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Show 153: Lack of Charity to One's Neighbor · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I hope you're
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enjoying the last few days of spring. It is rather hot in North Carolina
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for this time of year, but it's pretty nice and sunny. We'll start
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as we usually do with the radio replies, and today the questioner posits makes
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a statement, I cannot believe that the church was founded upon Peter. It
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was built upon Christ, who is the true foundation stone. And the priest's
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answer, No one claims that Saint Peter was the principal foundation stone, but
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that the church, which is in communion with Saint Peter and his successors,
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is the genuine church built upon the foundation of Christ. Christ himself said to
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Peter, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.
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Christ is the solid rock upon which the church is built. But the
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first rock laid upon the foundation is Peter, Christ being the principal foundation stone,
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Peter being the second secondary foundation chosen by Christ. And the person says
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Christ said upon this rock, meaning himself, not Peter, and they answer
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that as erroneous. In John one forty two we find that Christ saying to
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Peter. We find Christ Saint to Peter. Thou art Simon, thou shalt
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be called Sipha. Cephis is interpreted as Peter. Christ had a special purpose
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in thus changing the name to Cephis or rock, a purpose manifested later on
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and recorded by Matthew in Chapter sixteen eighteen, Thou art Peter, and upon
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this rock I will build my church. Let us put it this way,
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supposing that your name was brown, and I said to you, they call
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you brown, but I am going to call you stone. And upon this
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stone I will build up a special society I have in mind to establish.
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Would you believe that I was alluding to you or to myself? Now Peter's
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name was Simon, and Christ change it to Peter or in the original Aramaic
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langug which kepha, yes kepha, which was the word for rock or stone,
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and which would never be used as a proper name in language. Thus
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he said, thou art kepha, and upon this kepha I will build my
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church. In modern English, it would tell thus upon mister stone, and
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upon this stone, I will build my church. The word cannot possibly refer
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to Christ in this text, a person says, but in the Greek text
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the word for Peter is Petros, and for stone petra. They are not
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the same. And they say there is no value in pointing out the difference
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of form in the word according to Latin or Greek languages, in which they
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are accommodated by the masculine for Peter as man of the feminine, and to
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the feminine for stone. Our Lord spoken Aramaic, which is the form is
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in which the form is the same in both cases, simply kepha. In
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other words, just like in French or Italian or Spanish, you have masculine
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and feminine words. So Petra is the word for rock, but it couldn't
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be used as the name for a man. It had to be changed to
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Peter. But kepha is the same regardless in the Aramaic language. The person
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says, you appeal to Aramaic. I know nothing of that, nor of
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the Latin, nor of the Greek. I accept the Bible as it is
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an English form in which the two words Peter and rock are nothing whatever alike.
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What an idiotic statement. How can you appeal to the English form If
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the English translation does not adequately express what Christ meant? Surely you want the
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exact teaching of Christ. The English version is not an infallible rendering. Nor
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does any one verse in these matters claim, nor does anyone versed in these
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matters claim, that the English language fully expresses the sense of the originals.
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But apparently you are content without the truth if it is not to be discovered
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superficially by the reading of your talismanic English version. Now that is a very
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good, very good way of putting it. Many people, especially those who
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swear by the King James version, act as if it came out of heaven
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and was the original Bible. By no means it was the original Bible.
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Remember, Jesus did not leave us a book. He left us a church.
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The church compiled, composed, wrote, and translated the Bible. As
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I've said many times, there was no intact Bible that every church had.
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They had bits and pieces of this and that. Especially the letters from the
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apostles would go to one church and that was the letter for this church,
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and another church didn't have that letter, like the church at Corinth didn't have
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the letter that was sent to the church at Ephesus. Right Saint Jerome in
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the three hundreds translated all the books of the Bible into Latin. Some were
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written in Hebrew, especially the Old Testament. Some were written in Greek.
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Many books of the New Testament were written in Greek. There was a mix
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of Aramaic, there was a mix of Latin, because some of the writers
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of the Bible, the authors of the Bible were Roman citizens and in versed
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in Latin. But most of the New Testament was actually in Greek. So
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Saint Jerome took everything and put together, put it together in the universal language
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of the time, which was Latin. That was the predominant Bible. The
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official Bible of the Church still is in its original Latin form, the bibliosacravolgada
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for you know, good fifteen hundred years. But that did not prohibit the
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Bible being translated into other languages. In the early centuries of the Church.
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It was translated into Gaelic, Irish, long before the Anglicans. There were
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Bibles translated into English early you know Anglosh Saxon or Old English. German.
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There were German Bibles long before Martin Luther was ever born, centuries before and
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you know, actually Gutenberg who built the printing press to make the Bible more
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available, he was Catholic. The King James version of the Bible was quite
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recent in terms of Christian history. It's essentially the same age as the Dewey
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Reems version, which was another English translation of the original Latin Bible. I
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have my dewey Rems right beside my Bibliosacro, my Latin Bible, and they
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correspond identically. You can see where the word that had to be adapted to
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English because we don't have masculine or feminine was done, and it makes total
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sense. I don't read Greek, but there are many Greek versions of the
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Bible that would also correspond almost, I mean identically with you know, certain
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changes of grammar from Greek to Latin. The King James version is like almost
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worshiped by Protestants because it's the authorized version of the Anglican Church, which means
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it's authorized by the King of England. Why it's respected in America, I
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don't know, because we fought two words to get away from the British.
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But there are so many Protestants that will say, I only respect the King
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James version of the Bible and truly believe it was the original Bible and have
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no knowledge of Church history and literally think it basically came out of heaven.
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Intact, and I mean it's pure ignorance. And when someone's that willfully ignorant,
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I mean you show them. Okay, here's even an older copy of
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the Chief King James. Right, The King James has been revised hundreds of
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times. It disagrees with your King James Bible. I don't believe that.
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I only believe this King James Bible that my church uses. It's really hard
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to get very far with a person. And where they say your talismanic version
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of the English Bible, yeah, they actually do think of it as almost
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like a magical book. I mean, you know, they accuse Catholics of
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worshiping statues and they get all upset because we have Jesus on the cross as
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a crucifix, right, and then they'll basically hold up the Bible and worship
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it. I mean, I've seen many ministers hold the Bible aloft as they
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pray. Nothing wrong with that. It's the word of God, but it's
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not God himself, especially when you have a faulty translation, an incomplete Bible.
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You know, Martin Luther starts stripping books of the Bible out that he
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didn't like and change the very words of Jesus So when you change the words
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of Jesus to match your human doctrine rather than conforming your doctrine to the words
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of Jesus, is it still the word of God? I consider the King
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James, and you know, most we all Protestant Bibles because they're incomplete,
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and because the words of Jesus were changed counter fit false bibles. I respect
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it as a Bible, right. I respect the faith that Protestants have in
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that Bible. But it's a counterfeit, fake Bible. Their intent does not
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make it true. And many just you know, flip open open a page
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at random, read a passage out of context and think they've been inspired by
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God, and come up with all kinds of crazy stuff, crazy stuff like
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the Rapture. If you had a real intact Bible and read things in context,
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and had the teachings of the Church, which I mean from Saint Augustine
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going you know, way back, have been I guess, Saint Beautie,
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of many many I'd have to go through a whole list, have done commentaries
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on like the end Times and the Tribulation and you know, the Antichrist and
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all that. The you know, the doctrine of the Rapture is only about
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seventy years old, and it's total total heresy. It has no basis in
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sound biblical scholarship or the traditional teachings of Christianity. I mean, Saint John
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the Apostle was the longest living of all the apostles. He was in communication
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with the early church fathers. I mean they wrote letters back and forth.
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It really I think the Saint Polycarp and he corresponded several times. We have
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those letters. If there had been teaching such as the Rapture and all this,
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like you know end time stuff, or like once saved, always saved,
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or the Bible alone or faith alone, etc. That Protestants believe,
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you know, he would have made that really clear. The early Church would
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have known what was the meaning of the Book of Revelations, et cetera,
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et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I mean pope's say, Clement of
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Rome I believe was confirmed by Saint Peter himself. He was like the third
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Pope. I believe Linus Cletus well the fourth pope officially. Then I think
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Justin Martyr if it was he a polycarp or Justin Martyr was confirmed by Saint
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Paul. The other one was confirmed by Yeah, the other one. Yeah,
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that's right. I think polycarp was confirmed by Saint Paul. He knew
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exactly what Saint Paul meant in those letters, like he was working out his
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salvation and fear and trembling. How can you work out your salvation or making
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up the sacrifice of Christ in his own body and his own suffering for the
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church. How can you make sense of those words? If such doctrines as
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once Saved, Always Saved were legitimate, obviously they were not known to the
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early Church, who learned directly from the Apostles, long before there was a
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Bible. We do one last one here have not many authorities held that Christ
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intended to build his church not upon Peter, but upon Peter's confession of faith
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in his divinity. That's another Protestant canard that has no foundation in biblical scholarship
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or the traditions of the Church as handed on to us by the Apostles.
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They say, and really, this is what most Baptists will tell you,
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and probably young Methodists to This is exactly their argument. But even in the
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time this book was written in nineteen thirties forties, they said that is an
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antiquated interpretation abandoned by all the best scholars. See, we don't really have
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much scholarship today. We have like you know, Bible colleges and Presbyterian and
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Methodist universities that are completely cut off from history before Martin Luther. I mean
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they'll pick and choose. Yeah, they'll take a little bit of you know,
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acquint as, a little just war doctrine here and there, a little
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bit of this that, But as far as the development of doctrine through the
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past two thousand years, they refuse to read anything that doesn't agree with their
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doctrine. I've told you that before. The head of the theology department,
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I believe it was, well, one of the heads. No, that
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wasn't the head. I shouldn't say that, but one of the higher ranking
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professors in the department. When I said, you know, he said,
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we believe that drinking any even a drop of wine, is a sin.
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I said, but wait a minute, Jesus not only made wine, he
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drank wine at the passover meal, et cetera, et cetera. Right,
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And he said, we don't believe that. Our doctor says this. I
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was like blown away. I'm like, how can you not believe this.
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I started explaining to him the science of fermentation, how wine in the Bible
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was just like wine today. The yeast that is on the grape skin turns
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the sugars in the grape into alcohol. And without refrigeration, pasteurization, anything
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like that, there was no way to prevent grape juice in the Bible from
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becoming wine really within twenty four hours. I mean most of the alcohol is
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produced within the first three days, okay, and really most of it in
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the first day. I mean, then you'll see your if you ever make
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your own wine, it will be foaming like crazy when that ye starts eating
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that starts eating that sugar. He said, we don't believe. That's not
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our doctrine. Another time, he says all dancing is a sin, and
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I'm like, well, wait a minute, didn't King King David or I
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guess it was King David. I'm blinking right now, but dance for joy
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when he was bringing the arc back to Jerusalem and was even criticized by his
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wife for dancing. We believe that all dancing is a sin. Okay,
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that's our doctrine. You know. There were so many things I ran into
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that, I mean, ever once saved, always save. I started quoting
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different passages of the Bible, Jesus talking about the parable of the sore,
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how some of the seed would be in rough, rocky ground, shum shallow
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ground, someone in fertile ground. And he even says those who heard the
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word and believe, but they fell away, they were drawn by worldly temptations.
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How and you know it says in Well again of the Revelations that during
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the Tribulation there'll be a great apostasy, most of the Christians on earth will
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fall away, will renounce their faith. Yeah, I mean we can go
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on and on. I mean getting into Saint Paul is very very explicit about
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such things. I mean, the man that in the church who was having
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an incestuous affair, he said, if he will not listen to the church,
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let him beat of these as a heathen. Can I mean, he
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goes even further than that. I mean he said, deliver him to the
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devil. In other words, he's excommunicated, and unless he repents and changes
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his ways, he's no longer to be considered a Christian and not to receive
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communion. He's excommunicated. Didn't know our doctrine says this we don't believe it.
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Okay, all sins are created equal. It says in the Bible,
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there's certain sins that cry out there's and if you lead one of these little
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ones astray, better for you to have a weight tied around your neck and
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thrown in the ocean, and all sins will be forgiven, except sins of
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the it's the Holy Spirit. But you're telling me that a six year old
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child who steals a pack of bubble gum from a gas station is equally guilty
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of just a serious sin as a mass murderer who kills and rapes thirty seven
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people. You don't believe that. Our doctrine states that, therefore we believe
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it. Yeah, whatever, Anyway, after saying that, no scholars still
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believe that, which they do now in this age of internet scholarship, Christ
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did demand a profession of faith from Peter as a prerequisite condition after that,
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conferring fundamental premacy or primacy upon him personally. But to say that the profession
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itself was the rock has not a single valid reason in its favor. Those
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who adopted such an interpretation did so from their desire to avoid Catholic doctrine.
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Grammatically, the Catholic interpretation alone is possible. Textually, the whole passage obviously
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refers to Peter's person, blessed art Thou, I say to THEE thou art
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Peter, I will give to THEE the keys, et cetera. Not could
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the church be built upon an article of faith? All the articles of faith
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are essential Christianity. The Protestant scripture scholar Hastings says that the confession theory must
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be undoubtedly excluded. And you know, Scott Hans talked about this a lot
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that even you know, legitimate Protestant scholars in earlier times had rejected it,
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and now they picked it back up. The German Protestant. Let's see if
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I can pronounce this guy's name. I am not good with German. Well,
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I'm just gonna spell it k U I n O E L writes.
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Those who wrongly interpreted this passage as referring to the Confession and not to Peter
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himself, would never have taken refuge in this distorted interpretation of the popes.
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If in this distorted interpretation, if the popes had not wrongly tried to claim
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it for themselves, the privilege that was given to Peter and that's another Protestant
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argument, but they go on. You see, he does not believe that
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the pope inherits Peter's privileges, but he does know that Peter was personally the
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foundation stone. We see the French rationalists rejected the historical sense of the Gospels,
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but he says that is absurd to accept that sense as Protestants, as
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do Protestants, and then violate that sense in order to avoid what they do
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not wish to admit. So you could see whether Protestants, even if they
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disagree in other matters of Catholic doctrine, or rationalists, in other words,
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an atheist who do legitimate scholarship in studying language and context and the development of
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doctrine and such over history, cannot make that claim. They have to reject
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that Protestant claim that one Peter was not the rock, two that Jesus was
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referring to himself, or that three Jesus was referring to Peter's faith, especially
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given the original language in which Jesus spoke. It's grammatically impossible. So now
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we will get to the exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church by Father Spirago.
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We're picking up on charity one's neighbor. Last week, last episode which I
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record at the end of last week, we talked about charity one's neighbor,
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and now we're going to talk about lack of charity to one's neighbor. He
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who does not desire the good of his neighbor, but it's envious of him,
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does not possess love of neighbor. We call a man envious who merely
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through ill will is vexed, is vexed at the prosperity of another, or
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rejoices when misfortune overtakes him. The envious man cannot bear to see the good
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fortune of another, and consequently he seeks by word and work to do him
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harm. He is like a certain kind of snake, that which is said
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to gnaw away at the root of trees which bears sweet smelling blossoms, because
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it cannot endure the perfume. Like the moth that threats frets away the purple
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robe, or the rust that can rodes iron. The envious man who rejoices
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at the misfortune of his neighbor is like the raven that gloats over corrupt and
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stinking carrion dead animals. But our vexation or pleasure may arise from the love
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of God or our neighbor, in which case is not blameworthy, e g.
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If a man is greed because one who is an enemy of the Church
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is raised to a position of influence, or because great prosperity, as tends
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a sinner who will employ his good fortune to sin all the more. Satan
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envied our first parents. In Paradise, Caane envied his brother Abel because his
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offering was acceptable to God. Genesis four or five, the sons of Jacob
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were envious of Joseph because he was their father's favorite. Genesis Side Against thirty
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seven to eight. King Sauw envied David on account of his having slain the
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Giant and being honored by the people First Kings eight eight. Many a man
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grudges another post more lucrative than his own. The height of envy is to
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grudge another the gifts of divine grace and the progress of virtue. This is
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one of the sins against the Holy Ghost. In other words, you would
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not want someone to be a saint. Actually this is more common than you
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might know. Recently, on Twitter, there's been a lot of controversy over
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a young lady who's to be a porn star, and she's renounced her past
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life and become Catholic, and all the virtuous Catholic women, I'm going to
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say all of them, good thirty percent of them are condemning her. Still
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they say she can never be saved. Okay, that's actually a sin against
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the Holy Spirit. And a lot of them have said, well, you
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know, I've looked at her site. She hasn't taken this down. It's
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not a real conversion. She's a con artist. Even if that's true,
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that's true, that's not your place to judge. You know, she's going
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to Mass, she's receiving the Eucharus. She says she's totally renounced her past
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and is writing strongly against the evils of pornography. You know, that's like
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the prodigal son who was jealous or upset that his brother came back. You
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know, it says, the angels rejoice more over the conversion of a sinner
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than the perfect life of a saint. So we got to keep that in
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mind. That's the sin against the Holy Ghost. And you know, none
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of us are perfect. But you need to be aware of that sin so
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you can confess it and change your life, because sins against the Holy Spirit
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are the most grave of sins. They are the unforgivable sins. The high
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priests were jealous of Christ when they saw that he worked many miracles, and
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therefore determined to compass his death. That was John eleven forty seven. The
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devil feels this kind of envy. The devils, he said, the demons.
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They are furious when they see the elect advancing toward perfection, and at
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once assail them with persecutions. No sin renders men. So much like the
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devil is envy. For envy is particularly the devil's sin. The envious man
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is an imitator of the devil. For and by the envy of the forour
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and by the envy of the devil, death came into the world Wisdom two
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twenty four. That's another book. The King James doesn't have the wonderful Book
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of Wisdom, the Wisdom of Solomon. Just as Christ says, by this
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shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love for
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one another. John thirteen thirty five. Was Solomon the Dance? I think
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it was Solomon the Dance. Yeah, I think I got that wrong.
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It doesn't matter anyway, moving on John thirteen thirty five. So on the
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other hand, the devil can say, by this, shall all men know
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that you are my followers? If you envy one another, I have envied
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you. That's a quote from Saint Vincent Farrr, one of the great thinkers
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and theologians writers of the church. The jealous and he's one that wrote a
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lot. Saint Vincent Ferrer, he wrote a lot on a book of revelation
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and Daniel in the Apocalypse really fascinating insights. The jealous man wishes to see
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nothing but misery around him. There is more malice in this sin than any
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other. For all other sins and vices, there is some pretext which a
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man may plead his excuse. The exclusive for intemperance is hunger for revenge the
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wrong one has received for theft, expringing property, etc. But for envy,
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no plea can be alleged. It is worse than open war. There
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is always a cause for war, but none for envy. Besides, when
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war is over all animasi is at an end, but with envy it is
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unending. See, envy is not necessarily desiring another person's goods, but desiring
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they not have them even if you can't have them. Kind of like being
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a liberal democrat anyway. Saint John Chrisossom said that, not about democrats,
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he said that about MVB worse war. Moreover, envy is the only evil
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quality which charity cannot overcome. One who is an enemy to you or enraged
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against you may be appeased by kindness, but the envious never. Among all
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sins, envy is the only one which affords no gratification to those and who
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indulge in it. In temperate, the avaricious, the choleric seem to gain
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something by yielding to their passions, but envious sterile. It may be compared
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to a moth, which, fluttering about the lamp, singes its own wings,
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but does not extinguish the flame, or even calls it to burn less
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brightly. Envious is most hurtful of a man. It robs him of inward
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content and bodily health. It leads him to many cruel actions, and finally
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to eternal perdition. As the worm gnaws away it wood to which it owes
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its origin, so envy eats the heart to which it gains admission. It
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harasses the mind, destroys the peace of conscience banishes gladness from the soul and
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fills it with despondency and sadness. When once it is firmly rooted within the
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soul, its presence becomes apparent outward in a pallid cheek, the hollow eyes.
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They testify the suffering it occasions. Thus we are told that Cain's countenance
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fell in Genesis four or five. When envy fixes its malevolent talons in the
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heart, tears at a man's entrails, his food, becomes distasteful to him,
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his drink no longer refreshes him. According to Saint Cyprian, envy shortens
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a man's days Ecclesiasts Ecclesiastices thirty twenty six. I believe the envious man and
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is his own executioner. As Russ corrodes iron, So envy eats into the
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soul that harbors it. It brings its own punishment for it frets away and
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destroys the individual who cherishes it. Envy leads to many acts of cruelty.
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Through envy, the earth was first stained with a brother's blood, and through
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envy the Jews delivered Christ up to death. Envy causes us to murmur against
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the arrangements of divine providence. The labor who had worked all day long the
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vineyard murmured against the master of the house through envy, when those who had
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worked only one hour received a penny Matthew twenty eleven. The envious man hates
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to see the benefits God bestows on others. Envy excludes from heaven. It
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is a sure pledge of eternal damnation. Through envy. The angels fell from
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heaven and man was driven out of paradise. If we are bound even to
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love our enemies, how great will be our punishments if we pursue with envy
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those who have never wronged us. Saint John Christ Austin, the best means
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of overcoming feelings of envy is to do all the good we possibly can to
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our fellow men in order to thrust out the monster of envy from the heart.
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No sword, no breastplate, no helmet is needed, only the panoply
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of love. Do all the good you can to the person whom you envy,
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At least pray for him that his happiness may be increased. You will
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thus banish the demon from your heart. Thereby deserve a twofold crown, the
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one for your victory over envy, and the other for the charitable deed you
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have performed. Saint John Christostom, Consider also how short lived is all here
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below. In a little while we must leave all. It would not then
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matter what have been your possessions, what high offices you afield. Your future
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happiness will be entirely dependent upon your good works. If you will be great
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here after, humble yourself. Now, love to be unknown and despised,
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for he that humbleth himself shall be exalted Luke fourteen eleven. He does not
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love his neighbor who injures him, whether in regard to his life as innocence,
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his property, his honor, or his household. Nor does he love
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his neighbor who performs no works of mercy. If thou dost not give to
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thy neighbor who is in want sufficient to support his life, says Saint John
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Christosim, thou doest not love him to give alms as a strict duty for
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those who have the means of giving them. Saint Ambrose severely censures the misely
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rich men of his day. The walls of your dwelling are hung with splendid
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tapestries while you take the clothes off the poor man's back. A beggar at
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your door asks for the most trifling alms, and you do not so much
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as vouchsafe him a glance as you pass by, debating within your mind what
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kind of marble will look best for the pavement of your palaces. A starving
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mendicant asks for a crust of bread and vain, while your horses are champing
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their golden bits. How terrible are the judgments of the rich man which you
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prepare for yourself? Who might give assistance to so many who are in want?
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The diamond you wear on your finger will alone suffice to feed a multitude.
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Saint John Christossom speaks in like manner to the wealthy who are hard hearted.
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What makes thy miserliness most reprehensible is that neither poverty nor hunger compels thee
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to it. Thy wife, thy house, I very dogs beside thy hearth
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glitter with gold, whereas the man made of for God's image, redeemed by
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the blood of Christ, is left to perish through thy inhumanity. How many
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streams of fire will be the portion of such a soul? All right,
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we will wrap it up there we have talked about lack of charity boards one
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neighbor. Tomorrow we will get into love of one's friends, which is perhaps
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a more pleasant topic. But you know, no, certainly no more important.
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We have to be charitable. That's one of the huge mistakes that Protestantism,
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based on Lutherism makes when they say faith alone is all it's necessary for
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salvation. When Jesus said faith and works. Those works are receiving the sacraments,
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worshiping him in the way that he demanded. You know, if you
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love me, you will keep my commandments. And among those commandments are love
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for God and one's neighbor and charity. You know, charity is well it
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says charity cover sins or alms cover sins. Without doing charity to one's neighbor,
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we cannot love God or neighbor. You're not following the commands of Jesus.
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So anyway, y'all remember the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry, and I'll talk to you next time.