I am a Baptist who is drawn to Catholicism. I've started attending the local Catholic church and I'm reading as much as I can on the Catholic faith. It was through reading and studying the Bible and the early church fathers that convinced me that the Catholic church is the true church.
I was baptised Catholic at age 4 days! many moons ago in Dublin. I want to encourage you on your journey, there isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that you're on the right path. The current occupant of Peters chair is a major disappointment to many Catholics, all we can do is hope and Pray that the next Pope is thoroughly Christ centered, another St Paul would be perfect. Persevere, despite these troubled times, you're embarking on a magnificent adventure. God protect you.
Orthodox here. 1500 years ago saint pope Gregory the Great wrote _Whoever calls himself universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor to the Antichrist._ Kyrie eleison ☦️
Indeed. He wrote a very good article, which was published in the Spectator the day after he died. He explained that Our Lord vested full authority in the Apostles and their successors, the Bishops of the Catholic Church. While the Bishops should, of course, be in touch with the Faithful and understand their needs and wishes, the Bishops can never take their instructions from the Faithful. The Church is not a democracy. The Bishops are entrusted with protecting the teachings of the Church and presenting them to the Faithful in an unambiguous way, free from error. Having said that, there have been precedents for the sort of Synod which is now being held. For example, the Synod of Whitby was called by the King of Northumbria for the purpose of deciding whether the Church in his Kingdom should be aligned with Rome. the alternative was the existing Celtic Church, or even an alignment with Constantinople. The Queen and St Hilda were members of the Synod. The Synod reported to the King, who made the final decision. However, of course, at that stage there was no formal Episcopate in his Kingdom, in full communion with any other part of the Church.
The fact that the Church is the body of the Son of God makes it unique. The question of whether other religions proclaim some truth is irrelevant. The devil knows many factual truths, doesn't he. I am not Catholic merely because I believe in the teachings which I hope will bring me closer to God. I am Catholic because being in the Body of Christ, in a sense I am in union with God, through, with and in Christ.
It wasn't irrelevant to Paul when he used the correct religious beliefs of the Athenians as the common ground ge built his preaching to them on. (Acts 17)
Well now you know that Catholoc as a church isn't part of the body of Christ and by their teachings you can judge yourself. Just imagine if the self proclaiming vicar of Christ bringing such message to the world, what does it tell you about the church? Jesus told all His apostles and disciples to go and preach the gospel to all parts of the world. Is that the type of gospel Jesus was talking about, if Roman Catholic is part of the body of Christ????????????????
@@VICTORCHIRWA Francis renounced the title of 'Vicar of Christ' at the beginning of his 'pontificate'. He is simply the Bishop of Rome and, lately he also assumed the title of 'Patriarch of the West'.
I love you all ❤ Thank so much for the hard work you do in defending and promoting the true Catholic faith with such clarity, wisdom and charity. I'm so incredibly grateful to you for this. Hope I'm able to meet up with you all in person in the future. God bless you and protect you in your ministry.
BREAKING: "Vatican updates translation of Pope to make sure it excludes traditional Catholicism from religions that lead to God. 'We didn't want anyone getting confused thinking they can go off and be a traditionalist Catholic.' Said a spokesman from the Vatican. 'When the Pope said that all religions are paths to God, he didn't mean those nasty old rigid rad-trads.' The Vatican hopes that this new translation will help to make it clear that you're still a bad person if you try to obey the historic teachings of the Catholic Church." -Reuters 😂😂😂
@@Hope_Boat We're still in communion with the Church. Our temporary leader and his cronies have just stepped out back for a cigarette, it seems. That's all. Meanwhile we're piling a couple of millennia of books up against the back door. If they want back in, I'm afraid they'll have to come back around to the front. I doubt the Rothschild's will extend them much more spending money once they realize how few faithful are playing along with them.
Traditional catholicism is redundant. You either have the religion shepherd by the bishops in communion with the pope, or you have a schismatic religion.
@@dr.tafazzi Didn't look very "redundant" on the Paris to Chartres pilgrimage this year with thousands of young people from all over the world chanting redundant Latin hymes. On the other hand, what looks a bit more like redundancy, at least here in France, are the almost empty churches with a handful of grannies, singing the old 1970s hymes.
@@johnharkness6304 it is objectively redundant. If you mean "catholicism with an early 1900s aesthethics", say that. A catholic from the 12th century would not have kept up at that pilgrimage. Early 1900s aesthetic =/= "traditional". I'm sorry for France, but that doesn't prove anything. There were more people at world youth day than at that pilgrimage, it just doesn't prove anything.
I’m a very new Catholic - technically not even so because I’ve only just started my lessons on what it even means to be Catholic with my local priest - and I have to say all this is incredibly confusing and distressing for me. I recently left a Protestant church in favour of Catholicism, and though I hold firm in my decision both to leave and become Catholic, I am having serious worries over what it even means to be a Catholic. All I really know is that I want to serve God, as truly and faithfully as I can. I wasn’t always a Christian (I was baptised CofE as a baby, but didn’t go to church), until I had a conversion experience early this year. I know God is real. I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who died on the cross for my sins. I left my local community, many of whom I knew and liked before I started going to church, in favour of Catholicism because I came to know that the CofE isn’t faithful to God. Now I’m a little stuck - what can I do about this? As a new Catholic convert, where do I go for direction on how to serve God faithfully? I trust my local priests, but how much can I truly understand about Roman Catholicism as a whole if the Pope is saying such things (potentially heretical - how would I know, I’m still very confused). In simple terms, as the successor of Saint Peter, he has a responsibility to help guide newcomers to the true faith, and from where I’m standing he has failed spectacularly. He is supposed to hold the keys to the Kingdom - and I feel like the door is slowly being locked from the inside. The people on the outside looking to come in are left perplexed and confused in the dark and cold, and the ones on the inside are all fighting about what it means to be inside at all. Sorry to rant at everyone, I just wanted to say my piece in a place where I think I’d be understood. Whatever happens, God is good and faithful, and we can’t stop seeking him! God bless
I'm in much the same situation. RCIA here starts next week and I was intending to start, but now I'm not even sure about that. The only advice that I can offer is to focus on what the messaging is in your own church that you attend Mass at. I know that the homilies vary between the different Catholic churches in my area. If your specific church is good then it may not matter as much if there's confusion at the top of the religious hierarchy. If you feel that the specific church you are attending is compromised, you may wish to discuss your concerns with the leadership at your church. If necessary, explore the other Catholic churches in your area. This youtube channel presents a particular viewpoint that not everyone agrees with. You may want to also check out videos on a few other channels if for no other reason than to get a different viewpoint on the issues. Then think and pray regarding which view you feel is correct. (It may be that you feel neither has it exactly correct.) I think this is a tricky time to be coming into the Catholic faith, but that these challenges will make us stronger in what we believe. Ultimately the Church should be about God, and not about any human leadership. Look to the Scriptures, look to God.
The Pope is not the Catholic Church. He is infallible only when he speaks ex-cathedra on matters of faith and morals. His false opinions are not Church teaching. The teachings of the Church are rooted in the Bible and the Apostolic tradition and cannot be changed. There have been bad Popes in the past and the Church is still standing strong because she is led by the Holy Spirit.
There are a lot of very opinionated people that are very for or very against the Pope. My advice is, that as best as you can, try to avoid the fight and follow God, not man.
You make very good points and I hope we explain in the video that the Catholic Church is MUCH more than one man, even if he is the current Pope. The Catholic Church is the fullness of Christian truth based on Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium (that is the constant teaching of the Church). Test everything and hold on to what is good (1 Thess 5:21) and beware of anyone who preaches another Gospel (Gal 1:6) God bless you and keep you!
If you are building a new global Church which is acceptable to all and centered on man, not the Blessed Trinity, which bears no resemblance to the Church founded by Jesus Christ, you need a new theology with no doctrines and no sin. Its called Freemasonry.
What about sins against life such as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, sins against marriage by promoting same-sex "marriage," sins against preventing faithful Catholics by closing down sites where the Roman Rite in Latin was celebrated, sins against evangelization and calling people to conversion, sins of omitting adult catechesis in parishes, sins against the proper celebration of the Novus Ordo Mass, etc.?
If you refuse communion with the pope, do you attend a mass that commemorates him as such? If so, why? Wouldn't that mean that both by your perspective and by that communion persoective, you're participating in a schismatic liturgy?
In order to sin against Synodality it would be necessary first to define what synodality is. We have had a two year synod on the subject which has discussed anything but what synodality is supposed to be. If a two year synod cannot find a clear definition of Synodality, how is it possible to ask the faithful to examine their conscience and conclude they have anything to repent of?
This is what I said to my parish priest (who is an admirer of Pope Francis and monthly masses for unrepentant persons of a particular inclination) when he called for synodal parish meetings. I declined saying I do not even know what the word 'synodality' means in relation to lay people and surely that should be clearly defined first. Few people I know understands this word. Now, Pope Francis is accusing me of being sinful for not wishing to get involved in making the church "more equal and diverse." Up to now I thought I was in a state of grace but this Pope appears to wish us to become scrupulous by inventing new sins.
Wow! I am definitely in that third camp! I'm so glad you're saying this and articulating, and advocating for a return to the Bible (return to the fundamentals)! I feel so alienated in my church. I don't trust anyone, especially the priest who says mass. I can't tell if my priest stands for orthodoxy or does he stand with Francis and all his heresies.
I work with a buddhist and have talked to him about his religion. It seems to have little firm doctrine and is very laid back. Since its now possible to go to God via any religion I have been considering becoming Buddhist because its so much easier to practice than Catholicism.
My uncle was a Buddhist. I wasn't all that close to him and hadn't seen him for a long time but I met up with my cousin at my Dad's funeral and he told me his father (my uncle) was very angry when he passed away. I also know a young lady who says she is Buddhist but I suspect that is because her father says he's one. Anyway, she's a nice kid but she has no center and from what I get from her, her dad has his own issues for lack of a better term. It seems to me the false religions truly reveal just how false they are when you need them most. Christ reveals just how real He is when we need Him most. So yeah, it's easy to be a Buddhist I guess, but it gives just as little as it demands.
When you realize 1) that most Westerners who claim to be Buddhist actually have no idea what real Buddhists believe in terms of detail and 2) that the goal of Buddhism is to essentially dissolve the soul, Buddhism is the antithesis of the goal of Christianity, which it to actually see our Father, it is hard to say that these are equivalent. (disclaimer: I am not an expert on Buddhism .)
Look at what you've written. You seek easier and more laidback. Would you link a stick of ganja to go with that? Get real about God friend and save your soul, for God's sake and your own.
Let us pray and make sacrifices for Pope Francis even more than before. His soul is the most under attack by the forces of evil in the whole world, and as such is the most in need of being rescued from hell. If we do not help the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, it (the Pope's soul) will be lost forever.
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned instead of Rupnik, MCCarrick et al.....not to mention against Sin-odality..." These sins to be confessed number 7, the New Seven Deadly Sins.....
In addition to Larry Chapp addressing limits of papal authority, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has written and talked extensively about hyper papalism. Perhaps you could get Dr. Kwasniewski on your podcast.
Let's look at the positive side. Often --too often, it seems -- we're discussing Bergoglian actions or words trying to determine if they're heretical or even apostical. Here, with this question, we can turn our brains down to simmer. After all, it involves merely the Pope's intelligence or lack of same....and the matter seems rather easy to judge, doesn't it? 👎
I am so old that all my formal religious education pre-dates Vatican II. I basically regarded the Council as an unnecessary exercise and just held to the truths mostly taught to me from the 'Penny Catechism'. Catholicism in its essence is easily comprehensible to 7 year olds and I regard most theology to be a distraction from the essentials. God save us from the theologians and give us priests with a childlike faith and a modest intellect like St. John Vianney.
Just received the story of a soul. Looking forward to that. As for Cathechisis you may enjoy Spirago's explainer on the Council of Trent, foreward by Fr Chad Rippenger (Albeit not a fan of his depsite liking him - we're complex, ain't we)
God bless your sense of humour in the face of increasingly alarming news. It certainly serves to keep me sane. Surely sinning against synodality is oxymoronic. Don't you have to have 'full knowledge' in order for it to be sin?
The English Catholic Martyrs died for a Faith and a Church of which an integral part was a Pope. Did they die in vain? They did not die for a sanctified discussion group.They rejected novelties. Without them the Faith would have died out.
All paths humans take to God never make it to their destination because of sin. God needs to meet us half way. He promised to do that if we take the path Jesus showed us, but He can do it in any situation.
I apologize up front for the length this post is likely to be but when the Pope deliberately says or does things that PREVENTS others from finding freedom in Jesus, I boil! Very clever of the Pope to call for a communal penitential rite! If everyone is guilty, no ONE is guilty! Why are Catholics required to confess to a priest personally- even if a penitential rite is held? Not only to ensure we are carrying out Jesus' command to take the plank out of our own eye but also to complete an examen; to admit our specific failures so as to make reparation and with the grace of the sacrament, avoid such failures in the future. Pope Francis is advocating the opposite- minimizing personal responsibility and accountability which prevents an real change, and 'absolving' the group! And how shocking to include the child abuse crisis with such things as 'sins' against the planet! Gavin has eluded to this mentality before as expressed in West Side Story when the juvenile delinquents plead not guilty because it's actually their home life, neighborhood, etc... that's to blame. The liberals that espouse such rubbish are not even aware of the implications of such a hypothesis! The dignity of the human person, created by God and lovingly gifted with a free will is totally obliterated! Crime against persons and personal property has skyrocketed in direct correlation to 'theories' that attempt to exonerate delinquents and criminals based on their social status or race. We now have teenage children assaulting 75 year olds to hijack their cars or rob them! We need more confession- not communal absolution. Finally, in this action he has proven himself to be anti-Peter; in Acts 2, Peter evangelizes by beginning with holding Israel accountable for their sin. He begins by saying with the boldness of the Spirit, in the Temple, "let the whole house of Israel know that for certain God has made both Lord and Christ this Jesus WHOM YOU CRUCIFIED.... no global guilt' or blaming the Romans- he is uncompromising- he delivers a judgment upon our sin! That is the heart of metanoia- the truth that will set us free!
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many…Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves… Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you.* Depart from me, you evildoers.’ “― Matthew 7: 13-23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture.” ― Jeremiah 23: 1
First and foremost, Jesus Christ is God, to the Glory of God the Father. When the Pope can declare that fact, he can remain Pope, otherwise goodbye to the Apostate. I do not for the life of me understand the discarding of the faith by Pope John Paul II at Assisi. Therefore, I can’t understand his canonisation. God Almighty must and will decide. There is no justification for this Synodality Nonsense, Stay clear of serious sin and go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly, stay Catholic.
_Whoever calls himself universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor to the Antichrist._ Letter from saint pope Gregory the Great to saint John the Faster. Kyrie eleison ☦️
The pope declares that as fact every time he says mass. You're being absolutely played by liars. Slander is serious sin and I don't see you taking enough steps to avoid it.
@@dr.tafazzi Glad to hear that in your considered opinion and final judgement I am not taking enough precautions about not falling into sin. Are you for real? Jesus Christ is my judge, there is no other. If it’s heretical, then it’s heretical. Jesus Christ will judge this Pope, who I still pray for everyday. Nevertheless, he is destroying the Catholic Church and should be known as Caiaphas!
@@josephmaxwell5033 I'm not judging your intentions or soul, I'm telling you that you're not being careful enough and may slip into the sin of slander. For example you called the pope "apostate". That's you judging the pope's heart. I'm not into british subtlety: you're a hypocrite, clutching your pearls because I suggest you take more precautions for the sin of slander, while at the same time acting as if you were Jesus, judging the pope's heart. what is heretical? Bring proof.
My isolation is double. For professional reasons I live in an Orthodox country. There's only one Catholic church where I am and I'm a Catholic, not a follower of the Vatican Council II religion. If I were, if I believed Bergoglio - that all religions lead to God - then I would convert to Orthodoxy. But I refuse to do that. With all due respect (I'm nobody) Bergoglio must change his ideas. Not I.
Synodality? Sin? My path to God has no synodality and no sin! It also has no Pope, so I clearly can ignore the nonsense the Pope spews and still be on a path to God. Isn’t modernism great?!
It's a joke that people don't understand a message to children, about religious dialogue, cannot include harsh admonishments about hell. It's not the appropriate thing to say.
Love God and love your neighbou😮r, Every one is your neighbour, the neighbour you've met and the neighbour you've not. Perhaps the sin against Synodality is a refusal of rejection of authoritarianism. Synodality in my view, surely as valid as yours, has nothing to do with introducing an agenda.
I mean this in the most reverent and kind way possible. Is the Pope ok? Has he been tested for a memory or mental issue lately? He seems to be confused quite often.
@@djq9332 yes but JB appears to be further along in it. I’ve watched a lot of my older relatives go from early confusion and mis-speaking and progressively advance to a more debilitating case. Early on, there are often more good days than bad, and it can seem very subtle.
There were many magesterial documents prior to VaticanII that the modernists wish to forget. The syllabus of errors condemned as error the exact word Francis used. And Vatican II wasn't binding on anyone because John XXIII said it wasn't. And 1965 isn't in my opinion Tradition
Correct, it is within The Pope's Authoritative Magisterium, which I use rather than Non-Infallbile Ordinary, and while it requires assent of mind and will that the Pope has the authority to have statements about the topics of migrants, environment, etc, it is non-binding and therefore while I will not go to my parish and create Schism, I will just ignore it and pray for Pope Francis.
What even is it to be Catholic today ?? Pope Francis as much as said Jesus doesn't matter. Now if it's true that there are many ways to God then fine, but the old joke about the Pope being Catholic ........😵
I always agree with you, even in minute details. That should be boring enough to stop listening? Were it the case that you were a mouthpeace of the genera opinion of catholics all over, maybe. I could certainly stop listening, and posibly could never have listened in the first place, as there would have been no need for CU, would there? So now I listen and I listen again, because who I am uptil now at the core is what I am confirmed in, in a world which otherwise might make me think slowly I must be mad. Many thanks to you and many prayers for you at CU.
Stupidity!...."who do you think you are this is the pope" this can't be taken seriously ...if you speak this way you need to do some home word....you don't need to be confused seek for truth ..cus we'll soon have it in our faces!
home work. but rather the double speak chameleon way the pope wants love is love everyone is not the way of the hard truth of the Cross of Jesus the Christ.
Katherine, and I mean this in the nicest way, why do you have two pairs of glasses on? ;) Your not like me, are you? Running around looking for your glasses only to find you'd forgotten that you'd flipped them and they're resting on your head?
Synodality is not a lot of “rubbish”. It’s how the Church was set up by Christ. It was how the early Church Fathers practiced their faith. There were seven Churches at the outset with the Roman Pontiff the “first among equals”. They were equals. The phrase underscores the idea that the Pope's role is one of leadership and unity, rather than domination or superiority over other bishops.
I am a Baptist who is drawn to Catholicism.
I've started attending the local Catholic church and I'm reading as much as I can on the Catholic faith.
It was through reading and studying the Bible and the early church fathers that convinced me that the Catholic church is the true church.
God bless you!
I was baptised Catholic at age 4 days! many moons ago in Dublin. I want to encourage you on your journey, there isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that you're on the right path. The current occupant of Peters chair is a major disappointment to many Catholics, all we can do is hope and Pray that the next Pope is thoroughly Christ centered, another St Paul would be perfect. Persevere, despite these troubled times, you're embarking on a magnificent adventure. God protect you.
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Thank you
Welcome Sister 🙏
Focus on the Word, Listen to and live what Jesus tells us. He brings new commandments be guided by Him and the Holy Spirit.
The late great Cardinal Pell summed it up . This Papacy is catastrophic
Cardinal George Pell said the synod is toxic.
Orthodox here. 1500 years ago saint pope Gregory the Great wrote _Whoever calls himself universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor to the Antichrist._
Kyrie eleison ☦️
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord
Indeed. He wrote a very good article, which was published in the Spectator the day after he died. He explained that Our Lord vested full authority in the Apostles and their successors, the Bishops of the Catholic Church. While the Bishops should, of course, be in touch with the Faithful and understand their needs and wishes, the Bishops can never take their instructions from the Faithful. The Church is not a democracy. The Bishops are entrusted with protecting the teachings of the Church and presenting them to the Faithful in an unambiguous way, free from error. Having said that, there have been precedents for the sort of Synod which is now being held. For example, the Synod of Whitby was called by the King of Northumbria for the purpose of deciding whether the Church in his Kingdom should be aligned with Rome. the alternative was the existing Celtic Church, or even an alignment with Constantinople. The Queen and St Hilda were members of the Synod. The Synod reported to the King, who made the final decision. However, of course, at that stage there was no formal Episcopate in his Kingdom, in full communion with any other part of the Church.
The late Cardinal Basil Hume remarked about Euthanasia and said “ Beware,the choice to die will become the duty to die at some stage.”
The Pope needs to let God be God.
If doctrine 'hurled' feels like stones it is only because the truth hurts.
Indeed and if so you need therefore to work on yourself
The fact that the Church is the body of the Son of God makes it unique. The question of whether other religions proclaim some truth is irrelevant. The devil knows many factual truths, doesn't he. I am not Catholic merely because I believe in the teachings which I hope will bring me closer to God. I am Catholic because being in the Body of Christ, in a sense I am in union with God, through, with and in Christ.
It wasn't irrelevant to Paul when he used the correct religious beliefs of the Athenians as the common ground ge built his preaching to them on.
(Acts 17)
Well now you know that Catholoc as a church isn't part of the body of Christ and by their teachings you can judge yourself. Just imagine if the self proclaiming vicar of Christ bringing such message to the world, what does it tell you about the church? Jesus told all His apostles and disciples to go and preach the gospel to all parts of the world. Is that the type of gospel Jesus was talking about, if Roman Catholic is part of the body of Christ????????????????
@@VICTORCHIRWA wrong
@@VICTORCHIRWA Francis renounced the title of 'Vicar of Christ' at the beginning of his 'pontificate'. He is simply the Bishop of Rome and, lately he also assumed the title of 'Patriarch of the West'.
I love you all ❤
Thank so much for the hard work you do in defending and promoting the true Catholic faith with such clarity, wisdom and charity.
I'm so incredibly grateful to you for this.
Hope I'm able to meet up with you all in person in the future.
God bless you and protect you in your ministry.
Thank you! We hope to run a number of conferences so perhaps we will meet one day. Until then please pray for us, as we do all our viewers 🙏
@@catholicunscripted sincere question was posted, Sir.
how can one be catholic and still 'repent', when catholicism mandates sin?
BREAKING: "Vatican updates translation of Pope to make sure it excludes traditional Catholicism from religions that lead to God.
'We didn't want anyone getting confused thinking they can go off and be a traditionalist Catholic.' Said a spokesman from the Vatican.
'When the Pope said that all religions are paths to God, he didn't mean those nasty old rigid rad-trads.'
The Vatican hopes that this new translation will help to make it clear that you're still a bad person if you try to obey the historic teachings of the Catholic Church." -Reuters
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Orthodox here.
Why are Trads still in communion with an heretic?
Just asking.
@@Hope_Boat We're still in communion with the Church. Our temporary leader and his cronies have just stepped out back for a cigarette, it seems. That's all. Meanwhile we're piling a couple of millennia of books up against the back door. If they want back in, I'm afraid they'll have to come back around to the front. I doubt the Rothschild's will extend them much more spending money once they realize how few faithful are playing along with them.
Traditional catholicism is redundant. You either have the religion shepherd by the bishops in communion with the pope, or you have a schismatic religion.
@@dr.tafazzi Didn't look very "redundant" on the Paris to Chartres pilgrimage this year with thousands of young people from all over the world chanting redundant Latin hymes. On the other hand, what looks a bit more like redundancy, at least here in France, are the almost empty churches with a handful of grannies, singing the old 1970s hymes.
@@johnharkness6304 it is objectively redundant. If you mean "catholicism with an early 1900s aesthethics", say that. A catholic from the 12th century would not have kept up at that pilgrimage.
Early 1900s aesthetic =/= "traditional".
I'm sorry for France, but that doesn't prove anything. There were more people at world youth day than at that pilgrimage, it just doesn't prove anything.
I’m a very new Catholic - technically not even so because I’ve only just started my lessons on what it even means to be Catholic with my local priest - and I have to say all this is incredibly confusing and distressing for me.
I recently left a Protestant church in favour of Catholicism, and though I hold firm in my decision both to leave and become Catholic, I am having serious worries over what it even means to be a Catholic. All I really know is that I want to serve God, as truly and faithfully as I can.
I wasn’t always a Christian (I was baptised CofE as a baby, but didn’t go to church), until I had a conversion experience early this year. I know God is real. I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who died on the cross for my sins. I left my local community, many of whom I knew and liked before I started going to church, in favour of Catholicism because I came to know that the CofE isn’t faithful to God.
Now I’m a little stuck - what can I do about this? As a new Catholic convert, where do I go for direction on how to serve God faithfully? I trust my local priests, but how much can I truly understand about Roman Catholicism as a whole if the Pope is saying such things (potentially heretical - how would I know, I’m still very confused).
In simple terms, as the successor of Saint Peter, he has a responsibility to help guide newcomers to the true faith, and from where I’m standing he has failed spectacularly. He is supposed to hold the keys to the Kingdom - and I feel like the door is slowly being locked from the inside. The people on the outside looking to come in are left perplexed and confused in the dark and cold, and the ones on the inside are all fighting about what it means to be inside at all.
Sorry to rant at everyone, I just wanted to say my piece in a place where I think I’d be understood. Whatever happens, God is good and faithful, and we can’t stop seeking him! God bless
I'm in much the same situation. RCIA here starts next week and I was intending to start, but now I'm not even sure about that. The only advice that I can offer is to focus on what the messaging is in your own church that you attend Mass at. I know that the homilies vary between the different Catholic churches in my area. If your specific church is good then it may not matter as much if there's confusion at the top of the religious hierarchy. If you feel that the specific church you are attending is compromised, you may wish to discuss your concerns with the leadership at your church. If necessary, explore the other Catholic churches in your area.
This youtube channel presents a particular viewpoint that not everyone agrees with. You may want to also check out videos on a few other channels if for no other reason than to get a different viewpoint on the issues. Then think and pray regarding which view you feel is correct. (It may be that you feel neither has it exactly correct.)
I think this is a tricky time to be coming into the Catholic faith, but that these challenges will make us stronger in what we believe.
Ultimately the Church should be about God, and not about any human leadership. Look to the Scriptures, look to God.
The Pope is not the Catholic Church. He is infallible only when he speaks ex-cathedra on matters of faith and morals. His false opinions are not Church teaching. The teachings of the Church are rooted in the Bible and the Apostolic tradition and cannot be changed. There have been bad Popes in the past and the Church is still standing strong because she is led by the Holy Spirit.
There are a lot of very opinionated people that are very for or very against the Pope. My advice is, that as best as you can, try to avoid the fight and follow God, not man.
You make very good points and I hope we explain in the video that the Catholic Church is MUCH more than one man, even if he is the current Pope. The Catholic Church is the fullness of Christian truth based on Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium (that is the constant teaching of the Church). Test everything and hold on to what is good (1 Thess 5:21) and beware of anyone who preaches another Gospel (Gal 1:6) God bless you and keep you!
If you are building a new global Church which is acceptable to all and centered on man, not the Blessed Trinity, which bears no resemblance to the Church founded by Jesus Christ, you need a new theology with no doctrines and no sin. Its called Freemasonry.
Euthanasia voted in just in time for Christmas. How far we have fallen.
What about sins against life such as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, sins against marriage by promoting same-sex "marriage," sins against preventing faithful Catholics by closing down sites where the Roman Rite in Latin was celebrated, sins against evangelization and calling people to conversion, sins of omitting adult catechesis in parishes, sins against the proper celebration of the Novus Ordo Mass, etc.?
Keep it up! We are in need of clarity.
Please keep doing what you are doing. You make me PROUD to be a Catholic.
lol...the conversation points make be proud to be Orthodox. ☦☦☦
Thank you Mark for your dedication and blogs. I passed Glencomeragh yesterday when I was in Ireland. Used to go there as a child.
Thank you for what you do! God bless you!
Once again, I thank you for having this discussion.
Your collective insights are so helpful to me.
Lord have mercy on us all.
God bless you.
It's time the bishops called Francis to account and got hi. To repent or resign.
If you refuse communion with the pope, do you attend a mass that commemorates him as such? If so, why? Wouldn't that mean that both by your perspective and by that communion persoective, you're participating in a schismatic liturgy?
You think they care?
In order to sin against Synodality it would be necessary first to define what synodality is. We have had a two year synod on the subject which has discussed anything but what synodality is supposed to be. If a two year synod cannot find a clear definition of Synodality, how is it possible to ask the faithful to examine their conscience and conclude they have anything to repent of?
This is what I said to my parish priest (who is an admirer of Pope Francis and monthly masses for unrepentant persons of a particular inclination) when he called for synodal parish meetings. I declined saying I do not even know what the word 'synodality' means in relation to lay people and surely that should be clearly defined first. Few people I know understands this word. Now, Pope Francis is accusing me of being sinful for not wishing to get involved in making the church "more equal and diverse." Up to now I thought I was in a state of grace but this Pope appears to wish us to become scrupulous by inventing new sins.
I belong to the group grateful for your clarity and faithfulness. It would be gravely wrong to be silent about the issues you address.
I throw doctrine at those who attack it. And I pick up the doctrines after and look at them; they seem even more beautiful.
We need to get back to church and trie to live moral lives
I deeply appreciate all your work and wholeheartedly applaud your efforts to teach and explain matters relevant to our Faith
“Bless me Father, for I haven’t sufficiently synod-ed.”
Thank you God Bless 🙏🏻
I've heard about what they're doing with their assisted dying law in Canada. I'm horrified, but unsurprised Labour would bring it in.
Looking forward to Dr Larry Chapp being on the show 😸
Wow! I am definitely in that third camp! I'm so glad you're saying this and articulating, and advocating for a return to the Bible (return to the fundamentals)! I feel so alienated in my church. I don't trust anyone, especially the priest who says mass. I can't tell if my priest stands for orthodoxy or does he stand with Francis and all his heresies.
Keep your eyes on Jesus
I work with a buddhist and have talked to him about his religion. It seems to have little firm doctrine and is very laid back. Since its now possible to go to God via any religion I have been considering becoming Buddhist because its so much easier to practice than Catholicism.
you forgot the /sarcasm
My uncle was a Buddhist. I wasn't all that close to him and hadn't seen him for a long time but I met up with my cousin at my Dad's funeral and he told me his father (my uncle) was very angry when he passed away. I also know a young lady who says she is Buddhist but I suspect that is because her father says he's one. Anyway, she's a nice kid but she has no center and from what I get from her, her dad has his own issues for lack of a better term. It seems to me the false religions truly reveal just how false they are when you need them most. Christ reveals just how real He is when we need Him most. So yeah, it's easy to be a Buddhist I guess, but it gives just as little as it demands.
When you realize 1) that most Westerners who claim to be Buddhist actually have no idea what real Buddhists believe in terms of detail and 2) that the goal of Buddhism is to essentially dissolve the soul, Buddhism is the antithesis of the goal of Christianity, which it to actually see our Father, it is hard to say that these are equivalent. (disclaimer: I am not an expert on Buddhism .)
@@catherinegilbert8740 Pope said its all good so no probs. See you in paradise.
Look at what you've written.
You seek easier and more laidback. Would you link a stick of ganja to go with that? Get real about God friend and save your soul, for God's sake and your own.
Remember that there is an orthodox Church out there.
Kyrie eleison ☦️
Remember also that there are Catholics who defend the traditions and the traditional mass.
Yeah it's time you found your way home tbh
Amen! ☦☦☦
True repentance is always the only way of renewal in our hearts to God in Christ. He will save His Church.
Jesus is the saviour of the world
Let us pray and make sacrifices for Pope Francis even more than before. His soul is the most under attack by the forces of evil in the whole world, and as such is the most in need of being rescued from hell. If we do not help the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, it (the Pope's soul) will be lost forever.
Totally agree
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned instead of Rupnik, MCCarrick et al.....not to mention against Sin-odality..." These sins to be confessed number 7, the New Seven Deadly Sins.....
Pops will get his just reward soon. He can say all the modernist heretical and blasphemous utterances. Pops will answer to God soon.
Name one heresy by the pope. Cite him in full and cite the document that declares that as heresy.
You want the pope to " pay".... then you shall have the same applied to you according to the teaching of Jesus....as you judge you shall be judged
In addition to Larry Chapp addressing limits of papal authority, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has written and talked extensively about hyper papalism. Perhaps you could get Dr. Kwasniewski on your podcast.
I see no way that there’s a hermeneutic of continuity. I’ll give you a shot at making your case.
Unsuccessful!
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the Nazis had lost WWII .
Let's look at the positive side. Often --too often, it seems -- we're discussing Bergoglian actions or words trying to determine if they're heretical or even apostical. Here, with this question, we can turn our brains down to simmer. After all, it involves merely the Pope's intelligence or lack of same....and the matter seems rather easy to judge, doesn't it? 👎
I am so old that all my formal religious education pre-dates Vatican II. I basically regarded the Council as an unnecessary exercise and just held to the truths mostly taught to me from the 'Penny Catechism'. Catholicism in its essence is easily comprehensible to 7 year olds and I regard most theology to be a distraction from the essentials. God save us from the theologians and give us priests with a childlike faith and a modest intellect like St. John Vianney.
yet it's still contradictory to Christianity and Bible basics, Steve.
Just received the story of a soul. Looking forward to that. As for Cathechisis you may enjoy Spirago's explainer on the Council of Trent, foreward by Fr Chad Rippenger (Albeit not a fan of his depsite liking him - we're complex, ain't we)
@@djq9332 nonsense, catholicism mandates sin and hates God.
Ask what Cardinal Pell(dead) about accounting for church funds
Traditions unless it Catholic Tradition from before the 1960s
The 'stone' is rejected.
We need a great Repentance like Daniel chapter 9. We have failed the Lord! 😭
God bless your sense of humour in the face of increasingly alarming news. It certainly serves to keep me sane. Surely sinning against synodality is oxymoronic. Don't you have to have 'full knowledge' in order for it to be sin?
I could be wrong, but I think "full knowledge" comes into play with respect to mortal sin. We can sin without 'full knowledge'.
@@claytonlee9570 😊
@@johndoyle6507 Is this PF?
The English Catholic Martyrs died for a Faith and a Church of which an integral part was a Pope. Did they die in vain? They did not die for a sanctified discussion group.They rejected novelties. Without them the Faith would have died out.
Now, thanks to francis, you can no longer say that there is only one way to get to God.
All paths humans take to God never make it to their destination because of sin. God needs to meet us half way. He promised to do that if we take the path Jesus showed us, but He can do it in any situation.
The wheat and the tairs will be separated on judgement day
I'm sinner who needs Jesus
We all do Brother. Repent and be saved. If St Paul can do it so can we all
I apologize up front for the length this post is likely to be but when the Pope deliberately says or does things that PREVENTS others from finding freedom in Jesus, I boil!
Very clever of the Pope to call for a communal penitential rite! If everyone is guilty, no ONE is guilty! Why are Catholics required to confess to a priest personally- even if a penitential rite is held? Not only to ensure we are carrying out Jesus' command to take the plank out of our own eye but also to complete an examen; to admit our specific failures so as to make reparation and with the grace of the sacrament, avoid such failures in the future. Pope Francis is advocating the opposite- minimizing personal responsibility and accountability which prevents an real change, and 'absolving' the group! And how shocking to include the child abuse crisis with such things as 'sins' against the planet! Gavin has eluded to this mentality before as expressed in West Side Story when the juvenile delinquents plead not guilty because it's actually their home life, neighborhood, etc... that's to blame. The liberals that espouse such rubbish are not even aware of the implications of such a hypothesis! The dignity of the human person, created by God and lovingly gifted with a free will is totally obliterated! Crime against persons and personal property has skyrocketed in direct correlation to 'theories' that attempt to exonerate delinquents and criminals based on their social status or race. We now have teenage children assaulting 75 year olds to hijack their cars or rob them! We need more confession- not communal absolution.
Finally, in this action he has proven himself to be anti-Peter; in Acts 2, Peter evangelizes by beginning with holding Israel accountable for their sin. He begins by saying with the boldness of the Spirit, in the Temple, "let the whole house of Israel know that for certain God has made both Lord and Christ this Jesus WHOM YOU CRUCIFIED.... no global guilt' or blaming the Romans- he is uncompromising- he delivers a judgment upon our sin! That is the heart of metanoia- the truth that will set us free!
Amen sister👍🏻
Our sin, over and above original sin, you mean🤔@@johnharkness6304
Excellent post
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many…Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves… Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you.* Depart from me, you evildoers.’ “― Matthew 7: 13-23
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture.” ― Jeremiah 23: 1
Not in my name! Sinodality is Woke. Woke is evil.
It does seem to be in the name actually: A nod to Syn.
We all need to get back to church and live a moral life and have a again
First and foremost, Jesus Christ is God, to the Glory of God the Father.
When the Pope can declare that fact, he can remain Pope, otherwise goodbye to the Apostate.
I do not for the life of me understand the discarding of the faith by Pope John Paul II at Assisi. Therefore, I can’t understand his canonisation.
God Almighty must and will decide.
There is no justification for this Synodality Nonsense,
Stay clear of serious sin and go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly, stay Catholic.
Absolutely spot on.
_Whoever calls himself universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor to the Antichrist._ Letter from saint pope Gregory the Great to saint John the Faster.
Kyrie eleison ☦️
The pope declares that as fact every time he says mass. You're being absolutely played by liars.
Slander is serious sin and I don't see you taking enough steps to avoid it.
@@dr.tafazzi Glad to hear that in your considered opinion and final judgement I am not taking enough precautions about not falling into sin. Are you for real? Jesus Christ is my judge, there is no other. If it’s heretical, then it’s heretical.
Jesus Christ will judge this Pope, who I still pray for everyday. Nevertheless, he is destroying the Catholic Church and should be known as Caiaphas!
@@josephmaxwell5033 I'm not judging your intentions or soul, I'm telling you that you're not being careful enough and may slip into the sin of slander.
For example you called the pope "apostate". That's you judging the pope's heart. I'm not into british subtlety: you're a hypocrite, clutching your pearls because I suggest you take more precautions for the sin of slander, while at the same time acting as if you were Jesus, judging the pope's heart.
what is heretical? Bring proof.
Forgot the pope and follow the teaching of Jesus
And the teachings of Jesus on the Rock?
Is the church finally going woke? Is that what we’re seeing here? I literally feel like I can’t believe my eyes. 😮
My isolation is double. For professional reasons I live in an Orthodox country. There's only one Catholic church where I am and I'm a Catholic, not a follower of the Vatican Council II religion. If I were, if I believed Bergoglio - that all religions lead to God - then I would convert to Orthodoxy. But I refuse to do that. With all due respect (I'm nobody) Bergoglio must change his ideas. Not I.
Synodality? Sin? My path to God has no synodality and no sin! It also has no Pope, so I clearly can ignore the nonsense the Pope spews and still be on a path to God. Isn’t modernism great?!
What an absolute joke. But no one's laughing
_laughing in Greek_
It's a joke that people don't understand a message to children, about religious dialogue, cannot include harsh admonishments about hell. It's not the appropriate thing to say.
Sr Maripola DWM is getting locutions from heaven The Father calls him a Usurper
Fellow the world end up in hell
'repent' from what? sin?
if so, one can't be catholic and 'repent' - it's not allowed. one must live in sin to remain catholic ---- ask me how.
7.05 the Holy Spirit is not the author of confusion so neither should the pope be such a man
Love God and love your neighbou😮r, Every one is your neighbour, the neighbour you've met and the neighbour you've not. Perhaps the sin against Synodality is a refusal of rejection of authoritarianism. Synodality in my view, surely as valid as yours, has nothing to do with introducing an agenda.
Thumbs up only works for Apple computers. I think. 😂
Logo. I dislike that
I mean this in the most reverent and kind way possible.
Is the Pope ok?
Has he been tested for a memory or mental issue lately?
He seems to be confused quite often.
Like (Ice cream Joe) Bidenism you mean?
@@djq9332 yes but JB appears to be further along in it. I’ve watched a lot of my older relatives go from early confusion and mis-speaking and progressively advance to a more debilitating case. Early on, there are often more good days than bad, and it can seem very subtle.
There were many magesterial documents prior to VaticanII that the modernists wish to forget. The syllabus of errors condemned as error the exact word Francis used. And Vatican II wasn't binding on anyone because John XXIII said it wasn't. And 1965 isn't in my opinion Tradition
De Ranking of the papacy is inevitable .......Do... U ....know..... - why?
I thought Aidan Nichols ended up staying with the Dominicans in Oxford.
No he is in the USA now.
T4 but at least the trains run on time (when they aren't hijacked by squirrels).
Not a magisterial proclamation; can be ignored.
Against the non-self-contradictory magisterium. Must be rejected/opposed.
Correct, it is within The Pope's Authoritative Magisterium, which I use rather than Non-Infallbile Ordinary, and while it requires assent of mind and will that the Pope has the authority to have statements about the topics of migrants, environment, etc, it is non-binding and therefore while I will not go to my parish and create Schism, I will just ignore it and pray for Pope Francis.
Coping?
Kyrie eleison ☦️
@@Hope_Boat Nope. What I said is accurate. ✝️
@@PalermoTrapaniwhat do you mean non-binding? If it's stated in an official document as something to be believed, it is binding.
What even is it to be Catholic today ?? Pope Francis as much as said Jesus doesn't matter. Now if it's true that there are many ways to God then fine, but the old joke about the Pope being Catholic ........😵
Time to be orthodox ☦️
You're litterally lying here
Strain the camels not the gnats
I always agree with you, even in minute details. That should be boring enough to stop listening? Were it the case that you were a mouthpeace of the genera opinion of catholics all over, maybe. I could certainly stop listening, and posibly could never have listened in the first place, as there would have been no need for CU, would there? So now I listen and I listen again, because who I am uptil now at the core is what I am confirmed in, in a world which otherwise might make me think slowly I must be mad. Many thanks to you and many prayers for you at CU.
Stupidity!...."who do you think you are this is the pope" this can't be taken seriously ...if you speak this way you need to do some home word....you don't need to be confused seek for truth ..cus we'll soon have it in our faces!
home work. but rather the double speak chameleon way the pope wants love is love everyone is not the way of the hard truth of the Cross of Jesus the Christ.
We don't care about our children or our elderly look at the grooming gangs
Katherine, and I mean this in the nicest way, why do you have two pairs of glasses on?
;)
Your not like me, are you? Running around looking for your glasses only to find you'd forgotten that you'd flipped them and they're resting on your head?
I do that all the time too.
She probably doesn't own bifocals and needs a pair to see close up and one to see far.
Looking forward to the conversation with Dr Larry Chapp. A voice of reason and orthodoxy in confusing times. A far cry from Dr Taylor Marshall.
You've lost me
Well that wasn't hard
hahahaha
Peter was not the first pope
Which bible did your verdict come from?
Well he was Bishop of Antioch
Just join a bible believing church and preach the gospel and and trie to live a godly life
The Catholic Church is a bible believing church. In fact, the Bible wouldn't exist if the Catholic Church hadn't put it together.
There's only One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church so I'm confused by what you want us to take from your comment
So in other words become Orthodox. ☦☦☦
Synodality is not a lot of “rubbish”. It’s how the Church was set up by Christ. It was how the early Church Fathers practiced their faith. There were seven Churches at the outset with the Roman Pontiff the “first among equals”. They were equals. The phrase underscores the idea that the Pope's role is one of leadership and unity, rather than domination or superiority over other bishops.