The Filioque in the Eastern Fathers
On my YouTube video series Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) we have been discussing the Trinity lately, especially "the Filioque." The Filioque is Latin for "and the Son," as you say in the Nicene Creed. This means that you believe "in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, proceeding from the Father and the Son" (et in Spíritum Sanctum... qui ex Patre Filióque procédit.) However, most Eastern Orthodox insist the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father. Thus, most Eastern Orthodox reject the Filioque statement. To be sure, there are two debates at hand (not just two sides) but actually two debates. The first debate (upon which this article will spend little time) is essentially this: "Can a Pope change a Creed?" I admit there are two good sides to this debate. It goes as follows: The Nicene [...]
Fatima and Fiducia
Recently, Fr. James Martin SJ spoke to the bishops of Ireland at Knock, Ireland. Our Lady of Knock (top right) is an approved Marian apparition in Ireland from the 19th century. LifeSite News reported on what happened with the Irish bishops: "A trusted source in Ireland told LifeSiteNews that the meeting included discussions on how to implement the blessing of homosexual 'couples' and even the desire to implement homosexual 'marriage.'" Obviously, it's a blasphemous travesty that such filth from a Jesuit and the Irish bishops would besmirch the Shrine of Our Lady to an island that held once purity so intensely. I suppose this purity left Ireland a long time ago, partly due to the disproportionately high-rates of priest-on-child sexual attacks the last sixty years. But the recent open attack on marriage in front of the apparition site of Our [...]
RCT 34: I Believe in the Holy Ghost.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.93-95. The Creed, Article VIII, Section B.
Stockholm Syndrome in the Catholic Church
The prophesy of St. Francis of Assisi reads: “At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death... Some preachers will keep silent about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them, not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.” —Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis of Assisi, published in 1882 by the London-based Catholic publishing house R. Washbourne, 1882, pp. 248-250. Unfortunately, there are more than a few conservative Catholic outlets today who say certain traditional Catholics who vocally criticize the likely "destroyer" above are precisely the ones responsible [...]
May Catholics Pray With Non-Catholics?
In the old moral manuals, Catholics could occasionally pray with Protestants in private environments as long as these requirements were met: "It is not forbidden to pray or sing privately with heretics if the prayers or songs are not heretical and no scandal is given.”—Moral Theology #125 by Fr. Heribut Jone, OFM Cap, 1929. However, Catholics doing public or liturgical prayer with Protestants or other heretics has always been strictly forbidden. See the Anglican Vespers which took place at St. Peter's, p/c LifeSite News. The prohibition against Catholics praying publicly with heretics or infidels has been clearly outlined by Popes and Saints for nearly 2,000 years: “The Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics.”—Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, #10, 6 January 1928 “It is not permitted to be present at the sacred [...]
VLX 144: Mt 24:36-51. “As in the Days of Noah.”
Today's pod is about Christ teaching the Particular Judgment and the Final Judgment. We also briefly look at why Catholics reject the rapture. For a closer look at the errors of the rapture, see Dr. Taylor Marshall’s #1036 “Should Christians support Israel?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sfjokEF6I8
St. Maximilian Kolbe Rejected “Ecumenism.”
In 2022, I wrote in an article titled Ecumenical: Old and New Definitions and it included these two definitions: "Ecumenical for the first thousand years of Christianity was an adjective to describe dogmatic meetings of orthodox bishops who cared about accurately defining the Catholic Faith," and New Advent's definition: "Ecumenical Councils are those to which the bishops, and others entitled to vote, are convoked from the whole world (oikoumene) under the presidency of the pope or his legates, and the decrees of which, having received papal confirmation, bind all Christians.'" Unfortunately, the term "ecumenism" has been commandeered in the 20th century by "progressive Catholics" to mean what was once called "the heresy of religious indifferentism" by Catholics of the 19th century. Less offensive (but still inaccurate) "ecumenism" has been commandeered by neo-conservative Catholics to indicate what was once called "evangelization" for [...]
Marian Devotion In A Church-Eclipse
The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay... Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist.—Our Lady of La Salette. Mary said the above words in a Vatican-approved apparition from the 19th century. There's a lot of debate in the Catholic world today about this. In the year 2000, Catholic Answers had an article claiming it was misused by post-Vatican II traditionalists: “What is absurd is the radical traditionalist claim that the alleged prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette may be applied to Rome today… Radical traditionalists often seem to have a defective understanding of what counts as apostasy. It is much more than tepid or weak faith. It is more than just accepting ideas contrary to the Catholic faith (that’s what heresy is). Apostasy constitutes a full repudiation of the faith [...]
RCT 33: The Third Person of the Trinity.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.91-93. The Creed, Article VIII, Section A.
Despair and False-Hope Kill the Soul
A public apostate recently stated, "This isn't dogma, just my thought. I like to think of hell as being empty. I hope it is." Many others online repeated the sentiment. But they're wrong. First of all, it's infallible dogma that not just demons, but men and women are in hell. The Council of Trent states in chapter 3 in the Decree on Justification: “But, though [Christ] died for all, yet all do not receive the benefit of His death, but those only unto whom the merit of His passion is communicated.” Let's also look at why it's not more hopeful to think of an empty-hell. First of all, St. Augustine said, "There are two things that kill the soul: Despair and false hope."—Sermon 87.8. One of the reasons "hoping" in an empty-hell destroys true supernatural hope is because it's against [...]