Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
The ultimate intention of Catholicism is the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. That has always been the ambition, at least covertly, but now it is being promoted overtly and openly.
The purpose of this article is only to make that intention clear. It is not a criticism of Catholics or Catholicism (unless you happen to think a Catholic dictatorship is not a good thing).
The most important point is to understand that when a Catholic talks about liberty or freedom, it is not individual liberty that is meant, not the freedom to live one's life as a responsible individual with the freedom to believe as one chooses, not the freedom to pursue happiness, not the freedom to produce and keep what one has produced as their property. What Catholicism means by freedom, is freedom to be a Catholic, in obedience to the dictates of Rome.
The Intentions Made Plain
The following is from the book Revolution and Counter-Revolution:
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"B. Catholic Culture and Civilization
"Therefore, the ideal of the Counter-Revolution is to restore and promote Catholic culture and civilization. This theme would not be sufficiently enunciated if it did not contain a definition of what we understand by Catholic culture and Catholic civilization. We realize that the terms civilization and culture are used in many different senses. Obviously, it is not our intention here to take a position on a question of terminology. We limit ourselves to using these words as relatively precise labels to indicate certain realities. We are more concerned with providing a sound idea of these realities than with debating terminology.
"A soul in the state of grace possesses all virtues to a greater or lesser degree. Illuminated by faith, it has the elements to form the only true vision of the universe.
"The fundamental element of Catholic culture is the vision of the universe elaborated according to the doctrine of the Church. This culture includes not only the learning, that is, the possession of the information needed for such an elaboration, but also the analysis and coordination of this information according to Catholic doctrine. This culture is not restricted to the theological, philosophical, or scientific field, but encompasses the breadth of human knowledge; it is reflected in the arts and implies the affirmation of values that permeate all aspects of life.
"Catholic civilization is the structuring of all human relations, of all human institutions, and of the State itself according to the doctrine of the Church.
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Got that? "Catholic civilization is the structuring of all human relations, of all human institutions, and of the State itself according to the doctrine of the Church." The other name for this is called "totalitarianism," the complete rule of every aspect of life.
This book and WEB sites like that where it is found are spreading like wildfire. These people do not believe the hope of America is the restoration of the liberties the founders sought to guarantee, these people believe the only hope for America is Fatima. Really!
In Their Own Words
The following is from the site, "RealCatholicTV." It is a plain call for a "benevolent dictatorship, a Catholic monarch;" their own words. They even suggest that when the "Lord's Payer," is recited, it is just such a Catholic dictatorship that is being prayed for.
[View video in original here or on Youtube. Will not show in FR.]
Two Comments
First, in this country, freedom of speech means that anyone may express any view no matter how much anyone else disagrees with that view, or is offended by it. I totally defend that meaning of freedom of speech.
This is what Catholics believe, and quite frankly, I do not see how any consistent Catholic could disagree with it, though I suspect some may. I have no objection to their promoting those views, because it is what they believe. Quite frankly I am delighted they are expressing them openly. For one thing, it makes it much easier to understand Catholic dialog, and what they mean by the words they use.
Secondly, I think if their views were actually implemented, it would mean the end true freedom, of course, but I do not believe there is any such danger.
But not that thief.
Read post #7531 for a deeper understanding from Aquinas
In a hurry for meeting!
He should have stayed and become a priest, he would have fit right in with the sodomites and fornicators in the priesthood huh?
BTW The accusation came from a catholic that hated reformed doctrine.. not a 7 year old altarboy
Mother Teresa's book and lack of faith have nothing to do with my faith or "holiness," although I realize it is the pattern of RC apologists to personalize these discussions. But they should resist the urge. It's not the topic.
The topic is Mother Teresa's 50-year loss of faith whcich goes a long way in explaining why she could so easily ignore the Gospel and instead preach the benefits of Hinduism, Buddhism and assorted other pagan beliefs.
When a person discards the truth, all lies look more appealing.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." -- Rev. 21:7-8"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Did you get the order of those offenses? Before murderers and sorcerers, "the fearful and unbelieving" top the list of those whose end is not good.
"So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them — because of the blasphemy — If there be God — please forgive me — When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven — there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. — I am told God loves me — and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul.
Eight years later, she was still looking to reclaim her lost faith.
What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true."
"Such deep longing for God… Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she said.
This crisis of faith began in 1946, the same year that she began her evangelistic work among the poor in Kolkata, and continued unabated, except for a few weeks in 1958, until her death in 1997. The church assigned a long series of priests and bishops to act as her confessors, trying to help her recover her faith, but all of them ultimately met with failure.
"According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying, she once said. "
Could you show us where Christ prescribes the monastic life as a part of Christian life?
The question is was it the love of Christ or was it her love? The fact that she never presented Christ to the dying says it was human love not divine love.
God uses even the unsaved to do His pleasure ..
We can look at her works and know they were kind, and appreciate her without making a woman that doubted God a 'saint" and the focus of devotion
I don't understand, why would He need the supernatural virtue of faith to pray... to speak to His Father? Faith will pass away when we behold the Beatific Vision, will we no longer pray then?
Beyond that, I had a friend who used to be in the IDF who converted to Catholicism in Jerusalem. She once almost offhandedly said, in reference to "why have you forsaken me", "Oh, He was saying tehillim". As if that settled the whole issue... I didn't even know what that meant and every time I thought to ask her she was half the world away.
Oh, and I mentioned that she used to be in the IDF and converted in Jerusalem because she's a she and everything in combination is about the coolest thing ever... what with her having been a Presbyterian from the American South.
Anyhow, I don't fully understand how a Person with two natures and two wills and two intellects functions. I do know that a Divine Person can not have the virtue of Faith because that's like an adult phoning his parents and asking permission to get a drink of water in the middle of the night.
====You guys have tried before and failed miserably. The Trinitarian formula cannot be proven Scripturally. There are the names, but not the formula. The most that can be proven Scripturally is a subordinationalist theology that some of the Reformed’s nuttier allies believe in.====
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm#II
“I and the Father are One. Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father.”
Hmmmm...whom to believe? RnMomof7, an anonymous anti-Catolic poster, or Jesus Christ in His own words?
Decisions, decisions.
Is Jesus God?
Luke 8:10 he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
Is Time Magazine (*spit!*) your source?
The accusation? There were multiple. However, this does show the duplicity of the anti-Catholic's "four legs good, two legs bad" mentality. Accusations agains Calvin, Reformists, and Protestant Clergy are dismissed out of hand, but any and all accusations against any Catholic are accompanied by a presumption of guilt.
It is a bit flattering that the Catholic Church is always held to a higher standard than Protestant churches by the anti-Catholics. It affirms a subliminal acknowledgment of the superiority of the Catholic Church and its clergy as reflected in Luke 12:48;
"From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more."
Yes, as is God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Each are individual Hypostases within one Ousia.
One commonality I find among the Catholics I now personally and it seems true of the ones I know here is they are indifferent to the eternity of others..
Mother Teresa met the physical needs of the dying but was totally indifferent to their eternity and she is called a 'saint"
In your thought, what did the blood shed by Jesus do for men?
I'm confused? You couldn't be suggesting that the celibate Priest should be castrated????
MOther Teresa was not indifferent to anyone's eternity. There is far more to the Word of God than is found in the written Scripture and far more means to spread the Word than the spewing of out of contect Scripture. Just because some French shyster reduced God to a manipulable document, devoid of Beatitude does not mean the whole world agrees or acts accordingly.
Would you have an objection to being included amongst the "we"?
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