This was the video I first saw on the Latin Mass. I commented "how on earth did the church abolish such a solemn way of worship"... Months later, I converted back to the true Catholic Church.
Deo gratis 🙌🏿🕊️
Now, ignorance is the major obstacle for many to accept the True Faith as it was handed down by The Apostles of our Lord, Jesus Christ 🙇🏾♂️ 🕊️
#SedeVacante#SayNoToVatican2
Day 9 - Part 3:
6.
Spiritual Survival in Exile
Because we refuse to compromise, many of us will face times when we are completely cut off from a valid priest.
The Lifeline of Perfect Contrition:
If one falls into mortal sin without a valid priest nearby, he is not necessarily trapped. We can always make an act of Perfect Contrition, that is, express sincere sorrow for sin arising entirely from a pure love of God and the hatred of offending Him, coupled with the firm resolution to confess to a true priest when one becomes available. This immediately restores the soul to a state of grace.
Spiritual Communion vs. Sacramental Communion:
When our location prevents us from attending Mass, remember that a fervent, devout Spiritual Communion made even in our home can fill our soul with immense sanctifying grace; a single spiritual communion can merit more grace than a lukewarm sacramental reception of Holy Communion.
7.
Helping Others in Charity: Avoid Bitter Zeal Or Compromise By Silence
In today's crisis, the devil sets two final, subtle traps for traditionalist Catholics:
Bitter Zeal: This happens when we become angry, combative internet theologians who spend many hours arguing. bitterly, mocking others, and judging our neighbours, while completely forgetting how to pray, fast, and show charity.
Let not our preservation of the true Faith make our souls bitter.
Compromise for Comfort By Silence: This happens when we fail to let others know of the global deception of the Novus Ordo Church and act as if we are "mainstream" Catholics out of human respect.
8.
Use Daily Weapons
- The Daily Rosary, the family Rosary
- The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, making the home a domestic monastery. by enthroning the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the true rulers of our household.
- Relentless Prayer for a True Pope
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We close this novena with our eyes wide open to the crisis, but our hearts full of supernatural hope.
We are small in number, but we stand on the shoulders of two thousand years of Saints, Doctors, Popes, and Martyrs.
The modernists have the buildings, but we are the Church, we have the True Faith!
Let us stand firm, confident in the words of Holy Scripture:
"Clamaverunt iusti, et Dominus exaudivit eos: et ex omnibus tribulationibus eorum liberavit eos"
"The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles." (Psalm 33:18).
Our Lady, Destroyer of All Heresies, pray for us!
St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us!
St. Robert Bellarmine, St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, and all the holy men and women of God, pray ye for us! Amen!
Day 9 - Part 2:
2.
Make Sacrifices to Secure Physical Chapels
Because the modernist usurpers have control of our historic cathedrals and parish buildings, the true Church has been driven into the catacombs. Our missionary priests travel massive distances to care for us. It is our duty to support them financially and logistically.
We must make real, painful sacrifices to buy or lease land, and rent or build chapels.
We must establish physical places of worship where the Blessed Sacrament can be securely reserved and adored. If our ancestors in the Faith could build glorious cathedrals out of their poverty, we can certainly sacrifice our luxuries to ensure we have a roof over our altars today.
3.
Relocate for the Sacraments If You Have To
If you live in a spiritual desert far from where traditional Catholic clergy regular visit, do not content yourself with perpetual isolation if it can be helped. Relocate if you have to; the sacrifice is worth it.
Uprooting your life, changing jobs, or moving away from extended family to ensure daily or weekly access to uncompromised Sacraments, a traditional chapel, and a holy community is not radical, but entirely logical when viewed through the lens of eternity.
Your soul, and the souls of your children, must come before career convenience or material comfort. We readily relocate for career, business or marriage and give excuses when it comes to our soul.
4.
Catch Them Young: Guard the Education of Our Children
The modern world, together with the modern counterfeit church, is designed to strip children of their innocence and their faith before they even reach adulthood. We must aggressively protect the minds of our children.
Homeschooling and Traditional Catholic Schools
We must provide our children with an exclusively traditional Catholic education. This means prioritising rigorous Catholic homeschooling or relocating to be near a verified traditional Catholic school.
The Danger of Public and Modernist Schools:
Allowing our children to attend public schools or Novus Ordo schools must be treated as an absolute last resort, permissible only under the gravest, most unavoidable circumstances. Sending a young child to be educated by an atheistic or saecularist state or an apostate parish is like throwing them into a den of lions and hoping they are not devoured.
5.
Live in Immaculate Chastity in a Depraved World
We cannot fight an external battle against heresy if we are losing the internal battle against the flesh.
Living in purity in a profoundly depraved world requires us to embrace the exact means that spiritual writers and saints have unanimously counseled across the centuries:
Strict Custody of the Eyes and Senses:
Let us mortify our senses. Let us guard what enters our mind through screens, media, and literature.
Frequent Flight from Occasions of Sin:
Let us not test our strength against modern immodesty. We flee temptation immediately.
Assiduous Prayer and Fasting:
The spirit is fortified when the flesh is tamed.
Bodily mortification and instant recourse to the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary at the moment a temptation arises are salutary.
We continue with our response to OBJECTORS against the Sedevacantist position particularly @frjamesa, @FriarJ and @UcheMaryOkoli
Day 9 - Part 1: Now, What Next?
We have arrived at the final day of our reflection.
We reviewed the intelligent arguments of the "Objector" by appealing to Catholic dogma, Catholic history, to the true notes of the Church, and to Holy Mother Church’s own sacred Canon Law.
We have shown that Sedevacantism does not lead to a dead end, but is the only position that preserves the indefectibility of the Mystical Body of Christ intact.
But theology without action is dead.
Knowing the truth of our situation requires us to live accordingly.
In this time of unprecedented crisis, what are our absolute duties as traditional Roman Catholics?
How do we survive the fierce onslaught of the devil and ensure that the flame of the true Faith is not extinguished?
Here is our battle plan in this period of exile:
1.
Seek and Attend Only True, Uncompromised Masses
Our very first duty is to flee from the new, banal religion and seek out the true, valid Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
We must look for traditional Catholic clergy who offer the unaltered Roman Rite.
However, we must also exercise extreme vigilance. It is not enough for a priest to simply put on a traditional chasuble and speak Latin. In this time of confusion, we must ensure that the priest is both faithful and validly ordained.
No Dubious Orders:
The 1968 New Rite of episcopal consecration is invalid. We must be absolutely certain that any priest we receive the sacraments from possesses valid ordination from true bishops. Hence we must avoid those who have received ordinations from dubious bishops.
Avoid Unorthodox Collaboration:
We must avoid the Masses of "traditional" priests who continue to retain communion with the Novus Ordo Church in one way or the other. It is sinful to attend a Mass in which the Novus Ordo hierarchy is recognised. For this reason, we should not assist at Masses by the SSPX, or priests who maintain relations with various groups affiliated with the Novus Ordo.
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Mr @sowore is right, with what is happening now. It's time for a revolution.
First, they put Sowore, a strong voice of the people, in prison, now they overrule a court order initially ruling to register NDC as a political party....
The same NDC Mr @PeterObi another strong voice of the people, belongs to.
The incumbents are scared, they know that they can't win their next election with the usual rigging, they have now re-strategized their political grotesque to darn the hopes of millions of Nigerians.
Day 7 - Part 2:
This is a brilliant solution because the Church is a perfect society and must always possess everything she needs for her preservation. To be the Catholic Church, she must at least always be able to elect a pope. Electing a pope may be delayed due to circumstances, but she must always have the power to do so: the Church cannot lose the power to be able to elect the pope.
This is the solution that was employed by the Council of Constance to elect Pope Martin V after 39 years of crisis in the Church.
Now, today, the bishops of the Universal Church are traditional Catholics alone. They have not proceeded to elect a pope yet, because they are not yet all in agreement that they have this power. Disputation and discussion is still ongoing. Let's pray the Holy Ghost guide them as they discuss to come to a unanimous agreement on how to proceed.
Third Possibility To Get The Next Pope
A third solution is actually a hybrid of the two above. And this is it:
The Novus Ordo pope could convert and become a traditional Catholic, and because he is sincere, he will convene a Council to condemn the so-called Second Vatican Council and everything that proceeded from it, and he will ensure by diplomacy and humility that all traditional Catholic bishops and priests accept him as pope. If they unanimously accept him, that would be an indirect election by the same people who have the power to elect the pope, and would thus be a valid election of a true pope.
So you see, quite simply: Sedevacantism does not lead to the end of the Church. Rather, it is the only explanation that preserves all the marks and prerogatives of Holy Mother Church in tact: her unity, her holiness, her catholicity, her apostolicity, her formal and distinct visibility as the one and only true Church of Christ, her infallibility, her indefectibility, and so on!
Now, let us not hesitate to continue to fear that, of a great multitude of men on earth, it was us the Holy Ghost chose to hold this true faith, to remain in the true Church, to continue to be nourished by holy doctrines and valid sacraments!
And with the Prophet Habakkuk, let us exclaim: "Domine, audivi auditum tuum et timui; consideravi opera tua, et expavi," that is, "O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your wondrous works, and I tremble in awe!" (Habakkuk 3:2)
SEE YOU ON DAY 8!
Day 8 - Part 3:
How the Church Stays Fully United Without a Pope
Traditional Catholic groups function as independent entities without a central earthly government in the exact same manner as the universal Church during a vacancy of the Apostolic See.
When the papacy is vacant, the Church’s component parts, its dioceses, vicariates, prefectures, independent missions, and religious orders, all temporarily operate as structurally autonomous units since they are headed by superiors who have no earthly superior other than the pope. While these entities are normally governed immediately by the Roman Pontiff or his designates, their underlying unity of government is completely preserved during an interregnum, when the pope is absent. This is because the Unity of Government of the Church does not require a living ruler to actively issue commands; rather, it dictates that all independent parts remain immutably submissive to the Papacy's permanent laws, established magisterial doctrines, and the office itself, while actively maintaining a theological orientation toward the restoration of the See, awaiting its successor.
How the Church Stays Fully United Without a Pope - Explained for a Little Child
To put it more simply, imagine the Catholic Church is like a giant school, and the Pope is the Principal. Right now, the Principal's office is empty, and there is no one at the very top to give orders.
Because the office is empty, the different classrooms and teachers have to take care of themselves. But even though they are working on their own, they are all still part of the exact same school.
They stay completely united because:
- They follow the same old rules : Every single classroom obeys the rules the Principal wrote down before he left.
- They teach the same lessons : No teacher is allowed to make up new subjects; they all teach the exact same true facts.
- They all want the same boss : Every classroom is praying and waiting for the day a new, true Principal comes back to lead them all again.
Traditional Catholic groups work the exact same way. Even though they are independent right now, they are perfectly joined together because they love the same laws, teach the same truths, and are all waiting for the next Pope.
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Now, let us not hesitate to continue to fear that, of a great multitude of men on earth, it was us the Holy Ghost chose to hold this true faith, to remain in the true Church, to continue to be nourished by holy doctrines and valid sacraments! And with the Prophet Isaiah, we proclaim: "Vere tu es Deus absconditus, Deus Israel, Salvator," that is, "Truly, Thou art a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Saviour," and we add, yet Your wonders fill us with awe! (Isaiah 45:15)
SEE YOU ON DAY 9!
Day 8 - Part 2:
Without doubt, the Novus Ordo Church is not the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church cannot contradict what she has solemnly commanded her children to believe in the past. The Catholic Church cannot command her children to commit mortal sins. The Catholic Church must be one in faith and government, holy, universal to all peoples, times and places, and founded on the same faith of the apostles, exercising the same power they exercised.
We are certain: the Novus Ordo Church is not the Catholic Church. Its members can therefore not hold any office in the Catholic Church.
While the global apostasy was happening, a few Catholic bishops remained faithful to the Catholic Faith and did what they could to ensure the continuation of the true Catholic priesthood and episcopate, the true Catholic Hierarchy. They are the ones that continued the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church with traditional Catholic priests and bishops:
- Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers and former Archbishop of Dakar ordained priests and sent them as missionaries all over the world. He eventually consecrated bishops as well.
- Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc, the Archbishop of Hue Vietnam who was formerly Apostolic Vicar of Vietnam, ordained priests and consecrated bishops to ensure the faithful were not deprived of pastors to care for their souls. He effectively sent out missionary priests and bishops to care for souls.
- Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, the bishop of the diocese of Campos, Brazil, refused to implement the changes, and preserved his diocese as a full traditional Catholic diocese until he died. He joined the Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers to consecrate bishops in 1988. After he died in 1991, the bishop that succeeded him unfortunately sold out to the apostate Vatican, and led the diocese into apostasy.
Traditional Catholic bishops and priests are the legitimate pastors of the faithful designated as such by the remaining faithful members of the Catholic Hierarchy after the apostasy of the Second Vatican Council.
Although there is no pope, and there are neither cardinals nor diocesan bishops, the Church continues visibly among traditional Catholics.
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FATHERS DAY SPECIAL!
We continue with our response to OBJECTORS against the Sedevacantist position particularly @frjamesa, @FriarJ and @UcheMaryOkoli
Day 7 - Part 1: Possibilities surmised from the teachings of Doctors and Theologians on how we can get a True Pope TODAY!
Although we consider that Holy Mother Church remains fully visible with legitimate pastors even if there are no pope, cardinals, and diocesan bishops, how will the Church get a pope again if there are no more cardinals? Let us see three possible explanations.
First Possibility To Get The Next Pope
The Cassiciacum Thesis includes the argument that if the Novus Ordo pope repents and becomes a traditional Catholic, he will automatically become the true pope, since it argues that he has been validly elected to office but lacks authority for the sole reason of not having the habitual intention to procure the good of the Church. Forgive me for repeating that while this is an intelligent explanation, it fails because non-Catholics cannot elect or be elected to any office in the Catholic Church, thus, no Novus Ordo pope has been validly elected.
Then, how do those who reject this Thesis explain how the Church may get a true pope again, given the fact that there are no more cardinals in the Church? There must be a way to get a true pope, because it is Catholic dogma that the papacy shall last till the end of time.
Second Possibility To Get The Next Pope: The more probable manner in which we can get a true pope in my opinion is as follows:
The Church has not made any laws on how a pope may be elected in the absence of cardinals. In the same way, the Church has even still not made any laws on what may be done when there are multiple claimants to the papacy as happened during the Great Western Schism that occurred between the years 1378 and 1417. It was theologians who came up with the possible solutions that could end the schism and crisis in the Church during that time:
- Option 1: Each papal claimant to resign
- Option 2: One papal claimant should give up claim for the other
- Option 3: The papal claimants can be deposed by a General Council.
It was actually a combination of all three options that led to the end of the Great Schism, with the help of divine grace:
- the true Pope Gregory XII resigned willingly!
- the false Pope Benedict XIII remained obstinate and was declared to be a schismatic and deposed
- the Imperfect General Council of Constance nominated 23 cardinals and 30 other clerics who together elected Pope Martin V!
In a similar many, a good number of very reputable theologians, including doctors of the Church like St Robert Bellarmine and St Alphonsus, have explained that if it happened that all cardinals died in some disaster or it became doubtful who the true cardinals were, then the election of the pope would become the right of the clergy of Rome and bishops of the Universal Church.
I repeat, at least two doctors of the Church, and a good number of reputable theologians (Cardinal Billot, Cardinal Cajetan, etc) teach that it is possible for the Church to be without cardinals, and if that happens, the right to elect the pope falls to the clergy of Rome and bishops of the Universal Church.
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We continue with our response to OBJECTORS against the Sedevacantist position particularly @frjamesa, @FriarJ and @UcheMaryOkoli
Day 8 - Part 1: Real life application of all we have discussed so far, as a way of summarising.
On May 8, 2026, one "Cardinal" Robert Francis Prevost was elected as "pope" and he took the name Leo XIV.
What an insult to Pope Leo XIII who reigned for 25 years from 1878 - 1903.
There is no way Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV can be a successor of Pope Leo XIII !!!
But why?
- Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV believes and teaches that all religions contain something good and holy in them, and are thus paths to salvation, contrary to the Catholic dogma that "Outside the Church, there is no salvation."
- Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV believes and teaches that it is wrong to condemn non-Catholics for heresy as if the Catholic Church possesses all truth. He believes all Churches are still learning and should cooperate in saving souls, contrary to the infallibility of the Catholic Church, our Mother and Teacher.
- Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV does not believe in the necessity of matter, form and intention for the validity of sacraments; consequently, he was invalidly ordained a priest, invalidly consecrated a bishop, and every day, he celebrates an invalid Novus Ordo Mass. He also considers, by his actions at least, that the female apostate archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, is a true bishop who should have a fruitful ministry over Christians.
- Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV will not condemn homosexuals, nor condemn unions between homosexuals blessed by Novus Ordo priests, because he believes all Christians should be accommodative of one another in "love," but by "love," he means the "love" that turns a blind eye to grave sin and lets the soul of a brother die and be damned forever.
In short, Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV is a member of the non-Catholic heretical and apostate Church, the Novus Ordo Church, which teaches several heretical doctrines and enforces several mortal sins with its laws such as:
- Christ uses non-Catholic Churches as means of salvation?
- Everyone has a right to practise whatever religion they please, and every religion should be allowed to be freely practised in public?
- The pope alone is not the supreme pastor of the Church, but the college of bishops too possess supreme power?
- The true Church of Christ is not just the Catholic Church, but includes other non-Catholic Churches?
- Catholics and non-Catholics can freely participate in religious worship without sin?
- Catholic priests can give the sacraments to non-Catholics whenever non-Catholics want it and their own ministers are not available?
- Catholic couples must consider mutual companionship as a primary end of marriage, as primary as the procreation and education of children?
No, Robert Prevost who pretends to be "Pope" Leo XIV is not a Catholic. And a non-Catholic cannot be head of the Catholic Church. Period.
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Thank you so much, dear Father, @frjamesa for engaging.
Please can you kindly oblige and provide a response to these two questions?
#1
What does indefectibility guarantee? Why is it necessary for Christ to prevent the gates of hell from prevailing against the Catholic Church He founded? Why does He need to keep it visible, hierarchical and continuous?
#2
You wrote:
"The crisis in the Church is real. The confusion is real. The need for fidelity to Tradition is real."
Please can you highlight what crisis you refer to?
Day 6 - Part 2: But we must highlight:
Although the "Objector" claims that "in Catholic ecclesiology, a legal election universally accepted by the Church creates a real, absolute status," this is not Catholic doctrine but the opinion of many reputable theologians. There are other reputable theologians who can be cited who deny this. Like on the heretical pope question, the "Objector" should not elevate a mere opinion, however true and defensible, to the level of Catholic doctrine.
The Cassiciacum Thesis does not teach that a man is "half-pope." It only teaches that a man previously validly elected pope, remains or becomes a mere pope elect, and does not become pope, until he habitually intends to procure the good of the Church.
Even if one is validly elected pope and obtains a "real and absolute status," this status can be lost. That is the whole reason for the discussion around the pope who falls into heresy. Consequently, universal and peaceful acceptance of a pope does not preclude that he stops being pope after some time because he has became a notorious heretic.
In summary, the "Objector" insists that like Pope Alexander VI, the Church has historically had profoundly wicked and morally corrupt popes whose personal flaws or flawed pastoral ideas did not strip them of their legal, formal office.
This is correct, but is beside the point. The problem is that the Church has historically NEVERY EVER had any HERETIC as pope. Many theologians, including Doctors of the Church, ARE CERTAIN, that a manifest heretic loses his office AUTOMATICALLY once he becomes a manifest heretic, like Robert Prevost is.
At some point, it will be good to confirm that the "Objector" knows what heresy is, acknowledges that several heresies, not mere flaws, are being taught and imposed by Vatican officials, and explains how this can be reconciled with the infallibility of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, our Mother and Teacher.
The "Objector" insists "sedevacantism is a dead-end because it does not provide the means whereby we can once again get a True Pope, since according to their system there are no cardinals. Therefore it is a wrong conclusion."
On Day 7, we will review the various possibilities on how the Church may get the next true pope in spite of the crisis she faces today: sedevacantism does not lead to a dead-end.
SEE YOU ON DAY 7!
We continue with our response to OBJECTORS against the Sedevacantist position particularly @frjamesa, @FriarJ and @UcheMaryOkoli
Day 6 - Part 1: Cassiciacum Thesis - solid principles misapplied!
To the credit of the "Objector" the core argument of what is called the "Cassiciacum Thesis" is fairly presented thus:
"They argue that modern popes sit on the physical throne (materially) but lack the divine authority to rule (formally) because they lack the proper intention to promote the Catholic faith."
While he states it in a way that is fair, his statements betray a misunderstanding of the Thesis. The Cassiciacum Thesis was proposed by a foremost theologian of the 20th century, Fr Guerard des Lauriers, who later became a traditional Catholic bishop. He was a professor at the Pontifical University in Rome for a long time before the so-called Second Vatican Council, and was fired for rejecting the changes of Vatican II. He was one of the theologians involved in the formulation of the text of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary defined in 1950. The Thesis is also defended by several rectors of tractional Catholic seminaries, bishops and priests. So, it should not be dismissed as something dreamed up by ignorant men.
There are two separate parts of the Cassiciacum Thesis. The first part of the Cassiciacum Thesis establishes that papal authority is a relation between the pope and the visible Church over which he is constituted as head, and this relation has only one possible essential foundation: the habitual intention of the pope to procure the good end of the Church. Where this intention is definitely absent, there cannot be papal authority. Nevertheless, just as a man can be elected as pope without him having authority yet, like when he has not yet been informed to accept and become pope, in the same way, someone designated pope could verbally accept without having this habitual intention to procure the good end of the Church, and would thus have invalidly accepted, and not obtain the authority.
And given the fact that the post-Vatican II "popes" have promulgated heresies since the so-called Second Vatican Council, and universally imposed the evil Novus Ordo liturgy and imposed so many evil laws founded on the heresies, it is certain that they do not have the habitual intention to procure the good end of the Church, and thus, do not possess papal authority. This part of the Thesis is so brilliant, that once you understand it, you can not help admiring the intelligence of its author.
The second part of the Cassiciacum Thesis argues that since the post-Vatican II "popes" have been validly elected by cardinals, starting from Paul VI, even if they do not have papal authority, they still retain their designation as pope-elect, and remain so, until the cardinals elect someone else. Thus, these post-Vatican II papal claimants remain like "pope elects" even if they act as if they are true popes. To support this argument, the Cassiciacum Thesis argues that those who have been appointed cardinals by these false popes are not true cardinals, but they still possess the title to become cardinals, and this title makes them able to validly act as cardinals in electing the pope, by supplied jurisdiction.
Many intelligent and pious bishops propose this Thesis. Our own Bp Nkamuke and priests actually reject this Thesis.
The argument against this second part of the Thesis can be made very simply: The Novus Ordo Church is a non-Catholic sect. Its members labour under juridical infamy. Consequently, they can in no way obtain any title to any office in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Yes, that is absolutely correct, and also the Novus Ordo "priest" too (Don't have the power to turn bread and wine into the Most Precious Body and Blood of Jesus Christ 🙇🏾♂️🕊️). Obviously, that's where you attend "mass".
No protestant pastor on earth, has the power to change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
Only a Catholic priest is bestowed with such power.
Catholicism is true.