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Who's running our country? It's certainly not the shambling meat puppet Joe Biden, a mere shell of the venal, mediocre hack that he once was — like the ruins of some gutted Waffle House in a Mad Max-style hellscape. I've speculated here that it's a high-level cabal, even calling it the Secret Committee Formerly Known As Joe Biden (SCFKAJB — pronounce it if you can).
I think those composing it are probably members of the deep state conspiracy that moved in late 2020 to fool the American public about the Hunter Biden laptop. These ex-government employees, still enriched by high-level security clearances, wielded their pristine elite credentials to certify a lie about "Russian disinformation." Go read the names of these entitled traitors here. Each one of them is as guilty as Alger Hiss or the Rosenbergs. Note carefully how many of them were appointed by members of the Bush royal family.
The Hive Is Stuck in Scorched Earth Mode
I'm not sure which of these Hive members are in charge of what in the "Biden" White House. Perhaps one decides which outrageous executive order to sign, and another which Third World hellhole to tap for the next wave of replacements for U.S. voters. But they're flailing. They spent the four Trump years in purest "sabotage" mode, generating chaos and disrupting the function of government. Tanking the economy and promoting a virus panic.
The Vortex: How It Happened
In other words, the kind of mischief the CIA gets up to when it wants to destabilize a regime as a prelude to a "color revolution." That is, a U.S.-backed coup. When you impose economic sanctions and throw sand in the gears of a government, a key part of what you're doing is punishing the citizens for supporting that regime. You're trying to make them feel the pain till they blame their own leaders and would welcome a replacement, if only to stop the torture.
Our Fumbling, Disloyal Elites
After four years of criminal treason, these elites seem to have forgotten the actual business of governing. They're stuck in "scorched earth mode," I guess. Because the pain just keeps on coming, from Kabul to Del Rio.
Key to these elites holding on to power is controlling information. They showed they knew how to do that when they bombarded once-legitimate news sources with outrageous, cooked-up lies of the Russia collusion hoax. Then again, when they suppressed the all-too-real revelations of Biden family corruption and links to Chinese spies.
Key to these elites holding on to power is controlling information.GabTweet
So it's our job, however we can, to keep truthful information flowing. To that end, instead of commenting at length myself today, I want to point you to a key resource that Yahoo or Fox won't show you. In fact, this is a voice that The Hive is eager to stifle and silence.
We need more articles like the one above to remind us all that we are not alone in this madness and that our votes were stolen, giving us the worst president this country has ever had. I didn't think I would ever say that after eight years of Obama and his sexual revolution, but now we are strapped with a puffed up mediocre politician who spent fifty years accomplishing nothing more than promoting Obama's sick policies. A senile old fool who thinks he's God and has decided to diminish his own race verbally and physically by opening our borders to every person who has a hue to their complexion despite their crimes or violent nature. May God have mercy on us!
The whole World knows that the U.S 2020 election was fraudulent. Especially our enemies. Even the present "ape" Catholic Church knows it, yet they still support the dem party of death and destruction of America.
What can we do Mike? I have written my republican rep in northern Minnesota "Pete Stauber" , but he's a cowardly RINO. We lose are Mass of the Ages, and even are Bishop's like Barron, Cupich and Dolan voted for this crummy president. Good heavens.
people who live outside the US know more about what is going on in your great nation than people in the US that rely solely on the US MSN for their news, the left in the US hold sway over the vast majority of your news, and peddle their own agenda in an incredibly biased way, they would not get away with such shenanigans in any other western democratic country
Most Leftists I know have minds that are completely muddled. Whether they started out that way or they became that way via lying Commie MSM, I do not know. But that way, they are.
Last week, we made it halfway through the four marks of the Catholic Church — the marks that reflect Her Founder is Jesus Christ, God Himself. Now we'll finish with the final two marks: (1) "catholic" and (2) "apostolic."
Catholicity
Catholic means "universal." That is to say, the Church is for all men of all times in all places. Because our Church alone is universal in time, doctrine and extent, she has existed in perfect continuity from the time of Christ and will last until His Second Coming. She alone teaches all His gospel while administering all His divine means of salvation. She is not confined to any particular region or nation but is widespread among all the nations of the world. The word catholic doesn't denote a quality. One can't be Anglo or liberal catholic; one cannot be more or less catholic. One is either catholic or not.
Eastern Orthodoxy isn't catholic in terms of time, as they've existed only since the 11th century with the Great Schism. The attribute "catholic" doesn't apply to Protestant sects because they date from the 16th (Lutherans and Anglicans), 17th (Baptists), 18th (Methodists) or the 19th centuries (Disciples of Christ/Church of Christ). These sects aren't catholic in faith because they've broken away from the center of unity — the Holy See of the Catholic Church — and deny many of Christ's laws and doctrines. They're not catholic in extent, as, from the beginning of their secession, they've identified themselves with some particular nation — Germany, Scandinavian countries, England, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece, et cetera.
Mere profession of a creed doesn't render one catholic (many Christian denominations do indeed use the Apostles' Creed) because the different separatist sects read their own peculiar opinions into it. A smattering of different groups around the world does not a "catholic" church make. Catholicity, embodied by the Catholic Church, implies a divine unity of government, faith and worship.
St. Cyril
The early Church Fathers, writing in the first four centuries, frequently announce the catholicity of the Church. They consistently tell us the Church is catholic because she is spread over the entire known world and teaches everywhere "universally and completely all the doctrines which ought to come to men's knowledge" (St. Cyril, Catechesis, 18:23). Verify this for yourself by reading, online or at a good library, what was written by Irenaeus, Origen, Optatus and Augustine.
The Catholic Church is catholic in time because, while we can accurately fix the date of every heresy and schism, no one can assign any date to Her origin except the day of Pentecost. The Catholic Church is catholic in extent, transcending any one sect; in fact, she is greater than all of them put together. Mere numbers, of course, are not the essence of catholicity, but the Church's de facto numerical superiority points to Her de jure catholicity — Her universal divine commission to spread the One Faith among all nations.
Apostolicity
For an institution to be apostolic, it must be able to trace its roots in unbroken succession back to the original Apostles. In fact, before giving His divine commission to the Apostles, Christ referenced His divine commission from His Father: "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you" (John 20:21).
The only Christian institution that can rightly claim an origin free of rupture with the past is the Catholic Church. The European Protestants broke with apostolic succession at the time of Martin Luther's revolt (1517–1520), and the English Protestants (1559) did likewise when King Henry VIII made Thomas Cranmer the first Protestant bishop of Canterbury. Since then, we've seen what amounts to religious entropy.
When early Catholics wished to proffer a most convincing argument for the legitimacy of the Church, they invariably appealed to Her apostolic origin. We find these Christians compiling lists of legitimate bishops, especially with regard to the Apostolic See of Rome. As early as the second century, we find the Syrian Hegesippus and the Greek Irenaeus (bishop of Lyons) maintaining that the source and standard of the Faith is the apostolic Tradition, handed down in an unbroken succession of bishops. Irenaeus writes:
But since it would be very long in such a volume as this to count up the successions [i.e., series of bishops] in all the churches [called "dioceses" today], we confound those who in any way, whether through self-pleasing or vainglory, or through blindness or evil opinion, gather together otherwise than they ought, by pointing out the tradition arrived from the Apostles of the greatest, most ancient and universally known Church, founded and established by the two most glorious Apostles, Peter and Paul, and also the Faith declared to men, which, through the succession of bishops, comes down to our times" (Adversus Haereses, 3:3).
When early Catholics wished to proffer a convincing argument for the Church, they appealed to Her apostolic origin.GabTweet
It's true that other churches make a claim to apostolicity, but their claims are always erroneous and sometimes even preposterous. For example, several members of the Church of Christ, when defending their "apostolic" origins, have stated to me their name proves their origin. What? That might work for someone who is incapable of logic and right reason, but most of us find that sort of argument ludicrous.
A book could be written on this topic alone; indeed, many books have been written on the topic of apostolicity. I urge you to study the topic, as the Catholic Church can veritably trace Her roots back to the Apostles and, thus, to Jesus Christ Himself.
Got questions? Address them to Joe@CantankerousCatholic.com.
An informative article, well written and worth reading. A sad state of affairs is the realization of what the church has now become and what it used to be.
The Roman Catechism explains the first mark as unity: “The faith which all are bound to believe and to profess is one.”
Pope Pius XI declared in Mortalium Animos #10: “For since the mystical body of Christ, in the same manner as His physical body, is one, compacted and fitly joined together, it were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head.”
To the contrary, The Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by John Paul II echoes Vatican 2 on the mystery of the Church:
This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic, (12*) which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, (74) and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, (75) which He erected for all ages as “the pillar and mainstay of the truth”. (76) This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, (13*) although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward catholic unity. (LG ch 1)
If the one Church, constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in (subsistit in) the Catholic Church, then the one Church must necessarily be more than the Catholic Church.
However, Pope Pius XII repeatedly taught that “the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing.” (Mystici Corporis Christi, 1943, Humani Generis, #27, 1950.)
Vatican 2’s explanation is in line with the Protestant understanding of the profession of the Creed insofar as its teaching consists of a visibly divided Church unified in spirit only. It denies the mark of oneness as taught by the Roman Catechism and the popes and councils before the 1960’s.
Article by Steven Speray Dec. 21 2014 found on his website
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