QUESTION 44 — THE FIRST CAUSE OF BEINGS1. Is God the efficient cause of all beings? 2. Is first matter created by God, or is it a principle in connection and on equality with him? 3. Is God the …More
QUESTION 44 — THE FIRST CAUSE OF BEINGS 1. Is God the efficient cause of all beings? 2. Is first matter created by God, or is it a principle in connection and on equality with him? 3. Is God the exemplary cause of things, or are there other exemplars besides him? 4. Is he the final cause of things? Article 1 - Is God the efficient cause of all beings? Objection: 1. It does not seem necessary that every being should have been created by God. Because nothing prevents a thing from being encountered without it having in it what does not belong to its definition, like a man who does not have whiteness. But the relationship between effect and cause does not seem to belong to the definition of beings, since certain beings can be understood independently of this relationship. They can therefore exist without it. So nothing prevents certain beings from not having been created by God. 2 . If a being needs an efficient cause, it is to exist. Therefore what cannot not be does not need an efficient …More
Assist us in the struggle for our souls, may they be purified of self-love, may they know the true love that comes from Thee Lord. May we know the freedom of conscience and truth that no man can find …More
Assist us in the struggle for our souls, may they be purified of self-love, may they know the true love that comes from Thee Lord. May we know the freedom of conscience and truth that no man can find without Thee, Sweetest Saviour. We stand by You at the foot of the Cross and desire that our hearts and souls may be washed by Your Most Precious Blood of Redemption. We beg you God, do not abandon us in these moments of trial. Take away evil thoughts, protect us from the attacks of the evil one. Amen
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In the Shadow of the Cross – Prayer
Beloved Saviour, our Lord! You see us wandering in this miserable vale of tears, hear our lament, our weeping and our pleas for mercy on our miserable fate. There is …
re. Homosexual Clergy in Seminaries: What we need is a good old fashion Inquisition to take care of matters and sort this (them) all out! If you don't have the backbone to do that, then split the church…More
re. Homosexual Clergy in Seminaries: What we need is a good old fashion Inquisition to take care of matters and sort this (them) all out! If you don't have the backbone to do that, then split the church, Novus ordo and Traditional
An important new book has just been released that will help Catholics understand and oppose the homosexual subversion inside the Church. Titled The Breached Dam: The Fiducia Supplicans Surrender to …More
An important new book has just been released that will help Catholics understand and oppose the homosexual subversion inside the Church. Titled The Breached Dam: The Fiducia Supplicans Surrender to the Homosexual Movement, the book documents and explains what is happening in the Church in light of the recent Vatican document Fiducia supplicans. Published by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), the book is being published in eight languages—English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Spanish. Its foreword is written by the Most Rev. Rob Mutsaerts, the auxiliary bishop of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands. The authors, José Antonio Ureta and Julio Loredo, are members of the Tradition, Family, Property movement in Europe. They are influential pro-life and pro-family activists, writers and speakers. Their writings on the Church and modern society have appeared worldwide. In 2023, the two scholars published The Synodal Process …More
"Honestly, we're not sure how this guy got in here to begin with," said a spokesperson for the Vatican. "We think there was some kind of mistake with the vote counting or something. It's weird. It's …More
"Honestly, we're not sure how this guy got in here to begin with," said a spokesperson for the Vatican. "We think there was some kind of mistake with the vote counting or something. It's weird. It's possible we accidentally elected some guy off the street who never read a Bible and he's been kissing babies and determining our theology for years. Boy, wouldn't that be embarrassing!"
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Catholic Church Distances Self From Pope Francis
WORLD — After a series of shocking unbiblical statements from the Supreme Pontiff, the Catholic Church officially distanced itself from Pope Francis. "…
Francis asked the Italian bishops not to admit homosexuals to the seminary because "there is already too much 'gayness' in the Church", he said, who cannot stand real men around him. He who promotes …More
THE COPTICS, should be asking the Pope what specific steps have you taken to buttress your verbal rhetoric. And don't be alarmed when he proves himself …More
THE COPTICS, should be asking the Pope what specific steps have you taken to buttress your verbal rhetoric. And don't be alarmed when he proves himself to be false.
Note: all quotes followed by an asterix "*" are from the Letter of Cardinals A. Ottaviani and A. Bacci to Pope Paul VI, dated September 25, 1969 enclosing "A Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae." …More
Note: all quotes followed by an asterix "*" are from the Letter of Cardinals A. Ottaviani and A. Bacci to Pope Paul VI, dated September 25, 1969 enclosing "A Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae." 1. Because the New Mass is not an unequivocal Profession of the Catholic Faith (which the traditional Mass is), it is ambiguous and Protestant. Therefore since we pray as we believe, it follows that we cannot pray with the New Mass in Protestant Fashion and still believe as Catholics! 2. Because the changes were not just slight ones but actually "deal with a fundamental renovation ... a total change ... a new creation." (Msgr. A. Bugnini, co-author of the New Mass) 3. Because the New Mass leads us to think "that truths ... can be changed or ignored without infidelity to that sacred deposit of doctrine to which the Catholic Faith is bound forever." * 4. Because the New Mass represents "a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as formulated in Session XXII of the Council of …More
Unfortunately, this was written by the formerly traditional priests of Campos, Brazil (Whose leader now occassionally concelebrates the new Mass, after …More
Unfortunately, this was written by the formerly traditional priests of Campos, Brazil (Whose leader now occassionally concelebrates the new Mass, after signing a deal with modernist Rome).
Francis received Buddhist monks from Thailand on 27 May, inviting them to build a "friendship" that would sustain "peace and fraternity" and build a "more inclusive world". Invoking an unspecified "…More
Francis received Buddhist monks from Thailand on 27 May, inviting them to build a "friendship" that would sustain "peace and fraternity" and build a "more inclusive world". Invoking an unspecified "God", Francis wished the monks "abundant divine blessings". Francis said he was "very happy" that they would hold a pagan "prayer for peace" in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere on 28 May. Imagine Francis' anger if monks were to celebrate a Roman Mass. Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of Rome's oldest churches. It dates back to the early 4th century. Pius IX had the image of the Egyptian goddess Isis scraped off the basilica's magnificent columns because he was not a syncretistic idolater. From 1981 to 2000, the homosexual activist Vincenzo Paglia, now a Curia archbishop, was the pastor of the Basilica parish, where in 1982 he initiated a Christmas lunch for the "homeless" and "poor" which annually turns the Basilica into a cafeteria. #newsZsgpsnwdxw
This is one of the characters called by the Argentine Jesuit as an entertainer at World Children's Day. It is now clear that Bergoglio is one of the main activists of the hellish LGBTQ + agenda. There …More
This is one of the characters called by the Argentine Jesuit as an entertainer at World Children's Day. It is now clear that Bergoglio is one of the main activists of the hellish LGBTQ + agenda. There are no more words to express the scandal and disgust, in the complicit and cowardly silence of the Episcopate. "Whoever scandalises even one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him if a millstone turned into a donkey's wheel were hung around his neck, and he were cast into the depths of the sea" (Mt 18:6). twitter.com/x/migrate?tok=eyJlIjoiL0NhcmxvTVZpZ2Fuby9zdGF0dXMv
CCC 1800 which mistakenly says “A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience.” This is a declarative, absolutist statement of the primacy of conscience using the terms “must …More
CCC 1800 which mistakenly says “A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience.” This is a declarative, absolutist statement of the primacy of conscience using the terms “must” and “always” indicating no matter what. CCC1800 and 1790 are not Catholic teaching. They are in grievous error evidenced by the fact that they have no footnotes, no references, no documentation whatsoever. They are not found in any Magisterial document whatsoever. Following is the real Catholic teaching from two Papal Encyclicals and the Council of Trent that decisively condemn following conscience into intrinsic evil i.e. abortion/murder etc. “The negative precepts of the natural law are universally valid. They oblige each and every individual, always and in every circumstance. It is a matter of prohibitions which forbid a given action semper et pro semper, without exception, because the choice of this kind of behaviour is in no case compatible with the goodness of the will of the acting …More
"A false conscience which is mistaken in things which are intrinsically evil commands something which is contrary to the law of God. Nevertheless, it …More
"A false conscience which is mistaken in things which are intrinsically evil commands something which is contrary to the law of God. Nevertheless, it says that what it commands is the law of God. ... one who follows such a conscience and acts according to it acts against the law of God and sins mortally. For there was sin in the error itself, since it happened because of ignorance of that which one should have known" (St. Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate, 17, 4, 3). "sometimes the error of conscience does not have the power of loosing or of excusing, namely, when the error itself is a sin, such as when it proceeds out of ignorance of that which someone can know or is held to know, just as if he were to believe that simple fornication is a venial sin. And then, although he would believe himself to sin venially, nevertheless he would not sin venially, but mortally" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibet, 8, 6, 5).
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