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Episode 13: The Authority of the Church Part 7 - conclusion · The Uncensored Catholic

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  Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. This one will finally wrap up
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  our series on the authority of the Church, the teaching and governing authority of
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  the Church. It's a seven part series. I never thought it would go
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  that long, but it's a lot to unpack. And I was also asked
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  to write the gospel reflection from Mizzio Day today. And you know, I
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  said, there's no such thing as coincidence. Well wouldn't you just know?
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  Today's gospel reading was when Jesus said, Father, I wish they'd be one
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  as you would I are one. He wanted, he said, he wanted
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  to be there to be all of one mind, all of one spirit,
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  in complete perfect unity and agreement. In other words, no room for schism,
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  no room for somebody to up and leave the church. He founded the
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  Catholic Church and form another church, no room for differing doctrines. And if
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  you're interested in that, it's on Missio Day's substack page. Just look up
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  missy O Day that's m I. S. S Io d E I.
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  And you know, sign up the gosport of fractions the Free and it's really
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  very good, very good, great group of people, great group of writers.
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  Really really good folks, really honored to be even asked to join.
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  Really um all right, So you know who would sum it up better than
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  Father sparago As I said, his book The Exhaustive Explanation of the Catechism,
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  written published I believe in eighteen nineties. So you know, this is the
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  old Boston Catechism. This is you know, pure orthodoxy, and it's wonderfully
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  written, very concise, even though it's a very long book, it's well
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  over seven hundred pages, but really interesting. You know. He really in
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  one section talks about communism and socialism and why they're incompatible with Catholicism. I
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  wish more of our priests ambishops realized that socialism was incompatible with Catholicism. At
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  its core, the socialism, communism, Nazism, etc. Are all this
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  basically the same thing in differing degrees, and they're based on ind They're based
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  on someone saying I have a right to what another person work to earn,
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  or giving the government authority to say you have the right to what these people
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  over here worked and earned. It's one thing. If you want to give
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  it, that's charity. That's not the government mandating theft taking from someone without
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  their consent and giving it someone who hasn't worked for it. That's basically as
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  simple as you get. But I mean it goes a whole lot deeper than
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  that. I mean, do you take my home state in North Carolina,
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  for instance. For a long time, North Carolina was a state that didn't
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  not allow the cell of alcohol. For a long time, North Carolina was
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  a state that did not have a lottery and outlawed or gambling. You know,
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  but it's right or wrong. I mean, I don't have a problem
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  with drinking or gambling so long as it's not a vice, so long as
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  someone isn't addicted to it so someone doesn't act stupidly and irresponsibly. But that
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  was the law here in North Carolina. Well, now North Carolina runs the
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  Alcoholic Beverage System, the ABC stores, the liquor stores, the state sells
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  the liquor and profits off of it. Now we have a state run lottery
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  and they're getting ready to legalize gambling, and so how does one balance that
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  out? The government said it's right, so therefore it's right. I mean,
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  before you know, North Carolina was a strongly Protestant state, and they
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  said, we believe it's wrong because our religious doctrine says it was wrong.
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  And now everyone has to change because government says it's right. I mean,
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  yeah, like I said, I don't have I absolutely enjoy a glass of
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  bourbon in an evening or whine with a meal. I'm not a gambler.
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  That's not my thing, but I don't have a problem with it. But
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  the thing is, most of the state did. And when the government said
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  no, it's no longer wrong, it's right because the government could profit on
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  it. That really everyone had to just accept that. And what I mean,
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  when did the government decide? When did we decide that government has the
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  right to dictate morality? Well, that's also really the heart of socialism and
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  communism, fascism, Nazism, which, as I said, are really all
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  one and the same thing at their core. I mean, people say,
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  well, you can't say Nazis are the same as socialist what actually it is.
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  It was the National Socialist Workers Party, The Nazis were National Socialist.
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  You can't say fascism is as bad as communism, socialism is as bad as
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  fascism. Yeah, Actually, Mussolini's fascism was a socialist system, and our
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  government now is a fascist socialist system. The government for instance, well,
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  corporations pay the government for them to enact regulations that usually are not set by
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  Congress at all. I mean, it's not our elected representatives doing this for
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  the most part, it's bureaucracies. They set regulations, they come up with
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  mandates. You remember when you're being forced to be vaccinated a few years ago.
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  The corporations made a lot of money on that. The drug companies have
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  made a freaking fortune on that. Or Obamacare when they mandated everyone have health
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  insurance see health insurance companies and the large corporations that own all the hospitals.
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  Now they've done very well. So the pharmaceuticable companies. And that's just one
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  instance. We can also get into the military industrial complex. Public education.
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  I mean, when the government mandated that all kids had to go to school,
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  and really Woodrow Wilson and FDR and LBJ were horribly anti Catholic and really
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  instituted much of the modern public education system, specifically to put Catholic education out
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  of business. Well, now we have teachers unions, and we have teachers
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  actually making very good money. You know, Actually the average North Carolinian makes
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  less than the average teacher in North Carolina. I mean, the teachers salaries
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  here are starting out at like fifty thousand dollars a year and going up from
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  there, and the average North Carolinian is making more like in the thirties and
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  forties. I know, it's going to shock y'all that live in New England
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  or California, where the cost of living is so high and wages are high
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  as well. In North Carolina, most people make less than fifty dollars.
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  Most teachers make more, and it seems like every year the state legislature votes
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  to give them more money because they can't have the teachers unions against them or
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  they'll lose their elections. That's a fascist system. That is corporation working with
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  government to abuse the citizens, to take our tax dollars and to force us
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  to buy their products. That's you know again. So anyway, I love
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  fathers Paragua's book. No, I'll get into the subject. We'll see if
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  we can wrap this up. And this should be a fairly short podcast because
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  we covered so much. And it's a beautiful spring evening. It's breezy,
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  and you know, I want to be out there enjoying it. And I
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  hope you'll go listen to my podcast on the porch or on your balcony or
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  on your deck or whatever. Put in, you know, some earbuds and
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  take a walk. Just enjoy this gorgeous mayweather. Remember we're coming to the
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  end of the month that's dedicated to our lady. Go, you know,
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  pray rosary, enjoy being outside. Whether you listen to my podcasts or not,
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  you know, anyway, Father Sparrago says the foundation and spread of the
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  church that's heading to this chapter in his book, Christ compared the church to
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  a grain of mustard seed, which is the small as the seeds, but
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  grows into a tree in which the birds of the air build their nests.
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  That confuses a lot of people. Okay, I'll give you the name of
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  that tree at some point. If you've ever grown mustard, you know,
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  mustard is a salad green essentially, and the seeds we used to make condiments.
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  It doesn't grow into a tree. There was actually a tree that was
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  known as a mustard tree. So it really does confuse a lot of people.
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  But by any means, a mustard seed is pretty tiny. It's actually
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  like a little speck you can put probably just between the tips of your forefinger
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  and thumb. You could probably hold twenty or thirty mustard seeds. Well,
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  I don't know, it depends on how big. Okay, wild mustard has
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  a smaller seed than the mustard's actually cultivated for the seed to make mustard,
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  but it's still not very big. You could at least hold a good well,
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  depending on how big your fingers are, at least five to ten.
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  Okay, just in the pinch between your fingers. It's like if you are
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  a pran of radishes, same family. You know, you can just scatter
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  those seeds. They're tiny, just little, tiny ball shaped seeds. They
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  go everywhere. Christ laid the foundation of the church when in the course of
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  his teaching he gathered a number of disciples and chose twelve of these to preside
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  over the rest, and one to be the head of all. The church
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  began its life on Pentecost, when some three thousand people were baptized. Pentecost
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  is the birthday of the Church. After the miracle at the Gate of the
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  Temple, some two thousand more were baptized. Soon after the set of the
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  Holy Ghost. The apostles began to preach the gospel throughout the world in accordance
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  with the commands of Christ, and founded Christian communities in many places. He
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  cites Mark what is that Mark six fifteen for that Saint Paul, after his
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  conversion thirty four ad labored more abundantly than all the Apostles, scoring Corinthians fifteen.
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  He traversed Asia Minor, the greater part of southern Europe, and many
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  islands in the Mediterranean. After him, Saint Peter labored most. After escaping
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  by a miracle from prison in Jerusalem, he founded his sea at Rome,
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  where, in company with Saint Paul, he suffered martyrdom. Saint John the
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  Beloved Disciple lived at Ephesus with their blessed lady and governed the church in Asia
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  Minor. His brother, Saint James the Greater, traveled as far as Spain
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  and was beheaded in Jerusalem in forty four a d His body rests at Compostella.
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  Saint James Celeste governed the church at Jerusalem and was cast down from a
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  pinnacle of the temple In eighteen sixty three. Saint Andrew preached to the people
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  living along the Lower Danube and died on a cross in Aka. Saint Thomas
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  and Saint Bartholome who made their ways to the Euphrates and Tigress, and as
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  far as India. Saint Simon evangelized Egypt and North Africa. It's an amazing
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  most Sundayed martyrs, It's true estimate. Most of the church fathers that followed
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  them. Polycarp Saint Justin Martyr. They I mean, you Protestants sometimes will
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  make the charge. Well, of course they said that. You know,
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  they had this authority. It benefited them. They could, you know,
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  become rich being priests. Well, not only do they not become rich,
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  they were tortured to death for their faith. The Apostles established their community after
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  the following plan. Having converted and baptized a number of men in a place,
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  they chose assistance to whom they imparted a greater or lesser portion of their
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  own powers. And before leaving that place, they made the choice of a
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  successor and gave him full powers. That's Acts four twenty two. Those who
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  received only a small portion of the Apostolic power were called deacons and priests.
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  Those who had ampler faculties, fuller, you know, bigger, more power.
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  Go with that. The representative of the Apostles were called bishops. Christ
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  gave the apostles power were to choose successors when he gave them the self same
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  power which he had received from the Father. That's John twenty twenty one.
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  And it was his wish that they should choose successors, for he told the
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  apostles that their mission should continue to the end of the world. That Matthew
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  twenty eight twenty. Among all the Christian communities, that of Rome took the
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  highest rank because it was provided over by Saint Peter, the chief of the
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  Apostles, and because to the head of that community, as successor to Saint
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  Peter, the privacy of Saint Peter was transferred. Saint Ignatius, Bishop of
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  Antioch one of seven A D. In a letter to the Christians of Rome,
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  begs them not to set him free, and calls the Roman community the
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  chief community of the holy band of the faithful, and Saint Irenaeus, Bishop
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  of Leon. I guess it's Leon, yeah, speed a little different than
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  I used to see it anyway. Two two a D. Said all the
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  faithful over the whole world must conform to the Roman Church on account of its
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  principality. All Christian communities which have been formed in the course of time,
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  profess the same faith and acknowledged the same means of grace and the same head.
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  Hence they formed one large community, the Catholic Church. When the Roman
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  emperor Constantine the Great had permitted his subjects to become Christian and later made the
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  Christian religion the state religion in three twenty four a d. The church indeed
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  nourished externally, but fervor. The church indeed nourished externally, but fervor and
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  religious discipline soon began to suffer. Constantine was led to this step by the
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  appearance of a luminous cross in the heavens, and still more by his mother's
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  saint Helena. The following with some of his ordinances, Sunday and feast days
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  were to be observed with solemnity. The temples of the heathens will be handed
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  over to the bishops. The gladiatorial combats and the crucifix of criminals were forbidden,
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  and many churches were built. And that's a very succinct summation of how
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  the Church came to be. Jesus gave his authority to the apostles and told
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  him what to do. The apostles formed churches, throughout the known world at
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  that time, authorized and gave their power to others to act as deacons,
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  priests and bishops. And in the three hundreds Rome became Christian and it became
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  the Holy Roman Empire, and Catholicism was spread throughout the world very much.
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  A big, big reason for that, A big influence of that were the
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  decrees of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, who demanded that Christian communities be formed
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  essentially monasteries and abbeys, and they be spread throughout the entire empire to operate
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  free hospitals, as you know, as an herbalist sing to me, because
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  that's where so much of our herbal medicine comes from. And the Capitulaire he
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  wrote what herbs were to be grown, and the Benedictines especially took that mantle,
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  that charge and went out and formed free hospitals, even into the pagan
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  lands of you know then the Germanic tribes and Ireland and etc. France was
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  a very wild place at the time. Just you know, they christianize Europe
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  through herbal medicine and free education. They opened schools, and I don't think
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  it's any coincidence. As I said, nothing happens by coincidence that the the
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  socialists per so called progressives here in America. Their first steps under Wilson and
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  FDR, and culminating with LBJ, were to try to destroy Christian education,
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  to destroy Catholic schools by their laws about public education. They started large campaigns
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  to denigrate Catholic education to get people into the public schools, bussing programs,
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  lunch programs, mandates that said kids had to be in school, truancy officers,
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  and other laws that made it tougher for Catholics to operate schools. And
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  you know, before the end a lot of Protestant students went to Catholic schools.
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  I can I know one community in South Carolina, particularly where the only
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  school in the area was Catholic up until the advent of the public education.
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  And with the spread. You got to remember Wilson, especially his and FDR,
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  especially in the South, it was they had their own organizations. In
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  the north, we can get into that another day. But in the South,
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  the I would see the militant arm or the enforcing arm at the Democratic
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  Party was the q klux Klan and they began huge campaigns against Catholics. The
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  clan Lynch more Catholics than they did blacks in the South. That's something you're
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  not gonna be taught in public schools because one of the main reasons they were
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  persecuting Catholics and spreading anti Catholic hate was to get those Protestants out of Catholic
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  schools and into public schools. And in that town wherefore decades the only school
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  was a Catholic school with many, many Protestants students in it, and now
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  the school, the Catholic school is closed, has been for decades. And
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  I don't believe the congregation of the Catholic church in that town, which is
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  actually a college town. I mean it's a it's not a smaller town really
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  with a large industry. That, you know, is what brought the Catholics
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  here in the first place. In that town. Looking at the church and
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  I'm you know, I've been there a couple of times, and I've watched
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  masses there online because I really like the priest. I don't think they have
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  more than fifty parishioners. And when colleges in session, yeah they get a
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  few college students. But I mean, actually people who live there and have
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  kids that I mean, that's how successful beginning with Wilson destroying Catholic education was
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  in America, and I mean in the South, probably more than New England
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  because we just had fewer Catholics to start with. But yeah, I mean,
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  what they did with the clan in the South, they did with the
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  radical side of the labor movement in the North. And the first thing they
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  went after was education and to extend Catholic hospitals. Look at how Obama tried
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  to sue the little Sisters of the poor because they didn't want to comply with
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  mandates for birth control. And who knows what else would have been now what
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  gen reassignment surgeries and all that. The Catholic Church, you know, in
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  large part was spread through the examples of the martyrs, the charity of Christians,
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  free hospitals, and free education by the monks and nuns. And that's
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  you know, that's been a target of the left. That's been a target
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  of everyone from Karl Marx to Stalin Lennon Hitler Mau. Horrors that happened in
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  China under mal you probably don't even want to know about. It's just horrible.
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  I mean, hundreds of millions of people killed, and Cuba and you
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  know, all the communist, socialist, fascist countries. The first things they
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  start targeting are the Catholic institutions that you know, offer ecumenical care free to
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  all or at a very small fee. I mean, Catholic education before the
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  nineteen twenties was so inexpensive We're talking, I mean hardly anything. It was
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  mainly supported by donations as it is now, and kids that couldn't afford it,
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  you know, the month senior whomever was in charge, would find them
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  a little job to do, you know, put some call on the furnace,
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  take out the trash, and they know they paid for their education,
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  whether they were Catholic or Protestant. So anyway, I guess I'm off on
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  a tangent, but we have finally wrapped this up. So y'all, if
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  you have any questions about the teaching and governing authority of the Catholic Church,
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  please before you to get in touch. And my book Confirmation Autobike, we
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  have auto Biography of Faith, is full of this information. And this past
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  seven hours, I mean seven shows which are coming up to over five hours
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  that I've done on this topic. Five hours that I've done on this topic
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  all come from my book. So if you if you're looking for a good
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  book that you can use to enrich and defend your faith when challenged, you
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  know, consider mine. Yeah, they're better books on apologetics, but this
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  book is really oriented around my experience of having to defend the doctrines of the
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  Catholic Church, especially in the South, especially in the South. Really,
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  so you anyway, have a great one. I'll talk to you tomorrow.