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CATHOLIC QUOTES OF HOLINESS

Pope Innocent III (1215): We firmly believe and simply confess that there is
only one true God, eternal and immeasurable, almighty, unchangeable,
incomprehensible and ineffable, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three persons but
one absolutely simple essence, substance or nature. (Fourth Lateran Council)

Pope Eugene IV: The Holy Roman Church, founded by the voice of our Lord
and Savior, firmly believes, professes, and preaches one true God, omnipotent,
unchangeable, and eternal, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost These three persons
are one God, and not three gods, because the three have one substance, one
essence, one nature, one divinity, one immensity, one eternity Whoever,
therefore, has adverse or contrary opinions the Church rejects and
anathematizes and declares to be foreign to the Christian body which is the
Church. (Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441, ex cathedra)

Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, (1215),
ex cathedra: There is indeed one universal Church of the faithful,
outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is
both priest and sacrifice.

Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio, May 27, 1832, on no salvation outside the Church:
Finally some of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others that
men are saved not only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal
life You know how zealously Our predecessors taught that article of faith which these dare to deny,
namely the necessity of the Catholic faith and of unity for salvation Omitting other appropriate
passages which are almost numberless in the writings of the Fathers, We shall praise St. Gregory the
Great who expressly testifies that THIS IS INDEED THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH. He says: The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship
God truly except in her and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved.
Official acts of the Church proclaim the same dogma. Thus, in the decree on faith which
Innocent III published with the synod of Lateran IV, these things are written: There is
one universal Church of all the faithful outside of which no one at all is saved. Finally the
same dogma is also expressly mentioned in the profession of faith proposed by the Apostolic See, not
only that which all Latin churches use, but also that which other Eastern Catholics use. We did not
mention these selected testimonies because We thought you were ignorant of that article of
faith and in need of Our instruction. Far be it from Us to have such an absurd and
insulting suspicion about you. But We are so concerned about this serious and well








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known dogma, which has been attacked with such remarkable audacity, that We could
not restrain Our pen from reinforcing this truth with many testimonies.

Pope Pius IX: In particular, ensure that the faithful are deeply and thoroughly convinced
of the truth of the doctrine that the Catholic faith is necessary for attaining salvation.
(Nostis et Nobiscum # 10, Dec. 8, 1849)

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the sound words of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and to doctrine which is according to piety: He is proud, knowing
nothing (1 Tim. 6:3-4)

But though we, or an Angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that
which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so I
say now again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have
received, let him be anathema. (Galatians 1.8-9)

Pope Pius XI: "Our God is the Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent,
infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity of Persons, tri-personal in the unity of
divine essence, the Creator of all existence. Lord, King and ultimate
Consummator of the history of the world, who will not, and cannot, tolerate a
rival God by His side." (Mit Brennender Sorge #9, March 14,1937)

I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of the Fathers
in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and always will be in the
succession of the episcopacy from the apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not
that dogma may be tailored according to what seems better and more suited to
the culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth
preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed to be
different, may never be understood in any other way.
(Pope Pius X, Oath Against the Modernists, 1910)

St. Aphraates (336): But still, it is for us a certainty that our Lord
Jesus is God, the Son of God; and the King, the Son of the King;
Light from Light; Creator, and Counsellor, and Guide, and the Way,
and the Savior, and the Shepherd, and the Gatherer, and the Gate,
and the Pearl, and the Lamp.

And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims,








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and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed?
For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than
to offer the fat of rams. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft to
rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. (1 Kings
15:22-23)

1 Timothy 4:16 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in
them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the
concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but
is of the world. (1 John 2:16)

1 Peter 4:18 -And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear?

Psalms 110:10: Holy and terrible is his name: 10 *the fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom.
A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.

Proverbs 1:7: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise
wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 9:10: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the
knowledge of the holy is prudence.

Proverbs 16.6: by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Ecclesiasticus 1:16: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and was
created with the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and is
known with the just and faithful.

For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the commandments,
and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach Israel: take
courage, and act manfully; fear not, nor be dismayed. (Prophet King David
to Solomon on preparing to build the Temple and rule Israel. 1
Paralipomenon 22.13)

For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is








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withered and the flower thereof is fallen away. - 1 Peter 1.24

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service. And be not conformed to
this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind: that you may prove what is the
good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God. - Romans 12.1-2

O the depth of the riches, of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How
incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! -
Romans 11.33

Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he
will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive. For my thoughts
are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted
above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. - Isaiah 55.6-9


But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to
behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living
God, the pillar and ground of the truth. - 1 Timothy 3.15

MY FAVORITE VERSE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE:

Whom having not seen you love: in whom also now, though
you see him not, you believe: and believing, shall rejoice with an
unspeakable and glorified joy: Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls. - 1 Peter 1.8-9


No one, whether shepherd or wise man, can approach God here below
except by kneeling before the manger at Bethlehem and adoring Him hidden
in the weakness of a newborn child. (Father Marie-Eugene, O.C.D., I Want
To See God: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality. p.78)

Who shall rise up for me against the evil doers? or who shall stand
with me against the workers of iniquity? - Psalm 93.16

The first thirty successors of St. Peter paid dearly for the honor of the








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Supreme Pontificate; they were martyrs. How grand the throne of our Risen
Jesus, surrounded as it is by all these Kings clad in their triumphant scarlet
robes! (Dom Prosper Guranger, The Liturgical Year)

WE ARE CALLED TO DO PENANCE TO MAKE REPARATIONS FOR
OUR OWN SINS AND THE SINS OF OTHERS, AND TO GAIN GRACE:

Pope Pius XI, On the Sacred Heart (Caritate Christi Compulsi), 1932:
Penance then is, as it were, a salutary weapon placed in the hands of the
valiant soldiers of Christ, who wish to fight for the defense and restoration of
the moral order in the universe. It is a weapon that strikes right at the root of
all evil, that is at the lust of material wealth and the wanton pleasures of life.
By means of voluntary sacrifices, by means of practical and even painful acts
of self-denial, by means of various works of penance, the noble-hearted
Christian subdues the base passions that tend to make him violate the moral
order. But if zeal for the divine law and brotherly love are as great in him as
they should be, then not only does he practice penance for himself and his own
sins, but he takes upon himself the expiation of the sins of others, imitating the
Saints who often heroically made themselves victims of reparation for the sins
of whole generations, imitating even the divine Redeemer, who became the
Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world.

St. Louis De Montfort: "There has been no name given under heaven, except
the name of Jesus, by which we can be saved.... Every one of the faithful who is
not united to Him as a branch to the stock of the vine, shall fall, shall wither
and shall be fit only to be cast into the fire. Outside of Him there exists nothing
but error, falsehood, iniquity, futility, death and damnation." (True Devotion to
Mary, #61)

"The most infallible and indubitable sign by which we may distinguish a
heretic, a man of bad doctrine, a reprobate, from one of the predestinate is
that the heretic and the reprobate have nothing but contempt and
indifference for our Blessed Lady, endeavoring by their words and examples
to diminish the worship and love of her openly or hiddenly, and sometimes
under specious pretexts." Saint Louis De Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

The prophet Daniel once saw an angel, and he was so terror-struck at his appearance,
that he fell to the ground like one dead. If such an effect was produced on him by the
sight of a single angel, whose errand was one of comfort and consolation, what will become








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of us, when so many hundreds of thousands of heavenly princes draw nigh to us [on Judgment Day]
with wrathful countenances? St. Ephrem, speaking of this says: The angels will stand there
with a menacing demeanor, their eyes flashing with the sacred fire of just indignation,
roused by the iniquities of mankind. (Fr. Martin von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 66.)


Christopher Columbus saved the American Indians out of Ignorant Brutal Savagery and
Barbary into the Generous, Gracious and Perfect Light of Jesus Christ:

Pope Leo XIII (1902): By his (Christopher Columbus) toil another world emerged from
the unsearched bosom of the ocean: hundreds of thousands of mortals have, from a state
of blindness been raised to the common level of the human race, reclaimed from
savagery to gentleness and humanity; and, greatest of all, by the acquisition of those
blessings of which Jesus Christ is the author, they have been recalled from destruction to
eternal life. (Encyclical, Quarto Abrupto)

Unrepentant sin is a STORING UP OF THE WRATH OF GOD AGAINST THE DAY OF
WRATH! One must certainly and always FEAR GOD!:

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? knowest
thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? But according to thy
hardness, and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of
wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God - Romans 2.4-5


Your gold and silver is rusted: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you,
and shall eat your flesh as fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last
days. - Saint James 5.3


The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath
wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his
enemies. (Nahum 1:2)



St. Alphonsus, Preparation For Death, (c. +1760):How thankful we ought to
be to Jesus Christ for the gift of faith! What would have become of us if we had
been born in Asia, Africa, America, or in the midst of heretics and schismatics?
He who does not believe is lost. This, then, was the first and greatest grace
bestowed on us: our calling to the true faith. O Savior of the world, what would
become of us if Thou hadst not enlightened us? We would have been like our
fathers of old, who adored animals and blocks of stone and wood: and thus we








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would have all perished.


St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): The unhappy wretches [who lived in sin] will have
recourse to God in death and God will say to them, Now do you come to Me?
Call upon creatures to help you, since they have been your gods. Thus will the
Lord say, because they will have recourse to Him, but without a sincere
intention of being converted. (Prep. For Death, p. 39)

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): See also the special love which God has shown you in bringing
you into life in a Christian country, and in the bosom of the Catholic or true Church. How
many are born among the pagans, among the Jews, among the Mohammedans and
heretics, and all are lost.

St. Alphonsus (1755): If you desire to possess the purity which becomes the
Spouse of Jesus, you must cut off all dangerous occasions: you must cherish a
holy ignorance of all that is opposed to chastity, and abstain from reading
whatever has the slightest tendency to sully the soul. (T.S., p. 32)


St. Alphonsus (1755): The atmosphere of the world is noxious and pestilential.
Whosoever breathes it easily catches spiritual infection. Human respect, bad
example, and evil conversations are powerful incitements to earthly
attachments and to estrangement of the soul from God. Everyone knows that
the damnation of numberless souls is attributable to the occasions of sin so
common in the world. (T.S., p. 44.)

St. Alphonsus (1755) on detachment from relatives: If attachment to relatives were not
productive of great mischief Jesus Christ would not have so strenuously exhorted us to
estrangement from them a mans enemies shall be they of his own household (Mt.
10:36) Relatives are the worst enemies of the sanctification of Christians...

St. Alphonsus on detachment from relatives (c. 1755): How many monks, says St.
Jerome, by compassion towards their father and mother have lost their own souls?
How many religious by compassion for their relatives have been lost? In another place
the saint says, that the more tender the affection of a religious for her kindred, the
greater her impiety towards God St. Ignatius of Loyola refused to interfere in
the marriage of one of his nieces, though she was heiress of the family. St.
Francis Borgia would not ask the Pope for a dispensation (which he would
have easily obtained) to have his son married to a relative, although the
acquisition of a large estate depended upon the marriage. When, then,








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relatives seek to implicate you in worldly affairs, withdraw at once from
them.

St. Alphonsus: The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are
(1.) mental prayer,
(2.) Communion,
(3.) mortification,
(4.) retirement.
(The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, p. 28)

St. Alphonsus (1760): To a spiritual life the reading of holy books is perhaps
not less useful than mental prayer. St. Bernard says reading instructs us at
once in prayer, and in the practice of virtue. Hence he concluded that spiritual
reading and prayer are the arms by which hell is conquered and paradise
won Hence St. Athanasius used to say that we find no one devoted to the
service of the Lord that did not practice spiritual reading. (T.S., p. 513)

St. Francis Xavier (1543): ...I could not but grieve intensely at the thought of the devils
being worshipped instead of God by these blind heathen, and I asked them to listen to me
in turn. Then I, in a loud voice, repeated the Apostles Creed and the Ten
Commandments. After this I gave in their own language a short explanation, and told
them what Paradise is, and what Hell is, and also who they are who go to Heaven to join
the company of the blessed, and who are to be sent to the eternal punishments of Hell.
Upon hearing these things they all rose up and vied with one another in embracing me, and in
confessing that the God of the Christians is the true God, as His laws are so
agreeable to reason. (Dec. 31)

St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must,
in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of
him.

Saint Anselm: If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be one
of the few, not of the many. And if thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be
among the fewest of the few Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those
who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer,
and who never relax their efforts by day or by night, that they may attain everlasting
blessedness. (Fr. Martin Von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 221.)

St. Augustine (c. 413): Therefore, because you have been made members of Christ I must
warn you; for I fear dangers for you, and not alone from those who are pagans, not alone
from the Jews, and not so much from the heretics as from bad Catholics. Choose from
among the people of God those you would imitate. For if you wish to imitate the multitude,








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you shall not then be among the few who shall enter in by the narrow way.

Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the
opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth. (Exodus 23:2)


2 Paralipomenon 19:2 - Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in
friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve
indeed the wrath of the Lord.

Pope Leo X, Exsurge Domine, June 15, 1520, The Errors of Martin Luther, # 23:
Excommunications are only external penalties and they do not deprive man of the
common spiritual prayers of the Church. Condemned.

POPE PIUS XI, MIT BRENNENDER SORGE, #14, March 14, 1937:. No faith in God
can for long survive pure and unalloyed without the support of faith in
Christ. "No one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but
the Son and to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Luke x. 22). "Now this is eternal
life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom
thou has sent" (John xvii. 3). Nobody, therefore, can say: "I believe in
God, and that is enough religion for me," for the Savior's words
brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not
the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also" (1 John ii.
23).


SHOWING TRUE CHARITY:

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos #9, Jan. 6, 1928:
The foundation of charity is the faith pure and undefiled

Love without dissimulation (Avoiding the truth with false words). Hating that which is
evil, adhering to that which is good - Romans 12.


Pope St. Gregory the Great (c. 600): For it is written: Whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world, becometh an enemy of God (James 4:4). Who therefore does not
rejoice at the approaching end of the world, testifies that he is its friend, and by this he is
revealed as an enemy of God.

The Christians were at once the objects of hatred and contempt [by the populace of the
Roman Empire]. Because they were intolerant of all other religions, because they either
denied outright the existence of heathen deities or regarded them as evil spirits whose








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worship was the greatest sacrilege and treason to the true God they were called narrow-
minded bigots (Fr. Laux, Church History, p. 44)

St. Ignatius of Antioch, (107), preparing for martyrdom: I look forward with joy to the
wild animals held in readiness for me; I will coax them to devour me, so that they may not,
as happened in some cases, shrink from seizing me I am Gods wheat, and I am ground
by the wild beasts that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.

In all, St. Patrick brought to life some forty infidels in Ireland, one of whom
was King Echu On raising him from the dead, St. Patrick instructed and
baptized him, asking what he had seen of the other world. King Echu told
how he had actually beheld the throne prepared for him in Heaven because
of his life of being open to the grace of Almighty God, but that he was not
allowed to enter precisely because he was as yet unbaptized. After receiving
the sacraments (he) died instantly and went to his reward.


Pope Pius IX, Qui Pluribus (# 14), Nov. 9, 1846: This is the goal too of the crafty Bible
Societies which renew the old skill of the heretics The commentaries which are included
often contain perverse explanations; so, having rejected divine tradition, the doctrine of
the Fathers and the authority of the Catholic Church, they all interpret the words of the
Lord by their own private judgment, thereby perverting their meaning. As a result, they
fall into the greatest errors. Gregory XVI of happy memory, Our superior predecessor,
followed the lead of his own predecessors in rejecting these societies in his apostolic letters.
It is our will to condemn them likewise.

St. Ephrem (c. 392): Alas! Of what kind is that place of wailing and of gnashing of
teeth at which even Satan shudders? What kind of place is it, where the unsleeping
worm dieth not? What dread misery to be sent into outer darkness?... Then shall those
already in the midst of the torments cry out with pleading voices, and there will be no one
to speak for them to the Lord, and they shall not be heard. Then they will learn that the
things which happened to them in this life were as nothing; and those that here seemed
sweet, were more bitter than gall and wormwood.

ON THOSE WHO CLAIM PEOPLE JUST DONT KNOW WHAT THE CHURCH
TEACHES, WE HAVE A SIMPLE FAITH, WE ARE NOT THEOLOGIANS, ETC. THE
CHURCH TEACHES THAT THIS IS A PERNICIOUS ERROR:

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (#8), Jan. 6, 1928: In this matter, those also turn aside
from the right path, who think that the deposit of truth is only to be found with such
laborious trouble, and with such lengthy study and discussion, that a mans life would
hardly suffice to find and take possession of it; as if the most merciful God had spoken
through the prophets and His only-begotten Son merely in order that a few, and those








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advanced in years, should learn what He has revealed through them, and not that He
might inculcate a doctrine of faith and morals, by which man should be guided throughout
the whole of His life.

One other thing, in the Apocalypse 9:20,21 John says we have to do penance
just as our lady said at Fatima and John the Baptist said. Why can't these
Novus Ordos understand that all men must do penance, believe in the Trinity,
believe that he was incarnated and be baptized with water and why can't they
understand that Vatican II doesn't teach that (it is as obvious as the nose on our
face that they don't) and it is therefore not Catholic. St. Athanasius said about
Arianism and would say about the Vatican II sect: this is not the faith of the
fathers, this is not the faith of the Catholic Church, this is not the light of Jesus
Christ.
As St. Ambrose says: let us correct our backslidings and amend our faults, lest
of us too it be said: "Woe is me, my soul, for the godly man is perished from
the earth, and there is none amongst men to correct them." Woe am I too if I
am not that man and as St. Cyril says: two things are needed, pious doctrines
and virtuous practices.
(Paul R. Written to MHFM e-exchanges)

The use of any form of contraception the deliberate act of preventing life BRANDS one
with the guilt of a grave sin:

Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii (#s 53-56), Dec. 31, 1930, EX CATHEDRA: Since,
therefore, openly departing from the uninterrupted Christian tradition some recently have
judged it possible solemnly to declare another doctrine regarding this question, the
Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of
morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that
she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being defiled by this foul stain,
raises her voice in token of her divine ambassadorship and through Our mouth proclaims
anew: any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is
deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of
God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
sin.

Recently (9/2010) some have called for a burning the Koran day (the Koran is the
blasphemous holy book of Islam, which attacks the Blessed Trinity and Our Lord Jesus
Christ) - so the Vatican II sect denounced this idea, calling the burning of the Koran
sacrilegious and outrageous. But what does the Catholic Church actually teach about
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Pope Pius VII, Diu Satis (# 15), May 15, 1800: Books which openly oppose the teaching of
Christ are to be burned. Even more importantly, the eyes and minds of all must be kept
from books, which do so more steathily and deceitfully So the sheep of Christ should
consider safe and eat cheerfully the food to which Peters voice and authority directs
them; but despite any beauty and charm, they should shun as harmful and plague-ridden,
what this voice forbids them. Those who do not comply are certainly not to be counted
among the sheep of Christ.



The Grace of the Sacraments is from God and exists apart from the merits of the minister
by what is called EX OPERE OPERATO ! This means that the sacraments merits are the
merits of God, not the minister. If your priest secretly sins and goes to prostitutes, he is a
despicable pig, but the Eucharist is the same as long as there is the correct Form, Matter
and intention. EX OPERE OPERATO MEANS BY THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN
WORKED. By the work which Christ has accomplished, done, the Sacraments have their
efficacy and Grace, no matter about the state of the minister, as long as he is confecting
the Sacrament according to the norms:
Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 7, Can. 8:
"If anyone shall say that by the said sacraments of the New Law, grace is not conferred
from the work which has been worked [ex opere operato], but that faith alone in the
divine promise suffices to obtain grace: let him be anathema."

This is also demonstrated by the many heretics who are able to cast out certain demons
by the power of the priesthood or by the name of Christ. In this way, exorcism can be (but
not always is) similar to the principle at work in the sacraments, ex opere operato (by
the work that has been worked) in the sense that it can be effective independently of the
merit of the minister. - MHFM.

ANOTHER POINT REGARDING THE MASS, AND THE INVALIDATING OF THE
SACRAMENT (THE EUCHARIST) BY CHANGING THE FORM, IS THAT THE
CHURCH HAS DECLARED THAT SHE HAS NOT THE RIGHT TO ALTER THAT
WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN BY DIVINE REVELATION. (THE CHURCH HAS MADE THIS
DECLARATION MANY TIMES OF COURSE, BUT IN THESE FOLLOWING QUOTES SHE MAKES THIS
DECLARATION IN PARTICULAR TO THE SACRAMENTS):

Pope St. Pius X, Ex quo, Dec. 26, 1910:
" it is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever to
innovate anything touching on the substance of the sacraments." (Denz.
2147a)

Pope Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis (# 1), Nov. 30, 1947:
" the Church has no power over the 'substance of the sacraments,' that is,
over those things which, with the sources of divine revelation as witnesses,








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Christ the Lord Himself decreed to be preserved in a sacramental sign..."


AUTOMATIC EXCOMMUNICATION CANON 188.4 (CTC: c.223.1) LATAE
SENTENTIAE, AUTOMATIC (IPSO FACTO BY THAT VERY FACT)
EXCOMMUNICATION IS INCURRED BY EVERY MANIFEST AND PUBLIC
HERETIC WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DECLARATION !!!!! THIS IS AND HAS
ALWAYS BEEN THE WAY OF THE CHURCH !:

*A Catholic who becomes a heretic is by that very fact cut off from the Catholic Church.
His penalty of automatic excommunication is also called ipso facto excommunication or latae
sententiae excommunication:

CTC: c. 2232.1. A penalty latae sententiae, whether corrective or vindictive, binds the
delinquent ipso facto [automatically] both in the external and in the internal forum...

A formal heretic is condemned by his own judgment and automatically sentenced and
penalized by the Church law:
The Catholic Church has infallibly condemned anyone who effectively denies automatic (ipso
facto) excommunications by teaching that automatic excommunications are not incurred
automatically but by a competent judge:

Pope Pius VI, Errors of the Synod of Pistoia, 1794, EX CATHEDRA: Condemned
propositions: 47. Likewise, the proposition which teaches that it is necessary, according to the
natural and divine laws, for either excommunication or for suspension, that a personal
examination should precede, and that, therefore, sentences called ipso facto have no other
force than that of a serious threat without any actual effect,false, rash, pernicious, injurious
to the power of the Church, erroneous. (D. 1547)

Hence no judgment, warning, or sentence from a competent judge is needed to excommunicate
a Catholic who becomes a heretic because heretics are automatically excommunicated by the
Church law.

It is not only heretical but also illogical to believe that an automatic sentence does not take
place without a judgment and condemnatory or declaratory sentence from a competent judge.
That would make an automatic sentence not automatic.

1917 Code of Canon Law (Cannon 188. 4.): "There are certain causes which effect the tacit
resignation of an office, which resignation is accepted in advance by operation of law, and
hence is effective without any declaration. These causes are: ... (4) if he has publicly defected
(fallen away) from the Catholic faith."

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable
before God. - Proverbs 17.15

Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for








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darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. - Isaiah 5.20

You that love the Lord, hate evil - Psalm 97.10

Hate that which is evil, cling to that which is good - Romans 12.9

Hate evil and Love Good - Saint Amos 5.15

During the sixth and seventh centuries, the Church of Ireland stood in the full beauty of
its bloom. The spirit of the Gospel operated amongst the people with a vigorous and
vivifying power; troops of holy men, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society,
obeyed the counsel of Christ, and forsook all things, that they might follow Him. There
was no country in the world, during this period, which could boast of pious foundations or
of religious communities equal to those that adorned this far-distant land. (Laux, Church
History, p. 182)

Pope St. Pius X, Editae Saepe (#28), May 26, 1910: As a matter of fact,
however, merely naturally good works are only a counterfeit of virtue since
they are neither permanent nor sufficient for salvation.

St. Francis Xavier (1549) was a modern (or at least medieval) St. Paul in his apostolic
crusade to the Gentiles of Asia. He miraculously raised twenty-five people from the dead,
built a hundred Catholic churches, destroyed over forty thousand heathen idols, and
personally baptized more than three million souls.

St. Francis De Sales (1602): Thus we do not say that the Pope cannot err in his private
opinions, as did John XXII; or be altogether a heretic, as perhaps Honorius was. Now
when he (the Pope) is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the
Church (The Catholic Controversy, Tan Books, pp. 305-306)

SAINT ATHANASIUS - DURING THE HORRID ARIAN APOSTACY - EXILED,
SPEAKS OF TRUE CHRISTIANS DURING THE CRISIS:

May God console you...What saddens you... is the fact that others have occupied
the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact
that they have the premisesbut you have the apostolic Faith. They can occupy
our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of
worship, but the faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important,
the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in
the strugglethe one who keeps the buildings or the one who keeps the Faith?
The true Faith, obviously. That therefore the ordinances which have been
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rouse yourselves, brethren...seeing them now seized upon by aliens. You are the
ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold
firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic
Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of
occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in
the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, Beloved Brothers.
And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. Thus, the more
violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate
themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in
reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray.
Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful,
they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ. - Saint
Athanasius, exiled bishop of Alexandria.

Saint Gregory Nazianz on the same topic:

St. Gregory Nazianz (380): Where are they who revile us for our poverty and
pride themselves in their riches? They who define the Church by
numbers and scorn the little flock? (Against the Arians, The Faith of the
Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 33

ON THE ARIAN CRISIS, AND THE APOSTACY OF THE CLERGY:

At one point in the Churchs history, only a few years before Gregorys [Nazienzen]
present preaching (383 A.D.), perhaps the number of Catholic bishops in
possession of sees, as opposed to Arian bishops in possession of sees, was no
greater than something between 1% and 3% of the total. Had doctrine been
determined by popularity, today we should all be deniers of Christ and opponents
of the Spirit. (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 39.)

In the time of the Emperor Valens (4
th
century), Basil was virtually the only
orthodox Bishop in all the East who succeeded in retaining charge of his see If it
has no other importance for modern man, a knowledge of the history of Arianism
should demonstrate at least that the Catholic Church takes no account of
popularity and numbers in shaping and maintaining doctrine: else, we should
long since have had to abandon Basil and Hilary and Athanasius and Liberius and
Ossius and call ourselves after Arius. (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers,
Vol. 2, p. 3.)









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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, AND THE SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE ARE
CONDEMNED! THE STATE HAS AN OBLIGATION TO PROMOTE ONLY THE
TRUE FAITH, AND TO SUPPRESS THE PUBLIC EXPRESSION OF FALSE
RELIGIONS. THIS IS A CATHOLIC DOGMA THAT MUST BE HELD BY ALL THE
SONS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH:

Pope Pius IX, Quanta Cura (#s 3-6), Dec. 8, 1864, ex cathedra: From which totally false
idea of social government they do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, most fatal in
its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our predecessor,
Gregory XVI, an insanity, NAMELY, THAT LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE AND
WORSHIP IS EACH MANS PERSONAL RIGHT, WHICH OUGHT TO BE LEGALLY
PROCLAIMED AND ASSERTED IN EVERY RIGHTLY CONSTITUTED SOCIETY
But while they rashly affirm this, they do not understand and note that they are preaching
liberty of perdition Therefore, BY OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY, WE
REPROBATE, PROSCRIBE, AND CONDEMN ALL THE SINGULAR AND EVIL
OPINIONS AND DOCTRINES SPECIALLY MENTIONED IN THIS LETTER, AND
WILL AND COMMAND THAT THEY BE THOROUGHLY HELD BY ALL THE SONS
OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS REPROBATED, PROSCRIBED AND
CONDEMNED. (Denz. 1690;1699)

Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Dec. 8, 1864, # 77: In this age of ours it is no longer
expedient that the Catholic religion should be the only religion of the state, to the
exclusion of all other cults whatsoever. Condemned. (Denz. 1777)


ON HABITUALLY SINNING:

MHFM: Avoid the occasions of sin, pray the full 15-decade Rosary each day, do spiritual
reading, and add 3 Hail Marys for the specific issue you are dealing with. Moreover,
acquire some fear of God, for thats what a habitual sinner is missing. Most chalk up
falling into habitual mortal sin to weakness. The truth is that its pride. If the person had
more humility, he would fear God enough to abstain from what God forbids. If he had
more humility, he wouldnt treat God like Hes something that isnt to be taken seriously.
If he had more humility, he would see himself and the sorry state of his soul as he sins
habitually.


SOME GOOD EXCHANGES ON JUDGING THE ANTI-POPES.

Dear Brothers in Christ,
Thank you for the very detailed article on John Salza's demoniacal writings and activities. Although your
article deserves multiple re-readings, however I would like to emphasize even more the Salza's wrong
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way in contradiction with the fact that a true Catholic is obliged to recognize a heretic, even if the heretic
is a person who falsely poses as a pope. The absurdness of Salza's claims in that regard is even more
obvious if we say the following two facts:
1.) God is judged by no one.
2.) Each and every true Catholic is obliged to do the best of his/hers abilities to recognize
and reject false gods.
If there can exist false gods, than there can exist false popes (that is anti-popes). If the
true Catholics must detect false gods, even without any Church' declarations on the
particular false religion they may encounter, then the same true Catholics are also
obliged to detect the false popes without any declarations from the Church. How clear it
should be said that detecting, and consequently condemning, the false popes and other heretics does not
mean to judge the true Pope, in the same way as detecting the false god/religion does not mean to judge
the True God, or Lord Jesus Christ, and the only true religion He established?
In essence the Salza's statements mean that there is no false gods and false religion, simply because the
current antipope says that all religions are good. If a Catholic cannot judge the antipope (oh yes, he can
and he must do so), how could he judge any enemy of Jesus Christ?
Let our risen Lord Jesus Christ help and guard all true Catholics, through the intercession of our

Heavenly Mother and St. Joseph.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia

Subject: Dimond brothers, you are right

Dear brother Peter and Michael Dimond,
A few months ago we had a small exchange by email discussing your point of view regarding the Vatican
II Counterchurch. At that time, I still defended the wrong and contradictory point of view that the
Vatican II Popes were erring, but still valid popes. In the interest of fairness I now fully admit that your
position was (and is) right, and mine was wrong. I have changed my opinion regarding the Vatican II
"Popes". They are obviously heretics and it is thanks to you that I am aware of that now. Therefore, I
wish to thank you for your thorough information. You have helped me discover the truth. The clear and
overwhelming evidence you publish on your website has convinced me to the conclusion... I have recently
been listening to the 3 hour debate you had, back in 2006, with Mr. William Golle, systematic theologian
from Seton Hall University and it is obvious to me that this man, schooled in modernist theology as he is,
simply doesn't have any answers to the objections you rightfully make against the Vatican II Popes.
Mr.Golle is appalled by the justified conclusions you draw, and cannot believe the Catholic Church has
fallen to such a deplorable state. But that only proves Mr.Golle's lack of traditional theological
scholarship.Whenever the traditional Catholic doctrine is truly believed, understood and consequently
applied to the present-day situation, the result cannot be otherwise than a huge embarrassment to the
entire Vatican II Counterchurch leadership. In face of the traditional facts, their Vatican II "church" is
exposed as a Heretical Counterchurch, that has rejected most of the Catholic teachings of old.

The fact that even the academic scholars of the Vatican II Anti-religion are dumbfounded in the face of
your arguments, proves to me over and over again that you have the truth on your side. Your vision
is not "fanatical", as one might think at first glance. It's one of outstanding
brightness and learnedness and I hope and pray ever more people in the Church will start
seeing things your way.

Greetings,
Mark Wick








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WOMEN MUST DRESS MODESTLY, AND SOBERLY WITH THEIR ADORNING
BEING A QUIET AND MEEK SPIRIT WITH PIETY AND GOOD WORKS:

Padre Pio (1913): A woman who is frivolous as regards dress can never be clothed in the
life of Jesus Christ and she loses adornment of soul once this idol enters into her heart. Let
these women adorn themselves, as St. Paul would have it (1 Tim. 2:9), modestly and
sensibly in seemly apparel (Letter to Padre Agostino, 8/2/1913)

In like manner women also in decent apparel, adorning themselves with modesty and
sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: But as it becometh
women professing piety, by good works. - 1 Timothy 2.9

In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the
word, they may be gained without the word, by the conversation of the wives, Considering
your chaste conversation with fear. Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of
the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: But the hidden man of the
heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God:
For after this manner heretofore also the holy women, hoping in God, adorned themselves,
being subject to their own husbands. As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
daughters you are, doing well, and not fearing any trouble. 1 Peter 3.1-6

But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not that we should write to you. For
yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say, peace and security, then shall sudden destruction come upon
them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape. - 1
Thessalonians 5.1-3

Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae: 14. ...But, when necessity compels ... Each one is
under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the
faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.... 15. The chief elements of this duty
consist in professing openly and unflinchingly the Catholic doctrine, and in propagating it
to the utmost of our power... 16. No one, however, must entertain the notion that private
individuals are prevented from taking some active part in this duty of teaching, especially
those on whom God has bestowed gifts of mind with the strong wish of rendering
themselves useful.

Pope St. Gregory I (c. 590): if you be Christs then you are the seed of Abraham (Gal.
3:29). If we because of our faith in Christ are deemed children of Abraham, the Jews
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DO NOT BE DECIEVED IT WAS THE JEWS WHO KILLED JESUS CHRIST,
THIS IS A FACT:

John 5:18, Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not
only break the sabbath, but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

John 7:1, After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea,
because the Jews sought to kill him.

Acts of Apostles 9:23, And when many days were passed, the Jews consulted together to
kill him.

Matthew 26.3-4: Then were gathered together the chief priests, and ancients of the people,
into the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: And they consulted together,
that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus, and put him to death. cf. Mark 14.1, Luke
22.2,4-5, John 11.47-50.

The bloodthirsty Jews conspired by deceit to murder the Apostle Paul as well:

Acts of Apostles 23:20-21, 25: And he said: The Jews have agreed to desire thee, that thou
wouldst bring forth Paul to-morrow into the council, as if they meant to inquire something
more certain concerning him: But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for
him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath neither to eat nor
to drink till they kill him: and they are now ready waiting for thy promise For he (the
tribune) feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him (the apostle Paul) away by force and
kill him, and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to take money.) And he wrote
a letter after this manner:

Matthew 27.24-25: And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult
was made; having taken water, washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent
of the blood of this just man: look you to it. And all the people answering, said: His blood
be upon us, and upon our children.

1 Thessalonians 2. 14-16: For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God
which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your
own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and
the prophets, and have persecuted us, and they please not God, and are adversaries to all
men; Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins
always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

Jesus was arrested by Jewish soldiers, NOT Roman:

John 18.3,10,12: *Judas, therefore, having received a band of soldiers, and servants, from
the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns, and torches, and








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weapons Then Simon Peter having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high
priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus Then the
band, and the tribune, and the servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him:

John 19.15-18: But they (the jewish mob) cried out: Away with him; away with him;
crucify him. Pilate saith to them; Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered;
We have no king but Csar. Then, therefore, he delivered him to them (the Jews-mainly
the High Priests as seen in this verse) to be crucified. And they (the Jews-no interpretion
needed!) took Jesus, and led him forth. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that
place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew, Golgotha: Where they (again, the ones to
whom He was delivered, the Jews) crucified him, and with him two others, one on each
side, and Jesus in the midst.

Acts 2.22-23: Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus, of Nazareth, a man approved of
God among you, by miracles and wonders, and signs, which God did by him in the midst
of you, as you also know; This same being delivered up by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, you have crucified and put to death by the hands of wicked men:

Acts 5.27-30: And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the
high priest asked them, Saying; Commanding, we commanded you, that you should not
teach in this name: and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and you
have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. But Peter answering, and the apostles,
said: We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus,
whom you put to death, hanging him upon a tree.

And again the bloodthirsty Jews sought to murder the Apostle Paul:

Acts of Apostles 26:21, For this cause the Jews, when I was in the temple, having
apprehended me, went about to kill me.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23: "And if any man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be
to be put to death, and thou hang him on a TREE: His body shall not remain all night
upon the TREE, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (FOR HE THAT IS
HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD;) Acts 5.30: We ought to obey God rather than men.
The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to death, hanging him upon a
tree.

to the Jews, Hanging upon a tree was especial punishment and accursedness this is not
lost to them in the crucifixion of Jesus as this was their intent in summoning the Roman
punishment as they could have easily indicted and killed Jesus on their own without any
interferance by the Romans, especially Pontius Pilate.

If one does not believe the New Testament, whos Historicity has been proven beyond any
doubt, and one does not believe history which bears the exact same witness (cf Josephus
Jewish History, etc) then one believes that the Jews are innocent for some reason other








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than the facts !!!!!


And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you, and are over you in
the Lord ( The Bishops and their priests ), and admonish you, That you esteem them more
abundantly in charity for their work: have peace with them. - 1 Thessalonians 5.12-13

And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble-minded, support
the weak, be patient towards all men. See that none render evil for evil to any one: but
ever follow that which is good towards each other, and towards all men. - 1 Thessalonians
5.14-15
( That which is good is the TRUTH, and TRUE JUSTICE, UNFEIGNED (not false)
LOVE and HUMILITY! )

Always rejoice.

Pray without ceasing.

In all things give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you all. - 1 Thessalonians 5.16-18

( This is Gods will for us in Christ Jesus! )


But prove all things: hold that which is good. From all appearance of evil
refrain yourselves. - 1 Thessalonians 5.21-22


And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit, and
soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He is faithful who hath called you: who will also perform. - 1 Thessalonians 5.23-24

DO NOT FEAR MEN:

I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. So that we may confidently say: *The
Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - Hebrews 13.5-6

But beware of men - Saint Matthew 10.17

He that feareth man shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high -
Proverbs 29.25

And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have
no more that they can do. But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: fear ye him who, after
he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him. - Saint Luke 12.4-5








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If I did yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. - Galatians 1.10

they did not confess (Him), that they might not be cast out of the synagogue. For they loved the
glory of men, more than the glory of God. - Saint John 12.42-43

But he is a Jew that is one inwardly: and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God. - Romans 2.29

These are murmurers full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, *and
their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons for gain's sake. - Saint Jude 16

And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. But he that shall endure unto the
end, he shall be saved Saint Mark 13.13


CONCERNING THOSE (LIKE THE VATICAN II TYPES) WHO LIVE PAGAN LIVES,
BUT GO TO MASS EVERY MORNING:

1206 56. Frequent confession and communion, even in those who live like pagans, is a
mark of predestination - CONDEMNED (Denzinger)

REGARDING THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY TRY TO REDUCE GOD AND SACRED
THINGS TO COMMON TERMS (DADDY GOD, MARY AS MOM, ETC):

Pope Pius XI (1937): Whoever identifies, by pantheistic confusion, God and the universe,
by either lowering God to the dimensions of the world, or raising the world to the
dimensions of God, is not a believer in God. (Mit Brennender Sorge #7)


THERE IS NEVER AN ACCEPTABLE REASON TO PUT ONESELF IN THE
PROXIMATE OCCASION OF SIN:

1212 62. The proximate occasion for sinning is not to be shunned when some useful and
honorable cause for not shunning it occurs. CONDEMNED (Denzinger)

THE COUNCIL OF TRENT ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES:

The Vulgate Edition of the Bible is Accepted and the
Method is Prescribed for the Interpretation of (Sacred) Scripture, etc.

785 Moreover, the same sacred and holy Synod taking into consideration that no small








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benefit can accrue to the Church of God, if it be made known which one of all the Latin
editions of the sacred books which are in circulation is to be considered authentic, has
decided and declares that the said old Vulgate edition, which has been approved by the
Church itself through long usage for so many centuries in public lectures, disputations,
sermons, and expositions, be considered authentic, and that no one under any pretext
whatsoever dare or presume to reject it. (The Old Vulgate is completely and universally
rejected by the Vatican II church and its antipopes - not surprisingly!)

786 Furthermore, in order to curb impudent clever persons, the synod decrees that no
one who relies on his own judgment in matters of faith and morals, which pertain to the
building up of Christian doctrine, and that no one who distorts the Sacred Scripture
according to his own opinions, shall dare to interpret the said Sacred Scripture contrary to
that sense which is held by holy mother Church, whose duty it is to judge regarding the
true sense and interpretation of holy Scriptures, or even contrary to the unanimous
consent of the Fathers, even though interpretations of this kind were never intended to be
brought to light. Let those who shall oppose this be reported by their ordinaries and be
punished with the penalties prescribed by law. . . . [The laws are listed concerning the
printing and approbation of books, for which among other matters the decree is:] that
henceforth the Sacred Scripture, especially the aforesaid old and Vulgate edition, be
printed as correctly as possible, and that no one be allowed either to print or cause to be
printed any books whatever concerning sacred matters without the name of the author,
nor to sell them in the future or even to keep them, unless they have been first examined
and approved by the ordinary. . . (The official Vatican II bible, the New American Bible,
is a product of liberal, heretical modernist, and even protestant scholars. The entire project
and resulting NAB bible is completely contrary and opposed to the above decree - an exact
defiance of this authoritative declaration forbidding such heretical translations, from
unauthorized texts (modernist protestant greek and Hebrew text sources and apparatus),
containing thoroughly heretical antichrist annotations.)
(Denzinger numbers)


THE TRUTH ABOUT MARY:

Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled: Foreknown indeed before the foundation of
the world, but manifested in the last times for you. - 1 Peter 1.19-20

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear
a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel. - Isaiah 7.14

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law: That he might redeem those who were under the law: that we might receive








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the adoption of sons. - Galatians 4.4-5

And there appeared a great sign in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: And being with child, she cried
travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered And she brought forth a man child,
who was to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her son was taken up to God, and to his
throne - Apocalypse 12.1-2, 5

Pope St. Leo the Great, Council of Chalcedon, 451, ex cathedra: our Lord
Jesus Christ indeed born of the Father before all ages according to His
Divinity, but in the last days born of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
according to His humanity; for us and for our salvation, one and the same
Christ

THE PLAIN SCRIPTURAL TRUTH - IGNORED BY PROTESTANTS - CHRIST IS
THE SON OF GOD, BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER THROUGH ALL ETERNITY, AND
NOW, IN THESE LAST TIMES, BORN OF THE FLESH THROUGH MARY, FOR US!
JESUS CHRIST IS ALWAYS THE SON OF THE FATHER AND THE SON OF MARY -
THIS WAS THE PLAN AND THE WILL OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
THROUGHOUT ETERNITY. ONE CANNOT TALK ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, THE
SECOND PERSON OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, THE GOD-MAN COME IN THE
FLESH FOR OUR SALVATION, WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT BOTH THE FATHER
AND MARY, THE MOTHER. JESUS CHRIST THE REDEEMER AND SAVIOUR,
SECOND PERSON OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, IS ALWAYS THE SON OF THE
FATHER AND THE SON OF MARY! HEREIN LIES MARYS GREAT INFLUENCE
AND INTERCESSION BETWEEN GOD THE MOST HOLY TRINITY AND THE
HUMAN RACE. HER POSITION IS BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. SHE IS THE
DAUGHTER OF THE FATHER IN AN ESPECIAL WAY, THE SPOUSE OF THE HOLY
GHOST HIMSELF, AND ALWAYS THE TRUE MOTHER OF THE GLORIFIED AND
ENTHRONED JESUS CHRIST THE REDEEMER! ONCE THIS IS UNDERSTOOD,
THEN THE CHRISTIAN WILL UNDERSTAND AND EMBRACE THAT MARY IS
TRULY THE MOTHER OF THE CHRISTIAN (JESUS IS THE FIRSTBORN AMONG
MANY BRETHREN (ROMANS 8.29)), THE FAITHFUL - WHO LOVE AND SERVE
GOD IN JUSTIFICATION, A MIRROR OF JESUS OBEDIENCE AS A MAN, IN THE
FLESH. MARY IS OUR TRUE MOTHER, AND JESUS THE GOD - MAN, ALTHOUGH
TRULY GOD, IS OUR ELDER BROTHER, AND HIGH PRIEST FOREVER
(HEBREWS 7). MARY IS THE TRUE MOTHER OF JESUS CHRIST FOREVER, SHE
IS THE MOTHER OF THE CHRISTIAN, THE MOTHER OF THE CHURCH, AND
THE ONE CHOSEN, OUT OF THE HUMAN RACE, FROM ALL ETERNITY, BY
GOD, FOR HIM TO ESPOUSE AND TO MOTHER THE REDEEMER, AND FROM
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THE FAITHFUL.

Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled: Foreknown indeed before the foundation of
the world, but manifested in the last times for you - 1 Peter 1.19-20


Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent Session v (June 17, 1546) Decree On Original Sin, #5:
For in those who are born again, God hates nothing, because "there is no
condemnation, to those who are truly buried together with Christ by baptism unto death"
[Rom. 6:4], who do not "walk according to the flesh" [Rom. 8:1], but putting off "the old
man" and putting on the "new, who is created according to God" [Eph. 4:22 ff.; Col. 3:9
ff.], are made innocent, immaculate, pure, guiltless and beloved sons of God, "heirs indeed
of God, but co-heirs with Christ" [Rom.8:17], SO that there is nothing whatever to retard
their entrance into heaven.

THE CHURCH CANNOT ERR IN HER UNIVERSAL LAWS IMPOSED
UPON ALL THIS IS WHY THINGS LIKE CANONIZATIONS OF
SAINTS AND THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE ARE INFALLIBLE THIS
IS A DOGMA OF THE CHURCH, THAT SHE CANNOT ERR IN HER
UNIVERSAL LAWS IMPOSED UPON ALL!:

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 16), June 29, 1896:
"Let us love the Lord our God; let us love His Church; the Lord as our Father,
the Church as our Mother."

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 66), June 29, 1943:
Certainly the loving Mother [the Church] is spotless in the Sacraments, by
which she gives birth to and nourishes her children; in the faith which she
has always preserved inviolate; in her sacred laws imposed upon all

Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Session 4, Chap. 4, ex cathedra:
knowing full well that the See of St. Peter always remains unimpaired
by any error, according to the divine promise of our Lord the Savior made to
the chief of His disciples: I have prayed for thee [Peter], that thy faith fail
not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren (Lk. 22:32).


Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Session 4, Chap. 4, ex cathedra:
.in the Apostolic See the Catholic religion has always been preserved untainted, and
holy doctrine celebrated.


Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 10), Jan. 6, 1928:








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During the lapse of centuries, the mystical Spouse of Christ has never been
contaminated, nor can she ever in the future be contaminated, as Cyprian bears witness:
The Bride of Christ cannot be made false to her Spouse: she is incorrupt and modest. She
knows but one dwelling, she guards the sanctity of the nuptial chamber chastely and
modestly.


THE CHURCH IS ALWAYS PERFECT AND HOLY, AND NEVER NEEDS
RESTORATION:

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 10), Aug. 15, 1832:
Therefore, it is obviously absurd and injurious to propose a certain
restoration and regeneration for her (the Church) as though necessary for her
safety and growth, as if she could be considered subject to defect or
obscuration or other misfortune.

ONLY BY THE JUSTIFICATION OF JESUS CHRIST DOES ONE RECEIVE TRUE
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY. THE UNJUSTIFIED HAVE NO TRUE FAITH, NO
TRUE HOPE, NOR DO THEY POSESS TRUE CHARITY (THEY HAVE A SORT OF A
COUNTERFIT OF CHARITY - SEE NOTE BELOW). NEITHER ARE THE
UNJUSTIFIED MEMBERS OF HIS BODY, THE CHURCH.:

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex cathedra:
Justification is not merely remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of
the interior man Hence man through Jesus Christ, into whom he is ingrafted, receives
in the said justification together with the remission of sins all these gifts infused
at the same time: faith, hope and charity. For faith, unless hope and charity be added
to it, neither unites one perfectly with Christ, nor makes him a living member of his body.
(Denz. 800)

NOTE: regarding Counterfit Charity: Pope St. Pius X, Editae Saepe (#28), May 26, 1910: As a
matter of fact, however, merely naturally good works are only a counterfeit of virtue since they are
neither permanent nor sufficient for salvation.


Regarding the Soul of the Church Heresy, which states that many people are
unknowingly saved because of their personal merit, and are hence, not actual members
of the Body of Christ, but are somehow, though not members of the Body, nevertheless
they are united to the Soul of the Church (this is a horrid heresy - one of the biggest of
the universal salvation heresies).

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Christ, in the same manner as His physical body, is one, compacted and fitly joined
together, it were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of
members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united
with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head. (One
who is not a member of The Body is not united with the Redeemer Jesus Christ Our
Lord !!!!!)

St. Louis De Montfort: As there are secrets of nature by which natural operations are
performed more easily, in a short time and at little cost; so are there secrets in the order of
grace by which supernatural operations, such as ridding ourselves of self, filling ourselves
with God, and becoming perfect, are performed more easily. The practice which I am
about to disclose is one of these secrets, unknown to the greater number of Christians,
known even to few of the devout, and practiced and relished by a lesser number still.
(True Devotion to Mary #82)

(Saint Teresa of Avila, Foundations, Chapter Twenty-nine): "Know this: it is by
very little breaches of regularity that the devil succeeds in introducing the
greatest abuses. May you never end up saying: 'This is nothing, this is an
exaggeration.'"

(Saint Teresa of Avila, Life, Thirty-three, 3.): "I would give up my life a thousand times,
not only for each of the truths of Sacred Scripture, but even more for the least of the
ceremonies of the Catholic Church."

St. Theresa of Avila (c. 1582):Would that I could persuade all men to be devoted to this
glorious Saint [St. Joseph], for I know by long experience what blessings he can obtain for
us from God. I have never known anyone who was truly devoted to him and honored him
by particular services who did not advance greatly in virtue: for he helps in a special way
those souls who commend themselves to him. . . I ask for the love of God that he who does
not believe me will make the trial for himselfthen he will find out by experience the
great good that results from commending oneself to this glorious Patriarch and in being
devoted to him. (From her Autobiography, VI, 11-12)

Elizabeth of the Trinity (Discalced Carmelite {French}, 1880-1906): May my life be a
continual prayer, one long act of love. May nothing be able to distract me from Thee I
would like so much, O my Master, to live with Thee in silence. But what I love above all is
to do Thy will, and since Thou still want s me to be in the world, I submit with all my
heart for love of Thee. I offer to Thee the cell of my heart; may it be Thy little Bethany,
come to rest there. I love You so.

"I think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls by helping them to go out of
themselves in order to cling to God by a wholly simple and loving movement, and to keep
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and to transform them into Himself."


St. Alphonsus: At present sinners banish the remembrance and thought of death, and
thus seek for peace (although they never find it) by leading a life of sin; but when they
shall be in the agonies of death, about to enter into eternity, when distress cometh upon
them, they will seek for peace, and there will be none, then can they no longer fly from
their evil conscience; they will seek peace, but what peace can be found by a soul laden
with sins, which sting it like so many vipers?


Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men
so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach,
he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. - Saint Matthew 5.19


The Natural Order of things, created by the Lord, is as follows:

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ: and the
head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ, is God. - 1 Corinthians
11.3

The man, indeed, ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and
glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the
woman, but the woman of the man. For the man was not created for the
woman, but the woman for the man. - 1 Corinthians 11.7-9

But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the
man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the
woman: but all things of God. - 1Corinthians 11.11-12

And God created man to his own image: *to the image of God he created him:
male and female he created them.**
28 And God blessed them, saying: *Increase and multiply, and fill the earth,
and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and
all living creatures that move upon the earth. - Genesis 1.27-28.
But he answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man in
the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a
man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be
in one flesh. - Saint Matthew 19.4-5

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2.) Man is the Head of the Woman.
3.) The man is the image and glory of God. (And he said: Let us make man to our
image and likeness Genesis 1.26)
4.) The woman is the glory of the man.
5.) The man is not of the woman. The woman is of the man - she was created
from the man (she has no independence from the man - she is of him,
although the man has independence from the woman in the natural order).
6.) The man was not created for the woman.
7.) The woman was created for the man And the Lord God said: It is not good for
man to be alone: let us make him a helper like unto himself. Genesis 2.18, And Adam
said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of man. Genesis 2.23
8.) The man is now not of himself without the woman, nor is the woman ever
without the man because just as the woman was originally created of the
man, so now each and every man is made by the woman through natural
birth, in the Lord.
9.) The man is the head of his wife, and was also given headship over all of the
earth in which he lived. He was to subdue it and rule over it in all things to
Gods Glory (not to his own glory).
10.) Man is to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. The two
now being not two but one flesh. They are to increase and Multiply and
fill the earth with God fearing, Christian children, training their children in
the Law of God (And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but
bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. Ephesians 6.4), all to
Gods Glory and mans happiness.

This is the natural order of things - Christ is the head of man. Man is the head
of woman. Man is the head of all the earth and all the creatures in it. The man
and his wife are the head of their children, who are to be raised in the fear of
the Lord and be their successors in their appropriate places, male and female,
in Gods natural order. All for the benefit, good, and enjoyment of man, and
above all things to the Glory of God! This is Gods natural order and His
Divine plan and purpose for man and woman. Man has violently opposed
Gods will in the natural order by way of things like the abomination of
Sodomy (homosexuality), women trying to usurp the place of man (a
completely futile attempt and impossible thing to accomplish) and also by man
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rebel and oppose God, refusing to use his God given authority and suppress
sodomy, impiety, and any other sentiment that is not to the service and Glory
of God. Man has been weak and womanly and has refused to rule according to
Gods law. God has now redeemed all things in Christ, and it is now the end of
these times, as Christ has said. It is only a matter of a short time and Christ
will return, judge all men who have ever lived, destroy Satan and his servants -
casting them into hell, renew all of creation creating the New Heaven and the
New Earth, and establish His Kingdom once and for all, entirely established in
his original purpose with His natural order in complete perfection.

A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a
man use woman's apparel: for he that doth these things is
ABOMINABLE before God. - Deuteronomy 22.5


THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY DECLARE THAT:

1.) A MAN WHO HAS LONG HAIR IS A SHAME BEFORE GOD.
ACCORDING TO THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, IT IS AGAINST
NATURE (THE NATURAL LAW) FOR A MAN TO HAVE LONG HAIR
(AND THEREFORE FOR A WOMAN TO HAVE SHORT HAIR).
2.)THAT A WOMAN WHO PRAYS OR PROPHESIES WITH HER HEAD
UNCOVERED MIGHT AS WELL HAVE HER HEAD SHAVED BECAUSE
SHE DISGRACES HER HEAD (WHO IS INITIALLY HER HUSBAND AND
ULTIMATELY CHRIST).
3.) LONG HAIR IS A GLORY TO A WOMAN, AND GOD HAS GIVEN HER
TO HAVE LONG HAIR FOR A COVERING (Like a veil, or mantle of
Glory to God)
4.) A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE HER HAIR LONG TO GODS GLORY,
AND TO HONOR HER HUSBAND, THE ANGELS, AND CHRIST
HIMSELF.
5.) A WOMAN WHO IS UNCOVERED, MEANING HAS HER HAIR CUT,
IS DISGRACEFUL BEFORE THE SIGHT OF GOD. THE FOLLOWING
SCRIPTURES TEACH THIS CLEARLY:

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man, indeed, if he has long hair,
it is a shame to him - 1 Corinthians 11.14









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But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered,
disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. 1 Corinthians 11.5

Therefore ought the woman to have her head covered, because of the Angels.
1 Corinthians 11.10

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her
for a covering. - 11.15

Many rebellious people say well the Church has never infallibly declared that
this is something we must obey. These people are in grevious error. There are
multitudes of scriptural passages which the Church has left uninterpreted ( for
instance the Church has never explicitly said that a man cannot where
dresses and high heels, or that a man cannot get a transvestite surgery) -
because they need no interpretation. The scriptures are a remote rule of faith. It
is infallibly declared that we are to believe all that is contained in the written
Word of God (Pope Pius IX, Vatican I, Sess. III, Chap. 3, ex cathedra: Further, by divine
and Catholic faith, all those things must be believed which are contained in the written word
of God, et alia). Where the scriptures speak clearly, we are to believe it and
obey God in it. To read a clear scriptural passage, and then say well the
Church has not made an infallible declaration on this, so I am not going to
obey it is to be a heretic, and an infidel. If one truly does not understand some
scripture that is one thing, but to simply refuse the written Word of God under
the pretext of the Church has never declared that is an abomination. Man
liveth not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God. - (Our Lord, quoted by Saint Matthew 4.4.) This issue of the covering
is one simple sign which displays that these people neither know, nor love the
Lord, and are damned. For what person who knows and loves the Lord could
see this plain scriptural admonition and not only obstinately disobey it, but
pervert what God plainly says and even attack it! Such people are so willing to
disregard and disobey the Living God that they will refuse Him simply because
they do not feel like growing or cutting their hair. It is precisely in matters such
as this where the spirit of a man is made manifest. It is PRECISELY in these so
called small, insignificant matters wherein a persons true spirit is shown!!! It is
true that there are many men and women who either do not know of these
scriptural admonitions, or have only taken a cursory look at them and/or have
been led astray by others disobedient people - on the matter. But all of those
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admonition of the Lord are mocking God. Also, the written word of God says
in verse 14 of this passage that it is against the very natural law of God for a
man to have long hair and for a woman to have short hair. So, it would be a
small minority of people who would have any excuse of ignorance on this issue
- possibly many have been led astray by the pagan culture we live in, yet again,
nature itself should guide a pious man or woman! Finally, it is not the cutting
or growing of the hair which is a mortal sin, but the defiant refusal to obey
God, to be perfect in His sight, and even worse in most cases, the utter
opposition to what God has clearly said on the matter! Here we see once again
the declaration of Jesus that very few are saved, is confirmed in an outward
sign a visible rejection of submission to Jesus Christ as their Head in all
things !!!!! It is very, very simple to see, and God has made it that way!



GOD HAS CLEARLY REVEALED THAT HE HATES CERTAIN PERSONS
AND ACTIVITIES:

Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie.
- Psalm 5.7

I hate the workers of iniquities. - Psalm 100.3

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence
his soul hateth. - Psalms 11.5

I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a
double tongue. - Proverbs 8.13

Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul
detesteth:
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,
A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among
brethren. Proverbs 6.16-19
( The Lord hates: evil eyes, tongue, hands, heart, feet, a false witness, and His
very Soul detests a sower of discord! )

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with the simple. - Proverbs 3.32

Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth. -
Romans 9.18

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known,
endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction. - Romans
9.22

For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil of
him that calleth, it was said to her: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have
hated. - Romans 9.11-13

See, therefore, the goodness, and the severity of God: towards them, indeed,
that are fallen, the severity: but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou
continue in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. - Romans 11.22

You that love the Lord, hate evil - Psalm 97.10

Hate evil, and love good - Saint Amos 5.15

Hate that which is evil - Romans 12.9

Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy
enemies? I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become
enemies to me. - Psalm 128.21-22

St. Jerome: "To put it briefly, I have never spared heretics, and have always
striven to regard the church' enemies as my own."

St. Francis Xavier (1544): And how severe are the punishments which God at
last inflicts on His enemies, we see well enough, as often as we turn our minds
eye to the inextinguishable furnace of hell, whose fires are to rage throughout
all eternity for so many miserable sinners. (Aug. 20)


St. Cyril (350): If anyone harbors hypocrisy even in secret, God rejects that
man as unfit for true service. But whoever is found worthy, to him He readily
gives His grace. Holy things He does not give to dogs; but where He perceives a








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good conscience, there He gives the wondrous and salvific sea, at which demons
tremble and which angels recognize. (F.O.F., Vol. 1, p. 348)


Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when
they shall separate you, and shall reproach you, and cast out
your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Be glad in that
day, and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great in
heaven. For according to these things did their fathers to
the prophets. - Saint Luke 6.22-23



Do not think that I am come to send peace upon earth: I
came not to send peace, but the sword. For I am come to set a man at
variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. He
that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or
daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and
followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he
that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it - Saint Matthew 10. 34-39

And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife,
or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred-fold, and shall possess
life everlasting. - Saint Matthew 19.29

And Peter began to say to him: Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.
Jesus answering, said: Amen, I say to you, there is no man, who hath left house, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the
gospel, Who shall not receive a hundred times as much, now in this time; houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the
world to come life everlasting. - Saint Mark 10.29


A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. - Proverbs
17.17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin
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love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord. - Leviticus 19.17-18

When the Emperor Julian the Apostate asked the aged and blind bishop Maris of
Chalcedon whether he thought that his Galilean God [Our Lord Jesus Christ] would heal
him of his infirmity, the man of God replied: I thank God for having permitted me to
become blind, so that I do not have to look upon the face of an apostate. (Laux, Church
History, p. 102)

PETER WAS NOT GIVEN THE PAPACY UNTIL AFTER THE RESURRECTION:

POPE PIUS IX, VATICAN COUNCIL I, (July 18, 1870), *SESSION IV, Chap. 1., The Institution of
Apostolic Primacy in Blessed Peter, [Against heretics and schismatics], Ex Cathedra:

And upon Simon Peter alone Jesus after His resurrection conferred the jurisdiction of the highest pastor
and rector over his entire fold, saying: "Feed my lambs," "Feed my sheep" [ John 21:15 ff.]. To this
teaching of Sacred Scriptures, so manifest as it has been always understood by the Catholic Church, are
opposed openly the vicious opinions of those who perversely deny that the form of government in His
Church was established by Christ the Lord; that to Peter alone, before the other apostles, whether
individually or all together, was confided the true and proper primacy of jurisdiction by Christ; or, of
those who affirm that the same primacy was not immediately and directly bestowed upon the blessed
Peter himself, but upon the Church, and through this Church upon him as the minister of the Church
herself.



THE POPES ON THE ABOMINABLE, DIABOLICAL, REPROBATE, FAITHLESS
AND SACRILEGIOUS SECT OF ISLAM:

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Basel, Session 19, Sept. 7, 1434:
there is hope that very many from the abominable sect of Mahomet will be
converted to the Catholic faith.

Pope Callixtus III, 1455: I vow to exalt the true Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical
sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet [Islam] in the East.

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312:
We therefore, with the sacred councils approval, strictly forbid such practices henceforth
in Christian lands. We enjoin on Catholic princes, one and all They are to remove this
offense together from their territories and take care that their subjects remove it, so that
they may thereby attain the reward of eternal happiness. They are to forbid expressly the
public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet Those who presume to act
otherwise are to be so chastised by the princes for their irreverence, that others may be
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Public Schooling (Secular) Declared by Pope Pius IX to be contrary to Catholic teaching
(Denzinger 1700):

45. The whole government of public schools in which Christian youth are educated, can and ought to be
in the hands of civil authority, and so completely in their hands that no right of any other authority is
recognized to interfere with school discipline, with the order of studies, with the conferring of degrees or
with the selection of teachers. Condemned!

47. The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools, open to children of every class of the
people, and generally all public institutes intended for instruction in letters and philosophical sciences
and for carrying on the education of youth, should be freed from all Ecclesiastical authority, control, and
interference: and should be fully subjected to the civil and political power, at the pleasure of the rulers,
according to the standard of the prevalent opinions of age. Condemned!

48. Catholics may approve that mode of education which is disjoined from the Catholic Faith and the
power of the Church, and which concerns itself exclusively, or, at least, primarily, with the knowledge of
natural things, and the ends of earthly social life. Condemned!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE. THERE IS NO SUCH
THING AS A GOOD WILLED MAN ON SOME ISLAND, SEEKING GOD, TO WHOM
GOD WILL NOT BRING THE GOSPEL, THE TRUE FAITH, WATER BAPTISM, AND
SALVATION. THIS IS SIMPLY BLASPHEMY, AS GOD PROTECTS AND GOVERNS
ALL THINGS AND ALWAYS FULFILLS HIS PROMISES TO THE FAITHFUL !!!

Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Sess. 3, Chap. 1, Ex Cathedra, On God the creator of all
things: EVERYTHING THAT GOD HAS BROUGHT INTO BEING HE PROTECTS
AND GOVERNS BY HIS PROVIDENCE, which reaches from one end of the earth to the
other and orders all things well. All things are open and laid bare before His eyes, even those
which will be brought about by the free activity of creatures.

Pope Pius IX, Vatican I, ex cathedra: God protects and governs by His providence all
things which He has created, reaching from end to end mightily and ordering all things
sweetly...

GOD COMMANDED THE TRUE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST AND SACRAMENTAL
WATER BAPTISM. HE DOES NOT COMMAND IMPOSSIBILITIES!:

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 11 on Justification, ex cathedra: ... no
one should make use of that rash statement forbidden under anathema by the Fathers,
that the commandments of God are impossible to observe for a man who is justified. FOR
GOD DOES NOT COMMAND IMPOSSIBILITIES, but by commanding admonishes you
both to do what you can do, and to pray for what you cannot do

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commandments of God are impossible to observe: let him be anathema (Denzinger
828)

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, 1870: no one can assent to the preaching of the
Gospel, as he must to attain salvation, without the illumination and inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, who gives to all a sweetness in consenting to and believing the truth. (Denz.
1791)

GOD LEAVES NO GOOD WILLED MAN IN DARKNESS !!!!!

IT HAS BEEN INFALLIBLY DECLARED THAT SAVING FAITH
COMES FOLLOWING HEARING THE PREACHING OF THE
WORD OF GOD (THE GOSPEL):

The Council of Trent, On Justification, Chap. 6. The Manner of Preparation
(The Predisposing, or Prevenient Grace which predisposes a man to
justification, which is The Sacrament of Water Baptism): Now they are
disposed to that justice [can. 7 and 9] when, aroused and assisted by divine
grace, receiving faith "by hearing" [Rom. 10:17], they are freely moved
toward God, believing that to be true which has been divinely revealed and
promised [can. 12 and 14], and this especially, that the sinner is justified by
God through his grace, "through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus"
[Rom. 3:24] (Denzinger 798)

Pope Pius IX, Vatican I (1870): no one can assent to the
preaching of the Gospel, as he must to attain salvation, without
the illumination and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who gives to all
a sweetness in consenting to and believing the truth. (Denz.
1791)

Justification itself follows this disposition or preparation (The
Council of Trent, On Justification, Chap. 7) (Denzinger 799)

The Instrumental Cause of Justification is The Sacrament of Water Baptism,
without which no one is ever justified:

The Council of Trent, On Justification, Chap. 7. In What the Justification of
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The instrumental cause is the sacrament of baptism, which is the "sacrament
of faith,'' without which no one is ever justified. (Denzinger 799)

Hence man through Jesus Christ, into whom he is ingrafted,
receives in the said justification together with the remission of sins all
these [gifts] infused at the same time: faith, hope, and charity This
faith, in accordance with apostolic tradition, catechumens beg of the
Church before the sacrament of baptism, when they ask for "faith
which bestows life eternal (Denzinger 800)

Pope Pius XI Quas Primas (# 15), Dec. 11, 1925 : Indeed this
kingdom is presented in the Gospels as such, into which men prepare
to enter by doing penance; moreover, they cannot enter it except
through faith and baptism, which, although an external rite, yet
signifies and effects an interior regeneration.

THE FAITH WHICH COMES FROM BELIEVING THE GOSPEL, DOES NOT
JUSTIFY, IT PREDISPOSES A MAN TO JUSTIFICATION, WHICH IS RECEIVED
IN SACRAMENTAL WATER BAPTISM (THE INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE OF
JUSTIFICATION):

none of those things which precede justification, whether faith, or works
merit the grace itself of justification; for, "if it is a grace, it is not now by
reason of works; otherwise (as the same Apostle says) grace is no more grace"
[Rom.11:6]. (Denzinger 801)

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, 1870: no one can assent to the preaching of the
Gospel, as he must to attain salvation, without the illumination and inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, who gives to all a sweetness in consenting to and believing the truth. (Denz.
1791)

FINALLY:
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra:
Whoever wishes (DESIRES) to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic
faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a
doubt perish in eternity. But the Catholic faith is this, that we worship one
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be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.
But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the
incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ... the Son of God is God and man...
This is the Catholic faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he
cannot be saved.

AND THAT IS IT! IF ONE DOES NOT KNOW THE LORD, THE TRINITY AND THE
INCARNATION, THEN ONE CANNOT BE SAVED !!!!!

Those who die in ignorance of the Gospel were left in ignorance because they
were not of the truth. They were not of good will. That is the teaching of
Catholic Tradition and Catholic dogma.

Pope St. Pius X, Acerbo Nimis (# 2), April 15, 1905:And so Our
Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: We declare
that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal
punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of
ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known
and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.

The Errors of Peter Abelard #10: That they have not
sinned who being ignorant have crucified Christ, and that
whatever is done through ignorance must not be
considered sin. - Condemned

John 6.37: All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me: and him that
cometh to me, I will not cast out

John 10:14: I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and mine know
me.

John 10:16: And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must
bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one
shepherd.

Now this is life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3)









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John 18:37: For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I
should give testimony to the truth: every one who is of the truth, heareth my
voice. (NOTE THAT JESUS SAYS THAT THIS IS THE REASON HE TOOK
ON THE FLESH - THIS IS THE REASON FOR THE INCARNATION AND
THE COMING OF THE SON OF GOD INTO THE WORLD OF MEN !!!!! )

Acts 13.48: And the Gentiles hearing this, were glad, and glorified the word of
the Lord: and as many as were pre-ordained to eternal life, believed.

St. Alphonsus: If you are ignorant of the truths of the faith, you are obliged to learn
them. Every Christian is bound to learn the Creed, the Our Father, and the Hail Mary
under pain of mortal sin. Many have no idea of the Most Holy Trinity, the Incarnation,
mortal sin, Judgment, Paradise, Hell, or Eternity; and this deplorable ignorance damns
them.

St. Augustine (426): Consequently both those who have not heard the gospel and those
who, having heard it, and having been changed for the better, did not receive
perseverance none of these are separated from that lump which is known to be
damned, as all are going into condemnation.

Fr. Francisco de Vitoria, O.P., a famous 16
th
century Dominican theologian, also summed
up the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church on this topic very well. Here is how he
put it:

When we postulate invincible ignorance on the subject of baptism or of the
Christian faith, it does not follow that a person can be saved without
baptism or the Christian faith. For the aborigines to whom no preaching of
the faith or Christian religion has come will be damned for mortal sins or for
idolatry, but not for the sin of unbelief. As St. Thomas says, however, if they
do what in them lies [in their power], accompanied by a good life according
to the law of nature, it is consistent with Gods providence that he will
illuminate them regarding the name of Christ. (De Indis et de Iure Belli
Relectiones, ed. E. Nys, tr. J.P. Bates (The Classics of International Law),
Washington, 1917, p. 142.)

St. Prosper of Aquitane (450): Certainly Gods manifold and indescribable
goodness, as we have abundantly proved, always provided and does yet
provide for the totality of mankind, so that none of those perishing can
plead the excuse that he was excluded from the light of truth

IF A GOOD WILLED MAN TRULY SEEKS GOD, GOD WILL BRING HIM INTO THE
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POPE PIUS XI, MORTALIUM ANIMOS, JANUARY 6, 1928: Those who are separated
from Us: if these latter humbly beg light from heaven, there is no doubt but that they will
recognize the one true Church of Jesus Christ and will, at last, enter it, being united with
us in perfect charity.


THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM IS OF THE ORDINARY, UNIVERSAL AS WELL
AS THE EXTRAORDINARY MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH:

Fr. William Jurgens: If there were not a constant tradition in the Fathers
that the Gospel message of Unless a man be born again of water and the
Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (John 3:5) is to be taken
absolutely, it would be easy to say that Our Savior simply did not see fit to
mention the obvious exceptions of invincible ignorance and physical
impossibility. But the tradition in fact is there; and it is likely enough to be
found so constant as to constitute revelation. (The Faith of the Early
Fathers, Vol. 3, pp. 14-15)

Pope St. Pius X, Acerbo Nimis (# 2), April 15, 1905:And so Our Predecessor,
Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: We declare that those who are
condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because
of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and
believed in order to be numbered among the elect.

WE MUST OBEY THE LORD, IF WE LOVE HIM AND ARE TO BE
SAVED:

And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation -
Hebrews 5:9

If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my
Father's commandments and do abide in his love. - John 15:10

If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed. - John 8:31

You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. - John 15:14

And why call you me Lord, Lord: and do not the things which I say?- Luke 6:46

Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but
he that doth the will of my Father, who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven - Matthew 7:21

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saith he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not
in him. But he that keepeth his word, in him the charity of God is truly perfect: and by
this we know that we are in him. - 1 John 2.3-5

Matthew 4:4: But he answered, and said: It is written: *Man liveth not by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Mark 13:31: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

831 Can. 21. If anyone shall say that Christ Jesus has been given by God to men as a
Redeemer in whom they should trust, and not also as a legislator, whom they should obey:
let him be anathema.



There is No Such Thing as Invincible (Innocent) Ignorance - God gives Grace to
all men to seek Him and know the gospel (The Church Dogmatically teaches this - called
Prevenient Grace (or predisposing grace) - The Council of Trent, Session on
Justification):

Pope Pius IX, Vatican I (1870): no one can assent to the preaching of
the Gospel, as he must to attain salvation, without the illumination and
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who gives to all a sweetness in consenting to
and believing the truth. (Denz. 1791)


And if our gospel be also hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost: In whom the
god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that that light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. (2 Cor. 4:3-4)

For the grace of God, our Savior, hath appeared to all men, Instructing us, that denying
impiety, and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world
- Titus 2:11-12

You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart. -
Jeremiah 29:13

Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to
you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that
knocketh, it shall be opened. - Saint Matthew 7:7-8

But what about those who have never heard the gospel? They just dont know! - But
the Church teaches that they do know - they do not know the gospel explicitly because
they have rejected the prevenient grace of God whereby God reveals Himself and the
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Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Session 2, Profession of Faith, 1870, ex cathedra: This
true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which I now freely profess and
truly hold

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: Whoever wishes
(DESIRES)to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one
preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity. But the
Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in unity...
Therefore let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.
But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the
incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ... the Son of God is God and man... This is the
Catholic faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.

Pope St. Pius X, Acerbo Nimis (# 2), April 15, 1905:And so Our Predecessor,
Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: We declare that a great number of
those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting
calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be
known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.

The Errors of Peter Abelard #10: That they have not sinned who being
ignorant have crucified Christ, and that whatever is done through
ignorance must not be considered sin. - Condemned


AN INTERESTING EXCHANGE, DEMONSTRATING HOW MOST PEOPLE
RESERVE QUESTIONS AND DISBELIEF OF DOGMAS RATHER THAN HOLDING
TRUE AND SIMPLE FAITH:

Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I have been reading alot of the articles on your website and watching your DVDs and I agree and
understand alot of what you are explaining, but I am struggling to accept no salvation without baptism. I
know God is Holy, but He is also Merciful. I can't understand how a man can, for example, abuse and kill
a toddler who was not baptized by the parents and send that child to Hell, but that killer can attain
salvation if he has been baptized and repents of his sin. Or a person who has no opportunity of ever
hearing the gospel, such as a Muslim girl in a militantly Islamic country, and her being condemned if she
never had the knowledge of what baptism was or even Christianity.
In my mind, your argument is logical that we must be baptized and I know that Our Lord Himself
said we must be born again of water and spirit, but perhaps it is my faulty human heart that still hopes
that these souls can be saved. If I can accept your teaching logically, but my heart holds reservations,
what do I do?
I remember reading in the books about the life of Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich that she strongly
said that the Church was the only way, but even she was surprised to learn that several of her ancestors
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Christians. Also, in the lives of other Saints, everyone thought certain souls were damned, even the Saint
himself, but later learned the soul was saved because they had a particular devotion to Our Lady.
Can you please help me to accept this better? I know God's ways are not our ways and we cannot
possibly understand them unless he reveals them to us, but I have a hard time understanding why a
sinner like me has a chance at salvation after having lived a horrible, sinful life while a baby in it's
mother's womb who is aborted has no chance at all.
Can you please help me understand this? Thank you in advance for any help that you can give. (And
your DVD on Freemasonry is excellent! I have ordered more copies to share with friends in the hopes it
will open their eyes like it did mine...)

Sincerely,
Rachelle Wickstrom

MHFM: It comes down to submitting ones mind to the revelation of Christ, which is found in Catholic
dogma. You are refusing to believe until you understand. St. Anselm points out that a person with true
faith believes in order to understand. If God has revealed that all who die without baptism are lost, as He
has, thats because He knows infinitely more than we do about the lack of good will in those souls who die
without the faith. St. Augustine said it well:

St. Augustine (+428): God foreknew that if they had lived and the gospel had been preached to them,
they would have heard it without belief. (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3: 1997.)

So one who doubts that all who die without baptism and the faith are lost lacks faith in Jesus Christ; for
He is the one who ensures the integrity of dogmatic teaching. The sad fact is that most men are of bad
will; thats why so many are left in ignorance of the true faith and baptism. They are not sincere and thus
God leaves them in ignorance. In the case of infants, perhaps God taking them in infancy is merciful
because if they had lived they would have died in mortal sin and gone to the fires of Hell. If thats the
case, then taking them in infancy, even though they are barred from Heaven and put in a place of Hell
where there is no fire, is the merciful thing.

Regardless, we know for certain that all infants who die without baptism are not saved. They go to a part
of Hell called the limbo of the children and God has a perfectly just reason for it.

You ask what you can do to help you be convinced. We say: pray the full 15 decade Rosary each day. If
you pray it well and sincerely we believe that you will have a firm faith in this and all other Catholic
teachings.

Fr. Francisco de Vitoria, O.P., a famous 16
th
century Dominican theologian, also summed up the
traditional teaching of the Catholic Church on this topic very well. Here is how he put it:

When we postulate invincible ignorance on the subject of baptism or of the Christian faith, it does not
follow that a person can be saved without baptism or the Christian faith. For the aborigines to whom no
preaching of the faith or Christian religion has come will be damned for mortal sins or for idolatry, but
not for the sin of unbelief. As St. Thomas says, however, if they do what in them lies [in their power],
accompanied by a good life according to the law of nature, it is consistent with Gods providence that he
will illuminate them regarding the name of Christ. (De Indis et de Iure Belli Relectiones, ed. E. Nys, tr.
J.P. Bates (The Classics of International Law), Washington, 1917, p. 142.)

Regarding Anne Catherine Emmerich, some of things attributed to her are heretical and thus must be
rejected. The following section from our book Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No
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dogma.

THE CHAIR OF PETER SPEAKS THE TRUTH THAT CHRIST HIMSELF DELIVERED

The truths of faith which have been proclaimed by the popes speaking infallibly from the Chair of Peter
are called dogmas. The dogmas make up what is called the deposit of Faith. And the deposit of Faith
ended with the death of the last apostle.

Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists #21: Revelation, constituting the object of
Catholic faith, was not completed with the apostles. Condemned

This means that when a pope defines a dogma from the Chair of Peter he does not make the dogma true,
but rather he proclaims what is already true, what has already been revealed by Christ and delivered to
the Apostles. The dogmas are therefore unchangeable, of course. One of these dogmas in the deposit of
Faith is that Outside the Catholic Church There is No Salvation. Since this is the teaching of Jesus Christ,
one is not allowed to dispute this dogma or to question it; one must simply accept it. It does not matter if
one doesnt like the dogma, doesnt understand the dogma, or doesnt see justice in the dogma. If one
doesnt accept it as infallibly true then one simply does not accept Jesus Christ, because the dogma comes
to us from Jesus Christ.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without by that very fact falling into
heresy? without separating himself from the Church? without repudiating in one sweeping act the
whole of Christian teaching? For such is the nature of faith that nothing can be more absurd than to
accept some things and reject others. Faith, as the Church teaches, is that supernatural virtue by which
we believe what He has revealed to be true, not on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural
light of human reason [author: that is, not because it seems correct to us], but because of the authority of
God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive nor be deceived But he who dissents even in one
point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honor God as
the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.


Those who refuse to believe in the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation until they
understand how there is justice in it are simply withholding their Faith in Christs revelation. Those with
the true Faith in Christ (and His Church) accept His teaching first and understand the truth in it (i.e.,
why it is true) second. A Catholic does not withhold his belief in Christs revelation until he can
understand it. That is the mentality of a faithless heretic who possesses insufferable pride. St. Anselm
sums up the true Catholic outlook on this point.

St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church, Prosologion, Chap. 1: For I do not seek to understand that I may
believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, that unless I believed, I should not
understand.

Romans 11:33-34- O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How
incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! For who hath known the mind of
the Lord? Or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be
made him?

Isaias 55:8-9- For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as
the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above
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AND FINALLY:

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation, 1870, ex cathedra:

Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained,
which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never be a recession from
that meaning under the specious name of a deeper understanding.


St. Augustine (415): Anyone who would say that infants who pass this life without
participation in the Sacrament [of Baptism] shall be made alive in Christ truly goes
counter to the preaching of the Apostle and condemns the whole Church

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT ABRAHAM WAS JUSTIFIED THREE TIMES,
IN GENESIS Chapter12, Chapter15:6, and Chapter 22 (The following is from the
MHFM):

The Bible tells us that Abraham (whose name was changed from Abram) was justified in Genesis 15:6 for
believing what God said about the number of his descendants.

Genesis 15:5-6- And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,
if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he [Abram] believed in
the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

It should be pointed out that, in Catholic theology, the justification given in the Old Testament was
inferior to the adoption as sons of God which is given in the New. Regardless, the following points about
Abrahams Old Testament justification something which is brought up repeatedly in the New
Testament is sufficient to again thoroughly disprove the Protestant position on justification.
Abraham was justified in Genesis 15:6. If, as Protestants contend, justification is not a process, but a one-
time event in which God imputes (applies) justification to a person as a result of faith alone, then
Abraham could not have been justified before or after Genesis 15:6. Thats pretty simple. But the Bible
teaches that Abraham was justified both before and after Genesis 15:6

1.) Hebrews 11:8 teaches that Abraham believed God and was justified when God originally called
him to go to an unknown country. This occurred in Genesis 12.

Hebrews 11:8- By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance [Genesis 12], obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Genesis 12:1-4- Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country unto a land that I
will show thee So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him.

Therefore, Abraham was justified by faith in Genesis 12, three chapters (and probably years) before he
believed God (about how many descendants he would have) in Genesis 15:6, at which time he was
justified again. Just in case anyone thinks that this belief of Abraham in Genesis 12 didnt justify him, it
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11:8 teaches that Abraham was justified by faith in Genesis 12.

2.) The Bible teaches that Abraham was justified again (a third time) in Genesis 22, when he offered his
son Isaac on the altar.
James 2:21-24- Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon
the altar [Genesis 22:10]? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made
perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto
him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is
justified, and not by faith only.

So, to put this as simply as possible: the Bible teaches that Abraham was justified three different times:

1) in Genesis 12:1-4 (see Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed)
2) in Genesis 15:6 (see Genesis 15:6 he believed and it counted to him for righteousness)
3) in Genesis 22:10 (see James 2:21 Abraham our father justified by works)

ABRAHAM WAS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH AND ALSO BY WORKS, AND THESE WERE
WORKS APART FROM THE LAW.

St. Paul brings up Abraham in Romans 4, right after talking about how people are justified by faith
apart from the works of the law (i.e., apart from the Old Law). He does this precisely to prove to these
people that justification is not inextricably bound up with the Old Law, with circumcision, etc. St. Paul
gives the example of how Abraham was justified by his faith in Genesis 15:6, which was before Abraham
was circumcised in Genesis 17:

Romans 4:9-10- Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision
also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness [Gen. 15:6]. How was it then
reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

His point, therefore, is that if God can justify Abraham by faith before circumcision (as this example
shows), then he can justify you, if you submit to the faith of Jesus and cast aside circumcision and the
works of the (Old) Law. Thats the precise point he is making. That must be understood when one reads
this chapter. His point is not that if you submit to Jesus and His faith, none of your human actions, deeds
or sins will have anything to do with your justification! That is a gross perversion of his true meaning.

Thus, when Paul says the following in Romans 4:1-4
Romans 4:1-4- What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the
scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh
is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

he is clearly speaking in the context of contrasting the Old Testament system of works with the power
that God has to justify those who accept His faith outside of that system of Old Testament works. That is
the precise subject and the context. He is not teaching that justification by faith in Christ is apart from all
human actions and deeds.

But in James 2, the subject and the context are different. James 2 is concerned with teaching Christians
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people that the Old Testament system is not obligatory. One could truly say that in James 2 the subject is
the same as the issue were talking about: the Protestant idea that man is justified by his faith in Jesus
alone. And that idea is denounced as completely false. And thats why in this chapter we read that
Abraham was justified by works.

James 2:21-24- Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon
the altar [Genesis 22:10]? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made
perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto
him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man
is justified, and not by faith only.

So we can see how the Protestants have totally misunderstood these passages of Scripture. In doing so,
they have constructed a false religion and a false Gospel which completely contradict the whole message
of Scripture.



BAPTISM OF DESIRE AND BAPTISM OF BLOOD ARE VICIOUS
HERESIES:

Pope St. Siricius, 385, [Concerning the necessity of baptism] Therefore just as
we declare that respect for the Easter sacrifice [Paschal time] should not be
lessened in the case of any person, in like manner we wish help to be brought
with all speed to children who because of their age cannot yet speak, and to
those who in any emergency are in need of the water of holy baptism, lest it
should lead to the destruction of our souls if, by refusing the water of salvation
to those who desire it, each of them, when taking leave of this world, should
lose both the kingdom and life. Indeed whoever suffers the peril of shipwreck,
an enemy attack, the danger of siege or desperation resulting from some bodily
infirmity, and so asks for what in their faith is their only help, let them receive
at the moment of their request the reward of regeneration that they beg for.
This much should suffice for my digression on this subject; now let all priests
who do not wish to be wrenched from the firmly-fixed rock of the apostles, on
which Christ built his universal church, hold fast to the aforesaid rule. (Latin
found in Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Latin Edition, 1962, no. 184; an English
Translation found in The Christian Faith, Sixth Revised and Enlarged Edition,
Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1996, p. 540.)

THERE YOU HAVE IT - IF THE WATERS OF BAPTISM ARE REFUSED TO THOSE
WHO DESIRE IT (AND EVEN BEG FOR IT!)THEN THEY WILL LOSE BOTH
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FOR IT) !!!!!

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 7, Can. 8, Ex Cathedra: "If
anyone shall say that by the said sacraments of the New Law, grace is not
conferred from the work which has been worked [ex opere
operato], but that faith alone in the divine promise suffices to
obtain grace: let him be anathema."

- You see, Baptism of Desire is the explicit teaching that it is not the work of the
Sacrament which gives the grace, but the faith in the Sacrament which
directly, completely contradicts this Decree of Trent! B.O.D. is the direct opposite
of the Magisterial Teaching of the Church, and the direct words of Christ (John 3.5)
!!!!! It is truly diabolical and despicable !!!!!
Pope Pius XI Quas Primas (# 15), Dec. 11, 1925 : Indeed this kingdom is
presented in the Gospels as such, into which men prepare to enter by doing
penance; moreover, they cannot enter it except through faith and baptism,
which, although an external rite, yet signifies and effects an interior
regeneration.
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi: Only those are to be regarded as
members of the Church who have been baptized in water and profess the
true Faith.

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex
cathedra:
" the instrumental cause [of Justification] is THE SACRAMENT OF
BAPTISM, WHICH IS THE SACRAMENT OF FAITH, without which no
one is ever justified THIS FAITH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH APOSTOLIC
TRADITION, CATECHUMENS BEG OF THE CHURCH BEFORE THE
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM, when they ask for faith which bestows life
eternal, (Rit. Rom., Ordo Baptismi) which (justification) without hope and charity
faith cannot bestow."


The folly of those who obstinately and tenaciously fight for baptism of desire

By Bro. Peter Dimond

ITS A FACT THAT EVERY SINGLE SAINT AND DOCTOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH








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WHO BELIEVED IN BAPTISM OF DESIRE ONLY APPLIED IT TO CATECHUMENS WHO
BELIEVED IN JESUS CHRIST AND THE TRINITY.

I hate to have recourse to practical arguments, since all dogmas are not only to be
professed, but also interiorly believed:

Pope St. Pius X condemned the following Modernist proposition on July 3, 1907 in
Lamentabili Sane: The dogmas of faith are to be held only according to a practical
sense, that is, as preceptive norms for action, but not as norms for believing.-
Condemned

However, with this issue, if we move away for a moment from all of the dogmatic
arguments which refute baptism of desire (found here: The Book: Outside the Catholic
Church There is Absolutely No Salvation), there are a few practical considerations which
show that its absurd and foolish for people to make an issue of defending baptism of
desire.

As stated above, the saints who believed in baptism of desire only applied it to those
who believed in Jesus Christ and the Trinity. Thats why there arent any quotes from
saints or doctors stating that a Jew or a Buddhist or a Muslim can be united to the
Church through his invincible ignorance. Therefore, any person defending baptism of
desire is spending all of his time and effort trying to convince people that unbaptized
catechumens dont need to be baptized. How many people fall into a situation where
they die just before baptism? Almost none. Further, baptism of desire advocates dont
know that such individuals are saved, not only because the opposite is infallibly true, but
because they cannot say, even in their own minds, that such individuals infallibly had the
proper dispositions to receive baptism of desire.

Thus, even if it were true that such a tiny number of individuals could be saved (which it
isnt), what good can possibly come out of insisting that they can?
The answer is none. Anyone who thinks about it should admit that no good comes out of
this effort, but only indifferentism from those many individuals who will conclude and
the millions who have concluded that because a catechumen can be saved without
baptism, others can as well. Since only bad results can and have from the insistence that
baptism is not necessary for catechumens, what good is there in fighting for it? Why on
earth cant they simply affirm as St. Ambrose, St. John Chrysostom and St. Augustine did,
that all including catechumens need to be baptized for salvation?

St. Ambrose, De mysteriis, 390-391 A.D.:
You have read, therefore, that the three witnesses in Baptism are one: water, blood, and
the spirit; and if you withdraw any one of these, the Sacrament of Baptism is not valid.
For what is water without the cross of Christ? A common element without any
sacramental effect. Nor on the other hand is there any mystery of regeneration without
water: for unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
kingdom of God. [John 3:5] Even a catechumen believes in the cross of the Lord Jesus,
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the Son and of the Holy Spirit, he cannot receive the remission of sins nor be recipient of
the gift of spiritual grace. (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2: 1330.)

St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Io. 25, 3:
For the Catechumen is a stranger to the Faithful One has Christ for his King; the other
sin and the devil; the food of one is Christ, of the other, that meat which decays and
perishes Since then we have nothing in common, in what, tell me, shall we hold
communion? Let us then give diligence that we may become citizens of the city
above for if it should come to pass (which God forbid!) that through the sudden arrival
of death we depart hence uninitiated, though we have ten thousand virtues, our portion
will be none other than hell, and the venomous worm, and fire unquenchable, and bonds
indissoluble.

St. Augustine, 391: When we shall have come into His [Gods] sight, we shall behold the
equity of Gods justice. Then no one will say: Why was this man led by Gods direction
to be baptized, while that man, though he lived properly as a catechumen, was killed in a
sudden disaster, and was not baptized? Look for rewards, and you will find nothing
except punishments. (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3: 1496.)

Why cant they simply affirm, with Jesus Christ and the Council of Trent, that unless a
man is born again of water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God?

Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, Sess. 7, Can. 5 on the Sacrament of Baptism, ex
cathedra: If anyone says that baptism [the Sacrament] is optional, that is, not
necessary for salvation (cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.

Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, Can. 2 on the Sacrament of Baptism, Sess. 7, 1547,
ex cathedra: If anyone shall say that real and natural water is not necessary for
baptism, and on that account those words of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Unless a man be
born again of water and the Holy Spirit [John 3:5], are distorted into some sort of
metaphor: let him be anathema.

Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, Exultate Deo, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra:
Holy baptism, which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all
the sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the
Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, unless we are born
again of water and the Spirit, we cannot, as the Truth says, enter into the kingdom of
heaven [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural water.

Why cant they simply affirm, with Pope Clement V and the infallible Council of Vienne,
that there is only one baptism of water which must be confessed by all Catholics?

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312, ex cathedra: Besides, one baptism
which regenerates all who are baptized in Christ must be faithfully confessed by all just
as one God and one faith [Eph. 4:5], which celebrated in water in the name of the
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remedy for salvation for adults as for children.

Why cant they simply affirm, with Pope Pius IX, that there is one Lord, one Faith and
one Baptism and that it is unlawful to proceed further in inquiry?

Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quadem: For, in truth, when released from these corporeal
chains, we shall see God as He is (1 John 3:2), we shall understand perfectly by how
close and beautiful a bond divine mercy and justice are united; but, as long as we are on
earth, weighed down by this mortal mass which blunts the soul, let us hold most firmly
that, in accordance with Catholic teaching, there is one God, one faith, one baptism
[Eph. 4:5]; it is unlawful to proceed further in inquiry.

The fruits of this theory (or if you want to call it a perversion of the original false theory)
are undeniably horrible indeed abominable since it is a fact that basically everyone
who denies the necessity of Christ hides under the supposed shield of baptism of
desire to justify his or her heresy. Even baptism of desire advocates cannot deny this
fact. Baptism of desire, in our day, is truly and literally a false Christ: it saves people
according to almost every Catholic today who dont even believe in Jesus Christ. So,
why cant people simply affirm with the Council of Trent which only mentions the word
catechumens one time in its dogmatic teaching and states that catechumens dont
have the Faith which gives life eternal that all must be baptized to be saved, and move
on?

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex cathedra: the
instrumental cause [of Justification] is the Sacrament of Baptism,
which is the Sacrament of Faith, without which no one is ever
justified This Faith, in accordance with Apostolic Tradition,
catechumens beg of the Church before the Sacrament of Baptism,
when they ask for faith which bestows life eternal, (Rit. Rom., Ordo
Baptismi).

In light of these considerations, any reasonable person would have to admit that it is
absurd IT IS FOLLY, since it accomplishes nothing good but only evil to obstinately
insist that men dont need baptism. Any sincere and reasonable person would agree that
all must be baptized for salvation and move on.

But those who tenaciously defend the idea of baptism of desire cannot simply affirm
that all must be baptized for salvation and move on (even though this is defined by the
Church) because those who tenaciously and obstinately defend baptism of desire (in
the face of the infallible arguments against it, and in the face of the facts refuting the
false objections in its favor) are evil. They have an evil spiritual element working in them
that thwarts reason and good sense, which is rebelling against the necessity of Our Lord
Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith. Thats the only reason for their evil and abominable
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spreading the idea that Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith are not necessary for mans
salvation. If it were just a matter of unbaptized catechumens, then they would never
tenaciously (in the fact of all the arguments) defend baptism of desire. They tenaciously
defend baptism of desire because there is more at stake for them than the catechumen
issue.

When these tenacious defenders of baptism of desire appear before the Judgment Seat
of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the one who laid down the requirement that unless a man is
born again of water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:5),
they will be condemned to eternal damnation not only for tenaciously denying His truth
that all men must be baptized (a solemnly defined dogma), but also for obstinately
asserting something (that one doesnt need His baptism) which does not benefit anyone,
even from their false perspective that certain men can be saved without baptism.

There are so many arguments (not from fallible teaching, but infallible teaching) which
refute baptism of desire. They come from dogmatic teaching on Church membership,
dogmatic teaching on subjection to the Roman Pontiff, dogmatic definitions on the
Sacrament of Baptism, dogmatic teaching on the Churchs literal understanding of John
3:5, etc. Any good-willed person who considers all of it will agree that no one can be
saved without baptism.

However, when we consider the practical reasons discussed above in conjunction with
the infallible teaching on the necessity of baptism, one can only scratch his head,
dumbstruck at the foolishness and the bad will of those who, in accomplishing nothing
but spreading a false Christ and a false path to salvation, tenaciously defend the idea
that baptism is not necessary. They do this to no effect other than to spread religious
indifferentism and give non-Catholics a reason for remaining unbaptized and outside the
Church. Their tenacious defense that men dont need baptism is simply an attack on Our
Lord Jesus Christ, His necessity and His salvation, which He has connected with His
Baptism:

1 Peter 3:20-21: when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when
the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Whereunto baptism being of the like form, now saveth you also

Titus 3:5- Not by the works of justice, which we have done, but according to his mercy,
he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and renovation of the Holy Ghost

And to think that people are being thrown out of traditional chapels for holding that all
men must be baptized its evil and abominable.

ALSO;

MHFM: A person should be convinced that salvation without water baptism is impossible.
Thats because its impossible for God to lie (Hebrews 6:18), and God has revealed that
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Hence, its not possible for one to be saved by a (non-existent) baptism of desire. The
people who obstinately adhere to baptism of desire are of bad will, in every single case.
First, almost all of them believe not just in baptism of desire, but that souls can be
saved without faith in Christ and in false religions. All of them believe that, or at the very
least regard as Catholics those who do. Thats true in 100% of the cases weve seen.
Thus, they are of bad will.

Second, why would anyone, once confronted with the overwhelming dogmatic evidence
that contradicts baptism of desire as well as the detailed responses to their many false
objections from fallible sources, fight for the idea? As our debates show, they have no
answer to how the theory conforms to Catholic dogma on John 3:5, Church unity,
subjection to the Roman Pontiff, incorporation into the Church, Catholic teaching on the
body of the Church, the meaning of the faithful, etc. They cannot even begin to
address those dogmatic points; yet we can carefully refute all of their fallible arguments.

So, why would they obstinately cling to fallible arguments, all of which have been
addressed and refuted, and contradict the forceful dogmatic truths on the necessity of
water baptism which contradict the idea of baptism of desire? Why would they fight
for it, and often tenaciously? If a person who studies this issue doesnt gravitate to the
position that no man is saved without water baptism, on the basis of the dogmatic texts,
but instead is moved to defending baptism of desire against all the evidence, its
because he is a reprobate. He has no faith in God, but only in man. Thats true in every
case. Thats why when we come across a person who obstinately resists the evidence on
that point, and makes it clear that he or she is inclined to defending baptism of desire,
we know we are dealing with a faithless person of bad will whom Christ rejects. Such a
person lacks supernatural faith in the dogmas of Christs Church. The infallible
statements dont persuade him. Rather, he is moved by the opinions of man. This very
short article is quite relevant to the point we are discussing: The folly of those who
tenaciously fight for "Baptism of Desire"


THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE, AND
GOD HAS GIVEN ALL MEN THE ABILITY TO KNOW HIS GOSPEL!:

Pope Paul III, Sublimus Dei, May 29, 1537: The sublime God so loved the human race
that He created man in such wise that he might participate, not only in the good that other
creatures enjoy, but endowed him with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible
Supreme Good and behold it face to face; and since man, according to the testimony of the
sacred scriptures, has been created to enjoy eternal life and happiness, which none may
obtain save through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, it is necessary that he should possess
the nature and faculties enabling him to receive that faith; and that whoever is thus
endowed should be capable of receiving that same faith. Nor is it credible that any one
should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most
necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. Hence Christ, who is the Truth itself, that has
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office 'Go ye and teach all nations.' He said all, without exception, for all are capable of
receiving the doctrines of the faithBy virtue of Our apostolic authority We define and
declare by these present letters that the said Indians and other peoples should be
converted to the faith of Jesus Christ by preaching the word of God and by the example of
good and holy living.

SAINT ISAAC JOGUES AND COMPANIONS LOVED WITH DIVINE CHARITY TO SUCH AN
EXTENT THAT THOUGH THEY SUFFERED BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION IF
MINISTERING THE GOSPEL AND HOLY BAPTISM TO THE HURON INDIANS, THAT EVEN
THOUGH SAINT ISAAC AND COMPANIONS ESCAPED, (SAINT ISAAC HIMSELF MISSING
MOST OF HIS HAND DUE TO TORTURES, AND OTHER HIDEOUS WOUNDS), THEY WENT
BACK TO THESE SAME INDIANS AT THEIR FIRST PERMISSIONS !!!!! AN EXAMPLE OF
SOME OF THE CONDITIONS ARE DESCRIBED HERE:

St. Isaac Jogues (Missionary to the North American savages, 1642): Indeed, under
the influence of that terrific hate of the savages, I suffered beyond telling
from the cold, from the contempt of the basest of them, from the furious ill temper
of the women Great hunger, also, I had to endure. Since nearly all the venison,
and on the hunt they eat scarcely anything else, was offered in sacrifice to
the demons, I spent many days without eating I suffered greatly from the
cold, in the midst of the deep snows, with nothing to wear but a short and threadbare
cloakThough they had plenty of deerskins, many of which they were not
using, they would give me none. Sometimes, on an extremely bitter night,
shivering from the cold, I would take one of the skins secretly; as soon as
they discovered it, they would rise up and take it away from me. That
shows how terribly much they hated me My skin was split open with the cold,
all over my body, and caused me intense pain.

THE SAVAGE INDIANS ALSO BAPTIZED THEM IN MOCK BAPTISMS, WITH BOILING WATER POURED
UPON THEIR HEADS, AND LEFT THEM SOMETIMES UTTERLY NAKED AND EXPOSED TO THE
ELEMENTS, ETC. AS MENTIONED ABOVE, SAINT ISAAC HAD HIS HAND MUTILATED AND NEEDED
PAPAL PERMISSION TO SAY MASS AND HANDLE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AFTER HIS ESCAPE.
WITH ALL OF IT HE YEARNED TO RETURN TO THE POOR SAVAGES. FINALLY SAINT ISAAC WAS
ALLOWED BY GRACE TO GIVE TO OUR LORD THE ULTIMATE GIFT WHEN THE SAVAGES OPENED
HIS HEAD WITH A TOMAHAWK HAND AXE, MURDERING AND MARTYRING HIM, AND LIKEWISE HIS
FELLOW MISSIONARY. THESE SAVAGES WERE THE ONES SAINT ISAAC LOVED WITH DIVINE
CHARITY, CONCERNED THAT THEY WOULD DIE WITHOUT CHRIST, UNBAPTIZED, AND LEFT TO
THEIR UNHOLY SUPERSTITIONS. SAINT ISAAC CERTAINLY DID NOT BELIEVE IN SOME PHONY
BAPTISM OF DESIRE OR SOME GNOSTIC INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE !!!!!


Who is Outside the Church?:

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Cantate Domino,1441, ex cathedra








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"Therefore the Holy Roman Church condemns, reproves, anathematizes and declares to
be outside the Body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds opposing or contrary
views."

Pope Pius IX: In particular, ensure that the faithful are deeply and thoroughly convinced
of the truth of the doctrine that the Catholic faith is necessary for attaining salvation.
(Nostis et Nobiscum # 10, Dec. 8, 1849)

Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: There is
indeed one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in
which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice. (Denz. 430)

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Cantate Domino," 1441, ex cathedra
"The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are
outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics.

(These above 4 PAPAL DECLARATIONS EXCLUDE FROM THE BODY OF
THE CHURCH EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO IS NOT A DEVOUT
CATHOLIC WHO IS PRACTICING THE TRUE CATHOLIC FAITH !!!!!)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum(# 9), June 29, 1896, ex cathedra:
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the
Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would
recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium."

(NOTE: no one shall dare to interpret the said Sacred Scripture contrary to the
unanimous consent of the Fathers - The Council of Trent on the Holy Scripture - DE
FIDE ! (Denzinger #786) )

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9):
No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself as
a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or arise some other heresies, which are not
set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to a single one of these he is not a
Catholic.

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 22), ex cathedra:
"Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized
in water and profess the true faith "As therefore in the true Christian community there
is only one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one Baptism, so there can be only one faith.
And therefore, if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be considered - so the Lord
commands - as a heathen and a publican. It follows that those who are divided in faith or
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its one Divine Spirit. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 23), June 29, 1943: For not every sin, however
grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church,
as does schism or heresy or apostasy.

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, Decree # 30, 1311-1312, ex cathedra
"For, regulars and seculars, prelates and subjects, exempt and non-exempt, belong to the one universal
Church, outside of which no one at all is saved, and they all have one Lord and one faith."

Pope Pius IV, Council of Trent, Iniunctum nobis Nov. 13, 1565, ex cathedra This true Catholic faith,
outside which no one can be saved I now profess and truly hold

Pope Benedict XIV, Nuper ad nos, March 16, 1743, Profession of Faith, ex cathedra : This faith of the
Catholic Church, without which no one can be saved, and which of my own accord I now profess and
truly hold

Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I , Session 2, Profession of Faith, 1870, ex cathedra: This true Catholic
faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which I now freely profess and truly hold

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: Whoever wishes
(DESIRES) to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole
and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, Decree # 30, 1311-1312, ex cathedra:
"Since however there is for both regulars and seculars, for superiors and subjects, for exempt and non-
exempt, one universal Church, outside of which there is no salvation, for all of whom there is one Lord, one
faith, and one baptism"

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832: With the admonition of the apostle, that there is
one God, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:5), may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor
of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ
Himself that those who are not with Christ are against Him, (Lk. 11:23) and that they disperse
unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore, without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate (Athanasian
Creed).

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 13), June 29, 1896:
You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that
the faith of Rome is to be held.

Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum(# 14), May 5, 1824: It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth
itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false
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rewards on their members by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no
other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ in which we must be saved.
This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#15), June 29, 1896: For this it must be clearly
understood that Bishops are deprived of the right and power of ruling, if they deliberately
secede from Peter and his successors; because, by this secession, they are separated from
the foundation on which the whole edifice must rest. They are therefore outside the edifice
itself; and for this very reason they are separated from the fold (one who secedes
{withdraws from} the See of Peter is where? OUTSIDE THE EDIFICE (The Church)!)


Unam Sanctum, Pope Boniface VIII, Nov. 18, 1302 , ex cathedra:
With Faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church
and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this (Church) outside
which there is no salvation nor remission of sin, the Spouse in the Canticle
proclaiming: One is my dove, my perfect one. One she is of her mother, the chosen of her
that bore her [Cant. 6:8]. Certainly Noe had one ark at the time of the flood, prefiguring
one Church which perfect on one cubit had one ruler and guide, namely Noe, outside
which we read all living things on the earth were destroyed.[96] ..This is that seamless
tunic of the Lord [John 19:23], which was not cut, but came forth by chance. Therefore,
of the one and only Church (there is) one body, one head, not two heads as a monster,
namely, Christ and Peter, the Vicar of Christ and the successor of Peter, the Lord Himself
saying to Peter: Feed my sheep [John 21:17]. He said My, and generally, not
individually these or those, through which it is understood that He entrusted to Peter and
his successors, of necessity let them confess that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since
the Lord says in John, to be one flock and one Shepherd [John 10:16].

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 10), June 29, 1896: For this reason, as the unity of the
faith is of necessity required for the unity of the Church, inasmuch as it is the body of the
faithful, so also for this same unity, inasmuch as the Church is a divinely constituted
society, unity of government, which effects and involves unity of communion, is necessary
jure divino (by divine law).

Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832:
Finally some of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and
others that men are not saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even
heretics may attain eternal life.

Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio, May 27, 1832, (on no salvation
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article of faith which these dare to deny, namely the necessity of the Catholic
faith and of unity for salvation Omitting other appropriate passages which
are almost numberless in the writings of the Fathers, We shall praise St.
Gregory the Great who expressly testifies that THIS IS INDEED THE
TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. He says: The holy universal
Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her and
asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved. Official acts of the
Church proclaim the same dogma. Thus, in the decree on faith which Innocent
III published with the synod of Lateran IV, these things are written: There is
one universal Church of all the faithful outside of which no one is saved. Finally
the same dogma is also expressly mentioned in the profession of faith proposed
by the Apostolic See, not only that which all Latin churches use, but also that
which other Eastern Catholics use. We did not mention these selected
testimonies because We thought you were ignorant of that article of faith and
in need of Our instruction. Far be it from Us to have such an absurd and
insulting suspicion about you. But We are so concerned about this serious and
well known dogma, which has been attacked with such remarkable audacity, that
We could not restrain Our pen from reinforcing this truth with many
testimonies.

Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis (# 27), Aug. 12, 1950:
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine, explained in Our Encyclical Letter of a few
years ago, and based on the sources of divine revelation, which teaches that the
Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and
the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of
belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation.

POPE PIUS XI, MORTALIUM ANIMOS, ON RELIGIOUS UNITY, JANUARY 6, 1928: For
if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do
they not hasten to enter the Church, "the Mother and mistress of all Christ's
faithful"? "The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship. This is the
fount of truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God: if any man enter
not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of
life and salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life
and salvation are here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed,
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Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quadem: let us hold most firmly that, in accordance with
Catholic teaching, there is one God, one faith, one baptism [Eph. 4:5]; it is unlawful to
proceed further in inquiry.

Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 129:
Wherefore, since outside the Catholic Church there is nothing perfect, nothing undefiled
we are in no way likened with those who are divided from the unity of the Body of Christ;
we are joined in no communion.

B. Syllabus* Comprising the particular errors of our age, which are noted in
consistorial Allocutions, in Encyclical and other Apostolic Letters of His Holiness, our
Lord Pope Pius IX *:

Sec. 111. Indifferentism, Latitudinarianism

1715 15 Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he, led by the light
of reason, thinks to be the true religion (8, 26). CONDEMNED

1716 16. In the worship of any religion whatever, men can find the way to eternal
salvation, and can attain eternal salvation (1, 3, 17). CONDEMNED

1717 17. We must have at least good hope concerning the eternal salvation of all those who
in no wise are in the true Church of Christ 13. [see n. 1646] 28 [see n. 1677]).
CONDEMNED

1718 18. Protestantism is nothing else than a different form of the same true Christian
religion, in which it is possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic Church (5).
CONDEMNED

ALL THE ABOVE PROPOSITIONS ENTIRELY AND WHOLLY CONDEMNED !

Pope Pius IX: Also perverse is that shocking theory that it makes no difference to which
religion one belongs, a theory greatly at variance even with reason. By means of this
theory, those crafty men remove all distinction between virtue and vice, truth and error,
honorable and vile action. They pretend that men can gain eternal salvation by the
practice of any religion, as if there could ever be any sharing between justice and iniquity,
any collaboration between light and darkness, or any agreement between Christ and
Belial. (Qui Pluribus # 15, Nov. 9, 1846)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#5), June 29, 1896: The Church of Christ, therefore, is
one and the same for ever; those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ,
the Lord - leaving the path of salvation they enter on that of perdition. "Whosoever is








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separated from the Church is united to an adulteress. He has cut himself off from the
promises of the Church, and he who leaves the Church of Christ cannot arrive at the
rewards of Christ. He who observes not this unity observes not the law of God, holds not
the faith of the Father and the Son, clings not to life and salvation."
STILL, ONE MIGHT SAY, MAKE IT SIMPLE IS IT NOT POSSIBLE FOR
SOMEONE IN A FALSE RELIGION TO BE SAVED:

That is not possible it is not the teaching of the Church, and it is not even logical. If
Christ is necessary to redemption and salvation, then His One, True Faith is necessary to
believe ALL His Words and obey ALL His Commands!

Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum(# 14), May 5, 1824: It is IMPOSSIBLE for the most true God, who is
Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess
false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer
eternal rewards on their members by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ in which we must
be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.



DEFINITION OF SCHISM

Pope Pius IX, Quartus Supra (#12), Jan. 6, 1873, Definition of a Schismatic: For the
Catholic Church has always regarded as schismatic those who obstinately oppose the
lawful prelates of the Church and in particular, the chief shepherd of all.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II-II, Q. 39, A. 2: Hence the sin of schism is,
properly speaking, a special sin, for the reason that the schismatic intends to sever himself
from that unity which is the effect of charity: because charity unites not only one person to
another with the bond of spiritual love, but also the whole Church in unity of spirit.
Accordingly schismatics properly so called are those who, willfully and intentionally
separate themselves from the unity of the Church Wherefore schismatics are those who
refuse to submit to the Sovereign Pontiff, and to hold communion with those members of
the Church who acknowledge his supremacy.

Pope Clement VI, Super quibusdam, Sept. 20, 1351: We ask: In the first place whether
you and the Church of the Armenians which is obedient to you, believe that all those who
in baptism have received the same Catholic faith, and afterwards have withdrawn and will
withdraw in the future from the communion of this same Roman Church, which one alone
is Catholic, are schismatic and heretical, if they remain obstinately separated from the
faith of this Roman Church. In the second place, we ask whether you and the Armenians
obedient to you believe that no man of the wayfarers outside the faith of this Church, and
outside the obedience of the Pope of Rome, can finally be saved. (Denz. 570b)








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St. Augustine, Faith and the Creed, 393 A.D.: We believe also in the holy Church, that is,
the Catholic Church; for heretics violate the faith itself by a false opinion about God;
schismatics, however, withdraw from fraternal love by hostile separations, although they
believe the same things we do. Consequently, neither heretics nor schismatics belong to
the Catholic Church; not heretics, because the Church loves God; and not schismatics,
because the Church loves neighbor.


QUOTES WHICH PROVE THAT ALL BAPTIZED INFANTS ARE
SUBJECT TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra: Furthermore, we declare,
we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human
creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.

Pope Leo XIII, Nobilissima (# 3), Feb. 8, 1884: The Church, guardian of the integrity of
the Faith which, in virtue of its authority, deputed from God its Founder, has to call all
nations to the knowledge of Christian lore, and which is consequently bound to watch
keenly over the teaching and upbringing of the children placed under its authority by
baptism

The Catholic Church teaches that the baptized infants of heretics are actually Catholics,
even though these infants are baptized by heretics in a heretical church building and are
taken to the heretical church every week. This is de fide.

Pope Innocent IV, Council of Lyons I, March 6, 1254: Moreover, if anyone without
repentance dies in mortal sin, without a doubt he is tortured forever by the flames of
eternal hell. But the souls of children after the cleansing of baptism, and of adults also
who depart in charity and who are bound neither by sin nor unto any satisfaction for sin,
at once pass quickly to their eternal fatherland. (Denz. 457)

It is de fide that all baptized infants without exception who die go straight to the eternal
fatherland (heaven). So, infants born to heretics or schismatics and baptized by heretics
or schismatics, and present in a heretical church building which contains heretics, are
actually Catholics. Anyone who denies this is a heretic.

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 6, Can. 13 on Justification: If anyone shall say that
infants, because they have not actual faith, after having received baptism are not to be
numbered among the faithful let him be anathema. (Denz. 869)

Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae christianae (#4), Jan. 10, 1890: Jesus Christ laid upon His
Apostles the injunction to preach the Gospel to every creature, He imposed, it is evident,
upon all men the duty of learning thoroughly and believing what they were taught. This
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baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned. [Mk. 16:16] But the
man who has embraced the Christian faith, as in duty bound, is by that very fact a subject
of the Church as one of the children born out of her, and becomes a member of that
greatest and holiest body, which it is the special charge of the Roman Pontiff to rule with
supreme power, under its visible head, Jesus Christ.

WHEN DO BAPTIZED INFANTS, WHO ARE BORN TO HERTICAL OR
SCHISMATIC PARENTS, LOSE SUBJECTION TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF AND/OR
THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND THUS CEASE TO BE CATHOLIC?

A baptized person who has the Catholic faith, as a baptized infant does, can only cease to
be Catholic through heresy, schism or apostasy.

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 23), June 29, 1943: For not every
sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man
from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.
-From MHFM


QUOTES ON THE TRINITY AND THE INCARNATION AS THE TWO
MYSTERIES OF FAITH WHICH MUST BE POSITIVELY KNOWN BY
ALL ABOVE REASON TO BE SAVED

Notice that this dogmatic creed declares that the Catholic faith, in terms of its simplest
components (i.e. what you would absolutely have to tell every man above reason without
exception before baptism and so that he could be saved and have the Catholic faith) is the
Trinity and the Incarnation. No other dogma can be rejected, of course, but these are the
only two which must be positively known by all above reason. Notice that this dogmatic
creed uses the phrase whoever wishes or wills to be saved, indicating that it is speaking
of those above reason.-MHFM

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Athanasian Creed, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex
cathedra: Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless
each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.
But the Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in
unity But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the
incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ...the Son of God is God and man... This is the
Catholic faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.

Below we see that the Holy Office under Pope Clement XI responded that a missionary
must, before baptism, explain these absolutely necessary mysteries to an adult who is at
the point of death.

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Q. Whether a minister is bound, before baptism is conferred on an adult, to explain to
him all the mysteries of our faith, especially if he is at the point of death, because this
might disturb his mind. Or, whether it is sufficient, if the one at the point of death will
promise that when he recovers from the illness, he will take care to be instructed, so that
he might put into practice what has been commanded him.
A. A promise is not sufficient, but a missionary is bound to explain to an adult, even a
dying one who is not entirely incapacitated, the mysteries of faith which are necessary by a
necessity of means, as are especially the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

Another question was posed at the same time and answered the same way.

Response of the Sacred Office to the Bishop of Quebec, Jan. 25, 1703:
Q. Whether it is possible for a crude and uneducated adult, as it might be with a
barbarian, to be baptized, if there were given him only an understanding of God and some
of His attributes although he does not believe explicitly in Jesus Christ.
A. A missionary should not baptize one who does not believe explicitly in the Lord Jesus
Christ, but is bound to instruct him about all those matters which are necessary, by a
necessity of means, in accordance with the capacity of the one to be baptized.

The same truth is taught by St. Thomas Aquinas.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: After grace had been revealed, both the
learned and simple folk are bound to explicit faith in the mysteries of Christ, chiefly as
regards those which are observed throughout the Church, and publicly proclaimed, such
as the articles which refer to the Incarnation, of which we have spoken above.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: And consequently, when once grace had
been revealed, all were bound to explicit faith in the mystery of the Trinity.

Notice that no other mysteries are mentioned as absolute necessities of means for all above
reason. Here is another Holy Office Decree reflecting the same truth:

Errors condemned under Pope Innocent XI, March 4, 1679, #64: A person is fit for
absolution, however much he labors under an ignorance of the mysteries of the faith, and
even if through negligence, even culpable, he does not know the mystery of the most
blessed Trinity, and of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Denz. 1214)

Pope St. Damasus, 382 A.D.: This, then, is the salvation of Christians: that believing in
the Trinity, that is, in the Father, and in the Son and in the Holy Spirit, and baptized in
it

St. Athanasius, Letters to Serapion of Thmuis, 360 A.D.: let us note that the very
tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord
gave, was preached by the Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the
Church founded; and if anyone departs from this, he neither is nor any longer aught to be
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Son, and Holy Spirit And because this is the faith of the Church, let them somehow
understand that the Lord sent out the Apostles and commanded them to make this the
foundation of the Church, when He said: Go out and instruct every people, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Mt. 28:19). (The
Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol 1:782)

St. Athanasius, Letters to Serapion of Thmuis, 360 A.D.: This is the faith of the Catholic
Church; for on the Trinity the Lord founded it and rooted it (The Faith of the Early
Fathers, Vol 1:784)

St. Athanasius is not denying that the Church was founded upon St. Peter; he is rather
illustrating that the principal dogma of the Catholic Faith is the Trinity, which is bound
up with the Incarnation and Our Lords Divinity as the Son of God. Thus, again and
again we see that the Trinity and the Incarnation are shown to be the Catholic Faith in
terms of its simplest mysteries and the mysteries that no one above reason can be ignorant
of and be saved.

St. Hilary of Poitiers, The Trinity, 356 A.D.: This, therefore, is the true faith which brings
blessedness to men: to acknowledge Him as God and man, to confess Him as the Word
and as flesh, neither forgetting His divinity in view of His humanity, nor ignoring His flesh
because He is the Word. (The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol 1:873)

It should now be well established that not all aspects or dogmas of the Faith must be
known by all above reason, but only the Trinity and the I ncarnation are absolutely
necessary for everyone above reason to know without any exceptions or excuses for
ignorance.

St. Alphonsus, quoted in Fr. Michael Mullers The Catholic Dogma: Some theologians
hold that the belief of the two other articles - the Incarnation of the Son of God, and the
Trinity of Persons - is strictly commanded but not necessary, as a means without which
salvation is impossible; so that a person inculpably ignorant of them may be saved. But
according to the more common and truer opinion, the explicit belief of these articles is
necessary as a means without which no adult can be saved. (First Command. No. 8.).

The point here is that these two mysteries stand in a unique position among Catholic
dogmas. No other Catholic teaching can be rejected without heresy, but these but these
are the two which absolutely must be known and believed by all above reason to be
Catholic (and thus to be saved M.S.G.). all above from MHFM


CATHOLICS ARE FORBIDDEN (DOGMATICALLY) FROM
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Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928: 9. These pan-Christians who turn
their minds to uniting the churches seem, indeed, to pursue the noblest of ideas in
promoting charity among all Christians: nevertheless how does it happen that this charity
tends to injure faith? Everyone knows that John himself, the Apostle of love, who seems to
reveal in his Gospel the secrets of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and who never ceased to
impress on the memories of his followers the new commandment "Love one another,"
altogether forbade any intercourse with those who professed a mutilated and corrupt
version of Christ's teaching: "If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive
him not into the house nor say to him: God speed you For which reason, since the
foundation of Charity is the Faith, pure and undefiled, THE DISCIPLES OF
CHRIST MUST BE UNITED PRINCIPALLY BY THE BOND OF ONE
FAITH 10. So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why THIS APOSTOLIC SEE
(THE SEE OF PETER) has never allowed its subjects to take part in the
assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be
promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those
who are separated from it.

Pope Pius IX, Neminem vestrum (# 5), Feb. 2, 1854: We want you to know that those same monks sent
Us a splendid profession of Catholic faith and doctrine They eloquently acknowledged and freely
received the regulations and decrees which the popes and the sacred congregations published or
would publish especially those which prohibit communicatio in divinis
(communion in holy matters) with schismatics They acknowledge that they condemn
the error of the schismatic Armenians and recognize that they are outside of the Church of Jesus
Christ.

Pope Pius VI, Charitas, (#31-32), April 13, 1791, Speaking of priests who went along with
the notoriously heretical civil constitution of the clergy in France: Above all, avoid
and condemn the sacriledgious intruders do not hold communion with
them especially in Divine Worship.

[Graves Ac Diuturnae, Pope Pius IX, 1875] 4. We think it is Our duty to repeat this
public declaration now and to request you to preserve the unity of faith among your
faithful by every possible meansYou should remind them to beware of these
treacherous enemies of the flock of Christ and their poisoned foods. They
should totally shun their religious celebrations, their buildings, and their
chairs of pestilence which they have with impunity established to transmit
the sacred teachings. They should shun their writings and all contact with
them. They should not have any dealings or meetings with usurping priests
and apostates from the faith who dare to exercise the duties of an
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jurisdiction. They should avoid them as strangers and thieves who come
only to steal, slay, and destroy. For the Church's children should consider
the proper action to preserve the most precious treasure of faith, without
which it is impossible to please God, as well as action calculated to achieve
the goal of faith, that is the salvation of their souls, by following the straight
road of justice.

Canon 1258.1, 1917 Code of Canon Law: It is not licit for the faithful by
any manner to assist actively or to have a part in the sacred rites
of non-Catholics.

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 8), Jan. 6, 1928: it is clear that the Apostolic See
cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for
Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so
they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one
Church of Christ.

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 2), Jan. 6, 1928:
Certainly such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on
that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and
praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is
inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of
His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived,
but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little
by little, turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly
follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and
attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely
revealed religion.

Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio, May 27, 1832: We shall praise St.
Gregory the Great who expressly testifies that THIS IS INDEED THE
TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. He says: The holy universal Church
teaches that IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO WORSHIP GOD TRULY EXCEPT IN HER
and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved.

POPE PIUS XI, MORTALI UM ANI MOS, ON RELIGIOUS UNITY, JANUARY 6, 1928:
The Church, "the Mother and mistress of all Christ's faithful"? "THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH IS ALONE IN KEEPING THE TRUE WORSHIP. This is the fount of truth,
this the house of Faith, this the temple of God. : if any man enter not here, or if any man








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go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. Let none delude
himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned,
which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are carefully and
assiduously kept in mind."

Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, par. 9, August 10, 1863:"But God
forbid that the sons of the Catholic Church ever in any way be hostile to those
who are not joined with us in the same bonds of faith and love; but rather they
should always be zealous to seek them out and aid them, whether poor, or sick,
or afflicted with any other burdens, with all the offices of Christian charity; and
they should especially endeavor to snatch them from the darkness of error in
which they unhappily lie, and lead them back to Catholic truth and to the most
loving Mother the Church, who never ceases to stretch out her maternal hands
lovingly to them, and to call them back to her bosom so that, established and
firm in faith, hope, and charity, and 'being fruitful in every good work' [Colossians
1:10], they may attain eternal salvation." (Denzinger 1678)



One must be regarded as a Heretic on the Slightest Evidence - with heresy,
malice is always presumed.

Pope Innocent IV, First Council of Lyons, 1245: The civil law declares that those are
to be regarded as heretics, and ought to be subject to the sentences issued against
them, who even on slight evidence are found to have strayed from the judgment and
path of the Catholic religion.

The 1917 Code of Canon Law teaches: If the fact of the violation of a law is certain, the
intention or dolus (malice) is presumed until the contrary is proved. Hence the proof of
ignorance rests on the perpetrator. (Canon 2200, 2)

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30:
for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; BUT WHEN THEY SEE THAT
SOMEONE IS A HERETIC BY HIS EXTERNAL WORKS, THEY JUDGE HIM TO BE
A HERETIC PURE AND SIMPLE, AND CONDEMN HIM AS A HERETIC.

Pope Vigilius, Second Council of Constantinople, ex cathedra: "And about that claim of
the Apostle: Even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to
what you have received, let him be accursed. As we said earlier, I repeat once more: If
anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you have received, let him be accursed.
Since the Lord declares that the person is judged already, and the Apostle curses even the
angels if they instruct in anything different from what we have preached, how is it possible
even for the most presumptuous to assert that these condemnations apply only to those








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who are still alive? Are they unaware, or rather pretending to be unaware, that to be
judged anathematized is just the same as to be separated from God? The heretic, even
though he has not been condemned formally by any individual, in reality brings
anathema on himself, having cut himself off from the way of truth by his heresy.
What reply can such people make to the Apostle when he writes: As for someone who is
factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing
that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned."


THE FAITHFUL MUST AGREE WITH THE CHURCH (WITH DIVINE
AND CATHOLIC FAITH) AND HOLD CONDEMNED AND ANATHEMA
ALL HERETICS:

10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:
11 Knowing that he that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his
own judgment. - SAINT TITUS 3: 10-11 (ETC., IN THE SCRIPTURES)

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Cantate Domino," 1441:
"Therefore the Holy Roman Church condemns, rejects (reprobat),
anathematizes and declares to be outside the Body of Christ, which is the
Church, whoever holds opposing or contrary views."

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9):
"No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard
himself as a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or arise some other
heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to
one single heresy he is not a Catholic."

(Anyone who REJECTS ONE SINGLE ARTICLE OF THE FAITH IS NOT A CATHOLIC - THIS IS A
DOGMA OF THE FAITH! A heretic is not a Catholic, and to say that he is, is to refuse to assent to what
the Church has infallibly taught; it is to contradict Christ, and to deny Papal Infallibility in teaching this
Dogma (that a heretic is not a Catholic))

Pope Innocent III, The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215, CANON
3: We decree that those who give credence to the teachings of the heretics, as
well as those who receive, defend, and patronize them, are excommunicated
If any refuse to avoid such after they have been ostracized by the Church, let
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(The Church is One Faith. It is a Mortal Sin to have any communion with anyone who
rejects any article of faith of the Church! One who has any communion with heretics
excommunicates themselves Ipso Facto (by that very fact) - an automatic
excommunication of the gravest kind according to the Dogmatic Decrees of the Councils and
confirmed by the Popes. HERESY (refusing to assent with Divine and Catholic Faith to
even one infallibly declared article of Faith) is the worst crime against the Church, a
grave blasphemy against the Lord (calling Him a liar in what He has supernaturally and
Graciously revealed through His Church), and it is an attack on the Unity of Faith (One
Lord, One Faith, One Baptism -Athanasian Creed).

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis (# 22), June 29, 1943: Actually only those are to be
numbered among the members of the Church who have received the laver of
regeneration (water Baptism) and profess the true faith.
(ONLY those who profess the true faith, without reservation, exception, or personal opinion, are to be
called Catholic! - Calling a heretic a Catholic subjects one to I pso Facto (by that very fact) censure of
automatic excommunication and condemnation- see Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 3
above, and Pope Saint Martin I, Lateran Council Canon 18 below) - because it follows that, to call a
heretic a Catholic makes one a heretic also.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the
unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic
communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree
from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium."
(It is a Dogma that a heretic is Outside Catholic Communion and Alien to the Church ! To call a
heretic a Catholic subjects one to I pso Facto (by that very fact)censure of automatic excommunication and
condemnation- see Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 3 above, and Pope Saint Martin I,
Lateran Council Canon 18 below) - because it follows that, to call a heretic a Catholic makes one a
heretic also.

Can. 18. If anyone according to the holy Fathers, harmoniously with us and likewise with
the Faith, does not with mind and lips reject and anathematize all the most abominable
heretics together with their impious writings even to one least portion let such a person
be condemned.- (Pope ST. MARTIN I 649-653 (655), THE LATERAN COUNCIL-649, Ex
Cathedra.)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9):
"The Church, founded on these principles and mindful of her office, has done
nothing with greater zeal and endeavor than she has displayed in guarding the
integrity of the faith. Hence she regarded as rebels and expelled from the ranks
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own "There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit
nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison,
infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic
tradition"(Auctor Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos) then it be certain
that (if) anything is revealed by God, and this is not believed, then nothing
whatever is believed by divine Faith "Whosoever shall offend in one point, is
become guilty of all"(Ep. James ii., 10) "In many things they are with me, in
a few things not with me; but in those few things in which they are not with me
the many things in which they are will not profit them"(S. Augustinus in Psal. liv.,
n. 19). And this indeed most deservedly; for they, who take from Christian
doctrine what they please, lean on their own judgments, not on faith; and not
"bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ" (2
Cor. x., 5), they more truly obey themselves than God. "You, who believe what
you like, believe yourselves rather than the gospel"(S. Augustinus, lib. xvii.,
Contra Faustum Manichaeum, cap. 3).

( There are many who call themselves Catholic, and even hold to most doctrines of the
Faith, and have an outward practice that may look Catholic, but, they choose certain
things of Divine and Catholic Faith which they dislike and simply refuse to believe and
practice them. According to the Church these people are in no way Catholic - for if
anything is revealed by God and it is not believed, then nothing whatever is believed with
Divine Faith. The Church says that this is certain! These people admit nearly the
whole cycle of doctrine, yet in rejecting one article of Faith, they reject all faith.)

Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215, Constitution 3, On Heretics:
We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy raising itself up against this holy,
orthodox and Catholic faith which we have expounded above. We condemn all heretics,
whatever names they may go under. They have different faces indeed but their tails are
tied together in as much as they are alike in their pride.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896, Ex Cathedra: Can it be lawful for
anyone to reject any one of those truths without by that very fact falling into
heresy? without separating himself from the Church? without repudiating in
one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? But he who dissents even in
one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith.
(It is a Dogma that one who rejects any onearticle of the faith has 1.) embraced heresy, 2.) separated
himself from the Church, 3.) repudiated all Christian teaching, and 4.) absolutely rejected all faith! (Is a
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Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 23), June 29, 1943:
"For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever
a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy."
(Heresy, Schism and Apostasy automatically excommunicate a man. A heretic is severed
from the body of the Church, has no part in the Body of Christ and no part in Christ
Himself because he is outside Catholic Communion and alien to the Church.)

Pope Leo X, Fifth Lateran Council, Session 8, Dec. 19, 1513, ex cathedra: "...And since
truth cannot contradict truth, we define that every statement contrary to the enlightened
truth of the faith is totally false and we strictly forbid teaching otherwise to be permitted.
We decree that all those who cling to erroneous statements of this kind, thus sowing
heresies which are wholly condemned, should be avoided in every way"

II Council of Constantinople, 553, Can. 11: . If anyone does not anathematize Arius,
Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinarius, Nestorius, Eutyches, and Origen, in company with
their sinful works, and all other heretics, who have been condemned by the Holy
Catholic and Apostolic Church and by the four holy synods above-mentioned, and those of
the above-mentioned heretics who have thought or think likewise, and have remained in
their impiety until the end, let such a one be anathema.

Pope ST. MARTIN I 649-653 (655), THE LATERAN COUNCIL-649: Can. 18. If anyone
according to the holy Fathers, harmoniously with us and likewise with the Faith, does not
with mind and lips reject and anathematize all the most abominable heretics and those,
who unto the end have obstinately suggested (ideas) similar to these, or do suggest (them), or
are believed to suggest (them) (he is guilty as well) inasmuch as he promulgates equally the
denial and by silence unto the trimming down of the definitions or of the rule of the
Catholic Church If anyone therefore, as has been said, does not in agreement with us
reject and anathematize all these most impious teachings of their heresy, and those matters
which have been impiously written by anyone in defense of them let such a person be
condemned.
(This is how serious the Church speaks on this subject - Dogmatically - one must condemn suggested
(heretical) ideas, by those who do suggest them or even are believed to suggest them otherwise one
equally takes part in the crime of heresy by silence - if one does not in agreement with the Church
reject and anathematize all heresy let such a person be condemned, Why? It is simple - there is no
excuse for favoring or excusing heresy, which is a monstrous infection that destroys the faith and kills
souls. The Church commands each and every one of the faithful to expose, condemn and work for the
extermination of the slightest heresy - to refuse so makes one a heretic as well, and one is rightfully
excommunicated and condemned as a result! All heresy is an attack upon Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the
Church does not tolerate it in any way.)

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312, Decree # 26: it is a grave offense not to
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Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215, Constitution 3, On Heretics: If, from
sufficient evidence, it is apparent that a bishop is negligent in cleansing his diocese of
heretical wickedness, let him be deposed and another substituted who will confound
heretical depravity. But if any of them by damnable obstinacy disapprove, from this very
fact let them be regarded as heretics.

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (#7) Speaking on the Dogmas of the Catholic
Faith, Aug. 15, 1832: nothing of the things appointed ought to be
diminished; nothing changed; nothing added; but they must be preserved both
as regards expression and meaning.

(Nothing can be taken away from the teachings of the Church, nothing changed and
nothing added - we must believe them as they are Once Declared - no one, of any
position whatever, can ever add to, take away from, or change a teaching of the Church in
even the slightest way!) - see next Dogma:

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation, 1870, ex cathedra:
Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually
retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never
be a recession from that meaning under the specious name of a deeper
understanding.

Pope Felix III: "Not to oppose error is to approve of it, and not to defend truth
is to suppress it, and, indeed, to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do
it, is not less a sin than to encourage them."

Pope St. Leo I: "He that sees another in error, and endeavors not to correct it,
testifies himself to be in error."

Pope Pius IX, Quartus Supra #6, Jan. 6, 1873: It has always been the custom of heretics
and schismatics to call themselves Catholics and to proclaim their many excellences in
order to lead peoples and princes into error.

Pope St. Leo the Great: Therefore, let the blind and foolish subtlety of heretical impiety
be despised. Whosoever continues in heresy is unpardonable, nor can he ever attain
forgiveness. They are falling into that blasphemy which shall never be forgiven, neither in
this world nor in the Judgment to come.

VII Council of Carthage: Heretics are Antichrists and adversaries of Christ.

Pope Innocent IV: Heretics are to be classed with thieves and murderers.

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corrupting it, is a more grievous sin than that of the heathens, because the heathens have
not accepted the faith in any way at all. Hence, the unbelief of heretics is the worst sin.
Speaking absolutely, the unbelief of heretics is worse than that of pagans or Jews. (St.
Thomas Aquinas)

The greatest evil existing today is heresy, an infernal rage which hurls countless souls into
eternal damnation. (St. John Eudes)

These unfortunate people do not see that, in refusing to submit to the Church, they
reduce themselves to believing in nothing. (St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori)

If anyone holds to a single heresy, he is not a Catholic. (St. Augustine)

Here is Saint Jeromes sentiment regarding heretics:

St. Jerome: "To put it briefly, I have never spared heretics, and have always
striven to regard the church' enemies as my own."


Heresy, culpability, and when one is not culpable, and when the
children of heretics themselves become heretics, etc.:

DEFINITION OF HERESY

Canon 1325, 1917 Code of Canon Law: After the reception of baptism, if anyone,
retaining the name Christian, pertinaciously denies or doubts something to be believed
from the truth of divine and Catholic faith, [such a one] is a heretic.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II-II, Q. 5., A. 3: Now it is manifest that he
who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the
Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he
chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching
of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic
who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of
the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in
error.

St. Augustine, Against the Manichees: In Christs Church, those are heretics, who hold
mischievous and erroneous opinions, and when rebuked that they may think soundly and
rightly, offer a stubborn resistance, and, refusing to mend their pernicious and deadly
doctrines, persist in defending them. (quoted by Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II-II, Q.
11. A. 2.)

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who are baptized as infants and taught to deny the Trinity and Incarnation or taught
things contrary to them? Are you saying that they could have the Catholic faith because
they arent aware that the Catholic Church condemns their opinion? Doesnt this
argument prove that people who are raised with false opinions on other matters are also
heretics, even if theyre not obstinate against Catholic teaching.

Answer: No. As covered already, a person above reason who has a false opinion, which
contradicts essential faith in the Trinity and the Incarnation, cannot have the Catholic
faith because these two mysteries are uniquely necessary. Knowledge of these two
mysteries is absolutely necessary for all those above reason to be saved. So a false opinion
about these matters i..e. false opinions which would destroy faith in these dogmas
necessarily entails heresy, while false opinions on other matters do not unless accompanied
by obstinacy. Notice how St. Thomas Aquinas expresses exactly our position on this
matter:

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I, Q. 32, A. 4: Anything is of faith in two
ways; directly, where any truth comes to us principally as divinely taught, as the trinity
and unity of God, the Incarnation of the Son and the like; and concerning these truths a
false opinion of itself involves heresy, especially if it be held obstinately. A thing is of faith,
indirectly, if the denial of it involves as a consequence something against faith; as for
instance if anyone said that Samuel was not the son of Elcana, for it follows that the divine
Scripture would be false. Concerning [these other] such things anyone may have a false
opinion without danger of heresy, before the matter has been considered or settled as
involving consequences against faith, and particularly if no obstinacy is shown; whereas
when it is manifest, and especially if the Church has decided that consequences follow
against faith, then the error cannot be free from heresy. For this reason many things are
now considered heretical which were formerly not so considered, as their consequences
are now more manifest. So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions
about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If,
however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that
consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.

So if a person has been baptized as an infant, and hits the age of reason in a family where
his parents are heretics or schismatics, he can certainly be Catholic, if he has faith in the
Trinity and Incarnation and doesnt obstinately reject any other Catholic teaching. This is
proven by the following quotes, as well as logic flowing from the points above.

Council of Elvira, Canon 22, 300 A.D.: If someone leaves the Catholic Church and goes
over to a heresy, and then returns again, it is determined that penance is not to be denied
to such a one, since he has acknowledged his sin. Let him do penance, then, for ten years,
and after ten years he may come forward to communion. If, indeed, there were children
who were led astray, since they have not sinned of their own fault, they may be received
without delay. (The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 1: 611n)









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This obviously means that the children above reason who were attending the church of a
heretical sect with their parents were not heretics because they were not obstinately
against something they knew to be taught by the Church. This is ancient teaching of the
Church. And this is exactly what we have said is the position of the Church, and what
certain bad willed schismatics have called heretical. This also shows that the unity of the
Church is not defined by buildings which are in or not in communion with the Church. If
that were true, then an infant baptized in a building that is notoriously heretical and out
of communion with the Catholic Church (e.g. a Protestant building) could not become
Catholic.

Fr. Muller quoting Orestes Brownson, in The Catholic Dogma, p. 204: Unquestionably,
authorities in any number may be cited to prove what nobody disputes that pertinacity
in rejecting the authority of the Church is essential to formal or culpable heresy, that
persons may be in heretical societies without being culpable heretics, and therefore, that
we cannot say that all who live and die in such societies are damned precisely for the sin of
heresy.

Pope Pius XI, Ecclesiam Dei, Encyclical on St. Josaphat, Nov. 12, 1923: Our Saint
[Josaphat] was born of schismatic parents but was validly baptized and received the name
of John. From his earliest years he lived a saintly life. Although he was much impressed
by the splendors of the Slavic liturgy, he always sought therein first and foremost the truth
and glory of God. Because of this, and not because he was impressed by arguments, even
as a child he turned towards communion with the Ecumenical, that is, the Catholic
Church. Of this Church he always considered himself a member because of the valid
baptism which he had received. What is more, he felt himself called by a special
Providence to re-establish everywhere the holy unity of the Church.

Pope Pius XI says here in Ecclesiam Dei that St. Josaphat was born of Eastern Schismatic
parents in an area which was separated from the Chair of Peter and acceptance of the
Papacy. St. Josaphat was validly baptized as an infant (and thus became a Catholic). As
he grew up, he attended the Eastern Schismatic Slavic liturgy with his parents, but was
still a Catholic and even saintly according to Pope Pius XI. He was a Catholic, even
though he was attending a schismatic church building, because he had not obstinately
embraced the Eastern Schism by rejecting the Papacy. Thus, his baptism as an infant
made him a member of the Church (and subject to the Roman Pontiff) and he did not
cease to be a member until he obstinately embraced schism or heresy, which he did not,
even though he was attending a schismatic church with his parents. This is a precise
articulation of our position on when the baptized children of heretics become schismatics
and/or heretics: it is not at the age of reason, but when they obstinately embrace schism or
heresy.

Certainly St. Josaphat had unusual good will, as proven by the fact that later on as an
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among the other facts, strikes a death-blow to the false position that anyone above reason
who attends a church building which would be outside of communion with the Catholic
Church is a schismatic and/or heretic. No, its when they obstinately embrace the schism
or heresy of the leaders of that group and thus become members of that sect by such an
obstinate embrace of schism and/or heresy.

It should also be noted that those who are above the age of fourteen or so, and attend a
notoriously heretical or schismatic church building (e.g. a Protestant or Eastern Schismatic
church building where the leading pastor which notoriously and openly rejects the Papacy
and/or other Catholic dogmas), are presumed to be obstinate against Catholic teaching.
The same presumption could not be made about people who attend a church which
professes to be Catholic and professes union with the Papacy (such as the SSPX), but
holds false positions about the current issues. With regard to those churches you would
have to know what an individual believes and is willing to accept to determine whether or
not he is a Catholic or a heretic and/or schismatic.

Thus, I have established the following points without a doubt from the teaching of the
Catholic Church:

1. Baptized infants are made subject to the Roman Pontiff, not by knowledge of who
the Roman Pontiff is, which none of them have, but by their reception of baptism, as
Pope Leo XIII teaches above. Baptism is the key component in initial subjection to
the Roman Pontiff. An infants reception of baptism makes him a subject of the
Church and the Roman Pontiff (who has supreme authority in the Church) even in
schismatical church buildings until they themselves sever that subjection by heresy or
schism.

2. If they dont know about any other Catholic dogmas (other than the Trinity and
Incarnation), then they are not heretics but Catholics [Christians], unless they hold
a position that is incompatible with Faith in the Trinity and Incarnation or deny a
truth that all know about God and the natural law or deny something that they
know to be clearly taught in Scripture. For instance, if the baptized person
described above claims to believe in the Trinity and Incarnation but holds that all
religions are more or less good, then he is a heretic and does not have the Catholic
Faith (even before he knows that such a position is condemned by the Church)
because his belief is incompatible with true Faith in the Trinity as the one true God,
which belief he must have to be said to have the Catholic Faith in its simplest
components.

-All above from MHFM

PROTESTANTS ARE NOT CHRISTIANS, AND, PROTESTANTS ARE NOT
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CHURCH IS TO BECOME APOSTATE AND NON CHRISTIAN! THERE IS
NO SUCH THING AS PARTIAL COMMUNION OR IMPERFECT
COMMUNION. IT IS HERESY AND A MOCKERY OF THE CHURCHS
TEACHING ON THE UNITY OF THE FAITH:

There is no such thing as a "partial communion" between the Roman Catholic Church and non-Catholic
religions or sects . To assert that there is a partial communion between the Roman Catholic Church
and non-Catholic sects is overtly heretical, since it is directly contrary to the Church's teaching.

Pope Pius IX: "None [of these religious societies differing among themselves and separated from the
Catholic Church], not even taken as a whole, constitutes in any way and are not that one, Catholic
Church founded and made by Our Lord and which He wished to create. Further, one cannot say in any
way that these societies are either members or parts of that same Church, because they are
visibly separated from Catholic Unity."

B. Syllabus* Comprising the particular errors of our age, which are noted in
consistorial Allocutions, in Encyclical and other Apostolic Letters of His Holiness, our Lord Pope Pius
IX *:

Sec. 111. Indifferentism, Latitudinarianism

1715 15 Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he, led by the light of reason,
thinks to be the true religion (8, 26). CONDEMNED

1716 16. In the worship of any religion whatever, men can find the way to eternal salvation, and can
attain eternal salvation (1, 3, 17). CONDEMNED

1717 17. We must have at least good hope concerning the eternal salvation of all those who in no
wise are in the true Church of Christ 13. [see n. 1646] 28 [see n. 1677]). CONDEMNED

1718 18. Protestantism is nothing else than a different form of the same true
Christian religion, in which it is possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic
Church (5). CONDEMNED

ALL THE ABOVE PROPOSITIONS ENTIRELY AND WHOLLY CONDEMNED !
Pope Pius IX: Also perverse is that shocking theory that it makes no difference to which religion
one belongs, a theory greatly at variance even with reason. By means of this theory, those crafty men
remove all distinction between virtue and vice, truth and error, honorable and vile action. They pretend
that men can gain eternal salvation by the practice of any religion, as if there could ever be any
sharing between justice and iniquity, any collaboration between light and darkness, or any
agreement between Christ and Belial. (Qui Pluribus # 15, Nov. 9, 1846)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#5), June 29, 1896: The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the
same for ever; those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ, the Lord - leaving the
path of salvation they enter on that of perdition. "Whosoever is separated from the Church is united
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Church of Christ cannot arrive at the rewards of Christ. He who observes not this unity observes not
the law of God, holds not the faith of the Father and the Son, clings not to life and salvation."

If Christ is necessary to redemption and salvation, then His One, True Faith is necessary
to believe ALL His Words and obey ALL His Commands!

Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum (# 14), May 5, 1824: It is IMPOSSIBLE for the most true God, who is
Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who
profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer
eternal rewards on their members by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ in which
we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the
Church.

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis (# 22), June 29, 1943: Actually only those are to be numbered
among the members of the Church who have been baptized in water and profess the true faith
As therefore in the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one
Baptism, so there can be only one faith. And therefore, if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be
considered - so the Lord commands - as a heathen and a publican. It follows that those who are
divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of such a Body, nor
can they be living the life of its one Divine Spirit. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis,
June 29, 1943.)

Also:
Pope Leo XIII: "Jesus Christ never conceived of nor instituted a Church formed of many communities
which were brought together by certain general traits - but which would be distinct one from another
and not bound together among themselves by ties which make the Church one and indivisible - since
we clearly profess in the Creed of our Faith: " 'I believe in one...Church.

Pope Pius XI: " it were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of members
which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united with the body is no
member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head.

Pope Pius XI: "It is to depart from divine truth to imagine a Church which one can neither see nor
touch, which would be nothing more than spiritual in which numerous Christian communities would be
united by an invisible bond, even though they are divided in faith

THE GOSPEL DOES NOT MEAN THE GOOD NEWS. This is a truncated,
maudlin and heretical description of the gospel. (Indeed the gospel is very bad news to the
greater majority of impious men who love the world.) The gospel means the message of
Jesus Christ - all the truths which Christ taught the apostles and commissioned them to
teach all nations - to obey all that He had commanded. To - (And he said to all: If any man will
come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily, and follow me. - Luke 9:23; For
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save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man
give in exchange for his soul? - Mark 8:35-37) - forsake all things and follow Him, to Love the
Lord with all of ones heart, soul, strength and mind. To hate evil and forsake all sin. This
alone is the gospel. M.S.G.

its worth pointing out the truth which is repeated over and over again in Scripture: the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Ps. 110:10; Prov. 1:7; 9:10; Ecclesiasticus
1:16; etc.). Scripture teaches that people first convert by fearing God, and then learn to
love Him later on as they advance. It makes sense, therefore, that informing people of
Gods judgments upon those who sin mortally or reject His teaching is very often a key
component in bringing people to conversion. Thats why St. Benedict says the following
about the first degree of humility.

The first degree of humility, then, is that a man always have the fear of God before his
eyes (cf Ps 35[36]:2), shunning all forgetfulness and that he be ever mindful of all that God
hath commanded, that he always considereth in his mind how those who despise God will
burn in Hell for their sins, and that life everlasting is prepared for those who fear God.
And whilst he guardeth himself evermore against sin and vices of thought, word, deed,
and self-will, let him also hasten to cut off the desires of the flesh. (St. Benedict, on first
degree of humility) - MHFM


ON INTERRELIGIOUS PRAYER MEETINGS. ON PRAYING WITH
PROTESTANTS:

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 2, 3, 8)), Jan. 6, 1928, Ex Cathedra: 2. A similar object
is aimed at by some, in those matters which concern the New Law promulgated by Christ our Lord. For
since they hold it for certain that men destitute of all religious sense are very rarely to be found, they
seem to have founded on that belief a hope that the nations, although they differ among themselves in
certain religious matters, will without much difficulty come to agree as brethren in professing certain
doctrines, which form as it were a common basis of the spiritual life. For which reason conventions,
meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons, at which a large number of listeners
are present, and at which all without distinction are invited to join in the discussion, both infidels of every
kind, and Christians, even those who have unhappily fallen away from Christ or who with obstinacy and
pertinacity deny His divine nature and mission. Certainly such attempts can nowise be approved by
Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good
and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all,
and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who
hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they
reject it, and little by little. turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly
follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is
altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion. 3. But some are more easily deceived by the
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Admonished, therefore, by the consciousness of Our Apostolic office that We should not permit the flock
of the Lord to be cheated by dangerous fallacies, We invoke, Venerable Brethren, your zeal in avoiding
this evil; for We are confident that by the writings and words of each one of you the people will more
easily get to know and understand those principles and arguments which We are about to set forth, and
from which Catholics will learn how they are to think and act when there is question of those
undertakings which have for their end the union in one body, whatsoever be the manner, of all who call
themselves Christians. 8. This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in
their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises;
for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of
Christ.

(Note: The entire text of Mortalium Animos should be read!)



The Christians were at once the objects of hatred and contempt [by the populace of the Roman Empire].
Because they were intolerant of all other religions, because they either denied outright the existence of
heathen deities or regarded them as evil spirits whose worship was the greatest sacrilege and treason to
the true God they were called narrow-minded bigots (Fr. Laux, Church History, p. 44)

Fr. Demaris, a Missionary of St. Joseph and professor of theology in Lyon, stayed faithful during the
upheaval of the French Revolution when many priests had apostatized and went over to the French
Constitutional Church by taking an oath to the revolutionary regime. Fr. Demaris is writing this letter to
Catholics who refused to go to these non-Catholic churches that were presided over by the apostate
priests and stayed home without the Holy Mass, without Confession, or Extreme Unction, etc. Fr.
Demaris:

On the Holy Eucharist
The Holy Eucharist had for you many joys and advantages when you were able to participate in this
Sacrament of love, but now you are deprived of it for being defenders of truth and justice. We sacrifice
our own life as much as it is in us to do renewing itself every day, every time that we adore with
submission the hand of God that drives us away from His altars It is to be advantageously deprived of
the Eucharist, to raise the standard of the Cross for the cause of Christ and the glory of the Church
Yes, I have no fear in saying it. When the storm of the malice of men roars against truth and justice, it is
more advantageous to the faithful to suffer for Christ than to participate in His Body by Communion. I
seem to hear the Saviour saying to us Repair by this humiliating deprivation that glorifies Me, all the
Communions which dishonor Me.

On Confession
Removed from the resources of the sanctuary and deprived of all exercise of the Priesthood, there
remains no mediator for us save Jesus Christ. It is to Him we must go for our needs. Before His supreme
Majesty we must bluntly tear the veil off our consciences and in search of the good and bad we have
done, thank Him for His graces, confess our sins and ask pardon and to show us the direction of His Holy
Will, having in our hearts the sincere desire to confess to His minister whenever we are able to do so.
There, my children, is what I call confessing to God! In such a confession well made, God himself will
absolve us. It is thus in all painful situations that deprive us of the Sacraments. The carrying of the Cross
like a Christian is the source of the remission of our sins What the world does to drive us away from
God only brings us closer We are now to repair those faults which came from too great a trust in
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faithful should consider all its deformities Let this confession to God be for you a short daily practice,
but fervent The first fruit that you will draw from it apart from the remission of your sins, will be to
learn to know yourself and to know God, and the second will be to be ever ready to present yourself to a
priest if you are able, enriched in character by the mercy of the Lord.
Console yourselves, my children in the trust you have in God. This tender Father will pour on you His
graces, His blessings and His mercies in these awful moments that you fear, in more abundance than if
you were being assisted by His ministers, of whom you have been deprived only because you wouldnt
abandon Him. The abandonment and forsakenness that we fear for ourselves resembles that of the Savior
on the Cross when He said to His Father, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Your pains
and abandonment lead you to your glorious destiny in ending your life like Jesus ended His! Dont be
surprised at the great number who quit! Truth wins, no matter how small the number of those who love
and remain attached to God. God watches over us, our hope is justified. It tells us that either the
persecution stops or the persecution will be our crown. In the alternative of one or the other, I see the
accomplishment of our destiny. Let Gods will be done, since in whatever manner He delivers us, His
eternal mercies pour into us.


WHAT MUST A PERSON BELIEVE TO BE CATHOLIC?:

Pope Pius IX, Vatican I, Sess. III, Chap. 3, ex cathedra: Further, by divine and Catholic
faith, all those things must be believed which are contained in the written word of God
and in tradition, and those which are proposed by the Church, either in a solemn
pronouncement or in her ordinary and universal teaching power, to be believed as divinely
revealed. (Denz. 1792)

Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, Session 4, Chap. 4, Ex Cathedra:
the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra [from the Chair of Peter], that is, when
carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord with his
supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the
universal Church... operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished
that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such
definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church,
are unalterable.

Pope Pius IX: So, this gift of truth and a never failing faith was divinely conferred upon
Peter and his successors in this chair (Vatican Council I, ex cathedra). (Luke 22:31-32-
And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have all of you, that he may sift you as
wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy
brethren.)

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos - Indeed you will accomplish this perfectly if, as the duty of your office
demands, you attend to yourselves and to doctrine and meditate on these words: the admonition of
Pope Agatho: "nothing of the things appointed ought to be diminished; nothing
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and meaning."[6] Therefore may the unity which is built upon the See of Peter as on a sure
foundation stand firm. May it be for all a wall and a security, a safe port, and a treasury of countless
blessings.[7] To check the audacity of those who attempt to infringe upon the rights of this Holy See or to
sever the union of the churches with the See of Peter, instill in your people a zealous confidence in the
papacy and sincere veneration for it. As St. Cyprian wrote: "He who abandons the See of
Peter on which the Church was founded, falsely believes himself to be a part of
the Church.

Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis (#20), August 12, 1950: Nor must it be thought that what
is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent, since in writing such
Letters the Popes do not exercise the supreme power of the their Teaching Authority. For
these matters are taught with the Ordinary teaching authority, of which it is true to say:
He who heareth you, heareth me; and generally what is expounded in Encyclical Letters
already appertains to Catholic doctrine. (Meaning that encyclicals to the universal
Church rise to the level of infallibility and demand consent!)


Any baptized person who obstinately denies or doubts any of the truths proposed for
belief by divine and Catholic faith, is a heretic.(C. 1325) 1917 Code of Canon Law (See
Leo XIII Satis Cognitum also)

ALSO: Those with the true Faith in Christ (and His Church) accept His teaching first and understand
the truth in it (i.e., why it is true) second. A Catholic does not withhold his belief in Christs revelation
until he can understand it. That is the mentality of a faithless heretic who possesses insufferable pride. St.
Anselm sums up the true Catholic outlook on this point.:

St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church, Prosologion, Chap. 1: For I do not seek to understand
that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, that unless
I believed, I should not understand.

St. John Chrysostom (370): Let us therefore in all respects put our faith in God and
contradict Him in nothing, even if what is said seems to be contrary to our reasonings and
to what we see. Let His word be of superior authority to reason and sight. (The Faith of
the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 112)


IMPORTANT: ALSO - A DOCTRINE (DOGMA) DOES NOT HAVE TO BE
EXPLICITELY APOSTOLIC TO BE INFALLIBLE! A DOCTRINE MAY BE A
DOGMATIC FACT, SOMETHING SO INEXTRICABLY BOUND UP IN
APOSTOLIC TEACHING AS TO BE INDISPENSIBLE. (FOR INSTANCE,
CANONIZATIONS OF SAINTS IS BOUND UP IN THE DOGMA THAT THE CHURCH
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PRIMUM AND QUOD A NOBIS OF PIUS V ON THE MASS AND BREVIERY ARE
INFALLIBLE DECLARATIONS ON THE PERPETUAL MASS AND PRAYER OF THE
CHURCH, AGAIN BOUND IN THE DOGMA OF THE UNERRING JUDGEMENTS OF
THE CHURCH - THE BRIDE OF CHRIST GUIDED AND PROTECTED BY HIS
DIVINE CARE. AN INFALLIBLE DECLARATION TO BE DOCTRINE OR
DOGMA (AN ABSOLUTE) SIMPLY HAS TO BE 1.) A DECLARATION FROM THE
POPE SPEAKING AS PASTOR AND TEACHER OF ALL CHRISTIANS 2.)
REGARDING A MATTER OF FAITH OR MORALS 3.) TO BE HELD BY THE
UNIVERSAL CHURCH. (SEE: POPE PIUS IX, VATICAN I)
THIS IS WHY A REJECTION OF APOSTOLIC DECLARATIONS SUCH AS CERTAIN
CANONIZATIONS BY A TRUE POPE, OR THE COMMON HERESY OF THE NOVUS
ORDOS OF REJECTION OF QUO PRIMUM AND EX CUM APOSTOLATUS
OFFICIO, ARE WICKED HERESIES AND REJECTIONS OF PAPAL
INFALLIBILITY!
SO: THE POPE DOES NOT ERR IN HIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATIONS MADE
WITH APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY - IT IS DOGMA PLAIN AND SIMPLE - AND IT IS
APOSTOLIC EXPLITELY OR IMPLICITLY ! SEE PAGE 20 REGARDING THE
CHURCHS UNIVERSAL LAWS IMPOSED UPON ALL !!!!!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NEW DOCTRINE, NOR DEVELOPMENT OF
DOCTRINE :

Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists #21: Revelation,
constituting the object of Catholic faith, was not completed with the apostles.
- Condemned

POPE LEO XIII ON THE IMMUTABILITY (PERPETUAL UNCHANGEABLENESS)
OF THE DOCTRINES OF CHRIST, KEPT AND TAUGHT BY HIS SPOUSE THE
CHURCH:

Pope Leo XIII, Testem Benevolentiae, Jan. 22, 1899 (Against Americanism): The
underlying principle of these new opinions is that, in order to more easily attract those
who differ from her, the Church should shape her teachings more in accord with the spirit
of the age and relax some of her ancient severity and make some concessions to new
opinions. Many think that these concessions should be made not only in regard to ways of
living, but even in regard to doctrines which belong to the deposit of the faith. They
contend that it would be opportune, in order to gain those who differ from us, to omit
certain points of her teaching which are of lesser importance, and to tone down the
meaning which the Church has always attached to them. It does not need many words,
beloved son, to prove the falsity of these ideas if the nature and origin of the doctrine
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point: "For the doctrine of faith which God has revealed has not been proposed, like a
philosophical invention to be perfected by human ingenuity, but has been delivered as a
divine deposit to the Spouse of Christ to be faithfully kept and infallibly declared. Hence
that meaning of the sacred dogmas is perpetually to be retained which our Holy Mother,
the Church, has once declared, nor is that meaning ever to be departed from under the
pretense or pretext of a deeper comprehension of them." Constitutio de Fide Catholica,
Chapter iv.

WHAT IS A DOGMA, AND WHY ARE DOGMATIC DEFINITIONS GIVEN AT
CERTAIN PERIODS OF TIME ?

When a Dogma is proclaimed, what happens is that a certain article or issue of the Deposit
of Faith is clearly and permanently defined. This is accomplished through the infallible
instrument of the Teaching Authority of The Church. Christ is with the Church, the
Apostolic Succession, until the end of this present world, guiding Her infallibly in
guarding, maintaining, and teaching the Deposit of Faith left by Our Redeemer Jesus
Christ with the Apostles. The Deposit of Faith is the name of the set of Doctrines and
Teachings which Jesus taught the Apostles and which He left with the Church to be
faithfully transmitted to all peoples throughout all generations of men until the end of the
present world. This Deposit of Faith is immutable (unchanging), infallible (without any
error), and perpetual (permanent, never to go away). When the Head Bishop of the
Catholic Church, the universal Body of Christ - the Church which Jesus established and
founded upon the faith of Peter (Jesus Himself being the chief cornerstone of this Church),
defines a Doctrine (Dogma), he does not make a new truth. Neither does he add something
new to an existing truth. What he does is simply, with the Authority and infallibility of
Christ Himself, through His Church, Defines, or puts a definition to, a truth of the faith
which Christ taught. He defines an article of the Deposit of Faith which Jesus Himself
taught to the Apostles.
The reason for a Dogmatic Definition at a certain period in time is because of either
some confusion regarding the particulars of a Doctrine of the Faith, or because of some
dissent or opposition to the truth of a Doctrine of the Faith, of in order to more clearly
define the particulars of a certain Doctrine of the Faith so that it may be most clearly
taught to the faithful. It is that simple. There is never anything new - what was taught by
the Lord to the Apostles makes up the Deposit of Faith. The Deposit of Faith resides
within the Church which Jesus founded - the Catholic Church. Once a Dogma is defined it
is defined once and forever - there can never be anything added to that definition, nor
anything taken away from it, nor any idea promoted concerning it which is in any way
different than that which is stated in the clear definition. A Dogmatic Definition of the
Catholic Church is exactly that - a Definition! It is plain, and defining, and final! Once an
article of the Faith is defined with Papal Authority (which was directly given by Our Lord
to Peter) then that is it! Thats the end of interpretations or scrutiny! This is why the
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created for it - the Magisterial Teaching Authority of the Church which resides in the
Papacy, protected by the faith of Peter, the unfailing faith which Christ established in him!

ONLY THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH IS TO BE BELIEVED, NOT THE
FATHERS (OF THEIR OWN ACCORD), NOR CATECHISMS, NOR SAINTS OR
DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH OR EVEN THEOLOGIANS !!!!!:

Pope Benedict XIV, Apostolica (# 6), June 26, 1749: The Churchs judgment is preferable
to that of a Doctor renowned for his holiness and teaching.

Errors of the Jansenists, #30: When anyone finds a doctrine clearly established in
Augustine, he can absolutely hold it and teach it, disregarding any bull of the pope.-
Condemned by Pope Alexander VIII (Denz. 1320)

Pope Pius XII, Humani generis (# 21), Aug. 12, 1950: This deposit of faith our Divine
Redeemer has given for authentic interpretation not to each of the faithful, not even to
theologians, but only to the Teaching Authority of the Church.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II-II, Q. 10, A. 12: The custom of the
Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things, since the
very doctrine of Catholic doctors derives its authority from the Church. Hence we ought
to abide by the authority of the Church rather than by that of an Augustine or a Jerome
or of any doctor whatever.

A DOGMA, ONCE DEFINED, CAN NEVER CHANGE, BE ALTERED, EVOLVE, BE
UNDERSTOOD DIFFERENTLY, ETC. A DOGMA IS A DEFINITION GIVEN
UNDER THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THE HOLY GHOST, CLEARLY STATING
THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH WHICH CHRIST ONCE AND PERPETUALLY TAUGHT
THE APOSTLES AND HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH TO TEACH !!!!! :

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 4, Chap. 4, Ex Cathedra:
"For, the Holy Ghost was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation
they might disclose new doctrine, but that by His help they might guard sacredly the
revelation transmitted through the apostles and the deposit of faith, and might
faithfully set it forth."

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation, 1870, ex cathedra:
Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained,
which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never be a recession from
that meaning under the specious name of a deeper understanding.

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 3, Chap. 4, Ex Cathedra, on the true progress
of knowledge:
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invention to the human mind to be perfected, but has been entrusted as a divine deposit
to the Spouse of Christ, to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted."

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, SESSION 4, Chapter 4. On the infallible teaching
authority of the Roman pontiff, #9, #10: Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition
received from the beginning of the christian faith, to the glory of God our saviour, for the
exaltation of the catholic religion and for the salvation of the christian people, with the
approval of the sacred council, we teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that
when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, that is, when, 1. in the exercise of his
office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, 2. in virtue of his supreme apostolic
authority, 3. he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the universal
church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that
infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine
concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of
themselves, and not by the consent of the church, unalterable. So then, should anyone,
which God forbid, have the temerity to contradict this definition of ours: let him be
anathema.

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 3, Chap. 4, Canon 3:
"If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge,
a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the church which is different from
that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema."

Pope Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists, July 3, 1907, #22, Ex Cathedra:
The dogmas which the Church professes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven,
but they are a kind of interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind by a
laborious effort prepared for itself.- Condemned (Denz. 2022)

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos - Indeed you will accomplish this perfectly if, as the duty of your office
demands, you attend to yourselves and to doctrine and meditate on these words: the admonition of
Pope Agatho: "nothing of the things appointed ought to be diminished; nothing changed;
nothing added; but they must be preserved both as regards expression and meaning

Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists #21: Revelation, constituting
the object of Catholic faith, was not completed with the apostles.- Condemned

Matthew 24:35: "Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass."

Hebrews 13:8: "Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; the same forever."


DOGMAS ARE NOT MATTERS OF INTERPRETATIONS BUT ARE DIVINELY
REVEALED TRUTHS - A DOGMA IS BY DEFINITION AN ABSOLUTE:

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July 3, 1907, #22: The dogmas which the Church professes as revealed are
not truths fallen from heaven, but they are a kind of interpretation of
religious facts, which the human mind by a laborious effort prepared for
itself. CONDEMNED

Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile, Ex Cathedra, The Errors of the Modernists,
July 3, 1907, #54: The dogmas, the sacraments, the hierarchy, as far as
pertains both to the notion and to the reality, are nothing but
interpretations and the evolution of Christian intelligence, which have
increased and perfected the little germ latent in the Gospel. CONDEMNED

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation, 1870, Ex
Cathedra: HENCE ALSO THAT UNDERSTANDING OF ITS SACRED DOGMAS MUST
BE PERPETUALLY RETAINED, WHICH HOLY MOTHER CHURCH HAS ONCE DECLARED;
AND THERE MUST NEVER BE A RECESSION FROM THAT MEANING UNDER THE
SPECIOUS NAME OF A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING.
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MHFM: The people who make this assertion (THAT DOGMAS ARE BEING PRIVATELY
INTERPRETED WHEN ONE CALLS THEM FORTH TO PROVE AN ARTICLE OF THE FAITH) dont
understand Catholic teaching or what constitutes fidelity to the Magisterium. This issue of interpretation was
addressed in our book Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation, but weve recently come
across an additional point that is extremely important in this regard. In its Decree on the Sacrament of Order,
the Council of Trent solemnly declared that the dogmatic canons of Trent are for the use of all the faithful!

Pope Pius IV, Council of Trent, Sess. 13, Chap. 4: These are the matters which in general it seemed well
to the sacred Council to teach to the faithful of Christ regarding the sacrament of order. It has, however,
resolved to condemn the contrary in definite and appropriate canons in the following manner, so that all,
making use of the rule of faith, with the assistance of Christ, may be able to recognize more easily the
Catholic truth in the midst of the darkness of so many errors. (Denz. 960)

The word canon" (in Greek: kanon) means a reed; a straight rod or bar; a measuring stick; something serving
to determine, rule, or measure. The Council of Trent is infallibly declaring that its canons are measuring rods
for all so that they, making use of these rules of Faith (the meaning of the word canon), may be able to
recognize and defend the truth in the midst of darkness! This very important statement blows away the claim of
those who say that using dogmas to prove points is private interpretation. This canon teaches exactly the
opposite of what they assert: that all cannot make use of these rules of Faith! This is a very important statement
not only for the salvation/baptism controversy, but also for the sedevacantist issue.
The point of the dogmas is so that the faithful know what they must believe and reject, so that they are
independent of the mere opinions of men, and are following the infallible truth of Christ. If the faithful have to
rely on someone else giving their version or understanding of the dogmatic definition, then that (fallible) person
becomes the rule of faith, and not the infallible dogmatic definition.

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St. Francis De Sales (Doctor of the Church), The Catholic Controversy, c. 1602, p. 228: The Councils
decide and define some article. If after all this another test has to be tried before their [the Councils]
determination is received, will not another also be wanted? Who will not want to apply his test, and
whenever will the matter be settled?... And why not a third to know if the second is faithful? and then a
fourth, to test the third? Everything must be done over again, and posterity will never trust antiquity but
will go ever turning upside down the holiest articles of faith in the wheel of their understandings what
we say is that when a Council has applied this test, our brains have not now to revise but to believe.

The interpretation ends with the words of the dogma itself! If it doesnt, then it never ends, as we saw above
you just have fallible interpretation after fallible interpretation after fallible interpretation after fallible
interpretation. If the buck doesnt stop with the infallible definition (the Chair of Peter), then it never stops. I
pointed this fact out to a somewhat well-known apologist for the Vatican II sect in a telephone conversation.
He was arguing that our usage of Catholic dogmatic teaching (the teaching of the Chair of Peter) is like
Protestant private interpretation. He was saying this in an attempt to defend some of his heretical beliefs
which contradict dogma, such as his belief that non-Catholics can be saved. I said to him, then who interprets
the dogma? And who interprets the interpretation of the dogma? After I said who interprets the interpretation
of the dogma and who interprets the interpretation of the interpretation and who interprets the
interpretation of the interpretation of the interpretation he remained deadly silent for the first time in the
conversation. He obviously had no response to the factual point that was made, simply because there is no
response. In the heretical view of dogmatic teaching that he espoused, the Catholic Faith is nothing more than
Protestantism fallible, private, human interpretation with no Chair of Peter to give one the final word. The
following quotation also illustrates this point very well.

Why did Athanasius know he was right? Because he clung to the infallible definition, no matter what
everyone else said. Not all the learning in the world, nor all the rank of office, can substitute for the truth
of one infallibly defined Catholic teaching. Even the simplest member of the faithful, clinging to an
infallible definition, will know more than the most learned theologian who denies or undermines the
definition. That is the whole purpose of the Churchs infallibly defined teaching to make us
independent of the mere opinions of men, however learned, however high their rank. (The Devils Final
Battle, p. 183. *we dont endorse this book, but this is an excellent point.*)

That is why in adhering to exactly what the dogma has once declared (Vatican I), one is not engaging
in Protestant private interpretation, but is rather being most faithful to the infallible truth of Christ
and the directly infallible way of knowing it (the dogmatic definitions of the Church).

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation, 1870, ex cathedra: Hence, also, that
understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once
declared; and there must never be a recession from that meaning under the specious name of a deeper
understanding. (Denz. 1800)

Those who depart from the actual declaration of the dogma, and the actual meaning of its words, are the
ones who engage in condemned, sinful, fallible and private interpretation, against the direct words of the
dogma (against the infallible definitions) and thus destroy all faith and render Papal Infallibility
pointless. If one cant go by what the dogmatic statement actually declares, then Christ would have just
told us to always follow those with learning or authority; He would never have instituted an infallible
Magisterium exercised by the Popes, which can clarify issues once and for all times with no possibility of
error and regardless of who agrees or disagrees with the definition.

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Of course they can. Men can misunderstand or pervert anything and any form of teaching that could ever be
transmitted. If Jesus Christ (the Truth Himself) were here speaking to us, many people would without doubt
misunderstand or pervert what He said, just as many did when He came the first time. Likewise, just because
some can and do misunderstand what the Chair of Peter is declaring, it does not mean that those who faithfully
adhere to and make use of its definitions are engaging in Protestant private interpretation. It is just the
opposite, as we saw from the Council of Trent above. And that is why the Magisterium has condemned the idea
that dogmas are just interpretations!

Pope Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists, July 3, 1907, #22:
The dogmas which the Church professes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but they are a
kind of interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind by a laborious effort prepared for itself.-
Condemned (Denz. 2022)

Pope Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the Modernists, July 3, 1907, #54:
The dogmas, the sacraments, the hierarchy, as far as pertains both to the notion and to the reality, are
nothing but interpretations and the evolution of Christian intelligence, which have increased and
perfected the little germ latent in the Gospel.- Condemned (Denz. 2054)

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (#7), Aug. 15, 1832: nothing of the things appointed ought to be
diminished; nothing changed; nothing added; but they must be preserved both as regards expression and
meaning. - (All of the above from the MHFM Q&A Section.)

ANYONE WHO REJECTS THE PAPACY, THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE
APOSTLES, REJECTS THE APOSTOLIC FAITH ENTIRELY, AND IS NOT A
CHRISTIAN:

Pope Pius IX, Amantissimus (# 3), April 8, 1862:
There are other, almost countless, proofs drawn from the most trustworthy witnesses
which clearly and openly testify with great faith, exactitude, respect and obedience that all
who want to belong to the true and only Church of Christ must honor and obey this
Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff.

Pope Pius VI, Charitas (# 32), April 13, 1791:
Finally, in one word, stay close to Us. For no one can be in the Church of Christ without
being in unity with its visible head and founded on the See of Peter.

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 4, Chap. 4, ex cathedra:
"And so We... teach and explain... that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra...
operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be
instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman
Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable. But if
anyone presumes to contradict this definition of Ours, which may God forbid: let him be
anathema."

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the successor of the blessed Peter, the chief of the apostles, and is the true vicar of Christ
and head of the whole Church (Denzinger 1826)

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 4, Chap. 3, ex cathedra:
"We renew the definition of the Ecumenical Council of Florence, by which all the faithful
of Christ must believe that the Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the
whole world, and the Pontiff of Rome himself is the successor of the blessed Peter, the
chief of the apostles, and is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church... This
is the doctrine of Catholic truth from which no one can deviate and keep his
faith and salvation."

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896, Ex Cathedra:
can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without by that very fact
falling into heresy? without separating himself from the Church? without repudiating
in one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? For such is the nature of faith that
nothing can be more absurd than to accept some things and reject others. Faith, as the
Church teaches, is that supernatural virtue by which we believe what He has revealed to
be true, not on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural light of human
reason [author: that is, not because it seems correct to us], but because of the authority of
God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive nor be deceived But he who dissents
even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he
thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.

Pope Pius VI, Charitas (# 32), April 13, 1791:
Finally, in one word, stay close to Us. For no one can be in the Church of Christ without
being in unity with its visible head and founded on the See of Peter.

Pope Pius IX, Amantissimus (# 3), April 8, 1862:
There are other, almost countless, proofs drawn from the most trustworthy witnesses
which clearly and openly testify with great faith, exactitude, respect and obedience that all
who want to belong to the true and only Church of Christ must honor and obey this
Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff.

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 11), Jan. 6, 1928:
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept,
recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 22), June 29, 1943:
As therefore in the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one
Lord, and one Baptism, so there can only be one faith. And therefore if a man refuse to
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publican. It follows that those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in
the unity of such a Body, nor can they be living the life of its one Divine Spirit.

Pope Pius VII, Diu Satis (# 15), May 15, 1800:g
So the sheep of Christ should consider safe and eat cheerfully the food to which Peters
voice and authority directs them; but despite any beauty and charm, they should shun as
harmful and plague-ridden, what this voice forbids them. Those who do not comply are
certainly not to be counted among the sheep of Christ.

Pope Leo XIII: To reject dogma is simply to deny Christianity. (Tametsi futura # 9, Nov.
1, 1900)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 10), June 29, 1896: For this reason, as the unity of the
faith is of necessity required for the unity of the Church, inasmuch as it is the body of the
faithful, so also for this same unity, inasmuch as the Church is a divinely constituted
society, unity of government, which effects and involves unity of communion, is necessary
jure divino (by divine law).


18 *And I say to thee: That thou art Peter (The rock); and upon this rock I
will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 *And
I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. **And whatsoever thou
shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou
shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. (Saint Matthew 16.18-
19)

The house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth. (1 Timothy 3.15)

17 And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the
publican. 18 *Amen, I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall
be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be
loosed also in heaven. (Saint Matthew 18.17-18)

19 *Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors
were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews:
Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them; Peace be to you 21 He
said therefore to them again; Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I
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and in earth - Jesus sends the Apostles just as the Father had sent Jesus!)
22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and he said to them: Receive
ye the Holy Ghost:
23 *Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose you shall
retain, they are retained. (Saint John 20.19, 21-23)

18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in
heaven and in earth.
19 *Going, therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and
behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Saint
Matthew 28. 18-20
Mortalium Animos, Pope Pius XI, 11. "The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true
worship. This is the fount of truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God: if any
man enter not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and
salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are
here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are
carefully and assiduously kept in mind."



And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their
hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand
was restored unto him. - Mark 3:5


St. Paul says that Antichrist sitteth in the temple of God (2 Thess. 2:4) This is not the ancient
Temple of Jerusalem, nor a temple like it built by Antichrist, as some have thought, for then it would be
his own temple this temple is shown to be a Catholic Church, possibly one of the churches in Jerusalem
or St. Peters in Rome, which is the largest church in the world and is in the full sense The Temple of
God. (Fr. Herman Kramer, The Book of Destiny, p. 321)


for there is no power but from God - Romans 13:1

Pope Leo XIII, Inimica Vis, 1892: An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth
which is not defended is suppressed He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to
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- The following is the Council of Trents Dogmatic Definition of Original Sin, or the state of Man after
Adams sin and fall. It is to be believed and held absolutely with Divine and Catholic Faith. If one
understands the Apostolic Teaching on Original Sin, then one will entirely understand the nature of Man,
the World, and all that pertains to these. The Vatican II apostate church and its antipopes continually
make claims of the Dignity of Man. It is the foundation of all of their heresies regarding how man is his
own god, or more explicitly, their heresy that man is indeed Christ. Yet the true teaching of God,
transmitted through His Holy Catholic Church shows how man has fallen entirely and completely from
any and all dignity through sin, and cannot, without Holy Baptism and living in a state of Grace, ever
have any dignity whatsoever:

The Council of Trent

Session v (June 17, 1546)

Decree On Original Sin *

787 That our Catholic faith, "without which it is impossible to please God"[Heb. 11:16]
may after the purging of errors continue in its own perfect and spotless purity, and that
the Christian people may not be "carried about with every wind of doctrine" [Eph. 4:14],
since that old serpent, the perpetual enemy of the human race, among the very many evils
with which the Church of God in these our times is troubled, has stirred up not only new,
but even old dissensions concerning original sin and its remedy, the sacred ecumenical and
general Synod of Trent lawfully assembled in the Holy Spirit with the same three legates of
the Apostolic See presiding over it, wishing now to proceed to the recalling of the erring
and to the confirming of the wavering, and following the testimonies of the Holy
Scriptures and of the holy Fathers and of the most approved Councils, as well as the
judgment and the unanimity of the Church itself, has established, confesses, and declares
the following concerning original sin:

788 I. If anyone does not confess that the first man Adam, when he had transgressed the
commandment of God in Paradise, immediately lost his holiness and the justice in which
he had been established, and that he incurred through the offense of that prevarication the
wrath and indignation of God and hence the death with which God had previously
threatened him, and with death captivity under his power, who thenceforth "had the
empire of death" [Heb. 2:14], that is of the devil, and that through that offense of
prevarication the entire Adam was transformed in body and soul for the worse [see n.
174], let him be anathema.
(Note - [174] 174 [I. Original sin] ST. FELIX III 526-530, COUNCIL OF ORANGE II 529 * Confirmed by
Boniface II (against the Semipelagians) Original Sin, Grace, Predestination
*Can. 1. If anyone says that by the offense of Adam's transgression not the whole man, that is according to body
and soul, was changed for the worse [St. Augustine], * but believes that while the liberty of the soul endures
without harm, the body only is exposed to corruption, he is deceived by the error of Pelagius and resists the
Scripture which says: "The soul, that has sinned, shall die" [ Ezech. 18:20]; and: "Do you not know that to
whom you show yourselves servants to obey, you are the servants of him whom you obey?"[ Rom. 6:16]; and:








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Anyone is adjudged the slave of him by whom he is overcome [ 2 Pet.2:19].)

789 2. If anyone asserts that the transgression of Adam has harmed him alone and not his
posterity, and that the sanctity and justice, received from God, which he lost, he has lost
for himself alone and not for us also; or that he having been defiled by the sin of
disobedience has transfused only death "and the punishments of the body into the whole
human race, but not sin also, which is the death of the soul," let him be anathema, since he
contradicts the Apostle who says: "By one man sin entered into the world, and by sin
death, and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned" [Rom. 5:12; see n.
175].

790 3. If anyone asserts that this sin of Adam, which is one in origin and transmitted to all
is in each one as his own by propagation, not by imitation, is taken away either by the
forces of human nature, or by any remedy other than the merit of the one mediator, our
Lord Jesus Christ [see n. 711], who has reconciled us to God in his own blood, "made unto
us justice, sanctification, and redemption" [1 Cor. 1:30]; or if he denies that that merit of
Jesus Christ is applied to adults as well as to infants by the sacrament of baptism, rightly
administered in the form of the Church: let him be anathema. "For there is no other name
under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved . . ." [Acts 4:12]. Whence that
word: "Behold the lamb of God, behold Him who taketh away the sins of the world"
[John 1:29]. And that other: "As many of you as have been baptized, have put on Christ"
[Gal. 3:27].

791 4. "If anyone denies that infants newly born from their mothers' wombs are to be
baptized," even though they be born of baptized parents, "or says they are baptized
indeed for the remission of sins, but that they derive nothing of original sin from Adam,
which must be expiated by the laver of regeneration" for the attainment of life everlasting,
whence it follows, that in them the form of baptism for the remission of sins is understood
to be not true, but false: let him be anathema. For what the Apostle has said: "By one man
sin entered into the world, and by sin death, and so death passed upon all men, in whom
(Adam) all have sinned" [Rom. 5:12], is not to be understood otherwise than as the
Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For by reason of this rule of
faith from a tradition of the apostles even infants, who could not as yet commit any sins of
themselves, are for this reason truly baptized for the remission of sins, so that in them
there may be washed away by regeneration, what they have contracted by generation, [see
n. 102]. "For unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God" [John 3:5].

792 5. If anyone denies that by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is conferred in
baptism, the guilt of original sin is remitted, or even asserts that the whole of that which
has the true and proper nature of sin is not taken away, but says that it is only touched in
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nothing, because "there is no condemnation, to those who are truly buried together with
Christ by baptism unto death" [Rom. 6:4], who do not "walk according to the flesh"
[Rom. 8:1], but putting off "the old man" and putting on the "new, who is created
according to God" [Eph. 4:22 ff.; Col. 3:9 ff.], are made innocent, immaculate, pure,
guiltless and beloved sons of God, "heirs indeed of God, but co-heirs with Christ"
[Rom.8:17], SO that there is nothing whatever to retard their entrance into heaven. But
this holy Synod confesses and perceives that there remains in the baptized concupiscence
of an inclination, although this is left to be wrestled with, it cannot harm those who do not
consent, but manfully resist by the grace of Jesus Christ. Nay, indeed, "he who shall
have striven lawfully, shall be crowned" [2 Tim. 2:5]. This concupiscence, which at times
the Apostle calls sin [Rom. 6:12 ff.] the holy Synod declares that the Catholic Church has
never understood to be called sin, as truly and properly sin in those born again, but
because it is from sin and inclines to sin. But if anyone is of the contrary opinion, let him
be anathema.

6. This holy Synod declares nevertheless that it is not its intention to include in this decree,
where original sin is treated of, the blessed and immaculate Virgin Mary mother of God,
but that the constitutions of Pope SIXTUS IV of happy memory are to be observed, under
the penalties contained in these constitutions, which it renews [see n. 734 ff:].

So you see that Trent teaches the Truth that man is a dead soul before baptism, entirely
corrupt, a spiritual corpse without one shred of holiness or justice, and the indignation
and wrath of God abide upon him at all times - this is the state of each and every man
born to woman, and the one and only way to gain any dignity is through the merits of the
Redeemer Jesus Christ the Lord infused by Holy Baptism, and then to retain this native
dignity one must persevere in the State of Grace.

Also: Leo XIII on the Dignity of Man (Since the antipopes have done nothing
but talk about the dignity of man above all things):

the character of goodness and truth cannot be changed at option. These remain ever one
and the same, and are no less unchangeable than nature itself. If the mind assents to false
opinions, and the will chooses and follows after what is wrong, neither can attain its native
fullness, but both must fall from their native dignity into an abyss of corruption. - (Leo
XIII, Immortale Dei, #32, November 1885.)

Our Lord says the truth shall make you free (Jn 8:32). Man cannot hold to error in the
name of his dignity. In fact, Pope Leo XIII teaches that when the intellect adheres to false
ideas and the will chooses evil, both of them are spiritually dead and the dignity (which
was native to man before Adams fall) is fallen from and mans mind and will now exist in
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perfection in knowing the truth (object of the intellect) and possessing the good (object of
the will). If man does not yet possess the truth (who is Jesus Christ the Redeemer - the
Truth itself), he does not have a right to profess his errors, and perform his evil ways, in
the name of his dignity. In fact, in his state of error and reprobation, any and all of
mans dignity exists in an abyss of corruption.





The Council of Trent on Perseverance:

Chap. 13. The Gift of Perseverance:

806 So also as regards the gift of perseverance [can. 16] of which it is written: He that
"shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved" [Matt. 10:22; 24:13] (which gift cannot be
obtained from anyone except from Him, "who is able to make him, who stands, stand"
[Rom. 14:4], that he may stand perseveringly, and to raise him, who falls), let no one
promise himself anything as certain with absolute certitude, although all ought to place
and repose a very firm hope in God's help. For God, unless men be wanting in His grace,
as He has begun a good work, so will He perfect it, "working to will and to accomplish"
[Phil. 2:13; can. 22]. * Nevertheless, let those "who think themselves to stand, take heed
lest they fall" [1 Cor. 10:12], and "with fear and trembling work out their salvation" [Phil.
2:12] in labors, in watchings, in almsdeeds, in prayers and oblations, in fastings and
chastity [cf. 2 Cor. 6:3 ff.]. For they ought to fear, knowing that they are born again "unto
the hope of glory" [cf. 1 Rom. Pet. 1:3], and not as yet unto glory in the combat that yet
remains with the flesh, with the world, with the devil, in which they cannot be victors,
unless with God's grace they obey the Apostle saying: "We are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if by the
spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live" [Rom. 8:12 ff.]. - (The Council of
Trent, Chapter 13, On The Gift of Perseverance (Found in Denzinger).)



WHAT IS TRUE FIDELITY TO THE PAPACY?:

The people dont have a clue about what true fidelity to the Papacy is, but rather they
follow (and worship as a Christ) the man who they think has been elected pope - no matter
if he preaches a new Gospel or renders Jesus Christ meaningless, as Benedict XVI does.
No matter that Benedict XVI just attended the synagogue a few days before
demonstrating that Christ is meaningless (according to him) no matter, they worship
him all the same. They dont have any clue about what true fidelity to the Papacy is how
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there to faithfully transmit what Jesus Christ and the Apostles gave to the Church in the
deposit of unchangeable Faith. Its all about man, and the man they think (quite wrongly)
is the pope, whom they treat as if he is Christ Himself. - M.H.F.M.

The fact is that by adhering to a heretical antipope and a sect which officially denies
Catholic teaching, you are contradicting Christ, papal teaching and Christs promises to
His Church. MHFM

To a Vatican II adherent: The man (BXVI) Blasphemes God and worships false gods in
front of the World again and again and you approve of him as your pope. YOU take part
in his Blasphemies and worship of the devil by approving him. He does this again and
again right out in the open and you approve of him doing it YOU are a Blasphemer and
approve of worshipping the devil !!!!!

The question you have to ask yourself is not: how many of your friends agree with the
points above? The question is not: were I to take such a stand, how unpopular might I
become with those who now admire me or like what Im doing? The question is: are these
points above, which expose the heretical teaching of the aforementioned bishops, true?
The answer is yes. They are irrefutable. Thus, a persons responsibility in light of these
facts, if he wants to maintain the Catholic Faith and save his soul, is clear. He cannot
affiliate himself with or promote these heretical priests and bishops, or else he will be
committing a mortal sin and will be denying the Catholic Faith.
Ive written this to you in charity because I care about your soul. However, the choice
whether a person will, with a pure intention, stand uncompromisingly for Jesus Christ and
the Catholic Faith is a choice that each one has to make. Its a choice between serving God
or serving men. Its a choice between Heaven and Hell. Its a choice between God and the
Devil. - MHFM



A HERETIC IS OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH, HAS NO PART IN THE CHURCH, AND
NOTHING IN CHRIST:

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without by the very fact
falling into heresy? without separating himself from the Church? without repudiating
in one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? For such is the nature of faith that
nothing can be more absurd than to accept some things and reject others But he who
dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he
thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.

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"The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are
outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the
devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives"

Here we can see that all Catholics are bound under pain of mortal sin to believe that a
heretic is outside the Catholic Church. Here are some other testimonies from the
Magisterium which affirm this fact.

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Cantate Domino," 1441:
"Therefore the Holy Roman Church condemns, rejects (reprobat), anathematizes and
declares to be outside the Body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds opposing or
contrary views."

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 23), June 29, 1943:
"For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man
from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy."

Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis (# 27), Aug. 12, 1950: Some say they are not bound by
the doctrine, explained in Our Encyclical Letter of a few years ago, and based on the
sources of divine revelation, which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman
Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the
necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation.


Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215: "Moreover, we determine to subject to
excommunication believers who receive, defend, or support heretics."

Pope Leo XIII: To reject dogma is simply to deny Christianity. (Tametsi futura # 9, Nov.
1, 1900)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous
teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and
alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of
doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium."

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9):
"No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself as
a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or arise some other heresies, which are not
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Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18, 1208: "By the heart we believe and
by the mouth we confess the one Church, not of heretics, but the Holy Roman,
Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of which we believe that no one is
saved."


This last solemn profession of faith by Pope Innocent III in Eius exemplo demonstrates
how foreign to Catholic belief - that is to say, how heretical - is the idea that a heretic can
be inside the Church. Nevertheless, this is exactly the idea proposed by the St. Benedict
Center and Brian Harrison. And since it is a dogma that a heretic cannot be inside the
Church, it is a dogmatic fact (a fact which if it were not true would render a dogma false)
that a heretic cannot be a Pope, since a Pope is inside the Church.


Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: There is
indeed one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in
which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice. (Denz. 430)

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#15), June 29, 1896: " it is absurd to imagine that he who
is outside can command in the Church."

AN AUTOMATIC, IPSO FACTO EXCOMMUNICATION (SUCH AS OCCURS
INSTANTLY WHEN ONE IS A HERETIC) NEED NO FURTHER DECLARATION
NOR ECCLESIAL EXAMINATION:

Pope Pius VI, Auctorem fidei, Aug. 28, 1794.
47. Likewise, the proposition which teaches that it is necessary, according to the natural
and divine laws, for either excommunication or for suspension, that a personal
examination should precede, and that, therefore, sentences called ipso facto have no
other force than that of a serious threat without any actual effect false, rash, pernicious,
injurious to the power of the Church, erroneous. (Denz. 1547)

Canon 2314, 1917 Code of Canon Law: All apostates from the Christian faith and
each and every heretic or schismatic: 1) Incur ipso facto [by that very fact]
excommunication12


ALSO:
Canon 188, n. 4, automatic loss of office for public defection from the Catholic faith
Canon 188, n. 4, decrees that all officeholders automatically lose their offices if they
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Canon 188, n. 4, 1917 Code of Canon Law: There are certain causes which effect the
tacit resignation of an office, which resignation is accepted in advance by operation of law,
and hence is effective without any declaration. These causes are: ...(4) if he has publicly
defected from the Catholic faith.

Cum ex apostolatus officio is a source for Canon 188, n. 4
The original Latin of the 1917 Code of Canon Law contains a footnote to Canon 188, n. 4,
that refers to the Bull Cum ex apostolatus officio by Pope Paul IV in 1559 as a source for
this canon:

(Cum ex apostolatus officio Is the DOGMATIC DECREE of Pope Paul IV which states the
following regarding heretical priests, bishops, cardinals, or a heretical claimant to the
Papacy:

By virtue of the Apostolic office lest it may befall Us to see the abomination of
desolation, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, in the holy place. In view of this, Our
desire has been to fulfil our Pastoral duty, insofar as, with the help of God, We are able, so as to arrest
the foxes who are occupying themselves in the destruction of the vineyard of the Lord and
to keep the wolves from the sheepfolds 6. by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in
perpetuity We enact, determine, decree and define: that if ever at any time it shall appear that any
Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid
Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior
to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or
fallen into some heresy:
(i) the promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all
the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless;
(ii) it shall not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be said that it has thus acquired validity)
through the acceptance of the office, of consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through possession of
administration, nor through the putative enthronement of a Roman Pontiff, or veneration, or
obedience accorded to such by all, nor through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing
situation;
(iii) it shall not be held as partially legitimate in any way;
(iv) to any so promoted to be Bishops, or Archbishops, or Patriarchs, or Primates or elevated as
Cardinals, or as Roman Pontiff, no authority shall have been granted, nor shall it
be considered to have been so granted either in the spiritual or the temporal
domain;
(v) each and all of their words, deeds, actions and enactments, howsoever made, and anything whatsoever
to which these may give rise, shall be without force and shall grant no stability whatsoever nor any
right to anyone;
(vi) those thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and without need
for any further declaration, of all dignity, position, honour, title, authority, office and
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7. Finally, [by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity, We] also enact, determine,
define and decree:
that any and all persons who would have been subject to those thus promoted or elevated shall be
permitted at any time to withdraw with impunity from obedience and devotion
to those thus promoted or elevated and to avoid them as warlocks, heathens,
publicans, and heresiarchs

10. No one at all, therefore, may infringe this document of our approbation, re-introduction, sanction,
statute and derogation of wills and decrees, or by rash presumption contradict it. If anyone, however,
should presume to attempt this, let him know that he is destined to incur the wrath of
Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul.
Given in Rome at Saint Peter's in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1559, 15th February, in the
fourth year of our Pontificate.

+ I, Paul, Bishop of the Catholic Church
(Cum ex Apostolatus Officio
Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul IV, 15th February 1559)

(THIS DOGMATIC DECREE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH
FORESAW THE POSSIBILITY OF A HERETICAL ANTIPOPE , WHO WOULD BE ACCEPTED
BY ALL AND WHO WOULD DESTROY THE CHURCH AND SLAY THE SHEEP!
THE MAGISTERIUM HAS DECREED THAT THE FAITHFUL MUST UTTERLY REJECT THIS
ANTICHRIST IMPOSTER AS A WARLOCK, HEATHEN, PUBLICAN AND HERESIARCH (AN
ARCH-HERETIC!) AND HAS DECREED THAT HE HAS NO POWER, AUTHORITY, OR
POSITION AT ALL !!!!!)

A TRUE POPE, WHO BECOMES A HERETIC, IS TO BE REJECTED
ABSOLUTELY, AS IN THE CASE OF POPE LIBERIUS:

St Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, lib. II, cap. 30.:"Then two years later came
the lapse of Liberius, of which we have spoken above. Then indeed the Roman clergy,
stripping Liberius of his pontifical dignity, went over to Felix, whom they knew [then] to
be a Catholic. From that time, Felix began to be the true Pontiff. For although Liberius
was not a heretic, nevertheless he was considered one, on account of the peace he made
with the Arians, and by that presumption the pontificate could rightly [merito] be taken
from him: for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; but when they see that someone
is a heretic by his external works, they judge him to be a heretic pure and simple
[simpliciter], and condemn him as a heretic.

(Even though it turned out that the Pope (Liberius) was not a heretic, St. Robert
Bellarmine says that because Liberius appeared to be a heretic (even though he wasnt!),
the Catholics LAWFULLY CONSIDERED HIM A HERETIC, AS ONE WHO WAS NOT
THE POPE, AND AS ONE WHO WAS OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, AND JUSTIFIABLY
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Pope Liberius was not a heretic [and actually was still the true Pope], he appeared to be a
heretic, and therefore was necessarily considered as not the Pope, BECAUSE
CATHOLICS CANNOT PROFESS COMMUNION WITH PEOPLE WHO PROFESS
HERESY IN THE EXTERNAL FORUM! This destroys the argument of Mr. Sungenis
and countless other non-sedevacantists. And if St. Roberts words show that Catholics
were justified in presuming Pope Liberius a heretic and outside the Church, who only
appeared to be a heretic [but actually wasnt], how much more in the case of Antipope
John Paul II, who is WITHOUT ANY DOUBT A HERETIC AND AN APOSTATE, WHO
HAS IMPOSED HIS HERESY AND APOSTASY ALMOST WEEKLY FOR DECADES.
But St. Robert Bellarmines words should be common sense to Catholics, for we do not
share a unity of Faith and communion (which is what the Catholic Church is) with those
who publicly deny the Catholic Faith. It should be common sense that WE MUST NOT
AND CANNOT AND ARE NOT ALLOWED TO recognize as Catholics persons who
exemplify complete apostasy. Mr. Sungenis, YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO
AUTHORITY TO SAY THAT CATHOLICS CAN RECOGNIZE AS A CATHOLIC A
MAN WHO TEACHES: universal salvation; the heresies of freedom of religion and
conscience; that Jews have a valid covenant; that Catholics shouldnt convert the Eastern
Schismatics; that the Council of Trent no longer applies, etc. etc, etc. ad nauseam. Mr.
Sungenis, you have no authority to recognize apostates and heretics as Catholics. - MHFM
(responding to the apostate Robert Sungenis.))


Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day. For His wrath
shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee. (Ecclesiasticus
5:8-9)


SACRAMENTAL WATER BAPTISM ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR
SALVATION:

St. Ambrose: "You have read, therefore, that the three witnesses in Baptism are one:
water, blood, and the spirit; and if you withdraw any one of these, the Sacrament of
Baptism is not valid. For what is water without the cross of Christ? A common element
without any sacramental effect. Nor on the other hand is there any mystery of
regeneration without water: for unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he
cannot enter the kingdom of God. [John 3:5] Even a catechumen believes in the cross of
the Lord Jesus, by which also he is signed; but, unless he be baptized in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, he cannot receive the remission of sins nor be
recipient of the gift of spiritual grace."

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex
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of Baptism, which is the Sacrament of Faith, without which no one is
ever justified Hence man through Jesus Christ, into whom he is
ingrafted, receives in the said justification together with the remission
of sins all these [gifts] infused at the same time: faith, hope, and
charity This faith, in accordance with apostolic tradition,
catechumens beg of the Church BEFORE the sacrament of baptism,
when they ask for "faith which bestows life eternal. (Denzinger 800),
(Rit. Rom., Ordo Baptismi).

Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, Can. 5 on the Sacrament of Baptism, Sess.
7, 1547, ex cathedra: If anyone says that baptism [the Sacrament] is optional,
that is, not necessary for salvation (cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.

Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, canons on the Sacrament of Baptism,
Session 7, canon 2: If anyone shall say that real and natural water is not
necessary for baptism, and on that account those words of Our Lord Jesus
Christ: Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit [John 3:5],
are distorted into some sort of metaphor: let him be anathema.
(Baptism of Desire distorts the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ into a
definite metaphor - which we see here is Anathematized!)

Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, SESSION VI (Jan. 13, 1547) Chap. 7. In
What the Justification of the Sinner Consists, and What are its Causes, Ex
Cathedra:
Justification itself follows this disposition or preparation
(predisposing faith which comes from hearing the gospel) the instrumental cause
is the sacrament of baptism, which is the "sacrament of faith,''
without which no one is ever justified. (Denziger 799)

Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, Exultate Deo, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra:
Holy baptism, which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among
all the sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the
Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, unless we are
born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot, as the Truth says, enter into
the kingdom of heaven [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural
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Pope St. Leo the Great, dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon, 451, Ex
Cathedra:
"Let him heed what the blessed apostle Peter preaches, that sanctification by the Spirit is
effected by the sprinkling of Christs blood (1 Pet. 1:2); and let him not skip over the same
apostles words, knowing that you have been redeemed from the empty way of life you
inherited from your fathers, not with corruptible gold and silver but by the precious blood
of Jesus Christ, as of a lamb without stain or spot (1 Pet. 1:18). Nor should he withstand
the testimony of blessed John the apostle: and the blood of Jesus, the Son of God, purifies
us from every sin (1 Jn. 1:7); and again, This is the victory which conquers the world, our
faith. Who is there who conquers the world save one who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God? It is He, Jesus Christ, who has come through water and blood, not in water only, but
in water and blood. And because the Spirit is truth, it is the Spirit who testifies. For there
are three who give testimony Spirit and water and blood. And the three are one. (1 Jn.
5:4-8) IN OTHER WORDS, THE SPIRIT OF SANCTIFICATION AND THE BLOOD
OF REDEMPTION AND THE WATER OF BAPTISM. THESE THREE ARE ONE AND
REMAIN INDIVISIBLE. NONE OF THEM IS SEPARABLE FROM ITS LINK WITH
THE OTHERS."
(Dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon, 451, ex cathedra)

Pope St. Gelasius, Decretal, 495: Also the epistle of blessed Leo the Pope to Flavian if anyone argues
concerning the text of this one even in regard to one iota, and does not receive it in all respects reverently,
let him be anathema.

Pope Pius XII: In the same way, actually that baptism is the distinctive mark of all
Christians, and serves to differentiate them from those who have not been cleansed in this
purifying stream and consequently are not members of Christ, the sacrament of holy
orders sets the priest apart from the rest of the faithful who have not received this
consecration. (Mediator Dei # 43, Nov. 20, 1947) (Note: A man does not receive the
priesthood simply because he desires to be a priest. The correct matter form and
intention must be efficaciously applied. This decree states that in the same way is the
Sacramental Grace and indelible mark obtained in Holy Baptism - not by desire but by
definitive application and reception of the Sacrament. This distinguishes Christians from
those who are not members of Christ).


Catechism of the Council of Trent, Comparisons among the Sacraments, p. 154: Though
all the Sacraments possess a divine and admirable efficacy, it is well worthy of special
remark that all are not of equal necessity or of equal dignity, nor is the signification of all
the same.
Among them three are said to be necessary beyond the rest, although in all three this
necessity is not of the same kind. The universal and absolute necessity of Baptism
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and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (Jn. 3:5).

Catechism of the Council of Trent, On Baptism Necessity of Baptism, pp. 176-177: If the
knowledge of what has been hitherto explained be, as it is, of highest importance to the
faithful, it is no less important to them to learn that THE LAW OF BAPTISM, AS
ESTABLISHED BY OUR LORD, EXTENDS TO ALL, so that unless they are
regenerated to God through the grace of Baptism, be their parents, Christians or infidels,
they are born to eternal misery and destruction. Pastors, therefore, should often explain
these words of the Gospel: Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy
Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (Jn. 3:5).

Catechism of the Council of Trent, Baptism made obligatory after Christs Resurrection, p.
171: Holy writers are unanimous in saying that after the Resurrection of our Lord, when
He gave His Apostles the command to go and teach all nations: baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, the law of Baptism became obligatory
on all who were to be saved.

Catechism of the Council of Trent, Matter of Baptism - Fitness, p. 165: Upon this subject
pastors can teach in the first place that water, which is always at hand and within the
reach of all, was the fittest matter of a Sacrament which is necessary to all for salvation.

Matthew 28:18-20 - And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you

Mark 16:15-16- And he (Jesus) said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the
Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved

Acts 2:37-38 - But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in
the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of
the Holy Ghost.

Acts 22:12-16 - arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the
Lord.

Romans 6:3-4- Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death...
(baptized with the one baptism - Christian water baptism!)

1 Corinthians12:13- For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be








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Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free... (baptized with the one baptism -
Christian water baptism!)

Ephesians 4:4-6- Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. One body
and one Spirit; as you are called in the hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one
baptism. One God and Father of all

Galatians 3:27- For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.
(baptized with the one baptism - Christian water baptism!)

Titus 3:5- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy
he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. (This refers
to the spiritual regeneration given in the baptismal waters. The outward pouring of water
effects the interior cleansing and renewal of the Holy Spirit. This sacramental action
justifies the soul, and applies the merit of the Blood of Jesus Christ while the baptism is
occurring.)

1 Peter 3:20-21- when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when
the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. Whereunto
baptism being of the like form, now saveth you also

John 3:3-5- Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a
man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How
can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb,
and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
(Jesus tells Nicodemus that unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Nicodemus
then specifically asks Him how that happens; how is one is born again? Jesus answers, in John 3:5, by
declaring that unless a man is born OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT HE CANNOT ENTER THE
KINGDOM OF GOD. So, being born again means being born of water and the Holy Ghost. This clearly
refers to water baptism.
Its true that non-Catholics have tried to explain away the clear meaning of these words, but to no avail.
Many of them say that the water refers to natural birth, and the Spirit refers to the born again process by
accepting the faith. Thats impossible because the passage is about the rebirth. Jesus says that the rebirth
is of water and the Spirit. Moreover, the phrase of water and the Spirit in Greek (ek hudatos kai
pneumatos) is a single linguistical unit, as Greek scholars point out. It describes being born of water and
the Spirit, not born of water on the one hand, and born of the Spirit on the other.
In addition, the extended context of the passage confirms that its referring to water baptism. In the very
next chapter, we read that Jesus Apostles went out and baptized. Look at John 4:1. So, after the Bible
presents the absolute necessity of water baptism, it mentions that the Apostles practiced what Jesus
preached.
Its crucial for people to understand that John 3:5 refers to water baptism; for millions have a false and
unbiblical concept of what it means to be born again. They think it means coming to a true commitment
that Jesus is the Savior. That is incorrect, and was not believed in the ancient Church. It is certainly








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necessary for a person above the age of reason to accept Jesus Christ, to believe in the Trinity and the
Incarnation, and to accept all of His teachings. But the Bible clearly teaches that being born again refers
to the spiritual regeneration which water baptism gives. The overwhelming evidence which weve
considered from other passages in the New Testament also proves it.
The Sacrament of Baptism removes all original and actual sins for those who properly receive it. It
should be noted, however, that receiving that sacrament is not a guarantee of salvation. One can lose the
grace of baptism through mortal sins and by denying the true faith of Jesus Christ. - MHFM)

John 19:34- But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came
there out blood and water. (This signified that His Blood (and the merit of His passion) would be
poured out with water in baptism. Thats why we also read in 1 John 5 that there is a connection between
the spirit, the water and the blood. - MHFM))


1 John 5:8- And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit, and the water,
and the blood: and these three are one. (This refers to the three witnesses in justification: the new
life or spirit brought by justification, the water of baptism, and the blood of Jesus. These three must be
present for a person to be justified. The first and the third come together are poured out in the water
of baptism. Thats why Jesus speaks of being born again of water and the spirit (John 3:5) - MHFM).
Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Decree on Original Sin, #5: If anyone denies that by the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is conferred in baptism, the guilt of original sin is
remitted, or even asserts that the whole of that which has the true and proper nature of sin
is not taken away, but says that it is only touched in person or is not imputed, let him be
anathema. For in those who are born again, God hates nothing

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Decree on Justification, Chap. 3: For, as indeed men
would not be born unjust, if they were not born through propagation of the seed of Adam,
since by that propagation, they contract through him, in conception, injustice as their
own, so unless they were born again in Christ, they never would be justified, since in that
new birth through the merit of His passion, the grace, whereby they are made just, is
bestowed upon them. (Denz. 795)

As we see here, one must be born again to be justified (put into a state of grace), and therefore to be
saved. We also see that those who are born again not only receive the state of grace, but also a complete
remission of the temporal punishment due to their sins. Thats what the Sacrament of Baptism gives.
Thats why those who are born again go straight to Heaven if they die immediately after baptism. They
wouldnt need to go to Purgatory to satisfy for the temporal punishment due to their sins which were
committed before baptism. It was all taken away when they were born again.
Why is this important? Its important because St. Alphonsus (who believed in baptism of desire for
catechumens , in explaining what he believes about baptism of desire, says that baptism of desire
does not take away the punishment due to sins. Thats a big problem for the (false) idea of baptism of
desire a devastating one, in fact. By admitting that it doesnt take away the temporal punishment due
to sin, St. Alphonsus is saying that it doesnt give the actual grace which is proper to baptism and that it
doesnt make one born again; for the Council of Trent defines that those who are born again have
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Therefore, St. Alphonsus teaching on baptism of desire is simply dead wrong. He made an error. He was
not infallible. It cannot be reconciled with the teaching of the Church. Baptism of desire is a false and
man-made theory, which is why its most impressive defenders explain it in ways that cannot be
reconciled with Catholic teaching or even with other definitions of the theory. - MHFM

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Decree on Original Sin, #3: If anyone asserts that this sin
of Adam, which is one in origin and transmitted to all is in each one as his own by
propagation, not by imitation, is taken away either by the forces of human nature, or by
any remedy other than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ [see n. 711],
who has reconciled us to God in his own blood, "made unto us justice, sanctification, and
redemption" [1 Cor. 1:30]; or if he denies that that merit of Jesus Christ is applied to
adults as well as to infants by the sacrament of baptism, rightly administered in
the form of the Church: let him be anathema.




INFANTS MUST BE BAPTIZED - INFANTS WHO DIE WITHOUT HOLY BAPTISM
DESCEND INTO HELL, BUT NOT TO SUFFER THE FIRES OF HELL:

Pope Martin V, Council of Constance, Session 15, July 6, 1415 - Condemning the articles of
John Wyclif - Proposition 6: Those who claim that the children of the faithful dying
without sacramental baptism will not be saved, are stupid and presumptuous in saying
this. - Condemned

Pope Gregory X, Council of Lyons II, 1274: We define also that the souls of those who
depart this life in actual mortal sin, or in original sin alone (Infants and children under the
age of reason), go straightaway to hell, but to undergo punishments of different kinds.
(Denz. 464)

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Letentur coeli, Sess. 6, July 6, 1439, ex cathedra:
We define also that the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal sin, or in
original sin alone (Infants and children under the age of reason), go straightaway to hell,
but to undergo punishments of different kinds. (Denz. 693)

Pope Pius VI, Auctorem fidei, Aug. 28, 1794:
26. The doctrine which rejects as a Pelagian fable, that place of the lower regions (which
the faithful generally designate by the name of the limbo of the children) in which the
souls of those departing with the sole guilt of original sin are punished with the
punishment of the condemned, exclusive of the punishment of fire Condemned as false,
rash, injurious to Catholic schools. (Denz. 1526) (To reject the limbo of the children is
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Pope St. Zosimus, The Council of Carthage, Canon on Sin and Grace, 417 A.D.- It has
been decided likewise that if anyone says that for this reason the Lord said: In my
Fathers house there are many mansions [John 14:2]: that it might be understood that in
the kingdom of heaven there will be some middle place or some place anywhere where the
blessed infants live who departed from this life without baptism, without which they
cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven, which is life eternal, let him be anathema.
(Denz. 102, authentic addition to canon 2.)

Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, On Original Sin, Session V, ex cathedra: If anyone
says that recently born babies should not be baptized even if they have been born to
baptized parents; or says that they are indeed baptized for the remission of sins, but incur
no trace of the original sin of Adam needing to be cleansed by the laver of rebirth for them
to obtain eternal life, with the necessary consequence that in their case there is being
understood a form of baptism for the remission of sins which is not true, but false: let him
be anathema. (Denz. 791)


Pope St. Innocent, 414 A.D: But that which Your Fraternity asserts the Pelagians preach,
that even without the grace of Baptism infants are able to be endowed with the rewards of
eternal life, is quite idiotic But those who defend this for them without rebirth seem to
me to want to quash Baptism itself, when they preach that infants already have what is
believed to be conferred on them only through Baptism. (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early
Fathers, Vol. 3: 2016.)

St. Augustine, A.D. 415: Anyone who would say that infants who pass from this life
without participation in the Sacrament [of Baptism] shall be made alive in Christ truly
goes counter to the preaching of the Apostle and condemns the whole Church, where there
is great haste in baptizing infants because it is believed without doubt that there is no
other way at all in which they can be made alive in Christ. (Jurgens, The Faith of the
Early Fathers, Vol. 3: 2016.)

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session v (June 17, 1546), Decree On Original Sin: "By
one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death, and so death passed upon all men, in
whom (Adam) all have sinned" [Rom. 5:12], is not to be understood otherwise than as the
Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For by reason of this rule of
faith from a tradition of the apostles even infants, who could not as yet commit any sins of
themselves, are for this reason truly baptized for the remission of sins, so that in them
there may be washed away by regeneration, what they have contracted by generation, [see
n. 102]. "For unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God" [John 3:5].

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of Adam, which is one in origin and transmitted to all is in each one as his own by
propagation, not by imitation, is taken away either by the forces of human nature, or by
any remedy other than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ [see n. 711],
who has reconciled us to God in his own blood, "made unto us justice, sanctification, and
redemption" [1 Cor. 1:30]; or if he denies that that merit of Jesus Christ is applied to
adults as well as to infants by the sacrament of baptism, rightly administered in
the form of the Church: let him be anathema.

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex cathedra:
" the instrumental cause [of Justification] is THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM,
WHICH IS THE SACRAMENT OF FAITH, without which no one is ever justified



There is only ONE BAPTISM - CELEBRATED IN WATER MUST
BE CONFESSED BY ALL!!! (Baptism of Desire and Baptism of
Blood are two other, FALSE Baptisms that do not exist!):

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312: Besides, one baptism
which regenerates all who are baptized in Christ must be faithfully
confessed by all just as one God and one faith [Eph. 4:5], which
celebrated in water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit we believe to be commonly the perfect remedy for
salvation for adults as for children.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HERETIC IS VALIDLY BAPTIZED, DOES HE RECEIVE
THE GRACE OF BAPTISM?:

Brothers,
Bro. Peter's debate with Robert!!! from Wales brought a question to my mind. I thought I
was familiar with all the materials MHFM has put forth regarding the Church's teaching
on baptism. But Bro. Peter was asked if a non-Catholic was baptised, is he a Christian and
Bro. Peter said "no." I think I know the proper context of what Bro. Peter meant, but I
was hoping you could expound on this point in greater detail, mainly so I do not fall into
error.
God bless you all there,
Howard

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also touches upon a finer theological point. The Church teaches that a heretic can be
validly baptized if he is baptized with water in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Ghost. But if a person is baptized as a heretic for instance, if he rejects the
dogma Outside the Church there is No Salvation then his baptism, though valid, would
confer no grace and would not unite him with the Church. His heresy is an impediment to
him receiving the grace of baptism. He receives the character or the mark of baptism
validly but does not receive the grace of baptism and doesnt have his sins remitted and he
is not justified, since he is outside the church. Outside the Church there is no remission of
sins.

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra:
With Faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church
and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this Church outside of which
there is no salvation nor remission of sin Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and
proclaim to every human creature that they by absolute necessity for salvation are entirely
subject to the Roman Pontiff.

This is the express teaching of Pope St. Gregory the Great.

Pope St. Gregory the Great, Quia charitati, June 22, 601: From the ancient institution of
the Fathers we have learned that those who are baptized in the name of the Trinity,
although amid heresy, whenever they return to holy Church, may be recalled to the bosom
of their mother the Church either with the anointing of chrism, or the imposition of hands,
or with a profession of faith alonebecause the holy baptism, which they received among
the heretics, at that time restores the power of cleansing in them when they have been
united to the holy faith and the heart of the universal Church. (Denz. 249)

Here we see Pope Gregory the Great explaining that those baptized as heretics are not
cleansed, i.e., their sins are not remitted. They are not cleansed by the baptism they
received among the heretics until they remove the heresy and are united to the true Faith.
The baptism they received is valid; they dont need to be rebaptized, but it is not
efficacious for them until they remove the heresy. At that point, they become justified by
the power of the baptism already received. We also see this principle illustrated in Sess. 7
of the Council of Trent on the Sacraments in General:

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 7 on the Sacraments in General, Can. 6.: If anyone
shall say that the sacraments of the New Law do not contain the grace which they signify,
or that they do not confer that grace on those who do not place an obstacle in the way, as
though they were only outward signs of grace and justice let him be anathema. (Denz.
849)

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place an obstacle in the way, such as heresy. The above is also the teaching of Doctors of
the Church. And this teaching does not contradict any of the other definitions of Trent, of
course, such as in Sess. 5 on Original Sin:

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 5:
"If anyone denies that by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is conferred in
baptism, the guilt of original sin is remitted, or even asserts that the whole of that which
has the true and proper nature of sin is not taken away, but says that it is only touched in
person or is not imputed, let him be anathema." (Denz. 792)

Notice that this anathematizes anyone who says that original sin is not remitted by the
grace conferred in baptism. Whenever grace is conferred in baptism original sin is
infallibly remitted, such as with the baptism of infants or anyone else who doesnt place an
obstacle to receiving the grace in the way. However, in the case described above of a
baptism of a heretic, no grace is conferred at all and thus original sin is not remitted.
Hence, we can see that the clause by the grace is very important and shows the
infallibility of dogmatic definitions and the protection of the Holy Ghost over the teaching
of the Church.


For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be manifest
among you. (1 Cor. 11:19)

St. Alphonsus: David calls the happiness of this present life a dream of one awakening:
As the dream of them that awake (Ps. 72:20) The goods of this world appear great, but
in fact are nothing; like sleep, they last but a little while, and then all vanishes.

THE CHURCH HAS DEFINED DOGMATICALLY THAT THE GATES OF HELL
ARE HERETICS !!!!!:

Pope Vigilius, Second Council of Constantinople, 553, Ex Cathedra:
These matters having been treated with thorough-going exactness, we bear in mind what
was promised about the holy Church and Him who said the gates of hell will not prevail
against it (by these we understand the death-dealing tongues of heretics) and so we
count along with the devil, the father of lies, the uncontrolled tongues of heretics and their
heretical writings, together with the heretics themselves who have persisted in their heresy
even to death.26

Pope St. Leo IX, Ex Cathedra: The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and
upon Peter or Cephas, the son of John who first was called Simon, because by the gates of
Hell, that is, by the disputations of heretics which lead the vain to destruction, it would
never be overcome. (In terra pax hominibus, Sept. 2, 1053, Denz. 351)








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Pope Vigilius, 553: If anyone will not confess that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost have
one nature or substance, that they have one power and authority, that there is a
consubstantial Trinity, one Deity to be adored in three subsistences or persons: let him be
anathema. There is only one God and Father, from whom all things come, and one Lord,
Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Ghost, in whom all things are.
(Second Council of Constantinople, Can. 1., ex cathedra.)



In all that I shall say in this Book, I submit to what is taught by Our Mother, the Holy Roman Church;
if there is anything in it contrary to this, it will be without my knowledge. Therefore, for the love of Our
Lord, I beg the learned men who are to revise it to look at it very carefully and to amend any faults of this
nature which there may be in it and the many others which it will have of other kinds. If there is anything
good in it, let this be to the glory and honour of God and in the service of His most sacred Mother, our
Patroness and Lady, whose habit, though all unworthily, I wear. - Saint Teresa of Jesus (of Avila)s
protest introducing her book The Way of Perfection.

There is a huge difference between applying a code of ethics founded on a commitment to accuracy and truth
(whereby the Schillers of this world must, in all objectivity, be lambasted) and being determined at all costs to
defend the indefensible, however vaguely or covertly. Watson perceived an anti-Kasparov bias in our writings,
and certainly KCK has some severe things to say about him. But where is Watsons rebuttal of any one of them?
He evidently likes the cut of Kasparovs jib, and has no inclination to discuss uncomfortable truths. - ( A Chess
Book reviewers quote which applies perfectly to the Novus Ordo Defenders and adherents !!!!! )

Schools, he says, are irremediably broken. Built to supply a mass-production economy
with a docile workforce, they ask too little of children, and thereby drain youngsters of
curiosity and autonomy.
..the truth is that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to
most of us.
[in education] We need to start from the cold-blooded premise that almost everyone is a
genius not that almost everyone is worthless. John Taylor Gatto



But beware of men - Our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 10:17

I receive not glory from men - Our Lord, John 5:41

How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from
God alone, you do not seek? - Our Lord, John 5:44

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did not confess it, that they might not be cast out of the synagogue. For they loved the
glory of men, more than the glory of God. (John 12:42-43)

And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth
your hearts: for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God. - Luke 16:15


Pope Leo XIII (1892): For surely our whole life is involved in a constant battle in which our salvation
itself is at stake; nothing is more disgraceful for a Christian than cowardice. (Inimica vis #7)

With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken
this word. The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the
people of the earth is weakened. And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have
transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that
dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall
oppress the gates. For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few
olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended. These
shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful
noise from the sea. Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the
islands of the sea With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed,
with trembling shall the earth be moved. With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and
shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall,
and not rise again. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven
on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth. And they shall be gathered together as in the
gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they
shall be visited. And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall
reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients. (Isaiah 24:3-6,
12-15, 19-23)



St. Francis Borgia says that prayer introduces the love of God into the soul, but mortification prepares a
place for it, by banishing from the heart earthly affections the most powerful obstacles to charity
Prayer without mortification, says Father Balthasar Alvarez, is either an illusion, or lasts but a short
time. (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, p. 132)

Padre Pio On Daily Examination of Conscience and Spiritual Reading: To another, who told him that
the daily examination of conscience seemed useless, since his conscience showed him
clearly at each action whether it was good or bad, he replied:
That is true enough. But every experienced merchant in this world not only keeps track
throughout the day of whether he has lost or gained on each sale. In the evening, he
does the bookkeeping for the day to determine what he should do on the morrow. It
follows that it is indispensable to make a rigorous examination of
conscience, brief but lucid, every night.
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder...
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make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.


St. Alphonsus: "All the reprobate have been damned in consequence of their neglect of prayer; had they
prayed they should not be lost; and all the saints have become saints by prayer; had they neglected
prayer, they would not have become saints. We must live in the persuasion, St. John Chrysostom says,
that to neglect prayer, and to lose the grace of God, are one and the same thing." (The True Spouse of
Jesus Christ, p. 612)


St. Alphonsus: (1755): Worldlings shun solitude, and with good reason; for in solitude they feel more
acutely the remorse of conscience, and therefore they go in search of the conversations and tumults of the
world, that the noise of these occupations may stifle the stings of remorse.

St. Alphonsus (1755): Every sin produces blindness; and as sin increases, so does the blindness increase.
God is our light; as much, therefore, as the soul withdraws from God, so much the more blind does she
become (Preparation for Death, p. 83)


He wrote to a friend in France, My heart tells me that if I have the happiness of being employed in this
mission, I shall go never to return; but I shall be happy if our Lord will complete the sacrifice where he
has begun it, and make the little blood I have shed in that land the pledge of what I would give from
every vein of my body and my heart. In a word, this people is a bloody spouse to me--In my blood have
I espoused them to me May our good Master who has purchased them in His blood, open to them the
door of His gospel, as well as to the four allied nations near them. Farewell, dear Father; pray to him to
unite me inseparably to him. (Saint Issac Jogues)

Concerning St. Isaac Jogues and the Missionaries to the North American savages, c. 1642:
The deadliest obstacles, the missionaries found, to their efforts to Christianize the
Hurons were the multitudinous forms of superstition, sorcery and devil worship
Controlling, and an essential part of this system of preternatural influences were the
sorcerers All of the sorcerers claimed a preternatural origin and boasted of being in
communication with the spirits. The missionaries discovered that many of their practices
were trickery and charlatanism, but attributed others to the direct intervention of the
devil. The cabins and huts where they held their sances were oftentimes violently shaken;
they themselves would stuff live coals into their mouths without being burned or would
thrust their arms into boiling water without being scalded. The rites and ceremonies they
conducted were so indecent and revolting that they surpassed unaided human invention.
(Saint Among Savages, pp. 116-117)

St. Francis Xavier (1552): For my part, it does not astonish me that the bonzes [the false, pagan religious
leaders in Japan] are covered with so many and so great sins. They are a set of men who have the devil in
place of God, and it is a matter of necessity that they should commit crimes innumerable and
abominable I earnestly beg all who read this letter of mine to pray that Our Lord Jesus Christ will
give us the victory over these two demons Xaca and Amida [the false gods of the Japanese], and over the
others like them, especially since at present their credit is waxing weak at Amanguchi, not without the
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Letter from St. Therese to Leonie, November 5, 1893
Consider the oaks of our countryside, how crooked they are; they thrust their branches to right and left,
nothing checks them so they never reach a great height. On the other hand, consider the oaks of the
forest, which are hemmed in on all sides, they see light only up above, so their trunk is free of all those
shapeless branches which rob it of the sap needed to lift it aloft. It sees only heaven, so all its strength is
turned in that direction, and soon it attains a prodigious height. In the religious life the soul like the
young oak is hemmed in on all sides by its rule. All its movements are hampered, interfered with by the
other trees.... But it has light when it looks toward heaven, there alone it can rest its gaze, never upon
anything below, it need not be afraid of rising too high.


St. John Mary Vianney: HAVE YOU RELIGION IN YOUR HEART? - Alas, my dear brethren, what have
we become instead of going always for-ward and increasing in holiness, what laziness and what
indif-ference we display! God cannot endure this perpetual incon-stancy with which we pass from virtue to vice
and from vice to virtue. Tell me, my children, is not this the very pattern of the way you live? Are your poor
lives anything other than a suc-cession of good deeds and bad deeds? Is it not true that you go to Confession
and the very next day you fall againor perhaps the very same day? How can this be, unless the religion you
have is unreal, a religion of habit, a religion of long-standing custom, and not a religion rooted in the heart?
Carry on, my friend; you are only a waverer! Carry on, my poor man; in everything you do, you are just a
hypocrite and nothing else! God has not the first place in your heart; that is reserved for the world and the devil.
How many people there are, my dear children, who seem to love God in real earnest for a little while and then
abandon Him! What do you find, then, so hard and so unpleasant in the service of God that it has repelled you
so strangely and caused you to change over to the side of the world? Yet at the time when God showed you the
state of your soul, you actually wept for it and realized how much you had been mistaken in your lives. If you
have persevered so little, the reason for this misfortune is that the devil must have been greatly grieved to have
lost you because he has done so much to get you back. He hopes now to keep you altogether. How many
apostates there are, indeed, who have renounced their religion and who are Christians in name only!

St. John Mary Vianney, The Sermons of the Cur of Ars.

St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): Whosoever loves God loves solitude; there the Lord communicates himself more
familiarly to souls, because there he finds them less entangled in worldly affairs, and more detached from
earthly affections St. Eucherius relates that a certain man, desirous of becoming a saint, asked a servant of
God where he should find God. The servant conducted him to a solitary place, and said: Behold where God is
found.


If a man were forced to sit all day long at table, he would get a disgust of the viands [meals] before him. If one
were made to sleep day and night for a whole week in the softest and most comfortable bed, how long would
the time seem...Now look down into the abyss of hell, and there thou wilt see thousands and thousands of these
unhappy creatures in the lake of fire and torment. Many of them have already spent twenty, a hundred, a
thousand, even five thousand years in this dreadful state of suffering. But what is before them? Not five
thousand years more, not a hundred thousand years more they must endure it forever and ever. (Fr. Martin
Von Cochem, The Four Last Things, pp. 168-169)


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commanded Isaias to preach this very truth: Cry, He said to him, all flesh is grass indeed the people is
grass. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen (Is. 40:6-7). The life of man is like the life of a blade of
grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly
goods.

The torments of hell are all so horrible, so appalling, that they are enough to make the bravest man tremble.
But the thought of eternity is so awful that the serious consideration of it is almost enough to deprive one of
ones senses. (Fr. Martin Von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 168)

St. Augustine (392): There are three elements by which the process of sinning is completed: suggestion,
delectation and consent. Suggestion can take place through the memory or through the bodily senses, as when
we see, or hear, or smell, or taste, or touch something. And if there be a delight in enjoying this experience, if
the delight is illicit, it must be restrained. If, however, consent is made to it, there will be a full sin, known by
God in our heart, even if, by deed, it remains unknown to men. (F.O.F., Vol. 3: 1565)


"I have never discovered the least vice in these Indians, save
gambling, in which they often risk all they possess. These games have
been abolished by general consent, since they have learned that they
are contrary to the commandment which says 'Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's goods.' They are scrupulously honest in selling and
buying, and none of them has ever been accused of stealing. Every
article that is found is carried to the tent of the chief, who
proclaims the object and returns it to the owner.
Slander is unknown among the women; a lie is considered especially
odious. 'We fear,' they say, 'to offend the Great Spirit, hence we
hold liars in abhorrence.'
All quarrels and fits of passion are severely punished. They share
one another's sufferings, give help in time of need, and care for the
orphans. They are well-mannered, gay and very hospitable; their tent
is open house; keys and locks are unknown. Often I said to myself
'These are the people that civilized men dare to call barbarians!'
It is a great error to judge the Indians of the interior by those of
the frontier. These last have learned the vices of the white men,
whose insatiable greed of gain is served by corrupting the Indian,
and whose bad example leads him into vicious habits." -
The Life of Father DeSmet - Apostle to the Rocky Mountains

ON THE TRAI NI NG OF CHI LDREN:

Pope Pius XI: By nature parents have a right to the training of their children, but with this added duty
that the education and instruction of the child be in accord with the end for which by Gods blessing it
was begotten. Therefore it is the duty of parents to make every effort to prevent any invasion of their
rights in this matter, and to make absolutely sure that the education of their children remain under their
own control in keeping with their Christian duty, and above all refuse to send them to those
schools in which there is danger of imbibing the deadly poison of impiety. (Rappresentanti
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Pope Benedict XIV: "Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (Chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned
the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since
this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum:
'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too
have forbidden this practice in the same words in Our oft-repeated constitution Etsi Pastoralis, sect. 6, no. 21."
(Allate Sunt #29, July 26, 1755)

Pope St. Pius X: As a matter of fact, however, merely naturally good acts are only a
counterfeit of virtue since they are neither permanent nor sufficient for salvation. (Editae
Saepe # 28, May 26, 1910)


St. Anselm, against those who refuse to believe until they understand: "For I do not seek to
understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this I also believe, that unless I
believe, I should not understand. (Chapter One of the Prosologion)


And the truth is simple (although the mindknot of liberalism prevents people from seeing it): God is Truth;
man is not.

A Catholic dogma is a TRUTH or FACT revealed by God. God wills to reveal this truth to mankind through the
true popes of the Catholic Church, teaching either alone or in conjunction with a true Council. God wills that
men obey His truth and assures us that Truth will set us free from the domain of Satan. The founding of a
Church was an essential component of Our Lord's Sacrifice on the Cross. Truth is offered to men as a complete
package - not a smorgasbord!

A heresy is a LIE concocted in hell. Its purpose is to rob men of the gift of Redemption which God in His mercy
offers to all mankind. A heretic is outside the Church because he has rejected the Church and has said "no" to
God's offer of redemption. When the Church teaches that there is no salvation outside of the Church, She is not
putting someone out; She is simply stating a fact. And whether or not an individual realizes it, a proponent of
heresy is an agent of Satan. A heretic imagines that he (or some other man) is the source of truth, thus putting
man in the place of God. And when he prays the "Our Father" he is a hypocrite, because he himself has no
intention of doing the will of God.
A Protestant may claim he won't pray to Our Lady because he "goes direct to Jesus", but he is deceiving himself
because the "Jesus" he goes to is not the true Jesus of Scripture, the Founder of the Catholic Church.

The search for truth begins with a desire for it, a pondering in the heart. That may be why the changes were
introduced into the Church by Paul 6 with such rapidity -- to create utter confusion and make it difficult if not
impossible for people to really think about what was going on.

COUNCIL OF NICEA II 787

Ecumenical VII (against the Iconoclasts)

Definition of the Sacred Images and Tradition *

ACTION VII









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302 (I. Definition) . . . We, continuing in the regal path, and following the divinely inspired teaching of
our Holy Fathers, and the tradition of the Catholic Church, for we know that this is of the Holy Spirit
who certainly dwells in it, define in all certitude and diligence that as the figure of the honored and life-
giving Cross, so the venerable and holy images, the ones from tinted materials and from marble as
those from other material, must be suitably placed in the holy churches of God, both on sacred vessels
and vestments, and on the walls and on the altars, at home and on the streets, namely such images of our
Lord Jesus Christ, God and Savior, and of our undefiled lady, or holy Mother of God, and of the
honorable angels, and, at the same time, of all the saints and of holy men. For, how much more frequently
through the imaginal formation they are seen, so much more quickly are those who contemplate these,
raised to the memory and desire of the originals of these, to kiss and to render honorable adoration to
them, not however, to grant true Iatria according to our faith, which is proper to divine nature alone; but
just as to the figure of the revered and life-giving Cross and to the holy gospels, and to the other sacred
monuments, let an oblation of incense and lights be made to give honor to these as was the pious custom
with the ancients. "For the honor of the image passes to the original"; * and he who shows
reverence to the image, shows reverence to the substance of Him depicted in it

304 (III. Declaration) Those, therefore, who dare to think or to teach otherwise or to spurn according to
wretched heretics the ecclesiastical traditions and to invent anything novel, or to reject anything from
these things which have been consecrated by the Church: either the Gospel or the figure of the Cross, or
the imaginal picture, or the sacred relics of the martyr; or to invent perversely and cunningly for the
overthrow of anyone of the legitimate traditions of the Catholic Church; or even, as it were, to use the
sacred vessels or the venerable monasteries as common things; if indeed they are bishops or clerics, we
order (them) to be deposed; monks, however, or laymen, to be excommunicated.







ALL OF THE ELECT WILL BE CALLED AND IN CHRIST, LIVING IN A STATE OF GRACE AT
THE MOMENT OF THEIR DEATH!:

1 John 5:11-12: And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his
Son. He that hath the Son, hath life. He that hath not the Son, hath not life.

For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in Him, may not
perish, but may have life everlasting. (John 3:16)

He that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life, but
the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)

To assert that one can attain salvation while rejecting Jesus Christ is to say that one can attain salvation
while rejecting salvation itself. It is one of the worst heresies that one could utter.

Now this is life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent. (John 17:3)









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And he said to them [the Jews]: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not
of this world. Therefore, I said to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am he,
you shall die in your sin. (John 8:23-24)

Amen, Amen, I say to you: he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another
way, the same is a thief and a robber I am the door. (John 10:1, 9)

Jesus saith to them: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.
(John 14:6)

And when he [the Paraclete] is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment.
Of sin indeed: because they have not believed in me. (John 15:8-9)

For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give testimony to the truth: every
one who is of the truth, heareth my voice. (John 18:37)

Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent. (John 17:3)

All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out. (John
6:37)

Jesus saith: He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are
not of God. (John 8:47)





Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum(# 14), May 5, 1824: It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth
itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false
teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards
on their members by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no
other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ in which we
must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832: Now We consider another abundant source of the
evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on
all sides 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. Surely, in so clear a matter, you
will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the admonition of the
apostle, that there is one God, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:5), may those fear who contrive the notion
that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the
testimony of Christ Himself that those who are not with Christ are against Him, (Lk. 11:23) and that
they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore, without a doubt, they will
perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate (Athanasian
Creed). . [18] Let them hear Jerome who, while the Church was torn into three parts by schism, tells
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the See of Peter is for me."[19] A schismatic flatters himself falsely if he asserts that he, too, has been
washed in the waters of regeneration. Indeed Augustine would reply to such a man: "The branch has the
same form when it has been cut off from the vine; but of what profit for it is the form, if it does not live
from the root?"[20]

Pope Leo XII: It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider,
and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often
inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members by
divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no other name under heaven is given to
men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that
there is no salvation outside the Church. (Ubi Primum #14, May 5, 1824)




Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: Whoever wishes (desires) to
be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he
will without a doubt perish in eternity. But the Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the
Trinity, and the Trinity in unity... Therefore let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the
Trinity.
But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord
Jesus Christ...the Son of God is God and man... This is the Catholic faith; unless each one believes this
faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, SESSION 4, Chapter 4. On the infallible teaching authority of the
Roman pontiff, #9, #10: Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of
the christian faith, to the glory of God our saviour, for the exaltation of the catholic religion and for the
salvation of the christian people, with the approval of the sacred council, we teach and define as a
divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, that is, when, 1. in the
exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, 2. in virtue of his supreme apostolic
authority, 3. he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church, he
possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine
Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such
definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church, irreformable. So
then, should anyone, which God forbid, have the temerity to reject this definition of ours: let him be
anathema.

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos - Indeed you will accomplish this perfectly if, as the duty of your office
demands, you attend to yourselves and to doctrine and meditate on these words: the admonition of
Pope Agatho: "nothing of the things appointed ought to be diminished; nothing changed;
nothing added; but they must be preserved both as regards expression and meaning."[6]
Therefore may the unity which is built upon the See of Peter as on a sure foundation stand firm. May it
be for all a wall and a security, a safe port, and a treasury of countless blessings.[7] To check the audacity
of those who attempt to infringe upon the rights of this Holy See or to sever the union of the churches
with the See of Peter, instill in your people a zealous confidence in the papacy and sincere
veneration for it. As St. Cyprian wrote: "He who abandons the See of Peter on which the Church
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Also, the papacy is not a sacrament like baptism, confirmation or holy orders, all of which imprint an
indelible mark on the soul. The Papacy can be lost by someone who was a true pope, but the indelible
mark imprinted on the soul by those three sacraments stays there forever. So a good question for V-2
"Catholics to ask themselves is, what's more important, the Papacy itself or the man who occupies the
Papacy? It should be obvious to anyone who can read that it is the Papacy, not the pope, since popes
come and go, but the Papacy remains unchanged and unchangeable. The Papacy, the Chair of Peter, does
not move, though his successors do. Popes can sin, but the Papacy cannot, since the Papacy is an office,
not a man




Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 15: "... the doctrine of divine law which excludes from the
kingdom of God not only the unbelievers, but also the faithful who are fornicators, adulterers, effeminate, liers
with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, railers, extortioners (1 Cor. 6:9), and all others who commit deadly
sins, from which with the assistance of divine grace they can refrain and for which they are separated from
the grace of God."

Yet Protestantism PREACHES SIN:

Martin Luther, Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521: If you are a preacher of grace, then preach a true and
not a fictitious grace; if grace is true, you must bear a true and not a fictitious sin. God does not save people
who are only fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more
boldly, for he is victorious over sin, death, and the world. As long as we are here [in this world] we have to sin.
This life is not the dwelling place of righteousness, but, as Peter says, we look for new heavens and a new earth
in which righteousness dwells. It is enough that by the riches of Gods glory we have come to know the Lamb
that takes away the sin of the world. No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit
fornication and murder a thousand times a day. Do you think that the purchase price that was paid for the
redemption of our sins by so great a Lamb is too small? Pray boldlyyou too are a mighty sinner.

What confidence now can the Methodists have in the interpretations which Wesley has given them of the
Scriptures since he stumbled in broad daylight; and even preached for above thirty years that the observance of
Gods law is not only unnecessary, but sinful, and to which he was forced, at last, to open his eyes by the
scandalous immoralities of several of his deluded admirers, whom he had been all along foolishly flattering
with the assurance that faith alone would ensure their salvationSurely those who willfully follow such blind
guides deserve to fall into the ditch. (Haydock Bible and Commentary, p. 228.)




Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, Exultate Deo, Nov. 22, 1439: Holy baptism, which is the
gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the sacraments; through it we are made members of
Christ and of the body of the Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, unless we
are born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot, as the Truth says, enter into the kingdom of heaven
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Baptism of Desire is Gnosticism:

I found this interesting quote on the necessity of Baptism from St. Irenaeus', Against Heretics.
Against Heretics, St. Irenaeus, Book I, Chapter XXI.-The Views of Redemption Entertained by These Heretics
[the Gnostics]: "1. It happens that their [the Gnostics'] tradition respecting redemption is invisible and
incomprehensible, as being the mother of things which are incomprehensible and invisible; and on this account,
since it is fluctuating, it is impossible simply and all at once to make known its nature, for every one of them
hands it down just as his own inclination prompts. Thus there are as many schemes of "redemption" as there are
teachers of these mystical opinions. And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting-place, that
this class of men have been instigated by Satan to a denial of that baptism which is regeneration to God,
and thus to a renunciation of the whole [Christian] faith."

Even Heretics may validly Baptize under certain conditions:

MHFM: The intention required in conferring the Sacrament of Baptism is extremely minimal. Its simply to
pour the water and say the correct words and not to interiorly fail to intend to perform the outward action.
Therefore, even false ideas about original sin, baptism and other matters of theology do not vitiate the intention
to do what the Church does. This was confirmed by Pope St. Pius V, as shown in the very interesting quote
below. Pope Pius V decided in favor of the validity of baptisms performed by Calvinists, even though they
denied baptismal regeneration.

According to Calvin baptism had not the power of taking away original sin, and the French preachers, in
consequence, made it clear that in baptizing they had no intention of doing what the Roman Church understood
by baptism. The Council [of Trent] had declared that the baptism of heretics was only valid if they intended to
do what was intended by the Church of Christ, and the French Catholics therefore felt serious doubts as to the
validity of Calvinist baptisms. The Congregation of the Council decided in favor of their validity, on the ground
that, in spite of their errors as to the effects of baptism and the true Church of Christ, the preachers
steadily maintained their intention of administering true Christian baptism, and of doing what the
Christian Church had always done in conferring it. This decision was confirmed by [Pope St.] Pius V.
(Dr. Ludwig Pastor, History of the Popes, Vol. 17, p. 205)

Note: WE DO BELIEVE THAT CONDITIONAL BAPTISM SHOULD BE DONE IN MANY CASES
WHERE THE BAPTISM WAS PERFORMED EITHER IN A PROTESTANT SETTING OR A NOVUS
ORDO ONE. THIS IS BECAUSE UNLESS ONE IS SURE THAT IT WAS DONE WITH THE CORRECT
MATTER AND FORM, ETC., IT SHOULD BE DONE CONDITIONALLY JUST IN CASE. ANYONE CAN
DO IT. THE FORM OF CONDITIONAL BAPTISM IS HERE: File The point is, in answer to your question,
that heretical theology does not invalidate the baptism provided the basic matter, form, etc. are present.


St. John Chrysostom (392): Weep for the unbelievers; weep for those who differ not a whit from them, those
who go hence without illumination, without the seal! [Baptism] They are outside the royal city. with the
condemned. Amen, I tell you, if anyone is not born of water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom
of heaven.

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex cathedra:
" the instrumental cause [of Justification] is THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM, WHICH IS THE
SACRAMENT OF FAITH, without which no one is ever justified THIS FAITH, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH APOSTOLIC TRADITION, CATECHUMENS BEG OF THE CHURCH BEFORE THE








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SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM, when they ask for faith which bestows life eternal, (Rit. Rom., Ordo
Baptismi) which (justification) without hope and charity faith cannot bestow."



Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra: the one mystical body And in this,
one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:5). Certainly Noe had one ark at the time of the flood,
prefiguring one Church outside which we read that all living things on the earth were destroyed
which body he called the Only one namely, the Church, because of the unity of the spouse, the faith, the
sacraments, and the charity of the Church.

The Nicene-Constantinople Creed, ex cathedra: We confess one baptism for the remission of sins.

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra: With Faith urging us we are forced to
believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply
confess this Church outside of which there is no salvation NOR REMISSION OF SIN

Nobody at all is a member of Christ, or of His Body (the Church) unless Baptized
(sacramentally) and professing the True Faith:

Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: There is indeed one
universal Church of the faithful (unafidelium universalis ecclesia), outside of which nobody at all is
saved (extra quam nullus omnino salvatur) (Denz. 430)

Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, Exultate Deo, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: Holy baptism, which
is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the sacraments; through it we are made
members of Christ and of the body of the Church. And since death entered the universe through the first
man, unless we are born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot, as the Truth says, enter into the
kingdom of heaven [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural water.

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis (# 22), June 29, 1943: Actually only those are to be numbered among the
members of the Church who have been baptized in water and profess the true faith.

Pope Pius XI Quas Primas (# 15), Dec. 11, 1925 : Indeed this kingdom is presented in the Gospels as such,
into which men prepare to enter by doing penance; moreover, they cannot enter it except through
faith and baptism, which, although an external rite, yet signifies and effects an interior regeneration.

Pope Leo XIII, Tametsi futura prospicientibus (# 7), Nov. 1, 1900: Christ is mans Way; the Church
also is his Way Hence all who would find salvation apart from the Church, are led astray and strive
in vain.

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 10), Jan. 6, 1928: For since the mystical body of Christ, in the same
manner as His physical body, is one, compacted and fitly joined together, it were foolish and out of place to say
that the mystical body is made up of members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever
therefore is not united with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head.

1214 64 (Denzinger): A person is fit for absolution, however much he labors under an ignorance of the
mysteries of the faith, and even if through negligence, even culpable, he does not know the mystery of the








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most blessed Trinity, and of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ - CONDEMNED.

1173 23. Faith widely so called according to the testimony of creature or by a similar reason suffices for
justification. CONDEMNED

1172 22. Only faith in one God seems necessary by a necessity of means, not, however, the explicit (faith)
in a Rewarder. CONDEMNED

John 17:3- Now this is life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent.

1206 56. Frequent confession and communion, even in those who live like pagans, is a mark of predestination.
CONDEMNED (Denzinger)

1212 62. The proximate occasion for sinning is not to be shunned when some useful and honorable cause for
not shunning it occurs. CONDEMNED (Denzinger)


One cannot have True Charity without the True Faith:

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (#9), Jan. 6, 1928: the foundation of charity is faith pure and
inviolate

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (#9), Jan. 6, 1928: For which reason, since charity is based on a
complete and sincere faith, the disciples of Christ must be united principally by the bond of one faith.


Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 7 on Justification, ex cathedra:
Justification is not merely remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior
man Hence man through Jesus Christ, into whom he is ingrafted, receives in the said justification
together with the remission of sins all these gifts infused at the same time: faith, hope and charity.


Pope St. Pius X, Editae Saepe (#28), May 26, 1910: As a matter of fact, however, merely naturally good
works are only a counterfeit of virtue since they are neither permanent nor sufficient for salvation.



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In the case of married persons, however, let them seriously consider this, since the blessed Apostle does not
wish them to "defraud one another, except perhaps by consent for a time, that they may give themselves to
prayer" [cf. 1 Cor. 7:5], let them advise these seriously that they should give themselves more to continence,
because of reverence for the most holy Eucharist, and that they should come together for communion in the
heavenly banquet with a purer mind.

1159 9. The act of marriage exercised for pleasure only is entirely free of all 1. fault and venial defect.
CONDEMNED.

1199 49. Voluptuousness is not prohibited by the law of nature. Therefore, if God had not forbidden it, it would








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be good, and sometimes obligatory under pain of mortal sin. CONDEMNED.


1158 8. Eating and drinking even to satiety for pleasure only, are not sinful, provided this does not stand in the
way of health, since any natural appetite can licitly enjoy its own actions. CONDEMNED.



Regarding the Gospel - against not believing it for the secularist:

Whats the whole point to seeking truth and justice if there is no Christian God to account to? What is
the meaning of fairness and equality in this life when they dont exist as consequences of what happens
here in this life will be accountable in the next? Life is just really a dimension of polarity between the
opposite forces guided by the invisible hand or by some random chance and even by the mechanism of
the mind. Everything is really meaningless after death. This is the spiritual crisis in the world today
(especially when the Catholic Church seems to be filled with corrupted officials and heretics disguised as
Christians, while the world is going to hell with all the calamity and social changes that are happening
every day).