Catholic 'Idolatry'

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The Catholic sacred images are entirely different from the pagan idols or "strange gods" - before which sacrifices were offered on their own altars (cf., Ex. 32.1-6: 3 Ki. [1 Kings in non-Catholic versions] 12.26-33). Sacred images are Scriptural, commanded by God Himself: Ex. 25.18ff; 37.7; Num 21.8,9; 2 Par. (Chronicles in non-Catholic versions) 3.10-11; 3 Ki. (1 Kings in non-Catholic versions) 6.23,32,35; 1 Par. 28.18-19.

'Worship'... by kneeling? That's a characteristic "Bible-only" Scriptural ignorance taught in the school of Lutheran tradition. It is written that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow... (Phil. 2.10). But, "Bible-only" sectarians do not kneel in their services, not even when their leaders invoke the Holy Name; otherwise, they would think as if they have become Catholics. Therefore, they don't really pay any divine worship and they don't really literally adhere to the Bible or, better yet, to their version as they would have Catholics to do. Kneeling is confused with the act of ritual offering of a sacrifice on a cultic altar - which alone is the strictly Scriptural worship of the divine (cf., the Scriptural passages referred to above). The Apostle St. Paul claimed: We have an altar (Heb. 13.10).

The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ guaranteed of His Church: The gates of hell shall not prevail against it (St. Matt. 16.18). Now, were His ancient Church He built on Cephas, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed bishops [Gk: episcopoi]... to rule..." (Ac. 20.28), to degenerate into error which, in turn, leads to idolatry (... being deceived with error, thou adore strange gods, and serve them, Deut. 30.17 - DRV), then, certainly, the gates of hell prevailed against it. To the "Bible-only" sectarians: either your pastors (who have uncritically taken up Luther's anti-Catholic propaganda) or Christ was the liar.

The Philippines: Another Lost Catholic Nation

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JMJ

But yet the Son of man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, Faith on earth?
(St. Luke 18.8)

"In Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved, etc."

(Our Lady of Fatima in Sr. Lucia, C.D., Fourth Memoir)

Yesterday, day of the 'canonization' of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, ABS-CBN News Channel carried a top Agence France-Presse story with the title, "Catholic Philippines celebrates new [S]aint." On September 21, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published an article in its Lifestyle section, "We are not just the Roman Catholic Republic of the Philippines."

The Filipino nation has long ceased to be a Roman Catholic Nation since the Constitutional repudiation of Catholicism as its official Creed - that is, the Constitutional adoption of the Masonic "inviolable separation of the Church and the State" principle. 'Liberal Catholicism' then has supplanted Catholicism in the country - retaining still some trappings of Catholicism but professing that the 1789 Revolutionary tenets of Freemasonry can be reconciled with the Gospel Christ has entrusted to His Church built on "Cephas" (the "rock" plain and simple in the original Aramaic); in practical effect, the practice of some external forms of Catholic devotion but a denial that one's life, private and social, is Christ's dominion (Ps. 21.29 - DRV): subject to the Traditional Catholic Order of things ruled by the Holy See "for obedience to the Faith" (Rom. 1.5). Blessed Pope Pius IX has this to say against the 'Liberal Catholics': "the worst enemies of the Church... these liberal Catholics."

A Roman Catholic is bound in conscience to completely adhere to the "ex cathedra" pronouncements of the Chair of Peter under pain of excommunication "ipso facto" (automatic excommunication). The Masonic principle of "separation of the Church and the State" was repeatedly anathematized by the successors of St. Peter; it was listed as proposition 55 in the "Syllabus of Errors" of Blessed Pope Pius IX.

Moreover, that many 'Catholic' Filipinos in fact openly disregard, and even question, in their daily living  traditional moral teachings which members of the local Neo-Catholic hierarchy are still vocal with points to the incontrovertible: "Something has changed with the Church, and replies given by the Pope to the most urgent questions such as priestly celibacy and birth control, are hotly debated within the Church itself; the word of the Sovereign Pontiff is questioned by bishops, by priests, by the faithful. For a Freemason, a man who questions... is already a Freemason without an apron" (Jacques Mitterand, a French Freemason, in  Fr. P. Kramer, ed., The Devil's Final Battle, Good Counsel Publications, 2002, p. 62)

In reply to the author of the Inquirer Lifestyle article, the Roman Catholicism you have very poorly conceived (as every "Bible-only" sectarian critique also reveals) highlights your fallacy thus: mistaking some of the external trappings of Catholicism with its essence. You have just very well imbibed also the Communist propaganda designed to inflict a most devastating effect on the minds and hearts especially of the Catholic faithful as was revealed by Ms. Bella Dodd, the former Secretary-General of the US Communist Party who defected and converted to Catholicism, in her voluminous testimony before the US Congressional "Un-American Activities" Committee and in her lectures at the Fordham University in the 1950s: "In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood... they were working to bring about CHANGE... and even to USE THE INSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH, if possible, TO DESTROY THE FAITH through the PROMOTION OF A PSEUDO-RELIGION: SOMETHING THAT RESEMBLED CATHOLICISM BUT WAS NOT THE REAL THING" (cf., "The Year that was 1929"). Important distinctions - necessary to every intelligently objective critique - between the Catholic Church in its broadest sense and the institutional Church in its limited temporal sense, on the one hand; and, the Church, like her Head, as both human and divine, on the other were not even lost on the revolutionaries. It is discreditable and disgraceful to make a critique of something one does not understand and  to adhere still to the Synagogue-driven 'historical revisionism' (that is, the 'Enlightenment' mythification) in an attempt to amend the incontrovertible and inevitable Lordship of Christ through His Church (cf., "Anti-Christian Conspiracy...").

UN-Sponsored Institutionalization of Promiscuity and the Secular Filipino Nation

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Widespread prostitution, impurity, homosexuality only indicates that the basest bestial level of sinfulness has already been hit most especially by those nations once exalted by the Catholic Faith - for one falling from a most sublime position precipitates, like Lucifer, into the basest evil (cf., "The Annihilation of Various Nations"). Whereas, AIDS is the divine chastisement sent by God to deter people from abandoning themselves to disordered beastly passions unto promiscuity.

It is not impossible that, sooner or later, the official institutionalization of the already widespread 'birth control', prostitution, or homosexuality in this country - which has long since constitutionally repudiated the Catholic Creed (which has Christ for its author and perfecter, cf., Heb. 12.2) and the reign of Christ the King - would be in place. It is only a logical consequence of what the secularized Filipino nation has long since tolerated then generally accepted (cf., Rom. 1.32). They have shaken off the yoke of the dominion of Christ the King which demands that their laws conform only to the infallible and irrevocable doctrinal teachings and moral canons of His Catholic Church, it should be no great surprise now that the UN, the organ of world domination established by the Synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2.9; 3.9), is urging their State, heavily indebted to the Synagogue through its syndicate of "International Jewish Financiers", to institutionalize, first, "Onanism" (cf., Gen. 38. 9,10) or the Scriptural 'birth control', and now prostitution under its usual foolishly contrived pretexts. For behold they that go far from [the Lord] shall perish: [He] hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to [Him] (Ps. 72.27, DRV): And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed (Lk. 17.29-30).

The UN-sponsorship only betrays once again that truly the UN is the organ of world-domination by the "carnally-minded" (the Fathers of the Church) "Synagogue of Satan" (Apoc. 2.9; 3.9) in its struggle against the Christ and His dominion. Now, it is not only content with turning a number of what they call woman "goyims" (that is, all the non-Jewish people) to practicing prostitutes as the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" direct; it even demands that the de-Catholicized State officially uphold and even defend the Talmudic Jewry-inspired promiscuity among what were supposed to be 'rational' creatures.

Archbishop Tagle and the 'New Evangelization'

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20th Sunday after Pentecost

... There was a certain ruler whose son was sick... He having heard that Jesus was come... went to Him, and prayed Him to come down and heal His son: for he was at the point of death. Jesus saith to him: Go thy way, thy son liveth.... And himself believed, and his whole house (from today's Gospel, Jn. 4.46-53). 

In his "intervention" at the Roman Synod in the Vatican, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (Vatical II), Archbishop Luis Tagle of Manila said that the 'Church' is "called to follow Jesus' respect for every human person. He defended the dignity of all people, in particular those neglected and despised by the world. Loving His enemies, He affirmed their dignity."

No, Your Grace. You were twisting the Gospel which [we] have received from the Apostles (cf., Gal. 1.9). How could Christ "affirm" and "defend" something which was not there: man's true dignity - being a child and friend of God; man's dignity he lost by taking the proud devil for his authority? The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ came to give God His rightful place of absolute dominion which man denied with the devil; and, to save us from sin, to deliver us from bondage to the devil, to efface from us the image and likeness of the devil by the power of His Most Sacred and Precious Blood (cf., Heb. 9.22: v.14) - still being truly, really yet mystically shed on His [high] altar (Heb. 13.10). 

He hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of Himself (Heb. 9.16). He that commiteth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God appeared, that He might destroy the works of the devil (1 Jn. 3.8). This is the Holy Gospel of the Crucified.

You were just reiterating rather the fundamental principle of the Russian propaganda - what Our Lady of Fatima referred to as "the errors of Russia" (cf., "The Great Secret of Fatima") - that is, "the greatness of man... his dignity... worth more than an always invisible God" (a Russian agent code-named "AA-1025" in Ignis Dei, "Upheaval"), now spread throughout the world and emanating from Rome itself since the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), cf., "The Year That Was 1929".

Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, one of those so-called 'guiding lights' of Vatican II, has, since he was still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [the defunct "Holy Office"], confessed that his children, particularly in Europe, had lost the Faith (Our Lady foretold: "In Portugal [not "in Rome"] the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved, etc." in "The Great Secret of Fatima" link as above). Such was the devastation calculated and wrought by the "Anti-Apostles" in ecclesiastical robes whose propaganda, veiled under the epithet of 'New Evangelization', was consecrated, though "without the formal claim of infallibility," by Vatican II. But after fifty years of Vatican II, the Holy Father has chosen to "play on still what the 'element of anti-Catholic superforce lodged in the Vatican in the 1960s'" (commentary by Ignis Dei and the testimony of the famed late Jesuit exorcist, Vatican 'insider' and author - Fr. Malachi Martin - on "Upheaval") would have him. His children in great numbers are actually dying but, as Ignis Dei puts it in commentary on "Upheaval", the ruler of our whole house "will wander afar off" with the false 'Christ' of your 'gospel'.

A good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of Faith, 
and of the good doctrine...

(1 Tim. 4.6)

If anyone preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received,

let him be anathema (Gal. 1.9).

Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned,

whether by word, or by our epistle... (2 Thess. 2.14)

And we charge you brethren, in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ,

that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly,

and not according to the tradition which they have received of us...

Yet do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother

(2 Thess. 3.6,15)

Related post: "The Ultimate Delusion of Vatican II 'Catholicism'"
All Scriptural passages quoted were taken from the Holy Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible - the English translation of the Clementine Edition of St. Jerome's Sacred Latin Vulgate Bible (the official Catholic translation of the Sacred Scriptures).