At ABE Ministry, we amateur cultural anthropologists are always keenly aware of any pustules suddenly erupting on the face of American Tradition and nothing says American Tradition like sex and violence and so when we discovered this novel ritual we felt obliged to post it as perhaps the pluperfect example of the quintessential American Engagement Ritual realised in all of its puissant beauty as the Bambi butcher becomes betrothed in a baptism of bullets and blood.
Ancient Statues and bas-reliefs were toppled down by bearded men who then proceeded to destroy them by using jackhammers. This is the latest video released by ISIS in Mosul. It is the continuation of a campaign against remnants of the past. Islamic State militants (i.e., the Faithful Mahometans) have been blowing up places of worship, feeding flames with books taken from libraries, and destroying a part of Nineveh’s city walls, the ancient Assyrian capital in the outskirts of present-day Mosul. These images, spread by a Twitter account used by the Caliphate, show the methodical destruction perpetrated in the rooms of what looks like a museum in Mosul. During the five-minute long video, we notice museum labels in Arabic and English describing exhibited artefacts. It is because of this that we have recorded the comments of Mons. Luigi Negri, the Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio. http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/03/abp-luigi-negri-western-civilization-is.html
Nostra Aetate 3. The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. ( They consider Him ignorant as their actions show) They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life (This is simply an embarrassing claim as their actions illustrate) and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Since in the course of centuries not a few quarrels and hostilities have arisen between Christians and Moslems, this sacred synod urges all to forget the past (OK, we forget the past while they literally are destroying the past)and to work sincerely for mutual understanding and to preserve as well as to promote together for the benefit of all mankind social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom.
When will our Hierarchy wake-up and smell the myrrh for of what use are protests against a false religion whose violent consequences flow from it as naturally as rain falls upon the just and the unjust? THIS IS WHAT MAHOMETANS DO!!! Birds gotta fly Fish gotta swim Mahometans gotta destroy or subjugate ALL that is contrary to their insane and violent, false religion
The "Professio fidei Tridentina", also known as the "Creed of Pope Pius IV", is one of the four authoritative Creeds of the Catholic Church. It was issued on November 13, 1565 by Pope Pius IV in his bull "Iniunctum nobis" under the auspices of the Council of Trent (1545 - 1563). It was subsequently modified slightly after the First Vatican Council (1869 - 1870) to bring it inline with the dogmatic definitions of the Council. The major intent of the Creed was to clearly define the Catholic faith against Protestantism. At one time it was used by Theologians as an oath of loyalty to the Church and to reconcile converts to the Church, but it is rarely used these days.
I, N, with a firm faith believe and profess each and everything which is contained in the Creed which the Holy Roman Church maketh use of. To wit:
I believe in one God, The Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God. Born of the Father before all ages. God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God. Begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father. By whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And became incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary: and was made man. He was also crucified for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was buried. And on the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and His kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceeds from the Father and the Son. Who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, and who spoke through the prophets. And one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Apostolic and Ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances and constitutions of that same Church I firmly admit to and embrace.
I also accept the Holy Scripture according to that sense which holy mother the Church hath held, and doth hold, and to whom it belongeth to judge the true sense and interpretations of the Scriptures. Neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
I also profess that there are truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not all are necessary for everyone; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the accepted and approved ceremonies of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of the aforesaid sacraments.
I embrace and accept each and everything which has been defined and declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning original sin and justification.
I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially, the Body and Blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that a conversion takes place of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation. I also confess that under either species alone Christ is received whole and entire, and a true sacrament.
I steadfastly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. Likewise, that the saints, reigning together with Christ, are to be honored and invoked, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated. I most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the Mother of God, ever virgin, and also of other Saints, ought to be kept and retained, and that due honor and veneration is to be given them.
I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.
I acknowledge the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church as the mother and teacher of all churches; and I promise true obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ.
I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred Canons, and general Councils, and particularly by the holy Council of Trent, and by the ecumenical Council of the Vatican, particularly concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching. I condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies which the Church hath condemned, rejected, and anathematized.
This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which I now freely profess and to which I truly adhere, I do so profess and swear to maintain inviolate and with firm constancy with the help of God until the last breath of life. And I shall strive, as far as possible, that this same faith shall be held, taught, and professed by all those over whom I have charge. I N. do so pledge, promise, and swear, so help me God and these Holy Gospels of God.
We at ABE Ministry have long been convinced that the treatment of scandalin the universal catechism is one proximate cause of the collapse of the Roman Catholic Church. So, let's jump right in with a critique * of the Catechism Raider Fan wrote a long time ago.
The Catholic Catechism gives scandal and
The Catechism requires a rewrite. Read what it teaches about Scandal: 2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.
2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."[85] Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches thescribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep's clothing.[86]
2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion. Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible."[87] This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children to anger,[88] or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away frommoral values.
2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged. "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!"[89] And then read what it teaches about Jesus and Scandal: 587 If the Law and the Jerusalem Temple could be occasions of opposition to Jesus by Israel's religious authorities, his role in the redemption of sins, the divine work par excellence, was the true stumbling-block for them.363
588 Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves.364 Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."365 He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, those who pretend not to need salvation are blind to themselves.366
589 Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them.367 He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet.368 But it was most especially by forgiving sins that Jesus placed the religious authorities ofIsrael on the horns of a dilemma. Were they not entitled to demand in consternation, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?"369 By forgiving sins Jesus either is blaspheming as a man who made himself God's equal, or is speaking the truth and his person really does make present and reveal God's name.370 Objectively, the Catechism is teaching that it is always wrong to give scandal while at the same time teaching that Jesus gave scandal; that is, objectively, the Catholic Catechism teaches that Jesus was wrong in His actions. Of course the Catholic Church does not believe that Jesus sinned (does it?) but, at least to Raider Fan, it has gravely erred and given grave scandal by emphasising that Jesus GAVE scandal (twice) rather than that it was the case that Jews took scandal. Objectively, the CCC teaches that Jesus sinned, unless the author/editor of the Catechism was Humpty Dumpty who has his own meanings for the words he used.
How was it possible that this escaped the notice of the editors? It hit Raider Fan like a punch in the stomach the first time he read it and he, literally, threw the Catechism across the room onto the floor and shrouded it in vulgar invective. Either the entries on scandal must be expanded to include an explication of the specific types of scandal – direct and indirect… Or – far better Rewrite the entries about Jesus “giving scandal”: to make it crystal clear it was the Jews who took scandal. Jesus was not about giving scandal. Mat 17:26 But that we may not scandalize them… Matt 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?
My Rheims Testament notes:It must be observed here, that Christ was not the direct cause of scandal to the Jews, for such scandal would not be allowable; he only caused it indirectly, because it was his doctrine, at which, through their own perversity, they took scandal. The Catechism entries on this subject must be rewritten. I have thought this way since 1997 when I first read these entries. When it comes to Jesus and Scandal, The Catholic Catechism with its New Theology (modernism) scandalises me.
In the entire history of Holy Mother Church, The ONLY PERSON the Catholic teaches who gave scandal is the Divine Person; Jesus, Our Lord and Saviour. He is the sole person singled-out for such identification.
Now, ask your own self, would you speak publicly about your wife in that manner even if she had done something wrong; would you publicly identify her as one who gave scandal?
Of course you wouldn't - not if you loved her.
And, if you were haughty and foolish enough to do such a thing, how do you imagine she would react?
Keep that in mind....
Since the revolution within the form of Catholicism at Vatican Two, it is crystal clear that as an institution, Holy Mother Church has come to love man more than Jesus Christ and that can be seen in her actions and doctrines.
Let's begin with actions and the holiest and most important action ever taking place on earth at any time, The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass; The Real Mass, well, it used to be The Real Mass until the modernist revolutionaries reformed it by killing it and replacing it with The Lil' Licit Liturgy.
The Lil' Licit Liturgy is an action that has reduced to almost invisibility the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the presence of Jesus as both Priest and Victim while at the same time it has magnified the presence of the laity who roam about the sanctuary, man and woman alike, as Jesus (Where is the Tabernacle in your Parish?) in the person of the Priest, sits on a chair watching the laity perform actions once exclusively his.
That is, we decided that He had to decrease while we had to increase.
That is a simple observable reality and that can not be argued or gainsaid.
And, finally, the worst insult imaginable by the Catholic Church - publicly teaching that he is a sinner.
Yes, Virginia, if words mean anything that is exactly what Holy Mother Church has done. Go on, go back and read the entires produced above.
Now, even though me and thee are not Jesus, does it not seem spiritually logical that He would withdraw His Grace from His Church - obviously not completely as then it would fail and disappear - as just punishment for such execrable entires?
It makes spiritual sense to we at ABE Ministry.
As just punishment for the crimes of the destruction The Roman Rite (Real Mass) Jesus has withdrawn much of His Grace from His Catholic Church and it will begin to flow as abundantly as it did before only when the Lil' Licit Liturgy is destroyed and the Real Mass is restored.
AND, the Catechism must be corrected or the Catholic collapse will not only continue but will increase in intensity and speed because within the Hierarchy there is not one man possessing Tradition with enough power force that it could be applied against our Inertia Into Indifferentism.
* Raider Fan's Bishop, Bishop Gerald Barbarito (Palm Beach Diocese Florida) is in agreement with the catechism according to his secretary and Raider Fan has sent both an electronic and hard copy of his critique to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith but never expected any response and his expectations were met.
