Posted on 02/15/2023 10:58:56 AM PST by ebb tide
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In any case, one thing seems likely: The memo must have been music to the Vatican’s ears. Certainly, Christ-following, church-attending, Bible-believing, cross-bearing Catholics make poor Democrats, and therefore inevitable targets for President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. But the orthodoxy of these Catholics also puts them out of step with the church of Francis, a body increasingly aligning itself with the globalists, climate extremists, and anti-lifers who have infiltrated the highest echelons of Western political, corporate, and cultural life.
Traditional Latin Mass Catholics — who 60 years ago were known simply as “Catholics” — have been a persistent thorn in Pope Francis’ side. He has tried a couple of tactics to suppress them, notably by undoing Pope Benedict’s good work and placing severe restrictions on the celebration of the Latin Mass. Yet Francis has allowed exceptions to the rules, notably to institutes like the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, whose existence and constitutions are intrinsically linked to the ancient liturgy.
Bear in mind, the liturgy itself is not the problem. This is not about Latin, ad orientem worship, Gregorian chant, altar rails, and vestments. It’s the underlying theology that’s the sticking point.
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Lots of Boston College grads (Jesuits) in the FBI.
Lots of division between the trads and the moderns.
Trads support large (usually white) families and opposed the vaccine, church shut downs, and LGBT and abortion positions.
Some of groups listed (that I know of) weren’t “Latin Mass only” types
I do feel sorry for you, sincerely. I left the RCC a long time ago due to salvation by grace through faith alone, but I can say I don’t miss the corruption of Rome, the modernism, the disdain for Scripture, and the disregard for what God clearly states in His Word.
At this point in time, the corruption of Jorge Bergoglio is a non-issue to me, except for the strong possibility that him or a future pope could very well end up as the False Prophet.
“I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
“Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not participate in her sins
and receive of her plagues;
for her sins have piled up as high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.”
I think Georgetown has a good number also.
A good friend and minister told me there is a distinction between religion and Church.
I also don’t miss the obfuscation of the gospel of salvation by the Vatican.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand
so that we would walk in them.”
Music to COMMUNIST ears.
Yes. the fake pope hates traditional Catholics too.
"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
"18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without [f]your works, and I will show you my faith by [g]my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [h]dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made [i]perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was [j]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." -- James 2:14-24, NKJV
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