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Show 250: Pilgrimages · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A. We all welcome this week's show. We will pick
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up where we left off last time. You may remember
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that various one or two, maybe three Protestants were questioning priests,
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fathers Rumble and Cardi about marriage and divorce. And the
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priests have been explained to them that marriage is a
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permanent union and sacrament of the Church, and divorce is
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not allowed to Christians. So the questioner asked for posits.
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States I guess Christ allowed divorce for one reason. He said,
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whosoever shall put away his wife except for fornication maketh
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her to commit adultery. And they answered, Christ allowed permanent
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separation if adultery be committed, But he does not allow
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divorce and remarriage in the sense you intended. When he said,
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whosoever shall put away his wife except for cause of fornication,
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maketh her to commit adultery, et cetera. The sense he
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intended was this, whosoever shall put away his wife. I
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am not speaking of mere separation without remarriage, for that
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is lawful in the case of fornication. But whosoever shall
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put away his wife, he that marries her commits adultery.
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This is the only possible interpretation in the light of
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the parallel passages. Thus, Saint Mark records Christ's words absolutely,
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whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another commit
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adultery against her. That's Mark ten two. And Saint Luke
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also we have the words without any parentheses. Everyone that
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putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery. And
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he that marrieth her that is put away from her
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husband committeth adultery. That's Luke sixteen eighteen. Saint Paul tells
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us clearly a woman is bound by law as long
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as her husband liveth but if her husband dies, she
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is at liberty liberty First Corinthians seven thirty nine. For
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a Christian, then there is no such thing as divorce
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and remarriage whilst the first partner is still living. Attempted
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remarriage results in a sinful union. Only you can have
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divorce and give up Christianity, or you can have Christianity
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and give up divorce. You cannot have both, and that
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is so well put just. I guess yesterday I was
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communicating with someone in Portugal, and they were talking about
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how it's like to grow up in a Catholic country.
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It's so incredibly different than you know, my experience. I mean,
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when I converted to Catholicism, I was in the eastern
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part of North Carolina while I was going through the process,
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and then just after you know, it starred in Virginia.
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Then I went home to the mountains and had some
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family issues and had to go take care of the
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family farm in the eastern part of the state and
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take care of my grandmother. And at that point, this
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would have been right around two thousand and four, the
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Freemason still ran everything in that county and in the
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surround in ten counties, I mean seriously, and the Klan
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was still very much a force, and I had to
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keep it quiet that I had converted to Catholicism. If
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anyone saw me wearing a crucifix, or if put up
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a statue the Bleased Virgin Mary in the yard or something,
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or if I set a prayer for a meal and
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crossed myself, I mean, I had to do that very
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subtly and kind of secretively, because they would literally come
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burn the house down. I was. I mean, it must
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have gotten out somehow in some way, probably a relative
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said something to somebody else, and I was run off
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the road twice, almost killed another vehicle, forced me off
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the road into a ditch twice. Good Baptists and Presbyterians, right,
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they would kill you. Okay. Since that time, while that
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county has still remained intensely Protestant, in that entire area,
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the entire region of the state, not only have more
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Catholics moved in and are being more accepted, but the
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Protestant churches are shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. And the
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reason is divorce. Divorce breaks of the family. People relocate,
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people remarry, They stopped taking the kids to the same
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church that they grew up in, etc. They're not sitting
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on the pews three generations together, and the kids aren't
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brought up in going to church and they don't return.
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So literally, as the pre see, you can have Christianity
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or you can have divorce. You cannot have both. And
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it's amazing. You know, the whole area of the state
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was a Democrat stronghold, and I always say that, you know,
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the k Klux Klan was the military arm, militant arm
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of the Democrat party and the Freemasons. Now almost the
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entire part of that state of the state, in that
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area vote solidly Republican. They have lost their control. And yeah,
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I mean there's still areas like you know, probably Bladen
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and County. Well, I mean the church is basically closed down.
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There's a beautiful Lady of the Snows was a really
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tiny little parish and everything. Now the priest is over
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in the next county in Whiteville, and I think he
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maybe comes over one day a week to do a
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Spanish language mass for the folks that work at the
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Smithfield pork Plant. I mean there's like, yeah, there's actually
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perhaps not ironically, Jews have always been far more accepted
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in that part of the state than Catholics. Clan didn't
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much care about the Jews. I mean, you know a
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lot of Protestants have some kind of affinity with Judaism. There,
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some kind of fascination with it, I guess, I would say.
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And so, I mean the state centator from that part
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of the state was a Weinstein. You know, the biggest
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business owners in downtown and bankers and doc and such
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were Jewish and nobody bothered them. But yeah, they would
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kill Catholics. Literally. There's a book let. Me think it's
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got the stats, because I don't have them right in
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front of me. You can probably pull it up online,
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maybe an archive, or you know, just buy a copy
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or go to the library or something. It was called
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right from the beginning, and it's talking about, well, it's
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really a study of like in the nineteen beginning, late
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nineteen sixties, but definitely seventies and eighties, how in the
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conservative movement you had William F. Buckley Junior, you had
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Pat Buchan and et cetera, Brent Bozell. It was very Catholic.
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The people surrounding Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, the intellectuals
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of the conservative movement were very Catholic. And then you
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had the moral majority with doctor Folwell and all those guys,
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and the two kind of had a come together in
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sort of an uncomfortable union to work against our abortion
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and things we both believed in. And it's got the
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statistics in there about actually lynchings by the q Klux Klan.
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Everybody thinks, because this is what's been portrayed on television movies,
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that the Klan was going around lynching you know, black
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folks by the thousands. Very very untrue, very very untrue. Yes,
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they did lynch probably a few hundred black people which
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is horrible. They lynched thousands of Catholics. There was a
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massacre in Louisiana where hundreds of Catholics were killed in
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one day by the Klan. Our media has so misrepresented
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what the Klan was all about. They are intensely joined
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with Freemasonry. You know, you picture your clans when with
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his White Hood and they'll show a Confederate flag. That's
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not usually what they have. They usually don't have a
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Confederate flag. They have a Saint Andrew's cross, and Saint
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Andrew's Cross is the symbol of the Presbyterian Church. And
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if you look at the Freemasons, look at their lodges,
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you know, the Scottish right. The Klan was essentially a
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Presbyterian organization, with some crossover into the Baptist Church as well,
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the Methodists and all that, but following the Civil War.
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In its establishment, it was established by Presbyterians as a
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means to keep black folks and Indians under control. I mean, yeah,
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where I come from. You know, the Lumbee tribe. They
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had a shooting war with the Klan in the nineteen
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guests around nineteen seventy. I mean literally a bunch of
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clansmen came up down to Pembroke and a bunch of
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lumbies grabbed their rifles and shotguns and they just ran
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out there and started shooting at each other. For a while,
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there was no doubt they wanted to keep you know,
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racial minorities under control. I mean until recently, in North Carolina,
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till this last year, I think you had to go
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to your local sheriff to buy a pistol permit. Well,
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the history behind that. Your local sheriff was your top Freemason,
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your top clansman. He was, you know, a hardcore Democrat
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Masonic Order wearing his Masonic ring, and he kind of
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ran the county along with your local judge and your
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DA and you know mayor and all that. Unless you
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were a member of the Masonic Order, unless you went
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to their Protestant churches, unless you were white, you probably
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didn't get that permit. Well, and that kind of changed
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over the years gradually, but it then became sort of
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like unless you put a political contribution in the sheriff's
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pocket or i mean his campaign find or his party,
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you didn't get a pistol. And they finally said, you know,
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that's unconstitutional. So I mean, that's how powerful it was.
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But you really need to understand, you know, all the
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movies you watch with all the scary clansmen and the
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true stories of horrible things they did to black folks
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and such, no doubt about that. Eighty percent of the
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people they lynched were Catholics, a very small number of
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Jews usually in this like when in the Civil Rights
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protests when Jewish folks were coming South to kind of
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help fighting as segregation. Now for you know, one hundred
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years plus, the majority of folks of the Klan lynch
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were Catholics. So yeah, incredibly different than say Portugal, but
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they were losing their power mainly due to divorce. And
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how ironic is that? I mean, is that not amazing? It? Sometimes?
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You know, God doesn't work fast. It has taken five
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hundred years from the Anglican Church being founded on divorce
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and Martin Luther's and you know, he didn't really prove
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a divorce. He preferred adultery, ambigamy, and Calvin and Knox
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saying divorce was just fine with them, just amazing, just
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amazing anyway, all right, So the person says, civil law
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admits divorce and remarriage and the precinctsor civil law and
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divine law are not always in harmony. Politicians at times
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exceed their powers and make laws which are contrary to
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those of God. Thus they have legislated concerning matrimony with
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no reference to the will of God, who raised the
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marriage contract to the dignity of a sacrament. The person says,
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your law imposes a great hardship upon the innocent party,
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and the answer, it is the law of Christ, not
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a law made by the Catholic Church, and it is
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at times hard upon the innocent party. But since when
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were we dispense from the observance of God's laws on
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the score that obedience to them is inconvenient? The person
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asks what can one do if the husband is absolutely
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impossible to live with or is guilty of adultery, and
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they answer Brutality, cruelty, and ill treatment are lawful grounds
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for separation, as also adultery if it has been condoned.
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If it has not been condoned, you know, in some
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cases a spouse can consent, like an open marriage, that
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kind of thing which is still adultery. But anyway, but
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this separation does not break the bond of marriage. Death
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alone can do that, and neither is free to marry
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again whilst the other is still living for grave reasons.
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A Catholic can obtain an ecclesiastical permission to have the
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separation rendered legal by a civil decree of divorce in
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order to avoid legal difficulties, but this must be on
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the understanding that such a decree leaves neither party free
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to contract another marriage whilst the other party is still living.
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And the person asked, are there not many cases in
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history where the pope is granted divorce and permission to
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remarry for various reasons? And they answer, you would find
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it very difficult to prove one such case. Many decrees
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of nullity have been issued, but they are not divorces.
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That's annoyment. By the way, annoyment and divorce are incredibly different.
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As I have mentioned before, my parents are annulled. Why
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is that, Well, my dad was married once before he
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married my mother. Therefore, in the eyes of the church,
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their union was never valid. So I mean he was
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also you know, not a great guy, let's just put
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it that way. And so when she'd converted to Catholicism,
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she went and asked the priest, and the priest asked
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the bishop, and they said this should you know, should
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be no problem because he was married before. Therefore your
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marriage was never a valid marriage in the eyes of
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the church. Just fill out the paperwork and it will
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go through the channels. And she did, and they granted
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an annoyment. Now, had been his first marriage, she would
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have had other very reasonable grounds. The annoyment still would
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have been granted without a doubt. So anyway, he said, yeah,
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many degrees of nullody have been issued, but they are
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not divorces. Yet. Even supposing that you could prove that
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some individual pope had granted such a divorce, that would
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be no argument against the doctrines of the church. It
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would but prove that such an individual pope acted against
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his conscience and against the teachings of the Church. And
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appeal to the lapse on the part of an individual
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pope proves nothing against the Church. You cannot disprove a
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law by pointing to a criminal who has broken it.
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The Catholic Church has always taught the divorce of a
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true marriage with the right remarry is not allowed. All right,
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And we'll actually have more on this. Like I said,
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Protestants are obsessed with divorce. They actually make a far
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bigger issue of divorce than they do the Holy Eucharist.
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They just love their divorce, m m m m, as
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Chris Plant always says, because they're Protestants and they love
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them some divorce. All right. So let's get to Father
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Spirago's book, Exhaustive Explanation of the Catechism the Catholic Church,
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and we are going to talk about the subject of pilgrimages.
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And pilgrimage is very interesting and very often misunderstood outside
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of Catholicism. Not many people do them anymore, but at
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one point, gosh, specifically, I've been thinking about the Middle
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Ages when Europe Western Europe was entirely Christian, and they
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would fight against each other. There were knights, and knights
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were paid to fight against each other, and they would
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kill each other, and then the night would come in
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and go to confession. The priest would often say, your
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penance is going to be to walk barefoot from England
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or Spain to Jerusalem, making certain prayers and different shrines
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along the way, and protect the other pilgrims as you go.
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That's pretty huge, huge penance. You know, these days we
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might get you know, a couple of hell Mary's or
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as one of my priests, I go to a confession,
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he says the same thing, no matter what, to every
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single person that walks in there. If you see someone
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who needs some help this week, could you try to
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give them some help? And like, yes, Father, thank you.
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And I mean that's a you know, compared to walking
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from France to Jerusalem, that's a pretty darn light penance,
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I have to say. Anyway. Pilgrimages are journeys made to
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a sacred place where God oftentimes vouchsafes vouchsafes to give
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miraculous assistance to the suppliant. The Jews were accustomed to
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make pilgrimages on the three principal solemnities of the year,
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the pastial Feast, the Feast of Weeks, and the feasts
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of tabernacles. All the men had to go up to
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the Temple of Jerusalem. Thus we read that our Lord,
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when twelve years old, went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem,
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moved two forty one. The place of places of pilgrimage
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are either holy places in Palestine, spots sacred to the
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Holy Apostles, apostles or shrines of the Blessed Mother of God.
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The principal places of pilgrimage in the Holy Land are
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the Scene of the Crucifixion and the Holy Sepulture on
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Calvary at Jerusalem, the place where Christ was born in Bethlehem,
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and the Place of the Annunciation at Nazareth. The Church
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of the Holy Sepulture is situated on Mount Calvary. It
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consists of three separate churches, called, respectively, the Church of
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the Crucifixion, the Church of the Ascension, and that of
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the Invention of the True Cross. All are under one roof.
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The early Christians journeyed hither in great numbers. In order
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to deter them from doing this, the Emperor Hadrian erected
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a heathen temple in the Holy Places. About one hundred
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years after Our Lord's death, about the year three twenty five,
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the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, discovered across
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the christ and gave a fresh impetus to pilgrimages. The
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Emperor Charlemagne erected a hospice close to the Holy Sepulture
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for the accommendations of pilgrims to Jerusalem. In the ninth century,
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the Saracens conquered the Holyland. Muslims the Crusades undertaken to
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recover it from them, or nothing less than heroic pilgrimages,
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and that is something we really need to be much
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more proud of as Catholics. The Muslims are kind of
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in the area of like you know, modern day Israel
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and Palestine really didn't prevent Christian pilgrimages. For the first
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few hundred years of Islam. They profited off of it.
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They were kind of glad to have the money in commerce, right,
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And then came sort of a militant rise of Islam again,
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and they slaughtered and tortured people to death for sport,
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captured them as slaves. And so the differing countries of
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Christiendom gathered together and formed an army and went and
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freed the Holy Land from the Saracens and made it
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safe once again for Christians to travel to the Holy Land.
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And it was a great noble feat. It was not
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what's taught in schools, okay, I mean it was you.
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There's another wonderful book. It's called Bearing False Witness. It's
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written by a Protestant historian dispelling all the false charges
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or most of the main false charges against the Catholic Church.
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And he talks about how wonderful the Crusades were, and
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now we should be so proud of it. And he's
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a Protestant, but it's not what you're taught on television
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or in school, is it? Wonder why that may be? Well,
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in the fifteenth century, pilgrimg's to the Holy Land again
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became frequent, But in Luther's time the number of those
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whose piety prompted them to undertake what was then a
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long and toilsome journey greatly diminished. The principal places of
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pilgrimage in honor of the Holy Apostles are the Tomb
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of the Princes of the Apostles in Rome and the
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tombs of Saint James at Compostella. The remains of Saint
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Peter rest in the Church of Saint Peter in Rome.
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Very true. People disputed that for years. When they renovated
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Saint Peter's they found his tomb, his bones, his grave
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under the altar at Saint Peter's. That's been absolutely proven
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to be true. And that's another claim that Protestants. Peter
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was never in Rome. Well, yes he was. We have
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historical documents of witnesses at the time of his crucifixion,
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and martyrdom in Rome, and we know where he was buried,
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and we know they built a small church over those remains,
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and now that's Saint Peter's. So anyway, Saint Peter's the
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largest church in Christendom of worldwide renown. It was one
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hundred and ten years in building and was finished in
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sixteen twenty six. The remains of Saint Peter's are laid
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in the church dedicated to him outside of the walls
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of the city. I'm sorry, the remains Saint Paul. I'm
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going to say the remains Saint Paul or laid in
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the church dedicated to him outside the walls of the city.
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Some of the principal places of pilgrimage sacred to the
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Mother of God or Lords in France, Loretto and Italy,
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Maria Zell and Hungary, Einsilden in Switzerland, I cannot remember
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how to pronounce this al Toting Altoting in Bavaria, and
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Kevalier in Ryeland. I'm not super familiar with those, honestly.
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Lords is situated in the south of France, on the
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slope of the Pyrenees. It was there that in eighteen
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fifty eight, the Mother of God appeared in a grotto
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to a little peasant girl named Bernadette, and intimated to
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her desire that a church should be built on the spot,
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and that pilgrimage should go thither in procession. Our lady
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proclaimed herself to be the Immaculate Conception. From that time forward,
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a spring has flowed from the grotto of water, which
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has been the means of healing for thousands of sick persons.
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No less than one hundred and twenty thousand bottles of
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this water are annually sent out to all parts of
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the world. Now this is written in the eighteen nineties.
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It's kind of amazing, and the number of pil pilgrims
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who visit the shrine can only be counted by the
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millions They come from the remotest quarters of the world.
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Loretto and Inconia has since twelve ninety five possessed the
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Holy House of Nazareths, where our blessed lady lived. This
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lowly house was seen in the year twelve fifty two
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by Saint Louis and Nazareth. Forty years later it appeared
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suddenly at the Tersato in Dalmatia. Thence it was miraculously
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transferred to Anconia and finally found permanent resting place at Loretto.
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That's just amazing, isn't it? He says. There is no
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doubt that it was carried to these various spots by
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the Angels. An altar, which was miraculously conveyed thither at
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the same time, is supposed to be that upon which
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Saint Peter offered the holy sacrifice. The statue of Our Lady,
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which stands on the altar, carved in cedar wood, three
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feet in height, is said to be the work of
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Saint Luke. A spacious church has been erected over the
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Holy House. Copies of the latter have been made and
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are seen in several places. At Loretto, Pope Pius, in
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his youths, was cured of apoplexy. The most imminent states
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of saints are known to have made pilgrimages thither. I
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love that word thither, and the number of pilgrims who
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visit it yearly is computed at five hundred thousand. The
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place of pilgrimage, known as Maria zell Owes its origin
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to the Bigot addicting monks. About the commencement of the
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thirteenth century, attention was attracted to it by the miracles
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wrought there on. Kings the first of Hungary built a
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large church at Maria Zell in thanksgiving for the victory
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he gained over the Turks in thirteen sixty three with
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an army immensely inferior number, which he attributed to the
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intercession of Our Lady. Ainsldem was originally the humble dwelling
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of a hermit, Saint Minrad. Oh, I know quite a
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bit about that, a big, big connection with Saint Hildegarde.
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There in my book History of Christian orbal Medicine you
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can read the whole story of Saint Minrad. Anyway, In
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eight sixty one he was slain in the forest Solitude
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by robbers. Later on a church. Later a church was
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built on the side of his hermitage, in which the
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ancient and venerated image of Our Lady was preserved. While
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the bishop who came to consecrate the church was washing
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in the sacred edifice during the night preceding the appointed day,
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he beheld Our Lord himself perform the ceremony attended by
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saints and angels amid the chanting of celestial choirs. In
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consequence of this vision, both he and his successors in
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the sea with the papal sanction, desisted from any attempt
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to consecrate the church the circumstances it was already consecrated
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by Jesus. That's why the circumstances, together with the canonation
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of Minrad, whose remains were interred in Einsildelm, and numerous
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miracles which were brought there, brought the spot to great
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repute as a pilgrimage. During the French Revolution, the church
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was burned down, the miraculous image alone escaping injury. The
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shrine at Altoting, I guess dates from a somewhat earlier period,
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the church having been built by Saint Rupert the Apostle
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Bavarian seven hundred I've been in eighteen. Monastery was afterwards erected.
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There thousands of pilgrimage pilgrim's visit. The shrine, that of
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Kevalier on the Rhine, was built in sixteen forty two
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by a citizen of Geldern, who, while at prayer, heard
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a voice commanding him to raise a sanctuary in honor
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of our lady. The number of pilgrims, principally from the
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adjacent country who annually visit Kevalaire is also very great.
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I don't know a lot about that one. The object
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for which, as a rule Christian people visit places of
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pilgrimage is to beseech the divine assistance in the season
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of deep affliction, or to fulfill a vout. When Don
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Bosco was cruelly persecuted on account of his efforts to
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instruct neglected youth at Turin, and he was at a
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loss of what course to pursue, he made a pilgrimage
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and obtain the aid he sought in an unexpected and
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marvelous manner. God hears our petitions more quickly in places
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of pilgrimage. They are the audience chamber of the King
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of kings, their graces or lavishly bestowed. Many sick persons
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make a vow to undertake a pilgrimage if they are
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restored to health. The number of ex votos on the
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wall of these sanctuaries afford evidence of the frequency with
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which the suppliants obtain their cure. A visit to some
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place of pilgrimage leads many to complete amendment of life.
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The pilgrima, on his way to a shrine, forgets his
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worldly cares and is more diligent in prayer. When he
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arrives at his destination, he makes his confession to a
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strange priest, and, under the influence of the Holy Spirit,
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make perhaps a better confession. Pilgrimages are the work of penance.
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They are fatiguing and often expensive. We are also public
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professions of faith, for no one would undertake them without
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deep religious convictions. Thus, many actual graces are obtained by
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the devout pilgrim. In former times they were frequently enjoined
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as penances. Sometimes, indeed, they were abused and made occasions
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of sending more freely hens to saying, the more of
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a pilgrim, the less of a saint. But what is
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in itself good must not be rejected because it's sometimes abused.
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Who would condemn the use of wine because occasionally a
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man gets drunk. Baptists, mostly Saint Jerome, says it is
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it is no great praise to have seen Jerusalem, but
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is very great praise to have offered pious and devout
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prayers within its walls. We will wrap it up there. Yeah,
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that's interesting, And next time we're going to get into
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the way of the Cross, with which is almost if
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you think about it, a pilgrimage. You can make spiritually
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every day a very good practice to do three o'clock
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after your Divine Mercy chaplet. It only takes a few minutes.
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You know. It's a real easy devotion and a very
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efficacious one. Y'all have a great week and I will
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talk with you next time.