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Episode 6: The Authority of the Church, part 1 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's
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Day weekend. It's now Monday and a beautiful, warm day in May.
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I can't complain about that, certainly. I wanted to mention one thing where
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we get into today's show. You know, from Mother's Day. I got
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my mother a few things. She loves strawberries. I got her several pounds
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of strawberries, some wine she likes. I cooked her a few meals,
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you know, that kind of thing. But the thing that I got her,
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it was almost an afterthought that seemed to really have pleased her more than
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any gift I've ever given her, was a bottle of blessed oil from the
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Association of the Miraculous Metal. I highly recommend this as a gift or for
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yourself. Beautiful glass bottle with a miraculous metal on it. It's been blessed
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by a priest, and it is a relic, a secondary relic of Saint
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Saint Catherine, is a labora. My French pronunciation is horrible, even though
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my heritage is about a third French. But anyway, beautiful, absolutely and
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seems to well, it's quite efficacious. We both use the oil and it.
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You know, she's also the patron saint of the elderly and infirm.
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Elderly and infirm, let me try to enunciate now, and she she was
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having a little nerve pain, it went away. I was having some allergy
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type issues with my lungs. They seem to improve immediately. So I think,
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if you have an elderly person in your life, if you have a
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sick person in your life, if you just need something for yourself, and
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of course you know, blessed oils are very repulsive to demonic forces and such
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very good to have. And the Association of the Miraculous Metals fantastic. You
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know, they send free Miraculous medals to people, and I mean that's really
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important and a great place for you to donate money too. Remember last show
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I said don't give any money to Catholic charities. Well, Association for the
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Miraculous Medal is really good and they have regular special masses where they will remember
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you and your intentions as well. They'll do that for free. You don't
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have to donate any money to them, but I think they're very well worth
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supporting. Another one I really like is the arch Confraternity of the Holy Face
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of Jesus. Fantastic. They're in France. I think it's the Saint Martin
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Saint Martin's anyway, they're the ones who run it. And the Holy Face
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of Jesus is a very important prayer. Our Lord said if we venerate His
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Holy Face and pray that the Golden Arrow of prayer and the Litany of the
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Holy Face on Sundays and Holy Days, that it would help defeat communism and
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atheism and blasphemy. And we really need that in our world today. There's
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another really great brown scapular charity. I will try to get that information for
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you next time. Nice quality brown scapulars and for like just a few bucks,
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I'll send you, like, I don't know ten or something. I
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mean, it's really good, you know. Scapular is a wonderful devotion,
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goes back to our Lady of Mount Carmel, and it's nice to have something
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to give to friends and family. So anyway, I think oh. I
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also wanted to mention another good one, which is Hands Together for Haiti.
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That's Father Hagen's charity where he actually works one on one with the absolute poorest
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of the Haitian people. He's feeding starving people and caring for the sick and
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educating children. And got to meet Father Hagen a few years ago, and
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he's very close with Christ. I'm telling you, the very gentleman with the
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eyes that you know, you just know they just kind of glow that spirit.
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And you know, as I come across other good Catholic charities, I
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will share them with you. You know. I do a little writing from
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Missy O Day. Missy O Day is a very good online Catholic publication.
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You know, they try to raise a little money from time to time for
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pro life causes and such, and maybe take a look at that. But
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anyway, I want to get in today's show. In my book, Confirmation
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and Autobiography of Faith, after somewhat briefly, I mean, and maybe about
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fifty pages giving my own conversion story, I really spend a lot of time
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on basic apologetics, basic defense of Catholic doctrine, and teaching, mainly mostly
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using the Bible itself and the writings of the early Church fathers. And really
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so much when we debate eight or when we discuss with our Protestant brothers and
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sisters, comes down to the issue of authority we know from whence the authority
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of the Catholic Church comes. Jesus nownted the Catholic Church. He said to
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Saint Peter, thou Art Peter, meaning the Rock. He actually said,
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Cephus, because he spoke Aramaic. If you ever get into a debate with
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a Protestant that they may kind of try to pull out that old canard off.
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Wait a minute. The rock in it was Petras. That is feminine.
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It couldn't be applied to Peter. It was a man. Actually,
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he said Cephas because he spoke Aramaic, and in Aramaic you don't have that
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gender issue. And it's actually far more clear that it was not a role
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it was. It was he was actually saying, and it's not it could
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not be applied to Saint Peter's faith, which we know at that point was
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a little if. He actually he actually said, you Simon bar Jonah,
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you Simon's son of Jonah, are now the rock. And upon this rock
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I found my church. He said, the gates of Hell will not profell
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against it. He said, those who hear you, hear me. Those
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who refuse to listen to me, refuse the one who sent me. I'll
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get the right quote here in a minute. I mean little bumfuzzled. I
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should say my tongues getting twisted or something. But anyway, I've done a
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lot of reading and writing today, and yeah, you know, your mind
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can get tired if you write a lot. But anyway, we know the
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authority of our church. God himself says that the Catholic Church speaks with the
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authority of God himself. Those who hear you hear me, the gates of
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Hell will not profell against it. The Catholic Church is protected from all error
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in matters of faith and doctrine in its teachings. And I mean all Protestants
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mostly, I guess, I mean all what would you say, mainstream all
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traditional Protestants believe that the Apostles were prevented from any error when they wrote the
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books of the New Testament. I guess some of them think they were only
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had that terrorism or that gift when writing the Bible, which makes absolutely no
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sense because Jesus commanded them and guaranteed ensured they're teaching against error. So let's
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deal with the issue of authority. You know, authority was a very difficult
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aspect for me to accept when I began learning about Catholicism, my upbring,
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my childhood, family issues and such. I was a bit of a rebel,
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you might say, but you know, it really is the central issue
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of doctrine. Essentially, if if I say to you something right, if
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I tell you something I'm saying, I'm giving you my word. I'm telling
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you the truth. If you believe in me, you can believe what I'm
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saying. If you think I'm a liar, you won't believe anything I say.
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When we look at by what authority one teaches, especially in the name
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of God, it really does all hinge on that. If you believe the
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apostles, you can believe the Bible. And if you don't, if you
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don't believe the apostles of Christ were writing in honestly what happened, you can't
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believe the Bible. You have no foundation for your Christianity. And if you
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believe in those apostles, you really should believe in the Early Church. The
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DK which is, you know, the Teachings of the Twelve is what it's
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called the first Manual of Christian belief in worship, written even before the Bible
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was finished. Saint John had not even written probably his Gospel, but definitely
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not the Book of Revelations. There were very likely several apostles apostles alive,
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and they gave their authority to the DK And whether they wrote it themselves or
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dictated of someone else, it really doesn't matter. It was their teachings and
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words that established Christians go to church on Sunday. This is what the euchurus
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means. You have to be baptized. You can't receive the Euchurus unless you've
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been baptized and have gone to confession. We pray you in the name of
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the Father and the Son on the Holy Spirit. I mean big stuff,
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and that's actually not in the Bible, of course. I mean the Bible
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isn't clear on everything. One of the biggest mistakes that Protestants make, and
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they're doctrine of soul, of Surtura or the Bible alone, is believing that
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everything Jesus said and everything important I guess that he and the apostles taught it's
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within the Bible. Well, the Bible doesn't say that. The Bible says
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scripture is good for instruction. It never once in the Bible does the Bible
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say the Bible is the sole authority. In fact, in the Gospel of
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John, it said, Jesus did many more things than this. That means
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said and taught many more things. So I'll give you one example. After
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the crustal fixion and resurrection, he was with the apostles for forty days before
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the ascension. The Bible is almost entirely silent about what he taught them at
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that point. Think about that, he said very clearly, after he rose
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again, he would teach them in much clearer language. He wouldn't speak comparables.
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More than likely in that period of time, he gave them all the
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rules and regulations for governing the church. He taught them everything about heaven and
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earth, and life and mortality. And the Bible is almost entirely silent on
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that. What does Saint John say? He said, Jesus did many other
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things, But it would feel more than all the books of the earth.
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Only what was included in the Bible was enough for you to believe. Well,
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what were you supposed to believe in? Well, you were supposed to
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believe in the words of Jesus. The teachings of Jesus as conveyed through his
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apostles, which is the Catholic Church. When you read the writings of the
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early church fathers, those like Pope Saint Clement of Rome, who was ordained
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by Saint Peter. When you read Wow, Saint Ignatius, Saint Justin Martyr,
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Saint Polycarps, I mean you really, they emphasize so strongly that you
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were to listen to your priest, You were listened to your bishop as if
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it was the very words of God, because God had given that authority to
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the Church. And as long as those and bishops stayed in communion, in
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agreement with the apostles, the Apostolic see the Seed of Peter, there would
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be no error. There would be absolutely no error. And in whether you
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want to go to the New Testament with like Saint Paul and all that,
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or to the early followers of the church, they condemned all schism, there
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was to be no division. Christians will be absolutely united in one church,
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one church only, not multiple churches, in one belief, to have the
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fullness of the truth as given to them by the apostles from God. As
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I said, only the apostles, only the Apostolic Church, only the Catholic
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Church is given the authority of God by God to speak for God as his
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representative on earth. If no other church that I am aware of actually claims
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that authority, Protestants will say that the Holy Spirit guides them in understanding the
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Bible. But there's only one truth, and there's only one God, and
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that truth is the same today as yesterday and for millennia and forever. The
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early Catholic Church being ensured in all truth by Jesus Christ teaching exactly what Jesus
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had just told them is the truest of all the churches. Any church that
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disagrees with the Catholic Church is actually, by definition wrong. You know,
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I was talking with someone earlier today and I said, think about it this
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way. I've written several books. I've written eleven books so far. I
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know better what I meant in my written words than anybody on earth. Someone
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else might read them and misinterpret something I said. If I sit down with
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someone and I take the time I take years to explain to them, word
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for word, exactly what I intended to write in that book, exactly what
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my meaning was, they will have a far better understanding of what I meant
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than anyone else who reads the book, especially someone who reads my book hundreds
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or even two thousand years after I wrote it. Do you really think that
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a modern writer, minister, Protestant, or you know, schismatic Catholic,
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if we want to look at it that way, no matter how well studied
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and educated they are, do you really think they're going to have a better
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understanding of what the author intended than the author himself or the person who he
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taught, especially two thousand years after the effect, after the fact, and
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usually especially if they don't speak the language. I mean, how many Biblical
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scholars actually understand the nuances of Aramaic? For it it's in the time of
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Christ, when it was the common language he was speaking to his disciples.
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They may understand Greek, but do they have as a full a knowledge of
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what was intended in the Bible as the actual authors themselves know. I don't
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care if they know Hebrew. I don't care if they know Latin. They
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don't know exactly what the apostles were told by Jesus, and what the apostles
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told those that they taught that wasn't even written down. I mean, don't
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you think someone would have said, well, wait a minute, you know,
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Saint Peter or Saint Jude or or you know, etcetera, etcetera.
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In discuss what says this, I'm having trouble understanding it. Can you explain
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it to me? Well, they did, and that's how we have the
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rich tradition that's known as the fullness of the Truth, just going by those
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Protestant principles of faith alone and the Bible alone has created tens of thousands of
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Protestant denominations, each of one who believes something distinctly different from each other.
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They all disagree, and yet there's only one truth. There's only one and
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that one truth is held by the one Church, is guaranteed from error in
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teaching on morals and doctrine by Jesus Christ himself through the power of the Holy
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Spirit. You know, Like I said, this is going to be a
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multi part series. I am going to quote some from the Bible. I'm
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going to quote some from the early Church fathers. I'm going to give my
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kind of commentary on it. Having been raised on the concept of the Bible
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alones, the soul authority sola scriptura, you can imagine how I was basically
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shaking my core before I converted to Catholicism to find out that Martin Luther had
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changed the very words of God and cut whole books out of the Bible just
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because they didn't agree with his doctrine. On what authority did he do that?
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He had no authority? Jesus didn't give him that authority. How is
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it any different from Martin Luther in what the fourteen hundreds to do that that
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it is some cult leader today, or like Joseph Smith to up and say
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I have a private revelation, I'm starting my own church. You would say
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to him, on what authority do you do that? Well, Martin Luther
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was kind of lucky because he lived in a time when most people were illiterate
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and they had no idea what the Bible said. They took his word for
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it, and he has literally led millions of people astray. I don't know.
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I mean, I know there are people have mixed opinions of him about
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him, but I mean he was not an honest man. He had a
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sham marriage with a nun just to cause scandal. He rejected God in his
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church. He set himself up as his own as his own authority. I
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mean, how different is that than what Satan did when he said he would
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refuse to worship God, but he would make himself his own God. He
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was obviously obviously an apostate. He admitted in his many writings that he suffered
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from severe depression, anxiety, and was an alcoholic, you know, you
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know, as an herbalist. We look at when they call him the Luther
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of medicine. He was name was Paris Celsus. He was a very rebellious
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type character. He was an alchemist. He wouldn't join any of the guilds.
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At the end of the day, he's buried in a Catholic church because
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he remained a faithful Catholic. He actually renounced all association with the occult,
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which was what you know, alchemy was sort of part of. And when
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someone referred to him as the Martin Luther of medicine, he stated publicly,
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he said, I will not burn with Luther. Honestly, if you read
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the writings of those two men, Paracelsus Bombastist Theophrastus von Hohenheim was an towering
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intellect that would make Martin Luther really look pretty pathetic in that regard. So
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anyway, I've already you know, cited a very important aspect of the authority
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Jesus gave it to his apostles the power to bind him loose. He said
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in Matthew sixteen nineteen. What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.
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What you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. How dare Martin
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Luther assumed such powers? Our Lord said to Saint Peter, I give you
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the key to the Kingdom, the power to bind and loose. Those keys
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are not only essential to the church authority, but to the efficacy of the
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sacraments. They also guarantee the integrity the Bible. Had Saint Peter not had
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the keys to bind and loose, he could not have along with the apostles.
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I mean, the Pope always works with the cardinals and bishops, etc.
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They alone had the authority to decide what books belonged in the Old Testament,
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what books didn't, and there are a lot that didn't make it.
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And to write the books of the New Testament free from error to error is
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human. It is a superhuman feat to have written the New Testament. It
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could not have been done without the Holy Spirit, without the power to bind
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and loose, without the ability to guarantee truth. Saint Peter and the apostles
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alone were given this power. No one else had that already, no one
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does to this day. That power alone guarantees the New Testament is inspired by
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the Holy Spirit. That power alone guarantees the Bible is true. Like I
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said, Luther didn't have that power. No one on earth had that power.
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He certainly did not have the power to change the very words of Jesus
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Christ and cut out books of the Bible, which is what he did.
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Jesus said, I will build my church and guarantee that the gates of Hell
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will not prevail against it. He didn't say, you go build your own
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church by what authority? If Martin Luther had no such authority, he was,
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as the Church used to more stridently say, and Antichrist. He was
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like Satan, jealous of God, jealous of God's Church, who sought to
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usurp the power of God. He violated the first and most important of the
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ten commandments. I am the Lord that God. They'll shall have no gods
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before me, because Luther made him of his own God when he decided he
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had the authority to change the words of Jesus. And interestingly enough, I'll
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just kind of put there's the cheery on top of the little mention of Martin
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Luther, who I hope not to have to bring up again, because morn
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I look at him, I think he is a very evil man. Martin
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Luther admitted in his own writings that he had a vision of Jesus. Jesus
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said to him, why are you staring heavenward in search of my keys?
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Do you not understand I gave them to Peter. They are indeed the keys
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of heaven, but they are not found in heaven, for I left them
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on earth. Peter's mouth is my mouth, His tongue is my key case.
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His keys are my keys. They are in office. They are a
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power, a command given by Christ for all Christendom, for the retaining and
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remitting of the sins of men. You see, Jesus also said to his
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apostles, those who sends you forgive, they are forgiven. Those who sends
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you retain, they are retained. That's the power of the keys, that's
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the power to bind and loose. And Martin Luther never had it, and
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no Protestant church has it. People who don't believe in Saint Peter as the
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first Pope are very quick to point out how flawed he was and he was
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a very flawed man, as that's why Jesus chose him. Jesus said he
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would confound the wise by raising up the foolish. He would confound the strong
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by raising up the week. He picked a very fallible man to become the
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first pope once after Pentecost, once the apostles were absolutely filled with the Holy
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Spirit. Do you see that Saint Peter is named as the first of the
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apostle in all the gospels. Whenever a controversy comes up, or whenever the
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apostles be your name, There's no doubt, no biblical scholar questions whether he
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was the leader of the apostles. But how much power did he had.
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Let's just think about this for a minute. It says in Acts chapter five
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there was a man called Annius. He and his wife Sapphirah, agreed to
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sell a property, but with his wife's connivance, he kept back a part
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of the price and brought the rest and presented to the apostles. Peter said,
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Annius, how can Satan have so possessed you that you should lie to
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the Holy Spirit and kept back part of the price of the land while you
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still own the land. Now Scott han pointed this out very well. He
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didn't say, Anias, why are you lying to me? He said,
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why are you lying to the Holy Spirit? While you still in the land.
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Wasn't it yours to keep? And after you had sold it, wasn't
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the money yours to do with? What? As you liked? What put
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this scheme into your mind? Mind? You have been lying not to men
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but to God. He didn't say, again, you've been lying to the
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apostles, You've been lying to me Peter, No, he said, you've
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been lying to God. He could read this man's mind, He could read
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this man's soul, and he could speak with the authority of God. And
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what happened next when he heard this, Anaias fell down dead, and a
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great fear came upon everyone present. The younger man got up and wrapped the
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body and carried it out and buried it. About three hours later, his
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wife came in, not knowing what had taken place. Peter challenged her,
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tell me, was this the price you sold the land for it? Yes?
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She said that was the price. Peter then said, why did you
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and your husband agree to put the spirit of the Lord to the test.
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Listen at the door of the footsteps of those who have buried your husband,
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and they will carry you out to Instantly she dropped dead at his feet.
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When the young man came in, they found she was dead, and they
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carried her out and buried her by the side of her husband. And a
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great fear came upon the whole church and all who heard it. That is
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the power of God in a man, as Jesus Christ promised he would do.
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We find further Saint Peter. In Acts five it says even the shadow
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of Saint Peter healed people's illnesses, and all the apostles they would take handkerchiefs
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and such and take them to sick people, and it would heal them.
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The very closs that the apostles touched had the power of Jesus Christ to heal.
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Let's just stick with Acts for a minute. Acts five. The apostles
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work so many signs and miracles among the people. One in heart, they
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were one, they were united, There was no schism. They all used
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to meet in the portico of Solomon. No one else dared joined them,
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But the people were loud in their praise, and the number of men and
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women who came to believe in the Lord increased steadily. Many signs and wonders
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were worked among the people at their hands, at the hands of the apostles.
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So the sick were even taken out into the street and laid on beds
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and sleeping mats, in the hope that at least the shadow of Peter might
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fall across some of them as he went past. In Acts eight, we
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see that when the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaria that Samaria had accepted
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the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they
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went down and prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet
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He had not come down on any of them. We'll get into that morn
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when we talk about the sacrament of confirmation. So when one receives the fullness
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of the Spirit, unless you are confirmed in the Catholic Church, you do
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not receive the fullness of the Spirit. You receive it partially through baptism.
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Fullness comes only with the sacrament of confirmation in a Catholic Church, because only
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the Apostles and the successors of the Apostles, who are ordained by those who
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were ordained all the way back to the Apostles two thousand years ago have that
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power guaranteed by Jesus Christ. Then they laid hands on them, and they
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received the Holy Spirit. When Simon, who was a magician, saw that
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the spirit was given through the laying on in the apostle's hands, he offered
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them money, with the words, give me the same power, so that
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anyone I lay my hands on might receive the Holy Spirit. Peter answered,
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may your silver be lost forever, and you with it for thinking that money
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could buy when God has given for nothing. You have no share, no
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part in this. God can see how your heart is warped. Repent of
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this wickedness of yours. Pray to the Lord that the scheme of yours may
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to be forgiven. It is plain to me that you are held in the
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bitterness of gaul and the chains of sin. Simon replied, pray to the
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Lord for me yourselves, that none of these things should happen to me without
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the imposition of hands by those to whom Jesus had given the authority. Even
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baptism and belief was not sufficient to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
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We're going to get into that a great deal later, I think. But
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on that note, I think really One of the biggest mistakes Protestants make is
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to believe that all the words of the Bible apply to everybody individually. Jesus
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actually said to Peter, you or Peter upon this rocket built by church,
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nobody else. He said to the apostles, I'm giving you these powers.
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You can't just assume that mantle. It just doesn't work that way. Jesus
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was a real person who was speaking to people individually. Jesus had many followers,
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some of whom he loved as individuals more than even his own disciples,
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such as Lazarus, Mary and Martha. Even among his disciples, we told
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he loved John above all others. Yet he chose the Twelve, one of
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which included Judas, who he knew would betray him, and he commissioned them.
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He does not say to any individual person a day that they did one
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of the Twelve. You can't just Bob, for instance, in twenty twenty
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three, is not granted the power and authority that God gave to Judas,
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much less to Saint Peter. The Apostles recognize the formality of their office,
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as shown by their decision to appoint a man to fill the seat left bacup
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by Judas. This was the beginning of Apostolic succession when they chose Saint Matthias
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that said that I think the word actual words of the Bible. Let another
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man his bishopric, keep his seat his authority, let another man take it,
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and they chose him through the Holy Spirit. The former role of officers
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of the church as exercised by the keys or the power to bind and lose.
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I mean, you have to remember Jesus kept saying the Kingdom of God.
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In the Kingdom of God, the king gives his authority to various officers.
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They have actual roles. You know, even going back to the Old
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Testament, we can look in the desert when Moses was chosen to lead the
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people, and suddenly a bunch of the other Jews stepped up and said,
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wait, we're all Jews, We're all sons of Abraham. Why does Moses
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get to lead us? God opened the earth and swallowed them whole. He'd
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says a fascinating story about how you know, he separated them out and everything.
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He struck them dead for trying to take the role of his high priest.
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Jesus has God anointed the people with the authority to teach in his stead.
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And I'm trying to keep these two about thirty minutes, so you know,
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I'm just gonna just wrap it up with a couple of sentences here.
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Basically, every priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope has been appointed and
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anointed in this unbroken line of Apostolic succession since the very founding of the One
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Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Every faithful member of the clergy and all the
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laity or athletics, Universal Church, if you want to call it, that
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can trace our confirmation and our individual office from the least to the greatest,
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through the centuries, back to Saint Peter, upon whose bones the Vatican is
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built, and to the words of Christ, Thou art Peter, and upon
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this rock I found my church. Truly, the Catholic Church is the pillar
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and foundation of the faith that gave us the Bible, that ensures the integrity
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of the Word of God, and is the living, beating heart of the
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Body of Christ. No nation, kingdom, or other human institution has survived
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for as long as the Catholic Church for over two thousand years now, nor
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will the Catholic Church ever cease to exist until the end of time. We
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know that because God, our Lord Jesus Christ ensured the gates of hell shall
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not prevail against it. He described his church as a shining city set upon
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a hill, visible for all ages. Had his church ever ceased to be
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or had fallen into error, that another should take its place, God would
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have lied. God cannot lie. To believe in a church that it's not
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the very Catholic church that He founded document and improven through Apostolic of succession is
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to disbelieve in the divinity of Christ. Many Protestants love God, but they
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create they commit a very grave error in not believing in his church. As
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the Bible says, many will say, Lord, Lord, and he will
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say, I do not know you. You're not of my flock, you
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know. And really my biggest prayer with this book. It's as humble as
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it is, as flawed as I am, as a person, as unclear
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as I'm sure I am. At some points, I hope such people will
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realize the truth of what of this message and not risk the same fate as
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subscribed in the Gospel of Luke. There shall be weeping and nashing of teeth
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when you shall see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the
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Kingdom of God, and you yourself thrust out. Too many believe this apply
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to non Christians, but Hell is the absence of God. A Christian could
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not see the Kingdom of Heaven from Hell. Even Satan believes in God.
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Belief alone is not enough. You must have faith and works, and to
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a large extent, those works aside from charity, faith, hope and love.
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You know, the whole bit are the sacraments, and only the Catholic
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Church has the sacraments. We're going to get so much into that, but
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that's going to wrap it up for this show, y'all. I like to
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close with the words of Saint Pio, Pray, hope, and don't worry.
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Have a great even talk to you tomorrow.