Posted on 02/21/2019 8:15:32 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
I would like to think some of them have had a chanceto read these quotes. St. Damian was a Doctor of the Church --- and holey moley, do they need a doctor.
1,000 years ago???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien
You were more correct in your title. St Damien was born in 1840 and died in 1889. His writings were from a little more than 100 years ago, and far, far less than 1,000 years ago.
You’re confusing St Damien Veuster with St Peter Damian. Two entirely different people, but both holy men.
And here we are 1,000 years later and what has changed in Catholicism?
You're referencing St. Damien of Molokai - Hawaii (1840-1889) who was a medical doctor and missionary to the lepers.
I'm referencing St. Peter Damian, of Italy (998-1073) Monastic Reformer, Bishop, Cardinal, and Doctor of the Church, who preached and wrote against --- among other things --- the triple vices of Usury, Luxury and Sodomy.
Attentive students of the Bible such as yourself will detect a familiar pattern here.
Blessed be God, Who in his incomprehensible mercy towards sinners, rescues His Church, which is saved, but (Paul's words) "only as through fire."
Ah, mea culpa
However, in my defense St Damian of Italy is normally referred to as either St Peter Damian or Peter Damian, and not just St Damien/Damian.
Ping
Mea Cupla again.
My brain skipped the “Peter” in your title, and just went looking for “St Damien/Damian”.
We need someone like this leading the Catholic church and every Christian sect, speaking the truth to sodomite degeneracy and Satan worship.
The New Pope will have this Saint pulled from the ranks of sainthood. How dare he say Gay is Satanic! This mans hate speech must be banned—gay is now a must for all priests in the Roman Church—or so it seems. Looks like they need a Reformation.
Another one.
Catholic history indicate that it cannot seem to go more than 500 years without some major upheaval.
There was the Great Schism in 1054 AD when the EO and Rome split off from each other.
Then there was the Protestant Reformation in the 1500’s.
Now, here we are 500 years later and people are calling for Catholicism to get back to its roots again.
And dollars to donuts, the reaction of the church hierarchy will be the same. Double down on their wrong direction and then condemn as not being Catholic, those who disagree with them.
How The Ancient Catholic Church Dealt With Priest Sex Offenders
https://www.ucatholic.com/blog/how-the-ancient-catholic-church-dealt-with-priest-sex-offenders/
Great post. Were more Catholics so courageous.
Inspiring.
Of course, there are different ways to slice it --- these are rough estimates --- but Dawson maps it out thus:
followed by the present, seventh age, roughly...
That last category was named by me, and seems to be where we're at. By "we" I mean all of us,
I would dispute your assessment that "reaction of the church hierarchy will be the same. Double down on their wrong direction."
I would say, rather, that six times (at least) it looked like the Church was finished, both via external assault and internal collapse. Six times, by the grace of God, the Church repented its sins and weaknesses, resurged and outlived its would-be undertakers.
We'll see how our Savior will deal with us on this seventh. I honestly think it might be the last, but that's been said before.
"The whole course of Christianity from the first ... is but one series of troubles and disorders. Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times before it. The Church is ever ailing ... Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of truth dim, its adherents scattered. The cause of Christ is ever in its last agony."-Blessed John Henry Newman, Via Media (1834)
"All times are dangerous times."
- St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church (1515-1580)
Try mine at #18
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