The sad thing is this meme is accurate.
Imagine how many neighborhoods don’t have little children playing outside and making friends right now because of abortion and contraception…
@IurisAugustinus@BreeSolstad I agree, except we must distinguish between “toleration” and “promotion”. We can tolerate the sinful rights of the Jewish faith, but we should not promote and encourage them to remain in their sinful practices. Rather, we should recognize and promote their fulfillment in Christ
@IurisAugustinus@BreeSolstad St Thomas is talking about wars and physically compelling them to believe. In the same Article he says: “Our Lord says this so as to forbid the slaying of men. For it is not right to slay heretics, because if you do you will necessarily slay many innocent persons”
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@Jova_38 Playing a metroidvania and coming across a cross road so you pick the path you think is the optional one but you realize it's getting a bit too long so you start thinking it's the main one so you go back to the crossroad tot try the other one.
After a long period of discernment I am leaving Eastern Orthodoxy for Rome on the basis on primarily Saint Celestine and Saint Agatho alongside a long plethora of witnesses to the papacy
I love all of you my brothers and sisters I’m sorry things have to end with my departure from you all and the unity we shared
I am grieved and have been grieving the reality of this for awhile forgive me all of you
May Saint Theodore the studite pray for us
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> I witness now before God and men, they have torn themselves away from the Body of Christ,** from the supreme see (τοῦ κορυϕαἲκοῦ θρόνου) [See of Rome], in which Christ placed the keys of the faith, against which the gates of hell (I mean the mouths of heretics) have not prevailed, and never will until the consummation, according to the promise of Him who cannot lie.** Let the most blessed and apostolic [Pope] Paschal rejoice therefore, for he has fulfilled the work of Peter.
`St. Theodore the Studite of Constantinople to Naucratius, [PG 99.1281, in The First Eight General Councils and Papal Infallibility, by Chapman, 76n3, 817 AD]`
There are plenty of Sundays (especially with young children) where Catholics don’t really feel like going to Mass. Many can attest to this fact.
Many can also attest to the fact that there would be many unnecessary absences from Mass in life as a Catholic if there wasn’t such a thing as the Sunday Obligation.
This is exactly why the Church must have authority to command religious acts as binding on conscience. We are both stupid (cannot understand our obligations to God) and evil (often don’t desire to carry out our obligations to God).
Therefore, God has established a religious society, guided by the Holy Spirit, that is able to command us to carry out certain acts on pain of sin. Otherwise, it would be (morally) impossible for us to understand and carry out what we owe to God in acts of worship. This is why law exists in the first place, to be able to particularize general obligations that we wouldn’t particularize ourselves.
The Sunday Obligation preserves us from mortally sinning against God by ignoring our obligations to Him. It isn’t something that induces us to mortal sin. It is a (morally) necessary means to keep us from mortal sin.
This isn’t even something that requires Divine Revelation for us to know, it is already obvious by natural reason.
SSPX errors against Catholic faith:
-(1) They reject, by word and by deed, the penal efficacy of unjust excommunications. This cant be excused by appealing to alleged deficiencies in the CDF declaration, since they *preemptively announced during the consecrations* that *any censure* would have *no value.* That is precisely the logic that Clement XI and Pius IX expressly condemned because it would necessarily lead to ecclesial anarchy. Every heretic and schismatic is unjustly persecuted in his own eyes. Every heretic and schismatic perceives it as a crisis that the Church has condemned his errors.
-(2) They reject, by word and by deed, the supreme juridical authority of the Pope. They have reduced “The First See is judged by no one” to an empty formula. It is manifestly evident that they have relativized it in a way that robs it of its practical value in avoiding schism - the raison d’etre for the principle - and that is totally foreign to the understanding and praxis of the Church throughout its history.
-(3) They reject, in many and diverse ways, the indefectability of the Church. They teach that Roman Pontiffs and the overwhelming majority of the Church’s legitimate pastors have been “animated by a spirit contrary to the faith” for decades and that they have habitually abused their power to “kill everything” they touch - including the “sources of grace.” If their parallel ‘Church’ - which even they concede has not received jurisdiction in a visible, public, recognizable way - is the only part of the Church that gives life rather than death to its members, then the Church’s perennial teaching on indefectability cant be maintained.
-(4) They reject, in many and diverse ways, the disciplinary infallibility of the Church. They allege that a universally promulgated Mass is morally unsafe and positively harmful to souls. They reject the infallibility of the new canonizations using desperate and ad hoc reasoning - it is clear they only hold this position because they detest that the conciliar popes were canonized. But for their unwillingness to put effort into charitably interpreting a few ambigious texts in the Second Vatican Council in harmony with Tradition, I’m 100% certain all these guys would have agknowledged that the theological evidence against these positions is univocal and overwhelming.
-(5) They implicitly reject the perpetuity of the essential marks of the Church. They allege a dichotomous opposition between the “Catholic Church” and the institution they smear as the “modernist Church.” However, they claim to be in communion with and have (disingenuously) sworn obedience to a visible hierarchy that they believe to have been coopted by this “modernist Church.” Thus, they effectively deny that the visible, institutional Church pre-eminently and recognizably possesses unity, holiness, and apostolicity in the present age.
Each of these errors, taken individually, is far more serious than the doctrinal errors they allege concerning religious liberty or ecumenism in non-infallible teachings would be (especially if you set aside the extremely uncharitable hermeneutic thet they employ). Taken collectively, they amount to a wholesale rejection of Catholic ecclesiology by utterly trivializing all of the promises Christ made to his Church and robbing the Church of the practical authority and credibility that are necessary for its mission.