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Christ Giving the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter (Perugino, Sistine Chapel), |
"Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: outside the Church there is no salvation."
That eternal truth has been proclaimed through the centuries by the Catholic Church - until the Second Vatican Council revolutionaries buried it as a stumbling block to their globalist, New World Church of Nice. But as truth it remains true today that Christ gave all grace to His Mystical Body, the Church, and no grace is given to humanity except through her.
Just over a week before he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk told Bishop Joseph Brennan of Fresno, California, that he was "this close" to entering the Catholic Church. He said Protestants and Evangelicals under-venerate Mary. "She was a vessel for our Lord and Saviour. One of the ways that we fix toxic feminism in America is that Mary is the solution.”
Kirk died a martyr's death by way of baptism of desire - very nearly explicit and certainly implicit, because Kirk's whole life was dedicated to God and doing His will, and the recognises that state of mind and heart as implicit baptism by desire. What stopped him from professing faith in the Church of Rome was Antipope Francis - and his successor, Leo, because he recognised them as Marxists who by definition are alien to Christ and His Gospel.
Kirk's assassination polarized the world, mesmerising humanity and dividing it between good and evil. Hundreds of thousands of Catholics publicly prayed for his soul, that he might be granted salvation. They were joined by shocked and grieving Christians of all denominations who believed his faith alone had saved him. At the same time, hatred for Charlie Kirk and his Catholic wife Erika was spewed over the media, spurring spontaneous affirmation of good, and recoil from evil.
Carpe diem! As millions around the world are confronted with that visceral choice between God and His ancient enemy, Satan, the Catholic Church must seize the moment and speak the truth, in the media and from pulpits everywhere: "outside the Church there is no salvation".
However. The counterfeit, Ape Church - the conciliar, Novus Ordo, post-Bergoglio Synodal sect installed in the Vatican - has fallen into the heresies of modernism and indifferentism. Antipope Francis infamously claimed that "all religions are paths to God" - which according to Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos, is a "perverse opinion ... spread by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained".
Pope Leo XVI has failed to correct the Francis "fraud". And while Kirk's grieving widow Erika proclaimed Christ to the nations at his funeral, the Bishop of Rome and the Bishop’s Conference of his own country shamefully hid in silence. It's very evident then, that the faithful "remnant" (Rom 9,27) - the small number of the children of Israel who will be converted and saved - must take up the slack to define and proclaim this Church doctrine which pre-Vatican II was straightforward, but post-conciliar is a train-wreck of expanded meanings and reinterpretation by virtue of the new collegiality.
And what d'you know, right on cue up pops a reader of this blog. 'Michael' gives a cogent explanation (below) of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus:
The Church exists in Heaven, in Purgatory, and for now, on Earth - the Church Triumphant, The Church Suffering, and the Church Militant.
The Church is not a NGO or a nation state in Italy. The Church is Jesus Christ and those people who belong to Him. The word "catholic" comes from the Greek word καθολικός (katholikos) meaning “regarding the whole” or, said another way, the full Truth - all of it.
Everyone in Heaven can be said to be Catholic because they have already attained the beatific vision. They are with God and therefore they know the whole truth. Likewise those in Purgatory have had their personal judgement and have been judged by Jesus Christ, The High Priest and King of His nation.
Ergo, there is no salvation outside the Church which is Jesus Christ and the people who belong to Him. All who are allowed by Christ to pass through the Gate, which is Himself, are in His Church. There is no other gate into heaven. A person must be in the Church in order to belong to Christ. Hence, “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”
There are those people who formally belong to the visible Church on Earth, i.e. they are baptised and, if over the age of reason, confirmed into the Catholic Church.
But the Catholic Church has always taught that "nothing else is needed to obtain justification than an act of perfect charity and of contrition. Whoever under the impulse of actual grace elicits these acts receives immediately the gift of sanctifying grace, and is numbered among the children of God” (Fr George Hayward Joyce SJ (1864-1943)).
So it is possible, even in today’s world, to die and be in the Church by desire, but not to be formally in the Church Militant. There have been martyrs who died without being baptised with water, but who desired to belong to Christ, and were killed because of their love for Christ (see the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, 320AD).
And Charlie Kirk. How many thousands, or perhaps more, of good people have been prevented from formally entering the ark of salvation that is the Catholic Church by their instinctive antipathy towards Antipope Francis and his suave, anodyne successor, Leo?
However, anyone who knows that Jesus Christ is God, and that He wants all men to belong to His Church, who then rejects some or all of the Truth also rejects Christ, and is thus outside of the Church.
That would include those people sitting in the pews on Sunday who deny any aspect of the Faith, and Protestants.
Charlie and Erika Kirk in her parish church, St Bernadette's, Scottsdale Arizona |
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has posited that “Charlie Kirk was the victim of an atheistic ideology, whose followers erupted in satanic celebration over the heinous murder of an exemplary husband and family man. The devil always takes possession of those who hate life and truth.” Citing Scripture, he added, “For, according to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, the devil is a ‘murderer from the beginning’ and the ‘father of lies’ (John 8:44). And only those who hear the words of God are of God (cf. John 8:47).”
Men and women of truly good will (God's will) are saved in their
religion (whether it be Protestantism, Islam, Animism, whatever) but not by that religion: they are saved only by God's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Which means that Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who sit in pews on Sundays or put their forehead to the ground 5 times every day, but deny any aspect of God's will as defined by His Church (like the sinfulness of contraception or abortion), will not be saved without repentance and conversion of heart.
Our Lord Himself said to the Jews of His day, “If you do not believe that I am He [the Messiah], you will die in your sins” (John 8:24). If you believe that Christ is the Messiah you will be saved by Him not in any of the thousands of man-made religions but by baptism of desire into the Church founded by the Son of God on the "rock" of Peter.
“One cannot have [salvation] except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honor, one can have the sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer Amen, one can have the Gospel, one can have faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and preach, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church” (St Augustine – Sermon to the People of the Church of Caesarea, Chapter 6).
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Outside of Jesus there is no salvation. Sadly there are those who attend church who have not surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ. It is written
‘THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN BY WHICH YOU MAY BE SAVED’
I agree, totally. And so because apart from Jesus there is no salvation, we must belong to Jesus in the One Church He founded. That's what is meant by surrendering one's life to Jesus; it means doing His will as He expressed it when saying "You are Peter" (Petrus, rock) and upon this rock I will build My Church."
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DeleteLucy Thomson Also baptised RC as are you. My thoughts are that in the end the Pope whomever they may be are still just a person. Yes appointed to be the voice of God on earth but still just a person. People need to remember that priests, bishops, cardinals, popes, nuns they are all capable of committing sin. Just because they chose a life in dedication to god does not mean they are free from the influence of others and the devil. To me God is not in a building, I attend spasmodically, god is everywhere. I choose to worship in my own way anywhere I happen to be. Going into a building called a church, cathedral etc does not mean thats the only place I can find God I can find him anywhere I am looking. Lucy I was not treated badly during the time of persicution for my choices as you were, I found it easy to enter the church and pray, when I chose to.
Katherine Boniface thank you but remember that God IS in a building. Literally. He is really and substantially present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in every tabernacle. The Novus Ordo Mass was designed by the infiltrators partly, I believe, to obscure that fact and the Real Presence has largely been forgotten. But for those who remember It and keep Christ company there, the rewards are astonishing.
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DeleteJulia du Fresne I am aware of that, but god is also in nature. I attend the church but I will do this in my time. That may not be mass that may be some quiet time me and the lord together. The choice I make is for me.
Katherine Boniface God is everywhere, of course. But nowhere is He physically present except on the altar at Holy Mass and in the tabernacle. The graces He wants to give you there are far greater than in quiet time anywhere else.
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DeleteI agree, totally. And so because apart from Jesus there is no salvation, we must belong to Jesus in the One Church He founded. That's what is meant by surrendering one's life to Jesus; it means doing His will as He expressed it when saying "You are Peter" (Petrus, rock) and upon this rock I will build My Church.".
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Body of Christ’ is The One True Church’ made up of those who have committed their lives to the ‘Lordship of Jesus Christ’. These people are found throughout a number of Christ based Churches and even some who don’t attend church but are known to Christ himself’ the Body of Christ ie the true Church is made up of True Christians. It is not a denomination.
DeleteLiz Black Before you believe what is Written you must be not only be sure who wrote it and the integrity of the Hundreds who through the years have Interpreted it. I know God did not write the Bible with Jesus looking over his shoulder. He was busy helping Moses save his chosen people so they could go to the Promised Land Where they had to Butcher the People who had been there for Generations. Don't take my word for this. READ YOUR BIBLE.
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ReplyDeleteLucy Thomson it pays to remember that Psalm 91 was written by God, through David, and that the 'good at times' you ascribe to the Church includes compiling and publishing all of Holy Scripture.
Remember also that the capture by infiltration caused by Satan's constant attack on the Catholic Church is only temporary. As I say in the post, the remnant will eventually and inevitably reclaim the Body of Christ.
The Protestant Deformation was greatest disaster ever to befall Christendom (Western civilisation).
You're right to say that Christ's Church started in homes like the Apostles', not in 'opulent buildings' - which in time were built by love of God and for His glory.
It seems you've never attended the Traditional Latin Mass, suppressed deliberately by the infiltrators, which affords the most profound, Apostolic teaching, perfected over the centuries and is rightly called "the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven". I hope you can locate a TLM in your area and see what I mean, but the infiltrators have made the Latin Mass hard to find.
Yes, the infiltrators were responsible for the heinous closures of churches but some priests resisted. I could show you pic of a priest saying Mass in the back of a truck in a church carpark, in a snow storm..
"Ex Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" is not 'arrogance'; it's truth. Tragically, you're right about Francis and Leo 'at this present time' but God will restore His Church in His own time.
I'm sorry you've been treated badly by some in the Church. So was I but I would die rather than forsake her who is my Mother.
No one, and no pope, is perfect. It pays also to remember that the Church is a human institution as well as divine, to practise patience and pray .
ReplyDeleteJesus did not found the catholic church. No.mention of Jesus starting any church in the Bible and that must always be ourauthority
DeleteJustine Vollert "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." What does that Bible verse (Mt 16,18) mean to you?
DeleteJulia du Fresne the rock Jesus was referring to was Himself He is the rock. Right throughout the Biblle Jesus is referred gp the rock. The first Mention of Christians in the Bible is found in Acts. Where believers were referred to as Christians then later they were referred to as the way. No mention of Catholics till 300 AD by then the way was well established. Their were factions that pulled away because of false doctrines like gnosticsm. When I was a nun I studied ancient church history. That was from the znew testament through to the reformation..Catholics was an invention of Conststantine. Tge only real authority we must have and truth we must have is God's word
DeleteJustine Vollert I'm so sorry that you were one of the millions who left the Church following the Vat II revolutionaries' imposition of the awful Novus Ordo and suppression of the Latin Mass. I didn't leave and I have to say, in regard to your comment, "there but for the grace of God go I."
The Protestant inability to understand Christ's declaration of Peter as the rock on which He would build His Church is blindness to truth which can only be ascribed to Satan.
Please realise that if it weren't for the Catholic Church which compiled and published the Bible, Protestants would not have had any Scriptures to pervert or eliminate.
ReplyDeleteShow us proof he had negative comments about Francis or Leo. This divisive rhetoric is no work of God. Continuing to pray for you Julia and I ask the admins here to wake up to your sedevacant type posts.
Mario Alongi Jr thank you very much for your prayers. Proof:
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Pope Leo XIV: Registered Chicago Republican and pro-life warrior OR Open borders globalist installed to counter Trump?
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DeleteI see a Christ like statement that was reposted by then Prevost. You didn’t post a negative comment about Leo, like you eluded to in your post. Once again, your comments only foster division. Provide proof to the pudding so to speak, otherwise you just lied. From what GOOD sources tell me, Kirk was on the path to conversion to being Catholic.
DeleteMario Alongi Jr, Prevost prayed publicly in 'honour' of George Floyd, a career criminal who died of a drug overdose. Christ did not honour criminals; he told them to repent.
By contrast Prevost said nothing publicly about Charlie Kirk, a man of God assassinated in front of his wife for speaking the truth.
Bishop Joseph Brennan of Fresno, California, whom CK himself told he was "this close" to becoming Catholic, should be taken as a good source. Or so it seems to me.
DeleteJulia du Fresne so he shouldn’t pray for his soul? Even the “good” thief was labeled before he died by the crowd. We don’t know his heart. Only God does. Doesn’t mean we can’t pray for him.
DeleteMario Alongi Jr certainly it's right to pray for Floyd's soul - he like the good thief may have repented.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your interest in the topic, but I must respectfully disagree with the Roman Catholic Church's stance on "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus." The Bible clearly teaches that salvation is a free gift of God, received through faith in Jesus Christ alone. According to Ephesians 2:8-9 and Romans 3:24-25, our salvation is not dependent on membership in a particular church or denomination.
*The Roman Catholic Church's False Gospel*
The Roman Catholic Church's teaching on salvation by grace plus works is contrary to the biblical teaching of salvation by faith alone. In Galatians 1:6-9, Paul warns against those who preach a different gospel, and in Ephesians 2:8-9, he emphasizes that salvation is by grace through faith, not by works. This false gospel undermines the sufficiency of Christ's work on the cross and makes salvation a matter of human effort rather than a gift from God.
*Jesus is the Rock, Not Peter*
Furthermore, the idea that Peter was the first pope is not supported by Scripture. According to Matthew 16:18, Jesus is the Rock on which the Church is built, not Peter. Peter was a leader in the early Church, but he was not the foundation or the head of the Church (Ephesians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 3:11).
*The Body of Christ*
The body of Christ consists of born-again believers who have put their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. It is not a religion or denomination, but a spiritual entity composed of all who have been saved by God's grace (1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28). As believers, we are united to Christ and to one another through faith, not through membership in a particular church.
*Salvation is a Free Gift*
Salvation is a free gift of God, received through faith in Jesus Christ alone. According to John 14:6 and Acts 4:12, Jesus is the only way to salvation, and we are saved by grace alone through faith in Him alone. This gift is not tied to membership in a particular church or denomination, but rather to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
In light of these biblical teachings, I believe that the Roman Catholic Church's stance on "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" is unfounded and contrary to the clear teaching of Scripture. I hope this clarifies my position on this matter.
Deletereachnz.org exactly. If you have faith in Jesus Christ you believe Him, so you must be obedient to Him Who founded His Church on the rock of Peter: "Thou art Peter" (petrus meaning rock) "and on this rock" (obviously meaning the rock of Peter) "I will build my Church."
Only Satan could convince anyone that Christ's plain statement could mean anything but what it says.
Do please explain where you get the word 'alone' from.
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[5] For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, [6] who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.
Deletereachnz.org Yes, Christ the one mediator Who built His Church on the rock of Peter.
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ReplyDeleteIf you fall for stuff like this, you need to wake up. The Bible doesn’t revolve around Catholic talking points or trendy graphics — it revolves around the living Word of God. Too many people today worship their phones and their social media deities. Your life revolves around that screen glued to your hand, and every post is just an impulse for a digital high five and a pat on the back. That’s not what a Christian does, and it’s not what a patriot does either.
The truth is in Scripture, not in memes, not in popularity contests, and not in chasing likes. Stop chasing approval from people and start seeking approval from God (Galatians 1:10).
Abe Coulter yes. Give up everything that does not lead to God.
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ReplyDeleteThis poster is full of misinformation. The Bible never teaches that any man is infallible — only God’s Word is without error (2 Timothy 3:16). Jesus didn’t found a denomination called “the Catholic Church”; He founded His church — the body of all believers in Him (Matthew 16:18, Ephesians 1:22–23). God’s Word existed long before any church council, and Scripture was inspired by the Holy Spirit, not compiled or created by men (2 Peter 1:21, 2 Peter 3:16). The apostles carried the fullness of the gospel of Christ, and they warned against anyone twisting it (Galatians 1:8).
You might want to actually read the Bible for yourself instead of sharing some flashy graphic. God’s Word doesn’t revolve around a denomination — it stands eternal as the truth of God.
Abe Coulter yes, 'The Bible never teaches that any man is infallible' which is why the pope is not infallible as an individual, but he is when he speaks 'ex cathedra' with all the weight and authority of the divine office given him by Christ, as His Vicar on earth.
DeleteYou might benefit from reflection on the four marks of the Church founded by Christ on Peter and pictured at the end of the post: it is the one and only Church which is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.
ReplyDeleteThe One True Catholic and Apostolic Church remains the Orthodox Church. The unsciptural Innovations, heresies and blasphemies of the Papists means they lost any claim to being the True Church of Christ when they led the Great Schism of 1054.
DeleteSo the Eastern Church didn't agree that the Spirit proceeds equally from the Father and the Son.
And it preferred to consecrate unleavened bread for the Eucharist.
And the Eastern Church prefigured the revolutionaries of Vatican II and the Synod on Synodality by favouring the 'first among equals' model of leadership. rather than the hierarchical structure founded by Christ.
Sounds to me like it was the Orthodox who led the Great Schism.
ReplyDeleteChristianity was Organised at Nicaea for Roman Control of a Failing Empire. We are told that Emperor Constantine was Converted and Christened on his Deathbed. Many Centuries of Murder and Butchery have been going on ever since. The corruption in the Early Church is why Martin Luther opposed it as did the other Protestant Churches.
ReplyDeleteBut what about the Jesuits?
DeleteGail Oats good question. Read 'The Jesuits' by Malachi Martin and find out. It's riveting.
ReplyDeleteJulia du Fresne i respect your need to orotect your beliefs. But the Catholic church has been and still is corrupted. For centuries.
As for your question on, ALONE... Meaning that "something is confined to the specific subject" in this case, The Christ... JESUS... not a building or institution that kneels to idols and men.... John 2:19 states it clearly... and don't get me started on all the popes that have concealed all the crimes.
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ReplyDeletereachnz.org The answer from Peter,... You are the Christ! The Son of the Living God! Jesus refers it to the declaration of the prophet! The stone which the builders rejected! Jesus is 'obviously' referring to Peters declaration of who Jesus is, not to Peter himself! That's my understanding on it! All Catholics use this verse to use it to verify the position of the Pope as the Head of the church! Yet all Pope's have excluded themselves by the blasphemous and heretic teaching which directly contradicts the theological teachings of Paul, and Christ Himself! "Call no man Father!"
Robert Hooker "And call none your father UPON EARTH; for one is your father, who is in heaven" (Mt 23, 9, emphasis mine).
DeleteThe meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 15) and for our masters and teachers.
I suggest you use the Douay Rheims, a scrupulously faithful translation into English of the Latin Vulgate Bible which St. Jerome (342-420) translated into Latin from the original languages. St. Jerome, who was one of the four great Western Fathers of the Church, was a man raised up by God to translate the Holy Bible into the common Latin tongue of his day. He knew Latin and Greek perfectly.
He was 1500 years closer to the original languages than any scholar today, which would make him a better judge of the exact meaning of any Greek or Hebrew word in the Scriptures. Besides being a towering linguistic genius, he was also a great saint, and he had access to ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts of the 2nd and 3rd centuries which have since perished and are no longer available to scholars today. St. Jerome's translation, moreover, was a careful, word-for-word rendering of the original texts into Latin.
ReplyDeleteJulia du Fresne maybe, maybe 🤔 just once you would look beyond the brainwashing of Catholics. The simple truth, the acorn of truth is you have totally overlooked the things I have pointed out in the past to you with photographs of the obscenities, the evil the is displayed in common sight in the Vatican. My brother supplied you with blown up photographs of the evilness behind the ‘throne’ of where the pope sat - you may turn around and say ‘Oh the late Pope was evil’ yes he was but the fact remains the photographs my brother made larger was clearly seen by other Catholic Priests, etc. You also will remember our conversation that praying to Mary (Blessed woman that she was to have given birth to our Saviour) - she was Christ’s Mother and special BUT it is Christ who died for us. Anyways dear Julia we continue to have conversations and you and I always agree to disagree with each other 🌹😔
DeleteSherryle Lee being a staunch former catholic Catholics are very afraid to think putaide the doctrines of the catholic church out of fear of going to hell.
Sherryle Lee please remember that the Church is a human institution as well as divine.
DeleteThe truth about purgatory is only common sense, and self-evident to Catholics. "Therefore, he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from their sin” (2 Mac 12:46.) Maccabees aids us in knowing, purely from an historical perspective at the very least, the Jews believed in praying and making atonement for the dead shortly before the advent of Christ. Both Jews and Catholic Christians always retain hope for the salvation of the deceased this side of heaven; thus, we always pray for those who have died.
And before you tell me that 'Maccabees isn't in the Bible' let me remind you that it is and Luther removed it because he didn't like the idea of Purgatory.
And the NT also speaks of purgatory, most specifically in
"For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble—each man’s work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire" (Cors 3:11-15 both the works of the individual and the individual will go through the cleansing “fire” described by St. Paul in order that “he” might finally be saved and enter into the joy of the Lord.
ReplyDeleteJulia du Fresne please don't assume why I left the church. I left the church because I read the bible cover to cover along side all I learned as a catholic at savior catholic institute in Sydney. . There was much that we wrote taught that wasn't in the Bibld. So I went on a journey to really discover what was truth. I left the church long after the 2nd Vatican council. Long after. Just to mention a few things I never found in the Bible. Infallibklty of the Ppoe . Jesus is the rock referred to inscription thou art Peter evt. Infant Baptism salvation n is by grace a lone through faith alone in Christ alone. Jesus is tge way the truth and thec life no man comes to the father but through him. You must be born again no scriptures on purgatory which goes against the saving work of chridt on the cross only Jesus saves. Once deac you cang be saved or rescued no one can pray you out out of purgatory . It's not even in the word. To tru to pray someone out of purgatory is saying to God thst His work on the cross was insufficient and thst is Bladhemy. Also Paul had more influence on the early church than Peter did. In fact at one stage pUl rebuked Peter for his false teaching.
Your comments section is full of Protestants who appear to have lukewarm personalized faith.
ReplyDeleteThe NIV Bible the commenter got the word "alone" from is a retranslation by a group of the King James Bible. It's inaccurate as they wanted to improve contemporary readers' understanding and acceptance, i e fudge the meaning to suit modern man's tastes.
The Catholic Church is not a denomination amongst other denominations. There is the Catholic Church, and those few others that are in Communion with the Catholic Church. And then there are all the other churches and sects outside the Church.
ReplyDeleteProtestants like Luther and Henry VIII left the Church and made up their personal church with the bits that suited them. You can't reject some of Christ, who is the Truth and go along with just the bits you like. Either you accept all, or you reject all. Its 'Yes or No', not half and half.
ReplyDeleteJulia du Fresne Sadly, I must agree with you that Francis certainly appeared to have Marxist leanings. However, I feel that he would be more accurately described as a “Neo-Utopian”, as described by the Late Professor Thomas Molnar+ in his Classic Work, “Utopia: The Perennial Heresy.” of 1967, a Truly “Prophetic Work” authored by a distinguished theologian who saw and knew the signs of the then, coming “collectivist” thinking and ideology which has now gripped The Church and the world. In addition, I don’t feel that it’s to be taken lightly that several truly holy Cardinals among “The Dubia” led by Cardinal Burke and that several theologians had respectively requested “clarification” of many of Francis’ thoughts as detailed in his Encyclicals… I am NOT nor will I ever be a Sedevacantist… However, I humbly confess that I do find the direction that The Church is being taken in recent times “questionable.”
ReplyDeletePlease do a bigger dive into what you think it happened.
For starters, it didn’t divide the world since I had no idea of whom CK was prior to this. But I did look at the signs and symbols and there are huge red flags on this being a psyop. Let’s be wise as serpents and pray for discernment.
Claudia Núñez I had no idea of CK either but I observed the reaction worldwide. What do you see as 'huge red flags'?
ReplyDeleteJustine Vollert if it weren't for the Catholic Church you wouldn't even have a Bible.
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ReplyDeleteThat is at best a distortion if not a direct contradiction of what Jesus said; In John 14:6 He says "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6 [ESV])"
For the Catholic Church and to insert itself as arbiter and gate keeper to salvation is a blatant false doctrine and a direct denial of Christs own words.
To exploit Charlie Kirk as a vehicle to push this dogma also runs contrary to what Charlie Kirk publicly stated - "find a bible teaching church" was one of his most frequent refrains - and for the most part sadly the Catholic Church is hung up on teaching it's papal bulls and dogma rather then the direct, plain and clear teaching of the Holy scriptures!
It is not for the Roman Catholic or any Church denomination, Pastor, or Elder to wields authority over who might enter the kingdom of Heaven, but Christ alone! He alone has been made judge and knows his sheep!!! The invitation from Christ is clear and unrebuttable and unassailable; He makes the invitation! He sent the Holy Spirit who works repentance in the hearts of those whom he has chosen, and causes the seed of the Word of God to sprout forth into life, faith, repentance and the works of thanksgiving!!!
Praise God that He has sent Jesus his son that we might be saved and have life in abundance. Amen!!!
ReplyDeleteKirk died outside the visible Church, in an instant, with no time for even an act of contrition. His tragic death should serve as a warning about the danger of delaying conversion. Trust in the mercy of God, but don't presume, and certainly don't canonize. A martyr is one who dies out of hatred for the faith.
ReplyDeleteVatican II was a Pastoral Council not one to change nor establish new dogma, which those modernists who threw out and disregarded the original goals of The Council, as outlined by Pope John clearly did and like so many, continue to do… Those of us who have difficulty with what has taken place over the past sixty years are certainly not distancing ourselves from The Church but, simply expressing what our hearts and Faith tell us in our love of and devotion to Our Lord and His Church…You may find Fr. Ripperger’s Great Work, “The Binding Force of Tradition” informative… and possibly in addition, “The Rhine Flows Into The Tiber: A History Of Vatican II” by Rev. Fr. Ralph Wiltgen as well… Although one of the main intentions of The Council was to establish a dialogue with the world, it often seems that the world has been doing the majority of the talking except for during the reign of Pope Benedict…
ReplyDeleteI think it's hilarious that you are preaching extra ecclesia nulla salus while at the same time distancing yourself from the church. You call the popes antipopes (which you have no authority to claim) and you outright deny the authority of the Ecumenical Council of the Church. You can't have your cake and eat it too.