Far less than meets the eye

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Ecumenism is the Universal Solvent of Tradition .

The Martin Luther Mall (Always open. Always free).

There are plans for Pope Francis to go to Lund, Sweden this October to bless the protestant revolution and try to bathe in glory the Heresiarch.

This Mall will remain open so that men may intellectually shop here at any time and pick-up what they require to protect their own selves against this most ill-advised progressive project.












Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange O.P. The Three Ages of Interior Life

At the beginning of a treatise on the interior life, it is important to get a high idea of sanctifying grace; Protestantism, following several nominalists of the fourteenth century, has lost the conception of it. In Luther's opinion, man is justified not by a new infused life, but by the exterior imputation of the merits of Christ, in such a way that he is not interiorly changed and that it is not necessary for his salvation that he observe the precept of the love of God above all else. Such an opinion is a radical misconception of the interior life spoken of in the Gospel. This lamentable doctrine was prepared by that of the nominalists, who said that grace is a gift which is not essentially supernatural, but which morally gives a right to eternal life, like paper money which, though only paper, gives a right, by reason of a legal institution, to receive money. This doctrine constituted the negation of the essentially supernatural life; it was a failure to recognize the very essence of grace and of the theological virtues.