@JamesDueck Satanic groups, both theistic and symbolic, most consistently target Catholicism. Their central ritual, the Black Mass, is a direct parody of the Catholic Mass that seeks and desecrates consecrated Hosts. No equivalent focus appears on other faiths or Protestant rites.
🚨 NEW: U.S. Catholic bishops are launching a nationwide campaign against abortion pills.
The USCCB is calling on Catholics to pray and advocate against the growing availability of abortion pills to curb chemical abortion in the post-Dobbs era.
how about we all realize none of this actually matters at the end of time but this is just poison sprinkled by the devil to get people fighting? just a distraction to take our eyes off the prize of Jesus Christ as King. God loves everyone equally and wants to save all. This whole division based on color or political party is a TRAP YA’LL
“In order to be a faithful Catholic one must not only submit to the teachings of the Church, but also, not demand uniformity where the Church allows diversity of opinion or custom.”
- Matt Fradd
#Jesus#catholic#church#dogma#trad
I am deeply grateful to the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, for appointing me as a member of the Supreme Apostolic Signatura. I receive this responsibility with a profound sense of stewardship, recognizing that every office in the Church is entrusted for the service of Christ, His people, and the mission of the Gospel.
As we commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Transitus of our patron, St. Francis of Assisi, I pray that his example of humble fidelity to Christ and joyful service to others will continue to shape my ministry.
Please join me in praying for Pope Leo XIV, for the Church throughout the world, and that I may fulfill this responsibility with wisdom, charity and a generous heart.
I like these “Protestant” posts from the perception of the Bible being all we need when compared to the secular world, other religions, etc., but the issue is it’s not entirely true to Mr. Casey’s point. Everything in the Bible is of course true, but not all truth is contained in the Bible. Paul speaks of creation absolutely. Aquinas says we can all come to a knowledge of God’s existence through natural law.
Christ founded the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church does not replace Christ.
The Catholic Church is just the way Jesus himself chose to set everything up.
"We have no record of a pope for 100 years after Peter died."
Tell that to St. Irenaeus.
Sure, nobody in the first century was issuing press releases for each new pontiff. But by A.D. 180, St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, writing about a church 600 miles from his own, names every man who'd held Peter's chair, in order (Against Heresies, Book 3, chapter 3):
Linus
Cletus
Clement
Evaristus
Alexander
Sixtus
Telesphorus
Hyginus
Pius
Anicetus
Soter
Eleutherius
Irenaeus is writing 114 years after the apostles died. That's about the same length of time separating us from the Ford Model T. Try telling people the Model T came with a CD player and see how fast someone's grandmother corrects you. If the papacy were actually a late invention, Irenaeus's own readers (and the Gnostics who despised him) would've laughed him off the page.
"Peter also never served as supreme pontiff in Rome."
Peter signs off his own letter "from Babylon" (1 Pet. 5:13), which was the early Church's nickname for Rome under persecution.
Clement of Rome (named above), writing around A.D. 96, references Peter's martyrdom as something that happened "in our own generation." (1 Clement, chapter 5). That's living memory.
In his Letter to the Romans (A.D. 110), Ignatius of Antioch remarked that he could not command the Roman Christians the way Peter and Paul once did; such a comment makes sense only if Peter had been a leader, if not the leader, of the church in Rome.
And in 1968, archaeologists confirmed what Christians had claimed for 1,900 years: Peter's bones, beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, in a tomb first-century believers had already marked as his. Historian Eamon Duffy calls this shrine "overwhelming evidence of a very early Roman belief that Peter had died in or near the Vatican Circus" (Saints and Sinners, p. 8).
"The Church was born in Jerusalem."
True! And Jerusalem had a single bishop too, James. "One city, one shepherd" was the pattern everywhere, including the mother church.
Peter's authority was never competing with Christ's. It's just the way he set it up.
"You're a rockstar, man."
"You've been a huge help for me as I've come into the Church."
"Behold Your Mother is the best Marian theology book I've read."
Happy retirement, Tim ❤️