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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
A recent online debate between Eastern Orthodox podcaster Jay Dyer and Catholic apologist Timothy Gordon focused on the roots of papal authority, as in: What did Jesus really mean when He said, “Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church?”
Pundits gave the debate win to Gordon mostly because he put Dyer on the defensive. Other Catholic apologists praised Gordon’s performance, after which they bemoaned the state of Peter’s Church: its wrecked, Protestant-style liturgy; its globalist Francis 2.0 new pope (Leo), and its gradual descent into LGBTQ rainbow land.
Ironically, while none of the apostasy-like aberrations listed above are happening with any real force in the Orthodox Church, no mention was made during the Dyer-Gordon debate of the countless Catholics who have gone over to Orthodoxy because of the corruption of the Catholic Mass versus the ancient unchanging liturgy of the East.
Indeed, why would any serious Orthodox Christian trade the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom for the bland Novus Ordo Mass, in which women in yoga pants distribute communion?
In an interview with Art Bell before his death in 1999, author Malachi Martin stated that Christ had withdrawn His grace from the Roman Church because of the liturgical and theological abuses that arose from Vatican II.
Since Vatican II’s suppression of many Catholic traditions, apologists like Timothy Gordon spend 99% of their time bemoaning the dismantling of authentic Catholicism.
They bemoan altar girls while nearly every Catholic parish in the U.S. utilizes them. They criticize communion-in-hand which has now become the Catholic norm. They decry newer and bolder forms of liturgical abuse, such as when priests and bishops defy Rome and concelebrate with Anglican priestesses.
Such an event occurred on August 26 when a retired Mexican bishop concelebrated the Mass with an Anglican priestess at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
Bishop Emeritus Raul Vera Lopez presided at the Mass with the Rev. Emilie Teresa Smith. The Anglican priestess wore a simple stole, but she was a full participant, even participating in the words of Consecration.
The bishop defended his actions with the following statement: “Not only does she [Rev. Smith] work with the poor, she has a parish, has a theological background, she is a writer, she is ready to participate in a meeting of the United Nations and with God’s people around the defence of our Mother Earth.”
This, in a nutshell, describes the Church of Leo XIV.
Leo XIV allows bishops like Lopez to do what they want while simultaneously ignoring the pleas of Latin Mass communities all over the world for greater freedom in accessing the traditional Mass.
A kind of mafia-like aura has surrounded the papacy since the close of Vatican II. At the top of the “mafia’s” list is the canonization of every pope since 1965. This is their way of legitimatizing and “sanctifying” Vatican II. While Pope John Paul I’s cause for sainthood is already gaining traction, how many months will it be before that most anti-Catholic of all modern popes, Francis, is declared a saint? Not long.
Not only that, but after Pope Leo’s death he will also be declared a saint.
The canonization process in the Roman Church has become a joke, but it is a joke with a purpose: to render null and void any serious reform of the reform.
Paradoxically, many of these same Catholic podcasters — Timothy Gordon and Taylor Marshall, to name two — have switched to one of the Catholic Eastern rites in their personal lives in order to participate in a dignified liturgy while simultaneously defending papal authority, even as that authority reconfigures the mainstream Catholic Church into another variation of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
In the meantime, Leo XIV is busy at work canonizing the legacy of his predecessor Francis with the appointment of liberal bishops, especially when it comes to LGBTQ issues.
Leo’s recent official Vatican meeting with America magazine editor and Jesuit priest, James Martin, was nothing less than a confirmation of his approval of Martin’s ministry to rewrite the Catholic catechism.
Martin came away from that meeting with an ecstatic smile on his face. That smile reminded me of news reports before the election of Prevost that Martin had put his early bets on Prevost as the perfect Francis 2.0 pope.
What did Martin know about Prevost at that time?
I have my theories.
What they used to call the ‘gay sensibility’ in the old gay liberation movement might be a helpful reference here. Let me explain: what unites Catholic male clergy “suffering” from same sex attraction is an unspoken but tight fraternal bond, a kind of psychic radar. It matters little whether the SSA is realized in physical acts or presents as an asexual attraction (held in abeyance because of priestly vows).
What matters is this: it is still operative.
This “soul” fraternity reminds me of the secret hand signals of freemasons. The brotherhood of SSA is an insoluble bond that sadly often slips into the orbit of liberal-political advocacy for open borders, the ordination of women and praise for more James Martin-style priests and bishops.
This was on full display in the Vatican on September 5 during an international meeting called “Listening to the Experiences of LGBTQ Catholics,” organized by Outreach, a U.S. organization founded by James Martin. The event included a prayer vigil inside Rome’s Church of the Gesu with LGBTQ Catholics and their families.
The vigil ended with a procession of some 1300 people, led by someone holding a rainbow cross, that marched into Saint Peter’s Basilica. The event — which included men in shorts, many holding hands and even patting one another on the ass — was blessed by Pope Leo.
Now, something like a rainbow-colored crucifix in an official Vatican procession would have sent pre-Vatican II popes — even John Paul II and certainly Benedict XVI — into paroxysms of disbelief leading to a heart attack or stroke.
Bob Prevost (Leo), is the Joe Biden of popes. He is a weak, milquetoast blank slate or puppet for the controlling radical forces that now steer the Vatican. He cherishes celebrity and the limelight; he autographs motorcycles and holds babies to thunderous applause while refusing to meet with the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican (because he loathes Trump’s immigration policies), instead filtering that meeting off to an assistant, breaking a long-standing papal tradition.
Before he met with Martin, he met with a heretical nun, Sister Lucia Karam, who publicly denies the perpetual virginity of the Virgin Mary, supports abortion and gay marriage while making statements like, “The Church needs to bless any kind of love and not interfere in the desires of those who have abortions.”
What kind of Catholic Church is this?
Sister Karam even says it is inevitable that gay marriage will be regarded as a sacrament in the Church.
Rather than correct Sister Karam — who wears a religious habit, unlike those flamboyant radical nuns on a bus — Prevost as Leo smiled his goofy welcoming smile that suggested acceptance of her heretical views.
He let her go without a slap on the wrist, and then he embraced his fraternal soul brother, Jimmy, who has always claimed Prevost as his own.
Just what kind of Satanic rituals are carried out in the Vatican that we don’t know about the same for the United Nations as well
John Chysostom’s “Eight Homilies Against the Jews” – emblematic of the 2nd to 4th Century A.D. early Church Fathers like Origen of Alexandria, and many others, virulent anti=Semitic and unbiblical replacement theology. This has been used by the Nazis and so many others throughout history to justify persecution of the Jews.
And that means what in terms of the beauty of his liturgy?
You think the Catholic hierarchy is going to do anything to support Israel or even European Jews against Islamists today?
That was one hell of an article.
To be crude when the Peruvian Chicago boy was made Pope all I could think of was:
queers like baseball, too.
It is very sad how weird the Church has become. Of course, organizations of men have always been weird but that does not mean they have to become weirder and weirder every day.
Most of us have no desire to harm homosexuals but it has become all too clear when given access to levers of power they use the levers to elevate homosexuals. only.
They are a group best left closeted amongst their own. They are happiest that way. They do the least amount of damage to the society as a whole in that condition.
“ men in shorts,” – My understanding was that the Vatican used to require full pants and at least dress shirts for men and long dresses and covered shoulders for women. Other aberrations include attacks on the validity of Masses and sacraments offered by the Society of Saint Pius X by the Archbishop of Stockholm and the Archbishop of Wroclaw in direct defiance of the permissions granted by Francis to the SSPX. The hierarchy of the Vatican appear to be in a state of virtual apostasy
“What did Jesus really mean when He said, ‘Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church?'” What Jesus meant is that, first, it is Jesus’ Church which means it is God’s Church. Therefore, God appointed Peter the world’s trustee of the trust corpus – Jesus’ teachings contained in the New Testament for the purpose of humanity’s re-union with God. As trustee (one worthy of trust or of the steadfast trustworthiness of a rock), Peter and every Pope after him is entrusted to manage the Church, specifically, Jesus’ teachings contained in the New Testament, for the benefit of we, though sinners all of us, believe in Jesus’ teachings contained in the New Testament and want reunion and communion with God for ourselves and for every human soul. This is obvious and easy intellectually. The over-analysis and parsing of Jesus’ Word as Vatican II was and even more frightening, liberties (how appropriate is that verbiage, albeit by luck as if “no pun intended) taken by Francis and the ‘new guy,” are alarmingly sad. But the “Good News” is that we, as the author does, are free to remain, steadfastly close, loyal, strong and with all fidelity fervent in our belief and dedication to Jesus’ Church – in a phrase to be individual rocks upon which Jesus built His Church. We won’t be perfect, but we will try, and doing so pleases Jesus. Thanks.
A careful study of the geek texts of the New Testament presents a very different picture.
Back to that converrsation cited above:
Jesus asks Peter who do YOU say that I am? Peter says “you are The Christ, the So of the living God”. Jesus replies “you are Peter (the man so named) and upon this rock (the rock of Peter’s statement) I will build MY chuch”.
So Pete is the rock, foundation, upon which I (Jesus) will build.. NOT Peter building. Jesus is, has been, and always will be the Buiilder
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As to this bit
who publicly denies the perpetual virginity of the Virgin Mary, the greek is again blunt and helpful.
read the gospels carefully. In those texts three of Jsus’ brothers are named, ad mention is made of “sisters” plural. So we know He had at least two sisters No mention is eve made of his Mothe Mary dieing and Jpseph taking a scond wife, is there? So they MUST be His natural born sistes and brothers.
“ever virgin”? fairy tale. Let us have done with that lie.
The catholic church is the largest cult on planet earth. If it were to divest itself of all it’s holdings, the funds received could eliminate hunger on the planet and provide every earth dweller with at least a $200,000.00 home and autom0bile, tax free, forever.
Add in the net worth of the gray nuns and you have another trillion or two. (And Jesus had nowhere to lay His head, and one cloak).
“What did Jesus really mean when He said, “Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church?” The answer is ‘this rock’ is Jesus. He is the rock. Do you really think that the God who created the Universe would put a sinful man (all have fallen short of the glory of God) in charge of a group of people (ekklesia, gathering) that His Son suffered and died for? And then say “Get thee behind me, satan” !!
If any of their bilge were true, why would God send the Holy Spirit to be our guide “and He will lead you and guide you into all truth”.
The catholic church is just one more of the 4,300 religions of the world that all teach a different way to heaven. Jesus did not come to create a ‘religion’, but to begin a ‘ personal, one on one relationship’ with each of His creations.
And don’t let them fool you into believing “we are all God’s children”, because we aren’t. We are all God’s creation, but only ‘a few are chosen’, “To them gave He power to be sons of God, even those who believe on His name”. That applies only to those who are ‘born again’ of the Spirit of God, born from above. Jesus Himself said “Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
Please note: John Chrysostom was an early church father who was a flaming antisemite! I’ve written about him!
John Chrysostom
Chrysostom was born 347 A.D., Antioch, Syria and died in 407. He was called the “Golden-Mouthed” because of his “pulpit eloquence.” He sought to prevent his Christian flock from observing Jewish customs and attacked the teachings of Judaism and the Jewish way of life.
In addition to accusing the “morally degenerate” Jews of having viciously assassinated Christ, he also accused contemporary Jews of missionary activity that threatened Christian efforts, establishing them as an active force against the church.
His sermons underscore the potential for violence as an outflow of the early church’s need to establish its theological and social authority. A venture into his homilies is “like entering a firing range with the reader bombarded on every side by a torrent of explosive anti-Jewish invective.” (Page 53, Israel Betrayed: Volume One).
Chrysostom used his pulpit to denigrate and abuse the Jewish people and to castigate them for their way of life in the most shameful of terms. Out of his own mouth, he condemns himself. He hated the Jewish people and did his best to make the whole world hate them too. Here is just one of his statements within those vile homilies:
“The synagogue is worse than a brothel…It is the den of scoundrels and the repair of wild beasts…the temple of demons devoted to idolatrous cults…the refuge of brigands and debauchees, and the cavern of devils…a criminal assembly of Jews…a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ…a house worse than a drinking shop…a den of thieves, a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, the refuge of devils, a gulf of and abyss of perdition…The Jews sacrifice their children to Satan…they are worse than wild beasts…they have fallen into a condition lower to the level of the lusty goat and the pig…they know but one thing: to fill their bellies and be drunk…This is why I hate the Jews.” (Quoted in Michael L. Brown’s Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People.)
Chrysostom was the master of anti-Jewish invective and later became John Calvin’s “lifelong favorite in matters of biblical exegesis.”
Men like Chrysostom brought the heretical and filthy doctrine of “replacement theology” into the church.
anyone who has read the two babylons will know that the catholic church is referred to as babylon the harlot . it is not christian now nor has it been ever , orthodox or no . it has all the catch phrases of a so called church but none of the bibles theology . but we live in a time of rank heresy and woke believism . hence the reason why pretty much no one understands the conflict in israel . thats because no one has read the bible for themselves instead believing other opinions of ignoramuses and perpetuating stupid ad infinitum .
Thanks for the article. From Malachi Martin to James Martin is a long, long descent. As has been said, the antichurch currently occupies the liturical, juridicial and sacramental space of the true Church, which is visible only in eclipse. Prevost is just Bergoglio II with a smiley face instead of a scowl. Sedevacant 12/31/2022.
Are Churches still allowed to Ring their Bells anymore without some Secular Humanists claiming it disturbs their little Snowflake Feelings
Thank you, Thom, for one of the best informative and understandable articles I’ve read about the diabolical corruption in my Catholic Church. Keep up the good work. It’s important, – very important.
The Catholic Church must go back to the Bible like the traditional EVANGELICAL CHURCH and not in their chanting and constant repetition of prayers to their saints and Mary.
Where does the Word instruct us to pray to Marry, Apostles or the Saints, who were just like us.
I don’t recall when this church got into idolatry ? Once they focus on the truth of the gospels and focus their energies on Christ only and not Mary and the saints, who were humans like you and me .