writes papers that tell the Federal Reserve
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what to expect and what policy to make. He was in the Reagan administrations.
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This guy's up in years right. This is one of the most intelligent,
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well men's, well read, studied, learned men in the field of
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economics at least, and he has many other interests, probably on Earth.
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I mean, the World Economic Forum does not move without reading his papers.
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And he's not of that mindset. He's a conservative, Republican Atholic actually,
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but they respect his work to that point. And I could sit down with
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him and talk baseball all day. I mean we when we talk economics,
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we're not quoting Adam Smith or von Hayek or something. And my backgrounds in
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economics as well, so we could and I mean we could talk about we
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can talk jargon, you know, and know exactly what each other is talking
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about. We don't do that. We sit there, you know, like
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two guys have a couple of beers and talk about real economic issues and real
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political issues. And you know, when another somebody else is in the room
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that has no economic experience or maybe isn't up on politics, they know exactly
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what we're talking about, and they engage in the conversation, and we don't
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act like elitists that exclude them. I'm certainly, I mean, I'm not
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even what we're near on his level. I mean, first of all,
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he's not acting like an elitist in excluding me, someone would far less experience,
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and you know, fifty years younger, and we don't act like elitists
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when you know, his neighbor comes by, who, I guess you just
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retired from the military, And I mean the Army's been his entire experience,
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his learning experience. You know, we'll talk baseball and barbecue and then we
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talk politics and economics like two regular guys. And if you can't do that
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as a priest, as a bishop, as a cardinal, as a pope,
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as one of the many bureaucratic figures in the Vatican, you're not reaching
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the common man. Who were you trying to impress? It's really ridiculous.
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So that's one of the reasons I like to get back to these early pre
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Vatican two books, and speaking of one that's not quite the eighteen nineties,
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it was written in I guess the nineteen thirties and forties. We'll pick up
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where we left off on radio replies and the questioner asks the priests or actually
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again, i'm just posits. I don't agree with any of these priestly CLIs
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anyway, The searchlight of modern science is gradually breaking them up. That's the
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modernist position that technology and progress is going to do away with religion. Right,
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they answer, the searchlight of science is doing good work and destroying superstition
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and showing the fallacies of false religions, which are due the natural instinct of
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religion all men, and in the ignorance of the true religion revealed by God.
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But sound science is doing a great work for the Catholic Church and helping
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many towards her. What is called modern science and thought keeps men away from
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the Catholic Church only when what is modern but not scientific is falsely supposed to
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be scientific, or when men in their attempts at thinking, mistake sophisms and
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fallacies for legitimate conclusions, and the person asks, are not your priests a
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great army of drones who neither toil nor spin. They answer that idea may
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arise in the minds of those who are not personally ask their service, but
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you cannot argue that because they do nothing according to your specifications, that they
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do nothing at all. Earthworms might similarly argue that men do nothing because they
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don't burrow in the mud. As they priests are regularly occupied in their own
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duties and studies, they would have less hours of employment in a worldly career,
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And if the Church allowed them to engage in a secular business, our
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Catholic people would be uncared for, and religion would become a mockery. The
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man whose slaves at some mechanical trade or in commercial office, with little opportunity
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for regular prayer or continuous study, is not the man to teach religion to
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others and to devote himself to the sanctification of their souls. The person asks
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do you think society will allow them to continue in existence despite their place in
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economics? And they answer, society has no say in the matter. For
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two thousand years, society the world has hated the Catholic Church and her priests,
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but society has not made much progress against the Catholic Church, nor have
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economies anything to do with it. The omnipotent power of God guarantees that the
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Church will last to the end of time, and as long as the Church
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lasts, the sacrifice of Mass will be offered, which means that there will
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be priests to offer that sacrifice. All right, now, let's get into
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the Ten Commandments from Father Spirago, and of course he's going to first of
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all explain what they are. What commandments or laws has God given us?
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As God gave fixed laws to the heavenly bodies, referencing a passage from Psalms,
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so he also gave commandments or laws unto men. God has given us
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commandments in order to make us happy in time and in eternity. God never
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commands anything except for the greater good of those whom he gives the command He
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only imposes laws on us out of kindness that he may have occasion to reward
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us. Heathen Sage says, outlaws, the human race would be no better
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than wild beasts of prey. The stronger, devouring and destroying the weaker.
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God has imprinted the natural law in the heart of every man. This forms
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the fundamental rule of human actions. A young child who has done something wrong,
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lied perhaps, or committed a theft, feels uncomfortable, frightened, or
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ashamed. Though it may have never heard of the Ten Commandments, it is
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conscious, conscious that it has done a miss. It is the same with
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the heathen, who knows nothing about God's commandments. Hence, we may conclude
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that there is a law of nature in every human heart, a law not
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written upon it, but inborn in it, an intuitive knowledge of right and
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wrong. Saint Paul declares that the gentiles do by nature those things that are
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required of the law or the Ten Commandments, enjoin, and consequently they will
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be judged by God according to the natural law. That's Romans two fourteen through
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sixteen. The characters wherein the laws inscribed upon our hearts may be obscured,
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but not obliterated. The Roman Catechism tells us that no man can be unconscious,
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unconscious in trouble, that word today of this law divinely imprinted by his
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understanding. The natural law teaches us the most important rules of morality e g.
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That homage is due to Almighty God, that no man may willfully injure
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himself. That we must not do to others what we would not have others
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due to us. Furthermore, from this moral code, certain inferences directly follow.
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These are the Ten Commandments of God, the observance of the Sabbath accepted.
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Thus, the natural law does not consist of a series of truths founded
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on reason, but is a deafinite expression of the will of God, which
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is binding upon us to obey, and of which in individual cases we are
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acquainted by means of reason, the consciousness of God, the consciousness of God's
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will is conscious. Hence, it is erroneous to say that reason is itself
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the law. In addition to this natural law, God gave to man solemn
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precepts, more especially the Ten Commandments and the two Precepts of Charity. These
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are known as the revealed Law. To the revealed law appertained one the pre
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mosaic law given by God to Noah and Abraham e g. He forbade the
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former to eat the flesh with blood in Genesis ninety four. Upon the latter,
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he imposed the law's circumcision Genesis seventeen eleven. The Mosaic Law which was
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given to the Jews from Moses to this below the Decalogue, the regulations of
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divine worship the civil law of the Jews. The Ten Commandments were not annulled
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by Christ Matthew five p' seventeen, but fulfilled, as the outline of a
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picture is not a face, but filled in by the painter. The regulations
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of public worship relating to sacrifices in the Temple, etc. Were abolished at
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the death of Christ, because the ceremonial observances of the Old Testament were merely
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typical of the Redeemer, foreshadowing they were a type of that's what that means.
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The civil law regulated the social relations of the Jews and was exclusively suited
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to the Hebrew people. The Christian law, comprising the two Precepts of Charity,
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is comprised of the two precepts of charity. This chiefly requires the practice
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of the works of mercy and interior spiritual worship John fourteen four twenty four,
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whereas the Jewish law ordained the performance of exterior acts and ceremonies. The Mosaic
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Law was written on tables of stone. But the commandment of charity was written
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within our hearts for the Holy Spirit, as Hebrews eight ten. That is
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to say, the Holy Ghost enlightens the understanding that we may perceive them,
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and influences the will that we may follow them. The former laws were imperfect
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Hebrews seven nineteen. The Christian Law is perfect, for obedience to it brings
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man nearer to his ultimate goal, which is eternal felicity or eternal happiness.
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The old law was given on account of its perfection through the medium of an
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angel. The new law was proclaimed by the son of God himself. The
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revealed law is nothing more than a repetition, an exposition, and amplification of
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the natural law. Because the mind of man, being darkened by sin,
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was no longer capable of discerning between good and evil, the natural law was
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explained and completed for him by God. Let us thank God for this,
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make for thus making his will plain to our understanding. Finally, God gives
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us commandments through his representatives on earth, through the ecclesiastical and secular authorities.
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These laws are called ecclesiastical and civil laws. The Church lays her behest upon
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us in Christ's name. He that heareth you, heareth me. He that
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despises you despiseth me. That's Luke ten sixteen. The secular authorities also derived
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their power from God, as Saint Paul tells us in Romans thirteen one.
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Now this is where I have to make the big caveat Father Spiago, of
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course wrote the exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church before the rise of Marxism.
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He saw it coming, he wrote about extensively. But the Bolshevik Revolution had
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not yet happened. The well, certainly, no, the Communists are not
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taken over China or Cuba. The National Socialist Workers Party had not taken over
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Germany. That's the Nazis. They are socialists or communists, if you want
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to split hairs, you know, there were not nations actually in the Western
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world. Even France in the eighteen nineties was you would consider it a Catholic
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country. And that's long after the French Revolution, which was really like the
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first Communist Revolution. The civil authorities of his time recognized Christian morality, and
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there was nowhere in Christiandom in the Western world, even though I guess you
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wouldn't necessarily still call it Christendom. At the time. But in England,
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in America, in any of the European countries, you would not have found
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legalized abortion. For instance, you would not have had laws like in Soviet
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Russia or China that made the worship of God illegal. You know, close
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burned down churches, put people in prison or killed them for trying to go
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to Mass or say prayers or have a Bible, much less the forced abortions
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in China, or the genocides of Russia, or the holocaust of the Nazis
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and the Soviets under Stalin. You know, when he when he's saying that
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civil laws are to be respected as through the given the authority behind them being
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the will of God, he was not talking laws imposed by anti God governments
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such as the communist governments such as the Nazis, such as American and Canadian
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government today, or English government today, which has laws on the books that
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are expressly against the law of God and punish Christians for simply exercising our faith.
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You know, people being arrested for praying the Rosary outside of an abortion
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clinic, for instance. FBI agents put in traditional Catholic churches to spy on
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people. That is the kind of thing the Soviets and the Chinese and the
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Nazis did, and we're doing it now in America and Canada and England and
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Sweden and Norway and Belgium, and you know, I can go through down
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the list those. We are only obliged to recognize laws which are in accord
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with Christian teaching. If the law of a nation says that abortion's okay,
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and the law all God says thou should not kill, we are not obliged
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to recognize the law of that nation, even though we live in that nation.
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We actually have the duty to be conscious objectors. In the eighteen nineties
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that wasn't the case, especially in Father's Baragos Czechoslovakia. I believe he was
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Czech, and he may have lived and written in Germany, but I believe
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he was check. So, yeah, this is a very different time,
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and I'm probably gonna have to emphasize that a few times throughout. Basically,
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it's said, you know, in the Bible says God gave them into their
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own devices. You would not think that the laws of Sodom and Gamara would
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be moral, would you, No, they weren't, and God destroyed Sodom
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and Gamara God has given us up to our own devices again by giving us
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the governments and the leaders we deserve because we've become such immoral people, and
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now we as Christians suffer under those that will continue throughout time, and when
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the Antichrist comes to power, Christians will be persecuted and slaughtered, you know.
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So there are the laws of the civil laws are not always of God,
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and many times we have to resist them. You know, we have
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to be conscience subjectors, we have to be abolitionists toward unjust, immoral laws.
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So anyway, but we're gonna read this in the context it was written.
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Uh. The ecclesiastical and civil laws are distinguished from divine laws, natural
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and revealed, in that the former governor govern our exterior actions and words alone,
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while the latter regulate our thoughts and desires as well. The laws God
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gives us by his representatives are, however, only binding upon us, provided
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they are not at variance with revealed law. That's exactly what I just said.
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Yeah, he always says it better than I do. That is no
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law which is opposed to the law of God. In other words, no
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legitimate law that opposes, no law that will proposes the will of God can
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be legitimate. That's the better way to put it. Wherefore, if we
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are commanded to do anything that God forbids, we ought to obeg God rather
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than men. That's Acts five twenty nine. Witness the conduct of the three
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children and of the seven Maccabees. The children, the children in the fiery
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furnace and the Maccabees. Maccabees belongs in your Bible. Trust me. If
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you don't have a Bible with the books of Maccabees in it, you don't
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have a real Bible. From the knowledge of the law comes conscious the consciousness,
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that is, whether an act is permitted or prohibited by the law.
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Our understanding indicates to us, in individual cases in which we are called upine
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to act, how to shape our conduct and conformity to the known law.
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Thus, by our understanding we attain to the knowledge of the law and our
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duty. This knowledge is called conscience. Conscience is therefore a practical act of
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the intellect. It also impels our will power towards what is good. Hence
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it is often called the voice of God within us. Conscience makes itself heard
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in the following manner before in action. It speaks either in encouragement or in
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warning. After the action it fills is either with peace or with disquiet,
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according to the action, according as the action is good or evil. Conscience
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filled Cain and Judas with unrest our. Conscience is either good or bad.
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A good conscience makes us bright and cheerful, what sweetens the bitterness of life,
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and it brings rest and contentment. A bad conscience makes us morose and
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ill at ease. It is a worm engendered by the corruption of sin,
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and this worm never dies Mark nine forty three. A bad conscience embitters all
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the joys of life. The man who has a bad conscience is like a
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condemned criminal, who, whatever the enjoyment's offered to him in his last hours,
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takes no real pleasure in anything. A man's conscience may be either tender
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or deadened. A tender conscience shrinks from the least sin. A deadened conscience
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scarcely heeds great sin. The conscience of the saints was tender. They feared
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to offend God in the slightest degree. The conscience of men of the world
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is deadened. It glosses over sins that are unquestionably mortal. Yet such men
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will sometimes attach great importance to trifles. They strain out the gnat and swallow
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the camel. As it says in Matthew twenty three twenty four. Thus the
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Jews who crucify our Lord would not go into the court of Pilot, lest
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they should be defiled John eighteen twenty eight. A man who is a tender
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conscience is called conscientious. The one whose conscience is blended is said to be
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without conscience. A man's conscience may be either lack unlacks, or unscrupulous,
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or timid overscrupulous, and Father Sparago warns against overscrupulosity. I think that's what
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you say it. He whose conscience is laxed persuades himself that the greatest sins
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are permissible. He will say they do not count. He will say to
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err is human. In consequence of his dissolute life, he no longer heeds
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the reproaches of conscience. In fact, he scarcely hears them. But an
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overscrupulous conscience, on the other hand, makes man see sin where there is
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no sin, like a timid horse that shies at a tree or a stone,
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thus exposing the rider to the risk of falling. So a scrupulous person
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imagines there is danger where there is none, and is liable to fall into
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disobedience and other sins Overscrupulosity does not arise from uny mis miss apprehension, but
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from an ill regulated mind, which has the effect of obscuring reason. Saint
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Francis de Salle says that it is a source of pride that its sources in
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pride. I should say the over scrupulous or timid. Thus they can never
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attain a high degree of perfection, not to dwell upon their doubts, for
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these are like glue or pitch. The more they are touched, the more
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they adhere to one. Saint Alfonsis bids us to contempt contempt, to dislike
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our scruples, and do that from which they would trust. The scruples must
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the scrupulous scrupulous should mistrust their own judgment and view of things. They must,
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in fact renounce them altogether if they are to get rid of their timidity.
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He who would do great things for God, says Saint Ignatius, must
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be aware of being too cautious. Had the apostles been so, they never
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would have undertaken the evangelization of the world. And of course, what comes
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to me having been to a Southern Baptist university. Is the Babtist say that
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it's a sin and drink alcohol even though Jesus made wine and drank wine at
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least at the Passover, et cetera, et cetera. That's being over scrupulous
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calling something a sin that's not a sin, and they actually it leads to
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bad stuff. I can tell you at said Southern Baptist university there was a
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lot of drug addiction and homosexuality and such, but boy, they didn't drink
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a beer. Yeah. Anyway, a man commits a sin if he acts
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against the dictates of his conscience. Conscience is nothing more than the law applied
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to a particular case in acting against our conscience. Therefore, we disobey the
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law even if we are under a mistake. For instance, if a man
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eats meat on Thursday, thinking it to be Friday, he commits a sin.
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That means, I mean, you know, okay, in Father's Barago's
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time, the Catholics were not allowed to eat meat on Friday. He's saying,
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if it was Thursday and you thought it was Friday, and you hate
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meat even though it was wrong day, but you thought you were committing a
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sin. You commit a sin because you did it by an act of will.
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That's you know. You'll have to think that one through on your own.
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But now we're not under that same regulation. But it's still good to
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abstain from meat on Friday if you can. God's commandments do not deprive men
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in any way of true freedom. They rather serve to make him independent of
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creatures. It is the sinner who falls under the yoke of an ignominious servitude.
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I said it ignominious. I've had trouble with that word in the past.
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You may remember where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty
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Sewod Corinthians three seventeen. Besides, liberty does not consist in the right to
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do whatever we will, but in whatever is permitted. The word is much
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abused in the present day. Many consider it to mean license, and they
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call the restraint which the laws impose on their evil work tyranny and despotism.
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Well, that was true in eighteen nineties. That's way more true now.
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Others think it signifies liberty for themselves in servitude for others. Hence we find
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so called liberals the most intolerant of mankind, and that certainly far more true
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now than it was in the eighteen nineties. You know what, wouldn't it
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be amazing to most people to realize that Sparago wrote that sentence in the eighteen
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seventies, eighteen eighties and publish it in the eighteen nineties. We should absolutely
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have that one plastered everywhere. We can put it across all social media with
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the source. Put it in your church pews, put it in your hymnals
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in church, in your missiles, and whatever you can find. Stick that
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in there. Hence we often find so called liberals the most intolerant of mankind.
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Let's put that again in context. Others think it signifies liberty for themselves
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and servitude for others. Hence we often find so called liberals the most intolerant
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of mankind. Source Father Sparago, Exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church. All
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right, yea, I'm gonna wrap it up there. Remember the words of
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Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and I'll talk to
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you next time.