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:
"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.
Less than expected.
As has been reported by the SAME IDIOTS who underestimated the Glenn Beck rally a couple weeks ago by a factor of ten or so.
The photos are remarkable. Thank goodness we have them.
They illustrate exactly what has been reported.
A crowd of 50,000.
Less than expected.
At least we are making progress when you equate Rome with the truth.
How hard is this for Rome to understand? Disagreement is not "lying." Your opinions carry no more weight than anyone else's opinions.
Were you to limit and identify your comments to opinion I would agree with you. However, when you authoritatively proclaim verifiable falsehoods as fact it is beyond the confines of opinion.
You presume I am a "fundamentalist."
I presume you are a democrat.
Shall we continue alone these lines?
share your thoughts on contraception with the group.
The only response to your smarmy question has something to do with shorts and lunch.
Even if true, however grossly understated, the Pope drew an audience to a single event twice as large as the number of all of the OPCers in the world.
Actually, you didn't answer at all. I half suspect you cut and pasted a canned response.
Who believes 2 + 2 + 7?
I posed a hypothetical to illustrate a point, did it confuse you somehow?
I was sure the answer was "B" but based on the response it may very well be "A". It would explain a lot.
I took them from markomalley, hopefully he doesn’t mind.
In advance of the visit, siren voices had warned that it would all be a disaster. Few would turn up, we were told. Yet 125,000 lined the streets of Edinburgh, according to the police, and 75,000 came to Glasgow's Bellahouston Park. Everywhere the Popemobile went, the crowds were 10 or 12 deep. As reporters moved among them, it was clear that these were not simply the faithful, coming out of a tribal loyalty to their embattled leader, but people of faith and none, simply curious to witness a moment of history the first state visit by a pope since the Reformation and to hear a distinctly counter-cultural message, questioning the remorseless march of the me society, with its twin obsessions of consumerism and celebrity.The Pope's Parting Gift
These types of statements confuse the Trinity as if they are not united and CO-Equal LOVE..Thus, come across as the Trinity consisting of a God who is wrath, the other who is only sacrificial satisfaction and would thus leave the Holy Spirit as wrathfully sacrificial.Thus, the angry God needed to be satisfied of His anger by sacrificing God the Son for something He created(mankind)for the sin that God planned mankind to commit according to the Calvinist
It almost seems possible that Calvin thought Christ was totally depraved being Incarnate
Perhaps you should read Bishop Fulton Sheen
In the Divine Essence, the Father not only contemplates His Son, Who is His Eternal Image. As a result of the mutual love for one another, there is also a spiration, or an act of mutual love, which is called the Holy Spirit. Just as to speak means to pronounce a word, and to flower means to produce blossoms, so to love is to breathe love, or sigh, or spirate. As we know that a rosebush is in flower by its blossoms, so the Father gives intellectual expression to all knowledge by His Word. Now we know that the Father and Son are in love, both for themselves and even for us, through their Holy Spirit of Love. This mutual love of Father for Son and of Son for Father is not a fleeting love like ours, but so eternal and so rooted in the Divine essence as to be personal. For that reason, the Holy Spirit is called a Person. The love of friend for friend is sometimes said to make them one soul; but in no sense does it breathe forth a new person. In the family, however, the analogy is better, for the mutual love of husband and wife does "breathe," not wholly in the order of the spirit but in the order of spirit and matter, a new person, who is the bond of their love. But all this is imperfect, for regardless of how much love there is among humans, the good which is loved remains separated and external.
Ok, we'll only accept your acceptable reports then. :)
I knew that.. Thanks
It could actually be both, I guess I should have had a choice C.
In any event Social Justice, Liberation Theology, and Marxism have developed into a common "Social Justice" buzz word term.
THINKING CATHOLIC STRATEGIC CENTER
"Now that you have been made aware of your error all subsequent repetitions will legitimately be classified as lies."
This is the first visit to Scotland. Pope John Paul II visited England in the summer of 1982 and I think that was the first time that any pope had ever been to the British Isles.
Maybe Dr E is shy, but as the mother of SEVEN I am not
I believe in a sovereign God, that not one child is conceived that He has not ordained.. Scripture tells us that God opens and closes the womb. He is sovereign
So the issue of birth control is relatively unimportant in the scheme of Gods plans
If God ordained a child it will be, no matter birth control,or tubal ligation or vasectomy or hysterectomy
Man only THINKS he is sovereign over his life and his reproduction
How many children do you have?
Your salvation might well hang in the balance.
Your cut and paste without attribution is becoming tiresome.
I have no interest in continuing with this endless spam.
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