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To: Dajjal
You know someone is on the narrow path when they are hammered into an oblivion of insults and false accusations like this priest has been.

That's the measure of a righteous person anymore these days; you learn how to look for them.

He knows and lives the Holy Faith.
13 posted on 09/15/2003 11:21:20 PM PDT by pascendi
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To: pascendi; Dajjal
You know someone is on the narrow path when they are hammered into an oblivion of insults and false accusations like this priest has been.

That's the measure of a righteous person anymore these days; you learn how to look for them.

How many times per day do you utter with total sincerity Jansenist propositions concerning disobedience to ecclesiastical commands and penalties condemned by the Magisterium as "favoring heretics and heresies, and also schisms"?

From the Bull "Unigenitus":

91. The fear of an unjust excommunication should never hinder us from fulfilling our duty; never are we separated from the Church, even when by the wickedness of men we seem to be expelled from it, as long as we are attached to God, to Jesus Christ, and to the Church herself by charity.

92. To suffer in peace an excommunication and an unjust anathema rather than betray truth, is to imitate St. Paul; far be it from rebelling against authority or of destroying unity.

93 Jesus sometimes heals the wounds which the precipitous haste of the first pastors inflicted without His command. Jesus restored what they, with inconsidered zeal, cut off.

96. God permits that all powers be opposed to the preachers of truth, so that its victory cannot be attributed to anyone except to divine grace.

97. Too often it happens that those members, who are united to the Church more holily and more strictly, are looked down upon, and treated as if they were unworthy of being in the Church, or as if they were separated from Her; but, "the just man liveth by faith" [Rom. 1:17], and not by the opinion of men.

98. The state of persecution and of punishment which anyone endures as a disgraceful and impious heretic, is generally the final trial and is especially meritorious, inasmuch as it makes a man more conformable to Jesus Christ.

Declared and condemned as false, captious, evil-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious to the Church and her practice, insulting not only to the Church but also the secular powers seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspected of heresy, and smacking of heresy itself, and, besides, favoring heretics and heresies, and also schisms, erroneous, close to heresy, many times condemned, and finally heretical, clearly renewing many heresies respectively and most especially those which are contained in the infamous propositions of Jansen, and indeed accepted in that sense in which these have been condemned.


20 posted on 09/16/2003 6:03:15 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: pascendi
Balderdash. To be Catholic one must maintain Unity of Worship, Doctrine, Authority.
43 posted on 09/17/2003 5:42:47 AM PDT by Catholicguy
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