Posted on 04/14/2025 7:22:32 AM PDT by JosephJames
Lot’s of very good content in this very lengthy post.
As I stated in another post:
I’m ever so grateful that I had a chance to learn my Catholic faith through RCIA. I was baptized into the faith but as with most folks, we fell away and went “dormant.” I entered RCIA (now OCIA) with my step-mom at 15 and really learned my faith. Though I do not debate with folks who just want to argue, I love defending my faith from the hordes of misinformed folks.
As with everything, learning history, appreciating the brilliant writings of those before you, and actually studying the complete Bible with the aid of the aforementioned, makes for a deep relationship with the Lord.
I am very happy for you!
But the devil never sleeps and is very intelligent.
We are truly in the great apostasy before the manifestation of the Antichrist (2Thess 2:3-8). Thus it is very important that you be aware of the many traps set by Satan in this period. Traps very subtle but powerful to take away the true faith while we believe all is OK.
My many other articles might help.
http://josephdwight.blogspot.com
If you might have a question, send me an Email: josephdwight57@gmail.com
May God bless you.
The problem is not necessarily that the Catholic church is becoming Protestant. The problem is that the Catholic church is becoming Neo-pagan, like the leftist versions of Protestant denominations.
If the Catholic church were to, for example, become like the Lutheran Church-Missuri Synod, it would lose some of its teachings, but not those that are necessary for salvation. But the Vatican isn’t doing that; instead, it is following the path of the Evangelical (non)Lutheran Church in America, which has lost all of the teachings necessary for salvation, plus filling itself with neopagan heresies.
In short, if you’re going to become Protestant, at least become the right kind of Protestant. If you’re going to stay Catholic, at least keep the doctrines necessary for salvation, and throw into the lake of fire the neopagan heresies that have destroyed the faith.
I always say about Vatican II, “If they decided to borrow from Protestantism, why did they only take the bad stuff?”
What an ass.
What? the SDA threads stirring the pot aren't enough?
When you hear of Protestant church headquarters (like the Vatican) holding cocaine fueled, homosexual orgies and electing apostate, marxist leaders (like Francis) get back to me about how much better Catholicism is than everyone else.
Oh, and BTW, thanks for the proof that Catholics have a pride issue. Because if anything shows it, this sort of thing does.
Being RC and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.
Being P and $5 will get you a cup of coffee and a glass of water.
Meanwhile, Catholicism, which has had an alleged 2,000 years to provide a detailed verse by verse commentary of the Bible has only officially *interpreted* a handful of verses, leaving the rest open for anyone's own personal interpretation.
And a strange criticism from someone whose church allows *tradition* to trump the Truth of God's word.
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
The Roman Empire Religion is Satan’s greatest work of deception ever. He has caused billions over time to be lost simply because they have fallen for the stories that establish its “authority”. For starters, Jesus didnt begin the Roman religion with Peter, Constantine started it in the 3rd century to bring all the pagan religions into one state religion of Rome.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN: IF CHRISTIANITY IS TRUE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE TRUE CHURCH; THE “REFORMATION” WAS REALLY ABOUT ATTACKING THE EUCHARIST -
“I myself am convinced by the Petrine claims, nor looking around the world does there seem much doubt which (if Christianity is true) is the True Church, the temple of the Spirit dying but living, corrupt but holy, self-reforming and rearising.
But for me that Church of which the Pope is the acknowledged head on earth has as chief claim that it is the one that has (and still does) ever defended the Blessed Sacrament, and given it most honor, and put it (as Christ plainly intended) in the prime place. ‘Feed my sheep’ was His last charge to St. Peter; and since His words are always first to be understood literally, I suppose them to refer primarily to the Bread of Life.
It was against this [the Eucharist] that the W. European revolt (or Reformation) was really launched—‘the blasphemous fable of the Mass’—and faith/works are a mere red herring.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, “Letter 250, To Michael Tolkien” (November 1, 1963)
As one finds at the end of the article and more:
Protestantism didn’t get rid of the papacy. It made every man his own pope.
A large portion of Protestants are ignorant of the early Church.
Yet, the early Church received its faith directly from the Apostles.
The early Church was Catholic in its theology:
1) The real presence of the Eucharist.
2) Baptismal regeneration.
3) Apostolic succession.
That’s the folly of sola scriptura. More than a thousand years later creating a Christianity that is foreign to the faith that Jesus gave to his disciples. And yet knowing this Protestants will still follow their teaching tradition.
Dr. Peter Kreeft, a former protestant convert to Catholicism, wrote: “Let 500 people interpret the writings in the Bible privately, and you will soon find 500 new sects founded due to different interpretations.” Protestants are their own pope, interpreting the Bible according to their personal interpretation.
Jesus said: “Go out to the whole world: proclaim the Gospel to all creation” (Mk 16:15). Jesus never asked us to start our own church!
Protestantism gets weak Catholics. Catholicism gets strong Protestants!
Yes I agree what the Vatican is today, after a coup d’etat by the Freemason bishops and cardinals in the last conclave.
The first target of Satan is the One True Church, not the ones he already has in hand.
Thus we have arrived to what one finds in the article:
The Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, wrote in 1948:
“[Satan] will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and EMPTIED OF ITS DIVINE CONTENT.”
“We are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic contest.”
“The False prophet will have A RELIGION WITHOUT A CROSS. A RELIGION WITHOUT A WORLD TO COME. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit Church.”
“Christ’s Church the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will create the other.”
“THE FALSE CHURCH WILL BE WORLDLY, ECUMENICAL, AND GLOBAL. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.”
“A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.”
“THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT BE SO CALLED; OTHERWISE HE WOULD HAVE NO FOLLOWERS. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”
“Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. HIS LOGIC IS SIMPLE: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, OUR LORD TELLS US THAT HE WILL BE SO MUCH LIKE HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD DECEIVE EVEN THE ELECT – and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion???”
(Communism and the Conscience of the West, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948, pp. 24-25)
The “Prophecy of Saint Francis” (Assisi) tells us:
“2. The power of the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and of others, will withered to the point that very few Christians will want to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity. At the decisive moment of this crisis, a personage not canonically elected, raised to the Pontificate, will endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his error.
7. Some preachers will keep silent about the truth and, denying the truth, they will trample upon the truth. The sanctity of life will be held in derision by those who only profess it outwardly, and for this reason Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a destroyer.”
Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
“I thank God that I live in a day when the enemy is outside the Church, and I know where he is, and what he is up to. But, I foresee a day when the enemy will be both outside and inside the Church … and I pray for the poor faithful who will be caught in the crossfire.”
As one finds at the end of the article and more:
Protestantism didn’t get rid of the papacy. It made every man his own pope.
A large portion of Protestants are ignorant of the early Church.
Yet, the early Church received its faith directly from the Apostles.
The early Church was Catholic in its theology:
1) The real presence of the Eucharist.
2) Baptismal regeneration.
3) Apostolic succession.
That’s the folly of sola scriptura. More than a thousand years later creating a Christianity that is foreign to the faith that Jesus gave to his disciples. And yet knowing this Protestants will still follow their teaching tradition.
Dr. Peter Kreeft, a former protestant convert to Catholicism, wrote: “Let 500 people interpret the writings in the Bible privately, and you will soon find 500 new sects founded due to different interpretations.” Protestants are their own pope, interpreting the Bible according to their personal interpretation.
Jesus said: “Go out to the whole world: proclaim the Gospel to all creation” (Mk 16:15). Jesus never asked us to start our own church!
Protestantism gets weak Catholics. Catholicism gets strong Protestants!
The Freemasons are guided by Satan who is very intelligent. The Freemasons now basically have most of the governments in hand as well as the Vatican since 2013.
Our Lady of Good Success; Quito, Ecuador (January 20, 1610), told us:
“Thus I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. FREEMASONRY, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church… IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF NEED FOR THE CHURCH, THE ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK WILL FALL SILENT.”
By now, there are many Freemasons in the Vatican!
It is very interesting that Our Lady of Good Success said “the ONE who should speak”; she did not say, “the ONES who should speak”, or “those who should speak”, that is, not a group of bishops, but ONE PERSON. Today people are well prepared for this underhanded and very devastating deception of silence after many years of silence about sin and about the consequences of sin on the part of almost all the fathers of the families, of the priests and of the bishops.
I think you missed the whole point.
I agree with what you say, but do you think the Freemasons, guided by Satan, are satisfied to do what you wrote???
Satan wants to bring down the One True Church down to the level of hell. In the next few years he will almost succeed because there are so few who pray and live ALL the Ten Commandments.
A highly approved apparition to Don Stefano Gobbi told us:
Regarding this period of great crisis, Our Lady revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi: “My Adversary will one day think that he is celebrating a complete victory: over the world, over the Church, over souls. It will be only then that I will intervene – terrible and victorious – that his defeat may be all the greater when he is certain in his conviction that he has conquered once for all. What is in preparation is so extraordinary that its like has never happened since the creation of the world. That is why everything has already been predicted in the Bible. The terrible struggle between me, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and “the Red Dragon”, Satan, who has now succeeded in seducing many souls…” (October 18, 1975; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).
This message is referring to Genesis 3:15, and Revelation chapter 12!
OK, you have convinced me. I am now a papist. Where do I start?
Well that was a spit-take inducing first line, lol.
Also, “As a Protestant, you have to believe that the full Truth of Christianity did not arrive until Martin Luther revealed it in 1517, and that over 1500 years of luminaries such as Justin Martyr, Jerome, Augustine, Aquinas, and others got it all wrong the whole time. Think about that for a moment!”
Absolute ignorance and poppycock. Luther was arguing that the Catholic church lost its way because it STOPPED being Catholic. Heck it’s the position of conservative Lutherans (to this day) that they ARE the Catholic church. Not that Luther came up with something new.
✅ Has sufficient quantity of tropes and Roman talking points
The full truth necessary for salvation is found in Scripture.
The Catholic church is far closer to mainline Protestant churches that have abandoned the word of God than many others that are labeled *protestant* but really aren’t.
They’re Christian churches and depend on the word of God, something both Catholicism and mainline Prots have gotten away from.
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