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
In this video, I believe there's very strong research and evidence by Catholic attorneys that the Third Secret of Fatima was apostasy from the top—down. That means especially the hierarchy. And we clergy are supposed to constitute the most prominent aspect of the visibility of the Catholic Church according to many Catholic theologians. Although Christ's love and grace is obviously not missing from the earth in our current Church crisis, this night of heresy and apostasy impeding the visibility of the Church is probably tantamount to "the eclipse" predicted at La Salette. And what is the brightest guide at night? The Moon, who the Fathers say is analogous to the Immaculate Virgin Mary. 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. [...]
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 [...]
Mary in the Eclipse of the Church
Joining Our Lady of Fatima to her apparition at La Salette and St. Louis De Montfort in regard to the final Marian saints and what this means for the hierarchy. The Secret Still Silenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJHTQYQ6_k
“The Church Shall Be Scattered.”—Cardinal Manning
Today we are going to look at what two British Cardinals of the 19th century wrote about the last group of Catholics. The first paragraph comes from Cardinal Newman: This is what I have to say about the last persecution and its signs. And surely it is profitable to think about it, though we be quite mistaken in the detail. For instance, after all perhaps it may not be a persecution of blood and death, but of craft and subtlety only—not of miracles, but of natural wonders and powers of human skill, human acquirements in the hands of the devil. Satan may adopt the more alarming weapons of deceit—he may hide himself—he may attempt to seduce us in little things, and so to move Christians, not all at once, but by little and little from their true position. We know [...]
VLX 143: Mt 24:29-35. “Heaven and Earth Will Pass Away.”
How to imagine the last day on earth using the instruction of the Gospel and the Fathers.
Every Vocation Is Built Upon the Interior Life
A couple from another state texted me: "Hi Father, Thank you for the awesome Epiphany homily. I have some 'boots on the ground' thoughts for you. Seeing as how our parish is the fastest growing [trad. cong.] parish in North America (per Fr A.), I’d say the trends here are worth considering as we look at the end times prophecies. The vast majority of solid families who made the Exodus to [our state in NW] are very young. They are simple, solid and unwavering. Most adults are converts or reverts. The oldest of whom have oldest children entering teen years. It is becoming clear that each large family will produce AT LEAST 2-4 vocations. So that means that in 10-30 years, traditional seminaries, monasteries and convents will see an exponential increase in vocations. There will also be exponential numbers of [...]