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Show 134: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 18 INDESTRUCTIBLE AND INFALLIBLE. · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We are going to
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just jump right back in. We're still in a section of radio replies where
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an Anglican is really grilling the priest Rumbling Cardi. You may remember one of
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these two Catholic priests is a convert or was a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism.
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So he's very conversi into the subject and it's a very interesting conversation.
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After that, we're going to get into Father of Spirago's work on the Catechism,
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and this is one of the most important topics. Really. The Catholic
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Church is indestructible and infallible. Only one Christian church in the entire world can
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claim to be indestructible and infallible, and just you know, this is really
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important. So let's go ahead and start with the Anglican here, who says,
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would you say that the Archbishop of Canterbury is preaching an anti Christian doctrine?
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And they reply, he preaches the Doctor of the Church of England as
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he understands it, and being in good faith, no fault probably attaches to
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him. But the real question is are the doctrines of the Church of England
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anti Christian. The reply is not in every single matter. Various groups within
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the Anglican Church have kept some parts of Christ's teachings intact, but in many
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things all Anglicans reject certain doctrines without warrant. The present Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury
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is of course a heretic and a schismatic. Objectively, Catholic bishops throughout the
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world will enter into no official relations whatever with those Anglican bishops who have appeared
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on the scene since the sixteenth century. The person says, are not Anglo
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Catholics passing slowly into Catholic ways. And that's one thing you should know about
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Anglicanism. There are some Anglicans who call themselves Anglo Catholics. I mean they
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belong to the Anglican Church but are more Catholic in their beliefs. Oftentimes it's
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actually used as sort of a slur in Anglicanism, especially since the church went
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very liberal in the sixties and seventies and eighties and on through. I mean,
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first they said they had to ordain women. I mean that broke off
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any chance of the Anglican Church reconciling with the Catholic Church. Now they have
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gay priests and bishops a performed gay marriages. They've gone very very socially liberal,
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but also very supportive of communism, Marxism, very supportive of abortion.
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So usually when when an Anglican calls someone an Anglo Catholic, they're actually using
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it as a put down. They're saying that person is old fashioned and too
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conservative. Presumably in the nineteen forties when this book was written, it had
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the opposite meaning. It meant someone who was more true to church teachings.
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Interesting, huh, well, they answer, why should they have to do
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so? If the Anglican Church is right and has ever been right, has
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always been right. But even so, Anglo Catholics are not passing to Catholic
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ways. The Catholic way is obedience to the god given authority of the Catholic
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Church, and Anglo Catholics are as far off from that as ever. Person
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says, they are practically the same in their services, and they answer,
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this is really important. This is a big misunderstanding among Anglicans in regard to
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Catholicism. The precinctor. They imitate many of our external practices, but even
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this attempt is in defiance of their own bishops, nor does their imitation of
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Catholic worship make them Catholic. That's the important part. If some stranger were
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to were my double in appearance, that would not make him my blood brother.
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The only way to be Catholic is to be one. We went from
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God by disobedience, and the only way back is by obedience. Obedience is
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the very essence of religion, and is obedience to the Catholic Church in belief
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and practice, which makes a man a Catholic. All right, It seems
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like a good place to leave it today as we get into our next subject,
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which is the indestructibility and infallibility of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,
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the one Church founded by Jesus Christ himself, the one Church originally governed
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by the Apostles, the Holy Apostles, and the only church that has existed
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intact, unchanged, visible as a shining city set upon a for all ages,
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for the last two thousand years and will until the end of time.
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The Catholic Church is infallible and indestructible. Will start with the indestructibility of the
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Church. The Catholic Church is indestructible, ie will remain till the end of
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the world. For Christ said the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it
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in Matthew sixteen eighteen. Hence there will always be popes, bishops and faithful
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and God's revealed truth will ever be found in the Catholic Church. The archangel
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Gabriel announced to Mary of his kingdom there shall be no end Luke one thirty
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three. The kingdom of God on earth is the Catholic Church. It's the
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church he established as the church to which he appointed officers. The church,
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says Saint Ambrose, is like the moon. It may wane, but it
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shall never be destroyed. It may be darkened, but it can never disappear.
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The bark of the church, says Saint Anselm, may be swept by
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the waves, but it can never sink, because Christ is there. Of
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all the persecutors of the Church, none has succeeded against it, and some
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have come to a fearful end. This is really interesting, Actually, this
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is something I don't think many Protestants really think about. Beginning with judas those
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who persecute the body of Christ don't end up very good. Well, let's
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say, well, okay, yeah, we'll begin with Judas. This is
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where Father Spiago begins. Judas's end is the type of his imitators. Judas
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is believed to have committed suicide. There are actually kind of two accounts in
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the Bible of his death. One that he fell from what they hanged himself
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the owes they fell and his guts burst open. Probably both were true.
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Maybe he hanged himself and the rope broke after he died, and when he
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fell he split open. I have no idea, but anyway, he did
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kill himself and had no hope of redemption. Someone made a really good point
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this morning. I think it was Philip Hayden with Missy O'Day. He said,
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if Judas had gone to Jesus on the cross as he was being crucified
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and repented ask forgiveness, Jesus would have forgiven him from the cross and he
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would be in heaven today. Imagine that. But before Judas, Herod the
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Murder of the Infants in Bethlehem died of unspeakable tortures. So too the other
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Herod, the Murder of Saint James, was devoured by worms. The pilot
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was banished by the Emperor to Vienna in France, and there he took his
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own life. That's your ponscious pilot also killed himself. During the seas of
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Jerusalem, one million Jews died of hunger and sickness or in battle. The
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city itself was reduced to ashes, and some hundred thousand Jews carried any activity
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traditionally that has been seen as a temporal of a physical punishment for crucifying the
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lord the tyrant Nero, who persecuted so many Christians Simmi martyrs and Nero was
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deposed and in his flight from Rome was stabbed by a slave. Diocletian came
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to a shameful end. Before his death. His family were sent into exile,
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his statues destroyed, his statutes destroyed, and his body attacked with a
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loathsome disease. Julian the Apostate was struck down in the field of battle by
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a lance, and his last words were Galilean, thou hast conquered. The
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case of Napoleon. This is really interesting our textbooks trying to make a hero
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of Napoleon. He was no hero. He says. The case of Napoleon
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is instructive. He kept Pious the seventh a prisoner for five years years.
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He himself was a prisoner for seven years. He imprisoned the pope. Okay,
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I mean he was not a good guy. He himself was a prisoner
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for five years. We seven years in the castle at Fontainbleu. He forced
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the Pope to give up the states of the Church, promising him a yearly
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income of two million francs. In the same place, he himself was forced
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to sign his abdication and received a promise of a yearly income of the same
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amount. Four days after giving the order to unite the states of the Church
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with France, he lost the battles of Aspern and was at Erlin. Gentle
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believe he answered the excommunication launched against him, saying that the words of an
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old man would not make the arms drops from the hands of his soldiers.
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This actually happened in his Russian campaign. From intense cold, they couldn't hold
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their guns anymore. And the same day on which Napoleon died at Saint Helena,
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Pious the seventh was celebrating his own feast day at Rome under the French
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have a saying, whoever eats of the Pope dies. It was really tragic.
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I mean, you know, like I said, not a good guy,
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but what his enemies did to his wife and child were actually pretty horrible
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anyway. The same fate is shared by founders of heresies and enemies of religion.
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Arius burst asunder in a triumphal procession. Arius was a heretic that said
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that, you know, Christ was not truly God and truly man. Voltaire
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died in despair. Yes, that's true. Many of the great heroes that
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you'll be taught in school today like Voltaire. Oh gosh, there's another one
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right on the tip of my tongue. Yeah. A lot of the atheist
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philosophers went insane, died of madness or suicide despair. Uh. These facts,
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and many more of the same kind, illustrate the words of the Holy
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Writ. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
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God. When the Church is in greatest need, Christ ever comes to its
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help, either by miracles by raising up saintly men. The appearance of the
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Cross of the Heavens, for instance, seen by Constantine in his army,
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brought the Christian persecution to an end. The Church, says, Saint Jerome
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is like Peter's bark when the storm that means a ship essentially okay. When
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the storm is at its height, the Lord awakes from his sleep and commands
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peace. It is peculiar to the church, says Saint Hilary, to flourish
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when persecuted. Persecution, says Saint Augustine, served to bring forth saints to
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the church, as well as to eve were spoken in sorrow, shalt thou
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bring forth children Genesis three sixteen. The members of the church increase under persecution.
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The church is a field fruitful only when torn up by the plow,
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or it is a vine stronger and richer for being pruned. This fire is
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spread by the wind. So has the church increased by persecution, said Saint
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Rupert. Persecution purifies the church. Even if millions fall away. It is
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not a loss, but a cleansing. The time of persecution is usually a
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period of miracles attesting to the divine origins of the Church, as in the
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Babylonian captivity, they attested to the truth of the religion of the Jews.
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How often have Christians come unhurt out of boiling liquid like Saint Cecilia, or
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remain unharmed in the midst of flames like Saint Polycarp, or been thrown to
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beasts and received their homage like Saint Venantchien. The N A N T I
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U s venentious. I guess facts like these forcy enemies of the Church exclaim
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Mighty indeed is the God of the Christians. The Church comes triumphant out of
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every persecution. Easter always follows Good Friday. But a few years ago the
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bishops in Germany were cast into prison, the religious orders driven out, and
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the administration of the sacraments in part forbidden. At present day, the number
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of Catholic members at the Reichstags over one hundred. The Catholic journals have increased
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from four to five hundred. Yearly congress. Yearly congresses take place, and
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all kinds of unions for Catholics are formed, while Catholics themselves are stauncher and
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more self sacrificing. Yes, the eighteen nineties was a pretty dark, good
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time to be a Catholic in Germany. Then came the Communists, and then
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came the National Socialists and the atheists that took over. Well, that's a
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pretty good example, isn't it. In a time of persecution, the Catholic
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Church flourished a time of peace. Evil and wicked men took over Nazis,
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Hitler Catholic churches, and a great deal of persecution in Europe. Right now
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again, maybe we're nearing a more fruitful time. We can only hope.
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The more battles Church has to fight, the more her powers are developed,
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and the more she is oppressed, the higher she rises. In the words
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of Pope Pious the Seventh, such a privilege belongs to no institution save the
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Church, and by that she may be recognized as the offspring of God,
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the bride of Christ. Now, as for the infallibility of the Church,
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God has planted in our hearts a longing for truth which must be satisfied.
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Our first parents had no difficulties to face in the search for truth. In
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the state of innocence, says say Thomas, it was impossible for man to
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mistake faults for true ever since the fall to heirs human. However, God
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sent an infallible teacher, his only begotten son, that man might again find
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the truth. Hence the words of Christ a pilot for this. I came
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into the world that I should give testimony to the truth. That's John eighteen
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thirty seven. Christ was to be a light to our understanding, our understandings,
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darkened as they were by sin John three p. Nineteen. As Christ
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was not to remain always on earth, the appointed in another infallible teacher his
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church, and provided with necessary gifts, especially those especially with the assistants of
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the Holy Spirit. Christ conferred upon his apostles and their successors the chief teaching
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office and promised them his divine assistance. Thus he said his decision into heaven,
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going teaching all nations. Behold, I am with you all days,
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even until the consummation of the world, yess Matthew twenty eight, nineteen and
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twenty Yes, Jesus guaranteed promised to his apostles that he would be with them
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until the end of the world. They would have his authority. Well,
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they obviously did not live forever. Actually, most of them died martyrs.
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Most of them were killed for their faith in Christ. He gave them the
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power to bind and loose, to appoint successors. And Jesus will be with
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the successors of his apostles, the bishops and priests, and the Pope of
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the Catholic Church even until the end of the world. No other denomination,
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no other religion on earth, has that authority. And at the Last Supper.
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He said, I will ask the Father, and he will give you
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another paraclet, that he may abide with you forever the spirit of truth.
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To Saint Peter, he said, the gates of hell shall not prevail against
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the Church. Since Christ is the son of God, his words must be
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true. If the Church, in carrying out her teaching office, could lead
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man to error, Christ would not have kept his word he had. Saint
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Paul caused the Church the pillar and ground of the truth. Many prosidants will
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say, we believe in the Bible. Only you say what does the Bible
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say about that? They'll say, the scripture is good for all instruction.
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Yes, true is good for all instruction. But what is the actual Bible
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say? Is the pillar and ground of the truth or the pillar and found
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the truth? Which is my translation says that's from one Timothy three point fifteen,
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and it's the Church and the measures decide upon. The apostles and the
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Council of Jerusalem were introduced with the words for half it has seemed good to
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the Holy Ghost and to us. That's Acts fifteen twenty eight. That means
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the apostles had the full authority of God to speak it is no recent belief
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that the Church is infallible. Long ago Origin writes as in the heavens there
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are two great sources of light, the Sun and the moon, which borrows
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its light from the Sun. So there are two great sources of our interior
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light, Christ, the Church Christ, and the Church. Christ is the
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light of the world. He shares his light with the Church, and she
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enlightens all the earth. In the words of Saint Irenaeus, where the Church
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is, there is also the Spirit of God. Those are I think the
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first and second century, so I mean they were basically contemporary with the Apostles,
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like one generation after. I mean, people will say, well,
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that's a long time. No, No, here we are in America still,
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you know, reading the Constitution of the United States and talking about what
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our founders intended, and that says, you know, real and commonplace to
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us. As the teachings of the Apostles were in the first and second third
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centuries, the Catholic Church is infallible in her teachings, i e. The
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Holy Spirit assists the Church in such a manner that she cannot err in preserving
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and announcing of revealed doctrine. Just as our reason previns us from making statements
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which are contrary to certain fundamental truths. So the Holy Ghost exerts his influence
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to prevent the Church giving any decision contrary to the truth caught by Christ.
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The infallibility of the Church is not in any way like that of God with
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God, for she attributes it not to herself, but to God's special providence
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over her. The Church delivers her infallible decisions through general councils and through the
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Pope. In every kingdom some court is established for the settlement of doubtful cases.
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It is evident that the all wise God must have instituted such a tribunal
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in his kingdom. And this tribunal is the general assembly of the bishops,
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For at his ascendant to Heaven, he gave them the power to teach and
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promise them immunity from error Matthew eight eighteen through twenty. Hence the expression of
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Saint Cyprian, the Church is in the bishops. Now, since the bishops
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cannot always assemble together or account of their duties towards their particular dioceses, some
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other tribunal must exist with power to give infallible decisions. This tribunal is the
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pope speaking ex cathedral. The priests have not this infallibility secured to them,
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though their services are indispensable to the bishops in carrying out the teaching office.
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Priests, when present in the assemblies of Bishops, are so as counselors,
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but without any deciding vote in the question of itsas iteration. So soon as
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the Church defines the question of doctrine, everyone is bound before God to submit
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under pain of excommunication. A general council is the assembly of bishops of the
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world, presided over by the Pope. The apostles in the year fifty one
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held the first Council of Jerusalem and an owls their decision is as coming from
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God. Of the first four general councils, Saint Gregory the Great asserted that
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he held them in equal honor with the four Gospels. Since the Council of
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Jerusalem, there have been twenty general councils assembled. The first of these was
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held in Nicea in the year three twenty five to repel the Aryan heresies.
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The following are especially worthy of note. The third Council of Ephesus in four
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twenty five, where Mary was declared the Mother of God. The seventh General
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Council or the second of Nicea in seven eighty seven, where the veneration of
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images was declared lawful. The twelfth General Council or fourth Lateran in twelve fifteen,
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which imposed the obligation of Easter commit union. The nineteenth General Council at
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Trent in fifteen forty five, occasion was occasioned by Luther's heresies, the twentieth
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General Council of the Vatican in eighteen seventy, where the infallibility of the pope
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was defined as article faith. The presence of all the bishops is not required
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for a General Council, but the greater number of them must be there.
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Nor is the unanimous vote in any way necessary to secure a definition. A
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majority of votes approaching more or less to unanimity is quite sufficient. Thus in
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Vatical Council. Thus, in the Vatican Council, five hundred and thirty three
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bishops voted for the definition of papal infallibility to vote against, and fifty two
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were absent from the meeting. Nor is it necessary that the Pope should preside
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in person. He may act through his legates, as in the third and
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first, third and fourth General councils. All that is necessary is that the
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Pope should approve of the decrees of the councils. Others besides bishops, have
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a vote, such as cardinals, generals of the religious orders, and all
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who have episcopal authority, as in the case of many prelates and abbots.
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Suffragins have also a vote when they are summoned. This happened in eighteen seventy.
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The General Council only settles questions after mature consideration, relying generally on the
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teachings of the Catholic Church in the early ages. Besides general councils, there
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are national councils or assemblies are the bishops of a nation or a kingdom under
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their primate, and provincial councils or meetings of the bishop and dignitaries of a
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district under the archbishop, and finally, diocesan synods or assemblies of clergies under
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their bishops. Such assemblies have no claim to infallibility. Remember that you know
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this synod on synidality new claim to infallibility. Now the pope is always infallible.
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But Pope Francis has not said anything specifically on morals and doctrin he says
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a lot of questionable things. It should be treated with respect as the pope.
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But he has not made any ex cathedraish statements that have changed or altered
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in any way Catholic teachings on morals and doctrines. People say he has,
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he really hasn't. He's given his opinion on things, and he said people
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need, you know, should be more charitable and more kind, and you
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know all that, But he has not changed Catholic teaching in any way.
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He clarified the words of the Lord's Prayer the Our Father. That's been I
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mean, many religious figures about history have said that that needed to be done
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for a long time. You know. Somebody finally got around to it.
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But that's it. And even that isn't He didn't say we couldn't pray the
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old version anymore, you know, so he didn't really change anything. The
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general consent of the bishops all of the world confirmed by the Pope is also
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infallible. This may happen when the pope asked their opinion on questions of doctrine
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and morals. A case of this kind happened in eighteen fifty five. The
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Pope sent round the various bishops of the world to ascertain the feeling of Christians
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at large in regard to the immacticlate conception of Our Lady. As nearly all
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replies approved of the doctrine, it was solemnly defined as faith. This consensus
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of the bishops, though living apart from the time, was infallible because the
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Holy Spirit is not confined by limitations of place. Nor was the solemn declaration
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necessary. It was quite sufficient that all the bishops did teach in the same
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sense in regard to any given subject, to make that teaching infallible where it
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otherwise the Church would be capable of teaching heresy or falling away from the truth.
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And Savatican Council declared not only that not only must that be accepted which
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has been solemnly defined by the true Church, but also whatever is proposed by
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the lawful and general teaching authority. The Pope makes an infallible definition when,
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as a teacher and guide of the Church, he proposes to the universal Church
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a doctrine of faith or morals. These are called doctrinal That's what I'm saying,
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Pote Francis, you know, as questionable as some things he says and
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does, may be has not done anything to change the doctrine of the Church.
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The Vatican Council in eighteen seventy decreed that all doctrinal decisions of the Pope
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are infallible. This is the logical consequence of the words of Christ to Saint
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Peter. Thou art Peter, And upon this rock I will build my church
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Matthew, sixteen eighteen. If the foundation of the Church were to fail,
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it would not be a rock but Quicksand moreover, Saint Peter was appointed shepherd
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of the apostles by the faithful and the faithful by these words of our Lord.
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Feed my lambs, feed my sheep John twenty one, fifteen seventeen,
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and received the power to confirm his brethren in the faith in Luke twenty two
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thirty two. If then the post were to teach error, our Lord's promise
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would have come to nought. Decisions in matters of doctrine were held in the
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greatest reverence from the earliest times. When the Roman See condemned in four seventeen
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the errors of Pelagius, Saint Augustine cried out. Rome has spoken, the
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cause is at an end, and Saint Cyprian says no heretics can gain admitutes
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to the Church. Even general councils call the Bishop of Rome the Father and
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Teacher of all Christians, Council of Florence, etc. And the Roman Church
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the mother and teacher of the faithful Council of later and etc. Of course,
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the church, understood here is the teaching the hearing church, having no
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claim to teach the pope. The Pope must be infallible. For this reason
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too, he has full power to govern the church, for with his power
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as necessarily linked the authority to teach. For with his power or is necessarily
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linked the authority to teach. The supreme teaching office of the Church involves infallibility
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in accordance with the divine promise of the assistance of the Holy Ghost. In
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consequence to this, the decisions of the Pope are infallible of themselves, quite
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independently of the consider of the bishops, where it otherwise, the rock or
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successor of Saint Peter would derive its strength and solidity from the building raised upon
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it the church. It would, however, be quite wrong to assert that
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the Pope is infallible in all things, for he is a man and can
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make mistakes as other men in writing, speaking, etc. He can also
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commit sin as other men, and unhappily, some popes have led very scandalous
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lives. When the Pope gives a decision on a doctrinal matter, it is
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Christ who keeps him from error by the agency of the Holy Ghost. Moreover,
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the bishops are always consulted before any such decision is given. Addresses to
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Pilgrim's letters to Kings and Princes, the brief Suppression of the Society of Jesus.
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The Jesuits seventeen seven three are not infallible pronouncements. Doctoral decisions are usually
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accompanied by a sense of excommunication against those who refuse to submit to them.
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Hence, such decisions are binding for all Catholics. Although the Pope is infallible
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his solemn decision, general councils are not, for that reason superfluous, for
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they confer a greater external solemnity on the Pope's decrees, and the teachings of
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the Church can be thoroughly examined in these assemblies. Hence, these general councils
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may, under certain circumstances, be necessary as well as useful. In other
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words, you know, even the Pope needs to discuss things with the bishops.
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And he goes on to say even the apostles held a general council at
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Jerusalem, though each single apostle was infallible in his office as teacher. And
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one last point on this, and it is the Church pronounces infallible judgments in
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the following cases on doctrines of faith and morals and the meanings and interpretation on
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the Holy Scripture and tradition and their interpretation. Okay, so, for instance,
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when the Church put together the Bible, that's the Bible, Martin Luther
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didn't have any right to stript books out of or to change the words of
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Jesus. When some Protestant tells you the King James Bible is the only Bible
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they believe, you need to explain to them that's not the real Bible.
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That's a fake Bible. It's an incomplete Bible at the very best. It's
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also full of errors, and it's had thousands of corrections since its first publication.
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If, for instance, the Church declares that punishments of hell are eternal,
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the declaration is infallible, for it is made on a doctor of faith.
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Or again, if it declare that the observation of Sunday is a command
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of God. The declaration turns on the teaching in regards to morals and is
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therefore infallible. Yes, Christians go to church on Sunday. Why do Christians
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go to church on Sunday. Well, it's the day Jesus rose from the
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dead. It's the logical consummation of the Law of Moses. Jesus died for
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all the sins committed under the law, and even after for all sins of
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mankind, laid in the tomb during Saturday, and rose on Sunday, giving
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us a new world and new religion, a new man. But even were
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that not the case, he gave his authority to the Catholic Church to say
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Christian worship should be on Sunday, and any church that says it shouldn't be
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like the Seven day Adventists, toward observe it, and all that don't follow
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the teachings of Christ much less as church. They don't believe in his authority,
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because to believe in his authority is to believe in the authority he gave
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to the apostles and their successors. Christ made a special promise to his apostles
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that the Holy Ghost should teach them all truth. Now, he said that
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to the apostles. He didn't say that to everybody who just picks up the
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Bible and reads it. By the way, he said that to the apostles,
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says Sean sixteen thirteen. If it were true that everybody could read the
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Bible and begud in all understanding by the Holy Spirit, there wouldn't be up
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to fifty thousand Protestant nominations, each of whom disagree with each other, and
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all of whom reject the Catholic Church. Because there's only one truth. I
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mean, even if you got you know, totally rejected the Catholic Church.
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The very fact that Methodists and Presbyterians don't agree on anything would disprove that tenant
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of Protestantism, and it is one of Martin Luther's key beliefs and has led
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millions of people astray. In other words, that the Holy ghosts would teach
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them all truth bearing on religion, and that religion included morality as well as
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belief may be gathered from the words of Christ, just as before his ascent
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into heaven. He said, going therefore, teach ye all nations, teaching
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them observe all things. Whatever I have commanded you Matthew twenty eight, nineteen
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twenty. He didn't say give him a bible, he said teach him.
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And with regard to this last order, promised that the assistance he promised in
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the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and consequently consequently infallibility. Since the Church
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derives her doctrine from two sources, holy scripture and Holy tradition, it must
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be infallible in its interpretation of both. You see, Protestantism entirely rejects Holy
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tradition. Even though Saint John in the Bible said Jesus taught so many things
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they couldn't be written down in all the books of all the earth. I
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mean, if they've actually believed the words of the Bible, they'd have to
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believe that He taught things that aren't recorded in the Bible. They reject the
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tradition handed on to us from the Apostles. Moreover, it is certain that
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the Catholic Church is infallible when it declares that any given opinion on faith or
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morals is contrary to their revealed teaching. As also in the Canonization of Saints,
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it is the common opinion of theologians that the Church is infallible and judging
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whether a proposition is opposed to revealed teaching. If, for example, the
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Church were to condemn the assertion that man is the offspring of a pair of
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apes contrary to revelation, it would be acting quite within the limits of its
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infallibility, and on a subject most intimately connected with revealed doctrine. If the
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church can see the truth, that must say also be able to recognize error.
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From the earliest time, the Church is condemned error, whether taught by
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writing or by word of mouth. At the Council of Nice in three twenty
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five, the errors of areas were condemned by the bishops. Up to the
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present day, the Pope has continually condemned books which have attacked faith and morals.
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We need a lot more of that. By the way people say the
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free speech absolutists really make a huge mistake. There are any such thing as
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moral and illmral. It can only be decided by an infallible church. And
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the church says the writings that teachings of that book are immoral, then the
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faithful needs listens to its church. It's not the job of a government,
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but it is of a church. Any mistake can either be atifying. Let
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me see, any mistake can either be atifying or canonizing seems well nigh impossible,
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even when on natural grounds, grounds on account of the strict examination assisted
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on it's not easy to get declared a saint. That's what he's saying.
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By the act of canonization, the ve veneration of a saint, and so
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to a certain extent, the acknowledgment of the church's belief in him is imposed
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on the faithful, and he is then officially recognized in the church's offices,
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as in the Mass and the brevery Breviary. Hence, if anyone not a
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saint were declared holy, the whole church would approve an error. Such a
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supposition is impossible. Benedict the fourteenth declared his own experience in a case of
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the assistance of the Holy Spirit in removing insuperable difficulties which beset a process,
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or, on the other hand, in breaking it off entirely. Finally,
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the Church, in its decisions, whether it beatification or canonization, is dealing
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with things which have the closest connection with the doctrine of faith and morals.
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All right, y'all will leave it there today. You may be able to
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tell. Allergies are horrible for me right now, the pine pollen. It
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looks like smoke outside. So if I sound a little nasally or had to
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clear my throat a few times, I hope you'll forgive me. Let's remember
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the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and
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I'll talk to y'all next time.