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Show 137: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ALONE GIVES SALVATION · The Uncensored Catholic

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A, Hey, y' all, welcome to this week's show. I'm getting
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a little late start this week. Here. It is Wednesday, and I
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haven't even put out a podcast yet. I did the Census Fidelium podcast an
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interview last Thursday, I guess it went live on Friday, and the response
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has been absolutely overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming, really grateful. I hope I get
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to do it again some time. If you haven't checked that one out,
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do so. It's on YouTube as well as every podcast you know hosting platform,
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I guess you would say, but I mean for the feedback to book
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sales, new subscribers. It's been a bit of a whirlwind actually, so
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that's great. But we'll jump right into this one, and knowing you know,
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it's probably the only podcast I get a chance to do this week here
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on The Uncensored Catholic, I have to do tomorrow my herbal Medicine for Preppers
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podcast, and that's a commitment I have someone else, so you know,
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I can't drop the ball on that one. Let's well, of course,
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obviously I'll do the best I can on this one. But I think the
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topics are you're gonna find really interesting. This may actually be a very controversial
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one, and it's not my own words. Boy, there's a lot of
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controversial stuff I could talk about, but yeah, politics and everything going on
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right now. I'll probably save that for another day because I could really go
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off. I mean, I could do like a Steve Bannon style rant for
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about the next forty five minutes. And I don't think you tuned in for
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that, but maybe he did. Who does the first thing we'll do?
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We always heard of the book? Radio replies a couple of questions and answers
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from Protestants to a couple of Catholic priests in the I guess the forties.
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I mean, this is an old book. It's really really good. The
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person says, does the Catholic Church recognize the Greek Orthodox Church as part of
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itself? Now this is a big controversy right now, really, especially among
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Catholics. For some reason, we've been a lot of us, not myself
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included, have been convinced that the Greek and Russian Orthodox, etc. The
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Orthodox Churches are validly Catholic. In reality, they do have valid orders because
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they come down through the apostles, but they are not Catholic. There's a
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big schism there, and they are more conservative, certainly a little bit more
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faithful to the teachings of the Bible and the Apostles right now than many of
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our Catholics of Francis. Obviously, even though the document issue just I guess
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yesterday, on the church's stance on like transgenderism and home sexual it's really darn
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good. I mean that that's as conservative and true to Orthodox teachings as can
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be. But on a lot of social issues, the Orthodox are definitely kicking
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our butts. I mean, let's be honest, but they're not Catholic,
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and we can't just convert willy nilly because we don't like what the pope said,
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or because our priest is a liberal. I've had a liberal priest.
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Gosh, that was a shock. The priest that brought me into the church
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was conservative and traditional as can be. He loved Pope John Paul a second,
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he loved Benedict, and I mean politically, socially, and especially religiously,
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very orthodox and true tradition. And then I end up in a place
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with a priest from Pittsburgh who I guess grew up at a Union family and
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was liberal bordering on communist and angry, very angry and cussed a lot,
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like during Mass, would yell at people and cuss at them. It was
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actually a very good confessor. He had a very tender heart. I came
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to like him. But if that had been my first exposure to the Catholic
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Church, I don't think I could have I don't know what I would have
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done, because I knew the Catholic Church was true. If I had had
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to put up with his rants against any Republican, just put an R on
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the end of it. He hated it all. I mean, he and
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his praise of people like Pelosi and Biden and his anger. I honestly,
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I don't know what I would have done. That was. That was weird,
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That was rough, and he was my priest for a good five years
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and one day when he just absolutely went off on I guess the church secretary
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from the pulpit and I mean just custer out. I mean, like you
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would not believe in a church of mostly retired folks, a big church.
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It had to be at least eight nine hundred people there. Somebody finally complained
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to the bishop and he was moved along. But yeah, yeah, that
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was an experience. Anyways, Going to the question the person asked, does
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the Catholic Church recognize the Greek Orthodox Church, and they answered no. As
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a matter of fact, there is no one Greek Orthodox Church. There are
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many independent Greek churches. They originated by rebellion against the Catholic Church in the
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ninth century and have split into many different allegiances. As long as they refuse
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to submit to the authority of the Catholic Church, they are as much outside
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of the Catholic Church as the Protestant variations. That's what people don't really understand
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these days, and the Orthodox Church are as much separated as we are from
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the Anglicans and the Lutherans. Unfortunately, the person asks how does the Greek
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Church differ from the Catholic Church, and they answer the Greek Churches are both
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schismatical and heretical. They are separated from the obedience due to the authority of
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Christ in his true Church. They acknowledge no infallible head, no pope.
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In other words, they may retain valid orders and the Mass, things which
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Protestantism lost, but they have fallen into errors concerning the Holy Trinity, the
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Immaculate Conception, purgatory, and various other points of Christian doctrine may as well
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see Catholic doctrine, because the only true Christian doctrine is Catholic doctrine. Why
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can't I say that so boldly? Well, because Jesus said to his apostles,
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those who hear you hear me, and those who reject you reject him
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who sent me. I did a nice little post on social media yesterday about
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the Saints, and some you know, Protestant got back and said, you
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cannot pray to the saints. They're dead people. They can't hear You know
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that. I said, you know what. I said this to y'all a
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million times. You know it. Jesus left us a church, not a
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Bible. The church gave us the Bible some three hundred years after the resurrection.
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Jesus gave to his church the ability to infallibly teach. If the Church
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says someone's in heaven is therefore a saint, they are because he gave them
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the power to bind and loose. Even if there was a question if the
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Church officially declared someone a saint, they are because Jesus gave them a power
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to wall. He said, what you bind on earth, will we be
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bound in heaven? What you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
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So the Catholic Church declaring someone a saint is the surest guarantee that they are
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actually a saint, and that it has been the unbroken tradition of Catholic teaching
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for two thousand years. Even for the time of the Saint, the apostles
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were still alive. That we are to ask for the intercession of saints pray
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to meaning from the Latin pricata, meaning to ask ask them to pray for
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us, just as you'd ask your brother, your sister, your friend,
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your mother to pray for you, because they are more alive in heaven than
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we are on earth. The very fact that the Catholic Church has taught that
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and continues to teach it means that it is true because Jesus guaranteed that every
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single doctrine of the Catholic Church would be absolutely, infallibly true. Pretty hard
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to believe in Jesus and not in his church, but unfortunately many people do.
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All right, let's get into the very appropriate. I tell you how
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these books mirror each other. It's just weird. I don't plan it this
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way. I didn't even did I start reading. No, I didn't.
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I started with father's Barago's book before I started radio replies. We went into
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in depth about the Masonic Order and such months ago. The topic in Sparago's
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exhaustive explanation of the catech of the Catholic Churches. The Catholic Church alone gives
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salvation. What a statement? Now? Is that controversial? Yeah? Yeah,
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that actually sounds arrogant unless you actually realize it's the only institution on earth,
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authorized and guaranteed by God with the sole mission of bringing people salvation.
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No other church on earth was given that commission by Christ. In other words,
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he says, outside of the Catholic Church, there is no salvation.
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I think that's a quote from Saint Augustine, if I'm not mistaken. The
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Catholic Church alone gives salvation, i e. The Catholic Church alone possesses those
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means which lead to salvation viz. Or vis a viv you know, I
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E. However you want to put it. He always just said viz.
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With a abbreviation. The doctrine of Christ, the means of salvation appointed by
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Christ, and the teachers and guides of the Church established by Christ. The
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church cannot teach that truth and error lead equally well to salvation. She makes
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no declaration as to who is saved, but states only that there is,
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but state's only what is necessary for salvation. I guess she does say declare
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saints, so I guess that is saying that someone is saved. But I
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think he means in his earthly life. We'll just go with that. The
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judgments of particular individuals is left to God, who searches hearts. Her doctrine
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is not a declaration of intolerance to the individual, but of intolerance to error,
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such as an intolerance as God himself expressed when he forbade false gods to
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appear before him, and such as First Corinthians five. So far as the
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church, so far is the church from hating those outside her pale Another old
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phrase. Her pale means her authority essentially, or her territory, if you
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want to think about that. For instance, the Ashkenazi Jews when they settled
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in well from Germany up into Ukraine and Russia, that was a settlement of
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Jews known as the pale pa l e like you know, pale skin or
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something. It doesn't mean anything about being pale. It means it was a
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territory. And so you often read old books and they say within the pale.
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Now she meant in the Jewish territory. In this case, he's talking
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about under the authority of the Catholic Church. So the Church is so far
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from hating those outside her pale that in her public prayers on Good Friday she
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begs God God's mercy for them. The persecutions of the Middle Ages formed no
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part of the work of the Church, which desired not the death but the
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conversion of the sinner. It was the civil power which used forces to repress
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heretics because as a rule, they disturbed, they disturbed the public peace and
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morality. It's very true. I mean prices, it's got all upset about.
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You know the Inquisition for instance. Well, it was the Spanish government
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that sentenced those people to be tried, and they had the option of choosing
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a civil trial or church trial, and they knew the Church would treat them
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more fairly. It was always the civil authorities, the kings, and they're
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you know, people that ruled under them, that persecuted people. Never the
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Church. The Church has never persecuted any people on earth, regardless what people
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like the Waldensians and such, say, I mean they have this. There's
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a you know, outdoor drama play right here in North Carolina and Baldiese where
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every year they show how the Catholic Church persecuted the Waldensians for wanting to read
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the Bible. It's absolute fiction, absolutely made up one faults, but boy
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do they believe it. It was actually the government that persecuted them because they
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were stirring up descent. And you know they show the Bible in chains.
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Well, you know, actually a Bible used to be handwritten by back then,
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and even the early Gutenberg Bibles and such. Gutenberg, of course was
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a Catholic who invented the printing press to print bibles so people would have them.
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But they were so expensive. I mean in today's terms a Bible would
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be worth fifty thousand dollars. There would be one maybe in an entire community
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if you were lucky. And yes, it was chained in the church,
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so no one stole it. Just like when you were a kid you went
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into a phone booth, remember the phone book, It had a big wire,
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you know, metal cord attaching it, essentially chaining it, so no
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one stole it. Chaining the Bible was not to keep it from the people.
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It was to make sure all the people actually had access to it and
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somebody didn't steal it for its monetary value. I mean, it's such just
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absolute bs absolute, and you know it's calumny. It's lies that somebody knew
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were faults. Now people repeat them out of ignorance. I said, I
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guess, let's say ignorant innocence. But a cursory investigation into history would show
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everybody in valid East North Carolina that for generations they and their families have been
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spreading scurrilous lies against the Church founded by Christ and the most holy people on
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earth, his saints, you know, his religious his priests, his monks,
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his nuns. Yeah, to do that is I understand. It scares
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people. They don't want to find out their grandparents were lunatics. You know,
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I've had to admit I had an ancestor on the Mayflower second Vergin voyage.
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He actually came over, tried to come over on the speedwell, it
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started a sink. They had to turn around. He came over on the
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second voyage of the Mayflower. Yeah, that would be a nutball religious cultist.
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Sorry, all the pilgrims were nutball religious cultists actually read what they believed
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in what they practiced. If anyone tried that in modern America, trust me,
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child Services would be over there taking their kids away and it would be
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a Branch Davidian type situation. I mean, Janet Reno would be running over
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them with tanks and setting them all on fire. I mean not that you
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know, I certainly do not side with Janet Reno in that case. I
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mean what they did at Waco and Ruby Ridge, I mean it was horrible.
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Clinton's a monster and Janet Reno absolutely a monster. Hillary's worse than all
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both of them but together. But I'm just saying, yeah, the Pilgrims
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were at Plymouth Rock were nutballs. There were religious cult They were not the
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founders of America. I mean both gosh. I mean, they were trying
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to get to Boston because it was a large British port. You know,
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the Dutch had been here for a good hundred years before then in New York.
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And for some reason, we're taught in school that the Pilgrims found in
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America. The Pilgrims didn't have Jack Squatt to do with America. I mean
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seriously, I mean, the Spanish had been here for a long time before,
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with Catholic colonies found in Georgetown and Charleston and Savannah and Saint Augustine,
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and I mean even actually right here in North Carolina, Morgan to North Carolina,
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they had a Spanish fort before the first British colony ever existed, and
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the first British colony was a Jamestown, and you know the Lost Colony and
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all that. I mean, these are my ancestors. So I can tell
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you with absolute fact. If you've been taught in school that the first Americans
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were the Pilgrims, you got sold to bill of Goods. It's absolute lies.
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And if you actually look into the Pilgrims, there were good people.
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I'm not saying they weren't, but they had sincere religious faith. They came
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over as communists, seriously like socialists, you know that failed. They almost
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starved to death. They adopted free market capitalism. They still put people in
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stocks and beat them just for having a fire in the fireplace on a Sunday.
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They forbade the celebration of Christmas in Easter. I mean, these were
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a nutball cult. We were just taught so many myths in America. It's
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really a shame. I mean that America was founded on religious freedom. No,
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it wasn't. It was illegal to be Catholic in every state but Maryland.
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These people didn't come here for religious freedom. They could have had plenty
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of religious freedom in England if they had just been Anglican as opposed to be
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a nutball cult, and that's what they were. I'm sorry, and I'm
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sorry to my you know, great great great great grandfather, fitz Randolph.
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He was very misled. I mean, they weren't far removed from like Mormons
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and such. I mean they were really out where the buses don't run well
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anyway. I mean, accusing people of being witches when they saw him praying
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the Rosary. That's what Cotton Mather did. I mean beating people and whipping
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them. Did you read the Scarlet Letter? And honestly, we look at
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these people as our models of what it means to be an American. Knew
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Puritan New England was about as awful a place to be for religious freedom as
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Iran as Iran is now. I mean, really, Afghanistan probably has more
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religious freedom than Puritan New England did. I'm just putting it that way,
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Okay, all right. Where was I? Oh my gosh, did I
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go off on a tangent? See told you? I rant a little today.
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Oh yeah. The persecutions of the Middle Ages formed no part of the
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work of the Church, which desired not the death but the conviction of the
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but the conversion of the center. It was civil powers which used to force
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and repress heretics because as a rule, they disturbed the public peace and morality.
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The Church is the way to salvation. It differs in this respect from
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the Synagogue. The latter merely pointed out the way to salvation in the distant
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future, while the Church claims itself to be the true way. The Catholic
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Church is distinct from heretical churches, which have corrupted Christ's doctrine and have rejected
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the means of grace, especially the Mass and penance. Their way is a
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roundabout way or the wrong way, quoting Saint Augustine, the further one goes
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out from the right path, the further he is from the goal of his
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journey point number two. Hence, every man is bound to become a member
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of the Catholic Church. I said it, yes, Father Spirago said it.
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Every man has a religious Christian duty to become Catholic. The more he
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learns about the faith, the stronger that he is compelled to follow that duty.
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Some will say that a man ought not change his religion. They might
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just as well argue that a man may keep an inheritance which his father obtained
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unjustly. Others say one faith is as good as another, and all lead
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equally well to heaven. To this is to profess indifferentism. It is certain
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that one religion only can be the true one I either one revealed by God,
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and reason alone would tell us that truth is what we should aim at.
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Is absurd to suppose that God is unconcerned whether man adore him, or
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whether man adore him or sticks and stones, or whether Christ be regarded as
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his son or as a blasphemer. Why should Christ, and after him the
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Apostles preach the Gospel amid so much persecution if it were of no moment,
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no importance, what the man believed. Why were the apostles so vehement in
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announcing those who perverted the teachings of Christ Galatians one eight, Second, John
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one, ten, etc. Why should God have converted Saul and send an
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angel to Cornelius The apostles gave the reason. They said, there is no
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other name under Heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved x four
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twelve. And Christ said, I am the Way, the Truth, and
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the Life. No man cometh to me, no man cometh to the Father,
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but by me John fourteen six. Hence it is that so many eminent
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people enter the Church, despite sacrifices entailed. Queen Christina, the only daughter
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of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the arch enemy of the Catholics, studied the
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Catholic teaching and was persuaded of its truth and the laws. And was persuaded
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of its truth, and as the laws of the land forbade her to practice
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her faith, she resigned her crown and spent the rest of her days in
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Rome. So two. In the beginning of the century, Count Stolberg resigned
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his post on his conversion in England. During the last few decades, very
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many most distinguished men have entered the Church, especially Cardinals Newman and Manning.
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What great heroes they were. Even from Judaism, there have been remarkable conversions
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such as Ratisbond and Liebermann. And long after Father Spirago wrote his book The
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had Rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism, which was a huge scandal among Judaism
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because not only had contrary to what we're taught in schools and by the media,
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the Catholic Church did everything it could to protect the Jews and the Holocaust.
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He recognized that, and he began came to believe, through the charity
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and love of Christians, that Christianity was the truth, and began to learn
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its doctrine, and he and his entire immediate family converted to Catholicism. That's
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something you're not going to see on PBS, is it or the History Channel
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Three. Whoever, through his own fault, remains outside the church will not
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be saved. A man who, knowing the Catholic Church to be the true
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one, leaves it, say, to make a good marriage, or to
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push on his business, or for some such unworthy motive, would not be
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saved of the man who, from a cowardly fear of the approach or the
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esteem disesteem I guess, lack of esteem, we'll go with that of others,
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does not enter the Church. The same is true of the man who,
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having solid doubts as to whether his church is the true one takes no
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pains to find the truth. Such as these love the darkness better than the
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light. He cannot have God for a father who has not the Church for
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a mother, says Saint Cyprian. He who has not Christ for a head,
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are the words of Saint Augustine, cannot be saved. And he who
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does not belong to the body of Christ, i e. To the Church
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of Christ, has not Christ for his head. He who breaks away from
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the Church separates himself from Christ. That's quote from the Lateran Council. If,
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however, a man, through no fault of his own, remains outside
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of the Church, he may be saved if he leads a god fearing life,
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For such a one is, to all intents and purposes, a member
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of the Catholic Church. The majority of men who have been brought up in
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heresy think that they belong to the true Church. Their error is not due
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to the hatred of God. A man who leads a good life and has
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the love of God in his heart really belongs to the Church, and such
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a one is saved not by his heresy, but by belonging to the Church.
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That would shock a lot of Baptists and Presbyterians. When Saint Peter said,
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in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh justices is acceptable to
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him. That's Acts ten thirty five. The Catholic Church, says Saint Gregory,
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the Great embraces all the just, from able to the last of the
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elect. At the end of the world, all who lived up to their
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lights were Christians. Though they might have been looked upon as godless, as
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was Socrates among the Greeks, and Abraham and Elias among the Jews, they
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do not belong to the body of Christ. That is, they are not
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externally in union with the Church, but they are of the soul of the
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Church. I either have the sentiments which the members of the Church should have.
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Thus, the Catholic Church has members both visible and invisible. Visible members
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are those who have been received in the church by baptism. The following are
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not members, the unbaptized, which include Heathens, Jews, and Muslims.
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He always used the old term Muhammed to me, I'm going to go with
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Muslims. Formal heretics such as Protestants. All Protestants are formally heretics by the
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way, and schismatics such as the Greeks and those who are excommunicated. The
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invisible members of the church are those who without any thought of their own or
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outside of the church, but are leading god fearing lives. The visible members
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of the church are called living or dead members, according as they are in
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the state of sanctifying grace or not. Well, what does that mean.
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It means you can be Catholic. You can be Joe Biden, call yourself
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Catholic, carry your rosary. But if you commit a moral sin such as
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supporting abortion and celebrating homosexuality and transgenderism, you're not Catholic. You're in state
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of mortal sin. You have excommunicated yourself. And it's a shame priests won't
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tell them that because they're afraid to offend the rich and powerful, and that
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in itself is a mortal sin. That's actually a greater sin than many others.
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We'll just go with that anyway. Our bishops really need to get their
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acts together, our Pope needs to get his acts together, and many of
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our priests need the whip cracked over their head. Let's just put it that
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way, and that's up to the hierarchy of the church, and we can
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only pray that it will happen because they're leading people astray. They're they're they're
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committing grave, rave sins. But you know, as a member of the
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church militant, I can say it, but as one who has no authority,
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I can't do a dang thing about it. So we'll finish it up
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here. It is an error to think that those who have fallen into grave
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sin are no longer members of the church. The church is like a field
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in which grow both wheat and cockle, that's Matthew what thirteen twenty four,
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or like a net which contains fish, both good and bad. It is
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not enough, though, to belong to the church, A man should also
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live up to it in his belief. Otherwise his membership will help only to
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his greater condemnation. Said much better than I did. All right, y'all
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remember the words of Saint Padre Pio. Pray, hope and don't worry,
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and I will talk to you next time.