1. The 10th Mark of the true Church according to St. Robert Bellarmine is the Holiness of the Authors.
As we have mentioned before, there are many ways by which we can discern the true Church established by Christ. Some ways are spiritual; these are not available to all but only to those who have Faith. But God saw to it that there are visible says by which the true Church can be recognised; and the Nicene Creed enumerates these four visible signs as One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. There are no other visible ways of recognising the true Church and the true members of that Church.
2. To recognise the true Church through these signs is so important that almost all the Fathers and Doctors of the Church wrote on them. The constitution on Ecclesiology 'Lumen Gentium' was totally based on the ecclesiology of the Jesuit Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine. But the document missed the most important writing of St. Robert 'de controversies' which contained the treatise on the 15 Marks of the true Church.
This treatise is an expansion of the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed. It is the only official way by which the true Catholic Church and a true Catholic can be recognised.
And this blog had been encouraging all Catholics to check and ascertain if they are truly Catholics by applying these 15 Marks on themselves, on their parish, on their diocese and on the Pope and find out if we are truly inside the Catholic Church.
3. Who are inside the Catholic Church.
There are souls that are just inside the door step of the Catholic Church. These are described by Scriptures as 'weak of Faith.' And there are those with strong Faith, like the Syro-Phoenician woman. Christ would describe such as 'your faith has saved you. That is the Faith that saves.
Those who have Faith are inside the Catholic Church. But you can go more inside the Church by having the virtue of Hope. And you are completely inside the Church when you have the virtue of Charity.
4. Canonization of saints.
To canonize a person it must be proven beyond doubt that he possesses the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. It must be proven that he is very much inside the Catholic Church and not only at the door steps. It must be proven that he has the eight Beatitudes or the twelve degrees of humility according to St. Augustine and Thomas of Aquinas. It must be proven that he has the Blessed Trinity abiding in him. He must have put into practice the entire spirituality of the entire Liturgical Year.
All these necessary proofs are absent in the ones canonized by Pope Francis. Though some of them are evidently saints, the Congregation had not proven their case. Pope John Paul II is evidently a saint, using one's personal criterion. But the Vatican Congregation on Canonization had not proven exhaustively that he is a saint; and this goes with the rest of the other saints canonized by Pope Francis. The Congregation had not presented convincing proofs of their holiness.
5. The 10th Mark is the Holiness of the authors who explained or interpreted the teaching of Christ. Remember, these authors had not presented any new or additional doctrines. They, merely, interpreted the very teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament.
St. Robert Bellarmine described these authors as the first Fathers of our religion. These first Fathers are the first bishops and first theologians of the primitive Catholic Church that lived up to the year 600 AD. After that era, writers similar to them were referred to as Doctors of the Church, like St. Thomas of Aquinas, St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Robert Bellarmine.
St. Robert enumerates the writers that explained the teachings of the Catholic Church and, though there was no Congregation for the Canonization of saints during their time, they fulfilled the necessary norms for sanctity; namely, they are proven Catholics, they had the moral virtues, the three theological virtues, they practiced the Beatitudes, the 12 degrees of humility and their cult is supported by the 'sensus fidelium.'
The saints canonised by the bureaucracy of Pope Francis do not have any of the above. Their canonisation is because of the caprice of the Vatican.
6. Post Vatican II authors
The truths presented by the present VaticanChurch are taken from such authors as Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawkings, Teilhard de Chardin, Karl Rahner, Cardinal Kasper, Jorge Bergoglio, Cardinal Maradiaga, Hunnerman, Liberation theology, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Martin Luther, the school of Bologna.....etc. All are heretics. So evidently the present post -Vatican II church propagated by Pope Francis, many Synod of Bishops, and many, many priest, propagated by the Jesuits and many ecclesial communities is not the true Catholic Church because they do not have this 10th Mark of the true Catholic Church.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
10th Mark of the true Catholic Church - The Holiness of Authors.
1. The 10th Mark of the true Church according to St. Robert Bellarmine is the Holiness of the Authors.
As we have mentioned before, there are many ways by which we can discern the true Church established by Christ. Some ways are spiritual; these are not available to all but only to those who have Faith. But God saw to it that there are visible says by which the true Church can be recognised; and the Nicene Creed enumerates these four visible signs as One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. There are no other visible ways of recognising the true Church and the true members of that Church.
2. To recognise the true Church through these signs is so important that almost all the Fathers and Doctors of the Church wrote on them. The constitution on Ecclesiology 'Lumen Gentium' was totally based on the ecclesiology of the Jesuit Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine. But the document missed the most important writing of St. Robert 'de controversies' which contained the treatise on the 15 Marks of the true Church.
This treatise is an expansion of the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed. It is the only official way by which the true Catholic Church and a true Catholic can be recognised.
And this blog had been encouraging all Catholics to check and ascertain if they are truly Catholics by applying these 15 Marks on themselves, on their parish, on their diocese and on the Pope and find out if we are truly inside the Catholic Church.
3. Who are inside the Catholic Church.
There are souls that are just inside the door step of the Catholic Church. These are described by Scriptures as 'weak of Faith.' And there are those with strong Faith, like the Syro-Phoenician woman. Christ would describe such as 'your faith has saved you. That is the Faith that saves.
Those who have Faith are inside the Catholic Church. But you can go more inside the Church by having the virtue of Hope. And you are completely inside the Church when you have the virtue of Charity.
4. Canonization of saints.
To canonize a person it must be proven beyond doubt that he possesses the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. It must be proven that he is very much inside the Catholic Church and not only at the door steps. It must be proven that he has the eight Beatitudes or the twelve degrees of humility according to St. Augustine and Thomas of Aquinas. It must be proven that he has the Blessed Trinity abiding in him. He must have put into practice the entire spirituality of the entire Liturgical Year.
All these necessary proofs are absent in the ones canonized by Pope Francis. Though some of them are evidently saints, the Congregation had not proven their case. Pope John Paul II is evidently a saint, using one's personal criterion. But the Vatican Congregation on Canonization had not proven exhaustively that he is a saint; and this goes with the rest of the other saints canonized by Pope Francis. The Congregation had not presented convincing proofs of their holiness.
5. The 10th Mark is the Holiness of the authors who explained or interpreted the teaching of Christ. Remember, these authors had not presented any new or additional doctrines. They, merely, interpreted the very teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament.
St. Robert Bellarmine described these authors as the first Fathers of our religion. These first Fathers are the first bishops and first theologians of the primitive Catholic Church that lived up to the year 600 AD. After that era, writers similar to them were referred to as Doctors of the Church, like St. Thomas of Aquinas, St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Robert Bellarmine.
St. Robert enumerates the writers that explained the teachings of the Catholic Church and, though there was no Congregation for the Canonization of saints during their time, they fulfilled the necessary norms for sanctity; namely, they are proven Catholics, they had the moral virtues, the three theological virtues, they practiced the Beatitudes, the 12 degrees of humility and their cult is supported by the 'sensus fidelium.'
The saints canonised by the bureaucracy of Pope Francis do not have any of the above. Their canonisation is because of the caprice of the Vatican.
6. Post Vatican II authors
The truths presented by the present VaticanChurch are taken from such authors as Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawkings, Teilhard de Chardin, Karl Rahner, Cardinal Kasper, Jorge Bergoglio, Cardinal Maradiaga, Hunnerman, Liberation theology, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Martin Luther, the school of Bologna.....etc. All are heretics. So evidently the present post -Vatican II church propagated by Pope Francis, many Synod of Bishops, and many, many priest, propagated by the Jesuits and many ecclesial communities is not the true Catholic Church because they do not have this 10th Mark of the true Catholic Church.
As we have mentioned before, there are many ways by which we can discern the true Church established by Christ. Some ways are spiritual; these are not available to all but only to those who have Faith. But God saw to it that there are visible says by which the true Church can be recognised; and the Nicene Creed enumerates these four visible signs as One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. There are no other visible ways of recognising the true Church and the true members of that Church.
2. To recognise the true Church through these signs is so important that almost all the Fathers and Doctors of the Church wrote on them. The constitution on Ecclesiology 'Lumen Gentium' was totally based on the ecclesiology of the Jesuit Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine. But the document missed the most important writing of St. Robert 'de controversies' which contained the treatise on the 15 Marks of the true Church.
This treatise is an expansion of the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed. It is the only official way by which the true Catholic Church and a true Catholic can be recognised.
And this blog had been encouraging all Catholics to check and ascertain if they are truly Catholics by applying these 15 Marks on themselves, on their parish, on their diocese and on the Pope and find out if we are truly inside the Catholic Church.
3. Who are inside the Catholic Church.
There are souls that are just inside the door step of the Catholic Church. These are described by Scriptures as 'weak of Faith.' And there are those with strong Faith, like the Syro-Phoenician woman. Christ would describe such as 'your faith has saved you. That is the Faith that saves.
Those who have Faith are inside the Catholic Church. But you can go more inside the Church by having the virtue of Hope. And you are completely inside the Church when you have the virtue of Charity.
4. Canonization of saints.
To canonize a person it must be proven beyond doubt that he possesses the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. It must be proven that he is very much inside the Catholic Church and not only at the door steps. It must be proven that he has the eight Beatitudes or the twelve degrees of humility according to St. Augustine and Thomas of Aquinas. It must be proven that he has the Blessed Trinity abiding in him. He must have put into practice the entire spirituality of the entire Liturgical Year.
All these necessary proofs are absent in the ones canonized by Pope Francis. Though some of them are evidently saints, the Congregation had not proven their case. Pope John Paul II is evidently a saint, using one's personal criterion. But the Vatican Congregation on Canonization had not proven exhaustively that he is a saint; and this goes with the rest of the other saints canonized by Pope Francis. The Congregation had not presented convincing proofs of their holiness.
5. The 10th Mark is the Holiness of the authors who explained or interpreted the teaching of Christ. Remember, these authors had not presented any new or additional doctrines. They, merely, interpreted the very teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament.
St. Robert Bellarmine described these authors as the first Fathers of our religion. These first Fathers are the first bishops and first theologians of the primitive Catholic Church that lived up to the year 600 AD. After that era, writers similar to them were referred to as Doctors of the Church, like St. Thomas of Aquinas, St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Robert Bellarmine.
St. Robert enumerates the writers that explained the teachings of the Catholic Church and, though there was no Congregation for the Canonization of saints during their time, they fulfilled the necessary norms for sanctity; namely, they are proven Catholics, they had the moral virtues, the three theological virtues, they practiced the Beatitudes, the 12 degrees of humility and their cult is supported by the 'sensus fidelium.'
The saints canonised by the bureaucracy of Pope Francis do not have any of the above. Their canonisation is because of the caprice of the Vatican.
6. Post Vatican II authors
The truths presented by the present VaticanChurch are taken from such authors as Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawkings, Teilhard de Chardin, Karl Rahner, Cardinal Kasper, Jorge Bergoglio, Cardinal Maradiaga, Hunnerman, Liberation theology, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Martin Luther, the school of Bologna.....etc. All are heretics. So evidently the present post -Vatican II church propagated by Pope Francis, many Synod of Bishops, and many, many priest, propagated by the Jesuits and many ecclesial communities is not the true Catholic Church because they do not have this 10th Mark of the true Catholic Church.
Saturday, April 07, 2018
9th Mark of the true Church. Efficacy of doctrine.
1. It works.
The teachings of the Catholic Church works. It is the only thing in the world that works. Everything else does not work, except that men often deceive themselves into believing that man-made solution works. Catholic teachings are God's solution to human problems. It always work.
St. Robert Bellarmine expanded the four visible Marks of the Church mentioned in the Creed, into 15 which gives us, more specifically, a true picture of the true Church.
2. The doctrines and teachings of the true Catholic Church answers very clearly all questions, it solves all problems, it analyses all situations, it resolves conflicts.....there is nothing that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot answer. Christ, precisely, instituted this Church to help man get all the answers to his questions.
The world would have been a better place if it used the Catholic Church's answer to all questions and problems. Gilbert Chesterton, fame British writer and an Anglican convert to Catholicism mentioned the fact that the reason he became a Catholic is because the Catholic Church has the most convincing procedure in the process of having our past sins forgiven. The procedures of other groups are not convincing at all.
3. St. Robert Bellarmine described the 9th Mark as the efficacy of Doctrine. Only the true Church has doctrine that is not only immaculate, but even convert souls, as is said. A living sermon penetrating even to the divisions of the soul and spirit.
The voice of true Catholic preachers are living words. Other speakers do not have living words but mere the spirit of men. Thus only the words of the true Catholic move souls to conversion. While others use terror and war to force others to convert.
4. The Catholic Church converts in preaching its teachings. Pagans convert by force or war. While Protestant convert, not pagans to their sect but Catholics into Protestantism. Tertulian wrote; 'why should I speak on the chat of their ministry? Since it is their business not to convert the heathen, but overturn Catholics, they undermine our side and build up their own from the conversion of our own members to their own.
The Arian emperor did not convert pagans to Arianism but miserably deceived Catholics into becoming Arians.
5. A few examples.
The Catholic Church, alone, has the formula to happiness. It is described in the 8 Beatitudes and explained in detail by the Fathers of the Church. Nobody, no religion, no christian sect have the formula to happiness. The so-called christian denomination know Scriptures but they cannot explain properly the 8 Beatitudes and, therefore, are unable to attain the beginnings of happiness here on earth. The saints were happy here on earth. Every full pledge Catholic should be happy; so there should be no broken families in the Church because the beginnings of happiness here on earth begins in the family. But many Catholic families are unhappy. Why? We shall answer it momentarily.
The Catholic Church alone has the answer to the problem of drug addiction. Even the US which is the riches nation, cannot discover a solution to drug addiction. The solution is in the spirituality of repentance according to the New Testament. How come a Catholic nation like the Philippines cannot solve its drug problem? The answer in a moment.
The Catholic Church, alone, knows the way to heaven. It is clearly described in the one year celebration of the Liturgy of the Mass. Anyone who puts into practice the way to save one's soul as described in the Liturgy, he can be assured that even before he dies he can be certain he is saved. How come most Catholic are panicking when they are about to die? Because they do not know where they are going when they expire.
6. So why?
Though the Catholic Church alone has the efficacious way to be happy here on earth, bishops, priests, nuns and many lay men are unhappy. Why? Because the Pope, the bishops and the priests who are supposed to teach the way to happiness do not know the way. They are ignorant of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Why can't Catholic nations like the Philippines solve its drug problem in the Catholic way? Because the Catholic bishops and priest do not know the Catholic solution to the drug problem. In their ignorance, they have to settle in criticising the natural but sound solutions of the President of the country in the only way he knows how to solve it.
Why did the apparition in Fatima say that many bishops and priests are going to hell? Because many priests, bishops and probably Pope Francis do not know the way to heaven which is described in the New Testament and clearly explained by the Fathers of the Church.
7. Non-efficacious teaching vs efficacious Catholic doctrine.
A big debate is occurring right now with regards with 'Amores laetitia,' where Pope Francis is allowing husbands who have left their wives and children, to remarry another wife, bring up new children and receive Holy Communion. That is not the right solution to the problem of marriage. That is the way to hell........for those who want to go there. This solution does not lead to happiness nor to salvation. It leads to damnation and great unhappiness
The Catholic solution to such family problem is chastity. It does not work? No. It works. Except nobody wants to try it. This efficacious solution to the problem of marriage is still the teaching of the true Catholic Church except that we cannot find the Church because we do not know the 15 Marks by which we can recognise the true Church of Jesus Christ. So, now we have the 9th Mark of the true Catholic Church. With these 9 Marks we can already find the true Church. Definitely it is not in the VaticanChurch of Pope Francis who had just given this non-efficacious solution to family problems.
The teachings of the Catholic Church works. It is the only thing in the world that works. Everything else does not work, except that men often deceive themselves into believing that man-made solution works. Catholic teachings are God's solution to human problems. It always work.
St. Robert Bellarmine expanded the four visible Marks of the Church mentioned in the Creed, into 15 which gives us, more specifically, a true picture of the true Church.
2. The doctrines and teachings of the true Catholic Church answers very clearly all questions, it solves all problems, it analyses all situations, it resolves conflicts.....there is nothing that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot answer. Christ, precisely, instituted this Church to help man get all the answers to his questions.
The world would have been a better place if it used the Catholic Church's answer to all questions and problems. Gilbert Chesterton, fame British writer and an Anglican convert to Catholicism mentioned the fact that the reason he became a Catholic is because the Catholic Church has the most convincing procedure in the process of having our past sins forgiven. The procedures of other groups are not convincing at all.
3. St. Robert Bellarmine described the 9th Mark as the efficacy of Doctrine. Only the true Church has doctrine that is not only immaculate, but even convert souls, as is said. A living sermon penetrating even to the divisions of the soul and spirit.
The voice of true Catholic preachers are living words. Other speakers do not have living words but mere the spirit of men. Thus only the words of the true Catholic move souls to conversion. While others use terror and war to force others to convert.
4. The Catholic Church converts in preaching its teachings. Pagans convert by force or war. While Protestant convert, not pagans to their sect but Catholics into Protestantism. Tertulian wrote; 'why should I speak on the chat of their ministry? Since it is their business not to convert the heathen, but overturn Catholics, they undermine our side and build up their own from the conversion of our own members to their own.
The Arian emperor did not convert pagans to Arianism but miserably deceived Catholics into becoming Arians.
5. A few examples.
The Catholic Church, alone, has the formula to happiness. It is described in the 8 Beatitudes and explained in detail by the Fathers of the Church. Nobody, no religion, no christian sect have the formula to happiness. The so-called christian denomination know Scriptures but they cannot explain properly the 8 Beatitudes and, therefore, are unable to attain the beginnings of happiness here on earth. The saints were happy here on earth. Every full pledge Catholic should be happy; so there should be no broken families in the Church because the beginnings of happiness here on earth begins in the family. But many Catholic families are unhappy. Why? We shall answer it momentarily.
The Catholic Church alone has the answer to the problem of drug addiction. Even the US which is the riches nation, cannot discover a solution to drug addiction. The solution is in the spirituality of repentance according to the New Testament. How come a Catholic nation like the Philippines cannot solve its drug problem? The answer in a moment.
The Catholic Church, alone, knows the way to heaven. It is clearly described in the one year celebration of the Liturgy of the Mass. Anyone who puts into practice the way to save one's soul as described in the Liturgy, he can be assured that even before he dies he can be certain he is saved. How come most Catholic are panicking when they are about to die? Because they do not know where they are going when they expire.
6. So why?
Though the Catholic Church alone has the efficacious way to be happy here on earth, bishops, priests, nuns and many lay men are unhappy. Why? Because the Pope, the bishops and the priests who are supposed to teach the way to happiness do not know the way. They are ignorant of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Why can't Catholic nations like the Philippines solve its drug problem in the Catholic way? Because the Catholic bishops and priest do not know the Catholic solution to the drug problem. In their ignorance, they have to settle in criticising the natural but sound solutions of the President of the country in the only way he knows how to solve it.
Why did the apparition in Fatima say that many bishops and priests are going to hell? Because many priests, bishops and probably Pope Francis do not know the way to heaven which is described in the New Testament and clearly explained by the Fathers of the Church.
7. Non-efficacious teaching vs efficacious Catholic doctrine.
A big debate is occurring right now with regards with 'Amores laetitia,' where Pope Francis is allowing husbands who have left their wives and children, to remarry another wife, bring up new children and receive Holy Communion. That is not the right solution to the problem of marriage. That is the way to hell........for those who want to go there. This solution does not lead to happiness nor to salvation. It leads to damnation and great unhappiness
The Catholic solution to such family problem is chastity. It does not work? No. It works. Except nobody wants to try it. This efficacious solution to the problem of marriage is still the teaching of the true Catholic Church except that we cannot find the Church because we do not know the 15 Marks by which we can recognise the true Church of Jesus Christ. So, now we have the 9th Mark of the true Catholic Church. With these 9 Marks we can already find the true Church. Definitely it is not in the VaticanChurch of Pope Francis who had just given this non-efficacious solution to family problems.
9th Mark of the true Church. Efficacy of doctrine.
1. It works.
The teachings of the Catholic Church works. It is the only thing in the world that works. Everything else does not work, except that men often deceive themselves into believing that man-made solution works. Catholic teachings are God's solution to human problems. It always work.
St. Robert Bellarmine expanded the four visible Marks of the Church mentioned in the Creed, into 15 which gives us, more specifically, a true picture of the true Church.
2. The doctrines and teachings of the true Catholic Church answers very clearly all questions, it solves all problems, it analyses all situations, it resolves conflicts.....there is nothing that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot answer. Christ, precisely, instituted this Church to help man get all the answers to his questions.
The world would have been a better place if it used the Catholic Church's answer to all questions and problems. Gilbert Chesterton, fame British writer and an Anglican convert to Catholicism mentioned the fact that the reason he became a Catholic is because the Catholic Church has the most convincing procedure in the process of having our past sins forgiven. The procedures of other groups are not convincing at all.
3. St. Robert Bellarmine described the 9th Mark as the efficacy of Doctrine. Only the true Church has doctrine that is not only immaculate, but even convert souls, as is said. A living sermon penetrating even to the divisions of the soul and spirit.
The voice of true Catholic preachers are living words. Other speakers do not have living words but mere the spirit of men. Thus only the words of the true Catholic move souls to conversion. While others use terror and war to force others to convert.
4. The Catholic Church converts in preaching its teachings. Pagans convert by force or war. While Protestant convert, not pagans to their sect but Catholics into Protestantism. Tertulian wrote; 'why should I speak on the chat of their ministry? Since it is their business not to convert the heathen, but overturn Catholics, they undermine our side and build up their own from the conversion of our own members to their own.
The Arian emperor did not convert pagans to Arianism but miserably deceived Catholics into becoming Arians.
5. A few examples.
The Catholic Church, alone, has the formula to happiness. It is described in the 8 Beatitudes and explained in detail by the Fathers of the Church. Nobody, no religion, no christian sect have the formula to happiness. The so-called christian denomination know Scriptures but they cannot explain properly the 8 Beatitudes and, therefore, are unable to attain the beginnings of happiness here on earth. The saints were happy here on earth. Every full pledge Catholic should be happy; so there should be no broken families in the Church because the beginnings of happiness here on earth begins in the family. But many Catholic families are unhappy. Why? We shall answer it momentarily.
The Catholic Church alone has the answer to the problem of drug addiction. Even the US which is the riches nation, cannot discover a solution to drug addiction. The solution is in the spirituality of repentance according to the New Testament. How come a Catholic nation like the Philippines cannot solve its drug problem? The answer in a moment.
The Catholic Church, alone, knows the way to heaven. It is clearly described in the one year celebration of the Liturgy of the Mass. Anyone who puts into practice the way to save one's soul as described in the Liturgy, he can be assured that even before he dies he can be certain he is saved. How come most Catholic are panicking when they are about to die? Because they do not know where they are going when they expire.
6. So why?
Though the Catholic Church alone has the efficacious way to be happy here on earth, bishops, priests, nuns and many lay men are unhappy. Why? Because the Pope, the bishops and the priests who are supposed to teach the way to happiness do not know the way. They are ignorant of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Why can't Catholic nations like the Philippines solve its drug problem in the Catholic way? Because the Catholic bishops and priest do not know the Catholic solution to the drug problem. In their ignorance, they have to settle in criticising the natural but sound solutions of the President of the country in the only way he knows how to solve it.
Why did the apparition in Fatima say that many bishops and priests are going to hell? Because many priests, bishops and probably Pope Francis do not know the way to heaven which is described in the New Testament and clearly explained by the Fathers of the Church.
7. Non-efficacious teaching vs efficacious Catholic doctrine.
A big debate is occurring right now with regards with 'Amores laetitia,' where Pope Francis is allowing husbands who have left their wives and children, to remarry another wife, bring up new children and receive Holy Communion. That is not the right solution to the problem of marriage. That is the way to hell........for those who want to go there. This solution does not lead to happiness nor to salvation. It leads to damnation and great unhappiness
The Catholic solution to such family problem is chastity. It does not work? No. It works. Except nobody wants to try it. This efficacious solution to the problem of marriage is still the teaching of the true Catholic Church except that we cannot find the Church because we do not know the 15 Marks by which we can recognise the true Church of Jesus Christ. So, now we have the 9th Mark of the true Catholic Church. With these 9 Marks we can already find the true Church. Definitely it is not in the VaticanChurch of Pope Francis who had just given this non-efficacious solution to family problems.
The teachings of the Catholic Church works. It is the only thing in the world that works. Everything else does not work, except that men often deceive themselves into believing that man-made solution works. Catholic teachings are God's solution to human problems. It always work.
St. Robert Bellarmine expanded the four visible Marks of the Church mentioned in the Creed, into 15 which gives us, more specifically, a true picture of the true Church.
2. The doctrines and teachings of the true Catholic Church answers very clearly all questions, it solves all problems, it analyses all situations, it resolves conflicts.....there is nothing that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot answer. Christ, precisely, instituted this Church to help man get all the answers to his questions.
The world would have been a better place if it used the Catholic Church's answer to all questions and problems. Gilbert Chesterton, fame British writer and an Anglican convert to Catholicism mentioned the fact that the reason he became a Catholic is because the Catholic Church has the most convincing procedure in the process of having our past sins forgiven. The procedures of other groups are not convincing at all.
3. St. Robert Bellarmine described the 9th Mark as the efficacy of Doctrine. Only the true Church has doctrine that is not only immaculate, but even convert souls, as is said. A living sermon penetrating even to the divisions of the soul and spirit.
The voice of true Catholic preachers are living words. Other speakers do not have living words but mere the spirit of men. Thus only the words of the true Catholic move souls to conversion. While others use terror and war to force others to convert.
4. The Catholic Church converts in preaching its teachings. Pagans convert by force or war. While Protestant convert, not pagans to their sect but Catholics into Protestantism. Tertulian wrote; 'why should I speak on the chat of their ministry? Since it is their business not to convert the heathen, but overturn Catholics, they undermine our side and build up their own from the conversion of our own members to their own.
The Arian emperor did not convert pagans to Arianism but miserably deceived Catholics into becoming Arians.
5. A few examples.
The Catholic Church, alone, has the formula to happiness. It is described in the 8 Beatitudes and explained in detail by the Fathers of the Church. Nobody, no religion, no christian sect have the formula to happiness. The so-called christian denomination know Scriptures but they cannot explain properly the 8 Beatitudes and, therefore, are unable to attain the beginnings of happiness here on earth. The saints were happy here on earth. Every full pledge Catholic should be happy; so there should be no broken families in the Church because the beginnings of happiness here on earth begins in the family. But many Catholic families are unhappy. Why? We shall answer it momentarily.
The Catholic Church alone has the answer to the problem of drug addiction. Even the US which is the riches nation, cannot discover a solution to drug addiction. The solution is in the spirituality of repentance according to the New Testament. How come a Catholic nation like the Philippines cannot solve its drug problem? The answer in a moment.
The Catholic Church, alone, knows the way to heaven. It is clearly described in the one year celebration of the Liturgy of the Mass. Anyone who puts into practice the way to save one's soul as described in the Liturgy, he can be assured that even before he dies he can be certain he is saved. How come most Catholic are panicking when they are about to die? Because they do not know where they are going when they expire.
6. So why?
Though the Catholic Church alone has the efficacious way to be happy here on earth, bishops, priests, nuns and many lay men are unhappy. Why? Because the Pope, the bishops and the priests who are supposed to teach the way to happiness do not know the way. They are ignorant of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Why can't Catholic nations like the Philippines solve its drug problem in the Catholic way? Because the Catholic bishops and priest do not know the Catholic solution to the drug problem. In their ignorance, they have to settle in criticising the natural but sound solutions of the President of the country in the only way he knows how to solve it.
Why did the apparition in Fatima say that many bishops and priests are going to hell? Because many priests, bishops and probably Pope Francis do not know the way to heaven which is described in the New Testament and clearly explained by the Fathers of the Church.
7. Non-efficacious teaching vs efficacious Catholic doctrine.
A big debate is occurring right now with regards with 'Amores laetitia,' where Pope Francis is allowing husbands who have left their wives and children, to remarry another wife, bring up new children and receive Holy Communion. That is not the right solution to the problem of marriage. That is the way to hell........for those who want to go there. This solution does not lead to happiness nor to salvation. It leads to damnation and great unhappiness
The Catholic solution to such family problem is chastity. It does not work? No. It works. Except nobody wants to try it. This efficacious solution to the problem of marriage is still the teaching of the true Catholic Church except that we cannot find the Church because we do not know the 15 Marks by which we can recognise the true Church of Jesus Christ. So, now we have the 9th Mark of the true Catholic Church. With these 9 Marks we can already find the true Church. Definitely it is not in the VaticanChurch of Pope Francis who had just given this non-efficacious solution to family problems.
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
8th Mark of the Catholic Church - Holiness of Doctrine.
1. Holiness of Doctrine.
What makes doctrines holy? Of course, those doctrines that can make someone a saint. No one can discern holiness in doctrine except those who have the supernatural and theological virtue of Faith. So most Catholics cannot detect if doctrines are holy or if some doctrines can make a person a saint. We are treading in the supernatural level, a level exclusively the territory of those who are truly Catholic having the theological virtue of Faith.
But it is possible to detect some signs of holiness. Even in everyday life we can feel if a person is very good or if he is evil. There is, in fact, what we call natural theology. This is the aspect of supernatural theology that can be discerned in the natural level. Miracles belong to this category. It is a supernatural event but it falls within the scope of the senses.
2. Indeed, the true Church is not only Catholic, Apostolic and one; but also Holy, as the creed of the first council of Constantinople holds. It is certain that the Church is called 'holy' because her profession is holy, containing nothing false with respect to doctrine, and nothing unjust with respect to doctrine of morals.
Indeed, there is no sect of the pagans, or of the Philosophers, or of the Jews or Turks, or Heretics which will not contain some errors, tried and manifestly contrary to right reason.
3. St. Bellarmine and non-Catholic sects.
Then St. Bellarmine gives examples of non-Catholic sects showing that they go against common sense, against Philosophy, against good manners, against nature.These religions and sects cannot go against the theology of Catholicism because they cannot even rise up to the supernatural level. Note the unholiness of such groups.
Lycurgus, permitted adultery to be legal in the laws of the Persians. Likewise they allow incentuous marriages between mothers, sons and sisters.
In the laws of the Massagetae, those who were going to die or were old could be eaten by their neighbours. Among the Armenians, dead bodies of men were thrown to the dogs.
In the laws of the Scythians, the living who had offended them were buried with the dead. In the law of Plato, which appeared to be the best of all, the most outrageous vices were prescribed or praised, as the sharing of wives, wicked lust, abortion, infanticide and like things.
Other sects are filled with heresies. The Gnostics taught, among other things, that they ought to practice orgies and that every lust should be exercised, nevertheless they shunned conception. If by chance conception should follow, they would extract from the womb of the pregnant woman, and grind it in a mortar, and devour it as a condiment like honey and pepper.
The Carpocratiani taught that everyone was helped to perpetrate every kind of wickedness, and if or when they die, they had not perpetrated everything, they said their souls would be sent back to their bodies, and this as often as it took to fill the measures of crimes, and in this way they explained that part of the Gospel; 'You will not go from there, until you will have paid the last farthing.'
The Montanist made sacrifice from the blood of year old infants whom they wounded with small copper pins, the blood of which they squeezed out with incredible cruelty.
The Manicheans taught it was just as much a sin to pluck a leaf from a tree and murder a man.
The sects of our time teach that every man is justified by means of individual faith alone, whereby each believes for certain that he is just in the sight of God on account of Christ, which can be compared with any paradox you like.
4. But our Church, the Catholic Church teachers no error, no foul thing, nothing contrary to reason , although many things are above reason. Hence it alone is absolutely holy and to her alone corresponds what we say in the Creed; I believe in the Holy Church. This matter the Fathers showed against not only the pagans but also the heretics, as St.Thomas most accurately shows in the Summa Contra Gentiles.
Therefore, we conclude with St. Augustine; 'Nothing filthy and wicked is set forth to be gazed at or imitated in Christian Churches, but either precepts of the true God are recommended, his miracles narrated, his gifts praised, or his benefits implored...truth was sense to be not contradictory to reason, but only different from custom.
5. In detail.
Catholic truths are in the spiritual level. They make the soul, not the body, holy. Though indirectly the good of the soul benefits the body. All the rest, like philosophy and the sciences, though in the natural level were created by the same God so it cannot go against the spiritual holy truths by which God make the human soul holy.
Therefore, Catholic teachings do not go against sound 'common sense.' It does not go against good manners. It does not go against the nature of man. It does not go against the laws of the sound principles of the science of physics, psychology, sociology and philosophy. And we say 'sound' because anything natural falls under the curse of original sin and will always have something unsound in them. But Catholic doctrines have nothing unsound because it is precisely the medicine for fallen human nature.
Catholic doctrines remain alone in the spiritual and supernatural level because it is over and above all religions, above all philosophy, above all sciences. The Catholic religions stands alone in the spiritual level above everything man made because it is made by God. Coming from God who is all holy, the Catholic Religion can only made its members holy.
6. The NuChurch of Pope Francis.
The NuChurch of Pope Francis is filled with sins against good manners (like the way he treated Bishop Livieres and Cardinal Zen); sins against Philosophy (like when he teaches all to be open but he is not open himself). Transforming the underground Church of China into a communist sect is the worst. Bogged down in the natural and, sometimes, even in the unnatural, Pope Francis is unable to rise up to the supernatural level. Pope Francis is totally unable to explain supernatural truths ending up misinterpreting Catholic Doctrines common in his homilies at Case Martha. Remember how he interpreted the parable 'On the multiplication of the bread.' And remember what he said was better? The old wine or the new wine. Why, he contradicted the Gospel almost immediately reading the text of the Gospel which states that old wine is better. He said, it was the new wine.....referring to his new religion, the FrancisChurch.
Let us look at the unholiness of his teachings. He encourages husband to abandon an intolerable wife, abandon perfectly normal children, remarry his mistress and receive Holy Communion. All unholy teachings. He discourages non-catholics to convert to the true religion, believes all devils as true gods, wants devils to displace the true god, and does not believe in hell. Again very unholy doctrines. He does not mention the name of Jesus at the UN, preaches the heretical one world religion in the UN and preaches that all men should revert to committing original sin.
Well, as St. James wrote, if you have one unholy teaching in your preaching, then it is certain that all you teachings are unholy.
7. Definitely, the NuChurch with headquarters in the Vatican and headed by Pope Francis does not have this 8th Mark of the true Church defined by St. Robert Bellarmine. 'Amores Letitia' alone is sufficient proof. His off the cuff remarks in the planes are countless further proofs.
What makes doctrines holy? Of course, those doctrines that can make someone a saint. No one can discern holiness in doctrine except those who have the supernatural and theological virtue of Faith. So most Catholics cannot detect if doctrines are holy or if some doctrines can make a person a saint. We are treading in the supernatural level, a level exclusively the territory of those who are truly Catholic having the theological virtue of Faith.
But it is possible to detect some signs of holiness. Even in everyday life we can feel if a person is very good or if he is evil. There is, in fact, what we call natural theology. This is the aspect of supernatural theology that can be discerned in the natural level. Miracles belong to this category. It is a supernatural event but it falls within the scope of the senses.
2. Indeed, the true Church is not only Catholic, Apostolic and one; but also Holy, as the creed of the first council of Constantinople holds. It is certain that the Church is called 'holy' because her profession is holy, containing nothing false with respect to doctrine, and nothing unjust with respect to doctrine of morals.
Indeed, there is no sect of the pagans, or of the Philosophers, or of the Jews or Turks, or Heretics which will not contain some errors, tried and manifestly contrary to right reason.
3. St. Bellarmine and non-Catholic sects.
Then St. Bellarmine gives examples of non-Catholic sects showing that they go against common sense, against Philosophy, against good manners, against nature.These religions and sects cannot go against the theology of Catholicism because they cannot even rise up to the supernatural level. Note the unholiness of such groups.
Lycurgus, permitted adultery to be legal in the laws of the Persians. Likewise they allow incentuous marriages between mothers, sons and sisters.
In the laws of the Massagetae, those who were going to die or were old could be eaten by their neighbours. Among the Armenians, dead bodies of men were thrown to the dogs.
In the laws of the Scythians, the living who had offended them were buried with the dead. In the law of Plato, which appeared to be the best of all, the most outrageous vices were prescribed or praised, as the sharing of wives, wicked lust, abortion, infanticide and like things.
Other sects are filled with heresies. The Gnostics taught, among other things, that they ought to practice orgies and that every lust should be exercised, nevertheless they shunned conception. If by chance conception should follow, they would extract from the womb of the pregnant woman, and grind it in a mortar, and devour it as a condiment like honey and pepper.
The Carpocratiani taught that everyone was helped to perpetrate every kind of wickedness, and if or when they die, they had not perpetrated everything, they said their souls would be sent back to their bodies, and this as often as it took to fill the measures of crimes, and in this way they explained that part of the Gospel; 'You will not go from there, until you will have paid the last farthing.'
The Montanist made sacrifice from the blood of year old infants whom they wounded with small copper pins, the blood of which they squeezed out with incredible cruelty.
The Manicheans taught it was just as much a sin to pluck a leaf from a tree and murder a man.
The sects of our time teach that every man is justified by means of individual faith alone, whereby each believes for certain that he is just in the sight of God on account of Christ, which can be compared with any paradox you like.
4. But our Church, the Catholic Church teachers no error, no foul thing, nothing contrary to reason , although many things are above reason. Hence it alone is absolutely holy and to her alone corresponds what we say in the Creed; I believe in the Holy Church. This matter the Fathers showed against not only the pagans but also the heretics, as St.Thomas most accurately shows in the Summa Contra Gentiles.
Therefore, we conclude with St. Augustine; 'Nothing filthy and wicked is set forth to be gazed at or imitated in Christian Churches, but either precepts of the true God are recommended, his miracles narrated, his gifts praised, or his benefits implored...truth was sense to be not contradictory to reason, but only different from custom.
5. In detail.
Catholic truths are in the spiritual level. They make the soul, not the body, holy. Though indirectly the good of the soul benefits the body. All the rest, like philosophy and the sciences, though in the natural level were created by the same God so it cannot go against the spiritual holy truths by which God make the human soul holy.
Therefore, Catholic teachings do not go against sound 'common sense.' It does not go against good manners. It does not go against the nature of man. It does not go against the laws of the sound principles of the science of physics, psychology, sociology and philosophy. And we say 'sound' because anything natural falls under the curse of original sin and will always have something unsound in them. But Catholic doctrines have nothing unsound because it is precisely the medicine for fallen human nature.
Catholic doctrines remain alone in the spiritual and supernatural level because it is over and above all religions, above all philosophy, above all sciences. The Catholic religions stands alone in the spiritual level above everything man made because it is made by God. Coming from God who is all holy, the Catholic Religion can only made its members holy.
6. The NuChurch of Pope Francis.
The NuChurch of Pope Francis is filled with sins against good manners (like the way he treated Bishop Livieres and Cardinal Zen); sins against Philosophy (like when he teaches all to be open but he is not open himself). Transforming the underground Church of China into a communist sect is the worst. Bogged down in the natural and, sometimes, even in the unnatural, Pope Francis is unable to rise up to the supernatural level. Pope Francis is totally unable to explain supernatural truths ending up misinterpreting Catholic Doctrines common in his homilies at Case Martha. Remember how he interpreted the parable 'On the multiplication of the bread.' And remember what he said was better? The old wine or the new wine. Why, he contradicted the Gospel almost immediately reading the text of the Gospel which states that old wine is better. He said, it was the new wine.....referring to his new religion, the FrancisChurch.
Let us look at the unholiness of his teachings. He encourages husband to abandon an intolerable wife, abandon perfectly normal children, remarry his mistress and receive Holy Communion. All unholy teachings. He discourages non-catholics to convert to the true religion, believes all devils as true gods, wants devils to displace the true god, and does not believe in hell. Again very unholy doctrines. He does not mention the name of Jesus at the UN, preaches the heretical one world religion in the UN and preaches that all men should revert to committing original sin.
Well, as St. James wrote, if you have one unholy teaching in your preaching, then it is certain that all you teachings are unholy.
7. Definitely, the NuChurch with headquarters in the Vatican and headed by Pope Francis does not have this 8th Mark of the true Church defined by St. Robert Bellarmine. 'Amores Letitia' alone is sufficient proof. His off the cuff remarks in the planes are countless further proofs.
8th Mark of the Catholic Church - Holiness of Doctrine.
1. Holiness of Doctrine.
What makes doctrines holy? Of course, those doctrines that can make someone a saint. No one can discern holiness in doctrine except those who have the supernatural and theological virtue of Faith. So most Catholics cannot detect if doctrines are holy or if some doctrines can make a person a saint. We are treading in the supernatural level, a level exclusively the territory of those who are truly Catholic having the theological virtue of Faith.
But it is possible to detect some signs of holiness. Even in everyday life we can feel if a person is very good or if he is evil. There is, in fact, what we call natural theology. This is the aspect of supernatural theology that can be discerned in the natural level. Miracles belong to this category. It is a supernatural event but it falls within the scope of the senses.
2. Indeed, the true Church is not only Catholic, Apostolic and one; but also Holy, as the creed of the first council of Constantinople holds. It is certain that the Church is called 'holy' because her profession is holy, containing nothing false with respect to doctrine, and nothing unjust with respect to doctrine of morals.
Indeed, there is no sect of the pagans, or of the Philosophers, or of the Jews or Turks, or Heretics which will not contain some errors, tried and manifestly contrary to right reason.
3. St. Bellarmine and non-Catholic sects.
Then St. Bellarmine gives examples of non-Catholic sects showing that they go against common sense, against Philosophy, against good manners, against nature.These religions and sects cannot go against the theology of Catholicism because they cannot even rise up to the supernatural level. Note the unholiness of such groups.
Lycurgus, permitted adultery to be legal in the laws of the Persians. Likewise they allow incentuous marriages between mothers, sons and sisters.
In the laws of the Massagetae, those who were going to die or were old could be eaten by their neighbours. Among the Armenians, dead bodies of men were thrown to the dogs.
In the laws of the Scythians, the living who had offended them were buried with the dead. In the law of Plato, which appeared to be the best of all, the most outrageous vices were prescribed or praised, as the sharing of wives, wicked lust, abortion, infanticide and like things.
Other sects are filled with heresies. The Gnostics taught, among other things, that they ought to practice orgies and that every lust should be exercised, nevertheless they shunned conception. If by chance conception should follow, they would extract from the womb of the pregnant woman, and grind it in a mortar, and devour it as a condiment like honey and pepper.
The Carpocratiani taught that everyone was helped to perpetrate every kind of wickedness, and if or when they die, they had not perpetrated everything, they said their souls would be sent back to their bodies, and this as often as it took to fill the measures of crimes, and in this way they explained that part of the Gospel; 'You will not go from there, until you will have paid the last farthing.'
The Montanist made sacrifice from the blood of year old infants whom they wounded with small copper pins, the blood of which they squeezed out with incredible cruelty.
The Manicheans taught it was just as much a sin to pluck a leaf from a tree and murder a man.
The sects of our time teach that every man is justified by means of individual faith alone, whereby each believes for certain that he is just in the sight of God on account of Christ, which can be compared with any paradox you like.
4. But our Church, the Catholic Church teachers no error, no foul thing, nothing contrary to reason , although many things are above reason. Hence it alone is absolutely holy and to her alone corresponds what we say in the Creed; I believe in the Holy Church. This matter the Fathers showed against not only the pagans but also the heretics, as St.Thomas most accurately shows in the Summa Contra Gentiles.
Therefore, we conclude with St. Augustine; 'Nothing filthy and wicked is set forth to be gazed at or imitated in Christian Churches, but either precepts of the true God are recommended, his miracles narrated, his gifts praised, or his benefits implored...truth was sense to be not contradictory to reason, but only different from custom.
5. In detail.
Catholic truths are in the spiritual level. They make the soul, not the body, holy. Though indirectly the good of the soul benefits the body. All the rest, like philosophy and the sciences, though in the natural level were created by the same God so it cannot go against the spiritual holy truths by which God make the human soul holy.
Therefore, Catholic teachings do not go against sound 'common sense.' It does not go against good manners. It does not go against the nature of man. It does not go against the laws of the sound principles of the science of physics, psychology, sociology and philosophy. And we say 'sound' because anything natural falls under the curse of original sin and will always have something unsound in them. But Catholic doctrines have nothing unsound because it is precisely the medicine for fallen human nature.
Catholic doctrines remain alone in the spiritual and supernatural level because it is over and above all religions, above all philosophy, above all sciences. The Catholic religions stands alone in the spiritual level above everything man made because it is made by God. Coming from God who is all holy, the Catholic Religion can only made its members holy.
6. The NuChurch of Pope Francis.
The NuChurch of Pope Francis is filled with sins against good manners (like the way he treated Bishop Livieres and Cardinal Zen); sins against Philosophy (like when he teaches all to be open but he is not open himself). Transforming the underground Church of China into a communist sect is the worst. Bogged down in the natural and, sometimes, even in the unnatural, Pope Francis is unable to rise up to the supernatural level. Pope Francis is totally unable to explain supernatural truths ending up misinterpreting Catholic Doctrines common in his homilies at Case Martha. Remember how he interpreted the parable 'On the multiplication of the bread.' And remember what he said was better? The old wine or the new wine. Why, he contradicted the Gospel almost immediately reading the text of the Gospel which states that old wine is better. He said, it was the new wine.....referring to his new religion, the FrancisChurch.
Let us look at the unholiness of his teachings. He encourages husband to abandon an intolerable wife, abandon perfectly normal children, remarry his mistress and receive Holy Communion. All unholy teachings. He discourages non-catholics to convert to the true religion, believes all devils as true gods, wants devils to displace the true god, and does not believe in hell. Again very unholy doctrines. He does not mention the name of Jesus at the UN, preaches the heretical one world religion in the UN and preaches that all men should revert to committing original sin.
Well, as St. James wrote, if you have one unholy teaching in your preaching, then it is certain that all you teachings are unholy.
7. Definitely, the NuChurch with headquarters in the Vatican and headed by Pope Francis does not have this 8th Mark of the true Church defined by St. Robert Bellarmine. 'Amores Letitia' alone is sufficient proof. His off the cuff remarks in the planes are countless further proofs.
What makes doctrines holy? Of course, those doctrines that can make someone a saint. No one can discern holiness in doctrine except those who have the supernatural and theological virtue of Faith. So most Catholics cannot detect if doctrines are holy or if some doctrines can make a person a saint. We are treading in the supernatural level, a level exclusively the territory of those who are truly Catholic having the theological virtue of Faith.
But it is possible to detect some signs of holiness. Even in everyday life we can feel if a person is very good or if he is evil. There is, in fact, what we call natural theology. This is the aspect of supernatural theology that can be discerned in the natural level. Miracles belong to this category. It is a supernatural event but it falls within the scope of the senses.
2. Indeed, the true Church is not only Catholic, Apostolic and one; but also Holy, as the creed of the first council of Constantinople holds. It is certain that the Church is called 'holy' because her profession is holy, containing nothing false with respect to doctrine, and nothing unjust with respect to doctrine of morals.
Indeed, there is no sect of the pagans, or of the Philosophers, or of the Jews or Turks, or Heretics which will not contain some errors, tried and manifestly contrary to right reason.
3. St. Bellarmine and non-Catholic sects.
Then St. Bellarmine gives examples of non-Catholic sects showing that they go against common sense, against Philosophy, against good manners, against nature.These religions and sects cannot go against the theology of Catholicism because they cannot even rise up to the supernatural level. Note the unholiness of such groups.
Lycurgus, permitted adultery to be legal in the laws of the Persians. Likewise they allow incentuous marriages between mothers, sons and sisters.
In the laws of the Massagetae, those who were going to die or were old could be eaten by their neighbours. Among the Armenians, dead bodies of men were thrown to the dogs.
In the laws of the Scythians, the living who had offended them were buried with the dead. In the law of Plato, which appeared to be the best of all, the most outrageous vices were prescribed or praised, as the sharing of wives, wicked lust, abortion, infanticide and like things.
Other sects are filled with heresies. The Gnostics taught, among other things, that they ought to practice orgies and that every lust should be exercised, nevertheless they shunned conception. If by chance conception should follow, they would extract from the womb of the pregnant woman, and grind it in a mortar, and devour it as a condiment like honey and pepper.
The Carpocratiani taught that everyone was helped to perpetrate every kind of wickedness, and if or when they die, they had not perpetrated everything, they said their souls would be sent back to their bodies, and this as often as it took to fill the measures of crimes, and in this way they explained that part of the Gospel; 'You will not go from there, until you will have paid the last farthing.'
The Montanist made sacrifice from the blood of year old infants whom they wounded with small copper pins, the blood of which they squeezed out with incredible cruelty.
The Manicheans taught it was just as much a sin to pluck a leaf from a tree and murder a man.
The sects of our time teach that every man is justified by means of individual faith alone, whereby each believes for certain that he is just in the sight of God on account of Christ, which can be compared with any paradox you like.
4. But our Church, the Catholic Church teachers no error, no foul thing, nothing contrary to reason , although many things are above reason. Hence it alone is absolutely holy and to her alone corresponds what we say in the Creed; I believe in the Holy Church. This matter the Fathers showed against not only the pagans but also the heretics, as St.Thomas most accurately shows in the Summa Contra Gentiles.
Therefore, we conclude with St. Augustine; 'Nothing filthy and wicked is set forth to be gazed at or imitated in Christian Churches, but either precepts of the true God are recommended, his miracles narrated, his gifts praised, or his benefits implored...truth was sense to be not contradictory to reason, but only different from custom.
5. In detail.
Catholic truths are in the spiritual level. They make the soul, not the body, holy. Though indirectly the good of the soul benefits the body. All the rest, like philosophy and the sciences, though in the natural level were created by the same God so it cannot go against the spiritual holy truths by which God make the human soul holy.
Therefore, Catholic teachings do not go against sound 'common sense.' It does not go against good manners. It does not go against the nature of man. It does not go against the laws of the sound principles of the science of physics, psychology, sociology and philosophy. And we say 'sound' because anything natural falls under the curse of original sin and will always have something unsound in them. But Catholic doctrines have nothing unsound because it is precisely the medicine for fallen human nature.
Catholic doctrines remain alone in the spiritual and supernatural level because it is over and above all religions, above all philosophy, above all sciences. The Catholic religions stands alone in the spiritual level above everything man made because it is made by God. Coming from God who is all holy, the Catholic Religion can only made its members holy.
6. The NuChurch of Pope Francis.
The NuChurch of Pope Francis is filled with sins against good manners (like the way he treated Bishop Livieres and Cardinal Zen); sins against Philosophy (like when he teaches all to be open but he is not open himself). Transforming the underground Church of China into a communist sect is the worst. Bogged down in the natural and, sometimes, even in the unnatural, Pope Francis is unable to rise up to the supernatural level. Pope Francis is totally unable to explain supernatural truths ending up misinterpreting Catholic Doctrines common in his homilies at Case Martha. Remember how he interpreted the parable 'On the multiplication of the bread.' And remember what he said was better? The old wine or the new wine. Why, he contradicted the Gospel almost immediately reading the text of the Gospel which states that old wine is better. He said, it was the new wine.....referring to his new religion, the FrancisChurch.
Let us look at the unholiness of his teachings. He encourages husband to abandon an intolerable wife, abandon perfectly normal children, remarry his mistress and receive Holy Communion. All unholy teachings. He discourages non-catholics to convert to the true religion, believes all devils as true gods, wants devils to displace the true god, and does not believe in hell. Again very unholy doctrines. He does not mention the name of Jesus at the UN, preaches the heretical one world religion in the UN and preaches that all men should revert to committing original sin.
Well, as St. James wrote, if you have one unholy teaching in your preaching, then it is certain that all you teachings are unholy.
7. Definitely, the NuChurch with headquarters in the Vatican and headed by Pope Francis does not have this 8th Mark of the true Church defined by St. Robert Bellarmine. 'Amores Letitia' alone is sufficient proof. His off the cuff remarks in the planes are countless further proofs.
Monday, April 02, 2018
7th Mark of the true Church. The Union of members among themselves and with the head.
1. For the Church is one body, one spouse, one flock, as Scripture teaches everywhere, as well as in the creed of the Council of Constantinople, where we say 'one Church'.
Moreover, the particular union of the body consists in the union of the members with the head, and among themselves. We must speak on each union, even in the first place on the foremost, that of the Roman Pontiff. However, since we have already given a treatise in another place on the Head of the Church, here we merely bring a few testimonies of the Fathers to the fore, whereby we will show that union with the Roman Pontiff was always held as a mark of the true Church among the ancient Fathers.
St. Irenaeus clearly says, ' it is necessary for every Church (that is, those who are, in all respect, faithful) to agree with the Roman Church on account of a mightier pre-eminence.
Whoever shall eat the lamb outside this house, is profane; if anyone was not in the ark of Noah, he perished while the flood was master. Whoever does not gather with you scatters that is, who is not of Christ is of Anti-Christ.
Pope Leo the Great in his epistle to the bishops of Vienna; 'The Lord so wished the oath of preaching the gopel to pertain to the duty of all apostles, that he principally placed it in the most blessed Peter, chief of all the apostles, the his gift might defuse from that head as into every head, so that I would exhort anyone who had dared to recede from the solidity of Peter, to understand this is itself a divine mystery.
Add to these testimonies experience, we see indeed all those Churches, which divided themselves from that head, just as branches cut away from the root, immediately wither.
2. The members.
Let us now come to the agreement of the members among themselves. It is certain, concord is a sign of the kingdom of God, which ought to stand in eternity. Discord, however, is of the kingdom of the devil because, at length, it ought to come to ruin. Every kingdom divided against itself will be despoiled.
St. Augustine says; 'the devil desired to effect through heretics that in the Church of Christ there might be free dissensions, just as there were in the academies of philosophers; that as these through many divisions at length died out, and were consumed by each other, so it will be in the Church.
Accordingly, in the first place, all the holy writers in our Church wonderfully agreed among themselves, although there were different men in different places, times and languages who wrote, which St. Augustine observes on the matter.
Thereupon all decrees of legitimate councils and popes agreed among themselve, even in all dogmas, although they were promulgated by different men, in different places, times, occasions and against very different, nay more, contrary heresies.,
This is an obvious sign of one and the same Holy Spirit, governing the Church. The diligence of heretics shows this is true, that although they laboriously pursue all things, nevertheless, they have not discovered anything of any importance which they could condemn as we showed in the disputation on Councils.
Thereupon, now all Catholics, dispersed throughout the whole world believe the same things on all dogmas of faith. Nor can they think otherwise, since all subject their sense to the sense of one and of the same supreme pastor from the chair of Peter with the counsel of other pastors directing the Church.
There was never any sect of heathen, or of heretics, in which there was such a consensus, and this can easily be shown. First, on the pagan sects, St. Augustine teaches that both Juno and Hercules, and other gods disagreeing with themselves belonged to the same religion, and even waged war among each other. Concerning all philosophers it was known, as St. Basil says, 'it is not fitting that we should fight against the philosophers, since these suffice in their mutual dissensions to overturn the other's doctrine.
At the time of St. Bellarmine, Luther's sect had already been divided into 100 different sects.
3. Objections against the Catholic Church.
Calvin says, from this 7th mark can be gathered that the Catholic church is not the true Church since there are as many assemblies of schismatics and divisions as there are monasteries. Some are called Benedictines, other Franciscans and other Dominicans, Thirdly, some add more sects, Thomas, Scotists and the like which are among us.
The doctrine of the Church in itself gives birth to union and association of souls but heresy in itself and from its own nature, blossoms forth into divisions and schisms.
4. The elements that make up the Catholic Church.
St. Bellarmine enumerated the elements that make up the Catholic Church; namely, Jesus Christ as its head. The Pope, who is the vicar of Christ. The bishops who assists the Pope in his role. Then we have the priests who assist the bishops in their territories. Below the pyramid are the faithful who will guided to enter the Catholic Church through an act of Faith.
The most important thing in this pyramid is that all of them must be liken to branches attached to the vine as Christ, Himself, described the Catholic Church. Anyone who is cut off from the vine will wilt and will be good for nothing except to be thrown away and burnt. The sap from the main vine must flow without impediment and without contamination to all the branches that are attached to the vine.
The worst thing that can happen to any of the branches is to be cut off.
5. Keeping the line open.
The flow of life from Christ down to the laypeople must be without any impediment or cut off. The impediment or cut off is heresy, schism or sins.
6. How a free flowing pipeline should look like.
A free flowing pipeline that portrays the image of the Catholic Church should look something like this.
First, Jesus Christ is on the top with His Divine Revelation. The Divine Revelation contains God's plan of salvation for man.
Secondly, the Son of God became man and came down to earth to teach men this Divine Plan. Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man chose 12 apostles and taught them the complete Divine Plan.
And gave them the grace to know the complete plan, to know how to explain perfectly the Divine Plan and to know how to put that Divine Plan into practice.
Thirdly, seeing how the apostles were always discussing things He decided that only one should be in charge of teaching the complete Divine Plan, to avoid lengthy group discussions. Christ appointed St. Peter and his successors to be imbued by the Holy Spirit with the knowledge and wisdom to understand and implement the Divine Plan that Christ had revealed to the first apostles. Christ and the apostles made up the first Church and comforted to the fact that the apostles were branches attached to the vine Jesus Christ. Though one branch, Judas, was cut off; a tragedy we want to avoid.
At this point we have a picture of the Catholic Church; with Christ as the head and His Divine Revelation. St. Peter, a branch attached to Christ, as the first Pope. And the rest of the apostles, also, attached to the vine Jesus Christ (except Judas). So far the pipeline through which the Divine Revelation flows from Christ, down to the apostles is free flowing. All are attached to the vine excepting Judas who was cut off. He was not part of the Church.
7. After St. Peter.
After St. Peter, the message of salvation contained in Divine Revelation continued to come from its head Jesus Christ. And the pipeline is now transferred and connected to the next Pope and the next Pope ......and of late to Pope Benedict XVI. The plan of salvation contained in Divine Revelation is still in Christ and it is connected to Pope Benedict who must, under pain of damnation, must see to it that he receives this plan in all its purity; as God liked to say 'without adding and without subtracting. Without modifying and changing. Without contamination.
So the Pope should imitate Christ in transmitting the plan of salvation contained in Divine Revelation. Christ reveals it to the Pope and watches over him to see that he obeys the Plan in exactly the way He gave it......every second of the Pope's life until his death that he does not commit any mistake. Thus the infallibility that is given to the St. Peter alone and his successors. So, it is important to know who is the true Pope. And no Pope is allowed to retire and shut down the valve of the pipeline from head down to the bishops.
8. Bishops and priests.
Then from Christ to the Pope, the pipeline must continue down to the bishops. And from the bishops, down to the priests and to the laymen. Divine revelations should flow down from the Pope down to each laymen in all its purity without any contamination. And while the Pope, during his entire lifetime, must see to it that the bishops get Divine Revelation perfectly and observed in exactly as it was given from the beginning, the bishops and priest must continue this transfer down to each laymen and maintain its observance in exactly the same way as it was given from Christ without any alteration.
The purity of morals and doctrines must be pure from Christ down to the laymen. This transfer of doctrine and morals is kept pure by the work of the Holy Spirit. And this is the only way the union among the members of the Catholic Church and its head can be realised. This is not a human endeavour. It is a Divine action. Thus Christ reminds us that this peace and unity can only come from God and not from men. Thus this 7th Mark is a true sign of the true Catholic Church.
9. This pipeline does not exist in the present church headed by Pope Francis.
Obviously, the pipeline from Christ to the Popes was open and active, up to Pope Benedict XVI. But the pipeline from the Popes down to the Bishops were shut down even from the time of Pope Pius IX; there were only drops coming from the Pope down to a few handful of bishops and priests.....and down to the faithful. All those centuries, it was only drops.
But with Pope Francis, the pipeline from Christ to Pope Francis is complete cut off. As a priest, I have learned the contents of Divine Revelation which is available from the New Testament and explained by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. And I can see that not a drop is passing from Christ to Pope Francis, none from Pope Francis down to the bishops, priests and laymen. The Catholic Church, as we know it, is a vine with completely dry branches. The entire vine is dry, completely without fruits and completely dead ready for the fire.
10. Is there something that can be done?
Ordinarily, when the branches of a tree is completely dead and dried up, an attempt to revive it is to chop down all the dried branches even down to the roots and hope that there is a little life left in the roots. With all the burden of the dried branches sawed off down to the little life by the roots, shoots may begin to sprout and a completely new tree may grow.
Do you recall the emblem of the Benedictine monastery of Monte Casino established by St. Benedict? It is a cut down tree that is bearing new shoots. Pope Benedict reminded us of this.
In the church today that does not have this 7th Mark of the true Church, the only thing left to do is to completely chop it down to the root base and hope that new shoots sprouts.......only a new brand of monasticism can restore the Catholic Church today.
Moreover, the particular union of the body consists in the union of the members with the head, and among themselves. We must speak on each union, even in the first place on the foremost, that of the Roman Pontiff. However, since we have already given a treatise in another place on the Head of the Church, here we merely bring a few testimonies of the Fathers to the fore, whereby we will show that union with the Roman Pontiff was always held as a mark of the true Church among the ancient Fathers.
St. Irenaeus clearly says, ' it is necessary for every Church (that is, those who are, in all respect, faithful) to agree with the Roman Church on account of a mightier pre-eminence.
Whoever shall eat the lamb outside this house, is profane; if anyone was not in the ark of Noah, he perished while the flood was master. Whoever does not gather with you scatters that is, who is not of Christ is of Anti-Christ.
Pope Leo the Great in his epistle to the bishops of Vienna; 'The Lord so wished the oath of preaching the gopel to pertain to the duty of all apostles, that he principally placed it in the most blessed Peter, chief of all the apostles, the his gift might defuse from that head as into every head, so that I would exhort anyone who had dared to recede from the solidity of Peter, to understand this is itself a divine mystery.
Add to these testimonies experience, we see indeed all those Churches, which divided themselves from that head, just as branches cut away from the root, immediately wither.
2. The members.
Let us now come to the agreement of the members among themselves. It is certain, concord is a sign of the kingdom of God, which ought to stand in eternity. Discord, however, is of the kingdom of the devil because, at length, it ought to come to ruin. Every kingdom divided against itself will be despoiled.
St. Augustine says; 'the devil desired to effect through heretics that in the Church of Christ there might be free dissensions, just as there were in the academies of philosophers; that as these through many divisions at length died out, and were consumed by each other, so it will be in the Church.
Accordingly, in the first place, all the holy writers in our Church wonderfully agreed among themselves, although there were different men in different places, times and languages who wrote, which St. Augustine observes on the matter.
Thereupon all decrees of legitimate councils and popes agreed among themselve, even in all dogmas, although they were promulgated by different men, in different places, times, occasions and against very different, nay more, contrary heresies.,
This is an obvious sign of one and the same Holy Spirit, governing the Church. The diligence of heretics shows this is true, that although they laboriously pursue all things, nevertheless, they have not discovered anything of any importance which they could condemn as we showed in the disputation on Councils.
Thereupon, now all Catholics, dispersed throughout the whole world believe the same things on all dogmas of faith. Nor can they think otherwise, since all subject their sense to the sense of one and of the same supreme pastor from the chair of Peter with the counsel of other pastors directing the Church.
There was never any sect of heathen, or of heretics, in which there was such a consensus, and this can easily be shown. First, on the pagan sects, St. Augustine teaches that both Juno and Hercules, and other gods disagreeing with themselves belonged to the same religion, and even waged war among each other. Concerning all philosophers it was known, as St. Basil says, 'it is not fitting that we should fight against the philosophers, since these suffice in their mutual dissensions to overturn the other's doctrine.
At the time of St. Bellarmine, Luther's sect had already been divided into 100 different sects.
3. Objections against the Catholic Church.
Calvin says, from this 7th mark can be gathered that the Catholic church is not the true Church since there are as many assemblies of schismatics and divisions as there are monasteries. Some are called Benedictines, other Franciscans and other Dominicans, Thirdly, some add more sects, Thomas, Scotists and the like which are among us.
The doctrine of the Church in itself gives birth to union and association of souls but heresy in itself and from its own nature, blossoms forth into divisions and schisms.
4. The elements that make up the Catholic Church.
St. Bellarmine enumerated the elements that make up the Catholic Church; namely, Jesus Christ as its head. The Pope, who is the vicar of Christ. The bishops who assists the Pope in his role. Then we have the priests who assist the bishops in their territories. Below the pyramid are the faithful who will guided to enter the Catholic Church through an act of Faith.
The most important thing in this pyramid is that all of them must be liken to branches attached to the vine as Christ, Himself, described the Catholic Church. Anyone who is cut off from the vine will wilt and will be good for nothing except to be thrown away and burnt. The sap from the main vine must flow without impediment and without contamination to all the branches that are attached to the vine.
The worst thing that can happen to any of the branches is to be cut off.
5. Keeping the line open.
The flow of life from Christ down to the laypeople must be without any impediment or cut off. The impediment or cut off is heresy, schism or sins.
6. How a free flowing pipeline should look like.
A free flowing pipeline that portrays the image of the Catholic Church should look something like this.
First, Jesus Christ is on the top with His Divine Revelation. The Divine Revelation contains God's plan of salvation for man.
Secondly, the Son of God became man and came down to earth to teach men this Divine Plan. Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man chose 12 apostles and taught them the complete Divine Plan.
And gave them the grace to know the complete plan, to know how to explain perfectly the Divine Plan and to know how to put that Divine Plan into practice.
Thirdly, seeing how the apostles were always discussing things He decided that only one should be in charge of teaching the complete Divine Plan, to avoid lengthy group discussions. Christ appointed St. Peter and his successors to be imbued by the Holy Spirit with the knowledge and wisdom to understand and implement the Divine Plan that Christ had revealed to the first apostles. Christ and the apostles made up the first Church and comforted to the fact that the apostles were branches attached to the vine Jesus Christ. Though one branch, Judas, was cut off; a tragedy we want to avoid.
At this point we have a picture of the Catholic Church; with Christ as the head and His Divine Revelation. St. Peter, a branch attached to Christ, as the first Pope. And the rest of the apostles, also, attached to the vine Jesus Christ (except Judas). So far the pipeline through which the Divine Revelation flows from Christ, down to the apostles is free flowing. All are attached to the vine excepting Judas who was cut off. He was not part of the Church.
7. After St. Peter.
After St. Peter, the message of salvation contained in Divine Revelation continued to come from its head Jesus Christ. And the pipeline is now transferred and connected to the next Pope and the next Pope ......and of late to Pope Benedict XVI. The plan of salvation contained in Divine Revelation is still in Christ and it is connected to Pope Benedict who must, under pain of damnation, must see to it that he receives this plan in all its purity; as God liked to say 'without adding and without subtracting. Without modifying and changing. Without contamination.
So the Pope should imitate Christ in transmitting the plan of salvation contained in Divine Revelation. Christ reveals it to the Pope and watches over him to see that he obeys the Plan in exactly the way He gave it......every second of the Pope's life until his death that he does not commit any mistake. Thus the infallibility that is given to the St. Peter alone and his successors. So, it is important to know who is the true Pope. And no Pope is allowed to retire and shut down the valve of the pipeline from head down to the bishops.
8. Bishops and priests.
Then from Christ to the Pope, the pipeline must continue down to the bishops. And from the bishops, down to the priests and to the laymen. Divine revelations should flow down from the Pope down to each laymen in all its purity without any contamination. And while the Pope, during his entire lifetime, must see to it that the bishops get Divine Revelation perfectly and observed in exactly as it was given from the beginning, the bishops and priest must continue this transfer down to each laymen and maintain its observance in exactly the same way as it was given from Christ without any alteration.
The purity of morals and doctrines must be pure from Christ down to the laymen. This transfer of doctrine and morals is kept pure by the work of the Holy Spirit. And this is the only way the union among the members of the Catholic Church and its head can be realised. This is not a human endeavour. It is a Divine action. Thus Christ reminds us that this peace and unity can only come from God and not from men. Thus this 7th Mark is a true sign of the true Catholic Church.
9. This pipeline does not exist in the present church headed by Pope Francis.
Obviously, the pipeline from Christ to the Popes was open and active, up to Pope Benedict XVI. But the pipeline from the Popes down to the Bishops were shut down even from the time of Pope Pius IX; there were only drops coming from the Pope down to a few handful of bishops and priests.....and down to the faithful. All those centuries, it was only drops.
But with Pope Francis, the pipeline from Christ to Pope Francis is complete cut off. As a priest, I have learned the contents of Divine Revelation which is available from the New Testament and explained by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. And I can see that not a drop is passing from Christ to Pope Francis, none from Pope Francis down to the bishops, priests and laymen. The Catholic Church, as we know it, is a vine with completely dry branches. The entire vine is dry, completely without fruits and completely dead ready for the fire.
10. Is there something that can be done?
Ordinarily, when the branches of a tree is completely dead and dried up, an attempt to revive it is to chop down all the dried branches even down to the roots and hope that there is a little life left in the roots. With all the burden of the dried branches sawed off down to the little life by the roots, shoots may begin to sprout and a completely new tree may grow.
Do you recall the emblem of the Benedictine monastery of Monte Casino established by St. Benedict? It is a cut down tree that is bearing new shoots. Pope Benedict reminded us of this.
In the church today that does not have this 7th Mark of the true Church, the only thing left to do is to completely chop it down to the root base and hope that new shoots sprouts.......only a new brand of monasticism can restore the Catholic Church today.
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