In our popular, misguided, and ungodly culture, it is common to see disapproval of homosexual acts equated with homophobia — i.e., hateful feelings, words or actions against homosexuals.
The Catholic Church makes a clear distinction between homosexual acts and homophobia and condemns them BOTH.
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On September 19, 1846, the Blessed Mother appeared to two children in La Salette, France. She gave each of them a public message and a secret message. These messages were passed on to the pope.
- The public messages were published and deemed “worthy of belief” by the Church.
- The secret messages were withheld until 1999, when the Vatican released them for publication.
The boy lived a sober life, but the girl, Melanie Calva, appears to have become quite the attention hog. Some years after the apparition, she wrote and published pages and pages of garbage she claimed was what Our Lady had told her.
Most of the prophetic parts of the authentic messages have come to pass. As the Fourth Blood Moon approaches, I am particularly intrigued by this bit:
“Lastly, hell will reign on earth. It will be then that the Antichrist will be born of a Sister, but woe to her! Many will believe in him, because he will claim to have come from heaven, woe to those who will believe in him! That time is not far away, twice 50 years will not go by.”
“Lastly, hell will reign on earth.”
A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 6 and 9, 1945.
“Twice 50 years will not go by.”
August 1945 was just short of “twice 50 years” after September 1846.
“It will be then that the Antichrist will be born.”
If Antichrist was born in August, 1945, he just had his 70th birthday.
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Why any devout Catholic continues to support him is beyond me.
Among his openly hostile actions toward us are:
- inviting a pro-abortion activist nun, a tranny activist Catholic, a gay activist Catholic, and a pro-gay, openly homosexual, twice-divorced Episcopal bishop for the pope’s visit.
An unnamed senior Vatican official told the press that the Holy See is not happy.
John White says, “We haven’t seen such a raw, naked attempt by a secular head of state to manipulate a pope in centuries.”
Statements Pope Francis has made on …
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One of my alert readers (God bless her!) asked this question on yesterday’s Mary blogs.
“I’m no Catholic so I’m about as qualified as a stick of butter to discuss a lot of this, but don’t Catholics actually pray to the Virgin Mary and the saints? In the Protestant faith that’s a big no-no, and Protestants who do so are in violation of church orthodoxy. We’re only to pray to the Lord God in the form of Father, Son and/or Holy Spirit.”
In the article I linked below, the author says, “We pray with saints, not to them.” Well, yes and no. It’s a linguistic thing.
In the modern sense, “to pray to” usually means “to speak to God.” This obviously includes worship that is wholly inappropriate for anyone to offer to another created being. However, prayer also includes praise, supplication, thanksgiving, confession, intercession. We do all of these things with our families and friends who are alive, do we not? Catholics simply extend the practice to those who have passed on.
In the now-archaic sense (e.g., in Shakespeare), “I pray thee” also means to ask, implore, or beg. Yes, we pray with the saints. But we also pray to them in the sense that we ask, implore, or beg for their prayers and assistance. Again, we do all of these things with our families and friends who are alive. Moreover, God clearly approves of it. “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt 18:20).
When I received very scary news about my third pregnancy, I went to church to pray. Father asked why I was crying, then went and got me a little prayer card to St. Gerard. I leaned hard on Gerard throughout the rest of that pregnancy. My daughter, who was very sick at mid-term, was born full term and healthy. Her doctor, a noted specialist in high risk pregnancies, told me, “You can call this a miracle if you want to. I treat every baby in central New York that has this disease. There is no cure. There isn’t even a treatment. I have no explanation for how she recovered, but the tests clearly show that she had the disease at 20 weeks and she doesn’t have it now.” Does St. Gerard deserve the credit? No. Only God can do a miracle. Does St. Gerard deserve my gratitude for interceding for my baby? Absolutely!
I understand that some Christians believe the soul goes to sleep at death and will not awaken to consciousness until the end of time. For them, praying to saints makes no sense. As one of them put it to me (repeatedly), “You can’t talk to dead people.” However, this “comatose soul” thing is neither Catholic teaching nor consistent with the repeated experience of Christians ever since the first century.
We have loads of evidence that those who have died in Christ are alive in some temporary, spiritual body and can hear us, pray for us, and even sometimes assist us in specific ways (as God permits) much as our guardian angels do. Even the Blessed Virgin Mary reminds us often that she only appears and gives us messages because God allows it.
There is nothing in Scripture that says that praying to saints is wrong. And there is LOTS in Catholic history that says God blesses the practice. In fact, the process for someone becoming a canonized Saint is, first, that someone prays to that person and, second, that someone receives an indisputably miraculous answer to his/her prayer. This is the Church’s way of ensuring that only those God chooses are elevated to capital S sainthood.(1)
Note: The RCC is extremely conservative and cautious about presuming to know who is in Heaven.(2) The canonization process is long, tortuous, and expensive. One important aspect is the assignment of an expert in Church law to argue AGAINST canonization. His job — known as Devil’s Advocate (3) — is to dig into the evidence and try to disqualify the person who has been proposed. The Devil’s Advocate closely examines the person’s life history and looks with great skepticism at all the medical evidence. If anything smells the tiniest bit off, the cause for canonization is suspended.
Miracles that qualify as true signs from God are not of the “Jesus’ face on toast” variety. They are of the “this person should be dead, but now has zero sign of their incurable illness” variety. I read about one person who had had a colostomy, who was not only healed of the cancer, but also had had that chunk of colon fully restored! I read another one where bone cancer had eaten away inches of leg bone. This person was also healed of the cancer AND had that bone restored.
Ponder how careful the RCC is and then consider the fact that there are thousands of canonized saints. Is it any wonder we treat our Saints the way we do?!
Grunt of Monte Cristo wrote an excellent comment about this subject.
https://polination.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/hyperdulia-is-not-latria/#comment-59657
Frequently Asked Questions About Saints
http://www.catholic.org/saints/faq.php
St. Gerard
http://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/prayers-to-st-gerard.html
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For those who have been taught that Roman Catholics worship Mary, let me assure you we do NOT.
The technical terms are dulia, hyperdulia, and latria.
I remember a day once upon a long time ago when my 6 and 8 year old girls came home from elementary school in tears, because some boys on the bus had accused them of worshiping Mary.
“We don’t, Mommy, right?”said the oldest, with real tears running down her cheeks.
“Of course not!” We sat right down on the grass and I explained to them about dulia, hyperdulia and latria. Then I explained to them about kids who, sadly, are taught lies about our faith and about how we need to teach them what we really believe, pray for them to understand, and forgive them for being mean.
My point here is that even at that tender age, my girls, who had been raised from birth in the Roman Catholic Church, who had been taught to say the rosary and were accustomed to seeing pictures and statues of Mary in our home and at church, KNEW that we DO NOT WORSHIP MARY.
What about statues and pictures of Mary? Is having them or kissing them or parading them around the streets a violation of the First Commandment?
What we do is use statues and pictures as touch points for prayer. We’re physical beings. We often want or need ways to physicalize our thoughts and emotions. The woman in the picture below is not worshiping a stone or a flag or the soul of her dearly departed. She’s grieving.
“A Catholic who may kneel in front of a statue while praying isn’t worshiping the statue or even praying to it, any more than the Protestant who kneels with a Bible in his hands when praying is worshiping the Bible or praying to it.”
Read more @ http://www.catholic.com/tracts/do-catholics-worship-statues
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Angels ~ Ven Fulton J Sheen [23:36]
Catholic Catechism on Angels – 328 to 336
http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catechism/catechism-of-the-catholic-church/epub/index.cfm#
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CLARIFICATION REGARDING ABSOLUTION OF THE SIN OF ABORTION
I am afraid that publication in the media of the Year of Mercy expansion of the faculty to absolve from the sin of abortion will cause some confusion among those who have repented of this sin and have already been absolved in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Please note that priests in the United States have already had the authority to absolve from this sin in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Because this sin is grave enough to result in an automatic excommunication, canon law normally restricts the lifting of the penalty of an excommunication to the authority of the bishop. But for the singular case of abortion, priests with the faculty to hear confessions in the United States have already had the faculty to absolve from this sin and lift the excommunication.
Therefore, someone who had repented of this sin and received absolution from a priest in the Sacrament of Reconciliation does not need to worry that they were not properly absolved.
Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv.
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A Manual for Spiritual Warfare – EWTN
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