Posted on 03/08/2016 5:52:18 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Bkmrk.
Hmmm! Corruption from the bottom up to the top!
The gay mafia in New York includes gay Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, who, as rector of the seminary at Dunwoodie, had sexual relations with Miqueli, and with three officials now in the chancery, and in recent times palled around with Miqueli’s prostitute Keith Crist.
Dolan’s plan was to do nothing about the gay mafia for his entire term of office, then retire, then die. I.e., the same plan followed by Cardinals O’Connor and Egan.
Ty.
The Catholic priesthood was considered a plum career for homos back in the day before they were celebrated. Much better cover than pretending to be married to a woman.
Thanks for the link.
Christine. ‘There is filth and corruption that goes very deep.’
Thousands of people are thankful that Michael Voris is finally, after thirty years, exposing the corruption.
You never cease to amaze me.Pray tell how does that bring souls closer to Our Lord.You seem to have a vanity to sprout things like your all knowing.Is that your calling?
Exposing corruption absolutely brings souls closer to Christ! A Church that is NOT run by gay priests and bishops is much better for souls.
I think that explains the peak and sharp decline in instances of abuse from priests in the late 70’s/early 80’s per the John Jay report. They quit being priests, quit becoming priests, the old ones died off and weren’t replaced at the same rate by homosexuals. Around 80% or so of the abuse was male on male.
Freegards
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They are unbelievers.
There is nothing in Catholic theology that furnishes a rationalization for any of their debauchery.
Thank you. That’s what I thought as well. Their final judgment will not be pretty.
Speaking of the “bank” of “merit.” Yes, Catholics believe in the Communion of Saints. I.e., they believe there is true interaction between the saints in heaven and the saints on earth.
But this in no way suggests that this “merit” somehow is available to grave sinners, as a kind of “antidote” that enables them to sin with impunity.
This idea reminds me of the anti-Catholics who claim that “indulgences” are permission slips from the Church—allowing people to “indulge” in sin.
1474 The Christian who seeks to purify himself of his sin and to become holy with the help of God’s grace is not alone. “The life of each of God’s children is joined in Christ and through Christ in a wonderful way to the life of all the other Christian brethren in the supernatural unity of the Mystical Body of Christ, as in a single mystical person.”85
1475 In the communion of saints, “a perennial link of charity exists between the faithful who have already reached their heavenly home, those who are expiating their sins in purgatory and those who are still pilgrims on earth. between them there is, too, an abundant exchange of all good things.”86 In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others, well beyond the harm that the sin of one could cause others. Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin.
1476 We also call these spiritual goods of the communion of saints the Church’s treasury, which is “not the sum total of the material goods which have accumulated during the course of the centuries. On the contrary the ‘treasury of the Church’ is the infinite value, which can never be exhausted, which Christ’s merits have before God. They were offered so that the whole of mankind could be set free from sin and attain communion with the Father. In Christ, the Redeemer himself, the satisfactions and merits of his Redemption exist and find their effficacy.”87
1477 “This treasury includes as well the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are truly immense, unfathomable, and even pristine in their value before God. In the treasury, too, are the prayers and good works of all the saints, all those who have followed in the footsteps of Christ the Lord and by his grace have made their lives holy and carried out the mission the Father entrusted to them. In this way they attained their own salvation and at the same time cooperated in saving their brothers in the unity of the Mystical Body.”88
Obtaining indulgence from God through the Church
1478 An indulgence is obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishments due for their sins. Thus the Church does not want simply to come to the aid of these Christians, but also to spur them to works of devotion, penance, and charity.89
1479 Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishments due for their sins may be remitted. (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
Why is this only an “anti-catholic” thing? You can see by the shenanigans of Tetzel and his collusion with the Pope around the time of the Reformation as well as the words in the catechism where people might have that impression.
But Tetzel’s shenanigans were an ABUSE.
I was referring to modern misrepresentations of the very meaning of the terms “merit,” “indulgence,” “suffrages,” etc.
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