Unam Sanctam Catholic Infallible Dogma One God, One Faith, One Spiritual Authority Pope Boniface VIII - 1302 Bull of Pope Boniface VIII promulgated November 18, 1302 Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the chosen of her who bore her,‘ and she represents one sole mystical body whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God [1 Cor 11:3]. In her then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism [Eph 4:5]. There had been at the time of the deluge only one ark of Noah, prefiguring the one Church, which ark, having been finished to a single cubit, had only one pilot and guide, i.e., Noah, and we read that, outside of this ark, all that subsisted on the earth was destroyed. We venerate …More
Unam Sanctam Catholic Infallible Dogma One God, One Faith, One Spiritual Authority Pope Boniface VIII - 1302 Bull of Pope Boniface VIII promulgated November 18, 1302 Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the chosen of her who bore her,‘ and she represents one sole mystical body whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God [1 Cor 11:3]. In her then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism [Eph 4:5]. There had been at the time of the deluge only one ark of Noah, prefiguring the one Church, which ark, having been finished to a single cubit, had only one pilot and guide, i.e., Noah, and we read that, outside of this ark, all that subsisted on the earth was destroyed. We venerate …More
By the way, @brhenry , an act of mere disobedience (not schism) compelled by moral conscience and duty, and the spiritual needs of 700,000 faithful Catholics in their care, while begging for the assistance and collaboration of the Holy See -- which was refused to their sincere pleas -- does not constitute a failure to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. Stop being so simplistic and publicizing it to boot.
Toward the Spirit: Why Faithful Catholics Need to Recover the Patristic and Scholastic Vision of Marriage Faithful Catholics today find themselves in an unusual position. On one side stands a secular culture that has largely abandoned Christian morality altogether. Marriage has been redefined, chastity ridiculed, fertility treated as a burden, and self-denial dismissed as unhealthy. Against these errors, faithful Catholics rightly defend the Church's teaching. Yet another danger confronts us—one far more subtle. It is possible to defend Catholic morality while gradually losing sight of the theological vision that once animated it. We may continue to affirm the Church's teachings while forgetting the spiritual principles that gave those teachings their shape. We may preserve the conclusions while neglecting the foundations. This danger is especially evident in the realm of marriage. The Catholic Church continues to teach the sanctity of marriage, the evil of contraception, the goodness …More
Communion we all born from the side Christ who are baptised and have life from his body and blood . We are attached to eucharist umbilical cord the church is the bride of Christ which is pregnant with faithful Catholics. The crucifix is the symbol of marriage no escaping calvary in this life for it is the source of redemptive life . Marriage is the mirror of calvary
The Destruction of Catholic Marriage How Von Hildebrand's Subjective Personalism Erased the Objective Order of Catholic Marriage — and Produced the Crisis We Now Inhabit There is a word for what happened to Catholic marriage theology in the twentieth century. The word is flattening. Not development. Not enrichment. Not a recovery of neglected truths. Flattening — the systematic removal of every hierarchy from a reality that was structured by hierarchy from top to bottom: the hierarchy of ends in marriage, the hierarchy of the sexes in nature, the governing authority of the husband in the household, and the moral ordering of the conjugal act itself. One by one, all the heights were leveled. What remained was a single plane of mutual feeling, going nowhere in particular, accountable to nothing above itself. The man most responsible for this was Dietrich von Hildebrand — a German-American Catholic philosopher who fled the Nazis, and whose ideas now govern the mainstream of Catholic marriage …More
It seems very well written peace Henry. Well done. I must say about this paragraph: " The couple is pursuing the act's primary meaning. They are simply declining its secondary result. This is the logic — never stated plainly, but structurally present — that underlies the catastrophic collapse of Catholic fertility. " It is actually said, very plainly, by the v2 ultra-liberal-modernists, whereby one of them simply were the infiltrants (remember Bella Dodd and her list of 1100 masonic-communist infiltrants). It is written in de new very Code of Canon Law 1983. A result of this is the new Code of Canon Law which came in 1983., which has mixed purposes of marriage, so that puts an abstract concept of "common good of the spouses" in front of the procreation and raising children! But there is more: For Christian understanding of marriages, the Old Testament Book of Tobit is extremely important. Especially those warnings given by God through Archangel Rafael to Tobit 6, 16-17, and Tobit 6, 22. …More
Obey Your Enemies What Scripture says about corrupt shepherds should end the schism debate The schismatics have a story they tell about themselves. The hierarchy has grown so corrupt, so faithless, so brazen in its departures from tradition, that faithful Catholics have no choice but to separate. Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures. When Rome fails, the remnant must act. It is a compelling story. It is directly contradicted by Jesus Christ. Matthew 23 opens with one of the most extraordinary commands in the Gospels. Our Lord turns to the crowds and announces: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you.” Full stop. No asterisk. No escape clause reading unless the corruption becomes sufficiently grave. Obey them. Who were these men He commanded obedience to? Read the rest of the chapter. Whitened sepulchres. Sons of hell. Men who devoured widows’ houses, shut the kingdom of heaven against the faithful, and were about …More
Not always simple. Whats the answer when two different Popes teach opposing doctrine or teach in direct opposition to scripture? Should young seminarians have obeyed when Cardinal McCarrick instructed them to sleep with him in his beach house bed?
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Restoration of Edenic Motherhood Modern Christianity often speaks of the marriage bed as though it were pure, uncomplicated delight—an unmixed gift, innocent in itself, and untouched by the catastrophe of the Fall. That is a sentimental error. Perrenial Tradition is far more severe and far more realistic: marriage is good, but the marriage bed of fallen man is not Edenic innocence. It is generation after the Fall, marked by concupiscence, bodily loss, and the need for moral order. To call every aspect of the marriage bed “beautiful” in the same sense that creation itself is beautiful is to flatten the doctrine of original sin. It is to forget that humanity now begets children in a wounded condition, under the shadow of mortality. Tradition never denies that marriage is lawful and honorable. What it denies is the modern fantasy that fallen desire is pure simply because it occurs inside a marriage bed. Marriage goods regulate and excuse what is otherwise disordered …More
Revelations to St. Britget of Sweden, 1 book, 26 chapter ... Those who unite with divine love and fear for the sake of procreation and to raise children for the honor of God are my spiritual temple where I wish to dwell as the third with them. But people in this age are joined in marriage for seven reasons: First, because of facial beauty. Second, because of wealth. Third, because of the despicable pleasure and indecent joy they get out of their impure intercourse. Fourth, because of feasts with friends and uncontrolled gluttony. Fifth, because of vanity in clothing and eating, in joking and entertainment and games and other vanities. Sixth, for the sake of procreating children but not to raise them for the honor of God or good works but for worldly riches and honor. Seventh, they come together for the sake of lust and they are like brute beasts in their lustful desires. They come to the doors of my church with one mind and consent, but all their desires and inner thoughts are completely …More
Yes. It's good to see this. That is exactly what they told us at the time. All lies. These priests had said the Latin Mass for years and had to have known that it was all lies. They spoke Latin. They understood Latin. They had to know it was NOT just a change from Latin to English. That the changes ARE doctrinal. And these horrible lies have caused the loss of so many souls.
YOU CANNOT SMASH THE PATRIARCHY You Can Only Replace the Father The patriarchy cannot be abolished. It can only be transferred. This is the fact the enemies of Christ have concealed from their victims for a century, and it is the first thing that must be understood about the errors of Russia and what they produced. The rule of the father is not a human arrangement. It descends from God. Every family in heaven and on earth, St. Paul tells the Ephesians, takes its name from the Father. Fatherhood on earth participates in the eternal fatherhood of God. It is not a custom. It is not a power structure that evolved and can be dismantled. It is the order of creation, and it will have its representatives on earth whether men acknowledge them or not. The chain of authority in the household runs in one direction: from Christ to the father, from the father to the wife, from the father and wife together to the children. This is not a negotiated arrangement. It is the order of creation, and every …More
THE REAL WAR NOBODY WANTS TO NAME On Christ, Antichrist, the Errors of Russia, and the Shape of Reality There is a war going on. You can feel it. Most people can feel it even if they cannot name it. And because they cannot name it, they name the wrong thing. They say it is a war between races. Or between nations. Or between the globalists and the patriots. Or between Islam and the West. Or between men and women. Or between the rich and the poor. None of that is wrong exactly. But none of it is the real thing. Those are the shadows of the war, not the war itself. The real war is between Christ and Antichrist. And if that language does not work for you yet, try this: it is the war between reason and unreason. Between the natural order and the war on that order. Between those who accept that reality has a shape — and those who have declared war on that shape. Christ and reason are not two different things. They are the same thing. That is the claim this piece is built on, and it is worth …More
It is quite simple as St. John himself, the Beloved Apostle of Love is telling us: "Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. (1 John 2) "And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world" Douay-Rheims Bible, 1 John Chapter 4 (1 John 4) So all the spirits dissolving Jesus - spirits of the synagogue of Satan, of impious Mohammedan sect and those actively co-operating with them are of Antichrist.
The Age of Self-Will Is Breaking the Chain That Built Society For most of human history, life followed a chain of authority so ordinary it was almost invisible. A child was born into a household, raised under the authority of father and mother, shaped by religion and community, and then—at the proper time—transferred into another structured life. A man formed his own household under the same pattern. A woman entered into one. Others entered religious communities. The chain continued. That chain had a name we are now uncomfortable even saying: obedience. There was obedience in the family. Obedience expected of children. Obedience expected of wives. Obedience to fathers, to religious authority, to inherited structure. It was not considered strange or oppressive—it was considered normal, even necessary. It was how order sustained itself across generations. There was no gap. No vacuum. No prolonged experiment in personal sovereignty. That chain is now broken. What replaced it was not simply …More
[Saint Bridget of Sweden/ Heliga Birgitta; XIV Century AD: aged 69-70; Uppland, Sweden/Rome, Papal States; Widow, Mystic; Spiritual Writer; Founder; Patroness of Europe] Our Lord’s words of admonishment to the bride about true and false wisdom, and about how good angels aid the wise who are good while devils aid the wise who are evil. Chapter 33 “My friends are like scholars who have three things: First, a reasonable understanding above what is natural to the brain. Second, wisdom without human aid, for I myself teach them inwardly. Third, they are full of the sweetness and divine love with which they defeat the devil. But nowadays people study in a different way. First, they want to be wise out of vainglory in order to be called good clerks and masterly scholars. Second, they want to be wise in order to own and win riches. Third, they want to be wise in order to win honors and privileges. That is why I leave them when they go to their schools and enter there, since they study because …More
Our Saintly Catholic Grandparents Were Right Our saintly Catholic grandparents and great grandparents did not have the philosophical vocabulary of St Thomas Aquinas. They did not cite the canons of Trent from memory. But they had been formed by a Church that had absorbed fifteen centuries of patristic and scholastic teaching through its liturgy, its confessional practice, its popular piety, and its catechisms — and that formation had deposited in them the correct instinct: that the marital bed is not inherently clean, that it requires penance, that it should be received seriously and with some degree of righteous shame, that it is not something one celebrates but something one governs. They affirmed the marriage bed's liceity. What they refused was the rehabilitation of the marriage bed into something radiant and sacred. In that refusal they were aligned with St. Augustine, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Gregory the Great, St. Peter Lombard, St. Thomas …More
Resisting The Effeminate West The West is folding like a cheap suit before the unapologetic thrust of Islamic masculinity—and it's not because of birth rates. It's raw, civilizational **testosterone** versus therapeutic whimpering. Islam still raises men. Traditional Islamic culture—rooted in Quranic guardianship (4:34), the warrior ethos of jihad (greater and lesser), and clear patriarchal lines—produces protectors, providers, and fighters who view dominance, honor, and conquest as natural male duties. Jihadi-Salafi strains crank this to hypermasculine extremes: aggression as virtue, women as domain, infidels as prey, brotherhood forged in battle. Even mainstream expressions reject the West's gender-blurring experiments. Men lead prayers, families, and communities without apology. They don't attend "toxic masculinity" workshops or debate their own existence. The **Christian West**? It's gone soft. Once forged in the fire of crusading knights, monastic discipline, and fathers who built …More
The two Catholic Dogmas that infuriate the world (including worldly prelates, who's offices I acknowledge and respect) more than any others: 1. Virtuous carnal relations are strictly limited to the marriage bed with the intent of procreation destined for Holy Baptism. 2. Voluntary renunciation of the carnal relations(even in marriage) is the Christian Ideal. (Jesus, Mary, Joseph & Countless Saints).
THE SERPENT'S UNFINISHED SENTENCE Emancipation as the Fulfillment of the Original Temptation “You will be like gods.” — Genesis 3:5 “Everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.” — John 8:34 I. THE ANATOMY OF THE FIRST LIE The serpent did not begin with a command. He began with a question. “Did God say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?” (Gen. 3:1). This is the inaugural gesture of all diabolical rhetoric: the implantation of doubt about the legitimacy of a limit. Before Eve could be seduced into transgression, she had first to be seduced into suspicion — suspicion that the boundary set by God was arbitrary, self-serving, and above all, an obstacle to her flourishing. The serpent’s lie had a structure. It was not a simple falsehood but a complex inversion. It took a truth — that eating the fruit would open their eyes — and dressed it in the grammar of liberation. The prohibition was recast as suppression. The divine law was reframed as divine jealousy. God, the serpent implied …More
**The Patristic and Scholastic Consensus Against the Modern Idolatry of the Marriage Bed: Marriage Is the Indissoluble Bond of Wills, Not the Operations of the Flesh** The Church Fathers and the great Scholastic theologians present a unified, sober, and supernatural vision of holy matrimony that stands in radical opposition to much contemporary Catholic teaching and pastoral rhetoric. In the tradition from **St. Augustine** through the Scholastics (including **Peter Lombard** and preeminently **St. Thomas Aquinas**), the **essence** of the sacrament of marriage resides in the **mutual consent** that forms the indissoluble bond (*vinculum*) of fidelity between husband and wife. This covenant of wills is the primal reality: it images the union of Christ and the Church, confers sacramental grace, and sanctifies the spouses independently of any carnal act. The three goods of marriage—**offspring** (*proles*), **fidelity** (*fides*), and the **sacramental bond** (*sacramentum*)—flow from this …More
What the Serpent Could Not Tolerate The serpent did not come to corrupt Adam and Eve. He came to open their eyes. “Your eyes will be opened,” he promised, “and you will be like gods.” What followed was not enlightenment. It was the birth of the self as a competing center — the sudden awareness of one’s own interiority as something to be consulted, protected, and served. Their eyes opened. And the first thing they saw was that they were naked. The first fruit of the “open eyes” of “self” was shame. This is the Fall in its precise structure. Before it, Adam and Eve obeyed with what can only be called a blind obedience — not the blindness of ignorance, but the blindness of a will that had not yet learned to regard itself. They moved entirely toward God without the reflexive inward curl that makes fallen men pause, calculate, negotiate, and ultimately substitute their own judgment for His. They were blind to self-will because self-will had not yet entered the world. The serpent could not …More
NON SERVIAM The Rebel’s Gospel and the Damnation It Purchases St. Paul did not mince words. He rarely did. “Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation.” (Romans 13:1–2, Douay-Rheims) Purchase. To themselves. Damnation. Not inconvenience. Not imprudence. Not a regrettable tactical error. Damnation. The Apostle uses κρίμα — condemnation, judgment — the same word used for the verdict rendered at the last hour. And he says the rebel brings it on himself. It is self-purchased. Self-willed. The logical terminus of a soul that has decided it knows better than God’s providential ordering of the world. Keep that word in mind. We’re going to need it. THE REBEL’S ONE MOVE Every rebel, in every age, makes the same move. He does not simply oppose a specific unjust act. He delegitimizes authority …More