Quote:The death of Theodore McCarrick, whose horrendous crimes & perversions I have denounced since 2006 & whom I have also publicly called to repentance & conversion, leaves behind dozens, hundreds of victims to whom neither the canonical nor civil courts have ever accorded justice.

Quote:They still remain in power, in America & in the Vatican, those whom McCarrick shamelessly called ‘my nephews,’ promoted to the episcopate & cardinalate, as corrupt & blackmailable as himself.

He remains unpunished on the Throne of Peter the usurper of the Papacy, who owes his election to McCarrick. Remains rampant the plague of sodomy, the main cause of moral decay & corruption in the ecclesiastical Hierarchy.

Quote:If the mission of the Church depends on rolling over innocent victims of its perverted clergy, marginalizing them, attacking their families, well, too bad for the victims. The guilt here lies primarily with the hierarchy. But it also lies with lower clergy (people like [Father Benedict] Groeschel) and Catholic laity, and non-Catholics too, who knew what was happening, or should have known, but instead preferred to protect their own peace of mind.

Quote:“Ultimately, every Christian, making the sign of the cross upon himself, expresses in an adequate and full manner the heart of the Trinitarian and Paschal faith. The People of God in its entirety must give an account of its faith and its hope (cf. 1Pt 3:5): in this sense they are all theologians.”

Quote:“In theology some want to reduce to a minimum the meaning of dogmas; and to free dogma itself from terminology long established in the Church and from philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to bring about a return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of speaking used in Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church. They cherish the hope that when dogma is stripped of the elements which they hold to be extrinsic to divine revelation, it will compare advantageously with the dogmatic opinions of those who are separated from the unity of the Church and that in this way they will gradually arrive at a mutual assimilation of Catholic dogma with the tenets of the dissidents.”

Quote:“The Church is one beyond its visible divisions, holy beyond the sins of its members and the errors committed by its institutional structures, catholic and apostolic beyond the identity and cultural retreats and the doctrinal and ethical torments that ceaselessly agitate it.”

Quote:“This does not mean to affirm that the truth of faith is historical and changeable: it means rather that the recognition of the truth and the deepening of its understanding constitute a historical task of the one subject-Church.”

Quote:“Believing with the Church means for each generation to participate in its incessant efforts for a deeper and more complete understanding of the faith. The obligation of fidelity cannot be reduced to a form of passive docility alone: it is an obligation of active appropriation for all disciples, with the support and under the supervision of the living magisterium of the college of bishops. The latter, when they agree, have the authority to decide in a binding way whether or not a theological interpretation is faithful to the source – Christ and the apostolic Tradition. The Magisterium adds nothing to the Revelation accomplished in Christ and attested in the Scriptures, except the clarifications of dogmatic development, since the Church exercises there her role as authentic interpreter of the Word of God through acts of creative fidelity to Revelation: 'Thus, the judgment regarding the authenticity of the sensus fidelium belongs in the final analysis not to the faithful themselves nor to theology, but to the Magisterium.’”

Quote:“The light shed by the assembly of Nicaea on Christian revelation allows us to discover an inexhaustible richness that continues, through the centuries and cultures, to find depth and to manifest itself in ever more beautiful and new aspects. These different facets are highlighted especially by the prayerful and theological rereading that most Christian traditions make of the Symbol, each on the basis of a different relationship with the fact that a Symbol of faith exists. It is also an opportunity, for each and every one, to rediscover or even discover its richness and the bond of communion between all Christians that this Symbol can constitute.”

Quote:“We have already emphasized how the insistence of the different Christian traditions allows us to enhance the riches of the text of the Creed (cf. supra § 17). The common celebration of Nicaea could be an ecumenical path of mutual enrichment that will offer, along the way, a better understanding of the mystery, a greater communion between ecclesial traditions and a stronger attachment to the common profession of the Christian faith.”

Quote:“Despite its insistence on history, the Creed does not explicitly mention or evoke a large part of the content of the Old Testament, nor, in particular, the election and history of Israel. Obviously, a Creed must not be exhaustive. Nevertheless, it is useful to underline that this silence in no way signifies the transience of the election of the people of the old covenant.”

Quote:“The election of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the irrevocable covenant with the people of Israel already reveal the covenant that God wishes to establish with all nations and with every human being in an indestructible fidelity.”

Quote:“Thus the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to God's saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found already among the Patriarchs, Moses and the prophets. She professes that all who believe in Christ-Abraham's sons according to faith — are included in the same Patriarch's call, and likewise that the salvation of the Church is mysteriously foreshadowed by the chosen people's exodus from the land of bondage. The Church, therefore, cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the root of that well-cultivated olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild shoots, the Gentiles. Indeed, the Church believes that by His cross Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles. making both one in Himself."

Quote:Evidently it is true that the Jewish people is no longer the people of God in the sense of an institution for the salvation of mankind. The reason for this, however, is not that it has been rejected, but simply that its function in preparing the kingdom of God finished with the advent of Christ and the founding of the Church.” (p. 96)

The following is taken from TIA's What People are Commenting section, dated April 3, 2025:

Quote:Along similar lines, Pope John Paul II, in two homilies delivered in Peru and Bolivia, identified homage to Pachamama as an ancestral recognition of divine providence that in some sense prefigured a Christian attitude toward creation. On February 3, 1985, he stated that "your ancestors, by paying tribute to the earth (Mama Pacha), were doing nothing other than recognizing the goodness of God and his beneficent presence, which provided them food by means of the land they cultivated."

On May 11, 1988, he stated that God "knows what we need from the food that the earth produces, this varied and expressive reality that your ancestors called "Pachamama" and that reflects the work of divine providence as it offers us its gifts for the good of man."

• that baptism is not necessary for salvation;
  
• good works are not necessary;
  
• man has no free-will;
  
• Adam could not avoid his fall;
  
• a great part of mankind are created to be damned, independently of their demerits;
  
• man is justified by faith alone, and that justification, once obtained, cannot be lost; even by the most atrocious crimes;
  
• the true faithful are also infallibly certain of their salvation;
  
• the Eucharist is no more than a figure of the body and blood of Christ.