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Show 210: We Have a New Pope! · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. This is actually
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take two of today's show. I started out recording this
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a couple of hours ago, and of course while I
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was recording it, got the news we have a new pope.
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So I had just been speaking about my feelings about
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perhaps getting or who the man might be chosen pope,
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and now we have one. You know what, this is perfect.
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First of all, let me just reiterate what I said
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that you never heard. People all week have been discussing
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or asking me who I want to be pope, and
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my answer is very simpler, very simple, I should say,
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the Vicar of Christ. I have absolutely no concern who
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the man is who fills the office. Jesus said that,
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you know, he chooses the pope. The Pope is investors
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of full authority. The Holy Spirit won't allow him to
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teach error, and the gates of Hell will not prevail
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against his church. You know, sure I had my favorites,
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but you know a lot of that is because I
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knew something about them. I'm sure I love Cardinal Burke,
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Cardinal Sarah, Pizza Ball, or maybe the guy from Hungary
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I can't remember his name. Right off the top, of
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my head that you know, seem to be good picks
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or a few others I would have, you know, my
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absolute you know what would have just made me stand
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on my head in happiness, would have been Unfortunately, now
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excommunicated Cardinal Viganol. Vigano is fantastic, and I hope he
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has reinstated to the priesthood very very soon and returned
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to the office of a cardinal. But I mean that
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was like, you know, no chance of that happening. But
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you know what, it really doesn't matter. And our Father,
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we say, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done. The
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Catholic Church is God's kingdom on earth. He chooses the officers.
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Sometimes he chooses just phenomenal priests to become bishops and
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cardinals and even pope. But even in his first actions
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he chose twelve men, one of whom was Judas. He
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uses bad men for good purposes. I don't think our
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new pope, Pope Leo what the fourteenth, is a bad
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man at all. I can't. Honestly, I've done a couple
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hours of research now I'm not finding out a lot
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about his political ideology. But again, that doesn't matter. The
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Pope is infallible in teaching from the seed of Peter.
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That's ex Cathedra, that's united with the bishops and cardinals. Okay,
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not on his own, but if he says something on
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his own, even if they disagree with him, if he's
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you know, in cathedral, in the seat of Peter, ex cathedral.
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This one I'm trying to say, his word is the
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final say, we trust the Holy Spirit to keep him
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from teaching error, especially in morals, doctrine, dogma, theology, etc.
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But his opinion on politics is I won't say meaningless
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because we still show him respect, but not definitive in
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any way, shape or form. Pope Francis was certainly not
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my favorite pope of my lifetime. I've been very critical
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of him. I praised him on other accounts. A lot
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of times what he said was miscontruded by the press,
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and I spoke about it and then had to retract
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my statements. Say, wait a minute, the clarification that came
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from the official Vatican account says that this is what
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he actually said. We'll probably see that with a lot
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with the new pope. People are excited that he's an American. Yeah,
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that's cool if it leads more Americans to convert to
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Catholicism is a wonderful thing. The nationality the pope doesn't
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matter to me. The race of the pope doesn't matter
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to me, the you know whatever. He's the Vicar of Christ,
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so I'm hoping for the best. I think he'll probably
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be a more traditional pope than Pope Francis. You know,
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I would even go so far as say I think
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he'll probably be a better pope because Pope Francis just
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sold a lot of confusion, kind of spoke off the cough,
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and a lot of his words were misconstrued. But I'm
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hoping for a little more stability, a little more returned
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to tradition. I mean, he did pray thee I was listening.
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I could be wrong on this, but if I'm not mistaken,
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he started out in Italian, and I don't speak Italian,
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so I got like every third word or something. I
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finally found the translation. You can go to the Vatican
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News website if you want to see the translation of
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his speech. It was very nice. It was very good.
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Not a single thing anybody could take issue with. He
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seemed genuinely moved and humble. That's all. He's a good sign.
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He wore the traditional vestments. I believe, prayed the final
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prayer plenary indulgence in Latin. That's pretty big, actually, especially
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since you know he had tons of plenary indulgence prayers
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he could have chosen from, and he chose one that
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emphasized repentance. Boy, we don't hear that enough these days.
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Go forth and send no more. I feel pretty good
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about him. Like I said, I can't find a lot
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of definitive statements on any political issues, and I really
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don't care. Not only has he got the benefit of
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the doubt from me, but he's a pope. He has
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my respect, my absolute loyalty and obedience. That's what we
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do as Catholics. Now. I know, gosh, so many people
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listening to the show are upset. I got it. You
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had your favorites. I had my favorites. We're disappointed, but
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in the end, we trust God. That's the bottom line.
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Church has stood for two thousand years. It's the oldest
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institution on earth. Popes coming go. We think we tend
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to think just as humans, but especially in modern times
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because things move very quickly and we get a lot
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of media that what happens in our lifetime is of lifetimes,
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I guess you should say, is of utmost importance. Well, actually,
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if we were like step back and put like the
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events of our lifetimes in the context of history, we
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will see that very few things that happen in our
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lifetimes are actually of any consequence whatsoever, and very few
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people are either. You know, it's sort of a sad fact.
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But you know, I guess what Ecclesiastes or Sirric one
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of them talks about, how you know, even the greatest
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man's gon to be forgotten in the next few years,
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the next generation or two. It's true, there are great
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men of history, and there are like watershed events of history,
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you might call them. Usually those things happen, but we
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have no control over whatsoever. We have certainly no control
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over who the pope is. That's up to the Holy
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Spirit through the bishops and cardinals. Well, the cardinals and bishops,
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I guess I should say put in that order the conclave.
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But the greatest man of our generation will probably be
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a footnote of history. In one hundred or two hundred years.
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You could look back at, say the founding of America.
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Some of the greatest men you've never heard of Okay,
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if you're Catholic, you may have heard of Charles Carroll.
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Ninety nine percent of the population United States has never
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heard of Charles Carroll. Without Charles Carroll, we would have
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no American Revolution because he basically funded it. The only
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reason they let a Catholic join the mostly Freemason Masonic
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you know founders they all were, they were all members
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of the Masonic Order, was because he was the richest
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man in the United States. Most people have never heard
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of him. Now, one of the most pivotal people in history.
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You know, we could look at any era of history.
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Another good, great example from that Areauld be doctor Benjamin Rush.
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Doctor Rush was like the father of American medicine and
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one of our most important founding fathers. How many people
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who are even doctors or you know, medical professors have
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ever heard of Benjamin Rush most less much less modern historians.
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Who knows who came before them and who are going
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to come afterrom We get these like highlights of history.
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We don't know anything. I mean going back. You know,
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he chose Saint Leo Hope, Saint Leo the Great, to
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name himself after one of the very best popes, one
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who really combated what we would now call modernism or
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communism or whatever that was happening at the time, got
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not perfect in every regard, but one of the very
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best of all time, a very very orthodox traditional How
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many people these days know who he was. But I
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mean a lot of people now say the Catholic Church
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has been infiltrated by you know, outside forces, by modernists, communists, globalists,
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especially Freemasons, and you know, they say there's this great
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spiritual battle in the Church. There is, and to an
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extent that's true, but there always has been. Go back
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to the earliest writings of the Catholic Church. We're talking
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the first couple hundred years, two three hundred years really,
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right in that period, the Gnostics had huge influence. The
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Gnostics really and Nastics are heretics, are essentially anti Catholic
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heretics that have become priests and teachers and really in
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high positions in the Catholic Church. A lot of the
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early writings of the Catholic Church was denouncing the Gnostics.
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But by what three twenty or so, maybe a little
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later three point fifty, I don't know, Saint Clement of
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Alexandria was trying to almost unify and he did. That
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was you know, that was his effort, and he was
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very successful unify the heretic Gnostics with the Orthodox Catholics
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by saying the gnoscissism that you believe that his predecessors
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had announced thoroughly and really made a mockery of I mean, seriously,
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get the you know, early church fathers, and they really
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tore it to shreds. He said, you know, gnostic means knowledge,
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so one whose gnostic is supposed to search after knowledge.
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He made the argument that true knowledge is found through
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the teachings of the Catholic Church, the Orthodox teachings of
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the Catholic Church, and he led a lot of heretical
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Gnostics into becoming Orthodox Catholics. The Gnostics are really the
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ancestors of the Freemasons, if you want to look at
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it that way. We have had these controversies and different
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factions in the Catholic Church from day one. And why
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do I know from day one, Well, Saint Peter had
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barely been pope. I don't even know if we've been
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pope a year before Simon the Magician, this is recorded
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in the Book of Acts asked to buy the power
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of the Holy Spirit, and he condemned him. Simon went
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off and formed his own church and called himself God
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and the Messiah himself, you know, and founded Gnosticism. So
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we've literally had these struggles in the church for the
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millennium from the founding of the church, even you know,
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Saint Paul, Saint Peter, so many in the Acts and
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further books of the Apostles were condemning heretics and schismatics
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in the church. But God never took his hand off
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his church. I mean, the Pope is still the Pope.
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Jesus said, those who hear you hear me. Those who
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reject you reject him who sent me. The Pope still
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has the keys of the kingdom. When he binds on earth,
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is bound in heaven. And when he looses on earth,
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we loosed in heaven. And he will be protected from
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serious error that's teaching anything that's in opposition to the
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written in oral tradition of the Catholic Church. By the
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power of the Holy Spirit. And so yeah, I'm going
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to pray for Pope Leo the fourteenth every single day,
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for his health, his well being, for his intentions, and
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that God will continue to guide him to accomplish his will,
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and you know that's really in my opinion. If you can't,
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if you don't believe it, if you're upset that your
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guide it can get in and you can't support the pope,
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probably need to go talk with a priest about it.
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Because if the gates of Hell prevailed against the Church
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of founded by Jesus, then Jesus didn't tell the truth.
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Jesus didn't tell the truth, and Jesus isn't God. So really,
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if you're having trouble with this, try to work through it.
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Otherwise you really may find yourself in the state of
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mortal sin, and I would not wish that to happen.
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So just remember, one of those Jesus picked was Judas
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we never know what's going on behind the scenes. Looks
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like this time he picked a really good man man
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we don't know a lot about. So let's just give
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him the recognition and honoree deserves as pope, and trust
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God to work it all out. So hey, all right,
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that's what I'm going to tell you today. Now let's
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turn to a couple of questions and answers from radio
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replies that maybe I may not have time to do
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much more than that today. If I can get into
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follow Spiagu's book, I will. We'll see how it goes.
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And it's really interesting. The questionnaire is asking the priests
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about the devil and evil spirits, and he says, is
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the devil a supernatural being? And they answer no, he
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is a natural being in a state prived deprived of
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supernatural grace. Why is he a natural being? Well, he
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was created by God and he is in a state
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deprived of supernatural grace. The grace he was given as
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an angel before he rebelled against God was supernatural. Person says,
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Satan is a mythical being, and they answer he is
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quite content to seem to be a mythical being. He
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has no desire to be detected in his operations and
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is not likely to inform you that evil suggestions are
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from him. Person asks who is Satan? They answer to
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the word Satan in Hebrew means one who is adverse,
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and it can refer to any adversary in that sense.
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Christ said, on one occasion of Peter, get behind me, Satan,
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thou art a scan one to me? That's Matthew sixteen
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twenty three. And that's because Peter's wishes were in opposition
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to what Jesus wished. He wasn't pope at the time,
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but even so you can see how our Lord uses
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flawed individuals for good purposes. Satan therefore does not always
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refer to the devil. But since the devil wants Lucifer
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or the Angel of Light, is the greatest of all
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enemies to God in mankind, the word Satan has been
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applied in a special way to him. Of all our adversaries.
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He is the adversary. Person asked do you make him
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also a person rather than influence, and they answer God
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endowed him with an imperishable personality. He is a person
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who influences. A person is an intellectual being who is
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master of his own freely chosen activities. It does not
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matter whether he be of a spiritual nature as God
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or the angels, or of a semi spiritual nature as man.
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The devil has intelligence and free will. He can exert
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a spiritual influence and suggest evil. Many people say that
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they do not believe even the devil that is quiet
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in keeping with his wishes. But Christ definitely warns us
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against the evil influence of Satan, and obviously a Protestant,
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this person says our minister told us that evil spirits
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are not persons but evil thoughts, and that when Christ
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spoke of Satan falling back like lightning from the heavens
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in Luke ten eighteen, he really saw a falling star
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but lacked our present knowledge of astronomy. Now wouldn't that
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be amazing? If God lacked knowledge in any way? Kind
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of underminds this Protestant denomination, doesn't it well? They answer, Christ,
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being God knew all things, Your minister lacked either knowledge
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of scripture or any real belief in the divinity of Christ.
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That person continues, is the devil responsible for all sins?
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They answer indirectly, yes, for he calls the fall of
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our first parents directly known. Scripture tells us that there
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are three great enemies of a man's soul that are
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in the world, the flesh, and the devil. That the
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three great enemies of man's soul are the world, the flesh,
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and the devil. Obviously, men sin for merely worldly prosperity
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or induced by sensual pleasure. At times, however, Satan directly
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tempts them. But Satan can do no more than suggests
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evil to our will. He cannot compel our sent man
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can always refuse consent to evil by the help of
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God's grace. God is faithful, who will not suffer you
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to be tempted above that which you are able. For
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Corinthians ten thirteen, the person asks can you imagine a
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good God creating a devil? And the answer, I certainly cannot.
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But then God did not create the devil. Let me explain.
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God did not create the devil as the devil. In
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other words, God did not create any evil spiritual being
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as evil. The angels, as created by God were good
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beings of a spiritual nature, endowed with intelligence and free will.
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Goodness alone is the terminus of God's creative activity. But
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some angels misuse their freedom of will and rendered themselves
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evil by their opposition to God, who is goodness itself. Yes,
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are there many devils? And they say yes. Saint John
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tells us that Satan was cast out of heaven and
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his angels were thrown down with him. We've got Revelations
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twelve nine. The devils sought Christ if thou cast us
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out in Matthew eight thirty one and said that they
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were legion Mark five nine. And we'll stop that there,
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You know, I think I can get in that next
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section on the Mass. Let's see, it's not too long,
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not too long at all. And as always, this is
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from fathers Barago's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church, written
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in the eighteen late eighteen hundreds, posts about eighteen ninety.
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And this is the value of the sacrifice of Mass
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as the holy sacrifice of the Mass, is an oblation
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of infinite value to celebrate or hear a Mass is
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a good work which surpasses all of the good works
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and excellence. See, it is one of those things that
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Protestants don't get. They say you're saved by faith alone,
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and Jesus actually said by faith and works, and Luther
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changed his words. Well, one of the works we do
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is to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist. Another
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work is to read the Bible. Another work is to pray.
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Really dear doctrine just falls apart with the slightest pulling
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of any thread. The value of the sacrifice of the Mass,
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as the holy sacrifice of the Mass, is an oblation
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of infinite value to celebrator here, Mass is a good
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work and ablation is nothing else than a gift we
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offered to God. Now the value of this gift is
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proportioned to the dignity of the giver and the costliness
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of the gift. Thus it is with a sacrifice, the
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more holiness sacrificer, and the more precious the victim, the
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greater is greater is its importance in God's sight. Hence,
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it is that the value of the sacrifice of the
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Mass is infinite for the priests and victim, or none
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other than he of whom God the Father said, this
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is my beloved son, and whom I have well pleased
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Matthew three point seventeen. The glory given to God in
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the Mass is greater than that which saccrues to Him
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from all the good works of the saints. For the
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glory they give him is finite, whereas the glory receives
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from the Mass is infinite. It is an honor paid
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not by angels or men, but by Christ himself. Christ alone,
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says Coachum, knows the greatness of the divine majesty. He
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alone knows what is due the most high. He alone
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is capable of rendering to the Divine majesty the honor
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that appertains to him. All the angels and men can
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do for the glory of God scarcely deserves notice in
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comparison to what Christ does. No sacrifice is an act
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of such profound abasement as the sacrifice of the Mass,
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For in it, the all glorious Son of God abases
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himself to the utmost upon the altar, making himself appear
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less than man. In presence of the sacrifice of the Mass,
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all the sacrifice of the Old Testament vanishes to the
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stars when the sun rises, For those sacrifices will only
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except to God inasmuch as they foreshadowed the oblation of
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Christ on the cross, with which the Mass is identical. Therefore,
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to hear celebrate mass is a good work or of
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greater excellence than any other. As the Sun exceeds the
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planets and radiance and vivifying power, so to hear mass
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devoutly is much more important, more profitable to us than
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any other good work. If, as says Saint Lawrence Justinian,
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you place all your good works prayers, fast alms, mortification
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of one scale and a single mass on the other,
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you will find the latter far outweighs the former. For
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the practice of penance we offer to God the gifts
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that are purely human. But when we hear Mass with
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do devotion, we offer him gifts that are divine. We
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offer him the body of Christ, the blood of Christ,
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the wounds of Christ, the passion of Christ, nay, the
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only begotten Son of God himself. The Council of Trent
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declares that no more holy and divine act can be
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performed by the faithful than the sacrifice of the Mass.
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To hear masses a good work is more profitable than
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mental prayer, which is the highest form of prayer, because
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in meditation we represent to ourselves Christ as present, whereas
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in the mass He is really present in person. Offering
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or hearing the mass has more good value as a
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good work in proportion to the worthiness and devotion of
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the priests and people. The sacrifice of the mass has
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a twofold virtue, the one it has of itself, quite
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independently of the worthiness of the priest. By the sacrifice
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of the Mass, the virtues of Christ's passion and his
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merits are applied to our souls in a totally different
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manner to that of any other work. Hence, a man
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in no wise loses the fruit of the holy sacrifice
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if it is offered to him by a priest who
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is unworthy. Yes, we can have bad priests. Their sacraments
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are so valid because it's Jesus threw them. Just as
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the efficacy of the sacraments does not depend on the
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character of the priests who dispense them. So the oblation
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of a bad priest is the same intrinsic value that
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of a good priest. Saint Thomas Aquias wrote on that Yet,
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on the other hand, the mass, regard as a good
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work performed by a believing Christian, has a secondary virtue
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which pretends, which depends upon the sanctity and fervor of
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the priests and people. The holier the priest, the more
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profoundest devotion, the more acceptable is the sacrifice he offers,
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and the greater is the benefit accruing from it. Thus
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is far preferable to hear the mass of a good
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priest and that of a careless one, for the piety
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and sanctity of both the minister himself and the faithful
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who joined with him in offering the sacred oblation, enhance
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its beneficial effect, is a good work, and incite those
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present to greater devotion, And we'll leave it there. As
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I told you short entry. All right, y'all, have a
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great week. Say some prayers for the pope, and say
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some prayers for yourself if you're having trouble with accepting
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who the new pope is, because you have to as
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part of being a Catholic. We don't want to be
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in schism. We want to be part of the Body
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of Christ, not separated from it. And to do so,
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we have to acknowledge the authority of the pope, who
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looks to me like he might be a pretty great pope.
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And some people, my friend John Benco and others are saying, hey,
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you know, the first American pope may lead a lot
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of Americans to convert and become Catholic. That would be great.
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The Protestant churches are losing members, They're bleeding members like
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they're hemorrhagy, especially since the COVID lockdowns. People are still
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somewhat culturally Christian but not practicing. It means, really they're
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not being brainwashed by anti Catholicism. It's time to bring
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people into the Catholic Church. So who knows what's going
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to happen. If he's a good pope, thank God. If
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he's not, the best pope. Pray to God. Either way,
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he's the Pope. So y'all have a going and I'll
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talk to you next week.