Francis -- Suffocating and Starving the Whole World (Spiritually)
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2024
- Francis is:
- insulting God
- needlessly hurting Catholics
- betraying those who suffer most in this world
One year since "Traditionis custodes" was published (16 July 2021), Georg Sellner (SBI) asks Fr James Mawdsley about the impact of Rome's unlawful restrictions on divine worship.
00:00 Francis tyrannically restricting worship
00:54 How does this hurt non-Catholics?
02:05 Traditional Mass offered for the whole world, the living and the dead, all generations
03:14 Hierarchy of goals in life
04:47 The TLM changes hearts, builds social bonds
05:30 TLM as perfect worship on supernatural and natural levels
08:50 Beauty, truth and morals centred in the liturgy
11:01 Francis betraying China, North Korea, Uyghur Muslims
13:20 Traditionis custodes built on lies
15:13 What should Catholics do?
It is fifteen years since "Summorum Pontificum" (7 July 2007) gave new life to the world.
Fr. M is one of the clearest & most articulate voices in the Church today, both for the beauty of it's past & traditions, but also of the forces presently afflicting her.
He is speaking out. he is a devout, honest leader. Wow, what a great point, that we are being trained to recognize and resist evil. And to do so lovingly.
I like his accent.Is he Aussie?
@@Westyrulzhe’s English from Lancashire.
Dual national: Aussie mother, English father. God bless.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJMthank you father for your spiritual advice to me. I am attending Traditional Latin Mass exclusively and it has changed me. You are always in my rosary Fr.
I love the traditional mass, I feel truly in communion with the people of the past who worshipped God at the mass of all ages I know I am in the presence of the almighty eternal God, Deo Gratias. Thnk you Father Maudsley and to the SBI.
Thank you Fr. Mawdsley for your guidance and affirmation of our Faith given us by Christ and belonging to no man to destroy. God bless you and your host. From Australia.
Fr James you are an inspiration. It’s very reassuring to know you are guarding our blessed mass. ❤️🙏❤️
Thank you Fr. JM. TLM is the Best worship to God. Well explained. You strengthen Our Faith. And Our Love to Jesus grows stronger everyday.
God Bless you father for speaking truth 🙏
Stand firm, do NOT comply, profess GOD ALONE, reject Francis and the new religion of Vatican II , get to a TRUE MASS NOW !
God bless you abundantly Fr. for truth in humility and sincerity. Keep preaching the teachings of Christ to save souls and win them for God's glory.
Thank you Father! I started attending TLM shortly after TC was released. I attended NO all my life, there is still so much to learn about the TLM.
That’s wonderful! God bless you
@@LolaMaria789 Its real name is Jewish Passover.
Same for me
I never knew about the Traditional Latin Mass being said for the whole world 🙏
Father is telling the truth like jesus said I am telling the truth 🙏 🙌 💯 Thankyou father God's got your back 🙏 ❤
Thank you so much Fr. for your openness with courage in speaking up for the TRUTH about how Catholics suffered because they are not free to attend Traditional Catholic Latin Mass 🙏 Please continue to be strong to stand for the children of GOD 🙏 Traditional Latin Rite is the most open to everybody but this has been curtailed by some of the Church Leaders that there are Traditional Latin Church are prohibited to say the Latin Mass. So sad 😭
Great words of encouragement and advice Father. I will pray for you and your ministry.
May God Bless you abundantly
Father JM has the courage to talk about the real Truth! Pope Francis is like an abusive father don’t care about the spiritually starving Catholics !
Thank you Father mawdsley!
thank you father. you articulate so well something that i have been deficiently attempting to articulate to friends and family. i was just a few years ago a well-read but spiritually half full in my role i created in the world , within materialist ideology: an anti-imperialist, anti-war and pro-labor fighter who wrote and thought with such commitment to the Truth - but only in recent year see myself of that era as i was, prideful and blinded by my strict materialism, a stratagem which works well to outline the history of the material world of men, that within human natural abilities may be seen and predicted. but i was neglecting the transcendent, the spiritual, the preternatural element - the stuff of souls, of human hearts, cannot be calculated by dialectical materialism despite its predictive validity with regards to human economics and commodity relations with regard to historical superstructure. thank God every day that i came back to the church when i saw my own deficiency there; and i thank the humble traveling priests of the sspx who have been the church that i - and innumerable others - expected to find when i came home to the church and dug deep into doctrine, and was so crestfallen to find was no longer there (at least in rome).
Great that you have discovered Tradition. It's a joy... and then one finds out it is a battlefield too. Keep good heart: God wins.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM It is the Jewish Passover The Passover Prayers said in the Temple in Jerusalem that Jesus attended with His Apostles on the night He was betrayed are in the Tridentine Mass and are Perpetual and can't be changed.
Why did the Temple fall? Jesus attended true worship. Jews said "We have no King but Caesar "
I think PF knows he's the destroyer.
Thank you Father. God bless us all.
WOW! So beautifully said
Powerful last words
With all these disasters in Church and State, it's important for me to remember, that God entrusted me here in this particular time, in this particular place. It might be the sure way to heaven for me. I've stopped complaining. 🙏🙏🙏God bless you Fr. Maudsley.
Thank you Father,I wish all priest are like you,world will be different God bless you Father and your work ,🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻
Father.. you bring wisdom and reason to a whole other level
God Bless you always 🙏🏻✝️🌹
The Traditional Latin Mass is for ALL , throughout the ages. The priest has courage and truth in what he speaks. God bless him and your channel for bringing this important message.
I was not aware that the TLM is said for the whole world....thank you !
Thank you for being on the right side of this. Unreal. This is unforgiveable
Thank you dear Fr.this was a very helpful video. I will be sharing it with others
This is one of the best you could do to steer us back to Christ. God bless you.
Excellent video! God bless Father James!
I was born in mid 1970s and have often wondered how were so many terrible societal changes able to occur in the late 1960s/early 1970s (so called sexual liberation, abortion, contraception, homosexuality, divorce etc). I've always focused on historical aspects - the enlightenment, revolutions, devastating effects of 2 world wars followed by a new time of plenty. But from what you are saying in this video, in particular the NESW action of the priest during the consecration and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being offered for the whole world, could the suppression of the TLM in the late 1960s/early 1970s literally have enabled all hell to break loose?
Big question! I'll try and do a video about this before the month is out. There is a 'chain of good', or of grace, where from generation to generation God builds up the throne of Jesus Christ in a perfectly orderly way, although history may seem chaotic to us. And there is a 'descent into degeneration / disintegration', where the sins of one generation lay the course for worse to follow. While there has since ancient times always been unspeakable abominations (e.g. child sacrifice), the descent is in it being accepted on an ever wider scale, even to global.
The two developments happen side-by-side, with much interaction (good becomes better by enduring and overcoming increasing evil; while evil learns what to attack by listening to the Church teach the Truth with ever greater precision). It will continue until both the Bride of Christ is made fully mature and spotless AND the children of this world fully fill up the measure of their sins.
We can trace degeneration / corruption in philosophy over, say, 800 years, and also politically / socially. Mens minds had to grow very dim and their hearts very hard until they allowed a small group of infiltrators sown by the devil to start tearing the liturgy apart in 1951, 1955, 1962, 1965, 1969... The cause and effect within the liturgy and the state of the world is, I think, what you are asking about. As mentioned, I'll try to make a video about it. But certainly when in the 1970s bishops and priests began offering a (relatively) formless and superficial rite, then it is like corrupting the nervous system, skeleton and circulation in a body, which has a devastating effect on civilisation.
Yet God's Plan is unfolding perfectly. That the traditional Mass (which connects us with Paradise, both Eden in the beginning and Heaven in the end) still endures in continuity is an ever greater wonder which fills the movie of history with dramatic wonder. I mean, a movie is boring if everything just goes pat. But history is the greatest 'movie' ever made, which we may see, please God, in Heaven when it is finished. It seems very grim for the protagonist (Christ and His Bride), especially toward the close -- but we can be sure He will triumph with her.
Sorry if I went off topic!
Thank you, Father! I look forward to a video about this. Yes you understood me and the corruption of the nervous system etc is a good analogy. For sure, the TLM is the remedy and thanks be to God so many of my generation (post V2) are finding it.
I was born in the middle of WWII and remember how sneakily the changes were hoisted on us. The elderly were confused when statues of their favourite saints disappeared from the churches, then the shock of being told to take the Sacred Body of Our Lord in our hands. Many other abuses filtered in and reverence by the people changed. It’s a long and terrible story that fewer of us remember now.
@@sarahward9250 OK, first of 3 videos touching on this topic posted here: czcams.com/video/hOMICKtat80/video.html
Wake up. It's second french revolution, this time within. V2 SATANIST WOLVES IN SHEEP:S CLOTHING.
So sad, It is all true what you are saying Father, how our Catholic church is out the window by the ones who are suppose to be faithful. Very sorrowful indeed
I have learned the hard way that appealing to tyrant's is not only futile but they feed off your appeal . Thank you Father James thank you both.
I love Fr Mawdsley - do not be tricked by "non judgementalism" - God gave all a brain to use, critical thinking and Discernment. Question everything and only hold onto that which is Good. Follow no man or fallen angel to Hell and that includes any and all heretics. Anyone twisting, bending, warping The Word of God is to be avoided like the plague. May God Bless Fr James and his Minstry.
God will hold these priests and bishops responsible for complying with this evil. Man up!
Fr, thank you for this video. To be totally honest, l have never held Bergoglio to be the true Pope. When he was 'elected/selected' back in 2013 l told my children that l never wanted this guy's name to be mentioned in our house. A few weeks ago my second oldest daughter, now in her 20's, pointed out that the only one that ever mentions Bergoglio was myself. And practically on a daily basis. It got a good laugh at the table. God bless you Fr. From Ireland 🇮🇪
@robert ryan What part of the oule home country are you in sir? And where are you able to get the Traditional Mass, if at all? Leinster born, Ulster bred, English resident. God bless
@@djq9332 Well DJ l hope you are flying it. I live in Limerick and the Institute of Christ the King are here, thanks be to God. My wife is from Fermanagh.
That's a cool story. Someone pointed out to me one time that when you point at someone for something, you have 3 fingers pointing back at you.
@1woksape You have posted this (or similar) many, many times on this channel. I wish you the best, but please try to keep your comments relevant to the particular video or discussion. I am sure if your channel is good people will find it. God bless.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM You are quite the gentleman, Fr. Mawdsley.
Well done yet again Father and thanks for your continued sacrifices and True Faith. I Hope in all Charity you achieve your aim as I believe your salvation is assured. Well done also to you Georg Sellner (SBI)! Please explain the meaning of SBI and kindly excuse this ignoramus. Thanks
Danke! SBI = St Boniface Institute: www.boniface-institute.com
God is Beauty! So loving and sweet and creating beauty everyday.
Father, you do a tremendous good for so many, how do you support yourself? How can I send you a donation? Keep speaking truth, there are so few of you.
Providence supplies, and I don't need much. But if you wanted to buy a couple of copies of the hardback of Adam's Deep Sleep as gifts for others, then that's a kind way to make a donation.
God bless father mawdlesley he speaks the truth regarding Bergoglio every thing he said about the Latin Mass and what Bergoglio has done is the absolute truth
God bless Fr M
Heart of the problem is a problem of the heart of pope Francis.
Franky & co., are a legion. Wake up zombies.
Fr Maudsley - Thank God for you and for you having the courage to speak up. I'm at the point where I think the laity need to stand up and be counted but after the synodal process this is even more complex. Huge harm has been done and this is on-going. Prayers for you.
Blessings and appreciation ..............
Thank you Fr🙏
I’m uplifted and inspired by your words and actions🙏
So many of the Prelates must know the truth but lack courage to stand up like real men in this war😭
Our Irish Bishops totally betrayed God and the sheep since March 2020 and instead of reflecting and repenting they have moved onto “Synods” to promote vile heresies🤮
God bless their souls🙏
Our Irish bishops????
Hohoho.
@@sylvia54lobo76 this is my letter to Pope Francis and I also have one to the Bishops;
czcams.com/video/b8EwP9H6hN8/video.html
Well said.
As a non Catholic, I would have thought it would be considered blasphemous to say that about the Pope.( he's like God??) Wow it's so refreshing and so brave, individuals like you who speak up for the people. I was brought up as an Anglican our neighbour's were Catholics. I know how important mass was to them.
As a Believer in the teachings of Jesus, communion is soo very important to me. The fact that Pope Francis came from the Jesuit order is a red flag.
Nothing is hidden from God as I well can testify. We are all on that road to redemption. Thankyou for this podcast, I'm amazed.
I pray that God's peace and strength his love will sustain and keep you thru this time.
An amazed non Catholic.
It is reassuring to me when one as articulate as Father James , struggles to articulate his anger .....hashtag me tooo.
It's very sad that here in South Africa there are, to my knowledge, only seven (SSPX) chapels in the country where one can attend the Traditional Latin Mass.
“ That naivety of appealing to tyrants”…..this also is the result of breaking us in childhood and binding us to the perpetrators . In a never ending cycle of domestic violence.
What I see is that the Latin Mass is what truly gets the demons out and influence of them as well. Our Sacraments are our weapons, just as the Holy Rosary is and the beads... 📿✝🙏
Exactly what you are saying. God Bless and protect you! Thank you
I would like someone to answer me about the changes in the creeds? The fallen are prideful and everything is "I", not "We"
So, why is my church have "I" believe?
- I still say the Creeds I've known since I was a child.
THE THIRD SEAL IS OPENED
I have found the TLM now or perhaps He found me. Either way if/when they take it away also ….I now know the truth of it. Blessings from Sydney Australia.
Everyobdy should read St. Pius V's "Quo Primum", and then everything then will become crystal clear why it is so important for the enemies, at present led by Bergoglio, to abolish it, and why we have the worst crisis that has ever befallen the Catholic Church in her long history of war against the Devil, his demons and his human dupes.
Both exorcists Farther Malachi Martin and Father Ripperger state that the ability to free people from their possession, diminished after Vatican II. Less Grace because of the apostasy in Modernist Rome.
The State of the world reflects the state of the Catholic church.
What hit me recently is that PF never said that TLM is not a sacrament, yet he suppresses it. Imagine believing that you are suppressing a sacrament. How could such a person think that they’re on the right path? A false hope, not a reasonable expectation, e.g. that no one is in hell...that might be how one can hold such contradictions in the mind. Please pray for me, Fr. Mawdsley. I really think I will need miraculous help very soon. There is one sacrament that is very difficult for me, nowadays. -Jorge
Fr Mawdsley is in the Fe Chad Ripperger class.
❤wow
is there no way conservative clergy can make Bergoglio leave his position ? because unfortunately he is likely to organize someone even worse than him to be the next pope...
I agree that tyranny is never solved by time. When the one dies, another will replace him, because that is the culture of the organisation / nation / army... and today, the hierarchy.
What is necessary is a healing from below (in the souls of all who care), so that we never, ever accept any degree of tyranny -- at least, never in the Church. When we receive illegal orders, we should absolutely refuse to comply. This simple stance will bring so many things to a head in so many places that, after a period of sacrifice, the hierarchy becomes purged. It will take titanic fights, but McCarrick is an example -- thanks to the brace victims who stood up, and the investigators and reporters who then left no room for the evil protectors. We should do the similarly to defend the liturgy. When anyone tells a priest he cannot say the Old Mass, he should simply continue saying it. This will bring many things to a head, and after some sacrifice, only justice will be left standing.
I realise this is not a satisfactory answer, because I have no idea what mechanism might spare the Church from the assault coming from Bergoglio and those around him. But I know that if each of us who cares seeks out Christ and cleaves to Him then the Church will be delivered from her enemies.
The last prophecy of St Francis is being fulfilled.
Wondering where info on this prophecy can be found?
@@liammccann8763 search engine.
The prophecy says in the end times, God will send an uncannonically elected Pope to destroy the Church
@@liammccann8763 A simple search on "prophecy of St Francis".
@@mariamartin94 Nar laga Dia thu ✝️
@@liammccann8763 Thank you. Blessings to you as well🙏
@ ChristRisenAlleluia Feel free to email me (address in the 'About' section) if you want me to respond to a point you made earlier. Vere resurrexit!
This priest said the Pope a destroyer wow attacking the Pope 🎯🎯🎯
TLM = The Mass for the whole world.
These are the arrows attacking the Pope that one of the visions that a saint was talking about disobedience to our pope 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Another reason to be sedevacantist Catholic: true respect for popes leaves no other option. We are not allowed to resist a legitimate pope.
Whether or not someone is sedevacantist is one matter.
But this statements is false: "We are not allowed to resist a legitimate pope." This sounds like a Protestant parody of catholicism. Such a statement has never been made by the Church. It has never been part of Catholic teaching. Nobody can point to an authoritative source for it. It is false.
Whether Francis is legitimate or not, he is to be resisted, u.a., in his attempts to destroy the traditional Mass.
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” Confucius.
Partly true. Set our hearts right with God, not budha, etc. Wake up.
@@sylvia54lobo76 In what way is the statement not entirely true? Why only "partly" true? St Paul profitably quoted pagans (Acts 17:28). St Thomas constantly quoted Aristotle with approval, as well as Roman and Muslim thinkers. Why not quote Confucius when he speaks eminent good sense? Natural philosophy can be true in its own sphere, without claiming to be revelation. Finally, why do you mention Buddha? Confucius was not a Buddhist.
The papacy is the order of Melchizedek.
Is bergoglio the pope? Is he our holy father? Does he deserve our respect despite his heresies?
God willing, I will do a video soon about how to deal with confusion on these questions. If we do not have all the facts (we do not), if we are not experts on canon law and theology (and not all these give the same answer), then our opinion on this is not vital for salvation. What matters is that we remain in charity, and fight for the Faith.
If someone denies the Holy Ghost is God, we know for sure they are wrong. If someone denies Jesus rose from the dead, we know for sure they are wrong. For what is going on in Rome right now, and the papacy, at least God knows!
We can always pray for Francis. But I do not see how he can be trusted, as he undermines the Faith so often. He abuses the Church and therefore he needs to be resisted. Thanks be to God there are people who do this with measure and restraint and people who do it with force and authority and people who do it in a way which gives us hope and encouragement. I think problems arise when we try to get 100% certainty on questions too high for us, and when we try to insist that others must see it as we see it, otherwise we count them lost.
Maybe a good start on this is to acknowledge that there is confusion, and to redouble our trust in God. I do not think Francis' churning up of the Faith or his bullying exclude him from the papacy. There has to be a theological or canonical argument, and some would say a declaration from the competent authority (although I don't think it is so easy as to say that is the cardinals). But I think the wicked things which are coming from Francis much of the hierarchy are signs we cannot dismiss. Something is grotesquely wrong.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Best level-headed explanation of this most painful and mysterious situation I have yet read or heard.
@@ransomcoates546 According to the recently deceased Eugenio Scalfari, a close friend and confidant of the Pope, Bergoglio revealed to him that he did not believe in the Divinity of Christ, nor in the Resurrection. When news of this broke out to the public, the Vatican did not bother to issue a response, a rebuttal or to refute this. Though Scalfari was a lifelong atheist, and had a long history of Freemasonry in his family tree, it isn't enough to nullify his disclosure of Bergoglio's statements. One would also be led to wonder why a Pope kept such close company with an avowed, committed atheist, who lugged heavy baggage containing a history of Freemasonry, which aggressively worked for the destruction of thr Church.
Please Pope Francis give the Traditional Catholic Latin Church to say the Traditional Latin Rite/Mass for the people. Please give freedom to all Traditional Catholic Church to give what the people wants and needs when it comes to the Spiritual Food for our Souls. Please follow the Teachings of our Dearest LORD JESUS CHRIST 🙏💖❤️💖🙏 . We want to have our Souls go to Heaven when we die 🙏💖🙏 Please Pope Francis guide your flocks in accordance to God's Holy Teachings 🙏
Thank you Father. You are more politically correct than the vid I saw on Return to Tradition on Vigano's letter.👍🙏👏
Gates/soros mercenary they use u flush down toilet hole. More dangerous than Bergoglian Satanists. At least they are.....
Everyone sees him. Their responce is the issue.
Why doesn't the msm put this on TV
It contradicts the establishment narrative, of course. 😫
Fr Mawdsley is a young AB Vigano.
Oops sorry Mass is just not about communion but the whole service.
"False Teachers" by #BrysonGray
Fr Mawdsley is an inspirational speaker, however doesn't the Church hierarchy have the authority to regulate the liturgy? It seems as though he rejects that. - "We are not going to let anyone on earth, or an angel from hell, tell us to stop worshipping God in the traditional form".
Blessed Advent! There is a huge difference between "regulating" and "destroying".
Canon 835 says, “The bishops ... [are] the directors, promoters, and guardians of the entire liturgical life in the Church.” Directors, promoters, and guardians. They are all positive. They have to guard the liturgy, not destroy it. They have to promote the liturgy, not destroy it. They are directors of it, not destroyers. They don’t have the authority to shut this down.
This is not an argument over semantics. Rather it goes deep to our understanding of the mission of the Church and the appointment of clerics to the hierarchy as servants of that mission. God, Jesus, has tasked the bishops with celebrating, preserving and passing on the traditions, including the liturgy. They have no authority to abandon or forbid it. The salvation of many depends on this, so it is gross ignorance or even a lack of love to be indifferent.
Disappointed in hearing you mention gandhi
Father ,quoting Confucius ? You lost me.
Is the quote true or not true? Doesn’t matter who said it: if it is true, it is true (and good and beautiful). Confucius was right on that point. Jesus takes it deeper, because He is the whole Truth.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM There are good and beautiful verses from the Quran, does that mean that Muhammad was right and we have to agree with the teaching of Islam? Please! Satan can say beautiful things too!
I opologise, should not have said that about the Jesuits. They probably do awesome work.
They once did.
There are still some good ones, but they aren't the majority and they aren't liked within the order. They try to screen out the non-progressives in the seminary.
Fr Malachi Martin's prophetic book "The Jesuits" is as accurate as the day it was written.
Trashcan Custodians. No, thank you.
We the lay faithful have to be honest to ourselves and deal with the situation head on. It is not easy to be Catholic. There are at least three things that we can do:
1) Acknowledge that the Pope is just a human being and can sin just like anyone of us,
2) We do all of our public criticisms for public sins being committed by the Pope with charity and respect (bashing and name-calling should have no place in our conversations)
3) Pray for the pope - and our bishops. This is our duty and obligation as Catholics. We should not end with just doing criticisms.
Remember, all of us has a share in this problem one way or another. We probably had been selfish with our prayers in the past and did not even bother to include the pope and bishops and clergy in our own prayer intentions, or pray that God would send us holy and faithful priests and bishops, or confront with charity erring priests and bishops, or we have forgotten that we too have once lived a life of debauchery and other sinful behaviors. It just breaks my heart to see some comments here are way out of line and plainly just disrespect. There are people who are not Catholic and they see some of us here behaving this way. We are just adding a scandal on top of another scandal and we should think twice when we post our criticisms in full view of everyone. Remember, Our Lord Jesus will hold us into account of every word that comes out of our mouths.
You are right to call for charity, which is never out of place. And you are absolutely right that we should each be aware of our own sins so that we tremble at the idea of condemning others.
Most of the anger about Francis and resistance to him is because again and again he is undermining Catholic doctrine, he is savagely assaulting the proper worship of God, and he promotes predators knowing what they have done. It is charitable to resist him, not only for his sake, but for the sake of all the Church, and all the world, and God's external glory.
When I see people speak uncharitably about Francis (which, sorry, I do also myself, and I have to take that to confession), it seems to me like an imperfect reaction to a tyrant or an abusive step-father. That is to say, while it is OK to remind people to remain charitable, it remains necessary to resist the abuser. Sometimes when a father beats all his children, they think they are the problem. If one of them challenges him, the others tell that child to be quiet and not to provoke. They are scared. They make excuses for their father because they want to believe he is good, because it is terrifying to face the facts.
Some of the comments here are disrespectful. But I do not think they are "way out of line". I think Francis is "way out of line". And he is provoking many people to anger. Yes, we ought to deal with that like saints. But when we fail, I do not think silence and prayer is a sufficient answer. We might be silent for a while, but need to strive to find the right way to resist. You correctly say it is a scandal to non-believers if they see us ripping each other apart. But it is also a scandal to non-believers and to believers if we do not defend the Faith, do not defend God's rights in worship, do not defend victims from promoters of predator priests.
Sorry for my long answer! I mean, you are right to remind us of charity. But charity is not charity if it is not in truth. It is not charity to refuse to defend the vulnerable because one is scared of confrontation. It is not an easy situation.
God bless you.
@Sedes Sapientiae Does anything Pope Francis does break your heart? Or are you only heart broken by those who justly decry his attacks on the Catholic faith?
Its extraordinary that anyone can build up a complex system of ritual and belief - and yet, there is not a single morsel of evidence ever that there is any god of any kind!!! When are people going to wake up...????
Serious question: what do you consider could possibly constitute evidence?
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM (Serious Reply!) My reply is necessarily brief as there is not unlimited space for a long answer. Let me answer you this way - lets take, say, Gravity - can't be seen but can be clearly measured, manipulated, altered in many ways, completely abolished also (take yourself into space and see..!) There is no doubt that gravity exists! Or take, for example, radio waves - can't be seen, can be measured, altered in many ways, abolished if necessary, used for multiple purposes and so on..! In both of these instances, belief is NOT required - both Gravity and Radiowaves exist - it does not require you to have a belief in them - they exist whether you believe it or not! With religion - your god cannot be seen, there is no evidence of any god, nothing can be measured, changed or altered in any way that would confirm that such an entity existed - it relies solely on belief. The lack of evidence strongly suggests that a god does not exist (you are free of course, to believe otherwise!) I rely entirely on EVIDENCE (aka FACTS) to confirm something exists or does not exist! Religious adherents fool themselves into believing there is a god - take for example Water Dowsing (the claimed ability to locate water underground) The "dowsers" really do believe they can find water - some will even point to where they did indeed find water! However, when subjected to a scientifically organised test - they perform no better than random chance! Yet they believe they have this power..!
Back to your question: There is no clearly defined evidence of a god - can a god be measured in some way? NO! Can a god do something on request that would absolutely confirm him/her existence? NO! I'm sure you could tell me that prayer alters everything - repeated scientific studies clearly show that prayer has no effect whatever. (My poor departed Mother believed firmly that prayer was the answer to everything - when the weather was bad, she prayed for sunshine - and when the Sun shone, she claimed it was because she prayed - she never considered that the weather changed anyway, whether or not one prayed!) In an identical way, you praying to your favourite god - events change whether or not you prayed. For something which does not exist, its difficult to know what sort of test one needs in order to confirm the existence or not. You have no evidence for your claim of a god - its up to you to provide evidence...there will undoubtedly be a NOBEL prize for you if you do....!!!
Dear Brian, thank you for your sincere reply.
There are some massive philosophical misunderstandings in your approach. Aristotelean-Thomistic realism is the only coherent philosophical system. It is true. Deeply true. Without it, we are in the dark when we talk about, among many other things, reason and science.
For example, it belongs to the nature of necessary being (God) that it is purely spiritual and immutable and infinite. If it were not these things it would not be necessary, would not be God, and nothing would exist. It follows therefore that it is an absolute non-starter to try to formulate or imagine any test or experiment whereby one might perceive God's Essence with the senses, or manipulate Him, or measure Him (these three are impossible for a spiritual, immutable and infinite being).
But while God can by no means be forced to reveal Himself to us, His bare existence can be known by unaided reason and moreover He chooses to reveal Himself according to how much we love Him. For the first point, St Thomas Aquinas gives us five famous proofs of God's existence. You can look them up. Most people struggle with them, but Edward Feser explains them lucidly. To the second point, our life is not an intelligence test. God did not create us to then reward those who are smart enough to deduce He exists and certainly not to reward those who are credulous enough to believe anything (such as people who claim to know with certainty they are 'saved'). Rather God is Love. And He reveals Himself to a soul according as He sees fit, according as they will receive His love. You have to try it. You have to trust Him. (You can speak honestly to Him about exactly what you think of this, including skepticism, and He will hear you. Only every soul needs the humility to admit they don't know everything, don't have all the answers, and need help from above if they are to approach the truth.)
And given God loves us so much, He has done something which no man could have dreamt of. He assumed human nature and was born of the Virgin Mary. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, walked among us, taught us, healed us, and died for us. St John and the Apostles saw Him and touched Him, as did many others. Now here is some evidence, and here are some facts, for your consideration:
i) There are multiple eyewitness testimonies to Jesus deeds and teaching. This is evidence which would be accepted as such in any court of law. You can spend years researching the authenticity of the Gospels and other Scriptures. Not only to they bear all scientific scrutiny (despite plenty of misinformation), but the teaching of Jesus is so sublime and ever applicable that it makes much more sense to believe it came from God than man.
ii) The rapid spread of Christianity is a fact. There is abundant historical evidence that countless people through two thousand years and now from all cultures have been willing to die as martyrs for their faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God. This phenomena needs an explanation. The claim that they are all deluded has such weak explanatory power that it makes no sense at all. Listen to the words of St Stephen or St Thomas More and you will see straight away that they are fully rational and know exactly what they are doing and why. That Christianity spread so fast needs a sufficient cause. The only proportional cause, given the persecutions they endured, is that Christ really rose from the dead. The awesome fruitfulness of the Church (in philosophy, art, music, architecture, agrarian development, education, hospitals, works of charity, in law, in markets, in peace-making, in countless fields) demonstrates the Church has the same author as Creation.
iii) If you read the Old Testament you will see that the life, death and resurrection of Christ was predicted in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of ways, in great detail and in massive scope, over the millennia before it all happened. Only God can do this. Ergo, God exists. And Christ is God (the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity). If you are not convinced by this, I recommend "Adam's Deep Sleep" (although I have a vested interest in the book sales!)
These three points are given here because between them they show that Jesus is the centre of everything, with all that happened after and before deriving its power from Him. It is the only coherent picture. The more one opens oneself to it, the more God gives growth to the soul. But we can hardly take the first step if we say "God definitely does not exist". So it is good that you show some restraint and open-mindedness above. God will reward that if you continue to question and to seek.
Although we probably don't want to get lost in book length comments (!), feel free to follow up on any points if you wish.
I agree with you that water dowsers are extremely odd or frauds.
Wonderful that your mother had such firm faith in the power of prayer (even though you correctly point out a fallacy that some might fall into). Please God she is in Heaven now and her intercession with God will bring you there too!
in the name of tradition, evil things happened - no voices then - 'see not, hear not, speak not and do not'. Pope Francis is refreshing, inclusive and is a servant of God and not God as some believed and believe themselves to be. Leave judgement to God and remove the log from one's own eye.
Can you tell us of one liturgical tradition in the name of which "evil things happened"? Or has evil been done in the name of the traditional Mass?
Even if you think it has, abusus non tollit usum -- the abuse of thing does not take away from the use. We are meant to resist the corruption of a good thing, not resist or destroy the good thing itself. Therefore when saints have seen reform was needed in the Church, they rejected error/corruption and kept truth/purity. Whereas the 'reformers' like Martin Luther rejected the Church and kept the abuses.
Do you honestly think Francis is inclusive of traditional Catholics? Really? We do not need to judge the man's soul in order to resist the wickedness he is doing.
Gates/soros mercenary they use u and flush down toilet hole like virus Johnson of UK.
Bergoglio is doing his job, not of protecting and teaching the deposit of Faith, but enabling its destruction. In ten years, Bergoglio has done a stupendous job of informing the world how much he isnt a Catholic. The man is a scoundrel and a heretic and carries on with little care or concern for the damage he's done.
Mayday,mayday, we get pope impostor, Poop Francis...
Lol religion is still a thing
I hope you cows defend yourselves against the capitalist-communist freaks promoting insect eating.