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Show 132: BISHOPS, PRIESTS, THE FAITHFUL · The Uncensored Catholic

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Of all, welcome today's show. We're gonna pick up where we left off
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last time. You may remember that an Anglican was questioning the priests in the
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book. Radio replies, and the Anglican says, does the present Archbishop of
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Canterbury enjoy the jurisdiction granted to his pre Reformation predecessors by the Pope? Or
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is he limited with them only by orders? And they answer, he has
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no link with them, either by jurisdiction or by Holy orders. He merely
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retains the same name without the reality, and owes his position to the Crown.
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All privileges once granted to the archbishops of Canterbury by Rome are now granted
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to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. If the present Archbishop of Canterbury was converted
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to the Catholic Church and wishes wish to exercise priestly functions in that church,
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he would have to be ordained as if he had never claimed to be a
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cleric of any description previously. I'm sure why this is so hard for Anglicans
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to understand. I think it must be that English superiority. They can't accept
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that they're not Catholic. The Anglican Church is not the Catholic Church. They
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broke entirely and completely. Anyway, the person goes on and says, how
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can you deny the orders of an Anglican bishop? They go back to the
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bishops of the Reformation period, and this is very important. There have been
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Anglican bishops continually since the Reformation, but valid orders have not been continuously handed
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on. Henry the Eighth began the Church of England in fifteen thirty four.
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Bishops who submitted to him were validly consecrated and validly lasted until fifteen fifty.
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But in that year, under Edward six a great effort was made to Protestantize
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still more of the Church in England, both in doctrine and in practice.
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The form of ordination was deliberately changed, all references to priesthood and the true
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Christian sense of the word being eliminated. This defective form utterly useless, for
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the true ordination of priests remained unchanged until sixteen sixty two, one hundred and
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twelve years later. Then the mistake was realized and the form was corrected,
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but the correction was too late, for those who had correct orders had died,
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and only those who had been invalidly consecrated remained to hand on their pretend
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orders. There's actually no such thing as an Anglican priest. Call m vicar,
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call them whatever you want. They're not actual priests. They cannot turn
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bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. That was a great
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bane of contention. A certain relative of mine has a dear friend who is
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an Anglican minister. He was outraged and offended that he was not able to
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receive the eu Christ in a Catholic church or and this was the main thing
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he was upset about. Participate. He thought he had every right to walk
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up there and stand beside a Catholic priest and consecrate the body and blood of
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our Lord in a Catholic church. He's a fake priest. It's invalid.
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It would be the same, okay, all right. So I have my
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own little family, you know, just well, three elderly relatives. But
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at one time the Carols were quite a large family. I remember, you
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know, Thanksgiving at my grandmother's table, where there'd be aunts and uncles and
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cousins and oh, great grandchildren and grandchildren, and I mean the place was
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packed. There would also be all kinds of farm hands and different people,
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you know, friends and distant relatives and just neighbors that would come. She
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cooked for an army. Imagine for a moment, we're sitting there at the
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table and somebody last named Jones says, now on, I'm going to be
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a Carol. I'm a Carol because I'm sitting at the table with Carols and
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I want to call myself a Carol. Well, you say, well,
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no, you're not part of our family. Well what right of you said?
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What right of you to say I'm not part of your family? Well,
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you're not related to us. We don't share the same genes, we
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don't share the same blood, we don't share the same ancestors. That is
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essentially the Anglican Church. There was a common table, and King Henry,
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because the Church wouldn't let him divorce or cut his wife's heads off, broke
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away. And now, for some reason, many Anglicans think that they are
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Catholic. You're not Catholic. I'm sorry. If you want to become Catholic,
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you have to renounce the Anglican Church and then become Catholic. Yeah,
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even if you are a minister in the Anglican Church, even if you hold
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degrees from Oxford. It does not mean you actually have to come into the
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Catholic Church as any other catacumbin would. You have to go through RCIA classes.
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You have to learn and swear before God that you accept Catholic doctrine,
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a big part of which is accepting the authority of the Pope. And the
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Anglicans don't recognize the Pope. So no Anglican vicar or whatever you want to
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call him, no Anglican minister can participate in a valid Catholic sacrament. Now
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Baptism because it predates Christianity. John the Baptist obviously came before Christ, and
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baptism had been a tradition off and on in Judaism. Baptism could be performed
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by anyone. It does not have to be performed by a priest. The
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same is true of marriage. People get married in all kinds of different cultures.
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It predates Christianity, but all the other sacraments of the Church. Confirmation
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most ordantly actually, because you have to be confirmed, receive the Eucharist.
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In confirmation, you receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Your mind is
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enlightened, your heart is open. Confirmation completes what was begun in baptism.
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You cannot become confirmed in the Catholic Church until you have learned the doctrines of
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the Catholic Church and openly publicly sworn to profess them. Therefore, no Anglican
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can be a Catholic, nor can a Greek or Russian Orthodox. In order
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to become a Catholic, you have to actually become Catholic, and you're no
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different than an atheist or a Jew, or a Muslim or a Protestant of
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any other denomination. You have to actually go in most cases to RCA classes.
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I had an exception. The priest worked with me one on one because
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my work schedule is traveling all over at the time, I had to visit
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one hundred counties in North Carolina about two or three times a year to do
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my job. And he looked at and said, there's no way you can
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make our CIA once a week. I'm gonna work with you one on one
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and got permission from the bishop and we're gonna talk about bishops here in a
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minute. So I mean, our CIA is not essential, but what is
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essential is that the priest says, you understand all the doctors of the Catholic
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Church. And he's gonna grill you on him. He's gonna make sure you
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really believe it, because your soul depends on it. If you receive the
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Eucharist unworthily, you become guilty of the body and blood of Christ. That's
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what Jesus said. He will make sure you know exactly what it means to
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be Catholic, and then you will stand in front of witnesses and swear before
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God and the people in the church, your god parents they assigned to me.
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I didn't even know who these people were. Pre said, here's a
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couple. What respons for you? You know, I never saw me once
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or twice again, but you know that was formality. The main thing is
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had to dictate yes, I honestly do believe this. Otherwise couldn't become Catholic.
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And if I or any other Catholic breaks those vowels, we commit a
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mortal sin. A mortal sin. It is not a light thing to become
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Catholic. It's the same as committing adultery in a marriage. It's a mortal
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sin because you've broken your vowels. And then we get into the Eucharist,
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and there are many Catholics who don't do not fully believe that the bread and
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wine becomes the body and blood of Christ, and they commit a mortal sin.
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They may call themselves Catholics. They may believe they're Catholic, they may
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have been born into a Catholic family. That doesn't make them Catholic. You're
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only Catholic if you believe and hold and practice all the truths of the Catholic
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faith. You know, Joe Biden walks around with his Rosary and calls himself
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Catholic and promotes abortion. He is an state of mortal sin according to the
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Catechism of the Catholic Church. That's not me saying it. I'm saying that's
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what the Church teaches. He should be excommunicated. Remember, there's a petition
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to get him excommunicated by the US bishops for his own good and for the
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good of the entire church and the priests who knowingly give him the Eucharus when
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they shouldn't, And that's a sin as well. So anyway, let's see,
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we were talking about how the so called priests of the Anglican Order,
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the Anglican Church not Anglican Church, were once validly ordained Catholic Church, but
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they are no longer they are not in the Apostolic succession. He says,
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not a few Anglicans have tried to make sure of orders by reordination at the
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hand of schismatical bishops. That means bad Catholics. The Anglican bishop Not,
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writing in the National View for September nineteen twenty five, said, correctly,
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the Pope refused absolutely to recognize our Anglican orders on the ground that our grounds
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that our Church does not ordain priests to offer the sacrifice of the Mass.
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In other words, this Anglican Bishop Knox recognized that they had no authority to
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give the Eucharist, to turn the bread and wine into the body and blood
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of Christ. In spite of attempts made by our archbishop to conceal this defect,
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the Pope, from his point of view, was unquestionably right. It
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is true that certain priests in the Church of England offer so called masses,
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but as they were not ordained to the Church with the intention that they should
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offer the body and blood of Christ to the Father, the sacrament of their
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ordination is for this purpose a failure. The Prayer Book and Ordinal are simply
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Uncatholic, since they showed no sign of fulfilling the most important of all Catholic
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functions. There's an Anglican bishop admitting that the Anglicans have no authority to institute
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the sacraments. I mean, not to institute, but perform the sacraments other
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than baptism and marriage. And they allow divorce, so you know, what's
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the point of marriage? I mean they allow civil marriage. You know,
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Catholics don't allow civil marriage in England and in America. A judge who may
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be an atheist, a Satan worshiper, has every legal right to marry a
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couple. A ship captain has a legal right to marry a couple, just
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the same as does a priest. That's that's apostasy. I mean that is
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that is a true evil really upon which our law is founded. It.
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Eventually, nations set up on Protestant principles and English common law as it became
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interpreted once they broke away from Catholicism are doomed to fail because they're a house
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built on sand, not on the rock, which is Saint Peter. You
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may think I'm being unpatriotic. You may say, heck, you're a third
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English how can you say that? Well, yeah, my English blood is
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the House of Wessex, the English Catholic kings, the Great Catholic King,
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some of whom are saints, some of whom are like you know, King
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Richard Lionheart that fought in the Crusades. These are legendary figures. These are
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not the inbred dolt Charles or his pathetic sons. And I'm sorry I once
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held some respect for them, but I mean they have those three people,
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in the space of about one year, have raided the English monarchy to the
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point that even you know I see on Twitter all the time. I mean
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serious like monarchist English folk that I communicate with. Some of them are Catholic
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and some of whom are Anglican, and some of whom are another you know
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nothing. They're ashamed of the royal family. You know, they really should
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have started being ashamed of the royal family back with King Henry the eighth,
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you know, And then we can get into, oh my gosh, the
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whole thing around you know, Mary, Queen of Scots, and I mean
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there were some really bad folks that sat on that throne. I mean what
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they did to the Scots, Oh my gosh, horrible, what they did
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to the Irish horrible and why because they were Catholic, they would not recognize
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the king that made them traders to England, and therefore they you know,
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sold them as slaves, hunted them down like dogs, genocidal famine against entire
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country. I mean, you know, wow, I mean, you know,
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awful, awful stuff. There's really not one single redeeming quality of the
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British royal family or the Church of England. You know, post King Henry
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the Eighth. Uh yeah, I mean the queen who just died. She
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seemed to be pretty good, you know, but my words, he raised
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feral dogs as sons. I mean, come on, you know, one
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of them spent half his time on Epstein's Island apparently. I mean, these
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are not good people. The English should truly be embarrassed by the House of
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Wales, and which, in my opinion, was never validly the Royalty of
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England in the first place. I think they usurped the throne. But we
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could get into that another day. Might have probably you know, as a
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direct descendant of the House of Wessex, and rather controversial opinions on that.
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But honestly, I am I do not choose to identify as English not.
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I mean, I may have some of the greatest heroes of the British Empire
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and great saints in the Catholic Church as my ancestors through England, they're the
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current monarchy and the Church and their godless culture and their schools that were once
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great Catholic institutions that have been nothing but Marxists for the past one hundred years
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or so, their disgrace. I do not choose to identify as English because
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I am utterly ashamed of England post what fifteen thirty six? Yeah, as
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the Catholic Church was trying to wipe out slavery around the world, what did
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the English government do but embrace it. Had the English government not embraced slavery
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and imported to America, my ancestors wouldn't have died in the Civil War.
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I mean, there's nothing good about the English in its current form. The
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people are fantastic. Some of my best friends are you know, English,
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A lot of folks from Yorkshire, Cornwall and away from London. But no,
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I'm talking the pure, degraded pure What is that? That's a ironic
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statement, purely degraded. We'll see. Is there a better way to put
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it? The absolute manure that has been the legacy of England post the so
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called Reformation. I mean the Masonic order stronger in England than anywhere but Germany.
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What are the two forces that led us into a couple world wars,
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Well, Germany and England. I mean the Masons, which have as their
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goal to destroy the Catholic Church. Not exactly good, folks, not exactly
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good at all. I was so pleased to learn that George Washington, who
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had been the leader of his Masonic lodge, converted to Catholicism on his deathbed.
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What was the reaction to that? They tried to cover it up for
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about one hundred years in America. The Masons that controlled the newspapers and the
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textbooks and the schools did not want anybody to know that George Washington became Catholic.
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How ironic is that? Well, anyway, let's get on to the
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main topic of the day. Bishops, priests, and the faithful point one.
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Bishops are the successors of the apostles. This is the express teaching of
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the Vatican Council. The bishops differ only from the apostles and having a limited
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jurisdiction, while the mission of the Apostles was to the whole world. Moreover,
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the Apostles were personally infallible in their teaching, each one of them,
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you know, not Judas obviously, but he didn't make it into the church.
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He was dead before Pentecost Sunday. And having an extraordinary mission. They
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had an extraordinary gifts such as infallibility, the gift of tongues, and of
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miracles. And yeah, read the acts of the Apostles. They were doing
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some serious miracles. You know. Now days, somebody, you know,
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in some little storefront Protestant church will pop up and call himself Apostle Paul Smith
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or something. He's no apostle, he has not been ordained, he's not
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in the Apostolic succession. And and yeah he's not performing miracles. I mean
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what Saint Paul, his handkerchief was taken to people to heal them from their
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being sick. Saint Peter confronted two people was a Nias and Sapphire I think,
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who had withheld some money that they pledged the church, and they dropped
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dead. You know, yeah, this was serious power. This was the
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power of God on these on these men, simple men, simple fallible men.
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And given with that is the ability to bind and loose, which is
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to ordain others as they pass away. The bishops had the following powers.
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They guide that portion of the church assigned to them by the Pope and assist
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him in the government of the universal Church. From Apostolic times, bishops were
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appointed to single sees e g. Titus to Crete. A see is his
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his jurisdiction. You know, Titus was over the Church of Crete, and
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that's in Titus one five. These divisions of the church are called seas or
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dioceses. Some of them are very large. Paris for Paris, for example,
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contains more than three million souls. This was written in the eighteen nineties.
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It's quite a bit bigger now, but quite a bit less Catholic.
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The duties of busious more Muslim than anything else now, Muslim and Marxist.
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Yeah, I kind of took it as a sign when Notre Dame burned.
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It's like Francis done, and I said, you know, I am proudly
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a third French and I have a well at least as much to be ashamed
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of in France as I do in England. But I love the food,
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you know, you know, I always say my first love is food because
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I literally, you know, grew up in a kitchen cooking, and I
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don't. I wouldn't say I have more respect for the French than the English.
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Certainly not, and I wouldn't defend my English or French friends by saying
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that. But I do have more of an affinity to the food. That's
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it. What happened in the French Revolution, this the beginning of communism.
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I mean, it's shameful, it's disgusting. I mean, the streets were
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like knee deep in blood as they raped the nuns and set up the Goddess
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of Reason and Notre Dame. I mean, it was horrible and there's nothing
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good about the French Revolution. And it was equally bloody too when the English
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went after the Catholics in England who wouldn't swear allegiance to the king. They're
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both absolutely shameful. And you know, I'm going to have to put in
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Ireland because Ireland has become a secular country that has totally turned its back on
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the teachings of the Church. So well, now a man without a country,
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basically, I mean, I think America is purely evil in its current
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form. If we can get Biden out of there, get some God fearing
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people in, maybe we can turn the ship around. But no, I
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don't have a single good thing to say about the religious culture in its current
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form in England, France, Ireland or America. We're in a bad place.
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And the only way to get back to be in what they weren't were.
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I mean, France was the center of I mean it was the center
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of Catholicism. It was rival to Rome. England was once one of the
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greatest Catholic nations on earth, with the schools, especially Ireland. You know,
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Saint Patrick's Day was just yesterday. Ireland was like really the first great
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outpost of Catholicism. The only way it's like that quote attribute to detagfol You
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know, America is great because America's good. If America's had ceased to be
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good, America would no longer be great. The only way to bring any
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greatness back to those three nations is to make them good again, which means
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to make them Catholic again. And you know, everything in our popular culture
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and government and bureaucracy and schools and you name it is absolutely adamantly opposed to
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that. Well, what do you expect that's what Jesus promised us. He
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said, you know, we would be opposed, and that the you know,
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Satan is the king of this world, and he is his kingdom is
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not of this world, and so we're going to be a war. This
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is we're the church militant. I don't know when we decided to lay down
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our arms, but frankly, I think it's time to really revitalize the Order
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of the Hibernians. They were organized because Protestants kept attacking Catholic churches, burning
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him down and killing people, especially in Ireland where the English controlled, you
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know, most of the country. It happened big time, you know.
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I think it was in Boston, and the Irish Catholics got together and said,
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that's it. We're going to mass armed. We're strapping on a side
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arm. We're protecting this church. Now it seems to be just like a
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charitable club. Now. We really need to revitalize the Hiberians and other similar
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organizations because Muslims and frankly, trans weirdos are attacking churches and we need to
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be loving, peaceful people with a pistol on our hip to defend our family
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and our church and our priests. And everything that's dear to us. Yeah,
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there is a time to carry a sword. I mean, you know,
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there's a time for every season. Look back at Ecclesiastes. Sometimes we
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do have to stand up and fight and not be Hmm, how would I
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put it? Pope Frank answers Christians, I think you know what I mean.
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I mean, I mean he has to turn the other cheek. He'll
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basically bend over. I mean, come on, it is it's time we
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kind of man up. And you know, I don't think my priests would
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be happy to know I was carrying a pistol into the church. But you
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know, you got a concealed carry permit. You don't have to tell anybody.
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And if you've got five or six or a dozen Catholics, men preferably.
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I don't think women really fill that role very well. There's some do.
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And you've got maybe a couple of guys in the military, and they
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can do some basic training or law enforcement, and if you trust them.
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These days, it's kind of hard after you know, law enforcement has literally
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been weaponized against Catholics in America. But you got some you got some soldiers,
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you get some veterans. They can do a little training and you get
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you know, maybe a volunteer to be up ushers or you know, something
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else where you can just kind of keep your head off a swivel and see
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who's coming in and out. You could save hundreds of lives. And trust
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me, at that point, no one's could be criticizing you for carrying a
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concealed weapon into a church. H of course, if it's legal in your
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state, and if it's not legal in your state, maybe you need to
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go to another state. You know, South Carolina just passed constitutional carry.
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It's a little better than North Carolina. Tennessee has much better regulations than either
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state. You know. Honestly, my state's coming along slowly. Used to
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be really up until last year, you had to have a pistol permit to
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buy a pistol, and that goes back to when the Klan was running everything.
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The Masons the Democrat Party, and they didn't want black folk to have
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guns. They certainly didn't want Catholics to have guns, so your local sheriff
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had to sign off on your ability to carry a pistol. Well, in
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my lifetime, it wasn't so much dominated by the clan, but it was
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basically if you didn't put some money in your local sheriff's reelection campaign, you
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might not get that permit. Well, they finally overturned that, and I'm
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hoping we're gonna have some good legislation coming out because you know, we they're
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about to let in. I think they said seven hundred thousand Palestinians are gonna
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be branded the country in the next couple of months. I hate to break
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it to y'all. I mean you liberals that are out there protesting in favor
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of a free Palestine and are advocating wiping Israel off the face of the earth.
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That's the whole, you know, from the ocean, of the sea
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or whatever it is. They don't like you. I have. I've had
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plenty of good Muslim prints. I'm not talking that. We're talking people who
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literally want to kill Christians and Jews. You know, if you're a church
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and someone comes in and opens fire, what do you gonna do? Sure,
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you can doell on nine one one when the cops show up a half
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hour later, and then secure the perimeter and hang out outside like they did
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at that that school in Texas, and wait for everybody to be slaughtered before
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they enter the building. You know, where are you gonna be? You
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want to see your wife and kids killed? I mean, come on,
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I'm sorry, but it was a Uvalde, Texas. Those cops were cowards
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who let children be slaughtered. You don't. You need to depend on yourself
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and your friend, your buddy in that church, and you guys need to
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have a plan and if we can bring back, you know, an organization
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like the Hibernians, I'm not even sure if I'm pronouncing that right obviously to
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do such as set but you know, I was talking to a friend of
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mine. Ireland. They have a complete gun van. I mean they can't
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even I mean, if they have to protect their church from Muslims, I
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guess they're going to have to use baseball bats or something. I mean,
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it's just ridiculous. It's just the only reason you disarm a people is to
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make them vulnerable. You know, there is no terrorists. There's no criminal
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that's going to walk up and see a sign on the doors as a gun
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free zone and say, oh, I guess I can't go in there.
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No, they're going to go in there and say easy pickings. I got
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them. Well anyway, oh I may have to break this one to a
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couple of sections, going to go on some many tangents, all right.
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So Paris at that time had three main souls. The duty of the bishops
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are to educate candidates for the priesthood, to create and confer offices in the
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church, to give faculties to confessors, to see the religious education, to
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see too, the religious education of his flock, to revise books written on
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religious subjects, to settle the days of fasting, et cetera. In addition,
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he confers the sacraments of confirmation and orders reserve certain sins to his own
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jurisdiction. I don't think most bishops really think about that these days, but
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they can say, well, let's say a certain politicians is out there promoting
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abortion, and that bishop could say in his diocese, no, you priests,
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your parish priests. If he comes to you, you send him to
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me. Consecrates churches, chalices and holy oils, et cetera. Each bishop
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has the right of voting in general councils. The bishops are not merely assistance
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to the pope, but they are actually guides of the church. They are
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the shepherds of their representative flocks. They are appointed by the holy ghosts to
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rule the Church of God. That's the reference to Acts twenty yeah twenty twenty
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eight. I believe they are also called princes of the Church. They have
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ordinary or intermediate jurisdiction. They are often called ordinaries. They are assisted by
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a number of canons who make up a body called the Chapter. One of
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those canons becomes Vicar capitular if the sea becomes vacant. In other words,
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he can kind of fill in for a while and governs the diocese inuntil a
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new bishop is elected. The bishop himself usually appoints the Chapter. In rare
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instances, the pope or the archbishop. Many bishops have an assistant in the
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form of a co coadjutor bishop or a vicar General. The dignity of a
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bishop, says Saint Ambrose, is higher than that of a king. The
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privileges of the order are as follows, the right to where a miter,
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the sign of the leadership, and to carry the crozier, which has curved
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to the end as a sign of his limited jurisdiction. He also wears a
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ring symbolical of his union with the diocese, and a pectoral cross. The
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faithful kiss his hand and he is addressed by the Pope as brother because as
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a Bilish he has the same rank as the Pope. You know, just
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the reason King Henry didn't have the right to form his own church. The
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Bishop of Canterbury, I think, yeah, that was it actually had a
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higher authority than the King of England. The bishops are subject to the Pope
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and owe him obedience. The Pope gives their jurisdiction to bishops, and no
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bishop may exercise his office without being recognized and confirmed by the Pope. He
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is obliged also to go to Rome to report on the state of his diocese.
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He may appeal. An appeal may always be made from a bishop to
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a pope. Bishops such as the Greek or Anglican who declined submission to the
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Pope are neither members of the church, nor have they any jurisdiction, even
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when they have valid orders, which the Anglicans don't anymore. There are still
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valid orders in the Greek Orthodox Church. I'm not sure about all the Orthodox
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tri urches, but they did not break Apostolic succession, but they're still not
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Catholic. Archbishops are Metropolitans are bishops who have powers over other bishops, and
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if I'm wrong about that, I mean, if they don't have apostolic succession
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still, you know, someone correct me. But that's what I've read and
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been told. They're still cut off from the church because they don't acknowledge the
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pope. Some have the privilege of wearing the pollium, a white strip of
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wool on the shoulder, symbolical of gentleness and humility. The primate is still
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a higher dignitary and is bishop the whole nation. Above him in rank is
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the patriarch or exarch x arch, who in former times was set over the
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Metropolitans. The bishop of antiak Alexandria and Rome were patriarchs because these seas were
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founded by Saint Peter. In our days, the title patriarch and primates signifying
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nothing more than the precedents of dignity. They are not of a divine in
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There are also others of the clergy who are termed prelates. Some of them
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enjoy most or all the power of bishops, and they are called vicars apostolic.
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There are others whose title is merely honorary. The priests are the assistants
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of the bishops. They receive their orders from the Bishop, and so are
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his spiritual sons. Their businesses to carry out the command of the bishops.
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Even when they are called to assistant councils. They do not vote as judges,
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but only as councilors. Nor have they the powers to excommunicate. The
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priests only have a portion of the episcopal power, and their office may be
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exercised only with the sanction of the bishop. This sanction is called the canonical
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mission missio canonicthic. The dress of the priests is a sustaine or black garment
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reaching to the feet. Parish priests are those whom the bishop has confided permanently
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in charge of district. The district is called a parish Dean is the title
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given to the parish priest of the larger districts. In the assignment of a
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parish, the bishop usually shows some consideration for the wishes of the patron or
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patrons i either person or persons who have been and are conspicuous benefactors of the
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district. The parish priest is the representative of the parish. Priest is the
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representative of the bishop, and no one may without his leave exercise spiritual functions
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in the parish. Such as preaching, baptizing, giving extreme function, marrying
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or burying. Of course, that means within the Catholic Church, Parish priests
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are also appointed by bishop over the priests of a large district. Parish priests
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who are appointed by the bishop over the priests of a large district are called
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world deans. They make visitations of the parishes and act as intermediate areas with
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the bishop. Parish priests of law larger districts have assistants or curates. And
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the final point, he is a Catholic is one who has been baptized and
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professes himself to be a member of the Catholic Church. Isn't it interesting how
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this always seems to go full circle. It's like it's on it just blows
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by mind. But anyway, the Church is a community into which it minutes
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is gained by baptism. Thus, the three thousand baptized on the first Pentecost
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became members of the Church. Acts two forty one. Moreover, a man
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must make external profession of being a member of the church, so that anyone
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who breaks away, for instance, by heresy, no longer belongs to the
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church in spite of his baptism, though he is not thereby freed from his
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obligation to the Church. Neither Heathens, Jews, heretics, nor schismatics are
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members of the Church. According to the Council of Florence, though children baptized
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validly in other communions really belong to it. Well, well, he's gonna
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explain four. As Saint Augustine says, baptism is the privilege of the True
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Church, and so the benefits which flow from baptism are necessary fruits which belong
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only to the True Church. Children baptized in other communions. That means other
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denominations cease to be members of the Church only when, after reaching the age
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of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as for example, receiving
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communion in a non Catholic church. Well, and it means a formal profession.
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Okay, So all Christians are baptized in the body of Christ, one
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may cut himself off from well much of that grace beyond you know, basic
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belief. If one a knowingly, knowingly rejects the teachings of the Catholic Church
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and by which they have to know they're true, you know you're judged by
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what you know, and reject him out of bigotry or you know whatever.
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Yeah, it's pretty bad if someone stands up there and says, you know,
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Catholics worship the devil and therefore you have to be Baptist. If they
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actually believe the Catholic Church is the real church, they could be judged p
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really pretty harshly by Jesus, you know, who founded that church and knows
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their heart. Anyway, that would definitely be a sin against the Holy Spirit.
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The Christians were first known by the name Nazarenes from Nazareth or Galileeans from
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Galilee. It was first in Antioch that the name Christian came to be used
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Acts eleven twenty six, and the name Christian is appropriate. We are followers
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of Christ willing to be conformed in the image of Christ Romans eight twenty nine.
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We receive our name, says Saint John Christostom, not from an earthly
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ruler, nor from an angel, nor from an archangel, nor from a
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seraphim, but from the King of all the earth. A true Catholic is
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not only one who has been baptized and belongs to the Church, but who
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also makes serious efforts to secure his eternal salvation, who believes the teaching of
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the Church, keeps the commandments of God and of the Church. Who receives
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the sacraments and prays to God in the matter in the manner prescribed by Christ,
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he is not a true Christian who is ignorant of his faith. Such
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an one might as well call himself a doctor, though without knowing medicine.
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Nor is he a true Christian, saint, says Saint Justin, who does
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not live as Christ taught him to live. Our Lord said to the Jews,
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if you be children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham John eight
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thirty nine. And he might say as well, say to Christians, if
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you be Christians, do the work of Christ. If you want to be
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Christian, says Saint Gregory Nazianzen, you must live the life of Christ.
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Saint Augustine said. A true Christian is a man who is gentle, good
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and merciful to all, and shares his bread with the poor. Christ himself
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said that his disciples should be known by their love for one another John thirteen
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thirty five. A Christian who neglects the sacraments is like a soldier who has
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no weapons. What responsibility he incurs. Lewis of Granada said a field which
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is well tended is expected to yield a richer harvests. So more good works
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are expected from a Christian than a heathen, because the Christian has greater graces.
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Every Catholic has his rights and duties. He has a special claim and
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the means of grace supplied by the Church, and he is obliged to obey
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his ecclesiastical superiors in spiritual matters, and to make provision for their support,
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as well as that for that of God's service. A good Catholic ought to
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also hear the word of God, receive the necessary sacraments, take part in
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the divine service, and he has a right to a Christian burial. The
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Church forces nobody to enter its pale, but whoever becomes a member of his
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own free will and remain so, must be subject to the laws of the
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Church. Under certain circumstances. Those who disobey the laws of the Church are
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excommunicated or shut out from the Church. They lose their claim to spiritual goods
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of the Church. They may not join in divine service, nor receive the
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sacraments, nor an office in the church, nor a Christian burial. That's
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something a lot of people really don't understand some offices involve excommunication ipso facto.
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Some offenses involve ex communication ipso facto, for instance, apostasy, dueling,
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and free masonry. That's right. If you join the Masons, you are
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ipso facto excommunicated. You've excommunicated yourself. If you are an apostate, such
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as King Henry the eighth, such as Joe Biden, you've excommunicated yourself and
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dueling because you are willing to kill another person, not in defense of your
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own life, but usually in defensive honor. Also ipso facts so excommunicated that
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Pious the ninth in eighteen sixty nine made that clear. In other cases,
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the excommunication must be formally pronounced, and that too after warning and trial,
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such as in the case of the old Catholic bishops Rincoln and Rincoln's dulager,
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Saint Ambrose, forbade the Emperor Theodosius to enter the church after the latter had,
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by his orders, caused the slaughter some several thousand people in Thessalonica,
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and it was only after doing severe penance that he was admitted. We know
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too that Saint Paul caught off from the church a vicious Corinthian one Corinthians five
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thirteen. The state exercises a similar power in banishing criminals. So yes,
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Joe Biden needs to be excommunicated. Please sign that petition. If you haven't
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done so already, please spread the word on that it's for his own good,
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but also the good of the entire church, because he's creating great scandal.
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I would say it's apostasy. You know, someone more versed in canlaw
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could say one word or the other, one way or the other. They
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certainly committing immortal according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and leading many
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people astray and into sin, and it needs to be done. Sigael,
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remember the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope, and don't worry.
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I'll talk to you next time.