E-Exchanges Archive 1
Debate
Dear MHFM,
Romans 1:22 For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
...the last heretic that tried to debate you goes by the name of Gnrhead and I managed
to figure out what this name stands for. If you didn't know gnrhead is short
for gonnerhead (no, it's not Greek nor is it a possessive form of any word; it
is a simple word used in North country which means a stupid person, a dunce, a
half-wit...). Now that's what I call a fitting name! An old Latin proverb also
comes to mind to further prove the point: ''Nomen est omen'' literally meaning
"Name is omen." Implies that the name is fitting for the object or
person…
All the above would be funny if the situation wasn't actually so sad. I like
your videos and audios on different subjects more than the debates just because
it is so hard to listen to the idiotic arguments that most of the heretics make
in debating you. But on the other hand it is good to show people in a debate
just how diametrically opposed the Catholic Church and the Catholic Faith is to
the V2 sect and her apostate religion. Anyway, you did a great job in exposing
these two apostates, and what is also commendable, you have shown a great deal
of patience with them (not something that anyone could handle).
Keep up the great work that you do in face of all the attacks against your
monastery. May Our Lord and Our Lady help you in that fair fight.
V. from Croatia
MHFM: The debates are important for a number of reasons. First, some of the advocates of the opposite
position are so blind that they will only listen to the true arguments in a
debate. It’s too humbling for them to
listen to the presentations in detail unless one of their friends or fellow
heretics is engaged against you in a debate.
Second, some people are of weak faith and are only convinced by the
facts when they can see them in a debate context. Third, and perhaps most importantly, debating
people (especially in a conversation format) forces people to address specific
questions and facts that they literally ignore (and their readers never focus
on) for basically their whole lives. How
many false conservatives in the Novus Ordo go through their lives thinking that
they are conservative, while ignoring that their “pope” believes that Vatican I
doesn’t matter? How many false
traditionalists go through their lives and ignore the fact that accepting him
as “the pope” means that you must accept those who believe in justification by
faith alone? If done correctly, the
debates bring out these important points of truth.
In the same way, many false traditionalist sedevacantists (who
deny the salvation dogma) simply ignore the fact that their position (and the
position of the priests, etc. they support) means that they believe there is
salvation in any religion.
Also
MHFM: Many of our readers have already listened to or downloaded
the mp3 of our recent debate with William A.
However, for those who are interested, it’s also now on Youtube in 23
parts.
Point
In regard to Vin
Lewis's statement that perhaps Benedict XVI was just being courteous to the
muslims when he entered their temple and participated with them in
"prayers" (and etc. etc.)! Is it possible that Vin Lewis is ignorant
of the fact that over 12 million martyrs suffered and died horribly rather then
yield even in the slightest to the pagans demands that their "god" be
worshiped? I am reminded of just one example of a woman, whose name
escapes me at the moment, whose hand's were loaded with hot coals with the idea
that if she dropped just one, which she didn't, she would be showing homage to
their "god"!
It's mind-boggling to see how can people who go to any lengths and "split
every hair" possible to justify the anti-popes ignore all this suffering
and sacrificial acts!
Phil White
MHFM: Thanks for the comment.
Regarding the “dropping coals” issue, there were different opinions
about that in terms of what it would signify.
Some did not believe that to drop the coals would be to worship the
false god. We agree with that opinion. Just because some pagan says: “if you drop this it means you are
worshipping my god,” doesn’t make it so.
For instance, some pagan could say: “if
you ever take another step that means that you are worshipping my god.” Does that mean the person could never move
again because moving would be to honor that person’s false god? No. In
our view, there has to be some explicit and clear worship of a false god – or a
clear act of participation in a false religion – for it to constitute idolatry,
not just some pagan’s say so. But your
point is well taken about the early martyrs, and how Vin’s assertion was absurd
and heretical.
Apostasy
Dear Brothers,
I noticed the
frequent use of the word "apostasy" in your material but I was
wondering if you could further define and clarify your usage of the word since,
as far as I know, the definition means a total repudiation of Christianity and
not just rejecting certain beliefs (which would be heresy).
[Definition]
"Perfidiæ is the complete and voluntary abandonment of the Christian
religion, whether the apostate embraces another religion such as Paganism,
Judaism, Mohammedanism, etc., or merely makes profession of Naturalism,
Rationalism, etc. The heretic differs from the apostate in that he only denies
one or more of the doctrines of revealed religion, whereas the apostate denies
the religion itself, a sin which has always been looked upon as one of the most
grievous."
Could you please
explain?
Thanks,
Brian Anthony
MHFM: In the very strict and formal sense, apostasy means giving
up any profession of the Christian faith altogether. In the loose sense, any heretic is an
apostate because, as Pope Leo XIII teaches, those who dissent in one point of
faith absolutely reject all faith. But in the real sense, apostasy refers to any
heresy or heresies that translate into a direct rejection of Christ, even if
that person still claims some belief in Christ.
Martin Luther, for example, is frequently called an apostate by
historians and Catholic writers.
Pope Pius IX says this about “Old Catholic” schismatics and
heretics in Graves ac diuturnae (#2),
March 23, 1875: “Having violently
occupied parishes and churches with apostate
priests, they have not neglected any deception or cunning to lead the
children of the Catholic Church into wretched schism.”
The Vatican II antipopes are definitely apostates in the real
sense because their heresies directly translate into a rejection of Christ
altogether. Their heresies mean that
false religions which reject Christ are fine.
They have also taken part in and facilitated the worship of idols,
demons and the practice of non-Christian religions. Thus, what they have done translates into a
direct rejection of Christ. They are
truly apostates.
Arm
Thanks for the recent debates. Like
the data disks, these help a great deal and arm me with a great spiritual
arsenal. Thanks also for keeping them in a format in which I can hear
them… Please keep doing these debates!!!
Sincerely,
J
Listened
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
I listened to your most recent telephone debate
with the bible-alone protestant William Albrecht with much interest. It was one of the most informative debates
that I have heard on whether the vatican-two claimants to the papacy are true
popes. The evidence that you brought
forward in favor of the true position was authoritative and plain for everyone
to see. Except, unfortunately, for Mr.
Albrecht.
He was one of the most dishonest “scholars”
that you have debated so far. It was
obvious that he couldn’t respond to any of the evidence that you brought
forward and simply ignored it. Instead,
he tried to put forward his lame, bible-only “argument” that the seat of Peter
cannot be vacant. Then, as if to make a
fool of himself, he arrogantly claims that you cannot answer his “arguments.”
I was astounded by the level of dishonesty
and arrogance, not to mention lack of erudition, on the part of this
bible-alone clown. I hope to hear more
of these protestant debates in the future – except, perhaps, from a more
qualified candidate.
-John.
MHFM: Thank you for the comment.
We think that it’s a very valuable and interesting debate because of the
variety of information covered and the back and forth format. We also agree with your assessment that he is
one of the most dishonest people we’ve debated so far. Before the debate he attacked out material
and arguments as “ridiculous” and said he could “scholarly refute every single
argument we make.” Everyone who rejects
the truth is of bad will and dishonest, but he is extremely bad-willed. We do hope for his conversion, of course, as
miraculous as that would be.
Frightening
Dear MHFM brothers:
Your debates with Lewis and Albrecht expose the frightening indifferentism and
apostasy of today's pseudo-traditional "catholics". Are some people
no longer able to hear or think? You can tell them very clearly, word for word,
what a pope or council plainly teaches and they'll respond with an irrelevant
private interpretation of a Bible verse (not always from a Catholic Bible) or
some stock phrase: "that's your interpretation" or "we can't
judge" or "we can't really know what those words mean" (do words
mean anything at all to them?). Is lying or bad will always the immediate cause
or is it possible that after years of rejecting the grace God has given them to
see the truth that they have become possessed or that God has finally abandoned
them to their errors?
-RDS
MHFM: We agree with your sentiments, and we think the answer to
your question is “all of the above.”
Their failure to see the truth is bad will, and we believe that some of
them are possessed as a result of extreme bad will and other sins; and God also
gives some of them over to total spiritual blindness (like Pharao) as a
punishment for their bad will. There are
many like that in the traditional movement, especially among the obstinate
salvation heretics who believe that souls can be saved in any religion and
actually think they are staunch, uncompromising traditional Catholics.
Interesting
That was an interesting debate.
Albrecht has made videos on youtube "refuting" your claims and he
blocked me and several Catholics from commenting on his videos and exposing
him. I was pretty surprised when I saw that he had allowed himself to be
exposed then.
Kenneth Connelly
Prove
These
debates, they just outright prove whose position is the true position.
Thank you Bro. Peter for debating and having to deal with this broken record,
"Yeeah, you say JPII and Benedict XVI esteem Islam?... umm how about we go
back to Revelations?..." You know, for a long time I had wanted you
to debate this "Gnrhead" fellow, I'm glad you put him on the
spotlight and exposed his lies. In his "six part video series"
he clams he has "thoroughly refuted every single significant argument that
they [MFHM] levy against the Catholic faith." WELL!! Now we
know WHO has throughly refuted every single significant argument that William
levies against the Catholic faith, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH and Her faithful.
Great work and keep it up. I noticed he sounded just like William Golle,
just like a broken record, funny thing is he even admits it. hehe
…Thanks for everything, everyday I managed to learn something new from you
website.
-Bernardo
Thoughts
Thanks
for the interesting debate with Vin Lewis. You really caught him like a fish
out of water! Fish don’t live outside water for very long just as heretics
don’t live inside the Church. And like all modernists, who worship “the
Experience Now,” he has a four second memory like a goldfish, which probably
explains his total inability to think logically. Also, I think the devil
actually revealed itself in Vin’s closing statement:
Vin – “Sin does not, ordinary sin, does not drive a person outside of the
Church. What drives a person outside of the Church is their voluntary decision
to do so. And until a person does that, he is still within the Church. That has
to be an act of the will and we can’t judge the acts of will of other people
except under very specific circumstances such as I detailed by lying. Therefore
what I would say is essentially the same thing in the beginning, the case is
not proven.”…
Vin was lying when he said that we can’t
judge the acts of will of other people because he continued by saying that we
can judge others when they lie (11:03):
Vin – “I feel, I judge, I hold and affirm, that it is an act of injustice to
accuse someone of apostasy without some evidence of internal conviction.
Outside actions do not show internal convictions.” And further (11:35), “You
can read a person’s heart under one circumstance. You can read a person’s heart
when a person lies, and is prone to lie and does not reconcile er, er, or
renounce the lie.”
It is impossible to “reconcile” a lie with the truth! A lie is an act of the
will! Thankfully you, Bro. Peter, then summed up the whole debate by saying,
“Exactly! Anyone who refuses to submit to Catholic teaching is lying.” But then
he persisted:
“When I talk about lying, I mean literally words of the mouth, and I don’t mean
actions at all. When I deal with Protestants; when I refute them or confound
them, what I do is I expose verbal contradictions. If a person does not resolve
a verbal contradiction he’s a liar. A lying status is one that can be read, by
which one can the heart but one does not, in my opinion, lie by actions. One
can be hypocritical or one can be wrong with actions certainly...”
Vin did not resolve the verbal contradiction that lies can be reconciled with
the truth, so he’s a liar! Out of his own mouth he’s condemned! Also, I think
Vin was wrong saying that a person can never lie by their actions; Actors lie
by their actions as a profession and JP2 was an ex-actor! And if a person can
lie by word, which is an action of the tongue and throat muscles, what of the
saying, “actions speak louder than words”?!! This isn’t to say that the
intention is not to be presumed when a true Catholic Priest follows the correct
matter and form set out by the true Catholic Church when administering the true
sacraments, but that many people can and often do deliberately deceive others
by their actions.
Also, I think Jesus indicates that, to a certain extent, it is fairly easy to
see people’s hearts:
Matt. 12:34 – “O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas
you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
Luke 6:45 – “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth
that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth
that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
I thought it was hilarious, and an obvious judgement, when the incident
occurred of his dog walking past happened, after he’d said that Jews reject the
Council of Trent because they “reject the entire structure of Catholicism,” as
though rejecting Jesus Christ is ok, and then said “there’s a difference
between a person rejecting things from the inside and a person rejecting things
from the outside.” (debate no.2, 27:24 minutes)
Obviously he got burned by his policing background. Maybe this influences him,
apart from his bad will, when it comes to defending the faith against the
state, since the Vatican 2 sect, apart from acting like the Catholic Church,
also acts like a fascist state: On the Church and the German Reich, POPE PIUS
XI - The believer has an absolute right to profess his Faith and live according
to its dictates. Laws which impede this profession and practice of Faith are
against natural law.
Vin obviously has no faith in the true God who is “one absolutely simple
essence,” (4th Lateran Council) and “the formal motive of faith.” (Satis
Cognitum, Pope Leo XIII) Obviously Vin is a modernist heretic for whom “it is
quite impossible to maintain that they [dogmas] absolutely contain the truth:
for, in so far as they are symbols, they are the images of truth, and so must
be adapted to the religious sense in its relation to man; and as instruments,
they are the vehicles of truth, and must therefore in their turn be adapted to
man in his relation to the religious sense.” (Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi)
I think Vin, like the Antichrist Antipopes Benedict XVI, John Paul II, Paul VI,
John Paul I, John XXIII, embodies the spirit of Antichrist, since he has
put himself in the place of God by rejecting Catholic dogmas about heretics
being outside the Church, among many other things. Vin is absolutely and truly
and absurd apostate and heretic!!!
… Thank you and God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: One thing that we really took from that debate was another
clear example of the fact that anyone who obstinately accepts the Vatican II
sect, especially for many decades as Vin has, loses all faith and comes to
believe in nothing.
Debates
Dear Brothers in Christ,
The debates you had with V. Lewis and W. Albrecht show once again that N.O.
people have completely lost light of natural reason. They are insane. In fact it is impossible to retain one's
natural reason and stay with N.O. satanic hierarchy. As
you have said, they don't care about the teaching of The Catholic Church at
all. This fact alone shows they are adherents of a false religion, the false
religion of the worst possible kind because it calls itself catholic.
I am 100% sure that if the antipope B16
would clearly state, in all world's languages, a sentence "I am a
heretic, and I know that and I enjoy very much being such", that his
apologists would respond to that "This doesn't prove B16 is a heretic".
This age and time of total darkness we are witnessing is obviously a
punishment, very, very severe and very, very deserved punishment of the whole
mankind for its unspeakable sins.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us through the merits of Your and our Most
Holy Mother and St. Joseph. St. Michael be our shield in the war against the
church of darkness.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
Comment
Dear Brothers of the Most Holy Family
Monastery
Referring to the recent debate with Mr. Vin
Lewis, it is so visible, even to anyone with basic Catholic teaching to
immediately see that this person is not prepared to stand up to the truth.
He talks about an existing conspiracy
within the Vatican, that means he sees and knows the devastating and
disoriented state in which Christ’s true Church has fallen, but still, he is so
spiritually blind to see the source of all this evil.
He defends that one has no right to presume
that the heads of the church are visible public heretics who deviated willingly
from the true Church because we cannot read their hearts and intentions, he
even goes as far as defending that in their visible per versed public actions
and teachings against the Catholic Faith, one is not able to see their true
intentions, well I must say that any illiterate person who is honest and
truthful will quickly come to the conclusion of the obvious.
If we must consider the heads of the Church
as genuine and true Catholics, according to this gentleman, then why are they
misleading the faithful from the Catholic Church by denying the holy Dogmas and
falsifying the Catholic Doctrine, as well as recommending and esteeming false
religions and favouring sects either by word, action or deeds?
I personally know Catholics who were
devoted to their faith and today they take part in all type of sects.
From my readings on the last four or so
“Popes” including Bent XVI, I found that all of them at some stage criticised
the spirit of Vatican II, but in my view they are all liars and not sincere,
for my question is, why do they hold on to this diabolic council with all their
teeth, yet they appear to criticise it. It looks more like deceit and
conspiracy than anything else.
For heaven’s sake, what more proof does
Mr.Vin Lewis needs to understand and convince himself of the reality, unless he
has some petty interests that are hindering him, if so, this is very serious.
In J.M.J
M. Fernanda da Silva
MHFM: It’s important to emphasize that it’s not the Catholic
Church, and these men are (and were) not heading the Catholic Church. The fact is that no defender of the Vatican
II antipopes has or could have any cogent response whatsoever to any of the
facts or arguments brought forward. They
have no answer whatsoever to the heresies brought forward from the antipopes’
teachings and actions. They either
ignore them, or come up with outlandish theories to deny their existence,
despite irrefutable documentation.
Comment,
shallow
You really need
better opponents. It was like a fight between Rocky Marciano and Pee Wee
Herman. You knocked him out in the first round, but then carried him for
another 14.
He thought like
a Protestant. He clearly placed his own interpretation of scripture over
and above the Magisterium. Titus 3:10, his sole obsession, which he
essentially claimed meant that one had to be both adjudicated and chastised by
a superior before being labeled heretical begins: “A man that IS as heretic, after
the first and second admonition AVOID.” This guy, who tried to
argue as much on grammar; showing off his familiarity with Greek (which was
irrelevant), as he did with logic failed to perceive the clear, simple and
obvious English meaning of the scripture. The man in question is ALREADY
conceded to be a heretic. The admonitions only refer to when he is to be
avoided. He is already a heretic and the text assumes he can be discerned
as such. After two admonitions, one can in good conscience give up the
obligation to try to convert him. Of course to one who claims to already
be a Catholic, such a dissection of the Bible verse isn’t even necessary, as
the Magisterium has told us what it means.
This guy (Albrecht)
was so bad he could not, or pretended not, to follow the clearest of your
arguments. It was literally as blatant as though he had said for
instance: “can you show me a green flag?”. And you in response showed him a
green flag. Then you further proceeded to show him where the thread that made
the flag came from, the significance of the dye, and how the flag pole was
made. Then you showed him twelve other green flags. Then in response,
over and over again he said: “I don’t know why you keep introducing all of
these other subjects, but obviously you are incapable of dealing with green
flags”. It was literally that ridiculous.
I think it
demonstrates that some ignorance, or maybe bad will is better description, is
truly supernatural in origin. It is just too astounding for it to be
anything else. Spiritual warfare.
Bill Mulligan
MHFM: It is definitely spiritual warfare. The guy clearly enjoys to hear himself quote
some Greek, despite that fact that his arguments are completely irrelevant,
illogical and heretical. It’s a prime
example of pride begetting his spiritual blindness; in other words, savoring
the shallow things of intellectual pride and not the things of God.
No one is disputing that Titus 3:10 is talking about a heretical
man. Thus, for him to repeatedly mention
that the “accusative masculine” shows that we are talking about a heretical man
of course proves nothing. It is to
repeat what no one is disputing. It
reveals that there is no substance to his argument, but simply a vain attempt
to appeal to dumbed-down shallow people whose
ears are tickled by any pretense to intellectual sophistication. It’s sad, but some people – correct that,
MANY people – are so shallow, so pathetic, so of bad will, and frankly so
unable to grasp and cut to the point and the truth – which is the true measure
of intelligence: conforming one’s mind to the truth of God and communicating it
with accuracy; they so savor the things of intellectual pride and not the
things of God, that if someone quotes a little Greek or Latin they are just
bowled over and their bad-willed hearts are tuned in. Since they savor such things but not the
truth and real logic, they will have tremendous respect for such a person and
his arguments, even when the arguments are completely illogical (and thus
stupid). God totally rejects such
people.
In fact, it should be noted that one of the ways that John
Calvin was able to acquire great influence and convince many to follow him was
because he could read the original biblical languages, Greek and Hebrew. Many shallow folks thus thought that he
understood the word of God. As a result,
they fell into following him and believing some of the most stupid and evil
perversions of Scripture ever concocted (such as that man doesn’t have free
will, eternal security, total depravity, etc.)
On the same point, William A. did a short series on us and his
arguments almost couldn’t have been more illogical. Yet, a few people thought they were
great. We suppose that they are so of
bad will that they are persuaded by the fact that he quotes some Greek. Well, we saw how well his arguments held up
in a debate.
New
Sedevacantism Debate with apologist William Albrecht
New Sedevacantism Debate with
apologist William Albrecht [link to
description and audios]
MHFM: William
Albrecht (also known as Gnrhead) is an apologist who works with a number of mainstream,
“conservative” apologetics organizations within the Vatican II Church. He also works with one well-known,
semi-“traditionalist” apologetics organization that has a wide outreach. He has been promoted and endorsed by Steve
Ray. He has also engaged in many debates
with Protestants, including Protestant apologists from one of the largest
Protestant apologetics groups in the country (e.g., a.o.m.).
Albrecht said that he thoroughly studied our
information and material. He claimed to
have read our huge book, The Truth about
What Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II, four
times. He did a series attempting to
refute our arguments for the sedevacantist position and our position against
the New Mass. He also claimed that he
could refute every single argument we make.
He challenged us to a debate.
This debate is very interesting. It covers many different areas. It’s interesting how when you debate
different people many different things come up.
This debate gets even more interesting as it goes along. Part 2 might be the most interesting. There is also a rapid-fire, 2 minutes back
and forth format that we agreed to adopt after about the first hour.
In this debate, we see that one side is clearly
Catholic and accepts Church teaching while the other side does not. We see, once again, that the other side has
no answer whatsoever to the facts and truth presented…
This will permanently be found in our
“Traditional Catholic Audios” section, in our “Antipopes” section, and in our
telephone debates section (which is under “Audios”).
By
the way, below is a quote from St. Augustine on John 15:22. This comes up in the debate in reference to a
similar passage in the Gospel of John on how the Jews, if Christ had not come and
spoken to them, would not have sin.
Jesus was of course not saying that they could be saved if He hadn’t
spoken to them; but rather that they would not have the extra sin of
infidelity, or disbelieving in Christ.
The people who haven’t heard the Gospel are damned for their other sins,
not the special sin of infidelity (if they haven’t heard of Him). They remain outside the Church and in their
other sins unless they come to know Him and are baptized into His faith. This is how the Church has always understood
these passages.
We
wanted to quote it here because it was mentioned in the debate from memory, but
we didn’t have it handy to quote it in full or the reference.
St. Augustine, Tractate 89, on John 15:22-23- “What, then, does He [Jesus] mean by the words, If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin? [John
15:22] Was it that the Jews were without sin before Christ came to them in the
flesh? Who, though he were the greatest fool, would say so?... But when He
went on to say, But now they have no
excuse for their sin, some may be moved to inquire whether those to whom
Christ neither came nor spoke, have an excuse for their sin. For if they have
not, why is it said here that these had none, on the very ground that He did
come and speak to them? And if they have, have they it to the extent of thereby
being barred from punishment, or of receiving it in a milder degree? To these
inquiries, with the Lord's help and to the best of my capacity, I reply, that
such have an excuse, not for every one of their sins, but for
this sin of not believing on Christ, inasmuch as He came not and spoke
not to them.”
Fr. Francisco de Vitoria, O.P., a famous
16th century Dominican theologian, summed up the traditional
teaching of the Catholic Church on this topic very well. Here is how he put it:
“When we postulate invincible ignorance on
the subject of baptism or of the Christian faith, it does not follow that a
person can be saved without baptism or the Christian faith. For the aborigines to whom no preaching of
the faith or Christian religion has come will
be damned for mortal sins or for idolatry, but not for the sin of unbelief. As St. Thomas says, however, if they do what
in them lies [in their power], accompanied by a good life according to the law
of nature, it is consistent with God’s providence that he will illuminate them
regarding the name of Christ.” (citation in our salvation book)
St. Augustine (426): “Consequently both those who have not heard the gospel
and those who, having heard it, and having been changed for the better, did not receive perseverance… none of these are separated from that
lump which is known to be damned, as all are going… into condemnation.”
(citation
in our salvation book)
2 Corinthians 4:3: “And if our
gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of
this world [Satan] hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto
them.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only
pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life
and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives;
that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only for
those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do
fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian
militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how
much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of
Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic
Church.”
I
thought
Hi ,
I have enjoyed Vin Lewis tapes in the past... but I was very disappointed
with his slithery performance in the debate.. He didn't cite any Church
teachings whatsoever to support his beliefs and opinions! I thought his
arguments were very lame. He dishonestly accused you of asserting that he was being
ridiculous without proof when in reality every time you did first prove it by
citing amazingly relevant quotes! The monastery brother trounced him! How can
one not be a sede when the arguments it against it seem to be non-existent.
Surely Vin will now re-think his position. Sorry to say Vin but you sounded
just like a hapless modern Catholic with no idea of the Church teachings and
just a lot of prideful opinions.
God bless
pls
withhold my name.
Listened
Fantastic job debating Vin. I really thought maybe he would have a stronger
argument seeing that he claims to be the smartest catholic apologist in
America. He had no argument at all. In fact when you would address him about
the heart of the matter and him denying the teaching of the church on heretics
he would go off on some tangent about proper use of words, and if the heretic
referred to in Titus really was a heretic before the rebuke...what complete
nonsense. These interactive debates are great to listen to because one can
really relate your debate to our own debates with family members etc. Well
done.
I had one question I have been meaning to ask you but keep forgetting. Does the
Church allow us to pray to people who are not officially declared saints but
have died in the odour of sanctity such as Padre Pio?
Robby
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Yes, you can pray privately to people who have not been declared saints
but appeared to die in a very holy state.
In fact, that’s how many canonization processes began. People would pray to those people and receive
extraordinary favors and then the case would get moving.
Revealing
Good Evening Brothers,
After listening to this debate it is
revealing that Mr. Lewis "wrestles"(as he put it) with many of the
topics you confronted him with. This in itself proves heresy for having any
doubts concerning Catholic dogma deems one a heretic. I guess what I find most
alarming is the conspiracy angle this man was taking. The fact that when
confronted with the question about the Council of Trent’s definition of
heretics being outside of the one true church, Vin Lewis responded that
its reasonable. When asked why? He responded that it sounds good and makes
sense to me. Well, the sad truth imo is that God punishes the unjust in this way,
by allowing man to work according to his own conscience. In this case we have a
man excusing the actions (he never explained this) and the words of these
anti-popes by labeling it a conspiracy. So what does this man believe? What his
conscience tells him. We of faith know that a man operating according to his
own conscience not only thinks he is right, but leads himself to eternal
death, so saith the Lord. As Vin Lewis so absurdly claims that we cannot judge
an outward action of an inward feeling(or the heart of someone) reveals to
me that he also does not believe in the 7 sacraments instituted by Jesus Christ
either. For according to Vin Lewis' doctrine we could not be sure that is what
Jesus intended.
What I take away from listening to this
debate is the temerity of the Novus ordo believers and false
traditionalists today. It is true that Protestants error in faith and we can
only hope that through prayer and Gods grace he will convert
them before death, but at least Protestants are more faithful to their
false doctrines.
May we never cease to beg our
Father, Please do not give me over to a shameless and foolish
mind. Amen
Take care,
Gary Craft
Comment
It is an old cliché’, but you certainly
demonstrated it in your debate with Vin. In the beginning, I was
sure he was simply of very bad will, as he started out trying to trap you with
such “layup” propositions. I mean could it be that he really didn’t
understand the nature of Holy Orders versus merely holding an office in the
Church or that heresy and apostasy are not ordinary sins? His whole
argument essentially came down to “all this stuff is really perpetrated by evil
infiltrators within the Vatican, especially among the translators” (even though
he himself dismissed his own argument as silly). For his position
to be true, then JPII and Ratzinger would have to be literal imbeciles to not
be heretics. It almost seemed insulting that he would be throwing such
softballs. However by the end, he went away almost meekly. I
think it could be that he really didn’t know much coming in. The telling
question for me in this regard was when he couldn’t explain what made a
council’s pronouncement binding. He answered it in modern speak beginning
with “it is in conformity with a well formed conscience”, followed by three or
four other irrelevant ramblings…
Hopefully Vin will reflect and come to see
the light. At any rate, it was no contest at all. His positions
(the few he actually admitted to holding) were completely devastated.
Thank you for doing this kind of stuff. It is a very informative and
actually an entertaining format. It exposes and answers so many false
notions that most people have fallen under, in fact notions they have been
actively and deliberately taught, both in the Sunday sermons and the schools of
the Vatican II counter church.
Bill Mulligan
Astounding
I just read your comments regarding your
conversation with Vin Lewis. I listened to the entire tape and thoroughly
enjoyed it.
I will pray for your soul. Vin is a prophet.
His faith is astounding. To call him a bad Catholic means you are taking
your direction from Satan. Repent before it's too late.
Trust me, your life will change now that you have criticized Vin. I have
seen it happen first hand.
You should be worried, very worried.
A concerned Catholic.
MHFM: No, he is unfortunately a heretic and an apostate, like
you. That was clearly proven. But again, that’s why people remain
Protestants in the face of all the evidence.
That’s why people can hear Scripture after Scripture disproving faith
alone and eternal security and still contend that the Bible teaches them. It’s called bad will.
Comment
Subject: Vin Lewis is a heretic and an
apostate!
I couldn't believe what was coming out of
Vin Lewis mouth! Obviously it wasn't the Holy Spirit, but the devil was
doing the talking.
No wonder he is pro Novus Ordo church!!!
Thank You for debating Vin and it cleared
up a lot of questions that I had wondered about.
K
MHFM: There was also another debate we just did with someone
else. It will be posted very soon.
Comment
MHFM,
Very interesting series of audios with Vin
Lewis. Mr Lewis, who not very serious about his faith, while taking the
Catholic Faith as a laughing matter and mocking God, is truly a wishy-washy
Vatican II Catholic...a liar, and a snake, trying to slither out of the web
that he weaves through his deceit. All the time trying to catch you in a
lie (his bad will) and kill you with his kindness.
Mr. Lewis' "worldly" views of the true Catholic Faith as being that
as "your assumption" and a history of conspiracy at best are examples
of the bad fruit (errors) and corruption that he and many others like him, (Fr.
Coropi, Scott Hahn, EWTN) spread throughout the world. Truly blind and ignorant
to the truth (The Catholic Faith). Nice job of burying Mr. Lewis at the
end.
God Bless you,
TM
New
Debate with Vin Lewis on Sedevacantism
MHFM: We recently had a debate on
Sedevacantism with Vin Lewis. Go here to
listen to it:
New Sedevacantism Debate with Vin Lewis
This
will permanently be found in our “Traditional Catholic Audios” section, in our
“Antipopes” section, and in our telephone debates section (which is under
“Audios”).
Wake
Dear Brothers,
I know you have addressed several times the
issue of whether one could attend non-Catholic weddings and funerals and I
agree with your position 100%. However I don't think you've ever
addressed whether a person could attend the wake of a non-Catholic or Novus
Ordo friend. Less than three years ago I attended the wake of someone who
died and was buried by the Novus Ordo Church. At a point during the wake,
a Novus Ordo "priest" arrived for a prayer service and at that time I
got up and left since I did not want to participate in prayer with
heretics. But the point here is that I went simply to offer my
condolensces to the family without praying for the deceased and I did not
attend the funeral the following day. Could you please comment?
Thank you,
AP
MHFM: No, one should not go.
A Catholic must not be involved in honoring those who lived and died at
variance with the true faith.
Watched
Hey Brothers since i watched your videos my
eyes opened up to the Truth of What Happened to the Catholic church and What
the Vatican 2 council is, anyways can you help find a church that Celebrates
the Old Latin Mass… cause I’m leaving the New mass and all the New orders to
return to the True Orders of the Church...
God Bless ya :)
Also when i started to become religious and [went] to the mass of nothing,
that’s what i call the New Mass… i was deciding to Leave the church and Journey
to another religion… but then you guys came along and made me see the Truth in
the Church and I decided to stay THANK YOU SO MUCH :).
Nar…
Lutherans
lutherans
lift ban on gay marriage and support premaritial sex
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16911
C
Re-posted
Dear
Brothers,
I
was trying to watch the video link "New Video on Abortion, Ted Kennedy and Benedict XVI" on your news portion of your website, but it the message
"the video has been removed by the user" appears.
Would
you restore the video link so I can watch the video?
Thanks.
Eric
P., a reader of http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com
MHFM: For some reason our recent video, Benedict XVI is pro-abortion, is not being accepted by
Youtube. So, you can watch here:
This will be found permanently in our section on Benedict XVI.
Audios
MHFM: Hopefully in the next day, or within the next few days, we
will have some new audios which we think some of our readers might find
interesting.
Video
Dear Brothers,
In regard to the video on Ted Kennedy and
Benedict XVI, I totally agree with a reader who mentioned that a Satanic Hierarchy
has been occupying the Vatican.
About two to three years ago when my heart
still wished to believe that I was in the true Roman Catholic Church, it came
to pass that a Catholic funeral celebration
of a political personality and well known
to be a Freemason, was authorised and took place in the Catholic Basilica in
Lisbon, this was even spoken about on the News…
M. Fernanda da Silva
Vatican
II
Dear MHFM,
Dr. Ratzinger's organization, the Vatican
II sect could easily suffer its demise if only Vatican I was reopened, and
declared Vatican II as null and void. The simplicity of the Great Council
of Trent, and Vatican I drowns the actions and words of this pitiful council,
Vatican II. It doesn't take much effort to decipher the appalling, and
unequivocal transfiguration of Holy councils fully, completely filled with the
power of the Holy Spirit in Holy Trent and Holy Vatican I, and the stale
infiltration of the Modernist minds of Vatican II in full force to destroy
Catholicism by incorporating specious language of Lucifer posing as Roman
Catholic. Martin Luther made his advance in the 16th century, and in
the late 20th came the sullied Modernists… May Jesus and his angels protect you
and your ministry…
D
Comment
Dear Brothers,
I might have missed it somewhere on
your website - but did you notice at the Kennedy Funeral Mess, that
the table area - was shown most of the time from the very start until the very
end - but that during "communion" - they showed the choir and
anything else or everything else but who was receiving etc? I found this
very telling. I even had a brother of mine call me right away while this
was going on and he could not get over it. He asked me: "have
you noticed how blatantly apparent it is that they do not want to show who is
receiving Communion, since the camera focused on everything but what was
going on during Communion?" I wonder if it was because Obama and
Clinton and whoever received Communion. And to this day I have not heard
a word about it on the news etc? Just thought it was strange but
noteworthy. I guess if Obama had received - it would have made the
news for days.....who knows?
Sincerely in Christ,
Carla
Comment
Brothers,
I was reading a seemingly solid Catholic book
when I ran into the BOD heresy being propagated. And I had some thoughts on
this to share with you:
With BOD, in a way similar to water
baptism, is real and natural desire a requirement for a valid
"baptism?" In other words, can a lack of real desire mean what the
protestants believe; that a man never had the true faith to begin with? After
all, we have desires and we lose them many, many times in our lives. One minute
I desire a certain food, the next minute I lose that particular desire. And if
a man is "born again" and loses his desire, does he then
become "unborn" again?
On BOB, in a way similar to water baptism,
a man is martyred for the "faith," is he born again, i.e.,
resurrected from the dead? Obviously, if a man is "born again," you
would think that he would not and could not be born and perish at the same
time. It sounds like we are speaking of a partial birth abortion, not a
holy and spiritual beginning for a soul trying to commune with God. BOB is a
spiritual impossibility just by the fact that you cannot physically live and
die at the same moment. These heretics would then have to create a temporal
"limbo" to sustain this new piece of anti-faith.
Regarding La Salette: I took another look
at one of your works which said that we have "one hour" in God's
eyes, which started counting with the imposition of the novus ordo
anti-mass in April of 1969. That would mean that Advent of 2010 would be
when that "hour" had elapsed. In Our Lady of La Salette's
secret to Melanie, one of the parts indicated that Lucifer and his
demons would be let loose in the year 1864. Now supposing that the
"time, two times and half a time" in the Book of the Apocalypse
refers to "hours," I counted, if my math holds, 145.95 years
in our time, 3 1/2 hours in God's eyes, which, depending on what month
Lucifer was let loose, either Advent 2009 or 2010 would be when the Bibical
prediction(s) would intersect with Mary's words to Melanie and the apostate
actions of antipope/antichrist Paul VI.
Your video on anti-saint ted Kennedy was
superb. The vatican may try to slip his name in when the anti-canonizations are
announced for JPII, Paul 666 and Pope Pius XII. Except for Pius XII,
Kennedy would fit right in with them.
Sincerely,
Howard
Comment
Subject: honoring Ted Kennedy
If this abomination does not prove that the
V2 church is satanic, nothing will. It's amazing that the roof didn't
cave in. This has got to be the last straw. Pray the Rosary!!!
P
Interesting
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1919969,00.html
This story broke a couple of days ago, but the
above links a mainstream news article which suggests that Martino was in fact
fired. Judging by his age alone, this
guy wasn’t a real bishop and probably not a real priest. But he acted
like he thought he was. He for example refused to give pro abortion
politicians communion, told his subjects that voting for pro abortion
candidates was a mortal sin, was very vocal against homosexuality,
etc. So now he is out. Another example of what the New Church
simply won’t tolerate.
Bill Mulligan
MHFM: That’s interesting.
Obviously we are not suggesting that he is a real Catholic (of course
not); but it’s interesting to see how those in the Novus Ordo, who are even
slightly conservative on issues such as abortion, find themselves as fish out
of water.
Observation
Subject: Regarding many sedevacantist
priests’ denial of the salvation dogma
I thought it might've been noteworthy to
mention this:
I was having some email exchanges with a sedevacantist "priest",
Charles McGuire (who is in league with Cekada) about BOD/BOB and the "Soul
of the Church" heresy, and I told him that the "Soul of the
Church" and all that denied the dogma, and he replied with this:
"The dogma "Outside the Church there is No Salvation" is not
being denied in any way, shape or form. However, one can belong to the Church
by desire (think of the many souls who never had the Faith preached to them,
yet who sincerely desire to do what God wants of them). This dogma goes much
deeper into Theology than most people will ever know. Perhaps in a future email
I will explain it better. For now, time is too short to delve into this
one."
These guys are essentially modernists! Don't they know that dogmas have to be
believed as they are once declared?
This guy also has some wacky views on the number of the saved/damned souls:
In another discussion we were having, I told him how most people go to Hell,
and how the great majority of the world isn't even Catholic and thus doesn't go
to Heaven, and he said this:
"Furthermore, there is no teaching of the Church saying that most souls go
to hell. Some theologians say that most go to heaven. God only knows.
We may have opinions on this subject, but we will have to wait until
Judgement Day to find out for sure."
So it looks like these people, instead of believing and going by the infallible
dogmas of the Church, instead go with what the "theologians" say.
They are modernists.
C
Comment
Hi
Brother Peter and Brother Michael,
Thank you for the video exposing the evil of Benedict XVI's support for the
heretic Ted Kennedy. Whenever I see those Novus Ordo ceremonies I immediately
get the sense that they are praying to Satan and not to Jesus Christ. How else
can they pray for a dead someone who aggressively pushed for murder and sodomy
to be written into law?!!! Benedict XVI is a satanic heretic, Ted Kennedy
was/is a satanic heretic, and so are any other people who support them.
Thanks again and God Bless,
Kit White
Rejection
Subject: Rejection of Freemasonry and the
Devil
Dear Brothers,
While making a purchase at a friend’s store, who I assumed was `Catholic` since
he had a crucifix displayed in full view; I noticed, to my horror, that he
wore a masonic ring. When I inquired as to what he was doing wearing
the ring of an antichristian cult, he nervously stated that he was a member of
a local lodge and not aware that it was a non-Christian cult. In
charity, I debriefed him on the diabolical nature of the lodge and
left. On my next visit I arrived with a bagful of all your videos and
books (including yours and Dr. Wardner’s videos on the freemasonic infiltration
of the Catholic church and its takeover of society). He
subsequently viewed and read the material and shared it with several other
lodge members who had joined at the time he had. He was quite upset over
having been bamboozled by masonic doubletalk and ritual, and vowed to leave
that diabolical institution. A fellow lodge member who had joined when he
had, and who was also a former Catholic seminarian, immediately left the
masonic lodge in shame and disgust, severing all contact with it and his former
colleagues. I pray that two more souls will be saved due to these
courageous Catholic educational books and videos.
May Almighty God continue to favor your efforts!
In good will and charity,
Dr. James J. Lapinsky, D.C.
Comment
Subject: Video
Your video is EXCELLENT! I sent it to a lot of people in my email
list. (I have not heard back from anyone-yet!) But I feel it had to
be said. However, I came across a NO woman
from the church I used to go to, and she watched the whole funeral , thought it
was wonderful, beautiful eulogy by his son, etc etc. and she loved the letter
to Benedict!!! I tried to tell her that Kennedy was pro abortion, pro
gay, etc, but she just rambled on and on the he did 'good'?! As you
well know, these people do not get it! And this woman knows that I
go to the Latin Mass only, and I have tried to tell people, but they are SO
blind! God have mercy on us all.!
Please keep up the excellent work you are doing!...
God bless you and He is!
Sincerely,
Kathryn Rubio
MHFM: Yes, the bad will is
mind-boggling. Someone else wrote to us
and completely ignored the fact that he accepts pro-abortion apostates as
Catholic. It just doesn’t even faze
these people. Instead, he recommended a
writing of Benedict XVI.
Had to re-upload
MHFM: We had to re-upload (to Youtube)
our recent video on Benedict XVI and abortion.
It had almost a thousand views after only being posted for a short
time. Since it had to be re-uploaded,
the view count was reset to zero.
Finished
Subject: New Video Comment
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
I just finished watching your new video on
the pro-abortion, pro-“gay marriage” apostate and chief political toady to the
Jewish new world order Ted Kennedy. It
was so refreshing to hear the Catholic point of view about this wicked
man’s life and the so-called “Catholic” funeral that the vatican-two sect held
in his honor. It showed once again the
undeniable fact that the vatican-two sect is totally pro-abortion and not
remotely Catholic.
What’s interesting is how many people in
the vatican-two sect can watch their apostate leaders on TV, such as his
Immense Evil, “Cardinal” O’Malice praise these pro-abortion politicians alongside
such creatures as “President” Obama and Nancy Pelosi and not denounce them as
apostates. Even more interesting is that
these same people will then jump on a bus to attend the annual pro-life march
in Washington D.C. The level of
hypocrisy and bad-will within the vatican-two sect is just astounding.
-John.
Comment
Subject: Ted Kennedy video
5 star rating from me
Theresa
Clip
Dear Brothers in Christ,
The video clip on Ted Kennedy's funeral is
nothing less than a show of a satanic ritual. The "cardinals"
and "priests" praising a life full of murders and other vicious
acts--and nobody can deny that Ted Kennedy is responsible for the murder of
millions of unborn human beings and constant rebellion to God in many other ways--this
show is the worst mockery of God the world has ever seen. Of course, the shows
of this kind are not limited to the U.S. Far from that.
The satanic hierarchy now occupying Vatican
is very inventive regarding the ways to mock the God, our Lord Jesus Christ. We
can only wonder what is next we will see from this "treasury" of all
abominations in the world.
I am so, so sad, and I am angry. Very angry with these demonic creatures.
Our dearest and most holy Mother, pray for us.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
Video
Subject: Excellent video on Ted Kennedy
I couldn't have said it any better! I
didn't watch any of the coverage of the "tribute" to Ted
Kennedy.....but I am glad I watched your video on it. Their reference to
him being one of the "faithful" completely disgusted me. Isn't
it interesting that Boston is involved? Boy - If you are Fr. Feeney, you
are completely a jerk.....but, Ted Kennedy, and you are "faithful".
What a farce.
Thank you for sharing.
Teri Thurman
Upset
Dear MHFM
I was quite upset about the whole ted
kennedy fiasco. I noticed how it started to pour rain on the people after
the service was over. Was this a sign of God’s displeasure over this whole
affair? Rome has indeed become the seat of the anti-christ. The
world is completely upside down. Time is growing very very short.
I think we all know pretty much what the third secret of fatima is.
Thanks! And God bless in Christ.
MARK
Confused
I
would like to understand how you think ted kennedy is so great of a person, do you
know how many unborn Babies he has had a hand in killing and with this health
care he wanted to kill more. … no choice for the baby. What are you thinking
about was his money more important then GOD'S word. They are using his death
and him being a catholic to push this health care and what about him pushing
gays. There is a GOD and he does not care about you holding any position in the
church. If you go against his word then you go against his word. You are doing
a disservice to GOD and the unborn and the people you are leading wrong in this
world. I"m starting to believe everything they say about your church. And
I thought yiu cared about the babies.
W
MHFM: Are you insane? We
condemn abortion and Ted Kennedy. That's what the video is about.
Watch the video and wake up.
Homeschool
Dear Brothers,
First, I would like to thank you both for the labor you do for our Lord and for
the conversion of sinners. Secondly, I have a heavy heart about what curriculum
is the best for homeschooling. I am currently using Catholic Heritage
Curricula but have to scan through literally everything to make sure the V2
references in it don't slip out to my children. Every other
"Catholic" curriculum that I have searched through is the same (all
are Vatican II and lovers of heresy). Then there is the dilemma of buying
secular studies. All of that will surely not teach creation, but evolution. I
don't know if any other homeschooling mothers have written to you about this
issue or if you would even have an idea of what direction to send me, but if
you do I would greatly appreciate your opinions and feedback on this issue.
It's sad when you are out of the public school systems and still having great
concern about what your children will learn from their school books.
May God Bless You,
Jodi
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
Perhaps one of our readers has a suggestion.
Shredding
In
good faith I ordered the booklet that The Bible proves the Catholic Church is
the true Church, and then in seeing your last page, and all the post Vatican II
attacks on the recent Popes, Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and
visiting your website, I was scandalized beyond words !!!! You have
committed the greatest sin, abandoning the Holy Spirit in His guidance of the
Catholic Church, and then propagating it… you are dancing on the edge of
condemnation. You are in heresy, and you are disconnected from
Rome. I am shredding my booklets from you. They are tainted with
hate.
Marilyn Treder
MHFM: You are completely wrong and
very deceived. You understand nothing about the Catholic faith or
fidelity to the Papal Office. The Church teaches that a heretic cannot be
a valid pope. If you understood anything about Church history, you would
realize that there have been over 40 antipopes in Church history.
Moreover, if you had the good will to
look at the information, you would discover that Benedict XVI rejects the papal
office. He holds that one should not even convert Protestants. He
also engages in the worship of false religions, such as Islam and
Judaism. That's apostasy. He has agreed with the Lutherans on
Justification. He is also pro-abortion. By accepting him, you are
pro-abortion.
It proves that the Vatican II sect –
which you wrongly think is the Catholic Church – accepts as members those who
are notoriously pro-abortion. That proves that Benedict XVI holds that
one can be pro-abortion and be Catholic. By accepting him as a Catholic,
you are therefore pro-abortion. In other words, you believe that one can
promote and defend abortion and remain a member of the true
Church.
Benedict XVI is a manifest
heretic. He is not the pope.
New Video on Abortion, Ted Kennedy and
Benedict XVI
MHFM: See the striking clips which
prove it. This video shows why those who
accept Benedict XVI are not pro-life, but pro-abortion. By examining what his “Church” just did for
Ted Kennedy, it proves that Benedict XVI is pro-abortion. Ted Kennedy was vigorously pro-abortion. He was even in favor of partial-birth
abortion. He also supported gay
“marriage.” He even voted against the
Defense of Marriage Act. He also wanted
to expand “hate crimes” legislation to include special privileges for
homosexuals. Benedict XVI and his
Vatican II Church officially consider Ted Kennedy to have been a Catholic and
the servant of Christ. They consider him
saved and to be one who will live forever with Christ. This video demonstrates that all those who do
not condemn Benedict XVI as a heretic are pro-abortion. It proves that Benedict XVI is not the pope,
but a heretical antipope.
Kings
Dear Brothers Dimond,
I and my family have been spending some
time in Algarve for the summer holidays and as usual I took my Bible along, as
well as some of your books on the Catholic Faith to study. When I was deciding on what to read in the
Bible, it came to my spirit in a very clear way the curiosity about King David
and how the construction of Solomon’s Temple came about, although I did not
know exactly where to find it, I somehow discovered it without any difficulty.
So while reading I came to understand more
about God`s Justice and how generous He was to those who did good in the eyes
of God and walked in His ways by obeying His Laws and running away from sin,
but on the other hand God was very severe and punished those Kings and people
with many calamities because they did bad in the eyes of God by turning away
from Him. Therefore we know that God does not change and that his Justice will
stand until the end of Times.
I thought it interesting that when I
arrived in Lisbon and got back to your site, there it was, a video on King
Solomon´s Life.
Wishing you well, and keep up the good
work,
M. Fernanda da Silva
Reading
… Brothers
Peter & Michael Diamond
I am really glad from reading your material, specially the book "What
really happened to the Catholic Church..." and the DVDs.
When I purchased some material from your web-site, I had ordered some other
books and ended um getting the Salvation book, the "What happened..."
and the DVDs. At that time (something about 6 - 10 months ago) I was still
a "false traditionalist", in other words I… was very afraid of
reading sedevacantist material, since the SSPX and others from where I live
'warn' all the time to don’t read sedevacantist material, and all the typical
absurd defense that is common.
But thanks to God Almighty he made me come across your website, and although at
beginning I thought it too drastic and radical, little by little my thirst to
know the truth grew bigger and bigger, to the point that now your community is
my only safe reference in the Church´s doctrine. As I mentioned earlier at
first I didn´t read the "dangerous" (=sedevacantist) material, but
later on, as my eyes got open to the OBVIOUS truth as I saw the more and more
scandals of the "pope" I ended up taking a stand and reading it for
once! I thank God Almighty and His Most Blessed Mother for having led me to the
search and finding of the truth, which your monastery/website are the chosen
vehicles in this time of apostasy.
Thanks brothers!! I am most grateful of having found your information over
anything else! It´s as if all the time, even when I was already a
'traditional(sic) catholic' there was still something eerie, as if they simply
live on their lives happily with no mention of the most obvious
anti-catholic scandals of the conciliarist 'popes'!!
I hope I do not disturb much of your time with my writings, but I would like to
share this with you.
Last month I traveled to Italy… because although I already traveled there as a
child, I really liked to visit once again the holy cities and basilicas,
specially Saint Peter´s…. What a shock!! In ALL of the churches I visited,
there was no holy lamp, no kneelers, only some plastic chairs, or even worse,
no chairs at all. The churches were exposed as museums, and 100% of the people
in there just behave as if were in some party, with immodest clothing and
irreverent behavior. Although I recognize the faith has long been lost by the
'modernist' catholics, the total desacralization of these places really stunned
me.
Now as I return home, I visited the SSPX website and saw a lot of
"anti-sedevacantist" material that was not there before. I think that
as the truth starts to become more and more evident each day for everyone about
the so called 'conciliar church' and it´s 'popes', they have to fight to
preserve it´s position of 'communion' with this apostate traitor! Just to note,
as I scrolled trough the documents fighting the sedevacantist attacks, they enter
into many pages philosophical, historical, exegetical, etc themes to try to
explain the 'inconsistency' (as they call) of the sedevacantist position, but
do not enter into the infallible church teaching and into more basic and
obvious truths. It´s as if by a massive attack of "well written
nonsense", the person by appearances get´s convinced of their point, when
the truth is simple, plain and obvious.
Brothers thanks for your time of letting me share this with you… your
monastery, which is really a voice of the truth in this last times of apostasy.
God guide your paths!!
[asked for name to be withheld] Brazil
Comment
Dear Brothers:
Great work. Thanks for the video on
impurity, most people will not swallow this commandment easily because the
world was deceit us for a long time on this sin…
No wonder why Jacinta of Fatima said that
"the people fail to hell because of the sin of flesh are like flakes of
snow...that are so so so many". We should be aware of that and guard
our eyes, our bodies, and our souls. Thank you for spread out the truth of
teaching of God Most High, no sugar coat. People go to another religion because
they knew in their hearts they commit this sin and loved it, they don't want to
change. The reject everlasting life. God did not condemn no one to Hell. People
choose to go to Hell as their own will. Period.
Glory to God
Kim-Lan Vu
Funeral
Subject:
“St. Edward M. Kennedy”
I
heard some reporters talking about Kennedy's funeral shortly after the funeral "Mass"
this morning. One of them said she liked the "Catholic" way of
thinking (probably from the priest’s sermon) that he is in a better place where
it is peaceful. No more war; no more stress, plenty of medical care,
whatever. Another pro-abortion St.(Edward M.) Kennedy has gone to
heaven. If this doesn't convince a Catholic that the V2 church is not
Catholic, nothing will.
And
then there was the reporter's comment about Michael Jackson looking down on the
crowds who were honoring him…
P
MHFM: Yes, it’s really
something. We did a new video on this
topic.
Letter
Subject: Ted Kennedy’s letter to antipope
Benedict
This is weird as all about Kennedy
is. What is he trying to do? Ask for sainthood? – which he has from
the drive by media! On Rush Limbaugh's
show Friday, Rush aired a piece from one of Kennedy's pals, saying that he
loved to hear more new Chappequidia jokes! How sick is that? Just as I
said to myself "sick" Rush said it was 'sick'!
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/29/ted-kennedy-to-pope-benedict-i-am-writing-with-deep-humility/?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F08%2F29%2Fted-kennedy-to-pope-benedict-i-am-writing-with-deep-humility%2F
MHFM: It’s another facet of this
whole thing. We didn’t have time to
mention the letter in our video. It’s
just another example of the fact that Benedict XVI is fully aware of what’s
going on, and that Ted Kennedy considered himself to be “Catholic” while the
V-2 “hierarchy” did nothing to dispel that notion.
Man
I am a 61 year old cradle Catholic, who
experienced 16 years of a Catholic education & your information brought me
back in time when I was educated by the nuns from 1954 to 1962. I can remember them
telling us that we were never allowed to enter a non-Catholic church & when
we were instructed to bring our bibles to class, I remember sister Francella
nearly having a stroke when one of the students brought a king james bible.
In these days we have Catholic priests in
their homilies saying; "God's love is unconditional" I would raise
issue with that by saying; "How can God judge the living & the dead
without any conditions." I will try to answer my own question & suggest
that with the attendance of church activities on the down side, it becomes a
situation of competition amongst the churches in the communities to tell the
people or congregation what they want to hear & we come up with the idea
that we are all going to heaven & as you people so eloquently point out,
this is not the truth…
John
MHFM: Yes, it’s the religion of
man. It’s all about accepting man, and
their inability to condemn man and his sins.
It’s the religion of Antichrist: denying Christ and His truth in order
to please man. This is exemplified by
the man-centered New Mass, by the shocking and explicit teaching of Antipope John Paul II that man is God, and by their de
facto recognition of man as God in their utter unwillingness to condemn man,
even when God’s truth requires it.
For a striking illustration of the
last point, just take the example of Ted Kennedy. Not one Novus Ordo “bishop” can or will
denounce the guy as a heretic. They
worship man.
B-16
I just wanted to
mention how much I appreciated your honesty on how those
"Catholics" who support antipope "Benedict 16" as
"pope" (which, thanks… to YOUR fine work, he is CLEARLY
NOT....) are aggressively out there promoting the unspeakable sin of
abortion, since as a supposed Catholic "leader", that is exactly what
he does, by outrageous sins of omission, (silence, compliance on the issue,
etc, thereby totally CONDONING abortion!) and so as you mentioned, those
who lend their support to B-16 are promoting his incredibly EVIL pro-abort
stance. Most V-2 "Catholics" do not want to view
themselves this way. But how many souls is this anti-pope sending to Hell
on the abortion issue, alone?
Your recent
videos on purity are excellent. All your work has really snapped me out
of a spiritual lethargy and stunned me with the Truth of the actual
Catholic Faith, about which I was truly ignorant, (as a life-long former V-2
"Catholic") but I ask you to pray for me since your work has inspired
me to try harder to become a much better person, one worthy of Heaven…
Sincerely,
and Thanks again, Anne
New video against Impurity
This is part of a series called, Rejecting the Lust and Impurity of Hell.
Confused
… My family goes back generations in the
Roman Catholic Church and in investigating the Church, I realized the apostasy
that had happened. I wish to be able to have contact because I have many
unanswered questions. I am twenty years old right now and I am very confused
about several things in my life right now. I have questions that need to be
answered. I wish to have people to help me thing these things, by the grace of
the Most High God. I thank you for spending the time to read my email, because
I am sure that you get many e-mails each day. May God bless you for your
efforts.
Sincerely,
Michael H
MHFM: Michael, the material which is
available on our website (and by ordering from us) contains the truth that
people need to know about the Catholic faith and other topics. You really need to take a deep interest in
this material. We would encourage you to
listen to the audios, obtain the books, and pray the Rosary.
Since you seem to be unsure about
this, one thing we’d recommend is that you dispel from your mind what other
people might say about this information.
The Devil deceives and destroys the faith of countless souls by means of
people around them. Most people go to
Hell. Most are of bad will. That’s especially true today. You need to examine this information, give
special attention to the merits of the arguments, and completely disregard what
this or that person might say. Focus on
the facts, the truth and the teaching of the Catholic Church that is presented. Focus on how these conclusions are proven by
Catholic teaching, and ignore what the bad-willed herd (which is headed for
Hell) thinks.
Upset
Subject: Why I am upset with Christianity
Hi;
I love your website and will be studying it
for hours. I ask Christians this --> How can a Christian be
happy when God will have the majority of the human race tortured in hell for
ever?
They say "No, most will go to
Heaven"
but Jesus said in Matthew that wide is the
path to destruction and many will go there, narrow is the way to salvation and
few will find it. That proves that God will torture good people who don't
want to be religious and just want to be left alone. I have no trouble
with rapists and child molesters going to hell but what about all the good
people that are not religious? This really bothers me… Why is
Christianity so cruel?...
Sl
MHFM: Your premise is false.
Good people don’t go to Hell.
They go to Hell because they are bad.
They might not externally seem bad like open criminals do, but they are
liars in their hearts. We see that so
clearly all the time. Hell is the only
place for people who are liars to the core.
Sadly, almost all people today are liars, and most people throughout
history.
Apocalypse 21:8- “But the fearful, and
unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and
sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their
portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death.”
There are many examples we could give to demonstrate this
point. We could discuss moral issues,
such as abortion. We could discuss
Protestant issues, such as the heresy of faith alone. We could discuss Vatican II issues, such as
those who obstinately defend the clear heresies and apostasy of the
antipopes. But the example we would give
is one we mention frequently.
Think of all the people who claim to be traditional
Catholics. They claim to accept all
Catholic dogmas, including Outside the Church There is No Salvation. They claim to believe in papal
infallibility. They even claim to
believe in what Pope Eugene IV solemnly defined, that all who die as Jews, etc.
go to Hell. But then, when questioned
further, they admit that they are not convinced that all who die as Jews go to
Hell. That proves that they are
liars. Some of them will then proceed to
deny that they deny the dogma. God sees
all of this, and detests them for their dishonesty and their rejection of His
truth. They are of bad will, and liars
to the core. One must not be deceived by
appearances. Externally they might seem
good to some, and they might even pray.
They might even put out a decent amount of effort in what they think is
the practice of the traditional Catholic faith.
The fact, however, is that they are liars and therefore wicked to the
core. God rejects them and their
efforts, and they must be condemned to Hell.
They must be condemned because they are not of Him; they are not of the
truth. The perfect justice in this can
be seen by someone with faith.
V-2
Dear Brother Dimond,
…Thank you for your the terrific work you
do in helping people to see the errors and horrors that we face daily, due to
corruption of Vatican II!
Sincerely,
Chris
Faith
Thank you for your instructions. You
have renewed my faith in the Catholic Church and my God. I am about to be
unemployed so I have had time to read your information on your web site. Keep up the great work. Pray for me and
all the unemployed.
God Bless you
Lucille Beyer
Interesting
Dear Bros, Michael and Peter Dimond,
Once again, another excellent job on this
latest video on King Solomon... this latest production, is particularly
interesting, because of the little known details subsequently revealed
...Great pictures as well to go along with
the narrative.
God bless
David
Relevant
Dear Brothers,
Thanks for the new video on Solomon. It's very relevant for our time… That
quote of St. Athanasius' on how the Arians are abhorred by everyone except the
devil is very powerful. It shows how crucial it was for our Lord Jesus Christ
to institute the Papal Office as a defense against all heresies. How critical
it is to be certain that we accept all the Catholic Councils (like the Councils
of Nicaea, Trent, and Vatican I, etc.), all the decrees and condemnations
therein, and to accept them exactly as they are written, not as we would like
them to seem, especially if we come from a non-Catholic background! Your
monastery is the only place I know of and can trust at this time to be 100%
faithful to such Councils because of the eclipsed state of the Church due to
the Great Apostasy…
God Bless,
Kit White
Comment
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter
I would like to show my appreciation for the excellent video you made on King Solomon,
which was very instructive and interesting to watch. I really like it when you refer to the
lessons contained in the Old Testament and show their relevance for today.
I am currently reading the Old Testament
(having first read the New Testament) and I came across a passage in
Deuteronomy chapter 28 verses 15-68, concerning God's punishments if the
Israelites fail to observe His Law. This passage cries out its relevance for
our own evil times, with the consequences of the mass apostasy of the New
Israel - Christendom - from the Catholic Faith. Although this passage describes
the punishments to be inflicted for unfaithfulness which are specific to the
times of Moses, many of the curses contained in this passage of Holy Scripture
appear to describe the chaos, fear, immorality, evil, spiritual blindness, and
undermining and ongoing destruction of our own Western civilisation. It is
salutary to consider that God is not remote and aloof from what is going on in
the world today, that we could consider that temporal punishments are being
inflicted now on what was Christendom for the heinous sins of the Great
Apostasy.
Yours in Jesus and Mary
Gerard
Observation
Dear Brothers,
I just finished watching the short video on King Solomon and wanted to make a
quick observation. When you mentioned King Solomon building the idols for
the pagans it reminded me of the Vatican 2 "Bishops and Priests" who
go around promoting and helping protestants, Muslims, Buddhists, or whatever
build their places of abomination. Their promotion and taking up
collections for these places is no different than King Solomon building
them.
Paul
Story
Subject:
“Satanic voices in Sydney’s Suburbia” newspaper article
Hi Brothers,
I'm not sure if you already know about this disturbing story, but I think you
would find it very interesting:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/satanic-voices-in-sydneys-suburbia/story-e6freuy9-1225759137454
Kind Regards,
Anita
New Video on King Solomon
Wonder
I wonder if the year 2000 computer crash
hoax was created to make people incredulous, so that when this swine flu thing
happens everyone will disregard it and catch everyone off guard. No one
seems to be concerned about it.
Todd
Videos
Hello!
I have learned a great deal from your
excellent videos. Thank you for producing
them and offering them at such a low price... Thank you!
Louis
Interest
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
My dear friend Scott P., who has to suffer
on d/r Livingston in Texas sent me your letter you wrote to him lately, thank
you so much for taking your time for him and enlightening his days on d/r with
your friendly words and the three booklets you sent, this has been very kind of
you and our HOLY GOD bless your good heart.
I apologize my English is very simple,
hopefully you understand it… GOD bless your ministry and place
Karin Eberhart
Switzerland
Apostate defends the Devil
Subject: “A bad rap for Satan”
Dear Brothers,
FYI - For your readers.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20090804/NEWS01/708049893
This apostate gave a lecture before other
apostates at the 2009 "Catholic" Biblical Association meeting at
Creighton Univ. - Omaha. I
attended C.U from 1956-59, but do not remember this evil doer at that
time.
“The Fonda, Iowa, native challenges the notion
of Satan (or Lucifer) as a fallen dark angel who tempted Adam and Eve into
committing the “original sin” and who now runs Hell and tempts humans to sin.”
PAX CHRISTI
Donald Livingston
Thoughts
Dear MHFM
I've been re-reading the ". . . No
Salvation" book, page 138, regarding St. Thomas Aquinas and the silence of
the popes who recommended the Summa but never pointed out its errors. A few things come to mind besides the reasons
you have given:
The pope(s) had already spoken on these
errors, and any theologian with a brain in his head should have known this. The
fact that baptism of blood and desire and salvation outside the Church
literally scream that God is not Almighty, is enough to send a theologian
running to inspect the infallible interpretations of the popes of Christ's
words, on these matters. Were these theologians stupid or was something else
going on in the 19th, 20th centuries? Father Feeney's
"excommunication" literally reeks of conspiracy.
Many more questions arise. Why was one of the
priests who taught our religion classes in a Catholic High school, taught by a
Jewish professor. What was a Jew doing teaching Catholicism to Catholic
seminarians? And what was he teaching
them?
Does anyone at all know of any… priest
who does not honor the Vatican II heretics as popes? The devil once told St.
John Vianney that if he had just three more like him, he would be defeated.
Just three more.
St. John V. who converted an entire village
and probably thousands who came to confess to him, predicted that in 100 years
his church would not be the same. This was in 1858 or 1859 (according to a
biography), and 100 years later we have antipope John XXIII pretending to be
the pope. Of course there was Padre Pio who was very similar to St. John V.,
but where are the faithful priests? Bishops? Not one member of the clergy
exists, it seems, who fights for truth and exposes the Vatican II heretics. And
all of them taught the salvation lies, even in the pre-Vatican II church.
When I was in the Vatican II church there
was a lot of sneakiness going around. The priests would yell at you, snub you,
tell you that you could no longer teach CCD, lie to you, beat around the bush,
and even run away from you when they saw you coming, but not one would counsel
you as to why you were wrong and they were right. They didn't even tell me I
was wrong, just that I was causing dissension. Of course when I found out that
the sneakiness, lies and contradictions went all the way to Rome and the
"popes", I immediately separated myself from this literal garbage
pile of false doctrine, and from what I've seen of the neglect of duty of
priests through my life as a pre and post-V2 "Catholic", nothing much
surprises me.
Now, regarding St. Thomas errors in the
summa, including his denial of the Immaculate Conception, all of these errors
were, as MHFM has written, ultimately or previously made moot by previous
infallible papal directives and in 1854, Pope Pius IX defined Mary's Immaculate
Conception, thus proving, again, that St. Thomas Aquinas was not infallible.
St. Teresa of Avila, ordered by her
spiritual director, wrote extensively on the spiritual life, and throughout her
writings, one reads that should any errors be found in her writings, that
she would humbly accept correction. The same can be read in the writings of St.
Margaret Mary, also ordered to write. No doubt St. Thomas Aquinas wrote with
the same kind of understanding and his errors are proof of the fallibility of
even the great saints, no matter how knowledgeable of the faith they
may have been.
All Catholics should know and are taught
that Christ's guarantee of infallibility (that the gates of Hell shall not
prevail against the Church) was only given to Peter and his successors, and no
theologian or anyone who claims to teach the Catholic faith, who clearly
sees (the errors of the V2 popes are well advertised) that a pope teaches
contradictory to Peter and his true successors, can fail to conclude that these
men are not Catholic. So why do they not teach this truth? Is it because they
are not or never were Catholic? No one can be that ignorant. Did their Jewish
professors teach them these errors? Bad will in many cases, but bad will plus
conspiracy in many others.
When I was in the V2 church, I always wondered
why this hard working seemingly "orthodox" V2 priest who even
often prayed the rosary with his congregation, would leave his chalice
uncovered, in spite of the V2 rubrics that ordered a covered chalice. He
didn't even put a pall over it like the other priests. Then he began to
promote false apparitions; sold heretical books about them inside of the
church; not in the foyer, but inside of the church, and just before he was
transferred, he held a charismatic healing service in the sanctuary of the church
with priests and lay persons anointing with the baptism of the "Holy
Spirit". He always seemed to want to be on my good side, but when he
did those things, I quit talking to him. Later on… I wrote him a letter
telling him what I thought of him. I also sent him a MHFM ". . . no
salvation" book; throwing pearls before swine, no doubt.
Just some thoughts....
PM
Audios
…Thanks for the Jurisdiction audios…
Thanks and God bless you and the monastery
Jerome
Interest
Hi Bros. Michael and Peter Dimond,
Thanks for the recent update on the
"Swine Flu" and the link to that article...
Just as a matter of interest for your
readers, up to the 14 August, 2009, here in New Zealand, the death rate for the
"Swine" Flu, was 0.0000034%; the total number of deaths due
to "swine" flu being reported as 14.
Since the total population of N.Z. is
around 4.1 million, it seems that in the middle of this "pandemic" we
should be in CODE RED by now, but instead, it seems more like a 'whiter shade
of pale! '....
God bless
David
p.s. somebody might like to check on my
sums!
Browsing
I was just
browsing through the book: What Really Happened to the Catholic Church After
Vatican II. I must have underlined and annotated every page… How anyone
who calls him or herself Catholic can even glance at this book and not be
totally appalled [by the Vatican II apostasy] and convinced that Vatican II
Rome is not the Catholic Church, then they are mentally blind. The
seminarian's description of what he was taught is totally demonic. It also
shows how much the devil hates the rosary but will tolerate it in order to fool
certain people.
I saw much of
the same kinds of things as a V2 "Catholic", and it's all out
there in the open.
They had to
murder Sister Lucy or she would have exposed the whole mess. Further
proof, as if we need any more.
P.
Preparing
Brothers,
Concerning your exchange about the NY funeral homes. This site that tries to
debunk the FEMA camps and grave burial liners has a remark by someone
concerning a nationwide effort to inform funeral homes of an upcoming incident.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4312850.html
"...my best friend of thirty years wife works in a large funeral home and
held a meeting with the management at the funeral business, including her,
instructing them as how to manage large numbers of deceased more quickly and
efficiently. They mentioned that these instructional meeting were being held
nationwide. Sounds to me like they are preparing themselves for something over
and beyond the ordinary".
God Bless,
Tom
Example
Dear Brothers,
I have found I believe another example of
apostasy in our times, I saw an ad for St. Barnabas Hospital located in
northern New Jersey advertising "in vitro" fertilization and other
artificial forms of reproduction. How can a truly "Catholic" hospital
engage in that?
John
Catholic miracles
Dear Brothers:
… If the people still refuse to believe
perhaps they should look at the incorruptible bodies of so many saints in the
Catholic history.
If they still cannot believe the miracles
of Fatima, the miracles in incorruptible bodies of the saints, the host of
Eucharist which had been examined and proved to be real heart tissues and human
blood, things predicted and prophesied happened... then I don't know what else
will cause people to come to believe the true church.
The main point is "If you love me,
keep my commandments". But the commandments of Jesus are too difficult for
those who do not love him. Only light to the people who love the humble life as
Jesus.
Modern men and women must learn from three
little saints of Fatima. They are the real conquerors, great heroes who
recognized the truth… at a very young age and they haven’t even have passed the
fifth grade yet. They don't ask for
proof… they understood deep in their hearts without asking for explanation as
people do now.
Thanks God for the work you are
doing. Seems like there is not much time left…
Glory to God,
Kim-Lan Vu
Arians
Dear Brothers,
I was thinking about the singular 'name' instead of 'names' in the Trinitarian
baptismal formula, ‘...in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost.’ (Matt. 28:19) Given that God’s name is Jehovah, then Jesus is
admitting that he is Jehovah Incarnate; and seeing that God's name means, 'He
Who Is,' then Arius was totally contradicting the truth when he said, 'there
was time when Jesus was not.' Isn't it interesting that the Arian heretics,
like the Jews and the JWs, all claim to worship God the Father but actually
deny Him because they don’t accept or believe in the God the Son’s absolute
eternity, Divinity, and likeness to the Father (1 John 2:23) - yet a child can
and will believe that Jesus is the one true God made flesh!! How ironic that
Arius denied the Alpha by saying that ‘there was a time when Jesus was not,’
but in the end there was no way that he could avoid the Omega! (Apocalypse 1:8)
Thank you and God Bless,
Kit White
Comment
Dear
Brothers in Christ,
I must correct you regarding the "swine flu" issue. You said that
this thing does not exist at this point.
I disagree. Every time when some
of the officials in the UN, or in any government in the world, gets a flu we
have a swine with the flu.
Let Our Mother Mary and St. Joseph guard us against these mass murderers.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
Assuming
"Public health officials are no longer
sending most suspected cases for confirmation, but instead are assuming that
anyone who tests positive for influenza type A in a rapid test at the doctor's
office has swine flu since regular, seasonal type A flu is rare right
now."
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/metro.ssf?/base/news/125075617428450.xml&coll=2
Scroll down after clicking on link to view article
So let me get this
straight, I had a sore throat for a few days now, so I guess that means I
need to get stuck with 20 vaccines??
S
MHFM: That’s very interesting! Thank you for sending that article. The bolded portion coincides precisely with the
opinion we’ve been expressing all along: there’s probably not one person on
Earth with “swine flu.” As we pointed
out in our original audio back in April,
only certain select agencies and individuals can “confirm” a “swine flu”
case. So if people get sick, they send
in a sample and have to wait for the “official results.”
There are many people who are
exposing the “swine flu” hoax. They are
exposing how it’s being used to implement total control and possibly martial
law. They are also exposing the dangers
of vaccines. However, almost no one
(besides us) has emphasized that a special “swine flu” probably doesn’t even
exist at this point. Many of these other speakers and groups
believe it’s a manufactured virus; in other words, it’s real but deliberately
created. We have a different
opinion. It’s our opinion that there is
no such thing at this point; it’s all
hype and propaganda created by dishonestly “confirming” regular cases of
flu-like symptoms as “swine flu”; or, at the most, by dishonestly confirming
certain idiosyncrasies found in some cases of regular flu as some new kind of
“swine flu.”
The fact that it’s no different from
regular flu is why so many prominent figures and celebrities who have
“contracted it” recover without a problem.
This article seems to corroborate our opinion because now they are
simply fast-tracking the “confirmation” process. No longer do you need to even bother to send
it in and get the phony result back.
That strongly suggests that the “confirmation” wasn’t worth anything to
begin with! Now they just assume that
anyone with any flu-like problem has “swine flu.” What a sham!
But once they start giving the “vaccine” to millions, we believe that at
that point you might see a real, bona fide (or rather mala fide) virus with
devastating and probably deadly results.
So if there is a major “outbreak” in which vast numbers of people truly
become sick and die, it will be caused (in our opinion) not by some “swine
flu,” but by the vaccine. And millions
will believe that it’s “swine flu” that is causing so many to become sick and
die.
Fiction becoming reality
Brothers,
Here is a worthy article on the swine flu
scare.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14869
The ensuing aftermath and devastation must
be one of the pestilences mentioned in Matthew XXIV. Famines will be next and
will probably occur at the same time as the outbreak, since truckers may be too
afraid to deliver to "plague areas."
What's truly intriguing about this is that
one of the ingredients in these "vaccines" that is incubated or
some such from monkey kidneys. Now, a novelist named Tom Clancy wrote a book 15
years ago with the Iranians concocting a "super ebola virus"
incubating in monkey kidneys, to be used as a bio-terror weapon against the
U.S., followed by martial law, a cessation of interstate commerce, an attack
against the "first family" by more Muslims, a failed bomb plot by
"homegrown patriots," a land battle with Iranian forces, and to top
it all off, a smart bomb dropped bullseye into the house where the Iranian
president is staying.
Judging by the haste in which this
"vaccine" is being deployed, perhaps fiction may merge with reality
very soon.
May the Most Holy Trinity, the Most Holy
Family, all the Saints and all the Heavenly Hosts pray for us and protect
us all during these times, and though the laborers be few may the harvest be
bountiful.
Sincerely,
Howard
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. The Iran connection is quite
interesting. In our April discussion (linked
to above), we mentioned the possibility of how they might try to blame it on
Iran.
Tornado, Lutherans
Dear Brothers,
You probably saw this, but a tornado hit the Lutherans:
The tornado happens on a Wednesday...during the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America's national convention in the Minneapolis Convention
Center. The convention is using Central Lutheran across the street as its
church. The church has set up tents around it's building for this
purpose.
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11043
(includes a interesting picture)
Many thanks again for your good works
Patrick
Comment
The brief video is very timely for me. Thanks. I like the picture
of the green fields too! Thank you both for being there. I hope you
continue to make short videos!
Sincerely,
Joseph
Age of the Church
Hi Brother Dimonds,
I have been told that we are in the 5th Age
of the Church. These people are expecting two more ages before everything wraps
up. What are your thoughts on this? These people assume on this premise that we
will see a Church Restoration and the restoration of the Catholic monarch
before the final apostasy with the anti-Christ. Can you give me insights on
what to believe? After reading your section on Fatima and the Consecration and
Conversion of Russia, I am inclined to believe your position over the
speculations of these people.
AJ
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. No, we don’t agree with their opinion. They are probably deriving some of those
opinions from various private revelations that have been compiled, some of
which are contradictory and of questionable authenticity. We believe that we are definitely in the
Great Apostasy and living shortly before the coming of Christ. The Vatican II apostasy is not just some
run-of-the-mill crisis. It’s the great
crisis and falling away from the faith – the final spiritual deception – just
before the return of the Lord. In our
opinion, this can also be seen by carefully considering other things that are
going on in the world.
If there will be a “restoration,” as
they believe, then that means that this Vatican II apostasy is not the Great
Apostasy. It means New Mass is not the
abomination of desolation, etc. We do
not agree with that opinion. Moreover,
in her interview with Fr. Fuentes in 1957, the real Sr. Lucy clearly indicated
that we are in the final days, and that Fatima was essentially the last big
warning for the world.
Furthermore, in our section on Fatima, we show that the miracle of the sun was in itself
an indication that the final apostasy and the final spiritual deception was
about to happen. The people who saw the
miracle thought that it was the end of
the world. That was God’s way of
indicating that this is the last warning.
Even the secular press unwittingly acknowledged that the miracle of
Fatima was the sign of Heaven of Apocalypse 12:1. That’s explained in the article.
New Video on King David
Received
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I received several weeks ago my order of your
book "Outside the Church there is no Salvation." Thank you very
very much for sending much more than what I requested!
Your dvds are a revelation; Your works
are very inspiring.
May the Good Lord bless you for your
generosity, zeal and love of truth. May your work be guided and truly
blessed.
With much gratitude,
Rommel dela Rosa
Arguing
I got in recent debate last week and the 2
people I was arguing with contradicted themselves over n over again...And when
I brought up LaSallete, Pope Leo XIII message, Fatima should have been released
by 1960 to show we’re in the endtimes etc...they changed their position which
they held for many years & now say "Oh, were not in the
endtimes, nor is the church in a crisis today".....wow what bad will
!! but up until that point they agreed with me that we were in endtimes
and the church was in crisis etc...
Steve
Arians, Trinity
I have a question as a Catholic for Michael
Dimond if you can help. It has to do with the teaching of the Trinity...
They say that Arianism holds that Jesus was not divine and some say Isaac
Newton was an Arian, - but Newton says in many places that Christ was Divine
but was just a separate entity of God. SO I guess he was Unitarian but he
believe in the Trinity of all three he just thought God was at the Top as the
one true infinite and perfect creator of all things.
My question can be formed as this,
What is wrong with seeing the three as separate forms, God being the greatest
of the three, but all divine and Jesus and the Holy Ghost "leading"
to God?
Ca
MHFM: What’s wrong with it is that
it’s not true, it’s not biblical, it’s heresy and it’s apostasy. You are saying that Jesus and the Holy Ghost
are divine in some way, but not equal to God.
The Bible and the Church infallibly teach that there is one God in three
divine and co-equal Persons. That’s why
we read that people are to be baptized IN THE NAME (singular) of the Father,
and of the Son and of Holy Ghost (Mt. 28:20).
The three divine persons have one substance. They are co-equal and co-eternal.
On this point it’s interesting to
note that the Arians had various forms and shades of their apostasy. They would often equivocate as well. For instance, some of them would say that
Jesus is divine or even God, but that He was not true God. They would
dishonestly claim to consider him God, but they would refuse to say that He is
true God and co-eternal with the Father.
They would say that He is like God, but ultimately a creature of the
Father. This is blasphemy. That sounds like what Newton was saying and
how he used the term “divine.” It’s also
a reminder of how heretics frequently use ambiguity or dishonest phraseology to
disguise their heresies. But when the
true position is specifically presented and they are held to it – and forced to
condemn the contrary – their heresy is made clear. That’s why those who say they believe in the
necessity of Christ for salvation, but don’t condemn documents and persons
which contradict it, deny that truth.
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439:
“Sixthly, we offer to the envoys that compendious
rule of the faith composed by most blessed Athanasius, which is as follows:
“Whoever
wishes to be saved, needs above
all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and
inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.– But the
Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity
in unity; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance; for
there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy
Spirit, their glory is equal, their majesty coeternal...and in this Trinity there is nothing first
or later, nothing greater or less, but all three persons are coeternal and
coequal with one another, so that in every respect, as has already been said
above, both unity in Trinity, and Trinity in unity must be worshipped. Therefore
let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.
“But it is necessary for eternal salvation
that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ...the Son of God is God and man... This is the Catholic faith; unless each one
believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.”
Problem
Dear Dimond Brothers,
My name is Leonardo Perez and I too agree that there is a great problem with
Pope Benedict. I ask in all humility if you would be so kind as to help
instruct me better. What must a true Catholic do in these times? If
it is true that we are in the end of time, where are we to receive Eucharist if
Truth has been compromised ? How are we to follow the Lamb withersoever
He goeth? What are the solutions that you would offer me as to where I
would receive the Sacraments? What solutions can you offer me to perfect
myself in truth in these dangerous times? I remember in hope what Christ
my Lord said: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation
of the world. Your response and help would be greatly appreciated.
God bless,
Leo
MHFM: You cannot receive sacraments
to your benefit until you reject Benedict XVI as an antipope and accept all the
other teachings of the Church. You
cannot follow the Lamb wherever he goes if you maintain a communion of “faith”
with a manifest heretic who rejects Vatican I, the Council of Trent and accepts
false religions. Please listen to our
audios and read our books and articles on these topics. After a person is fully convinced and
committed on these issues, we can help him or her with where to receive
sacraments. (We also have a file on our
site which gives the guidelines.)
By way of spiritual recommendations, we recommend everyone to
pray the Rosary each day, all 15 decades if possible. An easier way to get that accomplished is one
set of mysteries three different times in the day. We also recommend people to obtain, read and
put into practice what is contained in St. Louis De Montfort’s book, True Devotion to Mary (which we sell).
Litany
Subject: the Rosary
Hello,
I just would like to ask about the part when will the Litany of the Blessed
Virgin be recited? also I would like to thank you for this wonderful site
without which I would still be accepting any heretical ideas stated by the V-2
sect. I'm Tristan and I'm from the province of Cebu in the Philippines…
Godspeed to you all and may your ministry reach us here in Cebu Philippines.
Sincerely,
Tristan, Cebu, Philippines
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. The Litany of the Blessed Virgin is an excellent
prayer that is separate from the Rosary.
Stigmata
I have reasons
to highly disagree with the entire "Mystical" part of the Catholic
Church. Frankly, it's a sham. How could this man have had "The
Stigmata." He was "Suffering as Our Lord suffered."
This is what I call a HUGE SHAM! It irritates me more than
anything. Mystical people say that because they are holy, nobody likes
them. What kind of attitude does this bring about? Just be a
jerk to everyone than think that nobody likes you because you are holy. I
have seen this attitude with people I have known many a time. I
want them to open that casket and take out all the preservatives they put into
that man's coffin and see what happens. Mystics are what I call
creepy. They claim the ability to suffer for other people etc. This
is CREEPY CREEPY stuff. Padre Pio was not a girl, but if he had been, he
would claim, like Mother Teresa claimed, that he was married to Our Lord.
This is another one of those most ridiculous things in this world. It's
flat out creepy. And people who get into it start thinking they are holy
and start acting like weirdos.
Angela
MHFM: The word stigmata actually comes from Galatians 6:17. It refers to the marks or body-marks of Jesus.
Galatians 6:17- “From henceforth let no man
be troublesome to me; for I bear the
marks [stigmata] of the Lord Jesus in my body.
Some believe that St. Paul was saying
that he had the actual Stigmata. Both in
the Old and New Testament, God describes His Church (His people) as His
bride. Mother Teresa was not a real
Catholic. She was an apostate. It seems like you should get and read our book,
The Bible
Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church.
You seem to reject the idea of a
person suffering for another. You don’t
seem to realize that this is a biblical concept.
Colossians 1:24- “[I] now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up those
things that are wanting of the
sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church.”
This verse might be a shock to some
who are not familiar with it. St. Paul
says that he fills up, for the Church, those things that are wanting or lacking
in the sufferings of Christ. Christ’s
suffering was perfect and of infinite value; so what does this mean?
What St. Paul means is that many
sufferings are still wanting and needed for the members of the Church to work
out their salvation, which was all made possible by Christ’s sacrifice. This verse proves that Christ’s sacrifice
doesn’t do away with all worries about the possibility of future punishment due
to one’s sins. If so, then Paul would
never say that his sufferings fill up for members of the Church that which is
wanting in the sacrifice of Christ; nor would Jesus speak of the punishments
for sins, which He repeatedly does. This
verse, Colossians 1:24, also proves the Catholic doctrine of the communion of
saints, and the effect of intercessory
prayer and sacrifice.
This is also seen in the fact that
the Bible teaches that people can pray for one another. When you pray for another, you are asking God
to intercede for another on behalf of your petition. You are expressing the conviction that your
actions (your prayers) could make a difference in how God deals with
another. If that is true of prayers, it
could also be true of certain sufferings that God sends to a person, as St.
Paul makes clear.
Turned
Since I found your website my whole life
has turned around.
Gary Craft
Thoughts
Subject: Lunar landing Hoax
Brothers,
Here's some thoughts regarding the moon
landing hoax:
In the book, "The Russian Space
Bluff," the Soviets cannot seem to make a rocket big enough to carry a designated
payload sufficient to propel someone to the moon, due to the fact that extra
weight requires extra fuel, meaning simply that it doesn't seem to matter how
big the rocket is; the extra fuel load will always negate the benefit of a more
powerful engine when you get to a certain point.
The intriguing part to all this is that the
Soviets finally gave up, according to the author of this book, a high
ranking-Russian officer, as the Soviets could not "keep up" with
the U.S. But other books I've read indicate that we either gave or sold the
Soviets everything they ever wanted or needed since 1917, obviously due to the
fact that both countries were and are controlled by the same judeo-masonic
cabal. A cold war movie called "Failsafe" appeared in 1964 actually
had the character of the U.S. president speaking to the president of the
U.S.S.R. during an accidental bombing attack against the Soviet Union,
"reminding" him that, "Can't you shoot them (our planes) down?
You have the same equipment as we do."
Lastly, there is one other thing that I had
not heard spoken of: the fact that when the returning module "blasts"
off, separating itself from the main module on the "lunar surface," I
noticed a slight tilt of the camera skyward, and even a slight pullback. Now,
it seems that, since we did not leave a cameraman behind on a real lunar
surface to handle the appropriate shots of this blastoff for posterity and the
evening news with freemason Walter Cronkite, how could the camera tilt and
refocus without a man operating it? I never realized this until just a couple
of years ago while watching another show on this conspiracy.
The "space race" was just one of
many distractions from the destruction of the legitimate Catholic hierarchy and
the loss of faith of a few hundred million people.
Sincerely,
Howard
Moon
Dear brothers in Christ,
You've said you are totally convinced that U.S. astronauts were never landing
on the Moon. I do not share your conviction, at least not totally.
There is one crucial detail which you may
have overlooked, and that is a motion through the space filled with air. There
is ALWAYS an air drag behind a moving solid body. This drag should lift up the
smallest sand particles, and that should be very visible on the film. After
seeing the relevant videos more than once, which you've recommended, I couldn't
see nothing of the sort. On the contrary, I saw the motion consistent with
airless surrounding.
My conclusion is: if the landing on the
Moon is a hoax, it is very elaborate one. The authors of the hoax have pumped
out the air form the whole stage. There is no other explanation besides the
possibility that they indeed were walking on the Moon, and driving a vehicle
etc.
I don't know if it was possible--that is,
pumping out the air form such a huge stage-- then, in 1969.; I'm not sure is it
possible today.
All other considerations, however convincing they might be, could be explained
consistently with the airless environment and/or other, mainly optical,
phenomena. We cannot, and must not,
disregard the physical laws concerning the motion of solid bodies through the
air.
May Our Blessed Mother Mary and St. Joseph cherish your holy efforts.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
MHFM: We can see an air drag of sand
in Part 3, at the 1:34-1:36
minute-mark.
(As an aside, we thought that it was
funny that – at the 1:24 minute-mark of Part 3 – the astronaut, who is
supposedly walking on the moon, comments: “it’s absolutely unreal.” We think that he
was telling the truth when he said that.)
Moon landing
hoax- Part 1 [about
10 minutes each part]
But in addition to all the evidence
covered in the above documentary, there are a few other things to consider.
First, the documentary called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Moon shows the actual video footage
of the crew faking being half way to the moon. One must pay close attention to what is
explained in the clips below to understand why this is so revealing. This video was only released as part of a
public demand for information.
Apparently they sent it out by mistake.
The fact that they were faking being half way to the moon of course
lends great support to the idea that they didn’t go to the moon.
This is the clip which has, and explains, the footage of the
crew faking being half way to the moon
There is also the fact that only the U.S. has gone to the moon. With all the advances in technology, what are
the chances that the U.S. was able to go to the moon 40 years ago, but every other country to this day remains unable to
do it? Or is it more plausible that only
the U.S. was able to “go to the moon” because only the U.S. (at that time) had
a bunch of well-financed conspirators who were bold enough to fake it? It’s also strange that the only “trips”
occurred about 40 years ago. There
hasn’t been one “trip” since the early 1970s.
This is peculiar when we consider how much more sophisticated we become
with each passing decade.
That being said, we’re not saying
that someone couldn’t have a different opinion on the moon hoax issue. But with some other conspiracies – such as
9/11, the Federal Reserve, the JFK assassination, etc. – the evidence is so
overwhelming, indisputable and factual that to deny it (after one has seen
all the well-presented evidence) is, in our view, to be dishonest.
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B.O.D.
Dear MHFM,
In regards to baptism of desire/blood the
Great 20th century saint, Pope Pius X says it best in Acerbo Nimis #6-"...It
is indeed vain to expect a fulfillment of the duties of a christian by one who
does not even know them..." How can one who has a desire for being in the
church, and not have the knowledge of the church, without being taught, be
saved? St. Pope Pius X says it so simply. You can't. Having
the knowlege, gives the desire to be in the church, hence, baptism, which God
in the Trinity allows every time, without cessation by providing the agent and
form to enter into the kingdom. The infiltrators, liberals of the Church
use desire and blood to confuse and separate the flock much like in Corinth in
the time of St. Paul-1cor1-10-17 used baptism to try and better each
other. Another tool, by satan, thrown into the reasonable mind of
man to confuse christians and separate them and lead the flock into Hell.
D
Religion
Hello Brothers,
I have a quick question which I've been trying to find the answer to these past
2 weeks but I'm having troubles. With
the new book which I thank God and you guys for writing it, I am more confident
to help non-Catholic, Protestants, etc. come to the knowledge of the True
Faith, and lead a few to conversion.
Unfortunately there are still those who won’t get it and bring up ways to
justify their false beliefs, but recently I've been debating with a
protestant. The Papacy is always a key point to convincing them but I've
noticed that I have heard this objection, which they bring up something similar
to this: "Yes, Christ has one Church, but God does not talk about the one
true religion, the word religion is not even in the Bible." How may
one clear up this whole "The word religion is not even in the Bible"
objection?
Any quick response, maybe some verses to look at for clarification would be
greatly appreciated. Thank you.
-Bernard
MHFM: There are two quick
responses. The first is that the word religion is in the Bible, in many
verses:
Galatians 1:14- “And I made progress in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my
own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.”
James 1:26- “And if any man think himself
to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this
man's religion is vain.”
If the true faith of the Old Testament
is described by St. Paul as the Jews’ “religion” – and the faith of Christ has
superseded the faith of the Old Testament – it follows that the true faith of
the New Testament is a religion.
The second quick response to the
question is that the word “Trinity” is not mentioned in the Bible. We bet your friend claims to believe in the
Trinity. Even though the word isn’t in
the Bible, the concept is clearly there.
One cannot reject the Trinity just because the word isn’t
mentioned. That’s because the truth of
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost (one God in three Divine Persons) is clearly
taught in the Bible. Likewise, the Bible
clearly teaches that one must hear the Church (Mt. 18:17) and accept all of
Christ’s teachings. Adhering to that
Church and to all of Christ’s teachings constitutes practicing a religion.
Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832: “Finally some of these misguided people
attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the
Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.”
Meant
Dear Brothers,
Can you clarify what is meant by works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia?
>>he has given away in alms and even
if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the
bosom and unity of the Catholic Church>>>
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman
Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside
the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical
body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the
Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he
has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ,
unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Thanks,
P
MHFM: It’s referring to all the things
that the faithful (i.e., baptized Catholics) – who are the Church MILITANT – do
in their Catholic lives. These include
observing the liturgical calendar (and thus fasting on required days), saying
prayers to obtain indulgences (“works of piety”), and other things. The definition of Florence means that even if
one does all of those things, and even if he sheds blood in the name of Christ
on top of it, he cannot be saved unless he is in the bosom and unity of the
Catholic Church.
Article
Dear Brothers:
Here is something I found that is quite sad:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/14/australia.right.to.die/index.html
It's about this man (a quadriplegic) in Australia who, presumably, is a
"...person that's rational and lucid.." despite the fact he wants to
die and has even considered going to Switzerland to do so. The nursing
facility seems to be very glad that they will not be held liable in the event
he "refuses" food and water. Now considering that he needs
speech pathology, it seems that it would be very easy for the nursing staff to
let him starve to death and claim they he "said" he did not want to
be fed. Of course, the right-to-die crowd will probably jump all over
this, claiming that there are people who want to die because there's
"...just pain." But, they just show that they will exploit an
invalid to push their own agenda. Is there no end to all the
cruelty? This man does not need a right-to-die clause...he needs serious
spiritual help. There was a time when someone who said he wanted to die
was considered to be not right in the head...or on something.
PC
Comment
Dear MHFM
This is in response to a person named
AV who sent you a negative e-mail exchange. Bayside is
demonic! Our lady would never tell us to
follow and obey an anti-pope, or stay in the false counterchurch, or
attend the false invalid service, novus ordo.
It’s time for people like him to start learning the true catholic
faith, and to wake up and realize the massive spiritual deception going on
all around us. We get our truth from the teaching church, scripture and
tradition, not unapproved private apparitions.
This is gnosticism.
God bless! Mark, CA
Opinion, B.O.D.
Dear Brothers,
In your recent audio on Gerry Matatics, you
mentioned that theologians such as St. Thomas and others could never make their
arguments for baptism of desire square with Church teaching. This is so
true. St. Thomas’ theological defense of this position always seemed to
me surprisingly weak.
Moreover, if you pick through the BOD issue
argumentatively, as opposed to doctrinally, certain logical problems also
present themselves.
For example, if one assumes for the sake of
argument that the desire for baptism is efficacious of salvation by itself, it follows
that baptism is not absolutely necessary for salvation. But the goodness
of a desire depends upon the goodness of the object of that desire; and that
which is necessary is better than that which is not necessary, all other things
being equal. Therefore, the BOD argument is saying, in effect, that the
desire for something that is not necessary for salvation (and, therefore, less
good than if it were necessary) is, by itself, efficacious of salvation.
This seems absurd.
Moreover, if one assumes that baptism is
absolutely necessary for salvation, it follows that the mere desire for it
would not be efficacious of salvation. Therefore, the desire for the
better thing, i.e., necessary baptism, would be worse than the desire for the
worse thing, i.e., unnecessary baptism, for only the desire for unnecessary
baptism can be logically thought to achieve salvation by itself.
Therefore, the worse desire would be better. This, also, seems
absurd. Moreover, we have a paradox: It seems that God can not make
an object so good that the desire for that object is consequently so good that
it can achieve the fruits of the object itself.
But don’t believe it.
For, while desire for baptism is not
efficacious of salvation per se, because that would make the worse desire
better, it is efficacious per accidens, that is, through baptism, which is
alone efficacious per se. In other words, he who truly desires baptism
desires with a desire so good that he will surely achieve that baptism, which
is absolutely necessary for membership into the one universal Church of the
faithful, outside of which no one at all can be saved.
Best regards,
George R.
Poem
Hi Bro. Peter,
Thank you for the talks on G.M. I think he would make a terrific double
jeopardy game show host - if only!! Having spent 20+ years in show business, I
can confidently say that G.M. should be in the business of
entertainment, not in the business of saving souls… It would be overwhelmingly
frustrating to have these radical schismatics slithering around without
your courageous work, Brothers – thank you. Here is a silly poem I
wrote on G.M. even though he's obviously a very grave problem at this time:
Who gave Gerry Jurisdiction -
To preach his heretical fiction?
He wants to give priests an eviction
With slicing schismatics conviction
Water’s not good enough for Gerry
He thinks salvation’s for many
His logic is steady as a ferry
He’s as faithful as a bottle of sherry
The mad hatter’s got nothing on Matatics
He's counted his eggs before chicks
He changes like bingo picks
His religion is a crack addicts fix
Water is the matter, Mr. Matatics
Gerry’s desire is to be 'in' with heretics
His ideas burn up like wicks
It's magical Matatic’s heretricks
… Thank you Brothers and God Bless,
Kit
Cut off, question
Br.
Michael or Br. Peter,
I was hoping you might be able to expound on this a little for me. I was
reading St. Thomas' Summa looking for an explanation about the subject of
admonishing the sinner and this is what he said, “On the
contrary, It is written (Dist. xxiv, qu. 3, Can. Tam
Sacerdotes): "Both priests and all the rest of the faithful should be most
solicitous for those who perish, so that their reproof may either correct their
sinful ways. or, if they be incorrigible, cut them off from the Church."
pg. 1329 Q.33 Art. 3 (Fraternal Correction)
What does he mean by cutting them off from the church?
I am in the process of listening to your new audios. They are great so far. I
am sure the rest are good too. Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Robby
MHFM: In the “On the contrary”
section, St. Thomas generally cites someone else (an authority) to contradict
the objections advanced. In the quote he
cites here, the phrase “cut them off
from the Church” refers to excommunication.
It’s referring to the same thing that St. Paul mentioned in 1
Corinthians 5:5
1
Corinthians 5:5- “To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Commentators generally understand that,
in 1 Cor. 5:5, St. Paul is referring to excommunicating a notorious
sinner. Excommunication is the most
severe form of fraternal correction.
Excommunication is said to be medicinal because the thought is that when
a person is formally cut off from the Church, and deprived of its communion,
benefits, graces and sacraments, he or she will be humbled. This humility and separation will hopefully
cause the person to repent and truly convert.
That’s what the quote is referring to when it says “cut them off from
the Church.” That’s why the quote is
given in the context of fraternal correction and admonishing the sinner.
To do
Dear brothers
I have with me the V2 catechism books which
contain the heresies of the council, and also some Divine mercy pictures. In my
house, there is placed a huge divine mercy picture at the stairs (i don't think
i'm able to remove them since my parents holds the Novus Ordo position). What
should I do with those that I have?
Secondly, I have a (Protestant) aunt
who has been moving from different mental institutes, one to another. She used
to give problems to my family due to her strange behaviour that we
couldn't take care of her. Is this a form of demonic possession? She has been
like that for many years. She seems to understand things, knows what she wants,
but at times could not control herself. What do you think I could do to help
her?
God bless
Jerome
MHFM: You don't have to trash the
books, in case you want to use them as references or to expose the V-2
sect. But you could trash them.
You should get rid of the Divine Mercy pictures.
Regarding the aunt, it’s a spiritual
problem. You should try to convert her. We would recommend our
book, The
Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church. Try to get her to pray the Rosary. If she
won't do that, then there is not much you can do.
Comment
Brothers,
The Kennedy funeral was a disgrace, some of
the people there just prove the Kennedy's are totally wacky. I saw
pictures and some of the attendees were outrageous. Russell Simmons, a
rapper, imagine this guy at a Traditional Mass, but he looked comfortable
at this thing. You can just tell by the pictures they were worshiping
this woman, not Christ. I'm a sinner, but the disrespect and
clueless-ness of these people is astounding.
Respectfully,
Mike
Spiritual
MHFM: Readers of our website notice
that there are developments in terms of secular news that are quite interesting
and even more concerning. While people
should do their utmost to expose and oppose those evils, we must keep in mind
that the real battle is ultimately
spiritual, not physical.
Luke 12:4-5-
“And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and
after that have no more that they can do.
But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath
killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.”
Some people might tend to forget that
in light of the dramatic news coming out.
It might cause some to think that the real battle is a physical one,
which will be played out against people’s lives and freedoms. The real battle is for souls. It’s ultimately about having the fullness of
the Catholic faith and being in the state of grace. If someone doesn’t have that, nothing else
will matter at all.
Retirement
I'm not quite
understanding "retirement" in the context of the quote of the day.
Please explain the meaning of “retirement” in this quote. I think of a person
who is retired from full time work and I just don't understand. Thanks so
much! May The Holy Trinity continue to lead souls to your outstanding works!
Thanks again!
St. Alphonsus:
“The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer,
Communion, mortification, retirement.” (The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, p. 28)
C
MHFM: It means being by yourself,
being away from other people, to have time to pray and build a relationship
with God. It means going away (or retiring) to your room or some other
place for that purpose.
Excuse
Subject: I purchased your book & will
give comment
I have been reading your comments on the
popes & you must remember that you can't take everything literally. They
must word everything carefully for fear they might be shot as in the case of
pope John & if you remember, when Benedict was reading about an emperor who
condemned the teachings of the Islamic faith he was forced to retract his
comments to preserve his own life.
JP
MHFM: What you have said is
heretical. Even if one were threatened,
one cannot deny the Catholic faith. The
martyrs were tortured and did not deny the faith. Benedict XVI willingly denies the faith; he
does it with enthusiasm. It’s outrageous
to attempt to excuse the apostasy of the Vatican II antipopes on the grounds
that they are scared of being harmed!
They consistently deny the Catholic faith – not only when they are away
in Muslim countries, but also when they are secure within confines of the
Vatican. The attack on Antipope John
Paul II was a major spiritual deception to make it look like he was a hero when
in fact he was the evil one in the Vatican.
Opinion
Dear Brothers Dimond:
I'd like your opinion on something. I
work in the security field and where I am currently posted it is part of my
duty to ask homeless people and panhandlers to leave the property. They
are a nuissance to the public. But the thought has crossed my mind if it
might be wrong or sinful to do such a thing because they are hungry and need
money for food and then I kick them off the property. Those are the rules
where I work. I believe that in most cases it is their own fault that
they are homeless. Homelessness is usually the result of living a life of
mortal sin such as drunkenness, drugs, crime, etc.
MHFM: No, it’s not a sin. Almost all of them are pagans who don’t ask
God for help or really try to help themselves.
They can also almost certainly find another place to go.
“Orthodox”
Great channel and videos.
What do you think about orthodox faith?
It seems that this church still worship the old basic christian values.
God bless
Sl
MHFM: They reject the Papacy and other
Catholic dogmas. They are not part of
the true Church. This contains the
biblical evidence for the Papacy. Their
rejection of the Papacy is the main reason that they are not true
Christians. This section also contains
the evidence for the Papacy in the ancient Christian Church.
The
Bible teaches that Jesus made St. Peter the first pope [link to section]
Quote
St.
Alphonsus: “The religion of the Jews, although formerly holy and revealed by
God, was at that time [even in the primitive Church, after the coming of
Christ] not less manifestly obsolete and
false.” (Victories of the Martyrs,
p. 24.)
Dear Brothers,
I wanted to Thank you so much for posting
this quote. I too, agree it is sufficient enough to condemn them. I
sent it to a number of my contacts… it definitely gets the point across that
the Jews are not of God.
Thank you again for your MUCH appreciated
work,
Carol D.
MHFM: What was interesting about it is how clearly he makes the
point that their religion is “obsolete,” even though it was formerly revealed
by God. It provides a total contrast to
what we hear all the time from members of the Vatican II sect: that the Old
Covenant was never revoked, that the
Jews are still people “of the Covenant,” etc.
More Audios Posted
Jurisdiction Part 4 - More points
and La Salette [20 min. audio]
Note: This part 4 contains some
important information. It will not be as
interesting for our general readers as part 5 or some other sections. The information in this part is for those who
have a deeper interest in these topics.
This part also covers a controversy that some of our readers have asked
about: did the Holy Office, before
Vatican II, condemn commenting on the Message of La Salette? Hear our response to this issue. This section also contains some more
important points from Supplied Jurisdiction
According to Canon 209. It covers
intrinsic cessation of the law. It also
covers the dilemma of canonists in determining the precise extent of common
error, etc. and how their comments serve to further obliterate the schismatic
“No Jurisdiction Position.”
Jurisdiction Part 5 – Their
outrageous hypocrisy and the issue of consecrating bishops [30 min. audio]
This section refutes the advocates of
the “No Jurisdiction Position” on the issue of consecrating bishops without a
papal mandate. It covers what Pius XII
said about that matter. It refutes Gerry
Matatics’ outrageous attempt to justify his clear violation of the normal
canons against preaching, etc. without permission. It focuses in on their hypocrisy, the laws
they violate, and how they condemn themselves out of their own mouths. It also covers lessons from Our Lord and the
Machabees which further refute the “No Jurisdiction” schismatics.
NOTE: There might be another audio on
this topic (or connected with it) that will be posted soon. The audios in this series will be found
permanently in the following places of our site:
“Traditional Catholic Issues and
Groups”
“Traditional Catholic Audios”
Our Sub-section to E-Exchanges: New sub-section on finer points,
quotes, arguments, objections and issues relevant to certain
"traditionalists"
Maybe
in our “Beware” Section
AUDIOS PREVIOUSLY POSTED AS PART OF THIS SERIES:
Jurisdiction – Part 1 Quick Intro [9 min. audio]
This
is a quick introduction to the controversy and the importance of Jurisdiction.
Jurisdiction Part 2 -
facing up to the facts of the GWS [18 min. audio]
This part begins to get into the facts of the Great
Western Schism. It shows how these facts
completely refute the advocates of
the “No Jurisdiction Position.” They
have no response to these points. This
section addresses and refutes Gerry Matatics on “extraordinary mission” and
more.
Jurisdiction Part 3 - More
devastating facts [40 min. audio]
This section further pins down and refutes the
advocates of the “No Jurisdiction Position” on the point of the Great Western
Schism. This part shows how Gerry
Matatics cannot address the facts, so instead he dishonestly shuffles them to
the side. This section also addresses
many other points, including epikeia, the external and internal forum, and a
book called Supplied Jurisdiction
According to Canon 209.
This book, which Gerry Matatics wrongly says “devastates” the other
side, actually devastates his position and that of other advocates of the “No
Jurisdiction Position.” This audio
covers, with supporting citations from the book, the extent of supplied jurisdiction, doubt of fact, doubt of law, colored title, putative title and
more. It explains what these mean and
why they are significant to this issue.
The facts in this section serve to further completely refute the
schismatic “No Jurisdiction Position.”
Gerry Matatics' heresies
against the salvation dogma [40 min.
audio]
This audio proves that Gerry Matatics rejects the
dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
He rejects it by accepting as Catholics those who reject it. It proves that he is actually a
Christ-denier, by recognizing as Catholics those who believe that Jesus Christ
is not necessary for salvation. It also
proves that he denies the dogma by considering Suprema haec sacra to not be heretical, and by failing to accept
the absolute necessity of water baptism.
It also proves how he dishonestly tries to deny that he denies the
dogma, but is refuted by his own words.
Hear the very clips which prove the point. It also examines his position on
Geocentrism. This audio shows how his
position on Geocentrism undermines and refutes his criticism of our position on
the status of the absolute necessity of water baptism. It also refutes his claim that St. Thomas
Aquinas did not deny the Immaculate Conception (before it was defined).
Mental Prayer
I also had this question, that I wanted to
ask for some time now: can the Rosary be prayed mentally only, or does it have
to be prayed vocally?
And, if you can pray it in both ways, mentally alone or vocally, is it the
same? That is, does it matter if you pray it one way or the other? In spiritual
gains/terms that is.
V.
MHFM: It can be prayed both ways. Mental prayer is excellent and is generally
considered a higher form of prayer.
St.
Alphonsus: “St. Ignatius of Loyola used to say that mental prayer is the short
way to attain perfection… In mental prayer the soul is filled with holy
thoughts, with holy affections, desires, and holy resolutions, and with love
for God… by praying for them in mental prayer we can save many sinners, as was
done by St. Teresa, St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, and is done by all souls
enamored of God…” (The True Spouse of
Jesus Christ, p. 451.)
Converted
Dear Bother Michael,
… My husband became a Catholic about 2
months ago. I have to say that after being raised in a Protestant family
and having been a member of a Protestant church since the age of 13, I was
totally devastated by this. For the first week I cried every day and
then realized that I was just going to have to accept this change.
My husband never tried to coerce me into
becoming a Catholic. But he would say listen to this and would read
something to me. I also began to see a drastic change in him and the way
he was living each day. So about two weeks ago I began to pick up one of
his books and read a little here and there. I was quickly coming to
realize that what I had believed all of these years was right in concert with
what the Catholic Church was teaching.
About a week and a half ago, I was having a
nightmare and woke up saying in my mind "Hail Mary, Mother of God,
full of grace" and this continued in my mind after waking up. Now it
is important to tell you that I had never prayed to Mary in my life
- in fact, that was totally against everything I had been taught.
My husband says that I was blessed by this event.
This past Sunday morning, my husband went
into the other room to say his prayers and I sat down and picked up the
book "The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church" and I
began to read. I was reading the section on Jesus making St. Peter the
first Pope. All of a sudden I had the strange feeling come over me
- it was almost as if I was outside of my body and looking down at myself
in the chair. I instantly began to understand everything that I was
reading and was convinced that it was the truth. My husband called it a
miracle and I have to agree with him.
I am going to become a Catholic…
I just want to say Thank You from the bottom
of my heart for the wonderful material that you are producing and sending out
from the monastery. All of the books are easy to read and to understand
and that is very important.
Once again, Thank You!!
Margaret
Mackey
Comment
Dear Brothers of the Holy Family Monastery!
Brothers, every time I delve into your most
precious web site, I always come away with some little tidbit that makes my
Roman Catholic heart jump for joy!!! I am so very proud to be a part of the One
True Holy Catholic And Apostolic Church.
We, my Brothers, are a part of a great
remnant and I pray to God that it will double in size daily…
Without your most cherished web site, I
personally, had one foot in perdition and the other on a banana peel, but know
I am a happy happy man. Again thanks.
Michael Mello
Simple
MHFM: With the official endorsement
and acceptance of Judaism by Vatican II and by the Vatican II antipopes, the
following simple quote (because it reiterates the 2000-year faith of the
Church) is basically sufficient to refute and condemn them.
St.
Alphonsus: “The religion of the Jews, although formerly holy and revealed by
God, was at that time [even in the primitive Church, after the coming of
Christ] not less manifestly obsolete and
false.” (Victories
of the Martyrs, p. 24.)
Paul VI
I don’t support your video claiming that
our holy father pop paul VI used black magic! how dare you ridicule him! all
these modernizations of the mass wre not done by him but by rather the imposter
pope…
Av
MHFM: No, Paul VI was a radical heretic
before and after his “election.” There
was no impostor. You are deceived by the
false Bayside Messages.
Paul
VI (manifest heretic who claimed to be Pope 1963-1978) [link to section]
False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje) [Link to Section]
B-16
HI
Yes and so tell me why Sister Lucia Loves
John Paul II!
why you think he is an antipope you are sick you are not even catholic maybe
you are the one who wants to distroy the chucrhc anyway Jesus said that the
hell will not win againts Catholic church so please stop!
OM
MHFM:
She was not the real Sr. Lucy. Look at
the evidence. If you believe she was,
then you must accept the Vatican’s phony Third Secret (for she endorsed it).
Also,
Benedict XVI is not a Catholic. He
embraces all religions, and teaches that it’s fine to reject the Papacy. Wake up, and learn something about the real
Catholic faith.
Fatima (the sign, the miracle, the Consecration of Russia, the
False Sr. Lucy) [Link to Section]
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of
Benedict XVI File) [link to section]
Heresies
Subject: Amazing Heresies of Benedict XVI
Hi, i´m from Brazil and i don´t write or
speack very well.
So...
I´d like to get the video: The Amazing Heresies of Benedict XVI.
But with legend in portugues, to delivery to many people here in my country,
about this false papa.
Congratulations for your videos!
thank´s a lot.
Feda…
When Faith Mattered
MHFM: It’s interesting to read about
the period of Church history following the Council of Chalcedon (451). The Council of Chalcedon defined that the
Lord Jesus Christ is one divine person with two natures. However, this council was rejected in many
parts of the Empire because some people wrongly considered it to be
Nestorian. They thought that to
acknowledge two natures in the one person of Christ was to divide Christ into
two persons (as the heretic Nestorius did).
As a result, many of these people (who were called monophysite heretics)
rejected the council. There were battles
and brawls all over the Empire for different Episcopal Sees. Obviously people took the issues seriously
back then.
“At Alexandria,
as might be expected, resistance was even more fanatical… the ecclesiastical
and civil authorities selected as the new patriarch, Proterius, the archpriest
to whom Dioscurus had entrusted the administration of his see in his absence at
Chalcedon. The city broke out in revolt
at this news: troops driven into the ruins of a pagan temple were burnt
alive. The government responded by
interdicting food supplies and closing the baths and theatres. Even under military occupation the mass of
the people resolutely refused to accept Proterius. At the death of Dioscurus in exile three
years later, riots broke out again, and even a dispatch of an imperial
ambassador could not reconcile the populace.” (Davis, The First Seven Ecumenical Councils, p. 195.)
“Juvenal
returned to his see to face a riot. One
of his suffragans was murdered, and the monk Theodosius managed to get himself
elected patriarch of Jerusalem. The new
patriarch began installing his own bishops to replace the ‘traitors’ returning
from Chalcedon.” (Ibid., p. 194.)
JWs
Dear Brothers,
That article on the JW refusing life-saving medical treatment is unfortunately
quite common for them. It shows you how a true sickness of heart, mind, body,
and soul has infected them. For example, at their 'district conventions,' I
remember seeing a whole third of the basketball stadium allocated to the
infirm! I wonder if that is God's judgement on their flesh for rejecting God
become flesh?!! How sad to see apostasy so rampant and then mixed in with NWO
mind control!!!
God Bless,
Kit White
Video
Dear Brothers,
I thought you might like this. It's
Allan Keyes speaking truth about Obama
It's not long. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkMfToY9Pk
Nate
Some New Audios
MHFM: This is a new series of audios
refuting the schismatic “No Jurisdiction Position.” This position is held by some in the
traditional movement. It has recently
been adopted by Gerry Matatics (a person some of our readers are familiar
with). These audios completely refute
this schismatic error. The last audio
below covers Gerry’s rejection of the salvation dogma. Please note that this
series is not finished yet. There are
about three or so more audios that will be posted on this Jurisdiction
issue. They will be posted in the next few days.
Jurisdiction - Quick Intro [9 min.
audio]
This
is a quick introduction to the controversy and the importance of Jurisdiction.
Jurisdiction Part 2 - facing up to the facts of the GWS [18 min. audio]
This part begins to get into the facts of the Great
Western Schism. It shows how these facts
completely refute the advocates of
the “No Jurisdiction Position.” They
have no response to these points. This
section addresses and refutes Gerry Matatics on “extraordinary mission” and
more.
Jurisdiction Part 3 - More
devastating facts [40 min. audio]
This section further pins down and refutes the
advocates of the “No Jurisdiction Position” on the point of the Great Western
Schism. This part shows how Gerry
Matatics cannot address the facts, so instead he dishonestly shuffles them to
the side. This section also addresses
many other points, including epikeia, the external and internal forum, and a
book called Supplied Jurisdiction
According to Canon 209.
This book, which Gerry Matatics wrongly says “devastates” the other
side, actually devastates his position and that of other advocates of the “No
Jurisdiction Position.” This audio
covers, with supporting citations from the book, the extent of supplied jurisdiction, doubt of fact, doubt of law, colored title, putative title and
more. It explains what these mean and
why they are significant to this issue.
The facts in this section serve to further completely refute the
schismatic “No Jurisdiction Position.”
Gerry Matatics' heresies
against the salvation dogma [40 min. audio]
This audio proves that Gerry Matatics rejects the
dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
He rejects it by accepting as Catholics those who reject it. It proves that he is actually a
Christ-denier, by recognizing as Catholics those who believe that Jesus Christ
is not necessary for salvation. It also
proves that he denies the dogma by considering Suprema haec sacra to not be heretical, and by failing to accept
the absolute necessity of water baptism.
It also proves how he dishonestly tries to deny that he denies the
dogma, but is refuted by his own words.
Hear the very clips which prove the point. It also examines his position on
Geocentrism. This audio shows how his
position on Geocentrism undermines and refutes his criticism of our position on
the status of the absolute necessity of water baptism. It also refutes his claim that St. Thomas
Aquinas did not deny the Immaculate Conception (before it was defined).
Remember, this series is not complete. A few more parts will be posted in the next
few days. These audios will be found
permanently in our:
New sub-section on finer points,
quotes, arguments, objections and issues relevant to certain
"traditionalists," and possibly in our “Beware” section.
P.S.
These audios became necessary not only to further refute these schismatic and
heretical errors, but because Gerry is attacking the true position and true
Catholics. He has also not responded to
our debate challenges on the salvation issue and the Jurisdiction issue. The former was offered well over a year ago,
and the latter in early July of this year.
Comment
Dear Brother
Michael Diamond
I listened to
Whitley Strieber response to you saying ufo's are actually demons. It was so
stereotypical Whitley Strieber is falling right into satans trap. I know
this because I have heard this response before. When I tried to tell my friends
about God and the true faith they responded with that exact answer, the
universe is too big we can't know anything you need to humble yourself God is
bigger than Jesus. They say we need to humble ourselves to the fact that
"we don't know, and we can never know". Which is just a new buddist
like religion the buddists try to empty themselves and attain nothingness and
this new, I don't know idea just says the universe is too big God is too huge
we can never know anything. Jesus Christ sacrifice wasn't good enough for these
people they what super complicated answers like there is infinite universes and
they all cross over into a multiverse and God lives in that multiverse.
This Whitley Strieber thinks he has a bold new theory but he doesn't
realize he is just going with the crowd
W.
Thoughts
Brothers,
The articles you
just posted regarding schools struck a chord with me.
We know
that participating children will be "vaccinated" with a
concoction which will kill them or make them seriously ill. We also know that
a very real "event" will force all people to choose between
dying or taking the "shot." At first glance, it does not
seem conducive for the satanic government to want to keep schools open, as this
will allow the "virus" a greater opportunity to spread, thus claiming
more victims. But since victims are the only thing government produces, this
last step is just about as bold a step as Satan could ever hope to take. Think
about it: keep the kids in school, sick and dying, but make sure they have
access to… propaganda. To increase the number of victims AND to maintain the
relentless pursuit of brainwashing in the middle of a "pandemic" is
almost just too, too much to believe.
Imagine:
Parents, while watching their children die at the hands of those who are
supposedly protecting them, now have to drag their kids to school for
continued… indoctrination, which will no doubt include homosexual studies among
the many other perverted subjects. And as you probably already are aware, an
acceleration of the "1984-type" mindset is being forced
upon the children, which including reporting parent to
the "authorities" for every "transgression." So
keeping kids away from the "schools of satan" during a
"pandemic" would actually inhibit the number of victims and the
number of state-controlled zombies from being propagated.
Satan is doing
everything in his power to speed up the process of destruction; there is
no slowing down now.
A new and real
genocidal catastrophe is being formulated and is about to be let loose on the
world as a punishment for its sins.
Sincerely,
Howard
C to C
Hi Bro. Michael and Peter Dimond,
Almost by chance, stumbled across George
Noory interview with Bro. Michael on "UFO's and Demonic
Activity"...
Very interesting, well presented and also
well defended and explained by Bro. Michael; a great exposure for the true
faith, as well a few things not mentioned in the book that came to light
during the interview...
For those outside the U.S. you can listen
to the full interview with George Noory by typing in "youtube C2C
bro.michael dimond ufo's and demonic activity" in google.
Check it out...you won't be disappointed...
God bless
David N.Z.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQidL9iZiE8
MHFM: Thanks. We don’t know who posted it, but obviously
someone put it on Youtube.
Learned
Thank you for your site, I have learned much
in just the short time I have read and viewed your information - I am telling
others...
Mary Underwood
St. Thomas and Florence
In a
debate you had with someone named Ken, the sedevacantist I think, over the
"baptisms" issue, the one that lasts 1hour and 45minutes, you
mentioned at the 1:38:40 mark that, in the Bull Cantate Domino, which says that
the Sacrament of Baptism is the only remedy for children, for their salvation,
you say that it used St. Thomas Aquinas's form, and that, where St. Thomas says
that, he goes on and says in the next paragraph that "on the other hand
there is a remedy for adults, in desire", but that the Council did not
include that part and that it stopped there.
So I just wanted to ask you where exactly does St. Thomas says that? In his
summa? I looked for that there but I couldn't find it, so I would appreciate it
if you could tell me where exactly is that.
V.
MHFM: Just so our readers know, he’s referring to this debate on
baptism of desire: Debate on baptism of desire with
sedevacantist Ken [1 hr. 46 min. audio – Jan. 2009]
We also cover the point in this file, EENS, in
section 34 dealing with the horrible and heretical book by Fr. Laisney. We discuss it while blasting Laisney for his horrible
and mortally sinful lies about the Council of Florence.
We pointed out that the Council of Florence used passages from
St. Thomas in its dogmatic decrees. We
mentioned that Florence’s definition that there is “no other remedy” for
children other than THE SACRAMENT (i.e., water) of Baptism is basically a quote
from St. Thomas. We also point out that
while the Council of Florence used that quote almost verbatim, it stopped using the quote from St. Thomas
RIGHT BEFORE he taught the false idea of “baptism of desire”! Here it is:
St. Thomas, Summa Theologica, Pt. 3, Q. 68, A. 3: “I answer that, In this
matter we must make a distinction and see whether those who are to be baptized
are children or adults. For if they be children, Baptism should not be
deferred. First, because in them we do not look for better instruction or
fuller conversion. Secondly, because of the danger of death, for no other remedy is available for
them besides the sacrament of Baptism.
On the other hand, adults have a
remedy in the mere desire for Baptism, as stated above (Article 2).”
The bolded portion (the truth about how infants cannot be saved
without water baptism: “no other remedy”) was incorporated into the teaching of
the infallible Council of Florence. The
next sentence, in italics, which teaches the false idea of baptism of desire, was not used.
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “Regarding children, indeed, because of
danger of death, which can often take place, when no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the
sacrament of baptism, through
which they are snatched from the domination of the Devil [original sin] and
adopted among the sons of God, it advises that holy baptism ought not be
deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time according to the observance of
certain people…” (Denz. 712)
Notice that the Council of Florence did not use the sentence of
St. Thomas on baptism of desire (the one italicized in the quote above from St.
Thomas), even though it was the very sentence which followed the one they did
use.
Those who have supernatural faith – who really believe in the
dogmas and in the promise that was given to St. Peter and the popes, WHICH WAS
NOT GIVEN TO OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH – see this as an example of God’s
providence. They see how God watches
over the infallible decrees, so that no error can be taught therein. He doesn’t give that protection to the
teaching of doctors of the Church.
Modern baptism of desire apostates, who don’t believe that there is any
distinction between fallible and infallible teaching (despite what they might
claim), wrongly conclude from these facts that Florence must have favored
baptism of desire, since it used some of St. Thomas’ other lines. Oh, how wrong these faithless heretics
are. They do not believe in the
supernatural protection given to the dogmas.
Thus, they remain blind to the
truth and reject it. It really comes
down to the fact that they don’t believe in papal infallibility.
Sede debates
MHFM: We have two people lined up who
would like to debate us on sedevacantism.
We plan on doing that in the next month or so, either by way of formal
debates or more informal telephone debates.
We are currently busy with some projects (but will continue to update
the website as usual), so those debates probably won’t happen until at least
September.
Comment
MHFM,
Concerning Jehovah's Witnesses. Before moving, I lived next door for four years
to a couple that were Jehovah's Witnesses. I found out by my Protestant
neighbor as it seems Jehovah witnesses don't preach in their neighborhood.
Kinda like a dog, doesn't poop where it sleeps. The JW's were very to
themselves, just like the Buddhist on the other side of me. She was busy
with all her Gods.
God Bless,
Tom
Protocols
How can anyone argue the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion was a hoax? The Jews have done everything it says!
They continue to do it to this day. It is almost laughable to here people
argue it was a "fraud" and a "hoax." Everything in it
has come to pass.
-M. Rudnicki
Neo
Subject: Re: Diplomat
Dear Brothers,
It never ceases to amaze me how blind some people are to Truth. So many
don't seem to understand that anything they consider to be the truth, can not be
truth if it contradicts another truth. In Mr Neo's letter he stated,
"It was the responsibility of the former Pope to promote peace and
encourage peaceful diplomatic solutions to long existing problems".
What Mr Neo fails to understand is that
there is no real peace apart from Jesus and His Church. Also what are the
"long existing problems" but none other than the rejection of
Christ. The very message that JPII and BXVI should have been preaching,
namely accepting Jesus and entering His Church, is the very message they reject
and refuse to preach.
Based on his interpretation of JPII's kissing of the Koran, I can only guess
what his interpretation of Judas' kiss to Jesus would be. Just another
kiss like any other? Both are kisses of betrayal. One in the
positive sense (Judas' kiss to mark betrayal) and the other in the negative
sense, (JPII's kiss to a blasphemous book which rejects Jesus)
Out of curiosity I wonder if Mr Neo's last name is Catholic. Mr Neo
Catholic
Paul
Revealing
Most Holy Family Monastery has opened my
mind revealing the apostasy of the antipopes and the false church. I now
know that vatican II was the work of the devil to destroy Christ's Church and
its sacraments especially the Eucharist.
Your web site is comprehensive and your dvd's, audios and written
materials are excellent. I am purchasing
and distributing your resources to family and
friends; encouraging them to acquire the truth through your web
site. I am pleased to donate
to support your work.
S
Matthew 16 meaning
Dear
Brothers in Christ:
I am
a lay Catholic (Ph.D. in Sci.) who has been defending the Faith from
Protestants using my own studies and resources. The greatest Biblical defense
that I site against the Protestants is Matthew 16:18-19:
"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you
the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever
you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will
be loosed in heaven." (NIV).
THUS,
Jesus, in Matt 16:19, has authorized the CHURCH, through Peter and his
successors, to make changes,
not contrary to spiritual and moral truths revealed in the Bible, to the doctrines, practices, and perceptions of
the Church with the times to
allow for a LIVING CHURCH and
not a dead one frozen in time.
If
so, should not all Catholic Church Orders accept Vatican II on the strength of
Matthew 16:19? I love to hear your comments.
Isabelo
S. Alcordo, Ph.D.
MHFM: No, Mattthew 16:18-19 does not mean that the pope can make
changes to the Church’s doctrines. That
idea has been specifically condemned.
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council,
Session 3, Chap. 4, Canon 3:
"If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense
may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the church which is different from that which the Church
has understood and understands: let him
be anathema."
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council,
Session 3, Chap. 4, on the true progress of knowledge:
"For, the doctrine of faith which
God revealed has not been handed down as a philosophic invention to the human
mind to be perfected, but has been entrusted as a divine deposit to the
Spouse of Christ, to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted."
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council,
Session 4, Chap. 4:
"For, the Holy Ghost was not
promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might disclose
new doctrine, but that by His help they might guard sacredly the revelation
transmitted through the apostles and the deposit of faith, and might faithfully
set it forth."
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, 1870, Session 4, Chap. 4: “…the Roman Pontiff,
when he speaks ex cathedra [from the Chair of Peter], that is, when carrying
out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord with his
supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals to be
held by the universal Church... operates with that infallibility with which the
divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on
faith and morals; and so such
definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of
the Church, are unalterable.”
Matthew 16:18-19 means that a pope has
the power to bind teachings and laws, to make solemn judgments, to change
disciplinary laws (not dogmas) and to lift penalties (e.g.,
excommunication). It certainly does not
mean that a pope has the power to change a dogmatic teaching of the
Church. That is why Vatican I, the
dogmatic council which most extensively defined on the papal office,
specifically rejected any such idea.
Vatican II is without any doubt
heretical because it clearly contradicts dogmas that were revealed by God and
solemnly defined by the Church. All who
claim to believe in the Papacy and the authority of the true popes must reject
Vatican II as heretical.
Diplomat
[This guy is commenting on our videos which
expose the false ecumenism and religious indifferentism of John Paul II and
Benedict XVI]
The world is a complex place. What you are seeing
has been referred to by other critics as the Pope "wearing different
hats", meaning he is also a diplomat. It is very difficult to understand
by modern day societal structures, especially within the U.S. because of
separation of Church and State. However, in other parts of the world such
separation has been deemed impossible, such as in the cultures of the Middle
East. In order to reach universal peace, leaders must at least respect each
other enough to create dialog. It was the responsibility of the former Pope to
promote peace and encourage peaceful diplomatic solutions to long existing
problems. Among the most difficult teachings contained in the Bible is to pray
for your enemies. It is clear to me that certain rituals are meaningless in the
eyes of one believer towards another....only if you "believe" that
the Pope "believed" in the Qaran when he kissed it does it make him a
participant in worship, otherwise it's viewed the same as kissing any other
book in existance. Spiritual armor is not something I just made up, it is very
real and exists everywhere in the world! So please stop spreading bias
propaganda.
God Bless You,
Mr Neo
MHFM: No, a Catholic is not a
diplomat. To kiss (and thus honor) the
“sacred” book of a false religion which rejects Christ, as John Paul II did
when he kissed the Koran, is to deny the Catholic faith. A Catholic cannot praise false religions and
deny Catholic dogmas in order to please people in different parts of the world. Both Benedict XVI and John Paul II have praised
Islam and denied many other Catholic dogmas.
Benedict XVI even called the evil Koran “a holy book.” It’s called apostasy, not being a diplomat. See all the evidence.
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of
Benedict XVI File) [link
to section]
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope
1978-2005)
[link to
section]
Nice
Subject:
Nice… thank you
Just
a quick note... I WAS Catholic many years ago... since the changes it has been
all down hill up to now where I do not even consider myself Catholic in any
way. Your website is, indeed, refreshing.
Ron McCarthy
Extreme
Subject: Extreme bad-will by Novus
Ordinarian
I just came out of a fiery chain of email
exchanges which I just closed for good right now, with my Novus Ordinarian
uncle, which began like 3 days ago, about sedevacantism and about the last 5
antipopes and all of that then. He's like 53, and I'm 19.
He claims to be a "Catholic", and a "defender" of the
Church, but in reality he's a complete and utter wicked and evil heretic and
apostate who doesn't even believe in the Church or Her teachings.
You won't believe the extreme bad-will of this guy. I showed him heresy after
heresy, apostasy after apostasy, abomination after abomination, but there was
no way. He defended it all! He claimed John Paul II and Benedict XVI were not
heretics nor apostates but still valid popes after all I showed him! I was
simply outraged, and shocked, to see the level of bad-will and dishonesty that
he showed.
After the countless proofs I showed him, he still persisted in the same thing.
I proved to him again and again that all I was showing him was the teaching of
the Church, and the dogmas and the infallible teaching of Her, but he still
obstinately persisted in saying that "they were my opinions and my
arguments", and that they were all untrue. Astounding!
This just revealed to me how incredibly bad-willed and dishonest the Novus
Ordinarians like him really are. There was no way to get anything through this
guy.
I even proved to him how he is anathematized as a heretic from the very Novus
Ordo itself, from his "church", because he doesn't like/accept the
false ecumenism, which is the "infallible" and "official"
teaching of the Novus sect.
This guy was just unbelievable.
C
MHFM: Yes, you are absolutely
right. Your obvious sentiments of
righteous indignation arise from seeing first-hand how the truth is being
rejected and distorted. We see and
experience that time and time again. The
bad will becomes strikingly clear when you debate or argue with such
individuals. You can really see it when
you are involved with trying to spread the truth. That kind of bad will is rampant among
“traditionalists” as well.
Making amends
Dear Brothers,
Can you tell me
if a person can go to confession for the following types of mortal sin. First,
if someone gets a tattoo and then regrets it. Can that person go to confession
for engraving their skin? Second, if a
woman ties her fallopian tubes and then regrets it and can't afford to have an
operation to reverse it, can she go to confession for that? Lastly, if a
married person grudgingly grants a divorce to his or her spouse who refuses to
stay married, but doesn't remarry or have sexual relations again until that
spouse dies, can they go to confession for getting a divorce? I would
greatly a appreciate it if you can respond to me. I can't wait to receive the
books I just ordered from you. God Bless you and continue to never tire to
spread the truth.
John
MHFM: If someone has taken steps to
remedy a sinful decision (such as trying to get the tattoo removed), but can’t
do it, then that person should go to confession and live with the result. He tried to have it removed, but
couldn’t. Regarding the woman, if she is
married she needs to make it her priority to get the operation reversed. A half-hearted effort won’t suffice.
If a person has made an honest
attempt to make amends, and simply cannot reverse the physical effects of some
decision, then that person can simply go to confession.
Regarding the marriage issue, one may
get a civil divorce to sort our secular disputes, financial issues and to
legally separate. However, that cannot
imply any acknowledgement that the other side is spiritually free to marry
again.
Series
MHFM: Note – Hopefully this weekend or early next
week we will have a new audio series on a topic that some of our readers might
find important.
Asking
I am asking for your help in trying to find
a traditional Catholic Mass in my area…
I would appreciate your response - I had
spoken with Brother Michael many years back and his conversation with me has
forever changed me. I believe all of the tenets of the true Catholic
religion - although many hurt my heart - but from reading your website - one
must believe first before understanding - and the latter might never happen,
but we must follow by faith alone.
Thank you,
Annlouise
B-16 praises Teilhard de Chardin
MHFM: We’ve updated our Benedict
XVI's recent Heresies file with some new heresies. Benedict
XVI praises “the great vision” of the apostate evolutionist priest, Teilhard de
Chardin; Benedict XVI also endorses Harry Potter and Bruce Springsteen.
Kissing
Bro Dimond
This may be a stupid question but my friend
is having trouble with his girlfriend.
She feels french kissing is okay as long as it doesn't lead to anything
sexual. However i heard it's a sin. He
doesn't want to commit a sin so he wouldn't engage in french kissing until he
knows would it be a sin. Is french
kissing fornication?
Thank You
MHFM: Such kissing between two unmarried people would have to be
considered a mortal sin. It would be
considered one of the acts leading up to fornication and therefore essentially
part of it.
Errors
on moral matters, #40: “It is a probable opinion which states that a kiss is
only venial when performed for the sake of the carnal and sensible delight
which arises from the kiss, if danger of further consent and pollution is
excluded.” – Condemned under Pope
Alexander VII, March 18, 1666 (Denz. 1140)
Confession
Dear Brothers,
I would like to ask if a person commits a
mortal sin what should he do if he can’t get to confession to a valid priest?
Thank you.
Rob
MHFM: Well, the person would need perfect contrition to be
forgiven and justified without the Sacrament of Penance. This involves sorrow for committing the sin
not only because one fears Hell, but principally because it offends God. This is acquired only through a strong prayer
life, such as praying the full 15-decade Rosary each day.
However, there should be a place to go to confession. The position that one may not go to
confession to a valid priest who is a heretic, or even a very old Novus Ordo
priest who is validly ordained (and uses the proper words of absolution), is
completely wrong. People in mortal sin
need to go to confession.
Within an hour or within a few hours of where you live, there
should be a valid Eastern Rite priest (or even a very old Novus Ordo priest)
who could hear the confession. This is
explained in: Where to go to
Mass or confession today?
Sabbath,
rest
Subject: Sabbath (Sunday) Day of Rest
Dear Brothers,
You have answered many question for me on spiritual matters and for this I am
humbly grateful. Additionally, you have answered my questions on
"keeping the Sabbath free from works". I have a particular
question concerning keeping the Sabbath holy that concerns works for our Lord.
If one was constructing a place of prayer to our Lord and Lady, would it be a
sin to work on the Sabbath?
God Bless you for your works,
Bruce
MHFM: No, that type of construction is work that should not be
done on Sunday, even if it is to construct a place of prayer. It should be done on the other days of the
week.
Limbo
Subject:
Vatican II, Limbo thing
I
wanted to ask: did the Vatican ever release the document/statement they were planning
to release in 2005, which said that unbaptized babies went to Heaven? Did they
ever release that abomination? … I was interested to know if they ever released
that thing.
G.
MHFM:
Yes, we covered the heresies in it during this
radio program: August
11, 2007 Radio Program
[55 min. –
discusses Benedict XVI giving back the Latin Mass, his statement that there’s proof
for evolution, his declaration that another schismatic leader is a pastor in
the Church, the hypocrisy of false traditionalists on B-16 and schism, a very
quick synopsis of Benedict’s new heretical document on the Church, and
“Cardinal” Bernardin. This program also
takes a careful look at the Protestant bible and the book of 1
Corinthians. It examines all the places
in this book alone which completely refute Protestant beliefs. This
program also discusses in depth the major heresies in Benedict XVI’s document
on limbo, which until now have only been summarized in news reports. It shows that this document rejects major
dogmas and attempts to justify its heresies with “baptism of desire” and the
same arguments that many false traditionalists use. This program also covers other recent
heresies of Benedict XVI and some other issues.]
Upset
Hello,
I am very upset with you saying that the
catholic church is the only true religion. i am a born again Christian and so
was the 12 Apostles so where do you get that the catholic church is the one
true faith. that is garbage. Catholic religion was created after Rome. Before
that it was a Christian movement, no labels except for to be a christian which
meant Christ=Like and i take offence at you saying that i am not of the true
faith because i am not a catholic and only a born again Christian and when the
Lord does come back you will answer to him for that.
Larry Bricker,
A True Christian
MHFM: All you have to do is look carefully into the history of
the Christian Church. There was only one
Church from the beginning. That was the
Catholic Church. All the rest of the
“Christian” denominations are man-made break-offs. Look at all the evidence in this file: Refuting Protestantism from the
Bible and Eastern "Orthodoxy" (audios and articles). It proves that the Catholic Church alone is
the biblical and Christian Church.
You obviously believe in justification by faith alone and/or
eternal security. In other words, you
think that you will be saved because you acknowledge Jesus as the Lord and
Savior. That’s completely unbiblical. Not all who say “Lord, Lord” shall enter
Heaven (Mt. 7:21). It isn’t enough to claim to believe in Jesus
as the Lord and Savior. Please look at
this file, which contains all the biblical proof:
Justification
by faith alone and eternal security completely refuted by the Bible [link to section]
You cannot be saved as a Protestant, for you aren’t a true
Christian. You need to look at the
evidence and convert.
Comment
Really Appreciate this New Format… Also
this nice cool green color is more soothing in there trying times….
I've been following all your woes here with
your clunker 'brother' or whatever he was. I certainly support you and
know that God will bring you through… Looks to me like we are in Chapter 10 of
Rev. where God is strengthening His (real ) Church to get ready for what we
have ahead of us...as per Fr. Kramer's Book of Destiny. Nasty events in
our lives do make us stronger although we are doubtful at the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 4 Horses of
the Apocalypse will happen with this Israeli attack on Iran this fall.
Guess we need to rent Brave Heart and Mad Max and gear up.
(kidding...sort of.)
God Bless You, I'm praying for you,
Carol D.
Thief
Brothers,
How interesting the recent e-exchange concerning the thief on the cross next to
Jesus. The person who wrote in fails to see the great lesson by Jesus the
teacher, the savior, the priest, that had forgiven the thief his sins. How great
that must have been to have had his final confession heard by Jesus himself.
On the other side of Jesus was also a criminal that instead of asking
forgiveness, decided to taunt and ridicule Jesus. He must have been a
protestant thinking he was going to heaven anyways. Jesus knew he was of
bad-will and didn't plead with the criminal to confess. There was definitely a
lesson of goodwill and bad-will, to learn after all the parables throughout
Jesus life and after being scourge and hung on a cross to die.
I'd read that the thief that had been forgiven on the cross had actually
crossed paths earlier and helped the baby Jesus, Mother Mary and St. Joseph on
their exile to Egypt.
God Bless You,
tm
MHFM: Yes, and the Good Thief died before the Resurrection and
the Law of Baptism became obligatory on every man, as we mentioned in the other
exchange.
Another
phony
MHFM: We were recently contacted by a certain non-sedevacantist
“traditionalist” named Matt (Snyder?).
He fancies himself to be theologically sophisticated, and apparently
accepts Antipope Benedict XVI. He also
goes by the name Caminus. To our
knowledge, we had never previously conversed with this man. He wrote in out of the blue and began
attacking our position that Benedict XVI is not the pope. He also included all kinds of completely
irrelevant attempted personal insults
– very vicious stuff. He demonstrated
unbelievable arrogance. (We italicize attempted
because his attempted personal insults were completely without merit.)
We responded by pointing out to him that not only is he
completely wrong on this theological issue and other matters, but a Catholic
does not approach someone the way he approached us. Even if someone is in doctrinal error or
heresy, you don’t approach him and begin by attempting to personally insult
him. You bring forward the evidence
which shows that he is contradicting something he must believe to be
saved. If he remains obstinate and issues
of personal conduct become relevant, they can certainly be mentioned. But to write someone you’ve never conversed
with before and out of the blue begin by throwing out vicious attempted insults
shows no charity. It shows that he man
is blinded by hate, and possibly by envy (for it’s difficult to explain his
vicious insults any other way). We
pointed this out, and challenged him to a phone debate. Was he willing to back up his bravado? Some would probably expect that he would,
given what he had said in the e-mails.
Was he willing to back up his confidence and demonstrate that understands
and that we don’t, as he said so arrogantly?
Does he really believe that he is right and that we are “fools”? Can he back that up? He responded with more unbelievably arrogant
attempted argumenta ad hominem, and IGNORED
THE DEBATE OFFER.
For all of his arrogance and supposed confidence when behind a
computer, he’s just another spiritual fraud and an abominable phony
coward. He even tried to hide his
cowardice and his refusal to debate. In
a desperate attempt to hide his cowardice and failure to back up his words, he
said that he could no longer discuss these issues until we sent him all kinds
of information – information that is completely
irrelevant to whether Benedict XVI is the pope. What nonsense. He understands nothing of the Catholic faith,
and his heretical position would be completely refuted in a debate. He’s afraid to defend his position because
his position is false. We post this
because this bad willed, evil heretic demonstrated such a level of
self-impressed arrogance that it was truly remarkable. The very least he could do to back up his
bravado was to accept the offer; but no.
His confidence vanishes when he’s not hiding behind his computer. We found this to be a striking example of
extreme bad will and spiritual blindness begotten by pseudo-intellectual
pride. These are the type of heretics
God abhors.
Book
Hi Bro Michael Dimond;
I ordered your book on ufos and am quite
impressed with the in depth research you put into it. I would love more info
on Jack Parson's magic portal if you have any. I am a protestant and will
never believe that the bread and wine in the eucharist turn to blood and flesh
in your stomach. That would be cannibalism which is forbiden in
scriptures. The thief on the cross got to see Jesus in paradise that day
and he never took of the eucharist and he was saved. What do you think of the
late Father Malachi Martin?
Thanks for your help.
Sincerely, Peter Veenstra
MHFM: Thanks for the interest, but you are completely wrong
about the Eucharist. You need to read
this:
The Bible
teaches that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist [PDF FILE - Article]
The Bible definitely teaches that Jesus Christ is present in the
true Eucharist. The early Church fathers
unanimously believed this as well, since it was the teaching of the Christian
Church from the beginning. You are wrong
about the Good Thief. He did not go to
Heaven that day; for not even Jesus went to Heaven until His Ascension. That was after His Resurrection (see John
20:17). Since Jesus was the first to go
to Heaven (Colossians 1:18), that means that neither Jesus nor the Good Thief
went to Heaven on the Day of the Crucifixion. Jesus brought the Good Thief into the Limbo of
the Fathers, the waiting place of the just of the Old Testament; and eventually
the Good Thief went to Heaven.
The Eucharist is necessary for adults who hear the command and
can fulfill it. By rejecting the
Eucharist and other Catholic truths, you remain outside the one Church of
Christ. Protestantism is not the
Biblical faith. Please get our book and
consult our section to see the proof for that.
Malachi Martin said some true things, but he was not true to the
Catholic faith. He taught the heresy of
salvation outside the Church and failed to denounce the Vatican II antipopes.
JWs
Greetings to all at MHFM,
Each Saturday my neighborhood is attacked by congregants from the local Kingdom
Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. I have been cordial with all who come to my
door. During a recent discussion the question of the Holy Trinity, Jesus
as true God and true man… arose.
In my Catholic bible, in the book of John, it opens by saying that "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
The Witnesses stressed that in their bible it stated, "...the Word was a
god," not God, or one in being with the Father.
I know they will return and I would like something to present to them to help
them think. What would you suggest?
Thanks for all you do.
Howie Farrell
MHFM: That’s their corruption of the text. It’s not the true translation. We would recommend this: Where does the Bible teach that Jesus is God?. It’s found in our “Refuting Protestantism”
section.
Comment
Dear bros…
As usual excellent responses to questions, particulary
"concerns" from larry sparks...
Stu, montana
One
Baptism
You know in the Bible it says "One
Lord, one Faith, one Baptism" (Ephesians 4:5), and in many other
declarations of the Church, and in your book about the salvation dogma, you use
this against the "baptisms", that is, you use this to say that the
Bible says that there is only 1 baptism, not 3, but how do we know for sure
that that passage is referring to quantity? That there is only 1 baptism and
not 3? Isn't it saying one baptism in the sense that you can only be baptized
once? Because that's true of course, you can only be baptized once, more that
one time would be sacrilege of course.
So how do we know for sure the meaning of that passage?
H…
MHFM: It means that there is only one baptism in terms of number
and kind (i.e., all have the same type of baptism). We learn this from numerous things. Section 12 of our book: EENS has
many quotes on this point. First, the
Council of Vienne dogmatically taught that the “one baptism” refers to that one
baptism in water. In other words, all have the same kind or
type of baptism (water).
Pope Clement V, Council
of Vienne, 1311-1312, ex cathedra: “Besides, one baptism which
regenerates all who are baptized in Christ must be faithfully confessed
by all just as ‘one God and one faith’ [Eph. 4:5], which
celebrated in water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit we believe to be commonly
the perfect remedy for salvation for adults as for children.”
Second, it’s clear from the
context. Ephesians 4 is talking about
the unity in the Church of Christ. It’s
teaching that all in the Church have the
same Lord, the same Faith, and the same
baptism. It is thus referring to
unity not just in number, but in kind: all have the same kind of baptism. That’s also clear in many papal references to
Ephesians 4:5, which cite it in the context of Church unity.
Pope Pius VI, Inscrutabile
(# 8), Dec. 25, 1775: “… We exhort and advise you to be all of one mind and in
harmony as you strive for the same object, just as the Church has one faith, one baptism, and
one spirit.”
Notice that they have the same kind of spirit, and the same kind
of baptism (and faith). Perhaps this
quote of St. Jerome, however, best articulates the point that it’s referring to
the
same kind of baptism:
St. Jerome (386): “The Lord is one and God is
one… Moreover the faith is said to
be one… And there is one baptism,
for it is in one and the same way
that we are baptized in the Father and in the Son and in the Holy
Spirit.” (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early
Fathers, Vol. 2: 1368.)
Vatican
II
Dear MHFM,
Since 1965, the onset of this horrid
pastoral council called Vatican II what greater crescendo than to have a
Hitlerist youth aka-Dr. Ratzinger- as its leader who boldly preaches religious
freedom where he defines it as all false religions of the 'world' have
equal status to the one true Roman Catholic Church founded by the Savior of all
mankind, Jesus Christ, who commanded his apostles to go throughout the
whole world and convert every single human being, society,
government, to this Holy Church, the Roman Catholic Church. If
Catholics throughout the world can't see the hypocrisy of this antipope, and
lead by the 'spirit of man" Vatican II pastoral council, and refuse to
rebel against this climate of evil encompassing Rome... Mater Immaculata,
ora pro nobis! Praise to Most Holy Family Monastery. Praise to the
Church Militant-alive and well in the early 21st century. Rome will
surely burn once again. St. Michael unleash your Angels-I pray most
fervently!
D
Envy
Dear Brothers,
I'm sorry to hear of your being so viciously persecuted by E.H. Here are some scriptures I thought you might
find encouraging. I think that you may come across a lot of envy and
jealousy in the future because of your great honesty, charity, and your mission:
Wisdom 2:23 -25: For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own
likeness he made him. But by the envy
of the devil, death came into the world: And they follow him that are of his
side.
Canticles 8:6, 7: Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for
love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire
and flames. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it:
if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise
it as nothing.
Matt. 27:17, 18: They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will
you that I release to You: Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ? For he
knew that for envy they had delivered
him.
Acts 5:15 -20: Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and
laid them on beds and couches, that, when Peter came, his shadow at the least
might overshadow any of them and they might be delivered from their
infirmities. And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the
neighboring cities, bringing sick persons and such as were troubled with
unclean spirits: who were all healed. Then the high priest rising up, and all
they that were with him (which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy. And they
laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. But an angel of
the Lord by night, opening the doors of the prison and leading them out, said:
Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
Acts 13:45: And the Jews, seeing the
multitudes, were filled with envy
and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.
Hebrews 7:9, 10: And the patriarchs, through
envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him, and delivered him
out of all his tribulations: and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of
Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and over
all his house.
Philippians 1:12. Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things which
have happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel: So
that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court and in all other
places. And many of the brethren in the Lord, growing confident by my bands,
are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. Some indeed, even out of envy and contention: but some also for good will preach Christ.
The first saint I invoke after praying the Rosary is St. Drausinus, the patron
saint of champions... Apparently the crusaders used to sleep at his tomb the
night before a crusade. Also, apparently St. Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of
Canterbury, who was slain in the Cathedral on 29 December 1170, slept at St.
Drausinus’ tomb the night before he returned to England from exile in France (1
December 1170).
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: Thank you for the e-mail.
It is a very interesting reminder of how often envy was the cause of
evil people attacking something good.
Frankly, some of the hatred we have received from people whom one would
think would appreciate the work (or much of it) is shocking and
inexplicable. Perhaps you have
pinpointed the reason: their frustration at not being able to do anything, so
they attack those who are.
Neil
Armstrong
Neil Armstrong's final expression on the 50
second video seems to be a statement all its own. It looks like one of
regret? "removing one of truth's protective layers..."
indeed!" Discover what? The gullibility of the
majority of humanity? How many of his listeners actually heard what
he was so clearly saying? How many who heard it even dared, for fear of
reprisal, to question it?
P.
Concerns
[To MHFM]
Hello.
From a prior visit to your website, I seem
to recall a quote attributed to St. Alphonsus Liguiori who died in 1787 (and seems,
in his writings on conformity to God's will, to have been influenced by Fr.
Jeremias Drexelius, who a century earlier had written Heliotropium).
The gist of the quote was that even most
Christians are not saved, that very few souls are saved. Now, I do not
know the context of this quote. If the saint was trying to convey that,
of those Christians who are saved, most will have to spend some time in
Purgatory - that makes sense to me and I think it would make sense to most
reasonable people. However, it does give one pause to wonder about a
religion that will assert that even most of its own adherents will be
damned eternally to Hell.
I dare say that the Founder of the Catholic
Church had intended it to be a religion of salvation and redemption, and not
one of damnation. If God is truly just, loving and merciful, then it
strains credulity to believe that the vast majority of Catholics burn forever
in Hell.
Salutary fear of God is good. But
paralysing, irrational terror of God can do more harm than good. Some
non-Christian observers of Christianity have remarked that the image we have of
God is of a vengeful and wrathful being perhaps devoid of love and mercy.
I can see where they get this impression when I consider the unduly pessimistic
view that asserts that the vast majority of Catholics, in all past periods,
were damned.
I can only venture to observe that some of
the most pessimistic views in the Church have come from monks and cloistered
nuns living in the Middle Ages. I wonder if they were estranged from the
normal human condition. (And, if one reads some of what St. Augustine
taught, one can see that he did not entirely abandon his Stoicism, Gnosticism,
and Manicheanism when he converted to Christianity.)
Sincerely,
Larry Sparks
MHFM: In addressing your e-mail, the first thing that needs to
be emphasized is that when we’re talking about Christians, we mean true
Catholics, not heretics or false “Christians.”
All who die as heretics are lost.
The sad truth about the fewness of the saved should not lead us to
conclude that God is unreasonable; it should not lead us to an irrational
terror of God. “For
my yoke is sweet and my
burden light,” Jesus says (Matthew 11:30). It’s not that God is that demanding. He demands that we accept His entire faith,
defend it without compromise, spread it, remain out of mortal sin, and
pray. The reason that most Catholics are
lost is because almost no one is of good will.
First, very few individuals have supernatural faith: an
unhesitating acceptance of God’s dogmas, especially the necessity of Christ and
the Church. They just won’t accept
it. They gravitate toward that which is
liberal and heretical. For example,
almost no one accepts the absolute necessity of Christ and His Church and the
necessity of water baptism. That reveals
the almost universal bad will of man.
Almost all of them gravitate toward the heresy of salvation outside the
Church and “baptism of desire” (which is the same thing in our day). Every single person who sees all the evidence
against “baptism of desire,” and still gravitates toward it or defends it –
rather than gravitating toward the no exceptions position indicated in Catholic
dogma – is of bad will. This has been
confirmed time and time again. God
rejects that person.
For
instance, the other night one of
us had a conversation with a couple which claims to be “traditional Catholic.” They are pretty familiar with the different
issues. They have taken the “no
jurisdiction” position (which is schismatic and refuted on our website). We will be refuting it in more detail
soon. Hence, they consider themselves to
be knowledgeable and astute “Catholics,” and they even consider almost all
others to be in counterfeit versions of the faith. They were adamant that they only believe in
explicit “baptism of desire” for catechumens, not the heresy that it extends
further. They made it clear that they do
not believe in or accept the heresy that those who are “invincibly ignorant” of
the faith can be saved. We did not
believe their claim. We pointed out that
every single person who obstinately accepts “baptism of desire” in our day
(even explicit baptism of desire) is of bad will and also accepts/tolerates the larger heresy of “invincible ignorance,”
etc., even if that person doesn’t believe it himself.
He accepts it either by accepting as Catholic others who hold
that heresy, or by not condemning documents which teach it. Well, we put their claim (that they only
believe in “baptism of desire” for catechumens) to the test. Are they honest? Are they true to their claim? We asked them whether they therefore reject Suprema haec sacra, the 1949 document
against Fr. Feeney. This fallible and
heretical document not only teaches explicit “baptism of desire,” but also
invincible ignorance. It teaches that
not just unbaptized catechumens can be saved (which is also wrong and heretical
of course), but also those in “invincible ignorance,” as well as those who are not
“members” of the Church or inside the “body” of the Church. If they were honest and not mortally sinful
liars, this husband and wife would have quickly responded: “yes; it is
heretical.” But no, they did not. They hemmed and hawed. The wife flatly refused to condemn it. At one point, the husband reluctantly
condemned it; but then he contradicted himself and was not definitive. He also refused to denounce as heretical
those who agree with it or accept it (e.g., his wife and others). This proves the point: that almost all the
people who claim to be “traditional Catholics” (and certainly Novus Ordo) are
horrible liars in heart and of bad will.
They are dishonest and not of the truth.
That’s why they go to Hell.
That’s why God completely rejects
them. So, is that God being hard?
No, it’s just people being dishonest and of bad will.
Further, among those who do accept supernatural faith, there is
a tendency to pride and an overestimation of one’s status, talents, etc. This often leads a person into schism or
other sins. Then there are those who do
not take steps to avoid clear mortal sins, such as sins of the flesh. These damn a countless number of souls. They don’t fear God enough to avoid these
sins or to pray to get the grace to live an upright life. That’s not God being hard. It’s man failing to avoid the very observable
laws of God.
Few are Saved- Most Adult Catholics are
damned
Humor
Subject: …. That’s so funny
Hi Bro. Michael and Peter Dimond,
I just had to send this...Love that cartoon
strip! It's so appropriate.
Unfortunately, it is hard to read, being very faint in many of the
frames…
I don't know whether guys can do something
your end. However, no big deal, as I am slowly deciphering it! And having a
quiet chuckle at the same time!
Ah, a sense of humor!
A good sense of humor keeps us lighthearted
and hopeful, "when you are down in the mouth remember Jonah. He came out
O.K."- Thomas Edison
God bless
David
P.S. A prisoner was about to be executed.
When he was offered a cigarette, he replied," No thanks, I'm trying to
quit smoking."
MHFM: Yeah, it’s really funny.
There are also some truths that one can be reminded of by it, we
think.
After the first few hours it was posted, the type was made
darker and much easier to read. So, if
someone looked at it then, it’s much easier to read now. Also, one word was replaced and substituted
with a word that is more proper.
Funny
Dear MHFM:
I have to admit that attachment was totally
hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing…
John
Comment
Thank you at the Holy Family Monastery for
bringing me the truth.
Anthony Smole
Comic
Relief – a Satire
Dear
MHFM:
… So,
a non-Catholic who is sincere needs God's grace to move towards conversion to
the true (Catholic) Faith. Without this predisposing grace, that
person would never arrive at a true conversion. I assume that we can pray
for a non-Catholic who is sincere, so long as it is for their conversion.
I also assume that a non-Catholic who prays to God for things other than his
conversion to the true Faith will not be heard by God. Is that
correct?
By
the way, I enjoyed your most recent audios dealing with these schismatic
"traditionalists". It really exposed just how
bad-willed a lot of these people are who claim to hold the Catholic
Faith. The one guy who talked about how good looking he was in front
of the sister is obviously bad-willed and totally out of line. Also, I
thought the statements that "R.I." made about murdering
other people or giving them "penances" was quite
revealing. It showed how totally evil and stupid he is.
I don't understand how anyone can take this man seriously let alone follow
him.
-John.
MHFM: Yes, if God sees that a non-Catholic can be of good will,
He will lead that person to the Catholic faith.
Catholics certainly can and should pray for their conversion. We believe that God will hear certain prayers
of a non-Catholic, in order to make him see what he needs to do to be led in
the right direction. For instance, if a
non-Catholic prayed to God to be removed from danger, God could answer His
prayer to enable him see that God exists, and that he should pray for other
things. God’s answer to that one prayer
would make him see that if he would pray for the true faith he would be led to
it (Mt. 7:7). If that person doesn’t
follow it up with other prayers and actions for the truth, he will remain
outside the Church and be lost.
Regarding your comment about that radical schismatic, a reader
of ours sent this to us. We thought that this was hilarious. This schismatic not only called up here and repeatedly mentioned (to Sister
Ann) how “tall and good-looking” he thinks he is; but he also said that he
would, for that reason, make a “big impact” when he became a priest. (He also said that he was “well built.”) That was a few positions ago, when he agreed
with one of the independent bishops and at that time thought that it was
“Catholic” to join that bishop to become a priest.
"The Dave L. Zone"
[Pdf] –
a satire of true
comments by a radical schismatic (3
pages, so you need to scroll down to see all of it)
For those who don’t know what we’re
talking about, we are referring to the person covered in part 1 of our recent
series on the radical “traditionalist” schismatics.
Part 1- Introduction and quick background on Dave L. and these
radical schismatics [9 min audio.]
Part 2 - In depth refutation of their false arguments regarding
the Council of Basel and the salvation dogma [50 min. audio]
Part 3 - Refutation of the Argument that Canonizations are not
infallible by virtue of the teaching of Vatican I [20 min. audio]
Part 4 - Exposing the demonic and shocking statements of the
schismatic RI – the source for many strains of "traditionalist"
schism [16 min. audio]
Moon
MHFM: Regarding the moon hoax issue, we thought this was
interesting.
Neil Armstrong's
cryptic speech
[50 seconds]
On the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission,
Neil Armstrong makes a very cryptic statement.
He says that you can make great discoveries if you “remove one of
truth’s protective layers.” In other
words, you can make incredible discoveries if you remove the truth (i.e., lie
or create a hoax).
B-16’s
recent heresies
MHFM: We’ve updated our Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file with some new quotes. He covers the New World Order, the SSPX and
some other heresies.
Information
Good evening,
first of all, I want to thank you for providing so much information about the True
Catholic Faith - and this even for free. Your website really helped and still
helps me finding answers to a lot of questions I hear from friends and
foreigns, or questions that come up, while I study myself…
*Best wishes
MN
[Germany]
Comment
Dear
MHFM I was sorry to hear about the lawsuit that was
filed against you. I listened to your audio… I believe this is an attack by the
devil to discredit and destroy your apostolate.
The devil does not want large numbers of people converting to the
true faith. And also in reading books about the lives of many saints, the
devil wants to distract and put fear in the minds of people especially those
who are trying to serve him in religious life by extreme scruples,
jansenism, elitism, the spirit of the pharisees, legalism, terror
etc. instead of serving the lord in religious life with joy and peace of mind
and soul. The lord said my burden is light and my yoke is sweet. Anyway keep up the great work you are doing
for souls.
Mark
CA
MHFM: Thanks for the comments. We think that your sentence accurately
describes a big part of the problem he fell into: “the devil wants to distract and put fear in the minds of people
especially those who are trying to serve him in religious life by extreme
scruples, jansenism, elitism, the spirit of the pharisees, legalism,
terror etc. instead of serving the lord in religious life with joy and peace of
mind and soul.”
Comment
Dear
Brothers, and all at MHFM, My husband and I just wanted to
write and lend our support to you during this trying time with this evil
lawsuit----personally, we don't think this guy has a legal leg to stand on
and you'll easily win, it’s so obvious that he's wrong. We wanted to lend
our support since we went through something similar----severe persecution----in
regards to work we were doing for the Immaculate Heart…
Michael
and Anne Kraft
Update
…
thanks for the update on your lawsuit, and it's quite sad and so devastating…
This lawsuit reminds me, if I recall correctly, of that story in which St. John
the Baptist de la Salles had a similar situation and was accused of theft
and/or fraud. It involved a young man entering his order and he was rich,
so he decided to give St. John a piece of land to make a school, well a few
years later, this young rich man decides to leave the order and goes to his
Father (who I believe was a governor or had some high position thus riches) and
then sues St. John because the young man no longer was in his order, so he
demanded all his money back…
Bernardo
Audio
Hi Brother(s) Dimond,
I finished listening to the audios about your lawsuit. I cannot think of
a better word than disappointed to say the least. Even though it is a
complete joke, it is still completely sad. (What he was describing
reminded me of both of my sister's radical positions....and how far someone can
fall).
I finished the life of St. Alphonsus about 2 months ago, and there was an
almost identical story in it to this. When I was reading it, I kept
thinking, how can somebody do that? I couldn't believe that somebody who
was in his own congregation sue him! The man brought upon himself so much
debt in the process of suing St. Alphonsus.......and for
what?!?
May God continue to reward you and the charitable work you provide us!
Teri Thurman
Opinions
Dear
Brothers,
I
listened to you audio about the lawsuit and it was wonderful. The devil
is certainly trying to destroy your good work. It is true that what the
Lord said, 'if they persecute you, know that they have persecuted me before
you'… You are trying to show the world that the ONE TRUE Church that Our Lord
founded is the only church and the only way to get to heaven. You back
up everything you say with facts and dogmas passed down through the centuries
by good and holy Popes and Doctors of the Church. So how can anyone say
false things about you. Our Lord is trying to keep HIS Church alive
through the work that you are doing. Our Lord and the Blessed
Mother will protect you and help you… God bless you.
Sincerely,
Katryn Rubio
----
Dear Brothers:
… If Satan wants to fight OUR LADY in
court? which they have no knowledge or power to judge her nor her son JESUS
CHRIST. That means they know they are about to end up in HELL forever and they
want to fight the decisive last fight. That means they are out of time, their
time is up. Otherwise, they would not be so stupid to file a lawsuit like this.
This guy absolutely has bad will right from
the beginning in his first email. His intention is to try to be "insider"
so they can destroy from within. He needs to be the one to live inside, to gain
your trust and turn around to destroy everything…
When a honest person who intend to devout
their lives to religious order. They donated everything they have and beg
for an acceptance in the monastery or convent so that they can live their
lives totally for God and God alone. This guy apparently was not right from the
beginning when he details his personal stuffs before he enter the monastery
like this, give me a red flag he is absolute an agent for Satan.
And now he goes get the… LAWYERS to fight
against GOD, one more time. How many time they want to crucify JESUS CHRIST.
How much longer they think they can make Christ suffers.
God gave them 100 years when they asked
Jesus to give them time to destroy his church. Jesus allowed them the time they
asked for. They asked for 75 years or 100 years in this time frame, they are
very confident that they can destroy JESUS CHRIST'S CHURCH. Guess what, 100
years is almost up, if you count from the day OUR LADY appeared in Fatima. 1917
- 2017. Only a few years left, less than 8 years, and they are so in hurry…
And here, we are the children of OUR LADY,
we are not sitting back and doing nothing, we fight to the end with her to
reclaim back the truth church for Christ and to bring out the TRIUMPH OF HER
IMMACULATE HEART. They cannot take that, they will do everything to harm and
hurt us doesn't matter what. Look up and be strong, we are on the right track.
Don't give in even one inch to Satan and
his children. I pray for you and God be with you and guide you, protect you and
do everything in the intention for the Glory of Holy Trinity.
Glory to God,
Kim-Lan Vu
----
Dear MHFM, These thugs tempting your
order has Opus Dei stamped all over it. This vatican organization has
tremendous monies pouring into it to deal with any attempts at deriding their
Luciferian enactments. Keep up the fight for Christ and his Church.
They can shatter your bones, but Jesus will preserve your souls
eternally in the end. Mater Immaculata, ora pro nobis.
D
---
It
doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you guys wouldn't be in the
"real" [Vatican II] Benedictine order…
Ruth
Other
point
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter
I just wanted to express my support to you both at this stressful time due to
the lawsuit you have to deal with. I listened to your audios and looked at the
other information and I think you have suffered very unjust treatment and the
allegations made against you are just not borne out by the facts. In
particular, it is not credible that someone could now claim you misrepresented
that you are part of the Novus Ordo Order of St Benedict as even a quick
perusal of your website makes it clear you are totally opposed to the official
Vatican II Counter Church and all its institutions. It's just breathtaking how
this argument could be made by somebody who is intelligent, and had visited
your monastery before joining, and was there for more than two years and was
closely involved in all your apostolate. Also, if the only people entitled to
call themselves "OSB" monks are in the Vatican II sect, and must be
officially approved by the Vatican II Order, then you rightly raise the
question of the legitimacy of the Anglican, Orthodox and other Orders of St
Benedict, who must also be misrepresenting themselves too according to this
fallacious argument.
The crisis in the Church has meant that in
order to remain Catholic people must place themselves outside the authority of the
official Vatican II Church, which is why there are independent chapels and
other organisations with priests and bishops who administer the sacraments in
defiance of the Diocese and Rome. Your monastery is in this position too, as
for you to continue to speak the truth of the Catholic faith you have to
conduct your apostolate independently of the official Vatican II Order of St
Benedict who would close you down if you submitted to their authority. It is
incredible to think that the individual who left your monastery did not know
and understand this while simultaneously assisting you in your apostolate and
advising inquirers and the Faithful who contacted your monastery.
I hope and pray that you will not be distracted too much from your ministry of
helping souls and that you will succeed in achieving justice in this lawsuit.
Your work is vital in these times of apostasy from the True Faith.
God Bless you
Gerard
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
We will continue on as usual.
There was one other point that we wanted to emphasize concerning this
matter. We did mention it in our
discussion, but we didn’t emphasize it, probably because there was a lot to
cover.
It is this: this individual is definitely committing an act of apostasy in order to make his claim. For his claim says that the Order of St.
Benedict is “widely” recognized and comprises many “abbeys” and monasteries in existence (“existing”). He says that these members of the Order of
St. Benedict exist and new ones come into
being. He says that only these are
able to use “O.S.B.” There is no doubt,
therefore, that his claim recognizes that the Vatican II sect’s apostate “Order
of St. Benedict” is the true one. Not
only that, he claims that the Vatican II sect’s apostate order is the only true
one.
If he were true to what he really believes, that there are no
Benedictines that he knows of (since Benedict XVI is an antipope), he would say
that there aren’t any Benedictines.
Further, he would say that he doesn’t know of any place that one could
become a Benedictine or properly use “O.S.B.”.
But he’s willing to attack at all costs, even if it means committing total apostasy according to his own
standards. He’s willing to attack, even
if it means recognizing Antipope Benedict XVI by recognizing as valid and
Catholic the apostate order which is under him.
This is truly evil and sickening.
(This fellow is a heretic and schismatic on other issues, by the way.)
Isn’t it ironic that
he departed our monastery because he didn’t agree with our position that one
may receive sacraments from certain priests who recognize Benedict XVI.
We correctly point out, in accordance with Catholic teaching,
that receiving sacraments from certain undeclared heretics (if you don’t agree
with or support them) doesn’t necessarily involve you or implicate you in their
false positions (see St. Thomas). It’s
interesting that as a result of his schismatic error on that point and other
matters, this individual fell outside the Church; and he is now professing as
legitimate the very apostate orders of the antipope with which he supposedly
wanted nothing whatsoever to do! It’s
amazing how the Devil uses his tools.
Listened
Dearest Brothers,
After listening to the horrid details of
this lawsuit against you, my heart sank. I just want to tell you how
sorry I am that you are having to deal with such an awful situation. My
heart goes out to you, and you are ever in my prayers. I have often
feared for your safety, and as David in New Zealand noted, it should really
come as no surprise that the devil would find a way to attack your
apostolate. I know you will continue to fight the good fight for the
true holy Catholic Faith. May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary give you the graces and strength you need in
weathering this storm!
Yours in Christ,
Margaret Moore
Comment
Hi Bro. Michael and Peter Dimond,
Thanks for bringing us up to date on
this disturbing, if not unexpected news...our prayers,
support and sympathies go out to you at this stressful time...
You are obviously doing a great job; the
fact that the devil is throwing so much at you, at this point in time, in the
Great Apostasy, is surely proof enough!
God Bless
David S.
N.Z.
Benedictine
Dear
Brothers,
This
A.M. we reviewed yr. lawsuit post; it is excellent and we agree with your
position totality. You are completely in the right with your presentation
and defence of the Catholic Faith. I have since 2006 and continue today
support for your monastery's excellent efforts in Catholic
apologetics.
On
Nov. 30th 2008 I wrote a condemnation against the Universal Salvation heresy
entitled, "Machinations of A Gnostic Mind, Heresies of Fr. Martin
Stepanich, OFM, STD---Directed Against The Dogma, OUTSIDE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
THERE IS NO SALVATION." In my article I gave credit to Bro. Peter
for his well researched book on this subject. I sent out about two dozen
of these articles and received perhaps six favorable comments. Today
arrived a letter from Bro. Andre Marie, M.I.C.M. of Saint Benedict Center,
Richmond, NH, dated July 17, 2009.
He
writes, "Where we differ from Brother Peter Dimond primarily is that he
has become sede
vacantist - stating that the Pope is not the
Pope. We do not accept that, nor do we tolerate such beliefs at our
chapel. Whatever the problems and weaknesses of recent popes, it is not
our place to judge him. We can criticize or dislike a particular
statement or action of the Holy Father, but we do not have the authority to
declare that he is not the Pope. This is for God to decide. We pray
for the Holy Father in every Mass and recognize Benedict XVI as a valid
successor to St. Peter."
Of
course Bro. Andre's position is both heretical and schismatical. It is an
example of hard core and encrusted pride to defend that which is not a Catholic
position, but rather a synthetic substitution for the truths of the
Faith.
Back
to your lawsuit--- for a good defense against Hoyle's argument that you
committed fraud in your assertion that you were members of the Order of St.
Benedict, and that MHFM was in fact a legitimate Benedictine
Monastery, YOU MUST, ABSOLUTELY AND EMPHATICALLY DECLARE THAT -- the
intention and design that St. Benedict had for his order and
approved by the Church from the beginning of the Order and its Rule was that
of independent houses united by The Rule which would be styled
by local circumstances, customs and times. This most certainly applies in
your case without any valid argumentation by Hoyle to the
contrary, whatsoever.
Please
read the entry, "Benedictine Order" from The Catholic Encyclopedia
for a explanation. Perhaps you have reviewed this in the past. THIS
VERY IMPORTANT-- STRESS THIS CLAIM.
You
have every right under Heaven to claim that your House and Rule conforms to the
concept of St. Benedict and that of the Church and popes which validate your
position.
PAX
CHRISTI,
Donald
Livingston
MHFM: Yes, we quote that very article in our article on our
community. Those who say we are not
Benedictine not only don’t understand the origins of the Order, but they also
don’t understand canon law or how God looks at things. Almost all of them are heretics and apostates
who accomplish nothing. The courts
cannot get involved in such religious disputes about who or what is
Benedictine. So theoretically that
cannot even come into play. You cannot
have a religious debate in the courtroom.
The claim against us is a complete joke.
Comment
Subject: Eric Hoyle
I spoke with Br. Edmund on the phone while
he was with you and he said that MHFM was a great place or the best place for a
young person to join…
M
Comment
Brothers:
I was looking at your site and saw the audio on the "lawsuit".
I was going to bed but started playing it and I was so taken by it I set by the
computer to listen. It is so sad. I am praying for you. You
were friends with the man for two years and look what he did to you. In
the "End Times" even your own family will turn on you, and think they
are doing God a favor.
Blessings,
John
Our
Lawsuit
Our Lawsuit [click
here]
MHFM:
This file gives a person the information which explains why we are currently in
a lawsuit. It explains the truth of our
case, and contains many corroborating documents and audios which prove the
truth of our case. Some very interesting
stuff… It utterly refutes the vicious and injurious lies that have been spread
on this topic. It explains how and why
we are being unjustly persecuted.
John 15:20-
“Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his
master. If they have persecuted me, they
will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours
also.”
Matthew 5:11-12-
“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you,
untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in
heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you…”
2 Tim. 3:12- “And all that will live godly
in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.”
Medjugorje
Here’s more proof that Medjugorje is fake:
the “visionaries” reported that people were encouraged to read Poem of the Man
God in one of their “apparitions.”
Just those little excerpts in the previous
e-mail are enough to show the heresies contained in that book.
Margie
Teeth
MHFM;
Reading over the anti-pope B-16's recent encyclical on your site I couldn't
help but get a chill when seeing the description of "the family of nations
acquiring real teeth".
Benedict XVI’s encyclical Charity in Truth #67: “In the face of the unrelenting
growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the
midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization,
and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the
concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.
Just that the word "teeth" is used and the thought of some of the
eerie photos of B16 gave me a sense of demons gnashing and tearing of the
flesh. I did a search of the bible and there are about 50 occurrences of the
word "teeth" with a number of the versus describing "teeth"
as a weapon of destruction.
Interesting videos on the moon landing. I figured that there were no astronauts
at all that were actually shot up into orbit for eight days. That the
spacecraft that we saw come down out of the sky with parachutes was pushed out
like a bundle from a high altitude military cargo plane. Interesting all the
same.
God Bless You,
Tom
Moon
landing
Dear
Brothers…
For a long time I thought that the landing was a hoax for sure. It wasn't until
my co-worker, a protestant pro-creationist, brought up the fact that when the
astronauts supposedly landed, they were surprised that the dust on the moon
wasn't much deeper. They said that the dust was only about a 1/2 inch thick,
whereas it was supposed to be much deeper than that if the moon was billions of
years old.
Why would the astronauts say that if they hadn't actually landed there? It's
not like evolutionists very easily concede facts to us about Creationism.
Believe me, I agree with a lot of conspiracy theories because they are almost
always true, especially when our government is involved.
Maybe you can give me your opinion on this or maybe you've come across this
argument before.
Nate
MHFM: After looking into the subject
some more, we are totally convinced that we did not go to the moon. The whole thing was a hoax. In regard to your question, we think that
they mentioned only a little bit of dust because it was easier to fake small
amounts of dust than huge un-earthly amounts.
The correspondence of their lie to the truth of a young Earth was almost
certainly just a coincidence. Here’s a
very interesting 5-part program on the moon landing hoax. It’s excellent. It’s not boring at all – definitely worth
watching!
Moon landing
hoax- Part 1 [about
10 minutes each part]
One of the most interesting parts of
this series concerns Area 51. Area 51 in
Nevada, a top secret military base, is almost certainly where the moon hoax was
filmed. Russian satellite images show
that the terrain of Area 51 in Nevada is very similar to what is shown on the
moon, including the presence of craters.
This might very well explain why Area 51 is so secret that anyone who
enters it will be shot. If people had
full access to it, they would almost certainly identify the terrain used for
the moon hoax.
In addition to all the other evidence, we also find the press
conference of the original three astronauts to be quite revealing. Notice how uncomfortable and strained they
are. Neil Armstrong is not speaking
freely at all. He is extremely tense in
the press conference. Buzz Aldrin is
also visibly uncomfortable and moving in his seat. It’s not the appearance of men who would be
very enthusiastic, confident and excited about what they had done. They would speak freely about what was most
exciting and remarkable to them. Rather,
it’s the appearance of men who know that they have just lied to the entire
world and will have to continue to lie for years. Consequently, Neil Armstrong is weighing
every word, moving at an extremely slow and measured pace, so that his story
doesn’t reveal the lie. He is not
speaking loosely and freely.
The original
tense, strained, uncomfortable post-moon landing press conference [3 min.]
Flu
Dear Brothers Diamond
In your News and Catholic Commenting
Section, informs that “Two Anglican dioceses in Britain are changing how they
handle Communion in an attempt to reduce the spread of swine flu.” This is also happening in the Vatican II
Church here in Portugal. They have given strict orders to the priests
that their hands must be extra well washed with a specific product and not to
give Communion to the faithful in the mouth but only in the hand, to reduce the
spread of swine flu.
Sincerely
M. Fernanda Silva
Comment
Subject: Baptism of desire and Limbo
A quick proof that Baptism of Desire is
false and that the True Catholic Church has not taught it in the past. The
invincible ignorance argument says that the church has always taught that if
through no fault of your own you don't hear the gosple it is possible that you
can have a Baptism of desire and go to heaven. But everone knows that the
church teaches limbo (until the antipope). So they are saying an unborn child
with no sin other than original can't go to heaven but the godless unbaptised
pagan can. To me this was the biggest flaw in the baptism of desire argument
and I think the antipope saw this contradiction so he just said no more limbo.
William
MHFM: Yes, we make that point in our book, in the sections
concerning “invincible ignorance.”
Audios
Dear brothers:
I was very pleased with the audios recently
posted. They prove without a shadow of doubt the orthodoxy of your position,
and the insanity in the claims of certain individuals.
I came across [one of those guys] a short
time ago, and not to my surprise, [he] has even suggested that Saint Pius X was
an antipope. He later retracted his statement, but as Brother Peter pointed
out, he makes accusations out of the blue, and then abjures it as if it was a
small matter, and the next day he starts all over again daring to challenge
even the status of saintly figures.
It was a very nice and deserved exposition
you guys made.
Now, talking about a different subject, I
would like to make a request…
I understand you are busy, but this subject
is of major importance: How about an article or audio about overcoming the sins
of the flesh? After all, the Mother of God even mentioned in Portugal that this
sin is the one sending most people to hell. And that was almost a century ago,
when we did not have easily available porn magazines and filmes, the movie
industry was in its infancy and the internet was speculative science fiction. Many
people have problems with looking at porn and practicing masturbation, but it´s
hard to do something about it. If you go to a doctor or counselor, he will say
it´s only normal. I know the simple true is to just get a hold of oneself and
drop it, but isn´t there anything more that can be said and done regarding this
topic? Many people recognize it´s a sin, feel ashamed about it, struggle with
it, and fail.
MHFM: We have something in mind that we’d like to do on that
topic. The issue has been discussed in
our materials, in E-Exchanges, Death and the Journey into Hell, recorded audio
discussions, this article, etc. But there is something more specific and
focused that we’d like to do to show people the evil involved in sins of the
flesh and how most are damned for such sins.
But really, if people commit such sins it’s because they don’t
have a prayer life and don’t fear God.
New
MHFM: Some new heresies from Benedict XVI are coming soon, as
well as an audio with the real facts and truth concerning a recent lawsuit.
Book
… the new book is outstanding. Your work is well researched and presented in
an easy to understand format. Anyone who
disputes the statements made in your book is simply hopeless. Keep up the good work.
God bless,
Misty Mortensen
Valtorta
Dear brothers in Christ,
[Regarding The Poem of the Man God by Maria
Valtorta]
I visited the site www.valtorta.org in order to get a glimpse of this
"poem". I was shocked with what I found. Here I quote some examples.
On abortion:
"Oh, let fathers and mothers not
profane the innocent holocaust of their clipped flowers with their
imprecations! Let fathers and mothers know that not a tear of their children,
not a moan of these immolated innocents remains unechoed in My Heart.
Heaven opens to them, for they do not differ at all from their distant little
brothers, killed by Herod out of hatred for Me. These, too, are killed by
the sinister Herods, stewards of a power
which I have given them so they would use it for good and for which they must
give Me an accounting.
I would come for all. But especially for these, just born to life, a gift
of God, and already uprooted from life by cruelty, a gift of the devil.
You should know,
however, that to wash the contaminated blood which fouls the earth, which is
shed with rancour and cursing against Me, Who am Love, this dew of innocent
blood is needed, the only blood still
able to flow forth without cursing, without hating, just as I, the Lamb,
shed My Blood for you. The innocents are the little lambs of the new era,
the only ones whose sacrifice, gathered in by the angels, is completely
pleasing to My Father."
These passages promote the so called baptism of blood, wouldn't you say?
On extraterrestrial life:
"But how is it that they have never considered that the 'great Babylon' is
/the whole Earth? I would be a very small and limited God the Creator if
I had created only the
Earth as an inhabited world! With a beat
of My will I have brought forth worlds upon worlds from nothing and cast them
as luminous fine dust into the immensity of the firmament.*
*"The Earth, about which you are so proud and fierce, is nothing but one
of the bits of fine dust rotating in unboundedness, and not the biggest
one. It is certainly the most
corrupt one, though. Lives upon lives are teeming in the millions of
worlds which are the joy of your gaze on peaceful nights, and the perfection of
God will appear to you when, with the intellectual sight of your spirits
rejoined to God, you are able to see the wonders of those worlds.*
Well, I could expect these passages to come out of a Star Trek fan's mouth, not
from a mouth of God's prophet. By the
way--the perfection of God is obvious from EVERYTHING we can see in creation.
In short--Maria Valtorta is the Devil's servant, promoting false gospel.
May our Perfect Holy Mother and Joseph watch over you and your holy works.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
MHFM: Those passages contain obvious heresies against the
faith. They are definitive proof that
her messages are not from God.
Times
Brothers:
If people think the world is getting better they are "Nuts". When
I was a boy if you mentioned homosexuality, it was the same as taking the
Lord's name in vain. Homosexuality was sickening.
I remember a man who went to jail for homosexual acts. Today if you
are not for homosexual "marriage"..... you are a bigot. When
the "Hate Bill" is passed it will be the people who speak out against
homosexuality that go to jail, not the homosexual. My how times have
changed.
Blessings,
John
Comment
Hey, nice videos you put up yesterday, it
was about time those radical schismatics were refuted, I really enjoyed them.
And guess what, they were previously accusing you of [many] errors and/or
heresies, but once they listened to your audios, they reduced them… And they
revised and recanted yet again their heretical and schismatic abjurations.
But I wanted to ask you something else that these schismatics… say, which is
that, supposedly, the Catholic Church can still exist and go on even if there
is not a single Catholic person in the world. Is that true? That something I was
really interested in, because, where was the Catholic Church, or who exactly
were the only Catholics left, once this whole apostasy and the Vatican II
started in the 60's? Where was the Church in those times, or since the time of
antipope John XXIII?
Thanks anyways.
Jorge.
MHFM: Thanks for the comment.
The promise that Christ would be with us “all days” presupposes that
some members of the faithful will always be on Earth.
Matthew 28:20- “…and behold I am with you
all days, even to the consummation of the world.”
There were Catholics in the 1960s who recognized Antipope John
XXIII. They didn’t become heretics or
schismatics simply because they wrongly thought that he was the pope. They only became heretics or schismatics once
they saw the evidence for his heresies and went along with them.
Heretics
Dear Brothers,
I was hoping you'd
clarify the following statements from the section "The File on the
positions of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)" on your web
site. When it mentions that "...heretics are outside of the
Church...", is this inferring that the SSPX is outside the Church?
Are there instances of herectics who are inside the Church?
If I read it correctly,
it appears to be stating that: the SSPX are heretical since they recognize
manifest heretics as Catholics who possess authority in the Church. This
is followed by a quote that states "...heretics are outside of the
Church".
...1) They
recognize manifest heretics (the Novus Ordo bishops and the Vatican II
antipopes) as Catholics who possess authority in the Church, which is
heretical They need to recognize that these heretical bishops are outside
the Church and have no authority at all.
St.
Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, lib. II, cap. 30: “Finally, the Holy
Fathers teach unanimously not only that heretics are outside of the Church, but
also that they are "ipso facto" deprived of all ecclesiastical
jurisdiction and dignity.”
If I am misreading this,
or if there are other considerations that result in a different understanding
of the above, please clarify.
Thanks for your efforts to get people to
look at the truth in these modernist times...
MHFM: Those who obstinately agree with the heretical positions
of the SSPX would be heretics. The SSPX is
heretical because it recognizes the heretics of the Novus Ordo Church as inside
the Catholic Church, and it believes that souls can be saved in false
religions. The point was that it’s a
dogma that heretics are outside the Church.
Hence, it’s contrary to the faith to assert that the obvious heretics of
the Novus Ordo are their “bishops.”
Definition
In your most recent audio, you again proved
that the Father and the Son (the filoque) was infallibly added to the Nicene
Creed. Was the orginal Nicene Creed infallibly ruled upon by a True
Pope? Or, I guess my question is: can an infallible ruling be added
to or subtracted from?
Joan
MHFM: A dogmatic definition can be expanded upon to give a more
detailed explanation of the very same truth.
When that is done it is always in the exact same sense. The more elaborate explanation remains
literally in perfect harmony with the previous definition.
Important
New Audios
MHFM: We’ve received one too many e-mails from
certain radical “traditionalist” schismatics, who spread their falsehoods and
perversions of Catholic teaching in small groups. So, we’ve decided to completely and
thoroughly refute and expose them once and for all. Here’s the series you need to hear if you’ve
been exposed to them or to any of their arguments. This series refutes all of their main
arguments, including their many false accusations against us. This series focuses on three “traditionalist”
schismatics in particular: R.I., Dave L., and Frank. However, the detailed points and issues that
are covered apply to a vast array of
similar schismatics and their false arguments. These audios are listed in reverse order
because our general readers will probably find Part 4 to be the most interesting.
Part 4 - Exposing the demonic and shocking statements of the
schismatic RI – the source for many strains of "traditionalist"
schism [16 min. audio]
This section exposes the shocking statements of
R.I. Listen to the audio clips, including: his threats to kill those
who don’t agree with him; how he would have someone blow a cat’s brains out as
part of her penance; how he would torture St. Thomas Aquinas if he could;
how he claims to be a prophet, but admittedly falsely identified the other
“witness,” and more. Most importantly,
however, this section explains how this false prophet and non-Catholic
schismatic was the source for much of the radical traditionalist schism that
floats around now, in various forms. He was the source of the schism even among
those who don’t fully agree with him on all points, but apply portions of his
demonic thought. This is especially
true concerning the rejection of canonizations, abjurations, etc.
His heretical teaching was also the reason that a member of our
community left our community a few years ago.
A few days before he left, this member of our community read this guy’s
writing on Mass attendance and suddenly came to the conclusion that he was a
“heretic,” and that had been committing many mortal sins against “the faith”
each week. He abruptly left. (We will tell the true story of that in
another audio coming up. It will refute the totally false and very
injurious lies that people are spreading, as if we have done something wrong
when we have not.) This former member of
our community was a total supporter for over two years, but then it was as if
he was called by the demonic teaching of this false prophet and he suddenly
changed his entire theological viewpoint.
Part 3 - Refutation of the Argument that Canonizations are not
infallible by virtue of the teaching of Vatican I [20 min. audio]
How can canonizations be infallible if divine
revelation ended with the death of the last apostle? This section answers that question and
refutes the heretical position of these schismatics. It also refutes another objection that they
launch concerning Pope Pius XII.
Part 2 - In depth refutation of their false arguments regarding
the Council of Basel and the salvation dogma [50 min.
audio]
This section covers a number of detailed
objections, including: the Council of Basel’s decree (was it dogmatic?); Quam
Singulari; when does the baptized child of a Protestant become a schismatic or a
heretic; a supposed “stumper” question concerning Martin Luther; their lies
about our view of the salvation dogma; and a lot more.
Part 1- Introduction and quick background on these radical
schismatics [9 min audio.]
A quick background on the schismatic Dave L and more.
This will be found permanently in our: New sub-section on finer points,
quotes, arguments, objections and issues relevant to certain
"traditionalists"
Kids
I ordered some books from your site… I am a
Father of five kids, 9 to 19 if they don't want to say the rosary am I
obligated to make them say it as head of the family. My wife, sad to
say is more of the world so the kids gravitate to her unfortunately.
I feel so alone and broken hearted for my kids. I have always
through our marriage tried to promote prayer but was resisted a lot.
I have never liked the new mass, it never sat right with me: the priest
petitioning Jesus with his back to Him, interrupting the most holy part of
the mass with hugging and hand shaking... I am so very sad because I love
the true Catholic Church and the sacraments, especially confession and
the Eucharist. Where does one find a priest that would absolve you
of the sin of going to the new mass among other things? Please
help.
T
MHFM: You should have the
younger ones say it, but you should first explain to them the importance of
praying it. In other words, they need to realize that if they don't pray
and practice the faith and show interest and avoid sins, then they will lose
their souls. That’s why the religious
videos, including those on our website and those available from us, are
helpful. Kids need to see that it's in
their best interest to get interested.
For if they are not excited about the faith at all, they won’t stand a
chance in this pagan world.
As far as the 19 year-old goes, you should share the material
with him and earnestly communicate the importance of believing and practicing
the Catholic faith. But if it's not in his heart, then you cannot force
him to be interested. Since it's your house, you should not allow things
that are sinful to occur there. For
example, rock or rap or popular music or sinful shows should not be allowed to
be played in the house. If he doesn't like it, he should move out.
We can help you with where to go for the sacraments if you
contact us (that’s assuming one is in full agreement on the issues of
faith). Also consult our “Where to Go to
Mass” section under Traditional Issues to have a familiarity with the guidelines
one should use in assessing where to go.
Book
Dear Brothers,
Recently we ordered and received numerous
copies of your work that proves the Catholic Faith from the Protestant
bible. Both my wife and I are so
impressed with its scholarship and wide ranging scope. We are planning to use it with some
Protestant friends at the appropriate time.
We wanted to just take the time to let you
know what a valuable work we believe it to be.
Also included is a small donation that we feel you should have charged
us for the shipping, at least.
God bless you and your work,
Jason and Peggy Mead
Response,
Matthew 5
MHFM: In response to recent attacks:
Matthew 5:11-12- “Blessed are ye when they
shall revile you, and persecute you, and
speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and
rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the
prophets that were before you…”
We will expand upon this as opportunity permits.
Papal
Teaching
Dear Bro. Dimond,
I greatly enjoy your archived debates and radio broadcasts. Some of my favorites have been "Proof
for Infant Baptism" & "The Bible Teaches Purgatory", both of
which hit the nail right on the head and totally refute Anabaptist &
general Protestant doctrine.
I have two questions for you, first, I was raised in V2, but it may as well
have been the Anglican church. Prayers to saints were never covered in basic
Catechism classes and Limbo was certainly never mentioned!
First question, this should be easy. I was baptized in 1978 and have no clue if
the priest performing said sacrament was ordained pre-V2 or post V2. I could
find this out without too much trouble, but before I go through all that I
would like to know if my baptism was valid if performed by a V2
"priest"?
Second question. Being new to Sedevacantist thought, my next question concerns
papal infallibility. If the Pope is infallible and Pope Gregory the XI
condemned the Scriptures translation into the English language by John
Wycliffe, would that not mean that every Catholic bible published in any language
other than Latin/Greek/Hebrew (OT only) is an admonishment of this decree and
if it isn't, would that not mean that Pope Gregory XI was in error?
Please don't misunderstand my intentions. I am willing to admit that I may have
misunderstood the doctrine of Papal Infallibility. If I have, perhaps you can
post another audio file to clear up the confusion some have over this doctrine
(esp. Old Catholics/Polish Catholic schismatics).
God Bless everyone at the MHFM and keep up the good work!
Best Wishes,
Joe Kelly
Thank you for your time!
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Anyone can baptize. It’s not
necessary that he be a valid priest.
Thus, if the proper matter and form were used, it was valid. You seem to have some doubt that it was done
properly. For that reason, someone
should do a conditional baptism. The
form is in this file.
Such a decree of Pope Gregory XI forbidding his translation of
the Scriptures would be a disciplinary decree.
It could be changed by another pope.
It’s different from a solemn statement on faith or morals which cannot
be changed. Popes did have different
laws and issued many different disciplinary decrees on that issue, depending
upon what they deemed best for a particular time.
Regarding the “Old Catholics” and similar schismatics, they
simply do not accept the dogma of the Papacy.
They are not Catholics. They
reject what was defined at Vatican I, the full scope of the authority that
Christ gave to St. Peter and his legitimate successors.
Comment
Brothers,
Thank you again for all the long hours that are spent behind the scenes to
bring the "Truth" to the world. I've been thinking lately about when
JPII was spreading the message "Be not afraid", and there were
t-shirts, hats and cups available for sale to the public. I'm sure this
was quite misleading at the time when all the child molesting N.O. Priests were
running loose. JPII tried to make everything seem so natural and not a care in
the world while hiding the truth. Falls in line with Paul VI and his "the
smoke has entered the Church" stunt.
God Bless You,
Tom
MHFM: Right. It was a
subtle encouragement to remain unafraid of anything and anyone, including
God. This was his message at a time when
sin abounded like never before, when the message they really need to hear was:
Luke 12:4-5- “And I say to you, my friends:
Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they
can do. But I will shew you whom you
shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into
hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.”
Wedding
form
The wedding formula once was “prendo te
come mia legittima sposa” - “I take you as my legitimate wife”. Now it has been changed into “accolgo te
come mia legittima sposa” - “I accept/recognize you as.....”
This because prendere/take could mean in a
large extense an idea of possession/violence.
From an active action it is transformed into a passive one. What is your opinion about?
Best Regards
Roberto F.
MHFM: It doesn’t affect the validity because in marriage the two
people constitute the matter of the sacrament and their mutual consent is the
form. It doesn’t have to be a specific
set of words. The changes that were made
to the other sacraments by the Vatican II sect do affect validity, however.
Why the New Rite of Ordination is
Invalid [PDF
File]
This article explains why the New Rite of
Ordination – which was instituted by Paul VI on June 18, 1968 after Vatican II
– is not valid.)
The
New Rite of Consecration of Bishops [PDF file]
This
article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rite of consecrating
bishops after Vatican II.)
The
Changes to the Other Sacraments [PDF file]
This
article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rites of Baptism,
Confirmation, Confession, Marriage and Extreme Unction after Vatican II.
A
Soldier Encounters an Angel
Questions
I recently listened to your audio tape
about vatican 2. I thought you easily won the argument and was very
impressed. I would just like to mention
that I prayed for the truth and a couple of days later came across your website
which I found quite strange.
I would just like to raise a few points
which I find difficult to understand.
Firstly you mention unbaptised infants, saying they will not go to
heaven if they are not baptised. I cannot understand how an infant can be
rejected by God for something he/she is not responsible for as they were not
permitted to make this choice. Recently there was a 3 year old child (one
of many) who was tortured by its parents and killed. I cannot see how
Jesus could reject this child because it was not baptised. I feel he is
bigger than that and would always find a way. He loved children a lot and
never rejected them. (also, what happens to aborted babies, are they also
not saved). How can be reject his own creation?
I am not disputing Vatican 1 as I accept
they have far more wisdom and knowledge than I do. I just feel worried
that God's love and mercy is sometimes forgotten. For example, I recently
heard about a suicide and felt extremely sorry for this person. Am I
saying I have more compassion than God which is completely ridiculous, and as
this person was suffering from a mental illness are they still responsible for
their actions? I do not deny God's justice but I also accept he is
love. I do not consider myself to be a really good person but despite
this Jesus has helped me in my life many times even when I wasn't deserving of
his help.
I would also like to ask your opinion about
the 'Bilderberg Group' who meet in secret to plan future world events. I
have recently come across sites on the internet which are showing secret
concentration camps in America. Apparently they want to eliminate 90% of
the world's population. (Do you believe this?) They say they
will target christians and anyone who is against the New World Order. As
you probably know both Pope John Paul 2 and Pope Benedict XV1 have spoken in
favour of this NWO which I find very odd as it is completely anti
christian. I just feel know that it is a world-wide conspiracy and the
vatican has been completely taken over by the Illuminati. Why did Barak
Obama request all crucifixes be covered at a catholic college before he would
agree to speak there. Very strange!
Anyway, thank you for reading my e-mail and
if you have the time can you please respond.
Christie
MHFM: Thanks for the interest, but you do not accept Catholic
dogma at this time. God has revealed
that no infant is saved without baptism.
To be Catholic one must hold that without hesitation. All unbaptized infants have original sin;
this bars them from the Kingdom of God.
It’s not our job to question this truth, but to accept it. The dogmatic teaching of the Church on this
point is quoted in this file. You need
to change your position on this matter; it’s incompatible with the true faith.
Outside the Catholic Church There
is No Salvation file
We hate to make this argument (because we don’t want to give the
impression that it’s okay to withhold faith in a dogma until you can see the
justice in it); but how do you know that those infants, if they lived to a
mature age, would not have sinned mortally and become horrible sinners and/or
enemies of God? Thus, right away we can
see that there is a plausibly just reason for how God could bar unbaptized
infants from Heaven for all eternity.
But even if this reason were not apparent, a person with faith would be
convinced of the dogma anyway. Someone
without faith refuses to accept it because it doesn’t make sense to him or
her. That’s the case, unfortunately,
with countless people who reject the dogma Outside the Church There is No
Salvation. As a result of refusing to
believe Him, He rejects them as well.
St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church, Prosologion, Chap. 1: “For I do not seek to understand that I may
believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, that unless I believed, I should not understand.”
If one doesn’t accept it as infallibly true then one simply does
not accept Jesus Christ, because the dogma comes to us from Jesus Christ.
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
“…
can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without by that
very fact falling into heresy? – without separating himself from the Church? – without
repudiating in one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? For such is the nature of faith that nothing
can be more absurd than to accept some things and reject others. Faith,
as the Church teaches, is that
supernatural virtue by which… we believe what He has revealed to be true, not
on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural light of human
reason [author: that is, not because it seems correct to us], but because of
the authority of God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive nor be
deceived… But he who dissents
even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith,
since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.”
More on
Coin
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
The image on the back of the proposed
future world currency is a variation of the "Seal of Bathomet".
I have overlaid the coin with the "Seal of Bathomet" below.
Notice the hebrew script (Jewish) and the pentegram on the original Seal.
The reason you don't immediately see the
goats head, is because it is depicted in such a way that mostly conceals it
from the general public (whom they regard as being too stupid to figure it
out). So, you really have to know what
to look for in order to positively identify these occultic symbols. It also helps to understand a little bit
about what these reprobates of God, or sons of the devil (John 8:44), actually
believe about others.
-John.
MHFM: I don’t think it’s there.
I think it’s a stretch.
Thanks
for your reply. It is a bit of a stretch…
John
V-2
Church
This could apply to the Vatican II Church:
"And to say that the whole of
Christendom has failed, that the whole Church has erred, and all truth
disappeared,--what is this but to say that Our Lord has abandoned his Church,
has broken the sacred tie of marriage he had contracted with her? And to put
forward a new Church,--is it not to attempt to thrust upon this sacred and holy
Husband a second wife? This is what the ministers of the pretended church have
undertaken; this is what they boast of having done; this has been the aim of
their discourses, their designs, their writings. But what an injustice have you
not committed in believing them? How did you come to take their word so simply?
How did you so lightly give them credit? The Catholic Controversy St Francis
DeSales, 1567-1622, Bishop and Doctor of the Faith (The famous writings used by
St. Francis de Sales in his remarkable re-conversion of thousands of Calvinists
back to the Catholic Faith), TAN Books, 1989.
P
Freemason
Also do catholics become free masons or
is it just protestants. I was brought up in the Catholic faith and my mum
went to Mass, but my dad was a freemason, we never knew what it was about
because it was all a big secret!! He had an apron and a coin and would talk
about the handshakes. When I got older I studied theology and I now
attend a Presbyterian church. An Anglican priest in my town said that her
father was also a freemason and that he was a Christian, but my understanding
is that freemasonry is in fact satan worship? I am genuinely interested
in your views on this,
Lucy
MHFM: The Catholic Church forbids
membership in Freemasonry under pain of automatic excommunication.
Membership in a secret society, with its rituals, requirements, etc., is incompatible
with the profession and practice of the true faith. One cannot be a true Catholic and a Freemason
at the same time.
Disseminating
Dear Brother Peter,
I have just finished reading your new
book. What a wonderful book... You have clearly pointed out the true
meaning of the different Scriptural passages which non-Catholics twist and
deny, etc. I believe that many non-Catholics reading this book if they
are of good will are are searching for the truth, will be converted. The
scope of your apostolate with your books, DVDs, radio programs, etc. is just
astounding. I truly believe that there is nothing more important than
disseminating the Catholic Faith in its entirety and exposing its enemies.
Roxanne Doogan
Information
Dear Brother Michael Dimond,
Thank you so much for the information you
have provided to me. I know in my heart God will bless you for it.
I wish you could know how long I have been trying to find the truth.
Through dedication to our Most Holy Mother - she sent me to you.
Mary C. Sevier
Received
Dear MHFM,
I received the three books and the flyers
that you sent me. Thank you very much. I have been studying them
and sharing them. I was especially impressed with the books UFOs: Demonic
Activity and Elaborate Hoaxes Meant to Deceive Mankind.
God bless you,
Malcom Wright
Literature
I recently received my order and wanted to
thank you for the extra literature you enclosed... Anyone can see how much work
and effort that is placed in getting these messages out to everyone. The
time in research is beyond my comprehension...
Tonya Bittich
Now I
get it
Subject: Medjugorje – now I get it!
Dear Brothers,
Thank you for your wonderful site. I am
spending most of my free time reading and downloading all the info there. Now I
am so astounded at the VII heresies that I cannot bring myself to have further
contact with this New Church.
I visited Medjugorje twice and witnessed
some incredible and bizarre stuff there, which I assumed was miraculous. I
got caught up in the "cult" of Medjugorje and became very uneasy
about many of its fanatical aspects and the actions and words of the
"visionaries". I stopped believing in the apparitions and have been
attempting to figure out what is happening there for years now. I think I get
it, finally !
Anyway, I had a thought about Medjugorje
and its "conversions" which its followers hold as proof of its
authenticity. They also claim that JPII endorsed the apparitions - of course he
did, they are from Satan ! I now can see that Medjugorje does indeed convert
people - but it converts them to a FALSE RELIGION of the Vatican II church with
its ecumenism. It is possible for Satan to present himself in such a way
to convince people to worship in a false Church, and I think this is what is
happening there.
Your thoughts ?
Margie in Massachusetts
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
That’s exactly what’s happening.
God is allowing Satan to work these false signs and wonders to keep
people in the New Church, as we point out:
False Apparitions
(Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje) [Link to Section]
These are the false signs and wonders of Satan which are
predicted in Matthew 24 and 2 Thess. 2, and which are said to arrive in the
last days to deceive people.
Video
Dear
Brothers,
… Thanks for the new DVD's that you've posted. I particularly like the Case for
the Creator link you have up. I hope to watch the other two new ones in
the next few days. After watching The Case for the Creator I decided not
to live in fear of the devil anymore and then I noticed I needed to be afraid
of my own sins (myself and my weakness) and others who may lead me into
sin. And I fear God who at any instant could destroy me for my pathetic
wretchedness. But I choose to trust Him and love him and will always have
recourse to his mother. I have stepped up my rosaries and God has been
faithful…
A.
Choking
game
[Teen kills himself possibly by playing
choking game]
Brothers...I’ve done lots of dumb things in
my past, but seriously though, this stunt just boggles the mind to
do this !!!
http://www.channel3000.com/news/20039568/detail.html
Questions,
weddings
Dear Brothers,
May God continue to bless you in all your
work!!
I am writing to you because of the crises
in our family. My sister got married several years ago, in what we
thought at the time, was the Catholic Church. A few years after
that, she got divorced. She proceeded to live with a number of
men. She got "married" to at least two of them in a
non-Catholic church, and divorced them soon after.
Now, she is living with another man, and
announced that they were going to get married. I told the members of my
family that they were not allowed to go, because God does not allow divorce and
re-marriage. Also, she was endeavoring to be married outside the Catholic
Church. So, my parents went
and asked the "pastor" here in town if they were allowed to attend
her "marriage". He told them that as long as my
sister knew that the did not approve, they could go!!
So, I made an appointment with him and
asked how he could give my family permission to attend this
sacrilege. He gave me the same answer. I showed him material and
facts that stated that Catholics are not allowed to attend non --Catholic
functions.(Much of it from your web site.) It did absolutely no good.
(Everyone in my family. except me ended up attending!) When I tell my sister
that she is not married in the eyes of God, she becomes very angry, and says
that as long as she believes in God, That is all that matters.
Then, we got on the subject of the novus
ordo "mass" being invalid. Of course, the
"pastor" tried to defend it. Again, I had brought along facts
and teachings condemning the Vatican II church… I told him that the words
of consecration were altered, and therefore consecration does not take
place. He said that the words didn't matter. I brought up so much, Brothers, but he
remained steadfast in his thinking. When I left, I let him have the book, (The
Truth of What Happened to the Catholic Church Since Vatican II). Maybe it
will do some good. I hope so!!
I have… questions: Was I right in telling
my family they were not allowed to attend the "marriage"?...
How can I persuade my family that the
entire novus-ordo mass and Vatican II church is sacriligious and invalid?
I have shown them your videos, but it does no good.
Again, thank you for all the hard work and
devotion you are giving… I pray that God will continue to bless you all!!!...
Thank You!
Wayne C. Lang
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
You were absolutely correct in telling them that they may not go to the
“marriage.” It would be sinful to go to
a non-Catholic (not to mention invalid) marriage ceremony. The Novus Ordo “priest’s” advice is horrible,
but typical. What’s really outrageous is
that many “traditionalists” hold the same thing on that issue. Many of them wrongly believe and teach that
it’s permissible to passively attend non-Catholic services, such as funerals
and weddings. The particular case of
your sister’s invalid second “marriage” really drives home how such a position
leads to sin and compromises the faith.
Can one passively attend
non-Catholic funerals, weddings? No.
How can you persuade your
family? It's obvious that you can't. You have to realize that they
are simply of bad will. You have repeatedly presented the evidence, but
you cannot force bad-willed people to believe. It’s a waste of time and a
distraction to continue with them. You
should just move on (Titus 3:10).
Comment
Hi Brothers Peter and Michael,
… i do follow daily everything that
you help the faithful with on your web-site, and the charity that you display
towards others. Thank you. I wanted to make a comment about the Steve Mcnair
issue. After reading the e-mail that was sent to you in regards to you having
it all wrong about GOD i thought to send this to you.
Proverbs teaches us (14:12) "There is
a way which seemeth just to man, but the end leadth in death". It’s this
lack of faith in the doctrine of our God Jesus that brings about this spirit of
conscience we see today in the world. Our master speaks of this to his apostles
to show us the extreme measure that man will go when guided by their own
conscience. John (16:2) " They will put you out of the synagogues: yea,
the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think he doth a service to
God. And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the
Father, nor me".
St. Augustine relates it this way,
Reason is the eye of the soul, like the bodily
eye, it needs light to see. How then can it see clearly Divine things, when the
light is extinguished to Divine revelation?
It’s clear that when the vast majority of
people think that God Almighty loves adulterers, fornicators, pagans, jews,
heretics, etc.... who are separated from the body of Christ it is this lack of
faith that turns them to their own conscience…
Gary
Romans 4
Dear Brother
Dimond:
I introduced my
biblically astute Protestant friend to your lesson on Justification. On your major point on Romans 3:28 on the law
being a reference to the problem in Galatians, he noted that you have to take
every verse in its context, as you, yourself said. He noted that you did not address Rm. 4:1-6
which is the context. Abraham was not
dealing with the Jewish law problem in his time. I was without response. If you have any material on this please send
it to me… If not could you suggest an answer I could give him with special
emphasis on verses 4 and 5?
Yours in Christ,
David Tully
MHFM: Our answer is here:
1260
days
Dear Brothers,
Here is some research I’ve been doing on
the length of time of the Great Apostasy, as indicated in the book of
Apocalypse. The period is specifically given at 4 different locations in the
book of Apocalypse (11:2, 3 and 12:6, 14), but in three different forms (42
months, 1260 days, and 3 ½ times). Some simple cross analysis of these and
other relevant Bible verses reveals a pattern:
1. Apocalypse 11:2 –
‘But the court which is without the temple, cast out and measure it not: because
it is given unto the Gentiles. And the holy city they shall tread under foot,
two and forty months:’
42 (months) x 30 (days to a month) = 1260
days
2. Apocalypse 11:3 – ‘And I will give unto my
two witnesses: and they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred sixty days,
clothed in sackcloth.’
1260 days
3. Apocalypse 12:6 – ‘And the woman fled
into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they
should feed her, a thousand two hundred sixty days.’
1260 days
4. Apocalypse 12:14 - ‘And there were given
to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert,
unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time,
from the face of the serpent.’
3 ½ times. If 1 time = 1 year = 12 months =
360 days, then 3 ½ times =1260 days So
just how long is the 1260 prophetic days? The book of Psalms may give us a
clue:
Psalms 89:10 – ‘The days of our years in
them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore
years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon
us: and we shall be corrected.’
Three score and ten is 3 ½ score, or 70
years.
If we assume that 1 score (Ps. 89:10) = 1
time (Apoc. 12:14), then 3 ½ score = 3 ½ times. And if 3 ½ times = 1260 days
(Apoc. 11:2, 3; 12:6, 14) and 3 ½ score = 70 years (Ps 89:10), then the 1260
(prophetic) days = 70 years. ...
Some other significant 70 year periods in
history are the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and the 7
Popes at Avignon for almost 70 years from 1309-77, called the ‘Babylonian
Captivity’!...
May Jesus and Mary grant all Catholics the
grace of final perseverance. God Bless.
Sincerely,
Kit White
World
Currency
Subject: United Future World Currency
Dear Brothers,
My good friend brought this to my attention
the new United Future World Currency coin resembles the occultic goat head on
the back of it, the more I look at it I can see what he's talking about. I
will post the link so the two of you can take a look at it, see if you can make
out the symbol, I myself can sort of make it out but I'm not completely sure if
I can truly see it. Be sure to hold down the Crtl key and enlarge the
image with the plus key. http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/ Please
let me, the rest of your readers and/or followers know what your
opinion on this matter. Keep up the excellent work the two of
you do to bring more souls to the true Catholic Faith, the two of you are
most certainly blessed to carry on with the research you provide to those
seeking the truth. God Bless Us All...Thank you so much for the perseverence to
forge ahead for the salvation of many souls...
Sincerely, Doyle A. Maser...Jesus, Mary,
Joseph, please pray for us...
MHFM: Thanks for the interest and the words of support. We don’t see any symbol, but we’re open to
arguments for how it’s there.
Regardless, it’s interesting how quickly and openly they are pushing for
a one world currency.
Picture
Dear MHFM,
The pictures that i link to in this e-mail further corroborate your position on
antipope JP2. The pictures are from June 12, 1999 and they were taken in
Zamosc,Poland on the occasion of antipope's 6th visit to that country. As they
say : ''A picture is worth a thousand words'' ...
http://www.tygodnikzamojski.pl/tz.php?get=galeria,481
Pay attention to the stage in the picture (the Novus Ordo 'altar' pics 8.,9.,
.. ). The writing in the pyramid ''Mocni nadzieja'' means ''Great'' or ''Mighty
Hope'' ( that is what I get from a web dictionary)....The symbology is pretty
much ''in your face''.
Keep up the good work.
V. from Croatia
Comment
The comments in your e-exchange section
from the novus ordo Catholic make me sometimes laugh. Why would they worry about
us? According to the Vatican II, everyone can be saved and that includes us
too. Or maybe they think that everyone can be saved, including the Jews,
Muslims, pagans but just not us Traditional Catholics. Its not like their
Jewish and Muslim brothers accept their antipope. I notice that all the
different Christian sects and pagans all "get along" quite well, but
all are very hostile to Traditional Catholicism. It’s like they all respect and
appreciate each other’s Church (ex. Anglicans and Lutherans) but
just not the Catholic Church.
D
Blasphemy
Subject: blasphemy
i cannot believe my eyes and ears what i am
hearing. u sedevecantists are the true anti catholics. how dare u call a pope
and the church and the novus ordo mass heresy. u will burn in the pitt of hell
for eternity for this unless u repent. there is ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APISTOLIC
CHURCH. so do go and make up ur own church because the chair is not empty. ur
brain is empty. wake up to urself
B… matty
MHFM: Only a person whose soul is empty could look at the
evidence and conclude what you have concluded.
Benedict XVI endorses false religions, such as Islam. He holds that Protestants don’t need to
believe in the Council of Trent or Vatican I.
He teaches that souls can be saved without believing in Christ. He teaches that the members of schismatic
sects are in the Church. He is a
heretical antipope. You are a bad-willed
heretic headed for the pit of Hell; and you blaspheme God when you say that
your apostasy is a defense of Him or the Catholic faith. If you were willing to learn anything, you
would see that, according to Catholic teaching, the Novus Ordo Mass is an
invalid non-Catholic service.
Re: S M
Re: steve mcnair, etc.
I just watched the video you posted. What a
terrible terrible picture of GOD you have. GOD loves Steve McNair more than you
love your own family and you want to give the illusion that GOD punished him by
allowing this. Are you crazy? If you were to give up your only son for Steve
McNair, then why would you want him to die? Ponder another thought, would you
want to kill a family member of yours because they committed as you say a
mortal sin. GOD's doing everything possible, without the use of force, to save
us. GOD gave us a free will. Sin is the enemy my brother, not GOD. By the way,
here's some Bible to validate my claims. John 3:17 Matthew 1:21 Romans 6:23
John 10:10 Jeremiah 29:11 2 Peter 3:9
shannon
MHFM: It’s obvious that you don’t understand God or the
Bible. God struck people dead for
engaging in sinful and iniquitous behavior.
He teaches that most men go to Hell (Matthew 7:13). Jesus speaks of those who call out “Lord,
Lord” and wind up damned (Mt. 7:21). The
Bible clearly teaches that all who die in grave sin go to Hell, as our article
refuting Justification by faith alone proves (1 Cor. 6:9; Eph. 5:5-8;
etc.). It’s obvious that you hold the
Luciferian heresy of Justification by faith alone, according to which
adulterers and anyone else who claims to believe in Jesus inherits the Kingdom
of God. My, you are very deceived. You have totally misunderstood and misused
all the Scriptures you cite. You have
twisted them to favor your evil “sin as much as you want and still be saved”
lie. Such a lie is appealing to Protestants
who refuse to give up their sins and expect eternal rewards. The true meaning of the passages you cite is
addressed in our article refuting the awful heresy of Justification by faith
alone.
Justification by faith
alone and eternal security completely refuted by the Bible [link to section]
James 2:24- “Do you
see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?”
Catholicism
Subject: Catholicism
I have been checking out your site. Being an ex catholic, I'm wondering why your
all still catholics when your religion is so corrupted and obviously pagan and
always has been. Or did you all like them better when they were torturing and
murdering millions of true christians in jesus' name.by the way my KJV Bible is
in perfet harmony all the way through. I
would like to hear your thoughts on any of these topics thank you.
CM
MHFM: The ideas you have about the Catholic faith are
false. They come from Protestant
propaganda. You need to realize that
your religion is completely unbiblical, completely unhistorical and completely
man-made. Our book and materials prove,
from the very King James Version of the Bible that you prefer, that the
Catholic Church is the only Christian Church.
The Bible clearly teaches the Eucharist, the Papacy, Confession,
Baptismal Regeneration, etc. – all of which you reject.
Refuting Protestantism from the
Bible and Eastern "Orthodoxy" (audios and articles)
What is
Time?
Mortal
sin
Dear Brother Dimond:
Thank you for all your valuable
information. If it weren't for you, my family would not be
Catholic. I have a question; in the Baltimore Catechism, it is said
that for a sin to be considered mortal three things are necessary; grave
matter, sufficient knowledge and full consent of the will. Since the
Baltimore Catechism gives heretical answers to other topics, I would like to
know from you whether their answer in the above question is correct or whether
it is another invention by heretical clergy. I am asking because it seems
to me that most people committing mortal sins do so out of ignorance (culpable
or not) or on impulse(insufficient consent). A mortal sin is a mortal
sin, and we all have a responsibility to find out if what we are doing is
gravely sinful. Those three requirements seem to me to take away
responsibility from people, and I'm wondering what the true Faith has to say
about that.
God bless you, and thanks again,
Brenda
MHFM: Thanks for the comments.
The Baltimore Catechism’s explanation is wrong (or at the very least
ambiguous and potentially misleading).
The true requirements are: 1) grave matter, 2) sufficient reflection, 3)
and full consent of the will. Instead of
“sufficient reflection,” the Baltimore Catechism has “sufficient
knowledge.” This is misleading because
it implies that one must know that what
one is doing is a mortal sin. That’s
not correct. Countless professing
“Catholics” have understood it that way to the triumph of liberalism.
For instance, suppose a young man goes out and gets drunk. He doesn’t know anything about what a mortal
sin is and he doesn’t care. By deciding
to get drunk he fulfills all three requirements. He commits a mortal sin even though he lacks “sufficient knowledge” of the teaching on mortal
sins.
In fact, if one believed in the “sufficient knowledge”
requirement, then it would be a good idea to withhold the Catholic teaching on
mortal sins from everyone because no one could commit a mortal sin without that
knowledge. But that’s ridiculous, of
course.
Comment
Dear
Brothers,
Matthew 24:7?
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99B30O81&show_article=1
About B-16. Along with the quakes, the Pope must be out of his mind. He is
calling for exactly that which is spoken of in prophesy, a new world order that
can only enslave man under the control of what he must know will be a few, evil
people to rule the world’s economy.
He is leading the sheep to the slaughter by repositioning the church's stand on
matters of world economic matters, traditionally in the form of charitable
efforts, to promoting a global one world financial body that clearly can be
used to control, and manipulate the masses.
A
MHFM: Thanks for the comment.
We would just point out that one shouldn’t call Benedict XVI the pope.
Comment
Brother Dimond:
Thank you for… getting the book, "The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church," to me… I'm a daily reader of your web site, and your
messages over the last several years have really made me re-think my position
as a Catholic. It's a journey for me, and I haven't quite reached the
destination. I am very thankful for your sound logic all the way.
Keep up the good work.
Bob Bugiada
B.O.D.,
Faith
Dear MHFM,
In regards to baptism of desire/blood- Sort
of reminds me of how Abraham was pleading with God the Father on saving Sodom
from destruction and how Abraham bargained souls down to ten and how the Father
agreed if ten were found Holy and of God saving the perverted city Sodom would
be no problem. However, not ten were found and the city of perversion was
destroyed. A similar analogy by the modernists and liberal-heretics down
the centuries infiltrating the Church to spew their venom of lies and deception
can clearly be noted by the belief that one can be saved by the desire or blood
alone merely by the depth of sense for the love of God and his divine laws
imprinted on the heart only. As with Sodom the city was destroyed since
not ten good souls existed, and so it is with the false belief that desire and
blood can supercede actual baptism to enter into the life of the Church where
there is only one path to enter, and then work out our salvation with fear and
trembling, as St Paul admonished Catholics in the early Church and for all
time, even unto the end. The taint of liberalism is obvious in desire and
blood advocates, and that small poison has become a large pool of
death in the modern world. It's true soldiers for Christ like Most
Holy Family Monastery in the modern world surrounded by Satan's minions in
and outside the Church who lift the innocent and believing Catholics out of
this nightmare enveloping the so-called modern era filled by darkness
and death as the end is so very near. The modernist heretics
have the Churches, but you have the faith. May Jesus Christ fill you with
truth, strength, and knowledge leading heavenward.-
rr
MHFM: Thanks for the comments.
We fully agree with your sentiments.
We should point out that certain people who historically believed in the
false ideas of baptism of desire and blood defined them very strictly – only
for unbaptized catechumens who believed in the essential mysteries of Catholic
faith. They were clearly wrong, but not
necessarily heretics. But essentially
everyone who believes in or accepts the ideas today is an apostate. Every such person accepts salvation outside
the Church. And if there were even one
person who only believed and accepted the idea of explicit baptism of desire
strictly defined, once he saw all the dogmatic evidence against it there would
be no excuse for him to hold the theory.
Flag
I just had to say this is pretty
unbelievable. Not sure if you have seen this yet, but here is the link.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_us/us_upside_down_flag
Since when is it "illegal" to inadvertently "cause a disruption".
I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Even the simple towns of this country are
getting overrun by brainwashed cops and the crazy government.
Robby
Version
Hi brother
I was reading your book "The Bible proves teachings of the
catholic church", I intend to used this book to defend the catholic
teachings,
thanks.
I would like to know which bible have you used for your citations
in this book?
Sincerely,
Alain Pelletier
MHFM: Almost all the citations are from the 1611 King James
Version of the Bible. A famous
Protestant version was chosen in order to prove to the Protestants, from a
translation they prefer, that the Bible proves the teachings of the Catholic
Church. The few that are not from the
King James are from other widely used and well-known versions. The King James was not chosen in those few
cases because the passage was so mutilated in the KJV that it just couldn’t be
used.
Comment
Thanks for your audio on McNair.
It is a tragedy of his own doing. He put himself in the position where
this "girl" wanted to kill him. He has only himself to blame…
He was a good football player, but he was not a good man… I can only hope that
NFL fans (especially young men) and other NFL players realize how dangerous and
stupid committing adultery is from McNair's example.
Adultery
Brothers,
Nice video on Steve McNair. My question concerns adultery. As my N.O. wife is
considered married in the eyes of God to another man, due to her previous marriage,
both of them being baptized Catholic. Would I be considered an adulterer for
being with someone's wife? I always felt that I had committed this sin and have
confessed it. Would I have to make the same confession again once the divorce
is finalized?
After following your site for over a year and a half now, I was able to talk my
bad willed N.O. wife into filing for divorce… Please keep me in your prayers…
My N.O. family wants me exorcised due to your site.
God bless your work,
T
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. If we understand this correctly, you have
already confessed the sin of living with this woman (and acting as if she is
your wife). If you have already confessed it, and haven't committed the
sin since – but are only waiting for the civil divorce proceedings to finish -
then you would not need to confess it again once they are finalized.
G.W.S.
Hello HFM,
The article The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) and what it teaches us about
the post-Vatican II apostasy… is the clearest and most decisively expository
and rational account of the schism that I have ever read : Soli Deo Gloria.
Andrew
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest.
More on
our view of Antichrist, quotes
MHFM:
We have a new entry in this section of our website. It serves to refute some people who have
criticized our opinion about the Antichrist.
Some people are so adamant about their opinion on
the Antichrist – and so vigorously opposed to our view – that they not only wrongly claim that our view is
demonstrably wrong – despite all the evidence favoring it; but they maintain
that an error on this matter (if we made such an error) would somehow undermine
us. This entry totally refutes these bad-willed individuals. It
contains interesting new quotes from St. Athanasius on the “abomination of
desolation,” Pope Paul III on the Son of Perdition, St. Bernard on the Beast
and the Antichrist, and St. Vincent on the Apocalypse.
John
Paul II
Reg Pope John Paul being Anti-Pope
Pope John Paul was a saintly man, he traveled the world & was all about
peace, now my thoughts are that nearing the end of his reign he could have been
misguided because that was out the norm for him, do you believe he's always
been anti-pope or was it after these pagan gatherings?
I am Catholic & i myself disagree with welcoming ANY other religion into
Gods house, but i feel as if Pope John Paul acted out of character, could it be
that satan manipulated him & clouded his beliefs?
JP
MHFM: He was always an antipope because the Church teaches that
a non-Catholic cannot be validly elected.
The heresy of religious indifferentism runs all throughout his heretical
writings. He was totally of Satan. You need to become convinced and look at the
material on our website.
Interested
Dear Brothers Dimond,
I have been reading your site lately and I
do appreciate the articles you post.
I am very much interested to buy one copy
of "Outside the Catholic Church there is Absolutely no Salvation."…
Thank
you very much and God bless.
Rommel
Philippines
Antichrist
For all the people who don't believe that JPII
was an antichrist because he is dead, well you need to get the fabulous book
and read the last chapter. Your jaw will drop to the floor!
For me this was the last hurdle to jump
over because I couldn't explain how there could be a dead person who was the
antichrist.
It's a great book, but they saved the great
part for last.
You'll need to get the book and read it
from start to finished.
Kevin From Pullman,WA.
MHFM: This reader is referring to this article, a section of our
book:
John Paul II preached the Doctrine of the
Antichrist
It’s simply a fact that John Paul II preached the doctrine of
Antichrist. We have proven that in a way
that is beyond dispute. It’s a matter of
opinion about exactly what he represented.
It has been our opinion – and still is our opinion – that John Paul II,
by his preaching and his reign, represented the definitive reign of Antichrist
in the temple of God. Those who scoff at
that notion don’t understand what the Bible says about “Antichrist” (it’s only
mentioned in John’s epistles, and “Antichrist” is given a precise meaning); nor
have they internalized the full impact of what John Paul II was saying and just
how amazing and jaw-dropping it was: e.g., declaring in his very first address
that he and every other man is the Christ, the Son of the Living God of Matthew
16:16.
Further, many of these same people contradict themselves, by
arguing, on the one hand, that John Paul II (and Paul VI’s abolition of the
sacrifice) only represent the precursor or precursors to Antichrist; but, on
the other hand, they say that we are living through the fulfillment of what Our
Lady of La Salette prophesied. Our Lady
of La Salette prophesied that “Rome will
lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.” Has that happened or not? If the Vatican II antipopes do not represent
the definitive reign of Antichrist, but only evil precursors, then Our Lady of
La Salette’s prophecy has not yet been
fulfilled. But we don’t hold
that position. We believe that we have
been living through its fulfillment.
Sign of
Peace
Hi, I just wanted to ask you: is there
something wrong or bad with the part of the New "mass" where they
"give peace" or "make peace" or whatever, you know the part
I'm talking about right? I don't really know how it's really called, but it's
just the part when they "make peace" or whatever, it's right before
they raise what would-be the consecrated Host.
So is there something really bad or wrong with that, with giving peace with
everyone around? Didn't they used to do this in the Tridentine Mass, before
Vatican II? Please tell me all you think about this particular thing.
el
MHFM: Yes, it’s horrible.
It epitomizes the irreverence which characterizes the invalid New
Mass. Right after the invalid
“consecration,” people are not recollected or focused on God but are rather
shaking hands and hugging each other and turning what they wrongly think is a
Mass into a community gathering or family reunion. It’s a prime example of why the New Mass is
neither Catholic nor holy (and something cannot be the latter without the
former of course).
Steve
McNair
A Catholic
view of Steve McNair's death [4 min.]
B-16’s
new encyclical
MHFM: We’ve updated our Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file with some quotes from his new encyclical.
Stone to
Bread
Dear Brothers,
With all the attention on the death of Michael Jackson, his music is all over the
media. During a retrospective, a song he co-wrote called, "We are the
World", was shown…
I've always liked the song, but a particular verse stood out that I've never
noticed, and now doesn't seem right. Here it is:
"As God has shown us by turning stone to bread"
http://lyricstrue.net/bandsongtext/Jackson_Michael/We_Are_The_World.html
Unless I'm mistaken, I don't know of a place in the scriptures where God turned
stones to bread. We all know the scripture where the evil one tempts Jesus to
do this, to which our Lord replied "Man does not live by bread
alone..." and rebukes him. Jesus did feed the multitudes, but he did not
create fish and loaves from stone. In the Old Testament, the Jews received
manna from heaven, it too, came not from stones, but from the sky…
This verse is subtle, but so incorrect, and misleading, to imply that God, did
something he did not do, and the evil one could not make him do, that I am
amazed the 40 plus "artists" there did not question its authenticity.
Now that I've noticed this, I cannot approve of this song because it can plant
the idea that God, Jesus, accepted the Evil One's challenge and can mislead.
I'm sure this was not the intent, but it is interesting to note.
Am I wrong?
Finally, since michael Jackson co-wrote the song, it is likely he may have
written that verse. I don't know…
Yours in Christ,
Anthony
MHFM: One must not approve of the song or his music. The fact that he’s attributing to God that
which He didn’t do – and the very thing the Devil wanted Him to do – is
evidence in itself that he was being directly demonically inspired in his
lyrics and more.
Luke 4:3-4 “And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone
that it be made bread. And Jesus
answered him: It is written, that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every
word of God.”
This point was covered in the
powerful video we offer: Video: Rock-n-Roll Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution. This video
covers most of the popular music stars from the
past few decades and their connection to the occult. It shows, in striking fashion, how the Devil
was working through them and through popular music.
Issue
Thank you again for your website. I
enjoyed your e-exchange on annulments that you posted July 6. The Nervous
Order church would have annuled his marriage with missing a step. The
annulment issue is one of the biggest clues for me to change to the true
Catholic faith… To go from 9 annulments in 1930 to 60,000 every year shows one
or two problems. Either presbyters do not step in on the front end to not
marry couples that should not marry and/or they give away annulments like they
do candy to a 5 year old. The woman I was debating this with mostly was
of bad will and was trying to talk about invalid marriages. The lady
could not realize that there are 2 problems which is just one symptom of the
fake Catholic Church.
S
Comment
Hi,
I just wanted to tell you what a Great
Response you just gave to the annulment question that someone just wrote about
on your e-exchanges.. The guy who was writing about his friend, who only
got married because of low self esteem, and because she threatened to kill
herself.
Every sentence you wrote on this was… dead
on. It is so nice to hear you guys tell
it like it is... and not try to spare anyone's feelings, like other
people do.
Your Padre Pio audio was also excellent…
Thank you for all you do
Kate
Comment
E-Exchange Annulment:
"...married to a woman he never loved." Typical V2
drivel. Along comes the V2 church and it's a big free for
all. If you love your spouse but someone else catches your
eye, then obviously you never loved your wife in the first place.
Annulment guaranteed! They used to call it temptation; now it's grounds
for annulment.
Annulment
Dear Brothers,
I hope that you can help me to help a friend. A friend of mine was married many
years ago (in a novus ordo ceremony) to a woman he never loved. Some
background:
He never loved her - he had been engaged to someone else before he met her that
had broken up, and this had left him devastated. He was set up with the woman
that would become his "wife" on a blind date by a friend. Because of
a very emotionally abusive childhood he had (has) extremely low
self esteem, he felt pressured into going through with the
marriage. Before the wedding -(actually before they were even engaged) his
"wife" told him she would kill herself if he ever left (if you
knew this guy that would make him stay).
They never had kids and were only married for less than 3 years - the last
year they were pretty much separated...he told me he felt it was a greater sin
to live a lie and to bring kids into the world in a lie. They divorced and the marriage was
annulled. My question is because he
never loved her and would have broken up with her years before they were
married (if she had not told him she would kill herself and other things
she did) is his annulment valid? This torments him everyday.
Thanks for any insight
BB
MHFM: Based on the little you’ve said about it, it seems like he
was in a valid marriage. Therefore, he
should not have been given an annulment.
Again, an annulment is a declaration that a marriage was never valid to
begin with due to a hidden or known impediment.
The evidence must be clear. He
chose to marry her. He did it
freely. The excuse that he felt
“pressure” sounds like complete nonsense.
In fact, if he’s that weak and easily forced into things, then he
shouldn’t get married at all. He isn’t
fit to be the head of a household.
The claim that he didn’t love her but married her anyway because
she threatened to kill herself is outrageous.
If a Catholic man were in that situation, that would be a clear signal
that this is not a woman to marry.
Further, even if her threats to harm herself were serious, which is
highly doubtful – for people like that say many things they don’t really mean –
he would tell her that he’s not going to ruin his life because she wants to
ruin hers. He would of course try to
counsel her against harming herself, but he wouldn’t marry her. Unless he was forced into a ceremony against
his will – which doesn’t seem to be the case at all – all of these are simply
excuses for a bad decision.
In a dishonest desire to be free of their marriage, many people
dramatize all kinds of things after the fact.
The bottom-line is that he wanted to marry her. That’s why he went through with the
marriage. If he wasn’t prepared for the
commitment with that particular person, he shouldn’t have done it.
The Vatican II sect worships man. That’s why they can’t tell anyone: NO, you
are married! Hence, they allow almost
everyone to marry again, even if the reason is nothing more than a profound
regret about a past decision and a huge disappointment about not being able to
marry someone else. Our article on
annulments is relevant here:
The Annulment
Fiasco - The Vatican II sect's De Facto
acceptance of Divorce and Remarriage [PDF File]
Confession
Now I don't understand a few things. Say
for argument that there is this sensual person who committed hundreds of
these type of sins in the past and can't remember the hundreds if not
thousands, i.e the number of times. Now for argument he went to priests of the
new world order for confession and all these confessions are invalid. So he
finds a valid priest that lives in some sort of monastery somewhere, and
confesses to him all the sins he ever confessed to the new world order priests
in the past but can't remember the number of times he committed these
sensual sins of the flesh...what is the rule about that?
MHFM: In that case, a person would say: “I ask forgiveness for
having committed [specify the sin] possibly thousands of times.” One must do his best to approximate.
Added
MHFM:
We’ve added to Youtube our discussion of the true story behind The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel/ Emily Rose.
Book,
Islam
Dear Brothers,
Recently I ordered a copy of The Bible
Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church…. The Bible Proves... is an
excellent resource, handy for refuting Protestants.
I spread The Popes Against Islam audio to
those aware of Michael Ryan's false argumentation - not one… bothered to
respond. Your analysis can't be bettered.
Thanks,
Zenon
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
This reader is referring our recent audio: The
Popes Against Islam.
He’s also referring to a certain Vatican II apostate who used to
be a sedevacantist. Within the last few
years or so, this individual became a sedevacantist and then went back to
accepting the Vatican II antipopes. To
become a sedevacantist and then go back to the Vatican II antipopes (after
seeing all the evidence against them) is a heinous sin, a true abandonment of
Christ.
Well, after falling back into the clutches of the Vatican II
antipopes and renouncing the sedevacantist position, he then decided to become
a sedevacantist again. And then, even more recently, he switched his
position again and is now a supporter
of the Vatican II antipopes and a defender of Vatican II! So, to summarize: he went from
non-sedevacantist to sedevacantist to non-sedevacantist to sedevacantist to
non-sedevacantist (and defender of Vatican II).
Needless to say, this kind of flip-flopping on core issues of
faith is diabolical. It’s symptomatic of
a truly faithless soul – one who has no interior conviction about the dogmas of
Christ. This is only relevant because
this apostate had been circulating heretical defenses of Vatican II among small
groups via e-mail. A reader forwarded a
few of them to us. The aforementioned
audio shows, from new angles and with more proof, why he and the other
heretical defenders of Vatican II are of course totally wrong. Like its other heresies, Vatican II’s
teaching that Muslims and Catholics together worship the true God is
indefensible.
Experimentation
Dear Brothers:
I realize you may not have the answer on this
one, but there is something I don't understand with this story. As the public has been brainwashed into
believing that embryonic stem cells are just blobs of cells and not alive, then
why the experimentation? Why experiment with "blobs" of
cells?
See, this story infers that doctors know
that stem cells are alive and therefore useful for experimentation.
Otherwise, why test drugs on just a bunch of cells? Why?
But the telling point in this story is:
"...stem cells harvested from human embryos could even replace lab rats as
the primary scientific testing method." Huh?
How are blobs of cells equal to the
sentient rat? Oh. I see. Stem cells are alive and therefore
fully human and with a soul attached.
"Calling Dr. Mengele. Vivisection in Lab
2." But, of course, Mengele has been the exemplar for the
abortionists in America since 1973.
Many thanks always for your work,
DH
Couldn’t
Hello Bro.,
I just couldn't accept the fact that almost
all Catholic Masses being celebrated nowadays are invalid. Specifically
the traditional Latin catholic Mass that i attend to now. I think it is
almost nil if what you are saying is true. Do you mean to say that those
priests who were ordained after vatican Council II are not celebrating the Mass
validly? Please enlighten me on this….
You think God will not acknowledge the
Sacrifice of the Mass now even if it is offered with a sincere faith? How
can we remedy this situation?
Please reply to me regarding this issue for
clarification and enlightenment on my part for I am deeply bothered.
Thanks.
Maria B
MHFM: The New Masses are all invalid,
in addition to any others that are offered by “priests” who were ordained after
1968 in the New Rite of Ordination. That's covered in this article.
Why
the New Rite of Ordination is Invalid [PDF File]
The fact that someone thinks that a Mass
is valid doesn’t make it valid.
Abstinence
Hello
Dimond Brothers. I am wondering whether or not you may drink milk on Fridays,
on days of complete abstinence. Nothing from animals may be taken, does this go
with milk too? It did not speak of this on your site…
Thank
you, and God bless you for your great work.
V. Veikko
MHFM: Milk is allowed on days of
abstinence. What is forbidden is
meat (and soup or gravy made from meat).
Heresy
Subject: Heresy
Dear Brothers,
You correctly, time and time again point out blatant heresy in the V-2 church,
its adherents, priests, etc…
About the apparent cult activity on Staten Island, I can tell you that the
Island has a history of cult activity, especially satanism. I know this because
I used to live there before I moved to Europe. I was in that very park, many
times. It overlooks Ft. Wadsworth, underneath the Verrazano Bridge. I was
surprised when I read this, because most of the cult activity, historically,
occurred on the grounds of the Goodhue Center, a summer camp run by the
Children's Ais Society. It also was thought to happen in Willobrook Park. This
was years ago, when we were warned to be care of exploring the woods in those
locations.
But you should know, that the type of ritual slaughters seen very often in NYC
parks, is Santeria, or Voodoo in nature. This of course, is because of our
criminal immigration policies which have allowed the influx, in large numbers,
of practitioners of these rituals. These rituals by the way, are considered by
the V-2 church as an equal expression of mans desire to know God, on par with
our Holy Catholic Church. So widespread is this evil, that our new martyr to
the faith of popular culture, St. Michael Jackson, paid a Voo Doo "Priest"
to sacrifice 42 cows to ensure the deaths of his rivals.
Yours in Christ,
Anthony
Marriage
Subject: Marriage
I am posing
this question please. I have been married 3 times. I was never married in the
Catholic church. I was at the point of 2 of the marriages a Novus Ordo
catholic. The first time I was married I was 17 years old. My husband divorced
me. The second time I married (this is the father of my children) I divorced
him. He had become an alcoholic and did drugs. I tried al-anon and counseling
but this did not work. For the safety of my children I had to leave. When I
married the third time I was only married for almost one year. The person
divorced me because he decided he did not like children after all. After all
this my question is am I allowed to be married in traditional catholicism. I
have been dating a man for 15 years now. I am soon to be 55. Thank you for any
information you can give me or direct me to.
L
MHFM: To form an opinion about the
validity of a marriage (or marriages), one would have to know more about the
specifics of each case (e.g., were you baptized a Catholic? What about him? What did he profess to be? Where did it occur?). The likelihood is that you are not free to
marry. However, if you gave us more of
the specifics, we could offer a more definitive opinion.
Further, if you’ve been dating
someone for 15 years, then there is a high probability that sin is
occurring. That’s far too long for
people to date. Either two people have
decided to marry after a certain period of time or they must break it
off. You are also 55 years old.
You should look to dedicating yourself and God and saving your soul and
probably not getting married (that's even if you were free to marry, which
is highly questionable).
Pope Benedict
XIV (1740-1758) on Rome as Babylon
MHFM: In our article on the Whore of Babylon (Is the Vatican II sect the Whore of Babylon prophesied in
the Apocalypse?), we bring forward the evidence that the
Whore of Babylon or Great Harlot prophesied in the Apocalypse is the Vatican II
Counter Church.
The Catholic Church is NOT the Whore of
Babylon. Rather, the counterfeit Church of the Vatican II sect, which poses
as the Catholic Church in the last days but is not, is the prophesied
Whore of Babylon. Some apologists of the Vatican II Church have argued that Rome is not
Babylon, but that “Babylon” (the city of seven hills) in the Apocalypse refers
to Jerusalem or something else. The
following quote from Pope Benedict XIV confirms that they are incorrect. Click here to see the new quote:
This
quote, coming from a true Catholic pope, is important in refuting apologists of
the Vatican II sect, who argue that the spiritual deception in the last days
will not surround Rome.
Thoughts
Dear friends,
I'd like to thank you for all the information which you provide on your website
and youtube.
How many followers do you have in America? I just ask, because I live in a town
where I live for more than ten years already, and I found not one single
catholic (not even NO-pseudo-catholic) and sometimes I get the feeling like
needing to leave my country. The situation here is horrible. We have much more
Turks than Germans, at least where I live. (Btw. here the word muslim and pagan
used to have one and the same meaning till like 50 years ago!)…
Also here everything bows to the Jews, no matter if atheist or
heretic-'Christian' (we have some baptists here and comparable groups). If you
say one single word against Jewish crimes, you will lose your position here.
Recently a 73 years old man was condemned for six years of prison for not
believing in the holo.c. - he says, that most probbably he will die in jail.
Or if you don't let your children go to the
government's school but want to teach them at home, they will take your
children away and often you will not be allowed to see them. Recently one
family fleed Germany and went to America because of this reason. They didn't
want their kids in the government's school, so first they had to pay a big summ
of money as a punishment, then the father had to stay in prison for a short
period of time, and then they still didn't send the kids to school, so the
judge decided the kids should be taken away. This is why the parents fleed
(they belong to a protestant sect btw). It is horrible!..
Well, just needed to speak this out. I'm very thankful that people like you
stil exist - although I have some problems with the amount of sedisvacant
groups who differ from each other and often fight each other. That reminds me
the protestant sects somehow. Bishop Williamson (whom I deeply respect) has
written a good text on that.
Thanks in advance and all the best (and sorry for my bad English)
Alexander
MHFM: The issues which divide some people who hold the
sedevacantist position are crucial matters of faith, such as Outside the Church
There is No Salvation. Thus, it’s
inaccurate to compare it to petty infighting.
Those people either believe in salvation outside the Church, just like
the Vatican II Church; or they hold wacky radical schismatic positions which
cause them to reject the Catholic saints and valid popes before Vatican
II. So, by their bad will and their
rejection of Catholic teaching, they have divided themselves from true
Catholics who hold the sedevacantist position.
As a result, they aren’t really part of the Church. Williamson is unfortunately a heretic and a
schismatic, for he adheres to the false positions of the SSPX.
The
Society of St. Pius X [Link to Section]
Comment
I just wanted to share with both your
readership and you, that in reading, just now, both your website and also the
book "The Life and Miracles of St. Benedict", that I believe that
Saint Benedict is still working mighty miracles in our world of TODAY, through
YOU! I found your "e-exchange" section today particularly
truthful in a marvelous way (especially the one statement somebody
made about 'why would God give a real Catholic pope to such as the likes of the
V2 sect', so abhorrent and putrid as this pretender to the Bride of Christ
is?!) Also, in reading the story about the miracle of how Saint Benedict
saved the boy Placid from drowning, (though of course the Saint in humility
would not take the "credit" for this miracle however the boy Placid
stated that he SAW the Abbot Benedict saving him! Chapter 7) I was
reminded of the absolute, (and in my case most highly undeserved) miracles of
grace I believe Saint Benedict is working though your monastery, in revealing
the truth to people, right now, in our times. In my own case, I was
so unhappy with what was going on in the V2 "church" late last
winter, that in total desperation I prostrated on the ground in prayer in my
own living-room and begged God for help, I distinctly remember saying
"God, if I am in the wrong religion, get me out!" At that time,
I had no info. that would have given me any correct "alternative" to
the V2 "Catholicism"--- but God worked a great miracle very
shortly thereafter----possibly through the intercession of Saint Benedict
himself?----and He delivered me! I can identify with that boy
Placid whose very soul, and body, was interceded for, as a mighty arm
came and pulled him out of the fast-moving water in which he was surely
drowning. I pray every day that others might be delivered,
too. I recommend all the prayers to Saints on your website, especially
the ones to Saint Benedict, to your other readers. Many thanks. Hail
Mary! Hail Christ Our
King!
Imperfect
Subject: Imperfect
I just read on your e-exchange today this
creep who states "women are basically imperfect men"--wow!
I'm not a psychologist, however I believe by making that
statement, "he" (probably a demonically possessed woman-hating
homosexual? just guessing.....) has just placed himself in the category
of being a misogynist, or one who hates all women with no reason, which is in
fact is a serious psychological disorder, it is a real mental
illness---- thus "he" is in effect a psychopath. I
wonder what part of hell "he" will end up in! There but for the
grace of God, and of His Blessed Mother's mercy, go I! Oh well, tell
"him", by the way, to try "his" description of "women
are basically imperfect men" out on Our Blessed Mother! God help
"him"!
I agree with the
person who says he suspects people/priests in V2 are familiar with your
web-site/info. I've sent your site info to certain
"Marian" V2 "Catholics hoping it might help them, only to
get back from them videos and other propaganda about how "great" the
anti-christ JP2 was! (They must be "worried" about me!)
My excellent husband (yes, some husbands ARE excellent, EVEN in this day
and age, I think such deserve A LOT of credit!) and I are, THANK GOD,
completely and totally OUT of the V2 counter-church, never to return to such
abuse. But I look back at some "homilies"/talks made especially
about Fatima by certain V2 priests and I think they may have been DIRECTLY
lifting/"borrowing"? from your info without giving you guys the
intellectual credit you deserve for your work....or was it just
"coincidence" they happened to have YOUR specific info. in their
"homilies"? And the same V2 "priests" stay in the
"New Order" V2 sect......even though it seems patently clear
they have at least read some of your info...geee, I wonder, what's in it for
them?
K
MHFM: Yes, his comment about women was off the mark. We didn’t know where he was going with that.
How
Subject: Spiritual Deception
Hi, I wanted to ask you: how can God allow
someone like Sr. Faustina Kowalska, who was a nun and devoted entirely to God
and all, to be deceived so much? Did God wanted to deceive her? Because well,
there really are many heretical things in her Diary, but how could God allow
someone like her to be deceived like that? That goes for all the other cases
like that as well.
MHFM: God allows them to be deceived because He sees that
interiorly they are not really honest and sincere. Just look at how many so-called
traditionalists claim to be devoted to the Catholic faith, but reject the
necessity of Jesus Christ Himself. Look
at how many of them still maintain
that Benedict XVI is not a formal heretic, after all of the evidence that has
been brought forward. Look at how so
many of them pile on with a particular group or against a particular person or
in a particular false position even though, deep down, they know that what they
are fighting for is not really true or fair.
Some of these people even put out a lot of effort traveling to
traditional Masses, etc.; but they don’t accept the truths of faith. Without getting to know and see them in
action, one might think (from afar) that they are very devoted. But the truth is otherwise. Interiorly they are not sincere, and it shows
in certain contexts and when confronted with certain things. Just listen to some of the audio debates
we’ve had in the Traditional Catholic Audios section of our site.
We cannot tell you how many people have, in the same conversation
or exchange, 1) denied that they or priests they support believe Jews who
reject Christ can be saved, and then 2) defended the possibility of that very
thing (or justified the teaching of that very heresy) when questioned further,
only to 3) again deny that they believe it’s possible for Jews to be saved.
Religious
Liberty
Dear
Brothers,
Wow! It seems like the Beast is really getting crazy, what with the
auditing, and the Cap and Tax, not to mention the Whore's constant offenses
against God. I was thinking how the V2 sect just loves their perverse 'wisdom
of contradictions.' Like for instance, 'Religious Liberty,' is an oxymoron
(self-contradiction). If Religion means, 'to bind,' and Liberty means, 'to
loose,' then you've got yourself an oxymoron. I'm sure if B16 announced
that 'black is white,' many would applaud! Keep up the great work, Brothers.
God Bless,
Kit White
C &
T
Subject: Cap and Tax Bill
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter Dimond,
That's certainly interesting...I wonder how
much further the One World Government will proceed in it's diabolical plan
to control this planet...and using so-called climate change/warming hoax to scare people
into submitting to it's agenda..
Recently, here in New Zealand there
was a write up in our local newspaper, about aircraft being used to
do thermal scans of the city using infra red technology, to show which
homes were inefficient/ wasters of energy, and thus endevoring,
somehow, to embarrass the offending home owner into
doing something to rectify this "waste" of energy,as
if somehow we were very soon going to run out of it!
This is the same as the "Swine
Flu" hoax; people need to wake up, before it's too late and they find they
have lost all their freedom, their lives having become regulated by the
state, even to when they should have their next tea break, let alone stoke up
their woodburner!...
God bless
David
N.Z.
Priests
Subject:
priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
The
priests that are from this fraternity, are the validly ordained?
Todd
MHFM: They cannot be considered valid because the
"bishops" they use are ordained in the new invalid rite of Episcopal
Consecration. That's covered on our site.
They also accept the heresies of Vatican II and the New Church.
SSPX
…I was noticing in your book about Pope Leo
saying they have laid
impious hands
on her most precious treasures. Hands
are generally for manipulating things. Sad. You know between you and me I
think some folks that go to our church are reading your site and the issue of
the Popes legitimacy seems to be coming up often. One of the priests in his
sermon Sunday said we have had 40 anti-popes. I was surprised he knew the word
and then used it in the sermon. He spent an hour on the sermon
denouncing what Ratzinger is doing but won't call it heresy. I wish Rome would
"excommunicate" all followers of SSPX. It might force SSPX into not
being in communion with the V2 faith at all. Do you think that would be
a better situation? Would they be a legitimate Catholic Church? What would
it take to have a legitimate Catholic Church?
Are you working on a seminar that Catholics
could do around the world? Something like "What Really Happened To The
Catholic Church". Volunteers like myself could rent certain venues
and do the seminar. I know your swamped. It's just a thought. I
would probably need a bullet proof vest! I pray for you guys when I pray the
rosary. God bless you.
Matthew
MHFM: The SSPX would still deny the salvation dogma. That’s the biggest problem by far among
“traditionalists.” There aren’t enough
believers in that dogma and in the necessity of water baptism.
The Society of St. Pius X [Link to Section] –
Group,
Martin
Brother Dimond:
I'm learning a lot from your website and have purchased your Outside the
Catholic Church there is Absolutely No Salvation and some other materials.
I've belonged to an SSPV parish for many years, but now see their connection
with heresy. I'm thinking that I could still go there for confession from time
to time or receive communion (they do have some valid priests), but should
disconnect in all other ways. But if you know of a better place for the
sacraments (I live in Minneapolis) I'd be glad to hear
of it.
BTW- I'm sure you don't agree with everything written by Fr. Coomaraswamy, but
I knew him and was able to visit with him in Arkansas in the last few days of
his life (July 2006). He was good friends with Malachi Martin and was able to
confirm that Fr. Martin had ultimately become a sedevacantist (had a letter
stating it in Fr. Martin's own handwriting). The thing that was most concerning
Fr. Coomaraswamy was an intense upsurge in demonic activity in the Chicago
area. It didn't make sense to me at the time, but within 2 years Barach Obama
had come "out of nowhere" (Chicago) and was on his way to the
whitehouse.
-RDS
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
No, you should not go to the SSPV for anything, not even for
confession. They are notorious and
imposing heretics.
The SSPV – a group which believes in salvation outside the
Church
Our file on: Where to go to Mass or confession today? explains the guidelines on options for the
sacraments. (If a person is in full
agreement on the issues, we can also help him with that if he contacts
us.) Regarding Martin, even if he did
become sedevacantist, he had other problems.
He believed in salvation outside the Church. In one interview he expressed his heretical
belief that Buddhists can be saved.
Regarding Coomaraswamy, he also
believed in salvation outside the Church.
We knew him a little bit. He was
so heretical on that issue, in fact, that he made a statement to the effect
that many pagans will be saved. But
actually that’s what most sedevacantist and “traditional” priests believe on
that issue.
Mentally
retarded, women
I think St. Thomas Aquinas believed this
(that the mentally retarded go to Hell), he wrote about everything. This
"part of Hell where there is no fire", I've heard you brothers speak
several times of this. Is that not unequivocally Limbo? There is
only a Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell (the latter most of which the super vast
majority have gone/will go). So Limbo must be the least horrid part of Hell
no doubt? So would not the part of Hell the retarded people go is
Limbo? Does this interestingly equate the fate of the retarded with the
aborted/miscarried babies? Retarded people cannot understand the truths
of the Faith. There are certain truths of the Faith Catholics
must know of. If they cannot comprehend these truths, they cannot attain
salvation, if I'm not mistaken. Faith is not experienced through emotion,
but intellect, in the Catholic understanding. That is another reason
women are basically imperfect men. They are driven by emotion rather than
intellect. They are emotionally and physically inferior to men. Is
this why some Traditional Catholics see women's confession as unnecessary?
M
MHFM: Concerning those who are completely mentally retarded, they
would be directly analogous to individuals below the age of reason
(infants). To be saved they would need
to be water baptized. If they die
unbaptized, they go to a part of Hell where there is no fire. This place in Hell is confirmed by Pope Pius
VI and also indicated by the following statement:
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, “Letentur coeli,” Sess. 6, July 6, 1439, ex cathedra: “We define also that… the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal sin, or in original sin alone, go straightaway to
hell, but to undergo punishments of different kinds.”
Notice the reference to different kinds of punishment for those
who die in original sin only and those who die in mortal sin.
If they are only partially retarded, it would depend upon what
they are capable of knowing. If they are
capable of wishing to be saved, they would have to be baptized and know the
Trinity and the Incarnation to be saved (the essential mysteries of Catholic
faith). We don’t know what you are
driving at with regard to your comment about women. A confession of mortal sins is definitely
necessary for women. Women have a
different role and different strengths.
We must say that it’s sometimes appalling to see many women (not all women) follow their heretical
husbands into whatever religious view they adopt. Many of them will go from this or that
religion or into this or that new wacky heresy or schismatic position just
because their heretical husbands do. That’s
certainly not true with all women; we want to make that clear. There are some strong traditional Catholic
women in our day. But with so many out
there, they would probably follow their husband if he chose to become
Protestant again; or they would follow him back to the Novus Ordo or into
supporting some heretical priest, etc.
That is not to suggest that men are, on the whole, better – not
at all. Most of them couldn’t care less
about spiritual issues. They are bogged
down with all kinds of sins (especially of the flesh), and the only interest in
spiritual things many of these pathetic men have is because their wives care
and pray a little bit.
Eclipse
Hello Brothers, Our Lady said that in the
last days the church would be in eclipse.Interesting,there were solar eclipses
on may 18 1920 and april 8 2005.Those two dates are jpii's day of birth
and the day he was buried.
Joshua
Comment
Dear MHFM,
After reading your news and commentary on the Federal Reserve audit, I'm just
curious as I'm sure you are, just how does an audit cause the rise and fall of
the economy? Not sure what they would be so worried about? The investigation
would be like The Corp of Engineers auditing their own faulty levies after the
man-made tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
God Speed to you,
Tom
Soul of
Church
Hello Brothers,
What are your thoughts on those who
claim "baptism of desire" for those who are not part of the
visible Church as being "united to the soul of the Church, but not the
body"? Is this a real concept that has any basis on the spiritual and
practical order? Has the Church ever taught such idea? Where are these people
getting this idea?
AJ
MHFM: Our book has a section on that very issue. You should click here, and then go to Section
18: the Soul of the Church Heresy.
Outside the Catholic Church There is
No Salvation and refuting baptism of desire - book, audio program, articles
[see
section 18]
The error really stemmed from St. Robert Bellarmine’s erroneous
use of the terms. He was attempting to
explain how unbaptized catechumens (who believe in the Trinity and Incarnation
and desire baptism) could be part of the Church. The truth is that they cannot. That’s why St. Robert, who wrongly believed
they could, was unable to explain it with consistency. He admitted that they are not part of the faithful (which is a
devastating admission in itself) and thus he wound up arguing that unbaptized
catechumens could be in the soul of the Church but not the body. This is
completely wrong, as the papal teachings in our section on this issue clearly
show. He was so wrong, in fact, that
even Msgr. Fenton criticized St. Robert’s use of the distinction, as we show in
this article:
Can
one be "inside" the Catholic Church without being a
"member"?
It’s important to note that St. Robert did not employ
this false distinction with reference to pagans, unbelievers, etc. – people who
don’t believe in the essential mysteries of Catholic faith. He was only speaking of unbaptized
catechumens who knew of the essential mysteries of the Catholic faith but were
unbaptized. His error has been abused by
countless apostates and heretics in our day who love “baptism of desire.” Even Fenton, who was a heretic himself,
admits that St. Robert’s mistake has been abused and expanded upon by
modernists. Nevertheless, any attempt at advancing the “soul” of
the Church idea – as a way that people who are not part of the body can be
inside the Church – is incompatible with Catholic dogma. If it’s done directly in the face of the
dogmatic definitions we bring forward which disprove it, it is heretical. It’s certainly always heretical for those who
use this distinction (as countless “trad” priests do) to advance the idea that
people who don’t know of the Catholic faith can be saved.
Exchanges
Subject:
Interesting E-Exchanges
"Hope you return...Brother Juan": Return to what? Since I left the
Vatican II church, I have not missed it for even a second. To even think
of returning is sickening. The immodest dress they allow is reason enough to
stay away, and, oh, yes, the numerous heresies, irreverence and useless rites,
all of which offend God.
Re:
Golle debate: Mr. Golle wonders how we would
get the next pope, as if God is helpless and could not provide for our
needs. Why, anyway, would God provide a pope for a world that
almost unanimously rejects him, including those who call themselves Catholic?
Does he think for one minute that Vatican II counterfeit Catholics would give
up their numerous annulments, immoral marriages, belief in universal
salvation, their love of JPII "the great" and all the goodies
provided by the V2 church if God would provide a true pope to return them
to Catholic truths? Faithful V2 counterfeit Catholics have
their popes and they will never exchange them for a true pope. They
have failed God's final test and they will not be saved.
MHFM: Yes, people need to realize that
this is a major punishment for the bad will of the world.
M.
Jackson: Very accurate and thorough
description. His actions were very similar to our local pedophile who is
embraced by his Vatican II "Catholic" buddies and continues to oh, so
reverently receive "Communion". He bragged about
sharing his bed with boys like MJ did' He provided games and treats for boys as
MJ did; he had delusions of grandeur as MJ did; He pretended to be charitable
as MJ was reported to be, and oh, did they love him, even when they found out
what he had done to wreck the lives of numerous boys who are now young men. He
never apologized to those he harmed as MJ never apologized.
All
pedophiles, indeed, seem to be haunted by the same evil demon who does the
exact same things, and they can't seem to resist revealing themselves to the
world in more than subtle ways….
JP2
To
MHFM,
What's
amazing about the bold illuminist antipope John Paul II is that he would usurp
the power of the Queen of Heaven by not only adding a mystery to her Holy
Rosary, but naming it after his demonic cohorts, the illuminati, the satanic
cult of false light. Hence, the luminous mysteries. How bold and how
obvious, and how demonic. But the masses of ignorant Catholics in name
only, don't get it. Mater Immaculata, Ora pro nobis!- rr
Miscarriage
Dear Bro. Dimond,
What happens to a child who was miscarriaged? Does it have to be baptized to go
to Heaven? My mother said she first had a miscarriage where the infant just fit
on a shoe box and was dead already in the womb, the other baby was just a blob
of blood and has no form yet. They were not baptized. What will happen to
them?...
Thanks.
GOD bless,
Juanita
MHFM: This is covered in our book on
salvation, which we strongly recommend you to get. It’s a dogma that no one is saved without the
Sacrament of Baptism. Children are conceived in original sin. This cannot be taken away until they are
baptized. As a result, unbaptized infants are not saved. They go to
a part of Hell where there is no fire.
Catholic
Church
Who gave you the authority to start your
own "Catholic" church ? You have no authority whatsoever . You should
return to the Church and try to make a difference from within… That is the correct
way to do it, rather than going off on your own, and starting your own church .
The priests in the Roman Catholic Church still have the ability to transform
the bread and wine, into the body of Christ . Where do you receive communion ?
You're walking on thin ice, by leaving the Roman Catholic Church and starting
your own ..thing .
Hope you return .
Bro Juan
MHFM: Your Vatican II Church, which
you wrongly call the Catholic Church, professes communion with non-Catholic
sects. Benedict XVI teaches that
non-Catholics don’t even need to convert.
He is therefore not a Catholic.
Your “priests” do not transform bread and wine into the Body and Blood
of Christ because the “Mass” they say is invalid and not according to the form
of the Catholic Church. Moreover, they
are not ordained in a rite which is valid according to the teaching of the
Catholic Church. It’s invalid for the
same reasons that the Anglican Rite was declared invalid.
Wake up and get a clue that the
Vatican II heretics embrace Protestantism and accept salvation outside the
Church. That makes them non-Catholics
with no authority in the Catholic Church, according to the teaching of the
popes themselves.
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of
Benedict XVI File) [link to section] –
The Invalid New Mass vs. the true Latin
Mass
The Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file]
Jackson
Dear Brothers,
Watching all the news of Michael Jackson's
death, I can't help but notice how many people seem to worship the guy very
much in the same way that young Novus Ordo "Catholics" worship Antipope
Benedict XVI at World Youth Day, just like a rock star.
AP
MHFM: He was, one must say, such a freak that it was almost as
if he wasn’t alive. Even the pagan media
seems to admit that he was a freak. He
was human, of course, but it didn’t always seem that way. He was like some kind of strange being or
evil spirit that lived and moved. He was
a huge figure in the total moral deformation of the culture. He was therefore very evil, and a large part
of his success was almost certainly due to the assistance of evil spirits. The evidence also seems to suggest that he
was a pedophile; yet the universal-salvation embracing pagan world will laud
him. They will never mention the eternal
consequences of his actions, for they don’t believe there are any.
Debate
comment
Dear Bro. Michael and Peter, I was
listening to the debates with William Golle all over again.
First off it is amazing that his whole argument began and ended in the first
1-2 minutes because all he did was repeat himself over and over again.
Second his argument that your position does
not stand because you can't answer how we will get the next pope is absurd, to
use Mr Golle's word. In order for him to be consistent then the following
example would also have to be. Imagine you and Mr Golle were driving in
the desert and were far far away from anyone and anything and had a flat
tire. According to Mr Golle if you didn't know how you were going to get
the tire fixed then the tire must not really be flat. It is as if he
expects the two of you to be all-knowing. And since you are not
all-knowing then according to him, what you say is wrong.
Paul
MHFM: Yes, we agree.
Moreover, his claim that we did not answer how we could get another true
pope is completely false. We very clearly
pointed out the fact that in the first millennium the pope was elected by
simple acclamation of the Roman clergy (without any specific process or number
of electors or any requirements for those electors). The same exact thing could happen again if a
truly Catholic bishop were acclaimed and acknowledged as the Bishop in Rome
(and thus as the pope). That could come
about in any number of ways.
Miracle
MHFM: Here’s a short account of a miracle during the reign of
Pope St. Pius V (1566-1572) which helped stifle the spread of Protestantism in
Italy.
“In
spite of the wide extent which the Protestant movement seemed likely to attain
at Faenza, it was soon evident that even there, as in the rest of Italy, it had
taken no real root among the masses of the people. In a great fire which had broken out in the
city an image of the Madonna remained unharmed amid the flames. Everyone saw a miracle in this occurrence,
and at once the daily diatribes of the Protestant preachers against the
[veneration] of the saints and their images failed to have any effect. The clergy, the city council and the populace
ran to witness the miracle; pilgrims came in great number from the surrounding
country to the miraculous image; startling cures were effected to the amazement
of physicians…” (Ludwig Pastor, History
of the Popes, Vol. 17, p. 314.)
Rosary
Dear Brothers,
I have a question about praying all 15
decades. If I know I will likely be praying the entire 15 decades in a single day
(which I have been striving to do) am I supposed to pray the Hail Holy Queen
after every 5 decades and then re-pray the beginning prayers at the start of
the next 5 decades? What I have been doing is just praying all 15 decades
straight and then concluding with the Hail Holy Queen at the conclusion of the
Glorious mysteries. Didn't know if it makes a difference or not.
Thanks for your time.
Josh
MHFM: You do not need to pray the Hail Holy Queen after each set of mysteries if you are planning on praying
the entire 15 decades.
Music
Brothers,
I really like your site.
Is it sinful to listen to classical music?
Thanks,
James
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
The answer is no.
Debate
Uploaded
MHFM: We just added our sedevacantism http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/debate.php
with William Golle to Youtube. You can
watch all 19 parts online. Many of our
readers have obviously heard some or all of the debate, but it’s nice to have
it up there and broken down into parts:
The breakdown is, roughly:
Parts 1-2: Golle’s
opening statement
Parts 2-3: Our
opening statement
Parts 4-5: Golle’s
next rebuttal
Parts 6-7: Our next
rebuttal
Parts 8-14:
Questions and Answers Cross Examination
Part 15: Golle’s
next rebuttal
Part 16: Our next
rebuttal
Part 17-18: Golle’s
closing statement
Part 18-19: Our
closing statement
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Notice
how, for example, there is no answer whatsoever to (among other things) Vatican
II's heretical teaching on religious liberty. From Part 10:
New book
Dear Brother Peter,
I have just finished reading your new
book. What a wonderful book!... You have clearly pointed out the true
meaning of the different scriptural passages which non-Catholics twist and
deny, etc. to the peril of their own souls. I believe that many
non-Catholics reading this book if they are of good will and are searching for
the truth, will be converted. The scope of your apostolate with your
books, DVDs, radio programs, etc. is just astounding. I truly believe
that there is nothing more important than disseminating the Catholic faith in
its entirety and exposing its enemies. May God continue to bless all of
you.
Roxanne Doogan
Candles
Dear
MHFM.
I am
wondering what is your opinion about candles with pictures of Catholic Saints
on them. The candles may have a picture of St. Martin, St. Joseph and Our
Lady of Guadalupe. They're popular among Mexican Catholics. But, I am not
sure if such candles are used by non-Mexican Catholics like Irish and Italians.
Does the MHFM support the use of candles with pictures of Saints on them?
MHFM: The short answer is yes.
Wanting
Recently, due to the outstanding work of
your new book, I've had in a very short time 3 non-Catholics wanting to
convert. Seeing themselves that the Catholic Church is indeed the Church
of God. I gave them a link to Steps to Convert on your website.
But something that I have been trying to understand due to the hard finding of
any true priest, what do we do to those who become baptized which from the
order of the sacraments shown in catechisms, after baptism comes confirmation
but mostly all bishops are so heretical. What do I tell these converts? How
will they be able to receive communion, if say a place is available for them to
receive communion? Do they have to go through the ceremony of the First
Communion? Can they still go receive Confession? What are the rules on these
hard times? May you please help me on this issue, your answers are very
rewarding. Thanks again for the magnificent new book, it hasn't been out
for 3 months at least and the fruits are overwhelmingly high. May God give you
the graces to continue with your amazing work, and Mary protect you!
Bernardo
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Our section on where to go to mass answers many of those questions. Confirmation is not absolutely necessary, and
there are valid options for confession.
Receiving Communion depends upon whether there is a validly ordained
priest in the area who satisfies the criteria which are explained in this file:
Where to go to Mass or confession today?
Position
Sir…as you and your group are admitted
Sedavacantists you appear to be as you accuse others to be-outside the
church. To say that there is no pope is to imply that Christ broke His
promise. If there is no visible head of the church on earth that promise has been
broken. But since Our Lord is truth itself this cannot be.
Yes the recent popes have not measured up
to the saintly ones of the past and have even caused great scandal for
the church…this does not imply that the elections were invalid. Ours is not the
only time in the history of the church to see such calamities occur in the
church. The Arian heresy when it occurred in the fourth century the pope
went along with it-even going so far as to excommunicate St. Athenasius twice
for defending the True Faith. Other popes had mistresses and at one point
two people claimed title of pope. She survived the "great
schism" of Martin Luther and will continue to survive until Our Lord will
come in glory. Just as Our Lord was crucified so the church is crucified. Remember
it is Our Lord who is permitting the current crisis in the church and will use
the evil to his great benefit.
It is not for us to judge the actions
of God's vicar on earth but to pray for him. We need not obey his teachings if
it puts the salvation of our souls is in danger-we first owe our allegience to
God and His teachings. Remember St. Paul said in one of his epistles "If I
or an angel of God should give you new teachings other than what I have
received from God let him be anathama."
Ida…
MHFM: No, there have been over 40 antipopes in Church history
and many periods without a pope.
Fidelity to the teaching of the popes requires one to conclude that these men are not popes but
rather antipopes. Try to understand that
a person who becomes a heretic automatically ceases to be a Catholic. In the same way, a non-Catholic cannot remain
or be elected as pope. This is Catholic
teaching, which you reject.
The Catholic Teaching that a
heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file]
You say that a pope excommunicated St. Athanasius. That’s not true. You are referring to Pope Liberius, who was
falsely accused by the Arians.
Pope
Pius IX, Quartus Supra (# 16), January
6, 1873, On False Accusations: “And
previously the Arians falsely accused Liberius, also Our predecessor, to
the Emperor Constantine, because Liberius refused to condemn St. Athanasius,
Bishop of
Finally, you bring up popes who were morally deficient. A pope who is morally deficient remains the
pope, but a non-Catholic apostate such as Benedict XVI does not. To obstinately accept Benedict XVI is to deny
the papal dogmas, for he holds that it’s completely unnecessary to accept the
dogmatic definitions of Vatican I on the Papacy.
Letter
Subject: Letter from Luis C
Goodness,
I just came across Luis C's email to you at
MHFM and had to offer a brief response. Luis's claims, verbatim :
"so u r catholics and u do post vids
saying that Benedict XVI is a deceiver? GOD HAVE MERCY ON
YOU. you are the work of satan. are you free masons or communists by
any chance? it's because of those attitudes that the world is in the
state it is today... Benedict XVI is the Pope, chosen by the Holy Spirit to
guide us through these last end days. be careful with what u say cos
seems to me u r on the road of perdition.
God bless you
Luis C
While anyone who has dug into the
plethora of information provided on this website will know it has been clearly
postulated that Freemasonry's hands have been all over this false, Satan
influenced, Universalist, and New Age VatII church that claims to be the Roman
Catholic Church. Should Luis read this, he would be well served to open
his heart and head and spend at least an hour a day for the next 6 months
reading and learning all that's offered by MHFM on this site and in MHFM's
books, videos, and tapes - all of which are tools to be used for the safety and
security and health of our souls - and then question who and what are really
doing the deceiving of him and countless others throughout this world.
May God Bless you all at MHFM!
Kevin Ryan,
Oregon
One
World
One World
Dear Brothers,
It is my humble opinion
that the "One World Religion" is already here, and that is you can be
any "religion" under the sun so long as it's not the one true
religion, the Catholic Church of all times founded by Jesus Christ.
MHFM: There is such a general religious indifferentism that
almost everyone out there believes in universal salvation and thus accepts as
salvific any kind of beliefs or actions.
Curious
Hi, I'm commenting on your video,
"Important Information about the Catholic Church"
"And fortify yourself with a strong prayer life, and a true devotion to
the mother of God, who is the key in bringing us to her son."
Romans 10:13 says: For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved."
Where does the Bible say that the mother of God is the key to getting to Jesus?
Romans 10:13 didn't say anything about Mary. It says WHOEVER calls on the Name
of the LORD SHALL be saved.
This is something I've never understood about catholics. Its not an attack. I'm
just curious to how it can be backed up by scripture.
Thanks
Robert
MHFM:
Our book, The
Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church, shows where the
Bible teaches Catholic doctrines on Mary and the importance of having devotion
to her. Concerning your reference to
Romans 10:13, your misconception about the meaning of that passage is
specifically addressed in our article (and book) refuting Justification by faith
alone.
Justification
by faith alone and eternal security completely refuted by the Bible [link to section]
Concerned
L.S.
I like your attitude, and i am a Roman Catholic Christian from the Netherlands
who is also deeply concerned about the present state of our Catholic Church.
The present state of preaching of the doctrine by our bishops and priests (they
keep silent about every dogmatic teaching of the Church) and the present state
of our Church going catholic laymen and women.
I am concerned because every time i visit a Holy Mass, i have to worry
whether or not the Mass is valid, and whether or not i do receive in truth the
Most sacred Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ when receiving Holy
Communion.
No wonder why our lands are being invaded by islamists. Northern Africa,which
was entirely fallen prey to the heresy of Arius, was conquered by muhammadanism
too, and this fate awaits us very soon now if the Bishops of our Church don't
wake up.
A great danger is threatening our entire culture, and we have been asleep for
too long now.
i bless your community and i hope you keep up the good work of presenting these
videos on you Tube,
in Our Lord Jesus Christ, H i thank you brothers
MHFM: Thanks for the interest, but you must get out of the
invalid New Mass. Please look at the
information on our site which pertains to that issue.
Islam
…. I
very much appreciate your site, and visit it daily.
I also very much respect your latest research into the church's authentic
position on Islam. Of course, the modern Catholic catechism boldly grasps at
straws and abandons the historic realities of Catholic, Islamic encounters
through fifteen centuries. Our church is engaging in heresy plain and simple to
hold this constant danger to Christianity, and souls, Islam, in any regard
other than the correct one based not only on its' fruits, but more directly, by
any casual examination of their holy book or life of their "prophet."
They do this in my opinion for reasons of politics, something the church should
stay out of.
It is abundantly clear, as you point out here from your website, that Pope Pius
II was keenly aware that unopposed Islam meant Islamic world domination. We see
already the Islamification of Europe by mid-to-late century at the latest
according to ALL demographic studies…
Anthony
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. We
would just stress that one shouldn't say "our Church is engaging in
heresy"; for the Catholic Church cannot engage in heresy. It's the
Vatican II Counter Church which is doing that.
Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas (# 22), Dec. 11, 1925: “Not least among the blessings
which have resulted from the public and legitimate honor paid to the Blessed
Virgin and the saints is the perfect
and perpetual immunity of the Church from error and heresy.”
Saved
Hi
How do I become saved (I live in Denmark)?
Kind Regards
Ole,
Denmark.
MHFM: You must be a baptized
traditional Catholic and die in the state of grace. Our website
explains how to do that.
Greetings
Greetings.
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter Dimond:
I hope the 2 of you are doing ok. Although I´ve been reading and listening to
your material for quite some time, this is the first time I have the
distinction of addressing you.
Allow me to make a brief introduction about
myself. I´m a 28 years old Brazilian, and thanks in large part to the work your
monastery produced, I´m now a Catholic.
Months ago I came across your youtube channel, and your video on the
Novus Ordo "Mass" caught my attention. Soon after I was trying to
study everything from you I could find. It was all too shocking at first, but
after careful consideration, the facts started to defeat my doubts and denials.
I wanted you guys to be wrong. I wanted it so much, because then the reality of
the situation would not be so sad. But one can´t hide from reality once he
realizes it.
The amount of evidence your material
provides is simply astonishing. And to think I used to go to the new mass on a
daily basis... I knew all along about the abuses, and even that it was watered
down liturgy, but I still regarded at the time to be valid and a choice in
places where tridentine masses or other rites weren´t available. I was trying
my best to walk on the good side, but I was on a totally evil road. The entire
context was bad, as I later understood. Even during the ceremony, I used
to say a prayer, asking God not to take in consideration any possible
abuse that was happening, but to look at the good will of those present. And
that if something there saddened Him, that He had a friend in me I would like
to join Him in His sorrow. Soon after, as if in answer to my prayers, I
discovered the works from the MHFM.
Brother Michael and Peter, God Bless you
for giving people the chance to open their eyes and see through the intense fog
that blinds the souls. I´ve seen your videos and listened to all of your audios,
read a good portion of your site, and it helped me change many misconceptions I
had for years. I´m glad you shared your clarity of vision. You will always be
included in my prayers. This first
email was just to express my thanks, for all your efforts. I still have many
questions in my head, many things that are still not clear.
Best regards.
More on
the Scapular
Dear Brothers,
Forgive my ignorance or possibly overlooking an aspect of the Faith. If someone is in the State of Grace, a
Catholic etc..., how can that person go to hell? What is the point in wearing
the scapular at all, other than for sentimental reasons or whatever, if it has
no spiritual benefit? It seems to me
that there should be other reasons for wearing it. I suppose it could dispense
graces but what's the point other than that.
Am I wrong? Is it possible to go to hell if you are in the State of
Grace and a Catholic?
Not that I wouldn't want it, but what
intercession could the Blessed Virgin offer after death? Shorter Purgatory? I
don't know. This has perplexed me since
I first read that info on your site. I guess I should've asked sooner. I have worn a scapular for the last four
years, but is there any great spiritual reason for it?
Thanks,
Nate
MHFM: It is not possible to go to Hell if you die in the state
of grace. Even though the scapular does
not guarantee salvation, there are great spiritual reasons for wearing it. It would be analogous to why one would wear a
crucifix or a miraculous medal. First,
they are protections against evil spirits.
Second, one receives certain graces for wearing these
sacramentals. In the case of the Brown
Scapular, it’s a sign of devotion to Our Lady.
She will more carefully watch over those who honor her in this way. It’s an assistance, even though it’s not an
absolute guarantee of remaining in the state of grace.
Finally, in the case of the Brown Scapular, wearing it (along
with fulfilling some other requirements) makes one eligible for the Sabbatine
Privilege. Those who depart life in the
state of grace and receive this privilege will be aided in a special way (e.g.,
in Purgatory) on the first Saturday after death. To not wear the Scapular is to be bereft of a
certain mantle of the Mother of God’s protection. It is to make yourself more vulnerable to
evil influences.
St.
Thomas on Blindness of mind
MHFM:
This is St. Thomas’ interesting explanation of how lust and gluttony cause
blindness of mind and dullness of sense.
St.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt.
II-II, (Second and Third Articles): “Different causes produce different
effects. Now Gregory says (Moral. xxxi,
45) that dulness of sense arises from gluttony, and that blindness of mind
arises from lust… The perfect intellectual operation in man consists in an
abstraction from sensible phantasms, wherefore the more a man's intellect is
freed from those phantasms, the more thoroughly will it be able to consider
things intelligible, and to set in order all things sensible. Thus Anaxagoras
stated that the intellect requires to be "detached" in order to
command, and that the agent must have power over matter, in order to be able to
move it. Now it is evident that pleasure fixes a man's attention on that which
he takes pleasure in: wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 4,5) that we
all do best that which we take pleasure in doing, while as to other things, we
do them either not at all, or in a faint-hearted fashion. Now carnal vices, namely gluttony and lust,
are concerned with pleasures of touch in matters of food and sex; and these are
the most impetuous of all pleasures of the body. For this reason these vices
cause man's attention to be very firmly fixed on corporeal things, so that in
consequence man's operation in regard to intelligible things is weakened, more,
however, by lust than by gluttony, forasmuch as sexual pleasures are more
vehement than those of the table. Wherefore lust gives rise to blindness of
mind, which excludes almost entirely the knowledge of spiritual things, while
dulness of sense arises from gluttony, which makes a man weak in regard to the
same intelligible things.”
Mini-Debate
MHFM:
In the file below, there is a mini-debate/e-mail exchange with a person who
wrote in and condemned a portion of our article on Hutton Gibson.
Scapular
MHFM: When Our Lady gave the Scapular to St. Simon Stock, she
said: “This shall be to thee and to all Carmelites a privilege that whosoever dies
clothed in this (Scapular) shall not suffer eternal fire. It shall be a sign of salvation, a protection
in danger and a pledge of peace.”
As we see, the original promise was for the Carmelites who wear
the Scapular and die in the good graces of the Order. The point here is that Our Lady did not
guarantee salvation to all laypeople who die wearing the Brown Scapular, nor
has the Church taught this. The promise
that has been declared by the Church concerning the Brown Scapular is the
Sabbatine Privilege. It has various
requirements attached, one of which is to be a baptized Catholic who dies in
the state of grace. This issue is
covered in our salvation book. People
should wear the Brown Scapular. It’s an
important sacramental and a sign of devotion to Our Lady; but, contrary to what
some believe, it’s not a guarantee of salvation for everyone who wears it.
In The Glories of Mary, St. Alphonsus tells
us about the Scapular.
St. Alphonsus, The Glories of Mary,
p. 272: “… the sacred scapular of Carmel… It was also confirmed by Alexander V,
Clement VII, Pius V, Gregory XIII, and Paul V, who, in 1612, in a bull said:
‘That Christians may piously believe that the blessed Virgin will aid by her
continual intercession, by her merits and special protection, after death, and
principally on Saturday, which is a day consecrated by the Church to the
blessed Virgin, the souls of the members of the confraternity of holy Mary of
Mount Carmel, who shall have departed this life in the state of grace,
worn the scapular, observing chastity, according to their state of life,
recited the office of the Virgin, and if they have not been able to recite it,
shall have observed the fasts of the Church, abstaining from flesh-meat on
Wednesdays, except on Christmas day.”
St.
Alphonsus here lists the promises of the Sabbatine Privilege; he mentions
nothing about the alleged promise that “whoever dies wearing this scapular
shall not suffer eternal fire.” He
points out that one must be in the state of grace (which presupposes the
Catholic Faith and Baptism); one must be a member of the confraternity,
etc. So it is possible for a person to
die with the Brown Scapular on and still go to Hell, if the person is a
non-Catholic or a Catholic in the state of mortal sin. This is the teaching of the Catholic Church. Those who say otherwise are simply mistaken.
Re: Heretics
Hello Brothers,
I recently saw that someone use this phrase of "Failure to respond to this
e-mail will imply an inability to sufficiently defend your position on these
issues." If I may I would like to use it as well although I don't prefer
using such tactics in order to have a question answered. However this will be
the second of e-mails I have sent you, the first being some time ago without a
response. My question is, how do you reconcile receiving the sacraments from
heretics and if I may point out, not only heretics but "filthy, amazing,
abominable, disgusting" heretics. If one clearly knows the position he is
taking and puts himself outside the Church, why is it okay to receive the
sacraments from him? Now if I understand correctly, you may say out of
necessity, but never the less the green light is given. Now if you say avoid
such a person who clearly knows the full background of his positions. Would you
suggest only going to ignorant clergy? If so, where does the Church teach that?
I would like to know, aside from your personal position on the matter. Where
does the Church teach infallibly or even the private opinion of a Church Father
or theologian if nothing else can be found that a Catholic can receive
sacraments from those outside the Mystical Body? This is troubling for me
because I understand that not all priests are saints, but to receive what is
most precious and a source of grace from those who are no longer functioning
members of the Church doesn't make sense at all. I would also like to ask that
you include the novus ordo as a possible place to go for sacraments like
confession or may even an indult, given that all the conditions are met. Please
in a yes or no answer, if someone finds an Old Catholic who is validly ordained
can this person go there for sacraments? If you answer in the affirmative,
wouldn't you therefore have to include every heretical schismatic person who
has valid orders and given they don't tamper with anything that would render
the sacrament invalid? Given the current state of the Church, the scaraments
are crucial to every Catholic. Thank you for your time and I hope that you can
put my worries at ease.
David
MHFM: You are very confused, obviously. Like the last objector, you haven’t closely
paid attention to our responses on these issues. We have a whole section on this matter. It answers that question and contains general
guidelines: Where to go to Mass or confession today?. You ask where a
Church authority has ever taught that you may go to a heretic for the
sacraments. St. Thomas Aquinas taught
that you may go to an undeclared heretic, as we’ve pointed out many times.
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part III.,
Q. 82, A. 9,
Whether it is permissible to receive
communion from heretical, excommunicate, or sinful priests, and to hear mass
said by them?: “I answer that, As was said above (5,7),
heretical, schismatical, excommunicate, or even sinful priests, although they
have the power to consecrate the Eucharist, yet they do not make a proper use
of it; on the contrary, they sin by using it. But whoever communicates with
another who is in sin, becomes a sharer in his sin. Hence we read in John's Second Canonical
Epistle (11) that "He that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth
with his wicked works." Consequently, it is not lawful to receive
Communion from them, or to assist at their mass. Still there is a difference among the above,
because heretics, schismatics, and excommunicates, have been forbidden, by the Church's sentence, to perform the
Eucharistic rite. And therefore whoever hears their mass or receives the
sacraments from them, commits sin. But not all who are sinners are debarred by the
Church's sentence from using this power: and so, although suspended by the
Divine sentence, yet they are not suspended in regard to others by any
ecclesiastical sentence: consequently,
until the Church's sentence is pronounced, it is lawful to receive Communion at
their hands, and to hear their mass.
Hence on 1 Corinthians 5:11, "with such a one not so much as to
eat," Augustine's gloss runs thus: "In saying this he was unwilling
for a man to be judged by his fellow man on arbitrary suspicion, or even by
usurped extraordinary judgment, but rather by God's law, according to the
Church's ordering, whether he confess of his own accord, or whether he be
accused and convicted."
We carefully point out that you may
only go to an undeclared heretic who professes to be Catholic and is not
notorious about his heresy (or less obvious, as some like to say). One must not support the priest or agree with
him. Just think how many such priests
were operating in parishes at different times in Church history. There were many undeclared heretics and
modernists who professed to be Catholic and were operating in the years before
Vatican II and at other times in Church history. Pope St. Pius X even said that modernism was
almost at the very veins and “bosom of the Church.” You may not go to an “Old Catholic,” for he
is a notorious heretic who doesn’t profess to accept all of Catholic
teaching. Further, he is part of a group
that has also been specifically excommunicated by the pope. See our section for more Church teachings and
discussions on this issue.
Book
[The following is from a person who read the new book, The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church. He has a
non-Catholic wife.]
Brother Peter’s new work is excellent. It was easy to read… If she won’t read this,
then it will take direct intervention from Heaven to move and convert.
I will look forward to any and all works
that MHFM produces.
Howard
Failure,
“Baptism of Desire” Objection
Failure to respond to this e-mail will imply
an inability to sufficiently defend your position on these issues.
Dear Dimond Brothers,
By claiming that all who acknowledged Paul VI as the pope were heretics, you
condemn Padre Pio. Not only did Padre Pio accept Paul VI; he wrote a
private letter to him applauding the latter's defense of human
life. Moreover, since you do not believe that John XXIII was ever a
valid pope, you cannot say that Paul VI was ever a
valid pope either. So, for Padre Pio to accept Paul VI
as the pope at any time would have placed him outside
the Church.
You also must necessarily, though indirectly, claim that Thomas Aquinas and
Augustine, along with many of the other theologians and Doctors of the Church,
were outside the Church for holding that the Baptisms of Desire and
of Blood were legitimate substitutes for Water in invincible cases or in
cases of martyrdom. Moreover, you cannot compare Thomas Aquinas'
denial of, or rather ignorance of, the Immaculate Conception, with
his acceptance of accidental substitutes for Water Baptism, on
account of the fact that the Immaculate Conception was not declared a
dogma until the 19th century, while the dogma of the necessity of Water
Baptism, even as you claim, has always been held by the Church (seeing
as it is related in Scripture itself).
In Christ,
Ian
MHFM: For our
answer, click here:
Universalism
Subject: I’m a Protestant Universalist
It's great to see that the Roman Catholic
Church is finally coming around to the ancient way of Universalism. The first
500 years of Christendom for the most part embraced Universalism. Four of the
six schools taught it. Only one school taught eternal torment. Hell as
tradition has taught cannot exist because sin is finite while eternal
punishment is infinite and to impose infinite punishment for finite sin is not
justice, it's insanity. The Bible says that Jesus is going to draw (drag) all
men unto himself and St. Paul said that Jesus Christ was the Saviour of all
especially those that believe but not excluding everybody else. Pope Benedicy
XVI just apologized to our aboriginal peoples here in Canada for the way the
Roman Catholic Church abused their ancestors in our former residential schools
and I'm happy to hear that he did. Pope John Paul II was not a hereitc like you
say because he embraced Universal Salvation because it wasn't heresy he taught.
It was simply the truth paying him a visit. In fairness to the Roman Catholic
Church, I don't support the Protestant teachings of eternal torment and hell
either and have written many rebuttals to various videos on You Tube and
elsewhere that teach it.
REGARDS,
EDWIN
MHFM: No, the Catholic Church has not embraced
Universalism. The Vatican II Counter
Church and its antipopes have. The
latter do not represent the Catholic Church. Moreover, the Bible is very clear that Hell
exists (Matthew 25:41) and that most men go there (Matthew 7:13). The early Church did not embrace
Universalism. Rather, it taught – in
accordance with the clear teaching of Scripture and tradition – that Hell
exists. It taught that all who die
unbaptized or outside the Church or in the state of grave sin go there.
You embrace Universalism (Protestant Universalism, as you say)
because it suits your desire not to give up sins. The only thing that’s correct in your e-mail
is that Antipope John Paul II and Antipope Benedict XVI taught/teach the heresy
of universal salvation.
Deceived
so u r catholics and u do post vids saying
that Benedict XVI is a deceiver? GOD
HAVE MERCY ON YOU. you are the work of
satan. are you free masons or communists by any chance? it's because of those attitudes that the
world is in the state it is today... Benedict XVI is the Pope, chosen by the
Holy Spirit to guide us through these last end days. be careful with what u say cos seems to me u
r on the road of perdition.
God bless you
Luis C
MHFM: No, you don’t understand the
Catholic faith. There have been over 40
antipopes in Church history, and the popes teach that heretics cannot be valid
popes. Benedict XVI is without any doubt
a manifest heretic and apostate. Wake
up; you are very deceived.
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of
Benedict XVI File) [link to section]
Paul VI
Subject: Paul VI
I do not judge any of the Pope's since i
feel i am not in the position to do so, however i find it striking in Paul VI
public appearance's he never made the sign of the Christian Cross when blessing
people, but rather it was a vertical line and a horizontal line not placed
across but under it.
Furthermore i am very un-happy with the whole conciliar Church as it is now and
though i was shocked in unbelief the first time i saw these video's,
nevertheless they contain some very striking evidence of where it went wrong
with the Church….
Thank you for the trouble of going through all this material and enlighten us
about the new mass, the new rite of ordination, and about true catholicism.
Lith…
MHFM: Catholics have an obligation to judge and denounce
heretics when they manifest their rejection of Catholic truth by their words
and actions. Paul VI was an
antipope.
Romans 2
I
have a question about Romans 2:10-16, especially the part that starts,
"When Gentiles who do not have the law keep it as by instinct, these men
although wihtout the law serve as a law for themselves. They show that
the demands of the law are written in their hearts. Their conscience
bears witness together with that law, and their thoughts will accuse or defend
them on the day when, in accordance with the gospel I preach, God will pass
judgment on the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."
Could
you more fully explain what Paul is saying about the Gentiles who do not have
the law and how they will be judged? Does their conscience substitute for the
law and if so it states they will be defended. What does this mean? Thank you for your help with this.
Mary Jo Marceau-Hawthorne
MHFM: What he’s saying in this context is that the “law” – i.e.,
the Ten Commandments, which are also called the moral law – is written on every
man’s heart. Each man knows that he
should not steal, that he should not murder, that he should not commit
adultery, etc. Hence, when the Gentiles
do such things, even if they have not been exposed to the teaching of the Jews
and the actual Ten Commandments, they are convicted in their hearts.
With regard to your question about their thoughts defending
them, St. Augustine explains it well:
St.
Augustine, Against Julian, 421:
“Their thoughts will defend these unbelievers on the day of judgment, so that they will be punished more
tolerably, because in some way they did naturally the things that are of
the law, having the work of the law written in their hearts to this extent,
that they did not do to others what they would not wish to endure. But even in this they were sinners, because,
being men without faith, they did not refer their works to that end to which
they out to have referred them.” (Jurgens, Faith
of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3:1905)
As St. Augustine correctly explains, this verse does not teach
that non-believers can be saved. It
teaches that, on the Day of Judgment, they will be excused for those particular
actions which were performed in accordance with the moral law. Further, those who act in line with the
natural or moral law (and refer them to the proper end) will be brought to the
knowledge of the truth; for the Church has always taught that the people who
are left in ignorance of the Gospel are left in that ignorance for their sins
in matters which were within their knowledge.
Pius II
MHFM: Here’s one of the quotes which were
referenced in our new audio, The Popes
Against Islam.
Pope
Pius II, Address, Sept. 26, 1459: “In
the royal city of the East they have slain the successor of Constantine and his
people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of
Justinian with their Mahometan
abominations… Each success [of the Islamic Sultan] will be only a stepping-stone
to the next until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrown the
Christian Faith, and imposed the law of
his false prophet on the whole world.”
Disturbing,
develop
… I find some of
your videos rather disturbing. Are you and your order in full communion with
the Church? Also it would seem to me that Vatican II left room for
interpretation, which has led to some confusion. To me at least, it appears
that Benedict XVI is working to clarify some of the liberal ideas that have
arisen as a result of Vatican II. I believe it is unbiblical to believe that
the Church can exist without the Pope as the head. I am just curious as to what
exactly you believe in regards to the current condition of the Church.
According to Vatican I, the pope can make errors. It is also a fact that
doctrine in all areas of Catholicism has developed over time. I just don't see
anything in Vatican II that destroys the idea of papal infallibility according
to its own definition. Because, let's face it, that is what some of your videos
are claiming.
However I do have some questions in this area and would be interested in
hearing your take on it.
God bless.
JD
MHFM: We’re not with the Vatican II
Church; for it’s not the Catholic Church.
Benedict XVI is not working to clarify liberal ideas. He consistently teaches heresies and exhibits
apostasy. You mention Vatican I. Well, one of Benedict XVI’s main heresies is
that Protestants and schismatics don’t need to accept the definitions of
Vatican I. You really need to look at
these files:
The
Heresies of Benedict XVI [PDF file]
The Heresies in Vatican II [PDF File]
Also, Catholic doctrine does not develop. It is handed down. The idea that Catholic teaching develops and
grows is heretical. It’s a modernist
concept. There can be more precise
definitions of the same truth, which give one a more precise understanding of
the same truth in the same sense. But
doctrine does not develop.
You mention not having a pope.
Every time a pope died in Church history there was no pope for a period
of time. This sometimes lasted for
years. There have also been over 40
antipopes in Church history. The other
objections you raise are addressed on our website.
Luther
Hi my friend,
I think you incredibly exaggerated, calling Martin Luther "one of the most
heretical persons in church history".
On which bases do you permit yourself to denounce Luther?
Best,
M.
MHFM: He certainly was one of the most heretical individuals in
Church history. This is true in terms of
the effect he had, as well as the very evil and corrupting content of his
heresies. You really should read our
short article about him.
Some Facts about Martin Luther, the
Originator of Protestant "Christianity" [PDF]
Honestly
Dear Sir,
Do you honestly think His Holiness John Paul 2 is an antipope. He heavily
promoted the Divine Mercy Chaplet and is on his way to canonization. Paul 6 and
John Paul 2 are not anti popes. I understand you may disagree with what he did,
but that is no reason to call them the anti christ. As a matter of fact, if you
read the messages of our Lady of Naju, you will see that our lady refers to the
pope as "his son's high priest". Also John Paul 2, when he was a
priest in Nazi accupied Poland, carried a jewish girl to a train after that
girl survived a prison camp. He also heavly denounced Abortion and other mortal
sins.
C… Patriot
MHFM: Sir, you really need to wake up
and learn something about the Catholic faith.
John Paul II promoted and believed things that represent a total
rejection of the whole Gospel and all of Catholic dogma. To believe that he was a Catholic and/or good
is to disbelieve in Jesus Christ and the historical Catholic faith. Begin to understand something about Catholic
dogma and what constitutes heresy. Look
at this file. Look at our website.
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope
1978-2005) [link to section]
The message you reference is false.
Question
Hello. I really like your videos (keep 'em
coming)! i consider myself a true catholic in where I believe in the
fundamentals in which Catholicism was born, yet, question the resolve of the vatican
(I believe the vatican may be the wolf in sheep's clothing the bible prophisies
about)....
just a little curious
your friend
A I
MHFM: What you need to realize is that the post-Vatican II
Church is not the real Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is the one true Church founded by Christ. Please look at the information on our
website. It's the Vatican II Counter
Church that is prophesied in Scripture: The Great Apostasy and a
Counterfeit Church predicted in the New Testament and in Catholic Prophecy.
Converted
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
My mother and I converted to the true Catholic
Faith through information supplied in your books, as has an elderly woman named
Claudia who converted in a remarkable way... Claudia is one of my residents...
We wish you the best with your endeavors, which have already provided my family
and Claudia with eternal results. Yours in Christ, who Graces flow
through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Alexander Tjerslon
Comment
[Subject: Concerning the comment below]
Dear
Bros. Michael and Peter Dimond,
Very
soon after I learning about the Most Holy Family Monastery site, in 2002,
and the truth about the Vatican II antipopes, I e- mailed this
crowd, explaining to them that it was a big mistake to keep referring
to these claimants to the papacy, "popes"..I can't recall the
response, except in follow up emails they refused to discuss the topic with me
as a sedevacantist person,and that is still the case today, 7 years later,
incredibly they haven't woken up to the facts, in spite of all the
evidence you attempt to point in front of them.
One
can only conclude that they terribly "thick", and of bad
will, or they working in with the Novus Ordo crowd, since they keep
leading people down the wrong road, by accepting these apostates as
true, but, albeit, bad popes, and also calling what they think is the
Catholic Church ,"Newrome" and "newchurch". Of course… this
is blasphemy... One hates to think how many Catholics are still being sucked in
by their evil "charm", by appearing as the "good guys" in
this final Apostasy.
David.
N.Z.
This site
I
did not listen to you on Coast to Coast but here is what [this guy’s] website
has about you on their website. I suspect perhaps they are attempting to
denigrate your good name because you speak the whole truth and they do not? :
Extraterrestrials
are back! Previous… Commentaries have described the New Order sect's
fascination with the subject. Now this fascination has gone beyond the New
Order sect. One Brother Michael Dimond appeared on a May 26, 2009, a radio talk
programme, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Noory writes that he
focuses on topics like paranormal phenomena, time travel, alien abduction, etc.
Dimond indicated on the programme that he believes in UFOs and
extraterrestrials and calls them "demonic spiritual entities." He
contends that demons masquerade as aliens in UFOs. He claims a 1947 incident in
which somebody conducted a Satanic ritual at the future site of Area 51, a U.S.
military base located in southern Nevada, which is a focus of extraterrestrial
and UFO stories. The ritual, he says, "allowed evil entities to come
through."…
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. We have a few comments.
First, he refers to “one Bro. Michael
Dimond,” as if he doesn’t know him.
That’s interesting because he knows very well who Bro. Michael is – in fact,
they’ve spoken. So this is just an
example of his pride and bad will. He
wants to give the impression that he doesn’t know him when he most certainly
does. He also puts a picture of some
wacko, and subtly implies that it’s a picture of Bro. Michael (which is not
true).
Second, the man who runs the site is
an utter heretic. In fact, he’s an
apostate. Believe it or not, after all
of these years and all of their heresies, he still regards the Vatican II antipopes as true popes! That’s right.
He specifically says that he’s not a sedevacantist. Since he’s obstinately independent of his
“pope,” he is in schism with the Church he recognizes.
At the same time, however, he
constantly denounces Benedict XVI and his apostate “hierarchy” as non-Catholic,
heretical, and every name in the book.
He constantly denounces their V-2 “Church” as illegitimate, apostate,
heretical, evil, a joke, a sect, etc. He
does this while simultaneously and obstinately regarding this institution and
its leaders as the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. This is extremely evil.
Considering all of this, it’s obvious
that he’s not only a heretic for obstinately recognizing a manifest heretic as
pope – and thus for denying the twin dogmas of the Church’s unity and that
heretics are outside the body – but he blasphemes the Catholic Church by constantly identifying a false Church
with the true Church. He holds that
the very “hierarchy,” which he admits is apostate, is the hierarchy of the
Catholic Church. He equates a body which he admits is non-Catholic,
apostate and evil with the Catholic Church.
This is blasphemy.
That means that every time he mocks
the Conciliar Vatican II Church, he is actually mocking himself; for he
professes communion with its leaders.
Every time he casts aspersions on the Vatican II Church and its
outrages, he is condemning himself and what he considers to be the Catholic
Church. For these reasons, his beliefs
require him (even though he would deny it) to hold that the Catholic Church is a false sect which has defected. He considers the Catholic Church to be
something that deserves to be mocked.
It’s quite accurate to say that he’s
not a believer in Catholicism. Rather,
he is more accurately described as an “Old Catholic” or an “Eastern Orthodox”
with some traditionalist Catholic trappings.
He doesn’t believe in the Papacy; that’s for sure. That’s precisely why he believes that the
popes and the Church can officially err in solemnly canonizing saints.
But his heresies and perversions of
Catholic teaching don’t end there. He
also denies the salvation dogma. He
denies that it’s necessary for all men to be baptized Catholics. He holds the invincible ignorance salvation
heresy. This heresy is rampant among
false traditionalists, as we’ve covered.
Under our cross examination, he would be forced to admit that he
believes that a soul in any religion can be saved by “baptism of desire.”
He also holds that people may be
Freemasons. This is particularly
interesting. In this quote below, he
indicates that (in his view) it was okay for Mozart and his mentor to have been
Freemasons:
March 5, 2006
Commentary: “But whenever the name of Mozart comes up, someone always asks, but
wasn't Mozart a Freemason? The answer is a qualified yes. Mozart was influenced
by the ideas of the eighteenth century European Enlightenment as an adult and
became a Freemason in 1784. However, his
lodge, the same one in which his devout father Leopold and his mentor Joseph
Haydn were both members, was a specifically Catholic rather than a deistic
one. Both composers were at the time furnishing church music in the court of
the Catholic Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.
According to Msgr. Philip Hughes, one of the most noted Catholic historians
of the first half of the 19th century, Freemasonry in Mozart's time, before the
French Revolution, which occurred some eight years after Mozart's death, didn't
necessarily include the anti-Catholic fanaticism, which after the Revolution
became obligatory and was later universally condemned by the Church, but could
be considered, at least in the Catholic lodges, as an humanitarian work
compatible with the Faith. It wasn't until the mid 1790s, in the turmoil of the
war with France that the Austrians grew concerned about secret societies, and in
the mid 1790s Masonry was forbidden in Austria.”
He is clearly defending membership in
Freemasonry. He even describes people
who entered it as “devout.” This kind of
false teaching is subversive of Catholic principles. It really makes one wonder about this guy,
beyond the obvious heresies. Is he more
than just a false traditionalist apostate who holds a mixed bag of heresies and
true objections to the Vatican II sect?
After all, it doesn’t take much research to learn that Pope Clement XII
had already condemned Freemasonry and universally forbidden people to enter it
in 1738; but this guy says it’s no problem that Mozart was a Freemason in 1784.
Pope
Clement XII, April 28, 1738: “Wherefore We command most strictly and in virtue
of holy obedience, all the faithful of whatever state, grade, condition, order,
dignity or pre-eminence, whether clerical or lay, secular or regular, even
those who are entitled to specific and individual mention, that none, under any
pretext or for any reason, shall dare or presume to enter, propagate or support
these aforesaid societies of Liberi Muratori or Francs Massons, or however else
they are called, or to receive them in their houses or dwellings or to hide
them, be enrolled among them, joined to them, be present with them, give power
or permission for them to meet elsewhere, to help them in any way, to give them
in any way advice, encouragement or support either openly or in secret,
directly or indirectly, on their own or through others; nor are they to urge
others or tell them, incite or persuade them to be enrolled in such societies
or to be counted among their number, or to be present or to assist them in any
way; but they must stay completely clear of such Societies, Companies,
Assemblies, Meetings, Congregations or Conventicles, under pain of
excommunication for all the above mentioned people, which is incurred by the
very deed without any declaration being required, and from which no one can
obtain the benefit of absolution, other than at the hour of death, except through
Ourselves or the Roman Pontiff of the time.”
There are other heresies which we
could cover. But his most prominent and
consistent one is his mockery of the Papacy.
He constantly denigrates the authority of the Church in the ways
explained above.
On the positive side, he does say
that the New Mass is invalid. This is
something that his fellow false traditionalist apostates are unwilling to say
or too dishonest to believe. Overall, however,
he epitomizes the false traditionalist movement and he brings people to a dark
disbelief in the Papacy and the infallibility of the Church. To obstinately hold his position is without
any doubt to forfeit faith in the Papal Office and in the promises of Christ to
the Church.
Benedict
XVI’s Tidal Wave of Apostasy
MHFM: We’ve updated our Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file.
KC “Bishop”
[Note: This reader is referring to a recent post in our News and
Commentary section.]
I am writing you because this article (KC
V-2 "Archbishop" says abortionists "not evil") brings up
the need for many important points to be considered:
… This is an excellent example of V-2
salvation theology. The "Archbishop" is in good standing with his
church. No V-2 tribunal could properly discipline him. The V-2 concept of
"There is salvation outside the church" justifies itself by saying
"good people" outside the church go to heaven. Aquinas said that all
people think they are doing good. Even a pedophile "priest" or
abortionist thinks he is doing good. Therefore, universal salvation. Therefore,
pedophile "priests" and abortionists are not evil, they are just
confused. With the V-2 theology, the "Archbishop" was correct in
praying for the repose of the mass murderer's soul, in order to quicken it's
arrival in heaven…
Mt
Opinion
What's your opinion on Martin Luther King
Jr.? Did he held heretical beliefs? It's revealing that much of the whole
liberalism and satanic influence exploded in the 60's (Rock Music, increase of
demonic activity, the Great Apostasy, the heretical Vatican II, etc.).
Almost like the marking of the beginning of the end. Thanks for your
great work, and I love your new book, it has helped me teach others and at the
same time teach myself basic understanding of the roots of Catholicism.
It has facilitated the refutations of those heretical objections that
non-Catholics bring up. The book is so well written that a friend of mine
who is a non-catholic (who is now willing to be baptized and accept the True
Faith in the upcoming weeks) told me that when they had read it, it was so easy
to understand and comprehend. What I noticed though from their feedback
was that they showed good will and honesty. You have to be humble first
to understand the amazing teachings of Christ. Thanks again for all your
hard work and may the celebration of Corpus Christi from the faithful help you
receive graces from Heaven to fortitude the outstanding work you Brothers have
accomplished/are accomplishing and win souls for Christ. God bless you
and Mary protect you.
-B
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a heretical Protestant.
Mary
Subject: Mary proves all non-Catholic
religions are demonic
In Genesis is contained proof that the
Mother of Christ would have a definite role in salvation history.
New Testament Scripture, especially in St. Luke's Gospel is practically
ignored by nonCatholics who call themselves "Christians", and
Mary is relegated to a picture on a Christmas card with no more power than
the mythical Santa Claus.
Mary's God-given powers are feared by the
demon who knows that if he allows his cooperators in nonCatholic religions to
recognize Mary, not as co-redemptrix, but as a powerful asset created by God to
aid in overcoming temptation, he might lose the battle.
The whole reason behind God's use of Mary
remains somewhat of a mystery, even to Catholics, but apparently not to
Satan. Satan knows how powerful devotion to Mary is, which is why you will
never see a Protestant minister, Buddhist, Muslim or any nonCatholic
"priest" promote her Rosary.
Satan may use a false Mary… to fool a few
faithless and idiotic Catholics to keep them on his side, but he has never
inspired even one of them to allow Mary into any of his false religions as
part of their belief system. In fact, it seems that most
nonCatholics dislike and even hate the fact of Mary. They insist she had
other children and that she was nothing more than a tool to bring Him to
the earth that he cast aside immediately after his birth. They seem
to forget that he spent only three years teaching the apostles but 30 of his
33 years on earth were spent with Mary and Joseph. Apparently Mary's
role is so effective that Satan can't even use her effectively in a
deceitful way in his nonCatholic churches.
To diminish Mary is to
diminish the holiness and almightiness of God. The Vatican II church has
diminished Mary as much as possible. To completely eradicate her from
Vatican II would arouse suspicion in Catholic minds who see her inclusion in V2
documents as proof that they are Catholic.
V2 priests do not preach, pray or even
carry the Rosary. I remember years ago a V2 priest joking about
the fact that he did not carry a Rosary when a little old lady approached him
and asked him to pray a rosary with her.
In the years following Vatican II's
beginnings, it was nearly impossible to buy rosaries and religious articles or
to find a Christmas Creche, but religious articles have made a comeback
because whatever is left that is Catholic in V2 Catholics continues to
demand them and they seem to prefer to ignore their "priests" and
their "Catholic" magazines who insist upon teaching that Catholics do
not need sacramentals to identify themselves as Catholic.
Any church that diminishes Mary, makes
distorted ("modern") images of Jesus, Mary and the
saints, such as those in V2 churches, is demonically inspired.
When we keep our mind upon Mary in the mysteries of the Rosary, all of
which are also found in Protestant Bibles, she will lead us to or back to
Christ and the truth.
P
Pope
Benedict XV on the Redemption
Some people are
also claiming that this is proof of manifest heresy from Pope Benedict XV. What’s your response?
Pope Benedict
XV, Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, #1, 1914: "For the whole of
mankind was freed from the slavery of sin by the shedding of the blood of Jesus
Christ as their ransom, and there is no one who is excluded from the benefit
of this Redemption ..."
MHFM: No,
the radical schismatics are wrong again.
For our answer, click here:
Heresies
Subject: I’m glad I stopped going to the
Novus Ordo Mess (“Mass”)
I walked out of the service because the
so-called priest was saying that the Deluge was in fact a myth and it was a local
flood and not a world flood.
The same jerk who said:"Don't tell
Protestants that they are going to hell."
I wrote to him that he was denying Catholic
Dogma…
In the WSU newspaper the Daily Evergreen he
even supports ecumenism!
The heretic’s name is Steve Werner.
K
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. We’re also glad that you stopped. Those are really some heresies from the
“priest.” However, one needs to be
convinced that it’s wrong to go to the New Mass because it’s an invalid and
Protestant service. In other words, if
one has only stopped going because the priest uttered heresies, then one
doesn’t yet believe what one needs to believe on that point.
The Invalid New Mass vs. the true Latin
Mass
Sr. Lucy
Hi
there. As regarding your text about sr. lucia… you can actually see sr. lucia
listed (by her own order!) as deceased in the year 1949 on may 31st!!!!! i
guess that’s the last
proof one needs -you just might want to imbed this with your article…
Skies
Dear
Bros. Michael and Peter Dimond,
With
reference to the recent "Apocalyptic" cloud sighting in Iowa, in my
opinion, this cloud formation best fits the description Stratocumulus cumulogenitus mamma, based on the International Classification of Clouds.
It
is obviously falls into the Low
Cloud Group, ( stratocumulus, stratus, nimbostratus, cumulus and
cumulonimbus ) with the main cloud
base between ground level and 7000ft, since the cloud formation appears to be
around 5000ft.
Notice,
that in this case, clouds in the sky at any given time can be a combination of
two or more types, in this case cumulus and stratocumulus, both low clouds.
To
further define the formation the appearance of ragged mamma, on
the lower side of stratocumulus can be produced by the spreading of cumulus
tops. The end result can be that pendulous blobs of cloud sink into the clear
air and warm up ,evaporating, so that individual pendants of the mamma are
short lived and do not sink much below the general cloud level.
This
, in my experience is not a too unusual cloud formation, I have seen more
dramatic skies...
See
Attached recent cloud photo of water
spout beneath cumulonimbus cloud,
Sumner, New Zealand.
David
S., N.Z.
MHFM: Yeah, we don’t know.
There are more pictures here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1189877/The-cloud-Meteorologists-campaign-classify-unique-Asperatus-clouds-seen-world.html
Helped
Dear
Brothers,
I've been meaning to write for some time but never quite found the time to do
so. I just wanted to express my deepest gratitude for the information
that you have made available…. I came from the Novus Ordo (actually, I ran) and
will never go back. I think I would have left anyway because the services
(for lack of a better word) just became progressively more asinine. I
know now this was the wrong reason, but you helped me to see the NO for what it
is - the New Order…
PC
Ohio
Article
…Thank you for your wonderful article on
the Sabbath being on Sundays. I almost didn't read it, because I didn't
need any convincing, but I am glad that I did - because it was full of
beautiful meditations. I especially loved the garden comparison.
T
Strange Clouds
Subject:
Numerous Apocalyptic Cloud Sightings
Dear
Brothers,
Have
you heard of this? Scientists have reported a new kind of cloud formation that
looks just like armegeddon. Is this not another sign of the end times?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090611/ap_on_re_us/us_new_cloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xD4OLLW9tY&feature=channel_page
S
Demonic metamorphosis
Dear MHFM,
My name is Ruben, I am a 26 year old
Hispanic male. I heard your interview with George Noory, and I agree with you
that UFOs are a demonic deception. One
of your videos of exorcism features a man named Bill Ramsey, although he did
not actually turn into a wolf he did acted like one. In the past there
have been accounts of actual metamorphosis like in the case of Peter Stumpp
(died 1589). Now my question is, do you think the devil can fool our
senses to make it appear that a warlock can actually change his shape into an
animal? I know it's a controversial question but there have been world-wide
stories of warlocks and witches changing shape to animal form. I know
there is a good chance that your probably not going to believe me when I
tell you this story: my grandfather once told my dad that while he
was still a child living in Mexico, he was walking in some field during the
night and while there he claims that he saw a man turn into a bird.
I'm not sure if I even believe in that story. But it does sound like it has
some truth to it. Saint Augustine writes about this subject in his De
Ciuitate Dei, chapter xviii of the eighteenth book, whose rubric runs: Of the
devils power in transforming mans shape: what a Christian may believe.
I've read a book called The Werewolf in Lore and Legend (1933). After reading
it I think that an apparent metamorphosis is possible. Although it is only
illusionary like the UFO phenomenon is.
Ruben
MHFM: A demon cannot change a man into an animal. However, when a soul is afflicted with
demonic possession, God could allow the demon to make the man act and (to a
certain degree) take on the external appearance of an animal, even though he
would remain a man. St. Augustine says:
“And indeed the demons, if they really do
such things as these on which this discussion turns, do not create
real substances, but only change the appearance of things created
by the true God so as to make them seem to be what they are
not. I cannot therefore believe that even the body, much less the mind, can
really be changed into bestial forms and lineaments by any reason,
art, or power of the demons; but the phantasm of a man which even in thought or
dreams goes through innumerable changes may, when the man's
senses are laid asleep or overpowered, be presented to the senses of others in
a corporeal form, in some indescribable way unknown to me,
so that men's bodies themselves may lie
somewhere, alive, indeed, yet with their senses locked up much more heavily and
firmly than by sleep, while that phantasm, as it were embodied in the shape of
some animal, may appear to the senses of others, and may even seem to the man
himself to be changed, just as he may seem to himself in sleep to be so
changed, and to bear burdens; and these burdens, if they are real substances,
are borne by the demons, that men may be deceived by
beholding at the same time the real substance of the
burdens and the simulated bodies of the beasts of burden.”
(St. Augustine, City of God, Bk. 18, Chap. 18.)
Answered
I have acquired your reading and audio
materials and I am delighted to say that I am quite grateful for your zeal and
your Apostolate! Your materials have answered many questions and continue
to quickly bring together many of the missing 'pieces' to my puzzle. I
thank Our Lady for her undeniable leading and direction, and for your continued
devotion to her and Our Lord!
Sincerely,
Chris
Stunned
Subject: Episcopal “Communion” sent by mail
Brothers,
I thought you might be interested in this
article from a British newspaper -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/worship-communion-wafers-post
I know they are not catholic, but I
was stunned by this.
Jim
Comment
Subject: It's
time for the weekly "holocaust" indoctrination injection
[Regarding the story about the idiotic
gunman who shot a guard at the “Holocaust” Museum]
Brothers,
The lies are so thick, so numerous, and so
pathetic that one almost needs an H-bomb to cut through it. I found it
interesting that Obama was notified. I'm sure when the average American of
African descent is killed on the streets of D.C., no one at the White House
notices. Tomorrow, we'll hear from Benedict. Well, I guess it won't be a slow
news cycle this week.
Sincerely, Howard AR.
Church and Islam
Subject: Church and Islam
Greetings,
Thank you for all your information on your website. I am trying to
understand the churches relationship with Islam. For myself, it is a
handmaid of the devil. Muhammad's "angel" was no more than a
demon. However, why is there not more teachings from the church on Islam? You quote the council of basel which is not a
real council? Or its not infallible, so I can't quote it.
I have your quote from the council of
vienne. thanks. You quote St
Francis of Assisi but didn't he also say positive things about Islam? So
I'm not sure that he is a reliable source.
I have your quote from Suma Theologica however, its not really a
condemnation of Islam. obviously a Catholic who worships at the tomb of
Muhammad would be an apostate correct?
I can't for the life of me understand how Pope John Paul II could invent these
cozy ideas about Islam and make them dogmatic teachings in Vat II? Did the church never infallibly declare Islam
to be demonic? Is there no infallible teaching condemning Islam?
I'm so confused. Do you have any more sources?
Sincerely,
Leisa....I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I hear the popes talk about
Muslims worshiping the god of abraham.
MHFM: There are a number of things. First, the early sessions of the Council of
Basel were approved by Pope Eugene IV.
Other sessions were not. The
quotes from Basel which we cite were from the sessions which were
approved. Therefore, the quote on Islam
constitutes an official condemnation of Islam.
The same is true of the other quotes from Pope Clement V, etc.
Contrary to what you state, the quote from the Summa Theologica is also a condemnation
of Islam. He says that it’s apostasy to
worship at the tomb of Muhammad, Islam’s “revealer.” Ergo, Islam is an evil and false
religion. No saint said positive things
about Islam. There are many other
interesting quotes we have on this topic, which we will put into a new audio
and/or new article in the next few days (hopefully). Stay tuned.
This new information will also refute an objection that the defenders of
the Vatican II sect make with regard to Vatican II and Islam.
Pope Callixtus III: “I vow to… exalt the true
Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical
sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet [Islam]
in the East.”
For more of the quotes against Islam which are cited
in our material, see our sections on Vatican II, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and
this file:
The
Glossary of Terms and Principles [PDF]
Not evangelizing
Hello, I spoke to a novus ordo priest in my
former diocese and asked him why they never evangelized anyone and he citied
the catechism paragraph 841 that said "the plan of salvation involves
those that beleive in a creator" etc.... basically that faith in christ is
not necessary, only some belief in an impersonal deity. it just shows the
weakness of the priests here in nyc. this is being taught to the parish since
i've had novous order ppl tell me they heard that in the pulpit.... your site
is tremendous and im distributing your material
MHFM: That’s very interesting. Thanks for the interest.
Journey
Bro. Michael -
I had a spiritual awakening of the most
profound kind listening to you on WABC's coast to coast with George
Noory. I agreed and still do, with everything you said and have
written... I am on a journey now to seek salvation in the traditionalist
Catholic Church, thanks to you…
Joe
Mass
Hi, I have watched a lot of your videos and
sadly you seem to make a lot of sense to me. My problem is that if I am
commanded to go to mass every Sunday under pain of mortal sin and the mass is
invalid what would you suggest I do? I have always followed the teachings of
the catholic church, prayed the rosary daily went to confession every month
etc...
sincerely, Barry Wood
MHFM: There is no obligation to
attend the invalid New Mass. It’s not a sin to avoid it, but it’s a
sin to go. If there is no acceptable traditional option for the
sacraments (see the guidelines on our site), then you must stay home and pray
the Rosary.
Talk
Dear Brothers,
Another fine talk, thank you. It's incredible how many and varied problems
those slimy schismatics create in order to avoid simply accepting in charity
the whole truth of the Catholic faith.
God Bless,
Kit White
Mosque
Dear brothers in Christ,
I would like to add a comment on the
statement that antipope's B16 calling mosques jewels is not heretical.
Our Lord taught in the synagogues. And yet He calls some synagogues as
synagogues of Satan, in spite of the fact that in those synagogues of Satan
people were speaking of God. Those people were faithless by the very fact that
they did not accept our Lord, no matter how persistently they pronounced the
word 'God'. They were all liars.
Calling mosque a jewel is a lie in extreme, and everyone who does so is a liar
in extreme. And likewise, everyone who defends a liar is a liar. May our Blessed Mother Mary guard your holy
works.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
Jewel
[NOTE: This is a follow up e-mail
from a person who e-mailed a little while ago on this topic. He now thinks he can explain why Benedict
XVI’s statement that a mosque stands out like a “jewel” is not heretical.]
Subject:
Pope is saying mosque is jewel of building
Brother
Diamond:
I
share your concerns re Islam as would any devout Catholic, and I thank you
for the Papal quotations but I absolutely cannot share your concerns with
Benedicts remarks. Your concerns are alarmist. Benedict, has carefully chosen
his words so as to not be heretical. He is looking for common ground. He
doesn't find much, other than both traditions build magnificent structures to
facilitate worship. That's what he focuses on. His remarks actually serve
to also praise the Catholic tradition of fine church structures. Benedict finds common ground in
both the Catholic and Muslim tradition of building, "places of
worship" that "stand out like jewels across the earth’s surface"
A
mosque can be considered a jewel. An architectural jewel. A fine stucture.
Magnificent even. That is what he focuses on. He is simply trying to achieve
good will with this segment of God's creation, that happen to
also be Muslim. At no point does he
embrace or even acknowledge their Muslim beliefs.
Unlike
Pope Clement of the 14th century, Pope Benedict in the 21st century, does not
have the political authority or influence to ban the practise of Islam in any
land. Benedict instead attempts to stake a common ground- as limited as
that ground might be. You could say
he milked the "magnificent building" angle for all its worth and then
quit as there was no other material to work with. The impressionable Muslim ear will hear
a gesture of good will towards Muslims. The more discerning ear, both
Catholic and Muslim, will hear a frank acknowledgement of how little the two
faith traditions have in common.
If
all you've got to go with are great looking buildings with crosses
pointing heavenward, you really don't have much. His remarks might at
least serve to re-affirm that Catholics and Muslims can be
united against, what is IMO a more pervasive enemy-that of
liberal secular atheism which shuns all faith traditions.
To
quote your own words below. "He further declares that men have always gone to a place
like a mosque to acknowledge the presence of the Almighty, and that such places
point to the Almighty". So
what! This is simply a statement of fact. Not Apostacy. This is what men have done. And these physical structures do point to the Almighty, with crosses that do point heavenward.
Place like a mosque".
Not a mosque. He's not even giving the mosque a special status
and this is what you draw attention to. You help make my point.
You
should work with this Pope. He is a staunch defender of the true faith.
JR
Toronto
MHFM: We must say that your comments
are false and outrageous. They are
illustrative of the profound bad will and interior dishonesty which afflict so
many. Benedict XVI is not speaking of
the structure of the mosque! He is
speaking of “places of worship” in general, ancient and modern, which obviously
have diverse kinds of structures. He
even makes reference to their “sanctuaries,” not aspects of their
construction. In that context, he
remarks with approval and not a hint of condemnation that people go to all such
houses of worship to acknowledge the
Almighty. This is the heresy of religious
indifferentism. People do not worship
the Almighty in the temples of false religions and pagans. In that context, he calls the mosque a
“jewel.”
After Benedict XVI visited the Al-Hussein Bin
Talal Mosque, he had a meeting with Muslim leaders and gave an address on May
9, 2009: “Places of worship, like
this splendid Al-Hussein Bin Talal mosque named after the revered late King, stand
out like jewels across the earth’s surface.
From the ancient to the modern, the
magnificent to the humble, they all point to the divine, to the Transcendent
One, to the Almighty. And through the
centuries these sanctuaries have drawn men and women into their sacred space to
pause, to pray, to acknowledge the presence of the Almighty, and to
recognize that we are all his creatures.
For this reason we cannot fail to be concerned that today, with
increasing insistency, some maintain that religion fails in its claim to be, by
nature, a builder of unity and harmony, an expression of communion between
persons and with God.
So, your comments are wrong and, in
fact, evil; for you are defending apostasy.
Moreover, even if (for some reason) a real pope thought that a mosque
was impressive from a purely architectural standpoint, he would never praise
it; for that would give the impression that he is praising a place of iniquity
and a false religion. Benedict XVI’s
statement is just one of many examples of his apostasy vis-à-vis Islam. Here are other clear examples:
Benedict XVI, Address, Dec. 22, 2006: “My visit to Turkey afforded me the
opportunity to show also publicly my
respect for the Islamic Religion, a
respect, moreover, which the Second Vatican Council (declaration Nostra Aetate #3) pointed out to us
as an attitude that is only right.”
Benedict XVI, speech apologizing for his comments on Islam, Sept. 2006: “In the
Muslim world, this quotation has unfortunately been taken as an expression of
my personal position, thus arousing understandable indignation. I hope that
the reader of my text can see immediately that this sentence does not express my personal view of the Qur’an, for
which I have the respect due to the holy book of a great religion.”
Benedict XVI “Hailed for Praying like
Muslims Toward Mecca,” Dec 1, 2006 — ISTANBUL (Reuters) – “Pope Benedict ended a sensitive, fence-mending visit to
Turkey on Friday amid praise for visiting Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque and
praying there facing toward Mecca ‘like Muslims.’… ‘The Pope's dreaded
visit was concluded with a wonderful surprise,’ wrote daily Aksam on its front
page. ‘In Sultan Ahmet Mosque, he turned toward Mecca and prayed like
Muslims,’
To express respect for a false
religion is apostasy. To pray like the
Muslims in a mosque is apostasy. To call
the Koran a holy book is apostasy. You
can see many other examples in these files:
The Heresies of
Benedict XVI [PDF file]
-Some other recent heresies from Benedict XVI
Answering Objections Against Padre Pio
MHFM: This is
a new 42-minute audio discussion which answers objections against Padre
Pio. We discuss and respond to the
claims that he endorsed the heresies of Vatican II, Humanae Vitae and
salvation outside the Church.
Answering Objections Against Padre Pio [new 42 min. audio
discussion]
This will also be found in our New sub-section
on finer points, quotes, arguments, objections and issues relevant to certain
"traditionalists." It will also be
found in our “Traditional Catholic Audios” Section.
Lutheranism, Tiller
MHFM: Many people heard about the
death of the late-term abortionist, Dr. Tiller.
Tiller claimed to be a Lutheran and actually attended a Lutheran
church. Heretical and Protestant
churches are not good, of course, but it surprised some that a murderer of
children would approach anything that purported to be a church. In thinking about it more, it’s quite
interesting that Tiller was a Lutheran; for it was Martin Luther who famously
said:
“No sin will separate
us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand
times a day.”
In Lutheranism Tiller obviously found
the theology that suited him. For the
full citation of the quote from Luther, see our book The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church or our
article on Luther: Some Facts about Martin Luther, the Originator of Protestant
"Christianity."
Hell
Dear Brother Peter,
In a sermon by St. Robert Bellarmine about
"Hell and its torments" (page 43) I read the following, which is
a confirmation of your "Quick thoughts on Why Hell must be Eternal":
My dear people, this eternity is of such a nature that without it no punishment
can be adjudged to be heavy, neither with it can we reckon any punishment to be
light.
May God bless you.
Jos
Interview
… I'd like to tell you, Brother Michael,
that you did an excellent job on the interview on Coast… I was proud of you
that you shared the dogma, EENS, with millions of listeners! I plan to
put in an order for your books you advertised on this program. I thank
you for the work you are doing to promote the true Church of Jesus Christ, the
Roman Catholic Faith…
Not Reported
Subject: graduating students/Lord’s prayer
This was not reported in our censored
Gannet-owned Pensacola News Journal.
Pensacola, Pace, Pea Ridge and Milton are
all along highway 90 and Santa Rosa has always been known to be a more
conservative county. Although it's spread out, my #3 son who lives in
Milton says it's a place where everybody knows everybody else.
You wonder how many times this has gone on
and has not been reported. I sent the article to one of the
columnists at the News Journal but he's a yes man and certainly will not
comment lest he lose his job. He's also a V2 "Catholic".
PM
MHFM: Yes, the article mentioned the
interesting fact that the media pretty much ignored it.
Site
I love the website. It’s great because you show us what we are
supposed to know and believe as Catholics.
You bring out a lot of information I’ve never heard before. I love the way you research and put it all
together… I want more people to know about it.
Gina
Friends
Hello Brothers,
I told some friends I could not attend their wedding and it is causing me a
great deal of heartbreak, and also they are quite upset with me. However when reviewing your wedding material,
and trying to strengthen my resolve, i read this with some trepidation.
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos #9, Jan. 6, 1928: “Everyone knows that John
himself, the Apostle of love, who seems to reveal in his Gospel the secrets of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and who never ceased to impress on the memories of
his followers the new commandment ‘Love one another,’ altogether forbade any
intercourse with those who professed a mutilated and corrupt form of Christ’s
teaching: ‘If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not
into the house nor say to him: God speed you’ (II John 10).”
>>altogether forbade any intercourse with those who professed a mutilated
and corrupt form of Christ’s teaching
This seems to say that I cannot be friends with Lutherans.
Please advise, I am rather depressed at the idea of only being friends with
traditionalists.
Thank you
Patrick
MHFM: You definitely may not go to
their weddings. However, we think you
could be friends, depending upon what that friendship entails. For instance, if you have a friend with whom
you play ping pong or basketball or monopoly and it’s a source of recreation
for you, we don’t see why you would have to cut that off because he’s a
Lutheran. As long as he’s clear on where
you stand that you hold that he must convert to be saved, and the friendship
doesn’t involve any approbation of his heretical beliefs or non-Catholic
lifestyle, then we think that you could continue a sort of friendship. However, all of that of course presupposes
that you have clearly and earnestly tried to bring him to the faith.
Questions
Dear Sir
I have 2 pressing questions.
1. I have baptized my
children on my own since avoiding the novus ordo church. Is this valid?
2. Is it acceptable to eat
pork, seafood and other forbidden food mentioned in the old testament?
Thank you,
Brenda M Fernando
Thailand
MHFM: It’s valid assuming you
observed the proper matter and form. To
your second question, all foods are acceptable.
However, a Catholic may not eat meat on days of complete abstinence
(e.g., Friday). See our Traditional
Catholic Calendar (under “Many Other Topics”).
Full of Grace
Dear Brothers,
Please correct me if I am wrong, but
"Favored one" and "Full of Grace" has two different
meanings therefore, you can't swap them around as if they have the same
meaning.
"Full of Grace" means Sanctifying
Grace that she has no sins at all.
The NAB uses incorrect choice of words and
that is one reason I read the Douay-Rheims Holy Bible.
MHFM: Yes, “full of grace” (the correct translation) indicates
freedom from sin. That’s addressed in
our book, The Bible Proves the Teachings
of the Catholic Church.
New Section, Benedict XV
MHFM: We’ve created a new sub-section to our
E-Exchanges. This sub-section will be
for issues, objections and topics that are relevant to smaller numbers of
people in “traditionalism,” especially certain radical schismatic types. But it will also cover other issues. Some of these responses and entries become
too long or specific for the general E-Exchanges discussion. A note will be posted here in E-Exchanges
when this new sub-section is updated.
The first entry concerns Pope Benedict XV and the
following objection:
Hi, some people are saying that this quote of Pope
Benedict XV is a heretical denial of the unity of the Church. They say it’s the same as the Vatican II
ecclesiology and that it proves that Pope Benedict XV was a heretic and
therefore and antipope. What’s your
response?
Benedict XV, Pacem, Dei Munu Pulcherrimum, #21, May 23, 1920: "We humbly implore the Holy
Ghost the Paraclete that He may 'graciously grant to the Church the gifts of
unity and peace' ..."
MHFM: The people who are saying this are quite
wrong. See the response and explanation
in the above file.
Baptism, Impossible
MHFM: Here are two very interesting
new quotes from St. John Chrysostom (father and doctor of the Church) on how
it’s impossible to saved without
baptism. Obviously he didn’t believe
that there are any exceptions to the necessity of baptism if he believed that
it’s impossible to be saved without it.
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 3 on 1 Cor. 1:10- “Yea,
again I say, great indeed is baptism, and
without baptism it is impossible to obtain the Kingdom. Still a man of no singular excellence is able
to baptize, but to preach the Gospel there is need of great labor.” (NPNF1,
Vol. 12, p. 12.)
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 3 on 1 Cor. 1:10- “… so
also in baptism. It is impossible to be saved without it, yet it is no great thing
which the baptizer doth, finding the will already prepared.” (NPNF1, Vol. 12,
p. 13.)
Law
Hello, please send me the document that
says that the "Vatican consul made it law that only Catholics are saved
for Heaven by Christ" Or something to that effect that I heard you
say on the George Norrie Show. I'd like some type of answer, please
acknowledge.
Uriel…
MHFM: The dogma Outside the Church There
is No Salvation is simply the summation of the truth that there is no salvation
outside of Jesus Christ and thus no salvation without accepting all of His
truth.
“… the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ… Nor is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name, under heaven,
given to men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12).
Since there is only one true
Christian Church, the Catholic Church, to be saved in Christ requires that one
possess the one true faith of Christ.
“If anyone abideth not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and
shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he
burneth.” (John 15:6)
That’s why we read in the Acts of the Apostles that the Lord
added daily to the Church (to the one Catholic Church – the only one that
existed) those who were to be saved.
Acts 2:47- “And the Lord added to the
church daily such as should be saved.”
From the very beginning, the Church
has taught the dogma that one must be Catholic to be saved. You can read the history of it here:
Outside the Catholic Church There
is No Salvation
Meditation
Dear Brothers,
When praying the Rosary I use the
meditations in the booklet Holy Rosary by Josemaria Escriva (please, see
excerpt below). Because of concentration problems I cannot meditate in a
different way. My questions is: are
these texts adequate? I pray the mysteries
at three different times of the day. Do I need to begin with the Apostles'
Creed and the three Hail Marys before each mystery?
Thank you very much. God bless you.
Sincerely
Jos Valkering
MHFM: No, you shouldn’t use his meditation. You should simply pray while concentrating on
a mental picture of the mysteries. You
don’t need to say the Apostles’ Creed and three Hail Marys before each mystery,
but only at the beginning of the Rosary.
Narrow
With all due respect, the Coast to Coast
AM guest spoke of some single Monolithic Catholic Church which he views as
the only path to salvation. From what I understood, he thinks everybody else
outside that institution is Damned to Hell and essentially evil or misled and
judged by God as "wicked".
I accept that the man is sincere and devout and has probably done more
charitable deeds in a week than I'll do in ten years, however if the man is
sincere he will be open to the idea that others may sincerely view his ideas as
in-error.
I do not critique this body of discussion lightly, but out of a sincere belief
that it is too narrow and does not represent what we know is in the bible if we
only read it….
The bible says there is only ONE criteria for salvation: "Call upon the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ and ye SHALL be saved."…
Graig Burns
MHFM: No, the Bible clearly teaches
that few are saved (Matthew 7:13) and that there is no salvation outside of
Christ or His Church (as covered above).
So your understanding of the Bible is very wrong. The Bible does not teach that one only needs
to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved.
This is shown clearly in our article on Justification and our book (The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church).
Justification
by faith alone and eternal security completely refuted by the Bible [link to section]
Shroud
I wanted to let you know that i just
purchased 3 of your books after hearing you on coast to coast. I thought you
were pretty sharp and worth reading. I am however looking for information on
the truth about the lost Ark and the Shroud of Turin. I hope you can recommend
some reading and media for me.
Sincere thanks,
Ed
MHFM: Our DVD Creation
and Miracles covers the Shroud, and we sell another DVD/Video which is
specifically on that topic. It’s
excellent and highly recommended.
DVD: Jesus and the Shroud of Turin
Shocking
I just placed my
second order. Your material is shocking
and frightening – a real eye-opener, but it’s excellent. We just need to know the truth! You showed me how the “pope” has Protestant
views and we need to be faithful Catholics.
We can’t have Protestant views and be in the Catholic Church because
you’re not Catholic then!
I pray to go to
my death holding the Catholic Faith.
Mary Jacob
Texas
Comment
Subject:
News Article: “Black Magic Booms in Venezuela”
Curious,
isn't it? Venezuela has the misfortune of once electing a Communist as
President, a man likely possessed by Satan, and a man the citizens of Venezuela
have little chance now of ever removing from office. And now 'Black magic booms in Venezuela'.
Curious
also is the second article below this on your website. It is entitled
'Obama declares that it's 'LGBT' month'. I for one, would not be at all
surprised to see, in a matter of months, a headline similar to the following:
'Black magic and occult practices the new 'in' religion in America'.
How
can anyone not believe with certainty that Satan does indeed rule the world in
these times, and is the 'light' behind the New World Order and their Agents.
Kevin
Ryan
MHFM: He rules the world only in the
sense that God is allowing the Devil to be very active in these days. God is in complete control, and evildoers can
only do what God allows. But because
these are dark times, the battle for goodness and truth and souls is uniquely
fierce.
Spiritually Dead
Hello Brother Diamond,
I listened to your show on Coast to Coast AM… & have a question.
If there can be no salvation in Christianity outside of the Catholic Church,
& all other Christian denominations lead to hell - & the last 5 Popes,
including the current one, are all apostates to the Church - then how can one
be saved by joining a spiritual organization that is spiritually dead from the
head down? If true, these things would leave people no place to go to
obtain salvation.
Thank you for your thoughts,
-Heather
MHFM: One cannot be saved by joining a spiritual organization
that is dead. That’s the point. The Vatican II Church, with its false
teachings and antipopes, is not the true Catholic Church. It’s the Counter Church of the last
days. You can be saved by joining the
Catholic Church (i.e., the traditional Catholic Church) by accepting the
traditional Catholic faith and living the life of grace. The Catholic Church is not dead, but is alive
in a remnant of traditional Catholics.
The Church’s teaching and morality lead people to salvation, and
communicate the same holiness that they always have. All of the non-Catholic denominations, which
are man-made, which teach heresies, which reject clear teachings of the Bible,
do lead to Hell. You really should obtain
our new book, The Bible Proves the
Teachings of the Catholic Church.
Site
Thank you for your wonderful website and
for all of the life-saving information.
Darrell Maul
Abortion
Dear Dimond Brothers,
I watched a brief segment on CNN about the
abortion doctor who was killed in a Lutheran Church in Wichita. They
interviewed a woman about the killing. Here is what she said about the
abortion doctor : "He was such a good christian man.....what is this world
coming to...." Can you believe that?! She says that a
man who murders babies in such a brutal fashion as partial birth abortion is
"a good christian man". Then she wonders what the world is
coming to because this doctor was murdered! Why doesn't she wonder what
the world is coming to when unborn babies are legally allowed to be murdered in
their mother's womb by such doctors? This is someone who's really blinded
by the Devil and living in a world of spiritual darkness. She thinks
she's a christian but the Devil is preventing her from seeing the abomination
that abortion really is, and of course from seeing that the Catholic faith is
the true faith.
AP
MHFM: Yes, the level of spiritual blindness is astounding.
JWs
Dear Brothers,
Adrian sounds like the typical JW. Just doing what he's trained to do like an
obedient dog. Unfortunately, in his bad will, he remains enslaved to the
Watchtower Society. It's interesting to note that the first Gentile convert was
Cornelius, a centurion! The Holy Ghost didn't say, 'Nope! He can't be with us
because he carries a sword.' This concept of neutralism makes them tools of satan
to bring in the new world order ('the new system,' they call it)…
Kit White
Sabbath Article
Hi,
I listen to you on coast to coast and i would like to know why you do not keep
the sabbath? it is GOD LAW to obey the right day to worship…
MHFM: We have a new short article which
specifically covers that issue.
Is
Saturday or Sunday the Holy Day?
This article refutes the view of Seventh-Day Adventists and Seventh-Day
Baptists who believe that the day specifically dedicated to God, rest and
worship is Saturday not Sunday.
It will be found permanently in the “Refuting
Protestantism” and “Many Other Topics” sections of our website.
“Fr.” Alberto Cutie
Hey, it looks like "father" Cutie
now turned Episcopalian! I just saw a video of it in yahoo. He abandoned the
Vatican 2 sect and now turned episcopalian. He even gave his first
"sermon".
The point is, it will be very interesting what Benedict XVI or any other
"heavy" or "important" person of the Novus Ordo will say
about this.
They should condemn him as a heretic and an apostate right? But I bet they
won't say anything at all.
Florida's
"Father Oprah" turns Episcopalian
MHFM: Yes, for those who don’t know,
“Fr.” Alberto Cutie was a popular and well-known priest in the Novus Ordo. He also appeared sometimes on EWTN. He was recently caught fornicating on a beach
with a woman. A great scandal erupted
and Cutie was forced to give up the woman or give up the Novus Ordo
“priesthood.” Faced with the choice of
giving up his illicit relationship and returning to the Novus Ordo or staying
with the woman, he came up with a third route.
He decided to become part of the Episcopalian sect. This, he thinks, will allow him to be a
“priest” and stay with the woman. The
whole story is outrageous, yet quite interesting on a number of levels. It’s interesting for what it reveals about
the Vatican II Church.
First, this “Fr.” Cutie is an
abomination. Not only was he sinning
mortally with this woman (and as a heretic in the Novus Ordo), but the woman is
(according to reports) already married!
It seems like he plans on marrying her, but she’s already married. What does that tell you about the Novus Ordo
“priesthood”? Cutie was so thoroughly
filled with the “Catholic faith” in his Novus Ordo formation – not – that he not only has no problem
becoming Episcopalian (and thus abandoning what he knows of Catholic dogma),
but he has no problem accepting divorce and re-marriage. Episcopalians also accept artificial
contraception and other moral evils. So,
to summarize, in becoming Episcopalian Cutie is: completely denying what he
thought of the Papacy; accepting things such as artificial contraception;
accepting that Episcopalians have true priests and sacraments (a total
rejection of Catholic teaching); accepting the concept of “marriage” to a woman
who is already married; etc. This is
really something.
What this reveals is that basically all Novus Ordo priests believe in
universal salvation. Cutie was a
Novus Ordo “priest” – in fact, he was (wrongly) considered one of their few
“normal” and “successful” ones. Yet
Cutie obviously believes that people who fornicate (e.g., himself), that people
who divorce and remarry, that people who belong to non-Catholic sects and
religions (Episcopalians), can be saved.
He believes that everyone can be saved.
That’s the truth.
Moreover, in becoming Episcopalian –
and this is quite important to consider – Cutie has simply applied the false
theology of the Vatican II sect. For in
explaining his decision, he stated (in so many words): “My brothers (in
Protestantism) serve God while married, so why can’t I.” He is simply logically applying the teaching of
the Vatican II Church. In other words,
he is saying that “we (in the Novus Ordo Church) already believe that Protestants are saved, so why should I not become
Episcopalian and do what I want?”
And there is nothing that any bishop or priest or “pope” in the Vatican
II sect can say about it! They can’t say
anything about it because their false Church officially teaches that
Episcopalians are brothers in the faith and part of the Church and on the road
to salvation.
There is not one cleric in the entire
Vatican II sect who would or could say that Cutie is on the road to Hell for
leaving the Novus Ordo to become Episcopalian.
This is so revealing. Cutie not
only stands out as an example of an abominable false minister, but as a devastating and convicting symbol
of the Vatican II sect’s false theology.
One must also say something about the
despicable laypeople. In both the Novus
Ordo parishes and in the Episcopalian church, people are clamoring for
Cutie. These people have drifted so far
from a concern for God’s law. They are
so blind in their pride, impurity and vanity – they are so driven in their
desire to justify the moral evils of themselves and others – that they are
rushing to defend this horrible Cutie.
They boldly proclaim that they
have no problem with his mortal sins or his apostasy. They have no problem with what he has done
and they boldly proclaim that he is
justified. One can only imagine what
God thinks of these people. God’s
disgust at their impiety must be compounded by the fact that these heretics and
sinful laypeople actually have the audacity to proclaim as acceptable actions He has specifically revealed are mortally
sinful.
Heresy defined
What is the Catholic Church's definition of
heresy? Denial of dogma? Denial of Ordinary and Universal
Magisterium? Denial of Scripture? All of the above? Where has
the Church taught this?
Thanks,
Norman
MHFM: Yes, a denial of dogma would be
heresy. A denial of something taught by
the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium would be heresy. A denial of Sacred Scripture would be
heresy.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law defined a heretic in the following way: “After
the reception of baptism, if anyone, retaining the name Christian,
pertinaciously denies or doubts something to be believed from the truth of
divine and Catholic faith, [such a one] is a heretic” (Canon 1325). From this it’s clear that any denial of a
truth to be believed with divine and Catholic faith is heresy.
Pope Leo XIII provides us with
perhaps the best and simplest definition of heresy:
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:“The practice of the Church has
always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would
recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her
authoritative Magisterium.”
So heresy is a departure from a point
of doctrine authoritatively taught by the Church’s Magisterium.
Show, JWs
Hello,
I am really enjoying tonight's show with you as guest. I have believed that the
"unexplained" objects, beings and creatures people see are simply
demonic activity. However, keep in mind that the world empire of false religion
is another tool Satan uses. For example, the Catholic church has historically
supported both sides during war-time and thereby pitted brother against
brother. True Christians must never take sides in this world's wars. There is
no "Christain" side when it comes to this worlds rulers either. 1
John 5:19 "We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in
the [power of the] wicked one." Also, Jesus himself told his disciples to
not mix in with unbelievers. "John 17:16 - "They are no part of the
world, just as I am no part of the world." Any religion that mixes with
this worlds affairs cannot be true Christianity. While true Christians in Nazi
Germany, Jehovah's Witnesses were being put in concentration camps for not
Heiling Hitler, which means Salvation comes from Hitler, the Catholics there
were doing this in order to save their own lives. THIS is not christian. You
cannot call yourself a Christian if you are taking the side of God and of men.
1 Cor. 10:21 - " YOU cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah and the cup of
demons; YOU cannot be partaking of “the table of Jehovah” and the table of
demons." In the "Lord's prayer" we pray for God's Kingdom to
come; that kingdom IS an already established government in heaven that will put
an end to all of earth's corrupt governments. (Dan. 2:44) - "And in the
days of those kings (the last days) the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed
on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and
it itself will stand to times indefinite;" It is to that kingdom and to
Christ as it's ruler that True Christians must pledge their allegiance. Also,
The Catholic church has been at the forefront of spreading unscriptural
teachings such as the immortality of the soul, hell-fire… It is not doctrines
of men but God's Word, the Holy Bible that determines what True Christianity
is. According to this standard the Catholic Church is sorely lacking. Please
feel free to respond to me or to speak to any one of Jehovah's Witnesses. We
can show you from the bible the way God wants us to worship him.
Sincerely,
Adrian
MHFM: No, “Jehovah Witnesses” (and
obviously you) belong to a false religion which began with a false prophet name
Charles Taze Russell. We sell a book which proves the Catholic teachings
and the Catholic Church from the Bible. You should obtain it and read
it. You don't believe in the
eternity of Hell or Hell fire, which is a clear denial of scripture (Mt. 25:41;
Luke 16:24; etc.). You don't believe that Jesus is God, which is
blasphemy. The Bible clearly teaches the Trinity and that Jesus is God.
Where does the
Bible teach that Jesus is God?
You have many other false
views. You are on the path to damnation and need to convert.
Regarding fighting wars, Jesus didn't tell the centurion to cease being a
soldier (Mt. 8:13). He certainly knew that people of His true faith (the
Catholic faith) would be of many nations.
It’s a universal Church, not a small man-made sect like yours. Thus it might happen that people of the
Catholic faith might come into conflict; for in a world-wide Church there will
always be some bad people who don’t live up to the morality or the pure
intentions which the Church itself so clearly and uniquely teaches. Jesus
didn't tell everyone that they couldn't defend their nation if they were
unjustly assaulted. The issue is not whether two people who are Catholics
(or claim to be Catholics) ever happen to come against each other in conflict;
the issue is who is justified in the conflict, in the reason for it and in the
manner in which it is carried out. So your criticism is just
stupid. It's the kind of petty stupidity that bad willed people harp on
and thus remain blind in their false man-made religions.
Right Path
Dear most holy family monastery.
My name is Tony Tweed, I'm a United States
Marine and am currently stationed overseas in Japan. I was born a raised a
catholic and as a young child I was made aware of the true catholic church. I'm
currently listening to Brother Michael Dimond on coast to coast am
and it has raised many questions for me. One of them being how do i know if I'm
on the right path as a catholic? and what do I do if my church isn't is
conducting mass according to God’s will. Really these questions just scratch
the surface and what I want to ask is there any way that I can get in touch
with Brother Michael Dimond? Via Email or address? Listening to him speak has
really had an impact on me as a catholic and I would like to respectfully thank
him, as well as ask him for guidance. It's nice to see that there is an organization
out there that defends the integrity of our church. Thank you.
Most Respectfully
Tony Tweed
MHFM: You can know you’re on the
right path as a Catholic if you believe and live in accordance with the
traditional teaching of the Church. One must
come to the realization that all the churches which have the New Mass (the
vernacular Mass) of the Vatican II Church cannot be attended. It’s not a valid Mass. It must be avoided under pain of mortal
sin. It’s not a sin to stay home in
order to avoid going to that false Mass.
Pray the Rosary and listen to the audios. Please continue to look at the material. As you continue to do more of that, you will
come to a better understanding of what’s happening and what a Catholic is
supposed to do. We also have steps for
those coming out of the New Church, which include making a traditional
Profession of Faith from the Council of Trent.
That’s something that you should look at and make.
Bible Book
Dear Brothers,
I just finished
your book, The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church and it is
excellent!! With facts like that no one can argue with us again! It
tells exactly what Our Lord did for us and it shows how the true traditional
Catholic Church is the only one!
God bless you
for your work.
Sincerley,
Kathryn Rubio
“Orthodox”
I am 71 years old and have had 12 years of
Catholic School education. In all of these years I have been told that
the Eastern Orthodox Churches were fine. If there was an Eastern Orthodox
church in a town I was visiting I could keep my Sunday obligation by going to
that church.
I disagree with you whole heartedly about
that particular portion of your program
Bill Corrigan
MHFM: No, the Eastern “Orthodox” are
not Catholic. You cannot go to
non-Catholic churches. The “Orthodox”
are unfortunately heretics and schismatics because they reject the office that
Christ established in St. Peter. They
reject the full scope of the primacy given to St. Peter to rule the Church (the
Papacy). St. Peter’s full primacy of
jurisdiction (which the “Orthodox” reject) is clearly proven by Jesus’ words to
St. Peter in John 21, in which He commands Peter to rule and feed His flock. That’s covered in our book, The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church. Eastern “Orthodoxy”
is also refuted in our audios which prove the Papacy from the Bible, and which
address and refute Eastern “Orthodox” views from the evidence in the early
Church. The Eastern “Orthodox” do not
have the biblical faith.
The Bible teaches that Jesus made St.
Peter the first pope [link to
section] – also contains audios on the primacy of the Bishop of Rome in the
early Church
Nothing heretical?
Dear Brother Diamond:
Heard you on the radio last night. I found
your discussion with George to be very interesting, however after checking out
your website, I have lost interest.
There is absolutely nothing heretical in the remarks made
by Pope Benedict, during his recent Middle East tour. If you can't see this, then that is your
loss. You are out of step with the
church. I suggest you re visit Benedict's comments and you should see that they
are not heretical.
John Roberts
Toronto
MHFM: No, sir, you couldn’t be more
wrong. To refute your statement, we will
just consider one example. Others could
be considered.
In the quote below, Benedict XVI says
that a mosque (i.e., a temple of a false religion – a house of spiritual
iniquity) stands out like a jewel. He
further declares that men have always gone to places like mosques to
acknowledge the presence of the Almighty, and that such places point to the
Almighty. This is nothing short of the
blasphemy that all religions lead to God and that God is present in all
religions.
After Benedict XVI visited the Al-Hussein Bin
Talal Mosque, he had a meeting with Muslim leaders and gave an address on May
9, 2009: “Places of worship, like
this splendid Al-Hussein Bin Talal mosque named after the revered late King, stand
out like jewels across the earth’s surface. From
the ancient to the modern, the magnificent to the humble, they all point to the
divine, to the Transcendent One, to the Almighty. And through the centuries these sanctuaries
have drawn men and women into their sacred space to pause, to pray, to
acknowledge the presence of the Almighty…”
To state that a mosque stands out
like a jewel is heresy and apostasy.
Here’s what the Catholic Church says about mosques and about the false
worship that occurs there:
Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312: “It is an insult to the holy name and a
disgrace to the Christian faith that in certain parts of the world subject to
Christian princes where Saracens [i.e., the followers of Islam, also called
Muslims] live, sometimes apart, sometimes intermingled with Christians, the
Saracen priests, commonly called Zabazala, in their temples or mosques,
in which the Saracens meet to adore the
infidel Mahomet, loudly invoke and extol his name each day at certain hours
from a high place… This brings
disrepute on our faith and gives great scandal to the faithful. These
practices cannot be tolerated without displeasing the divine majesty. We therefore, with the sacred council’s
approval, strictly forbid such practices henceforth in Christian lands. We
enjoin on Catholic princes, one and all… They are to forbid expressly the public invocation of the
sacrilegious name of Mahomet… Those who presume to act otherwise are to
be so chastised by the princes for their irreverence, that others may be
deterred from such boldness.”
We can see that the Catholic Church
teaches that a mosque is a disgrace.
It’s abominable, for it’s the place in which they conduct the evil
practices of a false religion. It’s a
disgrace to the true faith. Benedict XVI
asserts that a mosque is a jewel. This
is heresy and apostasy. So, you are
completely wrong. To defend his
heretical statements is heretical. To defend
his statement above about the mosque is apostasy.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of
“… there is hope
that very many from the abominable sect
of Mahomet will be converted to the Catholic faith.”
Pope Callixtus
III: “I vow to… exalt the true Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet [Islam]
in the East.”
Concerns
Dear Br. Dimond,
I heard you on Coast To Coast the other night and I have a
few concerns. I was baptized by a Lutheran (heretic) minister, so do
I need another water baptism to be saved? I want to claim the
Catholic faith, I'm learning to pray the Rosary, but I'm not
Catholic. A lot of Catholicism is confusing to me, the idea of the
"mysteries" of the
Faith I don't understand, but I DO understand that faith without works is
"DEAD".
I just don't want to go to Hell from dying in a mortal sin, but I like to
get drunk and listen to rock'n'roll music, I love Jesus, but I'm a
musician, too, and I like to rock out in my studio when I'n high on drugs,
maybe Satan really has me through drugs and rock music? I love Ozzy
Osbourne and punk and heavy metal, he's a cool guy, how could God send him
to Hell? It's like he's tread ground that angels fear to tread,
he's like a friend to me, he's so mellow and cool. I'm not afraid of
Ozzy at all. But I am afraid of going to Hell.
I don't want to go to Hell. Please pray for me. I ordered
your books, but a lot of it is too deep for my understanding. Maybe
I could visit your monastery sometime and talk with you
personally. I'd like that, and to have you counsel me. Because
of your teaching, I was delivered from [a mortal sin of the flesh].
MHFM: Your baptism might have been valid, but it should be done
conditionally again just in case. But it should not be done until you are
ready to convert and break from all mortal sins. Getting drunk, using drugs,
playing and listening to rock and roll are all mortally sinful. You will
go to Hell as you are. You must break from those evils. Ozzy Osbourne
is an evil freak. I'm shocked that you would say what you said about
him.
Pray the Rosary more often and better. Ask for the grace
to convert and break from your mortal sins.
Reaction
Brother
Michael,
Concerning your visit on Coast to Coast, I was surprised to see the amount of
air time Mr. Noory allowed you compared to your two previous visits. You
presented a very clear and precise message to an audience that is indeed
searching for the truth. Seemed like the viewers perspective of the Catholic
Church is that of the Vatican II false Church. Totally unaware of what the true
Catholic Faith involves, while acting off what the current Anti-Pope declares,
rather than what the true Popes of the past have declared…
I'm sure the response to your Monastery after this show was incredible. Would
you care to share the response your Monastery has received through calls and
emails thus far? Whether good or bad? Thank-you.
God Bless,
Tom Miles
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. There was a huge reaction.
C to C
Subject: Fantastic Job on Coast to Coast
Dear Brother Michael,
I wanted to add to all those congratulating you on a job well done on Coast to Coast.
The promise to St. Benedict that his order would, in the last days, be a great
service to the Holy Catholic Church and confirm many in the faith is made
manifest through Most Holy Family Monastery's work...again job well done…
Robby
Blasphemy?
Dear
Brothers Dimond,
I
was wondering about your analysis of the heretic Hutton Gibson and how you
went about explaining his heresy. When you take the point of
view of Jesus Christ (God) and pronounce the sentence against Hutton how is
this not the sin of blasphemy against the Second Commandment?
Peace
in Christ
Rob
Glynn
MHFM: Because it's a very
reasonable description of what could happen, and it has been done many times by
Catholics writing on spiritual matters. I guess you would consider The Imitation of Christ blasphemy, for
it uses that description throughout the book.
Discovered
Subject: Hello from Transylvania
Dear Brother Dimond,
I am an American from NYC living in Transylvania, Romania. I discovered your
website by accident some time ago, while looking for information on Padre Pio.
I was fascinated by the position you take on the current state of the Catholic
church, post Vatican II, and sadly agree that it is not the authentic Catholic
faith of the church fathers, and is not faithful to our Lord, Jesus Christ,
especially where religious (ecumenical) equivalence and acceptance is
concerned.
I brought your website to the attention of a fallen away Catholic here today in
Transylvania. She is a woman who sadly, has become a "Born Again Christian
". I have had many interesting discussions with her about the authenticity
of her new found faith, and have convinced her that, though I share her
rejection of much of the current Catholic church, it is better for her to try
to come back to the Catholic faith as Church militant, attempting to create
awareness of the problem, while accepting the authentic church, post Vatican
II. She is seriously doing just that now. I showed her your website, where she
paid particular attention to your article "The Great Harlot..." What
do you think of the Born Again Christians? Are they Heretics?
… I listened to most of your broadcast on UFO's on Coast to Coast…
About the subject of UFO's, I am in
agreement with you that this phenomenon is demonic, though I never thought of
this before reading your site.
Thank you Brother Diamond.
Yours in Christ,
Anthony Damato
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Since they reject one or more dogmas of the Catholic faith, “Born Again
Christians" are heretics; for a heretic is one who rejects a dogma of the
Catholic Church. All Protestants (i.e., those who reject one or more
dogmas of the Catholic faith) are, by definition, heretics.
We recommend that you obtain some
copies of our new book, The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church, and give her one. The book covers the
biblical proof and issues that are so relevant for her.
Church after V-2
Subject: Church after V-2
About a couple of years ago a friend of
mine loaned me an audio cassette from your monastery "Why the New
Mass and Rite of Ordination are Invalid" & "The Amazing
Heresies of Benedict XVI". He loaned them to me asking "listen to
these, tell me what you think." I must say that on first hearing I was
intrigued, and had my conscience pricked. I had studied on my own the
[Traditional] Mass and the history of the Roman Rite… And found your argument
about the New Mass very impressive. There had always been this doubt in the
back of my mind about it; knowing the history of Bugninni's committee, the
council Periti, the protestant "observers", etc. and especially with
Pope S Pius V…
There is now no doubt in my mind that the
Novus Ordo Missae (part of the Novus Ordo Saeclorum?) is at the very least
suspect and does breed heresy. There is no doubt in my mind that John XXIII,
Paul VI and John Paul II are heretics and Antipopes. The Novus Ordo Nova
Ecclesia can no way be the true church headed by the successor of S Peter…
Most Sincerely Yours:
M.P.
Intrigued
Subject: Intrigued
I have only very recently found out about
(1 week) your Monastery. I have been on your website quite a lot since I found
it. I have read and listened to as much as I could considering family and 2
jobs.
I was not brought up under Vatican II,
however I am sure that I have now been converted or indoctrinated into its
teachings. Quite honestly I never know there was an alternative till I found
your site.
How do I learn more…
Interested 60 year Catholic
Bill Harkins
MHFM: We would recommend that you
continue to read the material, and listen to the audios. In addition, it’s critical to pray the daily
Rosary and other prayers to have the graces to see and do what God wants.
Guest
Dear Brother Michael,
Your guesting on Coast came off very
well. Was so relieved George treated you with GREAT Respect this time…
Great show…
Carol D.
Thanks
I heard Brother
Dimond on Coast to Coast with George Noory last night… Thank you for putting
the info out there. I will read anything
you send about this subject or about the Catholic Church.
Thank you, Beth
Disagree
Just one word sir you are a bigot. The most
logical idea is we are all part of god our souls combine after death and we
become one. As the saying goes "Christians don't practise what they
preach" I don't think God is smiling on the Catholic Church the amount of
money they have and people go starving. Heard you on coast to coast
BH
MHFM: No, you are wrong. To repeat the teaching of Jesus Christ and
His one true Church on their necessity for salvation is to communicate truth in
true charity. You are presently lost in
a sea of unbelief, emptiness and confusion.
Book
Brothers, Hail Mary!
I just finished reading your salvation book, and it really is an astonishing
masterpiece! In fact I could not stop almost of reading until it end… I hope
someday (if I have time) to make a translation of it in order to help my family
(wife and future children) since they don´t know how to speak english. (We live
in Brazil).
I also found out about the interview of Brother Michael Dimond at Coast to
Coast AM and tried to find it in the web page, but unfortunately if you are not
subscribed to coast to coast AM you can´t download the program. Is there any
possibility that the show would become available on your web site or any other
such as you tube etc?? I hope so, although I´ve already read the UFO book I’m
sure in this radio interview there must´ve been a lot more of precious
information.
Keep up the good work, you will be in my prayers.
Mark.
MHFM: Thanks for the supportive words
and the interest. A lot of time,
research, effort and thought were put into it in an attempt to compile the very
best quotes, arguments and answers to objections. This was especially necessary on that issue,
not only because it’s such a critical issue, but because there are so many
heretics who try to deny the dogma in sundry ways.
Learned
… heard you last night on Coast to
Coast. Very interesting show, learned a
few things I did not know.
Thanks… and God bless you.
Myriam
Interest
Dear Brother Dimond:
It is with extreme interest that I listened
to you as a guest with George Noory on Coast-to-Coast last
night. As a cradle Catholic and a traditionalist, I was proud of
your strong, resolute stance in stating the true teaching of our Lord and
the one true faith…
Jan Jorgenson
Heard
Dear Brother Michael Dimond,
I was fortunate enough to have heard your
broadcast on Coast to Coast last evening, actually, early
this morning. It was most enlightening to learn that someone, other
than myself, was of the same opinion concerning the so-called aliens. My
interest or research has never really delved into the realm of
"aliens", but when confronted with the question of their possible
existence, I immediately had my answer. Without any doubt, modern man
requires ever more sophiscated means of deceit and seduction, and these new
little demons seem to well cast in their role…
Stay the course and keep the faith...!
Susan Lee Turner
Show
Brother Michael,
You did a Great Job Last night on Coast to
Coast...I have called in a few Times and had to say, My Father who Created a
Universe does not need a space ship to get around. Thank You! Thank You! for
last nights show!!!
God Bless Ronnie
Finally see
Wow, I just listened to your brother
Michael's talk on Coast to Coast, and I think I finally see what you're
saying.
The supposed UFO sightings couldn't be
real. The abilities of these supposed vehicles and
their amazing abilities couldn't really exist in this world. I
mean... vehicles flying through the air with no means of support, light without
fire, voices coming out of black boxes????? We all know that these things
aren't possible. Next these UFO kooks will have us believing that
horseless carriges are possible, I mean really, everyone knows that these
things go against all logic, and that business about the last five popes
being tools of satin, saying that you don't have to be christian to go to
heaven, I mean really.
We all know that the vicious lies
perpatrated by historians about the Spanish Inquisition were just lies and that
the church has never done any of the atrocites people have claimed.
I think we should all stone those people, I mean, the next thing they'll have
us doing is working or traveling on Sunday. Wow, what will these kooks
come up with next?
Have a nice day
James Bannerman
Listened
Greetings,
I am…. stationed in Metuchen, New Jersey. I
teach Algebra to high school freshmen. I heard that Brother Michael Dimond was
going to be on Coast To Coast AM last night and was most eager to listen to
him. I woke up just in time and listened to the entire program. I'll be tired
today but it was worth it.
Br. Michael makes a great deal of sense.
The entire UFO topic raises a great many questions and I thought that his
explanation manages to answer all of them very convincingly.
I was especially gratified to hear Brother
Michael speak so convincingly on the issue of Catholicism and 'true
Christianity'. I could tell that Mr. Noory and the listeners who telephoned in
took issue with that. The tone of the conversation touched on the issue of
'tolerance' and 'political correctness' and it was interesting to hear how
Brother Michael handled that; factually, convincingly and yet with great love
and charity. I post on a few internet message boards and have been
involved in more than one heated debate over the years with atheists and
Protestants. I understand the hostility and ridicule that atheists direct
towards Catholicism. In my opinion the reason they do so in order to justify
the (questionable / sinful) choices they make If there is no God then there's
no reason why anyone should deny themselves any pleasure in this life. But what
saddens me more than anything else is the venom with which some Protestants
attack Catholics and Catholicism. I have been in internet discussions with
people who referred to themselves as Christians who called the Blessed Mother
the most vile names imaginable.
It never ceases to amaze me how these
people refuse to examine or accept the evidence. Again, the atheists I can
understand. Belief in God is by definition a matter of free will and faith. We can
choose to believe or not but we will eventually have to face the consequences
of our decisions. But the Protestants are another matter. I simply cannot
understand how a person can read John 6:35-70 and then turn around and deny the
Real Presence in the Eucharist. When I have pointed this out to Protestants in
our discussions they either do not answer or they change the subject. When I
press them on this point they usually become angry and insulting.
I am nowhere near the apologist that
Brother Michael is, but I have become a fan! I will be placing an order soon
for some of your books and DVD's. I plan on sending some copies of your book on
the biblical foundations for Catholicism to some friends and relatives… God
bless, and keep up the good work!
Kevin M. Finnegan
What about?
Hello,
I listened to most of the show on coast to coast am last night. I
consider myself open minded and am investigating further what was
presented. I was baptized catholic however have taken a middle of the
road approach due to the vast amounts of information in society today and the
heresies committed by the church.
I have a question in regards to the UFO excerpt on your website. You
claim there has been no physical evidence but what about Roswell. What
about all the underground operatives with alien beings and craft being
investigated. Why the secret bases, etc. etc. if there was nothing to
hide? What about reverse engineering of technology? Just some
things not covered in that article which may be covered elsewhere in the whole
book.
Thank you,
Carol Kagan
MHFM: Roswell is covered in the
book. We would strongly recommend that you get the package. It’s
critical for you to come into the traditional Catholic faith.
Part II - Benedict XVI’s Pilgrimage of Apostasy in
the Middle East
We’ve updated our Benedict
XVI's recent Heresies file. In
Part I on his recent Pilgrimage of Apostasy (which we posted a few days ago but
which is now in the Archive), we covered (among other things) how Benedict XVI said
that mosques stand out like “jewels.” In
Part II, we cover more of the astounding apostasy which he manifested on his
recent trip.
Note
On Monday May 25, Bro. Michael Dimond will be on Coast to Coast AM radio starting at
11:00 P.M. Pacific Time until 2:00 A.M.
(In the East, that’s 2:00 A.M to 5:00 A.M. on May 26.)
Package
[This is an e-mail from a
non-Catholic radio host. He was raised a
Catholic and then left the faith. He is
now looking over material we sent to him, and he is commenting on our new book,
The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church.]
Dear Brother Michael,
I want to sincerely thank you for sending
me the myriad group of writings and DVDs from both you and Brother Peter. In my search for the truth, I must say that what
you say is true, and what Brother Peter said (and I am only on page 17 of his
brilliant analysis of the Blessed Virgin Mary as being the ARK OF THE NEW
COVENANT) is the most staggering thing I ever heard of [even having gone
through Catholic high school & college,] so please thank him for me for
writing so piercingly on these obscure mysteries that regrettably have been
twisted by ignorant people. It also is convincing so far, and can hardly
wait to digest the whole of the matter.
When I complete the full reading, I will be in touch, but am really
looking forward for our interview.
Cordially in Christ Jesus,
Byron
PS: I was going to wait to send this email,
but could not contain myself - which is not like me! I can see that you & your
brother are indeed doing God's work.
MHFM: We’re really glad that you are reading the information and
getting something out of it. With
reference to the biblical identification of Mary as the Ark, many have made
this important point; for the fathers and popes of the Church have always
recognized this profound biblical truth, as Pope Pius XII mentions.
Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus (#34), Nov. 1, 1950: “The above-mentioned
teachings of the holy Fathers and of the Doctors have been in common use during
more recent times. Gathering together the testimonies of the Christians of
earlier days, St. Robert Bellarmine exclaimed: "And who, I ask, could
believe that the ark of
holiness, the dwelling place of the Word of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit,
could be reduced to ruin?”
Mary has also been traditionally invoked in the Litany of the
Blessed Virgin under the title: “Ark of the Covenant.” It’s a good example of how the light and
tradition of the Catholic Church guide people to the true wisdom and teaching
of the Bible.
Questions,
scruples
Hello Brothers I had a few questions for
you...
… A society priest told me in confession that the cure to scruples was to only
go to confession once a month...is this true?
…I had a friend in high school, I wasn't leading a Catholic life at the time
and we both went to drinking parties etc. together. It has been about 4 and a
half years since we've really hung out and she is coming to town in a few
weeks. I'm wondering if it would be sinful to see her and her children, because
it would make the sinful memories come to mind. We talk on the phone about
every 3 months as of now and the last time we talked she said she was saving
all her boys clothes for me (in case we have a boy) So I have kind of already agreed
to see her.
…. What kind of situations should you avoid in regards to immodestly dressed
people. I like taking card making classes or quilting classes. I am pretty sure
that the teachers will not be dressed right, but since we have to live in this
society what precautions do we take. I worry that if I take a class knowing
that the people there will be dressed immodestly that I just put myself in an
ocassion of sin… these classes are my form of recreation. I think they would be
good skills to pass on to my daughters to, since I will be home schooling
them..
… If you forgot what you think is a mortal sin in confession and remember it
later can you go to communion the next week without confessing it first,
because it was forgiven in your last confession.
Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions....
Thanks again,
J
MHFM: One who is truly scrupulous should go to confession less
frequently. The best thing that a
scrupulous person can read is the section on scrupulosity in St. Alphonsus’
book: The True Spouse of Jesus Christ. As a cautionary note, we must mention that
most people are lax, not scrupulous.
They fail to recognize sins in truly sinful actions, rather than vice
versa. For a person who is truly scrupulous, St. Alphonsus says
that one should not consider that a mortal sin has been committed unless one is
certain of it.
Regarding the friend, you should explain to her what you
believe, in addition to how and why she needs to convert. If she doesn’t demonstrate the proper interest
level, then you should not meet with her.
However, if she seems sincerely interested in converting, it would be
our opinion that you could use meeting with her as an opportunity to bring her
to the practice of the faith.
You’re not going to be able to avoid all immodestly dressed
people. We don’t see a problem with
taking the classes. People must be
strong enough so that it’s not like they will lose their purity if an immodestly
dress person walks by.
In reference to the sin forgotten but then remembered: if it’s
mortal, one should make arrangements to go to confession first. All sins are forgiven in a confession
sincerely made. That’s why, when making
one’s confession, it’s important to add: “I
also ask forgiveness for any sins which I might have forgotten and did not
confess.” If, at some point, one
remembers a mortal sin that had not been specifically confessed, it becomes an
obligation to confess it at that point.
Videos
Dear Brothers, thank you for the videos and
books. When the doctor was showing the list of freemasons on his laptop I
thought it was interesting that Darwin’s Grandfather and translator of his
works were freemasons.
More importantly I went to church today to attend the Latin Mass and all of a
sudden in the entrance to the church there is a sign I saw on another of your
dvd's (Christ' institute of something or another) It was so sad. I prayed for a
while and I looked around at everybody who seemed so hungry for God and I knew
that this beautiful church was empty. I got up and left before communion. I
assume it would not be valid thus sinful.
You asked me a few months ago if I was completely convinced about the
message you are bringing because I asked you to direct me to a proper church.
I was not ready to commit completely to a very different life so you withheld
the answer. I have experienced so much change the past few months I can
hardly relate to people that I have historically been close to. I could
go on and on. I want to say God bless you and I look forward to speaking
to you again soon.
Matt M
Canon
Law
Dear Brothers Peter and Michael,
May I thank you for the great work you are
both doing to defend the faith of Jesus Christ and the one true church He founded.
I remain astounded at the gullibility of senior clerics who think that what I
share with them is off the wall.!!! My
reason for contacting you is to find out if the code of canon law has been
altered and if so where can I find the truth on this matter...
May God and the Holy Spirit continue to
guide you in this great work.
Kindest regards and God bless you both.
David Soden
Ireland
MHFM: In 1983 John Paul II came out with a new modernist Code of
Canon Law. He came out with a new Code
of Canon Law, to go along with the Counter Church’s new council and its other
new teachings. His new Code of Canon Law
contains many of the standard Vatican II heresies. Some of them are exposed in this file: The Heresies of John Paul II - a comprehensive presentation [PDF file].
Akita
Brothers,
I heard your last telephone debate with the SSPX member. In it
you mentioned that Akita was novus ordo. I don't know much
about it. I had heard a tape on it by Fr. John O'Connor years
ago and it sounded quite scary and serious. Could you explain what is
wrong with it. I am assuming that the Sister is novus ordo
but is there anything doctrinally wrong with it? Thank
you!
Theresa
MHFM: Yes, it occurred at
the New Mass and implies that the consecration of the New Mass is valid. That alone is enough to prove it false.
Banned
in China
Subject: From Shanghai
Greetings from Communist China.
Actually, Shanghai, is amazingly “capitalist”, in an outward “caricaturized”
way nowadays. It is huge, super modern, everything new, well ordered, and
very status conscious. I’m actually here on business….
What I thought you might find interesting,
and what really makes your case in a way, is that your web-site is blocked by
the Communist government. I tried to sneak in several ways but no
go.
However I had no problem linking directly to
the Vatican’s official site, the Vatican News Agency, etc. What
does that tell you?
Bill Mulligan
Benedict
XVI’s Pilgrimage of Apostasy in the Middle East
MHFM: We’ve updated our Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file.
Explain
Dear Bro's
Could you please explain 2 Paralipopemon 19
-2 You had on the quote of the day where it says helping the ungodly you are
joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord and therefore thou didst
deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord. And 2nd question- I have for years sent
money to the Christian Foundation for Children and the aging, and supported
many children, until months ago I happen to read on a report they send out that
they support the people in what ever religious belief they have or cultural
belief they have. This contradicts what they told me over the phone that they
were teaching the Catholic Faith! So upon reading what I did I haven't sent any
money for 3 months, is that wrong ? I know these children need food, etc, but
not to teach the Catholic Faith is not feeding the soul as well! This
foundation was presented to us in the Novos Ordo Church years ago when we first
came to the Church. I and my husband and two children came out by God opening
our knowledge as to why there where wrong things going on. Thanks to both of
you Bro Peter and Bro. Micheal. But I must tell the Novus Ordo people who think
they are Catholic that we saw there was something Protestant about the false
church when we first started visiting it. Why can't they see it, or believe it.
We in our ignorance knew this wasn't the Catholic Church, but were told things
were changing and were never taught the Dogmas. Sorry I digress from my
question.
Sincerely, Debra Ames
MHFM: The Haydock has a good explanation of that verse: “The Donatists [heretics] hence inferred,
that it was not lawful to converse with sinners. But St. Aug replied, that Josaphat was blamed
for aiding Achab in the contempt of the true prophet, and for going to battle
conformably to the predictions of impostors.” Essentially what it’s teaching us is that we
must utterly reject others in any matter that touches upon their rejection of
God or the true faith. One must offer a complete and total rejection of the
ungodly in any matter implicating their impiety, or else God will reject such a
one.
If the group were purely giving them food, then it might be a
different story. But that’s not the case
with the group you describe, which is involved with promoting different
religious views. You should not support
that or any non-Catholic group.
(We could also greatly use the support that people were sending
to heretical groups. Our outreach in
getting new people in contact with this critical information is almost entirely
from donations. The more donations we
receive, the more people find out about the information; and the fewer that we
receive, the fewer people find out about the information. Therefore, many souls may be lost that could
have been saved had they found out about the information.)
Peru
I am a Catholic
girl and I come originally from Peru, although right now I am studying as an
exchange student for a short period in Berlin. I am really impressed for
everyhting that is happening to my church, which I believe is in deep crisis.
The problem that I have with my faith is that I just get so different answers
of what is wrong and what is right that I feel confused about what is
happening. I need something firm where to stand and definitely I can´t get it
from our Pope. I would like to get involved in your movement but I don´t think
you have any presence in Peru or any other country in Latin America isn´t it?
In Lima it would be extremely difficult for me to find a Latin Mass so.. what
shall I do? It would be better not to go to Church at all? In Lima the
discussion about the crisis of our church doesn´t take any place and as in
other latinamerican countries we are full of charismatic movements that just
confuse me more. I would appreciate any recommendation that you can give me, so
as to truly live my faith.
Miryam.
MHFM: Thanks for the interest,
Miryam. If you continue to look at the
information on our website, you will see that all the churches which have the
New (vernacular) Mass are invalid and not really Catholic. One couldn't
attend any of them. So, if that's all you have, you must stay home.
The entire post-Vatican II structure is a Counter Church. That's the
realization that one must come to. We have a section on our website
which provides guidelines on which traditional priests one can approach.
That's found here: Where to go
to Mass or confession today? But you must
first be committed that you will never attend the New Mass again. One must also be convinced on all the other
core issues of Catholic faith, including Outside the Church There is No
Salvation. This
file also explains certain guidelines people must understand about receiving
sacraments in these times.
One shouldn't have anything to do
with the Charismatic movement; for it's not of God. That’s explained here: EWTN and the Charismatic Movement [link to section]
We would strongly encourage you to
continue looking at the information on our website and listen to the audios we
have available online. These will help
you understand better what's going on.
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/Traditional_Catholic_Audios.php
It’s critical to pray the Rosary each
day, 15 decades if possible.
An easier way to get that accomplished is one set of mysteries three
different times in the day.
Praying
to Saints
Hi, I just
wanted to ask, how is it that we can venerate or pray to the Saints, to any
particular Saint we want? How is it that we do this? What has the Church said
about this?
Do you just like offer an Our Father or Hail Mary to the Saint or say "I
will offer this Our Father and Hail Mary to x Saint", and then ask them
for a particular favor or something? How do we do it?
Thanks.
MHFM: There are books, such as The Raccolta, which contain indulgenced prayers to saints. You can use those prayers. You can also say an Our Father or Hail Mary
in honor of the saint. You can also
compose your own prayer to the saint.
You can also simply invoke the saint and ask for his or her assistance
in simple words of your choosing. In
short, you can pray to saints – and ask for their intercession- in any way that
you feel inclined.
Wondering
Hello,
I'm in my twenties and catholic. i received all the sacraments and was
confirmed. I really like a lot of the information that you are giving on your
site. i was wondering though seeing that all these were in the Vatican II
church does that negate all of these sacraments? I saw your section on conversion. Do i
need to say the profession of faith with a traditional priest, or can it be
said on my own and then receive confession?
I live in Rhode Island and would love to know where to go to receive
confession and to go to mass. Thank you
i would really appreciate it if you could help.
God Bless,
Ryan
MHFM: It’s good to hear about your interest. Confirmation and “Communion” in the Novus
Ordo cannot be considered valid. You can
make the profession of faith on your own, and we can help you with where to
receive sacraments.
Returning
I left the church a few years ago as I
could not stand the irreverence and the whole thing!! I recently discovered your website and was so
happy to see there is still some traditional Masses. I will admit I was asleep
but now am informed and returning to my faith, thanks to you and your info.
I live in western Wis…. I pray the rosary
every day and do feel like the Holy Spirit has been leading me.
Thanks for all your information. You are in
my prayers. thanks
JMW
Isolated
Dear Father/Brother.
Many thanks for making the videos available
online. My friend who's computer I'm
privileged to use has high speed broadband.
I'm living in Wellington, New Zealand. For the last six months I've stayed away from
the Novus Ordo Establishment and my spiritual life has improved. The
indifferentism of the NO… Institution is more infectious and deadly
than "swine flu". But as a
Traditional Catholic I feel quite alone.
It's like living in a hermitage. Maybe that's how I should live. How does one go about living a Roman Catholic
life on one's own? Especially in a
country as isolated as New-Zealand….
I ask your blessing and prayers. And will endeavor to pray for you too!
Yours,
Alan George
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Sometimes people are looking too much for communities and churches where they
can meet with other people, rather than delving into the faith itself and
building their relationship with God. That's what we would say about your
question of how to live a Catholic life on your own. The attachment to
community, rather than to God, can be a big problem today. It’s the reason that so many supposed
Catholics (and non-Catholics, especially Protestants) wind up following
whatever church is closest to them or what gives them the greatest sense of
community and companionship. They follow
such a church – rather than what is really true – because the human
companionship reassures them and provides them with “moral” support. So, as disappointing as it might be, to live
the faith you don’t need to have many other people in your particular area who believe
as you do.
Listened
Dear
Brothers,
I just listened to your audio on the election night hoax. Now who would
have thunk? Just imagine 129 Million minus the repentant Catholics and
you get pretty much anyone who voted for either of the masons as those who are
turned over to a reprobate mind. Good piece of work. What do you
think the chance of the whore allowing its controlled media to do an
expose'? Okay, that was a rhetorical question…
J
Sinister
MHFM: This quote really captures the sinister character of the
persecution against Catholics by the Mexican government in the 1920s.
“December
30 [1927]. Agents of Calles disguised as
priests heard the confessions of the country people, in order to obtain
evidence, through their confessions, that they were connected with the movement
of revolt. After this evidence had been
obtained, the people, who believed they had been heard by a priest, were
imprisoned, and some murdered.” (Fr. Wilfred Parsons, Mexican Martyrdom, pp. 79-80.)
Bible
Reading
Dear Brothers,
The Bible is a library rather than one
book, and it is not easy to grasp lengthy and complicated reading. So my
question is what is the best way to read the Bible?
Do you recommend reading the Bible in a
year?
What are your thoughts?
I am still reading your books and they are
a solid Catholic reading. I have stopped going to the Novus Ordo invalid
mass and have no place to go to a Valid Catholic Mass.
I came to the decision that the last five
anti-popes are in fact heretics and apostates and are deceiving people who
claim to be Catholics!
God Bless,
Kevin From Pullman, Wa.
MHFM: Reading the entire Bible in a year is a good idea.
For those who are not inclined to do that, we think that they
should begin with reading all four Gospels.
Everyone needs to have read the four Gospels. We’ve been surprised by how many professing
traditional Catholics have not read the Gospels. Acquiring a better grasp of them is a
must. It should be one’s priority, in
terms of Bible reading. After that, one
should read the other books of the New Testament. We would say that one’s focus should be on
the New Testament. If a person is not
going to read the entire Old Testament, we would say that people should pick
out certain books of the Old Testament that are most interesting to them. The Book of Genesis is obviously very
significant. In our opinion, the first
half of the Book of Exodus and the Books of Kings/Samuel should interest many
people. That’s just a suggestion.
(We would also recommend our book called The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church, if you don’t
have it.)
Protest
Brothers,
Wisdom 12: 3-6 " For those inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou
didst abhor, 4 Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and
wicked sacrifices, 5 And those merciless murderers of their own children, and
eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of
blood from the midst of thy consecration, 6 And those parents sacrificing with
their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy..."
I opened the bible to this verse 5 days
ago. It helped me decide to protest at Notre Dame. After protesting
on the streets for 3 hours we went and watched only 30 students attend the
alternative commencement. That's out of 2000 graduating.
It should be obvious to all Notre Dame is apostate.
Bill from Michigan
Ceremony
I was reading something that malachi martin
wrote about what happened at vatican II. He said that Paul the 6th held an enthronement
ceremony of the fallen archangel lucifer, and that it was held in st paul’s
chapel at the vatican. But i read that he believes the prophecies of
Bayside are true, so I was wondering what your thoughts are on this alleged
ceremony.
DM
MHFM: Just to clarify your question (for those who are
unfamiliar with what you’re asking about): you are asking about the large
ceremonial enthronement of the Vatican to Satan after the election of Antipope
Paul VI. It occurred on the very day of
Paul VI’s coronation. You are asking
whether Martin’s statement on this is reliable, considering that he held other
false positions (such as on Bayside).
Yes, we believe that he’s telling the truth that it happened. He definitely had some false views, but he
was privy to information about what they were doing in the Vatican. Moreover, his statement coincides perfectly
with what occurred in the years which followed and with what Paul VI exhibited:
such as wearing the breastplate of a Jewish high priest. It also coincides with the Vatican II
antipopes’ sometimes blatant endorsement of antichrist doctrines and luciferian
actions.
Canonizations
MHFM: Here’s another very good articulation of why the Catholic
Church cannot err (i.e., is infallible) in the canonization of a saint:
Fr. Frederick William Faber, An Essay on Beatification, Canonization and
the Processes of the Congregation of Rites, 1848, p. 72: “And can anything
more awful be imagined than the idea that all this [the canonizations of saints]
may be false, and that the Church may possibly err on the whole matter? Could
there be a more complete triumph for the gates of Hell than this, to have one
who is perhaps a reprobate in the dungeons of hell, burning with hatred of God,
and venerated upon the altars of the Universal Church, the pillar and ground of
the truth? ‘In the Church,’ says St.
Thomas (Quodlibet 9., qu. 7, a. 16) ‘there can be no damnable error; but this
would be damnable error, if he were venerated as a Saint who was in reality a
sinner.’”
Prayer
books
Dear
Brothers,
I remember a while back someone asking whether schismatic Ikons were fine to
venerate at home. I remember you answered in the affirmative. I wonder if the same can be applied to
"Orthodox" liturgical and service books, psalters, horologions (sp?)
For personal use. Over the years I've
obtained a few. They are generally cheaper, more available, always in-print and
in beautiful archaic translations, especially the pre-Nikonian
"Old-Believers" texts . Catholic versions are rarely all-the-above.
In fact, the Ruthenians have adopted gender-neutral translations. Superior editions are occasionally
republished by Rome, but on a limited scale.
I would appreciate your advice/input.
MHFM: Regarding icons, we weren’t saying that people could use
“schismatic icons,” but rather acceptable traditional icons which are
representative of Greek or Eastern Catholic spirituality and which might be
sold or currently in use by schismatics.
Regarding prayer books, one should not use schismatic liturgical books.
Authority
Dear Author(s) of your Website:
I'm intrigued by most of your
statements...however, allot of the questions you raise would probably be
reasonably solved with a solid formation in basic Logic 101!
Also: If the present Holy See, Cardinals
and Bishops are heretical and therefore without authority, then "who"
has that authority? Who has the authority to say they are WITHOUT
authority??? Seems you begin drifting into Protestant waters at this
point!!! These arguments underline the reasoning of the BVM's insistence
at Fatima, to pray the Rosary everyday.
Tom,
Mt Wauchusett, MA.
MHFM: No, a Catholic doesn’t need any special authority to
recognize that manifest heretics do not possess (but have lost) authority in
the Church. Manifest heretics lose
authority in the Church automatically and
without declaration, whether they claim to be popes, bishops, cardinals or
priests. That’s the teaching of the
Catholic Church.
St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice,
lib. II, cap. 30: “Finally, the Holy Fathers teach unanimously not only that
heretics are outside of the Church, but also that they are ‘ipso facto’
deprived of all ecclesiastical jurisdiction and dignity.”
St. Robert Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor
of the Church, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30: "A pope who is a manifest heretic
automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases
automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by
the Church. This is the teaching of
all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose
all jurisdiction."
The
Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file]
Bible
To whom it may concern,
Ok. First of all it seems to me that it is a catholic assumption that the
Holy Word of God is not the final authority when it comes to debates on
theological matters… am I a Bible only christian? To me that seems to
say that if the catholic church teaches something in direct opposition to
the Bible, then of course the church is correct and the Bible is wrong.
That is incredible heresy.
Let's take the false teaching that Mary was a virgin her whole life. I have 3
Bible quotes that contradict that belief. The first is Matthew 1:24,25….
Re…
MHFM: All of your objections – including your objections to Mary
being a perpetual virgin – are addressed in our book: The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church. You
really need to get it. Also, the
Catholic Church doesn’t teach anything that is opposed to the Bible. On the contrary, the teaching of the Bible
proves the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Came
Across
Dear
Brothers,
I
have recently come across with your web site and I'm currently watching
the videos and reading the information you have on there. I
am constantly seeking the truth and find that I have many questions,
I was raised Catholic on Mexico City…. I was reading the article about: Was the most powerful
"cardinal" in America after Vatican II a secret satanist?, I saw the
pictures about all the changes and additions that were made on the Holy Name
Cathedral here on Illinois, I was so sad to see Our Lord on what they call
"resurrection crucifix" and also the pics where Our Lady is
represented as trapped on a satanic web…
I
was thinking about how many people went to that church and probably never
notice those changes that were full of emptiness like you mention in your
article.
I...
want to thank you for my order, I have received within 2 days, everything is amazing,
I can't wait to read all my books and distribute the Dvd's and your material to
all my friends and relatives. You are
doing a great job….
God
Bless you.
E.
Johnson
Fr.
Miguel Pro
MHFM: Fr. Miguel Pro was a Catholic priest who was martyred in
Mexico during the government’s persecution in the 1920s. One of many interesting stories in his life
concerns his evasion of government officials who were following him. They looked for and arrested Catholic
priests. In order to elude them, Fr. Pro
was forced to jump from a moving cab.
“‘I
turned this way, and that: they did the same [Fr. Pro relates]. This time you’re a goner, I said to
myself. I took an auto; they did the
same. Fortunately, the driver was a
Catholic, and seeing me in such a fix, he put himself at my service. ‘Look, my lad, at the corner that I point out
to you, slow up a bit, I’ll jump out, and you go right on.’
‘I put my cap into my pocket and…
jumped. I got up at once and leaned
against a tree, but in such a way that I
might be seen by them. They passed
me a second later, almost grazing me with the mud-guards of their car. They saw me, but it did not in the least
occur to them that it was I. I turned to
go, but not as nimbly as I could have wished, for the fall I got had left me
numbed. ‘Steady, my boy; now we’re ready
for another.’ And with a limp I took the
road home.’” (Fr. Wilfred Parsons, Mexican
Martyrdom, p. 48.)
Here’s a picture of Fr. Pro before he was martyred by a firing
squad in 1927. He held his arms out in
the form of a cross, and at the very moment of the command to fire he cried: “Viva Christo Rey: Long Live Christ the King!” The initial shots didn’t kill him, so one of
the soldiers came up and shot him point blank.
Formula
You say that the New "mass" is
invalid because the words of the Consecration were changed to "for
all", but I read that this only happened in the vernacular version, not on
the Latin or "official" version of it; I read the "for
many" was retained in the Latin or official one. What do you say to that?
And why was the original formula retained in the Latin version?
Note: I of course hold that the New
"mass" is invalid anyways for a number of obvious reasons, just want
to clear that up.
M
MHFM: That’s addressed in our section
on the New Mass: The Invalid New Mass. It’s
true that the original Latin version of the New Mass doesn’t say “for all,” as
the vernacular versions do. But that doesn’t
matter for three reasons. First, the
Latin version of the New Mass is almost never used. Second, the “priests” who would be using it
are almost all “ordained” in the invalid New Rite of Ordination. Third, the Latin version of the New Mass is
also of doubtful validity because it removed the words mysterium fidei
– “the mystery of Faith” – from the words of consecration. This causes a grave doubt, because “mysterium fidei” is part of the form in
the Roman Rite. Though the words “mysterium fidei” are not part of some of
the Eastern Rite formulas of consecration, they have been declared to be part
of the Roman Rite. They are also found
in some Eastern Rites. Pope Innocent III
and the Canon of the Mass also tell us that the words “mysterium fidei” were given by Jesus Christ Himself.
Pope Innocent III, Cum Marthae circa, Nov. 29, 1202, in response to a question about
the form of the Eucharist and the inclusion of ‘mysterium fidei’: "You
have asked (indeed) who has added to the form of words which Christ Himself
expressed when He changed the bread and wine into the Body and Blood, that in
the Canon of the Mass which the general Church uses, which none of the
Evangelists is read to have expressed... In
the Canon of the Mass that expression, ‘mysterium fidei,’ is found interposed
among His words... Surely we find many such things omitted from the words as
well as from the deeds of the Lord by the Evangelists, which the Apostles
are read to have supplied by word or to have expressed by deed... Therefore, we believe that the form of words, as
they are found in the Canon, the Apostles received from Christ, and their
successors from them." (Denz. 414-415)
The words “the mystery of faith” in the
consecration are a clear reference to the Real Presence of Christ in the
Eucharist. These words were also removed
by the heretic Thomas Cranmer in his 1549 Anglican Prayer book because of their
clear reference to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. When words are removed from a rite because
the meaning they express contradicts the intended meaning of the rite, a doubt
is caused.
G Friday
prayer
I
wanted to ask about the Holy Friday Prayer for the Jews, the Novus Ordo one, is
this the "official" prayer said everywhere in every
"church"?
"for
the Jewish people, the first to hear the word of God, that they many continue
to grow in the love of his name and in faithfulness to his covenant."
Is
that the official prayer of the Novus Ordo? Where can I confirm this
information if it is true? I want to clear this up so I can convince some
stubborn Novus Ordo family.
MHFM: You can find it in any Novus Ordo Missal.
Two different Good Friday prayers for the Jews for
two different religions
|
The Novus Ordo
Good Friday prayer is: “for the Jewish
people, the first to hear the word of God, that they may continue to grow in the love of his name and in
faithfulness to His covenant.” |
The Catholic
Church’s prayer on Good Friday is: “for
the perfidious Jews: that Our Lord and God may lift the covering off their
hearts, so that they may acknowledge Jesus Christ Our Lord.” |
Notice
that the traditional prayer has been replaced with a prayer, not that the Jews
convert, but that they “grow” in faithfulness to His covenant! Thus, there is an expression of apostasy
right in the official Good Friday prayer of the New Mass. It’s a promotion of Judaism and the heresy
that the Old Covenant is still valid.
Remember
Notre Dame
Benedict XVI mum on Obama's Notre Dame
controversy
MHFM: As we consider the absolute
abomination of Barack Obama speaking and being awarded by Notre Dame (one of
the nation’s most famous “Catholic” universities), we must not forget the utter
silence of Benedict XVI on the matter.
Benedict XVI is certainly aware of what’s going to happen. Yet he
says and does nothing about it. We
must not forget this silence. Benedict
XVI is quite outspoken when people offend certain non-Catholic groups in
interviews, but he says and does nothing about this incredible
abomination. It’s a striking reminder of
how evil he really is.
But we can take it a step further. Consider that many Novus Ordo “Catholics” are
rightly outraged by what will occur at Notre Dame. Many of these same people, however, love
Benedict XVI. By supporting Benedict XVI, they are actually supporting Obama at Notre
Dame – which they claim to believe is an outrage. For they would have to admit that
Benedict XVI is complicit in Notre Dame’s decision to award Obama. He facilitates it by his silence and by his
tacit approval. Hence, by supporting him
they are complicit in the very outrage they claim to protest.
Converted
Dear Brothers,
… I ordered the books from your online store. I have been studying and
praying the Rosary. You had advised me
to stay home and study the books and pray the Rosary, and to call when I was
convinced.
As for the information on your website "How to Convert to The Catholic
Church This is very helpful and complete, and gave me the proper steps to
follow. Thank You!! So now I am ready to continue.
I have read the material and still reading some as well. It is shall we say ongoing. However I am
ready to call you or be referred to a Priest to make a Profession of Faith,
and a Confession of Sins... I know as you have stated in your books that it is
a very fluid situation at the present. So, I am trusting in your leading me in
the right direction. Of course I do understand my personal responsibility as
well. I am in Daytona Beach Florida. I
can travel to the West Coast of Florida as well.
About Me:
I am 62yo protestant of a non-denominational Church. I should really say more accurately I was
until I ran across your website.
I Have been married for 42 years to the same woman. She is also a protestant member as well. I do
not think she is ready yet to convert, but may in the future.
I was baptized at about 14years old. I
do not have any document regarding my Baptism.
Below is the words used before I was immersed in the water.
Saying Quote:
By the Authority of Jesus Christ and By His Command. I now baptize you in the Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
And for the remission of your sins. Amen (This was done by complete
immersion.)
If you think I should receive a conditional Baptism then that is what I shall
seek to do…
Please Pray for me!
God Bless
Jerry
Surprised
… I was most surprised
to see that there are those who claim valid canonizations can be done in error,
as I said I am nowhere near as philosophically educated as yourself but as it
is seen by a lay man, such as myself, it appears they are saying the church can
err when it officially pronounces a teaching or makes a statement of fact. It
does not take a genius to see that is a heretical position, if the Church can
err on such issues how could we look to it as a source of truth and good? How
can we trust its teachings when it can err as gravely as to proclaim that a
damned soul to be a saint? These positions cannot be catholic as when the
church speaks it ends debate on the issue, that is the entire point of having
one central, catholic, universal church…
MHFM: Yes, there are a number of ways to demonstrate the point;
but, as you indicate, a person with a simple faith in the Catholic Church
itself knows that it cannot err in such a matter.
Audio
Thanks for the audio on the voting hoax. What a shame that the freest nation on
the planet is a slave to these gangsters!
God Bless,
Kit White
Parade
Subject: Moscow Mayor bans gay parade
Dear MHFM,
I am posting this article just to illustrate what has become of the Western
culture (and civilization in general). Compared to the West even Russia now
seems like a conservative country. It would be very hard, even impossible, to
find a mayor of a city in any of the countries of the EU who would dare to do
or say something like this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090507/wl_nm/us_russia_gay_banned
.....to further prove the point...
the West ''strikes back'' in typical fashion:
http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-39591120090513
(besides this, the whole Eurovision contest is a despicable show)
Keep up the good work,
V. from Croatia
Abortion
In the 70's, shortly after Roe V. Wade, I
read in Redbook Magazine something like, These days with amniocentesis, you get
to know the sex of your baby and if you're looking for a boy instead of a girl
you can always have an abortion and try again."
I wrote them an angry letter and never
picked up that disgusting magazine again.
Obituary
Contradictions
Subject: Obituary Contradictions
Dear Brothers,
Isn't it interesting that the V2 crowd and
all other heretics are so quick to tell sedevacantists that "we have way
to know if someone goes to hell or not" yet those are the same type of
heretics who write in newspaper obituaries that they can't wait to reunite with
their dead loved ones in heaven again some day! Somehow they are certain that
their deceased family and friends all went to heaven!
Fewness
and Recreation
I have been reading much recently on how small
the number of those who reach heaven is. I thank you for making these
types of materials available. The more I read the more fearful I
become. If “almost no one” who died in World War II, in a time when
Catholics frequently were daily mass attenders, daily rosary reciters,
followers of Church teaching on sexual morality, etc.; how will we today be
saved? I am not trying to argue, I am just frightened and hoping to hear
advice from others who have read what I have read. What do you do to
pursue salvation and separate yourself from the many, even in better days, who
are damned?...
In Christ,
Dan
MHFM: To be saved one must have a
deep interest in the faith, in God and in the things of salvation. One must be truthful and honest – in short,
of goodwill. That necessarily
presupposes that one possesses the grace of faith. The grace of faith is an unshaken conviction
in Jesus Christ, His absolute necessity for salvation, and the absolute truth
of the dogmas which have been revealed by His one Church.
To be saved, one must take the faith
seriously and not compromise it. One
must evangelize: that is, one must attempt to bring friends and family to the
true faith. For instance, if one has
been a Catholic for good period of time and hasn’t attempted to bring his good
friends or close family to the faith, then that’s a very bad sign, if not an
outright proof that he’s in mortal sin.
To be saved, one must have an
attachment to God as the number one priority.
This means that one doesn’t deviate from the truth in order to please
others; it means that one is not swayed at all by what friends or family
members think if it conflicts with faith.
A strong prayer life and a true
devotion to Our Lady and the Rosary are essential. They should be each person’s priority in the
day. A strong prayer life means that one must have an interior life, in
which praying is something that is sincere, internal, frequent and even instant
– not just an external action performed out of obligation.
For a person with an upright will –
who truly believes and sincerely wants to be saved and avoid Hell – it’s not
that hard to be saved. It just takes
interest and good will. The yoke of
Jesus is sweet and His burden is light (Mt. 11:30). To be saved, one must simply accept the
fullness of the Catholic faith and be uncompromising about it. One must take the steps to get into the state
of grace and avoid mortal sin. And one
must pray, especially the Rosary. When a
person does those simple things, he/she will please God more in something such
as recreation than heretics will in all of their devotions.
We would add something for those who
have presumably been living the life of grace and taking the faith
seriously. This is for those who are
already being productive for God in their state of life; it’s for those who
have already centered their lives around salvation and the Catholic faith. This
is not for those who still need or are in the process of breaking from mortal
sin or the sins of the world or who don’t really work for God or souls
according to their state in life.
This is not for those who aren’t really productive for God at all or
trying to do anything for souls.
To fully functioning traditional
Catholics, we would say that it’s important to have recreation. It’s important to have a recreation that you
can do (preferably) by yourself or at least with your immediate family. (The recreation cannot be sinful, of course.) Whether it’s a particular game you like to
play or something you like to watch or sport you like to take part in or a
hobby you have, it’s important to have recreation. This is especially true in these dark days,
in which the almost universal apostasy and bad will can, at times, be quite
desolate. Recreation keeps a soul balanced,
fresh and even humble. It takes a soul
away from the sometimes intense issues which surround the faith; so that when
one returns to them, one can be even more productive and focused. Recreation inspires one to love God; for when
one experiences the enjoyment and ease of recreation, one thanks God for His
goodness.
In our experience and observation, we
can say that we’ve seen many traditional Catholics who don’t recreate lose all
balance and reasonability. They often
wind up either falling into schism or becoming puffed up with pride. The result is that God resists them and can’t
use them. They frequently fall into
Pharisaical errors which cause them to go further than what God wants. This leads to their downfall.
With others, we’ve seen that when
they don’t recreate, they fill up the void by constantly gossiping about others
or constantly needing to be around others.
Instead of remaining content where they are, they need to search out
humans simply to talk to as their form of recreation. This frequently causes them to fall into sin
or heresies by attachment to creatures.
Some of these people fill up the void
of not having recreation by looking all over the internet for worthless
information or gossip. They are not
looking for matters of faith or news that might be interesting or important to
them, which is acceptable; but rather for whatever this group or that is saying
about someone else. As a result, the
Devil frequently moves in and they are led astray by people and even lose the
faith.
Appropriate
movies?
Subject: Appropriate Movies
Dear Brothers,
I found what you wrote on Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeves very
interesting. When I watched these movies in the past I just thought well, of course
you can't travel in time or of course Superman is just a made up character. I
always of course knew that God was the only Almighty one. When you say no
Catholic should watch these movies it makes me wonder what movies are okay for
Catholics to watch. They seem so harmless if you know your faith. Should
we only be watching religious videos? Do you think the Disney movies are
absolutely a thing to be avoided for children even if they are raised knowing
the difference between good and evil and are raised with the True Catholic
Faith? Also, I'm wondering if contemporary Christian music should also be
avoided since most is written by protestants? I want to do the right thing and
really appreciate your input on these issues. Thank you for your time.
-Jodi-
MHFM: The thing which makes those particular movies irreparable
and unacceptable to watch is that the theme is directly adverse to faith. A time machine and a superman contradict the
true faith. There are other movies which
might have a theme which is not adverse to faith, but which have certain
elements which are objectionable (e.g., profane language, blasphemy, immodesty). It has come to our attention that there are
certain companies that edit out all profanity, blasphemy and R-rated
content. So, one might acceptably watch
certain major motion pictures which have been edited, if the theme is
acceptable or not directly opposed to faith.
One would have to use discretion on that issue.
Alcohol
For example, what is the original church's
teachings on the consumption of alcohol, other
than the wine in the celebration of the mass? As you may
know, alcohol is a drug, that even in a scientific point of view, is damaging
to the body. It is even admitted that the body rejects it when consumed for the
first time, just like other drugs such as tobacco when smoked...I've noticed
that alcohol is directly associated with many automobile accidents and the
demoralization of people under the influence...When I was a little child, my
mother taught me that one must always pray or at least do the sign of the cross
before going to bed, so that one's in good standing with god in case of
unexpected death during one's sleep...I believe that drinking in essence is the
next step to drunkenness...therefore, the will to loose consciousness, and
possibly die in a state out of grace...What is your stand on this issue?
MHFM: The Church does not teach that alcohol is evil or cannot
be taken. Jesus turned water into wine
(John 2:9). The Church teaches that
drunkenness is a mortal sin. However, it
is our opinion that it’s a good idea for people not to drink alcohol at
all. This is because so many people
abuse it and wind up falling into sin.
They are better off not drinking it at all.
Schismatics
I
continue to find interesting and well done material on your site. What I see on
the net is a lot of opposition toward you and that is not a bad thing, given
that the net is for the most part a sewer of society. However more so that it
seems like an orchestrated plot by the devil to discredit your work…
First, for one to be a schismatic he would
have to have been in some sort of communion with the church, as I understand
it?
The biggest exception people take is that
you accept sacraments from Byzantine priests who may do what they do validly,
but not legally. You of course many times have made the case that in days past
when there was a valid church, each person did not have to know each priests
personal views and agree with them, the priest may hold to a heresy in secret,
placing him outside the church, but not placing the people who have no control
or way of knowing.
It seems many traditionalists who oppose
you simply take the most hard line, restrictive view on each possible issue,
and declare that as their dogma. Whatever set of beliefs sends more people to
hell must be the correct belief it seems in their mind. First they try to twist
your position on outside the church. Number two is the sacrament issue I
mentioned before.
Number three is most interesting, it was my
understanding that a valid canonization is an affirmative statement by the
Church that a person is in heaven, a beatification as I understand it means
people may validly believe a person is in heaven, while the conferring of
sainthood ends the debate, the church has said that the evidence is
overwhelming that the person is in fact in heaven. Am I missing something here?
If so please correct me...
MHFM: Yes, as our apostolate has continued to help more and more
people, the attacks against us from every angle have increased. That’s to be expected (Ephesians 6:12). Every heretic inspired by the Devil wants to
throw in his two cents of lies, distortions and heresies. However, we have even been surprised at times
by the manner and the ferocity which they have taken on. All such heretics and liars would be
demolished in a debate.
You mention a few radical schismatics whose false (and sometimes
wacky) views have been repeatedly refuted on our website. We get e-mails almost each day from some of
these people. They usually use fake
names because they are too cowardly to put their real ones. They write to us and they try to figure out
how we would refute their arguments. For
it frequently happens that as soon as we converse with them we bring up things
that they’ve missed. This causes them to
have to re-assess their religion and change their positions.
You say it correctly when you point out: “It seems many traditionalists who oppose you simply take the most hard
line, restrictive view on each possible issue, and declare that as their dogma.
Whatever set of beliefs sends more people to hell must be the correct belief it
seems in their mind.” That’s exactly
right. That’s because they are elitists
spurred on by pride. They don’t
understand God or the Church. That’s why
they fall into mortally sinful positions such as rejecting the canonizations of
the Church. To hold that the entire
Church has erred in a canonization is simply to hold that the Catholic Church
officially errs. That is heretical. We have refuted them, but we plan on doing an
audio further pinning down their completely false arguments on the core
issues.
Regarding the Mass issue, such issues have been addressed and
refuted. But it’s crushed by the points
made in this article: Is it ever permissible to go to a validly ordained priest
for the sacraments who claims to be Catholic but prays in union with Benedict
XVI or holds to some other heresy?
This article points out that most of
the priests in the early 1900’s were clear heretics. Therefore, they would have to say that it was
a mortal sin to go to those “non-Catholic” churches at that time. They ignore and cannot address that issue,
which destroys their position.
It’s an interesting study of how schism kills souls. It’s obvious how heresy kills souls, but this
really captures how schism is distinct from heresy (although it is almost
always accompanied by it). These
schismatics, being cut off from the vine, also accomplish nothing of value. The only thing they accomplish is to attack
those who do things of value.
Here are some relevant files:
Baptism, Heresy, Schism - Tel Debate- Part 1 [1 hr.4 min. audio – May 2008]
Baptism, Heresy, Schism - Tel Debate - Part 2 [27 min. audio – May 2008]
[Note: this conversation concerns a
finer point, which might not be relevant for those new to this
information. It is posted primarily to
refute the schismatic errors which have been embraced by a small number of radical
“traditionalists.” Also, the person on
the other side had already viciously condemned the true position. That’s one reason for the combative and
aggressive tone to the exchange.]
Quotes on Schism, Baptism, Heresy, Subjection to the Roman Pontiff, the
Trinity and Incarnation
Discussion about the "una cum" issue, where one
may receive sacraments, refuting radical schismatic views [44 min. audio] File of relevant quotes
University
Brothers,
The career that I want requires a bachelors
degree, do you know of any moral colleges?
Also, What do you think of people joining
the U.S. military, I myself am kind of turned off to the idea since Barack
Hussein Obama is now the Commander in Chief, would joining it be a moral thing
to do?
M
MHFM: We have mentioned before that
there aren’t any moral colleges today.
If you must go, we would say that you should try to find a situation
where you can live apart or by yourself.
This way you are not immersed in the things that occur on campus outside
of the classroom. As far as joining the
military to fight wars for Israel, we would have to advise against it.
Join?
Thank you for all your very valuable and
soul saving information…
Is it permissible for Catholic
homeschooling families to belong to HSLDA (Homeschool Legal Defense
Association)? This group was founded by a group of lawyers, all
nonCatholic as far as I can tell, to defend the rights of families who are
threatened with legal action because of their decision to homeschool.
However, they do promote Protestant activities on their website, which is why I
hesitate to join. Yet, we may eventually need their help.
I agree, this whole swine flu uproar smells
very fishy to me. (10 people in California sick, out of a population of 30
million, and they declare a state of emergency????!!!!!!!).
God bless you all.
Brenda
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
It depends upon what joining the group entails. If it simply involves signing up and paying a
fee in order to receive certain benefits, then we would say that one may
join. If it means that you endorse and
have a part in everything that they promote, then we would say that one may not
join. So, we would recommend looking
carefully at what joining involves.
Conflict
… we have been trying in the past few weeks
to introduce the material of your books to V2 friends and family and they act
like we are crazy and are satan himself. I just don't understand why
people "don't get it" and refuse to even entertain the thought that
the Pope is fallible and V2 is wrong. We feel like outsiders and the wrong
ones in our Catholic faith because we are the only ones who can see the
truth. I can't get anyone to read the books or even discuss the
topic. It's very frustrating - and sad. Not really sure what to do
about that. Leave them alone and let them go to hell or keep bring
ridiculed?
My husband started a big conflict in our
Catholic homeschool group because he said there is no salvation outside the
Catholic church, and that baptism of desire is not accepted and not the
teaching of the Church. He had so many "Catholic" V2 people
argue with him that that statement wasn't true and began quoting from the CC of
the Catholic Church. He only uses the Council of Trent and Dogma of the
Catholic Church by Denzinger - which all your books refer back to.
We feel so alone out here, but we know we
are right.
Ka
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
The reason they don’t get it is bad will. You are going to come up against a lot of bad
will and opposition when you stand for the faith, especially today.
Whore of
Babylon
Subject: Whore of Babylon
Good Morning Brothers of The Risen Christ,
Your website is full of knowledge and wisdom, the precious reader will
understand. I write to you as an advocate of your work. In these perilous
times, where the world does not recognize the signature of the fallen one and
more importantly are led to believe satan does not exist or that satan is
an imbecile. Contrary, as an angel that used to covereth, who was adorned
with precious stones, satan has set up the final chapter and is anything but
unintelligent. Rome is a pawn of satan, to set up the false peace of a
world religion after the womans burning…
Joseph Turek
MHFM: We should clarify that when we speak of Rome as a pawn of
Satan we speak of Vatican II Rome, not the actual Church of Rome.
Shroud
Thank you for the information. It's
amazing how the true messages are so concise, and how the words chosen are
precise and few.
You may be interested to know that I invited some marxists to watch your video
about the Shroud of Turin. Two different people on two different
occasions. Interestingly, both of them absolutely refused to watch.
These very same people that accuse me of not being open minded on other
issues! As I pressed them, it became apparent they wouldn't watch because
they somehow weren't allowed to do so. Why, after all, should the devil
let them watch it? He rewarded them for their compromises and their
rejection of the Church- and that video provides the kind of evidence that
could convert anyone who watched it with an honest intellect. They still
haven't watched it.
Prom
Dear MHFM,
Can you please explain why going to a prom
is a mortal sin? I have been dating my girlfriend for nearly six months and she
wants to go to our senior prom, but I read in your news section that that would
be a mortal sin. Can you explain why? I always thought it was just a dance.
Thank you.
-CJT
MHFM: There are numerous reasons which combine to make it a
mortal sin to go.
First, the music they will be playing (and to which people will
be dancing) is pagan, if not openly lustful and mortally sinful.
Second, the immodesty of the dress and the dancing is
sinful. In concert with the
inappropriateness of the dress and dancing, the close contact of two unmarried
people is an occasion of sin, if not outright mortally sinful.
Third, partying and celebrating with people who are in mortal
sin and have little or no regard for God’s laws will almost certainly lead to
other mortal sins.
The entire atmosphere reeks of the noxious and pestilential
spirit of the world, of mortal sin, and of sins of the flesh.
1 John 2:16- “For all that is in the world,
is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride
of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
Again, here is St. John Vianney on dancing.
“There is not a
commandment of God which dancing does not cause men to break… Mothers may indeed say: ‘Oh, I keep an eye on their
dress; you cannot keep guard over their heart. Go, you
wicked parents, go down to Hell where the wrath of God awaits you, because of
your conduct when you gave free scope to your children; go! It will not be long before they join you,
seeing that you have shown them the way so well… Then you will see
whether your pastor was right in forbidding those Hellish amusements.’” (Abbé Francis
Trocu, The Curé
D’Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, p.
146)
What he was condemning was probably mild compared to a modern-day prom.
Why?
If
Benedict XVI and his predecessor are as bad as you say, why would God let them
visit the holiest sites in the world? (Manger Square, Church of the Holy
Sepulcher, etc)
H….
MHFM: The answer is that God sometimes allows evil people to be
in holy places. The Muslims were in
control of the holy land at one time. In
the early Church, heretical and evil emperors frequently inserted themselves
into the most important church buildings in the Empire. Scripture itself tells us that the “abomination
of desolation” will be “in the holy place” (Matthew 24:15) and that the “man of
sin” will sit “in the temple of God” (2 Thess. 2:4). Thus, the fact that God allows a person be in
one of those places (for whatever reason) doesn’t prove that the person is not
evil.
Bayside
Good
Morning,
What do you think of the Bayside messages from New York? I believe her
name was Veronica Leuken.
Thanks, -Karl
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. This section deals in
detail with that issue:
False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside,
Medjugorje) [Link to Section]
Listened
Dear
Brothers,
I
listened your excellent audio about the Media's Election Night Hoax… Please
keep up the excellent work you are doing for Our Lord and His Mother. God bless
you.
Sincerely,
Kathryn
Rubio
Learning
Dear MHFM
I am learning each day more and more from your website, which (although not
initially) has become my safest catholic source on the internet.
At the beginning of the year I ordered some books from your website and ended
up receiving for free the books "What really happened to the Catholic
Church after the Vatican II council" and "Outside the Church there is
absolutely no salvation".
Initially I putted them aside and did not intend to read them. Although I
already was a 'traditional' catholic, I was constantly afraid of coming to
sedevacantism, since in the 'traditional' internet pages and communities from
where I live (Brazil) are constantly 'warning' against sedevacantism, to don´t
come in contact with them, that they are self sufficient, and etc etc.
Now however, on the verge of more and more scandals of the 'Pope' and other
'church authorities' I came to realize that these false traditionalists only
come up with news that are convenient, for instance, refuting everything evil
the 'Pope' does as being his 'personal opinion' and since is not a matter of
faith it is all right, and when he says some statement that goes along with the
doctrine, they stamp it over its webpages and pamphlets saying "The pope
is really a traditionalist fighting to restore tradition", or "He is
fighting against the 'modernist wolves' in Rome which are opposing
him"(isn´t he one?), and so on. In the end I realized that these people
make a 'free exam' in the pure Lutheran style of the (new) papal encyclicals
and pronouncements, taking only what pleases them in their dream that the
'pope' is fighting to restore tradition.
Over this I started to read more and more of your 'dangerous' materials
(according to them, since they are very fearful of letting the dialogue with
sedevacantists, fear perhaps) I am starting to learn more and more in a very
clear manner, and more important, always backed up by the infallible teaching
of the church authority (Magisterium) and so on.
I always (even when was 'novus ordo') believed that there was no salvation
outside the catholic church, but then one day I found out with some supposed
traditionalists that there was something called 'Invincible ignorance' and
'Baptism of desire'. Initially I thought, well, that sounds fine, although with
the passing of the years and with some reflection on the matter, it became
really senseless and contradictory for me. Because, (example): "How can an
indian who knows nothing about the church ('invincible ignorance') but at the
same time worships the devil since all the gods of the pagans are devils, can
be rewarded with the beatific vision?" It is really senseless, also
because you cannot love what you don´t know (the precedence of the faith over
the charity). Another problem would be: what is the purpose then of the
missions? If everyone can be saved by 'narual law', then why Our Lord said 'Go
and teach all nations, whosoever believe and be baptized will be saved'? And
what about the infants who die without baptism? Is there any 'ignorance' more
'invincible' than this? But the church although always stated that they can´t
go to heaven. So why an indian or whatever who sins in his life and don´t
confess and don´t come to God and His Church in any way can be saved and not
the infant? So I realized that this is indeed some false speculation. I always
thought that it had been pronounced by the infallible magisterium, so I never
opposed it, but thanks to your material I realize that it is not so….
I finally would like to thank you for all the good work on the internet for the
conversion of the people and to know the integral catholic faith.
God bless you all and keep me in your prayers.
Farewell.
M
St.
Paul’s epistles
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter
I have just completed reading all of St Paul's epistles and I wanted to share
with you my observation that these epistles, especially to the Hebrews, are a
means to prove beyond doubt that Vatican II teachings are heretical, and the
hierarchy and Benedict XVI are faithless apostates and proponents of a new
religion. If there is one clear theme in St Paul's epistles it seems to me it
is that Our Lord established a New and perfect Law, promised by God, of faith
in Christ. With this New Testament made with the perfect Sacrifice of Christ's
Blood, St Paul states it would be evil and insulting to God to suggest the Old
Law and Covenant was in any way valid after the promulgation of the New Law
fulfilled in Christ. St Paul made no concessions to the followers of the Old
Law, i.e. Judaism, as being in some way of any validity or pleasing to God or a
path to salvation, which is what Vatican II and the Counter Church insists.
When St Paul spoke of there being neither
Jew nor Greek he was specifically, it seems to me, denying any possibility of a
multiplicity of Covenants and faiths for salvation, but he insists that only
one faith in Christ is necessary and this replaces the Old Law, and cannot
co-exist with it. Any person who reads St Paul's epistles, could not, in my
opinion, deny that Vatican II and its false "ecumenism" is precisely
that "new gospel" which St Paul admonished us to reject even if
preached by an
"angel" from heaven.
I just thought I'd share these thoughts.
God bless you in all your work to save souls,
Gerard
Vatican
II
I think you people are sick you say that
vatican II was from satan? i think you are from satan. i would like to give me
specific proof not made up video specific proof of priests dressing up as
clowns and giving mass. you say this
goes on at every new mass? i have been going to
church most of my life and i have never seen this. both you and your
brother are going straight to hell and i feel sorry for you. can you tell me
one thing though? what gave you this messed up idea? did satan come to you and
promise you the world if you lead souls away from God? because hes a liar and he will not give you
anything. well except for eternal damnation in the pit of fire.
MHFM: You are totally deceived and
faithless. Anyone who looks at the facts and has any belief in Catholic
teaching can see that Vatican II was of Satan. You are the one
headed for eternal damnation. You are a clueless heretic.
Need
Thank you so much for all your continued
work for the faith. It really is great to be able to visit your website. Soon I
plan to order the new book. But for now I need to ask a great thing of you.
Would you please join your prayers to mine? I'm specifically need to get a few
bad willed people out of my life…
Thank You Dear Brothers, you are
truly a blessing!
Christina
G T
Also, a "protestant" of some
stripe (never could keep track of all those "denominations"!) was
attacking me for being devoted to Our Lady, praying the Rosary, etc.
I tried to instruct him re: Our Lady. Since he was actually from an old,
local Catholic family and a "fallen-away" Catholic, I conveyed to him
why he needed to not ever go back into the V2 sect (he assured me everyone
would call me crazy and never believe me about this I said "oh
well! like I could care). But he asked me a question about the
thief, the "good thief" who died on the cross next to Jesus and to
whom Jesus promised that he would be with Jesus in paradise that very day (Good
Friday): the "protestant" asked me how the good thief
could go to heaven without first being baptized---I figured Jesus must
have sent this "good thief" to the same place the righteous of
Old Testament times went, such as for example Saint Joseph until Heaven was
opened.....was this a good answer? I really was not certain. Thanks
again,
Kr…
MHFM: That’s addressed in our salvation book, section 17.
Convinced
I just became Catholic this year at the age
of 31. I was of no religion before. But, the Catholic Church is the
Church of Jesus. Nothing else to say! I am of a strict,
traditionalist nature. I do love your site, and I think that it's so REAL
and honest, that it scares those who can't handle the truth.
Your page however, has caused problems between me and a few "cradle
Catholics" that are my age. Not that I care, because I don't.
However, I was, and always will be, open to the truth. You guys are
honest about the evils of Vatican II… I see the erosion in the faith, I need
not be convinced any further! I use common sense to figure things out
about the faith, and it's clear Vatican II was Satan's work. HOW ELSE CAN
WE HAVE PRO-ABORTION CATHOLICS? John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy,
Kathleen Sebelius, Joe Biden-all use Vatican II as their REASON as to why they
do not put politics and GOD together. HIDEOUS. If Vatican II is the
reason NOT to fight abortion as a Catholic, then that tells me all I need to
know about Vatican II. Paul VI? What right was it of HIS to flip
the church upside down? I love your site and I wish this Vatican II,
"be as Catholic as you want to be" stuff never happened....
God bless, Andy Adams
Comment
Brothers,
What an excellent audio you prepared on the
election hoax. There is so much that is unknown to us that will be revealed
according to God's Will and in God's Timing to those that are listening and
have not dosed off into a false sense of peace and harmony in the world.
T.M.
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Interest
Dear Brother,
In the Internet I came across your
extensive site. I took some time to nose about its content…
For quite some long time, I have been
searching for English reading material to include in my apostolate. I
distribute the miraculous medal and the green scapular, had copies
in English, of the "Church in Danger", "A
priest warns of Hell", which I distributed to most of our parishes in two
of the Northern Dioceses...
I personal desire to attend the true Latin
Mass. But here there is no such possibility. (Usually, on my home leave I check
out that opportunity)…
I hope to hear from you some time. May God
bless you!
Franz Zemp
Ghana
Question
Hi, my name is Curt. I am Lutheran
and am very interested in your website. I purchased several of your books
and am anxious to read them. My mom’s parents were Catholic and I really want
to know what they believed since they died when I was very young. I had
one question that struck me as I read your website. If the Pope who
instituted Vatican 2 was an antipope are all the Popes who followed and did not
denounce Vatican 2 also antipopes?....Also, do the Catholics who do not accept
Vatican 2 have a different Pope?....If this is covered in one of your books?
maybe I already ordered it, please recommend one that would. Thanks, Curt
MHFM: Thanks for the interest,
Curt. The answer to your question
is that all of the Vatican II "popes" are antipopes. That
includes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and (now) Benedict
XVI. Their elections were invalid because they were manifest heretics. Regarding who is the true pope, the answer
is that the Chair of Peter is vacant, just like it is every time a pope
dies. We hope that answers your question, and that you review the
material.
Mental
… about the Holy Days of Obligation, I
understand that one needs to refrain from any unnecessary work. I do all
my works on Saturdays. What about mental activities? I had recently
I had a scheduled exam (for work) for which I needed to review. Would I
have had violated God’s commandment if I did study?
Please let me know.
Thank you.
Renata.
MHFM: The answer is no.
One is forbidden to do servile works on Sunday. Studying is not a servile work.
Saints
Dear MHFM:
I have learned and am continuing to learn so much from your website. I
received your materials more than a year ago and reference them often. I
also left the Novus Ordo church about a year ago.
You may have answered this question before and I am coming from the position
that I believe that Rome is indeed vacant of any true Catholics so..
What do you think the "real" Saints would have done if this mess had
occurred in their lifetime? I know you can only speculate and I know
that all the saints did not live at the same time, but say for example Padre
Pio (and I have read your pamphlet and he is one of my favorites) what do you
think he would have done had he not died when he did?
I just think about this often and wonder if you have any insight…. I am trying
to figure all this out and sad that this has happened to our Church and wonder
if there is any way it can ever be fixed. I will continue to stand up for
Christ and His Church even though everyone makes fun of me and says that I am
crazy.
Thank you again and May God continue to bless you.
In Christ,
Renee
MHFM: It’s a difficult question because our era is unique. The saints of the past had valid popes and
approved ordinaries backing them. St.
Francis of Assisi could go and get the pope to approve his order. Catholics of today don’t have those
opportunities. God chooses different
people to live in different times for different reasons. Therefore, it’s difficult to speculate how a
person would react in a completely different set of circumstances. One thing is for sure, however: no one can be
a saint in any era unless he or she stands for the faith whole and undefiled
and rejects all heresies.
Regarding Padre Pio, he died in 1968 and was not functioning
well physically in the last few years of his life. By the time the Vatican II apostasy really
got rolling, he was already dead. Like
any other person who aspired to be a saint, he would have had to have rejected
and condemned the apostasy of the Vatican II antipopes once it became clear to
him.
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Petition
You
know that in order to actually BENEFIT from praying the rosary you have to ask/petition
Our Lady with specific prayer requests usually mentioned ( inserted ) in a
Prayer Before the Rosary ( a prayer you say before you begin the rosary in
which you can also mention your prayer intentions ).
Well my question is, how should someone
petition Our Lady before the Rosary if they are TOTALLY OVERWHELMED with all
kinds of problems and unmet needs that would ALL be important to get help
for, my problem is I don't know where to begin to petition Our Lady for
help through the rosary, all these problems in my life are piled up and there
is always more on the way ( and now we have the recession, and then it's the
New World Order coming, and all of my life so far has really been miserable and
full of adversity )…
C
MHFM: You do not have to petition Our
Lady with a specific request when praying the Rosary. You can just pray it, and place the prayers
in her hands. That’s what the consecration
to Mary, as explained by St. Louis De Montfort, is about: you give your spiritual
actions to her so that she can dispense them in the most fitting way for your
needs and others. It doesn’t preclude
offering specific prayers for individuals or specific intentions – not at all. Those specific prayers are very effective and
powerful. But you do not have to mention
a specific intention or petition when praying or when praying the Rosary.
Video
I discovered your website this Saturday by
watching your movie on death and hell. This is an extremely moving and
inspiring film for anyone struggling with sin. Although it is not the only
inspiring film about hell it is probably the best...thank you.
John
Canonizations
Brother Peter Dimond, Greetings!
I recently listened to your short audio wherein you quoted Fr. Faber in his
book speaking on the Infallibility of Canonizations. I do not dispute
that such canonizations are valid by any means. However, what is confusing is
that in light of the very recent canonizations of five individuals by Benedict
XVI, I wonder how you would reconcile the points
Fr. Faber delivered in his book, over and against the reality that Benedict XVI
lawfully canonized these five people?
In other words, how does one say that a 'heretical' Pope can canonize ANYONE,
and that such canonizations are then declared to be Infallible? If
you follow what Father Faber said in his book, one would have to conclude that
either these five persons were indeed lawfully and infallibly canonized, and
that Benedict XVI is the true Pope, or a great injustice and horrific lie was
just pronounced to the entire world? You cannot have both...its either
one or the other!
I anticipate what your answer might be. However, I have not found any
recent articles on your site, or by any others for that matter, speaking
towards this particular issue.
I would appreciate your insight.
Thank you,
Chris
MHFM: No, your argument is flawed. Your argument is that God could never allow
the one who purports to be the pope to do something in an infallible form, even
though he is a not a true pope; for then, as you claim, a horrific lie would be
pronounced to the world. You mention the
issue of canonizations to try to illustrate the point, but your point can be
refuted if we look at the example of Vatican II. The authoritative and official teaching of
ecumenical councils on faith or morals is infallible. Vatican II purported to be an ecumenical
council. It would have been infallible
(just like past ecumenical councils) if Paul VI, the man who approved it, was a
true pope.
So, how could God allow what appeared to be an ecumenical
council (Vatican II) to be approved by Paul VI (who seemed to be, for most
people, the true pope)? Vatican II was
without any doubt a false and heretical council. The fact that God allowed Antipope Paul VI to
approve it in a manner that would have been infallible if he were a true pope
proves that God can allow antipopes, without any diminution of the promises to
His Church, to purport to speak or act in an infallible capacity. It doesn’t derogate from the infallibility of
the true papal office; for antipopes are invalid and have no authority.
So, in short, an antipope can pronounce anything in any fashion
no matter how solemn, and it won’t matter because he doesn’t sit in the Chair
of Peter.
Comment
For Suicide ,
I wish to respond to the person who feels the only way out of his pain is
suicide ! No , do not fall into the trap of the Devil. Yes, pray
the rosary no matter how dark moments in your life may see . Let your
Heavenly Mother help you and she will fight beside you. I
pray the Saint Michael prayer : Michael Michael of the morning fresh
chord of heaven adorning, keep me safe today and in time of temptation, drive
the devil away , amen. It has helped me, as I too have lost someone
because he joined a protestant sect and we were having problems arguing over
religion. He does not understand the Catholic Faith and has been fed with
lies all his life. Stubborn and full of Pride. I could not get
through to him. I was stressed out. I left it to God. I
still love him and oh yes it still hurts. Painfully and I still do pray
for him. My heart is surviving and I have no choice, God wants me
to live even though I do not always understand. If it was not for
this relationship, I would not have found out the truth about John Paul ll and
vatican 2 (it is a longggg story). Can you see, you
received a grace in meeting this woman, it has brought you back to
God. The Devil is angry. Do not live like this woman is
all you need. You do need God and he needs you
too. He knows what is best for you and maybe she is not the
one. I know there are times when we do not understand why , but the
bottom line is trust. He knows what he is doing. Keep the faith and
do not give up !
A friend in Christ
Patty
Obligation
Dear Brother Michael
Following your guidance on the website on where to go for holy communion, if
there is an "acceptable" Ukrainian Catholic or valid Eastern Rite
option within a reasonable distance from where somebody lives, is a Catholic
bound to attend mass there on Sunday? Or is it still the case that attendance
for the sacraments is optional and so no sin is committed by choosing not to
attend mass there on a Sunday? If I understand what you have been saying on
this subject correctly, as all the Ukrainian Catholic churches are in communion
with Benedict XVI this makes them heretical on this point at least
(notwithstanding any other heresies individual Eastern Rite priests might
hold), and by this fact the Sunday obligation is not applicable. For this
reason I have attended mass at my nearest Ukrainian Catholic church only
occasionally and on a weekday but not Sundays. I'm trying to apply
your guidance to my situation, so I would really appreciate your advice that I
have the correct understanding.
I would like to thank you for the great work you are doing for the Faith and I
really appreciate the way you speak the truth, including on many of the issues
of what is going on in the world today.
Best wishes
Gerard
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
If you find a priest who is offering the traditional sacraments and
meets the criteria, then you could receive the sacraments from him and it can
be very beneficial. But, since they hold
heretical positions, there is no obligation to attend Sunday Mass there or at
any of those churches. Going on a
weekday or when it is convenient for you is a good idea.
John
Huss, heresy, abjuration
MHFM: John Huss was a heretic who was condemned by the Council
of Constance in 1415. Huss was a particularly
dangerous heretic because his false ideas struck at every aspect of the Church
and Church life. In studying the history
of the Council of Constance and how it dealt with Huss, we come across some
interesting tidbits. Suffice it to say,
the Council of Constance’s dealing with Huss provides us with quite a contrast
to the Vatican II sect’s toleration and promotion of heretics. In fact, Antipope John Paul II praised Huss
and called him a man of “infallible personal integrity.”
After
his condemnation as a heretic, “He [Huss] was then degraded from the priesthood
with solemn ceremony, every article of the priest’s dress being put upon him
and then removed. His tonsure was
obliterated by clipping, and it is amusing, even at this serious moment, to
read that they discussed long whether they should use razor or scissors to do
it; scissors carried the day. Then a paper fool’s cap painted with devils
was put on his head, and a bishop said: ‘We commit thy body to the secular
arm, and thy soul to the devil.’” (Clinton Locke, The Age of the Great Western Schism, 1897, p. 191.)
Huss was certainly of the Devil, but personally we don’t think
the cap painted with devils was necessary.
The condemnation of Huss was sufficient.
A Catholic is required to accept the official decrees of the council,
but not every action or statement of every bishop. Nonetheless, this is a very interesting quote
to consider because it shows how seriously they took heresy.
Another interesting quote from this episode concerns abjuration. The bishops at Constance were trying to get
Huss to repent, abjure and confess. He
was obstinate. He would not abjure. According to the author below, some of the
bishops who had more liberal leanings allowed Huss to confess without
abjuration.
“Very
mild forms of abjuration were drawn up, but he [John Huss] would not sign; yet
so tender were they of him that he was allowed to confess and receive
absolution without any abjuration.” (Clinton Locke, The Age of the Great Western Schism, p. 190)
We don’t agree with those bishops who allowed him to confess
without abjuration. However, it’s
interesting to consider. It’s
interesting because a few radical false traditionalist schismatics in our day
have some false and wacky views on abjuration.
They think that signing an abjuration is about as necessary for heretics
as the Sacrament of Baptism is for everyone.
They don’t realize that abjuration is an ecclesiastical law. Heretics should definitely abjure. That’s why the Church prescribes the
Council of Trent’s Profession of Faith for Converts,
which is also an abjuration.
However, it’s not like abjuration is so necessary that a heretic
who is converted on his deathbed would have to sign an abjuration to be
saved. No, he could simply accuse
himself in confession of the heresy and that would be sufficient. Abjuration is an ecclesiastical law. In light of the above quote, the false
theology of the radical schismatics would probably require them to conclude
that everyone at the Council of Constance (including Pope Martin V) was a
“notorious heretic” for communing with those who denied Catholic teaching on
abjuration.
Suicide
Hello.
I make this email in the hope of obtaining
information on a religious matter.
I have descided to end my time on Earth if
God takes the person I love away from me.
I have given up everything in my life in the
hope of appeasing God.
… I was converted back to Christianity by
this very special woman who I am in danger of loosing. I gave up political
activity and all the power I had. I have cut ties with all my friends.
I am a traditional Catholic, I pray every
day, I beg God not to take her from me.
I have given up everything for her.
My question is what punishment awaits
me should I end my time on earth?, not that I care, because I
cannot endure such pain - and God knows this, I also wish to know what preperations
I should make before I were to commit suicide.
I am not planning to do such a thing for
quite some time, and I am recieving counselling from a catholic priest who only
practices tridentine mass. I will only do this if I have no choice. And I still
have hope.
I have put all my hope in Christ and
depending on him. I need him.
I hope someone can answer my questions.
-James
MHFM: You will go to Hell if you
commit suicide. It's a mortal sin to take your own life. Don't do
it. Your attachment to this creature is inordinate. You must pray
for the grace of detachment in this area. You need to look at our
material as well, for the priest you are making reference to is probably in
heresy in some way. Pray the Rosary and ask Our Lady for help.
At this time you cannot imagine
having happiness without this creature.
That’s because you don’t have a sufficient attachment to God. The Devil will try to convince people that
they won’t find happiness without a certain person or thing; but if they
overcome that obstacle and fear, and break from the attachment, then God shows
them true happiness and freedom.
Strange
Coincidence
Subject: A Very Strange Coincidence
Dear Brothers,
Here included a document stating that on 9th
march 2009, the French Company "SANOFI AVENTIS" made a contract
with the mexican authorities to build a factory to provide flu and other
vaccines in view of future flu pandemics. Their objective is to produce 25
million vaccines a year for the mexican market.
En union de priers
Christofora Christiaanse
Listened
Subject: Swine Flu Scare
Dear MHFM I
listened to your audio on the swine flu epidemic. I thought it was
good. I have a feeling what’s going to happen to the USA is that we are
probably going to be nuked someday in the future by somebody, probably at night
in the early morning hours, after midnight when we are in bed
asleep. That is just my personal opinion. If Israel or the USA
attacks Iran, it could lead to a third world war. So my advice
to all people: become CATHOLIC before it’s too late, confess your
mortal sins, go to confession or make an act of perfect contrition if you can’t
find a validly ordained priest. Try to
find valid traditional sacraments. Pray
the rosary every day, wear the brown scapular and St. Benedict medal. Have a strong devotion to the blessed
mother. Pray to guardian angels, saints,
pray the prayer to St. michael for protection against attacks of the devil or
the enemy. Try to detach from this secular culture and distractions,
read scripture, holy books.
mark
Shallow
Dear Brothers,
I don't know if you have seen this article
from the British press, it seems that swine flu (if it even really
exists) is now almost the only story in the British news. It has
even been a cause for celebrity status in Britain with the first
"victims" selling their story with the help of publicist Max
Clifford. The public are buying into this whole thing completely. I
think this is another example of how empty and shallow most people’s lives
have become when flu is a reason for a few minutes of fame.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5244881/Swine-flu-Scots-swine-flu-cases-increase-to-32.html
Jim
Swine Flu
My husband works in a hospital in the Phoenix
area and Mexicans came to ER asking for masks. They were told the
hospital does not give out masks. I can't begin to tell you the ER's do not
need this. They are full enough of real emergencies. And a hospital is
not for those who are sick who are to stay home with coughs, running noses and
such.
Vaccines
I found this information a couple of years
ago. You might find it useful. I know you are aware of most of this. I sent you
the links along with a few quotes.
http://heartspring.net/flu_shot_side_effects.html
Flu Shot - Induced Illness
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Centre, a
consumer's group based in Virginia, USA, claims vaccines are responsible for
the increasing numbers of children and adults who suffer from immune system and
neurologic disorders, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, asthma, chronic
fatigue syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and seizure
disorders. She calls for studies to monitor the long-term effects of mass vaccination
and Fisher wants physicians to be absolutely sure these vaccines are safe and
not harming people.
No one can deny the dangers of vaccines. The measles, mumps, rubella (German
measles) and polio vaccines, all contain live but weakened viruses. Although
health officials tell you that polio has been wiped out in the US since 1979,
they often fail to mention that all recorded cases of polio since that time are
actually caused by the polio vaccine.
Vaccine investigator Neil Z. Miller questions whether we still need the
polio vaccine when it causes every new case of polio in the USA. Before mass
vaccinations programs began fifty years ago, Miller insists we didn't have
cancer in epidemic numbers, that autoimmune ailments were barely known, and
childhood autism did not exist.
Flu Shot Contamination
There is also the problem of contamination that has always plagued vaccine
makers. During World War II a yellow fever vaccine manufactured with human
blood serum was unknowingly contaminated with hepatitis virus and given to the
military. As a result, more than 50,000 cases of serum hepatitis broke out
among American troops injected with the vaccine.
In the 1960s it was discovered that polio vaccines manufactured in monkey
kidney tissue between 1955 and 1963 were contaminated with a monkey virus
(Simian Virus, number 40). Although this virus causes cancer in experimental
animals, health authorities insist it does not cause problems in humans. But
evidence of SV40 genetic material has been popping up in human cancers and
normal tissue. Researchers are now connecting SV40-contaminated polio vaccines
to an increasing number of rare cancers of the lung (mesothelioma) and bone
marrow (multiple myeloma). In a 1999 report, SV40 DNA was detected in tissue
samples from four children born after 1982. Three were kidney transplant
patients, and a fourth had a kidney tumour. Could SV40 be passed on from
parents to their children? No one knows for sure.
http://tuberose.com/Vaccinations.html
"Even if all the experts agree, they
may well be mistaken."--Bertrand Russell
"Do Not Take Any Vaccinations. This is
the standard deceptive way you are given the Establishment's Biological Warfare
infections." Dr. William D. Kelly
"Like sheep being led to slaughter,
people are following the advice of medical pundits as though they are gods with
divine intellect. Why is it that so few dare even question what's in a shot
before allowing a doctor to jab you with a needle?."--Greg Ciola
An 8 pound baby injected with the hepatitis
B vaccine at birth is exposed to 35 times the EPA daily safety level for
mercury, (calculated by bodyweight) while a 4 pound infant is slammed with 70
times the EPA level.
We have been so thoroughly conditioned to believe that vaccines work we have
never questioned how, or IF, they really do work.
1. Vaccines cause, rather than prevent the spread of disease.
2. Vaccines prepare the body for
infertility, chronic illness, behavioral/neurological disorders and/or sudden
death.
Regardless that the first mass vaccination
program, using Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine in England, was officially
declared a public health disaster by a Royal commission in 1896, the vaccine
myth has survived. Today there are vaccines for many diseases and they contain
the most toxic substances on earth. Among them are ethyl mercury, aluminum,
formaldehyde, live and dead viruses cultured in animal tissue and aborted human
fetal tissue, phenols, monosodium glutamate, aspartame and ammonium sulfate. It
is not uncommon for children to receive several vaccines in one day. It is,
therefore, not uncommon for them to have injected into their bodies up to 60
times the safe allowable limit of mercury-the most toxic non-radioactive
substance known to man.
If the public were fully informed of all
the ingredients that go into flu shots, there would be a mass outrage against
them. Unfortunately, your doctor will not tell you anything about this. The
news media will not report the truth about these contaminants. The Centers for
Disease Control is concealing data. Pharmaceutical companies don't properly
warn consumers. Mass retailers pushing the shots don't care even after being
warned about the potential dangers of administering vaccines. Churches across
America think they are doing a service for the Lord by telling their
congregants to go out and get a shot and have their churches being used as
distribution outlets.
Another deception perpetuated by the
vaccine cartel is that the flu shot contains inactive or dead viruses. If these
viruses were completely inactive, then the shot would never stimulate an immune
response. The flu shot contains "attenuated" virus. Attenuated means
half-killed. The infectious agent is weakened so that it is just below the
threshold of being able to trigger an inflammatory response in 99% of people.
By allowing the implantation of an attenuated virus or bacteria into the body,
we have done something nature would never permit. We have violated the sanctity
of the bloodstream. We have tricked the immune system into not mounting an all-out
response to a foreign agent. If the vaccine's microorganisms were not
attenuated, the powers of the natural immune system would join together to
repel and attack the invader.
Theoretically if the entire virus is killed
it shouldn’t infect you when the nurse injects it into your body. How do
scientists attempt to kill the virus? They mix it with formaldehyde, a
dangerous carcinogen, and other poisons, such as ethylene glycol (antifreeze),
a kidney destroyer. Formaldehyde is classified as a toxic, colorless,
water-soluble gas, which has a suffocating odor. It's used predominantly in
embalming fluid and vaccines as a disinfectant and preservative.
If flu vaccines infect people with weaker
immune systems, why does the government say the elderly and babies should go to
the head of the line? People who believe in conspiracies might say killing off
the elderly will stave off the bankruptcy of Social Security; and killing off
the babies who survive the abortion mills will make it easier to replace
Americans with cheap foreign workers.
Miracles
Subject: Miracles
Brothers,
In the Old Testament there were many miracles....Red Sea, etc.. In the
Gospels Jesus performed miracles....so many, most were left out.
Followers performed miracles in Acts. Today in the Vatican Two
Church, they cannot even control their own schools. Much less perform
miracles. In Georgetown they could not prevent the covering
of references to Jesus, when the pro infanticide "President"
spoke. Now the "Modern day Herod" will speak at the famous,
University of Notre Dame, with its "Touchdown Jesus". They will
even give him an award. The pathetic "Church
Hierarchy" tells you they are powerless to do anything about
it. So much for miracles. So much for courage. So much for
decency.
Blessings,
John
Rejecting
Bro. Michael Dimond,
Peace be with you. Before and during
Vatican II the Pope throught the centuries had authority to make changes in the
church.
We see in Luke 10:16-17, Jesus tells his
those in authority in the church (the pope) "He who hears you, Hears ME
and He who REJECTS YOU REJECTS ME, and he who rejects me rejects the one who
sent me."
So Bro. Michael you really don't have a
problem with Vatican II or the Pope, you really have a problem with JESUS CHRIST. Please come in full union with the Church, we
need you, God needs you, God loves you so much.
Become another St. Francis of Assisi, as you might know during St.
Francis time the chruch was not in good condition, and yet he stayed in full
commuion with the church. He could have left like Martin Luther did, instead he
HUMBLY and LOVINGLY obeyed Jesus when he told him to fix his church.
God Bless you and be with christ!
Sincerley,
gvillase
MHFM: No, you don’t understand what you are talking about. You don’t believe in Catholic teaching. You don’t realize that obeying the Church
means accepting what all the popes throughout history have taught. It is not to follow men who trash and reject
what all the popes have taught throughout history. You need to realize that the popes themselves
teach that heretics must be rejected and that heretics cannot be valid popes
or bishops with authority in the Church.
Try to get that through your head.
There have been over 40 antipopes in Catholic history.
The
Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file]
A complete list of
the 42 antipopes in Church history [PDF] In Catholic history there have been 260 valid
popes, starting with St. Peter, and 42 antipopes – that is, men who claimed to
be true popes but were not… some of them reigned in Rome for periods of time
The Vatican II antipopes completely
reject Jesus Christ. You are rejecting
Christ by defending them. Look at the
evidence from their teachings and from Vatican II. We prove that they embrace false religions
and teach salvation outside the Church.
Wake up and get a clue about what fidelity to the Magisterium means and
what the Vatican II Church teaches. You
are mocking Jesus Christ by your perversion of Catholic principles.
Take the blinders off and look at
these files which prove that Benedict XVI and John Paul II completely reject
Christ and embrace false religions.
Benedict
XVI (The Heresies of Benedict XVI File) [link to section]
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope 1978-2005) [link to section]
Confessed
MHFM: This is an interesting verse of Scripture (which is sometimes
overlooked) in regard to the biblical evidence for confession. It’s quoted in our book: The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church.
Acts
19:17-18- “And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was
magnified. And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.”
Thanks
Subject: Thanks again
Dear Brothers,
I thank God that he has sent you, so that his work may be accomplished through
your daily struggle during these last days. How sad it is to see during these
times, the millions of people that turn from God and put their faith in the
leaders of this world. So it was during the times of Noah…
Your audio on the flu was quite interesting. As it is prophesied that the
Antichrist will attempt to rise as a God to Heaven through miracles before
being cast down into Hell forever, it's only a matter of setting up the
circumstances for such miracles to occur. Also concerning the U.S. entering the
E.U. on your audio, supposedly there is one seat that still remains, that
number being number 666.
True hope is through God, his son Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you and your readers,
God Bless and Keep the Faith,
Tom Miles
Changed
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery:
I wish to thank you for posting your series
on Youtube "Death and the Journey into Hell" - it has profoundly
changed my life. One day, I was watching pornography and immediately afterward
felt a sense of utter repulsion at my sin; I remembered that long ago I came
across your series when I was still a fervent Catholic and I listened to the
whole thing straight through. I wish not to keep you long as you are busy, but
once again, THANK YOU!
in Christ,
Dan
(P.S. I would appreciate it if whoever
reads this email offers up one Hail Mary for my own sake; thank you!)
Obedience
I pray that all of the members of Most Holy
Family Monastery will indeed return to the truth of the most holy family. You have
taken vows of obedience, possibly you have forgotten this. Christ promised that
his church would survive, and the Catholic Church in Rome through the popes has
done just that for 2000 years. We are asked to be obedient. Your website would
indicate that you have forgotten this… Vatican II did not destroy the church,
but your current endeavors lead some away from the Church and thus you are
responsible for their fall. Rejoin the Catholic Church and make it
strong, do not attempt to tear it down.
May the wisdom and peace of the Holy Spirit
be with you,
Rick Athey, T.O.Carm.
MHFM: No, you don’t understand the Catholic faith. To be obedient to the Papacy means to accept
what the popes have magisterially taught throughout history. That requires us to conclude that the Vatican
II religion is not Catholic and that those who have imposed it are heretics and
antipopes. Learn something about the
Catholic faith and the papal office. All
you understand is how to follow a man – a man who embraces Protestantism and
teaches that Protestants shouldn’t even be converted. There is no way that he is a true pope,
according to the teaching of the popes themselves.
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/heresy_of_antipopes_john_paul_ii_and_benedict_xvi.php
St. Robert
Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30:
"A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se)
ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a
Christian and a member of the Church.
Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient
Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all
jurisdiction."
St. Francis De Sales (17th century), Doctor of the Church, The Catholic Controversy, pp. 305-306: "Now when he [the
Pope] is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of
the Church..."
Oath
MHFM: Someone sent this to us.
The New US Military Enlistment Oath
… This past Saturday evening, I, son, and
two grandsons went to the Super Cross races held at Qwest Field in Seattle.
Prior to what was a great event, they had an Air Force color guard (woefully
out of step) and about twenty young men entering the service on the field.
After the national anthem, the new enlistees were given the enlistment oath
right on the field. Granted it's been close to forty years since I went through
that but I do remember something to the effect that I would uphold the
Constitution, etc. The oath they administered Saturday evening didn't mention
the Constitution or the law. They swore to obey the
'President of the United States and the officers appointed above them." When did this change? My paranoia is
kicking in about what this may mean for the legality of orders issued in any
future confrontation between citizens and the military.
Oath of Enlistment In the US Armed Forces
Army and Air EXCEPT the National Guard
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United
States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to
regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
On Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Mary
Patten mpatt@iglide.net wrote:
This past Saturday evening, I, son, and two
grandsons went to the Super Cross races held at Qwest Field in Seattle. Prior
to what was a great event, they had an Air Force color guard (woefully out of
step) and about twenty young men entering the service on the field. After the
national anthem, the new enlistees were given the enlistment oath right on the
field. Granted it's been close to forty years since I went through that but I
do remember something to the effect that I would uphold the Constitution, etc.
The oath they administered Saturday evening didn't mention the Constitution or
the law. They swore to obey the 'President of the United States and the
officers appointed above them." When did this change? My paranoia is
kicking in about what this may mean for the legality of orders issued in any
future confrontation between citizens and the military.
Oath of Enlistment In the US Armed Forces
Army and Air EXCEPT the National Guard
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United
States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to
regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Comment
Dear Mhfm,
What's so ominous about your work is that
clearly as messengers for Christ you show the obvious to people who understand
the awesome supernatural power of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, and how after
a time he gives permission to ill-willed humanity to fall into their
destruction. The monumental errors of our day speak to how near Jesus'
second and final appearance is so, so near. Thank you for your wisdom and
knowledge to help prepare us for the final coming and judgment of our
Lord. God Bless You and your final days, end-times clarity.
Audio
Your 27 min. dialogue was well worth the
time. It may not be (yet) the time for the government to fully implement
a pandemic, but they are preparing us for it, I think. I could easily see
them doing. I could see the executive branch (Obama-Biden) taking
advantage of this to create a crisis to take advantage of it to do some evil
bidding.
I think at this point 1 american has died
from this. Compare that to the flu that hits our country every
year. It is interesting and sad to point out that about 4000 innocent
unborn citizens will die today at the hands of abortion doctors. But that
will not get 1/4000 the attention that this flu has gotten from the media.
Keep doing what you are doing,
Brothers! God Bless!
S
Pledge
of Vaccine
MHFM: This is a somewhat interesting article for a few
reasons.
First, it mentions what is now being admitted: that the “swine
flu” is quite mild: it’s not more serious than regular flu. This coincides precisely with what we said at
the beginning: that there’s probably not one person with “swine flu”; but
rather that they have simply been dishonestly “confirming” regular cases of flu
as “swine flu” to create the idea of a possible pandemic.
Second, it mentions that a vaccine is being prepared for the
fall: “U.S. authorities are pledging to
eventually produce enough swine flu vaccine for everyone but the shots won't
begin until fall at the earliest.”
Notice how they are conditioning everyone to get comfortable with (and
prepared for) the idea that the vaccine is coming and that people will get
it. This will allow them to bring the
“swine flu” back in a few months, if they desire. They can always claim that it “mutated” and
is spreading wildly.
It’s also interesting that they might have had to modify their
plans – and postpone them for a few months – because enough people spoke out
and called their bluff. Ron Paul
recently had some comments about the “swine flu.” He doesn’t point out that the whole thing is
a hoax, but he at least mentions how absurd their reaction to it is. It’s worth watching:
Ron Paul on the “Swine Flu” Scare [4 min. video]
In other words, they can “confirm” regular cases of flu as
“swine flu” all day, but if people aren’t dying, then it’s going to be
difficult to convince everyone of a pandemic.
To pull it off, they will have to figure out a way not just to “confirm”
cases as “swine flu,” but to show deaths from it.
Observation
Brothers:
Just an observation on the
"beatification" of JPII on 4/2/10: That is Good Friday.
Does the V2 sect have any shame? They'll probably dispense
"Catholics" from laws of fast & abstinence in honor of JPII!
Carl Tabert Jr.
Wrong
Subject: You are wrong
I really can't believe what you and this
web sight are doing. You are a just a group of Mattin Luthers. You quote
different Popes don't you. Now all of a sudden this Pope is not infallabe in
doctrin and morals? You are rediculous and are not Catholic if you do not obey
the Pope. You are quibbling aboput words that have not changed one bit of
doctrine. Yes Jesus did die for EVERYONE! Now there are many ibcluding
"catholics" that are not true members of the mistical body including
this group of yours. You might as well start your own church as Martin Luther
did. This site is trying to divide the Church. I will pray for your group so
that you may come to know the truth.
G
MHFM: You clearly don’t believe or understand anything about the
Catholic faith. If you did, you would
realize that you are denying papal infallibility, defending those who defend
Martin Luther, and rejecting Catholic teaching on the Mystical Body of Christ.
Comment
I read with great concern your almost 30
min. segment. It reminded me of what took place here in the Glendale/
Maryvale area of AZ in 1995, I believe was the year. I know it was after
1993. The AZ Republic front page stated that there was a Menigitis epidemic.
Shots were to be given in certain areas with boundaries and if the boundaries
needed to be expanded they would. They(state Dept. of Health and Human
REsources under Mr. Christopher Myrilla(sp). I knew of him and he was very much
pro-life. I testified for him at the state capitol. Anyway, there was a
mass of shots given out in August, very hot. And the kids were to receive these
shots and they were given popsicles while waiting. The thousands of doses
were pre-planned and made up. I know this because Fed. Grants were behind
this event that was stated in the newspaper. I Called Mr. Christopher M.
on this issue and questioned the so-called "epidemic" as to the
number that defines or makes an epidemic and he could not say much on the
phone. But he pretty much agreed with what I thought, that it was not an
epidemic and it was a planned attack on the young children. I will never
know what took place after that. It is said that with Fed. grants
colleges or universities are involved to do studies and this is usually
or just is the case. I wish I had more info to give to you. I
wonder if this happened any where else in the USA at that same time it did
here. I even wonder what might have been in those shots. Now that
it is almost 15 years later, these children would range in the ages of 20 and
older. This would be their prime age to marry and have children.
HMm?
Nancy Vogel
Interesting
Dear Dimond Brothers,
I listened to your audio. I thought it was very interesting. What I
found very interesting also was what I found out from the internet and my
mother who works in the health profession.
What I found on the internet, it said that two of the strains of swine flu were
hardly even transmittable diseases, only one could spread among humans and it
doesn't spread like wildfire. After finding out about this I shortly
heard from my mother who told me that the novus ordo high school I attended for
two years (Marmion Academy) was shut down because there was a confirmed case of
swine flu. What I found interesting was that it's an isolated incident in
Illinois, no other student at that school and it is the first reported cae in
Illinois. Also it's only in a few states so far. The other thing
that my mom told me is that swine flu is hardly different then a regular flu,
that most people recover easily and the only ones who are at real risk are the
very young and the very old, just like any other flu. Anyway just a few
things I heard of it.
God Bless
K
Coincidence?
Is it a coincidence that at the
announcement of a swine flu epidemic, the CDC announces they have discovered a
gene that proves that autism is genetic? This was on the national news last
night, April 29.
Current statistics on autism are that one
out of 150 children is autistic. Vaccinations that contain
mercury are suspect.
Leverage
Subject: Historical leverage by lies
Brothers,
Thanks for the audio update on 'swine flu.'
I was wondering whether perhaps it may also be used as another false history
premise (like the 'holocaust') to create 'historical leverage' through the
lie so as to promote Islam (and eventually global Judaism) by means
of liberalizing/tyrannizing the global freedom of speech laws, since both
these cults ban pork, depending upon how 'successful' they are in propagating
their lie. Also swine, being pigs, could be a code for martial law, since
police are sometimes called pigs in the underworld. Of course, as you know,
many of their agendas can be accomplished through just one 'successful' lie,
like the 'holocaust.'
Sincerely,
Kit White
Australia
Comment
Hi Bros. Michael and Peter Dimond,
Congratulations...another great expose on
this latest hoax...
...people need to inform their friends and neighbors,
as soon as possible, and direct them to this website...and find out the TRUTH
about what is really going on...
God Bless
David
N.Z.
Pirates
I just listened to your flu report.
Very interesting and I think also insightful. I have thought the same
about the Pirate situation off of the cast of Somalia since the first story
broke a few months ago. I think back then it involved a Russian ship.
It seemed strange to me that the blue water navies of the world would
simply lie down in front of what are essentially lightly armed teenagers in
rowboats. In fact if you think about it, one sailor armed with a bolt
action rifle on board the relatively gigantic, high off of the water, steel
cargo ships, could hold the rowboat full of “pirates” at bay indefinitely if
they really wanted to. The pirates have no cover as they try to approach
these ships and then they have to make a long, exposed climb up to their
decks? It is just ridiculous that this could really be as it is
represented.
At first I thought it some kind of an
insurance scam (which may yet be an aspect of it). But last week on the
heels of the American hostage rescue I think I got a clue from a talk
show. Carl Rove was being interviewed on the Hew Lewitt radio show about
the pirate crisis. He spoke of how difficult it was for the Navy’s 10
ship Indian Ocean squadron to patrol an area which he said was four times the
size of Texas. He ended up concluding that the only way to beat the
pirates would be to go in on the ground and root them out where they
live.
His argument was beyond ridiculous.
The Navy of course would not have to patrol the whole ocean; they only have to
follow the cargo ships. It isn’t like we don’t know where they are going
to be. And of course as I said, the ships could easily defend themselves
were they permitted to. But I then looked at the map to see where Somalia
was. It is quite strategically located if you needed a forward base for a
protracted war against Iran and or Pakistan. So I think the pirate crisis
is another contrivance and another piece of the conspiracy puzzle.
Bill Mulligan
“Swine
Flu” Report
Our audio discussion with some thoughts about the "swine
flu" [27
min.]
The world is being fed a massive propaganda hoax
which is probably part of a bigger plan to vaccinate large segments of the
world’s population. We are going to be
posting some thoughts, facts and comments which shed light on this issue. This is our opinion; people are free to
disagree, of course.
Everyone has probably seen the news reports that there
have been approximately 150 swine flu deaths in Mexico. These reports are almost always accompanied
by notices of “OUTBREAK” and pictures of people wearing face masks. They are intended to program the public with
the idea of PANDEMIC. Here just two
examples of stories which assert (essentially as fact) that well over 100 have
died from swine flu in Mexico. Almost
the entire world has come to believe that over 100 have been killed in Mexico
from “swine flu.”
Mexico closes schools as epidemic is
believed to have killed 149
“Mexico
canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have
killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained.”
This is the same story from
ABC News
“Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from
a swine flu epidemic believed to have
killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained.”
Is this true? No, it isn’t true. Did you know that ONLY seven deaths in Mexico have been “confirmed” to be from swine flu? That’s correct: only seven. This article below
is from CNN on April 29. It was
published after the other articles and reports were published. Near the end of the article, there is an
admission that only seven deaths have been confirmed. You would only know that, however, if you
carefully read this article from CNN.
CNN had already reported that there were over 100 Mexican deaths.
CNN quickly and subtly admits that
only seven deaths have been confirmed in Mexico
“In Mexico, where the global outbreak
originated, health officials suspect the swine flu outbreak has caused at least
159 deaths and roughly 2,500 illnesses. So
far, 26 cases, including the seven deaths, have been confirmed.”
That’s quite
important. Hundreds of thousands are
hospitalized from the flu every year; many thousands die. Only seven deaths have been “confirmed” in
Mexico as being attributable to swine flu.
Therefore, it’s a fact that the
mainstream media is lying to us about the swine flu. They have been pumping the world with the
idea that thousands of people are sick and that well over a hundred have died
from “swine flu.” That’s not true, as
their own report clearly shows us. But
there’s more, so much more.
Perhaps the most
important question is this: Did you know
that only the CDC (the Centers for Disease Control) can confirm a swine flu
case? Think about that. The CDC has always been tied in with the most
secretive elements of the U.S. Government.
If people have the flu or flu-like symptoms, they will get scared that
they have “swine flu.” They will go to
the doctor. The doctor can’t confirm one
way or another if it’s regular flu or the deadly “swine flu.” The doctor must send the patient’s sample to
the CDC. The CDC will determine whether
it’s “swine flu.” In other words, we
don’t know if anyone actually has the swine flu. They could literally create a massive scare
and convince the entire world that there is a pandemic based on false
identifications of regular cases of flu as “swine flu.” It depends upon whether you trust the CDC and
WHO (the World Health Organization). And
once they have enough people believing that there is a real pandemic, they can
institute a vaccination policy. This is
something they’ve desired and planned for a long time. Anyone who knows anything about the Global
Conspiracy knows that the people in place – who are running the CDC and WHO –
are involved in the agenda for world government and total control of the
people.
Is there any
evidence that the CDC is misleading on “swine flu”? Yes.
They’ve identified the supposed “original carrier” of the “deadly swine
flu.”
Meet "patient zero": the boy
whose illness started it all
This five-year-old
is the supposed original carrier of the deadly “swine flu.” Well, he is now perfectly healthy. None
of his family members contracted the flu either. What are the chances that he is perfectly
healthy and that none of his family members even got sick from the virus which
is supposedly a threat to the entire world?
Here’s another example of propaganda:
did you read those reports about two California deaths believed to be linked to
“swine flu”? It was reported all over
the world that two Californians were killed by “swine flu.” When we heard that the Los Angeles County
Coroner was going to confirm whether it was swine flu, we were hopeful. That was because an independent source was
going to be able to confirm whether it was swine flu. In other words, someone besides the CDC would
get a chance to see if it was really a result of “swine flu.” Guess what?
It wasn’t swine flu. This is
significant because the Los Angeles Coroner is obviously not as tied in to the
conspiracy as the CDC. So it makes sense
that when independent bodies are able to confirm what people are claiming is
“swine flu,” it turns out to be a lie.
Here are the two headlines: the first
headline says that the two deaths are from swine flu. The second headline concerns the coroner’s
later admission that it was pneumonia, not swine flu.
First US
Fatalities: Two Swine Flu Deaths in California
Coroner
doubts 2 men died of swine flu
“The Los Angeles
County coroner's office said today that further testing indicated neither of
two flu-related deaths being investigated in Los Angeles County appeared to be
linked to the swine flu.”
So the media lied to us again. They accomplished their goal. Having heard the original report, most people
are ready to run to get the vaccine as soon as it’s out.
At this stage, we are dealing with a massive
propaganda hoax in which probably not one person has “swine flu.” However, later on they probably plan to use
this to make people sick either through the vaccination they will receive or
chemical trails or some other agent to take control of the world’s population
and institute martial law.
What is
it?
I
was watching this video… and it talked how Copex, Flouride, in other words,
toxins will be used to kill the population down to 500million. I wonder
if the Swine Flu is the beginning of this world population reduction. I'm
looking forward to your research, Brothers. Keep defending the
Faith! God bless you.
Bernardo
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
We have posted above our opinion about what’s probably going on with the
“swine flu.”
“Swine
Flu”
MHFM:
This is just a notice that soon we will probably have some comments, possibly
an audio discussion, about the news surrounding the “swine flu.”
Convinced
Hello
brothers,
My name is John Makovich and I want to thank you for all of your priceless
information. You guys have opened my eyes so wide that I'm constantly on watch
now. We will never cease to hold the true Catholic faith to my
last breath…
Anyway, I could go on and on. What I'm writing to you about is how important I
feel about the information you guys have on the freemasons with Dr. James
Wardner and brother Michael. Outstanding work -- that is what opened up my
eyes, that is what convinced me…
God Bless all of you!!!
John
Makovich and wife JoAnne.
Questions
Hi, I just have some really important
questions...I'm a 26 yr old Mexican American that was taught the original
doctrine, which you guys are promoting with your websites and videos...I've
been living with those teachings about hell and all in my mind through my entire
life, feeling alienated and taken advantage of by the majority of the people
around me who even though are catholics, were not inculcated the same
doctrine...My faith is very serious to me, and since I saw your videos, I've
been promoting your website because I truly believe that the church is no
longer teaching any of it, and countless souls are being lost...however, I've
also stumbled upon other videos on youtube that have information that portrays
the hidden symbolism within the catholic church, it's images, and it's temples
or shrines...I wish you guys can see these videos and give me an explanation
because it's very confusing...Please be honest with me, keeping my faith these
days is becoming unbearable because even though my life has been so miserable,
I've learned to love god more than anything in the world and I'm truly making
an effort to live my life according to the original doctrine...I've learned
to reject all vanity and the love of money, and any other materialistic
things for him...And I just can't seem to go back to being ambitious at all
within the same comforting mentality...
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
When you say the Church is not longer teaching it, we must clarify that
you are speaking of the new Vatican II Church, which is not the real Catholic
Church. We would advise you to stay away
from anti-Catholic videos, which are filled with lies and false
information. The Vatican II Church
employs some hidden symbolism that is evil, but the real Catholic Church does
not.
Atheism
I found this on the internet, thought it
was very clever:
HERE IS THE DEFINITION OF ATHEISM:
In the beginning there was NOTHING - and absolutely nothing was happening to
absolutely nothing. Then, one random day - absolutely nothing exploded and
absolutely nothing became... absolutely EVERYTHING. Then the nothing that
became everything (for no reason at all) rearranged itself into
self-replicating, intricately complex life forms that eventually (for no reason
at all) became intelligent beings... that believed in God. Makes sense -
huh?...
Se…
Greetings
Hi Brothers Dimond:
First of all this is just to say
"hello" and to congratulate you for the excellent ministry work you
both are doing in defense of the faith… I' d like to know if you would like me to
send you articles on important issues regarding the Vat II sect., but
that new article about the "bishop" in Germany is very shocking as
well as devastating, and I wonder how many more souls will be lost because of
this heresy??...
In the Lord,
Agustin
Thanks
Dear MHFM,
Thank you so much for your mission of
warning and insight on the state of the Catholic Church. I have utilized all of the materials that you
have sent, and have been left in a state of shock over the facts
presented. I was a child when Vatican II
took place and for over 40 years… I have
a desire to become a "Traditional Catholic," and to attend mass in
the Latin Rite, as well as follow the "real" catholic calendar which
celebrates the true saints. As a parent,
I will educate my daughters on these facts and encourage them to follow the
True Faith….
Continued success in your endeavor, and may
God Bless you.
Michael A. Abbruzzo, CDT
Passive
attendance
Subject: Can one passively attend
non-Catholic funerals or weddings
Dear brothers Dimond,
I discovered your website 5/6 months ago I
am very impressed by the huge work you have done and still do and although I
have not yet heard and read everything, I do regularly every day. I just read
your article: "Can one passively attend non-catholic funerals or weddings?
Could you please tell me if one should consider the SSPX as catholics or
non-catholics? I mean, could one go to a SSPX funeral when a very close family
member is concerned? (My daughter who makes part of the catholics who think
that one cannot go anymore to any Mass at all, because there are no
"catholic" priests anymore could refuse to assist to her grandmother's
funeral - this is the reason I ask you this question) I would be very greatfull
for your reply and thank you for all the great work you do. Please don't mention my full name if my
question is put on your E-Exchanges
Excuse-me if my english is not hundred percent correct.
C. (from France)
MHFM: Some of the people who go there are or might be Catholic,
but others are not. Those who
obstinately agree with the heretical positions of the SSPX are not
Catholic. For example, those who
obstinately agree with their position on salvation outside the Church and their
recognition of a heretic as a Catholic (i.e., Benedict XVI, JP2, etc.) are not
Catholics. So it depends upon the
person. You should not go to a funeral
of one who supported the SSPX.
The article on passive attendance doesn’t really deal with the
SSPX. It deals with the question of
whether people may go into non-Catholic churches for funerals or weddings as
long as they don’t “participate.” Many
“traditionalists” wrongly believe it’s okay to do that. The truth is that a Catholic may not go to a
non-Catholic church at all, even if it is just “passively” for a wedding,
etc. As stated above, one also shouldn’t
go to the funeral of a SSPX supporter, but those churches are not non-Catholic
churches in the way that Protestant and Eastern “Orthodox” churches are.
Show
Dear MHFM
I usually enjoy watching the TV show Law
and Order but I may never watch it again. I happened to tune into a show
that might have been done a few years ago. Mariska Hargitay's character
and her police partner find a dead body of a man who may have been involved in
homosexuality. They discover that he is the son of some rich activist who
says homosexuality can be cured. Hargitay, referring to the dead man's
father, says, hatefully, something like, "That'll show
him."
Later in the show these police characters
and others go on and on about one out of every ten men is gay and that
people are born that way. No scientific proof or statistics exist to back
up any of these statements. The show began as more like a diatribe and a lesson
for the public than a show about police work. Many shows do
this and try to teach lessons to the public. I couldn't watch any
more. Subtlety is gone. They are literally announcing their lies as
truths. This was Law and Order SVU. Just last week Hargitay was in
the news with recurring serious lung problems for which she has been
hospitalized two or three times…
PM
MHFM: That’s very interesting because it’s such a bold promotion
of the evil homosexual agenda.
Book
The Padre Pio book is the most enlightening
book I’ve read in all my spiritual reading.
It has changed my life. I plan on
sharing this book with all my acquaintances.
I hope many souls out there read this book!
Jim Davis
False
gods
MHFM: The following quote is an interesting summary of the
various false gods which were worshipped in and around the Roman Empire at the
time of Christ. Scripture tells us that
all the gods of the heathens are “devils.”
Psalm
95:5- “For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils…”
1 Cor. 10:20- “But the things which the
heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made
partakers with devils.”
Besides the survey of the various false gods which were
worshipped, what’s most interesting about this quote is the reference to
Baal. The demonic cult of the false god
Baal is condemned throughout the Old Testament (Numbers 22:41; Judges 2:13;
etc.). Notice how the author below
points out that Baal often wore the mask of Zeus and Jupiter (the false gods of
the Greeks and Romans). In other words, all of these false gods are simply
different manifestations of the Devil.
In the end, all of these roads lead to the same place: they all lead back to the Devil, thus
confirming the truth of Psalm 95:5 and 1 Cor. 10:20.
At the time of Christ: “The ancient gods of the Roman people led by Jupiter the Thunder and his
consort Juno naturally held pride of place.
Once they had conquered the Greek city states, the Romans could easily
find that Zeus and Hera exercised equivalent functions in the Greek pantheon…
In the great dim temples of the Valley of the Nile, the Egyptians still worshipped their age-old zoomorphic gods, cats
sacred to Bastad, Horus the falcon, Souchos the crocodile, Apis the bull and
their like elaborately embalmed after their death. In Syria and North Africa the crowds revered
the local Baals and Ashtoreths with fertility rites and ritual prostitution
turning the rivers red with the blood of the sacrificed Adonis. To the
north of Syria the citizens of Emesa honored the sacred stone which the sun god
had sent from heaven. Throughout Asia Minor the dominant gods
under a variety of names were the Great Mother and her son and consort, in
whose honor frenzied devotees castrated themselves. Father west in Illyricum the unconquered sun
was the focus of devotion. In the Celtic
lands of Europe [they] worshipped the gods and goddesses of spring, river, and
forest, and above all the sun. All
of these gods became closely associated with villages and towns and took on
particular characteristics in the jealous local cults. Sometimes they were identified with the gods
of the Greek and Roman pantheon, and Baal
often wore the mask of Zeus or Jupiter.” (Leo Donald Davis, The First Seven Ecumenical Councils, p.
46.)
Mortal
Sin
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter,
Let me begin by stating that I totally agree
with you on your theology. Absolutely no argument on that .So, please reserve
the heretic, liberal, bad willed Catholic, and other choice names for someone
else.
When it comes to you deciding who is in
mortal sin, that is out of anybody’s league but God’s. Are you not guilty of
rash judgment by stating that Michael J. Fox, Christopher Reeves, and Nick
Adenhart all suffered due to punishment from God. Some of the worst sinners
have gone through a long life with virtually no physical problems, while saints
like Bernadette and Therese had enormous suffering. Punishment is reserved for
all who die in mortal sin. To select certain people and to attribute their
suffering to mortal sin is not up to any of us.
The hardest thing for any of us is to admit that we may have been wrong
in our thinking. I would hope you that you would post this e-mail in its
entirety as I’m sure other people hold this same position.
God Bless you for the good work that you
do.
CP
MHFM: There are a few problems with your e-mail.
First, you are quite wrong when you say that no one can
determine that anyone else is in mortal sin.
If people act in a way that clearly constitutes mortal sin, a Catholic
not only can but must conclude that such individuals are in mortal sin. To say otherwise is to favor religious
indifferentism. It is to hold that
anyone can be justified, even though that person abuses the law of God.
According to your position, if you had a child who was out
cheating or stealing or fornicating, you could rebuke that child but you
couldn’t conclude that the child is in mortal sin; for “that’s up to God.” That’s not the Catholic faith. Of course God is judge, but people reveal
that they are in mortal sin by their actions.
We believe that your thinking on this point, which is very problematic,
is the reason that you have a problem with what we’ve said. It’s a liberal justification for sins, in
other words.
Regarding Michael J. Fox and Adenhart, no one is required to
believe that what happened to them was a punishment for their actions. That’s our opinion. However, we believe it’s obvious. It should make sense to those who look at
life with the eyes of faith. It’s true
that many evil people go unpunished in this life; God reserves punishments for
them until the next life. In addition,
many saintly people deal with suffering in this life. But that has nothing to do with the
fact that God will sometimes punish people on Earth for their evil
actions.
God doesn’t always punish people in this life for their evil
actions, but He does it sometimes.
If He does it sometimes, then we will see examples of it. It’s very simple. Many people rebel at the thought that
Adenhart was taken after going to a sinful club simply because they are
liberals. They want to believe that such
activity or similar activity is acceptable.
Modesty
Dear Brothers,
I had a question about men's shorts and modesty. My wife and I are
constantly focused on trying to make sure both her (my wife) and our daughters
are dressed very modestly. Adhering to everything we can find on what the
church has said on modesty, Padre Pio of course always being a good
source. But the question came up recently about men's shorts. With
regards to women, if a lady wears anything that requires them to sit a certain
way (i.e. shorter skirts etc.) to avoid immodesty, that it is evident that what
she is wearing is not modest. So with respect to men’s shorts our first
impression was to just make sure they were not too short, going to the knee
when sitting, and not clingy; such as basketball shorts tend to be. But
after all that, even if a person adheres to those guidelines, when he sits down
he would still have to make sure he sits a certain way so as to avoid allowing
the shorts to hang down and people being able to see past the knee.
So would that be a logical conclusion that men's shorts simply are not modest,
and they should stick to pants? Or is that taking it a bit too far?
Thank you for your thoughts and time.
Robby Hansen
MHFM: We believe that in
certain situations men may wear long and modest shorts. However, if a man is going to be around a lot
of other people where he has to sit down, etc., then he should definitely wear
pants. But if he’s exercising or going
out quickly on a very hot day or working by himself and he has to do something
quickly, etc., then we believe he may wear modest shorts.
Regarding women, they should generally wear dresses, not
pants. There could be exceptions to
this, but they would be rare. In our
opinion, exceptions which would allow women to wear pants would be: 1) if they
are forced to work and their job requires them to wear modest pants; 2) if
they, for some rare reason, can’t afford the appropriate dresses but have very
modest pants; 3) if, for some reason, wearing a certain kind of modest pants is
more modest than a dress.
New
“Saints”
Dear Brother Dimond:
What is your take on the 5 new Saints just
proclaimed by the Chief Heretic? Is his canonization of them legitimate?
John Monaco
MHFM: No, Benedict XVI is an antipope and doesn’t have the
authority to canonize anyone.
Converted
Hi, I'm one who recently got converted to
the True Catholic faith from finding your web-site and ordering your books/DVDs
etc. Both my husband and I thank you for your work----we keep
learning more and more. I'm up here in Northern Vermont and was wondering
whether there is any acceptable Traditional Latin Mass in this area?
I keep praying to worthily receive the true Body of Christ now that I have
learned the truth and repented of being in V2 "church". I am
trying to tell my friends and especially family about all we are learning,
please pray for me to have the grace to do so.
After studying Matthew
24, I noticed just how many times Jesus warned his apostles about being careful
about not being "led astray", or "deceived", during the
last days. Also I noticed how Jesus said that His Second Coming
will be "like Lightning" coming from the East and going toward
the West: it suddenly occurred to me that at Fatima, how the
"lightning" flashed in the skies immediately prior to each of Our
Lady of the Rosary of Fatima's apparition to the children, and I'm pretty sure
I read that Our Lady herself proceeded from, or "out of",
the Heavens toward the East, and returned thus. What an
apt PRE-CURSOR of Our Blessed Lord's Second Coming as
Jesus describes it in Matthew, then, would Our Lady of Fatima
have provided for us, in this way!...
Thanks.
Mp…
Perplexed
Seeing George’s challenge regarding your
characterization of Israel as the Vatican’s “master” made me think of
Machiavelli and some simple and obvious notions that seem lost on so many
people. Is not the most dangerous enemy someone who appears to be a friend? Or perhaps more to the point here, may not
the most effective friend be one who pretends to be, and is perceived by others
to be your enemy?
Does the mugger wear a uniform that has
“I’m going to try to take your wallet” written on it? Does the Devil
appear to us as a hideous beast and say “I’m here to take your soul”? Or
is he more likely in the form of a something soft and shapely and saying only
“nice” things? How can people with so little a nuanced
understanding of the world even survive to adulthood? Of course the
challenge could be insincere, which would be evidence of bad will.
However I’m not sure it says much more about the person’s cognitive ability if
he thinks such a simple argument would be effective, than if he were genuinely
sincere in making the challenge in the first place. It is just too
dumb. So I remain perplexed.
But this general naiveté’, the inability to
“connect the dots”, is so common. You present so many facts, any
one or two of which should be sufficient to demonstrate the problem.
Openly pro-abortion candidates are permitted to “remain in the church” and take
communion. But Israel’s enemies are condemned for making a demonstrably
true statement like “Israel’s founding was based on sympathy for the Jews after
the experience of World War II” (the truth of which remains regardless of
whether one accepts the Holocaust), in the absolutely harshest of terms.
This is roughly the quote by the Iranian president played over and over again
on news casts (if he said anything ‘worse” they would have used it) that caused
the well publicized walk-out and the Vatican denunciation. A real
Pope would have threatened the President of Notre Dame with excommunication for
planning to give Obama an Honorary Degree. What more does one need to
see?
In fact I think “anti-semites” are the only
people who the Vatican II sect still condemns at all. This should
be enough to close the case for anyone who is honest and has an IQ above their
body temperature.
Bill Mulligan
Comment
It wasn't long ago you posted a new article
about Jay Leno hosting a fund raiser for a pro abortion group...
Now it seems he has been abruptly hospitalized due to undisclosed illness ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_leno_ill;_ylt=AhfpKNsHikeBxf2RGDnX0C8DW7oF
a co-incidence ???
Patrick Walsh J+M+J
New
Dear Brothers: I received the copies
I ordered of your new booklet "The Bible Proves the Teachings of the
Catholic Church" yesterday and it is GREAT! I have never seen anything
this comprehensive before addressing in depth all the issues protestants tend
to misunderstand and argue about!
THANK YOU!
GOD BLESS YOU!
Phil White
Israel
Dear Brothers,
It's strange that you refer to Israel as
the Vatican's "master" for the latter's condemning the Iranian
president's remarks at the U.N.'s anti-racism conference. After all, it
is well known that Israel pleaded with all parties to boycott the conference
entirely. If Israel were really master, it seems to me that the Vatican
would not have attended the conference at all.
Yours,
George
MHFM: Israel is the Vatican II sect’s master in a certain (yet
real) sense because whenever Israel or the Jewish power structure feels threatened,
the Vatican II sect will usually fall in line and sometimes instantly act in
accordance with its wishes. Yes, the
Vatican II sect maintains a level of autonomy under its master; but, when push
comes to shove, it will almost always make sure not to offend the Jews. That’s why it was willing to even exclude a member completely from its
“Church” (e.g., Williamson) because he upset the Jews and Israel on “the
Holocaust” – think about that – while it continues to say and do nothing at all about Obama and other pro-abortion
public figures speaking constantly at “Catholic” places. In short, this latest incident is just
another small example of how the Vatican II sect is very quick to speak up for
Israel - when it doesn’t have to say anything – yet it does not speak up for
the Catholic faith.
Knowing
Truth
Subject: Knowing the Truth
Hi,
i have been reading all the articles on the
true catholic church and wondering why the traditional church still sees other
religions as being of the devil. Here in Africa Precisely Nigeria The Catholic
church can boost of the largest population of Christians, now majority of the
priest where ordained after the Vatican 2 meeting, now DO YOU MEAN THAT
EVERYBODY HERE IN NIGERIA ARE CONDEMED BECAUSE OF THE VATICAN 2 MEETING
SINCE MAJORITY OF THE PRIEST WERE ORDAINED AFTER VATICAN TWO. Where in
Nigeria can one attend the real catholic mass. The priest faces the crowd here
in Africa, with this are we all condemed, there is no way the mass can be said
in latin cos here in Nigeria we have different ethnic groups and thus if you
MUST WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST you must preach in a language that they will
understand.
finally, i think the cathoilic church
BEFORE vatican 2 meeting do not Have the continent of AFRICA in
mind. do you agree to this..
Pls reply this letter i really want to know
the truth
Cheers
Andrew
MHFM: The Catholic Church sees them as of the Devil because
that’s the teaching of Jesus Christ, the Bible, Catholic Tradition and
unchangeable Catholic dogma.
Psalms 95:5- “For all the gods of the
Gentiles are devils…”
1 Cor. 10:20- “But the things which the
heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made
partakers with devils.”
Pope Pius XI, Ad Salutem (#27),
April 20, 1930: “…all the compulsion and folly, all the outrages and lust, introduced
into man’s life by the demons through the worship of false gods.”
The people who go along with the new Vatican II religion do not
have the true faith. To be saved, they
need to come to the traditional Catholic faith.
You need to become a convinced Catholic and stop conforming God’s truth
to what you consider acceptable or appealing.
Please begin to pray sincerely for faith, especially the Rosary, and
look at the information on our website.
One must not go to the invalid New Masses. And just because the traditional Mass of the
Roman Rite is in Latin does not mean that people are not preached to in their
native language.
Thinking
Dear Brother Dimond
I am a member of a protestant Church. I came across the website, and can't seem
to stop thinking about my situation. I
wanted to start the RCIA Process. Now, I
am not sure if the local Catholic Churches are of the Traditional Catholic
Faith.
Can you tell me of a Catholic Church here in Daytona Beach Florida that would
be in harmony with the Traditional Teaching and beliefs of the Catholic Church?
Thanks Jerry
MHFM: Thanks for the interest, Jerry. You need to convert to the traditional
Catholic faith. You should not start the
RCIA process or go to any of those churches.
That would initiate you into the counterfeit Vatican II Church and the
invalid New Mass. Please consult the
material we offer and the information on our website. After you look at the information and take
the steps to convert, we can help you with where to receive sacraments. You should begin to pray the Rosary each
day.
Praying
for People
Based on what you're saying, Catholics
shoudn't pray for anyone, because how could one know for sure if someone is in
a "state of grace." Even if someone follows all the traditional rules
and dogmas that you do, there could be something in their life that one doesn't
know about! Why not just let God do the judging?
Hea…
MHFM: No, you can’t pray for DECEASED individuals who, by
all external evidence, were away from the true faith and/or in mortal sin. If the evidence is that they observed the
true faith (i.e., were not heretics) or in mortal sin, then you can pray for them,
even if it turns out that they committed mortal sins that you didn’t know
about.
And of course you can pray for them if they’re still living, but not if they have died (according to all evidence) outside the
Church or in a state of mortal sin. If
the opposite were the case, it would destroy the unity of the faith and you
could pray for everyone who has died.
That would lead to pure religious indifferentism. It would foster the heresies of salvation
outside the Church and universal salvation.
In fact, most people who claim to be Catholic in our day believe in
universal salvation or the possibility of it, even though they would claim
otherwise.
For when anyone dies in any situation, no matter how
non-Catholic or sinful it is, they hold that he might have been saved. That’s heretical. If that’s the case, why can’t you pray for
Judas or Martin Luther? You can’t
because they died, by all external evidence, in mortal sin and outside the true faith. And it’s certain that all who die in mortal
sin or outside the faith are not saved. Since
prayer reflects belief, to pray for them is to assert that people can be saved
who commit mortal sins or die as heretics.
The integrity of the faith demands that you do not pray for such people.
St. Francis Xavier, who possessed the apostolic Catholic faith,
understood this point well. He explains that a Catholic does not pray for such
individuals, when referring to a pagan privateer who died on a ship on which he
was traveling.
St. Francis Xavier,
Nov. 5, 1549: “The corsair who commanded our vessel died here at Cagoxima. He did his work for us, on the whole, as we
wished… He himself chose to die in his
own superstitions; he did not even leave us the power of rewarding him by
that kindness which we can after death do to other friends who die in the
profession of the Christian faith, in commending their souls to God, since
the poor fellow by his own hand cast his soul into hell, where there
is no redemption.” (citation in
our book)
Disturbed
Dear Brothers Diamond,
After reading your post on the death of
Angels’ pitcher Nick Adenhart, I was very disturbed. After one’s death, should
we not pray for them? And isn’t that especially the work of members of
religious orders? Instead, you condemn him, and assume that a young man that
you do not know was killed by God for committing a mortal sin. You assume that
he was even in a state of mortal sin. You cannot know this. Only God can know
this, and because of that, Mr. Adenhart and his family deserve your prayers
rather than your condemnation.
Sincerely in Christ,
Christian T.
MHFM: We realize that liberals who tolerate mortal sin will be
disturbed by such a post. That’s because
it convicts their consciences and shakes their heretical “faith.” People who believe that God forgives
basically everything and doesn’t condemn anyone will rebel at the thought that
God allowed the tragedy to happen because of his mortal sin. That’s one reason why few people are saved. They lack the first degree of faith and
humility.
St. Benedict (c.
520): “The first degree of humility, then, is that a man always have the fear
of God before his eyes, shunning all forgetfulness and that he be ever mindful
of all that God hath commanded, that he always considereth in his mind how
those who despise God will burn in hell for their sins, and that life
everlasting is prepared for those who fear God.”
We posted the story precisely to remind people that God is a God
of justice and that He is in control of everything. Moreover, contrary to your assertion,
Catholics can and do consider that those who are away from the traditional
Catholic faith and act in a mortally sinful way are in the state of mortal
sin. It’s pure modernism and religious
indifferentism to hold that people who act, by all evidence, in a mortally
sinful fashion are not in mortal sin.
Sadly, a Catholic cannot pray for the man. That’s because he cannot be considered to
have died as one of the faithful and with the life of grace. St. Thomas clearly reiterates the teaching of
Tradition on this point.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,
Suppl. Q. 71, A. 5: “Gregory says (Moral xxxiv. 19): There is the same reason
for not praying then (namely after the judgment day) for men condemned to
everlasting fire, as there is now for not praying for the devil and has angels
who are sentenced to eternal punishment, and for this reason the saints
do not pray for dead unbelieving and wicked men, because, forsooth,
knowing them to be already condemned to eternal punishment, they shrink from
pleading for them by the merit of their prayers before they are summoned to the
presence of the Judge.”
As we see, the idea that a Catholic can just pray for anyone (or
anyone who died claiming to be Catholic) is false.
Advantage
Hello,
Would it be of advantage to send a an email of complaint/protest to the
Vatican, the biship of Wash. DC and the president of Georgetown Univ. in regard
to the disgusting actions of pres. Obama there a few days ago? If so
would you have the email for the archbishop of Wash? I found the other
two.
R&F Johnson, et al
MHFM: No, it wouldn’t.
They are well aware of the criticism and of their own apostasy.
Comment
Just wanted to make a comment about
the nick adenhart tragedy. I was traveling down that same route
on my way home from work, about 1 hour before it happened. I work in buena
park CA. I saw this as divine protection for myself. for I try to pray
everyday now, the rosary, prayer to st. michael, my own litany to saints.
I realized that life is short and fragile, and very uncertain.
people are focused now on the wrong things, temporal fame, power
,money. they should be worried about saving their souls. my mother
told me they should have gone straight home after the game ,and not to
some dance club. they probably would still be alive. I also thought
your insight on them going to a sinful dance club was interesting. I did not
even realize it. and finally this country of ours is growing very evil
and wicked. I believe america is the great harlot, how about yourselves.?
we are about 1,000 times worse than the original sodom and gommorah. obama is
going to make this country more immoral and evil. when will god rain fire
down on america.? anyway thanks and godbless .
Mark
Response
to Criticism
Dear Brothers,
A couple of
comments when you decide to again edit your tapes/books:
“Great,” as in
World’s Great Religions, does not mean ‘Wow!” or “Wonderful!” but means “large”
or “big.”
When you say you
can receive the sacraments from less obvious heretics as long as you don’t give
them financial support, you should show a resource or footnote, (unless it is
just your fallible opinion?) Would it
not be more obvious a scandal to go up to Communion with heretics than to slip
a dollar bill anonymously in the collection basket? Think about it: you must not go at all.
When someone
prayed “for the conversion of Russia” in the old days, the clergy and the
faithful did not mean “to peace.” Being
“converts” yourselves, you should tread very carefully when trying to
second-guess the august Mother of God, lest your Protestant background
influence you! Don’t think you can’t
fall into the devil’s snares – just think of how he hates Our Lady!
Sincerely,
Catherine
Margand
MHFM: Allow us to address all of your comments, which (we must
say) are filled with errors.
1. First, you make
reference to the many statements of the Vatican II antipopes which have we
exposed in our works, in which they refer to false religions (such as Islam,
Judaism, etc.) as “great religions.”
Here’s just one example of many:
Paul VI, Speech, Nov. 29, 1973: “We likewise rejoice when we recognize
venerable and wise voices from the great religious traditions of Asia… The Catholic
Church has sincere respect and admiration for those traditions.”
We are well aware that “great” can mean large or notable or
having followers in great numbers; however, it can also mean good. If you understood how a Catholic is supposed to
deal with those who are promoting heresy, you would realize that Pope Pius VI teaches that heretics always attempt to lace their
apostasy in ambiguous expressions which the bad willed or the uninformed will
misuse in order to justify them.
For this reason, Pope Pius VI teaches that when heretics promote things
that tend to heretical meanings under the guise of ambiguity, they are to be
held to the heretical meaning.
The use of “great religions” by the Vatican II antipopes is a
case in point. The Vatican II “popes”
purport to be leaders of the Catholic Church whose first obligation is to stand
for the integrity of the Catholic faith.
Speaking of false, non-Christian religions which lead people to
damnation, they constantly call them “great” without ever denouncing them or
clarifying what they mean. In
addition, they almost always praise those religions in the very same context in
which they call them “great.”
The quote above from Paul VI constitutes just one example of
direct praise for the false religions in the very context of calling them
“great.” Notice how Paul VI states, in
the very context of describing them as “great,” that he admires those
“traditions.” This demonstrates that he
uses “great” in the sense of “wow” or “wonderful,” not in the sense of big or
large. So, your first piece of criticism
is unjustified and refuted.
We should add that in our recent publications, we haven’t
stressed the “great religions” heresy.
That’s because there are so many other heresies to use, and there are so
many bad willed people out there who will of course dishonestly attempt to
exonerate them on that point.
Nevertheless, the “great religions” statements of the Vatican II
antipopes are not justifiable.
2. In regard to your
second comment, about receiving sacraments, we understand that you have a
problem with our position on this issue.
You have a problem with it because we had to specifically rebuke you for
supporting heretical priests after you knew you should not. We often find that people who have failed in
this area respond by condemning the whole position in order to justify their own inability to withhold support from a
priest who believes in heresy.
Instead of simply not supporting the priest, they wind up saying, in
order to justify their sin: “that doesn’t make any sense.”
In other words, the ones who have a problem with the simple and
logical concept of “no support” for a priest who holds a heretical position are
the ones who cannot muster up the courage to withhold support from the heretical
priests. In other words, it’s the people
who have been demonstrating some bad will.
In a similar (though not identical) way, it’s interesting that people
who hold that no one may go anywhere at all today to receive sacraments are
either: 1) radical “traditionalist” schismatics who reject the canonizations of
the Church and wind up arguing that everyone since 1965 was a non-Catholic; or
2) people who believe in the completely false position that no one at all has
any jurisdiction today to do anything; or 3) people who regard as Catholics
priests and laymen who believe that souls can be saved in false religions. So instead of recognizing that people may
take advantage of the sacraments provided by some of these “traditionalist”
priests – without implicating themselves in the false position of the priest,
just like one could before Vatican II – they are led to take the position that
no one should go at all.
You act as if we provide no theological justification for our
position that one may go to some of these priests. I guess you haven’t read any of our articles
on the topic? St. Thomas clearly teaches
that people may receive sacraments from certain undeclared heretics. That’s exactly our position. Thus, your second piece of criticism is also
refuted.
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Part III.,
Q. 82, A. 9, Whether it is permissible to receive
communion from heretical, excommunicate, or sinful priests, and to hear mass
said by them?: “I answer that, As was said above (5,7), heretical, schismatical,
excommunicate, or even sinful priests, although they have the power to
consecrate the Eucharist, yet they do not make a proper use of it; on the
contrary, they sin by using it. But whoever communicates with another who is in
sin, becomes a sharer in his sin. Hence we read in John's Second Canonical
Epistle (11) that "He that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth
with his wicked works." Consequently, it is not lawful to receive
Communion from them, or to assist at their mass. Still there is a difference among the above, because
heretics, schismatics, and excommunicates, have been forbidden, by the Church's
sentence, to perform the Eucharistic rite. And therefore whoever hears their mass or receives the sacraments
from them, commits sin. But not all who are sinners are debarred by the
Church's sentence from using this power: and so, although suspended by the
Divine sentence, yet they are not suspended in regard to others by any
ecclesiastical sentence: consequently, until the Church's sentence is pronounced, it is lawful
to receive Communion at their hands, and to hear their mass. Hence on 1 Corinthians 5:11,
"with such a one not so much as to eat," Augustine's gloss runs thus:
"In saying this he was unwilling for a man to be judged by his fellow man
on arbitrary suspicion, or even by usurped extraordinary judgment, but rather
by God's law, according to the Church's ordering, whether he confess of his own
accord, or whether he be accused and convicted."
In addition, if your position is that no one may go to a less
obvious undeclared heretic who professes to be Catholic and is offering
traditional sacraments, then you would have to hold that almost everyone before
Vatican II (from approximately 1900 to 1950) should have stayed home, as our
recent article on this topic points out: Is it ever permissible to go to a validly ordained priest
for the sacraments who claims to be Catholic but prays in union with Benedict
XVI or holds to some other heresy?
3. In your final point,
you make reference to our position on what was meant when Our Lady stated about
Russia: “it will be converted and a
certain period of peace will be granted to the world.” Our position on this issue is explained and
substantiated in detail in this file: The Whole Truth about the Consecration and Conversion of
Russia and the Impostor Sr. Lucy. We don’t see why any reasonable person doesn’t agree with
it.
In response, you argue that when
people would pray for the “conversion of Russia,” it did not mean “to
peace.” That’s a weak an irrelevant
argument. The issue is not what priests
and laypeople meant when praying for the conversion of Russia, but rather what Our Lady said in context on July 13
and what Our Lord and Sr. Lucy said afterward about Our Lady’s communication
on July 13. That’s the issue!
Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. 2,
p. 465: “[page after quoting what you
just read] Let us point out right
away that in 1930, in two letters to Father Goncalves, Sister Lucy was to
express in a slightly different manner the requests of heaven… [Sister
Lucy]: ‘The good Lord promises to end
the persecution in Russia, if the Holy Father will himself make a
solemn act of reparation and consecration of Russia to the Sacred Hearts of
Jesus and Mary, as well as ordering all the bishops of the Catholic Church to
do the same. The Holy Father must then
promise that upon the ending of this persecution he will approve and recommend
the practice of the reparatory devotion already described.’”
According to Sr. Lucy, the message at
Tuy that Our Lord will “save” Russia means that the Lord promises to “end the persecution in Russia,” thus
corroborating the point that there is no evidence that heaven ever promised
that Russia would be converted to the Catholic Faith. We find the same thing in another vision that
Our Lord granted to Sr. Lucy in 1940:
Our Lord to Sr. Lucy, Oct. 22, 1940: “I will
punish the nations for their crimes by means of war, famine and persecution of
My Church and this will weigh especially upon My Vicar on earth. His
Holiness will obtain an abbreviation of these days of tribulation if he
takes heed of My wishes by promulgating the Act of Consecration of the
whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with a special mention of
Here we see that the Lord says that
the consecration of Russia will “obtain an abbreviation” of the tribulation
that is caused by the persecutions of Russia, perfectly coinciding with our
point about what Our Lady meant by the “conversion” of Russia. Most importantly, however, we can see what
Our Lady meant in context by the conversion of Russia by a careful
consideration of her words on July 13.
“The war is going to end. But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated
by an unknown light, know that it is a great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its
crimes by means of war, of hunger, and of persecution of the
Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this I come to ask the
consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of
reparation on the first Saturdays. If
they listen to my requests,
Notice, the consecration of Russia
was specifically requested to prevent “war… hunger and persecution of the
Church…” This shows us how firmly set
within this specific context Our Lady’s words were on the consecration of
Russia – converting this enemy to peace from these persecutions of
“war…hunger…of the Church.” That means
that you are completely wrong on that point as well.
Finally, you are wrong when you say
that we have a Protestant background. We
do not have a Protestant background. So,
basically everything you say in your letter is wrong.
Kicked
out
Brothers,
I just wanted to let you know that Fr.
Griego, rector of Holy Cross Seminary, Australia, just this morning after I
received the sacraments of penance and communion, gave me notice that I was
never to return to any SSPX property in Australia again, otherwise the police
would be notified that I was trespassing! Before he said that though, he said I
am his problem because I had handed out literature to seminarians (two
salvation tracts!) saying, 'you can't do that.' I asked him if he'd looked
at them and explained that there is nothing in them that is not Catholic. He
basically said I can't make these sorts of judgments because I don't have a
theological degree and I'm not the magisterium. I said, 'No. But I do have
the Catholic faith.' I said, 'I don't need a theological degree
to have the Catholic faith. (He agreed) I don't need a theological
degree to get to heaven. (he also agreed).' I was about to say, 'but you do
need the Catholic faith to get to heaven,' but he interrupted me. He said I
don't have supernatural faith. He also criticized Bro. Michael, saying you
don't have 'the grace of state'! I think because he could see he wasn't going
to shake me, he just lost the plot and said don't ever come back.
Finally I said, 'I'll do as you ask, but I
just want to ask, why?!' He said because I am my own magisterium. I said,
'No I'm not. You don't have the Catholic faith saying that. You're a heretic.'
He just shrugged his shoulders at that as if to say, 'so what.' I started
walking away and he' said, 'bye. And don't come back!' A real nasty
piece of work.
Out of the 6 priests at the seminary, I managed
to question 4. The other two wouldn't answer a single question; not even, 'were
you ordained in the Traditional rite?' One in particular, a Fr. Grun, was
particularly aggressive, he even hung up the phone on me after I said, 'Well,
I'm quite confident in my views.' I said that because after I had asked
him some questions, which he didn't answer, he said, 'I'm not ready to
answer.' I said, 'this is strange.' and he said, 'it is, isn't it!' and
then he launched into this tirade of questions and statements without any
real chance for me to reply. Then I said that I was confident and he just spat
the dummy!
They kind of remind me of powder puffs used
for make-up, and little girls on roller skates who squeal at spiders! I'm
not so much angry as saddened that I can't now receive the Eucharist. Fr.
Griego said he would be notifying Fr. Black who presides over the district
superior of Australia, in Sydney. That's about a 3 1/2 hour drive from
Canberra, where I live! They must really be desperate to keep me quiet!...
Sincerely,
Kit White
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail and the interest in the faith. They are examples of imposing heretics who
should not be approached for the sacraments.
Still
bound?
Dear MHFM
I remembered something I occasionally heard
in the V2 Church and I think was part of an article in a V2
"Catholic" magazine.
When I was a pre-Vatican II student in a
Catholic high school, we were taught that if we lived in the state of mortal
sin, we were still obliged to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days,
but we could not receive Holy Communion, of course. The reason for this
is that we are already commiting mortal sin and not to add to it by
the mortal sin of not attending Mass.
Mortal sin is excommunication from the
sacraments, not from membership in the Catholic Church. It simply
means we are not permitted to receive the Sacraments. This does not excuse
us from attendance at Mass. Hopefully attendance at Mass, the greatest
prayer of all, will also encourage the soul to give up its mortal sins.
In the Vatican II Church I was shocked when
I heard the priest say that if we are refuse to obey the laws of the church or
are unwilling to give up our sins, DON'T COME (to Mass). He repeated this
several times: DON'T COME!
Of course the Vatican II church approves of
many mortal sins and no one should attend their false "Mass".
This is just further proof of a counterfeit church. Since when did Christ
tell anyone "Don't come!" or "Stay away from Me till you
can give up your sin!" ?
People who are encouraged to pray and obey
do not remain sinners for very long. Or am I wrong about
this?
PM
MHFM: In normal Catholic times, people were obliged to attend
Mass each Sunday. This was because there
were many Catholic priests available.
This applied to all Catholics, including those who were in the state of
mortal sin. However, it’s not a strict
obligation in our day for the reasons we have explained in our articles. But we do believe that people may take
advantage of certain validly ordained priests for a traditional sacrament.
That being said, we can’t really find fault with what the Novus
Ordo “priest” said to those who refuse to obey Church laws and remain in
sin. He’s basically saying: “if you’re
just going to remain in sin and be a bad example, then you’re wasting our
time. Stop bringing your evil and
corrupting influence around here.” So we
can understand where he’s coming from with that comment. (That’s to say nothing, of course, about the
fact that he’s not a real Catholic because he’s fully part of the New Church.)
Re-Scheduled
Dear Brothers,
Did you catch the furor created over the
NFL scheduling a NY Jets home game Sept. 27th at 4:15pm on Yom Kippur.
Naturally, the Jews protested and the NFL moved the starting time to 1pm to
accomodate the MINORITY of Jets fans who are Jewish. Once again the power
and influence of the Jews in this country is on full display. Have you noticed
the four major team sports all have Jewish commissioners. Games are
regularly scheduled on Easter and Christmas without any reservations or regard
for
Christians.
J. Settimo
MHFM: That’s interesting.
We have pointed out in the past that the commissioners of the NBA, MLB
and NHL are Jewish. We don’t think the
commissioner of the NFL is Jewish; but, as you say, “once again the power and
the influence of the Jews in this country is on full display.”
Pitcher
Killed
MHFM: Last week there were major headlines about an accident
which killed 22 year-old California “Angels” Pitcher Nick Adenhart and two
others. Adenhart and two others (one man
and one woman, both in their 20s) were killed when a driver named Andrew Gallo,
who was drunk and three times over the legal limit, ran through a red light and
killed them.
“The Compass News reports that Adenhart was
fatally injured in an automobile accident April 9 in Fullerton, Calif., that
also claimed the lives of two others. He died in surgery after the accident,
caused by a van running a red light. The
22-year-old former student of St Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown had
just pitched six strong innings in the previous night's game against the
Oakland Athletics. It was his debut season in the major leagues.”
(http://cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=12962)
The outrage of the tragedy was compounded by the fact that the
drunk driver, Andrew Gallo, was already driving on a suspended license for a
previous drunk driving conviction.
That’s truly sick. Not only is it
an obvious mortal sin, but it’s unconscionably selfish.
The
drunk driver
The mainstream and even the “Catholic” press – since Adenhart’s
family was, in some way, connected to the Novus Ordo – were clearly aghast at
the tragedy: three 20 year-olds killed by a previously-convicted drunk driver
running a red light. Many probably
asked: “why did God allow this to happen, when they had ‘so much in front
them?’”
In consideration of that question, we wanted to draw attention
to a detail which received basically no significant mention in the reporting on
this tragedy. In our view, this detail
explains why God allowed this to happen:
“Nick Adenhart,
a rookie pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels, was killed in the early hours of
Thursday, April 9, when the Mitsubishi Eclipse he was riding in was struck at
an intersection by an alleged drunk driver.
As Adenhart, 22, and three friends were driving south on a four-lane
street in Fullerton, California, just a few miles from the Angels Stadium, a red
minivan apparently ran a red light and stuck their car broadside, sending it
spinning into a power pole. Two of the Eclipse's passengers died at the scene
while Adenhart was transported to a local hospital, where he later died. The minivan's driver fled the scene, but was
captured by police about a mile away. He faces charges of manslaughter, felony
driving under the influence and hit-and-run. Incidents involving a failure to
heed red lights at intersections are common in the Los Angeles area. Adenhart
and his companions had spent the late evening at a nearby dance club.”
(http://blogs.edmunds.com/straightline/2009/04/la-angels-rookie-pitcher-killed-in-car-crash.html)
Why did God allow these three young people, all under 25, to be
killed by this reckless drunk driver?
Why were they killed by this evil man, who had already been convicted
for drunk driving, when they were so young and observing the traffic laws? The answer, we believe, is that they had just
returned from a dance club where mortal sins and outrages abound.
This is clearly a horrible tragedy, all the way around. It’s put in its proper perspective, however,
when we consider that God allowed it to happen because of the mortal sins they
had committed by going to the evil dance club. The pitcher just had the
greatest performance of his young career.
Instead of thanking God and obeying his laws, he went out and committed
mortal sin. At the very time that mortal
sins were being committed in two distinct areas – the drunk driver was getting drunk
wherever he was, and Adenhart and his companions were going or preparing to go
to the evil dance club – God would bring these two together in a life and
eternity-altering event in punishment for their sins. The three who were killed in the car are dead. They are left to face the consequences of
their lives for all eternity.
This should remind everyone that God is in complete control of
everything. If at any time one fills up
the measure of His mercy, it might be the last chance, even at the young age of
20 or 22.
While God allowed these young people to be taken from life
(almost certainly because they went to the dance club), at the same time He
punished the execrable drunk driver.
This man is truly an abomination.
God’s justice is so clearly at work in his case as well. With his previous mortal sins, God allowed
him to be caught and convicted and his license to be suspended – almost as a
warning that he’s not going to get many more chances. However, he again decided to get drunk and
drive on top of it, so God allowed him to ruin his life on the natural
level. How selfish are these
people? The man couldn’t even limit
himself to committing his mortal sin of drunkenness; but no, he needed to drive
on top of it and put other lives in danger.
As a result, he killed three people and faces murder charges.
This event is truly tragic; but, when we look more closely, it’s
an illuminating reminder of God’s justice and providence. To those who love God, all things work unto
good.
Romans 8:28- “And we know that to them that
love God, all things work together unto
good…”
For those in mortal sin, however, who don’t love God, things
work unto destruction. (Note: We are not
suggesting that everyone who dies in a car accident was punished by God. In this case, however, it’s obvious
considering that they were coming from a den of iniquity.)
Article
Dear Brother Michael
I found your article on the Una cum debate to be excellent and convincing, and that
yours is a truly Catholic position to take in these appalling times of the
Great Apostasy in the Church…
Best wishes
Gerard
Comment
Hi Bro Michael and Peter Dimond,
Excellent article... it helps to clarify a
few things confronting most Catholics today, I surmise...
For those who disagree, too bad, that's
just the way it is, in the latter days of the great apostasy...
God Bless
David N.Z.
Reading
I am currently reading your book
"Outside the Church there is no Salvation" and I was wondering about
"invincible ignorance". I am sure that you are well aware
of how "popular" this belief is in the current "Catholic' church
and even in what used to be the most conservative denominations---When was the
first time (in the history of the Catholic Church) these words were spoken?
We know a couple who still attends Novus Ordo and they think the Second Vatican
Council was awesome; they are part of the so-called "conservative" NO
attendees that help keep this problem alive---anyway, she told me that the
Catholic Church has ALWAYS taught that some men and women can be
saved outside the Catholic Church... I noticed that it also states this in the
Baltimore Catechism. We are going to be having dinner at their house next
week (they are going to try and convince me that I am wrong about the Second
Vatican Council) and I wanted a strong response to her "invincible
ignorance' belief. The strongest response and the shortest---quite
frankly, I am tired of arguing with some people.
Thanks for all your help...I will continue on in my reading of your book.
In Christ's Truth,
Renee
MHFM: The shortest response is that her statement is false, and
that at least seven popes have solemnly defined the dogma Outside the Church
There is No Salvation. Not once were any
exceptions ever mentioned. In fact, all
exceptions were always specifically excluded.
In addition, none of the saints, fathers or missionaries believed that
anyone can be saved outside the Church or in ignorance of the essential
mysteries of Catholic faith. The notion
that some men and women can be saved outside the Church is blatantly heretical.
We have numerous sections on the “invincible ignorance”
objection in our book. They are found on
pages 105-134 of the 2nd edition.
We would recommend that you look at them before meeting with them.
Also, if one goes to our main section on this issue, Outside the Catholic Church There is No Salvation and refuting
baptism of desire - book, audio program, articles, one
can scroll down to section 16 and click on the appropriate sections. Here are just a few quotes of many that are
found therein.
Fr. Francisco de Vitoria, O.P., a famous 16th
century Dominican theologian, summed up the traditional teaching of the
Catholic Church on this topic very well.
Here is how he put it:
“When we postulate invincible ignorance on
the subject of baptism or of the Christian faith, it does not follow that a person can be saved without baptism or the
Christian faith. For the aborigines
to whom no preaching of the faith or Christian religion has come will be damned
for mortal sins or for idolatry, but not for the sin of unbelief. As St. Thomas says, however, if they do what
in them lies [in their power], accompanied by a good life according to the law
of nature, it is consistent with God’s providence that he will illuminate them
regarding the name of Christ.”
All the people who die in cultures where the Gospel
isn’t known go to Hell for sins against the natural law and the other grave
sins which they commit. The Church
teaches that if any of the people in pagan lands are of good will, God will make
sure they are exposed to the Gospel and brought into the Church.
St. Paul, Romans
1:18-20: “For the wrath of God is
revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that
detain the truth of God in injustice: Because that which is known of God is
manifest in them. For God hath
manifested it to them. For the
invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and
divinity: so that they are inexcusable.”
St. Augustine explains this well in reference to
persons who died ignorant of the Faith and without baptism.
St. Augustine (+428): “… God foreknew that if they had lived and the
gospel had been preached to them, they would have heard it without belief.”
John 18:37: “For
this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give
testimony to the truth: every one who
is of the truth, heareth my voice.”
Pope Pius XI, Quas
Primas (# 15), Dec. 11, 1925 :
“Indeed this kingdom is presented in the Gospels as such, into which men
prepare to enter by doing penance; moreover, they cannot enter it except
through faith and baptism, which, although an external rite,
yet signifies and effects an interior regeneration.”
St. Augustine (+426): “Consequently both those who have not heard the gospel
and those who, having heard it, and having been changed for the better, did not receive perseverance… none of these are separated from that
lump which is known to be damned, as all are going… into condemnation.”
St. Prosper of Aquitane (+450): “Certainly
God’s manifold and indescribable goodness, as we have abundantly proved, always
provided and does yet provide for the totality of mankind, so that none of those perishing can plead the
excuse that he was excluded from the light of truth…”
St. Alphonsus,
The History of Heresies, Refutation
6, #11, p. 457: “Still we answer the
Semipelagians, and say, that infidels who arrive at the use of reason, and are
not converted to the Faith, cannot be excused, because though they do not
receive sufficient proximate grace, still they are not deprived of remote
grace, as a means of becoming converted.
But what is this remote grace? St. Thomas explains it, when he says,
that if anyone was brought up in the wilds, or even among brute beasts, and if
he followed the law of natural reason, to desire what is good, and to avoid
what is wicked, we should certainly believe either that God, by an internal
inspiration, would reveal to him what he should believe, or would send someone
to preach the Faith to him, as he sent Peter to Cornelius. Thus, then, according to the Angelic Doctor
[St. Thomas], God, at least remotely, gives to infidels, who have the use of
reason, sufficient grace to obtain salvation, and this grace consists in a
certain instruction of the mind, and in a movement of the will, to observe the
natural law; and if the infidel
cooperates with this movement, observing the precepts of the law of nature, and
abstaining from grievous sins, he will certainly receive, through the merits of
Jesus Christ, the grace proximately sufficient to embrace the Faith, and
save his soul.”
As we see, St. Alphonsus is clearly
making reference to the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas below, in which he denies
that any soul who is ignorant of the Gospel can be saved. Rather, if there is a person who is
completely ignorant of the faith but who is of good will, God will make sure
that he comes to a knowledge of the faith.
St. Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate, 14, A.
11, ad 1: Objection- “It is possible that someone may be brought up in the
forest, or among wolves; such a man cannot explicitly know anything about the
faith. St. Thomas replies- It is the characteristic of Divine
Providence to provide every man with what is necessary for salvation…
provided on his part there is no hindrance.
In the case of a man who seeks good and shuns evil, by the leading of
natural reason, God would either reveal to him through internal inspiration
what had to be believed, or would send some preacher of the faith to him…”
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Sent. II, 28, Q. 1, A. 4, ad 4:
“If a man born among barbarian nations, does what he can, God Himself will show
him what is necessary for salvation, either by inspiration or sending a teacher
to him.”
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Sent. III, 25, Q. 2, A. 2, solute. 2: “If a man should have no one to
instruct him, God will show him, unless he culpably wishes to remain where he
is.”
There is much more on this point in the book. We would also say that if someone is going to
meet with them, he or she should be familiar with all of the main facts and
arguments which refute their heresies on this point and on Vatican II.
“Homeland
Security”
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
In regards to the recent article that you
posted in your News and Commentary section entitled, “‘Homeland Security’
mentions ‘abortion opponents’ as possible threat”, please be aware that this
so-called “report” is probably nothing more than another attempt to pass gun
controls laws in this country. I
wouldn’t be surprised to see another false-flag operation, such as the shooting
of some prominent public official (“president” Obama?), in order to get these
laws passed. Sometimes I wonder if these
people realize that anyone with a computer and internet connection can, with a
little effort, figure out what’s being reported in the “News”.
-John.
MHFM: Yes, we thought the same thing. It seems like an obvious attempt to condition
the public.
Divorce
Greetings,
What do you think about MG's divorce?...
given grave scandal by his public conduct and movies, etc.
Several victims of adultery have told me
that they could no possibly go back to their wayward spouses because they gave
them VD. One can only imagine what poor Mrs. Gibson has had to endure…
Regards,
Miss Ross
MHFM: We weren’t surprised at all. He’s married to an Episcopalian, and he’s
unfortunately heretical himself on the salvation issue. It’s also obvious that he doesn’t observe Catholic
morality. So it’s not at all surprising
that one who is not a traditional Catholic either in faith or morality (and is
married to a Protestant) is not going to have a successful marriage.
What’s perhaps most important to consider in this regard is how
the heresy of Mel’s heretical father, Hutton, probably contributes in a
significant way to Mel’s activity.
Mel’s father is a notorious promoter of salvation heresy and
“baptism of desire.” He’s a horrible
heretic on that issue. He believes the
same thing on that issue as most of the sedevacantist priests in our day. If Mel’s father were a Catholic on that issue
and not a heretic, perhaps he would have the grace to rebuke and condemn his
son for his disgraceful activity. But
because Mel’s father believes like the rest of the proponents of “baptism of
desire” in our day, that souls can be saved in any religion, he apparently
either sees no problem with Mel’s disgraceful activity or probably thinks that
God will forgive him anyway. After all,
if a pagan can be united to the Church, why can’t God make allowances for Mel,
since he made a movie or two with some Catholic things?
Once again, this is a prime example of how the salvation heresy
has ramifications in everyday life and in practical actions. It not only takes root in the intellect, but
it necessarily spills over into corrupting people’s actions, their ability to
live the faith, and their ability to deal in a Catholic way with those around
them. Be assured, if Mel’s father were a
real Catholic who believed in the salvation dogma and strongly rebuked his son
for his heresy and immorality, you would see a change there.
A
“Cardinal”
Dear Brothers,
Do you know what Cardinal Josè Policarpo of
Lisbon said during the Easter Mass in which he was presiding and shown on Tv to
the world? Yes exactly, during the Mass he brought up Charles Darwin`s
theory of evolution and stated that this is very possible, he also stated that
the Holy Scriptures is merely symbolic, how about that? The antichrist revealed.
There is no more shame in their faces,
blaspheming so openly and accepting the world`s Devilish theories, what
traitors, thieves of the truth, I agree with you that these Vatican II people
are not at all Christians.. This is terrible just look how they are leading
astray the flock of Christ, I just want to cry, God taught that all must
believe in the Scriptures and all be baptized in order to be saved.
May God forever bless your wonderful work.
Maria Fernanda da Silva.
Coming
MHFM:
In addition to our regular updates, we hope to have, in the coming days, a new
item on the jurisdiction issue, something new and important on the Vatican II
Church and Islam, and some new material refuting certain radical
“traditionalist” schismatic views.
New Article
on “Una Cum” issue
MHFM:
This is a short new article on the issue of whether a Catholic may ever receive
sacraments or be present at a traditional Mass where the priest is a heretic
and/or praying for Benedict XVI as the pope.
Some people have concerns about this matter. Some people are adamant that one may never
receive Holy Communion at the Mass of such a priest.
We
have provided the strictly theological arguments and the backing for our
position on this matter in the files linked to below. However, in this new article, Bro. Michael examines the issue from a different
angle. He provides a common sense
approach to the issue, and sheds more light on the question by focusing on
things which many people are forgetting.
He also discusses the heretic Fr. Cekada.
This
new file contains some interesting quotes on the benefits and importance of
receiving Holy Communion:
Quotes on the Benefits and Importance of Holy Communion [new]
For
the other things we’ve done on this issue, which deal more with the strictly
theological arguments, consult these files:
Where to go to Mass
or confession today?
The Question
of whether one may receive Sacraments in these difficult times
Audio discussion about the "una cum" issue, where one
may receive sacraments, refuting radical schismatic views [44 min. audio]
These
last three files, and our new article on this topic, will all be contained in
the first file (“Where to go to Mass”).
Convinced
Dear Brothers,
I have read your great book 'The Truth of what Really Happened to the
Catholic Church after Vatican II' far too long after I received it… I am now a
truly convinced sedevacantist even though I was pretty close even before. There
is no way the post conciliar "popes" are/were Catholic. Catholic
Popes are not heretics, neither do they destroy the Church with their false
teaching. The only Tradition we have up
here in Scandinavia is the SSPX… You must have heard about the terrible
tv-program that the Masonic/Socialist Swedish Television broadcasted about Bp.
Williamson by the end of January… Everything must be done to show the false
"traditionalism" of B16. If he fools SSPX into the modern
"Church", Traditionalism as a whole will be severely wounded. Of
course, there is also a chance that perhaps about half of SSPX will adhere to
Sedevacantism if that will happen. We have to pray that God will do what is
right, as He always does.
Sincerly in JMJ,
X
Please do not publish my name if you put this on your website… Keep up your
fantastic work in disclosing modernism and the false Conciliar church.
Sweden
How to
know
If you are correct, then there has been false
teaching for 50 years. Who can possibly
sort through all the details and come up with definitive resolutions to all
this? The average person does not have the intellect-ual competence, or
the time, or the resources. And even if you possess all these things, you
certainly do not possess the gift of infallibility. You are probably aware of the existence of
several self-proclaimed sedevacantist "popes". One is a man in
Kansas who has the support only of his family; another is one Lucien
Pulvermacher, a Capuchin priest who calls himself "Pope Pius
XIII". I would suspect that you do not accept the claims of any such
men. Wouldn't it take validly-ordained bishops, and a properly chosen
pope, to resolve this chaos?
In short, why should anyone believe YOU,
and disbelieve Pulvermacher, etc.? Are you claiming infallibility?
MHFM: It’s very simple: you should believe us because we are
repeating the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church. The infallible papal pronouncements
constitute the rule of faith. They
cannot lead people astray. Therefore,
you look at the things upon which we base our positions: the teachings of the
popes, the infallible teaching of the Magisterium.
If someone really has the concerns that you have, we must
question his faith in the Magisterium.
That’s because the papal teaching and the facts which flow from them
aren’t sufficient for him. He needs
something more, when he shouldn’t.
And as far as recognizing the post-Vatican II “popes” as
heretics, that should be abundantly obvious to anyone who has seen all the
evidence we have marshaled. It really
isn’t that difficult to see that a man who says Protestants and Eastern
“Orthodox” don’t need conversion – and who agrees with the Lutherans on
Justification – cannot be a Catholic. To
all who have seen the evidence, it should be very clear that Benedict XVI
rejects the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation, among others. He praises false religions constantly. He’s an apostate.
With regard to the people who have elected themselves “pope,”
they’re hardly worth a second thought.
The pope is the Bishop of Rome.
They have no legitimate claim to be the Bishop of Rome, and they hold to
different heresies on top of it.
Very bad
Dear Brothers,
That e-exchange about the Diocese of
Arlington, VA having a feast day for Martin Luther King is one of the worst
things I've heard at the local level in the Vatican II sect. But I guess
it shouldn't surprise me because I recall when I was still in the Novus Ordo,
and this was around the early 90's, I used to attend weekday "Mass"
at a church in NY and on Martin Luther King's birthday, his picture was
prominently displayed next to the "altar".
Alain Perrault
Return
Dear MHFM,
After over 20 years of blasphemy and error, I am considering the return to the
Catholic Church. I was born after the II Vatican Council, so Novus Ordo is the
only Catholic Church I know, but since I grew up in Poland, which at that time
was a very Catholic country, a lot of the elements of modernism hadn't yet
entered the Church - for example I have never seen the Holy Communion served to
the hand etc… I loved your video about Death, very
sobering. The one on rock and roll is also very true. You are bringing back the
kind of Catholicism I grew up with…
I don't know if you mention that in the book on UFO phenomenon, but there is a
very clear and openly admitted connection between UFO and a very dark kind of
occultism, just read any book by Michael Bertiaux or Kenneth Grant, both of
them involved in this evil activity. A perfect material for at least one
chapter if you ever plan on future revisions.
Kind Regards,
Michal
Deception
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/easter/5136976/Popes-Good-Friday-message-warns-of-drift-into-a-desert-of-godlessness.html
This is like calling the kettle black. Almost the same deception as when Paul
VI said the smoke had entered the church.
MHFM: Right… the Devil knows that a statement like that is all Benedict
XVI needs to make every so often and it will deceive most people. That’s all he needs to say once in a while,
as he praises false religions and promotes total religious indifferentism every
week.
Comment
Dear Brothers,
Interesting take on the "Back to the future" and
"Superman"… I see God's work in silencing anti-Pope JPII and Mother
Angelica in their latter years. I think this is God's way of putting a halt to
all the errors that they were spreading. God was as tired of listening to them
as are all the true Catholics.
Happy Easter and God Bless,
Tom Miles
Forwarded
I
forwarded a group of people your write up on Michael J. Fox one of them being
my brother Shannon who is a protestant. He instead of responding to me
went and picked all the email addresses off the email and sent them this
response which he didn't send to me being sneaky. He obviously lacks any
real faith.
[His
Response]
Is
this suppose to be a joke? Althought I don't believe in embryonic stem cell
research, all the back to the future movies are great and classics. Whoever
reads this and believes this to be true is pretty sad. First off this is a
MOVIE, there are all kinds of movies, action, love, kid, drama, ect. and
FICTION. This has got to be the absolute most ridiculous metaphor I have ever
seen done and to also try it with superman as well. Its a movie, it is a great
movie, instead of sitting around coming up with STUPID false metaphors for who
knows why, do something productive for the world. After 24 years you now come
up with this? DUDE YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!
MHFM: Yes, he lacks any faith. It’s his comments that are ridiculous. The truth hurts. It cuts people to the heart because it
convicts them of things they want to forget.
That’s why they are, in their bad will, so often moved to rebel against
it.
He specifically rebels against that
point because it reveals that there are consequences to people’s actions – a
concept that is repugnant to Protestantism.
If the star actor in a movie he likes so much has been punished by God
for his role in the film (and there is almost no doubt about this), then
obviously he might have to more carefully assess what he does in life. And worrying about the morality of his actions
is a concept that is anathema to him and to most Protestants. Rather, they want to feel “secure” that they
can do whatever and “enjoy” everything, as long as they “believe.” They don’t want to have to worry about refraining
from almost anything.
Thus, instead of honestly assessing
the validity of the point, he attacks it.
That’s to be expected. We receive
that kind of thing all the time from blind heretics and pagans. They will attempt to insult you and attack
the truth in every way they can. People
who know nothing about Catholic teaching or a certain issue will even tell you
that you are ignorant about something when you are completely right.
As a final note, he says we need to
get a life. He mentions 24 years, as if
we’ve been thinking about this for decades.
Actually, it was something that one of us thought of a few days ago
after seeing news about Michael J. Fox, stem cell research and his Parkinson’s
Disease. The point about Fox is
particularly interesting because it’s not one about an actor who kills himself
or does something to himself after
taking part in an evil movie. No, this
was God specifically afflicting a person with a malady which corresponds to a
part he played in a sinful movie – suffering
the effects of old age as a young man.
In fact – and your brother’s e-mail prompted us to look this up – it was
in “Back to the Future 2” that Michael J. Fox actually went to the future. He went to the year 2015. “Back to the Future 2” came out in 1989. Fox first displayed symptoms of Parkinson’s
Disease the next year, 1990.
We should add that we are obviously
not saying that all movies are evil. It
of course depends upon the movie.
Tornado
hits lodge
Dear
MHFM
I was watching the morning news on TV this morning and saw a piece of news on a
tornado that ripped through Mena Arkansas yesterday (Good Friday) afternoon.
General tornado story was in Reuters:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE5391KS20090410
The
TV coverage that I watched mentioned that the tornado destroyed a masonic lodge
(who were in the middle of conducting a noon meeting). I thought that was interesting. This internet article that I found quotes a
member of the 'Lodge of the Eastern Star' who said they got hit right as they
sat down for their twice-monthly Lodge meeting. The story implies that this
Lodge seemed to be the focal point of the damage and deaths of the tornado.
http://www.wusa9.com/weather/story.aspx?storyid=84152
Patrick Walsh J+M+J
Good
Friday Prayer
In
the N.O., the Good Friday prayer for the Jews is the most blasphemous, apostate
thing on God's green earth. EXPECTING NEW MASSERS TO PRAY THAT THEY GROW
IN FAITHFULNESS TO HIS COVENANT ON THE DAY THEY CRUCIFIED HIM!!! I don't know how many EVEN N.O.-goers heard that evil prayer
through the years and thought to themselves: "Hey, that doesn't sound
right..." Even the most "faithful" N.O attendees when they come
vis-a-vis with this blasphemy... How they do not descry the truth IF THAT
ALONE was their proof... How something so detrimental could fool so many people
for so long... HOW??????!!!!!!!
-M.
Rudnicki
MHFM: Yes, that’s quite a heresy. We mentioned it in our section on the New
Mass: The Liturgical Revolution: A New Mass [PDF File]. How could it fool so many for so long? The answer is bad will, spiritual blindness
and lack of interest.
“Diocese”
The Novus Ordo diocese I live in, Arlington
Virginia (promoted as the most "orthodox" diocese in the United
States), officially declared that Martin Luther King, Junior is a Saint.
He even has an official feast day - the third Monday of every January -
approved as a local feast day by the Bishop to be included in the mass. This
was implemented a couple of years ago and reported in the
Arlington Catholic Herald newspaper.
Have you heard of any other Novus Ordo
diocese having a local feast day for Saint Martin Luther King, Junior?
MHFM:
No, that’s pretty bad.
Faustina
Subject: Little Faust
… I was scanning the radio for some
intelligent talk. I came across EWTN radio, on which a priest was giving
a sermon on "Saint Faustina". I was already aware of the
controversy over her, having seen your articles. However I thought I'd
listen a little bit to see what this Novus Ordo supporter had to say.
First he tells us that it was the future JP II who was assigned to investigate
her case when he was yet a young priest. He of course was immediately won
over. Well we know what JP II stood for. He told us how uneducated
she was and how her original writings were almost unintelligible. This
strange attribute he seemed to think was a good thing. Then, and I don't
remember reading this before, he told us that the Lord allegedly told her that
"the more sins one commits, the greater the claim they have, in
justice, on my mercy". He emphasized the phrase "in
justice", admitted that he at first had trouble with it, but then said
that after thinking about it, it made perfect sense. I couldn't and can't
see the sense in it, rather I thought immediately of the parallel to Luther's
heresies. Finally he told us how wonderful it was that her Divine
Mercy Chaplet could be said on the Rosary beads, eliminating the need for
a new device. "How economical". I thought
of Our Lady's words at Fatima about the Rosary being a "final remedy".
I thought why would the Lord contradict His Mother with a new devotion
to be said on her beads? Finally I thought of her name,
and its similarity to that of the literary character who sold his
soul to the Devil. I thought it is really the same name, except feminized.
A "Little Faust". As Don Imus says (hey even a stopped clock is
right twice a day) "you can't make this stuff up".
Bill Mulligan
Comment
Mhfm,
In regards the snippet on Fox, and Reeves-
I recall, also, the original superman on the old black and white series, that he
committed suicide, remember? Also, look what happened to antipope
JPII-muted, crumpled, speechless! What awaits his heretic successor-Dr.
Ratzinger? Repent, repent, and repent some more! Paz. May the
Holy Family bless mhfm.
De…
Michael
J. Fox, Parkinson’s Disease and Back to the Future
MHFM: Many of our readers are probably familiar with one or all
of the “Back to the Future” movies which starred Michael J. Fox. The first movie was released in 1985, and the
series became extremely popular. We had
a few thoughts about these movies which we wanted to share with our readers.
First of all, we should point out that these movies should not
be viewed by a Catholic. The main reason
is that the plot surrounds a car that can travel through time. A car which can travel through time when it
hits a certain speed is almost idolatrous or occultic; for only God is above
time. We also find it interesting that
in the car (if we recall correctly, from many years ago), there is some kind of
three-part system which is the key to time travel. In our opinion, this is probably a devilish
substitution for the Holy Trinity.
Anyway, the point we really wanted to make concerns the star of
the movie, Michael J. Fox. Fox is
frequently in the news because he’s one of the most famous advocates of
embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic
stem cell research involves the destruction of living embryos for scientific
purposes and it is therefore mortally sinful.
Michael J. Fox supports embryonic stem cell research because he suffers
from Parkinson’s Disease. He wrongly
thinks this research will help cure him.
Fox is a rare sufferer of Parkinson’s Disease in so far as he is not
even 50 years old. He has been suffering
from the disease since he was 29.
Parkinson’s Disease, which involves the breakdown of motor
skills, is something that usually afflicts people in old age. Isn’t it interesting that the actor who
traveled through time is now suffering the effects of old age as a young man? He wanted to go to the future. We believe this was how God punished him for
his part in this evil movie. He wanted
to travel through time, and now he is like an old man and he has been so since
he was 29!
That’s just something we found interesting because Fox is
frequently in the news advocating embryonic stem cell research.
A similar thing happened to Christopher Reeves, who played
“Superman.” Reeves was paralyzed and
unable to move. Since the role of
“Superman” served as a substitution for Jesus Christ (the only God-man), it’s
interesting that in life Christopher Reeves was paralyzed and unable to even
walk. The one who purported to fly and
leap tall buildings in a single bound couldn’t even walk.
Galatians 6:7- “Be not deceived, God is not
mocked.
Mother
of God
Dear Most Holy
Family Monastery,
I'm Francis
Walsh, I'm 13 years old and I'm in 8th grade. One of my classmates is a
protestant. He believes that God is the True God, but that Mary was not the
Mother of God, and is instead, the mother of the "flesh" of god. I
would very much like to correct him from his error, and I was wondering if you
could help me in what I should say to him.
I told him that
because Jesus is God and man, and that those two parts can not be separated,
and that therefore Mary has to be the mother of God. He hasn't provided a
response to that yet, and he said he is still looking into that matter.
However, I'm still trying to find more things to use to convince him, and that
is mainly why I'm writing to you.
He also believes
that Vatican II (Benedict XVI) is the true papacy, and I have watched your
videos concerning that, but I'm not sure how to condense that information to
convince my classmate that Benedict XVI is not the true pope.
Sincerely,
Francis
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
There is a specific section in our new book which addresses that very
issue: you can order the book here. You can get many copies of the book for an
incredibly low price. We would strongly
recommend that you get it for him and for other friends you might have. It covers the point he asked about, as well
as the other biblical evidence.
Regarding Benedict XVI, we offer a flyer on his heresies which,
in a condensed form, explains why he is not the pope: Flyer: The Heresies of Benedict XVI.
We also have a short file which explains that a heretic loses
membership in the Church and therefore cannot be the pope: The Catholic Teaching that a heretic
cannot be a valid pope [PDF
file]. You could show him the short file,
or simply give him one of the quotes to that effect.
St. Robert
Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30:
"A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se)
ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a
Christian and a member of the Church.
Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient
Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all
jurisdiction."
After that, just pick out a few of
Benedict XVI’s worst heresies and actions which are documented on our website,
and explain them to him.
Apostate
Dear Brothers,
I’ve just been reading B16 recent heresies
and I can’t believe what an Apostate he is.
I’m tired of hearing him praising Islam and saying we worship the same
God. If he was a real Catholic he would
be telling them that they have to convert.
Happy Easter
Rob
New from
Benedict XVI
MHFM:
We’ve updated our Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file. There are some outrageous new heresies.
Video
Dear Brothers,
Regarding the recent e-exchange about the
Rock N Roll expose, the same company that puts out that video also puts out a
two-part series titled "Hollywood Unmasked". I have both these DVD's.
They expose the New Age agenda that proliferates Hollywood and they also expose
how most actors and actresses are possessed, and call upon spirits to possess
them, just like, you guessed it, rock stars. The only downside to the videos is
that they portray way too much sexual images in trying to get their point
across that Hollywood uses sexual imagery….
Se…
Blind to V-2
My family is very blind the the V2 church
even though they consider themselves extremely conservative and religious. My
mother was talking about two things she heard on ewtn and they both sounded
wrong to me.
First, she was talking about people at her job reading Harry Potter books
and the need to protect herself from these people. An ewtn program said
she needs to bless herself with special exorcism holy water. It is so
strong that as long as the bottle is always half full, you can refill the
rest with regular water as many times as you need to. Is there such a
thing as exorcism holy water that is more powerful than regular holy
water? In my mind, this logic would mean that regular holy water just
isn't up for the task and that seems absurd.
Also, my parents are big into "enthronements". All I know is that
a priest comes to your house and says a mass to enthrone your house
to Mary. My mother was telling me a story of a program on ewtn where
a family had this done and they were magically able to see things
that were evil in their house - bad books, artwork, etc. Could you
comment on whether this is actually dangerous - if it is a V2 service, is
your house really being enthroned to Mary?? I am wondering why ewtn
is promoting this so much. By the way, my parents had this done a
while back and my siblings are doing deplorable things right under
their noses.
Thank you so much for your important work.
God bless,
Martha
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. A traditional enthronement to Jesus, for
instance, is acceptable; but obviously not a Novus Ordo one. EWTN is
modernist and heretical.
EWTN and the Charismatic Movement [link to section]
The Virgin
Hey there, I just wanted to ask you guys
something about the Rosary.
I know the Rosary is the Rosary and all, and all that comes with it, but
somehow I can't help but think that I'm going to be praying to the Virgin more
than I'm going to be praying to God, who is the Creator and is God Himself
then, and that don't seem too good to me, so are there other prayers like the
Rosary but for God only? Like, what are the prayers directed for God only
anyways? The Mass? I can't go to Mass anywhere where I live, it's all Novus
Ordo, you see the concern I have with this? Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike
the Virgin or the Rosary or anything of that sort, I just want to clear that
up.
Tou…
MHFM:
We think you should obtain our new book,
which shows from the Bible how Mary does not lead us away from Jesus but to
Jesus. It shows why she is so powerful
with God and why praying to her is so important and effective.
Moreover,
it goes without saying that a person can pray directly to God. There are many
such prayers. True Catholics pray
directly to God every day. The Our
Father would be the most famous prayer, but there are many others. The Our Father is also part of the Rosary, of
course. Jesus and Mary, I love you; save souls is an excellent prayer. One could also shorten it: Jesus, I love you; save souls. O my
Jesus, pardon us and save us from the fire of Hell, draw all souls to Heaven,
especially those most in need is another one. There are many such prayers.
Convinced
Hello,
I am writing you due to having reviewed
your materials. I am convinced the Novus Ordo church is heretical and
that I cannot be a part of it. I have converted to the true catholic
faith, and I am needing to go to confession. I am already baptized.
I was baptized in a Southern Baptist church in the name of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.
I read this on your website: Also, if
people are fully convinced on all the issues of Catholic faith which are
covered on our website, then they can call us at the monastery and we can
direct them to possible Mass locations in their area….
Thank you.
Toby.
Confused
Dear
Brothers,
In
regards to your response to a recent email on marriage, I was left confused.
You stated that in the Sacrament of Matrimony, the sacrament is exchanged
between the two individuals, and that a priest serves as an official
witness. And that a NO priest that has not been validly ordained, does
not affect the validity of the marriage. Does this mean that anyone that
has married outside the Catholic Church is seen as married? I would
gladly appreciate your clarification on this matter. Thank you.
Kind
regards,
June
MHFM: A professing baptized Catholic
who marries in a non-Catholic form (e.g., a Protestant church) is not validly
married. We were addressing a case in which two individuals who profess
to be Catholic (and were baptized as Catholics) marry in what they think is the
Catholic form (i.e., a Novus Ordo church), but the priest is invalid. They would be validly married, despite the
invalidity of the “priest”; for he acts as official witness with the two
exchanging the sacrament between themselves.
Papacy
In listening to your talk on how Jesus made
St. Peter the first pope, you raised some great points. I couldn't help but try
to find a way to memorize them into a simple word. I came up with this:
F.R.A.N.K. FAITH
Feed - Jesus said to Peter, not to any
other apostle, 'feed my sheep,' etc. when He made him pope. The triple question
also cancels the triple denial.
Rock - Peter is the rock on which the
Church is founded; no other apostle.
Aramiac - the aramaic, Kepha, allows
for no misinterpretations of Matthew 16:18.
Name - only Peter's name was changed; no
other apostle.
Keys - only Peter was given the keys of the
kingdom; no other apostle.
FAITH - 'I have prayed for thee, that thy
faith fail not.' Jesus prayed for Peter's faith to be infallible; no other
apostle. Thus papal infallibility.
I have yet to use these points in a
discussion/debate, but feel confident that it will make explaining the papacy
easier (then I can follow up by giving the person your new book!).
Thanks and God Bless,
Kit
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Convert
Dear
Brothers Dimond,
Being
a frequent visitor to your website has convinced me that Catholicism is
the one true faith. I was not what you would call a strong Catholic before
and still need work to become a better one. Do you have a technique or
format you follow in an effort to convert protestants? Unfortunately I
currently have more protestant friends than I do Catholic friends. I am
naturally concerned about their spiritual welfare. Their intensity towards
their current faith runs from lukewarm to strong. I don't want to come on
too strong and lose them from the start. At the same time I want to expedite
their conversion without delay if possible. Should I just recommend your
web site or is their something else you suggest I do. I also have a Catholic
sister who is cannot be convinced that their is no salvation outside the
Catholic religion. She also believes that God loves all
people unconditionally and not many people go to hell. Any suggestions?
The
state of world affairs is critical and getting worse. We all must be prepared
spiritually now more than ever.
God
bless your work,
MHFM: Thanks for
the interest. We would recommend our new
book: The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church.
Don’t know
Hi, then if this is all true, the situation
we are in, then what happens with all the people who don't know about it? All
the people who, maybe they become catholics and want to save their souls and
all, what happens to them who don't have a clue about this?
You know, there are only 16 Franciscan monks or franciscans in the world then
that, follow the way of life and rigurousity of the primitive or first
franciscans, like St. Francis, and 4 of them came here to Nicaragua, to live in
a town which is 4km from my house, they live just like St. Francis did, in
total poverty and all, but they celebrate the Novus Ordo mass, and well are
part of the supposed "Counterfeit Church" we have right now; so
you're going to tell me that those good monks are in error and don't know about
it? Like I said, there are only 16 in the world of that kind of franciscans,
who live exactly the same as St. Francis did, and do you think God would let
them be in error like that, if this were all true? They have sacrificed
themselves and left everything to serve God, and do you think He wouldn't tell
them that they are in error? I can't believe it!
Gr…
MHFM:
The people who imbibe the new teachings of Vatican II are bound to know that
what they have accepted conflicts with all of Catholic tradition. So they are not excused for embracing the
Vatican II religion and its religious indifferentism. This is especially true of the
“priests.” Moreover, don’t be deceived
by externals. In our book, The Truth about What Really Happened to the
Catholic Church after Vatican II, we have a section on the religious orders
of the Vatican II sect: The Religious Orders in the Vatican
II sect: Totally Apostate [PDF
File]. In that section, we have a
sub-section about cloistered Novus Ordo nuns who live in much silence and
without any heat. Yet, they pray for
Jews to remain Jews.
Cloistered Nuns on
An
article was posted online about cloistered Novus Ordo nuns who spend most of
their day in silence and want Jews to remain Jews:
“While Pope John
Paul II pleads for religious harmony in the Holy Land, 17 cloistered nuns on
“‘How can you be a servant in
”’We pray that Jews
remain true to their covenant,’ says Sister Angela del Bono, 68,
holding a thick wool sweater tightly around her floor-length brown habit in the
unheated convent.
“We pray that people come to the full
revelation of God... If they are good Jews and we are good Christians this is
already glory to God without forcing anyone to change,’ the native Italian nun
says, speaking in English. ’We pray for
all to be happy and be righteous in front of God. Each man can go to
Heaven--Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Zulus--if they are... of goodwill. If they feel godly, if they follow their own conscience, they will go to Heaven.”
People really need to
consider how bad this is. This shows us
again that the Vatican II sect is the sect of Antichrist. The belief that one can freely reject Jesus
Christ – the doctrine of Antichrist – has been imbibed by the religious orders
which are supposedly dedicated to Jesus Christ.
1 John 2:22 – “Who
is a liar, but he who denieth that
Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist,
who denieth the Father, and the Son.”
This also reminds us that
people can spend much time in supposedly religious acts for God, and it will
profit them nothing if they don’t have the true faith. These nuns spend much of their day in silence
and their convent is unheated; yet they are complete apostates. They reject God and they are headed for Hell. This shows us that without the true faith it
is impossible to please God, no matter how many other religious and devotional
acts one thinks he performs. Notice that
the nun also expressed precisely the heresy condemned by Pope Gregory XVI, that
Heaven is open to the naturally “good” members of any religion.
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832: “With the admonition of the apostle, that
‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’ (Eph. 4:5), may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of
salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ
Himself that ‘those who are not with Christ are against Him,’ (Lk. 11:23) and
that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate’ (Athanasian
Creed).”
Rock video
Dear Brothers Dimond,
I recently
purchased MHFM's video store item: Rock and Roll Sorcerers of the New Age
Revolution featuring… Joe Schimmel
This four hour video presentation
was both well-organized and powerfully presented by the speaker, who spoke in
an authoritative way about subject matter which he was plainly linked to in the
past. I already have several individuals,
particularly parents of both young and teen-aged children, requesting this
video's loan from me.
However, before
lending it out, I have several questions to ask you pertaining to my original
purchase:
(1) Rock and Roll
Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution indicates that it was originally
released in the year 1993; much has transpired in the realm of 'rock music'
since then: consequently, I was led to further research and discovered that a
longer (10 hours) and more recent new release or expanded re-release in DVD
format is also out and now available for purchase. My question then is
this: have you yet seen, reviewed or intend to make available this more
marathon-length video release to MHFM's own readership?... In any event, I commend
MHFM's everyday charity to its readership in its routine offering for sale
materials of great spiritual significance at rock bottom prices which has often
led me to wonder if MHFM doesn't actually lose money with each and every sale
it makes.
I thank you for
your time and attention.
In
His Holy Name,
Mark Stabinski
MHFM:
Thank you for the e-mail. Despite the
fact that it was done by a Protestant, we definitely consider the video against
Rock Music to be extremely powerful. It has
greatly helped many who were immersed in the popular music, as well as those
who don’t believe in the existence of the Devil. Thankfully, the presenter doesn’t inject his
Protestant views into the presentation.
Regarding
his second version of the video, we did see it.
We liked the first version better, however, which is why we carry that
one.
Video: Rock-n-Roll Sorcerers of the New Age
Revolution
Looking back
Dear Brothers.
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Please I have a small problem understanding Luke’s gospel chapter
9:57-62. What does Christ really mean when he replied to the 1st man “Foxes
have holes, and birds have nests, but the son of Man has no place to lie down
and rest” and to the 2nd man “Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and
proclaim the kingdom of God”. Though the one that I really find hard to
understand is the reply to the 3rd man “Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps
looking back is of no use for the kingdom of God.” I am using the good news edition since I
don’t have the Douay Rheims yet. I pray
that God continue to strengthen you for all what you are doing in letting
people know the faith.
Thanks
T.Y
MHFM:
Thank you for the question.
Luke 9:60-62- “And Jesus said to him: Let
the dead bury their dead: but go thou, and preach the kingdom of God. And another said: I will follow thee, Lord;
but let me first take my leave of them that are at my house. Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to
the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
It’s
a very important passage. It’s cited in
our article refuting Justification by faith alone because it presents an image
of attaining salvation as a process. One
can begin to walk the path of justification and then turn way: salvation is
obtained by plowing through obstacles.
However,
we believe that there is another (perhaps more important) meaning to the
passage. This is that a person who wants
to be saved (and, by God’s grace, try to become a saint) must, as St. Francis
Borgia points out, immediately trample under foot all concern for what others
will say of him:
“St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself
to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what
others will say of him. O my God,
why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our
conduct?” (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, p. 296)
This
has a special application to relatives and to friends. God’s
will is frequently thwarted in many souls because when they begin to serve God
(when they put their hand to the plough) they are often sidetracked and even
derailed by concerns and objections that arise from family members who are
opposed to what they are doing. Some
people even put off their own conversions for these things. Instead of completely disregarding and, in
effect, trampling upon those concerns, they give value and time to them. As a result, they fail to accomplish God’s
will or don’t accomplish fully what God wants.
Had
the saints acted in this manner, they never would have become saints. We read that certain saints, in order to
pursue their religious vocation, had to leave without even consulting their
family members, lest they might have been completely stopped from fulfilling
God’s will. They had to put their hand
to the plough and not look back at all.
In
fact, this is how St. Alphonsus understands the passage.
“St. Ignatius of Loyola refused to interfere in the marriage of one of his nieces, though she was heiress of the family. St. Francis Borgia would not ask the Pope for a dispensation (which he would have easily obtained) to have his son married to a relative, although the acquisition of a large estate depended upon the marriage. No man, said the Redeemer, putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God (Luke 9:62). Let us tremble, for God himself has declared that he who has begun to serve the Lord, and looks back to the things of the world, is unfit for paradise. When, then, relatives seek to implicate you in worldly affairs, withdraw at once from them.” (St. Alphonsus, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, p. 285)
Difficult
Dear Brothers in Christ,
I find your reporting of history to be most enlightening. I have always felt
empty with the new version of Holy Mass. I usually try to attend the real Mass,
in classic Latin... It is very difficult for me, to brand the past Holy
Fathers as heretics, especially John-Paul II, PM. The tampering of the wording of
The Conseceration, wording of Ordination have been matters of extreme
concern, from my first reading.
As a member of The Ancient Order of Hibernians, I am bound to protect and defend
the Church, and her religious, I do not like what has transpired since Vatican
II, but the results are that of a council and the power of the Holy Father is
absolute. Clowns, cheeseheads and
improper attire- well, I speak 5 languages and the proper words of outrage fail
me... these acts are all in contravention of Sacred Scripture... One of the
latest affronts to Christ was 2 teenage girls using cell phones to send text
messages during Mass, and then leaving immediately afte Communion...
May the Holy Spirit enlighten you,
John D. Carver
MHFM:
As you continue to look at the information, you should become convinced that
John Paul II and the other Vatican II “popes” were clearly heretics and not
true popes.
John Paul II
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/123874765133620.xml&coll=2
Brothers,
This was on the front page of the Cleve Plain Dealer yesterday. They are trying to prove that the recovery of
this young man from a brutal robbery attack from which he almost died, to the
intercession of JPII. The article is very vague and the Cleveland diocese
and Vatican know nothing about it as you can see. For all the talking about how JPII is going
to be a 'saint', I haven't heard about a lot of miracles 'performed'
through his intercession. God bless you
for all the work you do.
Sincerely,
Kathryn
Rubio
OHIO
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. John Paul II was without any doubt one of the
most evil men in history. Anything like
that which would be attributed to him would simply be a demonic deception which
God has allowed to deceive people at this late stage of the Great Apostasy.
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be
pope 1978-2005) [link to
section]
The power of prayer
[This was a story
we posted a few years back, which we wanted to post again.]
MHFM:
Isabel the Catholic Queen of
“This time there was no way for Isabel to
divide her enemies. Even the Pope
had decided against her. Giron would
arrive in less than a month. He had
proclaimed his intention to marry her immediately. She was trapped…. Marriage to Pedro Giron, lecher and despoiler, as totally opposite to
Isabel as any human being could be, was beyond bearing…. What does a
Christian do in such a situation? He –
or she – prays. And Isabel did pray, as she had prayed never before… ‘Either let him
die, or let me die… Either let him die, or let me die…’ Giron was on the
march. By April 13, at the head of his
mighty host, he had reached El Berrueco… North from El Berrueco rode Giron with
his men, into the Sierra Morena, the
For Jesus Christ is the King of Kings,
and the earth is the Lord’s; and prayers to Him are heard. As Isabel the Catholic had always known, and
would never forget.” (Isabel of Spain:
The Catholic Queen, p. 31.)
Secret Societies
MHFM:
This is an interesting quote from the Council of Trullo in 692. It concerns conspiracies and secret
societies. The Council of Trullo was a
regional council which holds historical importance, but not all of its canons
were approved by the authority of the pope.
The following canon is interesting to consider because it shows that
secret societies were a concern even back then.
Council
of Trullo, Canon
34, 692: “But in the future, since the priestly canon openly sets this forth, that the crime of conspiracy or secret
society is forbidden by external laws, but much more ought it to be prohibited
in the Church; we also hasten to observe that if any clerics or monks are found
either conspiring or entering secret societies, or devising anything
against bishops or clergymen, they shall altogether be deprived of their rank.”
EWTN Assault
Subject: EWTN
Assault
Your assault on a
very remarkable network, and the post-Vatican II Church is an
incredible mindless attempt to bring down the Church and its
followers pre- or post-Vatican II and can only get the approval and support of
likeminded individuals who have lost their humanity and Christianity. May your
tribe vanish and vaporize from the surface of the earth!
T.W.
MHFM:
Your defense of EWTN is an incredibly mindless attempt to ignore Church
teaching and defend modernist apostasy.
EWTN and the Charismatic Movement [link to section]
Fast Track
It looks
like that they are surely on the fast track to get him canonized.
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/node/4849
May
I respectfully suggest if you comment on this article, would you also comment
on the "light speed", "breakneck speed" that the NewChurch
is using in cannonizing saints. Also, the fact that in the last 700
years, we have had just 2 pope-saints, Pius V and X.
The
story about the cola baptism is crazy. I would ask that you pray that my
sister-in-law (mother of my 3 year old nephew) gets discernment and uses the
Protestant "church" that she goes to as a segeway to the true
Catholic Church and that she gets my nephew baptized and not merely
"committed" whatever that means. God Bless.
MHFM:
If it is indeed something extraordinary, then it’s definitely a false miracle
which God has allowed to deceive the Vatican II sect. Also, the “canonization” won’t have any
validity because Benedict XVI is an antipope.
Seder
Re:
news item Jewish Seder suppers or meals: They have been routinely holding
these in the V2 church for years. Yes, indeed, a denial of the true
Catholic faith but the norm for the V2 counterfeit church.
MHFM:
Yes, it’s an important example of how the apostasy that is contained within
Vatican II (e.g., the teaching on the Jews) is being adopted and put into
action on the local level.
Manifesto
Dear Brothers,
These are the ten planks of the Communist
Manifesto. They are all in place in America today and very few people
know it. It proves Our Lady of Fatima's prophecy on Russia spreading its
errors around the world..
1. Abolition of private property and the
application of all rent to public purpose.
Today, the governments at all levels have
"allodial" title to all property and permit those who have paid for
those properties to have possession in exchange for a property tax. Owners are
actually renters.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.on earnings
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House
Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it
"paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance:
Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inheritance
taxes, abolition of inheritance through collateral lines (brothers, nephews,
etc.) forced loans, etc.
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and
limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all
emigrants and rebels against the majority of the people.
We call it government seizures, tax liens, Public "law" 99-570
(1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to
the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists"
and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997
Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of
the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive
monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally
organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of
the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC).. This private bank has an exclusive monopoly in money creation which in
reality has ended the need for revenue from taxes. So why do they tax? To FOOL
YOU into thinking they need them.
6. Centralization of the means of
communication and transportation in the hands of the State
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of
Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act
of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal
Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive
orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department
of Transportation regulations. There is also the postal monopoly, AMTRAK and
CONRAIL. Driver's licenses and vehicle licenses control the highways at the
state level.
7. Extension of factories and instruments
of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands,
and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of
Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of
Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management,
Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS
control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liability of all to labor.
Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The
National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for
a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the
19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted
Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of
course Executive order 11000. And I almost forgot...The Equal Rights Amendment
means that women should do all work that men do including the military and
since passage it would make women subject to the draft.
9. Combination of agriculture with
manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and
country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17
1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731
(ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.
10. Education of all children, from the
moment they can leave their mother's care, in national establishments at
national cost. Education and production together
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train
the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department
of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" . What will be
the influence of communist society on the family? It will transform the
relations between the sexes into a purely private matter which concerns only
the persons involved and into which society has no occasion to intervene. It
can do this since it does away with private property and educates children on a
communal basis, and in this way removes the two bases of traditional marriage
-- the dependence rooted in private property, of the women on the man, and of
the children on the parents
FSSP
…shouldn't they (sspx) join with Rome?
After all they claim he's the pope?
At least the FSSP has an excuse!
MHFM:
No, of course they shouldn’t join with the manifestly heretical antipope. They should correct their heretical
position. You are obviously commenting
on the fact that their position is terribly inconsistent. That’s true. Even though that’s the case, no
one should get the impression that a horribly heretical group like the FSSP is
better than the SSPX because the FSSP isn’t as inconsistent in certain
ways. Both groups are bad and heretical,
but the FSSP is worse. They fully accept
the Vatican II apostasy and the new invalid sacramental rites.
Holy
Water
Given that some of the sacraments of the
N.O. church are invalid; is it ok to get Holy Water from an N.O. church - would
it be properly blessed?
If not, is there any alternative?
Thanks,
Jim, Ireland
MHFM:
One should not get the “holy water” from a Novus Ordo church. One might get it from a validly ordained
priest who offers a traditional Mass.
Interesting new quote
MHFM: This is an interesting new
quote we recently came across from St. Robert Bellarmine regarding St. Thomas
Aquinas.
St. Robert Bellarmine: “It is very credible that
St. Thomas, Alexander of Hales, and other scholastic doctors had not seen the
second synod of Nice [Nicea II], nor the eighth general synod… [they] were long
in obscurity, and were first published in our own age, as may be known from
their not being extant in the older volumes of the councils; and St. Thomas and the other ancient
schoolmen never make any mention of this Nicene Synod.” (De Imag. Sanct. Lib. II. Cap. Xxij.;
quoted in NPNF2, Vol. 14, p. 526)
St. Robert Bellarmine says that St. Thomas Aquinas was
probably unaware of what was taught in the seventh and eighth ecumenical
councils of the Catholic Church: that is, the Second Council of Nicea in 787,
and the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869-870. This is a significant statement. Some people have argued that it’s impossible
or unthinkable that a doctor of the Church could be wrong or ignorant of
something taught at a council. We have
tried to tell them otherwise. The
teaching of doctors of the Church is important, but it is not infallible. A doctor of the Church can be wrong and even
ignorant of certain things that have been taught by the Church. Their teaching certainly does not weigh more
than the teaching of the Magisterium.
Pope Benedict
XIV, Apostolica (# 6), June 26, 1749:
“The Church’s judgment is preferable to
that of a Doctor renowned for his holiness and teaching.”
Errors of the Jansenists, #30: “When anyone finds a doctrine
clearly established in Augustine, he can absolutely hold it and teach it,
disregarding any bull of the pope.”- Condemned
by Pope Alexander VIII
Pope Pius XII, Humani generis
(# 21), Aug. 12, 1950: “This deposit of
faith our Divine Redeemer has given for authentic interpretation not to each of
the faithful, not even to theologians, but only to the Teaching
Authority of the Church.’”
So we can see that the defenders of “baptism of desire” –
and even those who say that it’s unthinkable that baptism of desire could be
incompatible with Catholic teaching if a doctor of the Church believed in it –
are wrong again. We have added this
quote to a new file which will contain new quotes and points on this issue:
New Quotes and Points on the salvation and
baptism issue
Project
MHFM: In the next
few days we will have an update on an important new project we’ve been working
on.
Off the deep end
… My first issue is to convince Catholics that what is on
your site is the truth and to fend off its rejection of those who want to hold
on to modern, post Vatican II, liberal Catholicism. Most Priests and lay people
think that I have gone off the deep end in studying your information. Granted I
am out of work and have the time to look at what you have to say. They all
lead busy lives with families and their time is limited. I told them to take
ten minutes a day to start and look at your material…
Thanks
and God bless your work,
Bob
Bohr
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. In this age of
apostasy, true Catholics will be considered off the deep end by those who are
in reality off the deep end.
The Seal
Dear Brothers,
I found this quote from Gregory of Nyssa you might like.
"I do not know whether, once it has left the body, the angels will
receive the soul that has not been illuminated and adorned with the grace
of regeneration. For how could
they, if it does not bear the seal and has no sign of its quality? Probably it is borne upon the air, wandering
and vagabond."
Have a blessed day.
Humbly,
Ralph
MHFM:
Yes, the fathers speak of water baptism as the seal. If you’re not sealed, you’re not saved.
At least
… the ONLY thing I actually find "consoling"
in the new info I have received (I am truly consoled by the truths you explain,
but I mean, here, on a more 'emotional' level) from your
web-site and your other info is that I now understand that AT LEAST Our Lord
Jesus Christ is NOT being desecrated constantly in the "New Mass"
since according to your info., He is not actually IN the host of the NO
masses, after all.....(of note were long communion lines and almost nobody
going to confession at most NO "churches")
.......for
many years, I have been simply HORRIFIED at the often-times seemingly total
disregard of Jesus' Real Presence at the NO "masses", disrespect,
total lack of reverence, offensive practices, "dress" etc....so I am
trying to convey that, to me personally, it is somewhat of a RELIEF actually to
understand that HE is not even there, present in the NO "mass" host,
to be terribly abused in this way…
Eyes opened
Hello and first off thank you;
The information you have on the internet has opened my eyes to a lot of things
I had intuit not to trust. I live in Manhattan, NYC. and am looking to find a
good place for prayer, confession and to re-validate my faith,
unfortunately I have not come up to any place I feel good
about, do you know of a good traditional church here in NYC that I could
attend? Seems some of the few places (I'll list bellow) that offer mass in
Latin, also offer the "New Mass" and that makes me weary. I feel
terrible about having to go and question them about the ordained
priesthood and other concerning issues, any information would be gladly
accepted.
Thank you dearly;
Tahi F. zedraz
Suspended
Reading today’s news article about another person
being suspended from work for mentioning God, it reminded me of what one person
on your e-exchange section said. The person who said he was offered to join the
Freemasons and in doing so, could rise to some of the biggest positions in
society. If that is the case, its a big possibility that these [people] who are
being suspended from work for mentioning God or wearing a cross are actually
being suspended by Freemasons who own and run the companies.
MHFM: Well, even if they are not members of any secret
society, they act in this fashion because they are godless and evil. As a result, they are impelled to extirpate
any mention of God.
Bound
In responding to Kristopher, who thinks
that BOD is "possible" but not likely, you correctly pointed out that
dogmas are to be believed, and not speculated about or refined in one's own
mind. However Kristopher led off his note with a blatant assertion that
is just untrue, at least as applied to God's promises or declarations, and I
think it needs to be clearly and specifically refuted. He said
"We know that God is not bound by His own laws and may miraculously make
exception to them."
Pehaps this is true if we're referring to a
"Law" of Physics. However when God says something
"is" or "will be" so, then we have to trust Him. You
did quote from scripture, I think with this false assertion in mind,
to the effect that "God cannot lie". Because this
error is so common, so often picked up by modern Novus Ordo types, directly or
indirectly when ever confronted by an argument for the absolute nature of
dogmas, especially the Salvation dogma, I think it needs to be
slammed down hard. Their typical line of reasoning runs something
like: "well God can do what ever he wants, who are YOU to say that
one must be Baptized; God can make exceptions, and my God
does." It makes me crazy mad because the whole fault
in their thinking can be reduced to this stupid notion that God is not bound by
His laws. It is like saying that God is not bound by His word…
Bill Mulligan
JP2
Dear MHFM
When I was a child my mother told me that
she and my Dad had watched one of the Frankenstein monster movies
when they first came out in the movie theaters. They were so disgusted
with this move, she said, that they were literally spitting in disgust when
they left the theater. I was reminded of this story when I read, again,
another date that JP2 will be "beatified". It makes me feel
like spitting in disgust.
As for additional proof that this is a
counterfeit church, this false "beatification" is just another
rotten body on the heap of heresies that have proven time and time again
that this is not the Catholic Church. What a blessed relief it was to
finally see the light and to be able to reject it all and return to the
true Church, instead of continuing to fight an obviously losing
battle.
PM
MHFM:
It’s definitely horrible, but it will also have a positive aspect. The positive aspect will be that it will
further expose Antipope Benedict XVI and put to shame the false traditionalists
who obstinately cling to him.
Possible?
I have a complicated question, which, I am
sure, probably has a simple answer.
Regarding baptism of desire and blood, I
could acknowledge intellectually that it may be possible that such a thing may
occur. We know that God is not bound by His own laws and may miraculously make
exception to them…
It must be acknowledged, however, that if
such "baptisms" do occur, they must certainly be
beyond exceedingly rare, if they ever occur. Simply because the
possibility of occurrence is conceded in theory does not mean that it in
fact happens. In other words, I am willing to consider that even if baptisms of
desire and blood were possible, I do not think they probably occur in reality.
The possibility of one avoiding all sin, so as to maintain only Original Sin
and desiring salvation in the True Faith, without any
graces, guidance, or remissions, until the end of life, without ever
encountering the opportunity for baptism, with these conditions being
considered for salvation, is so improbable in practice I can barely
concede it in theory.
My question therefore is: By conceding the
possibility of these baptisms in theory, though not accepting them in practice,
is this still heretical? I would insist to any individual that he be water
baptized that he can only be saved by this means alone, even if I considered in
my own mind the (very and laughably slim) possibility that this was not
necessarily the case. Is even considering the possibility heretical, even
if not considered publicly? Please let me know as this will help me to judge. I
appreciate your fraternal guidance.
In Maria,
Kristopher
MHFM:
The dogmas are truths we must believe, not just precepts for acting or
assumptions about the way things work most of the time. So a Catholic doesn’t speculate that the reality
is different from what the dogma has declared.
Pope Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the
Modernists, July 3, 1907, #22: “The
dogmas which the Church professes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven,
but they are a kind of interpretation of religious facts, which the human
mind by a laborious effort prepared for itself.”- Condemned
Pope Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of the
Modernists, July 3, 1907, #26: “The
dogmas of faith are to be held only according to a practical sense, that
is, as preceptive norms for action, but not as norms for believing.”-
Condemned
Heresy
is also an obstinate denial or doubt of a divinely revealed truth. Thus, one cannot say that he believes that a
dogma (as it has been declared) is probably true. One must be convinced that it is true –
period.
God
will not save any person without baptism because He has said that no man will
be saved without it and it’s impossible for God to lie. He wouldn’t have revealed it that way if it
were not true. It’s very important that
people believe this.
Hebrews 6:18- “That
by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie…”
Intriguing
Your articles are really very
intriguing...... Is the whole Philippines damn ? all catholics here may be on
the losing side....If im mistaken, all of the practice on the mass is a
traditionalist, for it is handed to them by the spaniards but it suppports the
Pope of Rome on the present. The alms is shared to
the Bishop & a portion is then allotted to Rome ....
how can i classify if all the practices are not right? we do devotions of
the Divine Mercy.....is it a mistake? mostly all catholics are baptized
after 6 months would be long enough.....we
dont particularly investigate this as long as we practice it
faithfully.... What shall we do? For those are not gathering are
scattering? are the bishops here in Philippines good sheperd? or wolves in
sheeps clothing?
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest, and we’re glad that you came upon the
information. You must come to the
realization, if you haven’t already, that you must not go to the New Mass. All the bishops of the Vatican II Church are
not Catholic and thus have lost authority in the Catholic Church.
The Apostasy
of the Hierarchy and prominent members of the Vatican II sect - is this your
hierarchy? [PDF File]
This article covers the astounding heresies
and apostasy of the “bishops” and other prominent members of the Vatican II
sect – the Counter Church – as well as the Catholic teaching that heretics
immediately lose authority in the Catholic Church
The
Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file]
Regarding the Divine Mercy Devotion, you shouldn’t
do that:
False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje) [Link to Section]
Site
Hello Bros I love your website! It is
wonderful and I was wondering if you know of a traditional latin mass around NE
thank you for your time.
Shain
Not so true knowledge
Subject: True Knowledge
If one does not understand the basis to
human duality in its explanation at the beginning of the bible one cannot
comprehend the rest of the book. Jesus said if you do not understand this
parable who will you know another. This means that the mind is mathematical and
the conceptions to external authority splinter the mind in external measure
setting up a countenance to measure, this relates to quantum physics. Religion
is based upon explanation explanation is a scientific intuitive nature we share
through our gift in perception. Jesus refered to it as the gift as the gift is
what forms human economy, it is indisputible evidence that Catholism is
opposite of his teachings. It is symbolic in nature to worship the cross and
miss the message, symbolism is the creation of a need to not take ones own
responsibility leaving us opwn to the tryrrany of mankinds quests in seeking
purpose, to find purpose and purpose will find you. peace be multiplied within
you brother, and Jesus was from another universe of advanced beings sent here
to help humanity evolve.
Neo
MHFM: We post this e-mail we recently received only as an
example of how sadly empty and dark certain people are, and what complete
nonsense they willingly embrace.
Glenn
Dear
Brothers,
I
was listening to Glenn Beck… and I was astonished to hear the man promoting the
Knights Templars. You may have heard that he has been promoting his "We
Surround Them" campaign which apparently today is the culmination of the
campaign where he has encouraged people all over the country who agrees with
his principles and values to gather together today and watch his show later
today on Fox. He went on to declare that he chose today, a friday the 13th, to
give significance to the fact that "the government slaughtered the
Templars" and that the "pope had them killed"... I'm take it to
mean that Beck is comparing a true pope who reigned during the monarchy to
perhaps Barack Obama? This is sick. Of course he failed to mention that the templars
were worshipping Baphomet and posed a threat to the monarchy!
Satanists after hosts
My husband and I are really enjoying your
web-site and the materials (books, videos) you sent --- more power to you
and keep up the great work--but we can not figure out why, as in the news
article you had posted… on satanists stealing NO hosts in Italy, (but I know it
goes on everywhere and we've witnessed it in NO 'masses' where we live,
we've even seen… NO "priests" chasing down the offenders trying to
take the hosts out of the NO church) why are these satanists trying to get
the hosts when it is not even the Body and Blood of Our Lord, since we can see
from your info the host was never even properly confected so it’s still just
bread and not Jesus? Do they not know this? Before reading
your work, I always thought that was a great arguing-point with non-believers
about the Eucharist, the fact the satanists are always trying (and often
succeeding) to steal the hosts, making the point that obviously satanists
"believe" in the Real Presence--even if many Catholics don't.
What's going on here? Thanks,
MHFM:
They are going after it simply because they think it represents the Body and
Blood of Christ. Satan isn’t necessarily
giving them a full indication about what’s going on, either because God hasn’t
allowed it or they aren’t fully possessed; but they are evil and thus moved to
attack that which, in their imperfect knowledge, represents Him. That’s also why there are frequently news
stories about satanic people vandalizing Protestant churches. They wrongly think it represents Christ, so
they attack it.
Helped
One of my friends sent me your website and I really enjoy the audio
programs….Your website has helped in increasing my knowledge of the faith…
Thank you so much and God Bless you.
Teffany
No longer
Brothers,
Can you refer me to a priest in the Asheville NC (or
surrounding) area? The sacraments I have received ( Baptism,
Communion and Confirmation ) were received prior to 1956. I discovered your site (3/26/09 ) while
searching for information... Now I better understand my
longstanding distaste for the V2 mass…
I will no longer participate in the V2 counter church…
Respectfully,
George
Striking quote
Dear brothers,
I recently read a sobering story on your
website in either your spirituality or Dogma section. It was about Our Lady
coming down to earth and setting alight a house filled with sinners, can you
please link me to that story as I was telling a Novus Ordo man I know about it
and he refused to believe it.
thanks
Paddy.
MHFM:
Yes, it’s a quote which is found in The
Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus. We
considered it to be one of the most interesting and powerful quotes in the entire
book. That’s why we have featured it
many times in our “quote of the day” section.
The quote is particularly important because it provides a corrective to
a false conception which many professing Catholics have. Certainly the Mother of God was given a
special station of mercy by the Lord Jesus Christ. Any sinner, no matter how dark his state, can
feel confident in turning to her at all times.
At the same time, however, it reveals Mary’s justice. Having a perfect soul and perfect faith, she
is also perfectly in tune with God’s justice.
She will not countenance an abuse in this area. This incident shows us that those who think
they can sin mortally and despise His grace – and that Mary will somehow find a
way to obtain Christ’s mercy for them anyway – are very mistaken. On the contrary, she will help carry out the
justice of God against them.
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “In the year 1611, in the celebrated
sanctuary of Mary in Montevergine, it
happened that on the vigil of Pentecost the people who thronged there profaned
that feast with balls, excesses, and immodest conduct, when a fire was suddenly
discovered bursting forth from the house of entertainment where they were
feasting, so that in less than an hour and a half it was consumed, and more than one thousand five hundred persons
were killed. Five persons who remained
alive affirmed upon oath, that they had seen the mother of God herself, with
two lighted torches set fire to the inn.” (The Glories of Mary, p. 659.)
Your
e-mail has prompted us to see the need to make this quote a permanent fixture
to our website. We have added it to our
file on: Important Spiritual Information: The
Importance of Praying the Rosary and Devotion to Our Lady [more]
Horrible
Subject: Modernism
Dear Brothers,
Please accept my thanks for all the good
work you are doing to foster the true Catholic Faith, and to expose the
heresies of Vatican II. May God continue to bless you in all that you do.
I am sure you are aware of all the
modernism associated with the Vatican II church, but I thought I would tell you
of an instance that happened here at home.
My cousin was dating a woman that was
divorced (which is a mortal sin, because in the eyes of God, she is still
married.) Of course, nothing was said about it. She applied for an
annulment, which you can be sure she got. When the wedding was to take
place, the annulment had still not gone through. So. my cousin went to
the "priest", and asked him what he should do. He told him that
the hall had been rented, that the invitations had been sent out, etc.
The "priest" told him to get
married by a judge, and that he would bless the marriage later!! Unbelievable!!! And yet, none of my
relatives thought there was anything wrong!
It just goes to show how people lose the
Catholic Faith by staying in the apostasy of the Vatican II Church.
Please continue to fight the good fight,
Brothers, and once again, May God Bless you in all the work that you do.
Please be assured that you are always in my prayers.
Wayne C. Lang
Yes we can
To MHFM,
this is just another proof (as if we needed any more) of satan's grip on the
world. Obama's well-known mantra ''Yes we can'' clearly translates
into ''thank you satan'' in reverse speech- a method commonly used by
satanists (in addition: Michelle
Obama flashes El Diablo hand signal on cover of Vogue magazine).... interesting
but not surprising
greetings from Croatia
Symbol
Dear MHFM
I read your note on the fish symbol and you
are correct, another way of looking at the symbol is, because it was used in
Rome it was used as a sign for Saint Peter who was the Fisherman. It would
explain how even the simplest of person could know the sign meant christianity
because they were followers of the Fisherman.
Thanks for all you do
Robert
Misled
Dear Brothers
I just wanted to make a short comment
about certain misguided traditional catholics, the servants of jesus and
mary, society of pius x, and some other groups. we should pray for
these people to change some of their false positions before it’s too
late. their false hope that someday benedict 16 will release the
3rd secret of fatima, consecrate russia, and we will have this era of
peace, sort of like the evangelical protestants who are waiting for
their false secret pretribulation rapture, so they
can escape the antichrist. where they get these ideas, is beyond me. anyway thanks!
and godbless
Mark
MHFM:
We would say that those who are obstinate among them would not be traditional
Catholics properly speaking. Certainly
we hope for their change; however, there is a lot of bad will, compromise and
unbelief at work with them.
False traditionalism
Dear Mhfm,
Just yesterday I received the Feb 2009 Issue 91 of the Fatima Crusader. On page 3 there is a title which reads
"Introductory note from Father Nicholas Gruner". In paragraph 3 of this intro it says
"It could be the Catalyst that Finally bring all men of Good Will, both
Catholic and ORTHODOX, both Russian and American, both traditionalist and NEW
MASS supporters to join together to bring about the triumph of the immaculate
Heart of Mary and total World Peace."
Again Gruner does not warn people to leave the new "mass" however he
just wants us to join together. He says
the "Orthodox" are of good will if they had any good will they would
be Catholic…
Sean
MHFM:
Yes, what do you expect from a heretic like him.
Good will
Greetings,
Thank you for your explanation, and I
agree. You are right that emotional attachments can lead to false beliefs.
Many people are not willing to face the fact that Hell is real and many people,
including their loved ones, go there.
Fr. Feeney said that after analyzing the
situation thoroughly, he found that many people in the USA simply do not have a
good will. We here in the USA have had it good for a long, long time, and we
like to follow our own will as a result. Which,
unfortunately, usually leads to damnation.
Miss Ross
Why?
Greetings,
Why do you think Traditional Catholics
bicker so much about the Baptism of Blood and Desire when:
a) almost no one sheds his blood for Jesus Christ anymore
b) almost no one wants to be Catholic and
c) asking someone to pour a cup of water
over your head while reciting "I baptize thee in the Name of the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost" is really not that difficult?
Thanks,
Miss Ross
P.S. Do hope you reminded the public that
our technology is much more advanced and sophisticated than our media lets on.
E.g. During the Vietnam War, a soldier told his sister that they had the
ability to detect when a plane had left an airfield there with thermography. And
that was 40 years ago. You can imagine what it's like NOW.
MHFM:
People fight for “baptism of desire” in our day because they are not willing to
accept the supernatural truth that everyone who dies outside the Catholic
Church is not saved. They rebel against
that dogma. They will not accept it
because they don’t have supernatural faith, and frequently because they have
friends or family members whom they refuse to believe are not saved. Hence, they must break that dogma down. They focus their attack on water
baptism. Water baptism slams the door
shut to the notion of salvation outside the actual confines of the Mystical
Body. It represents actual (not invisible) incorporation into Jesus Christ and His
Church. In their desire to open the
gates for people who are outside, they must begin by attacking the necessity of
water baptism.
Confirmed
Hi Brothers:
I had my 1st exposure to sspv which
confirmed your assessment.
… I contacted what I thought an independent
Priest in Ft. Lauderdale for my elderly parents.
I reached a coordinator & w/o having
learned much from u over past 2 yrs.; I wouldn't have thought to ask him what I
did. I asked him if Sacraments were refused to those who accepted all the
Dogmas, particularly the salvation dogma.
He told me no Communion was given to one,
who they knew, didn't believe non Catholics could be saved. I didn't
inquire if new-comers were tested prior to receiving Communion…
The universal salvation idea is incredibly
satanic/destructive as the true Church teaches.
dave
Audio
Thank
you for the recent audio on Warren Carroll. I live near Christendom College,
and took a class there years ago when I was a convert attending the Novus Ordo
church. I have spoken to Warren Carroll on a couple of occasions.
What
is shocking about Warren Carroll's College is that they have one particularly
odd policy that some of their own staff have never been happy with. Staff and
students are forbidden to write, even a term paper, critiquing Vatican II
documents or sacraments…
MHFM:
That’s interesting, thanks.
Receiving from heretic
“Once these conditions
[intention of Orders] are present, the sacraments may be conferred by either
the good or the wicked, the faithful or the heretical, within
the Church or outside it: but within the Church, they are conferred both in
fact and in effect, while outside it, although conferred in fact, they
are not effective.”
St. Bonaventure - The
Beviloquium VI, V
Hi brothers!
I must first apologize for my english.. It
is not my first-language
I qouted St. Bonaventure in the beginning
of my mail as a clear marking against what I think is your false position in this
question. However I am not quite sure that you have evaluated all the documents
relating to this question (recieving sacraments from heretics). I would advise
you brothers to revaluate the traditional teachings again. I think that
you soon will find out that the principle of epikaia can't be applied in these
situations (recieving the blessed sacrament from heretics). I tell you this in
charity because I think that you maybee are driven to the conqlusions you
make based upon people constantly asking you about were to go. I do hold
the position that it is at least schismatic to recieve Holy Communion from a
manifest heretic. I do not however by that imply that you or someonelse
automaticly incurr excommunication in this regard if you are not aware of the teachings
of the Church about this or are unaware of if the celebrant is a schismatic or
heretic. After all this is a finer point of our faith (it if is lawful to
recieve Communion of heretics in special circumstances) & the present
situation (the great apostacy) we are living in dosn't make it easier for us
catholics to always draw the right conqlusions regarding how & when the
principle of epikaia applies….
Adam
MHFM:
The quote from St. Bonaventure simply means that people who receive sacraments
when they are non-Catholics and outside the Church do not receive any benefit
from it. In other words, a person who
receives a sacrament when he is himself outside the Church sins when receiving
it. He does not receive any of the
positive effects.
Your
argument is essentially that it’s against the divine law to receive a sacrament
from a heretic. That’s a common argument
in radical “traditionalist” schismatic circles.
It’s completely wrong. Not only
does St. Thomas teach that one may receive Communion from, and hear the Mass
of, certain undeclared heretics; but,
in necessity, an unbaptized person could receive baptism from a heretic, if no
one else could do it. That proves that
it’s not against the divine law in every case to receive the sacrament from an
undeclared heretic. Really, anyone who
holds the position you are advocating would
have to condemn St. Thomas Aquinas as a heretic for what he teaches
below.
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Part III.,
Q. 82, A. 9, Whether it is
permissible to receive communion from heretical, excommunicate, or sinful
priests, and to hear mass said by them?:
“I answer that, As was said above (5,7), heretical, schismatical,
excommunicate, or even sinful priests, although they have the power to
consecrate the Eucharist, yet they do not make a proper use of it; on the
contrary, they sin by using it. But whoever communicates with another who is in
sin, becomes a sharer in his sin. Hence
we read in John's Second Canonical Epistle (11) that "He that saith unto
him, God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works." Consequently, it
is not lawful to receive Communion from them, or to assist at their mass. Still there is a difference among the above,
because heretics, schismatics, and excommunicates, have been forbidden, by the Church's sentence, to perform the
Eucharistic rite. And therefore
whoever hears their mass or receives the sacraments from them, commits sin. But
not all who are sinners are debarred by the Church's sentence from using this
power: and so, although suspended by the Divine sentence, yet they are not
suspended in regard to others by any ecclesiastical sentence: consequently,
until the Church's sentence is pronounced, it is lawful to receive Communion at
their hands, and to hear their mass. Hence on 1 Corinthians 5:11, "with such
a one not so much as to eat," Augustine's gloss runs thus: "In saying
this he was unwilling for a man to be judged by his fellow man on arbitrary
suspicion, or even by usurped extraordinary judgment, but rather by God's law,
according to the Church's ordering, whether he confess of his own accord, or
whether he be accused and convicted."
It’s
important to emphasize that we are not suggesting that all undeclared heretics
may be approached for the sacraments – not at all. We would only say that about certain priests
who profess to be Catholic and fall into a specific category. By virtue of a notorious or imposing
promotion of heresy, undeclared heretics can certainly put themselves in a category
where they would have to be avoided like declared heretics. That’s the case with countless heretics
today. The point is that this shows that
there can be undeclared heretics who
could be approached for the sacraments.
We
want to emphasize that radical traditionalist schismatics who say it’s
heretical to think that one may receive a sacrament from an undeclared heretic
must condemn St. Thomas Aquinas, if they have any honesty or consistency at
all. They couldn’t just say that he made
an error – as we do with regard to a few of St. Thomas’ other statements –
because, according to their (completely
false) position, it’s incongruous
with the very possession of the apostolic faith and is against the divine
law and is mortally sinful in every
case to receive a sacrament from any undeclared heretic. Therefore, they would have to say St. Thomas
was a heretical unbeliever for teaching such a thing. And once they attempt to throw St. Thomas out
of the Church, they are saying that the Catholic Church itself is a heretical
sect which approves, canonizes, recommends and teaches from non-Catholic
heretics.
Here
are some additional points which further demonstrate that our understanding of
St. Thomas Aquinas on this matter is correct.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Suppl. Part, Q. 38, A.2:
“I answer that, on this question four opinions are mentioned in the text (Sent.
iv, D, 25). For some said that heretics, so long as they are tolerated by the
Church,
retain the power to ordain, but
not after they have been cut off from the Church; as neither
do those who have been degraded and the like. This is the first opinion. Yet
this is impossible, because, happen what may, no power that is given with a
consecration can be taken away so long as the thing itself remains, any more
than the consecration itself can be annulled, for even an altar or chrism once
consecrated remains consecrated for ever. Wherefore, since the episcopal power
is conferred by consecration, it must needs endure for ever, however much a man
may sin or be cut off from the Church…. Wherefore others said that even those
who are cut off from the Church can confer Orders and the other sacraments,
provided they observe the due form and intention, both as to the first effect,
which is the conferring of the sacrament, and as to the ultimate effect which
is the conferring of grace. This is the second opinion. But this again is inadmissible, since by the very fact that a person communicates in the
sacraments with a heretic who is cut off from the Church, he sins, and
thus approaches the sacrament insincerely and cannot obtain grace, except
perhaps in Baptism in a case of necessity. Hence others say that they confer
the sacraments validly, but do not confer grace with them, not that the
sacraments are lacking in efficacy, but on account of the sins of those who
receive the sacraments from such persons despite the prohibition of the Church.
This is the third and the true opinion.”
In
this passage St Thomas is discussing ordination. Those points aren’t relevant to our
topic. What is extremely relevant to our
topic is the fact that this quotation shows that St. Thomas (and other
authors of his time) distinguished between two classes of heretics. Those who are “tolerated” by the Church are
those who have not yet been specifically declared by a judge to be
heretics and to be avoided. These
“tolerated” heretics are automatically severed from the Church for denying the
faith, but they haven’t been
declared. Those who have been “cut off” are those who have been pronounced
against by a judge in a declared sentence.
Now,
notice that St. Thomas says that a
person who communicates in the sacraments with a heretic “who is cut off” from
the Church necessarily sins.
Remember, those who have been “cut off” are those who have been
officially pronounced against. There is
no doubt, therefore, that he is teaching that the absolute obligation not to
communicate in the sacraments with a heretic applies to heretics who have been
declared against: those who have been officially “cut off.”
If
St. Thomas were teaching what the radical schismatics say, he obviously
wouldn’t have mentioned only those who are “cut off” from the Church. Certain radical schismatics say that whoever knowingly communicates in the sacraments
with anyone he recognizes to be a heretic necessarily sins, even if that
heretic is undeclared and meets certain conditions. What St. Thomas says disproves their
position. That should be obvious to any
honest person who examines the above passage.
We
have pointed out that this passage teaches that you are not absolutely
forbidden to attend the Mass of or receive Communion from a heretic in every case “until the Church’s
sentence is pronounced.” Certain radical
schismatics, who disagree and condemn our position, have attempted to deny that
this is what St. Thomas is saying here.
They have desperately tried to argue that he’s only talking about
sinners, not heretics. Some of them have
tried other patently ridiculous and desperate arguments. We disproved all of that by quoting the
Fourth Lateran Council, which clearly teaches the same concept in the very same
time period:
Pope Innocent
III, Fourth Lateran Council,
Constitution 3, On Heretics, 1215: “Moreover, we determine to subject to excommunication believers who receive, defend
or support heretics… If however, he is a cleric, let him be deposed
from every office and benefice, so that the greater the fault the greater the
punishment. If any refuse to avoid such persons AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN POINTED OUT
BY THE CHURCH [postquam ab
ecclesia denotati fuerint], let them be punished with the sentence of
excommunication until they make suitable satisfaction. Clerics should not, of course, give the
sacraments of the Church to such pestilent persons nor give them a Christian
burial…”
Speaking of those who “receive, defend or support
heretics,” the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that those who refuse to avoid these people, AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN POINTED
OUT BY THE CHURCH, are to be excommunicated. This is another example which demonstrates
that our position is the true Catholic position, and that those who condemn it
are non-Catholic schismatics.
Somewhat soon we
will also have another little article on this topic.
Marriage
Dear Brothers,
I’m very grateful what you've done to your great work defending the true
catholic church, in regarding to my question, I was married through the new
rite of marriage and it happened the priest was in new rite ordination and
celebrated the new mass, do you think its valid?
Thanks and God Bless,
Steve
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
We assume that neither one of you had any impediments to marriage that
you are not mentioning. If that’s the
case, we do believe it was valid. This
is because in the Sacrament of Matrimony the sacrament is exchanged between the
two individuals, while the priest serves as the official witness. Therefore, the fact that the priest was not
validly ordained would not affect the validity.
Mess
Dear Most
Holy Family Monastery,
My question is regarding friends and family members who are not Catholic, have
never been Catholic and take seriously their own faith. When I first
became Catholic (I married a cradle Catholic) they were appalled. They
couldn't believe that I had joined a church that believed there were other ways
to God...that we had to respect the beliefs and teachings of Buddhists,
Muslims, Hindus, etc... At the time I did not believe them. There
were so many other issues I had to overcome coming from a conservative,
evangelical-type background, such as 'do Catholics really worship
Mary"...you know the drill.
Anyway, it has taken me several years to realize exactly WHAT
the Second Vatican Council even was and WHAT the Catholic Church today
teaches. (I am also thankful to you and your website) Anyway, we no
longer attend V-2 masses (which has caused a lot of marital discord because my
husband sees nothing wrong with it--he has also read everything I have read
about it and still sees nothing wrong, but respects my feelings) and my family
only thinks I am more nuts than ever...
I apologize for rambling, but I hope you are finding my question in this
mess....How can anyone who is serious about their faith be expected
to look to Rome (current Catholic Church) for their Salvation? They think
the Catholic Church is a joke. Will they be held accountable
when THIS disgusting mess is what the Church is during their
lifetime?
Thanks so much for your time
In Christ,
Renee
MHFM:
It’s important to emphasize that the Vatican II Church is not the Catholic Church,
but a counterfeit sect.
People
will be held accountable if they don’t have the Catholic faith, the one true
faith. It’s necessary for salvation to
have this faith, without exception. We
assume you are asking about people who are outside the Catholic Church who
might have an interest in Catholicism, but are turned off by the apostasy and
the scandals of the Vatican II Church.
That is undoubtedly the case with many people. That’s one of the real evils and scandals of
the Counter Church. But the fault exists
on their part as well. They must have
enough interest to dig more deeply. If
they do, God will give them the grace to recognize that the Vatican II Church
is not the traditional Catholic Church and/or they will come across
information, such as the material we provide, which covers what’s
happening.
With
regard to the people at the Vatican II churches who go along with the new
religion, the answer is yes people
will be held accountable if they go along with the heresies and the new
religion. They are bound to know their
faith, study it, and reject novelty.
They cannot just blindly follow along with a new, modernist religion and
be justified.
B.O.D., war
Hey guys im a 19 year old whos been reading
your stuff. I agree with you about baptism of desire but when i talked to my
older brother about it and he claims im a heretic because I deny that teaching
of the church, also because i think a just war is impossible with modern
weapons and modern society. My older brother is a devout v2 Catholic and he is
also a lot smarter than me. Also he has warned me about how you guys are trying
to destroy my faith, and how I shouldn't even go to your website. He always
used to be my spiritual leader but now im starting to think that he is lost. So
he knows about your website, he thinks its evil, and he sent me this about
baptism of desire. Any ideas on what to tell him, i can't give him your site
because he refuses to touch it.
w
MHFM:
Well, he’s showing his bad will by refusing to look at the information. He’s obviously not mature enough to weigh the
merits of an argument. Instead, he’s
consumed by his bad-willed venom toward us.
Since he’s a Vatican II “Catholic,” we would suggest zooming in on his
belief that Jews, etc. can be saved.
Show him that his position is a rejection of Catholic dogma by quoting
the Council of Florence’s solemn definition that all who die as Jews, pagans,
etc. are not saved. At the same time,
you should quote for him the Athanasian Creed and the teaching of the Gospel on
the necessity to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation. If, at that point, he still refuses to
acknowledge that his position isn’t compatible with Catholic dogma, then avoid
him because he’s totally obstinate. The
fact that he has already looked at the information – and rejected it – reveals
that he’s not operating in good faith at this time.
By
the way, we don’t agree with your position that a just war is impossible with
modern weapons; but we’re happy to hear about your interest in the faith.
Fish Symbol
MHFM:
Did you ever wonder why the fish symbol is used for Jesus Christ and
Christianity? The fish was used in the
ancient Church as a symbol for Jesus Christ.
One will also see it used today, especially by Protestants. The reason for the symbol is that the
initials of “Jesus Christ, Son of God,
Savior” in the Greek language spelled Ichthos. Ichthos
is the Greek word for fish.
V-2 Sexual Abuse Problem
Dear Fr.
Would you please explain to me why you feel that the sex scandals all began
AFTER Vatican II? From the books and newspaper articles that I have read,
I have "learned" that in a lot of cases, this abuse was going on in
the 1930's, 40's 50's and beyond. The hierarchy in this country was
moving them abusers around to different places all the time.
For example, I was told by a priest in the Diocese of Syracuse that he was
transferred in the late 50's because his Pastor at the time felt (or heard a
rumor) that he was spending too much time with a woman in the parish. Fr
"X" was never asked about it but was sent on vacation. When he
returned, a letter from the Chancery was on his desk with his next assignment,
effective immediately. That was the way that pastor handled his
assistants if he wanted them removed from that parish, no matter what the
reasons were.
I am 43 years old, raised in a Irish parish on the Westend of Syracuse. I
served my cousin's First Mass in 1974 and continued to serve Mass in that
Parish Church until 1984 when I was told that they would be accepting girls to
serve Mass. Needless to say, I left that Parish and began attending Mass
at the largest, more traditional Polish Church in the city. That was the
FIRST time that I saw anyone kneel at the Altar Rail to receive Holy Communion,
UNDER ONE SPECIES! The priests there frowned on allowing anyone to
receive in their hands.
Here I am, many years later living in the Diocese of Rochester where I see far
too many poeple STANDING during the Roman Canon and during the time after the
Agnus Dei before they go forward to receive Communion. I have noticed
some weird looks from some people because I kneel during the Canon, before and
after receiving Communion.
Something else that I have noticed that has increased lately is the holding of
hands during the Our Father. I understand Christ's teaching about how we
should pray His Prayer to our Father, but I do not think that I should be
standing in the middle of the aisle holding hands with the person on the other
side. This is part of the Mass and I feel that it is disrupting MY time
in prayer. I am there to pray, not to talk with everyone around me and
hold hands and have a party!
Sorry to ramble, but something else I just remembered. Four years ago,
not too long after they destroyed Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester, I had to
attend a Mass there. I was rather shocked and surprised at what was
done!! I mentioned to one of the priests that was there that I did not
think that it was right and that it should not have been done. He started
to tell me that this was done according the doctrines of Vatican II. I
responded that if a NEW building was to be built then that was one thing but to
do that to an existing one was uncalled for! Where is the Blessed
Sacrament? Off in a side chapel, not even facing the people as they come
into the church! I do not understand why some people feel that it is ok
to destroy some of the most beautiful churches that we have in this part of the
country! We are the Roman Catholic Church, not the Protestant Church down
the street! The central part of our Faith is Jesus Christ, present
in the Blessed Sacrament which in many cases is moved off to the side because
now the priest is the central part of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and it has
become high theater! WHEN WILL IT STOP???
Thank you for your time and God Bless!
Jim S
MHFM: While there were certainly isolated incidents prior to
Vatican II, the problem exploded afterwards.
It exploded after Vatican II for a number of reasons. First, homosexuality –
the chief cause of the sexual abuse problem among Vatican II
“priests” – is caused by idolatry, as Romans 1 clearly teaches. We cover that in this article: The Idolatry of the Vatican II sect
is connected with its rampant homosexuality [PDF File]. Vatican II officially taught that idolatrous
religions should be accepted. It
therefore follows that priests who accept idolatry will be more prone to be spiritually
given over to that kind of unnatural disorder.
Second, the New Mass is invalid. (You need to get out of there. Please continue to look at the information on
the New Mass which is covered on our website.)
The New Mass is actually an idolatrous counterfeit “mass” because it
purports to contain the real presence of Christ but does not. The New Mass therefore gives rise to the
consequences of idolatry, especially for the “priests” who use it and are immersed
in its spirit.
Third, the Vatican II Church breeds a
sinful human respect and a worship of the dignity of man. It accepts almost everything and
everyone. As a result, homosexuals find
a home there and seek to join it. In
order to exclude homosexuality and homosexuals, one must be willing to exclude
and condemn certain people. One must be
willing to put one’s foot down and say: no
homosexuals here whatsoever. The
Vatican II sect cannot do that, and thus immoral disorders flourish within
it.
Benedict XVI teaches and reads his
own heresies
MHFM: We’ve updated
our Benedict
XVI's recent Heresies
file. Numerous heresies are covered in
the new installment, but what’s particularly interesting is this picture of
Benedict XVI reading his (i.e., the Vatican’s) own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. This is for those who don’t think he’s aware
of what’s published therein.
Benedict XVI
enjoying his own heresies, as well as those of the other members of his Vatican
II "Church"
He’s not only fully
aware of his own heresies which are published in the newspaper, but also of the
astounding heresies by the members of his Vatican II sect. For instance, in our newest posting we cover
and comment upon this heresy (among others): “… To this end, scholastic books should be revised in order not to contain material
which may offend the religious sentiments of other believers, at times
through the erroneous presentation of dogmas, morals or history of other religions.”
Thanks
I want to thank you for the information. I found you…. and I have to say that
you truly deliver on your promises...the package was massive in terms of
information. I'm still not all of the way through it and I will hold my
questions, comments, etc until I am completely through the information and have
had time to absorb it fully.
Thank you also for the service that has been nothing short of awesome in the
orders that I've placed. I've found them to be far more than satisfying.
Very quick note about me. I grew up Catholic and was confirmed at 19. Since
then, I've looked into other religions, texts etc but would always find my way
back to Catholicism. Now, at 30, I'm back "home" spiritually speaking
and I have to thank you for one thing...opening up my eyes. For the longest
time, I was only familiar with The KJV Bible and no other. I used to believe
that Protestants were being irrational when they argued that there was a
Catholic bible. Now, thanks to you and your organization, I was actually able
to procure a Douay-Rhiems Bible for my iPhone.
Hopefully, soon, I'll snag a hard copy of it...
Travis McMillan
God is Love
… I have been taught over and over that God
is Love. I understand that but I can't help but believe that God is
much more than Love, and that there are very real expectations that our
Creator has for all of us. I wish to be taught those, too.
I found your website 6 or so months ago. I have read quite a bit
of information that is provided, and ordered some books and videos.
Kevin R….
MHFM:
God is love, but God is also truth (John 14:6) and justice. It’s interesting that in the entire Bible, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom (Psalm 110:10; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10, etc.) – or at least the
need for the fear of the Lord – is
probably mentioned more than anything else.
That’s because a person who comes to God must fear Him first and believe
in all of His truth. Fearing Him is the
first degree of humility; it is to acknowledge His power. It is to respect His laws and recognize what
He will do for those who obey Him and to those who do not.
St. Benedict (c.
520): “The first degree of humility, then, is that a man always have the fear
of God before his eyes, shunning all forgetfulness and that he be ever mindful
of all that God hath commanded, that he always considereth in his mind how
those who despise God will burn in hell for their sins, and that life
everlasting is prepared for those who fear God.”
If
one doesn’t begin with the fear of the Lord, one can never learn to love
God. The notion that God is love has
been misused and perverted by many in our modernist era. It has been used to justify liberalism, evil
and the denial of His truth.
Agree, but…
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
While I am not a sedevacantist for a number
of reasons which I would prefer not to articulate in this e-mail (since it
would distract from the chief point that I am trying to make), I very much
applaud your defense of the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and also your
battle against the sinful practice of NFP. I am utterly perplexed to find
so many Traditional Catholics, even and especially sedevacantists, so far
afield on these issues.
There's no question but that ALL of the
problematic doctrines promulgated at Vatican II, the Latrocinium
Secundum, (with the possible exception of collegiality), flow logically
from a denial of EENS. If I were to hold the opinion that most
Traditional Catholics do about EENS, I would immediately accept all of Vatican
II and cease to be a Traditional Catholic. Even the erstwhile Father
Ratzinger made this point.
If we accept the so-called loose
interpretation of EENS held by most Traditional Catholics, the entire V2
ecclesiology follows quite logically from it. If we state that
non-Catholics may be saved and do not explicitly reject the formula of EENS, we
must state that non-Catholics are somehow within the Church. They simply
must be if they are saved and we do not outright reject EENS. And that
sets up an ecclesiology of partial communion, the subsistit ecclesiology of
Vatican II. In other words, there can certainly then be different degrees
of belonging to the Church. People who hold the Catholic Faith are in
full and perfect communion, while Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and animists (who
are following their consciences, saving their souls, and thus part of the
Church) have varying degrees of communion. They can then truly be
called our "separated brethren", for they are within the Church while
being separated from us somehow.
By setting up a subjective criterion for
salvation, moreover, people are saved (and please God) by following their own
consciences. Consequently, it cannot be disputed that they have a RIGHT
to please God, follow their consciences, and save their souls -- ergo Religious
Liberty. Based on this, there really
should be no theological impasse between the Vatican and the SSPX, and the
various activities of the V2 popes, particularly the egregious examples of
communicatio in sacris with false religious, can be attributed to
imprudence, excessive human respect, etc. but not to heresy or error.
Strangely, sedevacantists tend to be even worse on this subject. I knew
of a sedevacantist priest (second-hand as related by another sedevacantist
priest) who went so far as to refuse the Last Sacraments to a so-called
Feeney-ite -- when even Ratzinger at one time admitted that it's at the very
least a legitimate opinion (based on the Church Fathers) and the V2 Church
tolerates the followers of Father Feeney.
May God bless you,
Laszlo Szijarto
MHFM: We fully agree with your comments with regard to the
denial of Outside the Church There is No Salvation by countless
“traditionalists,” and how Vatican II flows directly from that denial. (The only exception is that we wouldn’t
describe as “traditional Catholics” those who deny the dogma.)
By continuing to recognize the heretic Benedict XVI as a
Catholic, however, you are asserting that Outside the Church There is No
Salvation is not a dogma which binds under pain of automatic expulsion from the
Church. For it is an undeniable fact
that Benedict XVI rejects that dogma.
Therefore, by asserting that he remains the pope and thus within the
Church, you hold that one can reject that dogma and remain within the
Church. As it stands, you cannot
consider Outside the Church There is No Salvation to be an actual dogma, but
just a nice opinion which people should believe but don’t have to believe under
pain of losing all membership in the Church.
Newsweek
Dear Brothers,
Today I picked up a Dec.2008 Magazine of
Newsweek in my .Optometrists' office.
On the cover was and article inside about the "Bible and
Gays". I skimmed through the article as I did not have enough time to
read the whole thing, and according to Newsweek, the Bible approves of Gays!!
Of course, everything is taken out of context, and I could not find this
article on their website. I should not be surprised, No mention of Sodom and
Gomorrah . But the most disturbing thing
is that everyone is going to believe this junk and think that the gays are
perfectly all right because it was in the Newsweek that the Bible says
so! And the article following that was about gay marriage!
God help us all!!
Sincerely,
Kathryn Rubio
MHFM: Yes, it’s more liberal propaganda from the establishment
media.
Disagree on JP2
Dear Sir,
I came across your website… and discovered
that you believe that Pope John Paul II is an Anti-Pope. I
just wanted to say that I disagree with you on this. In fact, I believe
as it is written in Father Gobbi's book, To the Priests My Beloved Sons, that
according to the Virgin Mary, Pope John Paul II is her special Pope. I
believe that this is true, and do not believe what you say about this pope.
Sincerely,
Clifford Partridge
MHFM:
It’s obvious that traditional Catholic dogmas mean nothing to you. All that matters to you is following a
supposed “visionary.” Has it occurred to
you that such false signs, wonders and messengers are predicted to arise in the
last days (Mt. 24:24-24; 2 Thess. 2)?
Does it penetrate your head that anyone who claims a message which
conflicts with Catholic teaching is, by that very fact, not of God and
promoting something not of God?
The
notion that John Paul II was Mary’s special pope is insanity. He praised and endorsed false religions. He rejected a multitude of Catholic dogmas. He exemplified a wicked religious
indifferentism which was condemned by all the true popes and Sacred
Scripture. He engaged in paganism. He taught that heretics and schismatics don’t
need conversion. Even if one prescinds
from his countless heresies and only examines his immorality, one can discover
that he was evil. He allowed pedophiles
to run wild; he oversaw the cesspool of immorality and corruption that is the
Vatican II Church; he didn’t excommunicate any public promoters of abortion and
contraception; he had topless women at his “masses,” etc.
So,
if you can look at the facts about his heresies in the section below and still
think he was good and Catholic and “Mary’s pope,” then you are completely of
bad will. “Father” Gobbi is nothing more
than a heretical false prophet used by the Devil.
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed
to be pope 1978-2005) [link to section]
Thinking
Hello,
I am currently in an RCIA program at a very liberal parish. Lately, I've been
thinking about receiving the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation at a parish
that is more traditional.
Anyways, I just watched your video "Why the New Mass is Invalid" and
I have one glaring question (not trying to debate, trying to learn): I've been
told that God protects his Church, and would never let anything harm it. If
this is true, why would he have allowed the NO Mass to be introduced?
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. I'm really interested in
attending a TLM.
Myonghwan "Moo" Eiselstein
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. Before you
could receive the traditional sacraments, you would have to be convinced that
one must not attend the New Mass. One
would have to completely reject the Vatican II Church and be convinced on all aspects
relevant to traditional Catholic teaching.
Regarding
your question, God certainly protects His Church. But that does not mean that He will not allow
a deception to arise which features the construction of a Counter Church which
opposes and attempts to obscure the true Church. In fact, that’s precisely what is predicted
to happen in the last days as a final test and punishment for the sins of the
world. Please consult this section of
our website: The Great Apostasy and a Counterfeit
Church predicted in the New Testament and in Catholic Prophecy [section]. There is
much evidence that the New Mass is the prophesied abomination of desolation
(Matthew 24:15). The New Mass doesn’t
tarnish the protection which God gives to the one true Church. This is because it did not come from the
Catholic Church, but from the Counter Church which is headed by invalidly elected antipopes.
Benedict XVI’s new “mass”
Subject: Benedict
XVI celebrates a 'mass' with African drum music
Pls add if possible this link to the
article illustrated by a video clip to the 'News and Commentary'
section on the web-site. Some people still believe that Benedict
XVI [uses] the Tridentine mass only.
May
God bless you!
Patrick
Comment
Dear MHFM
It seems that every pre Vatican II book I
pick up has BOB and BOD and salvation outside the church. One writer says
this is the root of liberal "Catholicism" . Indeed it is, and
those roots extend far into the minds of Catholics so that salvation before
death is no longer THE most important issue of all.
Theresa's story about the Lutheran
Mother is heartbreaking. I might have accepted this story only a few
years ago because I believed in this easy way to let people die.
Today I planned to do all I could for a dying soul. I had the
profession of faith in my purse, but the poor man, my grandson's
grandfather, is in his last moments and may never wake up. I left a
scapular and hope and pray for a miracle that may never occur.
Letting go of the counterfeit church is
difficult. We must force ourselves to place the salvation of the
soul above all else and take our licks.
PM
Another example
Dear Brothers,
Almost every day I read one or two stories from,
"Treasury of Catechism Stories" by Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D.,
printed in 1965.
Some stories I skip here and there because they are kind of
empty and void of inspiration but a lot of them are very inspirational about
converts and the wisdom in some of their answers.
The day before your recording came out about the two bad
books on salvation outside the Church and the one on Fr. Feeney my jaw dropped
as I got to the end of the following story in the Treasury of Catechism
Stories:
The Lutheran Mother of Three Priests
A devout Lutheran woman was the mother of three
priests. When she came to die, her priest sons were at her bedside.
Often during her lifetime they had discussed the possibility of their mother's
conversion to the Catholic faith and had gently done what they could. She
had, however, remained a convinced Lutheran. Now she was at the hour of
her death.
The three sons sat down once more in council.
They decided that their mother was sincere in her belief, had loved Christ and
had lived according to her lights. Any gesture on their part might
disturb her conscience. So they knelt at her bedside and watched her die
a Lutheran; they were convinced that she was a member of the invisible Church
and on her way to salvation."
Each story has a list of topics that could be discussed.
The topics for this story were: Actual grace. Christian
Doctrine. Conversion. Death. True Church.
Priesthood. Ecumenism.
The only one I can understand is (false)
ecumenism. There is no good example of the priesthood, nor the
necessity of belonging to the True Church. They didn't try to give
Christian Doctrine to their mother again. Actual grace was not acted upon
by the priests but instead they worried about disturbing her conscience.
Her death was outside the Church. They decided that she didn't need
conversion since they judged that she belonged to "the invisible
church".
Brothers, I get overwhelmed with gratitude to God so
often at the thought that He has graced us with the True Faith and the
knowledge of this holy and almost completely abandoned dogma. The
No Salvation Outside the Church topic is talked about almost every day in our
home. We want our children to know it very well and be able to
defend it when the day comes.
Please keep us in your prayers, as we do you everyday,
that we can give a true return to God by living lives that are worthy of Him.
To Jesus Through Mary,
Theresa Smith
MHFM: Thank you for the e-mail.
It’s another clear example of the heresy at the heart of this apostasy.
Heretical book
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter,
Wanting a good book about the faith for my
15 year old son and because you had referenced Fr. John Laux in his book about
Church History, I thought ordering and using his book on Catholic Apologetics,
written in 1928 with an imprimatur 1928 would be mostly ok. After the
book arrived, however, I immediately looked it over and went to the chapter on
“Outside the Church there is no Salvation” and found it to contain many of the
very same heresies that you detailed in your recent audio about the book “The
Salvation of Non-Catholics” by Winfried Hurst (sp?). This book was
written for Catholic High School students at the end of the 20’s and would have
been used throughout so there is no wonder why our “Catholic” parents and
grandparents who went to “Catholic” High Schools during this period imbibed
these ideas and heresies. After reading the content of this high
school “text” for the Catholic Faith printed in 1928, I can better understand
why Fr. Feeney struck such a chord and had such opposition by the “Catholic”
ecclesia of his day. It also appears to be just an extension of the 1885
& 1891 BOB and BOD teachings in the Baltimore Catechism which I had been
using to teach our children the faith prior to finding or being led to the
truths revealed on your site. (We have been using the Penny
Catechism ever since.)
It is so sad that those who had lived
“inside” the Church with proper popes (from the 1880’s and possibly before ~
through the 1950’s) were allowed to be taught these errors with regard to Our
Holy Faith – especially when it could be easily refuted by looking at all of
the official pronouncements promulgated by the Church on the teaching of No
Salvation Outside the Church – showing that there were NO EXCEPTIONS included.
Thanks again for your important work!
Pax Christi,
Melanie O’Keefe
MHFM: Thank you for the e-mail.
You are exactly right. It’s
another prime example of the denial of that dogma by priests before Vatican II,
which clearly laid the foundation for the Vatican II apostasy.
Audio, article
Hi Bros Michael and Peter Dimond,
What a great job you have done on this
latest audio...Also, have been trying to open page on the Miraculous Conversion
of the Jew Alphonse Ratisbonne, but no luck.?!...no problems with the rest of
page,however...
Thanks and God bless
David
New Zealand
MHFM: Thank you for letting us know. The link should be working now. We took care of the problem.
Comment
Thank you for the talk on the
heretical books, 'Salvation of Non-Catholics' and 'Fr. Feeney, the Pope Has
Spoken.' It was very interesting.
It is astounding and damning how nearly all
of those who purport to be the only true, and most rigorous, defenders of
the Catholic Faith (false traditionalist priests) are actually the
greatest defenders of liberal heresies. Surely the root and matrix of all
liberalism is baptism of desire/blood (invincible ignorance) aka. Salvation
outside the Catholic Church; and yet they claim to be the bulwarks of Catholic
Tradition!...
Thanks again and God bless,
Kit White
New Catechism
Dear Brothers, Please tell me what is
wrong about the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Many thanks, Lorne
MHFM:
What’s wrong with it is that it teaches the main heresies of Vatican II. This file covers The Heresies in Vatican II [PDF File]. The
New Catechism repeats and teaches the major Vatican II heresies, including:
religious liberty; non-Catholics may receive Communion; Protestants and
schismatics are united to the Church; Jews are not rejected by God; salvation
outside the Church; the Church has a bond with non-Christian religions; all men
are united to Christ; and Muslims worship the one true God, just to name a
few. It’s a large catechism, so
obviously it has some Catholic truth in it.
But it’s the heretical catechism of the New Church. Moreover, even in certain parts where it
doesn’t necessarily teach heresy, you can see a weakness, an anthropocentrism
and a spirit of man that is repulsive.
New audio on Salvation books
MHFM: This is a new audio on two
books called Salvation of Non-Catholics
and Fr. Feeney, the Pope Has Spoken. These books both teach heresy against the dogma
Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
Why are these books significant?
They are significant because they are currently promoted and published
by a small sedevacantist group which is affiliated with Fr. Kevin V. As explained in the audio, the group which
published these books also has some affiliation with Bishop Robert M., Fr.
Martin S., Patrick O., and indirectly with countless other “traditionalists”
who accept “baptism of desire.” In other
words, most “traditionalists” who accept baptism of desire are in some way
connected with the heresies contained in these books. They are connected either by directly
agreeing with them or by tolerating and accepting as Catholic the heretical
group which published them.
Exposing two heretical books promoted by
"traditionalists," Suprema haec sacra, refuting baptism of desire,
and a new argument [new 54 min. audio]
After a necessary four minute
introduction, the audio gets into the astounding heresies contained in the book
called Salvation of Non-Catholics. This book was originally published in 1953,
and therefore before Vatican II. Among other things, it teaches: that souls can be saved “outside” the Church;
that a heathen can be saved; that these people who are saved outside the Church
cannot and should not be called “Catholic”; that men who hate the Church can be
saved; that men of any and no Church can be saved; that everyone who follows
his conscience will be saved; that some people are bound to follow false
religions; and that some non-Catholics
shouldn’t even be converted!
Yes, all of those outrageous heresies
– including that some non-Catholics shouldn’t be converted – are contained in
the book. Again, this is a book which
was published before Vatican II and is currently published by a sedevacantist
group which is directly or indirectly connected with countless
“traditionalists” who accept baptism of desire.
After dealing with the heretical
book, Salvation of Non-Catholics, the
audio covers the booklet called Fr.
Feeney, the Pope Has Spoken. Before
doing that, however, it pins down the main heresy in the document Suprema Haec Sacra. Suprema
Haec Sacra was the pseudo-Holy Office letter from 1949 (not infallible)
which laid the groundwork for the denial of the salvation dogma in the years
which followed. If you are not convinced
that Suprema Haec Sacra is heretical,
you will want to listen to this audio and the short section which proves that
it is heretical. Identifying the main
heresy in Suprema Haec Sacra is
important because both of the aforementioned books base themselves on it. The audio also quickly covers examples of the
bad willed and petty arguments which are made in Fr. Feeney, the Pope Has Spoken.
Near the end of the audio, an
important new argument is covered which serves to refute “baptism of
desire.” It deals with what it means to
be “born again.” It analyzes a quote
from St. Alphonsus, which almost everyone is overlooking. It shows why something that St. Alphonsus
said creates devastating problems for
the (false) theory of “baptism of desire.”
This audio should make it clear that
ALL of the groups which accept or tolerate “baptism of desire” today are very
dark and utterly reject the defined dogma Outside the Church There is No
Salvation and the necessity to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
This audio will be found permanently
in our main section, Outside the Church There is No Salvation, as well as the
Traditional Catholic Audios section.
Pius XII
To Brother Dimond: I am a reader of your website,
but only today got a chance to see what you had to say about Fatima and if the
Consecration of Russia to the Blessed Heart of Mary took place! You claim it
did, but can you show the documentation? How can you say Pacelli, the true
author of Vatican II, can have done this when he was NOT a valid POPE? He was
mentored by Cardinal Rampolla, a known member and leader of the Masons, who
very nearly was elected Pope, but was stopped and justifiably so! Pacelli IS
responsible, when he became Secretary of State, of the Massacre of the
Christeros of Mexico, by drawing up the document, which was signed by Pope Pius
XI, which ordered the Christeros to lay down their arms! Which they did, since
they really and truly believed the hierarchy and the Pope were to be obeyed!
The result was a Massacre and, in addition, a falling away from the Church that
continues to this date!
Furthermore, do you really think the
Hashish Kid, "John the XXIII" Really had the intelligence to come up
with all the apostasy of Vatican II by himself? If you do, then I got a bridge
to sell you, and it is NOT in Brooklyn, anymore!Even many of the
Traditionalists, who up until now viewed Pacelli as you seem to, have come to
at least recognize the Christeros Massacre as definitely his doing, because
even though the Pope signed the document, when the results were found out, that
Pope wept bitterly in public for the fact that he and Pacelli were accessories
to MURDER! Those are HISTORIC FACTS, not just my opinion, for once your
research has failed you!!!!! John the XXIII, when he was Ambassador to Turkey,
got turned on to Hashish and that is even noted in our government intelligence
files, as well as several atrocities he and Pacelli either committed or
"allowed" to happen! Why on Earth, if Pacelli was a
"Friend" to the Jews and helped so many escape the Nazi's during the
war, and then turn around and help the Nazi Persecutors to escape at the end of
the War? With John the XXIII's help, I might add, by getting forged documents
prepared?...
Old Sarge-John Boyle
MHFM:
You are referring to our article on the consecration of Russia, which is found
in the Fatima section of our website.
The facts speak for themselves on that issue. We believe the facts in the article will convince
anyone who is open to truth on that point – in other words, anyone who is not
predisposed to reject the information because of some emotional attachment to
how he has imagined the fulfillment of Fatima.
Regarding
your comments about Pius XII (Pacelli), they serve to support the notion that
he was a weak pope. This is something
that many false traditionalists fail to recognize to their own detriment; but
what you bring up does not constitute proof that he was a manifest
heretic. One cannot reject a validly
elected pope unless there is clear and definitive evidence from his own
statements or actions that he was a manifest heretic or that the election was
invalid.
Finally,
we do not assert that John XXIII came up with the Vatican II apostasy by himself. He was certainly instrumental. He was the antipope who called Vatican
II. However, it was the denial of the
dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation in the years before Vatican II
which greatly contributed to laying the foundation for the Vatican II
apostasy. We are very clear on that
matter. So your statement is simply
false. We wonder if you deny that dogma
as well?
Awakening
I would like to reach out to you. I recently found
your website mostholyfamilymonastery, and it has been a blessing for me.
It has helped confirm many of the suspicions I was already hearing through
alternative medias… Since this awakening I have been reading a studying
all day and night. I feel like God is beginning to do a work in me…
Thank You Very Much
GC
Converted
Hello
I have recently converted from atheism back to Catholicism. Recently I have
taken up prayer again and already noticed changes in events that transpire,
which strengthens my faith… I am in Dublin Ireland.
-James
Area 51
Does your book
reveal what a*r*e*a 5*1 is? If it does I
will buy your book and read it. If your book does not , i will still but and
read but now I will ask you
What is a*r*e*a 5*1 all about?
MHFM:
Yes, it does.
Swordsmanship
Subject: Your Swordsmanship
I stumbled on to your website merely by
accident or providence. I find your research and historical recall
skills most amusing. It would almost appear that your quotes are mostly
executed through memorisation alone. Just to attempt to hang with you in a telephone debate,
the average individual would need at his diposal a CATHOLIC HISTORIAL
REASEARH/RESOURCE LIBRARY full of information. The last person that I can
remember talking to over 30 years ago that had those same kind of
memory skills was a jehovah witness. He almost converted me. What I
observe as being even more amusing is that your pressure tecniques to
destroy ones present faith system to seduce and convert is very similiar to his
methodologys. The voices sound very much the same they just sing a different
song. Your demeaner indicates to me that you can't be much more
than 32 or 33 years old. I believe your totaly sincere and the points you make
with the accumulative information you present is most interesting and
warrants looking into. Your sword is very sharp maybe even as sharp
as a two edged sword and there is only one entity found to be sharper and
thats the WORD of GOD. I just have to decide if your faith truly resides
with , in and around the Word of GOD. I wish you would study 1
Corinthians 13, even the so called heritics utilize it and are
sucessful. When you disarm an individual as I've heard you do in listening
to your debates, you seem to always go for the throat especially when they make
you angry. These people with whom your debating cannot hurt you they don't
have the knowledge nor the mental capacity to do so. So why not aim for
their heart when you talk to them rather than go for the throat. When they
come at you with their sword, just take it away from them and then gently
hand it back again. When they've depleted their arsenal,
which probably won't take long, then you simply say, I could
have stabbed you at anytime with your own sword even more so if I
would've drawn my own. Without a harsh word spoken, now shall we reason. It is
written for us within the scriptures to be meek as a lamb and wise as a
serpent. I was told once by a friend that the most evil man in the world was
not the rapist,,the thief, the child abuser, the abortionist or even,the
satanist, it was the man that picked up the WORD of GOD with sole
intention to mislead and destroy eternal souls to hell. I believe
there is a place for your methodology…
Sincerely,
Mike
MHFM: We appreciate your interest.
We think you need to focus more
on the merits of the arguments, rather than on the individuals making
them. You seem to have an unnecessary
fear that you will be deceived, as if something that sounds consistent with
Catholic teaching has some evil lurking behind it. When we are talking about sound reasoning from
Catholic dogma, that’s not the case.
Catholic truth is simple, solid and sure. If it leads to a direct
conclusion, then one can rest confidently that such a conclusion is definitely
true. If you sincerely consider the
facts of Catholic teaching that we present, you will see that we are speaking
the truth.
Look forward
Hi Guys,
I'm a Catholic who defended Rome to the hilts, but since the Bishop Williamson
incident, I have lost complete faith in Rome.
They bowed before Zionism, and anybody with eyes to see, and ears to hear,
noticed it.
As you know, the Pope has put out a letter, which in my mind, is ridiculous…
I've recently ordered your book, What happened after Vatican II, I look forward
to reading.
I'm like a ship without direction at the moment, please keep me in your
prayers. If you can recommend any further reading material, I would be most
grateful.
Gloria In Te Domine
David
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. We’re confident
that when you read the book, you will see that Benedict XVI is not a true
pope. He cannot be a true pope because
he’s not a Catholic. He’s an
antipope. The post-Vatican II Church is
not the Catholic Church, but the counterfeit sect of the last days.
The
book contains a complete exposé of the heresies of all five Vatican
II antipopes, including the heresies of Benedict XVI from before and after his
“election.”
Comment
Dear MHFM,
Some of your readers may be struggling with your position on the ovens of
Auschwitz and the "6 million Jews".
But there was a theatrical film released in 1946, a potboiler entitled
"The Stranger", which starred Orson Wellesas a Nazi trying to escape
his past by hiding in Connecticut as a prep school teacher while engaged to
beautiful Loretta Young. Welles saw his career as a famous writer/director/producer
immediately shrivel after this film, good as it is. He had received
special permission to include footage from the U.S. Army taken of the bodies
found at liberated German concentration camps, and this was the first time
those pictures were even shown to the public. But instead of
wholeheartedly serving up the Holocaust propaganda, Welles inserted his own
moment of real truth, certainly 'caught' by only a few in his audience.
The character of the detective trying to capture Welles, played superbly by
Edgar G. Robinson, has a line roughly like this: "In the camp, they
gave the Jews showers first, to open up the pores of the skin to receive the
gas better." While he says this, the audience sees a picture of a long
white room lined with showerheads. Now the whole point of the Holocaust
myth is that those showerheads emitted gas, and never emitted water. They
certainly couldn't do both! And to state that hot water opening the pores
of the skin enabled Zyklon B gas to kill better is totally absurd, as Welles
and his associate on the film, John Huston, well knew. So here we are, 60
years later, supposedly well-informed, but so far behind one of the foremost
artistic geniuses of the 20th-century... who paid the price for his honesty, I believe.
Cheryl
Testimonial
Hello MHFM,
I am truly inspired by your work and effort. It has TRULY changed my life
around. No doubt. I went from living a pagan lifestyle, to become a
true Catholic… I do not know how to
thank Our Lady. That is another thing and I STRESS EVERYONE to pray the
Rosary of 15 Decades. I prayed the rosary for about a month, straight,
the 15 Decade Rosary. This was a big
change for me because I had gone from not praying 15 years to finally praying
it everyday, Well, because of this, I was led to your website. I was led
to find the Truth. LET THIS BE A TESTIMONY OF THE TRUTH, THAT I CHANGED
BECAUSE I PRAYED THE ROSARY EVERYDAY AND HAVE FOUND YOUR WEBSITE BY RECEIVING
THE GRACES FROM GOD. No doubt in my mind. I have studied your
material for 2 years and the logic just clicks. I love it. I love
the truth.
Thank you. God bless you and Good Night.
Bernardo Torres
“Catholic” schools
The story you linked about a
"catholic" school locking out 300 students over tuition bills touched
a nerve with me. There are so many lessons in the devolution of
"catholic education" over the last 50 years. Long before I
discovered the truth about the apostasy of the Vatican II establishment
(largely through your site), I was variously frustrated, angered and confused
over what I took to be political naiveté, moral
cowardice, ideological/theological confusion and hypocrisy.
When I was in elementary school in the
mid-1960s Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, there
was no tuition at all. A Catholic education was free to anyone who wanted
one. You didn't even have to be Catholic. Before I finished
elementary school there was nominal tuition. By the time I got to high
school, the tuition was becoming significant. However the official
published policy remained that no one would be denied a Catholic Education (and
again, you didn't have to be Catholic) for inability to pay…
I thought (and still think) that Catholics
are the largest denomination in the country, over a quarter of the
population. If they had any leadership at all, any courageous, moral
voice to follow, there would be no legalized abortion, let alone the need
to book keep how much money is to be deemed "tuition" and thus
be taxed. The Church Militant could not be opposed by any
politician if it were truly organized along Catholic
principles. Look at the Jews, less than a twelfth of the Catholic
population, and ostensibly lacking the outward organizational structure, yet
they exercise enormous influence in the cultural and political
arena. No politician can challenge Israel and survive
politically. Yet Catholic schools are closing for the inability of
anybody to pay for them, while billions of taxpayer dollars go to
Israel, to buy bombs to drop on Christian Palestinians. It is
disgusting to contemplate.
But of course the answer (as opposed to the
solution) is that the hierarchy did not yield this sad result through 50 years
of mere incompetence. No, it was done by design. They've been
playing for the other team all along. I used to think they were naive for
failing to understand the cultural war in which they were involved, the
absolute ruthlessness of the enemy, and their own latent, but potentially
enormous power. Now I know it was I who was naive for failing to see who
they really were.
Bill Mulligan
Purgatory
Listening to an audio on Purgatory I
have some questions.
What was Jesus dieing on the Cross all
about if not to redeem us. I understand that all the work
was accomplished "It Is Finished" by His death. That we
are to work out our Salvation. How can we work it out if don't have it
yet?
Please just answer those questions.
Mary Lou Festa
MHFM: Your question is one that is commonly raised by
Protestants. They object that the
concept of Purgatory is contrary to the all-sufficient Redemption of
Christ. The points below demonstrate
that Protestants have an incorrect understanding of the Redemption.
Colossians 1:24- “[I] now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up those
things that are wanting of the
sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church.”
This verse might be a shock to some
who are not familiar with it. St. Paul
says that he fills up, for the Church, those things that are wanting or lacking
in the sufferings of Christ. Christ’s
suffering was perfect and of infinite value; so what does this mean?
What St. Paul means is that many
sufferings are still wanting and needed for the members of the Church to work
out their salvation, which was all made possible by Christ’s sacrifice. This verse proves that Christ’s sacrifice
doesn’t do away with all worries about the possibility of future punishment due
to one’s sins. If so, then Paul would
never say that his sufferings fill up for members of the Church that which is
wanting in the sacrifice of Christ; nor would Jesus speak of the punishments
for sins, which He repeatedly does. This
verse, Colossians 1:24, also proves the Catholic doctrine of the communion of
saints, and the effect of intercessory prayer and sacrifice.
Second, the aforementioned Protestant
argument is refuted by the following: If it were true that Jesus’ sacrifice
made up for everything, including the future punishments due to every man’s
sins, then no one would have to believe or do anything to be saved. Jesus’ sacrifice would have paid the price
for it all. But even the non-Catholics
who argue that Jesus made up for everything admit that not all men are
saved. They admit that people must do
something to be saved. With such an
admission, they contradict themselves and disprove their argument that Christ’s
sufferings took care of everything.
Third, this argument is based on a
grave misunderstanding of the Redemption of Christ. What is the meaning of Jesus Christ’s passion
and death? Jesus Christ redeemed the
world and destroyed men’s sins, as the Catholic Council of Florence
defined.
Pope Eugene IV,
Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church
firmly believes, professes, and teaches that no one conceived of man and woman
was ever freed of the domination of the Devil, except through the merit of the
mediator between God and men, our Lord Jesus Christ; He who was conceived without sin, was born and died, THROUGH HIS DEATH
ALONE LAID LOW THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE BY DESTROYING OUR SINS, and opened the entrance to the kingdom of
heaven, which the first man by his own sin had lost with all succession…”
(Denzinger 711)
It means every sin that is forgiven is forgiven by Jesus
Christ, and specifically by the merit of His passion and death. Without the
merits of His passion, there could be no forgiveness or true justification from
sin. This forgiveness is granted only to
those who follow Him and do what He says must be done, which enables them to
benefit from His Redemption. It does not
mean that God will not punish people for future sins. It does not mean that the penalty of all the
sins of the whole world has been taken away.
You ask how one can “work out
salvation” if one doesn’t have it yet.
One does that by avoiding sins, by doing God’s will, and by
accomplishing (with God’s grace) works of supernatural merit, as the Parable of
the Talents shows. It’s necessary for
salvation to do those things. That’s how
one is said to “work out salvation.”
St. John Vianney on refusing
absolution
MHFM:
St. John Vianney is the patron saint of parish priests. He understood the duties of a priest. He preached moral truths which have been
largely forgotten in our day. He emphasized
that priests must refuse absolution to those who have not extricated themselves
from sinful situations or practices. For
example, he believed that a priest who would absolve those who run bars
(“innkeepers”) would be damned.
“‘The innkeepers,’
he used to say, ‘steal the bread of the poor woman and her children by selling
wine to drunkards who spend on Sunday what they have earned during the
week. If he wishes to escape eternal
damnation a priest may not and cannot absolve innkeepers who, either at night
or during church hours, serve those drunkards with wine. Ah!
The innkeepers! The devil does
not trouble them much; on the contrary he despises them and spits upon them.’”
(Abbe Francois Trochu, The Cure D’Ars, p. 140.)
Fired
I gave a good friend of mine who lives in
Ohio a copy of your DVD 'Exposing the Agents of
Anti-Christ' He told me that he was approached by his boss
one day asking him if he wanted to join the Freemasons and lots of wealth would
be promised to him if he joined...My friend then went over to his house and
brought the DVD with him in which they both watched... Then while
they were watching it, his boss said "Yea, we killed
Kennedy" But my friend couldnt really tell if his boss
was serious or sarcastic....My friend then ended up telling him
that he would not join. Then the very next day my friend got
fired...However he did find employment at a better job..
Steve
Christ within
Dear Brothers, I wonder if you could
expound on the issue of "Christ within " us. JP2 made mention
of "you are the Christ", as if referring to each man, and also
in an email exchange someone wrote on " Vat 2 the worship of man'.....
'you are being transferred into Jesus". In Galatians 2,20, St. Paul
says, "And I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in me ". What
I'm trying to bring out is... the Vat 2 false sect are on to
something but are making a heresy or blasphemy out of it. Could you please
clarify this? I'd appreciate it very much.
God bless.
Barbara
MHFM: St. Paul is speaking of the supernatural life of God which
dwells in the hearts of all those who are justified (in the state of grace):
Council of Trent, Decree on Justification, Sess. 6, Chap. 7: “For though no one can be
just except he to whom the merits of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ are
communicated, yet this takes place in that justification of the sinner, when by
the merit of the most holy passion, the charity of God is poured forth by the
Holy Ghost in the hearts of those who are justified and inheres in them;
whence man through Jesus Christ, in whom he is ingrafted, receives in that
justification, together with the remission of sins, all these infused at the
same time, namely, faith, hope and charity. For faith, unless hope and charity
be added to it, neither unites man perfectly with Christ nor makes him a living
member of His body.”
The statements of John Paul II and the Vatican II sect are very
different from this truth. First, John
Paul II taught that man actually becomes God, rather than that he partakes in
the supernatural life of God in justification (2 Peter 1:4). Second, even if we assumed, for the sake of
argument, that John Paul II was simply talking about participating in the life
of God (which he most certainly was not), he said this about every single man and man in general. So even in that case, he was teaching
universal salvation and universal justification. There is no way to defend his heresy, which
is covered in much detail in this article.
By the way, this isn’t really related
to your question, but notice the last part of this quote from the Council of
Trent. We commented on this in our
article refuting Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton and his false attempt to justify
baptism of desire. Fenton admitted that
only the water baptized are members
of the Church. In order to try to
salvage the idea of “baptism of desire,” Fenton argued that one can be inside the Church without being a
member. It’s a ridiculous idea. The quote from Trent above is just one of
many which contradict that false position, as was pointed out in this article: Can one be "inside" the Catholic Church without
being a "member"?
FENTON CONTRADICTED BY THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Sess. 6, Chap. 7 on Justification: “Hence man through Jesus
Christ, into whom he is ingrafted, receives
in the said justification together with the remission of sins all these gifts
infused at the same time: faith, hope and charity. For faith, unless hope and charity
be added to it, neither unites one perfectly with Christ, nor makes him a
living member of his body.” (Denz. 800)
The justified man is ingrafted into Christ. The concept of being “ingrafted” is again
that of membership: all the justified are ingrafted into Christ as
members. This is proven by the
Council’s declaration that becoming a living member of the Church
doesn’t happen “unless” (‘nisi’) hope and charity are added to
faith. That means that if and when hope
and charity are added to faith, one is made a living member of the
Church. Well, hope and charity are added to faith in every justified
person.
A person simultaneously receives faith, hope and charity
infused into his soul at the moment of justification, as Trent says above. Therefore, every person who is justified,
since they all have faith, hope and charity, is made a living member (‘vivum membrum’) of the Church.
This totally contradicts the teaching of Msgr. Fenton and Suprema haec sacra, which is that one
can be justified by baptism of desire (and thus have faith, hope and charity)
without being a “member” of Christ’s Body.
Msgr. Fenton is simply wrong.
Convert to true faith
Hello,
I have been a protestant since the age
of 14. I am 27 now. I have studied Catholicism for quite some time
and I have realized that its the true faith. I want to leave the heresy
of protestantism. However, I live in Northeastern Arkansas. All the
catholic churches here adhere to Vatican II. I don't know what to do
about this. I want to worship God in the true and correct way, but it
seems to be impossible for me to worship anywhere. What is your advice
for me to do? I can't join a church where the supposed 'Vicar of Christ'
faces Mecca and prays with the Muslims in mosques.
Thank you.
Toby
MHFM: That’s great to hear. Below is a section on the
steps to convert to the Catholic faith. You should begin to follow them
and pray the Rosary. Then we can help
you with where to receive sacraments. Some people believe that converting
and practicing the faith is all about where one goes to church on Sunday.
That's not the case. The faith is something that one must believe first
and live each day. It's not defined by whether one is able to go to a
church on Sunday; for at certain periods of Church history some Catholics were
not able to do that.
Eyes opened
I am a… struggling Catholic who came upon
your web site several months ago. I would read an article or two and not give
much credence to what I read. I then started to watch the videos on your site
and it started to register that what was being said was more than likely true.
I am now telling all my friends about the web site. I contacted all the
priests in the west Michigan area…
I have a long ways to go with my connecting
to the true Catholic faith. I have been a terrible sinner for the vast part of
my life and now with the help of your web site realize I need to turn to
God and repent. Since turning to your site I see all things in a new light. TV
shows, activities and habits that were acceptable are no longer
acceptable. Please pray for a complete revival on my part and pray that the
Holy Spirit may enter into my heart. It
has been a long time since I felt comfortable with my spirituality but I can
now see the light coming into view. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Robert
Prayer
MHFM:
Undoubtedly one of the great comforts and satisfactions in prayer well said is
that one is accomplishing something of true and lasting value.
Interpretation
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
Outside of the dogmas that we must believe
to be Catholic how can we trust any interpretation of sacred scripture,
councils, doctors of the church, etc.. that are outside of the magisteriam of
the Catholic Church? Given the fact that there is massive delusion
through the Great Apostasy and God has taken away from us Holy leaders, it
seems many organizations lay claim to the Truth. How can I trust the
interpretation that you present?
Thank you for your time,
Jeff Baron
MHFM:
This issue was addressed in our books, and especially in our salvation book. We have copied some of that response
below. In short, there is no
interpretation other than what the dogmas have declared. The dogmas are the interpretation and the
rule to which you must adhere. You know
we are right because what we say is in line with the dogmas and the understanding
of the Catholic faith throughout history.
Moreover,
the heresies of the Vatican II antipopes contradict even a basic understanding
of traditional Catholic teaching. The
Vatican II antipopes teach that false religions are okay, that non-Catholics
don’t need conversion, and that the leaders of non-Catholic sects are part of
the true Church, just to name a few. Any
examination of classical Catholic teaching will reveal that such teachings go
against what the Catholic Church traditionally taught. The claim that it’s just a matter of
interpretation is pure nonsense.
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. 3, Chap. 2 on Revelation, 1870, ex
cathedra: “Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must
be perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared;
and there must never be a recession from that meaning under the specious name
of a deeper understanding.”
In its Decree
on the Sacrament of Order, the Council of Trent solemnly declared that the
dogmatic canons are for the use of all the faithful!
Pope Pius IV, Council of Trent, Sess. 13, Chap. 4: “These
are the matters which in general it seemed well to the sacred Council to teach
to the faithful of Christ regarding the sacrament of order. It
has, however, resolved to condemn the contrary in definite and appropriate
canons in the following manner, so that all, making use of the rule of
faith, with the assistance of Christ, may be able to recognize more
easily the Catholic truth in the midst of the darkness of so many errors.”
The word “canon" (in Greek: kanon)
means a reed; a straight rod or bar; a measuring stick; something serving to
determine, rule, or measure. The Council
of Trent is infallibly declaring that its canons are measuring rods for “all” so that they, making
use of these rules of Faith, may be able to recognize and defend the
truth in the midst of darkness! This
very important statement blows away the claim of those who say that
using dogmas to prove points is “private interpretation.”
Further, if a Catholic who is
going exactly by what the Chair of Peter (the dogmatic text) has declared
is not finding the truth, but is engaging in “private interpretation,” as they
claim, then what does he go by? Who
interprets the dogmatic statement? And
who interprets the interpretation of the dogmatic statement? And who interprets the interpretation of the
interpretation of the dogmatic statement?
And who interprets the interpretation of the interpretation of the
interpretation of the dogmatic statement?
The answer is that it would never end, and no one could ever
arrive at the truth on anything. In that
system, the deposit of faith – and the dogmatic teachings of the Church – would
then be nothing more than private opinions, which is SHEER PROTESTANTISM.
St. Francis De Sales
explained it well against the Protestants.
St. Francis De
Sales (Doctor of the Church), The
Catholic Controversy, c. 1602, p. 228: “The Councils… decide and define some article. If after all this another test has to be tried before their [the Council’s]
determination is received, will not another
also be wanted? Who will not want to
apply his test, and whenever will the matter be settled?... And why not
a third to know if the second is faithful? – and then a fourth, to test the
third? Everything must be done over
again, and posterity will never trust antiquity but will go ever turning upside
down the holiest articles of faith in the wheel of their understandings…
what we say is that when a Council has
applied this test, our brains have not
now to revise but to believe.”
The
“interpretation” ends with the words of the dogma itself! If it doesn’t, then it never ends, as
we saw above – you just have fallible
interpretation after fallible interpretation after fallible interpretation
after fallible interpretation. If
the buck doesn’t stop with the infallible definition (the Chair of Peter), then
it never stops. I pointed this fact out to a somewhat well-known “apologist”
for the Vatican II sect in a telephone conversation. He was arguing that our usage of Catholic
dogmatic teaching (the teaching of the Chair of Peter) is like Protestant
“private interpretation.” He was saying
this in an attempt to defend some of his heretical beliefs which contradict
dogma, such as his belief that non-Catholics can be saved. I said to him, “then who interprets the
dogma? And who interprets the
interpretation of the dogma?” After I said “who interprets the interpretation
of the dogma… and who interprets the interpretation of the interpretation… and
who interprets the interpretation of the interpretation of the interpretation…”
he remained deadly silent for the first time in the conversation. He obviously had no response to the factual
point that was made, simply because there is no response. In the heretical view of dogmatic teaching
that he espoused, the Catholic Faith is nothing more than Protestantism –
fallible, private, human interpretation with no Chair of Peter to give one the
final word.
Halloween robes
…my
priest ordered halloween type franciscan monk robes from a party store/costume
shop for us to wear when he baptizes us in the plastic tote…?
This whole things feeling really sacreligious to me !
MHFM: We haven’t heard that one
before. It’s another clear indication
that you must get out of the Vatican II sect.
B.O.D.
I knew what Baptism of Desire theory was… I listened to your
tapes on the matter and someone who thinks Baptism of Desire is… clouded, or of
bad will (liar). Your discussions refuted any chance that the theory is
legitimate. Good work
I see
Hi, my name is Richard... and I'm a
sedevacantist. In fact, I see, that the Chair of Truth for the light of
the world has been empty my whole life. It has been around a year
now, since I last drank of the cup of the wine of the whore of Babylon.
After watching one of your films, I realized, as Mary and Joseph, that Jesus
was not "in the crowd walking from the temple", so to speak; and was
troubled. But of course, there He was (and is) "in His father's
house", so to speak…
Obelisk
MHFM
I offer the following for your correspondent who asked about
the significance of the obelisk in Saint Peter's Square, in Rome:
"The obelisk which comes from Heliopolis, Egypt, where it was built by
the Pharaoh Mencares in 1835 BC in honor of the sun, was brought to Rome
in 37 BC by the Emperor Caligula (37-41) and erected in the circus he
built. Here it was silent witness of the martyrdom of St. Peter and of
many other Christians. In 1586 Sixtus V had it moved to the center of St.
Peter's Square."…
Your correspondent should dismiss her suspicions of some sinister
motive for its presence before Saint Peter's Basilica, and console herself
with the thought that this column of rock stood in the presence of The
Rock on which Our Lord has built His Church, when he suffered as his Master
had prophesied:
Amen, amen I say to thee, when thou wast younger, thou didst gird
thyself, and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be old,
thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and lead
thee whither thou wouldst not. [John 21:18]
PJB
St. John Vianney on vanity
“… at the time of [St. John
Vianney’s] arrival at Ars there were women who outraged the most elementary
rules of modesty. Their conduct roused
him to indignation. His anger included
parents who idolized their children and fostered their vanity. Let us listen to him [St. John Vianney]
castigating ‘that mother who can think of nothing but her daughter. She is far more concerned whether her bonnet
is put on properly than whether the child has given her heart to God. She beseeches her daughter not to unsociable
– to be gracious to everybody so as to form acquaintances and eventually to
‘get off.’ Soon the girl’s one aim will
be to attract. Her extravagant and
indecent dress proclaims her to be a tool by means of which hell seeks the ruin
of souls. Only at the judgment-seat of
God will such a one know the number of crimes of which she has been the
cause.’” (Abbe Francois Trochu, The Cure D’Ars,
pp. 154-155.)
Becoming Catholic
+JMJ+ I just made the profession of
Faith also accusing myself of heresy as member of V2 sect and other false
religions I had belonged to and promoted in the past. I simply want help
finding a priest who can hear my confession and yes, if there is a valid
Mass my family and I can attend in South Jersey, whether it is Traditional
Latin Mass or the Eastern Catholic Mass, either one is fine as long as it will
not compromise or endanger our immortal souls and our salvation, IN ANY
WAY! thanks for your advice and guidance in finding this, if it is
available......if it is not, I believe you recommend staying home and praying
the family rosary together? This we also can do, if you think it is
better.
My family and
I wish to worship God "in Spirit and in Truth" at a valid mass
and make valid confessions, but not if it is a pit of vipers, like so much here
in "Camden Diocese". Also, both my husband and I WERE probably
given a valid and good baptism (1965) but were seriously wondering whether our
confirmations were valid…---it feels very deeply sorrowful to NOT Mass on
Sunday, (I offer all this "pain and shock" of this revelation from
reading your articles but I think it is God's Providence at work! so I also
give Thanks!)--- but I believe you said that where there is a DOUBT as to the
validity of the Mass, it is better to NOT go, so for the first time, I
stayed at home. I long for true Holy Communion but I do NOT want to
participate in a sinful, invalid "mass".
I was a student of
Art and Architecture History at Smith College in Mass.and also Edinburgh Univ.
undergrad./ and at NYU (graduate school), and I wrote my undergrad thesis
on the construction of St. Peter's Basilica...............could you please
comment on the reason why there is a massive "obelisk" read "phallic
symbol associated with occult/"Baal" worship surrounded also by the
Bernini Columns that basically form a circle around this "point" if
viewed from above, another symbol of "sun" worship, according to no
doubt accurate info. on your website?? Thank you…
I feel as if I am
becoming truly Catholic for the first time, it is a big step for me and for my
husband, who is like-minded as to what you say. I am afraid to speak to
anyone else about it yet, as I feel they will not understand but this will
not stop me from taking the proper steps and trying to point others in the
correct direction toward Heaven. Again, THANK YOU for all you are doing
and I will look forward to hearing from you. In Jesus through
Mary,
Anne M. T.K.
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. We can help you with your other questions.
There is an obelisk (a
Masonic Symbol) in the Vatican, but
there is a Cross on top of it that was put there by Pope Sixtus V, symbolizing
the Church’s victory over paganism/Freemasonry. Many Protestant heretics have attempted to
use this against the Church to show that the Church is Freemasonic; but they
fail to note the Cross on top of the obelisk.
“The Pope [Sixtus V] had a bronze cross
placed on top of the obelisk bearing on its base the following inscription:
‘Behold the Cross of the Lord! Depart ye hostile powers! The Lion of the tribe of Juda hath
prevailed! Christ conquers, Christ is
King, Christ is Emperor! May Christ
protect His people from all evil!” (Fr. John Laux, Church History, p. 488.)
Interesting audio
Wow, that was some good stuff! I haven’t
heard such pure logic and reason in a long time. It would require hooking up
each priest, bishop, cardinal, all the way to the Pope himself up to a polygraph
machine and question them in detail about their acceptance of church teachings,
if the pope failed, all Catholics would be schismatic, if a bishop failed, all
those under his control would be schismatic, BUT they would not have became
schismatic at the time the results of the test were given, they would have been
schismatic immediately upon the appointment of any heretic or schismatic,
despite having no knowledge of the heresy. That is a ridiculous argument and I
am glad you were able to clearly show that….
Had the person not called you a schismatic,
I might have felt sorry for him, as his points were getting cut down faster
than he could think of them. However he made a bold statement and had no
substance to back up the argument, so I don’t blame you for putting him in his
place, you could have done it with much less tact. Your knowledge of Church
history is very good and it was interesting to hear you apply it to common
sense.
Thank you
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
[Note:
This individual was commenting on our audios below, which concern a finer point
which might not be relevant for those new to this information. These audios deal specifically with certain
schismatic errors which have been embraced by a small number of radical
“traditionalists.” It concerns when
people become schismatics and heretics.
By not understanding this point, they construct a radically false
theology and also make false accusations of heresy and schism. For example, if there is a family who belongs
to the SSPX who is obstinately heretical or schismatic, these people (falsely)
conclude that all of their baptized children, the moment they hit the age of
reason or take their child to the SSPX church, also become non-Catholic
schismatics and/or heretics, before they have embraced the obstinately
schismatic or heretical views of their parents.
Also, this conversation was quite contentious at times. This is because, even though it’s not clear
at the beginning of the conversation, the
other side had already viciously and obstinately condemned the true
position.]
Baptism, Heresy, Schism - Tel Debate- Part 1 [1 hr.4 min. audio – May 2008]
Baptism, Heresy, Schism - Tel Debate - Part 2 [27 min. audio –
May 2008]
Related
file: Quotes on Schism, Baptism, Heresy, Subjection to the Roman Pontiff, the
Trinity and Incarnation
Freemason ordain?
Dear Brothers,
I wanted to first thank you for the endless hours you spend in putting out such
great information. My wife and I visit your site regularly and have
gotten much out of it.
As my subject indicates I wanted to ask your help in responding to an article
my mother sent me. I am not sure if you have written at length on this
subject, and if you have I apologize and do not ask you to repeat
yourself.
My mother sent this article to support her position that Freemasons cannot
confer valid sacraments. Which in itself is a little confusing because in
this article it does not mention that Freemasons cannot, but that it is a
dubious sacrament…
I pray that all is well with you and hope to hear from you at your earliest
convenience.
Sincerely,
Robby Hansen
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
The Church teaches that one is presumed to have the intention of the
Church unless there is clear evidence to the contrary.
Pope Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae, Sept. 13, 1896: “When anyone has rightly and seriously made use of the due form and the
matter requisite for effecting or conferring the sacrament he is considered by
that very fact to do what the Church does.
On this principle rests the doctrine that a sacrament is truly conferred
by the ministry of one who is a heretic or unbaptized, provided the Catholic
rite be employed. On the other hand, if the rite be
changed, with the manifest intention of introducing another rite not approved
by the Church, and of rejecting what the Church does, and what by the
institution of Christ belongs to the nature of the sacrament, then it is clear
that not only is the necessary intention wanting to the sacrament, but that the
intention is adverse to and destructive of the sacrament.”
Circumstantial evidence that someone might have been a Freemason
is not sufficient to consider his ordinations or sacraments invalid. If one could question the intention of
someone just because that person might have been a Freemason, then there would
be absolute chaos in the Church. One
could go back into history and start questioning all kinds of lines. For
instance, Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro was the Secretary of State under Pope
Leo XIII. He was a bishop. It is widely believed that he was a Freemason,
and evidence is cited by those who wish
to prove it. How many people did
Rampolla ordain? Has the Church gone
back and re-ordained all of those men?
No. That, in itself, suffices to
refute the position advanced by your mom and the heretical priests she is
agreeing with. (They are heretics on
other matters; they are in error on this point.) If the traditional rite has been used, the
Church presumes that one had the intention to do as the Church does, unless the
contrary is explicitly manifested.
Confrontation
Dear Brothers,
I had sent DVDs to many more relatives in
the recent past. One of them drove to my house yesterday and we talked for
almost 3 hours straight sparring back and forth- him maintaining that V2 is
still Catholic while I feel I did an adequate job refuting him and trying to
get across to him that yes, the Catholic Church still exists, but that it's not
the V2 church, and that V2 is a completely new religion all unto itself that
calls itself Catholic to deceive souls. He agreed with a lot of what I had to
say, but he left still not grasping the truth despite my efforts.
He mentioned that he found out
that a different relative of mine who I had sent a MHFM info package to
had taken the package and put fuel to it and burned it. This is also the same
relative who is heavily involved in the charismatic movement and had one of her
fillings turn to gold overnight. If it's true, it's quite a demonic deception
to keep her entangled in the V2 church and for her to keep other souls on the path
to hell as she is very involved in the V2 church. My guess is that she never
read or watched any of your material yet somehow "knew" that it was
"evil".
Just thought I'd pass this along.
MHFM:
Thanks for the e-mail. There are many similar
examples of that.
It
reminds us of another person who was persuaded to believe in salvation outside
the Church, baptism of desire, etc. We
will call this person J. J. had come to
his new position after seeing arguments by another heretic. The arguments which persuaded J. are false,
utterly dishonest and wouldn’t persuade any careful thinking and honest person. Nevertheless, we did an audio which refuted
the heretic’s arguments. Besides
refuting his main points, in the refutation we pointed out that this individual
thought that Martin Luther could have been sincere throughout his life, that he
believes that souls can be saved in false religions, etc. We also proved that he falsely accuses people
of misquotes where none exist. We gave
an example from St. John Chrysostom to demonstrate the point. (Many other
examples could be given.) So J. began to
listen to our refutation.
But
after beginning to listen, J. turned it off after about two minutes or so. He didn’t get to any of the refutations. He wrote to us and said that he or his wife
(who were both salvation heretics) just couldn’t listen anymore. They were apparently too frustrated or
distressed by the words which were directed against people they admire. What happened was the Devil intervened and
didn’t allow them to hear the truth. The
Devil didn’t allow them to hear the outrageous falsehoods and dishonest
arguments refuted; for that would have seriously punctured their “faith” in the
apostates whose arguments they now accept.
The point is that some people are so
of bad will, so devoid of grace, and so under the grip of the Devil, that
they do not even have the grace to hear or look carefully at the true
arguments.
Sickening
Dear mhfm
All these news items are sickening. Assisted
suicide is becoming a reality. The "Vatican" silencing what
they disapprove of. Obama is going to allow all stem cell research. His
stimulus bill was passed with all of the bills attached to it passing as
well and not even given consideration. He seems to be a man in a
hurry to wreak havoc and destruction, much like Paul VI who immediately began
to change everything once he falsely assumed the papacy.
I remember the days when we used to remark
that this was a free country where we could complain about our president
as much as we liked. We pitied the poor Russians who were murdered or
imprisoned for the least little remark about their leaders and their children
were taught in school to spy on them.
Someone told me yesterday to not send them
emails with anything derogatory about president O. He said a
fellow employee was fired for receiving a derogatory email about the
president. This is a private company.
Every day it gets worse.
PM
Fellay
Dear Mhfm
Do you think that Bishop Fellay is a freemason.
The reason I ask this is because he is now bending over backwards to
kiss the feet of the Jews. He silenced
his own Bishop for exposing a LIE WHICH IS THE HOLOCAUST. But yet everyday
Jews mock Christ and nothing is said about it.
Kev
MHFM:
No, we don’t think he is a Freemason. He
acts in the interests of the Devil and bows down to the world because of his
bad will and heresy, but not because he is a conscious infiltrator.
Ridiculous
Brothers,
I just read the article on E-Exchanges about the "Clown Ministry's
Stations of the Cross" and looked at their website. Can't they see how
ridiculous they are making themselves (V2)look? It would be funny if it were
not actually one of the saddest things I have ever seen. What is it going to be
next - a McDonalds mass?
Whenever I think that they could not get any worse, it all just sinks even
further...
Jim, Ireland.
Deceptions
Yes I agree with you. I do realize
that just because a person may be aware of certain secular deceptions (Holocaust,
Federal Reserve, etc.) does not mean that they are true Catholics. Bishop
Williamson is an ideal example. I certainly did not mean to imply that
only traditional Catholics could know about these things.
However, it seems to me that for the most
part, only people who have some sort of religious conviction, whether
Catholics, heretics, or infidels, are inclined to believe or come to the
knowledge that there is some kind of secular deception. But in this
country, the vast majority of people don't have any religious conviction.
Even though they may call themselves "Christian", they live their day
to day lives concerned only with what will make them happy in this life.
That's why most people now are concerned about our economic issues and not morality
issues. They vote for a pro-abortion and pro-homosexual president because
he promises to create more jobs. His position on abortion and
homosexuality doesn't seem to concern them.
On the other hand, people who have religious
conviction, (traditional Catholics, conservative Protestants,although heretics)
seek to please God first. They seem to be aware that they are being
deceived by the biased news media, and naturally will look for unbiased news
sources, and thus learn what is really going on.
AP
V-2 worship of man
You are right about
"benedict-ratzinger" being an anti-pope. I want to add one more
thing. I had a very busy day and did not have time to pray my daily
Rosary until 930pm. EWTN shows the Rosary every night at that time. I
know what you have said about the mysteries of Light and Anti-Pope JP2. I
was dubious about them, but willing to listen to them. I was following
along until they got to the Transfiguration. The sister with the good
voice starts the mystery. She was saying that with the Transfiguration,
we were transferring to being Jesus. THIS IS THE THING YOU WERE TALKING
ABOUT WITH JP2 AND THE WORSHIP OF MAN. I GOT SO UPSET, I TURNED THE TV
OFF AND COMPLAINED TO MY WIFE. I have learned my lesson and will not pray
the Luminous Mysteries anymore. However, as you suggested to me in the
past, I will continue to pray the Rosary daily... I have rejected the "new
mass".…
j…
MHFM:
We hope you also realize also that one must not pray the Rosary with the EWTN
modernists, even if it’s via television.
No substance
To Whom It May
Concern:
By chance or
mistake I discovered your web site. The visit got me very angry
and upset because of your unwarranted vicious attacks.
I have never
read such an assault on the papacy and the Vatican
Council as vindictive and vicious as yours, coming
from people, who claim to be the followers of
the "traditional" Catholic Church.
It is not other
Christians or other faiths who are the real "professed" enemies
of Rome,but you, who claim to be the followers of the true church, and
who, once, ate at the same table. Shame on you! You are spewing
hatred in every single line of your web page.
I am not a
prophet, but this I can tell you.
The Papacy of
Rome will continue for many years to come. You, instead, and your vitriolic
hatred are destined to disappear from the face of the earth. Vox
veritatis.
Mario Macaluso,
Ph.D.
MHFM:
You are another example of a heretical defender of the Vatican II sect who issues
general complaints about our website and material but cannot identify anything
specific which conflicts with Catholic teaching. For if you attempted to do so, you would be
easily refuted; and it would be demonstrated that you are not a Catholic.
Your
statement about Protestants, etc. not being enemies of the faith exudes your
modernistic spirit of unbelief. You
obviously reject the Catholic dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation. Since you do not accept it and other dogmas
of the Church, you do not have the grace to see the truth of what we present
about the Vatican II Counter Church.
Moreover, that’s why you are blind to our presentation of uncompromising
Catholic teaching, and wrongly call it “vicious” and “hatred.”
Why no approval?
Dear Brothers,
While reading your info on the falsehood of
the apparitions of Medjugore and others, I am convinced that they are
manifestations of the devil etc.. However, it also prompted me to
wonder this: Why, if these false apparitions are manifestations of
the devil used to prop- up the false teachings of Vatican II
and lead the faithful away from Christ and His
Church, did the Bishops not approve these false
apparitions like Medjugoge and Bayside since that would serve to firmly
deceive and ensconce souls in the lie and could ward off
any threat of losing important activity from
tmembers such as weekly donations and of people criticizing the
(c)hurch for not acting decisively on the subject? Or is the
conspiracy not quite that mindful, in that the bishops are
not controlling things that closely. As long as
the people are deceived then they don't need to make any formal
judgement because the damage is done, and that is most important ?
I am confused by the lack of action on this matter because it could go a long
way in promoting the devils cause.
Another mystery to me is the fact that
despite all the falsehood and heresy in the Vatican II sect, people who are
members still criticize it for generally not being liberal enough and not
coming to terms with the times! So then, this sect only made the
necessary changes to corrupt and destroy the faith, but didn't go any further
than that, because if they made too many really noticeable and radical changes,
like ordaining women, allowing priests to marry, announcing from the
pulpit the right to use birth-control etc. it might become too
obvious to the people that they are involved in something diabolical? These
anti-popes are careful not to be too obvious? They are tyring to fake the
preservation of the family and the priesthood? They know as long as they
destroy the Mass and Priesthood from the inside no other changes need to be
made because souls shall be lost to Hell since those elements are the most
crucial to a souls faith and survival?
Can you give me your logical
conclusions? I will be very grateful.
Thank you,
J.D.
MHFM:
Thanks for the question. The fact that
they did not approve many of these false apparitions works to deceive a
“conservative” segment of the Vatican II Church which is wary of them. It’s like one Vatican II “apologist” (who
also claims to be a traditionalist) said to one of us in a conversation about
the heresies of the Vatican II antipopes: “If what you are saying is true (about
the Vatican II antipopes and the Great Apostasy), then I would think they
wouldn’t stand firm on women priests, contraception, etc.” (He fell for it
completely. He was apparently oblivious
to the fact that these antipopes accept contraception, women pastors, etc. when
they endorse sects which accept them; and that, even if they stood firm on
those issues, it matters not if they hold the Catholic faith to be
meaningless.)
Nevertheless,
the Devil spins a complex web, with contradictions and inconsistencies
contained within other lies. That’s why
one cannot analyze things primarily
from the why. People must start with the facts, and how
they stack up with Catholic teaching. Is
this Catholic or not? Is the apparition
heretical or not? The fact is that the
apparitions contain wicked heresies which are opposed to Catholic faith, and
therefore they are from the Devil.
It’s
also clear that many of the followers of these false apparitions have become more convinced of them
because they did not receive approval from the bishop. This is because many of them are false traditionalists who advocate some
measure of independence from the corrupt local church, but overall fidelity to
the false council and the Vatican II antipope.
Hence, they persuade themselves that it’s not receiving approval because
the bishop is too liberal or just not “enlightened,” and that the antipope is
not being told the truth or is “helplessly surrounded” by modernists.
We
must also add that the general loss of the Mass and the priesthood are not the
most crucial aspect of this deception.
It is the loss of faith Catholic first; and then, after that, the loss
of the Mass and good priests.
Pius X on human respect
Pope St. Pius X,
Iucanda Sane (#27), March 12, 1904:
“Nay, he [Pope St. Gregory the Great] trembled at the very thought that
barbarism and immorality might obtain a footing in the life of the clergy, and
he was deeply moved and gave himself no peace whenever he learned of some
infraction of the disciplinary laws of the Church, and immediately administered
admonition and correction, threatening canonical penalties on transgressors,
sometimes immediately applying these penalties himself, and again removing the unworthy from their offices
without delay and without human respect.”
“Holocaust”
Dear Brothers,
With all this "holocaust" denial
in the news lately, I think God is trying to send the world a message. He
wants people to wake up and smell the coffee and give some consideration about
the "holocaust" story. But no, almost the entire world is of
bad will and won't even give it a second thought. People just
automatically presume to be true what the Jewish-controlled liberal and secular
media reports on. It's no wonder that traditional Catholics can grasp the
truth on these matters, because since they are good-willed enough to discover
the true Catholic religion, then God will reveal to them the truth about
secular matters (such as the phony holocaust).
AP
MHFM:
Yes, if a person is in the dark spiritually, then generally he will not believe
that he could be deceived on something that most of the world believes is a
fact. That’s why it sometimes happens
that when one comes to the realization that there is a major deception on a
secular issue (e.g., the Federal Reserve, the JFK assassination, etc.) it
awakens that person to the real possibility that there is a much larger
spiritual deception of which he is unaware – and that much of the world is
being led down a false path.
That’s
also why it is usually the case that defenders of the Vatican II Church – even
among false traditionalists who like the Latin Mass – do not believe and will
scoff at some of the main secular conspiracies.
They usually hold the same position on them that the liberal pagans
do. It’s not true in every case, but most
of the time.
That
being said, just because someone might be aware of what’s going on with secular
deceptions does not mean that he’s a true Catholic or good overall. Yes, that person will recognize how the Devil
is working to deceive masses of humanity; but frequently he will become
deceived himself on points of faith and fall into heresies. There are countless examples of bad willed
people who are up to speed on many of the conspiracies. Moreover, many people are distracted from the
Catholic faith and the Gospel by putting too much focus on these issues, which
can require attention but must be kept in line with the priorities of a
Catholic: the Gospel, integrity of the Catholic faith, the spiritual life,
Catholic duties, etc.
Living Magisterium
Brothers,
SSPX' Superior General Fellay stated in a
recent letter that "tradition has not been excommunicated." No, of
course not, as, in my opinion, only traditionalists are and will continue to
be, "excommunicated" by the Vatican. "Cardinal" Mahoney's actions
are not surprising one bit. It seems that the only thing left for the Vatican
to do is "bind" this type of mindset as part of a new
set of "dogmas."
Which prompts me to ask you about the term
"Living Magisterium." I came across this phrase the other day as I
started a new book. This term was used by John Paul II in 1994.
Does this term mean anything to you?
I suspect that when the time comes (soon)
when JPII and/or Paul VI are "canonized," a new era of "legal
weight" and "dogmatic emphasis" will be given to their
works/teachings in its entirety. It just seems to me that now with the worship
of Obama taking place, worship of JPII and Paul VI cannot be far behind.
It seems logical that the rift since Vatican II would be "sealed permanently," and
a preternatural exhibition of power would be just the thing
necessary to prime those who would be most susceptible, thus all but
guaranteeing filial devotion and trust in the Vatican II hierarchy, regardless
of any hideousness that spews forth from it's fount.
I am not sure if I have ironed out the
wrinkles in my idea, but I am hoping you can expound on it at some future time.
Sincerely,
Howard
AR.
MHFM: Yes, the term “living
Magisterium” is found in Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Satis Cognitum on the unity of the Church. This encyclical, by the way, is a gold mine
of quotes which condemn some of the main heresies of the Vatican II
religion.
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896: “… Christ instituted a living,
authoritative and permanent Magisterium, which by His own power He
strengthened, by the Spirit of truth He taught, and by miracles confirmed… If
it could in any way be false, an evident contradiction follows; for then God
Himself would be the author of error in man.”
The term simply means that the
teaching authority which Christ gave to St. Peter continues to live on in the
Church. In fact, Leo XIII uses it
immediately after quoting statements from the fathers about the Church’s
ongoing authority in the post-apostolic age.
It has a meaning which is similar to Vatican I’s statement that Peter
will have “perpetual successors in the primacy.” In other words, the teaching authority which
Christ instituted (the Magisterium) wasn’t intended solely for the apostolic
age or solely for St. Peter, but for all ages down through history whenever
there would be a true pope. It lives on.
Pius XI contra lust
Pope Pius XI, Casti connubii (#97), Dec. 31, 1930:
“Wherefore, since the chief obstacle to this study is the power of unbridled
lust, which indeed is the most potent cause of sinning in matrimony, and since
man cannot hold in check his passions, unless he first subject himself to God,
this must be his primary endeavor, in accordance with the plan divinely
ordained.”
Searching
Dear
Brothers,
I am
58 years old and haven't attended Mass since the early 70's. I was an Altar boy
when Vatican II came to be. At that time, I felt totally abandoned and lied to.
As I grew older, I continued to attend Mass, more to please my Mother than to
please God. Something just didn't seem right about the new Mass. The Latin
Mass, to me, felt Sacred and the people would observe, but not directly
participate in. Touching the Consecrated Host just seemed plain
wrong. We were always taught that the Pope was infallible, if that is
true; How could He say the Mass, and many other things,
should change? If they were right before....why are they wrong
now? It just didn't make sense or feel right.
I
was searching on something else when I came across your site. I am really
interested in your work and the Traditional Mass. I had no idea that this
was happening, and sincerely hope I can find a church in my area that follows
the old Latin Mass.
Any help with
this would be appreciated.
God
Bless You,
Chris
C.
Indiana
MHFM: [We
responded.]
Lent
MHFM: We are in
Lent. Those who have only been exposed
to the Vatican II Church might be unfamiliar with the traditional Catholic laws
on fasting and abstinence. This is
especially relevant now because every Monday-Saturday in Lent is a day of
fast. For exactly what that means,
please consult our Calendar section:
Traditional
Catholic Calendar and Fast Days
Abjuration
Dimond Brothers:
I just wanted to ask you: why do you not mention anything about abjuration to
the people leaving the Novus Ordo false sect and re-entering the Church? Why
don't you list abjuration in your "steps" to re-enter the Catholic
Church? Or for anyone who was not a Catholic, for that matter.
Seifer.
MHFM:
First of all, your claim is false. In
our steps to convert we have always had the Profession of Faith from the
Council of Trent. It is an abjuration,
in case you didn’t know. It is the one
given by the Church. That abjuration
specifically condemns all heresies opposed to Catholic faith; but we also
mention that, when making it, people should add a special repudiation of any
sect to which they belonged.
Moose, Elks
Dear Brothers,
I want to thank you for all the hard work
you are doing to promote the true Catholic Church, and to show the evils of the
Vatican II counter religion. My question
is this; I have been told that it is forbidden for a Catholic to become a
member of the Elks, Moose, Eagles, etc. Lodges, or to join the Oddfellows,
because they are all divisions of the Free Masons. Is this correct?
I hope you can let me know as soon as possible.
Once again, thank you for helping to show everyone the truth.
Wayne C. Lang
MHFM:
They are fraternal orders that are similar to Freemasonry. No Catholic could join them, or any fraternal
group which is not Catholic.
Came Across
Brothers,
Thank you for responding to my first order of 3 books so
generously by sending 4 books and lots of dvds! May God bless you! It has been about 18 months since I first
came across your site, and it has been a mighty struggle to accept what you
teach as true, but through the grace of God and lots of prayer I can say now I
am with you! I kept praying for God to lead me to the truth, and He led
me to your site and I thought, no this can't be right. I was not a
traditionalist and attended a NO parish where we were very involved. Like
I said it was a real struggle, but now I see clearly. You teach logically
where other traditionalists do not…
Bill from Michigan
Catholic Persecutions and the
“Holocaust”
Subject: Catholic Persecutions and the
Holocaust
Dear Brothers,
With all the news about Bishop Williamson
and the holocaust not really being as many as the jews say, I was wondering
about the persecutions of Catholics throughout the centuries. On your
video, you said that the streets were running with the blood of Catholics in
the year 800 from their persecution by the Moslems and that 50,000 Catholics
died in that incident alone. How can we find out how many more True
Catholics were martyrs for the faith, just because they were
Catholic? Like the English martyrs during that persecution.
This would be an excellent argument for the
jews and the holocaust. And why doesn't Bishop Williamson state these facts
about Catholic martyrs? (I have German neighbors who lived through the WW
II in Germany in the 1940's Hitler's era, and even they said no way could there
have been that many MILLIONS of jews that died) Thank you for all you do and
God bless you
Sincerely
Kathryn Rubio
OHIO
MHFM:
Yes, one could simply point to the horrors of Communist Russia for a
death-total which far exceeds even the most extreme version of the official
“Holocaust” story. Serious demographers count at least
15 million victims at the hands of Bolshevik Russia from the years 1929-1933
alone. This occurred with Stalin’s
policy of “dekulakization.” That was
followed by a deliberate genocidal grain famine in Ukraine, which murdered an
estimated five million more. And there
was much more. As quoted in our article
below, here’s the type of thing that was happening to Catholics during the
hegemony of Communist Russia:
Pope Pius XI, Letter to Cardinal
Pompili, Feb. 2, 1930: “This past
year during the Christmas holy days, not only were hundreds of churches [in
Russia] closed, great numbers of icons burned, all workers and schoolchildren
compelled to work and Sundays suppressed, but they even compelled factory
workers, both men and women, to sign a declaration of formal apostasy and
hatred against God, or else be deprived of their bread rationing cards, without
which every inhabitant of this poor country is reduced to dying of hunger,
misery and cold. Among other
things, in all the cities and in many villages… during the Christmas holy days
last year: they witnessed a procession of tanks manned by numerous ruffians
clad with sacred vestments, taking the cross in derision and spitting upon it
while other armored cars transported huge Christmas trees, from which
marionettes representing Catholic and Orthodox bishops were hung by the
neck. In the center of the city, other
young hoodlums committed all sorts of sacrileges against the cross.”
“In 1946 the Soviet authorities
removed every Lithuanian bishop but one from his diocese… From 1946 to
1948, 357 priests – one-third of all the
priests in Lithuania – were deported to labor camps in Russia and Siberia. One of
them, who had been sentenced to 25 years (which meant death, since
virtually no one survived more than ten years in the camps) was offered his freedom, one of the largest
churches in Vilinius, and 100,000 rubles if he would head a schismatic
Lithuanian Catholic church. He refused,
and disappears.” (Warren H. Carroll, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution, pp. 364-365)
But
these deaths of non-Jews don’t really matter to the world because the Jews are
treated as the super-race. You can read
a lot more about this in this article we have:
The Whole Truth
about the Consecration and Conversion of Russia
“Is it necessary to enumerate these nations, which perhaps Our Lady of
Fatima designated, announcing that ‘various nations will be annihilated’? Torn from their age-old
traditions, and from their Church, their society destroyed by the great
Bolshevik machine, in effect, these countries are no longer themselves… There is Albania, where the persecution
against the Church began in 1945. There
is Hungary, with its 7 million Catholics out of 10 million inhabitants,
where the apostolic nuncio was expelled in April, 1945… There is Poland (22 million Catholics), where in September, 1945, the
government decided to break the concordat.
There is Czechoslovakia,
where out of 12 million inhabitants, almost nine million were Catholics. There is Orthodox Romania with its valiant minority of 3 million Eastern Rite
faithful, where the government awaits the favorable hour to perform the same
forced integration to the schismatic Church as in Ukraine. There is Bulgaria, where the Church numbers
only 57,000. There is Tito’s Yugoslavia… where a bloody persecution began in June –
July, 1945.” (citation in article)
Benedict XVI Devil Sign
Subject: B16 flashing double el diablo
Dear Brothers,
Have you seen this photo yet? It is quite
startling, though not surprising.
Fresh Air
I have read your website, watched your
videos and agree with what you have stated… Your website has been a breath of
fresh air, as I had concluded that all the whole church had decided to hold
hands into hell together…
Christian Paige
“Off base”
Subject: yu [sic] are so off bace [sic] and
damning yourselves
I thought that I hat found my home, but
after one glance at this site I now know that you are just as much heretics as
the false pope himself! how dare you speak against the one of the greatest
images of Christ to ever walk this earth, Pope John Paul II was the greatest
pope that has ever been! he was the 111 pope and even by saintly prophesy was
to be the greatest. You are all on the right path but in the wrong direction,
you are protestants in true form! it is not our place to break from the church
even if it has strayed in it's politics and is helping the Antichrist, you must
still go to mass, and participate in the sacraments. we must be obedient to the
lords church, it is only his place to judge and if we were led astray by the
"priests" that he has ordained then we will be pardoned for
ignorance, and rewarded for our obedience. you are right in saying that there
is no salvation out side the catholic church so why are you outside of it, you
have become drunk with power and the true deceivers!
Jbella…
MHFM:
Let’s get this straight. You call him a
false pope, and then you say that John Paul II was the greatest ever. You criticize Protestants, but defend the man
who said that Protestants are saved, part of the Church, and don’t need to
believe in Catholicism. You say one must
stay with the “Church,” even if it has strayed.
That’s impossible. The Church is
the pillar and foundation of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15); it cannot stray. You belong to the Counter Church of Vatican
II, which is not the Catholic Church.
Heretics lose all membership and authority in the Catholic Church
automatically. The material proves that
to anyone of good will. Begin to learn
Catholic teaching.
Read
the material and wake up.
The Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a
valid pope and loses the papal office automatically [PDF file]
Antipopes
Benedict XVI, John Paul II, etc.
No response
Subject: Good job
I brought up/ emailed that news
article to people that I debate with that you posted today on whats been going
on at "Catholic" Universities and none of them could come up
with a response when I asked them why B16 & JP2 never say or did anything
about this stuff, along with excommunicating anyone... They can’t say
anything because there is simply nothing to say...
-Steve
MHFM: That’s right…
Convert
Hello,
My name is Lauren I'm 25 and have been
reading your website quite a bit. I really respect many of the things that you
have said. I was raised without any type of faith "well my parents are
both unitarians" but they are also atheists. I have always been attracted
to the catholic church but lost a lot of respect for them because i didn't
understand how they could change so radically from what they were for almost 2
thousand years it seemed like they were just placating people who wanted an
easier religion. I had no idea that people still celebrated the traditional
latin mass. Well in my attempt to make this short. I met a friend at work who
was a traditional roman catholic and told me about it. I have been reading
about different saints and your website and i bought a rosary and am learning
how to pray it. My friend has been sick lately so I was just wondering if you
knew of a church in the nky and cincinnati oh area that was a traditional roman
catholic church so that i could learn more and begin the process of converting.
I know it's a long process and I've never really been baptised so I feel that
it is important that I get in contact with them soon.
Thank you so much for your time in reading
this and God bless you and all that you do.
Lauren
MHFM: It's great and encouraging to hear
about your interest, Lauren. We have a file (below) which explains the
steps to convert. It actually doesn't have to be that long of a
process. You should obtain the Catechism from our online store. It
explains the basics. The first step is to read it and be clear on the
meanings of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Papacy, the sacraments, etc., in
addition to the issues relating to the traditional Catholic faith. This second file (also below) explains many
key principles in that regard. The third
file is the profession of faith from the Council of Trent, which you should
become familiar with. After you are
clear and convinced on everything, we can help you with where to receive
baptism and the other sacraments.
Again, it's great to hear about your interest and we pray that
your conversion comes smoothly.
The Glossary of
Terms and Principles [PDF]
The Council of
Trent’s Profession of Faith for Converts
If you continue to pray the Rosary, you will certainly get the
powerful graces to continue in your process of conversion. We recommend everyone to eventually work up
to praying all 15 decades of the Rosary each day, if possible. An easier way to get that accomplished is one
set of mysteries three different times in the day.
Vatican II “bound”
Brothers,
In listening to your radio program of 22
August, 2006, you make comments about how the independent groups (such as the SSPX)
boldly proclaim that the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are 'not
binding' on Catholics for salvation. If this proclamation were true, then why
is it that now, since the 'excommunications' of the four Bishops have been
'lifted', these very same Bishops must accept the apostasy and heresies of
Vatican II to even be considered in 'Communion' with the 'Church' (though
obviously the Counter-Church)? One cannot be saved and yet not be in Communion
with the (true) Catholic Church. Doesn't this prove that the Vatican II sect
does demand adherence to the Vatican II teachings for salvation?!
Sincerely,
Kit White
MHFM: The answer to your question is yes, absolutely they demand adherence to Vatican II. In addition to the solemn language with which
Paul VI closed Vatican II and every one of its 16 documents, we have emphasized
the fact that the Vatican II antipopes have repeatedly stated that Vatican II
is binding. They have stated this in
their ordinary capacity over and over again, in many different ways.
The latest public statements about the Society of St. Pius X and
Vatican II are just the latest cases in point.
Moreover, there is not one bishop with ordinary jurisdiction in the
Vatican II sect who would say that a Catholic can reject Vatican II. That being the case, even if one were to
ignore for a moment the proof that Paul VI solemnly
bound his sect to Vatican II (as was covered in this article), Vatican II is clearly proven to be the official and
binding teaching of the New Church’s “Ordinary and Universal Magisterium.” Therefore, if you accept the Vatican II
“popes,” you must accept their (heretical) council and its (heretical)
teachings.
It is thus true to say that it is absurd and ridiculous for any
traditionalist to continue to assert that the Vatican II antipopes are true
popes, but that one is free to reject the teachings of Vatican II. It is to mock God, the Church and the
Magisterium.
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SBC
I just received a bulletin from the St.
Benedict Center, rejoicing in the lifting of the excommunications of the four
bishops consecrated by Apb. Lefebvre… Now the Feeneyites do not believe
in the heresies of baptism of blood and desire and salvation outside of the
church, but those four bishops believe in and teach these heresies that the
Feeneyites reject. Both St. Benedict Center and the SSPX honor the popes
who believe in these heresies and who promote the New Mass and numerous other
heresies of Vatican II.
All three, however, consider
themselves and each other Catholic, and all apparently in line for
salvation. Why not? If you are saved outside the church, you can also be
saved inside the church, even if you disagree. All three: St.
Benedict Center, SSPX and Vatican II non-traditional Catholics support but
often criticize each other.
All three of these variations of
Catholics agree that anyone who rejects this apparent disunity and its
accompanying heresies in favor of true traditional Catholicism, as taught
by Catholic popes for 2,000 years, is a heretic and a schismatic. Proof of
these accusations is unavailable except for weak statements that are easily
refuted. This goes beyond stupid.
PM
MHFM: Yes, the St. Benedict Center is
heretical. They are supporters of
Vatican II and the Novus Ordo. It should
also be pointed that the SBC DOES NOT believe that Outside the Church There is No
Salvation is a dogma which Catholics must hold.
They claim to believe it, yes; they claim to believe that it’s a dogma,
yes. However, they do not in reality. This
is proven by the fact that they regard as Catholics people who believe in
salvation outside the Church. For
instance, they know very well that Benedict XVI and the Novus Ordo bishops
believe in salvation outside the Church; yet they obstinately regard those
people as Catholics. That proves that
they do not believe that Outside the Church There is No Salvation is a dogma
which binds under pain of losing membership in the Church. They hold that it’s just a nice opinion.
So we tell anyone who thinks like
they do: Don’t kid yourself. You do not
believe that Outside the Church There is No Salvation is a dogma. At best, you hold that it’s a nice opinion
which one can reject without consequence.
Williamson, blindness
I'm not sure I understand your prescription
for what Williamson should have done. First, the remarks (at least those
for which he is currently under assault) were not made in Germany, but I
believe in Sweden. Perhaps he failed to understand just how vicious these
people are, and it was naive of him not to realize this given
his otherwise high level of sophistication. It is not unprecedented
that Germany or France would pursue someone for statements made outside of
their jurisdictions. Historian David Irving was found guilty in
abstentia by a French court and fined for statements he made I think in
Australia (but to a French newspaper). Ironically Williamson is reported
to be staying with Irving in London, having been exciled from
Argentina and maybe on the verge of being kicked out of the SSPX.
I thought perhaps God had
allowed these troubles to befall him as sort of a final wake-up
call. And I was hoping he would answer it. I think the
correct thing to do is to stand firm and go to jail if necassary. Let the
SSPX expell him. If that were to happen perhaps many of the SSPX
priests and faithful would finally understand the phoney nature of the
SSPX hierarchy and follow him out.
But what would have been the point of his
silence or his shrewdness? No one would have learned anything from that,
and one of the last organizations capable of preserving the VALID Catholic
Apostolic priesthood would be absorbed into and compleltely
obliterated by the New Church. I still hope he yet stiffens
up.
William T. Mulligan, Jr.
MHFM: No, the remarks were made in
Germany, not Sweden. It was to a Swedish
television station. Moreover, it wasn’t
so much his failure to understand how vicious they are, but his general
spiritual blindness about the significance of his actions. In our opinion, he figured (in his pride):
“I’m important; I’m a bishop. I’ll be
fine.” It’s the same kind of blindness
which renders him unable to see his sin in not denouncing John Paul II and
Benedict XVI as non-Catholic heretics.
People figure (in their pride): “I
don’t need to denounce them as heretics; I’ll be fine if I just criticize their
actions.” People think that nothing
will happen to them; they think they are above the law, including God’s
law. They think (in their pride) that
they won’t be held accountable. How
wrong they are…
It’s the same kind of blindness that
afflicts countless traditionalists. They
think they can compromise; they think that they can withhold Catholic truth
because there is safety in numbers; they think they can fail to denounce people
lest they appear “radical”; they think that they can ignore the utterances of
heresy by their “friends.” Only when
they die will their blindness be removed and they will see things as they
are. Only then will they see how evil
they were in failing to do what they knew was right.
The same thing could be said of
Catholics who know the truth, and are content with the fact that they know the
truth, but don’t do what they easily could to help others get the truth. They think they will be fine because they
know the truth, but they will be held accountable for not doing what they easily
could have done to enable others to get the truth. (As an example, there are many who see the
truth of what we are doing and how people are converting. They could help our apostolate so that other
souls could be helped, but they don’t; and many souls who could have been
reached will not be, because they were selfish and just content with the fact
they have the truth. They will have to
answer for that as well. We are speaking
here of people who are not in debt and have extra means; and we are obviously
not speaking about the people who have the missionary spirit and try to help in
their own way.)
So we believe that Williamson’s
imprudence was simply a small example of his spiritual blindness in regard to
the significance of his actions, and the consequences which flow from
them. He could have said the same thing
in a free country. We of course agree
that he should not back down one bit.
The point is that he could have said the same thing without facing
prosecution.
God certainly can work good out of a
multitude of situations. He is working
with this event to expose the outrage of the “Holocaust” dogma. He is pulling the mask off the reality of
Jewish power, to which so many are blind.
He is using it to completely expose and disgrace the Vatican II sect and
Benedict XVI and their abominable hypocrisy – as well as that of everyone who
defends them. Additionally, it works as
a grace for Williamson, so that he can see that Benedict XVI is nothing more
than a sick joke. It shows him that the
SSPX is heretical and evil and that it serves the world. It shows him that the leaders of the SSPX are
not his true friends.
Website
Subject:
Religious Articles
Brothers:
I want to thank you for the good work that you have been doing on the
website. You and another website have steered my soul back toward
salvation. Your simple advice to pray the Rosary has set me the right
way…
Jack
Donlan
Letter
Dear Brother Michael Dimond, O.S.B.,
I
was always curious about UFO’s and the strange obsession that people have with
them. It seems one can watch a
television program about them almost every night. After reading your book, UFOs: Demonic
Activity & Elaborate Hoaxes Meant to Deceive Mankind, I was very shocked to
learn that it is more probable that there are evil forces at work. I think it was amazing how you point out many
scientific explanations to debunk them as aliens from outer space.
While
reading the book, I was forced to ask myself the motive behind aliens allegedly
abducting humans, as so many have claimed. They are always described as ugly,
scary creatures, who harm us and teach things contrary to what I believe. Your theories seem to answer this question
for me. Now, I honestly believe they are
demonic creatures that want to learn about how our human bodies work, by doing
harmful things to them and to try to even steal our souls. It seems to make more sense.
I
was shocked at the scientific facts that you provided that clearly discredit
alien forms of life. After thinking
about what you wrote, it is extremely unlikely for aliens to travel from all
over the universe just to visit Earth.
On page 8, you stated, “Traveling at the speed of light, an impact with
even one of these tiny dust particles would destroy a space ship. At one tenth
the speed of light, the impact would equal to an explosion of almost ten tons
of TNT.” All I can say is, “Wow! I never
thought about that!”
I
also liked what you wrote about the concept of the speed of light. It’s mind
boggling that, “If aliens came from another galaxy, they would have to travel
from a galaxy at least two million light years away. Even if they traveled at
the speed of light, it would take them two million years to get to Earth.” It
just doesn’t add up.
It
makes perfect sense that these demons would want us to stop believing in God
and not to worry about sin, as many of their victims claim they have told them.
It makes perfect sense that they would say we all go to Heaven and that there
is no such thing as Hell. They even go so far as to say we can all become
mini-gods.. It’s a shame that all those
victims had to go through that torment. It’s also a shame that so many people
are fooled. I no longer include myself with that crowd.
Sincerely,
Mark
Sample
MHFM:
In the next few days we hope to post a sample section (or possibly multiple
sample sections) of an important upcoming book we’ve been working on.
While
we have obviously continued to update our website regularly, this book-project
has caused us to put off a number of things we would like to post on important
and controversial issues in “traditionalism.”
As an example, one of us just read a book on salvation which is circulated
in “traditionalist” circles. This book
has to be the most heretical book on
salvation we’ve ever seen in terms of one that purports to deliver the
“pre-Vatican II” teaching on the salvation dogma. The denials of dogma contained therein are
stunning, but this book is sold and distributed by supposed traditionalists and
sedevacantists. It was also published
with approval before Vatican II. We hope
to post an audio about this once time permits.
There
is also a talk we plan to do on another controversial issue. This will dispel many misconceptions people
have on this particular topic. There are
also heretics, of every traditionalist persuasion, who attack us from every
side with calumnies, false arguments, ridiculous bad will, etc. Suffice it to say, our material refutes these
people and we have dealt in detail with many of them. It’s simply not possible to scuffle with
every heretic in the world and get things accomplished. But once this project is completed, we hope
to delve into refuting in detail some more of these individuals.
Wiccan, demons
Hello,
My name is Amy and first of all i would just like to say i really appreciate
everything you all do! The videos and books are really useful!!
Here's my problem… my friend just told me
she was wiccan. After she told me that it really freaked me out because
before i left my home i was having my doors open and close on their own, and my
aunt had heard noises coming from my hallway such as hard banging
noises and sounds of huge items being thrown around...she woke
up to those noises in my home at 4:30 in the morning, and when my
grandmother and mother came down to get me we had an exorcism prayer and holy
water and blessed the house and everything stopped. Right now, she is
staying at my house until i get home because our husbands are in the military
and in Iraq right now. She told me that my doors are slamming open and
shut again, i believe it's doing that again because she brought demons into my
home. I am supposed to be going back
home this friday the 27th of February. I'm nervous about having this in
my home again because i don't want to try and do that exorcism again with her
in my home (especially because she is a wiccan). I would just like to know what
you think the best advice would be for me to do to fix this situation. I
had no idea she was a wiccan until she told me today... I'm really nervous
about this and i would like some more advice i don't want to cause harm to
anyone especially if she's brought demons into my home.
Thank you very much,
Amy
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. She
brought evil into your home. You obviously should not have her stay at
your place. You need to try to convert
to the Catholic faith; you need to tell her to break from her wickedness.
But obviously you cannot have her at your place. You need to pray the
Rosary every day in the home. Say the
exorcism prayer and use the holy water.
We must also say that people should
be aware of what their friends believe, unless their friends deceive them. As a Catholic, one has an obligation to
attempt to convert friends and family members.
Thus, if one is completely unaware of what his or her friend believes,
then that person is not evangelizing the way he or she must evangelize.
Book
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter Dimond,
My 8th grade son, Mark chose to
read your book for his latest Language Arts assignment. Upon completion of
reading a book, the students were told to write a letter to the
author. Please find attached his letter.
This book has had a profound effect on both
my teenage sons, Ryan and Mark. I originally bought this book a few weeks ago
as a birthday present for Ryan, who just turned 17 years old. According to
them, it most certainly sheds a lot of light on the alien hoax. They are
convinced, even more so, with all the scientific facts that you
provided and the motive behind demons wanting to lure poor souls away from
God.
Thank you for your research and hard work
to expose the 'father of all lies.' My sons witness against heresies
whenever they can as faithful Catholics. I will advise you of the outcome
of this assignment! He will be providing a copy to his teacher tomorrow. Please
pray for him.
Your sister in Christ,
Lida
New Heresies from
Benedict XVI
MHFM: We’ve updated
our: Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file.
John Paul I
Greetings Brothers,
Is it your contention that JP1 was
murdered by the illuminati/freemasons? There's been debate that he was indeed
murdered and the fact that he only reigned for 33 days,
with 33 having masonic significance. If he was murdered by the
masons, it makes me wonder why since he was a manifest heretic.
Se…
MHFM:
Yes, that is our opinion. He was
murdered because he wanted to remove people (cardinals, priests, etc.) who were
involved with the Vatican bank, not because he was a good man or a real
Catholic.
Comment
Dear MHFM
Note also about Lourdes, that Our Lady
appeared in 1858, 100 years before the first antipope of the apostasy.
She confirmed what would be denied, which is that she is the only Immaculate
Conception (no Baptism of desire or blood or salvation outside of the church)
and that her Rosary is 15 decades, not 20, scriptural meditations on the life
of Christ: his birth, death and resurrection.
PM
Significant
Dear MHFM,
I was
telling people about the 9/11 conspiracy about how bombs made it collapse and
they asked why and I didnt have an answer so I was wondering if you could
elaborate to me about why bombs inside the towers is significant…??
Thanks
Ihm…
MHFM: The videos in the watch our
videos page answer that question. You
should watch them. In short, the
buildings were clearly demolished by explosives in a controlled demolition. That means that explosives were
surreptitiously planted in the buildings many days before 9/11, for it takes
days (if not weeks) to prepare a building for a controlled demolition. No Middle Eastern “Terrorists” would have the
access to the World Trade Center which would enable them to secretly prepare
the buildings with explosives weeks before 9/11.
We understand that it is shocking
information to many people, but the evidence is simply undeniable.
Ambiguity and
Heresy
MHFM:
In the past we’ve pointed out how it’s a characteristic of heretics to use
ambiguity. In one place they will
contradict heresies which they have taught in other places. That’s why Pope Pius VI teaches that people
are to be held to their heretical statements, regardless of any ambiguity or
other contradictory statements they make; for these merely serve to cloak their
heresies and deceive readers.
Another
example of ambiguity in heresy is found in the writing of Antoine Arnauld. Arnauld was extremely influential in the 17th
century rise of Jansenism. Jansenism was
a set of heretical ideas – combining elements of extreme rigorism and
Protestantism – which were condemned by the Church. In examining his teachings, Denis Petau
noticed these contradictions:
“Petau, on the
other hand, did not long keep him waiting for an answer. When
faced with certain statements Arnauld
had referred to others in which he had asserted the contrary and in the new
book he presented the contested new point in a milder form. Thereupon Petau added to the third edition of
his first book an appendix in which he
gave a complete list of the contradictory statements to be found in various
parts of Arnauld’s work.” (Dr. Ludwig Pastor, History of the Popes, Vol. 29, p. 143.)
This
is extremely relevant in our day.
Benedict XVI, for example, frequently teaches that heretical and
schismatic sects are true and that they are part of the Church. But occasionally the Vatican II sect might
issue a statement (in order to deceive “conservatives”) that the fullness of
truth only resides completely in the Catholic Church, or something like
that. That statement is meaningless
because it’s contradicted countless times by Benedict XVI and his Vatican II
sect. Nevertheless, it deceives people
of bad will. So, an assertion of truth
in one place doesn’t justify the assertion of heresy in another place or in
other places.
In
the same way, many traditionalists will assert that they don’t believe
non-Catholics can be saved. When
questioned further, however, the truth comes out; and they admit that they do. So, the fact that they claim to believe in
Outside the Church There is No Salvation doesn’t change the reality that, in
other places, they deny the dogma.
Similarly, there are individuals who claim to reject the heresy that
Jews, Muslims, etc. who reject Christ can be saved. They might even denounce that heresy on
occasion. The fact of the matter,
however, is that they accept that heresy because, at other times, they
acknowledge as Catholics people who hold to it.
Beware of Headlines
MHFM: Beware of headlines, especially
with regard to Benedict XVI. The
headlines will often portray his words as much stronger and more conservative
than they actually are. The recent
headlines about his meeting with pro-abortion and pro-contraception Nancy
Pelosi are a case in point. Look at this
headline:
Pope to Pelosi: Catholics can't back
abortion
But did he actually say that? No. If
you read the article, it points out that Benedict XVI "… took the
opportunity to speak of the requirements
of the natural and moral law and the Church's consistent teaching on the
dignity of human life from conception to natural death ..." a Vatican
statement said. So he didn’t even
mention the word “abortion.” He simply
made a bland statement, to appease false conservatives, about the importance of
life from conception to death. That’s
very different from telling someone point blank: you cannot support abortion.
Moreover, even if he had told her:
“you cannot support abortion,” that wouldn’t disprove that he’s a monstrous
heretic on the abortion issue. For he
has not excommunicated her or even barred her from Novus Ordo “Communion.” It’s interesting to consider how the false
conservatives will do anything to attempt to make Benedict XVI look like a
Catholic.
Lourdes and Rosary
Brothers:
I have been searching for more information
about what Bernadette saw during the last 15 apparitions. It seems our
Blessed Mother re-enacted or illustrated all 15 of the mysteries for Bernadette,
which partially explains why Bernadette often stared so intently without moving
for long periods. Bernadette was watching our Blessed Mother
closely. Imagine what Bernadette was shown during the Sorrowful Mysteries
(!).
Thus for the Visitation, the BVM left her
spot in the grotto and was gone for a few minutes, causing Bernadette to get on
her feet and search frantically for her, finally Bernadette started to cry,
believing Our Lady had left without saying goodbye. But then the BVM
reappeared in a different spot, illustrating her trip on foot to St. Elizabeth.
This aspect of the last 15 apparitions
containing the Rosary Mysteries is omitted in books and I have not been able to
find a recounting of this aspect of Lourdes. There may be accounts in
French, but I do not know of them. Certainly, the French pray the Rosary
at Lourdes every night. Perhaps the knowledge of witnessing the
mysteries illustrated by Our Lady explains why Bernadette was so hard on
herself for "receiving so many graces and not doing enough with the graces
bestowed" [paraphrasing].
It seems Lourdes apparitions were quite
complex because God, through our Blessed Mother, was trying accomplish a great
many things. There were three secrets given to Bernadette which she never
revealed, no doubt because she was instructed not to!…
Finally, Bernadette suffered
physically throughout her life but especially during her later years,
and suffered a very hard death. It is something to consider that Bernadette
had to undergo a great deal of physical pain in order to be purified enough to
go to Heaven! She was a virgin, celibate and chaste, and *still* she
had to suffer physically to be ready enter heaven. Much like the deaths
of Jacinta and Francisco Marto (we don't know about Lucy as her death has been
hidden). A great deal to ponder there. Does the Novus Ordo ever
warn the world about this? Nah.
Many thanks for your site,
D.H.
The interesting
14th apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes
[This was an
E-Exchange from some time back. We
thought it was worth posting again. It’s
always good to reconsider aspects of the special messages from Heaven.]
MHFM:
In 1858, the Mother of God appeared 18 times to St. Bernadette Soubirous in
On
this particular morning, however, Our Lady didn’t appear to St.
Bernadette. Bernadette was disappointed,
but later in the day she felt impelled to travel back to the grotto where Our
Lady usually appeared to her. Bernadette
was only accompanied by a few people when she went back to the grotto (unlike
in the morning), and she saw Our Lady again.
Later on Bernadette explained to her cousin Jeanne-Marie why Our Lady
didn’t appear to her in the morning.
Jeanne-Marie relates their conversation:
Jeanne-Marie: “‘I
have heard that you did not see the Lady this morning. It’s possible that you will not see her
tomorrow either.’ She answered me: ‘But I did see her during the day.’ I asked her: ‘Why did you not see her this morning?’
She replied that the Lady had told her: ‘You did not see me this morning
because there were some people there who wished to see what you look like in my
presence, and they are unworthy of it: they spent the night at the grotto and
they dishonored it.’” (Abbe Francois Trochu, St. Bernadette Soubirous, Tan Books, pp. 134-135)
Distribute
Dear Brothers,
I would like to
obtain some of your material such as the kit on What happened to the Catholic
Church, for myself and also to distribute some among Catholics in Portugal… I
am very happy and grateful to have discovered your site which I find very
genuine and find nothing contrary to the spirit of truth dwelling in me. Please continue, never giving up the
awakening of souls because there are many baptized souls out there hungry and
crying out for the Truth.
May God
Bless you,
Maria
Fernanda da Silva
Response
Ave Maria
Brother,… what about this again?.
VATICAN I, SESSION IV, CHAP. 1 AND 2:
"Moreover, WHAT the Chief of pastors
and the Great Pastor of sheep, the Lord Jesus, established IN the blessed Apostle
Peter for the perpetual salvation and perennial good of the Church, this by
the same Author MUST ENDURE ALWAYS in the Church which was founded upon a rock
and WILL ENDURE FIRM UNTIL THE END OF THE AGES.” (Denz. 1824)
I want really to know about this.
Thank you very much
Max
MHFM: That’s covered in the response to Objection 6
in this file: Responses to 19 of the Most Common Objections Against Sedevacantism [PDF file].
Antipopes
Hello,
according to your webpage:
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/Great_Western_Schism.html you mentioned Boniface IX (1389-1404) as an antipope,
but according to your pdf file 4_Antipopes.pdf there are no mention of these 4
popes (see below) in the avignon line from your great_western site.:
Urban VI (1378-1389)
▼
Boniface IX (1389-1404)
▼
Innocent VII (1404-1406)
▼
Gregory XII (1406-1415)
Can you please clarify this if Boniface IX
was an antipope or not?
Regards
Krystian
MHFM: Boniface IV was a true pope,
not an antipope. The article to which
you are referring was moved here to this PDF file:
The url which you referenced was the
previous version of the article, in which the table was temporarily displaced
just a bit one time it was uploaded. By
the way, this article on the Great Western Schism is quite important in
understanding how this Vatican II crisis is perfectly compatible with Catholic
teaching and the precedents of Church history.
This article is located in our main section dealing with “Antipopes
Benedict XVI, JP II, etc.”
Judaism
It appears that Orthodox Judaism believes
in the Messiah being a real person, whereas Reformed Judaism, which sprang up
during the age of Enlightenment, decided to change the idea of the
Messiah into the Jews themselves.
I suspect that history gets both versions
of their false Messiah - one in the form of Communism and one in the more
"orthodox" version of Anti-Christ. One is ending (but not
without a final intense last stand), and the other will begin too
soon enough.
Quoting from the early 20th century
Catholic writer William Thomas Walsh referring to the idea in Rabbi
Kaufmann Kohler's work 'Jewish Theology' that "the true Messias is
the Jewish people".
More quotes within Kohler's 'Jewish
Theology', as he promotes REFORMED Judiasm (emphasis mine):
From page 25 (online book), "Reform
Judaism...took the election of Israel rather than the Messiah AS THEIR CARDINAL
DOCTRINE."
From page 389, "The leaders of Reform
Judaism in the middle of the nineteenth century...transferred the title of
Messiah to the Jewish nation."
Somewhere I have read that their ultimate
goal is to place non-Jewish heathen under Jewish law. Perhaps you have some
sources for this?
As Ted Pike exposed in 'The Jewish
Encyclopedia', Jewish law would allow for Jews to have sex, as they
pleased, with non-Jewish women and children. As if it is not bad enough
already, it appears their aims are even worse. This could help explain why
the Novus Ordo apostates have pedophelia and worshipping the victims of
the "holocaust" as their distinctive marks.
What?
Subject: What?
I just located your website. I graduated
from a Protestant Seminary and after studying the Church Fathers I converted to
the Roman Catholic Faith. Do you mean to say that those that are not of your
order are phoney Roman Catholics. I love the Roman Catholic Church…
I'll have you to know that even though I
was once a Protestant I love the Roman Catholic Church and have a strong
devotion to Our Lady. I don't understand how you could say I am not a true
Roman Catholic when I love the Roman Catholic Faith so much.
Dr. Ronald C. Spencer
MHFM: We mean that those who do not
accept all Catholic teachings – but instead adhere to the new Vatican II
religion – are phony Catholics. A
person’s love for the Catholic faith is determined by what that person
believes. It is determined by whether
that person accepts dogmas such as Outside the Church There is No
Salvation. This dogma has been defined
by many popes from the Chair of Peter, but it is denied by almost all who claim
to be Catholic today.
Those who deny it are not real
Catholics, no matter how often or vigorously they claim to be. So, whether one has the Catholic faith is
determined by whether that person believes and adheres to the dogmas without
compromise. That necessarily entails rejecting
heretics who contradict teachings of the Church. In other words, one must reject those who go
along with the manifestly heretical teachings of Vatican II.
As you see more of our website, it
should become clear to you, if you are willing to accept the full Catholic
faith, that the Vatican II religion is not Catholic. You should see that one cannot adhere to the
Catholic faith without completely rejecting the Vatican II Church. We think you would benefit from this program:
The Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic Church
after Vatican II Audio Program, Part 1, Part 2
[2 hrs. each part]
Consecration Article
Dear Brothers Dimond
Some time ago I read Bro. Peter's article on the Consecration of Russia. However I never made up my mind on it. But after I took another few reads I now know
that Bro. Peter is correct. I would like
to thank Bro. Peter for that article.
Our Lady of La Salette, Sept. 19, 1846: “Rome will lose the Faith and become
the seat of the Anti-Christ… the Church will be in eclipse.”
This and the PROPHECY OF ST. NILUS have already come true. It's clear we are in the last days just look
at what they teach in the Novus Ordo "Catholic" schools all my years
in those schools and I was never told in school what a Mortal Sin is. The
disgusting Sex education, this is not just another crisis this is the Great
Apostasy near the end of the world without a doubt…
Sean
Thanks
Dear
Brothers (Bro. Michael Dimond),
Thank
you very much for the light you cast about very important and high
matters. Please follow in your task…
Sincerely
yours,
Alejandro
Bayer (Colombian)
Anne Frank
Dear MHFM,
the latest holohoax that you expose (the ''rosenblat love story'') is just a
piece in a long line of frauds of the Holohoax industry considering the fact
that the well-known diary of Anne Frank (which is now a part of the ''Holocaust
canon'') is also a proven fake (at least parts of it). Of course, saying that
publicly is considered today a ''heresy'' and can get one in prison but when
they need to discredit a genuine relic like for instance the Shroud of Turin,
you have all the ''scientists'' going out of their way to prove and claim that
it is a medieval forgery. What utter hypocrisy, it is sickening.
A ''holocaust'' denier from Croatia
SSPX, heresies
Dear Brothers,
Thank you for the latest abominable
heresies of Benedict XVI. He really is a schizomatic! I wonder if the 'changes' to the SSPX
'communion' with the Vatican II apostates will create a split within the
SSPX?!...
God Bless,
Kit White
Found
Rev.
Father Of The Most Holy Family Monastery!!
First,
let me congratulate you on the God sent web site on the vatican II “con job”
which has been running now for forty years.
Your web site and another article that I read have saved my precious
soul from perdition. (I hope!!! ) I, as a loyal Roman Catholic, took the bait,
hook line and sinker!!! For forty years I attended, what I thought was a valid,
Roman Catholic Mass. Little did I know
what I had gotten myself into!!!! After
doing some research, provided by your web site, I found… pre-l968 Catholicism.
…God
Bless you Father and all of the wonderful work that you are doing!!!
Mr.
Michael Mello
Interest
Can you tell me
where in Indiana there are legitimate Catholic Church congregations with valid
orders?
Your website is
fascinating!
Sincerely,
Chris Wynn
MHFM: [We responded.]
Another mind-boggler
Subject:
Another mind-boggler
I
know these guys (VII establishment) are wicked, but this story is
incredible. When you think they can't get any worse, they do. This Austrian
priest's elevation is criticized by the Austrian Bishops, and then he
resigns under pressure, because he was glad the Katrina destroyed brothels and
abortion clinics. And what Catholic wouldn't be?? Can't the Novus
Ordites paint by the numbers? It’s funny and infuriating at the same
time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7892198.stm
William T.
Mulligan
MHFM: That is interesting. Without considering their complete apostasy
on the issues of faith, this demonstrates that they cannot even say a few
things in the moral arena which offend people, without making themselves total
outcasts among their apostate “hierarchy.”
“Orthodox”
I
have a Protestant friend that has moved away from his Protestant positions over
the years but is now seriously thinking of joining the Russian Orthodox.
Do you have any articles that I can use to refute their positions?
Keith
MHFM: In this section of
the “Refuting Protestantism” portion of our website, Biblical and early Church evidence for the Papacy [link to section], there are numerous
audios. The audios which follow the
first one get into detail on the evidence that the early Church recognized the
primacy of the Bishop of Rome. They
cover the issues which are pertinent to Eastern “Orthodoxy,” their objections,
questions, etc. The first audio in that
section is the main one about the biblical evidence for the Papacy.
Death video
Dear Brothers of Most Holy Family
Monastery,
THANK-YOU! After just coming across your website on the internet I just wanted
to send you a quick note to say that I just finished watching one of your
mini-movies that you very generously have available right on your website for
people/newcomers to look at, 'Death and Hell,' and i cant Thank You enough for
the amazing effect you must be producing in hundreds and thousands of Souls,
just like mine, by dedicating your lives to reaching out to others in this way,
and it must produce indescribable joy and comfort in your hearts to know each
day that you are affecting souls like this, for your Heavenly Father.
Although I will always recognise our Holy Father as visible head of Mother
Church, that still doesn't stop me from being grateful for your efforts in many
other areas.
Yours very, very gratefully,
Mrs Allen
MHFM: We’re glad you liked the
video. We thank you for your comments in
that regard. However, you really need to
look at these files. You are not correct
on Benedict XVI and the Vatican II Church.
In defending him, you are defending an antipope and a heretic, not a
true pope.
The Heresies of Benedict XVI [PDF file]
The Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file]
New Rite of Ordination
I have read your article on why the New
Ordinations are invalid, and I think you have some great information… This
information is really devastating to learn… I think your truth movement is
great! keep informing!
Thanks,
Jessica
Gates of Hell
Hey
I’m an 18 year old Catholic and I started reading your stuff and I’m confused
because i thought the gates of hell would never prevail over the church. I
agree with everything you say but how can it be I thought God promised his
church would stay strong.
William
MHFM: The promise that the gates of
Hell will not prevail means that the Church will exist until the end of time,
and that the official teachings of the Church will not err. It does not
mean that the Church cannot be reduced to a small remnant at the end. In fact, that’s what is predicted to
happen. You really need to look at the first file below, and specifically
the responses to objections 1 and 15 in the second file.
The Glossary of Terms and Principles [PDF]
Responses to 19 of the Most Common
Objections Against Sedevacantism [PDF file]
Final Call
Dear
brothers in Christ,
Let me
make a short review of undeniable facts you have dealt with recently. These
facts alone show beyond any reasonable doubt that the pseudo-catholic sect, now
occupying the Vatican, is evil to the core. I can't imagine how more evil it
could be. The V-2 sect, with the
antipope Benedict XVI as its head (and its past antipopes as well), is
promoting two cornerstones of contemporary atheism: the evolution hoax and the
holocaust hoax. These hoaxes DO go
together simply because they have no scientific value at all. And yet
we can (could) see the V-2 antipopes embracing these lies with all their rotten
mind and hearts. Did we ever hear even
one of the V-2 antipopes to say something like:"It is totally unacceptable
to deny The Most Holy Trinity"? Or, "It is totally unacceptable to
deny the perpetual virginity of The Blessed Mother Mary"? Or any of the
dogmas of the Catholic Church? No, we didn't. What we did hear and did see was praying in
mosques, synagogues and pagan tents; we have heard the antipope B16 say of the
heretic Hans Küng: "I respect his path", and of many other heretics
as well. B16 respects Küng's PATH,
although, allegedly, B16 does not support it.
This
detail alone (among countless others) testifies that B16 is a coward and a
liar. Why he couldn't say of Bishop Williamson:"I respect his path,
although I don't support
it"? He couldn't because, like other antipopes, his comrades, he is a
coward. He is a Christ-denier and
apostate. God would never permit to such a person to act consistently. Personally,
I am inclined to think that the recent fuss about "holocaust" was
God's final call to bishop Williamson and all other confused heretics to
totally reject V-2 sect and its antipopes. I hope I'm wrong in that it is a
FINAL call.
Let our Blessed Mother Mary guards your holy path. Please remember me in your
prayers.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
Williamson’s new statement
MHFM: This is a recent letter which
Williamson sent to a friend of his.
Sadly, it shows again how weak and heretical he is at this time. Here’s the letter:
"No, no, a thousand times no", in
the words of the old song. Given the power in today's world of certain
people, the game must be played to a certain extent according to their rules. I
blame no colleague or Superior for trying to salvage a viable future for the
SSPX as a whole from the wreckage caused by a few ill-chosen words on
Swedish TV. I am not saying those words were or are untrue. I am only saying
that I cannot go along with any repudiation of the present SSPX leadership.
I might go along with it if they were to
try to cut a bad deal with Rome, but here and now I absolutely do not believe
that to be the case. If it became the case, I think you could
trust me to say so, because the Faith would be at stake, and it does look as
though I am liable to say what I think. Trust me then when I say that I do not
think the SSPX is heading for betrayal.
Be patient. Pray the Rosary to avoid
confusion in a situation in which the Devil is playing almost how he likes with
countless hearts and minds.
I send you my blessing, and to all your
friends, but not for the idea of setting me up to head a new organisation. No
way.
Pray the Rosary. God bless
you.
+Richard Williamson.
Only Truth – remnant
Dear Brothers,
I am 68 years old and a Catholic. Though I am surely a sinner, I have known God
since the very earliest moment that I can remember, and been blessed with never
any doubt. As years pass, and with all the sufferings that this life
brings I have become more and more aware of the love of God, that he sent
himself to be sacrificed, that he guides us minute by minute if we let him.
That he is not simply "offended" by our sin but deeply hurt in his
Sacred Heart. I am deeply conscious of the love his Mother has for us
too. I have an instinctive and conscious belief in the authenticity of
Scripture and believe in the living Tradition and Magisterium of the Church
which Christ founded.
I am deeply conscious of the wiles of Satan, all his trickery (even to the point
of endorsing some Catholic truth to enmesh the unwary). The evidence is
all around us.
I therefore have much sympathy with many of your views. But where you
lose my sympathy is in purporting that your interpretation of events is the
only truth; that you are effectively infallible. You sound exactly like
the Protestant Evangelicals, but with a Catholic twist.
The arrogance I detect in your postulations is evidence that Satan is working
through you too, not just through all those you "accuse and judge".
The Remnant will not behave like that, and that is what exposes you as false in
much of what you say…
I offer this opinion well aware of my own fallibility, and I hope you will
accept it in the same spirit.
Alexander
MHFM: You claim to be a believer. However, your other statements reveal that
you are not. You say that our conviction
that we are definitely correct on our positions – that everyone who contradicts
our positions on faith is wrong – proves that we are of Satan. On the contrary, your statement reveals that
you are deceived by Satan. It is a Catholic dogma that the Church
accepts no opinions which contradict its teachings in any way. The Church completely condemns any opposing
views.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino, 1442, ex
cathedra: “… Therefore it [the Holy
Roman Church] condemns, rejects, anathematizes and declares to be
outside the Body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds opposing or
contrary views.” (Denz. 705)
Pope Pelagius
II, epistle (1) Quod ad dilectionem,
585:
“If anyone, however, either suggests or believes or
presumes to teach contrary to this faith, let him know that he is condemned and
also anathematized according to the opinion of the same
Fathers.”(Denz. 246)
Hence, if someone does not hold that
he is absolutely correct on the matters of faith and that all opinions to the contrary are wrong - it is indeed evidence that
he does not possess the faith of the Church.
We are dogmatic on those matters on which the Church has been dogmatic. Since the Church has taught them as
definitive truths of faith, we are (without any doubt) correct in adhering to
them.
It is obvious that you are a blind
modernist and a false traditionalist of bad will. You mention the heretical, pathetic group
called The Remnant. They are nothing
more than a cheerleader for the satanic antipope. They have gone beyond false traditionalism at
this point. They have become completely
deadened defenders of Ratzinger and the Counter Church. Any person who loves Catholic teaching would
be and is totally disgusted by their constant defenses, appeals, fawning
support, etc. for the biggest enemy of Catholic dogma on the planet (i.e.,
Antipope Benedict XVI). They believe in
salvation outside the Church. They
justify members of false religions, including Jews. They ignore the weekly apostasy and heresy
emanating from Antipope Benedict XVI.
They go out of their way to promote any conservative statement that he
might utter, while they ignore his weekly revelation that he’s part of the
Eastern Schismatic “Orthodox” Church (see the link below). They are a total abomination before God, as
is obvious to everyone who loves and cares about truth.
We knew they were evil and
heretical. However, the level of
blindness and sickening support for the antipope which they now display is
worse than one would have expected. It
reveals that there is a dark force overwhelming all false traditionalist
heretics in this day, especially those who defend the antipope. Since they have despised God’s grace – which
is there for all to see the full truth – they are now even darker and more
abject supporters of him.
Read the file below and see how you are defending a rejection of
the Papacy. That is called a mortal sin
and heresy.
Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file.
Occult symbols
Greetings brothers!
When I looked over the football clubs from the Czech Republic I noticed a lot
of them had the 5 pointed star turned upside down, which represents evil and is
also a symbol of Freemasonry. It is my understanding that Freemasonry is very
influential in certain European countries like Great Britain, France and the
Czech Republic. The Czechs are also one of the most non-religious people in
Europe. About 60% of Czechs are atheists. The same trend happened
to France after the French Revolution, which used to tbe the strongest
Catholic empire in the world.
Some might argue that the reason so many clubs in the Czech Republic have a 5
pointed star, even if it is upside down, is because of its Communist past. I
would have to disagree with that since I looked through Russia and other
Eastern European countries and haven't found any of them. There are numerous number
of clubs in Serbia that still carry the red star but the star is pointed up,
not down. Only one club in Serbia has the star pointed down.
In the Czech Rep., one of the two biggest clubs has the Satanic/Masonic
star on its logo, Slavia Prague. Slavia claim the red star is a symbol of
"hope and good mind". On their jersey, they don't display their logo
but only a big red star pointed down. I have attached the photos for
you to see. They are all clubs from the Czech Republic. One of
the clubs has a pyramid in its logo instead of the star.
Daniel
Distress
I'm also in DISTRESS (for real, I'm
very anxious about it ) over my Baptism validity question… my forehead was only
moistened with the sign of the cross, and my question is, IF i'm not really Baptised
then why was the Devil/or Demonic wreaking havoc towards me in my life for a
long time now, because I am sure that some of my problems and adversities had
supernatural evil involved in it ? I've had some strange experiences, where I
could see that there was supernatural evil (demonic influence ) behind what was
occurring. Why would the Devil BOTHER to bother someone who wasn't BAPTISED ?
(that is just the question that comes up in my mind in regards to this issue )
That
St.Nilus prophecy is very good and very TRUE, what struck me especially is what
he prophesied about the people of the last days that they are like WILD ANIMALS
and without REMORSE ! That is so TRUE , almost all of the people these days
lack feeling, sensitivity, empathy, compassion, morals, ethics and Love, they
are CALLOUSED like the N.T says about the people in the last days, and they
behave like PIRANHAS (that is what I always compare them to) or VULTURES
or something coming to attack or peck at you !...
C.C.
MHFM: You should have a conditional
baptism performed. The form is on our website. Anyone you
trust who would do it well and with care could perform it. But if you could find a strong traditional Catholic,
that would obviously be better. That might not be an option for you,
however.
If you are not baptized, you cannot
read too much into why you feel the Devil has bothered you and made his
presence known. He could have done that
(with God’s permission) for any number of reasons. You should not read into it.
You mentioned that most people today
lack concern and are calloused. Yes, the biggest problem today is a lack
of interest in God and the matters of God. We believe the reason for this
is that most people are dominated by sins of the flesh. As a result, it's
very difficult for them to have interest in spiritual matters; and, if there is
a certain level of interest, it's not enough for them to see the full truth and
really follow after it. Hence, the typical pagan out there is very selfish
and not concerned about any of these things.
Prophecy of St. Nilus
Brothers, I thought this was
interesting. A lot of truths concerning
phones, airplanes, submarines that were predicted during the last times.
PROPHECY OF ST. NILUS
Realizing that St. Nilus is scarcely known
to a large part of the Church, a brief sketch of his life, taken from the
Catholic Encyclopedia (1911 copyright edition), is related below: St. Nilus was
one of the many disciples and fervent defenders of St. John Chrysostom. He was
an officer at the Court of Constantinople, married, with two sons. While St.
John Chrysostom was patriarch, before his exile (398-403), he directed Nilus in
the study of Scripture and in works of piety. St. Nilus left his wife and one
son and took the other, Theodulos, with him to Mt. Sinai to be a monk. The
Bishop of Eleusa ordained both St. Nilus and his son to the priesthood. The
mother and other son also embraced the religious life in Egypt.
From his monastery at Sinai, St. Nilus was
a well-known person throughout the Eastern Church; by his writings and
correspondence, he played an important part in the history of his time. He was
known as a theologian, Biblical scholar and ascetic writer, so people of all
kinds, from the emperor down wrote to consult him. His numerous works,
including a multitude of letters, consist of denunciations of heresy, paganism,
abuses of discipline and crimes, of rules and principles of asceticism,
especially maxims about the religious life. He warns and threatens people in
high places, abbots and bishops, governors and princes, even the emperor
himself, without fear. He kept up a correspondence with Gaina, a leader of the
Goths, endeavoring to convert him from Arianism. He denounced vigorously the
persecution of St. John Chrysostom both to the Emperor Arcadius and to his
courtiers.
St. Nilus must be counted as one of the
leading ascetic writers of the fifth century. His feast is kept on November
12th in the Byzantine Calendar; he is commemorated also in the Roman Martyrology
on the same date. St. Nilus probably died around the year 430, as there is no
evidence of his life after that.
Now
the prophecy:
After the year 1900, toward the middle of
the 20th century, the people of that time will become unrecognizable. When the
time for the Advent of the Antichrist approaches, people's minds will grow
cloudy from carnal passions, and dishonor and lawlessness will grow stronger.
Then the world will become unrecognizable. People's appearances will change,
and it will be impossible to distinguish men from women due to their
shamelessness in dress and style of hair. These people will be cruel and will
be like wild animals because of the temptations of the Antichrist. There will
be no respect for parents and elders, love will disappear, and Christian
pastors, bishops, and priests will become vain men, completely failing to
distinguish the right-hand way from the left. At that time, the morals and
traditions of Christians and of the Church will change. People will abandon
modesty, and dissipation will reign. Falsehood and greed will attain great
proportions, and woe to those who pile up treasures. Lust, adultery,
homosexuality, secret deeds and murder will rule in society.
At that future time, due to the power of
such great crimes and licentiousness, people will be deprived of the grace of
the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism and equally of remorse.
The Churches of God will be deprived of
God-fearing and pious pastors, and woe to the Christians remaining in the world
at that time; they will completely lose their faith because they will lack the
opportunity of seeing the light of knowledge from anyone at all. Then they will
separate themselves out of the world in holy refuges in search of lightening
their spiritual sufferings, but everywhere they will meet obstacles and
constraints. And all this will result from the fact that the Antichrist wants
to be Lord over everything and become the ruler of the whole universe, and he
will produce miracles and fantastic signs. He will also give depraved wisdom to
an unhappy man so that he will discover a way by which one man can carry on a
conversation with another from one end of the earth to the other. At that time
men will also fly through the air like birds and descend to the bottom of the
sea like fish. And when they have achieved all this, these unhappy people will
spend their lives in comfort without knowing, poor souls, that it is deceit of
the Antichrist. And, the impious one! – he will so complete science with vanity
that it will go off the right path and lead people to lose faith in the
existence of God in three hypostases.
Then the All-good God will see the downfall
of the human race and will shorten the days for the sake of those few who are
being saved, because the enemy wants to lead even the chosen into temptation,
if that is possible... then the sword of chastisement will suddenly appear and
kill the perverter and his servants.
God Bless,
Tom
Vatican II
Recently, as I was surfing the internet I
came across your website. I read much of the material you provided with
great interest… You describe the heresies of John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I,
John Paul II and Benedict XVI… Today I can still hear Paul VI's voice ringing
out at the United Nations: "no more war, no more war." I
realized then that his voice was truly the voice of Peter. I can still see him placing the papal
tiara on the altar as a act of humility and seeing that tiara at the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
I hear John Paul I at his inaugural mass
saying "we greet with reverence and affection the world and all of its
people." This man, this pope, was echoing the words of Christ
himself. I remember seeing John Paul II
at Auswitch praying for forgiveness for all transgressions any Catholic may
have committed against God's chosen people, our brothers, the Jews. I
recall his admonition that denial of the Holocaust is a "sin against man
and a sin against God." Surely, John Paul II, a man who endured the
occupation of his homeland by the Nazis, walked in the shoes of the Fisherman.
When I see Benedict XVI reaching out to the
world with humility I see Peter the fisher of men. These men are not heretics, they are men who
have brought the Church into the world and have made the message of Christ
relevant in today's world. Open your heart to charity. Let the
light come in. Let us salute these Vicars of Christ.
I know nothing about dogmatic theology nor
about the legalistic and obscure arguments defining that theology. What
I, an uneducated layman, do know is that Vatican II brought truth to the fore
and ushered in an age of ecumenism, religious liberty and social concern.
MHFM: You cannot see that they are heretics because you don’t
look with the eyes of faith. The dogmas,
the truths of Christ, mean nothing to you.
Vatican II clearly taught a religion contrary to what has been revealed
by Christ and dogmatically defined by the Church. The Devil knew that if he got an antipope
into the physical structures, most people would follow him right to Hell
because most people don’t have supernatural faith but simply follow the man
they see and the people occupying the physical structures.
Convinced
I
have spent a few days on your website and have become convinced of the truth
you are promoting. The Catholic Church that I have converted to
from Protestantism is false and I cannot attend any longer without being in
mortal sin.
c…
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. For those who might be new to this information,
we just want to clarify that you obviously mean that the post-Vatican II
churches (which claim to be Catholic but aren’t) are false.
Benedict XVI’s new outrageous heresies
vis-à-vis the Russian “Orthodox”
We’ve updated our Benedict XVI's recent Heresies file.
There
are some very significant new heresies from Benedict XVI with regard to the
Russian “Orthodox” Church and Patriarch.
For those who don’t know, the Russian “Orthodox” are not Catholic.
(The same is true of the Greek "Orthodox," etc.) They reject
Catholic dogmas on papal primacy and papal infallibility. They are heretical and schismatic. If you get into a debate or discussion or
dispute with someone who is defending Antipope Benedict XVI, just say to him: a
man cannot be a true pope (the head of the Catholic Church) while he is also
part of the schismatic “Orthodox” Church; and Benedict XVI is part of the
“Orthodox” Church. If he wants proof for
the assertion that Benedict XVI is part of the schismatic “Orthodox” Church,
just show him the new heresy in the link above (as well as those we’ve already
documented).
Looking for info
I recently received your book "What
really happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II"
After reading the chapter of what we're supposed to do at the end of the book,
I was wondering if you have or will put together some sort guide of common
things (sacraments) Catholics will come up against, that with a
"priest" not readily available that a lay person can/should perform.
Such as in the book you show how to baptize children. Maybe something along the
lines of starting the guide with baptism "a layman is permitted to do
this", "for confirmation a layman should do this… I understand there
are some things that a layperson should not and cannot perform, but more of a
worst case situation...
Thanks
Bob Neff
MHFM: We have sections which address
many of those issues. For other questions, people can contact us
here. A layman can baptize by simply
pouring the water on the candidate so that it moves and strikes the forehead as
he or she pronounces the baptismal formula.
The formula is given in the file below.
Confirmation, of course, can only be done by a valid bishop, or in some
cases a priest.
Where to go to Mass or
confession today? [link to section]
SSPX
You people spend to much time hating everything.
I to hate the novus ordo mess the last few popes got us into but for us to
judge the pope is wrong. We can disobey when they are WRONG which is what SSPX
has done and unlike you they have stayed the course instead of wasting time
pointing fingers and complaining. In the end you will see and apologize.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul Legge
MHFM: No, the SSPX has obstinately
(and for years) separated itself (in belief and operation) from the hierarchy
it recognizes. That is called
schism. The SSPX also teaches that souls
can be saved in non-Catholic religions.
That is heresy. The SSPX also
obstinately recognizes manifest heretics as part of the Church. That is also heresy.
Stop going just by externals, and
start to care about and believe in the Catholic faith and the dogmas. It really is disgusting that people like you
do not care at all about the issues of the faith, but only about the Mass and
whether a group has churches, etc.!
Our file on the Society of St. Pius X deals with their heresies.
Judging Heresy
Dear Brothers,
I am half way through your extraordinarily
brilliant book, 'The Truth about what happened the Catholic Church after Vatican
II.' Thank you.
It struck me that people who use the
argument against the Sedevacantist Position, 'No one can judge the Pope,' must
find it terribly difficult to be Catholics these days (if they actually are
anyway!). Obviously the safest place in Christendom when it comes to heresy
(the Chair of Peter), by supernatural protection, must necessarily also be the
only place that can only be found containing a heretic 'ipso facto.' And surely
it is a peculiar test from the devil, reserved for the Last Days and the Great
Apostasy, that only true Catholics will be able to recognize the Antichrist
sitting in the Chair of Peter (like John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II and
Benedict XVI), by the very fact that they (the Antichrist) are heretics!!!
Otherwise, without the supernatural Catholic Faith, how else will the real
Catholics be able to weather the approaching storm, wherein the whole world
including the Antipopes and the devil and his minions, will raise themselves
against us?!!! The Catholics of the Last Days will have to be those who can
easily judge heresy!!!
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: Yes, God has allowed the
antipopes to preach their heresies and antichrist doctrines from what appears
to be the Chair of Peter, although they don’t truly sit in it, as part of the
test of the last days. It is a test of
faith to see if people will simply follow the man into a new religion, or
adhere to what the popes of the past have taught. By adhering strongly to the past papal
teachings and dogmas, rather than simply accepting the new heresies, they will
come to realize the full scale of the spiritual deception and that the
post-Vatican II claimants are antipopes carrying out the prophesied Great
Apostasy.
End times?
Dear MHFM,
I am sure this question has already been
addressed or asked, but I would like to know your opinion about the belief that
so many have that we are in the actual last days of the world...
Do you agree that we are near the Second
Coming of Christ soon or do you believe Catholic prophecy which as I have
learned is that we are only in the 5th Age and maybe in the beginning of the
Sixth Age of the church? And that we are just approaching the end of an
Age....and will have a terrible chastisement that will bring a time of peace or
Golden Age or what have you? That this is not the time for the actual
Second Coming - nor for Armagheddon and is not time for the
actual Anti-Christ...I have traditional Catholics who tell me it is not time
for the last Anti-Christ yet and that we are only in the 5th Age or beginning
of the Sixth Age...so we have alot of time before the Second Coming and that
the Fatima Message supports this because it warned that the Immaculate Heart
would triumph at the end of the chastisement and that a period of peace would
be granted....?
Thank You,
Carla
MHFM: We believe that we are
definitely in the last days. This is
undoubtedly the Great Apostasy. There
are many things which, in our view, lead one to this conclusion. The most important is obviously what’s going
on in Rome: the creation of an apostate Counter Church and a line of antipopes,
as well as the almost complete apostasy from the true Catholic faith by the
nations, including many of those who claim to be “traditionalists.” This is not just your general crisis of
faith. This is clearly the Great
Apostasy and the final spiritual battle.
Other signs which, in our view, make
it clear that the time is short and that these are the final days, include: the
predominance of homosexuality and the rise of homosexual “marriage”; the almost
universal teaching of the evolution fairy-tale; the dissolution of the Holy
Roman Empire and its replacement with a revived Roman Empire (the European
Union) which doesn’t recognize the doctrine of Christ, but binds faith in the
“Holocaust” and tolerance of homosexuality; the almost world-wide acceptance of
the abortion abomination, even in countries which were almost totally Catholic;
the almost universal loss of purity through the avalanche of sins of the flesh
which consume and lead to Hell almost the entire world in a way that the world
has never seen; and many other things one could mention.
We wouldn’t look too much into those
private revelations about the end times.
There are a few which stand out and definitely fit what’s
happening. But there are many others
which do not hold true, and they are frequently contradictory. The guide must be the Catholic faith, and
what’s happening to it. That
consideration clearly shows us that what’s going on in Rome is the Great Apostasy. Fatima also indicates that we are in the last
days. In Sr. Lucy’s 1957 interview with
Fr. Fuentes, she said that God has given two final remedies (devotion to the
Rosary and the Immaculate Heart of Mary).
She said that signified the last days, for it meant there wouldn’t be
others. She also said she knew we were
in the final days because the Blessed Virgin said the Devil was engaging in a
“decisive” or final battle: "Father,
the Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the
world, but She made me understand this for three reasons."
Fellay and SSPX
Dear Brothers,
I am a parishioner at a SSPX chapel in the Los Angeles area. As an SSPX church-goer,
I was sickened by the news that Bishop Fellay removed Bishop Williamson from
his post as superior of the seminary at La Reja, Argentina. I have always
believed that Bishop Williamson is the most outspoken voice of truth in the
SSPX, especially in regards to his unapologetic statements on the 9-11 false
flag attacks, the New World Order, globalism and the police state. Bishop
Williamson has proven himself very intelligent and well-informed on these
issues, so I regarded his statements on the Holocaust as ones that should, at
least, spark independent research and investigation and not immediate rebuke by
his superiors. I'm disgusted that Bishop Fellay silenced Bishop Williamson into
submission and ordered him not to speak on political or historical matters. I
get the sense that Bishop Fellay does not want Bishop Williamson to spoil his
friendship with Benedict XVI and sour all the recent media attention on the
Society. It seems to me that Bishop Fellay is more concerned with saving his
relationship with the Vatican and their friends, the Rabbis, than professing
and exposing the truth, not matter the inconvenience or embarrassment. I fear
that Bishop Fellay will continue to entangle all the faithful of the SSPX into
the Vatican's nefarious agenda, instead of protecting the purity of the
Traditional Catholic movement. I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
Thank you and God bless you.
Michael
Los Angeles, CA
MHFM: First of all, it must be made
clear that the SSPX embraces numerous heretical positions. That includes Bishop Williamson. You really need to consult our file on the
SSPX, and our article about Bishop Williamson.
Like the SSPX, he believes in salvation for members of false religions
and obstinately regards manifest heretics as part of the Catholic Church.
File on the Heresies of the SSPX and
Williamson
You are correct that Williamson has
been more honest and truthful about such matters as the “Holocaust” and 911,
but he is unfortunately still a heretic on the issues of the faith, the most
important matters. No one could support
him, or any of the priests of their society.
And the people who agree with their heretical positions are losing the
true faith.
Regarding Fellay, it’s pretty obvious
to us that he is consumed with vanity, with being in the news, with being
considered an important figure as the leader of the SSPX. He is a faithless heretic who is now completely
serving the Counter Church and the interests of the world. He believes in salvation outside the Church,
etc. (As an aside, the only reason so
many people make such a big deal about the SSPX and what their priests and
bishops have to say is not because of the content of what they produce – but
rather because they have priests and churches.
Sadly, most people care only about externals and where they go on
Sundays, not about the meat of the faith.
That’s the only reason the SSPX is such a “big deal” – they have the
externals and the external structures which is about all that matters to most
people.) Fellay has been completely
deceived by the Devil into thinking that it’s most important for his group to
have world-wide credibility. Since he
does not possess true faith or devotion to God, he is not rescued from his
blindness and thus serves the interests of the Counter Church and the
world.
“Holocaust” debunked comment
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
I just finished watching the series of
three videos that you posted in your News and Commentary section entitled, “The
‘Holocaust’ Debunked”. It is interesting
to note that the Jews have a long history of such preposterous claims. The Talmud claims that four billion Jews were
killed by the Romans in the city of Bethar (Gittin 57b). It also claims that 16 million Jewish
children were wrapped in scrolls and burned alive by the Romans (Gittin
58a). The latest claim that 6 million
Jews died during World War Two is equally preposterous, considering the fact
that there is no evidence of such an atrocity.
-John.
911 Mysteries
Dear Bros. Michael & Peter,
I hope both of you have been well. I recommended your site to a
friend & a malfunction appears to have developed in your online viewing of
"911 Mysteries". I did not know if you were aware of
that. I am into your site rather frequently & enjoy it very
much. Thank you for the many free items you have sent us.
Keep up the courageous work you have been doing. God Speed !!!
Pat H.
MHFM: Thanks for letting us
know. The problem seems to have been
resolved now. For those who are
interested in the event of 9/11, the 911
Mysteries video on our “Watch our Videos” page is a must-see. After a few seconds of irrelevant clips (and
a stupid one of a wrestler), it gets into the devastating presentation.
On a related note, here’s a story
about a building in Beijing which was on fire and burned throughout, but did
not collapse. The building was about the
same size as World Trade Center 7, which was the third building which completely collapsed and was demolished
into a pile of rubble on Sept. 11, 2001.
For those who are unfamiliar with the significance of this, you’ll just
have to watch those videos on 911 that are found in our videos page.
Still Standing: The Building That Proves WTC 7 Was
Imploded
Sin? and Abe Foxman
Would it be a sin to say one believes in
the "holocaust", when one believes it is not true? Could Williamson
be thinking that he is willing to give in on the "holocaust" in hopes
of gaining a greater good - some sort of greater acceptance of Divine Revelation?
In other words, would it be okay to say that 2+2 does not equal 4,
in hopes that in doing so, people will accept what one has to say about
God? Does 2+2=4 have anything to do with God? Can one do that in good
conscience?
I suppose the question could be asked: Is
the Jewish "holocaust" a god?
To make killing Jews something more of a sin than killing non-Jews
is to place Jews above the rest of mankind. The
"holocaust" looks like a false religion that worships a
false god. In the last week, it has become clear that the Vatican considers the
"holocaust" to be above Jesus Christ, claiming that it is esential to
believe in the "holocaust", but not essential to believe in Jesus
Christ. Therefore, the Vatican worships Jews, corporately, as the true messiah.
What a week of discovery!
MHFM: It would be a sin because it
would be to deny the truth, even though it’s not strictly a part of the
Catholic faith. One might, in certain
circumstances, ignore the issue or not emphasize it, but to positively say that
one does believe in it when one doesn’t would be wrong.
Prior to the last few weeks, this
issue didn’t really have to be addressed much because it’s not strictly part of
the faith. It held relevance primarily
for issues of the secular conspiracy and Jewish control. But with Benedict XVI’s recent imposition of
faith in the “Holocaust,” the issue became exceedingly relevant for all
Catholics who are (and should be) concerned about the battle for the faith in
these days. Catholics, who must keep up
to speed with the actions of the Conciliar Counter Church (in order to expose
it), simply cannot avoid the issue at this time; for the Conciliar Church has
forced everyone to examine this new “dogma.”
Regarding your second paragraph, we
pointed out that what’s going on here is the replacement of the Crucifixion and
Resurrection with the “Holocaust” as the central event of history. That’s why there is a diabolical movement to
outlaw any discussion of the issue, and why so many apostate “Catholics” are
possessed to hammer anyone who contradicts the Jewish position on this
issue. Without any question, the Vatican
II sect considers the “Holocaust” above Christ, as you touched upon. It binds the “Holocaust,” but tolerates the
rejection of Christ. We are seeing, right
before our eyes, the world bowing down to the forces of Antichrist. This is manifested in a multiplicity of ways:
submission to the Jews and their “Holocaust” lore being a prominent one of
them.
Concerning the diabolical replacement
aspect of the “Holocaust,” the Jew Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League
wrote this:
Abraham Foxman, ADL on the Frontline, January
1994 issue: "The
Holocaust is something different. It is a singular event. It is not simply one
example of genocide but a near successful attempt on the life of God's chosen
children and thus, on God Himself.
It is an event that is the antithesis of Creation as recorded in the Bible; and
like its direct opposite, which is relived weekly with the Sabbath and yearly
with Torah, it must be remembered from generation to generation."
He says that the “Holocaust” is an
attack on God Himself. What was the
Crucifixion? It was an attack on God
Himself. This is the diabolical
replacement of Christ with the Jews.
Since they did not accept Christ as God, some of them put themselves in the place of God. (We have added this to our
"Holocaust" page.)
Hence, they replace the attack on God
with an (exaggerated and largely mythological) assault on their own
dignity. It is the attempted deification
of the Jewish race; and apostate “Catholics,” including many false
traditionalists, are complicit in it by their acceptance of Antipope Benedict
XVI and their bad willed failure to consider the facts.
SSPX removes info regarding Jews
Subject: SSPX
now has dead links on the Jews
Ivan…
MHFM: That’s very interesting. They have totally caved in to the forces of
Antichrist. This Bishop Fellay is very
evil.
Ireland
Dear Brothers,
I just realised after I sent you the
article " Is the Devil gaining a foothold in Rome?" that you have
actually already covered it. My apologies.
I live in Belfast N Ireland
and found your wonderful website about 2 years ago and have told
others about it. I was born 1969 after Vatican II and have only
ever known the New Mass. I have tried to discuss the issues with my
local priest in Belfast, Benedictine Monks in Rostrevor and have
twice e-mailed the Local Redemtorist Brothers at Clonard
Monastery but to no avail...
I have a question with regard to that
article above. As Father Gabriele Amorth is the Vatican's Chief
Exorcist; therefore; I presume he still practices or has
practiced the New Mass. If this is the case, why would he have such
great power to exorcise demons? As he is 82 years old, perhaps he has
been ordained pre vatican II ? So would that be the reason?...
I look forward to hearing from
you,
Best Wishes,
Norah
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
We presume that you are convinced that one must not attend the New Mass.
Regarding Fr. Amorth, he can
have some success against demons in exorcisms, even though he is a heretic and
a modernist, because of the power of the name of Christ and the power of the
valid priesthood.
Matthew
7:22-23- "Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we
prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles
in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from
me, you that work iniquity."
A person with the real Catholic faith
(with whom God is pleased) would perform exorcisms with greater efficacy. However, there is a power that is inherent in
the priesthood that can be effective in exorcisms, despite the unworthiness of
the minister, as this passage shows.
Controversy
Brothers,
This so called controversy with Joseph Ratzinger, Bishop Williamson and the
Jews is a clever manipulation of events to further the one world church.
The Illuminati use the tactic of: *Problem, reaction, solution. *They
create the problem, which in this case is antisemitism, they control the
reaction through media coverage of *Jewish outrage*, then Joseph Ratzinger will
supply the answer with his one world church. The world is being
manipulated!
Bill from Michigan
MHFM: We think that God has allowed
it to show how the Vatican II Church is nothing but a tool of the forces of
Antichrist. In addition, we think He has
allowed the Devil to test people in this matter, to see who will stand for
truth and who will simply bow down to the world.
“Church” of the world revealed right before our
eyes
MHFM: With Benedict XVI’s recent
imposition of faith in the “Holocaust” on those who would be part of his
“Church,” we are witnessing something very interesting indeed. God is really making it so clear – for anyone with eyes to see – that the
Vatican II Church is not the Church of God, but the “Church” of the world. Indeed, God has arranged and allowed this
latest episode in such a way that it both completely mocks the Vatican II sect
(highlighting their inestimable hypocrisy) and serves to convict those who fail
to denounce and condemn this sect.
Scripture teaches us quite clearly that there is an opposition, an
irreconcilable division, between the
things of God and the things of the world.
James 4:4-
“Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.”
John 15:18-19-
“If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you
are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you.”
Now, the “Holocaust” dogma (i.e., the Jewish version of
it) is, simply, put, the super-dogma of the world. It is imposed upon countries by force of law,
even though the tenets of other religions are not favored by those countries. It is the one
religious belief which countries which claim to favor no religion impose. To question it is to be ridiculed and
despised by those in control of governments and the press, by those in control
of “the world,” by those who savor the things of the world and being loved by
the world.
Therefore, as the “Church” of the world, the Vatican II sect is following right
along with the world, and necessarily imposing belief in the Jewish version of
the “Holocaust” on those who would join its “Church” – lest it be ridiculed
by the world and lose its status as the “Church” of the world. It will even exclude someone from its
“Church” based on what the world says and thinks. This “Church” of the world binds people to this
one issue (faith in the “Holocaust”), even though it happily tolerates all
kinds of people who profess to be Catholic but deny true dogmas (e.g., hordes
pro-abortion politicians; “Cardinal” Kasper; etc. ad nauseam.) In
other words, this “Church” of the
world tolerates the denial of true dogmas OF GOD, but will not tolerate the
denial of the one dogma of THE WORLD.
Since it is the “Church” of the
world, it cannot, of course, be the Catholic Church; for the Catholic Church is
the true Church OF GOD. It is, rather,
the Counter Church of the last days. If
this episode does not make it plain to a person that the Vatican II Church is
not Catholic and that Benedict XVI is totally evil, heretical and hypocritical,
then that person is extremely blind indeed.
The SSPX has also now fully revealed itself to be a part of the “Church”
of the world, and not the Church of God, by imposing belief in the dogma of the
world on those who would belong to its group.
SSPX tosses priest for rejecting “Holocaust”
Fr. Abrahamowicz denies Jewish version of
Holocaust -- the new dogma of the false Catholic Church.
He also said that the Second Vatican
Council was "worse than heresy."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,489475,00.html
Michael R. Rios
MHFM: Wow… that is a significant
development. It shows that the
leadership of the SSPX is far worse than we already knew they were. They are declaring that it’s a dogma which
one must believe! It proves that they
are part of the Church of the world.
“Holocaust”
A real missed opportunity here. I never
hear anyone talking about the real "holocaust" (or shall we say
"plight") of the Jews. I saw pictures of Jews during WW2 - obviously
distressed, whether they were gassed or not, and the idea crossed my mind how
horrible was their situation, because when they die, they go to hell, and
suffer even worse than death on earth for rejecting God. It is hard to even
fathom the pain of the rejection of hell. There are no public museums or
mandatory education regarding this, but it is far more important than even the
worst estimates of suffering of the Jews during WWII.
Also, if Williamson had said the sky was
not blue (or was blue), would a Pope say that he can not be in the Church? What
does one's ideas about the Jewish "holocaust" have to do with whether
one is a Catholic or not? Yet, the Vatican says Ratzinger said that he would
not have "lifted" the "excommunications" (as if he had the
power to do so) if he had known of Williamson's views. If people cannot see
that the Vatican and Ratzinger are not Catholic after this, how will they
ever?
Also, it is not right for Catholics to
accept any non-Catholic holocaust. The only real holocaust is Jesus Christ. All
others are counterfeit and should be denied as holocausts. A real holocaust is
a sacrifice to God. What did any Jewish suffering during WWII have to do with
making a sacrifice to God. Only a Catholic can do that. Even if 6, or 60
million Jews were killed by Nazis, that is not a holocaust. As to how many Jews
died at the hands of the Nazis, I am not sure - the research the media hates
seems credible, but if I did truly believe that 6 million Jews died, I would
still be a Jewish holocaust denier, because I am a Catholic, and Catholics do
not believe that people outside of the Catholic faith can be any kind of pleasing
sacrifice or holocaust to God.
Mt…
MHFM: Yes, that’s the real evil here:
these Jews are dying without Christ and going to Hell. They are headed for a far worse fate than
anything here on Earth. But the Vatican
II sect doesn’t preach or believe that, of course, which demonstrates how evil
and uncharitable they are to the Jews they purport to please and serve.
Everything has been inverted. The Vatican II sect teaches that the greatest
crime in history (the Crucifixion) can be denied by Jews, but no one can deny
what the Jews claim to be the greatest crime in history (the fictitious mass
murder of 6 million of them). The
Vatican II sect teaches that the truths delivered by the crucified and
resurrected Lord can be denied, but the truths delivered and made up by the
Jews must be believed. We will have more
comments on this. But what we are seeing
is, no doubt, the “Holocaust” of the Jews replacing the Crucifixion and
Resurrection as the central event in history.
The Crucifixion and Resurrection (the central event in history) was once
protected by the European nations, but now the “Holocaust” is protected by the
European nations and cannot be denied.
It is the replacement of Christ with the denial of Jesus as the Christ:
the replacement of Christ with antichrist, and so many “Catholics” are
worshipping it and defending it.
Ratzinger on water baptism
[A
dogma denier wrote this to us:]
You're
in good company:
With
regards to those who hold strictly the absolute necessity of water baptism, it
would be quite wrong to charge them with heretical constructs. As they merely
assert that which was the near-universal consensus of the Patristic era, such a
charge would be proximate to condemning all but a few of the Fathers as
heterodox. (Der
Glaube das Pimmelkopfgelauben,
Communio April 1997 p 13. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.)
MHFM: That’s an interesting
quote. Certainly we’ve documented that
Ratzinger believes in salvation outside the Church. He believes that non-Catholics, the unbaptized,
Protestants, Jews, Muslims, pagans, etc. can be saved. In the quote above, he is simply noting that
the fathers of the Church taught the absolute necessity of water baptism. This confirms the truth of our position; for
it shows that the absolute necessity of water baptism is the faith of the
ancient Church.
The fact that Ratzinger says it’s not
heresy to hold the absolute necessity of water baptism demonstrates
nothing. Ratzinger doesn’t believe that
anything is heresy, except for denying the “Holocaust.” Hence, his acknowledgement of the teaching of
the fathers on this issue doesn’t put us in his company. He doesn’t believe that water baptism is
necessary for salvation. He is simply
admitting that this is what the fathers believed. On the contrary, he believes exactly what the
“traditionalists” who love “baptism of desire” hold: that people can be saved
in any religion.
Thus, you send us a quote which
contradicts your heretical position; but in your blindness you think it
supports it.
Judging
Dear MHFM,
Debating with a protestant has gotten very difficult because of his
stubborness and lack of good will. I got into the issue with this
protestant about judging and what does it mean to judge. That it was not
possible for me to say, "Well, that particular person is a heretic."
because that is judging and we can only leave that to Jesus, who is Justice
Itself. But all he quotes is Matthew 7:1 "Judge not, that you
may not be judged." and how "with what measure you mete, it shall be
measured to you again."
Now, my question to you is, how can I refute such objection?...
Bernardo Torres
MHFM: Yes, Matthew 7:1 is about the
only Scripture that countless liberals know.
They make sure to remember that one because they (wrongly) think it justifies
their sins or heresies or other kinds of evil.
However, the context of Matthew 7 is about hypocritical judgments, as
Matthew 7:5 clearly shows. Jesus is
condemning hypocritical judgments, not all judgments. The Bible teaches that one must judge.
1 Corinthians 6:2-3- “Know you not that the
saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you
unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things of this
world?”
John 7:24- “Judge not according to the
appearance, but judge just judgment.”
Moreover, his claim that you cannot judge someone to be a
heretic directly contradicts the teaching of the Bible. The Bible tells us that we should avoid the
heretic after the second rebuke.
Obviously one could only do that if one has the ability to judge
(recognize) when someone is a heretic.
Titus 3:10- “A man that is a heretic, after
the first and second admonition, avoid:
On “Holocaust dogma”
It
shows what phonies they all are. These Vatican idiots. Bp. William
MUST retract his statements he made against the "holocaust" myth OR
ELSE. Since when was holding a historical opinion that has nothing to do
with the holy Faith merit excommunication? And in the meantime… HERETIC
SCUM like Kasper get to keep their "offices" without any
perturbances!!! New Vatican is nothing more than a doormat…
This should expose the Modernist Vatican. This alone! Wouldn't
someone with half of a brain stop and think: "Hey, it's the Catholic
Church... WHO CARES WHAT THEY [THE JEWS] THINK!!!”
MHFM: We agree with your
sentiments. It’s truly outrageous. We will have some more comments on this.
Chicago Fire
Interesting
that Cardinal George made this statement on February 3rd...and only a day later
his cathedral mysteriously catches on fire!
http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2009/09-031.shtml
On Church Closings
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20254572&BRD=2279&PAG=461&dept_id=467076&rfi=6
Brothers:
I lived in the Scranton Diocese when I was young, Pre Vatican
Two. When I would go to Mass if you did not come early, you would have to
stand in the back. The churches I attended are now being closed or are
relegated to "satellite" status. The churches were in
Susquehanna County.
Nuns
use to tell this story. The Catholic Church was always full, the
Protestant Church next to it was half empty. The Nuns would joke to the
Protestants about it. Today the irony is that the Catholic Church is
closing and the Protestant Church is not.
Blessings,
John
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. Yes, the buildings which purport to be
Catholic are closing, even though the Church still exists with a remnant of
traditional Catholics.
Coverage
Dear Brothers,
CNN gave a brief coverage of Benedict XVI’s
lift of the “excommunication” of the SSPX and spoke of Bishop Williamson’s
denial of the “holocaust” and Benedict XVI’s position on solidarity with the
Jews. Perhaps you will agree with me on this: I suspect Benedict XVI
knows the Holocaust is a fraud but for the sake of false ecumenism and respect
for the Jews and all other religions, he will never publicly admit it.
The day he does, it will harm relations between the Vatican II sect and the
Jewish community and he knows this.
AP
Comment
Thank you for your perseverance and
dedication to exposing lies from the truth!
Lida
UFO book
Dear Brother Dimond:
I just recently received and read your book
on UFOs. Your book reinforces what I have believed about the UFO
phenomena. Thank you for reinforcing my beliefs.
Allen Monroe
SSPX Seminary History Teacher
Dear Brothers,
The news items regarding the SSPX
apologizing reveal how far those heretics will go just to lie! I used to go to
mass at the Holy Cross Seminary in Australia, until I found your site.
In a semi-casual conversation with the
actual history teacher for the seminary after mass one day, I was informed that
there were indeed no gas chambers. Having never looked into the subject
properly, I expressed my astonishment, and innocently asked 'how can you
be sure (that there were no gas chambers) either way, whether there
was or there wasn't?' This question invited a searing glance from someone close
by, as if to say how could you question such a thing. Then the history teacher
gave me a very quick and sharp run down of the facts. It should be noted that
he was using his hands to gesture and made it quite clear to me by his body
language, that he was extremely angry that I had questioned him! (his
hands were basically 'buzzing' around me like an angry wasp as he spoke to me -
we were standing quite close to one another).
In other words, every single student,
seminarian, priest, religious or lay who has been to the Holy Cross Seminary
knows, without the least shadow of a doubt, that there were indeed no gas
chambers in World War II. And they are proud that they know it!!!!
It proves again that the SSPX, deep down,
are systematic and conscious liars who are willing to whitewash their own
tombs, just like the yellow-bellied heretics that they are!!!
Outside the Catholic Church there is
absolutely no salvation!
Thank you for your outstanding work,
Brothers.
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: Very interesting… thank you for the
e-mail. We’ve created a separate page
for facts and news items about the “Holocaust” controversy. This file will be expanded as time goes
along, but in this file (near the top) is a two-part video presentation by a
Jew named David Cole. He investigates
and debunks the Auschwitz “Gas Chamber,” the official Holocaust story and many
other aspects of propaganda in this regard.
It’s definitely worth spending an hour watching this presentation, if
you are interested in this topic. After
some minutes of necessary introductory points, it really starts to get
interesting.
This
will be found in our “Many other Topics” section.
A Jew debunks the Auschwitz
"Gas Chamber," the official Holocaust Story, and many other
aspects of the Holocaust
The
Truth Behind the Gates of Auschwitz, by David Cole - Part 1 [30 min.]
B-16 ability to consecrate
Dear Brothers,
Regarding the e-exchange about B16's
ability to consecrate the Eucharist, I have a question. Is it possible that
Benedict never had the intention of carrying out God's duties as a priest when
he was ordained a priest, and if so does that mean that God still truly gives
him the power to effect sacraments? Considering all of B16's outrageous
heresies and the fact that he showed up to V2 dressed in suit and tie, I have
my doubts as to whether he ever had the true intention of doing God's work when
he joined the priesthood.
-Josh
MHFM: The Church teaches that if one
uses proper matter and form, he is presumed for that reason to have the
intention to do what the Church does.
The same is true in the case of
people who receive sacraments. They are
presumed to have the necessary intention to receive it, unless there is proof
to the contrary. This is true even in
the case of evil heretics, such as Benedict XVI. Thus, the presumption when he celebrates the
Latin Mass is that it is valid, although he is obviously sinning mortally in
doing it as a heretic; and no one should go to his Latin Mass because he is a
notorious heretic.
There is no doubt that Benedict XVI
is utterly evil, that he is used by Satan, and that he is doing the work of the
Devil. It is possible that he is even a
clandestine occultist who is willfully participating in an occult conspiracy
(rather than just being used by the Devil for one); but that is speculative and
cannot be presumed. What has to be
presumed is that when someone uses the external matter and form of the Church,
he is considered to have the true intention of performing the sacrament, unless
there is certain evidence to the contrary.
Comment
Funny, but I think this Anti-Pope's
reinstatement of Bishop Williamson plays right into the hands of the
Zionists. And I am the suspicious kind of person who has come to
appreciate the devious logic of this pseudo-Christian gang in the
Vatican. Benedict XVI is obediently taking the role of the 'fall guy,'
along this line of speculation, quite willingly and on-purpose. After the
P.R. debacle for their side following Gaza war crimes, the Zionists NEED
another high-profile 'Holocaust Denial' uproar. This plays right into
their hands, as they say: 'See, we will ALWAYS have to defend ourselves against
this kind of fanatical, radical Anti-Semitism. Our wars are wars of
self-defense!" So now, instead of Israel being stuck on the
defensive, they are again receiving worldwide sympathy. Since my belief
is that International Illuminati Freemasonry controls both the Vatican and the
Zionists, it is not at all a stretch to have them manipulate this whole
controversy. By the way, I am enjoying the videos on your website
prepared several years ago by Dr. James Wardner. Also, for the record,
let me state that it took me about a decade of serious trepidation to come to
this conclusion, but finally I realized that the PROOF is overwhelming.
There were no gas ovens. The Zionists of Israel have falsified Jewish
census records. In fact, the "6 million dead" figure was
bandied about during WWI, and it was used after WWII with just about as much
scruple as the $700 billion bail-out number, which started our
Zionist-orchestrated remedy to the economic meltdown they themselves have planned
and are now executing. If Benedict XVI is forced to step down, as is now
being openly discussed, get prepared for a rocky ride with his successor.
MHFM: We don’t think Benedict XVI
will resign. By not doing so, he will
win praise from false conservatives for appearing to stand up to the Jews,
while he has already preached that the Holocaust is a dogma which must be
accepted. Thus, he serves the Jewish
agenda while pleasing phony conservatives – a true false prophet.
Seminarian and B.O.D.
[Most Holy Family Monastery]
Nice to meet you… This mail is from
Japan. I am atually seminarian of Holy
Cross Seminary in Australia. I have just
finished my first year at 2008. After the ordination on 27th January 2008, I
had an opprtunity to talk with a former Benedictin monk in U.S and France, to
whom you might have already talked by telephone. He told me about your and your
bother Michael`s books. At the beginning, I couldn`t be agree with his
explanatioins about "Baptism of Desire", but after having read those
books that are clearly proving infallible Church`s teachings rejecting
possibility of the existence of the baptism of desire. I am very sorry for
such horrible English I am using here.
Brother, I want to ask you some questions,
first is " Is there no possibility to judge that if the Second
Vatican Council had not been called by JohnXXIII who was an antipope
as you show, true valid pope,for instance,Gregory XVII, might have called a
valid Council and defined,as a dogma, baptism of desire, introducing many
personal views of many Saints, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Alphonsus
and so on?". My second question is " Do you think that
Archbishop Lefevbre was formal heretic because of this issue, baptism
of desire?". As you know, (Saint) Padre Pio welcomed him and asked him a
benediction at his monastery; of course, it can not be any proof for the
archbishop to be valid; but if he was not legitimate prelate, this holy
monk must not have showed respect to him, that is, asking his
benediction instead of that he received a benediction from the archbishop, I
think you have seen that photo.
My third question is "Would I be
heretic, if I will go back to Holy Cross Seminary to continue my study knowing
that baptism of desire is not De Fide?". Because I am still thinking that baptism
of desire is a kind of open question.
And I also think that Our Lord`s word "Unless you be
borne again by water and spirit,......(John3,5)" can include the
possibility of "desire for water baptism in the case of necessity".
… would you like tell me your view. I hope you understand that it is for
me great question and important point in my life, which I have never
experienced. So it was not evitable to ask these questions to
make decision. I am fourty one years old, and have been given a chance to
study the Society`s seminary, after having experienced eleven years of
religiouse life in catholic sect and two and half of the SSPX`s seminary`s life. I am very afraid to mistake
again. I trust in your sincerity, thank you very much.
Sicerely yours
In Christo
[Name deleted]
MHFM:
Hello. Thanks for the e-mail. To your first question, the
answer is no. God would not have allowed a true pope to define baptism of
desire. That’s because it's not a true
theory. That's why He never allowed it to be defined even once before,
even though many councils dealt with baptism, Church membership, salvation,
original sin, the sacraments, etc. He
only allowed the Church to teach the truth that no man can enter Heaven without
being born again of water and the Spirit, that John 3:5 is literal, that there
is only one baptism of water, that the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary for
salvation, etc.
To your second question, concerning
Archbishop Lefebvre, yes we do believe he was a formal heretic. He was a
formal heretic because he believed that souls can be saved in false religions -
indeed in any religion – after he was aware of the dogmatic definitions on
Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,
Against the Heresies, Angelus Press [SSPX], p. 216: “Evidently, certain distinctions must be made. Souls can be saved in a religion other than
the Catholic religion (Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, etc.), but
not by this religion.”
This heretical view has been taken up
by members of the SSPX, as we see here.
Fr. Schmidberger, Time Bombs of the Second Vatican Council,
Angelus Press [SSPX], p. 10: “Ladies and gentlemen, it is clear that the followers of other religions can be saved under
certain conditions, that is to say, if they are in invincible error.”
They are formally heretical for
promoting this view, for they are already aware of the dogma defined by Pope
Eugene IV, etc. No honest person can maintain that there is not a contradiction
between what is quoted above and what Pope Eugene IV defined.
To your third question, no you should
not and cannot go back to the SSPX seminary. Not only are they in heresy
on the salvation/baptism issue, but also for obstinately accepting Antipope
Benedict XVI and the Vatican II Church. They also accept Natural Family
Planning, which is sinful birth control.
A Catholic must not stay in such a seminary. You must also become
convinced on the baptism issue. Baptism of desire is not compatible with
dogma. Perhaps you will benefit from listening to these audios, File of Recent Audio Debates on
"Baptism of Desire", and we encourage you to look at our book on the topic.
B-16 and Latin Mass
Dear Brothers,
I heard today that B16 celebrated and Tridentine Mass in Rome a little while
ago. Since he is a valid priest,
although heretical, would not the congregation have gotten a true sacrament. If so, why would Lucifer allow this? Is it
just to keep people thinking he is conservative. What do you think about this?... (This does
not have any effect on my faith, in case you were wondering, I was just curious
and this struck me as odd)
Nate
MHFM: Yes, they would have received a valid sacrament, but not to
their benefit when they accept him and his heresies. The Devil would want him to display this on
occasion, in order to keep people thinking that Benedict XVI is a conservative,
just as you said; and also because they will not be benefitting from the sacrament
anyway when their faith is compromised and heretical.
We have obviously documented that Benedict XVI is an outrageous
heretic, but people can tend to forget how bad he is if it’s not put front and
center for them again. That’s why we
think that the recent heresies we just posted, in which Benedict XVI is
expressing total apostasy and religious indifferentism, really reveal again
what’s going on. In fact, it would be
almost impossible for him to indicate any more clearly that he has no problem
with Eastern schism (i.e., “Orthodoxy” - a complete rejection of the dogmas of
Vatican I). He also expresses total
religious indifferentism. Thus, the
people who are enamored with his conservative gestures are being by played by
the Devil like a fiddle. They are
thinking that maybe this is the true pope who is going to change the course of
the Vatican II Church; maybe he is going to steer it back toward Tradition; but
the Devil is just luring them in. Yes,
Benedict XVI will grant them some traditionalist trappings and recognition, but
they will have to swallow his manifest heresy, his complete apostasy and his
religious indifferentism.
For those who go only by externals, which is the majority of
those who profess to be “Catholic” and traditional, it can be slightly
deceptive; but, for those with supernatural faith, it’s actually not deceptive
at all – because what he’s all about is proven by his manifest heresy and
apostasy.
SSPX Bishop Apologizes
Brothers,
Here is an article on the SSPX and its
bishop's "apology" for his "holocaust" remarks. I had a
feeling this was coming.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_jews
Howard
AR.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
That’s really terrible and pathetic.
He apologizes for the distress that he has caused the arch-apostate
Antipope Benedict XVI! This shows us
again what we already knew: that Williamson is a total heretic. Moreover, notice how almost everyone is
terrified of displeasing the Jews! This
is sickening. Williamson obviously
believes what he said, but he’s apologizing for it simply because of the
reaction it caused. He doesn’t have the
fortitude to even stand up for what he thinks.
The Jews are intimidating almost everyone into submission. It’s really pathetic. Basically, what the SSPX is doing is
consenting to the idea that the Jewish version of the Holocaust is a super-dogma
that everyone must believe under pain of being ridiculed and despised, if not
jailed. And apostate evil “Catholics”
assist them in creating a world of Jewish supremacy.
John 7:13- “Yet no man spoke openly of him,
for fear of the Jews.”
Comment
Greetings brothers!
The guy that wrote to you about licking John XXIII's shoes, the Spanish
Inquisition and I assume the Vaticans silence over Germany's killings of the
Jews, I think it’s apparent that he believes, like many today even novus ordo
Catholics, that certain events in Catholic history, like the Spanish
Inquisition and the Crusades, were totally wrong. People should know that the
Crusades were an answer from the Vatican to help the Catholic population in the
Holy Land that was being persecuted by the Saracen Muslims.
It is common among atheists and liberals to use events like the Spanish
Inquisition and the Crusades to slander the Catholic Church, to make
religion seem evil, and as something "man-made" that only separates
people on earth.
Daniel
MHFM: Yes, we figured that’s where
she was coming from; but since she did not articulate her objections with any
degree of specificity, they weren’t worth responding to. Also, her statement: “How about
keeping your own congregants ignorant?” didn’t
make any sense.
Stigmata
Dear MHFM
This weekend I watched a movie titled
Stigmata. This movie is an obvious attempt to discredit the Catholic
Church, which would be easy enough to do in the minds of some Catholics who
falsely believe that no saint could err in his teachings. Christ gave us
papal authority for the very reason that saints are human beings who are
quite capable of error.
The movie concerns a teenage girl who goes
through various phases of Christ's passion. She becomes possessed and
writes the Gospel of St. Thomas in Aramaic on a wall. They quote
often from this gospel something like "The Kingdom of God is
within all of us and in us and around us and in all things.... It is not
in a building, etc. This sounds like the philosophy of the Church
condemned Father Teilhard DeChardin, however, if this was indeed St.
Thomas Gospel, he could have meant something very different which could
too easily be interpreted as heresy and therefore his gospel was
rejected.
These movie makers try to make it look
as if the church is trying to suppress some sort of truth as they show a
(Vatican II) priest attempting to strangle the teenager as he says, "I
won't let you destroy my church."
At the end of the movie is a notation that
tells about the discovery of the gospel of Thomas discovered in a cave in Egypt
in 1945 and that these were the actual quoted words of Jesus and that the
Catholic church declared it was heresy. How do they know that Jesus said
these words and that they were not just an embellishment of his words?
I just looked up the Gospel of St. Thomas
on Amazon and the front inside cover says that these words were
"attributed" to Jesus. They do not say that these were his
actual words, which, of course, they could not be since they contradict his
actual words. No mention is made of the fact that when the Bible was put
together and approved by the Church, there were other gospels that were
rejected as well because Christ is the author of truth, not
contradiction. Still, they continue in their own illogical and stupid
ways to contradict and attempt to destroy the Church in the minds of the
people, which is why Christ established infallible authority in his Church which
has never failed to preserve the ultimate truth.
PM
MHFM: The Gospel of Thomas was
rejected by the Church as spurious, and not included in the Bible.
Atheist “Holy Day”
“FLORIDA COURT
SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY
In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter and Passover
holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against
Christians, Jews and observances of their holy days.
The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized
days. The case was brought before a
judge. After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the
judge banged his gavel declaring, "Case dismissed!"
The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, "Your honor,
how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas,
Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah,
yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays."
The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you do. Your
client, counsel, is woefully ignorant."
The lawyer said,
"Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for
atheists."
The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day. Psalm 14:1
states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, it is the opinion
of this court, that if your client says there is no God, then he is a
fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned.”
New Outrageous Heresies from Benedict XVI
MHFM: We’ve updated the file on Benedict XVI’s
recent heresies. There are some new ones
that are quite bad. They express total
religious indifferentism, respect for all religions, and a specific acceptance
of schism and heresy. They remind us,
once again, that Benedict XVI is an apostate antipope; but also how the false
traditionalists who think that Benedict XVI is a pope are completely
deceived. They are quite excited right
now because Benedict XVI is welcoming the SSPX completely back into the Vatican
II sect. They are thinking there is hope
in Benedict XVI, and that his actions in their regard demonstrate that he is a
real pope. Boy how they are deceived. Little do they realize that this is all part
of the Devil’s plan. Benedict XVI is
preaching heresy and apostasy just as blatantly as the other Vatican II
antipopes did; but he is cleverly getting them to accept it (and thus fall into
total apostasy) by making them think that he is a conservative who is open to
them. Yes, he is open to them as long as
they are open to him and to his apostasy, which they demonstrate by accepting
him as a Catholic.
New Outrageous Heresies from Benedict XVI
Response
Greetings:
Your response to JH concerning his alcohol
abuse questions is correct. I have worked in this field for several years.
Certainly one addicted must undergo the usually short period of
physical withdrawal from alcohol or addictive drugs and deal with the other
medical problems associated with substance abuse and alcoholism. But dealing
with the spiritual aspect of this problem is essential. It is essentially a sin
problem and must be addressed as such. Your response to him was very
appropriate.
EJP, M.D., D.D.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
We believe it’s completely a sin problem.
Justification and Baptism
…Decrees
of the Infallible First Vatican Council (1869-1870)
"Wherefore, by divine and Catholic
faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of
God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the church
as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment
OR IN HER ORDINARY AND UNIVERSAL MAGISTERIUM."
We must also believe as Divinely Revealed
in the ORDINARY and UNIVERSAL Magisterium which clearly teaches universally at
all TIMES and places that justification can be attained before water Baptism.
In +JMJ,
Roger
MHFM: No, you are completely wrong, as was shown in the
conversation before you skipped out. You
are, sadly, of very bad will. You believe in salvation outside the Church
(as proven by your defense of Lefebvre’s heresy in this regard) and you are a
heretic. The Church does not teach that
justification can happen before water baptism.
Here is a quote from St. Ambrose (father and doctor of the Church) which
quickly refutes your statement and which expresses the universal teaching of
Catholicism on this point: that justification cannot happen without water baptism.
St. Ambrose, De mysteriis, 390-391
A.D.: “You have read, therefore, that the three witnesses in Baptism are one:
water, blood, and the spirit; and if you withdraw any one of these, the
Sacrament of Baptism is not valid. For
what is water without the cross of Christ?
A common element without any sacramental effect. Nor on the other hand is there any mystery
of regeneration without water: for ‘unless a man be born again of water and
the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ [John 3:5] Even
a catechumen believes in the cross of the Lord Jesus, by which
also he is signed; but, unless he be baptized in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, he cannot receive the remission of sins
nor be recipient of the gift of spiritual grace.” (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2:
1330.)
St. Peter
Subject: Peter
Dear Brothers, I'd like some clarification
to a statement that Our Lord made to Peter. Maybe you could help me out, and I
apologize if you've answered this before. It has to do with when Our Lord
said to Peter: "I pray that thy faith fail thee not". How do we
understand this in light of the apostasy of the Vat 2 anti-popes? Of course it
can't be that Our Lord's prayer was lacking in any way. However we are seeing
that their faith has failed. I'd
appreciate you help. Thank you and God
bless.
Barbara
MHFM: It refers to the infallibility given to the office of St.
Peter. It refers to those teachings
declared by a pope from the Chair of Peter, as Vatican I teaches. Since they were heretics at the time of their
“elections,” the Vatican II antipopes never validly assumed the office of St.
Peter. Thus, they did not inherit any of
the protections that are given to true popes; and their official promulgation
of heresy does not contradict the promise of Christ to St. Peter and his
successors.
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, ex
cathedra: “SO, THIS GIFT OF TRUTH AND A
NEVER FAILING FAITH WAS DIVINELY CONFERRED UPON PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN
THIS CHAIR…” (Denz. 1837)
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, ex
cathedra: “… the See of St. Peter
always remains unimpaired by any error, according to the divine promise of
our Lord the Savior made to the chief of His disciples: ‘I have prayed for thee [Peter], that thy faith fail not ...’” (Denz. 1836)
Obedience
To whom it concern,
My husband and I have recently come across
your web site and are currently watching the videos and reading the information
you have on there. We are constantly seeking the truth and find that we have
many questions. First, we were wondering
if you know of a pre-Vatican church for us to attend and ask questions in St.
Louis, Missouri. Second, we are buying a
home In St. Louis and were looking at sending our 5 year old twins to a Catholic
school. Is the Catholic school suitable or would they be better in a regular
school?
Third, when it comes to fasting, how would
that apply to my kids? Should they participate, etc.? One of our main concerns is obedience. Aren’t we suppose to be obedient to the
church? We feel that being obedience is one of the best points of the church.
We have always felt that the authority is necessary to keep us from chaos.
Authority and obedience has always been the foundation of our faith. Who
decides something is heretical, the parishioners or the hierarchy? Is there
someone we could call and talk to with our questions?
Thank You for your time,
Thomas and Angela
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Homeschooling your children would be the best option. The “Catholic” schools are not Catholic
anymore. Once convinced on the issues,
contact us here and we can help you with where to receive sacraments.
People must know their faith well enough to identify something
that is heretical. The heresies of the Vatican II sect (e.g., ecumenism,
religious indifferentism, salvation outside the Church, etc.) represent such a
blatant departure from Catholic dogma that every person is bound to reject
them and to denounce those who promote them. The body which gives these
heretical teachings to you is not the Catholic Church, but a counterfeit
Vatican II sect posing as the Church. We think you would benefit from
listening to this program we did, which summarizes what's going on.
The Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic
Church after Vatican II Audio Program, Part 1, Part 2 [2 hrs. each part]
St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, lib. II, cap. 30: “Finally, the Holy Fathers teach unanimously
not only that heretics are outside of the Church, but also that they are ‘ipso
facto’ deprived of all ecclesiastical jurisdiction and dignity.”
This quote from St. Robert Bellarmine articulates the
traditional Catholic teaching that all heretics, whether bishops, priests,
whatever, lose jurisdiction (i.e. authority) when becoming heretics. In
being obedient to them, you are not being obedient to the Catholic Church, but
to manifest heretics. Therefore, in being obedient to the Vatican II Church, you
are not being obedient to the Catholic Church. You are actually opposing
the Catholic Church and being obedient to heresy.
To your other question, the laws of
abstinence bind everyone 7 or older. The laws of fast bind everyone
(unless health or work impeded) 21 to 59 inclusive. This is covered in
the calendar section of our site.
John XXIII’s shoes
You aren't fit to lick John XXIII's
shoes. Have you read the Church's history? At all--how does the
Spanish Inquisition strike you? How about Nazi's and the Jews and
SILENCE? How about keeping your own congregants ignorant? You
have sinned beyond measure. You ought to be ashamed. Truly ashamed.
Sharon Mary Holzschuh
MHFM: Yes, we aren’t fit to lick John
XXIII’s shoes, for only a heretic (or perhaps a Freemason) would do that. Regarding your other comments, they aren’t
worth addressing since you don’t express your objections with almost any
clarity. The only thing that is clear is
that you don’t accept the Catholic faith.
Truth
I read the exchange where the one person
told you all to drop dead. I find it quite interesting that Novus Ordo
"Catholics" respect every "Christian" Creed under the sun.
Methodism is fine, Lutheranism hey that’s close enough to Catholicism. But when
you say you're Traditional Catholic they can't stand it, try to convince you
otherwise, and react violently to the truth. Most people I know respect the
other 2 billion "Christians" then question whether I'm a Christian. I
think the reason they react this way is that deep down, they know they are
convicted and the truth is painful to them.
Kenneth Connelly
Debate Audios
I wanted to tell you that I just finished
the audios on the BOB and Desire debates.....except the William one....I am
still trying to muscle through that one. I don't know if I ever will be
able to finish it.
I thought you made a most wonderful point on how CMRI and like groups could
condemn 90% more of Ratzinger and the counterfeit church if they didn't accept
the heresy on Baptism of blood and desire. I never thought of that
before.
I also loved how you were told to define Baptism of Blood and Desire.....as if
that could possibly be done....since everybody disagrees on the meaning and
proper application.
Lastly, the 8-minute audio with Ken is a perfect and quick example of bad
will.
Thank you for sharing the audios. It's a very sobering reminder of how
Vatican II happened.
Thank you again for all of your hard work.
Teri Thurman
Struggling with Alcohol
I am a Catholic that believes what you do.
I am also struggling with alcohol addiction and am trying to find a place to go
to that is not secular or apostate. Can you help me?
Thanks, JH
MHFM: We don't have anywhere to recommend,
but your problem can be solved if you pray the 15-decade rosary each day and do
it well. You need to pray to Our Lady for help and your problem will be
knocked out. And obviously you must avoid the occasions of sin.
In fact, we all hear about stories of
people who are in and out of rehab centers.
They take all the steps they are told to take, and conquer their
problem, but then fall back into it again and again. The reason that they fall back so frequently
– and that it’s such a difficult struggle for so many to overcome the addiction
– is that their addiction is not simply physical, but spiritual. They are tied down by spiritual powers. If all the people who entered drug and
alcohol rehab centers were given rosaries and told to pray them (and they did
it well), they would all be cured of their problem and wouldn’t relapse.
Judaism and Incarnation
Dear
Brothers:
On pages 299-300, in the chapter WHY YOU NEED TO BE A JEW, Kushner
states: "Christianity believes that God incarnated Himself, became
flesh, in the person of Jesus and changed the world thereby. JUDAISM
TEACHES THAT GOD INCARNATES HIMSELF IN EVERY ONE OF US, AND GIVES US POWER TO
MAKE HIM REAL, NOT JUST AN ABSTRACT NOTION, IN THE WORLD, CHANGING THE WORLD
THEREBY.
Just thought this was interesting,
Joseph
MHFM: Yes, that is interesting.
It’s interesting because the doctrine of the Antichrist is a denial of
Jesus as the Christ (1 John 2:22); and it is also the dissolving of Jesus (1
John 4:3) and a corruption of the truth that Jesus is God in the flesh (2 John
1:7). That quote combines all of those
into one: by the Jewish denial of Jesus as God incarnate, and the antichrist
assertion that God is actually incarnated or dissolved into each man, which is
what John Paul II also taught.
Suggestions
Subject: Where to Start
I left the church when I was 12 years old
only to begin what would be a long road back to the Catholic church. When I
returned it was a quiet event followed by remaining anonymous for quite a
long time. My first question (I had no knowledge of Vatican II) was, "I
wonder if the Pope knows what is going on, the mass, the lack of silence in the
sanctuary, the constant talking among parishioners while mass is being
celebrated and children leaving Mass presumably to go to the bathroom. If I
seem angry I am not but I am disappointed in the changes of the church that I
recall as a youngster when my Catholic grandmother was alive. Unfortunately she
left me at 9 years of age to be with the Lord. A few years later I left the
church. My journey has been lengthy and very painful. I became aware of what a
disappointment I must be to the Lord. Any suggestions you may have will
certainly help me to be true to my faith and the church.
Ol…
MHFM: The Vatican II “popes” certainly know what’s going on in
the local churches. It was their
apostate programs which caused it, and they allow it to continue. You should study the material on our website,
obtain the special package we offer, and take the steps to return to a belief
in and a practice of the traditional Catholic faith.
Reading
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
My name is Marco
I have been reading your materials for some time and I would very much like to
speak with a Traditional Catholic Priest.
I live in Reading, PA. Do you know of any Traditional priests I can speak
with, who might be within driving distance, on subjects such as the Church,
marriage, family, NFP etc.
Thank you for your time,
Marco
MHFM: Thanks for the interest,
Marco. We assume you agree and are committed to never attending the New
Mass for any reason. Also, before we would give a location for the
sacraments, one would have to completely agree on the issues of faith (e.g.,
the Vatican II Church, Outside the Church there is no salvation, etc.). There are almost no fully Catholic priests in
the country today. There are valid priests who profess to be Catholic,
but they hold certain false positions which are contrary to the faith.
You can approach some of them for the sacraments, but you cannot agree with or
support them. Call us here and we can help you with that. We also have a file on where to go to Mass
which explains certain guidelines on that issue. If you haven’t already, please consult our
article on why NFP is not acceptable.
DVDs
Dear MHFM
I've ordered some of the DVDs on the
heresies of Benedict XVI, etc. I've decided to send one to each Vatican 2
believing organization that sends me solicitations. Occasionally I'm
asked where I go to church. Hand them a disc.... Everything that needs to
be said is in there. I listened to the B16 section again this
morning. Incredible that he could get away with this.
40 years without the true Mass come
Advent......
Double-tongued
Dear mhfm, Isn't it so obvious to
false traditionals and their double-tongued speech when they denounce Dr.
Ratzinger as the antipope and false, but yet believe as he does that one can be
saved outside the Roman Catholic Church, after dogma points directly entering through
the Roman Cathoic Church the absolute way of salvation, and the only way to
enter is through water baptism? Mind boggling, no?
Dea…
MHFM: Yes, it’s a mystery of iniquity that there are so many
people of bad will, so many liars, and so few people of truth. Another example came yesterday. We were contacted by a person who claims to
be a traditional Catholic sedevacantist.
However, he has now gone against what we are saying (and attacked us
publicly) because he thinks we are contradicting Catholic teaching on “baptism
of desire” and invincible ignorance.
During the conversation, we addressed and refuted all of his objections,
and then asked him a few questions about his “faith.” Typical of a heretic, he was extremely
reluctant to tell us what he believed.
He refused to answer a simple question about whether Martin Luther was
definitely in mortal sin and of bad faith when he was blaspheming and attacking
the Catholic Church. The obvious
implication was that he couldn’t simply say that Luther was of bad faith. He also indicated that he couldn’t say that
Jews who reject Christ, etc. are not in the state of grace. He is thus open to universal salvation and
anonymous Christianity, just as basically everyone who believes in “baptism of
desire” today. They would try to deny
it, but the truth is that they believe it’s possible for anyone in any
situation to be saved. They cannot say
that anyone is definitely excluded. It’s
very dark. They truly believe in
nothing, yet they think they are traditional Catholics. It’s really bad out there. There is so much bad will it’s
startling. Most “traditionalists” are
apostates, especially on that issue.
Gratitude
My dear friends and brother in faith,
I can hardly find the right words to express my gratitude for your amazing
website and your dedicated work in exposing V-2. As we say in German you hit the nail right on
the top and express the feelings, I as a young man of 30 years had all my life
concerning the "catholic" "church". I feel strong affection towards the true
Catholic Faith, the Holy Virgin and our Lord but hardly ever felt
"home" in the V2-church. The
problem for me is that I live in Germany, and I was never able to attend a real
mass in Latin or receive the sacraments in all my life. Since my life has been sinful, I want to
repent and ask for forgiveness and take part in an actual church life. So my question is: where can I go? Is there a
true catholic community here in Germany (or at least on the European continent)
or would I have to travel to the United States to do so? In case you know of true Catholic networks in
Europe and elsewhere I would like to suggest that you publish this on your
great website to make it easier for people to find fellow catholics and get in
touch with them.
Thank you for great work and may God blesss
you
Richard
Ghosts
Hello,
I was wondering how you explain ghosts?
Also, I know a lot of protestants and their reasoning for not believing in
apparitions is that "no one even knows about those. Don't you think it would
be a really big deal around the world if Mary appeared to someone?" How do
I convince someone that they are real?
-Holli
MHFM: If a person claims to see a
“ghost,” he is probably seeing an evil spirit.
Regarding apparitions, one could start by showing him the evidence for
the message of Fatima and the miracle which was witnessed before tens of
thousands of people, including non-Catholics.
As this file covers, the secular newspapers even reported on it, and
described it (amazingly) in a way that corresponds exactly to the sign
predicted in Apocalypse 12:1.
Double Oaths
Dear
Brothers,
Recently,
Obama repeated his oath of office because a mistake was made in its form,
during the inauguration. This was done,
even though he had won the popular election and it was confirmed by the
electoral college! All this was done, to
give proper authority for a political office!
Imagine, how much more important the words are to a holy sacrament,
before God!! i wish the VII church would
be as meticulous with God's sacraments, as the politicians! God bless and keep you!
MHFM: That’s right.
Regarding the “popular election,” if we get some time we plan on posting
something about some interesting questions about the “popular election.”
Drop Dead?
I have seen your website and quite
frankly...you are an evil and nasty group. An organization worthy of being
classified as a cult. Not worthy of the name "Catholic". You
yourselves have exposed yourselves as heretics, apostates, and schismatics. You
dare to call yourselves Christians, when you have actually been brought onto
this earth from the bowels of hell, which is where I hope you return to rot.
May all of the members of your cult DROP DEAD you...
MHFM: You obviously don’t know the
first thing about the Catholic faith, and you are an apostate. You are led by the forces of Hell. The evil in you stirs you to react and
viciously attack the uncompromising presentation of the Catholic faith. Should you continue on your evil path, soon
enough you will find out just how blind and deceived you are.
Listened
I listened to a couple of them [the
debates]. The man that you were attempting to debate with during the 8
minute session was in a very sad state.
K
MHFM: That’s right, and yet they
actually think they are strong Catholics.
Testimonials
You all are doing such great work.
Thank you so much for your information it’s changing my life.
Ricardo Perez
I have recently discovered your web site,
and I am absolutely pleased and happy God helped me find it.
Carlos E. Cerritelli
Judging Heresy
Subject: Judging
Heresy
Dear Brothers,
Thank you for the Baptism of Desire
debates.
I got to thinking that when people (like
the SSPX) accuse us of not having the authority to judge heresy/heretics, they
may as well be saying that we don't even have the authority to be Catholics. If
you're not allowed to figure out what is or isn't Catholic, how on earth
are you going to be one?!!
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: That’s absolutely right. The notion that a Catholic does not have the
authority to recognize and denounce a heretic is modernist nonsense. In that particular conversation we didn’t
have time to get into any teachings of the Church in this regard, but simply to
refute it by pointing out that it undercuts that individual’s own rejection of
the Vatican II sect. (We saw that he
wasn’t even willing to denounce Benedict XVI as a heretic, thus proving that he
is a heretic and that his flawed theology leads to a heretical conclusion which
undermines his own position.) Only a
person who is completely faithless would assert that a Catholic does not have
the authority and ability to recognize and denounce a heretic. But faithless is exactly what all those who
obstinately defend the salvation/baptism of desire heresy are.
If you cannot identify who is not in
the Church – or who is not to be considered in the Church by his or her
external actions and beliefs – then there is no true rule of faith or Church
unity. You must accept as Catholic
anyone who claims to be. What that
individual said is completely contrary to the true faith, as these two quotes
(among many others) show:
St. Robert
Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II,
30: “… for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; BUT WHEN THEY SEE THAT SOMEONE IS A HERETIC BY HIS EXTERNAL WORKS, THEY
JUDGE HIM TO BE A HERETIC PURE AND SIMPLE, AND CONDEMN HIM AS A HERETIC.”
St. Robert Bellarmine is not
asserting that people who demonstrate clear and obstinate heresy could have
good hearts. They do not. He is simply pointing out that Catholics
recognize and denounce them as heretics by their external actions (undeniable,
clear and obstinate heresy), not by reading their hearts. (Their external actions of heresy, if clear
and obstinate, demonstrate that they have evil hearts.) St. Polycarp (who knew the apostle St. John)
also understood the apostolic faith, and thus did not hesitate to denounce the
heretic Marcion as the firstborn of Satan.
St. Ireneaus, Against Heresies: “Once he [St. Polycarp] was met by Marcion, who said to him, ‘Do you
recognize me?’ and Polycarp replied, ‘I recognize you as the firstborn of
Satan!’” (Jurgens, Faith of the
Early Fathers, Vol. 1:212)
So what the individual said in the
conversation about not having the ability to denounce heretics is ridiculous
and heretical, and it condemns his own rejection of the Vatican II Church.
Comment
Regarding your debate with Ken G; Perhaps
Mr. G can consider Matthew XVI, 23. After contemplating that verse, Mr. G can
consider Matthew V, 48.
It seems to me that if Jesus chastises
Peter by calling him Satan, (Mt XVI) and for not thinking like God and not
savoring the things of God, it is because Peter’s thinking is opposed to God’s
thinking. We know Jesus’ words are truth and that Satan is a liar and the
father of all lies. In the simplest terms; if we think and act like God we are
God’s children, conversely, if we think and act like man (Satan) we are man’s
(Satan’s) children. And if one wants to be perfect (Mt V) one needs to be
perfect as his Heavenly Father is perfect. Therefore, we need to think like God
in order to achieve perfection like God. And if it is a requirement to think as
God thinks to avoid being called Satan, surely we can quickly and simply make
an accurate assessment (thinking as God thinks and being perfect by adhering to
truth, not error) based upon fact, knowledge and evidence as to the publicly
and/or privately revealed spiritual statements a person, any person, makes
known.
How about John Wycliffe, Denziger, page
209; Error # 6:
“God ought to obey the devil.”
Is Wyciffe a heretic, or do we need
confirmation from God that He does or does not obey the devil before we label
Wycliffe a heretic? I would not tempt God by asking for confirmation. I would
call Wycliffe a heretic.
Howard
AR.
MHFM: Yes, what he said is pure
modernism, as covered above.
Found
Hello,
I have just found your website and read a few articles concerning heresies and
our catholic faith. I am aspiring and praying hard for my vocation to the priesthood.
I wish to help Christ bring His flock back together and empty myself out to let
Him do His work. Hopefully someday I can actually help others in an
elevated role by bringing our Lord Jesus Christ to them. I am trying hard
to navigate between traditionalists and modernists within the Catholic Church
as well as those who have separated themselves from the fold.
Thank you very much for your well presented website and the opportunity to
explore another viewpoint within the catholic faith. I will discern among the
information provided to glean valuable insight. I have been inspired to write
this email to perhaps find some guidance on a question I have. Who is the
"real" Pope when those who claim an antipope is on the chair of St.
Peter?
Peace be with You!
Matt.
MHFM: Thanks for the interest,
Matt. There is no doubt that the
traditional Catholic faith is the true faith, not the modernist Vatican II
religion. There is currently no pope, no
one sitting on the Chair of St. Peter.
It’s the same as the situation in the past when popes died, leaving the
Chair of Peter vacant.
St. Francis De
Sales (17th century), Doctor of the Church, The Catholic Controversy, pp. 305-306: "Now
when he [the Pope] is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his
dignity and out of the Church..."
Pope St. Siricius
MHFM: Since the idea of “baptism of desire” has been under discussion
this week, we figured we’d post this again.
It’s covered in our book, but it’s important to consider again.
POPE ST. SIRICIUS (384-398)
In his
letter to the Bishop of Tarragona in the year 385, Pope St. Siricius also shows
how the belief in the early Church rejected the idea of baptism of desire.
Pope St.
Siricius, Letter to Himerius, 385: “As we maintain that the observance
of the holy Paschal time should in no way be relaxed, in the same way we desire
that infants who, on account of their age, cannot yet speak, or those who, in
any necessity, are in want of the
water of holy baptism, be succored with all possible speed, for fear
that, if those who leave this world should be deprived of the life of the
Kingdom for having been refused the source of salvation which they desired,
this may lead to the ruin of our
souls. If those threatened with
shipwreck, or the attack of enemies, or the uncertainties of a siege, or those
put in a hopeless condition due to some bodily sickness, ask for what in
their faith is their only help, let them receive at the very moment
of their request the reward of regeneration they beg for. Enough of past mistakes! From now on, let all the priests observe the
aforesaid rule if they do not want to be separated from the solid apostolic
rock on which Christ has built his universal Church.” (Fr. Jacques Dupuis
and Fr. Josef Neuner, The Christian Faith, Sixth Revised and Enlarged
Edition, Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1996, p. 540.)
This
quotation from Pope St. Siricius is striking in that it again clearly shows how
the early Church rejected belief in the concept of baptism of desire. He begins by affirming that the observance of
Paschal time should not be relaxed. (He
is referring to the fact that Baptisms were historically performed during
Paschal time.) After affirming that this
tradition should be maintained, he warns that infants and those in any
necessity or danger should be baptized immediately, lest they are “deprived of
the life of the Kingdom for having been refused the source of salvation which
they desired.”
In other
words, the man who desires water baptism
and begs for regeneration will still be denied heaven if he does not receive
it! This clearly rejects the idea of
baptism of desire. And it comes from a
pope, saint and father of the early Church.
(This also proves that the delay in baptizing adults is for the instruction
and the testing of the catechumens, not because it was held that these
catechumens could be saved without baptism.)
This
point is made again by the pope in the second half of the quotation, where he
says that when those unbaptized persons “ask for what in their faith is
their only help, let them receive at the very moment of their
request the reward of regeneration they beg for.” This means that receiving water baptism
is the only help to salvation for such persons who earnestly desire to
receive Baptism! There is no help to
salvation for such persons in their desire or martyrdom, but only in receiving
the Sacrament of Baptism!
Justification
I was wondering if you could quote me
what you mentioned about distinctions in Justification?
MHFM: Michael du Bay denied the
following distinctions, and was condemned for it. The two quotes that are most relevant are
found in Denzinger 1063 and Denzinger 1064.
Denz. 1063, Errors
of Michael du Bay #63- “Moreover that distinction of a twofold justice, one
which is brought to pass through the indwelling Spirit of charity, the other
which arises from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit exciting the heart to
penance, but not yet dwelling in the heart and diffusing charity in it, by
which the justification of the divine law may be fulfilled, is similarly
condemned.” (Condemned by Pope St.
Pius V, in the Bull "Ex omnibus afflictionibus," Oct. 1, 1567)
Denz. 1064, Errors of Michael du Bay #64- “And likewise that distinction of a
twofold vivification, the one, by which a sinner is vivified, when the
resolution to penance and the beginning of a new life through the grace of God
inspire him; the other, by which he is vivified who is truly justified and is
made a living branch on the vine for Christ, is equally deceitful and in no way
consonant with the Scriptures.” (Condemned
by Pope St. Pius V, in the Bull "Ex omnibus afflictionibus," Oct. 1,
1567)
Baptism
Dear MHFM
I remember being
taught in pre-Vatican II high school religion class that if we came across
someone, suppose someone we knew had never been baptized, who was
dying, who said he did not want to be baptized, then, even if we baptized him
anyway, he would not receive the sacrament because he did not want (desire)
it.
PM
MHFM: That’s correct. The Church teaches that one should not
baptize a person who does not want to be baptized and who does not at least
know the essential mysteries of faith (which no adult can be saved without
believing), such as the Trinity and the Incarnation. Even if one is in a coma, for instance, one
could not baptize him or her unless that person manifested beforehand a belief
in the essential mysteries of faith and a desire to be baptized.
The fact that no one who wishes to be
saved can be saved without a knowledge and belief in the mysteries of the
Trinity and the Incarnation is the reason why the Holy Office under Pope
Clement XI responded that a missionary must, before baptism, explain these absolutely necessary mysteries to an
adult who is at the point of death.
Response of the Sacred Office to the Bishop of Quebec, Jan. 25, 1703:
“Q. Whether a
minister is bound, before baptism is conferred on an adult, to explain to him all
the mysteries of our faith, especially if he is at the point of death, because
this might disturb his mind. Or, whether
it is sufficient, if the one at the point of death will promise that when he
recovers from the illness, he will take care to be instructed, so that he might
put into practice what has been commanded him.
“A. A promise is not sufficient, but a
missionary is bound to explain to an adult, even a dying one who is not
entirely incapacitated, the mysteries of
faith which are necessary by a necessity of means, as are especially the
mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.” (Denz. 1349a)
Another question was posed at the
same time and answered the same way.
Response of the
Sacred Office to the Bishop of Quebec, Jan. 25, 1703: “Q. Whether it is
possible for a crude and uneducated adult, as it might be with a barbarian, to
be baptized, if there were given him only an understanding of God and some of
His attributes… although he does not believe explicitly in Jesus Christ.
“A. A
missionary should not baptize one who does not believe explicitly in the Lord
Jesus Christ, but is bound to instruct him about all those matters which are
necessary, by a necessity of means, in accordance with the capacity of the
one to be baptized.” (Denz. 1349b)
New Baptism of Desire Debates
MHFM: One of us recently engaged in numerous
debates/conversations with “traditionalists” and sedevacantists who believe in
baptism of desire. The following four
were the only people confident enough to do a recorded phone conversation about
the issue (3 “traditionalists” and 1 member of the Novus Ordo). Even though we had numerous sedevacantist
priests on the phone and specifically asked them to have a recorded
conversation about the issue, including Bishop McKenna, Fr. Collins, Fr. Adam
C., none of them were confident enough to have a recorded discussion.
This is particularly revealing, especially when we
consider that they claim to be correct and knowledgeable. If they claim to understand the Church’s teaching
on this issue, why the reluctance? Why
are they so afraid to simply discuss the issue in a recorded conversation? It’s because their positions would be refuted
and exposed. We also had about five
other outspoken lay-proponents of baptism of desire on the phone. Many of them even had time to discuss the
issue, but wouldn’t have it recorded.
It’s a shame that they did not give permission for the exchanges to be
recorded because their false positions were refuted. If anyone is willing to debate the issue in a
telephone conversation, contact us.
These debates (and the file which contains them)
will be found permanently in our Traditional Catholic Audios section and in our
Outside the Church There is No Salvation section.
File of Recent Audio Debates on
"Baptism of Desire"
Debate on baptism of desire with
sedevacantist Ken
[1 hr.
46 min. audio – Jan. 2009]
This Ken is a different Ken from the one
below. This Ken, who originally liked our
material, became very much opposed to us and to our material after being
persuaded by arguments for baptism of desire which were made by other
sedevacantist priests, bishops and groups.
He became convinced that they had the truth on this issue and that we
did not. The cordial tone of this
conversation doesn’t really capture how very opposed Ken had become to our
position. Coming into the conversation,
Ken thought that we were completely wrong, heretical and theologically ignorant
on the issue. He denounced us in no
uncertain terms. To our pleasant
surprise and to his credit, in the course of the conversation Ken couldn’t
resist the arguments from dogmatic teaching which refute baptism of desire and
he changed his position! Many angles to
the baptism of desire controversy are discussed in this exchange, especially
later on. However, we simply didn’t get
to some other facets of this issue. (As
an example, a passage in Sess. 7 of the Council of Trent is mentioned in
passing but we simply never got to discussing it.)
Debate on baptism of desire with
"traditionalist" Roger [24
min. audio – Jan. 2009]
Roger claims to be a traditional Catholic. He wrote to us saying that we are wrong on
the baptism of desire issue. He said
that the Church teaches that people can be justified before baptism by
desire. He agreed to call us and
debate/discuss the issue. Unfortunately,
this debate only lasted 24 minutes.
Roger suddenly became unwilling to discuss the issue after his first few
arguments were refuted. (Since Sess. 6,
Chap. 4 of the Council of Trent is discussed here and in following
conversations, it should be emphasized that the reason for the inclusion of the
word “desire” in that passage is because it’s talking about justification of
adults and it’s necessary for those above the age of reason to desire water
baptism, in addition to being baptized, as the Catechism of the Council of
Trent teaches. That’s discussed more at
length in the section on that decree in our book.)
Debate-exchange on baptism of
desire with sedevacantist Ken G. [8 min. audio – Jan. 2009]
This is an interesting short telephone exchange
with a sedevacantist supporter of baptism of desire named Ken G. He has strongly criticized and attacked
people who don’t believe in “baptism of desire,” such as ourselves. We would characterize this individual as part
of the vicious crowd of pro-baptism of desire heretics in our day. He purports to be a knowledgeable “Catholic”
who understands the traditional faith.
This conversation, although short, reveals that he doesn’t understand
the Catholic faith. It exposes his bad
will and his false position, even though we barely had any time at all to
develop anything, but only to quickly refute the first two objections he
raised.
He only stays on the telephone for eight minutes
and barely gives us a chance to speak.
In that short time, however, one of the myths that is central to his
belief in baptism of desire (the false idea that a doctor of the Church cannot
teach doctrinal error) is refuted. His
false understanding of theology is further exposed. He asserts that we are wrong and that we
don’t have the authority to denounce anyone as a heretic. When that is refuted by simply pointing out
that, based on such an assertion, he could not denounce Benedict XVI as a heretic;
and he should therefore submit to the Vatican II Church, we see that he gets
flustered, contradicts himself, and runs from that fact which just refuted his
false assertion. His assertion, that we
don’t have the authority to say anyone is a heretic, undercuts his own
rejection of the Vatican II sect and forces him to conclude that he cannot
denounce Benedict XVI as a heretic. He
thus proves that he is a complete modernist.
If he had stayed on the phone longer, all of his
false arguments would have been refuted.
That’s why he (in his bad will) had to skip out early and attempt to not
let me speak for the duration of the time he stayed on the phone. This conversation shows us again that the
baptism of desire advocates, including the most knowledgeable, have nothing to
prove their position with except for a collection of fallible arguments and
theological myths (such as that a doctor of the Church cannot make a doctrinal
error) which crumble when put to the test.
That’s why it’s so hard to get any of them to do this kind of
thing. They prefer to hide behind their
computers (where they cannot be put on the spot) and ignore and pervert the
truth by specious argumentation. He also
says that disputes on this issue are simply Satan’s attempt to divide “traditional
Catholics.” On the contrary, it is the
heresy that people don’t need to be baptized Catholics to be saved, which he
and others accept and defend, which has been the key to the Vatican II apostasy
and which divides them from the Catholic faith.
In fact, this conversation reveals how his heresy on this point leads
him into modernistic apostasy, that people don’t have the authority to denounce
anyone as a heretic. Heretics such as
this must be refuted and exposed.
Debate-exchange with William Golle on baptism of desire -
part 1
[51 min. audio – Jan. 2009]
Debate-exchange with William Golle on baptism of desire -
part 2
[29 min. audio – Jan. 2009]
This is a debate/discussion with
William Golle. He believes in baptism of
desire and is also a member of the Vatican II Church under Benedict XVI. This was an informal debate, but the
understanding was that he would let me speak without interruption and vice
versa. After letting Mr. Golle speak
without interruption to begin this debate/exchange, notice that almost immediately after I begin to speak (about the 3:06
mark) he interrupts me. This would
set the tone for this exchange, in which he interrupted me repeatedly. Conforming to this tone which was set by
Golle, we began to interrupt each other throughout. Nevertheless,
despite this choppy and highly contentious format in the first part, many very
interesting and important points are covered.
In Part 1 of this exchange, we see
again that baptism of desire is a tower of sand. All of the arguments raised for baptism of
desire are from fallible sources and can be refuted. In short, the arguments do not prove that the
Catholic Church has taught baptism of desire.
We also see that Golle is forced to admit that a very source which he
deems definitive on this issue (the Catechism attributed to Pius X) teaches
heresy on this very issue; but then he tries to deny it after having admitted
it. Invincible ignorance is also
discussed. Among other things, we see
that Mr. Golle shows profound dishonesty on numerous fronts. For instance, he asserts that St. Thomas
taught invincible ignorance, which is not true.
At the 30-minute mark, Mr. Golle claims that he does not believe that
Jews can be saved. In the second
section, however, he bluntly admits that they can be saved, demonstrating again
that he (and others who hold his position) are utter liars.
After the first 50-minutes of this exchange, we agreed to
pause the recording and start afresh (in Part 2) with an exchange during which
each of us would remain silent for about 2 minutes as the other person spoke. It’s a shame (and probably
not an accident) that only 30-minutes into this imposed silence format, he
didn’t want to go any longer. In the
second section, his claims on the Council of Trent are addressed and refuted,
including the common error that Sess. 6, Chap. 4 of Trent taught that desire
for baptism justifies, which it does not.
It taught that justification cannot happen without water baptism or the
desire for it (as in a shower cannot be taken without soap or water – both are
necessary), mentioning the desire because it’s discussing adult justification
and recipients above the age of reason must desire water baptism to be
justified, in addition to being baptized.
Disposition
Hi Brothers,
I recently listened to a very interesting debate (which you won) with a gentleman
who was attempting to pass off a phrase in Orientalium Ecclesiarium (#27)
concerning separated eastern brethren, having "the right
dispositions" as meaning already converted. Your response was it referred
to the morals of the eastern communicant before reception of the Eucharist. I
was reading in Mediator Dei (#31) a passage where Pius XII uses this idea of
right disposition in the sense in which you were trying to enlighten the
caller: "But if they are to produce
their proper effect, it is absolutely necessary that our hearts be PROPERLY
DISPOSED to receive them. Hence the warning of Paul the Apostle with reference
to holy communion, "But let a man first prove himself; and then let him
eat of this bread and drink of the chalice."[30] This explains why the
Church in a brief and significant phrase calls the various acts of
mortification, especially those practiced during the season of Lent, "the
Christian army's defenses."
Thought this might be useful the next time someone asks you about this topic.
God Bless,
Mark Turner.
MHFM: Yes, thanks for the
e-mail. The notion that Vatican II
wasn’t teaching that non-Catholics may lawfully receive Communion because it
said they must be properly disposed (which supposedly means that they actually
convert) is absurd.
For those who might not be familiar with what this
reader is commenting on, he’s referring to this: Debate: does Vatican II teach that
non-Catholics may lawfully receive Holy Communion? [39 min.
audio – June 2, 2008]
Surprised
I came across your Website today. I
was very surprised at what I was reading. I was born and raised Catholic, but I
was attending a non-catholic church when all the "changes" were made
and returned around 1986.
I never would have imagined that some of
what I was now experiencing in the church, may be wrong. I am still in the
Catholic Church and I have been reading Catholic Prophecy and other prophecies
throughout the years… I will return to your site and read some more material
and ask the Holy Spirit to help me discern the truth.
Thank you
Leona in Dayton, Ohio
MHFM: Well, what the material proves
is that the church you are going to is not a real Catholic church. It's a
Vatican II counterfeit church. This is proven by the past teachings of
the popes. Thus, if one accepts the authority which Christ established in
Peter and his successors, one will see that those teachings prove that this
Vatican II Church is not the legitimate Catholic Church. Rather, it is a counterfeit sect which is
predicted to arise in the last days to lead people astray, which reduces the
true Catholic Church (which still exists) to a remnant.
JP2 and Mother Teresa
Dear Bro Dimond,
It is my understanding that Mary's role as Co-redemptrix is already a doctrine
of the Church, why would those who promote its elevation to dogma be considered
"phonies and false devotees of Our Lady"? Would John Paul II be
considered as such based on the numerous references he made to this
term/doctrine? Would Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Mother Angelica, etc. also be
in this phony camp???
In the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
Martin LaMartina
Franciscan University of Steubenville Alumni
MHFM: It is not a doctrine of the
Church. A person would only be a phony and false devotee of Our Lady if a
person were to obstinately insist on the title after that person has clearly
digested and carefully considered the following dogmatic definitions, which
declare that Christ alone is the Redeemer and that He redeemed the world alone.
Pope Pius IV, Council of Trent, Sess. 25, On Invocation, Veneration and Relics of
Saints, and on Sacred Images, ex cathedra:
“…the saints, who reign with Christ,
offer up their prayers to God for men; and that it is good and useful to invoke
them suppliantly and, in order to obtain favors from God through His Son JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, WHO ALONE IS OUR
REDEEMER and Savior….And they must also teach that images of Christ, the virgin mother of God and the other
saints should be set up and kept… But if anyone should teach or maintain
anything contrary to these decrees, let him be anathema.” (Denz. 984)
Here we see that Jesus Christ alone is our Redeemer. Notice that this definition even mentions
Mary. So, in the very context of
mentioning the Blessed Virgin and the saints, the Council of Trent declares
that Christ alone is the Redeemer.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy
Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and teaches that no one conceived of
man and woman was ever freed of the domination of the Devil, except through the
merit of the mediator between God and men, our Lord Jesus Christ; He who was conceived without sin, was
born and died, THROUGH HIS DEATH ALONE LAID LOW THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE BY
DESTROYING OUR SINS, and opened the entrance to the kingdom of heaven,
which the first man by his own sin had lost…” (Denz. 711)
Regarding John Paul II, Mother Teresa
and Mother Angelica, they were/are all heretical. They accept religious
indifferentism, salvation outside the Church and the heresies of Vatican
II. That makes them non-Catholics. Please consult these files.
The Heresies of
John Paul II - a comprehensive presentation [PDF file]
EWTN and the Charismatic Movement [link to section]
The Religious Orders in the Vatican II sect: Totally
Apostate [PDF File]
This article includes a section on the
apostasy of Mother Teresa and her religious order, The Missionaries of Charity
Opinion
Dear Brothers,
I have a prediction to make. Obama will
give a speech to America within the first quarter of his presidency that will
go something like this:
"My fellow Americans. This country can
no longer tolerate the rhetoric of hatred if we are to move further toward a
New Age of freedom and peace. Whether it be hatred towards homosexuals or
lesbians, Jews, or any other race based hatred! There will be no tolerance
for hatred in the 21st century! That is why I have signed an executive order
banishing all hate speech from this day forward. This order, known as "The
Freedom from Hatred Act" will pave the way toward a more
tolerant more peaceful world where fellow citizens need not fear bias due
to race, gender, religion, or sexual preference. Yes, we can have a more
peaceful world! Yes, we can!"
Eyes opened
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
During my early life, I got put into a
childrens home by my parents. My parents didnt practice any religion, but when
i went to the home, i had to go to church. Well, with the taint of the
freemasons on the world, I went to a baptist church… i did get baptized there.
As i grew up i lost God, and started becoming an Atheist. Through coincidental
means i found this site, and all it has to offer. This site has opened my eyes
to the true faith, and i thank you.
Well, as you may know, a global conspiracy
is on us, the freemasons. And with all this infiltration of the true faith, and
with their taint on the churches, I got a question for you, and by this
question i can probably find the rest of my questions from it.
While I can find a catholic church in my
area, how do I know that church hasnt been tainted? What are the signs of an
authentic church that practices the true faith?
I don’t want to go to a church that I
think is real, and mock our God.
MHFM: We’re really glad to hear about your interest and that you
came across the website. As you now seem
to recognize, there’s only one true Christian faith and that's the Catholic
faith. We would recommend this section of our site for the biblical proof
for Catholicism: http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/refuting_protestantism_mainpage.php
You should also begin to pray the Rosary each day. We have
a file on how to do that. When you are
completely convinced of all the points of faith, you need to take the steps to
convert. The steps on how to do that are on our website, and then we can
help you with where to receive sacraments.
All of the New Masses are invalid.
They are false and must be totally avoided.
Salvation doubt
Hello...I have been reading up on many of
the readings on your website… I have ordered the package with 7dvd's and 2 books.
I am currently reading the PDF about No salvation outside of the Catholic
church, which I will tell you is the one thing I am having difficulties with
because, although you make some great points (I am not yet finished reading it)
It is difficult for me to believe that people who are not Catholic will be
going to Hell because God is so merciful and besides that the Bible...Jesus
says if you pick up your cross, deny yourself, follow me, love God with your
whole heart, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor. And yes I believe that
Peter was given the keys to heaven and the 1st pope and that his successors
were indeed real popes, but my problem is that Jesus never stated that if you
don't follow Peter you will go to hell. I don''t know this I am still praying
about because if I am wrong God rebuke me and humble me to know the truth I
pray, but the main reason for this e-mail is that i see a contradiction. If the
pope is infallible (which i believe) when in the seat on Peter then what about
the anti popes? When they teach on faith are they still infallible? Please help me to understand because I am
just trying to discern everything I have been learning from your
website...which i believe are hidden truths, but in some things I need
guidance. Not only for me but to help my loved ones who are devout Catholics,
but open to hear to the truth. thank you and God Bless!
T.
MHFM: We do appreciate the interest,
but you have to accept the faith. How
can you claim to believe that Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom of
Heaven, when you don’t believe what Peter’s successors have defined with the
power of those keys?
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896: “… can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without
by that very fact falling into heresy? – without separating himself from the
Church? – without repudiating in one sweeping act the whole of Christian
teaching? For such is the nature of
faith that nothing can be more absurd than to accept some things and reject
others. Faith, as the Church teaches, is
that supernatural virtue by which… we believe what He has revealed to be true,
not on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural light of human
reason [author: that is, not because it seems correct to us], but because of
the authority of God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive nor be
deceived… But he who dissents
even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith,
since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.”
Those who refuse to believe in the dogma Outside the Church
There is No Salvation until they understand how there is justice in it are
simply withholding their faith in Christ’s revelation; they are
demonstrating that they don’t really believe in papal infallibility. It has been
defined many times by popes speaking ex cathedra that all who die as
non-Catholics are not saved. Jesus also
said that if you don’t hear the Church (which was founded upon Peter), then you
are as the heathen (Mt. 18:17).
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex
cathedra: “The Holy Roman
Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside
the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical
body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody
can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has
shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and
unity of the Catholic Church.”
We’re glad that you have the interest
to look into the information, but we must say that you don’t have the faith at
this point. One must hold that all those
who die outside the Catholic faith will not be saved because they are not of
good will. If a person cannot accept
this truth, then that person doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ. He or she simply doesn’t believe that Jesus
does what He promises, that He protects the teaching of the popes when they use
the keys which He gave to Peter and his successors.
Jesus is merciful to those who fear
Him and accept and obey His truth. He is
not unconditionally merciful. That’s why
He tells us that most people go to Hell (Mt. 7:13).
Regarding the antipopes, their
teaching is not protected by the papal office because they were not validly
elected and thus never assumed the papal office.
Modesty, swimming
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
1. Do you have any modesty guidelines for
women?
2. Are women allowed to wear pants that are
not tight?
3. How about swimsuits what should we wear?
Thank you
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
Women should wear dresses in public, not pants. Regarding swimsuits, people should not go
swimming in public.
Understand
Dear Dimond Brothers
I just want to say all your information on your web-site is great. I have
your books, mp3 disk, and some of the videos. They are all great, I truly
have learned a lot through the information that you provide. Before I
came across your website I always had the feeling that there was something
wrong with the Church because whenever I went to mass I saw things that were
just not right and my mom would always say it wasn't like that when I was a
child. I now understand why everything is the way it is.
I read your article on the deplorable state of Catholic Colleges - it is horrific
to think that such things could take place. I am a college student right
now, and I too can see the deplorable state of Public Colleges and it is beyond
the point of no return. Parties, Drunkenness, Sexuality are rampant,
non-Catholic groups are everywhere, and the Catholic Ministry on campus follows
the counterfeit Church. School is just not the same anymore and I am
leaving to volunteer on a family farm, I feel it is the right thing for me to
do right now.
I have been gradually learning about the Traditional Catholic Church and her
teachings. I have read your material, and I have read (True Devotion to
Mary, the Secret Rosary, and I am going to be starting on the Glories of
Mary). I would like to know what is a good reading to learn more about Traditional
Catholic Teachings? I would also like to know when one gets to the day of
consecration in true devotion to Mary, one cant receive communion if there is
the new mass; therefore, how can one fulfill the consecration? One last
question: I have always tried to pray the Rosary in the past but I was
unable to continue, I would pray for a while stop for a while then start.
It would be a continuous process. But then one day I started praying the
15 decades throughout the day and I haven't stopped. I can't explain how
such a thing could happen.
Well I just wanted to send a email to you Dimond Brothers because I just wanted
to thank you for all your work. Sorry if this email is a little long but
I haven't talked to anybody that knows what they are talking about when it
comes to Traditional Catholic teachings. I have many other questions, but
I'll ask those another time.
Thanks
Christopher Collins
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. Regarding the consecration to Mary which is
prescribed by St. Louis De Montfort, if there is something that you cannot
exactly fulfill (such as receiving Communion on a specific day) then you just
omit that and your consecration will be just as valid; for we are in unique
circumstances and one must never go to the New Mass, of course.
Military
Dear MHFM
There were lots of gays (men and
women) in the military when I was in the U.S. Navy in the early
1960's. It was “don’t ask don’t tell” before "don't ask don't
tell" and it was not very well hidden, either.
PM
Apocalypse 18:2
[Satanic cults spreading in Rome]
Link to a report
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/360212.aspx
Could this be a fulfillment of Apocalypse 18:2?
MHFM: Yes, that was a very
interesting news item. We linked to it
about a week or so ago. We do think that
it’s a fulfillment of Apocalypse 18:2.
Apocalypse 18:2- “And he cried out with a
strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habitation of devils,
and the hold of every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful
bird.”
Provide
…you provide documented and verifiable
dogmatic evidence to back up what you say—I do many times check your Denzinger
references with my own copy, and others too when I have or can get them, and
find you to be accurate with your citations.
Of souls saved I pray many will be
attributed to you, mine included.
God bless you,
Gregg
Dachau
Dear Brothers,
Regarding the Holocaust body count; In
Roger Garaudy's book, "The Founding Myths of Modern Israel," he indicated
that the Dachau camp had to publically state that there were no gas chambers.
This admission coming after decades of parading school children and tourists
through the camp expounding on the "horrors of the gas chambers," and
that every city had a crematorium, which obviously had to have ovens to burn
the remains of the bodies. That is what crematoriums are for. The number 6
million is roughly the amount of German p.o.w.s who were starved by the
American, French, British and Russian governments. This charade must be
kept up by the Jewish power elite, as it covers their near-genocidal
crimes against God & humanity… and keeps people off balance in
general, even today.
Regarding the "gay super-hero;
I gave myself two guesses as to the characters name, but I failed in
both attempts. Captain Queer Man and Captain CrossDresser didn't make the
cut. But seriously, I don't know which is a worse abomination, the unveiling of
such a figure or the clamoring and applause of the comic-book reading public.
And what is the point of hiding his identity, when "coming out of the
closet" is an honor, a cause for "celebration," and a sign of
militant activism?
Howard
AR.
MHFM: Yes, you bring up a very good
point about the Dachau camp. In fact, in
1945 it was part of the official Holocaust story that there were 22 camps that
had gas chambers. Sometime later that
was completely abandoned and only six of those 22 camps were claimed to have
had gas chambers. 16 of the camps had
been eliminated because those camps were able to be investigated.
Documented Deaths
DEAR BROTHERS,
THE FIGURES QUOTED BELOW ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED
CROSS. THE ICRC`s SPECIAL OFFICE IN AROLSEN KEEPS TRACK OF ALL OFFICIALLY
DOCUMENTED DEATHS IN GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF THE THIRD REICH. THIS
SUMMARY FROM JAN. 1, 1993 DOCUMENTS 296,081 DEATHS. ONLY THOSE FIGURES
PROVIDED BY THE ICRC CAN BE REGARDED AS CERTAIN. IN PARTICULAR, THE
AUSCHWITZ FIGURES ARE FROM THEIR OWN DEATH BOOKS, RELEASED TO THE ICRC BY THE
RUSSIANS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL IN 1989. FINALLY, THESE ARE
DEATHS FROM ALL RACES; NOT JUST JEWISH DEATHS. MANY DIED OF TYPHOID
AND CHOLERA DUE TO ALLIED BOMBINGS OF GERMAN SUPPLY ROUTES NEAR THE WAR`s
END.
TOTAL
296,081
AUSCHWITZ
60,056
BERGEN-BELSEN
6,853
BUCHENWALD
20,687
DACHAU
18,456
FLOSSENBURG
18,334
GROSS-ROSEN
10,951
MAJDANEK
8,831
MAUTHAUSEN
78,859
MITTELBAU
7,468
NATZWEILER
4,431
NEUENGAMME
5,785
RAVENSBRUCK
3,639
SACHSSENHAUSEN
5,014
STUTTHOF 12,634
THERESIENSTADT 29,375
OTHER CAMPS 4,704
DR. J
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail, and for
quoting all the specific data. We were
familiar with the Red Cross angle to the issue, but it’s good to have the
specifics here.
Comment
Dear Brothers,
In reference to the supposed Jewish
holocaust, according to a well referenced DVD I watched about Auschwitz, not
only were there no gas chambers at Aushwitz, there was also a swimming pool!...
S…
MHFM: Yes, we’ve seen the devastating exposé of
the supposed “gas chamber” at Auschwitz.
The exposé was actually done by a Jew.
Audio content on b.o.d.
MHFM: We will have some interesting
new audio content relating to the issue of “baptism of desire” which we will hopefully
be able to post soon.
Holocaust Research
MHFM: There are some interesting
facts about the Holocaust which we’d like to share with our readers. This is relevant to how a Catholic should
consider many events in the world today and in recent history. Let us
preface this by saying that we are not “anti-Semitic” and we desire the
conversion and eternal happiness of all Jews. As Catholics, we hold firmly that no Jew (or
any other non-Catholic) can be saved without baptism and the Catholic faith; and
we work to expose Jewish domination and evil Jewish enterprises in the world,
which (one must say) constitute the main power of the secular conspiracy.
PROBLEMS FOR THE OFFICIAL HOLOCAUST STORY
That being said, let’s move on to the
point about the Holocaust. As we’ve
mentioned before, it’s illegal in at least 14 countries to deny the official
“Holocaust” story. Think about that for
a moment, and then ask yourself who is really in power. It’s illegal to question the official story
of the “Holocaust,” even though it’s perfectly legal in those countries to deny
the Divinity and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Anyway, the official Jewish Holocaust
dogma (which people can be jailed for denying in many countries) is that 6
million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during World War II. The
official story also declared that about 4 million of those 6 million were
murdered at the Auschwitz camp in Poland.
Here’s the plaque which was displayed
at Auschwitz for many years to commemorate the supposedly 4 million who died
there. The claim that 4 million died at
Auschwitz was part of official Holocaust dogma for decades.
AUSCHWITZ FIGURE OFFICIALLY DECREASED FROM 4 MILLION TO 1.1 MILLION
In 1990, however, the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Museum in Israel and the Auschwitz Holocaust Museum decided that they
would come out and publicly admit that 4 million did not die at Auschwitz. They officially revised the total to about
1.1 million. That’s quite a revision,
isn’t it? Here’s the new plaque, which
was put up at Auschwitz after 1990. It
says that 1.5 million died there (apparently they rounded the 1.1 million
figure up to 1.5 million).
Since 4 million of the 6 million
supposedly came from Auschwitz, and now even the Holocaust museums have
decreased the Auschwitz death totals by about 3 million, we would say that’s
problematic for the idea that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust,
wouldn’t you?
4 million decreased to 1.1 million
eliminates 2.9 million
6 million – 2.9 million = 3.1 million
(that’s if you accept every other part of the story)
Therefore, the revised total would
have to be (even if one assumed, for the sake of argument, that everything else
they claim is true) about 3 million, not 6 million. But the official story remains unchanged and
binding upon nations: 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
This is not to suggest that we
believe that 3 million Jews were murdered in what is called the Holocaust. It is simply to refute the official story
from official Jewish sources and to point out how this outrageous piece of
propaganda is being spread and used.
There are many other points to be raised on this matter, and we will be
raising them in the future.
Sole Redeemer
[Agreeing that “Co-Redemptrix” title is not
compatible with Catholic teaching]
I put together a write-up regarding Jesus
Christ as being the sole redeemer. I included 19 callouts from Councils and 30
from scripture the first 18 of which use the word Redeemer and it is never
plural. I had found this decree that specifically excludes the powers of human
nature in the redemption:
Council of Trent > Fifth Session, First Decree,
Decree Concerning Original Sin, Paragraph 3: “If any one asserts, that this sin
of Adam, … is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other
remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
reconciled us to God in His own Blood, made unto us justice, sanctification,
and redemption; or if he denies that the said merit of Jesus Christ is applied,
both to adults and to infants, by the sacrament of baptism rightly administered
in the form of the church; let him be anathema.”
Mike
MHFM: Yes, as you note, there are all
kinds of quotes from the councils about Jesus Christ as our Redeemer. Never do they include anyone else in
reference to the Redeemer. And of course
there are the two dogmatic definitions which declare that Christ alone is our Redeemer, and that
specifically excludes anyone else.
“Transgender”
Brothers,
The recent news article on "transgender" public restrooms should be a
wake up call to this country as the evident path of descent they are on. It was
not to long ago that all this homosexual activity, pornography, divorce,
etc., was considered dysfunctional in our society. While studying for my
degree in psychology, the craze was that everyone should be happy, and if not,
it was OK to see a psychiatrist (although suffering is part of life according
to God!). Today, you don't hear too much about psychology, or mental health
facilities. I truly believe the severely dysfunctional have been released back
into society and taken over most of the public office positions.
God Bless,
Tom
MHFM: We also think that those
psychological problems are a result of spiritual problems.
Focolare
Last year the founder of Movimento dei
Focolari Chiara Lubic died.
What is your opinion about this world wide
movement inside the Catholic Church?
Best Regards
Roberto
MHFM: It’s a movement in the Vatican
II/Novus Ordo Church. As such, it is
heavily involved with the Vatican II heresies, especially religious
indifferentism. Catholics must reject
it. Perhaps our readers also have some
comments on this.
Freemasonry visits school
Subject: Freemasonry visits public school
Hello MHFM,
I really enjoy reading your e-mail exchanges, since I've pretty much gone
through the whole information, although recently, I discovered a few more
audios, like on the Papacy which has truly answered many of questions on
"how to respond the objections of non-Catholics." I pray that I
may hold the Faith until my dying breath, final perseverance, and to help you
with your great work. You know, the other day, my 5th grade sister told
me that the elementary school had an assembly which brought 7 members from the
Masonic Lodge. This was really shocking, for me, because this did not
happen during my grade school years. Just to let everyone know that the
Masons are making themselves be known more and more by the world and make
themselves look like the good guys. Its just incredible that this
incident occurred. Well, that is all I wanted to say and thanks again for
all the great help with truly knowing my Catholic Faith.
Bernardo Torres
NFP and praying Rosary with concentration
Greetings!
I have a comment and a question. First, my
comment. I completely agree with your stance on NFP. I have looked all over for
an answer to the clear and inherent problem with NFP. I have gotten some really
weird answers, none of which have been satisfactory. Your explanation for why
it is wrong represents my exact thoughts on the matter…
Now, my question: I struggle greatly with
praying the Holy Rosary. My primary difficulty is that I cannot concentrate on
the words of the Hail Mary while at the same time meditating on the mysteries.
It is a mental juggling act that I have no idea how to do. When I
recite standard prayers, I say them with a genuine heart, so as to not just be
saying empty words. I believe when people pray without really meaning what they
are saying, they tend to view prayer as "magical," and these people
are superstitious. Of course, meditating on anything requires a great deal
of concentration. So I don't know how to do both. I usually drift in and out of
one or the other. Do you have any tips?
Thank you,
Stephen
MHFM: When people begin to pray the
Rosary with attention for the first time (or after they have been away from it
for a while), the Devil labors hard to fill them with distractions. He wants them to get discouraged and give
up. Thus, when people first attempt to
pray the Rosary with concentration and meditation, they often have trouble concentrating
and are filled with distractions. St.
Louis De Montfort explains that you must continue to pray, and continue to
focus on the mysteries despite the distractions. As you continue to do it, it will become
easier and easier.
He also explains that when trying to
avoid the distraction and move back to the mystery, you don’t want to make a
violent movement of your mind. For in
that violent movement you can often put more focus and attention on the
distraction that has arisen. You want to
calmly move back to the mystery. Also,
continuing to attempt to concentrate on the Rosary despite involuntary
distractions can increase the merit of the prayer.
There is something that we believe
would be very helpful for you and others who are new to praying the Rosary
while meditating on the mysteries. It is
to use a colorized depiction of the mysteries of the Rosary, so that you can
look at it and focus on the picture of the mystery while saying the words. That will really help you to concentrate on
the mystery.
There are many colorized depictions of the mysteries of the Rosary available. You should try to obtain one that is simple
and traditional. After you’ve prayed it
that way for a while – and concentrating on the mysteries while saying the
words isn’t so much of a problem – then you won’t need the colorized
depiction.
Dancing
Dear Monks
What exactly does St.John Vianney mean by " stay away from the dance"
? Was he refering to attending DANCES (the social event ) where it could lead
into other sins OR ALL DANCING (even dancing alone )?
Is all dancing a sin ?
MHFM: St. John Vianney was clearly
condemning social dances where unmarried men and women (or boys and girls)
would get together. Those were the
occasions of many sins, and he would refuse absolution to anyone who participated. Is all dancing sin? It would depend upon what one meant by other
kinds of dancing.
Dreams
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter
I would be very grateful for your advice on whether it is sinful to interpret
dreams? I do not mean by this any attempt to predict the future, but whether it
is sinful even to consider whether the subconscious expressed through dreams
can give understanding on a person's state of mind or help them to understand
aspects of themselves. I would never wish to engage in anything concerning
Divination, which is why I would greatly appreciate your advice. I understand
that a Father Pedro Meseguer wrote a book entitled "The Secret of
Dreams" concerning what the Catholic Church's position on dreams is, but
this book is not easy to get hold of. Clearly dreams have played a role in the
history of the Church, but I am concerned as to where the line is drawn between
innocent study and self understanding and sin?
Best wishes
Gerard
MHFM: We would say that people need
to be very cautious and not give much attention to them. It’s not sinful to interpret dreams, for God
used that means to warn people, deliver messages, etc. (Genesis 37:5; Judges
7:13; Matthew 2:12; etc.). But those dreams were probably supernaturally so
powerful and clear that there was no doubt that it was a message from God. People are often deceived by reading too much
into dreams. The Devil can lead people
astray in this way, and get them to focus on signs and wonders. Therefore, we would say that people should
not give much attention to them.
Ecclesiastes 5:6- “Where there are many
dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear
God.”
Overwhelmed
Dear
Brothers,
I received your package recently and am overwhelmed by the sheer volumn of
research that has gone into your wonderful work. Congratulations…
Regards,
Mark
Fasting question
Dear Brothers,
I have a question concerning fasts and abstinence. I have downloaded your
material on the Traditional Catholic Calendar and the fasting days but am a bit
confused. In the material you mention "days of fast",
"days of partial abstinence", and "days of complete
abstinence", however the calendar (January 2009) only shows (Fridays and
First Fridays) as "days of abstinence".
My question is: Are the "abstinence" days listed on the
calendar, "days of partial abstinence", "days of complete
abstinence" or "days of fasting". Please forgive me for my
ignorance, but I am seeking to abide by God's word and complete devotion.
Please help my soul in understanding and observing the correct laws.
God Bless you for your works.....
Bruce
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
There is an explanation of fast days, etc. which can be found on our
calendar mainpage. The explanation is
located just under the link to the calendar.
A day of fast is a day on which only one full meal and two other
smaller meals (which together do not equal a full meal) are allowed. On a day of fast, meat may only be eaten at
the main meal.
On days of complete abstinence (e.g., Fridays), no meat may be
eaten at all.
On days of partial abstinence, meat may be eaten only once.
A day of fast is, therefore, necessarily also at least a day of
partial abstinence. Sometimes it is a
day of complete abstinence (e.g., when it falls on Friday).
Silent Mental Prayer
Hello!
Is it okey to say silent prayers in your head, like Our Father or
Hail Mary, while doing things like walking outside or driving a car? Do
these prayers "count" or does a person have to fully concentrate and
meditate when praying?
Dan…
MHFM: Absolutely you can say silent
prayers in your head, and you can say them while you are doing other
things. Those prayers are very
effective.
Crossroads
The past two days I've watched almost every
single video on your website and I have thus come to find the Novus Ordo Mass
appalling. I wish never to attend it again. However, I found myself
bound in two issues. Firstly, that there is no Parish near my house which
celebrates a weekly Tridentine Mass. I don't understand that if
Canon Law requires me to attend Mass weekly, how I am exempt from attending at
least some sort of a Mass, even a false Novus Ordo one. A weekly
Latin Mass unfortunately is not an option right now. Am I truly
allowed to stay home on Sundays until the opportunity to attend a Tridentine
Mass arises? That seems odd. Please tell me. Also, I am
involved in the worship service at my Church, a "contemporary"
service which includes rock music, unfortunately. Should I leave this Mass
and abandon my fellow worshippers, or should I tolerate the errors for the
greater good? Please help me here. I am at a crossroads in my faith
life right now and am confused about these two issues. God Bless
You!
i…
MHFM:
It’s great to hear about your interest.
No, you definitely should not go to the rock service. You need to abandon it (and the invalid New
Mass) completely. The law that a
Catholic must hear Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation only binds if
the Church provides you with a fully Catholic one in your area. There were many situations in Church history
where Catholics didn’t have an acceptable option for Mass. Therefore, they had to stay home. Once you are convinced that you must not
attend the New Mass – and are convinced on all the other issues – then we can
help you with where to receive sacraments.
Great Heresies
It is so laughable and lamentable that
EWTN is broadcasting a new show called, The Great Heresies with Fr.
Charles Connor. During the show, Fr. Connor teaches the viewers about the
great heresies and heretics of the early Church (such as Nestorius) and makes
absolutely no mention whatsoever about Vatican II or anything going on since
the 60s.
-Michael R.
Curious
Subject: Curious
Dear Bro. Dimond,
I have recently listened to some of the archived programs and read some
articles. Many things I had never heard before, very surprising. Two questions
for you. If you have heard this one
before please disregard it, if you brother has sinned go talk to him, have you
been able to contact Benedict XVI personally about his heresy? What are the problems with the FSSP? I am
guessing that one of them is that they had to accept JPII as pope?
God bless you.
Respectfully,
Alan Mackowiak
MHFM: The FSSP accepts Vatican II and false ecumenism. They also profess communion with manifest
heretics who believe in salvation outside the Catholic Church (i.e., the
Vatican II bishops and antipopes). They
were also ordained by “bishops” who were consecrated in the New Rite of
Episcopal Consecration, which is of gravely doubtful validity. Therefore, they cannot be considered to have
valid priests.
We haven’t spoken to Antipope Benedict XVI. But it’s really a pointless question because
he’s well aware that his teaching contradicts and rejects traditional Catholic
dogmas.
Credibility
Dear MHFM
A quote from you from your web site: You
can know what sources are credible by measuring everything against the
infallible teaching of the Church. If a
message is in conflict with it, then it’s not true. This is MHFM in a nutshell. People constantly tell me I should stop
listening to "those people". What people?
I have "measured everything
these "people" say "against the infallible teaching of
the Church", and found them
credible. I have measured the teachings
of Vatican II and the V2 church and have found them IN-credible and
contradictory. It's not that I have
listened to any man. It is our accusers
who take the word of man above that of God.
PM
Smoking
MHFM: This is an interesting quote
about Pope Urban VIII’s actions against smoking in churches. Pope Urban VIII reigned from 1623 to 1644.
“The abuse of
smoking in churches had necessitated several measures by several synods in
Spanish America… When this abuse also spread to Spain, Urban VIII, at the
request of the Chapter of Seville, issued a decree forbidding under pain of
excommunication all smoking or taking of snuff in the churches of the diocese.”
(Dr. Ludwig Pastor, History of the Popes,
Vol. 29, p. 3.)
Sedevacantists and Resurrection
Dear Brothers,
Thank you once
again for your marvelous website. I just finished listening to the radio show
of 06_09_02.
Your comments on
people who reject the Sedevacantist Position on the basis that it is impossible
for there not to be a Pope for 50 years reminds me of the Jews who say that
it's impossible for the Messiah to be crucified. How do these kinds of
people even believe in the resurrection?!!
They sure are in
for a surprise at the Second Coming!!!
God Bless,
Kit White
Warnings from Beyond
Brothers:
Thank you for your wonderful website and for all you do. I was wondering if you have heard of this
"Warnings from Hell" book where demons speak to the church today…
Have you heard if this is valid or not? If it is true and
believable? There's some very pertinent information in all three parts but
in part 2, the section on traditionalists conflicts with what you say. It
says the new Mass is not as pleasing to Heaven as the Latin Mass, but is still beneficial.
What do you think? Also, how can one
know what sources are credible? Particularly with all that's out there!
God
Bless you and your work.
Lori
MHFM: No, it’s not true and not
believable. The site promotes the false
Bayside messages, which are clearly deceptions of the Devil. It is a mixture of some truth with
significant heresies and falsehoods. The
goal of these false messages is to keep people in the Vatican II sect and at
the New Mass. You should look at this:
The False Apparitions at Bayside, NY [PDF File]
You can know what sources are
credible by measuring everything against the infallible teaching of the
Church. If a message is in conflict with
it, then it’s not true.
All children of God?
Dear Brothers,
many of Benedict's speechs, false apparitions, and almost all who those whoe a
trying to get the New World Oro going claim that we are all God's children or
that we are the human family. I know that's true in a general sense that
he created us but I don't think that's the whole story. What would you
answer to that?
Jaime
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
No, not all men are children of God.
All men are creatures of God,
but only those who are baptized, in the true Church, and in the state of grace
are children or adopted sons of God.
That’s why Jesus says in John 1:12:
“But as many as received him, he gave them power
to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.” (John 1:12)
Moreover, the Council of Trent
explains (in its Decree on Justification – Sess. 6) that the term “adoption of
the sons” (Rom. 8:15) is synonymous with the state of grace. That means that “sons of God” are only those
who are in the true Church and in the state of grace.
Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum (# 22), May 5, 1824: “He who hears you, hears me; and he who
despises you, despises me; and the Church is the pillar and firmament of
truth, as the apostle Paul teaches. In
reference to these words St. Augustine says: ‘Whoever is without the Church will not be reckoned among the sons,
and whoever does not want to have the Church as mother will not have God as
father.’”
The Bible teaches that Jesus is truly present in
the Eucharist
MHFM: We have a new article on the biblical proof
for Catholic teaching on the Eucharist. (This article is found permanently in
our “Refuting Protestantism” section.)
More articles like this one will be coming.
The Bible teaches that Jesus is truly present in the
Eucharist [PDF FILE - Article]
This article contains irrefutable, short and quick
proof that the Catholic teaching (that the Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true
man, is truly, really, and substantially contained in the Eucharist) is the
teaching of the Bible. See the clear
evidence from John 6, from the specific Greek words given in John 6, from the
contextual indications and the reactions of Jesus’ listeners, from Old
Testament typology (the Passover lamb, the manna in the desert, the institution
of the Old Covenant), 1 Cor. 10 and 11, and more. This also quickly covers how the fathers of
the Church unanimously believed that the Eucharist is the actual body and blood
of Christ.
Since the average person has a limited attention
span and interest level, the goal with this article (and with all of our
articles on the Protestant issues) is to provide the powerful proof in as quick
and to the point fashion as possible.
More could be added, but if these points don’t convince a person that
the Bible teaches that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, then that
person is just not of good will. One
point from the article which some might find interesting is this:
THERE’S MORE: IN JOHN
6:54, THE BIBLE SWITCHES FROM THE WORD PHAGO
(MEANING “EAT”) TO TROGO (MEANING
“CHEW” OR “GNAW”) TO LEAVE NO DOUBT THAT JESUS ACTUALLY MEANS EATING HIS FLESH
The
word phago (meaning “to eat” or
“consume”) is used nine times in the Greek text of John 6:23-53. Phago is sufficient to convey the idea of
eating Jesus’ flesh. Immediately after
the Jews expressed their disbelief that Jesus could mean such a thing, we read
(in John 6:54) that Jesus switched to an even stronger and more graphic
word. The word He then used (in John 6:54 and following) is trogo.
This word literally means “to gnaw, chew or crunch,” as even a
Protestant study bible accessible on the internet will confirm
(http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=5176). Therefore, to eradicate all doubt about the
necessity to eat His flesh, Jesus switches to a word which means nothing but
literal eating (“gnawing, chewing”). The
same word trogo is used to mean
literal eating in Matthew 24:38 and John 13:18.
John 6:54-56- “Whosoever eateth [trogo] my
flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the
last day. For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. He that
eateth [trogo] my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”
In
light of this evidence, it is absurd to argue that Jesus didn’t mean that
people would actually eat His flesh and drink His blood.
EWTN
Dear Brothers,
May God bless you in all of your work.
My parents, members of my family, and
relatives are all older than I am. They grew up in the true Roman
Catholic Church, and, of course, attended the Latin Mass. Now, however, they attend the Novus Ordo
service, and believe they are still in the Catholic Church. To make
matters worse, they continually watch EWTN, and think it is the greatest thing
to come along. I have shown them your
videos, I have shown them literature from you, and I have even given them the
book: "The Truth of What Happened to the Catholic Church Since Vatican
II". Recently, when I mentioned to
them that the host is not consecrated in the Novus Ordo "mass" they
became very angry and literally told that I am not Catholic. Besides praying for them, what else can I do
to bring them back to the true Church? I
do not want them to lose their souls.
Thank you again for all the wonderful work
you are doing, and my God Bless you and keep you in His care.
Wayne C. Lang
MHFM: We would say that you should
(if you have not yet done so) deliver a clear and charitable message that they
will not save their souls continuing to go to the New Mass and continuing to
believe in the Vatican II religion. We would
recommend that you explain some of EWTN’s heresies to them. We have recently created a separate section
on EWTN, in our “Issues and Groups” section.
EWTN and the Charismatic
Movement
[link to section]
This section contains our main PDF
article on EWTN, but also a new file
which combines some of the interesting heresies which have been featured on
EWTN recently. This new file also
contains EWTN heresies which some of our readers noticed. More will be added in the future. Here’s the new file:
Other
Outrageous Heresies Spread on EWTN
Explain to your parents that EWTN
accepts salvation outside the Church, Protestantism, false ecumenism, etc. Explain to them that their beliefs contradict
the defined dogma: Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
We would also recommend that you
print out for them a few of the dogmatic statements on Outside the Church There
is No Salvation. Print out for them the
ex cathedra statements from Eugene IV, etc.
And then ask them if they believe them, and if they recognize that
what’s taught by Vatican II, EWTN, etc. contradicts that infallible
teaching. You will almost certainly
discover that they will not accept that dogma as it has been defined. Then you can explain to them that they don’t
accept the Catholic faith. Once you’ve
done that, there is nothing more that you can do other than to pray for their
conversion.
Helping
Thank you for your website and
contributions to helping guys like me out in these times.
God Bless,
Patrick Curtis
Confirms
Hi again. Thanks a million for your reply.
Your site just confirms in my mind what Jesus said about the "gates of
hell not prevailing against his church". You stand out like a beacon in a dark
world. I was wondering if you knew any traditional masses in the New York
City area. I know that some bishops are trying to re-instate the Latin Mass but
they are in communion with the V2 bishops and its just not the same. So I was
hoping you knew of a like-minded Traditional Church in the NYC area that
is not in accord with V2? Thanks a keep up the work of God.
Cf…
Paul VI with Protestant
Dear
sirs,
Can you be of help to me? Although a Roman Catholic, I attended a
Protestant school at primary level until 1961. This was in Co
Antrim, seven miles outside Belfast, in Northern Ireland. One day
walking home from school, my little friend, Audrey, who was a
Protestant said, "Our minister has gone over to help your Pope."
Her minister's name was Rev Shepherd. I was embarrassed because I thought
she was telling lies, and so did not inquire further. However
recently I saw a picture of Paul VI with Protestant ministers who had
helped him write the new Mass. I was shocked when one of them looked
awfully like the reverend Shepherd and in fact said as much in the caption
below. How can I find out if this was the same protestant minister?
If
it is, then no one in the world could ever imagine my feeling
of betrayal. We Catholics suffered through the years
from Protestantism. My friends have been shot dead by
Protestants. My father and uncles could never find work because they
were Catholic. We had no vote because we were Catholic and not rate
payers. This is easy to forgive for it is the stuff of following
Christ. But if I consider that the words of my friend were true the
desolation I begin to feel is too hard to bear.
Many thanks,
Mrs Christabel Noreen Pankhurst.
P.S. the above I first sent to the SSPX but have not had a reply.
I was given your book about Vatican II and saw the picture again in
your pages. How can I find out more about this?
MHFM: There were six Protestant
ministers who helped Antipope Paul VI with the New Mass. They are pictured below. One of them was named Massey Shepherd. You would have to check whether that name
matches the person you are talking about.
There is no doubt that Paul VI was a heretical antipope who accepted
Protestantism. His heretical teachings
and actions indicated that he had no problem with Protestant heresies. Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI have
all taught that Protestants don’t need conversion. That is blatantly heretical.
We hope you recognize that the
Vatican II sect is not the Catholic Church, and that the Vatican II antipopes
are not valid popes. We hope you
recognize that the New Mass is invalid and cannot be attended. Also, the SSPX is heretical in many areas and
could not be supported at all.
Tired
Dear Brothers,
Been keeping up with the e-exchanges, and I
get fed up with so many people who cry "Why would a loving God allow
such-and-such to happen?" When they really should be asking "How
could God's creations be so unloving to their Creator and
so disobedient?".
s….
MHFM: Yes, if it’s happening right in
front of them then clearly God has allowed it and they should not be asking why
it’s happening. Moreover, if they
believe that few are saved (as is clearly taught by Jesus) then it shouldn’t be
a surprise that so many are deceived, especially at such a late and dark stage
in history.
Heresy against Jesus
I remember when I went to the N.O. Mass
years back, the priest said in his sermon, "You know, many theologians
believe Jesus discovered his divinity when he was baptized in the Jordan
River." Heresy straight from the pulpit!!! Even when Jesus was
an Infant lying in the manger, He knew He was God! Even when he was in
the womb, He knew! He knew an infinity ago it was going to happen!
Anther heresy I heard from this priest:
"Jesus had to learn the languages. He had to learn Hebrew, Latin,
Aramaic, etc." What a bunch of apostasy! Jesus NEVER had to
learn any language! Even in the womb, He knew every language, past,
present, and future! And He knew everybody's thoughts, past, present, and
future. Whenever I read, "historically, it is not likely that Jesus
knew Latin", I want to cause physical harm to whoever said it!
-Michael R.
MHFM: Yes, it’s definitely
heresy. That kind of heresy against Our
Lord is frequently taught at the Vatican II sect’s mainstream “Catholic”
colleges and universities.
Secular Matters
Dear Dimond Brothers,
I'd like your opinion on something. You and I know that the vast majority
of mankind is bad-willed and will not accept all of God's truth, even when all
of the evidence is laid out in front of them, because the Devil blinds them to
the truth. Do you think the same could
be said pertaining to secular matters? Over the past few years, I've
tried convincing several people about the real causes of our social problems,
including Zionist and Jewish control of American politics, the
"Holocaust", just to name a few. Almost all of them ignored me
or dismissed what I had to tell them, despite all of the evidence that I
presented to them. I even had sent an e-mail out to several people.
I only had one reply. And that person thought I was crazy and requested that I
remove his name from my mailing list. Everyone else was silent, so I
assume they didn't believe a word I told them. To me this is similar to
heretics who refuse to accept all of God's truth even when infallible rulings
are presented to them. It reminds me of that saying, "The Truth
Hurts".
AP
MHFM: Yes, we believe there is some
correspondence, especially if the evidence (which leads undeniably to a certain
conclusion) is clearly presented to someone and rejected.
Shadow Figures
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I am being haunted at night by a dark
shadow figure. Somehow I manage to wake up out of sleep in the middle of the
night to see a dark black "figure" that hovers around my bedroom
door. It always disappears within seconds of my being conscious of its
presence. It doesn't appear every night, but has been appearing more and more
lately.
I know the remedy to the problem, but my
particular attachment to mortal sin is so strong that I've practically given
up. I've been giving into the same sins of the flesh for most of my life, and I
wonder if it's too late for me to be saved even if I did give these sins up and
try living a chaste life.
-K.
MHFM: No, it’s not too late for you
if you change. But if you reject this
opportunity to change – this grace that God is giving you right now which
enables you to see that you must change – then it could be your last
chance. So if you want to avoid Hell,
you need to act now to cut out of your life that which is causing you to fall
into sin. You need to begin to pray and
stop sinning now.
Mark 9:42- “And if thy hand scandalize
thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having
two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire.”
In addition to asking God and Our
Lady for help, we would recommend that you watch the Death and the Journey into Hell video on our website.
On Freemasonry
DEAR BROTHERS,
I PRAY THAT CHRIST CONTINUES TO STRENGHTEN
YOU PEOPLE FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT IN THE SALVATION OF SOULS.
PLEASE I RESIDE IN NIGERIA AND I SAW AN
INTERVIEW IN ONE OF THE POPULAR DAILIES WITH A FREEMANSON WHO ENCOURAGED OTHERS
TO JOIN AND THAT IT WASNT A RELIGION. OF COURSE I KNOW ALL THESE ARE FALSE BUT
COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE FULL PAPAL ENCYCLICAL CONDEMING THIS EVEN IF
ON PDF SO I CAN ENLIGHTEN A COLLEAGUE ON THIS MATTER.
THANKS,
YOURS IN JESUS AND MARY,
KENNETHMARY TERSOO
MHFM: We would recommend Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Humanum Genus, from April 20, 1884. It’s one of the many papal documents against
Freemasony. It’s available online here:
http://www.vatican.edu/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus_en.html
Returning
Hi, I am a returning catholic that is
seriously getting into his faith again. after being dissatisfied with the post
vatican 2 nonsense at my church i started looking into classical
catholicism and i stumbled upon your site. just wanted to say that your doing a
terrific job…
- jesse
Agree
Brothers,
Amen on your recent reply to "Stumbled and Why". If I may add that as
far as revealing the truth to all those lost in the world; God, through Mary at
Fatima gave the world the third secret concerning the great apostasy, that
should have been revealed in it's entirety by 1960. Look what the forces of
darkness did to prevent the Light from getting through. "Let no man
deceive himself: if any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him
become a fool, that he may be wise". 1 Corinthians 3:18
The forces seem to be against me this weekend as I finished my consecration to
the Blessed Virgin Mary on Friday…
God Bless you,
Tom
Distorted
Dear MHFM,
These Vatican II people, particularly those
who call themselves Traditionalists, remind me of someone putting together a
puzzle by inserting pieces that don’t fit, resulting in a distorted image they
call the Catholic church. Then when you tell them what they’ve done and try to
show them how to logically fit in the right pieces, they accuse you of schism,
of having no authority to do so and of causing disunity and dissension, etc.
…If Traditionalist writers rid themselves
of their pride and admitted to the obvious truth, that the V2 church is a blatantly
false church, instead of insisting , like Michael Davies, that “the Roman Rite
Has Been Destroyed,” they seem to feel they would have nothing more to complain
about or that they would lose their readers and therefore their current
livelihood and reputations. Yes, and they will also lose their places in
heaven…
Re: Benedict XVI being blessed by a witch
doctor: I thought it was bad when a former friend of mine told me she was
asked by a priest to bless him with oil. They used to bless each other
with oil in one V2 church I attended. Of course this is
done to help emphasize that the priest is just an ordinary man with no
special powers. They've taken control of the church buildings, but they
keep trying to rid the V2 churches of what little Catholic beliefs are still
retained by the more traditional Catholics who still worship in them, but
without letting them know who they really are and what they are up to.
PM
Comment
Dear brothers in Christ,
I would like to add just one more thing to the answer you gave to the
"novus ordo" man (hopefully not for long time since now) about God's
love, saints etc. I recommend to him to think about God's words in
Deuteronomy, chapter 13:
1 If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed
a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, /2/ And that come to pass which
he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou
knowest not, and let us serve them: /3/ Thou shalt not hear the words of that
prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear
whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not. 4
Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his
voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave. /5/ And that prophet
or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the
Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from
the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God
commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
etc.
Let Our Lord blesses you and your works in this year 2009, as He already has blessed you before, through the
intercession of our most beloved Mother
Mary.
Stumbled and Why?
Hello and Happy New Year!
I am a New Mass Catholic and have been my
whole 39 years. Somehow I stumbled upon your site the other day when
I was looking for more information...
I have been horrified, fascinated, and
totally and utterly blown away by your website and all the information
there. It's all I can think about now and I am praying
the Rosary every day to help me know the truth.
I thought of a few honest questions which I
hope you don't mind answering for me.
First of all, I am having a hard time with
the fact that God would let so many of us be deceived. I was so sick when
I read that we think we are serving God and love Him but really are serving the
devil. Doesn't he love us too much to let us all be deceived like
that and go to Hell, when we really think we are serving Him and love
Him?
Secondly, wouldn't God allow Padre Pio and
other chosen people know the Truth and how they should reject the New
Mass? I know so many good, devout Priests and my fellow
parishioners...and also non-Catholics... I have a hard time understanding
how God could truly love us, yet let us be deceived and go to Hell.
I know so many non-Catholics who truly love Jesus yet don't follow the
faith. How could God reject their love and send them to eternal
damnation?
If Jacinta said almost all the people who
died in WWI went to Hell, what possible hope is there for anyone nowadays who
honestly believe they are serving God?
I don't even know if I should attend Mass
(the new one) tomorrow bc of all this. Your articles and
arguments are SO WELL WRITTEN, researched, and your information is backed up by
credible sources. Again, I was totally blown away. Your
articles about Medjugorje and Pope John Paul II reinforced the problems I
believed were there too!!
Thanks so much for your website and for
answering my questions. I, too, am seeking the Truth.
Sincerely,
L.
Ohio
MHFM: We’re glad that you came across
the information. We’re also glad that
you are expressing some sincere interest in the truth. You will find the truth of the Catholic faith
here. To your first question, you need
to realize that most people are lost.
That includes most who profess to be Catholic.
Few are Saved-
Most Adult Catholics are damned
“Lucia
found Jacinta sitting alone, still and very pensive, gazing at nothing. ‘What are you thinking of, Jacinta?’ ‘Of the war that is going to come. So
many people are going to die. And almost
all of them are going to Hell.’” (Our
Lady of Fatima, p. 94; p. 92 in some versions)
Why does God allow so many professing
“Catholics” to be deceived? There’s a lot
of bad will out there. It’s actually
staggering how much bad will there is out there. We’ve been shocked at how many people who
profess to be conservative and traditional “Catholics” are of bad will. So many of them are liars deep down; so few
are really believers. This bad will
results from a combination of things, but mostly from pride. Most people think they are knowledgeable and
dedicated Catholics, when the reality is otherwise. Most people don’t have much interest in
Catholic things and don’t know very much about Catholicism, but they fancy
themselves devout and knowledgeable Catholics.
(In a similar way, some people think they obey God’s laws and are pious,
but they compromise God’s laws with their family members and friends.) This pride (which contradicts the reality)
causes God to spiritually blind them and leave them in darkness as to what’s
going on. They think they have the
inside track and are insightful, but God leaves them totally deceived because
He resists their pride. (As an aside,
this problem with pride and every person thinking he/she is the super-expert on
everything is almost universal. Almost
every person today thinks he/she is super-insightful and understands everything
the way it is, how things should be done, what people are all about and how
they should act, communicate things, etc.
They think they have all the insights on all these matters, even if they
don’t understand much about the topic or the person they think they have figured
out. And at the same time these people
are clueless and accomplish very little of value.)
Another problem is touched upon in
your second point. People are too quick
to toss around the terms “good and holy.”
Luke 18:19- “And
Jesus said to him: Why dost thou call me
good? None is good but God alone.”
Jesus was undoubtedly good, but He
said this to teach us to be careful about whom we label “good.” Priests in the Novus Ordo, who accept
religious indifferentism and the New Mass, are not good. Nor are non-Catholics good. They can be nice and kind, but they cannot be
good without the true faith. It’s a
dogma that non-Catholics cannot be saved, and therefore they cannot be in the
state of grace without the Catholic faith.
Thus, they are not good. You
don’t seem to be convinced yet of the dogma that all non-Catholics will be lost
if they die as non-Catholics.
Third, it’s not that hard to be
saved. It just takes interest and good
will. The yoke of Jesus is sweet and His
burden is light (Mt. 11:30). To be saved
one must simply accept the fullness of the Catholic faith and be uncompromising
about it. One must take the steps to get
into the state of grace and avoid mortal sin.
And one must pray, especially the Rosary. When a person does those simple things, he/she
will please God more in something such as recreation than heretics will in all
of their devotions.
Fourth, you ask about Padre Pio. Padre Pio only knew what God revealed to
him. He was just a human being, albeit
an extraordinary one. He didn’t know many
other things, as documented in our book.
That’s true with all the saints.
St. Vincent Ferrer, for instance, was following an antipope during the
Great Western Schism while he was working miracles. Should we assume that the antipope he was
following (Antipope Benedict XIII) was the true one, because God would have
revealed to St. Vincent the truth on that matter if he also gave him the power
to work miracles? No, St. Vincent didn’t
know and he was just wrong on that matter.
Likewise, Padre Pio didn’t know about the Vatican II antipopes. He died early on during the Vatican II
apostasy. God didn’t give him a
revelation so that everyone could just follow that. He made people examine the facts and what was
happening. That’s why we follow the
magisterial teaching of the Church, not what saints might or might not have
known.
If you are sincere and pray to God
for the truth, you will see that this is the truth. You will see it because the sources of
Catholic faith upon which the material is based and documented are irrefutable
and are what a Catholic must believe.
You have shown good interest in looking at the material. We pray that you follow through with it.
Rosary and Office
Dear Brother Michael and Brother Peter
I would be grateful for your advice on some spiritual matters. I would like to
know whether it is more important for a lay person to say the 15 decade Holy
Rosary every day than to say the Divine Office. I usually say only one set of
mysteries per day and try to say some of the Divine Office, but is it
preferable to say the entire 15 decade Rosary even if there might not be much
time to say any of the Divine Office. I would also appreciate your advice on
whether it is important to read some of the Bible every day, and whether you could
recommend a book which would help as a guide to understanding the Bible…
In past e-exchanges you have advised against giving Christmas presents to
heretics. Does this also include that Catholics should not receive presents
from heretics?
Sorry if there are too many queries.
Thank you for your help.
Best wishes
Gerard
MHFM: We believe that the 15-decade
Rosary is more important for you to say than the Divine Office.
Therefore, our opinion would be that you should say the full Rosary rather than
part of it and some of the Office. We
believe the Haydock Commentary is good for reading the Bible and understanding
many difficult parts. It consists of a
few large red volumes.
You shouldn’t give Christmas gifts to
heretics, but you could receive them from heretics.
Entities
Dear Sir
I think I have been invaded by unknown
entities. Do you know anyone who can
help me to exorcise these?
regards
MHFM: As we recently pointed out to
someone who had a similar question, we would say that you don't necessarily
need an exorcism. If you believe fully in the traditional Catholic faith
and in the correct positions on all the key issues of our day; if you remain
out of mortal sin and make a good confession; and if you pray the 15-decade
rosary each day, then you should be delivered from your problems. You should make sure that you take those
steps first. If a person doesn’t take
those steps, then a priestly exorcism will not have lasting value.
But if you are in agreement on these
basic points and have taken these steps and the problem persists, then we can
help you with the next step.
Leaving Vatican II
I'm joseph wilson castro from manila
philippines. i'm leaving the vatican II mass. is there an eastern rite mass
here in the philippines? do you have a video of a latin mass and is it alright
to hear it at home instead of going to the "new mass" every sunday? i
have a sister in new jersey so i can ask her to order for me your books and
videos… i was devoted to the divine mercy until last year but i felt empty
spiritually. i prayed hard to GOD to show me the true faith and on that same
day i accidentally or is it divine intervention that i came across your
website. now i pray the 15 decade rosary everyday. i'm also devoted to the
SACRED HEART OF JESUS. it's my 7th cosecutive first friday of the month to the
devotion today. i also say the novena of st. therese and st. joseph everyday.
hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you.
Human Respect
MHFM: One of the biggest problems in
our day is human respect. The
unwillingness to disappoint or offend people when the defense of God’s truth
requires it is a major problem today.
Countless people are being condemned to Hell because of human
respect. This is especially true in the
“traditionalist” movement, where obstinate heresies are justified or ignored
because people don’t want to offend other people.
In that vein, this is a portion of a
letter which we recently sent to an individual who claims to be a
sedevacantist. The letter was a
charitable rebuke. While claiming to be
sedevacantist, this person links to and promotes groups which obstinately deny
the sedevacantist position and which teach heresy on the salvation dogma.
PORTION OF LETTER WE SENT
…As
people who care about your soul, we are also bound to tell you the following:
we must say, in charity, that we believe you are a heretic at this time.
We say this (sadly) because of what you are promoting and currently willing to
defend.
It's
obvious to us that you are still in a spiritual fog. You promote all
kinds of heretical groups on your website, many of which are
non-sedevacantist. Some of them are "priests" and
"priestly" fraternities that don't even have valid priests (e.g.,
Brian Harrison, FSSP). It's problematic, to say the least, that you do
not see the problem linking to these heretical and invalid groups.
You
have the false idea that essentially everyone in favor of
"traditionalism" in some way is in good faith. This is not the
case. You need to have more respect for God and more fear of God.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. You justify man too
much. Perhaps (I must say) you do this out of an internal desire to
justify your past transgressions. This is not a game where people can
just promote anything that is somewhat traditional or anything
that leans in a certain way against Vatican II. No, one must defend
the full truth. There are consequences for not accepting and promoting
the Catholic faith without blemish. God will condemn anyone who clearly
fails in this matter. The groups you link to are obstinately heretical
and evil; they have spurned the obvious truth on these issues for years.
They are on the road to Hell and they mislead people. To promote them is
gravely sinful.
You
also link to all kinds of groups which believe in salvation outside the Church
and which attack the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation (e.g.,
Cekada, Sanborn, etc.). The same comments apply to those individuals.
You
also defend heresy on the salvation dogma by your willingness to defend that
people can be saved without baptism. You obviously accept the heresy that
"baptism of desire" can save members of false religions. This
is obvious from your promotion of groups which believe in it. Moreover,
99.9% of those who defend "baptism of desire" extend it to people in
false religions. If you claim to be among the super-minority who only
limit it to unbaptized catechumens, the fact remains that you accept the heresy
because you believe that groups who obstinately believe in it (Cekada, Sanborn,
etc.) are still Catholic. You thus hold, at the very least, that one can
obstinately believe in salvation for members of false religions and still be
Catholic.
Your
comment that you took the link to us down because of our "injudicious
condemnation of trads" reveals that you have too much human respect.
You are too concerned with injustices which have been done to man, and not
concerned enough with the injustices against God's truth. This is
why you perceive injustice against them, when in reality there is no injustice
but a justified and necessary denunciation; but you are unable to see
the injustice done to God by their obstinate failure to take the true positions
and by your promotion of them.
We
would also point out, as a general rule, that people who engage in public
writing or teaching on Catholic matters must be completely uncompromising and
not swayed by human respect. They must stand for the complete truth and
not be cowed by what others think or by people's opinions, if they need to
alienate them in the defense of God's truth. If they are unable to do
this, or if this is a great struggle for them, then they are not fit for
teaching on Catholic matters and they should cease all public writing and
teaching on the Catholic faith.
All
of this has been said in true charity.
Sincerely,
MHFM
More on Outrageous Priest
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
I came across an interesting quote from St. Alphonsus that
reminded me of your most recent email exchange that deals with that outrageous
priest who told the person not to say the Rosary and that “sex and dating is
suppose to be fun.” This quote pertains
to the idolatrous heathens who worshipped the sun, but were careful not to sin
in the presence of their god. He states:
According to St. Cyril of Jerusalem, some adored the sun as
their god, that during the night they might, in the absence of the sun, do what
they pleased, without fear of divine chastisement. “Some regarded the sun as their God, that,
after the setting of the sun, they might be without a god.” (Catech. iv.) The conduct of these miserable dupes was very
criminal; but they were careful not to sin in presence of their god (Serm. VI On
the Malice of Mortal Sin, par. 7).
Now,
if this outrageous priest did not take such care in the presence of his God,
who is everywhere and, in a particular manner, present in the sacrament of
Penance, then that makes him either worse than the idolatrous heathens or, most
likely, not a real priest but rather a minister of Lucifer. I suspect that it is the latter, since this
totally outrageous “priest” has no regard for our Lord and no fear of the
Divine chastisement.
St.
Alphonsus goes on to say about sins committed by Christians:
But Christians know that God is present in all places, and
that he sees all things. “Do not I fill
Heaven and Earth? saith the Lord.” (Jer. xxiii. 24); and still they do not
abstain from insulting him, and from provoking his wrath in his very presence:
“A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face.” (Isa. lxv.
3.) Hence, by sinning before him who is
their judge, they even make God a witness of their iniquities: “I am the judge
and the witness, saith the Lord.” (Jer. xxix. 23.) (Ibid. par. 7)
If Christians so offend God by their sins, then imagine the
chastisement that He has reserved for this minister of Lucifer who tries to
mock God in the sacrament of Penance and, in a particularly egregious way,
attempts to provoke Him to anger. One
can only rejoice at this thought with the saints, who “not only do not pity the
damned, but they even rejoice in the vengeance inflicted on the injuries
offered to their God.” (Serm. X On the Pains of Hell, par. 17).
-John.
Priest reading
Hi:
Just wanted to let you know that I've been reading your many articles in your
website and find them very interesting. As a Hispanic "Novus Ordo"
priest I find it very difficult and outraging the fact that they have made the
Holy Mass a politically correct religious celebration especially with the
inclusive language and female altar servers. Everytime they change the
lectionary which aggravates me a lot.
Who are they are trying to fool I wonder? I'm considering leaving the
ministry, go back my original country and find another job because of the
abomination that is taking place in the Catholic Church. But I think you have a
valid and solid point especially in regard issues like the anti-popes, the so-
called Marian apparitions, EWTN, the abuse scandal ect. You have opened my eyes leading to
acknowledge that we the present Church are living into a farse.
Is there any hope at all for the True Roman Catholic Church or just these
are signs of the beginning of the end times? Thanks for your attention and consideration.
Fr. Agustin
MHFM: We’re very glad to hear that
you are looking at the information. The
post-Vatican II Church is definitely not the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church still exists, but with
the remnant of traditional Catholics who maintain the faith whole and
undefiled. There is absolutely hope, but
only in uncompromising adherence to and practice of the traditional faith. You really should look at this article, if
you have not done so. It shows how the
New Rite of Ordination isn’t valid. That
means that if you were ordained in it, the ordination wasn’t valid.
Why the New Rite of Ordination is
Invalid [PDF
File]
This article explains
why the New Rite of Ordination – which was instituted by Paul VI on June 18,
1968 after Vatican II – is not valid.)
Your inclination to leave the Novus
Ordo Church is the correct one. It’s not
a valid Mass. You have to get out of
there. You must have no part with the
false mass and the false Church and all of its heresies; and then concern
yourself with a possible re-ordination, once you are convinced on all the
issues. If you are in agreement, we can
help you through this process.
Rock and Roll Exposed
I finished watching Rock n Roll
Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution which I recently purchased. It was
very good. I grew up listening to rock music and pop music as well.
I've always heard that they were satanic but couldn't really comprehend how,
perhaps because it's often hard to make out the lyrics, except in the case of
John Lennon. I listened to alot of pop music in the 80's and I'm surprised
to discover that Michael Jackson was also inspired by the Satanist Allester
Crowley. The video of Jimi Hendrix sacrificing his guitar is disturbing
and to me, indicative of someone who is possessed. Also, I have a Madonna
cd entitled, The Immaculate Collection (get it - Madonna). Would you say
this was blasphemous against Our Lady?....
MHFM: Rock and Roll Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution is quite a
video. It’s definitely worth getting if
you’ve been exposed to the popular music or if you know someone who doesn’t
believe in the Devil. Yes, Madonna’s
actions are blasphemous.
Rock and Roll Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution
Benedict XVI’s latest
MHFM: About a week ago we updated Benedict XVI’s
recent Heresies file. He continues to
show, basically on a weekly basis, how he is an utter heretic, schismatic and
apostate.
Benedict XVI's recent Heresies
(More Outrageously Heretical Statements on the “Orthodox” from Benedict XVI)
In his latest, Benedict XVI again justifies the
“Orthodox”; he promotes them, accepts them, and indicates that they are
saved. It serves as another reminder of
how outrageous it is for people to obstinately regard this man as a Catholic
after all of this evidence. He couldn’t
give stronger indications that he has no problem with schism, and that he holds
that it’s pointless and of no necessity to be a Catholic as opposed to being an
“Orthodox” schismatic. In light of this,
we must say that if you obstinately consider Benedict XVI to be a Catholic and
the head of the true faith, you would have to be an idiot to be Catholic. Why would anyone who obstinately believes
that Benedict XVI is not a heretic, bother being a Catholic at all when,
according to him, one can be “Orthodox” and go straight to Heaven?
His latest flurry of heresies really drives home,
once again, what an outrage it is for the false traditionalists to fail to
denounce him as an antipope. One such
group (“tia”) still maintains that Benedict XVI is not a heretic but the
pope! In the face of all this evidence,
such a notion borders on Luciferian.
Only faithless and evil people could see all of this proof, for this
period of time, and still maintain that he’s not a heretic! They also mock and condemn themselves every
time they expose his interreligious and ecumenical apostasy; for they maintain
that one can do all of that and remain Catholic. They mock what it means to be Catholic. They are outrageous and abominable before
God. They are heretics on the road to
Hell.
Ran Across
Before you read this you need to know that
I am not a Roman Catholic. I ran across a hot link on Yahoo to your
website so I clicked on it and did some reading. I notice that you
have the opinion that your pope is expressing heresies (that's a pretty strong
word to apply to someone like him, isn't it?). It sounds to me like you
are posturing (I don't mean that in a bad way) yourselves as gatekeepers:
you're going to preserve the faith once delivered from the saints. I
suppose the erosion of the faith is a phenomena that is pretty
universal to every faithm . It sounds to me that your perspective on
your role puts you pre-Vatican II.
Recently I've been doing some study into
your faith and history. Quite honestly it makes my blood run cold.
Do you have any idea of your own history and how your church compares to
the simple Scriptures?
MHFM: Actually, the simple Scriptures
lead to the undeniable conclusion that the Catholic Church is the only biblical
Church and that the Protestant sects are man-made. For the Scriptures clearly teach the Papacy
(Mt. 16), Confession (John 20:23), the necessity of faith and works (James
2:24), the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist (John 6), the necessity to
hear the Church and not just the Bible (Mt. 18:17), etc. You really should consult this section, which
covers the undeniable scriptural proof for Catholicism in more depth (more will
also be added to this section).
Regarding erosion being common to
every religion, we must take issue with that as well. Being the only true Church founded by Christ
and indefectible (Mt. 16:18), the Catholic Church can never fall away. However, a large apostasy from it – leaving
only a remnant in the last days and a spiritual deception centered around a
Counterfeit Church headed by antipopes – is predicted as part of the final
spiritual trial. Such an apostasy from
the true faith in the last days doesn’t in any way contradict the notion that
the Catholic Church is the true Church, but confirms it. It shows that the primary goal of Satan in
the final days is to deceive Catholics (the adherents of the one true
faith). Please consult the information
on our website which explains and documents all of this in more detail.
Found
… I was baptised a Catholic, but my mother
didnt drive and my father was in the navy and out at sea a lot so I wasnt able
to finish my sacraments. However, I always felt something else divine was
keeping me away from the church. I always felt the the Catholic Church was the
true and only church of god but I saw the vatican 2 council for what it was.
Through the years I have done a lot of research and have been greatly troubled
with the state of the so called "christian" faith and the millions of
souls that have been deceived. Through my research I found your
website. My main question is where can I go in San Diego or anywhere close
to it to receive my remaining sacraments and more importantly, where can I take
my daughter to be baptized without having to do it myself and where can I
safely go to mass and receive the true communion. I am also considering
starting a catholic group with the mission of teaching the true gospel and the
true laws of the most holy church. Any help you can provide would be greatly
appreciated.
Patrick Martin
MHFM: We contacted this person.
Orientation
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I have been taught that if the homosexuals
do not act on their orientation then they can go to Heaven. If one dies a
homosexual, will he go to hell? Also I brought this up with my teacher and I
said is it true that homosexuality is caused from idoltry and an act of grave
mortal sin, just to see what she would say, and she replied no thats not true,
the Church teaches that we do not know the cause. Thank you.
May the Blessed Virgin Mary by Her holy and
Immaculate Conception bless your monastery.
Sincerely, Daniel
MHFM: The perverse orientation is a
result of mortal sin. Therefore, as long
they continue to have it, it’s because they are in mortal sin. All who die in mortal sin go to Hell.
Valid bishop?
Thank you for
your interview concerning Archbishop Thuc.
Perhaps you could tell me if you think Fr. Kelley of the SSPV is a
validly consecrated bishop? The reason I ask is that SSPV has the only
traditional chapel near where I live, and several things appear doubtful
concerning Fr. Kelley's consecration: 1) the consecration seems to have been in
secret and not announced until after bishop Mendez's death (raising doubts as
to whether it really happened), 2) bishop Mendez appears to have been novus
ordo, not Catholic (and if Catholic, only in secret), and 3) Cardinal
Spellman's intention in consecrating Mendez would be dubious; as you know, Spellman
was one of the main defenders of 'Religious Liberty' at the council (and by
some reports a practicing homosexual) and would likely have already apostatized
by 1960 when the consecration was done (though possibly the co-consecrators
were still Catholic). Anyway, should a Catholic consider Fr. Kelley to be a
true bishop?
In Jesus & Mary,
Richard
MHFM: We believe that he is a valid
bishop because heretics (such as Mendez) can validly consecrate and heretics
(such as Kelly) can be validly consecrated. The intention is presumed if the traditional
rite is used, and the evidence indicates that the traditional rite was
used. However, Kelly is a horrible
heretic. He heads the group called the
SSPV. They believe in salvation outside
the Church (heresy) and they reject the necessity of water baptism. They are so vigorous about their heresy
against the salvation dogma that they impose their heretical beliefs upon the
people who approach them for the sacraments.
Therefore, no one should go to them for any sacraments at all. Here’s just one example of their denial of
the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
The SSPV, The Roman Catholic, Fenton Article, Fall
2003, p. 6: “So, is it true and an
article of faith that ‘outside the Church there is no salvation’? Yes, it is.
Does this mean that a person, no matter how praiseworthy a
life he may have led, will be eternally lost who, through no grave
fault of his own, is not an actual member of the Church at the moment of
death? No, it does not.”
Here we see that they indicate, in
their heretical way of trying to dance around the issue, that they believe that
people can be saved in false religions.
That is blatantly heretical.
Pope Gregory
XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832: “With the admonition of the
apostle that ‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’ (Eph. 4:5) may those fear who contrive the notion that
the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony
of Christ Himself that ‘those who are not with Christ are against Him,’ (Lk.
11:23) and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him.
Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they
will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate”
(Athanasian Creed).
For more on their heresy, please consult section 35
of our book Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No
Salvation [PDF FILE], or simply go to this page, and then scroll down a bit to the Table
of Contents, and then find section 35 and click on the section about the SSPV.
Sin by Praise
A
fellow community college student of mine committed fornication. A friend
of mine congratulated him for committing this shameful, unholy iniquity.
I told my friend he committed a mortal sin and if something happens to him
before his next confession he will go straight to hell. I told him that
confirming somebody in their sin is to commit a grave violence against
them. He thinks he just committed a venial sin by congratulating the
mortal sin. Who was right? Thank you for settling this dispute.
MHFM: He definitely committed a
mortal sin by congratulating him for his mortal sin. He confirmed him in his sin. Such an individual has no respect for the laws
of God. A person who would do that is in
such a state of spiritual darkness that he almost certainly commits other
mortal sins. He shouldn’t go to confession until he remains out of mortal sin
for some time, until he begins to have a true prayer life and wakes up from his
spiritual slumber. At this time, he is
in no position to make a good confession.
More Catholic times
MHFM: This is a passage about what it
was like in 1462, when the head of St. Andrew (apostle and martyr) was brought
to Rome during Holy Week. It’s a
slightly interesting example of the excitement that was generated by the faith
and the saints in more Catholic times.
“After
the Pope and all present had venerated the relic, and Pius II had invoked the
protection of St. Andrew against the Turks, the Te Deum and other festival
hymns were sung. Then the solemn
procession moved towards Rome, the Pope bearing the Apostle’s head. The Via Flaminia was filled with multitudes
of people; and, as an Indulgence had been proclaimed for the feast, countless
Pilgrims had flocked together, not merely from all parts of Italy, but even
from France, Germany, and Hungary… The streets were strewn with flowers and
fragrant herbs, and sheltered with rich tapestry from the rays of the sun. The great men of the City and the Cardinals…
had vied with one another in the adornment of their Palaces, and the Churches
displayed all their relics and treasures.
Lights were burning everywhere, and sacred music filled the air. The streets were thronged with worshippers,
and it was believed that so many had not been present on any single day of the
Jubilee of 1450.” (Dr. Ludwig Pastor, History
of the Popes, Vol. 3, p. 260.)
Pre-Vatican II Heresy
Dear MHFM
The following quotations are taken from an undated
pamphlet titled, Which is Christ’s True Church? by (Father) John A. O’Brien,
Ph.D. The imprimatur is by John Francis Noll, D.D., Archbishop of Fort Wayne,
IN and the pamphlet is published with no visible copyright by Our Sunday
Visitor Press, Huntington, Indiana. The pamphlet is yellowing and is at least
50 years old. Nevertheless, the theology is Vatican II… Father John A. O'Brien
was a very popular pre-Vatican II Catholic writer, or so I once believed.
Can you imagine a man with a Ph.D., probably in theology, failing to study
Scripture and the infallible statements of the popes? As I re-read
this pamphlet, I can see how absolutely foolish and ambiguous it is and how
completely lacking in documentation. I’ve emphasized the most obvious
ambiguities: O’Brien starts out very Catholic:
Page 3-4: “When a person, after careful
consideration, comes to perceive the fallacy of the common saying, “All
religions are equally good and true,” and realizes that it does “matter what a
man believes,” he finds himself confronted with two important questions (1)
Which is the true Church? (2) How can I discover it? The answer might be
obtained by finding out which Church possesses the marks of unity, sanctity,
catholicity and apostolicity. For these are the marks which Christ imprinted
upon His Church to distinguish her from all others…
Now here comes the first ambiguity. It
sounds a lot like the V2 popes. With theologians like this one, it’s no wonder
we so readily accepted the V2 “ecumenism.”
“In prosecuting this investigation into the
claims of the various denominations to be the true Church, the writer does so
with nothing but sentiments of friendship and goodwill toward the members of
all these faiths. ..”
If you think O’Brien is just being kind,
read further: Pp. 4-5: “In maintaining that the facts of history stamp the
Catholic Church as the one true Church established by Christ for all mankind,
the writer does not wish to give our non-Catholic readers the impression,
already too prevalent, that the Church regards all who are not members of the
body of the Church as outside the pale of salvation. Indeed, the
broadmindedness and maternal solicitude of the Church for the salvation of all
mankind are nowhere more strikingly apparent than in her teaching that people,
even though not in visible communion with Christ’s true Church, may
nevertheless be saved if they act according to the sincere conviction of their
own conscience. No man is guilty in the eyes of God, says the Church, except he
who acts contrary to the light of his own conscience. All people who are true
to the commands of conscience are members of the soul of the church and will be
rewarded by God for their fidelity. Even though they are objectively wrong,
they are in good faith, and therefore blameless in the sight of God, at least
for their non-membership (emphasis mine) in the corporate body.
Let’s interrupt O’Brien here while we ask
“which Church?” Where is his documentation? Where is his quote from Jesus in
Scripture, contradicting John 3:5, etc.? Where are his papal quotations that
tell us “no man is guilty in the eyes of God …even though they are objectively
wrong….and therefore blameless in the sight of God, at least for their
non-membership in the corporate body” ?
There are no such quotations from Scripture
or from Catholic popes from Father O’Brien because there are no such quotations
to be had. Either Father O’Brien was making up this information about the
Church or he was writing about a different Church than the Catholic Church. He
was obviously a preconciliar precursor to the Vatican II church who
prepared Catholics to accept the heresies of Vatican II.
Then he goes on with yet another confusing
ambiguity about everyone’s duty to search for the truth: P. 5-6: There is a
duty, however, resting upon everyone (emphasis mine) to search for the truth
and thus to enlighten his conscience so that it will honestly reflect the
objective realities instead of the distorted caricatures of the truth which
spring from ignorance, prejudice and misunderstanding. The writer asks but one
favor of the non-Catholic reader: that he will examine the evidence with an
open mind. If he will do this, the writer is confident (emphasis mine) that the
facts of history will make the same powerful appeal to his mind that they have
made to the thousands of millions of honest (emphasis mine) men and women who
during nineteen hundred years have clung to the Catholic faith as “the pearl
that passeth all price.”
According to Father O’Brien, it’s just a
nice thing to belong to the Church which only honest men will be able to find.
However, it’s okay to be dis-honest as long as you are nice and sincere and
follow your so-called “conscience” which may lead you in a different direction
from the true Church established by Jesus Christ. Either way you will be saved.
How insane is this? It is clearly demonic
thinking on his part. There is no other logical way to look at it, and yet V2
Catholics will look upon such writers as authority figures they
respect. You, MHFM, on the other hand, have no authority to
contradict them, but if you substitute automobile for church, you can be sure
they would be outraged. When it comes to our souls, however, they invent
a God who gave us directions on how to save our soul but we can eliminate
those commands that are too uncomfortable.
PM
MHFM: Yes, it’s another good example
of how the Great Apostasy began with pre-Vatican II heresy against the
necessity of the Church for salvation.
No priest in desire
Dear mhfm,
I desire to be a priest, therefore I am a
priest in desire and if I die suddenly I am martyred as a priest of the
Holy Roman Catholic Church. Bod, bob thinking, no? I love the
novelty. It's so modern Rome, not!
MHFM: Yes, you cannot be a priest by
desire just as you cannot be baptized by desire.
Outrageous priest
Dear Brothers,
If you need to go to a pre V2 priest for a valid confession, I wonder how many
of those are actually left. And when they die, will there be no one who
will be able to absolve sins?. I'm rather depressed, I don't know any pre
v2 priests in Chicago, so I just went to a v2 priest because I figured it was
better than nothing, like in those exorcisms sometimes protestants can cast out
demons, so I figured its worth a shot. But during confession he told me not to
say the Rosary and that "sex and dating is supposed to be fun".
So I'm rather of the mind that he's a complete heretic and that my confession
is probably null and void. I am reading through all the information on
your site, so if you've answered this before in an E-Exchange, then I will
probably find it there. Thanks for showing me what it means to be
Catholic.
P.
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Obviously you must find a valid priest; please contact us here and we can help
you with that issue. We also have
posted guidelines which concern the issue of where people can go for the
sacraments.
Since that priest was so outrageous,
you should make the confession again.
It’s possible for heretics to absolve validly if they are validly
ordained and use the proper form, but considering his statements it’s
questionable whether he absolved you at all.
It's amazing that a so-called priest would tell you those things; but,
when you think about the Vatican II sect, it's not that surprising. Obviously you should never go to him for
confession again.
Chair of Peter
Dear Brothers,
It seems obvious that the whole point that
Christ chose St. Peter as chief Apostle is because in disputes on doctrine, His
(Christ's) Word is there preserved. So it's ridiculous for people to appeal to
Saints, Theologians, Doctors or even the Ordinary Magisterium, over the
Chair of St. Peter for the final word, when Christ himself has chosen St. Peter
as the final authority, even over the other Apostles!
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: That’s correct. Again it gets back to the fact that those who
constantly appeal to theologians, etc. over the dogmatic teaching of the popes
(especially heretics on salvation and baptism) really have no supernatural faith
in the infallibility of the papal office.
A careful consideration of their position reveals that it ultimately
puts infallible papal teaching on the same level with non-infallible teaching,
thus rendering the papal office pointless.
But the unfailing faith was only given to the popes in the Chair of
Peter.
Luke 22:31-32-
“And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have all of you,
that he may sift you as wheat: But I
have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once
converted, confirm thy brethren.”
Satan
desired to sift all the Apostles (plural) like wheat, but Jesus prayed for
Simon Peter (singular), that his faith fail not. Jesus is saying that St. Peter and his
successors (the popes of the Catholic Church) have an unfailing faith when
authoritatively teaching a point of faith or morals to be held by the entire
Church of Christ.
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, ex cathedra:
“SO, THIS GIFT OF TRUTH AND A NEVER FAILING
FAITH WAS DIVINELY CONFERRED UPON PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN THIS CHAIR…”
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, ex
cathedra:
“… the See of St. Peter always
remains unimpaired by any error, according to the divine promise of our
Lord the Savior made to the chief of His disciples: ‘I have prayed for thee [Peter], that thy faith fail not ...’”
Comment on Colleges
Dear Brother,
I like the comment you made about whether
going to college makes sense. Not only the high cost as you mentioned,
but also there is the overall atmosphere and mindset of the colleges which is
reflective of the modern day cultural revolution, such as diversity, political
correctness, revisionist history, and all the rest of the garbage they embrace.
When people, who by the grace of God, have
come to the realization of what has been taking place and is taking place in
our society for the ruin of souls, via organizations like Freemasonry,
communism, the New World Order and international bankers, etc., they should
seriously consider whether they should be a part of it.
Too many people are conditioned to think
they will not "make it" in life without a college education.
There are plenty of jobs out there that do not require a college degree but
allow people to live comfortably. I, myself, started college but did not
graduate. I am content with what I do. I am neither wealthy nor
poor. Many people today who graduate from college wind up in some
profession where they may make good money but are not necessarily happy in other
aspects of life. It's better to make less money and be happy rather than
to make alot of money and not be happy.
God bless you,
Alain Perrault
Innocence
Dear mhfm,
I asked this young child-"What is
baptism to you?" She responded, "Baptism means to become part
of Jesus and where he lives."
You mean, "In heaven," I
asked.
"Yes," she replied.
"How did you get baptized?"
I asked.
"With water," she replied.
"Is there any other way to receive
entry into heaven?" I asked.
"No!" She stated, matter of
factly.
"Oh, okay." I replied.
The innocence of a child is so sublime.
God Bless, mhfm. Keep up the truth,
the way, the life.
MHFM: Yes, there is definitely
something to say for holy simplicity.
The truths are simple; it’s in refuting the distortions and false
arguments of heretics that things get more involved.
Enjoy
Dear Holy Family
Monastery,
I enjoy your
website and its direct exposing of the false Novus Ordo Church. I
currently attend an Indult Mass in Southern NJ. The priest was ordained in
1982 in the New Rite. I am convinced that the "popes" since
John 23 are heretics but I don't know where to turn. Is there a
place where I can go to Mass in my area of Southern New Jersey that you may be
familiar with. Your advice is appreciated. Thank you and have a Merry
Christmas.
Sincerely in
Christ,
Mike
MHFM: Thanks for contacting us. The one you are going to isn’t valid because
the priest was ordained in the invalid New Rite. Assuming you are in agreement on all the
issues, please contact us and we can help you with this matter.
Discovering
Dear Sir:
I have come across information that tears my heart and soul to bits. I did not
seek this information consciously or for any particular purpose. I was
aware of some priests not practicing Catholic protocol, as we have one at St.
Mary's Catholic Church here in Odessa, Texas. In confessing my mortal
sin… this priest would always tell me that it was no longer a sin.
However, each time I went to holy
confession and if I was burden with this particular sin, I would again confess
it and again this priest would reiterate the same advice… I am discovering that
the last three popes are not what they appeared to be and that I may be
attending an illegal mass. I have learnt about the Jewish (Adam
Wieshaupt) and Freemasonry conspiracies against Church and state.
How can I become a force against all that is not Roman Catholic? How can I
help? How can I tell the truth to others w/o being outcasted? I need ur
guidance n help.. Please inform and in the meantime I will explore. Thank
you.
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. It’s true that the Vatican II priests justify
everything.
We hope that you continue to look at
the information and that you act upon it.
You can help by becoming convinced on all the points a Catholic must
believe; by helping to spread the information; by prayers; by contributing to
the work of the traditional Catholic faith; etc. The traditional profession of faith from the
Council of Trent is on our website. All
people who are new to the traditional faith should make it. And once convinced on all these points, a
person needs to make a good confession, including of any mortal sins which
might have been confessed to priests ordained in the invalid New Rite of
Ordination. We can help you with where
to do this.
Christmas Letter
Christmas
Letter [PDF]
He that is not with Me
Dear
brothers,
Before I go into the object of my letter, I wanted to draw some attention
to Our Lady of Fatima's words she spoke to the children about this
time of the apostacy concerning discords in families. (which is Satan's goal)
" cardinal against cardinal, bishop against bishop....mother against
daughter..." which I believe is what she said. Arguments and
separations in the name of religion.
I am suffering from this and… now I fear I am losing my mother as well.
First , let me present you my mother. She has forgotten the true Catholic
faith. She goes to false mass, protestant reunions,(stopped and started
again), prays her rosary everyday, prays a lot, goes to confession and genuflects
often, communions on the tonque. Practices the first saturdays and
first Fridays very devoted to Our Lady. I really feel
sorry for her and she seems so confused and lost but she is always convinced
she's truly Catholic 100 percent.
I recently had a discord with my mother about religion. We were walking one day
and came pass a protestant false church. She quoted ' oh a church ...
like she was drawn and attracted to it. It was really disgusting and I
had to respond. I quoted "you are really drawn by that , this is not
a church, it's protestant...false church!..." She said she was aware of
that and I don't know why since she continues to go to protestant services- La
Bible she calls it. I responded and I don't remember what I was trying to
say, but that is when she cut me off saying angrily " will you stop
talking about religion, when you start you never stop!" It really
sounded diabolic, could she be kind of possessed! I am worried.
Dear brothers, she never spoke to me that way before.
MHFM: Yes, she is unfortunately not a
Catholic, and she is in a state of grave sin.
Jesus said: “He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth”
(Matthew 12:30). It follows, therefore,
that when a person does not accept the faith and is in a state of mortal sin,
the Devil has moved in. So it really
shouldn’t surprise you that she displays some diabolical hostility to your
beliefs and to your practice of the faith.
Colleges
Dear Dimond Bros,
I am a recent unhappy dropout from college and a recent happy discoverer of
your website. I am a true traditional Catholic who believes rightly in
the church's condition (sede vacantism)… (extra ecclesia), etc... In
short, I am a thorough and faithful reader of your website.
I write you today to petition you to address colleges on your website.
There are certain colleges in this country that advertise themselves as being
traditionalist but which, once one arrives, are actually hotbeds of modernity
(albeit in calico and other traditional trappings).
One such college which is especially insidious is Christendom in Front Royal,
VA where, although there are a few professors who believe rightly, even they
are public heretics and only dare to confess the truth in the secrecy of their
offices. I went to this school for three semesters but finally left in
utter disgust and horror at the handiwork of the devil there…
I was wondering therefore if you might be able to post an article on your
website about the dangers of the "traditional" colleges such as Christendom
and Magdalen in N.H., and TAC in California. I had been told by the
grapevine in the Duluth area where I live that their claims of fidelity to the
magisterium were just window dressing and that they were really filled with
students who believed rightly as I do. While there were a few students
who were faithful, the vast majority were fetid pools of temptation to
theological softness and loss of vigor. Meanwhile, some members of the
faculty were virulently heretical.
I believe it would be a great blessing to those like me who seek a higher or
humanities education if we could be spared the pain and disappointment of
colleges like Christendom. I also believe that you could truly help those
potentially like me by posting a warning article on your website to denounce
and condemn these centers of false traditional learning. Also, young
people would love to know where you would recommend going to study or, if there
is no place, how can we start an institution in true fidelity to the One, Holy,
Catholic, Apostolic, and NECESSARY church.
Thanks in Christ,
Raph Marvinsky
Former Christendom College Student (2005-2006)
MHFM: We do have an article exposing
“Catholic” colleges and universities. It
focuses primarily on the major mainstream “Catholic” universities. It doesn’t really get into the handful of
supposedly “conservative” ones. They are
also quite heretical and modernist, however, as you point out in the case of
Christendom.
The Deplorable
State of "Catholic" Colleges and Universities [PDF File]
We would add that every college or
university in our day is quite heretical or pagan or evil in many ways. So if one is expecting a college that is
fully Catholic, then one would be unable to go at all.
If a person can find a situation
where he or she is sheltered from the evil atmosphere (preferably by living at
home or alone off campus – not in the dorms with a pagan), then that could be
an option if the person took religiously neutral classes. But even in a situation where one is
spiritually sheltered to a great extent, people need to deeply consider and pray
about whether going to college makes sense.
Considering the high costs (etc.), people need to prayerfully consider
whether it’s worth it and if it’s what God wants them to do.
“Do what thou wilt”
[This was an interesting one from a reader
who wrote in some time back.]
Brothers,
Watching EWTN the Pope and the Patriarch of
Constantinople doing vespers, just for curiosity of what the Pope would say, my
wife and I heard the Pope talking about St Paul, say "love and do what thy
wilt". I was shocked, the Patriarch looked over quickly too.
Maybe I just misunderstood, but you may want to look in to this. Do what
thy wilt is a satanist saying.
Bill J.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. That’s interesting. We would just add that
people shouldn’t call Benedict XVI the pope.
For those who might not be familiar with the point you are making, “do
what thou wilt” is a central belief in satanism. That’s what he heard Benedict XVI say.
Wondering
I was wondering why you quote the king
james version of the bible instead of the catholic bible?
MHFM: We obviously do so, in the materials refuting Protestantism, to
show the Protestants from their own bible that their views are not biblical.
Exorcism
Dear Brother Diamond,
… I am a french guy… I am here in
France. I asked the help of one the
priest of my Chapelle in Paris, because I think I may need an exorcism, but he
doesn't want to do it on me for the moment.
Even if I can make a mistake thinking I need it, sometimes I feel like
I'm not "alone". Sometimes I'm
so angry about life, about the others. Sometimes I feel so sad and with no
will. In these moments, I can even
hardly turn my face towards God to ask Him for help.
That is why I contact you. Maybe you know some exorcists I could contact in
France? Please help me.
Dominus tecum.
MHFM: We would say that you don't necessarily need an
exorcism. If you believe fully in the traditional Catholic faith and in
the correct positions on all the key issues of our day; if you remain out of
mortal sin and make a good confession; and if you pray the 15-decade rosary
each day, then you should be delivered from your problems. You should make sure that you take those
steps first, and then go from there.
Comment
Brothers in Christ,
I would like to add a few thoughts on 'co-redemptrix' issue. I can see there
are a number of traditionally-minded people who are struggling with this
important question: is our Blessed Mother Mary the Co-Redemptrix (Co-Redeemer)?
The answer to this question, which you already have elaborated abundantly, is
in negative. I think that most people
who do not accept your arguments are struggling with their own strong
temptations rooted, if not in their bad will but in their own untrained
psychological drives. They feel as if they would insult the perfect person they
love very very much if they say that that person is not something which could
be perfect in and by itself. So, I would recommend to these people to consider
the divinely defined truth: There is One God and Three Divine Persons--The
Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. Our Blessed Mother Mary is NOT
the Divine Person. She IS the most perfect creature, She is The Queen of
Heaven, She is conceived without original sin, etc. etc., but She IS NOT one of
The Three. She IS NOT the
"Co-Godess"(whatever could this mean). Yes, we are FORCED by The Holy
Obedience to God, to say and accept in our hearts that no creature,
however perfect it could be, is worthy to be deemed as
"Co-Divine Person".
The uniqueness of a certain CREATURE, and our Blessed Mother Mary is the most
unique CREATURE in the Universe, does not in the slightest degree imply that
this creature takes part in The Holy Trinity. The Saviour is The Divine Person,
therefore there could not exist a "co-saviour". If we resist this
conclusion, then we will be led to
accept many heresies, the most "famous" one being the notion of
"saviours' contest" mentioned and embraced by the antipope JPII.
Let our beloved Blessed Mother Mary through Her mighty intercession lead us all to The One and Only Saviour, Jesus
Christ, Her only Son and God.
Vladimir from Zagreb, Croatia
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. It comes down to the fact that the people who
refuse to accept this don’t have real faith in the Church. They don’t really believe that the dogmas are
definitive and that they are supernaturally protected.
Homosexuality
To Most Holy Family Monastery:
Merry Christmas and God bless you all.
This is Kim-Lan Vu, I have a question hope
that you can help me. I attend a philosophy class. Yesterday, the professor
says something like...no one ever writes a good argument about
homosexuality...because it is difficult to have a valid and sound argument.
Therefore one cannot argue that homosexuality is right or wrong...anyone can
have different view about it and it depends on their preferences; but to write
a good argument, there is none.
How can I write a good argument about this
horrible unnatural thing. Please give
advice. I want to write this argument just to prove to him that there are so
many things wrong about homosexuality; it doesn't matter how he looks at this,
philosophy's point of view or theology's point of view. Wrong is wrong, period.
Help me brother
Your monastery is the only one I know so
far are still keep fighting for the truth, and I pray God bless you all.
Glory to God,
Kim
MHFM: Quickly we would say that it’s
naturally abhorrent to normal people.
It’s sterile and cannot reproduce; thus human nature screams out that
it’s disordered and wasn’t intended by the Creator. It would lead to the end of the human
race. It’s the cause of all kinds of diseases,
etc. Those are just some quick points.
Book
…Have
already started reading the UFO book, quite interesting and opened my eyes to
what they truly are. I will be ordering again in the next few weeks as
well. Your material is incredibly beneficial to the soul and the Catholic
Religion.… I believe you are right on with the message in your book "The
Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II"…
Kind
Regards,
Bruce
K.
Note
Dear Brothers,
I was the one who emailed the original quote regarding St. Benedict Labre and
NFP... I remember that soon after I emailed that to you I realized that it
didn't make sense what I wrote because St. Benedict Labre would have been born
first. I don't remember for sure, but I think I sent a follow up email
notifying of my mistake, but if not, I apologize. I need to be much more
diligent in putting facts ahead of emotions! Again, sorry for the mistake.
-Josh
MHFM: That’s alright. It happens.
Correction
MHFM: The other day we posted an e-mail from a reader
who pointed out that St. Benedict Labre was the eldest of 15 children. The reader said this was an indictment of
NFP, because St. Benedict wouldn’t have been born if his parents (who had 15
children) had used NFP. We agreed. That was not correct, obviously. We had read his e-mail too quickly and
assumed that he was pointing out that St. Benedict Labre was the youngest, not the eldest of 15. So obviously St. Benedict, being the first
child, still might have been born if his parents used NFP. It was an oversight on our part.
The point about large families still holds true to
indict NFP, however, just not in the case of St. Benedict Labre.
St. Ignatius
Loyola, who was the thirteenth of thirteen children, wouldn’t have been born if
his parents had practiced NFP; and most
certainly not a St. Catherine of Siena, who was the twenty-fifth child in a
family of twenty-five children!
Other examples could be given of saints who would have been phased out
of existence by the sinful birth control practice.
Questionable Paintings
Is it acceptable for a traditional Catholic
to have Renaissance paintings of nude women around the house?
What types of prayers will need to be said in order to allow this?
Thanks
MHFM: Our position would be that
people should definitely not have such paintings around the house.
Help with B.O.D.
Subject: Help
with Baptism of Desire
Dear
Brother Dimonds
I was having a debate with a guy who claims to believe in the Dogma that There
is No Salvation Outside the Church. But he started saying about people who
never have it preached to them. I told him that if they were of Good will, they
would hear the Faith. Then he says but what about Guadalupe. I said what do you
mean and he said, they had it preached to them and many didn't convert and yet
Our Lady worked a Great Miracle for them. Then he said that he's sure that
there is one person in China who would accept the Faith. He went on to say why doesn't God give a
country like China a Miracle like Guadalupe to convert them. How would I answer
him on this?
Thanks for your Help
God Bless
Sean
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
First it’s worth pointing out that your question is really a question
about ignorance. But it’s interesting
that you title it: “Help with Baptism of Desire.” In debating with defenders of “baptism of
desire,” you have obviously discovered that for basically all of them baptism
of desire = salvation through ignorance.
The man you’re conversing with isn’t very familiar with what
he’s talking about. Countless people in
China know about the Catholic faith. He
seems to be under the impression that the entire country is ignorant of the
Gospel. That’s not true.
Regarding his point about Guadalupe, it’s not totally clear what
he’s saying. Approximately 9 million
people converted after Our Lady’s miraculous appearance at Guadalupe. (It was basically a replenishment of the
Church’s numbers right as the Protestant revolt was taking away millions.) Just because some people didn’t convert after
the miracle of Guadalupe doesn’t prove anything. The miracle was the avenue for those people
of good will. Why were some Mexicans
given an extra chance through the miracle of Guadalupe? We believe that the third point below is the
answer to that question.
In answering the question about why God doesn’t work a miracle
similar to Guadalupe in all places, we would bring up three points. We think that all three points contribute, in
some way, to shedding light on the issue.
1) God leaves certain places in complete ignorance of the Gospel and
doesn’t work miracles in certain places because of bad will and unbelief. We see that clearly in Matthew 13.
Matthew 13:57-58- “But Jesus said to them:
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own
house. And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their unbelief.”
2) God wants people to search to find the truth. If they do, they will; and God will make the
truth known to them. People have to put
out a little bit of effort. God does not
cast His pearls before swine.
3) It’s part of the mystery of providence, grace and free
will. We don’t know the answer to many
questions concerning how much grace impacts free will and vice versa in the
lives of so many people. Of course it’s
a dogma that grace precedes all good acts and faith itself, but the
responsiveness of man’s free will often determines whether God will grant
additional graces for that person; but others are granted to people as a result
of the prayers and sacrifices of others, etc.
There are many mysteries in this regard.
That’s why it’s our job to accept what the all-knowing God has
revealed to us, not to refuse to accept what He has said (or modify it) if we
cannot immediately see the justice in it. So
many people believe in the “invincible ignorance” heresy because they don’t
have a supernatural belief in God, and thus they cannot submit to His
revelation unless the justice in it is readily apparent to them. The bottom-line is that God
has revealed to us that people who are left outside the faith are not saved;
and obviously we must conclude that it’s because He, in His perfect justice,
sees that they were not worthy of the truth.
As St. Augustine put it:
St. Augustine (428): “… God foreknew that if they had lived and the
gospel had been preached to them, they would have heard it without belief.” (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early
Fathers, Vol. 3: 1997.)
A “Co-Redemptrix” Argument
Dear Dimond brothers,
I wish to comment on your position regarding Mary as Co-redemptrix. Before I begin,
so that you understand my perspective on the matter, allow me to mention that I
hold the true Catholic faith, I believe in the dogma of no salvation outside
the Catholic Church, and I have found your resources most beneficial in
answering long-held questions about the conciliar Church. I regularly use your
information while attempting to bring others to the truth.
However, I believe your opposition to the title "Co-redemptrix"
represents your weakest argument for two reasons: First, I do not believe the
statements "Christ is Sole Redeemer" and "Mary is
Co-redemptrix" are contradictory. Your argument seems predicated on this
presumption. Second, if your argument is true, then Popes Benedict XV and Pius
XI are manifest heretics according to your own definition.
CONTRADICTION?
At first glance, it would seem that Christ cannot be the Sole Redeemer if Mary
is a Co-Redeemer. This would suggest there are two redeemers. However, it is
necessary to properly define the prefix "co." The prefix
"co" is derived from the Latin word "cum", meaning
"with." That the Blessed Mother participated WITH Jesus Christ, our
SOLE Redeemer, in the salvation of mankind is an indisuptable fact. At the
annunciation, the words "Be it done unto me according to thy word"
represented an act of free will that forever links the Blessed Mother to the
Redemption of mankind. Her participation was more than a function of geneology,
it was an act of the will, an act of obedience. It represents the opposite
action of Eve's disobedience, and clearly, Eve "co-operated" with
Adam in the fall in the same way the Blessed Mother "co-operates"
with Christ in the redemption. Though we suffer original sin solely because of
the sin of Adam and are redeemed solely by Christ, a woman "co-operated"
in both events.
I think a simple, albeit imperfect, analogy exposes a similar relationship:
The sun is the sole light source in our solar system. This is an indisputable
fact. However, the moon, also in our solar system, is the heavenly body that
lights the night sky. This is also a fact. On the surface, these statements
appear contradictory, but a closer look reveals the nature of the relationship.
As we all know, the moon reflects the sun's rays to light the night sky. In
truth, it is still the sun's rays lighting the darkness of the night, but it
happens only through the "co-operation" of the moon. The moon
complements and aids the sun in its mission to bring light to the earth. The
moon is a "Co-light source" with the sun, though in reality it is
nothing but dust, infinitessimally small, and produces no rays of its own.
HERESY?
In the section of your book entitled "19 Objections" you state the
following: (The Vatican II anti-popes) cannot be material heretics because 1)
they know very well of the dogmas which they deny; 2) they are bound to know
the Catholic Faith as “bishops,” especially the dogmas which they deny; and 3)
they lack and contradict the essential mysteries of Faith which one must hold
to be a Catholic.
If what you contend is true (and I believe it is quite true), then by your own
definition and by the statements in your article, Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI
are manifest heretics. The dogma that Christ is Sole Redeemer is infallibly
defined, as you articulate in your article. I think we would all agree that one
must know this truth in order to be a Catholic. However, you claim that these
popes are not heretics, but simply "erroneous" in their denial of
that dogma. This is not possible. If it is possible, then one might argue that
the VII Anti-popes are also "erroneous" in their heretical positions.
The conclusion is rather simple: either Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI are
manifest heretics who lost their office by receding (even in the least degree)
from the faith, or the position that Mary is Co-Redemptrix is not a
contradiction of the infallibly defined definition of Christ as Sole Redeemer
and therefore not heresy.
I believe the latter is the only logical position. Thank you for your time and
I am interested in your response.
Regards,
Daniel Curtis
MHFM: The arguments you raise are all
false. Turning to your last argument
first, it’s obvious that you didn’t listen to the audio on this issue. The audio covers more than what is covered in
the article. If you had listened to the
audio, you would have discovered that the argument you bring forward about the
popes is completely wrong. It has already been addressed and
refuted. You state that if Co-Redemptrix
is not consistent with dogma, as we say, then Benedict XV and Pius XI must have
been manifest heretics. That’s not true.
Is Our Lady the
Co-Redeemer? No. This audio explains why [36 min. audio]
As pointed out in the audio, Pope
John IV said that Pope Honorius’ heretical letters to Sergius (which we know
were heretical from the III Council of Constantinople) were not heretical. How is it possible for a pope (John IV) to
say that Honorius didn’t teach heresy, when we know that Honorius did? According to your argument, Pope John IV must
have been a heretic and an antipope. He
said something was not heretical which was heretical. The answer is that he was simply wrong, not a
heretic. Popes can be wrong about finer points of dogmatic issues without
being heretics, if there is legitimate
reason for confusion or if the correct position on the issue would require
knowledge of a specific decree. They
cannot be wrong about basic and fundamental dogmas, or totally obvious issues,
such as that Protestants need conversion, that false religions are evil,
etc. They cannot be wrong about issues
which every adult Catholic is bound to know.
Thus, there is no comparison between papal ignorance and papal errors on
these finer points of dogmatic matters and the undeniable heresies of the
Vatican II antipopes on basic and fundamental matters of faith.
Another example which completely
refutes your point (which is also covered on the audio) is the geocentrism
issue. (This issue also devastates, by
the way, most of the arguments raised in favor of baptism of desire from the
teaching of theologians, their view of what is magisterial, the authority of
the Holy Office, the authority of a doctor of a Church, etc.) The Holy Office under Pope Paul V and Pope
Urban VIII said that geocentrism is an article of faith and that heliocentrism
is heretical. The Congregation of the
Index felt the same, and forbade all heliocentric works. But in the 18th century the
Congregation of the Index reversed itself and allowed heliocentric works. And in 1921 Pope Benedict XV said the Earth
might not be the center of the universe.
So in 1921 Pope Benedict XV said the Earth might not be the center, well
after the Holy Office under Pope Paul V and Pope Urban VIII had declared that
idea heretical. According to your
fallacious argument, Pope Benedict XV was a heretic for contradicting a dogma,
or Pope Paul V and Pope Urban VIII were schismatics for considering a dogma
something that was not. These examples
demolish the argument you have raised.
They prove that popes can be wrong and/or confused about points which
touch upon dogmatic matters and in evaluating the status of a dogmatic
truth. They cannot be wrong in their
magisterial/infallible teaching. (By the
way, the answer to the geocentrism dilemma is covered in our article Examining the Theological Status of Geocentrism and
Heliocentrism and the Devastating Problems this creates for Baptism of Desire
Arguments [PDF].)
So your last argument clearly has no
merit and has been refuted.
Regarding your first argument (about
the sun and the moon), it also fails. It
fails because you use the term “light source” with ambiguity. If you specifically defined what you mean by
light “source,” then the error of your argument would be even more obvious. If by “source” you mean that which itself
produces light in the solar system, then it is the sun alone; and in that case it would be a contradiction to assert
that it is the sun with the moon. But if
the word “source” is used to include that
which brings light either by reflection or production, then it can be the
sun with the moon. So your analogy
fails.
The term Redeemer, on the other hand,
is specific. It specifically refers to who redeemed us from the bondage to the
Devil, which was the result of the sin of Adam.
It refers to who “destroyed our sins” and “opened the entrance to the
Kingdom of Heaven.” When we consider
that specific question (who opened the entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven by making
satisfaction to God the Father and destroying our sins), the answer is: Jesus
Christ alone. That’s why these councils
said this:
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy
Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and teaches that no one conceived of
man and woman was ever freed of the domination of the Devil, except through the
merit of the mediator between God and men, our Lord Jesus Christ; He who was conceived without sin,
was born and died, THROUGH HIS DEATH ALONE LAID LOW THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN
RACE BY DESTROYING OUR SINS, and opened the entrance to the kingdom of
heaven, which the first man by his own sin had lost…” (Denz. 711)
Pope Pius IV, Council of Trent, Sess. 25, On Invocation, Veneration and Relics of
Saints, and on Sacred Images, ex cathedra:
“…the saints, who reign with Christ,
offer up their prayers to God for men; and that it is good and useful to invoke
them suppliantly and, in order to obtain favors from God through His Son JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, WHO ALONE IS OUR
REDEEMER and Savior….And they must also teach that images of Christ, the virgin mother of God and the other
saints should be set up and kept… But if anyone should teach or maintain
anything contrary to these decrees, let him be anathema.” (Denz. 984)
Christ alone is the Redeemer. But it’s troubling that you see no
contradiction between these two specific statements:
“X” did something alone
“X” did something with “Y”
There is definitely a
contradiction.
John was in the car alone
John was in the car with Maureen
Sorry, there is a contradiction. Likewise, there is a clear contradiction
between:
Christ redeemed the world alone
Christ redeemed the world with Mary
If you cannot see that there is a
contradiction between Christ alone being the Redeemer, and Mary being
Co-Redeemer with Christ, then we cannot really help you. In that case, we would have to say that you
are not of good will at this time. You
don’t savor truth. You have no problem
saying “it is” and “it is not” at the same time (2 Corinthians 1:17-19).
Vatican II
Dear MHFM:
I have read some of your Web-site and I'm
getting confused trying to separate the Catholic Faith from the 2nd. Vatican
Council.
What specifically does the 2nd. V. C. teach
that's contrary to the Catholic Faith?
I'm a praticing Roman Catholic and I see
nothing wrong with its Canons.
I would like to know, what Holy Bible are
you reading?
Thank You.
Joe
MHFM: It’s all covered in this
section. You really should print it out
and read it.
The Heresies in Vatican II [PDF File]
Our book (The Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic Church after
Vatican II) also contains this section.
Comment
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/u-of-c-to-introduce-coed-dorm-rooms.html
This article made me think that these people are insane....one girl
said:
"In today's day and age it's not really fair to discriminate based on
gender anymore," said Asha Woodall, 19, a sophomore at the U. of C. and a
supporter of the plan. "Sexuality is more of a spectrum"
What does that even mean? More of a spectrum? And how does not
having co-ed rooms constitute "discrimination"?
Anyway-thank you for all of your hard work,
Teri Thurman
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. The story is an indication of the complete
evaporation of even basic morals.
Miraculous Baptism
The “Liturgical Year”; vol. 12, p. 405;
Time After Pentecost book III; Gueranger:
“The prince of the Apostles was awaiting
his martyrdom in the dungeon of the Mamertine prison, when, led by Divine
Mercy, there came to him two Roman soldiers, whose names have become
inseparable from his own in the Church’s history. One was called Processus, the
other Martinianus. They were struck by the dignity of the old man, confided fro
some hours to their ward, who would not see daylight again unitl he was led out
to execution. Peter spoke to them of eternal life, and of the Son of God who
loved men as to give the last drop of His Blood for their ransom. Processus and
Martinianus received with docile heart this unexpected instruction; they
accepted it with simple faith, and craved the grace of regeneration. But water
was wanting in the dungeon, and Peter was forced to make use of the power to
command nature, bestowed by our Lord upon the Apostles when He sent them into
the world. At the word of the old man a fountain sprang up from the ground, and
the two soldiers were baptized in the miraculous water. Christian piety still
venerates this fountain …”
This account coupled with all the other
examples you have provided (St. Isaac Jogues, Father De Smet, and others) of
miraculous occurrences of water specifically for baptism are confusing if
“desire” is acceptable.
MHFM: That’s correct. That’s because water baptism is absolutely
necessary and God will make sure that every person of good will receives
it.
Found
Hello,
I found your site through Alex Jones. Quick history i was born into the Roman
Catholic Religion (or at least i thought) and for the past 18 years i have
either not attended church or currently attend a non-denominational church
that until now i thought was on the right path. The church i currently attend
teaches straight from the bible and as my wife says has an awesome kids program
:) Any ways i am really intrigued by your work and your site, I was
confirmed in the Catholic faith and have always wanted to stay within, but
needed to find that equal ground with my wife who was raised Baptist. Needless
to say i am always drawn to the Roman Catholic faith. Are there any
Roman Catholic churches out there that are not Vatican II sect ( i live in
Georgia)????? I have so much catching up to do such as getting my children
baptized and getting my self re-acquainted with my true faith. I know i sound
all over the board but i want to get on the right path, hopefully you can be of
assistance.
Best Regards,
Curt
MHFM: It’s great to hear that you
found the site and are interested. The Catholic Church (the traditional
Church) is the only Church Christ founded. All of the Protestant sects,
such as the Baptist sect, are false, man-made and reject many teachings of the
Bible. Please consult this section of our website: http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/refuting_protestantism_mainpage.php
You really need to investigate this
and follow through with conversion to the traditional Catholic faith. We
have the steps how to do that on our website.
We can help you with your specific questions when you contact us.
You should begin to pray the Rosary each day. We must say that you don’t
want to find "equal ground" with your wife because, at this time,
she’s not a Christian. She needs to convert to the traditional Catholic
faith first, and then you can find equal ground with her in the true faith.
Antipopes position
I am fascinated by your website. I
would agree with many of your views to a point. I did have some questions
which I would love your answers.
You have stated your case clearly that you
believe that we have had anti-popes since 1958. DO you largely base that
on an opinion that Cardinal Siri was elected pope in 1958
(and 1963) and did not properly resign, but did resign under duress? Or
do you base your thesis just on the anti-pope's heresies?
Jr…
MHFM: No, the position is based
strictly on irrefutable facts and doctrinal evidence. It is proven, first and foremost, by the
Catholic teaching that a heretic is not a valid pope and the undeniable fact
that the Vatican II “popes” are manifest heretics. Secondly, it’s proven by the fact that the
Vatican II antipopes have taught heresies in what would be an infallible
capacity if they were true popes. An
example of this is Paul VI’s solemn confirmation of Vatican II. This proves that they did not have papal
authority to begin with.
The points about prophecy, Cardinal
Siri, etc. are interesting and further confirm what’s happening. However, they are not necessary to prove the
point.
San Jose Gay “Mass”
Dimond's,
According to the official website for St. Martin of Tours Novus Ordo Parish,
they have "gay and lesbian" so-called "masses" every
Saturday! From the website:
As part of the Diocese of San Jose's pastoral outreach ministry, the diocese
sponsors a Mass in the Chapel at St. Martin's Church every Saturday evening at
6:30 p.m. for gay and lesbian Catholics and their family members and friends.
The community also has monthly potluck gatherings.
The Emmaus Mass has presiders from throughout the diocese, including Jesuits
from Santa Clara University. The Emmaus community, which has formed from those
attending this Mass, provides a community which is very caring and supportive
in many ways.
The website also shows a sickening homosexual Novus Ordo style table cloth and
candles that will be used during the so-called "mass".
http://www.stmartin.org/Emmaus.htm
Not that we need anymore proof that the Novus Ordo sect is non-Catholic, but
the proof really is endless!
God bless
Speaking in Tongues
Brother… I do respect your office and your work. I fear God.
I neither judge anyone work for the only true and righteous judge has
that power. He tells us to judge the
fruit.
I
would like to hear your view on "tongues" Before you answer I believe
to be fair and have no hidden reason on why I am asking you.
This
what I have personally experienced. While on my way to minister in a
nursing home I was led to see a certain elderly lady. After visiting with
her, found out she was a missionary who traveled all over the world, but also a
scholar. I asked her the same question about the issue of
"tongues". She turned to me
and said "do you want it" of course I said "if its for
us to have it, yes I want it"
She
told me to kneel down and sing to the Lord and she would place her hands on my
head and pray for me. I received the
evidence of speaking in tongues within 10 minutes, and after I left her room at
5 PM or so, I went home (I was full of excitement and gladness) I continued to
pray until 3 am (yes, without stopping) then I asked the Lord in English
"I want to sing" and Immediately a Mafioso start coming out my mouth
and have not stopped since that day. I was raised Catholic, but how much I have
missed for not knowing the truth about the riches that our Lord has for all of
us due to ignorance of the benefits awarded to those who seek HIM.
My
further question. Why the church does not teach on tongues?
Love
IN HIM
Oklahoma
MHFM: The true gift of speaking in
tongues (e.g., Acts 2:4) involves a person miraculously speaking in languages
he didn’t know, or speaking in his own language and miraculously being
understood by people of a different language.
The “speaking in tongues” that predominates today, especially in Charismatic
and Protestant circles, is definitely diabolical. That is to say, it’s not a gift of the Holy
Ghost, but a satanic deception. This
article has some important information on that issue.
EWTN and the Charismatic Movement [PDF File]
This “gift” usually comes after a
person has had hands laid on him/her in some way. Many cases of undeniable demonic possession
and demonic problems have resulted from these
people having had hands laid upon them by a Charismatic in order to
receive some spiritual “gift.” It
frequently results in “the gift of tongues,” which often means speaking in
gibberish and engaging in absolute foolishness (more evidence that it’s
demonic). The person who is usually
performing the ceremony is either a non-Catholic, a layman or a woman. In all of those cases, it’s definitely not of
God. As explained in the above article,
the Devil comes into people and gives them this false “speaking in tongues” –
even though at first most people don’t realize it’s a deception – because they
are participating in a “laying on of hands” that is unauthorized and outside
the system instituted by Christ.
The
laying on of hands is present throughout the New Testament as the matter for
the Sacrament of Confirmation (e.g. Acts 8:17; Acts 19:6) – a sacrament
instituted by Jesus Christ. It’s ironic
that in the new “Confirmation” in the Vatican II sect the laying on of hands
has been abolished, but Charismatics continue to use the laying on of hands in
their own services in order to transmit “the spirit.” Since
we know that their laying on of hands in
an attempt to transmit the “spirit” or “the gift of tongues” is not the
Sacrament of Confirmation (for even women and laymen do it), it is actually
the Counter Confirmation – a false sacrament which therefore gives access, once
again, not to the Holy, but to the evil spirit.
So, as a worthy recipient of
the Sacrament of Confirmation receives a deeper endowment of the Holy Ghost, the
active participation in such new “rites” or “sacraments” of the false
Charismatic religion – by partaking in things such as the laying on of hands –
gives these unfortunate individuals a deep endowment of the evil spirit.
What was performed on you by the
woman would have to be put in the category of the false gifts of tongues. People must be clear on that.
Interest
To Most Holy Family Monastery
Hello! I am a senior at the University of
San Francisco, a Jesuit Institution. I have decided to begin a correspondence
with you, and would like to express my gratitude for your website. I have long
suspected the true devotion of our current Catholic Church to Jesus Christ our
Savior and the saints. I feel that in a world filled with heretical propaganda,
the word of God is almost always lost under the American notion of unparalleled
consumerism. The most recent attack on Catholicism comes in the form of a
feature film, Doubt; it pertains primarily to a Priest and his unsavory actions
towards young school boys! Granted, some parish priests have been accused of
and convicted of such atrocities, but never the less the main stream and
primarily Jewish run media delight in the lashing of Catholic Clergymen. Little
by little American boys and girls have been deliberately led away from Christ's
truth and funneled into Godless and satanic paradigms of American culture.
They, call them the media, call them freemasons, call them what one will, the
point being they all bask in Luciferian light and have an agenda to ensure that
every man, woman and child do likewise bathe in the blood of their own undoing.
As I type these words my hands tremble and my eyes well-up with water, for they
do not know what they do my lord, and I wish only to expose the false radiance
of Lucifer that has taken such a firm grim upon the likes of my peers. I was
born and raised in San Francisco California, so eccentricism among populations
has never been a point of grievance for me. The problem that I now see arising
is Godlessness and narcissism. By Godlessness, I am referring to individuals
that have no faith in anything besides what is tangible and apparent. By
narcissism, I mean people which are self-involved and self-interested to a
degree that serves only in spreading the morals and dogmas of Lucifer. By the
way I read part of the previously alluded to literature by Albert Pike and it
is almost instantly recognizable as a Luciferian doctrine. It is an
uphill battle that we as true Catholics must now face, and I have faith that
individuals like you and I can change the hearts and minds of countless lost
souls if only we get to the bottom of this wicked cesspool from which deception
spews. I often have dreams, literally and figuratively speaking, but this one
will only be extinguished when the Lord sees fit to grant me my last breath.
Piously yours,
George Anthony Samayoa II
MHFM: Thanks for the interest. We hope you understand that
one cannot attend the New Mass, and that one must reject the Vatican II sect
completely. Based on your e-mail, it seems that you probably do, but it's
important to make sure. There are probably many young people at your
university who need to see the information on our website. Many of them would probably find it
interesting.
Converting
Hello Brother Diamond,
I have been reading over your web site and
I am deeply concerned. I want to convert over to the traditional Catholic
faith. I was baptized in 1977 and I am not sure if I was baptized by a Novus
Ordo priest or a traditional one. Do I need to be re- baptized? I also need to
find a Latin Tridentine Mass around my area in Westchester, IL. It is necessary
that I find one so that I can attend confession and mass. I am willing to
purchase books from you that will help me convert. Please get back to me as
soon as possible. Thank you for all of this valuable information. I am so glad
that I found this site. I am looking forward to hearing back from you.
Elaine
MHFM: It's great to hear about your
interest. We have a section on our website which explains how one is to
convert.
As explained in that file, a conditional
baptism can be done if there is a doubt about the validity of your
baptism. Heretics can validly baptize, so the doubt would come in only if
the priest messed around with the proper matter and form or did not do the
baptism seriously. Please call us here
and we can help you with where to receive sacraments.
Sermons of the Cure
Dear Brothers
Have you ever heard of read the book The Sermons of Cure of
Ars?,
I've read Sinners Guide, Prep for Death & Four Last
Things. Even though they are all great books, but all them combined don’t
have the weight of this one... You may want to put this in your book store, or
I can send you a copy...If someone wants a mirror to see their soul, just hand
them this book..When I read it back in the day, I started weeping and made a
general confession
-Steve
MHFM: Yes, we do have it and have read it. It’s very good. Some of our readers will probably benefit
from your recommendation.
Loved by the World
Dear
Brothers,
I gave a new friend of mine who, who is a self-professed Baptist, a copy of
your Communism/Freemasonry DVD. He watched all three segments in their entirety
and told me he was appalled by the scandal of JP2 going around cavorting with
leaders of pagan religions and dictators. He then exclaimed to me something
that I'd never heard before but that is right on the money: He said that
there's one true way to gauge if any given pope is a true pope or not and that
is to ask, "Is the 'pope' loved by the world or hated?" Because a
true pope would be shunned by the world and it's leaders. Certainly this hasn't
been the case since V2.
Even this Baptist (who I'm praying for his conversion) was easily able to
decipher that the V2 is of Communist origin. Yet so many followers of the V2
like the ones who've been in the e-exchange's lately don't get the picture
because they don't love the truth.
On “Co-Redemptrix”
Thank
you for the recent article and audio file on the term Co-Redemptrix. I am
pretty sure now that it is inappropriate to use. Although Our Lady had a
unique role in bringing The Redeemer into the world, and suffered uniquely
alongside her Son during his Passion, she did not perform the redeeming act of
opening the Gates of Heaven to souls. And you are right about The Council
of Trent having more weight than Pope Benedict’s statement.
I
studied Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and my Mariology
professor was Dr. Mark Miravalle. He is one of the main lobbyists to have
“Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate ” declared as the “Fifth Marian dogma”
by the “Holy Father”. I remember in our first class he explained how many
people fall into “Marian defect” or “Marian excess”. Many who follow the
post-Vatican II changes fall into these categories. And the “conservative”
Miravalle seems to have fallen into an excess here. Interesting that he
also promotes the apparitions of Medjugorje…
Thank you and a Blessed Advent Season to you,
Matthew
Catholic teaching shows us that
Mary is not to be considered Co-Redemptrix
Bap. of Desire
Dear Dimonds,
There is a new heresy going around in defense of Baptism of Desire. In an attempt
to explain away the Nicene Creed when it says "We confess one baptism for
the remission of sins" and the Tridentine Creed when it says "I
confess one and baptism for the forgiveness of sins", some Baptism of
Desire/Blood advocates are now saying that Baptism of Desire and Blood are not
just sacraments, but are ONE sacrament. They are saying that it's three forms
(water, blood, desire) in one sacrament. Just like the Holy Trinity. They say
that when the creeds say "I believe in One God..." it means One God
in three persons, which is true. But they are such liars and are really
grasping at straws when they say "one baptism for the remission of
sins" means one baptism in three forms.
Can you believe this? Not even the heretical catechisms that popped up in the
mid-late 19th century and early 20th century would dare state such a thing.
Such a notion is unbiblical, untraditional, and uncatholic. This is not a
divinely reveal truth from God. The Church has never taught this. No saint or
theologian I know of even entertained such an idea. I don't know where this
whole Trinity-esque "one baptism in three forms" originated, but I
know Patrick
J. Miron teaches this in his book Behold the Lamb of God, which was released
fairly recently, in 2006, I believe. Perhaps he started this heresy.
God bless
MHFM: Well, if they are arguing in that way, then they are
creating even more problems for their false position. All who favored the idea of “baptism of
desire,” including St. Thomas Aquinas, admitted that it’s not a sacrament. They knew they must admit it’s not a
sacrament because it does not confer the indelible mark of Baptism and it
doesn’t have the outward sign instituted by Christ.
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica III, Q. 66,
A. 11, Answer 2: “As stated above, a sacrament is a kind of sign. The other two [baptism of desire and blood],
however, are like the Baptism of Water, not, indeed, in the nature of sign, but
in the baptismal effect. Consequently they are not sacraments.”
Fr. Laisney, Is Feeneyism Catholic?, p. 9: “Baptism
of Desire is not a sacrament; it does not have the exterior sign required
in the sacraments. The theologians,
following St. Thomas… call it ‘baptism’ only because it produces the grace of
baptism… yet it does not produce the sacramental character.”
The admission that “baptism of desire” is not a
sacrament provides us with another example of how baptism of desire is not
consistent with Catholic dogma. That’s
because the Church has infallibly taught that THE SACRAMENT of Baptism is
necessary for salvation.
Pope Paul III, The
Council of Trent, Can. 5 on the Sacrament
of Baptism, Sess. 7, 1547, ex cathedra: “If anyone says
that baptism [the sacrament] is optional, that is, not necessary for salvation
(cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.”
It’s also been defined that incorporation into the
sacramental system is necessary for salvation.
Pope Pius IV, “Iniunctum nobis,” Council of
Trent, Nov. 13, 1565: “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, although all are not necessary for
each individual…”
Notice that Pope Pius IV in “Iniunctum nobis,”
the Profession of Faith of the Council of Trent, declares that “the sacraments”
as such (i.e., the sacramental system as
a whole) are necessary for man’s salvation, but it adds that all are
not necessary for each individual. This
is very interesting and it proves two points:
1) It
proves that every man must receive at
least one sacrament to be saved; otherwise, “the sacraments” as such (i.e.
the sacramental system) couldn’t be said to be necessary for salvation. Hence, this definition (besides the others) shows
that each man must at least receive the Sacrament of Baptism in order to be
saved.
2)
Notice that the Council of Trent (and Vatican I below) made it a special point when defining this truth
to emphasize that each person does not need to receive all of the
sacraments to be saved! This proves that
where exceptions or clarifications are necessary in defining truths the
Councils will include them! Thus, if
some men could be saved without “the sacraments” by “baptism of desire” then
the Council could have and would have simply said that.
But nothing about salvation being possible
without the sacraments was taught in these dogmatic professions of Faith. Rather, the truth that the sacraments are
necessary for salvation was defined, with the necessary and correct qualification
that all seven of the sacraments are not necessary for each person.
Now, back to the “new” argument… There’s a good way to refute that new
heresy. If they are arguing that baptism
of desire/blood are the Sacrament of Baptism, then they must admit that one who
receives baptism of desire/blood cannot ever receive water baptism. For if he did, he would be receiving “the
Sacrament of Baptism” twice, you see.
And the idea that someone can validly receive the Sacrament of Baptism
twice has been condemned.
Council of Trent, Can. 9 on the Sacraments
in General: “If any one saith, that, in the three sacraments, Baptism,
Confirmation, and Order, there is not imprinted in the soul a character, that
is, a certain spiritual and indelible Sign, on account of which they cannot be repeated; let him be anathema.”
(Note: this is not to suggest that
someone who is in doubt about his/her baptism cannot be baptized
conditionally. Rather, it is to assert
the theological truth that one who has been baptized cannot be truly baptized
again.) Therefore, if people are arguing
that baptism of desire is the Sacrament of Baptism, they are relegated to the
position that baptism of desire can only come upon a person just before he dies. For if it comes upon a person who remains
living, then that person who received the baptism of desire would or could (if
preached to) subsequently approach water baptism and thus would be receiving
“the sacrament” again.
So, with their new heretical position
that baptism of desire/blood is the Sacrament of Baptism, they are relegated to
arguing that it only comes upon a person in danger of death. But there’s already a sacrament for danger of
death. It’s called Extreme Unction. Therefore, their “new” heretical argument is
filled with contradictions and winds up turning the Sacrament of Baptism into
the sacrament for the end of life. It’s
just another one of the many interesting contradictions that arise when people
attempt to defend the false position of “baptism of desire.” So regardless of whether they argue that it’s
a sacrament (most of them do not), the position is shown to be incompatible
with the teaching of the Church.
There are also a number of interesting ways of refuting the
completely false idea that the “three baptisms” are comparable to the three
persons of the Trinity. At some point we
will expand upon that.
Gospel of John
Brothers,
In an email regarding the difficulty in understanding the Gospel of John, I
have found that the only way to understand it is to read it. John's Gospel
contains by far a huge amount of Catholic teaching and dogma. After the 3rd or
4th reading of it issues become quite clear. I've read this Gospel, oh, 22 or
23 times since I began reading Scripture. One must only have a real desire to
understand what Jesus is trying to impart to the reader. This is the simple
formula I used when I started reading the New Testament 5 1/2 years ago, and in
my case, it made the process of understanding your material extremely easy to
assimilate. and my conversion was no doubt accelerated.
But if one has no real desire to understand what Jesus Christ is trying to
communicate, the fault clearly lies with the reader, and, of course, the Gospel
or any of the Gospels will always remain a mystery.
Howard
AR.
MHFM: Yes, if people were to focus on
just one book of the Bible, they might want to consider focusing on the Gospel
of John. In addition to its abundance of
powerful passages on salvation, it is a treasure chest of information which
proves Catholic teaching from the Bible.
The Fed
Dear Brothers in Christ,
I was very troubled when I came across your
article "The
Private Federal Reserve Bank Exposed" I always had suspected some sort of
conspiracy going on in the country and in the world and I have a question. Why
are the "Money Masters" doing all of this. What are they trying to
accomplish. Are they agents of the Antichrist? Does their activities have
anything to do with religion. Please get back to me.
May God Bless you
and keep you+
MHFM: They are definitely used by the
Devil to stir up evil in the secular realm.
The Devil uses them to create a usurious empire in the world. This empire ensures that people have less
time for spiritual pursuits because so many of them have to work so much (often
both parents) just to pay interest and taxes to the bankers. They are greedy and their goal is power and
control. In addition to the other evil
they spread, the Devil uses them to waste people’s lives by making it more
difficult and time-consuming to live everyday life.
The Private Federal Reserve Bank
Exposed
Comment on Homosexuality
Dear brothers in Christ,
The recent message abot homosexuality as a "brain disorder" is just
one more piece of evidence that the V-2 apostates embrace plain
lies. Consider their evil "logic" in the light of indisputable fact
that the whole world (governments, various associations, etc.) are very busy,
and very successful in that regard, to try to convince the people that the
homosexual behavior (that is, homosexual crime) is NORMAL, is HEALTHY; they are
working very hard in trying to prove that the homosexuals in
"marriage" are capable of adopting children, etc. etc.
And in the midst of this satanic show
playing before our eyes, the V-2 sectarians have audacity to tell us that the
supposed "brain disorder" is proven and aknowledged by
the relevant world's institutions. What an abomination!
Let our Blessed Mother Mary destroy the abominable V-2 and all other false
religions.
Vladimir from Croatia
Thanks
Dear Brothers Dimond,
I came across your website by accident...
I'm not sure what link I followed to get to the Most Holy Family Monastery, but
what a revelation it was for me! I can't thank you enough for saving my
soul and, hopefully, others to whom I will refer your website... May God bless
you and support you in your mission to bring the truth to all faithful
Catholics.
Many, many thanks!
Sincerely,
Rose Clancey
MHFM: Thank you very much for your
words of support. Of course salvation is
only attained if people persevere and die in the state of grace; but your
sentiments of excitement over having found the true Catholic faith are greatly
appreciated.
Horrible
How can you call yourselves a Catholic
Monastery and print the junk you print on your website. Don't tell me for
one minute, that since 1969 I have been going to Mass and it does not
count. What is wrong with you. And calling Pope Benedict XVI a
heretic is completely crazy.
Please stop putting this stuff out there
about the Catholic Faith.
And for Homosexuals, they have a definite
proven brain disorder that cannot be helped. We as Catholics cannot
condone the actions of the homosexual, but we MUST be aware that this is a
definite brain disorder.
You people are just horrible for the things
you print in this terrible website, and you call yourself Catholics and followers
of Christ.
Please STOP printing this junk immediately.
Judy…
MHFM: It makes sense that someone
such as yourself, who defends the heretic Antipope Benedict XVI, would also
hold that homosexuality isn’t a result of mortal sin but rather a “brain
disorder.” Such a false and faithless
conclusion (which contradicts the clear teaching of Romans 1 on the cause of
homosexuality) is in line with your faithless acceptance of the clear heresies
of Benedict XVI.
You express disbelief at the notion that
the “Mass” you are going to could be invalid.
It has been demonstrated on dogmatic grounds that it cannot be
considered valid. Moreover, it has been
predicted that such a deception will come and be allowed to occur. In the Gospel, Jesus Christ not only informs
us that in the last days the true faith would hardly be found on the Earth, but
that “in the holy place” itself there will be “the abomination of desolation”
(Mt. 24:15), and a deception so profound that, if it were possible, even the
elect would be deceived (Mt. 24:24). St.
Paul says that the man of sin will sit “in the temple of God” (2 Thess.
2:4). God allows this kind of deception
in part because of faithless and bad willed people like you.
If you had any faith at all, which
unfortunately you don’t, you might have the grace to see that the abominable
fruits and scandals of the Vatican II “Church” are a clue about what’s going
on.
Stop
Subject: Please, I beg you; Stop!
Dear Representatives,
I do not grovel, but I will make an exception and do it now--your site is
blasphemous! Please reconsider what you have posted, because I fear
for you. I was contesting Playboy's using a cover suggestive of Blessed
Mother and nearly fainted when I read your beliefs. I respectfully
request that you read this in its entirety; you see, if I do not speak up, I am
complicit in sinning with you. You are well aware that we will one day
stand before the Lord in Heaven and account for every word we said on earth,
every deed we did and did not do.
I am a Catholic, named after Blessed Mother. I teach at a Catholic High
School. My heart broke, as you believe that Vatican II was heresy.
Heresy? It was a huge movement by the Holy Spirit in reforming the
Church, bringing us together as a community, helping us to understand the
meaning of Scripture and mass. The only sin which is not forgivable is
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit--as Pope John Paul II said, "Do not
grieve the Holy Spirit!" I recall being a very young girl before
Vatican II; the priest would say mass with his back to the congregation, while
some people prayed the Rosary, others prayed novenas, and yet more read the
bulletin. I love the Rosary and pray novenas, but this was
wrong. Why? Because they could not understand or relate to what was
happening.
Please--don't dismiss me. While on earth, did Jesus hide himself away
from others and speak in a way they could not decipher? No, He walked
among men and women, touched them, and gathered them together. He did it
for a reason--there is power in combined prayer, in unity. There is power
in God's Word. St. John's Gospel is too hard for our feeble minds to
fathom but for an instant: "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God." Catholics were not encouraged
to read the Bible. It is Scripture which has seen me through horrible and
wonderful times in my life; because of it, miracles were wrought. How can
you not see this? I'm befuddled!
I dare you to contact me; I have nothing to hide, but the Lord is leading me to
tell you to cease and desist.
God Bless and Worship as Christ Directed,
Gigi Sommers DePascale
MHFM: You are a typical Vatican II apostate. You do not remotely belief in the Catholic
faith, as it has been taught and defined.
You only accept the modernist counterfeit “Catholicism” that arose with
Vatican II. Vatican II teaches clear
heresies against the Catholic faith, as we prove without any doubt.
The Heresies in Vatican
II [PDF File]
The teachings of Vatican II, which include that there is
salvation outside the Church (heresy), that false religions are acceptable
(heresy), that the Church is united with heretics and schismatics (heresy), are
quite different from “bringing us together.”
The only way to charitably bring people together is with the truth. Vatican II taught that there can be unity
without the truth. Sadly, we don’t
expect any of these points of Catholic faith to impact you, since you don’t
believe in or care about the dogmatic teachings of the Catholic Church.
Comment
Dear Br. Dimond,
I have always heard the advocates of the
Co-Redemptrix title say that it was because of her being Our Lord's
Mother. Without her, He would not have been born, so she had a role in
the Redemption in that way.
My response has always been that this means
St. Anne, St. Joachim, King David, Solomon, Judah, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, etc.
(all the way back to Adam) are ALL Co-Redeemers. All of Our Lord's
ancestors deserve that title. As this gets rather pointless, the title
should be abandoned.
Keep up the good work!
-Steve H.
NFP
Subject: large Catholic families
Many thanks for your page on the evil of
natural family planning which is making me think. I would like to learn more
about the virtues pf large Catholic families. Please would you link me up with
someone interested in this subject.
best wishes
Mark A.
The Way
Subject: Jesus Christ is the Way, Jesus
Christ is the door
I don't know if you accept e-mails as this
but I had to send my thoughts to you about your web site. I've been reading you documention about the
last 4 or 5 antipopes and being raised as a Catholic, I haven't been a
practicing Catholics\ for 30 years now, but raised as a church going
Catholic. The one thing that stands out from all the quotations from the
last 5 popes to all these inter-faith get togethers is NOT
once did any of them say Jesus Christ is the Way, Jesus Christ is the door
to everlasting life with God the Father in heaven. All I read is the pope's
believe and pray to the same God as the Jews, as the believers in Islam and the
Orthodox believers. Is it because all these religions don't believe in Jesue as
the Christ who shed his blood for our sins and our belief in this saves us. I
agree with all your comments that this is all heresy coming from Rome. Thank
you and I'm glad I came across you web site.
JOHN C. WILLIAMS
PITTSBURGH, PA
MHFM: We’re glad that you came across our website as well,
John. That Jesus Christ is the only way
– that salvation is truly found only in Him – is one of the foundational truths
of the Catholic faith (the only biblical and Christian faith). This is so true that we read that knowing
Jesus Christ is life everlasting:
“Now this is
life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3)
It’s critical that you act upon this information and return to
the traditional Catholic faith. We have
a section on our which explains how one is to do this.
Gates of Hell
If what you're saying is true then Christ
lied to us!! The Gates of Hell HAVE Prevailed against the Church! The FSSP does
not "use" bishops. They only fall under 'supposed' juridstiction of the
local diocese. I have never seen a bishop from the novus ordo visit the Church
I go to where I live. The priests over there have blasted the new mass and the
novus ordo constantly where I attend! The bishops of the local diocese have
nothing to do with traditionals. I used
to believe as the sedavecantists believe. The only problem is that when I
believe that way I question everything always! There is no peace within my
heart and without the FSSP & SSPX there is no where to attend
mass.
Keith
MHFM: To your first question, the FSSP “priests” are ordained by
“bishops” who are made bishops in the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration. The New Rite of Episcopal Consecration of is
of doubtful validity. For that reason,
the priests of the FSSP cannot be considered valid priests and people should
not go to those priests. They are also
heretics who accept Vatican II and the heresies of the heretical Vatican II
antipopes.
Why the New Rite of Ordination is
Invalid [PDF
File]
This article explains
why the New Rite of Ordination – which was instituted by Paul VI on June 18,
1968 after Vatican II – is not valid.)
The
New Rite of Consecration of Bishops [PDF file]
This article explains
the changes that Paul VI made to the rite of consecrating bishops after Vatican
II.)
Regarding your statement about the gates of Hell, you are not
correct. You should read these files.
The Glossary of Terms and Principles [PDF]
Responses
to 19 of the Most Common Objections Against Sedevacantism [PDF file]
The indefectibility (the promise of Christ to always be with His
Church, and that the gates of Hell will not prevail against it) means that the
Church will, until the end of time, remain essentially what she is. The indefectibility of the Church requires
that at least a remnant of the Church
will exist until the end of the world, and that a true pope will never
authoritatively teach error to the entire Church. It does not exclude antipopes posing
as popes (as we’ve had numerous times in the past, even in Rome) or a
counterfeit sect that reduces the adherents of the true Catholic Church to a
remnant in the last days. This is
precisely what is predicted to occur
in the last days and what happened during the Arian crisis.
St. Athanasius: "Even if Catholics faithful to tradition
are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true
Further, it should be noted
that the Church has defined that heretics are the gates of Hell which Our Lord
mentioned in Matthew 16!
Pope Vigilius, Second Council of
“… we bear in mind what was
promised about the holy Church and Him who said the gates of Hell will not
prevail against it (by these
we understand the death-dealing tongues of heretics)…”[1]
Pope St. Leo IX, Sept. 2,
1053: “The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and upon Peter… because by the gates of Hell, that is, by the disputations of heretics
which lead the vain to destruction, it would never be overcome.”[2]
St. Thomas Aquinas (+1262): “Wisdom may fill the hearts
of the faithful, and put to silence the
dread folly of heretics, fittingly referred to as the gates of Hell.”[3]
(Intro. To Catena Aurea.)
Notice that heretics are the gates of
Hell. Heretics are not members of the
Church. That’s why a heretic could never
be a pope. The gates of Hell (heretics)
could never have authority over the Church of Christ. It’s not those who expose the heretical
Vatican II antipopes who are asserting that the gates of Hell have prevailed
against the Church; it’s those who obstinately defend them as popes, even
though they can clearly be proven to be manifest heretics.
Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18, 1208:
“By the heart we believe and
by the mouth we confess the one
Church, not of heretics,
but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and
St. Francis De Sales (17th century), Doctor of the Church, The Catholic Controversy, pp. 305-306: "Now
when he [the Pope] is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church..."
Further, during the Arian crisis
almost all the bishops became heretics.
The gates of Hell did not overcome the Church.
How? Confused?
Dear brother Michael,
I have been attending daily mass until a
friend who calls himself a traditionalist introuduced me to this site of yours.
you have me completly confused. Can i join your movement and still attend the
english mass while saying 15 decades of the rosary in a group before the mass
or should i start attending the tridentine mass or both. I always thought the
media were malinging the pope &the catholic church. You say there are anti- popes since the vat-2
How can our Lord do such a thing to us when he has promised us he will be with
us until the end of the world. I think you are to fundamental, & formula
orinnted. Hope you can open your mind to change & stop your divisive
work. May our mother bless you &
bring you back to the unity of the church in these troubled times.
Keith
MHFM: As the traditional Catholic
teaching on our website shows, when you go to the English “Mass” you are not
going to a valid Mass. It doesn’t have
the form of consecration. You should not
receive any sacraments, even at a traditional Mass, until you convert to the
traditional Catholic faith. In our
material and in the E-Exchange above, we address in detail the false objection
that the Vatican II apostasy contradicts the promises of Christ to the
Church. The Church’s teaching on
indefectibility does not preclude the possibility of antipopes and the Church
being reduced to a small number of faithful.
We have seen both in the past.
This apostasy has also been predicted in Catholic prophecy and
Scripture. Are you aware that there have
been antipopes? Are you aware that
heretics cease to be Catholics? Are you
aware that it’s Catholic teaching that heretics lose and cannot occupy the
papal office? Have you read the heresies
in Vatican II which are exposed on our website?
You need to wake up and become convinced of Catholic dogmas. You seem like a modernist. Until you embrace the faith and put out a
little more effort to inform yourself about Catholic teachings by looking into
the material on our website, you will be unable to see the truth on this.
New Audio and Article on “Co-Redemptrix” Issue
MHFM: We have two new items on the issue of whether
Our Lady is to be considered “Co-Redemptrix.”
As we’ve pointed out before, according to the infallible teaching of the
Church the answer is no. This is not in
any way to diminish the role of Our Lady or any of the truths about her or the
necessity of devotion to her. It is to
state the truth about this issue.
Pope Pius IV, Council of Trent,
Sess. 25, On Invocation, Veneration and Relics of Saints, and on Sacred Images,
ex cathedra: “…the saints, who reign with Christ, offer up their prayers to God
for men; and that it is good and useful to invoke them suppliantly and, in
order to obtain favors from God through His Son JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, WHO ALONE IS OUR REDEEMER and
Savior….And they must also teach that images of Christ, the virgin mother of God and the other saints should be set up and kept…
But if anyone should teach or maintain anything contrary to these decrees, let
him be anathema.” (Denz. 984)
To maintain that Mary is “Co-Redemptrix” in light
of these dogmatic definitions, which infallibly declare that Jesus alone is our Redeemer, one would
literally have to hold that there is no contradiction between these two
statements:
Joshua walked into the desert alone
Joshua walked into the desert with Margaret
Beware of phonies and false devotees of Our Lady
who will agree with any statement which appears
to praise her, even if it is not consistent with Catholic teaching
Why it is not Catholic
teaching that Mary is "Co-Redemptrix" [37 min. audio]
This audio contains
important points. It also addresses a
number of objections that are raised on this issue. The last part of it addresses the objection
that the title of “Co-Redemptrix” couldn’t be contrary to Catholic dogma
because there seems to be a handful of papal statements which favor the
notion. In the course of answering that
objection, the issues of Geocentrism and Pope Honorius are discussed. It’s
very important to understand these points that are covered on Geocentrism and
Honorius because they serve not only to refute objections on this issue,
but also objections on the baptism of desire issue – objections which arise
from false ideas about what constitutes the official teaching of the
Church.
Catholic
teaching shows us that Mary is not to be considered "Co-Redemptrix" [new short
article]
One of the new points that is covered in this
article is this:
THAT CHRIST ALONE IS
THE REDEEMER, AND THAT MARY IS NOT CO-REDEMPTRIX, IS ALSO SHOWN BY THE ORIGINAL
SIN
AND BY THE TYPOLOGY
OF ADAM AND EVE
Here’s
another way of showing why it’s incorrect to call Mary “Co-Redemptrix.” Most people who engage in Catholic
apologetics agree that Jesus Christ is the second Adam. That’s made clear in the New Testament (1
Cor. 15:45).
Romans 5:14- “Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure [type] of him that was to come [Jesus].”
Consistent
with this typology of Jesus as the second Adam who reverses the curse of Adam, Mary is the new Eve. Jesus is the new Adam, and Mary is the new
Eve. Just as Eve, the first woman, was
intimately involved with the first man in the events which led up to the fall
of mankind, there is a woman, Mary, who is intimately involved in the events
leading up to the Redemption. Eve
disobeyed God and sinned. Mary obeyed
God and never sinned. Much more could
obviously be said on this issue; but the point here is that while Eve’s role
with Adam in the events leading up to the original sin were unique and crucial,
it was nevertheless the sin of Adam
alone which constituted the original sin and effectuated the downfall of
mankind. That’s very clear in
Catholic teaching.
Romans 5:12- “Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death…”.
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
AND ST. THOMAS CONFIRM THAT IT WAS ADAM’S SIN ALONE WHICH PLUNGED THE WORLD
INTO DEATH;
LIKEWISE, IT WAS
CHRIST ALONE WHO REDEEMED THE WORLD
The
idea that Mary is formally “Co-Redemptrix” would be consistent with the idea
that the original sin was the sin of Adam
and Eve. But that’s not Catholic
teaching. In fact, in the following
passage, St. Thomas dismisses such a notion.
He says that it was not the sin of two that constituted the original sin
and the downfall of mankind.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. I-II, Q. 81, A. 5: “…On the contrary, The
Apostle says (Rom. 5:12): By one man
sin entered into this world. Now if the woman would have transmitted
original sin to her children, he
should have said that it entered by two, since both of them sinned, or
rather that it entered by a woman, since she sinned first… I answer that, therefore original sin, is contracted, not from the mother,
but from the father: so that, accordingly,
if Eve, and not Adam, had sinned, their children would not contract original
sin: whereas, if Adam, and not Eve, had sinned, they would contract it.”
Notice
that St. Thomas rejects the idea that it was the sin of two which constituted
the original sin. Moreover, the Council
of Trent is quite clear that the original sin is the sin of Adam alone, not the
sin of Adam and Eve. Eve certainly
sinned; but Adam’s sin alone effectuated the downfall of mankind and brought
death into the world.
Council of Trent, Sess. 5 on
Original Sin, Can. 1: “If any one does not confess that the first man, Adam, when he had transgressed the
commandment of God in Paradise, immediately lost the holiness and justice
wherein he had been constituted…”
Council of Trent, Sess. 5 on
Original Sin, Can. 2: “If any one asserts, that the prevarication of Adam injured himself alone…”
Council of Trent, Sess. 5 on
Original Sin, Can. 3: “If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam -- which
in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by
imitation, is in each one as his own -- is taken away either by the powers of
human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath reconciled us to God in his own blood, made unto us
justice, sanctification, and redemption… let him be anathema.”
The Council of Trent says over and over that it was “the sin of
Adam,” never once asserting that it was the sin of “Adam and Eve.” It even says that this sin was that of one
man and “one in origin.” Therefore, even
though Mary’s role was unique and integral to the events which led up to the
Redemption, the Redemption itself was effectuated by Christ alone. That’s why Jesus Christ alone is the Redeemer
and only He should be called such.
|
THE FALL OF MANKIND Adam
and Eve intimately involved in the events leading up to it Adam’s
sin alone constituted the original sin and effectuated the fall “...this
sin of Adam -- which in its origin is
one…” (Trent, Sess. 5 on Original Sin) |
THE REDEMPTION Jesus
and Mary intimately involved in the events leading up to the Redemption Jesus
Christ alone effectuated the Redemption “JESUS CHRIST OUR
LORD, WHO ALONE IS OUR REDEEMER and Savior” (Trent,
Sess. 25) |
This is just one point that is covered in the short
article. Please consult the article and
the audio, as they cover other important points.
Benedict XVI’s recent heresies
Benedict XVI's most
heretical statements in October and November 2008
The Glories of Mary
I just finished
reading "The Glories of Mary", which I got from your store. And
I wanted to thank you for having it at your online store. Sometimes when
I go to TAN books, it's hard to decide which books to order. But I
trusted the selections offered on your site, and was greatly rewarded with one
of the best books I have ever read.
It changed my heart and rekindled my fervor!
Thank you again for all of the guidance.
Teri Thurman
Amos 8, prophecy of Great Apostasy
Amos 8:12-13
says:
"Yes, days
are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine
of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.
Then shall they
wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east In search of the
word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. "
Do you think
that this is a prophecy for the great apostasy?
MHFM: We think that it probably does
have some application to the last days and the Great Apostasy that is now upon
us. That is not necessarily to say that
it didn’t have application to any other period.
But the famine of hearing the word of the Lord is the worst kind of
punishment that the Lord can send to the Earth, and that seems reserved for the
last days.
Vatican II “popes”
I
have been reading over your website and some points seem interesting; but I was
wondering if you are Catholic do you still acknowledge the Pope, even though he
is pro Vatican II?
MHFM: We acknowledge all true popes
before Vatican II. According to the teaching of the popes themselves, a
heretic is not a valid pope. The post-Vatican II "popes" are not,
according to Catholic teaching, true popes but antipopes. Please consult
this file: The Catholic Teaching that a heretic
cannot be a valid pope and loses the papal office automatically [PDF file]
Sounds from Hell
Have you ever
heard the audio from Siberia of the sounds of Hell.If so do you think there
real. The reason why I believe them is
because the guys who recorded it didn't believe in God. So it would be hard to
understand why they would make it up. There is another case with Jacques
Costeau the deep sea diver he was down in a deep trench and when he came back
to the surface he said he heard screams of millions of humans and said he would
never do deep sea diving again.
Another case was with another deep sea diver in the Bermuda Triangle all of a
sudden he asked to be let back up and when he got to the surface in panic he
said he heard Humans in complete agony.
He also quit deep Sea diving.
What’s your opinion on these?
Thanks for reading this.
God Bless
Sean
MHFM:
Yes, we have heard it. It seems
authentic, especially when we consider that Hell is under the Earth and that’s
where they were digging. The clip
constitutes a striking and powerful glimpse of the incomprehensible horrors of
Hell. If that doesn’t put things in
perspective for people and show them what really matters (obtaining salvation),
we don’t what will. It can be listened
to here:
http://www.audiofarm.org/audiofiles/61-this-could-be-how-hell-sounds-siberian-tape-
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqkFiyRtyyk
More on “Invincible Ignorance”
I noticed the
brief email from one of your website's visitors on "invincible ignorance".
In my research,
I have found no papal encyclicals written to the universal Church, describing
the concept of "invincible ignorance". I found that the the papal
document of Pius IX, mentioning invincible ignorance (pertinent portion
shown below) is:
1. specifically
written to the Cardinals of Italy and is therefore not infallible, since
it does not address the entire Church. If the Pope was trying to tell the
entire Church that they needed to believe something, he should have addressed
it to the entire Church. This is one of the limitations on Papal Infallibility
that was defined at The Vatican Council - that he must be addressing
the entire Church (and therefore not a subset of it). This being the case, it
does not automatically mean he is wrong, it simply means one has no assurance
it is correct, other than by comparing it with known doctrine.
2. It makes no
sense how unbaptized infants go to the limbo of hell, but at the same time
older unbaptized people who do not have the intelligence to sin willfully go to
heaven. At what age is the dividing line, since nothing but age is the
factor? This is a ridiculous theological concept. Perhaps many
bad theologians picked up on this one statement and tried to define a
loop-hole salvation outside the Church as doctrine to please the world instead
of pleasing God.
3a. At best, his
statements could be summed up by positively, within Church doctrine, saying
that those in original sin, but who have never deliberately sinned themselves
suffer no punishments per se, but only the loss of heaven (loss instead of
punishment). This is known as Limbo. It could be said that they did not
gain heaven, and that is a form of punishment for original sin, but it could
also be said that they are not punished for their own sin, because they have
not sinned. Since one must apply all of Church doctrine as a whole, and not cut
and paste, one must assume Pius IX meant it within this context - that they do
not go to heaven, but go to Limbo, where they have a certain natural peace, and
do not suffer the fires of hell that affect those who have sinned
personally and deliberately. It seems Pius IX could have been more clear about
whether he was talking about the loss of heaven from original sin, or the
punishments in hell for those who deliberately sin. He did not make it very
clear, so one must understand it under the context of what the Church teaches
instead of what one wants the Church to teach.
3b. The key
seems to be that one does not ever suffer the loss of heaven as if it was a
right or priviledge that one loses. Heaven is a reward. Hell is the natural
abode for all of mankind in original sin. Perhaps some who call
themselves "traditional catholics" have a difficult time
understanding the Catholic concept of hell, with it's different layers (hell
proper and limbo), because they are so immersed in the Protestant culture, and
they prefer the enjoyments of the socializing aspect of "traditional
catholicism" over actually studying it. Or perhaps they are content with
finding a group of people who appear more "Catholic" than
the Novus Ordo Catholics, and then simply tossing their souls into the hands of
some convenient Priest, so they can go back to the cares of the world.
I strongly
advise all to keep studying and learn the Catholic terminology on
basic themes such as hell. I think many may think of hell as
defined by Protestantism.
4. This issue
should not be confused with the terminology for the issue of
"Baptism of Desire" or "Baptism of Blood". That issue
should be reviewed separately, since obviously someone who is not aware of
the religion, as Pius IX mentions in his document, is not aware of
baptism, and therefore does not even have a desire for it. If one is
talking about people involved protest groups who baptize, then yes, if
they are baptized, but are too ignorant to know the Catholic faith
they are being baptized into, such as retarded people for example, then there
is a possibility of heaven, as long as they stay out of mortal sin, and do not
embrace the protest group's false religion against the true religion. But then,
once again, they do not desire baptism - they have it. "Baptism of
'X'" is an important, but separate issue.
Mt…
MHFM: Thank you for the e-mail.
We basically agree with your comments.
In the documents which the heretics attempt to bring forward from Pius
IX, Pius IX was not teaching that people who are ignorant of the Gospel can be
saved. Rather, he was teaching that
good-willed people who are ignorant of the Gospel will be brought into the faith;
so that if there is one of good will among them, he or she will, by the power
of God’s grace, be enlightened about the Gospel and brought into the
Church. If a person remains in ignorance
of the Catholic faith, it’s because that person was not of good will, as the
Church has always taught. Further, the
documents which the heretics attempt to use were not infallible, as you
mentioned.
We have a book on this issue which
contains detailed sections on the topic and on the statements of Pius IX.
In our section on salvation, http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/EENS_mainpage.php, one can also scroll down and click on the sections pertaining
to this issue and Pius IX. There
is no doubt that people have misunderstood the teaching of Pope Pius IX.
Videos
Brother,
I
like your videos. That was the best I've
seen about masons…
God bless
you for the work you are doing. love IN HIM
Oklahoma
More on Whore of Babylon
Sir,
I think I see what you are saying, I don't think we are in disagreement on this
issue. The argument I was trying to make is the following:
If all the externals are the same between the false bride and the true bride,
then the externals in themselves cannot be used as proof that one is one and
not the other--because both have these externals.
However, if one already holds the belief that an entity is the false bride,
then the externals may serve as supporting evidence to buttress the
belief. In other words, as you say, it "makes sense" that the
entity has these externals--but that is not the same as saying that these
externals in and of themselves serve as any kind of proof that the entity is
not the true bride.
You article, I believe, implies that these externals help prove that the entity
is not the true bride. For the reasons noted, I disagree with such a
characterization.
Thank you and God bless,
Steve Hellman
MHFM: We do not say that because the
Whore is clothed in purple and scarlet that proves that it is false. The Bible clearly presents it as the false
bride, the great harlot, full of abomination and fornication (Apoc. 17 and
18). It goes without saying that the
entity is false. The fact that the
externals (such as being clothed in purple and scarlet) correspond to externals
of the Catholic Church serves as an indication that it’s a counterfeit Catholic
Church in the last days. That’s why it
only arises in the last days and is contrasted with the true bride, the
Church. So the externals help identify
what it is, rather than proving that it is false. It is obviously an evil entity.
Thanks
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
Thank you for all of your help and
work. I think God led me to your website to enlighten me and save me from
the wicked works of the church of vatican 2.
Sincerely,
Daniel Monaco
Prayer
Dear Monks
What do you think is more important, to pray the rosary(15 decades
daily) or read + study the Bible? Because I would really like to do both,
BUT because not having enough time for both can become a real problem that is
why I am asking your advice on this and PLEASE help me out with this, I need
advice and guidance too you know.
MHFM: We think that you should focus on getting the
full Rosary prayed. Obviously spiritual
reading and study (including of the Bible) are very important. But making sure you are getting your prayers
done is the first thing.
“Invincible error”
Dear brothers in Christ,
Regarding the newest message about SSPX, I
would like to point out that there is no such thing as invincible error.
Among many possible quotes from Scripture on that matter, I choose this one
from Book of Wisdom, chapter 13:
"For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded
that the things are good which are seen. /8/ But then again they are not to be
pardoned. /9/ For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of
the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?"
Let Our Lord Jesus Christ convert all poor heretics. Let Our Blessed
Mother Mary pray for them and lead them to the One and Only True Faith.
Vladimir from Croatia
Divine Mercy
Hello Dimond
Brothers
I have always been in two minds with the Divine Mercy. But having read what you say I began to doubt
that it was true then I read the Father Fuentes interview again and it
confirmed that the Divine Mercy is false.
"The second reason is because she said to my cousins as well as to myself
that God is giving two last remedies to the world. These are the Holy Rosary
and Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These are the last two remedies
which signify that there will be no others."
These are the words sr Lucia used and she said there will be no others so why
would God bring out a new devotion on the Rosary beads if the Rosary is one of
the last Two Remedies.Whats also interesting is that Our Lady did not mention
the Mass.Which sort of proves that the New "Mass" is invalid…
May God Bless you
Sean
Agreement in Rome
I'm a traditionalist catholic
from Rome, Italy; I started to attend the masses since I was 18 in 1992 (the
death of MR Lefebvre made all media to talk about that bishop and his
traditionalist mouvement and that was the occasion to know the traditionalist
issues); I was a devoted of SSPIOX, before I met the Sedevacantistes priestes…
I found your web site in Internet and i agree with you. Best grets from Rome!
(I dont'know about my english: I think it's that of a student...).
s…
New Mass
I want you to know that I have always known that the Catholic
faith is the only road to salvation and all other religions are just window
dressings. I believe that the reason the “New Mass” was created was partly because Satan had his
hands in it and because the Holy Fathers were trying to make it easier and to
attract more people to the Church and instead they just wound up in lock-step with the
protestants and today’s TV
evangelists. Jesus never said it was an
easy road just the right road.
Richard T. Evans
MHFM:
Thanks for the e-mail. The New
Mass was definitely brought in by Satan.
Paul VI’s intention in bringing it in was not to attract people to the
Church, but to Protestantize, invalidate and destroy the Mass. That was the goal. Paul VI even admitted to
his good friend Jean Guitton that he wanted to make the Mass Protestant.
Salvation and Contradiction?
Dear Brothers,
I am a Catholic brought up by Vatican II
parents who has slowly found her way from the "mainstream" church to
the Fraternity of St. Peter... Currently, I am attending a SSPV Mass, but
do not feel quite at home there. I have found your site to be enormously
informative. I was well on my way to coming around to your points of view
as the end of my journey. But then, I watched the film on Israel you
present amongst your other videos.
I will not get into an arguing match
about the content, but will merely say that a web-site that teaches that one
should not attend weddings, funerals, etc in Protestant churches is a very odd
place to find a Protestant spouting (oh, so carefully, of course) anti-Jewish
and anti -Israeli propaganda. After all, the husband and wife presenting
this film are going to Hell along with all the Jews, right ?
Once again, I find myself moving wearily
down the road to try and find the True Roman Catholic Church; I think I know
where it's leading this time, however...
One other question: You cite Pope
Pius XII in many of your DVDs. Pope Pius XII excommunicated Father
Leonard Feeney for going overboard with the "no salvation outside of the
Catholic Church". Is this not contradictory? And is it not up
to God to decide who finally ends up where?
May God bless you, and Our Blessed Mother
keep you close to Her Immaculate Heart.
Respectfully yours,
Elizabeth
MHFM: We’re glad that you wrote to
us, but we must say that your criticism is not logical. You point out that we believe that all those
who die as non-Catholics cannot be saved.
You then imply that there is a contradiction between 1) our position
that it’s wrong to attend Protestant services even passively; and 2) featuring
a video by a Protestant which contains very valuable information exposing
Jewish teaching and activity. There is
no contradiction between the two.
Frankly, we’re amazed that anyone could think there is a
contradiction. It’s quite simple: even
though a heretic is not correct in his/her religious beliefs and must convert
to be saved, that doesn’t mean that he/she cannot produce something of value on
a particular topic. The videos we
feature from people who are not Catholic are cases in point. The same is true with our news links. The fact that they are correct on those matters covered in the videos
or articles doesn’t mean that they are correct overall or that we endorse their
religious beliefs overall.
Contrary to what you say, the video
on Judaism is quite good and it doesn’t contain propaganda. It sounds like you have been influenced by
Jewish propaganda, according to which everyone who even brings up Jewish
domination or criticizes Jews or Jewish teaching is considered racist or
“anti-semitic.” It’s false, but quite
effective. It has almost totally silenced
any criticism of Jews or of Israel. Most
people don’t possess the courage to stand for truth no matter what the
criticism, and are thus cowed into silence by this tactic.
You ask about Outside the Church
There is No Salvation. You say is it not
up to God to decide? We must say, in
charity, that such a position is modernist and heretical. How can you say it’s up to God to decide –
which implies that He will or might save non-Catholics – when God has already
decided and revealed how people are saved?
That question/point you bring up is brought up frequently by people as a
euphemistic way of denying the dogma.
The dogma has been defined. It
states that all who die as non-Catholics are not saved, without exception. We must believe it and profess it. You don’t this believe this yet, and thus
don’t yet accept the Catholic faith.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex
cathedra: “The Holy Roman
Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside
the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical
body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody
can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has
shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and
unity of the Catholic Church.”
There are numerous sections dealing
with the case of Fr. Feeney in our book and in our section on Outside the
Church There is No Salvation. You should
consult them, as they address the issue in detail. No one could be excommunicated for holding to
the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation. Either one believes this dogma or one
doesn’t. There’s no such thing as “going
overboard on it.” That implies that it
doesn’t really mean what it says. That
idea is heretical. You also should not
attend the SSPV for any reason at all.
They are horrible heretics who have no faith and believe that souls can
be saved in any religion. They also
publicly condemn Catholics who reject their heretical position. A Catholic must not receive sacraments from
them.
Purple and Scarlet
Sirs,
In looking at your website I came across your publication "Is the Vatican
II sect the Whore of Babylon prophesied in the Apocalypse?" and in that
you cite as evidence the fact that bishops and cardinals wear scarlet and red.
Didn't bishops and cardinals also wear scarlet and red in teh Catholic Church
prior to vatican II?
If so, doesn't that seem to negate any argumentative value that particular
piece of evidence would seem to have?
Thanking you in advance for your reply,
Sincerely yours,
Steve Hellman
MHFM: No, it doesn’t negate it all. It confirms it. The Whore of Babylon is a false bride which externally has all the features of the
true Church, but inwardly is a fraud.
As a counterfeit “Catholic” Church, the Whore of Babylon has dioceses, a hierarchy, the property of the Church,
vestments, ceremonies, "sacraments,” etc.
Thus its leaders wear the very colors that the true bishops and
cardinals wore. It looks like the true
Bride of Christ, but is actually a false Bride, a false Counter
Church which has arisen in the last days to lead people astray. That’s why the Scripture say Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and has become the
habitation of devils (Apoc. 18). So
it makes perfect sense that it corresponds to what true bishops and cardinals
wore before Vatican II.
Is
the Vatican II sect the Whore of Babylon prophesied in the Apocalypse? [PDF File]
Right about John Paul II
RE: angry Emailer on your website: I
think you are so right about JP2 not really saying anything. I listen to
a radio station that plays clips of his, and all it seems to be is
dramatic readings of scripture verses. That's it. Be not afraid.. let
down your nets for a catch....O Lord how great are your works..... and the fans
go wild. Bless you.
Susan
Infallibility
It's beyond my comprehension how modern
Catholics, the everyday Joe on the street, the Novus Ordo sect, profess to be
Catholic, and when you ask them one question-Do you know what infallibility means?-They
can't answer it with tradition in mind. They haven't a clue, and moreso
attack tradition as irrelevant in the modern world but are adamant of how the
hear and now is what is important. Jesus is truth-...many are called, few
are chosen. Brilliant, and saintly work Dimonds. How satan and his
minions conspire against you, methinks. Mater Immaculata, ora pro
nobis! Have a Holy and Sacred '09.
d…
Enlightened
So far I have been enlightened beyond my
wildest imaginations. I was very shocked and skeptical at first but am
now seeing how certain changes have taken place not only in the real world over
a span of many years. I could see things I didn't like... but couldn't
really put my finger on any one thing that's really put the world in the State
it is today. The La Sallete and Fatima articles are what put me into
reality... Thank you so very much for this much needed information, especially
now.
Norm Jesch
Somber
Subject: Astounding!
I will say this is an amazing website and I
did learn much from it. I will also say that much of what I learned left me in
a most somber mood. After watching the video on
"Why John Paul II was not the
Pope" I was astounded at how this site views John Paul II. The view of Catholicism as a 2000 year old
religion that makes no room for any kind of change is difficult to reconcile
for me. Jesus himself came and made changes of unbelievable magnitude in the
religion of the Jews. He also by his grace allowed the Gentiles to be brought
in and that is our salvation. Lest we
all forget Jesus was a JEW and a fairly orthodox one at that. I
suppose that is why the church sat back and allowed the Jews to be
destroy during WWII with nary a word of protest from the church as they
"are" considered heretics and apostates. Sort of the view of the
Crusaders that you could kill all Muslisms as they did not have a soul not
being in Christ as a good Catholic was. If you are not a Catholic then
who cares, the old kill them all, let God sort them out way of thinking.
With the view of Catholicism espoused
here it is no wonder that there are so few Catholic "faithful" and
the church must basically depend upon peasants and such in South America
for her numbers as very few in the US would follow this fanatical view of the
church. There are no faithful in Europe as they have given up on the promises
of the church. I am a Catholic convert
and view this church as the mother to all. All should come and join her in her
celebration of the Catholic faith but to believe that we are right and all
other Christians are wrong is the absolute pinnalce of arrogance. I used to
think the Mormons beliefs were a bit strange until I found this website.
Yes, Jesus made Peter the rock upon
which the church is built but in the last 2000 years it has certainly gone to
hell in a handbasket has it not. If you truly believe all these
problems began with Vatican II then I know
one thing, you have lost your view of reality.
…While not a prophet the one man who
did a better job of bringing all together and letting all see how wonderful the
Catholic religion could be and how rich was its heritage was
Pope John Paul II. All others were merely popes, the figure heads of the
church that few paid real attention too in any part of the modern world. Only John Paul II was able reach out and
bring ten's of thousands out to hear him and his doctrine of love and hope for
all. Everytime they came out if only 2 or 3 would here his words and be
saved then it was worth it. God saved
destroying entire cities because one man was found to be faithful. I wish you
well in your anger over the what you see as the destruction of the Catholic and
what I see as her salvation.
I wish you well in the practice of your
version of Catholicism.
James D.
MHFM: Jesus came and instituted new things of great magnitude
because He was the Savior and the fulfillment of the Old Testament. All of it pointed toward and was fulfilled in
Him. Hence, the figures and the shadows
were no longer of use and became void (Heb. 8:13; Heb. 11 and 12). He came to establish the new and everlasting covenant. You have many other misconceptions which one
could certainly refute at length. For
instance, you implied that only South American peasants accept traditional
Catholicism. That’s not true. You said that the Church tolerated or agreed
with the murder of the Jews during WWII.
That’s not true. That’s Jewish
propaganda. You said that the Crusaders
didn’t believe Muslims had souls. That’s not true. Every human being has a soul. It cannot be saved without the faith of
Christ, however. That’s what Catholics
believed from the beginning and also during the bellicose era in which the
Crusaders lived, during which circumstances often required them to take up arms
against the Muslims.
You also mention the large gatherings of John Paul II. Having closely monitored his gatherings,
writings and utterances, we can say that his message to those crowds of people
was no message at all. He told them
nothing of substance. In fact, if one
had to define what his message was it would be nothing, except perhaps to
embrace humanity. It truly was
completely empty.
The fact that you claim to be Catholic is astounding. The popes have condemned what you believe as
heresy and modernism. They have
condemned the notion that dogmas can be modified and that truth is not
immutable. They have condemned the
heresy of religious indifferentism. They
have made it clear that there is only one true religion. You reject that and embrace the heresies of
John Paul II. How can you claim to be
Catholic when you are so obviously not?
When you believe that classical Catholic teaching is so wrong? When you reject what the dogmas and the popes
have declared? How can you claim to
believe in Jesus when you don’t believe what He proclaimed, that He is the only
way to Heaven? There’s really not much
that we can say to you, other than that you need to convert. That will only come about when you humble
yourself and stop imposing your own
views of reality on God’s truth and rather conform your views to God’s truth. Some people would consider your position to
be compassionate and tolerant and charitable.
The truth is that it’s inestimably arrogant and prideful, to think that
you know how things should be more than the God you claim to believe. Recognize that God is the One who reveals and
that you must be the one who accepts.
You really need to pray for your own conversion.
Comment
Dear Brothers Peter and Michael:
First of all, I want to sincerely thank you both for the work you have done in
exposing the fraudulent practices of the Vatican II council and the
counter-Church. It seems amazing that so many people would just go along with
it, and not even at least wonder why all of a sudden so many changes have been
made (since the Vatican II council was started in 1962). I myself have been
struggling with all of this (as so many of your readers have expressed). Most
of my friends, when I suggest that the New Mass may be invalid, think that I'm
crazy and should stop worrying about it. But I'm not going to stop, because I
know that the salvation of my soul hangs in the balance every day!...
Sincerely,
Greg
B.O.D.
Dear Brothers,
Your quote from Pope Leo XII, "sects who
profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and
contradictory," could have been written about the BOD bunch. They
have no agreement on a definition of BOD; their beliefs ranging from it only
applying to catechumens who have the Faith and are intending to be baptized, to
those who believe the bare necessities of the Faith, the Trinity and the
Incarnation, to those who have no faith but would if they knew it to be
necessary. The only thing they agree on is that there is salvation outside the
Church, although they won't admit that is what they believe. The strange
thing is that they don't argue with each other about it. There is a huge
difference between explicit desire and implicit desire. If explicit
desire were a doctrine of the Church, then implicit desire would be a heresy;
yet these groups don't seem to feel a need to bring the "truth," as
they see it, to the others. If they had true charity and true Faith, they
would be actively trying to "convert" each other. They're not
and it seems to be because they really have no faith; all they believe is that
they DON'T believe EENS (Fr. S even referring to it as a "monstrous
doctrine"); kind of like the protestants whose motto could be
"anything but the Catholic Church."
LM
MHFM: That’s exactly right. All they are “sure” about is that there is
salvation for people outside the Church.
Other than that, who cares. They
are firmly united on the one point of “faith” (i.e., heresy) which they all
commonly profess. That’s another proof
that they are not of God and that their doctrine is not of God.
In this regard it’s interesting to
consider that the sedevacantist groups, individuals and publications which
favor the heretical salvation view typically tolerate, in one way or another,
groups and publications which are not sedevacantist. We can think of a number of sedevacantist
publications and groups who hate and detest any rejection of “baptism of
desire.” These groups and publications
claim to be sedevacantist, and even to hold the position firmly, but they will
endorse and/or allow the advertisements of non-sedevacantist apostolates and
priests – or priests who themselves are not quite so firm on the issue and
compromise it. Isn’t that interesting? The point is that they are quite tolerant of
those feel they must accept Antipope Benedict XVI, but they have no tolerance
for those who hold that one must be a baptized Catholic to be saved. On a certain level it’s comparable to the
interfaith/ecumenical movement, in which everything is accepted except for the
uncompromising truth. Every opinion is
welcome except for the full truth. This
is not, of course, to suggest that a true Catholic would want or need tolerance
from these heretics. Rather, it is
simply to point out their hypocrisy and that they are so adamantly and
uncompromisingly opposed to the salvation dogma because they are evil.
Moses and Baptism
Dear Brothers,
This strikes me
as symbolic of the Baptism controversy today. God told Moses that all he
had to do was ask for water and God would provide it. But Moses doubted.
Like today; God says, "ask and ye shall receive," yet the BOD
bunch thinks He can't or won't provide the water for Baptism if people of good
will are truly asking for it. That is unfathomable to me. It's
interesting, also, that Moses struck the rock twice - possibly signifying the
two slaps of baptism of desire and baptism of blood?
Sorry to bother
you with this if you've already covered it or if the idea is dumb; but I
couldn't find it on your website.
LM
From Numbers 20
6 And Moses
and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and
fell flat upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord God, hear
the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the
Lord appeared over them. 7 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying: 8 Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and
Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the
rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink. 9 Moses
therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded
him, 10 And having gathered together the multitude before the rock,
he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you forth
water out of this rock?
11 And when
Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod,
there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle
drank, 12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring
these people into the land, which I will give them. 13 This is the
Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words
against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
The footnotes
say:
10.
...They were not commanded to strike the rock at all ... In a word, they
did not glorify God, ... by representing him as the sovereign holiness and
mercy; and the God of unbounded power.
12. ...
The fault of Moses and Aaron, on this occasion, was a certain diffidence and
weakness of faith: not doubting of God's power or veracity; but apprehending
the unworthiness of that rebellous and incredulous people, and therefore
speaking with some ambiguity.
Examination and SSPX
I came across
your site and researched some of the articles you have provided........and the
commentary you have placed on there about them.
It is heart wrenching to me that you are so blinded by your desire to be
right and only YOU to be right.
Your attack on the SSPX is something that requires some fundamental
internal examination. I am blessed with
being a cradle catholic. And to have survived the church turmoil keeping my
faith intact. I have been even more
blessed in my years to have always been able to attend the Traditional Latin
Mass.
That is saying
something in this day and age. Mostly I
have attended SSPX. You speak out of
turn......you misinterpret......and you slander. Before there WAS a society.......the Holy
Mother Church had emphatically stated that we cannot deny God's mercy. For
you to say that anyone raised outside the faith......NEVER exposed to the faith.......yet living a holy and devout life to the
best of their abilities......is presumably damned?!?!?! To declare such is to judge as God
judges. It is not for us to judge Gods
mercy. Or to PRESUME we know what He will do.
Go back and READ the church teachings.
Don't interpret.......READ. And
remember the quotes you like to put on your site. You know, the ones about those who are
humble? There are not enough of us left
on this earth to suffer in-fighting. We
need to rally......not split asunder our remains. Good day to you and God Bless.
b…
MHFM: Many of the statements in your
e-mail are false. For example, you lie
when you say that we slander the SSPX.
We do not. Your problem is that
you are not a real Catholic. You say
that we say that those raised outside the
faith and not converted won’t be saved, as if we’ve made this dogma
up. Yes, we say and believe that; but we
say and believe it because it’s a defined Catholic dogma. It’s something that Catholics must believe. The fact that Catholics must believe what
dogmas declare obviously doesn’t faze you in the slightest way.
It’s very simple. At this time you do not possess any faith in
the teachings of the Catholic Church.
That’s not an overstatement. You
couldn’t care less about what the Church infallibly teaches. You care only about externals. The Catholic Church, protected by the Holy
Ghost, infallibly teaches that all those who die without the Catholic faith are
not saved. You reject that dogma. The SSPX also rejects that dogma, among other
things. In defending their heresy, you
reject Catholic teaching.
Fr. Schmidberger, Time Bombs of the Second Vatican Council, Angelus Press [SSPX], p.
10: “Ladies and gentlemen, it is clear
that the followers of other religions can be saved under certain conditions,
that is to say, if they are in invincible error.”
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Against the
Heresies, Angelus Press [SSPX], p. 216: “Evidently, certain distinctions must be made. Souls can be saved in a religion
other than the Catholic religion (Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, etc.),
but not by this religion.”
These statements constitute blatant heresy against the dogma
Outside the Church There is No Salvation; yet they are printed in the very
best-selling materials of the SSPX. In
fact, almost all priests who even celebrate the traditional Mass hold this same
heresy.
Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832:
“Finally some of these misguided people attempt to
persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the Catholic
religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.”
Spiritual Attack
Question.
Have you ever heard of someone being under spiritual attack via a dream
then waking up to hear high and low pitched noises like one was getting their
hearing tested? My girlfriend is on the conversion trail and after we
went to Tridentine Mass yesterday she opted to get her first rosary. We
went to an antique store in town we knew had them and purchased one. We
had planned to get it blessed next week at mass. I wasn’t at her house
but she told me she was saying her rosary as she went to sleep (her first one)
and fell asleep saying it. She says around 1:30am she work up out of a
bad dream. She believes in the dream, she was seeing The Virgin Mary’s
face, she thinks, but wasn’t totally sure. She knows it started out as
something that resembled a beautiful face like the Virgins yet It started
changing shapes and sizes, you know became disfigured.(she has a relatively big
picture of her in her room now(Guadalupe). She felt that whatever it was,
it trying to attack her (Tara) and she remembered it had something to do with
the rosary, then it’s nails were being ripped off? Again dreams are strange so
she’s not sure who’s nails were getting ripped off just that they were being
ripped off. She remembers being very scared, then she awoke.
Of course dreams are just dreams but she doesn’t have bad dreams really ever
she says and based on the fact she had just got her first rosary and starting
praying it is odd. Maybe not odd buy telling. What is more strange is
what happened next, because dreams are just dreams. Once she was awoke
she was sitting there hot and sweaty from the dream. She then she started
hearing noises like you hear during a hearing test. At first she thought
it was in her head then her cat sat up and starting looking around. She
then realized it wasn’t in her head and it was definitely coming from
somewhere. At that point she was really scared and said she was thinking
of calling me but instead started to pray to Christ and that’s the last thing
she remembers and apparently fell asleep. She’s not a hysterical type
person, she didn’t even call me to wake me up after it happened. She’s
educated and not at all fanatical, I find it a bit odd. Any thoughts on
this?
Thanks,
R.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. We would say, first of all, that people
shouldn’t put much stock in those things.
As we’ve pointed out in some of our audios, it’s often the case when
people give more attention to demonic interferences that they increase in their
lives. So our first recommendation to
anyone in that regard is that he/she should ignore those things as much as
possible and focus on simply getting into the state of grace.
That being said, it could have occurred
because the Devil is upset that she is beginning to pray the Rosary and move
toward conversion. It obviously sounds
like a demonic attack. It also might
have occurred because she is still committing some mortal sin. Obviously she is in the state of mortal sin
until she converts and her past sins are forgiven, but even one who is in the
process of conversion should not be committing mortal sins. We’re not asserting that this is a result of
her commission of new mortal sins. It
very well might be a result of the Devil’s anger with her move toward
conversion. However, we should point out
that when people commit mortal sin (such as fornication), the Devil’s ability
to influence and bother them is much greater obviously.
In fact, one woman contacted us and
told us that demonic influences in her life were so great that she was unable
to open her mouth to pray or turn her head toward a holy picture. In questioning her about her life, we
discovered that she was living in mortal sin with a man. That was obviously the reason for the Devil’s
ability to impede her spiritual pursuits.
So we would say it could be any number of things, but she should ignore
it and focus on converting to the faith, getting into the state of grace, etc.
St. Thomas error
MHFM
I was doing some research and found this
bit of information.
REASONS FOR CHRIST'S DESCENT (from the
Catechetical Instructions of St. Thomas Aquinas) "There are four reasons
why Christ together with His soul descended into hell....
"The fourth and final reason is that
Christ might free the just who were in hell [or Limbo]. For as Christ wished to
suffer death to deliver the living from death, so also He would descend into
hell to deliver those who were there: 'Thou also by the blood of Thy testament,
hast sent forth Thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.' And
again: 'O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite.'
Although Christ wholly overcame death, yet not so completely did He
destroy hell, but, as it were, He bit it. He did not free all from hell, but
those only who were without mortal sin. He likewise liberated those
without original sin, from which they, as individuals, were freed by
circumcision; or before [the institution of] circumcision, they who had
been saved through their parents' faith (which refers to those who died before
having the use of reason); or by the sacrifices, and by their faith in the
future coming of Christ (which refers to adults). The reason they
were there in hell [i.e., Limbo] is original sin which they had contracted from
Adam, and from which as members of the human race they could not be delivered
except by Christ. Therefore, Christ left there those who had descended
there with mortal sin, and the non-circumcised children. Thus, it is seen that
Christ descended into hell, and for what reasons. Now we may gather four
considerations from this for our own instruction."
I notice that St. Thomas first makes the
error that men could be freed from original sin by
circumcision. Then he states that no man can be delivered original sin
except by Christ. I find it interesting that St. Thomas made both of
these statements within the same paragraph. This is the same error that
Pope Innocent III put forward in his letter, Ex Parte tua, to Andrew,
the Archbishop of Lyons, that you mention in your book.
Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 1 on Justification: “… whereas
all men [*except the Blessed Virgin ‐ as Trent says in
Sess. V*] had lost their innocence in the prevarication of Adam, ‘having become
unclean’, and (as the Apostle says), ‘by nature children of wrath'… but not even the Jews by the very
letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom…”
…Fortunately, we have the Chair
of Peter to guide us:
Keith
MHFM: Yes, that’s exactly right. Thanks for the e-mail. That’s another very good example of how
saints are not infallible and that infallibility belongs to the Chair of St.
Peter.
For those who are not familiar with
precisely what we’re talking about, in Section 17 of our book on Outside the Church There is Absolutely No
Salvation we point out that the Council of Trent contradicts a fallible
letter of Pope Innocent III on circumcision being able to remit original
sin. St. Thomas also taught this error,
which Trent later clearly contradicted.
This proves again that even the greatest saints and doctors of the
Church are not infallible.
Crimes and Mercies
Brothers,
In the very
troubling book "Crimes and Mercies" which covers the fate of German
civilians after WWII, I found a couple of things I thought I should share
with you.
First, a
piece of a poem by Solzhenitsyn:
Zweiundzwanzig,
Horingstrasse.
It's not been
burned, just looted, rifled.
A moaning, by
the walls half-muffled:
The mother's
wounded, still alive.
The little
daughter's on the mattress
Dead. How many
have been on it?
A platoon? A
company perhaps?
A girl's been
turned into a woman,
A woman into a
corpse.
It's all come
down to simple phrases:
Do not forget.
Do not forgive!*
Blood for blood.
A tooth for a tooth!
The mother begs,
'Kill me soldier!'
* The italics
are a quote from Russian propaganda inciting the soldiers to vengeance. The
first line refers to the address of the house where the women lay. In the last
lines of the poem (not shown), Solzhenitsyn confesses that he too took
advantage of a captive woman.
A few pages
later I found this; "According to American figures, a total of 13.3
million Germans were expelled from the eastern parts of Germany,
from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and so on. 7.3 million arrived
in the eastern zone and the three western zones...Six million Germans have
vanished from the earth. They are dead, gone. Most of the 7.3 million who
stayed alive are women, children and old people."
Now I know
another reason why the certain Jews want the "holocaust" industry
keep alive; to cover for the crimes of the Allied and Soviet governments
between 1945 and 1950. And the number "6 million" explains the origin
of that particular number, as it was the number of Germans who died during the
expulsion from East Germany, East Prussia and so on. How many Catholics, from
both Western and Eastern Churchs, died so that the state of Israel could be
conceived? 10 million? 20 million? 25 million? Not to mention the other millions
as well. The world was certainly punished for it's sins during this period. The
brutality seemed to exceed the French and Russian Revolutions.
As for Mr.
Solzhenitsyn, I now find that I cannot bring myself to read any more of his
material. Now I understand the titillation I found in his works that I have
read to date; the man seemed to be prone to moral degeneracy.
Howard
AR.
MHFM: Regarding Solzhenitsyn, he
certainly did some tremendous things exposing the horrors of Communist
Russia. He was not Catholic,
however. We also pointed out in our News
and Commentary that he was a religious indifferentist and an apostate. Here’s a quote from an interview he did:
Solzhenitsyn:
“Of course, one cannot declare that only
my faith is correct and all other faiths are not. Of course God is endlessly
multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face,
some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion
but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's
commandments is different in different religions.” http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0172.html
This shows that, in addition to being
an Eastern Orthodox schismatic, he considered all religions to be more or less
good or true. This is apostasy. This is additionally relevant because certain
false traditionalist groups have called him a “prophet.”
Baptism
I have a
question. I’m kind of unclear so I wish
to ask both of you what I’m supposed to do. If a person wants to be baptize but
doesn't know much about the church or the doctrine of the church. Should I
baptize him/her? Do I need another
person to be his or her godmother or godfather?... And how am I supposed to do
the baptize?
Can I just pour
the clean water out of the faucet on his or her head and say like "IN THE
NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, I BAPTIZE YOU, FROM NOW ON
YOU SHOULD BE CALL JAMES, JOHN, MARY, ANN.....and so on (name of the Saints and
the Archangels)
Is that the
right way to do it according to teaching of the true church and true Jesus
Christ that we are follow. Help me. And if that person is muslim or pagan is
that O.K?
Glory to God,
Kim L.V.
MHFM: A person must believe in the
Trinity, the Incarnation, the basic catechism, and accept the Catholic faith
before you baptize him or her. You must not baptize that person unless
he/she believes those things and is committed to living the Catholic
faith. You can use regular water.
When you baptize, say: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Say the words while pouring
the water, so that it moves and strikes the forehead.
When you ask if it’s okay “if that
person is Muslim or pagan,” we assume that you mean: is it okay to baptize the
person if the person is converting from Islam or paganism? It doesn’t make any difference, as long as
that person accepts the Catholic faith and repudiates his/her former
religion. Concerning a godparent, if you
don’t know a strong Catholic who could serve as a godparent, it’s not necessary
to have one. You can proceed with the
baptism, assuming the person is ready.
Disturbed
dear
mhfm, I'm new to this site and all the info on the new rite, I am most
disturbed to put it mildly, because not only am I not at the right Mass , a
valid one, but I'm even worst off because I'm divorced and remarried. tell me
what I must do to be sure I don't in up in hell. Is being celibate going to do
it??
sincerely
herb P.S I'm am 60 yrs old
MHFM: You obviously need to become
convinced of the traditional faith and stop going to the New Mass. One would need to know the specifics of your
first marriage to have an opinion about whether it was valid. However, from your e-mail it seems that you
were validly married, divorced, and then you got married again. If that’s the case, you are not married to
the person you are currently with. You
obviously must remain celibate.
“Orthodoxy”
Dear MHFM,
I came across your website while surfing
the internet and read many of your articles. If one exercises really
serious scholarship, one will learn that the descent into heresy of
the Roman Catholic Church began long before vatican 2. The pan-heresy of
ecumenism embraced by Benedict and Bartholomew is just the most
recent manifestation of the ills that have infected those who have lost or
abandoned the Traditions of the Apostolic Church of our Holy Fathers.
In the love of our Saviour,
Mary Elizabeth
MHFM: Mary Elizabeth, you are not
correct. The Roman Catholic Church is
the one true Church. In our “Refuting Protestantism” section, we have a
good deal of material which demonstrates that the primacy of the Roman Pontiff
was recognized in the ancient Church. The Bible also undoubtedly teaches
that St. Peter had a primacy of jurisdiction from Jesus Christ.
Quick question: if you accept the
first seven ecumenical councils, on what basis do you accept them, yet reject
other councils in the early Church? What makes those seven ecumenical?
Here are some of the talks which deal specifically
with the proof for the Roman Pontiff’s primacy of jurisdiction in the ancient
Church. As those who listen to these
talks will see, the Eastern Church also recognized that the Roman Pontiff had a
primacy of jurisdiction. [These talks
deal with more detailed points and might not be as interesting for those who
are not interested in these topics.]
Clement and Ignatius - The Early Church recognized the Bishop of
Rome as the successor to St. Peter's authority - Section A of Part 2 [14 min. audio]
This
section moves into the evidence that the Bishop of Rome/the Church of Rome was
recognized as supreme in the primitive Christian Church (precisely because it
inherited the authority of St. Peter).
This section covers the famous epistle of Clement of Rome to the
Corinthians (A.D. 90-100) and the famous epistle of Ignatius of Antioch to the
Romans (circa A.D. 110). Learn what you
probably didn’t know about these most famous documents of early Christianity. These documents are some of the most
important in the history of Christianity and they are regarded with great
respect by essentially all students and scholars of the early Church,
regardless of denomination. Learn how
they demonstrate Catholic teaching on the Papacy. Hear the very interesting admissions about
these documents from an Eastern “Orthodox” scholar, and how such admissions
serve to refute the Protestant and Eastern “Orthodox” position. (Section C of Part 2 will be posted in the
future.)
This
section covers the evidence for the Papacy from the second and third
centuries. It covers Hermas, Anicetus
and Victor in the Easter Controversy, Irenaeus, Cyprian and the rebaptism
controversy. It shows how, at this early
stage of the primitive Christian Church, the supreme authority of the Bishop of
Rome was recognized. The primitive
Christian Church recognized the unique authority and primacy of the Bishop of
Rome because he held the universal jurisdiction which was given by Jesus Christ
to St. Peter.
This
section finishes up the evidence for the primacy of the Roman Pontiff in the
third century and moves into the fourth.
It covers the case of Paul of Samosata; the Councils of Nicea and
Sardica; Athanasius and Julius; the Emperors Gratian and Theodosius; and Pope
Damasus.
Constantinople,
Ephesus, Chalcedon - The Early Church
recognized the Bishop of Rome as the successor to St. Peter's authority -
Section D of Part 2 [new 22
min. audio]
This
section covers the evidence for the primacy of the Roman Pontiff at the second,
third and fourth ecumenical councils (Constantinople, Ephesus and
Chalcedon). It also covers St. Jerome. This evidence from the councils is especially
important because the “Eastern Orthodox” and many Protestants accept the first
seven ecumenical councils. This section
also responds to objections from certain canons of Constantinople and
Chalcedon. These objections are
frequently raised by critics of Catholic teaching. The section ends with more evidence from the
early Church historians Socrates and Sozomen.
Mt. Sinai
Dear Sirs,
in the video creation and miracles there is
a big mistake stating that mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia, 30 years ago in 1972
I climbed all the way to the top on my own, quite a venture and it was then in
Israel, because the sinai desert was then occupied by Israel, then after the
camp david accords between Carter and Sadat returned to Egypt
yours sincerely
guido v.p.
belgium
MHFM: No, it’s not a mistake. There are two claimed locations for Mt.
Sinai. One is in Egypt, in the Sinai Peninsula. One is in Saudi Arabia, in the Arabian
Peninsula. The video shows why the latter is the true one. We also sell a video called The Exodus Revealed, which is an
excellent presentation which covers this issue in depth. It shows why the one in Saudi Arabia should
be considered the true one.
Jewish influences
Hello,
Is it true that every anti pope of the V2 sect has been Jewish? Jews as you are aware hold a lot of power in
the world and both Communism and Freemasonry share Jewish roots. Also want to thank Bro. Peter for his concise
and realistic explanation on why Hell must be eternal.
Thanks
Richard from Ireland
MHFM: It’s certain that the Vatican II “popes” have been heretics and not true popes. To the question of whether they were Jewish infiltrators, we can only advance an opinion based on certain evidence. In our opinion, the evidence is very strong that Paul VI and John XXIII were Jewish. Paul VI wore the breast-plate of a Jewish High Priest and was of Hebrew origin.
John XXIII, who was also clearly an infiltrator, actually told
the Jews that he was “Joseph,” their brother.
We explain the significance of this in our article about him.
Paul VI (manifest
heretic who claimed to be Pope 1963-1978) [link to section]
The Scandals and Heresies of John XXIII [PDF File]
Antipope John Paul II was probably
Jewish. As a child, his best friends
were Jews; he went to the synagogue and he played soccer on the Jewish side
against the Catholics. When one combines
all of that with what he did for the Jews after becoming antipope, a certain
picture begins to emerge. In fact, Mr.
Wise, a researcher in orthodox Jewish history and philosophy, said that John
Paul II’s mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all probably Jewish
and came from a small town not far from Krakow.
He has concluded that John Paul II was Jewish:
Historian says John Paul II was
Jewish
Antipopes John Paul I and Benedict
XVI don’t seem to have been/be Jewish.
Rome will lose the faith
What
about the claim that the prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette, “Rome will lose the
faith and become the seat of the Antichrist…” is equivalent to the following
condemned proposition.
"The
Church of the city of Rome can fall into error" – Condemned under Pope
Sixtus IV (DZ #730).
So does
the message of La Salette contradict Catholic teaching?
MHFM: No, that argument is false. It really should be obvious that such an
argument has no merit. The Church of the city of Rome (i.e.,
the Church of Rome) is different from Rome itself. The city can fall into apostasy and be
overtaken by the Antichrist, as it certainly has with the Vatican II
apostasy. The city of Rome was also overtaken by antipopes at different times in
Church history. But the
Church of Rome signifies the Papacy and the Catholic Church itself,
which is infallible and indefectible.
Since the Church of Rome refers to the Church, the Church of Rome will
exist until the end of world. It will
exist with the remnant of faithful Catholics who maintain the faith to the end.
So the Church of the city cannot fall into error,
yes; but Rome itself (the city) can. The
only occasions when “Rome” itself would be spoken of as infallible or
indefectible would be in contexts which clearly and unambiguously equate Rome
with the Church of Rome. Thus, the
argument that you have brought up is obviously false. Those who attempt to use this argument are
exercising bad will. In fact, it’s
ironic that the people who make this argument are generally sedevacantists who
don’t like the message of La Salette. In
other words, they are people who agree
with us that the Vatican II sect is heretical and antichrist. They agree that Rome has been overtaken by a
counterfeit sect! They just don’t like
the message of La Salette.
If, according to them, the city of Rome is
necessarily the same thing as the Church of Rome, then they would logically
have to submit to the antipopes and the false hierarchy presently in control of
Rome. For according to them, the city of
Rome cannot possibly fall into error. By
not submitting to the Vatican II Church, these illogical people condemn
themselves out of their own mouths. The
fact that they don’t see their hypocrisy serves to reveal the depth of their
spiritual blindness. They are just
schismatic false traditionalists whom the Devil uses to mislead and confuse
people.
Catholicism and the Bible
I came across you site and was browsing the
site. I have an uncle that feels the same way about Vatican II. Putting that aside, the fact is that the
catholic church dogma's, catechism's and doctrine add information or so-called
revelation from sources outside of the Bible; making the claim that they are
equal to the Bible. Can the Bible be equal with anything? If two
things contradict each other, can they be equal? On contradictions, there
are only 2 possibilities one is right, the other is wrong, or neither is
right..right?
When you compare to the Bible what the Council of Trent stated/affirmed under
Vatican I, any reasonable person can see the immediate and glaring contradictions
to the Bible; which is a main reason for the reformation, which God used to
preserve His word as He promised…
Final note, I have many Roman catholics in my family and I realize a few things
about them 1) They know little to know Scripture 2) They are all
trying to work their way to Heaven and avoid purgatory 3) None of
them can see that Peter, was assigned to the Jews and Paul the gentiles -
alittle more believable if the first so-called pope was Paul and not Peter -
but who needs facts when you have a body of extra revelation that trumps the
Biblical account? I pray the Lord will
give all Roman catholics site and understanding that they me be set free, as
the Son is the only one that can set one free.
God bless,
Mark Tanner
Independence, KY
MHFM: Mark, you are quite mistaken on
many things. First, you say that nothing
could be equal with the Bible as a source for God's truth. You don't seem to realize that the Bible
itself teaches that Tradition is one of the sources of Jesus’ teaching, and
that it must be accepted along with the Bible.
2 Thessalonians 2:14-15-
"Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you
have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle."
So in your e-mail you have contradicted
the teaching of the Bible. The Bible
teaches that Tradition is also a source of Christ’s revelation. Jesus delivered many of His truths by word to
the Apostles, and they transmitted them in the same way to the Church. Moreover, there is no contradiction between
Tradition and the Bible or between Catholic teaching and the Bible. To say otherwise is an empty assertion on
your part, and easily refuted.
The material in our Refuting
Protestantism section shows that what you believe is not
biblical, and that Catholic teachings are biblical. The Bible teaches that Jesus made St. Peter
the leader of His Church (Mt. 16:18-20; Jn. 21:15-17). One would have to be a liar to deny that
fact. Jesus instituted confession (John
20:23). The Bible repeatedly teaches
that man is not justified by faith alone (James 2:24). Please consult this file, A
Definitive Refutation of Justification by Faith Alone [PDF FILE], which gives loads of passages which refute
that false man-made heresy of justification by faith alone.
One must say that you are not, at
this time, in possession of the Christian faith. What you believe constitutes a rejection of
the teaching of the Bible. In charity
we must say that you need to wake up and convert to the Catholic faith before
you perish eternally. You talk about the
reformation. If you read the history, it
all began with a man named Martin Luther.
He was a Catholic priest who began to repudiate certain teachings. He was literally making things up as he went
along. In fact, as he started to make up
his new false version of "Christianity," he even said that he would
submit to the pope if the pope rejected his views. Think about that. Luther eventually rejected the pope as well,
but his willingness to appeal to the pope - even after he had begun to spread
some of his new doctrines - really captures how you are just following the
machinations of a man who was making it up as he went along. He was used by Satan to preach a new gospel
and lead many astray (Gal. 1:8-9).
V-2 “nuns”
Dear
Brothers,
I am
appalled at the filth that so-called "catholic" nuns support. I was
looking at some of their websites, and everything they talk about is
the same thing, all over the country: women's rights, peace, global warming,
"animal rights," death penalty. It is repeated ad nauseam. There are actually pictures of
these manly-looking "nuns" with rainbow flags and engaging in
"women masses." One picture had a lady praying to a model earth.
Another document tried to portray the sun as a "sacrament." And this
alone proves Benedict XVI is an antipope -- because of his failure to act. I remember
attending "catholic" school and getting into heated arguments with
these supposed nuns. She was trying to teach that God was a woman, evolution,
etc. She tried to make kids cross out words in the Bible such as
"him" and replace them with "us" so it would be more
"politically correct." I made a whole issue out of it, which
culminated in my getting removed from the class. I asked the "priest"
and he had no idea what I was talking about. Finally, I tried to tell a
"bishop" what these people were doing and he said calmly
"atheists can go to heaven." This was "auxiliary bishop"
John C. Dunne of Rockville
Center. Also on these websites, they argue that the death penalty is
wrong. They even bring up quotes of the Bible which prove they are wrong, and
say they were misinterpreted. They said they will not believe in the God of
"certain popes, princes, and kings" who would execute someone for
their crimes. They are willing to sacrifice everything they are required
to believe just to prove their selfish philosophy. What a laugh!
Bill Hart
Converted from Homosexuality
I was
baptized (1963) and confirmed as a Catholic in Boston Mass. I heard a message at my church that
homosexuals would not inherit the Kingdom of God. I was ten years old and
had recently realized I was a homosexual (after this hideous
voice in my head said "you are gay" I know it was Satan)…
I felt rejected and very angry, now no one loved me. …at 21 years of
age I attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for one year and ran
out of money. I did not return. My church life was never the
same. I stopped attending protestant churches at that time.
After researching about the Church i felt drawn back to the Catholic Church,
but could not bring myself to attend regularly because they seemed so
liberal. After finding your website, i realized that not all Catholics
are liberal and that a true Catholic Church still remains. I found your
website less than a week ago. After looking through your material i
am wholly convinced of your positions and that God has sent you all to save
souls, even those who assume they are Catholic. Why?, unless one
holds to all of the Church's dogmas and teachings, they are outside the church
by their adherence to heresies and therefore lost unless they
repent . God has used your ministry to free me of sins I
carried for many years (uncleannesss, drugs, cursing). I can't wait
to go to a validly ordained priest and have my sins absolved and be clean
and forgiven, thank you Jesus for the opportunity through your priests that
this is even possible, what a gift, i have renounced all of my errors as
they come to light and pray multitudes of others will do the same. Your
ministry has helped to save my life and my soul, May God bless you at Most Holy
Family Monastery. I have made it my life’s calling to help you complete your
call and wake the church from her slumber and save heretics, schismatics,
atheists and unbelievers. What can i do, how can i help, i would be such
an honor, thanks so very much.
G.P.
Thanks
for 10-minute Fed video
Dear Brothers,
Thank you for putting up this 10 Min. Fed.
Reserve Video. It is done well and holds people's attention. Our
talk radio station is definitely on the case. I just sent this page to
them, as they are setting up a Web Site where this kind of information can be
found…
Really Appreciate your putting this
up,
Carol D.
Pope
Pius XII
…
Isn't it interesting that Pope Pius XII had so many lists of priests, bishops,
and even cardinals who he suspected of modernism and heresy, yet didn't do
anything about it? What good can come from keeping a list if you aren't going
to do something about it? Of course the lists ended up in Angelo Roncalli's lap
as he found out he himself was on the list! Just another example of why Pope
Pius XII was such a weak and terrible pope…
John
Comment
on “To Men of Goodwill”
I loved PM's pointing out of his discovery
of the diabolical word change in the Gloria ("peace to men of goodwill"
became "peace to his people on earth").
I thought I was pretty good at noticing
these subtleties, but this one had escaped me. It hit me so hard that I
copied his note and shot it off to my father, who always claimed to hate the
New Mass…
PM also pointed out how the King James
version of the Bible mistranslates this phrase in the Nativity narrative to
"Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards Men", and then he asserts that this
means exactly the same thing as the Novus Ordo formula "Peace to His people
on Earth". I anticipate that my clever lawyer
acquaintance is going to say to "no it doesn't Billy, you see, "Peace
to His people" is quite different from saying "goodwill toward all
men". He will say (so I anticipate) that "His people"
connotes the faithful, not everybody, and therefore the heretical Protestant
formula is avoided.
However to me, this fact just serves
as evidence that the author of this change is even more demonically clever
than PM suspected. Because if the Novus Ordo inculcates anything,
especially to the young (I know, I had 12 years of their schools), it is
that we are all God's people, God loves everybody, etc. Therefore
99% of the people exposed week after week to this formula are going to
interpret the meaning as "peace to everybody", which is of course
what they wanted, otherwise why would they have changed it? However, if
pinned down, a sharp Novus Ordo defender can resort to an orthodox
defintion of "God's people" as comprising only the
faithful. Ambiguity, one of their favorite tools.
The dumbing down of language also serves
their purpose. The difference between the King James and Doauy
Rhiems versions is night and day, even the very meaning of the term
"goodwill" is completely changed by the sentence structure. The
King James' goodwill is the modern definition, a "desire for the
well being of others". The Douay goodwill means
to "to love and seek the truth". The men of
goodwill, would become the faithful, God's people. But we have
been so dumbed down, it is probably a nuance lost on most. Make us
stupid then confuse us.
Bill
Shocked
Dear Brothers,
The peace of the Lord be with you.
My name is Jose… I am also a theology student… in San Antonio, TX.
I watched the video about the invalid new mass (a friend in Mexico sent it to
me) 3 nights ago and I was shocked. I must tell you the truth and I really
doubt about the authenticity of your congregation because it's pretty heavy
stuff you're declaring. I must admit that I went to church last Sunday to attend
for the children mass (I'm married and have two kids and my wife is pregnant
with our third baby) and I had to get out because it was just like the video!
No word sacrifice (table of the Lord was the wording at the begining), no word
soul for the dead, and something you haven't included yet, no creed! This is
the mass for children!
I must be honest and am a little skeptical still because like I said before,
you're saying pretty heavy stuff…
Your brother in Christ
Jose R.
MHFM: You should continue to look at
the information on our site, especially concerning the invalid New Mass. If you do and if you realize that one must
adhere to the traditional teaching of the Church, you will see that this
information is the truth despite how many people in the post-Vatican II
“Church” say otherwise. You must come to
a complete rejection of the Vatican II “Church” and the New Mass.
Benedict
XVI’s back and forth
I noticed an article about Benedict XVI
pondering changes to the Mass Liturgy and something really stuck out to me.
According to the article "a high-ranking Vatican official
says Benedict XVI is considering introducing a change to the Mass
liturgy." Cardinal Francis Arinze, who heads the Vatican office for
sacraments, says Benedict XVI may move the placement of the sign of peace,
where congregation members shake hands or hug. Instead of taking place right
before "communion" they want it to come earlier. Now supposedly they
want to do because they believe it will "help create a more solemn
atmosphere as the faithful are preparing to receive communion." Why they
just don't remove completely is beyond me, unless of course they are trying to
appease both the traditionalists and the modernists.
The reason that this seems really weird to me is because two days before this
article was posted Benedict XVI made his comments about justification by
faith alone pretty much saying without saying the exact words that the Church
is really meaningless, so why would it matter to him if the mass was solemn or
not. How does a person go from one extreme to the other like that. Then I
started looking into his past statements and actions and he constantly does
this. He will make a traditional statement or action and then a few weeks or
sometimes a few days later he will do something that appeals to the liberals
who embrace the Vatican II spirit. Neither side seems to care because it seems
to confuse or subdue them enough to where they don't want to criticize his
actions. I know you have mentioned this as well, but I was surprised at the
frequency when I started to look at the dates…
M
MHFM: Yes, he would just abolish it if he really cared. He attempts to appease both sides by 1)
giving the impression that he’s against it, but 2) not removing it
completely. He does this because he’s
diabolical. It’s also effective for
him. It’s effective in deceiving people
of weak faith (i.e., those whose belief is not rooted in Catholic dogmas and
inescapable conclusions, but is swayed by appearances and emotional
attachments). These people just cannot
imagine that someone could be so evil that he would deliberately reject the
faith and attempt to destroy it on the one hand, but also do things which seem
to traditional.
To Men
of Good Will
Dear
MHFM
I was
reading the Gloria from the Traditional Mass this morning, which
says: "Glory be to God on high and on earth peace to men of good will.
The
Gloria in the Novus Ordo Mass reads: "Glory to God in the highest
and peace
to his people on earth."
Oh,
how sneaky is the demon who concocted this "Mass."
In
the Douay Rheims Challoner Bible, Luke 2:14 reads: "...peace to men
of good will".
In
the King James Bible, Luke 2:14 reads: "...peace, good will toward
men."
"...peace to his people on earth" is the same as "...peace, good will toward men," meaning, again, that all men, regardless of their unrepented sins, will be saved,
which, of course, is not only Protestant theology, but the basic theology of
the V2 church.
People
who believe they are still Catholic don't seem to recognize this seemingly
little nuance that makes them pray and eventually come to believe as
Protestants. Towards the end of my days as a V2 Catholic, I would get
more and more irritated everytime the priest would say "for all" in
the "consecration". I had never, till now, noticed "for
all" in their Gloria.
This
is just one more confirmation (which you probably mentioned in your writings
and I forgot :-) that the V2 church is not Catholic.
PM
“Trad”
group on Salvation
You may wish to review your position on the
CMRI salvation. [See some of these
statements they make and things they quote which say that there is no salvation
outside the Church.] It does not square
with what you currently hold about them.
God bless you.
Paula
MHFM: What you have to understand,
Paula, is that every group which claims to
be traditional Catholic claims to
hold the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation. They know they must at least claim to believe it in some way because it
has been defined by popes ex cathedra. They even quote it on occasion when it’s
convenient for them or when it serves their purposes.
However, they don’t really believe
it. They deny the true meaning of
it. To
them, the dogma simply means that you should be Catholic because Catholicism is
the one true religion, but it’s still
possible to saved if you’re not Catholic. To them, Outside the Church There is No
Salvation = it’s possible to be saved as a non-Catholic, without baptism and
without believing in Jesus. Their
“understanding” of the dogma is heretical.
Their “understanding” of the dogma empties it of all meaning.
We have shown many times – including
in our book – that the CMRI believes that souls can be saved who are not
Catholic. That’s heresy. They even hold that members of false
religions, including Jews who reject Christ, can be saved.
In the Winter 1992 issue of The
Reign of Mary (the CMRI’s publication), the CMRI ran an article called “The
Salvation of Those Outside the Church.”
This is a word for word denial of the dogma Outside the Church There is
No Salvation. It is equivalent to
publishing an article called “The Original Sin Mary Had.” The article, of course, inculcates the heresy
that non-Catholics can be saved without the Catholic Faith. And this is their position to this day.
In the Winter of 1996, The Reign of Mary (publication of the
CMRI) featured another heretical article called “The Boston Snare,” by Bishop
Robert McKenna. Bishop McKenna believes that
souls who die as non-Catholics can be saved; he also believes that it is not heretical to believe that Jews who
reject Christ can be in the state of grace, as confirmed in an exchange of
letters that I had with him in the Spring of 2004. Ironically, Bishop McKenna’s thesis in the
article is that this “heresy” of denying “baptism of desire” and “invincible
ignorance” was the Devil’s snare which was sown in Boston, when the truth is
actually just the opposite. Bishop
McKenna and the CMRI (who printed his heretical article because they believe
just as he does) are eating their words [“the Boston Snare”] right now by the
scandal in
Bishop
Robert McKenna, “The Boston Snare,” printed in the CMRI’s Magazine The Reign of Mary, Vol. XXVI, No. 83: “The doctrine, then, of no salvation outside
the Church is to be understood in the sense of knowingly outside the Church… But, they may object, if
such be the sense of the dogma in question, why is the word ‘knowingly’ not
part of the formula, ‘Outside the Church no salvation’? For
the simple reason that the addition is unnecessary. How could anyone know of the dogma and not be
knowingly outside the Church? The ‘dogma’ is not so much a doctrine
intended for the instruction of Catholics, since it is but a logical
consequence of the Church’s claim to be the true Church, but rather a solemn and material warning or declaration for the
benefit of those outside the one ark of salvation.”
Here we see a good example of what the CMRI and bishops like
McKenna really believe. To them, the
dogma means that only those who know
the Catholic Church is the true Church and still remain outside of it cannot be
saved. That wouldn’t exclude members of pagan
religions, Jews and countless others who are not convinced that Catholicism is
the true religion! One can see how this is a horrible and heretical perversion
of the dogma. Yet this is what the CMRI,
McKenna and almost all the other sedevacantist priests believe today.
In a desperate attempt to defend his
heretical version of Outside the Church There is No Salvation, McKenna admittedly must change the
understanding of the dogmatic formula proclaimed by the popes. He tells us that the “true” meaning of the
dogma is that only those who are “knowingly”
outside the Church cannot be saved. Oh
really? Where was that qualification
ever mentioned in the dogmatic definitions on this topic? Nowhere!
The Church always defined that there are NO exceptions and that all
who are not Catholic are not saved.
Pope Innocent
III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: “There is indeed one universal Church of the
faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus
Christ is both priest and sacrifice.”
Pope Boniface
VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra:
“With Faith
urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church
and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this Church outside of which there is no salvation nor remission of sin…
Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature
that they by absolute necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman
Pontiff.”
Pope Clement V, Council
of Vienne, Decree # 30, 1311-1312, ex cathedra:” Since however there is for both regulars and
seculars, for superiors and subjects, for exempt and non-exempt, one universal Church, outside of which there
is no salvation, for all of whom there is one Lord, one
faith, and one baptism…”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman
Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are
outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this
ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only for those who abide in
it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts,
almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia
produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has
given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless
he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Passing
of Life
MHFM:
King Edwin of Northumbria was a powerful 7th century pagan king in what is now
England. In 629, Catholic missionaries
were endeavoring to convert him to the faith.
The king was torn in his decision between his pagan religion and the
Catholic faith. To impress upon the king
the necessity to swiftly make a decision, one of his counselors expressed how
quickly life passes in the following way:
“Your majesty, when we compare the present
life of man with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like
the swift flight of a lone sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you sit in
the winter months to dine with your thanes and counselors. Inside there is a comforting fire to warm the
room; outside, the wintry storms of snow and rain are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one
door and out through another. While he
is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of
comfort, he vanishes from sight into the darkness whence he came.” (Quoted in Bede: A History of the English Church and
People, 1955, p. 124.)
The
king and a large number of his people were eventually converted and baptized.
False
Secret Contradictions
Dear
Brothers,
I was just re-reading your book "What Really Happened at Vatican
II". Something caught my attention and brought an interesting
thought to my mind. This concerns "conservative Novus Ordo
Catholics". My in laws fall under this category. As I was
reading the section on The Third Secret I remembered asking my Mother-in-law if
she believed the version we were given by the Vatican. I believe her
response was in the negative or at best she was doubtful that it was
authentic. Now, a description/explanation is given to the world of the
supposed third secret. First, why give an explanation and not just the
text. Of course, we know why. Secondly, if what we were given
is not authentic then those who wrote it are perpetrators of a demonic
hoax. They have taken the known words of Our Lady, changed them and
attributed false statements to her. So what does this mean? Simply
to attribute the words or works of the devil to God, (which is where Our Lady's
words would have come from) is a diabolical act of blasphemy and a sin against
the Holy Ghost. What it also attests to is that the perpetrators, which
included Ratzinger and John Paul II are false prophets. They have purposely
given to the world a false prophecy. He who gives a false prophecy and
claims it comes from heaven is a false prophet.
Consequently, these very people who deny the authenticity of the false third
secret given to us by a false prophet, are the very ones who call one of the
perpetrators (JPII) a saint. How delusional is this? In their
mind someone can be a false prophet (by their own admission) and be a Saint at
the same time. This is truly a manifestation of "...God shall
send them the operation of error, to believe lying", because ..."they
receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2
Thessalonians 2:10
Paul
Texas
MHFM: Yes, the failure to accept simple truths and arrive at
obvious conclusions is outrageous. We
also see this with a large number of false traditionalists on this point. For example, basically all of them do not
believe that the Vatican’s version of the Third Secret is authentic. Therefore, they should plainly admit that
John Paul II defrauded the world of the real Third Secret of Fatima and
perpetrated a demonic hoax; and also that the post-Vatican II “Sr. Lucy” could
not have been the true Sr. Lucy because the post-Vatican II “Sr. Lucy” fully
endorsed the Vatican II sect’s false version of the Third Secret.
But these false traditionalists and phony conservatives are too
tied down by evil human respect to tell people the truth. So they come up with other dishonest and
ridiculous ways to avoid accusing John Paul II of perpetrating a hoax, and to
avoid saying that the post-Vatican II “Sr. Lucy” cannot be the true one. These ways include the ridiculous idea that
there were two Third Secrets. Suddenly
there are two Third Secrets or “two texts”; yet it was these very people who
pointed out, from pre-Vatican II evidence, that the totality of the Third
Secret is just a single sheet of paper,
20-25 lines. So if the whole thing
is one sheet of paper, how can it now be two texts? It can’t be, obviously. No, this idea has been concocted simply so
that these false traditionalists can continue to compromise – so that they can
avoid having to tell people the truth and condemn the destroyers of the Message
of Fatima.
Other
Opinions on Exorcist movie
Brothers,
I, too, saw this movie 29 years ago when I
was 18 and still a heathen, and it gave me nightmares for two straight nights.
There are pornographic sacrileges, as well as utter grossness which I will not
even lower myself to describe. It is a very disturbing movie on many levels and
I would not recommend seeing it to anyone. Brother Peter's audio on the
Connecticut phenomena would be just as inciteful into the devils actions.
But on a similar note; at the end of the
Exocist movie, the younger priest has the demon enter into him, then he gets
killed intentionally while possessed. In the Bible where Jesus sends
"Legion" into the swine, which then jump off a cliff, what is the
spiritual benefit or reason for this action? Does this action further prevent
the demons from possessing people?.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Howard AR.
MHFM: The Haydock Commentary quotes
Ven. Bede, who says: “Jesus Christ permitted the Devil to destroy these swine,
that from their destruction, the men of that country might take the alarm, and
be converted.”
-------
Dear Brothers,
In regards to
Bill's suggestion that you watch The Exorcist, don't do it. It is an
extremely vile and offensive movie... See this review if you are considering
watching the movie:
http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/theexorcist.html?zoom_highlight=exorcist
There is
nothing uplifting or beneficial about this piece of trash.
LM
MHFM: Although we haven’t seen it and had no plans to, based on
reading a short review of it we would have to agree that people should not
watch it.
Praying
for Dead
Dear MHFM
I was wondering if you could definitively
answer a question that seems to get lost in translation among Traditional
Catholics. What is the proper course for
praying for the dead?
example........
1....The baptised family member who
is now in the Apostate VII church, who has been talked to about the apostacy of
such church but refuses to acknowledge it for whatever the reason. If
this person dies never making some sort of public renouncement of the VII
church can you still pray for them in the hopes that interiorly before they
died they made some sort of conversion? My gut tells me no but all I get
from the priest is....yes because we can't judge.......
If you can please help me with where to find
such definitive answers much would be appreciated. Maybe some papal quotes so I
can take them to others who get the same response from preists but still don't
feel it's right.
NOTE***** I am not trying to
willfully discredit the authority of Catholic Priests, I and others just
have a doubt because such priests adhere to the BOD..BOB heresies.
If they are correct so be it I would just like to know for sure.
Thank You
R.B.
MHFM: The answer to your question is that you could not pray for
that person. Since he clearly rejected
the truth, he has to be considered a heretic.
Those who die in the external forum as rejecters of the truth are
considered to have died as they lived (unless there is evidence to the
contrary) and should not receive prayers from Catholics. Prayers should be offered only for those who
can be considered among the faithful departed.
Pope St. Gregory the Great explains:
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Moral. xxxiv, 19: "There is the
same reason for not praying then" (namely after the judgment day)
"for men condemned to the everlasting fire,
as there is now for not praying for the devil and his angels who are sentenced
to eternal punishment, and for this
reason the saints pray not for dead unbelieving and wicked men,
because, forsooth, knowing them to be already condemned to eternal punishment,
they shrink from pleading for them by the merit of their prayers before they
are summoned to the presence of the just Judge." (Quoted by St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae, Supplemental Q. 71, A.
5.)
It isn’t surprising at all that those priests said that you
could pray for that person. They
basically all believe in salvation outside the Church and that salvation is
possible in any religion. They really
don’t believe in anything. They are not
Catholics, but heretics. They would
probably tell you that you could pray for someone who died as a mass-murderer.
Exorcist
In response to the person who wrote in
about horror movies, you indicated that you hadn't seen "The
Exorcist". I think you should see it, as going from memory, I think
it is a more "Catholic" movie than Emily Rose. The plot
concerns a young girl (the Blair character) who is possessed. Her mother,
a non-believing, nominal Protestant, calls for a Catholic Priest, in desperation,
after exhausting all kinds of Psychiatric aide. The priest who is first
assigned the case, is also a trained psychiatrist, and is a total
skeptic. Finally, again in desperation, they send for an elderly,
Exorcism specialist. In a scene in which the young priest is trying to
apprise the older (Exorcist) priest of the case, the young priest is still
couching all of the phenomenon in Psychiatric terminology. The older
priest looks at him a puzzled way and says something like "and why is this
important; just remember, do not listen to HIM, he is extremely clever and will
try to confuse you" (remember it is a girl who is the subject of the
Exorcism).
The movie neither leaves doubt
about the nature nor the reality of possession, or the exclusive power
that a Catholic priest has over the Devil and the fear the Devil has of a
priest who knows his business (but he mocks the priest who believes in
psychiatry).
I was similarly amazed that such a movie
was made by Hollywood, and this one is some 35 years old. It isn't
perfect, I think there are errors in it, but it is powerful and the
priests are made to look like heros.
Bill
Apparitions
Dear MHFM
I just read the newest letter on
apparitions. It seems the writer is trying to convince you that because
the Blessed Virgin seems to endorse the V2 church by her silence about it in
her latest apparitions which he seems to believe are genuine. Well, it's
obvious why they had to get rid of the real Sister Lucia of Fatima. She
might have exposed the whole setup.
So, in other words, in spite of a mountain
of evidence that exposes the V2 church as false, if the BVM endorses it or is
silent about it, then you are wrong, no matter what you say. This is
Vatican II logic in a nutshell…
Jesus said we must believe ALL he has
taught. I can't find in scripture where he says MOST of or SOME of what
he has taught, or which parts don't matter as long as you call on his
name.
PM
MHFM: Yes, the fellow doesn’t seem to be influenced at all by
the fact that the Vatican II sect and its antipopes deny clear Catholic
dogmas. All that seems to matter to him
is that he should have been warned about this in an apparition. Pointing out to him that the apparition is
either false or Our Lady simply did not mention everything in it isn’t
sufficient for him. He’s another example
of a person without any real faith, as Our Lord said (Luke 18:8). Like so many others, he lacks a firm and
rooted belief in the dogmas revealed by Christ.
It is by these that a faithful person measures everything. These give a faithful person a strong
conviction that everything not conforming to them is not of God.
Thus, if undeniable evidence is presented that the post-Vatican
II “popes” are manifest heretics, and that does not move you until you see
evidence from an “apparition,” then you have no faith. Catholic dogmas mean nothing to so many
people today because so many are devoid of supernatural faith.
The
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Pius XII
and Fatima Miracle
I
saw this story the other day. I thought you might want to read it since you
posted the information about Pope Pius XII. I am not totally believing what the
story is saying, mostly because I would think that if you would see something
like that it would strengthen your faith and that did not happen with Pope Pius
XII.
Pope Pius XII Saw the 'Miracle of the Sun'
By
Antonio Gaspari
11/5/2008
Zenit News
Agency (www.zenit.org)
Pius
XII wrote, "I have seen the 'miracle of the sun,' this is the pure
truth."
ROME (Zenit) - According to his own testimony, the Pope who declared the dogma
of the Assumption saw the "miracle of the sun" four times.This
information is confirmed by a handwritten, unpublished note from Pope Pius XII,
which is part of the "Pius XII: The Man and the Pontificate" display.
The display opened in the Vatican to the public today and will run through Jan.
6. A commissioner of the display and a Vatican reporter for the Italian daily
Il Giornale, Andrea Tornielli, explained to ZENIT that the note was found in
the Pacelli family archives. It describes the "miracle of the sun,"
an episode that until today had only been affirmed by the indirect testimony of
Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (1873-1959), who recounted in a homily that the
Holy Father had seen the miracle.
Pius XII wrote, "I have seen the 'miracle of the sun,' this is the pure
truth." The miracle of the sun is most known as the episode that occurred
in Fatima, Portugal, on Oct. 13, 1917. According to the Fatima visionaries,
Mary had said there would be a miracle that day so that people would come to
believe. Thousands had gathered at the site of the visions, and the sun
"danced," reportedly drying instantaneously the rain-soaked land and
spectators.
Confirming the dogma
Pius XII's note says that he saw the miracle in the year he was to proclaim the
dogma of the Assumption, 1950, while he walked in the Vatican Gardens. He said he saw the phenomenon various times,
considering it a confirmation of his plan to declare the dogma. The papal note
says that at 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1950, during his "habitual walk in the
Vatican Gardens, reading and studying," having arrived to the statue of
Our Lady of Lourdes, "toward the top of the hill […] I was awestruck by a
phenomenon that before now I had never seen."
"The sun, which was still quite high, looked like a pale, opaque sphere,
entirely surrounded by a luminous circle," he recounted. And one could
look at the sun, "without the slightest bother. There was a very light
little cloud in front of it."
The Holy Father's note goes on to describe "the opaque sphere" that
"moved outward slightly, either spinning, or moving from left to right and
vice versa. But within the sphere, you could see marked movements with total
clarity and without interruption." Pius XII said he saw the same
phenomenon "the 31st of October and Nov. 1, the day of the definition of
the dogma of the Assumption, and then again Nov. 8, and after that, no
more."
The Pope acknowledged that on other days at about the same hour, he tried to
see if the phenomenon would be repeated, "but in vain -- I couldn't fix my
gaze [on the sun] for even an instant; my eyes would be dazzled." Pius XII spoke about the incident with a few
cardinals and close collaborators, such that Sister Pascalina Lehnert, the nun
in charge of the papal apartments, declared that "Pius XII was very
convinced of the reality of the extraordinary phenomenon, which he had seen on
four occasions."…
MHFM: There are some interesting points about that. Pius XII allegedly saw the miracle of the sun
for the first time in 1950. Pope Pius
XII didn’t consecrate Russia until July 7, 1952. He was slow to obey Heaven’s request. Russia had already spread its errors. So it would make sense that, in order to push
and prod him to honor Fatima and do the consecration of Russia, Heaven would
give him a special grace to see the miracle of the sun. That may have been the thing which caused him
to “repent and do it,” even though it was already late, Russia had already
spread its errors, and his act would only grant a “certain” period of
peace. And as we know from the case of
Pharaoh and others, if God causes someone to see such a sign or wonder it
doesn’t necessarily mean that God is pleased with him.
Our Lord to Sister
Lucy, Summer, 1931: “Like the King of
Pope Pius XII, Sacro Vergente Anno (Apostolic Letter),
July 7, 1952: “…just as a few years ago
We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin
Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We
entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart…”
Movie
Dear Brothers,
Just wanted to tell you that while it's rare that I ever watch mainstream
movies, I did see the movie "I Am Legend" where actor Will Smith
plays the role of the last man on earth in New York trying to survive. In this
movie we find that he's hunted by hybrid almost demonic creatures who feed on
any remaining humans. At the end of the movie Will Smith's character is cornered
by several of these ferocious demonic looking creatures and the only thing that
keeps them from getting to him is a clear glass wall. The creatures constantly
ram at the glass wall trying to bash it in until finally they break the glass
and get to him... This was a very frightening scene, but even more frightening
is the fact that that glass wall represents the thin veil that separates souls
in mortal sin from demons who though invisible just can't wait to take those
damned souls down to hell. Eventually the "glass wall" will break
(death) and either we will be saved from the demons by what we do in this life,
or we will be taken by the demons and suffer eternity in hell.
Horror
Movies
Since you have commented on the dangers of
rock music I wanted to send you some information about horror movies. I do
believe they are just as dangerous and just as much under the influence of the
devil as rock music.I feel that these movies are bad and should be avoided. A
good example to look at is some of the popular horror movies and some of the
things that happened to the people involved with them: The Exorcist,
Poltergeist and Rosemary's Baby.
Here a piece of some articles about these things and a link so you know I am
not totally making this up. Some of this information people claim is just
rumors to add allure to the films, but other sources are reporting it as fact
and most of it can be proven true.
The Exorcist
Nine people were killed during the making of The Exorcist movie. Twelve more
people were injured and one of the sets caught of fire mysteriously. Linda
Blair also had a nervous breakdown shortly after the filming. I also wanted to
note that in the movie they used an icon or image of a real demon who was
worshiped in Babylon.
Poltergeist
There were also similiar occurances during linked with the Poltergeist movies.
Four people linked with the movies died shortly after the production of the
movies.
Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper made "Poltergeist" in 1982, which
had a sequel, as well as a TV series later on. Ghosts were the main theme of
this film, even though horrible things happened outside it. Many film crew
members died not long after the film was made. Actress Dominique Dunne (22) was
strangled by her boyfriend, 12-year-old Heather O`Rourke died of a common cold
which became inexplicably complicated, while two actors died of cancer and
organ transplant complications.
Rosemary's Baby
A year after the film Rosemary's Baby was released Roman Polanski (the
director) wife, Shanon Tate was murdered by the Manson family.
MHFM: We haven’t seen The
Exorcist, so we couldn’t comment.
But we agree with your statements about horror movies. Catholics should not watch them. That’s quite a fact that you bring up about
all the people killed during the production of The Exorcist.
It should be pointed out that the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose is classified as a horror movie. We do not consider it to be an actual horror
movie. It’s a film based on an exorcism
and contains a great deal of Catholic truth.
As many of our readers probably already know, it’s based on the Exorcism
of Anneliese Michel. We have an audio
discussion about the true story upon which the movie is based. A discussion of the Exorcism of Anneliese Michel
While we disagree with a few things in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (such as the reason for the possession),
overall we thought it was good. Actually,
it’s extraordinary that (in our day) a movie with so much traditional Catholic
truth was turned into a major motion picture, shown in theatres, and has been
viewed by millions of people. Hopefully
it will make some people think and begin to investigate the traditional
Catholic faith.
Explain
this Apparition
Hi there. I'm a Catholic 19 year old person
who found out some months ago about all this Vatican II stuff and have
been wondering since then if it really makes everything invalid.
I've read a lot about it, and it really seems like it is the way it is, but
then again, what do you have to say about the Apparitions of the Holy Virgin
here in Cuapa, Nicaragua, that started in the year 1980? You can search that on
internet to take a look at it for yourself.
So like i said, if all this vatican 2 thing would be true, don't you think the
Virgin would have said something about it during those apparitions? yet She
didn't say anything about it, not one thing. And that simply cannot be, because
being who She is, and wanting the same thing as God for us, that is, our
salvation, She couldn't have said all those things she said on the apparition
message, because they would be of no good, if all this Vatican II thing were to
be correct, because everything is "null and void" as you say.
So what do you have to say about this?
MHFM: In short, the answer is that almost all of
the post-Vatican II (i.e., after 1965) supposed apparitions of the Blessed Mother
are demonic deceptions – at least all those which in any way endorse or show
union with the post-Vatican II “Church.”
They are false signs from the Devil which are meant to lead people
astray and keep them in the Vatican II sect.
It’s not Mary who is appearing, but the Devil purporting to be
Mary. You need to look at this file:
False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje) [Link to Section]
It
shows that these false signs were predicted in Scripture and in Catholic
prophecy. It exposes some of these false
signs and how they work to deceive people.
While this file doesn’t address the apparition you are asking about, it
(and the other information on our website) should prove to you that all
apparitions that in any way endorse the Vatican II sect, the New Mass, the
Vatican II antipopes, etc. are proven by that fact to be of Satan. As Catholics, we must adhere to and be guided
in all things by Catholic Tradition, Sacred Scripture and the Magisterial
teaching of the Church (i.e., the dogmas, the teaching of the popes). You cannot deviate from traditional Catholic
teaching to follow a supposed apparition.
That’s a deception.
2 Thessalonians
2:9-12: "Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying
wonders, And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because
they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation
of error, to believe lying. That all may
be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to
iniquity."
Matthew
24:24-25: "Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there,
do not believe him. For there shall
arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders,
insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, before hand. If therefore they shall say to you: Behold He
is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold He is in the closets, believe it
not."
Moreover, even in true messages (which apparitions
of the Vatican II “Church” are not), the Blessed Mother doesn’t necessarily
warn Catholics about every deception, test or trial that will come. People are expected to know their faith, live
their faith, and take the proper steps to handle and evaluate trials and
tribulations that will arise.
Debates
I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed
your telephone debates. Just fantastic refuting of scriptural ignorance. I also
enjoy the many articles that are available to read. My brother and I are slowly
making our way through them… I live in Sydney, Australia… Keep up the good
fight. Your Monastery and your work will
be in our daily prayers, esp the Rosary.
God bless,
Mark Turner.
Thanks
Dear brothers of the Most Holy Family
Monastery,
I have just discovered your web page and I
was amazed at many of your claims re the pope and the Church since Vat2. However, you support your claims with so much
evidence that one would be blind freddy not to agree. I can only say
"thank you" for what must be countless hours of research and study…
Again, for what it’s worth, "thanks" and know that you have made a
difference to a soul, who loves the Church…
Sincerely,
Michael.
New
Church of Man
I
wanted to make an interesting observation from an article on the News and
Commentary section of your website. The article was on the Bishop who is
promoting the legalization of prostitution. In the article it stated
"In 2005, the Vatican released a document calling prostitution “a form of
modern day slavery”. The document, developed at the First International Meeting
of Pastoral Care for the Liberation of Women of the Street, added that 'sexual
exploitation, prostitution and trafficking of human beings are all acts of
violence against women,' and 'constitute an offence to the dignity of
women and are a grave violation of basic human rights”.
As is customary for the VII church, they never mention anything being an
offense against God. The greatest evil is to offend MAN.
Paul Smith
Texas
New Rite
I just came across your article about the new rite of ordination.
Near the end is
this
paragraph:
Conclusion: This means that any Confessions
made of grave sins to “priests” ordained in the New Rite must be made
again to a validly ordained priest who was ordained in the
Traditional Rite of Ordination by a bishop
consecrated in the Traditional Rite of Episcopal Consecration. If
one cannot remember which sins were confessed to New Rite “priests,” and
which were forgiven by a priest ordained in the Traditional Rite, then a
Catholic must make a general confession mentioning all grave sins (if
there were any) that may have been confessed to a “priest” ordained in the
rite of Paul VI (the New Rite).
This obviously is a very serious and very
troubling
matter
affecting thousands of souls. Could you please show me where the details of that
paragraph are covered
In
Church documents (Canon Law, Encyclicals, etc.)?
Thank you for your help.
JB
MHFM: The article
demonstrates from Church teaching (e.g., Pope Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae) that the New Rite is invalid for the same
reasons that the Anglican Rite is invalid.
Therefore, it follows logically that mortal sins which were confessed to
priests ordained in the invalid New Rite must be confessed again. Your question really amounts to: where does
the Church teach that one must confess mortal sins which have not been forgiven
by a priest? That’s taught by the
Council of Trent.
Found
Subject: I knew I wasn’t abandoned
i recently found your website and believe i
have finally found the truth, can you help me find a church in sacramento ca… i
was baptized, and confirmed in the catholic faith, i left and became a
protestant but was not ever satisfied, can you help me to find a good priest
and correct my error.
Luminous
Mysteries
Hello. My question is, may we pray the
Luminous mysteries that JP2 instituted?
MHFM: No.
They are not part of the traditional Rosary, but were added by an
antipope.
Brown
Scapular and Suicide
Hello again,
I was wondering if a person has been a believer in the Brown Scapular and tried
to follow the requests to get to heaven, but committed suicide would they be
able to get in or would the promise be void?
What do you say to a person who is totally in despair and has lost all hope, is
constantly crying, and everything always seems to be going wrong for that
person? She has young children as well.
Thanks.
MHFM: No, the Brown Scapular is not a guarantee of salvation for
those who die in mortal sin or outside the faith. (This was addressed in our book.)
To your second question, we would say that she needs to pray for
hope and pray for help. We believe that
the problem is a result of not being in the state of grace. For such a distraught and despairing state is
not a fruit of the Holy Ghost, but sounds most definitely like it is a
spiritual problem.
As always, we recommend the Rosary – the full 15-decade Rosary
each day, if possible. She should also
get True Devotion to Mary and
practice the devotion in it.
Taken to
Hell
I wanted to ask you exactly that very same
question : is Hell at the center of the earth ? ! This same question came
into my mind most recently because I am right now reading a book
written by a heretic which tells his true story about how the Lord Jesus
actually REALLY+PHYSICALLY let him go to Hell ! This man was REALLY in HELL for
23 minutes !(it was NOT a dream !) and dear Monks I have to believe him because
I really don't believe this man would or could make up such a thing ! And
what he experienced and describes totally supports all the Catholic teachings
on Hell and what those kids saw in Fatima, it just goes hand in hand with what
Catholicism teaches about Hell ! and this man is a heretic who up to this point
believes in his SAVED FOREVER stuff and he has no relation to Catholicism !
It's just amazing ! But he describes Hell where he REALLY was physically for
23minutes as being at the center of the earth ! This book is so scary and such
an intense read that I have a hard time getting through it and I'm actually
getting anxiety while reading it ! I really don't know what to make of it,and I
don't know what you guys are going to make of it, and he himself writes in his
book that he has NO CLUE why he was taken to Hell ! It doesn't even make sense
to him he writes. I have to believe his story. And reading that stuff made me
pick up my rosary again and resolved to stick to it with the help of BMM,
because now I'm praying for help in praying the rosary (because it tends to get
difficult for me ). But that is a place I really don't want to go to ! It's so
horrible, and terrifying the way he describes everything ! and it's so hard to
digest,it's going to take me a while to absorb all of this into my system ! It
really is a hard and intense read !
MHFM: The story might be authentic because, from what you are
saying, there’s nothing in this account which contradicts the faith or endorses
his heretical religious view. However,
one must be very careful of those stories because some of those “near death
experiences” are demonic deceptions.
They are given to people to convince them that they are on the path to
Heaven when they aren’t.
Palestine
& Israel
Dear Dimond Brothers,
Most Neo-"Catholics" go gaga over Israel. They give their full support
to the Jews and are complete Zionists. It seems most Traditional Catholics are
the exact opposite. They completely oppose the Jews and their agenda, yet give
their full support to the Palestinians. Clearly to support Israel is a
completely unCatholic position. But can we really be Catholics and give our
support to Palestine, which is virtually controlled by Hamas, the Mohammaden
terrorist organization? Whether the Palestinians are the "innocent"
people in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or not, it just doesn't seem very
Catholic to support a bunch of people (Palestinians) who will most likely
create a Palestinian State and impose Sharia Law. What do you think is the true
Catholic position to take? Favor Israel? Favor Palestine? Neither?
Please tell me what you think.
God bless
MHFM: In our opinion and based on the information we’ve seen, we
would favor Palestine.
Comments
Thank you for showing the truth with your
work. It has clarified my understanding
in a way that was needed.
Mark Signore
CA
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Thank you for allowing our Lord to work
through you!
James Hardin, TX
Why Hell
must be Eternal
MHFM:
In consideration of the question below, we have posted a new file:
Quick Thoughts on Why Hell must be
Eternal
It
will be located in our “Spiritual Issues” section.
Safe to
Assume?
Brothers,
Is it probable or safe to assume that those
who are raised in false religions do not suffer pains in hell but only the
punishment of eternal separation from God? I believe The Catechism by the
church that was issued on hell stated that Hell was eternal separation from
God. That punishments concerning everlasting fire in hell and to be tortured by
devils is a common misconception, that hell really isn't a physical place but
as said where souls who have not died in God's grace be separated from
completely and always? It would surely be foolish to believe that most people
are in pain in hell as it would not be compatible with an all loving benevolent
God who would not want anyone to suffer? Also why dose God not destroy the
devil and put all souls in purgatory where they could be renewed and purged of sin? I'm greatly confused on this topic and would
much appreciate the help, there are so many people in the world who really do
not deserve eternal punishment!
MHFM: No. A Catholic is
not allowed to hold that people who die in false religions avoid the fires of
Hell. It’s defined that those who die in
false religions go the eternal fires of Hell.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex
cathedra: “The Holy Roman
Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside
the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical
body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody
can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has
shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and
unity of the Catholic Church.”
What you are saying is contrary to the teaching of Jesus and the
Church. To assert that people don’t
deserve eternal punishment, when God has revealed that He condemns them to
eternal punishment, is arrogant and wrong.
In battling with many people of bad will over the years, one thing we’ve
seen clearly is how so many people are dishonest and bad willed to the core,
even if they appear harmless or nice or “good” in other ways. Deep down they just hate the truth. They are simply people who are not of the
truth. They cannot and do not deserve
any reward. In dealing with them, it
really becomes quite clear why God condemns certain people forever.
Those who die in original sin only do not suffer the fires of
Hell, but only eternal separation from God.
DVDs
MHFM:
Dramatically improved versions of our DVDs will be available in the next few
weeks.
Hell at
Center of the Earth
Dear Brothers,
Is it true that hell is under the earth towards the center?
MHFM: Yes. This is shown
by numerous things. For example, when
Core and his companions were punished for their schism against Moses, the Earth
opened up underneath them and they were taken alive into Hell.
Numbers 16:24-33- “Command the whole people
to separate themselves from the tents of
Core and Dathan and Abiron. And
Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel
following him… if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth
swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive
into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. And immediately
as he had made an end of speaking, the
earth broke asunder under their feet: And opening her mouth, devoured them with
their tents and all their substance. And
they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they
perished from among the people.”
It’s also shown by Our Lady’s message on July 13, 1917 at
Fatima. When she showed the children the
vision of Hell, they saw it in a light which penetrated the Earth. They saw it underneath the Earth.
July 13 message of Our Lady of Fatima: “As
the Lady spoke the last words, she opened Her hands once more, as She had done
the two previous months. The rays [of
light] appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and
the souls [of the damned]. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all
blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in
that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from
within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on
every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid
shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble
with fright (it must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people
say they heard me). The demons were distinguished [from the souls of the
damned] by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown
animals, black and transparent like burning coals.”
There are other points that could be brought up, but these
should suffice.
Complete
Picture
Christ led me back to the true faith over
10 years ago. Having found your web site, I am deeply indebted to
you. Just having finished reading about the heresies of Benedict,
to say I am shocked is an understatement. For years I have been troubled
by his words and actions but never was able to complete the picture as you have
done. I cannot argue with truth.
Knowing and understanding this allows me to continue on my path of living the
one true faith outside of which salvation is not possible. Thank you, may God bless you and your
work, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,
Ejd
Desert
of Vatican II
Dear Brothers in Christ: As a traditional
Catholic, born before the Baby Boomers and raised in the truly Holy Catholic
Church that existed before Vatican II, also a former seminarian, I have
wandered in the desert of the diminished spirituality of the Novus Ordo Mass
and the "Spirit of Vatican II - that great destroyer of Catholicism "
for more than forty years now... May
God Bless and Keep You All Always - Keep up the Good Work for Our Holy
Faith,
Ricardo
L. P.,
CA
More on
purpose to amend
Brothers,
If I understand correctly what you are saying:
a person who commits a previously confessed mortal sin does not have the firm
purpose of amendment necessary to make a good confession and thus, makes a
sacreligious confession. This is not necessarily true, especially in
cases of habitual sin, in which a person is addicted to a particular sin and is
struggling to overcome the temptation or tendency to commit that sin.
Such a person could enter the confessional and have the intention to
avoid those sins and their occasions and actually refrain from committing
the sin for a time and then out of human weakness, fall and give into
temptation again. On the other hand, if a person went to confession with
the idea that they will or want to commit the sin again which they are about to
confess, then of course that would be a bad confession.
Randy
MHFM: You have misunderstood and misrepresented what we
said. The person who wrote to us said
that he went to confession and did not have the firm purpose to stop committing
the sin. That’s a sacrilegious confession. It’s very straightforward. We did not say that if a person ever
commits a mortal sin that he previously confessed, that proves that the
previous confession of that sin was sacrilegious. It’s theoretically possible for a person to
have a sincere and firm purpose to not commit a particular mortal sin anymore,
but then weaken in his/her resolve some time later. Hence, the person would commit a new mortal
sin, but his/her previous confession was not sacrilegious. However,
we would say that such a situation is rare.
There is also a grave danger in what you are saying about habitual sin
and addiction to sin. People who are
“addicted” to a mortal sin are not ready to go to confession and shouldn’t be
given absolution, as explained below.
Many persuade themselves that they are committed to changing
their lives and to breaking from a mortal sin when, in fact, they are not ready
to do so. They do not intend to take the
necessary steps. They thus deceive
themselves and commit sacrilegious confessions.
As St. Theresa of Avila said: “Bad confessions damn the majority of
Christians.” A person who is in mortal
sin must have the firm purpose to
literally convert from the sin, and to take the drastic actions (if
necessary) to bring that about. It’s
theoretically possible for someone to get to that point, and then fall back
into the sin; but in most cases where a person commits mortal sin habitually
he/she has not, at any point, reached the level of a firm purpose to
change.
That’s why people who have been mired in a particular mortal sin
for a stretch of time should not go to
confession and should not be given absolution until they have reached the point that they are sincerely ready to
change and not look back. Too many think
that confession is just a salve of conscience, while they can continue to sin
in the manner they desire.
Pope
Calixtus III
MHFM:
A few days back in our News and Commentary section we posted a link to one of
Benedict XVI’s recent speeches, in which he describes the Muslims as “believers.” It’s an expression of apostasy commonly used
by the Vatican II antipopes: describing members of a false, non-Christian
religion as “believers.” It’s
interesting that one of us recently (about the same day as the aforementioned
link was posted) came across another quote from a real pope asserting just the
opposite, of course.
Pope Calixtus III, to Skanderbeg, Sept. 17,
1457: “Beloved son! Continue to defend
the Catholic Faith; God, for whom you fight, will not abandon His cause. He will, I am confident, grant success against the Turks [i.e., the Muslims] and the other
unbelievers to you and the rest of the Christians with great glory and
honor.” (Dr. Ludwig Pastor, History of
the Popes, Vol. 2, p. 434.)
There’s
also another extremely interesting quote from the same pope. In the next day or so, we will probably post
it. It has major significance to a
number of dogmatic issues.
Pope
Pius XII
I
have seen some traditionalists condemn Pius XII as a heretic. Was he a
heretic?
MHFM: There isn’t clear proof that Pope Pius XII was a
heretic. Without clear evidence, one
cannot say that someone is a heretic.
However, one must say that Pius XII was very close to being a
heretic. By any reasonable traditional
Catholic estimation, he must be considered an extremely weak pope, the bridge
to the Vatican II apostasy. He enabled
the outrageous hoax of evolution to flourish by not condemning belief in it,
and by opening the door for it. He made
statements endorsing the birth control practice of Natural Family Planning,
which subverts the primary purpose of marriage.
He allowed the denial of the dogma Outside the Church There is No
Salvation to flourish, even though there is nothing in his encyclicals which
contradicts it and much which refutes heresies against it. He modernized Holy Week and thus, according
to many, began the initial thrust of the Liturgical Revolution. In fact, it’s interesting that many of the
outrageous heretics among the sedevacantist priests reject Pius XII’s new Holy
Week as essentially modernist. These
heretics, such as Cekada, Sanborn, etc., who all believe that souls can be
saved in any religion, feel obliged to reject Pius XII’s modernistic Holy Week
reforms. Isn’t that interesting? They attempt to use Pius XII to promote their
heresies on salvation, by giving the false impression that everything
promulgated under him (even if not specifically from him) is binding, while at
the same time they reject Pius XII’s liturgical reforms.
If we are to have an accurate and uncompromising view of the
faith in our day, it’s important for Catholics to understand that Pius XII was
not strong. It’s important because there
are many false traditionalist heretics who think that, if you just go back to
the 1950s everything was fine. That view
lacks any wisdom; it predominates because few people have faith in the papal
office itself (i.e., the infallible acts).
They are just followers of man, with no real faith in the dogmas and the
promise that Christ gave to St. Peter.
That promise is an infallibility IN THE EXERCISE OF THE POWER OF THE
PAPAL OFFICE, not in everything that is promoted or allowed during a pope’s
reign. But, since they are just
followers of man, they feel that if they just return to the time of the last
valid pope, they can follow whatever was done or promoted – except, I guess,
when it comes to the new Holy Week!
That view fails to recognize that the Vatican II apostasy did
not begin overnight. A whole body of
bishops did not become apostate one day at Vatican II. Most of the priests in the 1940s and 1950s
were heretics, especially on the dogma Outside the Church There is No
Salvation. It was the very bishops
promoted by Pope Pius XII who went on to sign the heretical decrees of Vatican
II.
In this regard, it’s interesting to consider the comments of one
“Fr.” Gregory Hesse. Some of our readers
remember him. He is now deceased. He went around giving speeches on traditional
issues. He was ordained in the New Rite
of Ordination, and thus was not a valid priest.
He was also not a sedevacantist.
He obstinately spread serious errors on salvation, sedevacantism,
etc. However, he did condemn Vatican II
as heretical, as well as the Vatican II antipopes. He also condemned the New Mass. He was basically a traditionalist “priest”
with views which were similar to the SSPX (he did like their group), but his
line was much harder. He would condemn
Vatican II and John Paul II as clearly heretical, while they would waffle. The point is that here’s what he said about
Pius XII:
“Pius XII was barely Catholic.”
If that was even his estimation of Pius XII, what does that tell you?
Firm
Purpose of Amendment
Dear MHFM,
I confessed [a mortal sin]… to a validly
ordained priest, but did not have the firm purpose of amendment. I committed
the sin again. I have since been praying
the 15-decade rosary each day. I tried
to mention this sin and the previously confessed instances of it to a validly
ordained priest in a later confession. The priest refused to hear it. He would
not let me mention repeated instances. He said, "God wants me to be at
peace." I ask that you pray for me.
I do have the firm purpose of amendment now.
MHFM: If a confession of a mortal sin was made without the firm
purpose to stop committing the sin (that which is called the firm purpose of
amendment), then that confession was sacrilegious. A mortal sin was committed in making it. Hence, at your next confession (when you do
have the firm purpose of amendment), you would need to mention that you made a
sacrilegious confession. You would also
need to confess again the mortal sin under discussion and how many times you
committed it.
It’s not clear from your e-mail whether the priest understood
that you were confessing a sacrilegious confession and therefore also
re-confessing mortal sins which had been mentioned before, or if he thought
that you were unnecessarily repeating sins which had already been
forgiven. If he understood the former, then
he’s a liberal and a bad priest. Sadly,
that’s the case with even a good number of the “traditional” priests. If he gave you absolution without allowing
you to mention everything you needed to mention, then you need to go to a
different (valid) priest and make the confession. From reports we’ve received, many of the
“traditionalist” priests justify various mortal sins.
Certainly if a person is truly scrupulous and is repeating sins
which have already been forgiven, or confessing as mortal sins things that are
not, then forbidding a penitent to confess certain things would be the correct
counsel. But this was certainly not one
of those cases. Many of these priests
are so liberal that they assign clear-cut mortal sins – such as a confession of
a mortal sin without the intention to stop the sin – to the category of
“scrupulosity.”
Now Know
Good day!
I'm Joy from Philippines, 25 yrs. old, I'm a Roman Catholic and also my family…
I follow your advice, I pray the rosary three decades everyday and also I read
the Bible.
Brothers, when I accidentally open your
site I know the real situation of our church now and because of that I didn't
stop searching for the truth and even the end times and that is why I found
this site. I have no other intention of sending you this but I just want to
share this to you. I believe this could help us understand more. Brothers I
know that the intention of this site and yours is to let us know the truth… I
thank Our Lord Jesus Christ always and to Our Blessed Virgin Mary that there
were people who are really very loyal and concern about our spiritual, I hope
that your going read this... Thank you very much.
May Our Lord God bless you always…
Respectfully Yours,
Joy
Philippines
Convert
I really like your website. What must I do
to become saved? Can you help me to convert? I have been baptized and I am
educated in the teachings of the church. Would you be willing to help me do
this God's way? Thank you.
MHFM: You should start praying the Rosary each day,
more than just five decades. You should
follow the steps in this file: The Steps to
convert to the traditional Catholic Faith and for those leaving the New Mass -
Baptism and Conditional Baptism - the Council of Trent's Profession of Faith
for Converts [link
to section]. And you should obtain the
catechism and basic package from us.
Female
Doctors of the Church
Dear Dimond Brothers,
What do you make of the Vatican II sect declaring women "Doctoresses"
of the Church? I think it's to appease the Feminists. Every once in a while,
the VII sect tries to please the Feminists, whether it be naming women Doctors
of the Vatican II Church, allowing women to read during "Mass", or
allowing them to serve as altar girls. I think it's all going to lead to the
"ordination" of womenpriests. The VII Church has been trying to
confuse people on the roles of women for the last 40 years or so to get everyone
warmed up for the "ordination" of women. Considering all the changes
in regaurds to the roles of women in the VII Church, ordaining women won't seem
like such a big deal. They already have women "doctors", altar
servers, readers, and some even give sermons in the Novus Ordo!! So the
"ordination" of women won't be such a drastic change. They've been
warming people up for it for years.
God bless
MHFM: Yes, we agree that it’s not something the Catholic Church
would do. That’s why the Church didn’t
do it. Just so our readers are familiar
with what we’re talking about, the Catholic Church never proclaimed any women
to be Doctors of the Church.
In 1970 (Antipope) Paul VI proclaimed St. Catherine of Siena and
St. Theresa of Avila to be “Doctors” of the Church. In 1997 Antipope John Paul II proclaimed
Therese of the Child Jesus a “Doctor” of the Church. These declarations must be considered
invalid, of course, because the Vatican II antipopes have no authority. However, Sts. Catherine of Siena, Theresa of
Avila, and Therese of the Child Jesus are all undoubtedly Catholic saints.
We believe that the Vatican II sect proclaimed women to be
“doctors” to introduce (once again) the concept of change, to break down the
bulwark of Tradition, and to feminize things, as you say. It’s just another example of a novelty of the
Vatican II sect.
It all
makes sense
Hello...
Thank
you for your website and for bringing to light the information we need to hear.
I can't believe how much it all makes sense. I am so sad and scared. I want to
explore a traditional church, but the only one I can find is SSPX. Where can I
turn to worship in a true Catholic Church that is not heretical? Can you
help?...
Thank
you,
Sharon
“Baptism
of Desire”
I asked my teacher about the issue of
Baptism of Desire, and she explained to me that if someone meant to be Baptised
but was hit by a car on their way there, God would pardon them and they would
still go to heaven, also that if someone meant to Baptise their child but it
dies first, that child is pardoned. I didnt know if I should believe her, but
it seems like God in his mercy would pardon people in these instances. I dont
know, what should I tell her? Is she a heretic?
Sincerely Daniel
MHFM: What she is saying is bold heresy. To say that a child who dies without baptism
will be pardoned, when the Church has repeatedly defined that such children are
excluded from Heaven, is outrageously heretical. Further, the idea that the person hit by the
car will be saved without baptism is also contrary to Catholic teaching and the
providence of God. Before going to her,
you need to become convinced yourself.
You don’t seem to be. A Catholic
cannot be open to such heretical ideas.
Here are two of the infallible definitions which demonstrate
that her position is heretical.
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “Regarding
children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, when
no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of
baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the
Devil [original sin] and adopted among the sons of God, it advises that
holy baptism ought not be deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time
according to the observance of certain people…”
Pope Paul III, The
Council of Trent, On Original Sin, Session V, ex cathedra: “If anyone says
that recently born babies should not be baptized even if they have been born to
baptized parents; or says that they are indeed baptized for the remission of
sins, but incur no trace of the original sin of Adam needing to be cleansed
by the laver of rebirth for them to obtain eternal life, with the
necessary consequence that in their case there is being understood a form of
baptism for the remission of sins which is not true, but false: let him be
anathema.”
Regarding
the unbaptized catechumen who is hit by the car, the following quote is
appropriate.
St. Augustine, 391: “When we shall have come into His
[God’s] sight, we shall behold the equity of God’s justice. Then no one will say:… ‘Why was this man led by God’s
direction to be baptized, while that man, though he lived properly as a
catechumen, was killed in a sudden disaster, and was not baptized?’
Look for rewards, and you will find
nothing except punishments.” (Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3:
1496.)
The Church teaches that the Sacrament
of Baptism is necessary for salvation.
Those who die without it, such as an unbaptized person hit by a car, are
not saved. There was a reason that God
allowed such a one to depart life without baptism.
Pope Paul III, The
Council of Trent, Sess. 7, Can. 5 on the Sacrament of Baptism, ex
cathedra: “If anyone says that baptism [the Sacrament] is optional,
that is, not necessary for salvation (cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.”
The teacher
is in heresy. If she persists in her
position after you quote these dogmas, she is clearly a heretic.
“Catholic”
High Schools
I read the part on your website about
Catholic high schools, and I cannot agree more! I attended one for three
years in southern California. It was quite terrible!... There were
numerous sins abounding, including gay sex in bathrooms, open homosexuality on
behalf of the staff (who attended pride-parades) and principal of the
school. At our school rallies they played extremely disgusting hip-hop
music that was sex crazed. The school "dance" team was so gross
they might of well be giving lap dances instead of cheer routines.
About 70% of the school was sexually active by their senior year. The
school library, instead of housing great Catholic works like St.Augustine, had
books on New Age Spiritism and Witchcraft! I thought it was
appalling. There were even so many drugs on campus they had to hire a dog
to sniff them out periodically. Cheating and plagerism were rampant for
the years I attended. I'm glad that your website is exposing the problems
with Vatican II and especially Catholic schools! I think the
schools are one of the most problematic issues facing Christians today.
Rachel
Seminaries
I just want to let you know that
the homosexuality in the seminaries stated as far back as 1978 in Kansas
USA. My dear friend thought that being a priest was his calling. He with the
total support of his whole family left to attend the seminary in 1978. Johnny
was so shocked at what he found, every young man in there was a homosexual but
him. He left after the first semester. His family was so disappointed, but
Johnny still in shock and questioning his faith could never bring himself to
tell his parents what was going on. He told me that every guy was bed hopping
each night with the other men . Of course he was the total outsider…. These
acts were known about in 1978 by the head bishops and others and approved of. I
believe every homosexual back then was hiding their in the closet, life
still behind the Vail of the church, never ever thinking any one would dare
think those dark things of them. Of course years later it caught up with all of
them as they pay millions for the thousand of children's life they ruined… I
feel this scandal goes clear to the top of the church. It just a matter of time
when some one speaks out about the sins of the pope, one person they
cannot pay off. I loved the church. I loved the old Latin services and
rituals….
Linda in Kansas
Garabandal
Dear Dimond
Brothers
I was reading things about Garabandal and even reading small parts of
Garabandal its Totally False. According
to the Girls Our Lady told them never to bring Blessed Rosary Beads or
Crucifixes and that anything they bring cannot be Blessed.The Girls put their
hands in positions that cannot be done by a human. They were able to fly which is a sure sign of
Demonic activity. They also said that Our Lady let them hold the infant Jesus
but when the Girls were asked could they feel him they said that you can't feel
the infant so this would mean the infant was an illusion by the Devil. The
girls tried to say another Miracle would take place and that Padre Pio would
see it. Padre Pio is dead and the Miracle never happened. My question is what is your opinion on Fr
Amorth I heard somthing about him saying that JP2 was his Protector.
Thanks for Reading this God Bless.
Sean
MHFM: Regarding Fr. Amorth, he’s a
more “conservative” priest of the Vatican “Church.” He definitely has some good things to say
about the reality of the Devil, the power of exorcism, etc. However, like any other supporter of the Vatican
II sect, he’s a heretic. He is a devotee
of John Paul II (the deceased manifest heretic). He even uses a statue of John Paul II at his
exorcisms. That’s really bad. He must know about John Paul II’s horrible
false ecumenism and acts of apostasy.
That shows us that even the most conservative among the Vatican II
clergy are quite heretical.
Led
Thank
goodness I've been led to your site! All this ecumenical crap and other
nonsense has never sat right with me. Now I married a few years back (not in
church) and now have a 1 year old. Would
like to have my marriage blessed and baby baptized. Read about baptizing on your site… I will
pray to the Holy Trinity for you all at the monastery and for all us Catholics
being called from the mess that is the "church" as mainstream society
knows it. Thank you for all your help.
Christina,
PA
Homosexuality
Subject:
What is the release of homosexuality?
My
name is… I am Catholic… I have read the texts about homosexuality. I suffered a
lot because I tend homosexual. Most chose not be so! I NEED HELP, I do not want
offends the GOD! Help me free from this VICE Horrible, help me PLEASE! Sorry, more writing bad English… I live in
Brazil….
MHFM: Homosexuality is a result of mortal
sin, as Romans 1 makes clear. If you
pray the 15-decade Rosary each day, stop committing all mortal sins, believe
everything a traditional Catholic must believe, avoid the occasions of sin, and
make a good confession to a valid priest, then you will be delivered from your
homosexuality. If you or anyone else is
not delivered, it’s because you are still committing some mortal sin or are
denying some truth of God or haven’t made a good confession, etc.
Communist
Infiltration
Dear Brothers,
Quite often I find myself listening to Michael Savage's "The Savage
Nation" radio program. If you've never heard of him, he's kind of like Pat
Buchanan, very pro-conservative yet unfortunately, he is a huge defender of
Israel and Jews and I've read on the internet that he's a crypto-Jew.
Nonetheless, I was floored to hear him bring up Communist infiltration of the
Catholic Church last night. He even mentions how the homosexual agenda plays a
big role in the infiltration. He's the first secular radio host I've ever heard
bring this truth to light. Just thought I'd pass it along.
God Bless,
Josh
Constitution
and Separation of Church and State
I
generally agree with your response to Ken regarding the US
Constitution. But I think you go a little too far in saying that one of
the principles contained in the Constitution was a Separation of Church and
state, thus guaranteeing all forms of religion. There is no mention of
this separation in the Constitution. This separation has been invented
by judges, much like the right of privacy used to justify the horrible Roe Vs.
Wade decision was also invented. It is true that the Constitution did not
enthrone the Catholic Church as the only legitimate Religion and give it
appropriate protections. This omission has no doubt led to the
gradual degradation of morality and of natural reason and virtue such that
we find ourselves in the deplorable condition of today. But not because
it was designed that way. It has rather been ignored and perverted.
I think it important to help
people think about and understand it, to realize that the original
Constitution (as ratified in the 1780s) only served to proscribe laws at
the federal level. The first ten amendments all begin "Congress
shall make no law...". It did not speak to the States, and at the
time of its ratification, various States indeed had "established
religions" (unfortunately none of them Catholic). However, if a
State such as Maryland, in which Catholics were granted protection by Royal
decree (they were virtually unwelcome in other colonies), were to declare the
Catholic Church the only legitimate Religion of Maryland, nothing in the
Constitution would have prevented it. It is interesting to note
that in older books and articles, we see the reference to "These United States",
not "The" United States. Even the language of the
original Constitution is telling. In it (10th amendment) the powers of
the various States are assumed to be virtually unlimited, with the exception of
"few" powers which were specifically "delegated" to
the Federal Government. Note, the States were assumed superior, as they
delegated to the Federal, not the other way around as is assumed today.
It is also important to note that
even though the founders had built in all kinds of legal safeguards, the
"checks and balances", against just the kind of abuse of power
(Supreme Court) we see toady, they failed. They did not fail because they
were naive, rather they anticipated everything that could and has
happened. But they failed because men simply lie, lie in the open, and
other men do nothing to stop it. The country has really been undermined
in broad daylight. The Constitution is ignored and/or misrepresented,
shamelessly so. Some like Washington realized that the preservation of
virtue in a free society was necessarily linked to Religion, but because they
lacked true faith, they failed to appreciate the importance of choosing
the right Religion. Understand that they were only a few
generations removed from Catholic orthodoxy. They had some residual
Catholic sense. At least in the natural sense, they understood right
and wrong. But because they respected their own intellect, and all
opinions (the democratic ideal) they essentially held (as did Pilate,
"what is truth?") that ultimate truth was unknowable, therefore
refusing to acknowledge any authority higher than man's consensus.
I think it also interesting to realize
that the Devil had already won in terms of most souls,
primarily protestant, and many also viciously anti-Catholic, in the fledgling
nation. But the Devil isn't satisfied with just the souls. He wants
to see mankind totally debased. With rampant abortion here, and
homosexual marriage right around the corner, we are certainly there.
However it is also true that the Constitution of the US,
as originally constructed and interpreted, would also have protected the
Church, and even allowed for the formation of Catholic States. But
we have a phony Catholic establishment and "Catholics" who care more
about their labor union than about the souls of the
unborn. Ultimately we get the government we deserve. We're
about to get an even bigger dose of it.
A Catholic King would of course be
best, but even a "dictator", like a Mussolini or a Franco, who
protected the Church, would be preferable to the American system as it has
devolved.
Bill Mulligan
MHFM: You are not correct. The principle of Separation of Church and
State is definitely contained in the U.S. Constitution. It’s contained in the very place where the Constitution
declares that the State shall have no official religion. A declaration that the State will have no
official religion is equivalent to a declaration that the State will be
separate from the Church. That should be obvious. But it’s proven by the following quote from
Pope Pius XI:
Pope Pius XI, Dilectissima Nobis (#6), June 3, 1933: “But, returning to the
deplorable laws regarding religious confessions and Congregations, We learned
with great sorrow that therein, at the beginning, it is openly declared that the State has no official religion, thus
reaffirming that separation of State from Church which was, alas,
decreed in the new Spanish Constitution.”
Here we see that to recognize “no official religion” is the same
thing as “reaffirming… separation of State from Church.” Thus, one doesn’t have to explicitly declare
that the State will be separate from the Church to teach that heresy, but
merely declare that the State doesn’t recognize Catholicism as the official
religion.
Thus, the heresy of Separation of Church and State is contained
in the following statement of the U.S. Constitution:
U.S.
Constitution, First Amendment: "Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or
the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances."
Really, it should be obvious that “No official religion” means separation
of Church and State. It shouldn’t even
have to be proved by a quote from Pope Pius XI, as we did above. However, the myth that the Constitution did
not teach the separation of Church and State is somewhat widespread. We think it’s widespread because some people
have an unreasonable desire to exonerate the founding of the U.S. and the
Constitution from heresies against the Catholic faith.
We should also emphasize, for those who might be new to this
issue, that when we say that the Church and State should not be separate we do
not mean that the same individuals should be in charge of ecclesiastical and
secular affairs (i.e., a theocracy). No,
what we mean by the union of State and Church is that the laws of the State
must recognize Catholicism as the true religion. Catholicism should be the official religion
of the State and the State’s laws should be in line with Catholic teaching.
Gerry
Matatics
I noticed Gerry Matatics on your list of
heretics page. Could it really be said
that he teaches heresy?
MHFM: Unfortunately, yes
it can be said. There is new information
which demonstrates this unfortunate
fact. Before making these new points, we
want to emphasize that we tried to work with Gerry when he communicated to us
that he was in full agreement. We have
always wished for his best. We
acknowledge Gerry’s abilities and knowledge, and we like a great deal of what
he has to say. However, the fact of the
matter is that he is a heretic and of bad will.
(As an aside, we feel sorry for his children. It’s our understanding that at some point
they held – and some still might hold – the full truth on the dogma Outside the
Church There is No Salvation and the necessity of water baptism. Undoubtedly they are put in a difficult
position by the mixed messages and activities of their father.)
In a public talk with a woman named Judith, which was recorded
this month (November of 2008), Gerry stated: “When Catholics like you
or me or Tom Droleskey speak out about this…” Gerry described Tom Droleskey as a
Catholic. Gerry also praised Tom and
thanked the woman for having him speak.
Tom Droleskey is a disgusting heretic who believes that Jews (and other
members of false religions) who reject
Jesus Christ can be saved. We demonstrated that in this file. Gerry is well
aware of this fact.
We asked Tom if he considered it
heretical for Fr. Fahey to teach that Jews who reject Christ can be in the
state of grace. Tom wrote back and
indicated that he did not consider it heretical, but rather that he considered
it to be Catholic teaching. Thus, Tom is
a clear heretic. He holds that Jews who
reject Jesus Christ can be saved. (Tom
was too cowardly to debate us, by the way, because his heretical position would
be exposed and refuted.). Not only does
Tom obstinately deny the dogma, but he attacks those who hold the true
position. In short, Tom D. belongs to
the crowd of baptism of desire heretics who not only believe that souls can be
saved in false religions, but who detest and wish to extirpate faith in Jesus’
dogma that “unless a man is born again of
water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God” (John
3:5). In other words, he’s among the
very worst of the false traditionalist heretics.
That crowd is accurately described as
the scum of the Earth. They are
abominable. Gerry knows all of
this. It’s inescapable, therefore, that
Gerry obstinately considers people who believe that souls can be saved in false
religions to be Catholic. Gerry is a
heretic. As much as one might want to
deny it, it’s just a fact. Gerry holds
that one can believe that Jews who reject Christ are saved and be Catholic
(e.g., Tom D.). He surely will make empty claims that he doesn’t endorse
that heresy in any form, but such a claim is completely false and disproven by his own words. Further, by his promotion of a heretic such
as Tom D., Gerry stands with and promotes the worst of the false traditionalist
enemies of the dogma in our day: the tenacious “anti-Feeneyites.”
This summer we also wrote to Gerry
and asked him if he would be interested in a recorded debate/discussion on the
baptism of desire issue. We received no
response. As stated in the
update to this file,
one of us also spoke with Gerry for five hours last fall. Gerry insisted that the conversation be
recorded by him, and he promised (in front of his family) to send us the tapes
the next day. He never sent the
tapes. (That shouldn’t be a
surprise. It’s consistent with the
activity described in the file above.)
In that conversation, Gerry confirmed that he does not hold the infamous
Protocol 122/49 to be heretical.
Protocol 122/49 (which is covered in our book) is a heretical and
non-infallible document (from a pre-Vatican II cardinal) which teaches “baptism
of desire,” “invincible ignorance,” salvation for people who are not “members
of the Church,” not of the “body of the Church” and not even
“catechumens.”
There are other problems, major
inconsistencies, and examples of hypocrisy in his current activity and public
teaching. Gerry currently holds that
people should not attend any Mass where Benedict XVI is prayed for in the
canon. As we’ve articulated, we believe
that one can go to only a certain number of such Masses: the priest would have
to meet certain conditions and one couldn’t agree with or support the
priest. We do not believe that going
signifies an acceptance of Benedict XVI.
But that’s beside the point.
The point we’re making is that if one is going to hold that one should not
attend any Mass where Benedict XVI is prayed for, as Gerry now does, then one must be consistent on that matter. If you are going to talk the talk, you must
walk the walk. If he’s going to say that
one must avoid those Masses because it involves some sort of praying with
Benedict XVI (a claim we reject), then obviously that person is expected to
remain consistent with that position and not pray with anyone who doesn’t reject
Benedict XVI. That makes sense,
right? Of course it does. One who considers it a compromise to go to
such a Mass because it involves, in his view, some sort of praying with
Benedict XVI must necessarily make sure that the people with whom he prays also
reject Benedict XVI. If he doesn’t, he’s
a horrible hypocrite.
Well, while he travels all over the
globe to tell people, among other things, that they should not attend a Mass
where Benedict XVI is mentioned as the pope, lest they pray in communion with
him, Gerry offers a monthly public
prayer with the aforementioned woman (Judith) who is not even a sedevacantist! That’s right.
Someone we know wrote to her just recently. He asked her if she holds the sedevacantist
position. She responded by saying that
her group “does
not take a position on the Pope.” So she doesn’t even reject Benedict XVI as an
antipope! (She also promotes talks by
supporters of the SSPX; and she accepts the invincible ignorance salvation
heresy). Gerry offers a public prayer
with her every month; he calls her Catholic and promotes her. What more does one have to say?
To sum it up: Gerry travels all over the world telling people,
among other things, that they should not attend a Mass where Benedict XVI is
mentioned as the pope. It’s so
important, he says, that receiving the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ
must even be passed up rather than involve oneself in some form of prayer with
Benedict XVI. Certainly, therefore, he
wouldn’t compromise and pray with someone who doesn’t take true position on
that issue, right? No. He offers a monthly public prayer with a
woman who doesn’t even reject Benedict XVI’s claim to the Papacy and who
promotes non-sedevacantists. He probably
hasn’t even asked her what she holds on that issue, nor told her what position
she must hold on that issue. Yet he
travels thousands of miles to tell other people that very thing… amazing…
In the recent conversation, Gerry also described a Protestant
named Chuck in these terms: “Chuck Baldwin, perhaps in the total sincerity of his heart, believing
that Protestantism is the true faith, still comes short of a true analysis of
what is wrong with the human condition…”
He describes the Protestant named Chuck as
someone who might be totally sincere in his heart. That’s not
something any Catholic could or would say.
It indicates that Gerry believes that the Protestant, who rejects
Catholicism, could be in good faith – a heretical position.
According to people who have heard
him speak, Gerry also publicly advocates some form of the false no-jurisdiction
position. That position is refuted in this file.
[PDF]. According to reports, he has also
publicly expressed some level of doubt about the validity of the
Thuc-line. There are no grounds upon
which to doubt the validity of the Thuc-line.
He also holds that people can passively attend non-Catholic funerals and
weddings. One person in New Jersey went
to such a non-Catholic service passively after hearing him speak. Those errors are significant. However, his most significant problem was
described above. It’s his acceptance of
the heresy that people can be saved in false religions. That’s proven by his promotion of people who
obstinately believe it and defend it. As
a result, no Catholic should regard him as a Catholic or promote him as
one. This update has been added to our file about him.
Book
I just finished reading your ‘UFOs’ and I
think you have done a splendid and thorough job!… I had also read your treatise
on Geocentrism, and it was well done and a balanced presentation.
John Domen (MS physics, MIT)
Constitution
Another question I have is this. I am a big
supporter of the U.S. Constitution and that man was endowed by God with rights.
You have mentioned the NWO, which I see is trying to rise and take control of
the world. This includes destroying our liberties, including the right to keep
and bear arms. Are Catholics allowed to defend themselves against tyrannical
government if it ever gets that bad? Basically, is a Catholic allowed to be a
patriot and fight for liberty? I know it's a spiritual problem of course.
-Ken
MHFM: If such a situation did arise, then such action would be
justified.
All Catholics need to understand that the government of the
U.S., while preferable to others which more greatly forbid or curtail the
propagation of the Catholic faith, is still not ideal. A true Catholic can only advocate for it with
the understanding that the Constitution contains, at its core, principles which
are hostile to the true faith and to a truly Christian society. Those false principles, which have been
condemned by the true popes, include the separation of the state from the
Church, and guarantees for all forms of religion and thus for all manner of
evils.
Pope
Leo XIII, Longinqua (#6), Jan. 6,
1895: “For
the Church amongst you, unopposed by the Constitution and government of your
nation, fettered by no hostile legislation, protected against violence by the
common laws and the impartiality of the tribunals, is free to live and act
without hindrance. Yet, though all this
is true, it would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in
America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church, or that it
would be universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in
America, dissevered and divorced.”
Hence, one could not be a big supporter of the U.S. Constitution
except in the sense that it’s the best form government that is available to us
at this period and thus represents the least evil option. Moreover, one advocates for strict adherence
to its laws only in the sense that departure from it in our day has paved the
way for even greater evils, but always with the caveat that it is still opposed
to the teaching of the true Church and the order willed by God.
St.
Benedict
I would like to know about St
Benedict. I try to look him up… to see the story behind him for some
research that i am doing can you please help me and direct me where i can go
and read about him. I do not want to know about anyone in the
1900's or any in our time. I would like to know the story behind the
first St Benedict. Can one please help me.
Thank you God bless you
Virginia Zambrano Martinez
MHFM:
We sell a book on his life. You can
order it here: The
Life of St. Benedict.
Found
"... I finally found someone teaching
the true beliefs of the Catholic Religion after Vatican II."
Best Regards,
Norm Jesch,
Colorado
Reading
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I've been thoroughly reading and listening to many of your articles and radio
programs. I'm sorry to say that it is all true and it makes me very sad…
I have to say that what I think about what you say is true, but it leaves most
of us without a true mass that I know of, that is. As you can see, I know
very little. I was also very disturbed about what you have researched and
written about. They are hard truths which I have trouble accepting.
I read once somewhere, that the part of the consecration which uses the words
"all" instead of "many" is very evil because what it does
is let everything and everybody in....good, bad, and whatever. It
excludes nothing, which is why the church has allowed almost anything and
everything. This is very confusing to me. I don't know what to make
of it.
Thank you again. God bless you for the service you do in educating
us. It is invaluable.
Chris R
Most People are Lost?
Hello,
If you have issues with the Church why do you follow Martin Luther's example
and break away from the Church rather staying in the church and trying to
reform the Church with in?
Also you guys say most people will go to hell. You have no idea if thats true
or Not, thats very judgemental and you dont take into account the Crowd that no
one can number in the Book of revelation.
God bless
MHFM: First of all, we are Catholics who remain with the
Catholic Church. Any honest person who
looks at the facts presented in our material can see that we have not broken
from the Catholic Church. It’s the
opposite: the Vatican II sect has broken away from the Catholic Church. It has created a modernist Counter Church
which was predicted to arise in the last days.
The Catholic Church doesn’t need reformation. The idea that it does has been
condemned. The idea was condemned by one
of the true Catholic popes – all of whom we accept. Since you adhere to the Vatican II Counter
Church, you unfortunately do not accept the Catholic popes.
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari
Vos (# 10), Aug. 15, 1832: “Therefore,
it is obviously absurd and injurious to propose a certain ‘restoration and
regeneration’ for her (the Church) as though necessary for her safety and
growth, as if she could be considered subject to defect or obscuration or other
misfortune.”
Second, contrary to your assertion, Catholics do know that most
people go to Hell. We know because Jesus
Christ says so in Matthew 7:13. It’s
also a defined dogma that all who die as non-Catholics go to Hell. Most people in the world are not
Catholic. Therefore, it’s certain that
most people go to Hell. It was also the
dominant belief of traditional Catholic saints and spiritual writers that most
Catholics lose their souls. You should
consult this file:
Few are Saved- Most Adult Catholics are damned
You clearly lack what we call the foundational beliefs. These involve a firm conviction that the Catholic
Church is supernatural, having been truly founded by Christ; and consequently,
that heresy is evil, and that non-Catholic religions belong to the Devil. Without these foundational beliefs, there is
no hope for you to see the truth. If you
had them, you would have more respect for the dogmatic teaching of the Church,
such as on Outside the Church There is No Salvation. That respect would give you pause, and cause
you to conform your liberal inclinations to what has been proclaimed at the
highest levels by the popes of the Catholic Church.
Baptism
I am
becoming more convinced that Vatican II was a sham. However, I was baptized
Roman Catholic by Father Ken Kulinski in Norman, Oklahoma. I don't need to be
rebaptized, correct? He was ordained in 1972.
-Ken S.
MHFM: Yes, anyone can baptize
provided the proper words are used and he has the basic intention. So if he poured water and it struck your skin
while he said “I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost,” then it was valid. However,
if there is some reasonable doubt about this, then a conditional baptism should
be done. Anyone can perform it for you,
once you are convinced of the issues.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence,
“Exultate Deo,” 1439: “In case of necessity, however, not only a priest or a
deacon, but even a layman or woman, yes even a pagan and a heretic can baptize,
so long as he preserves the form of the Church and has the intention of doing
what the Church does.” (Denz. 696)
Relevant
file: The Steps to convert to the traditional Catholic Faith and
for those leaving the New Mass - Baptism and Conditional Baptism - the Council
of Trent's Profession of Faith for Converts [link to section]
Out
of Vatican II
I am a 47 year old single man who is deeply
troubled by what has happened to the Church, to America and to the world.
I entered religious life in the '80's (the Dominican Order) and was scandalized
by what I discovered there. I later entered the Order that Mother
Angelica started, the "Missionaries of the Eternal Word" and found a
lot of charismatic spirituality which made me uncomfortable. After
leaving that Order I felt dazed and confused as to what direction I should go
in and even now, at 47, I am unsettled and fearful of the state of my soul.
I know that God calls us all to a life of
holiness, no matter what our state in life, and no matter what is happening in
the world around us…. Essentially, I know I am called OUT of the
apostate Vatican II Church, which I have always felt falls short of what the
Catholic Church was since the time of Christ. I recognize that the Second
Vatican Council virtually turned the Church upside down…
The grace of God has assisted me in
retaining the Truth in my heart so that I might recognize the ways in which I
have drifted away. I am thinking that the best way to stay on the right
path is to return to the roots of the Catholic Faith, which are undermined in
every way by the "Church" today.
Thank you for your attention….
In Christ,
Rich
Chinese
New Year
Dear Bros Dimond
Thank you for your informative website. While it's a difficult position to hold
to, especially when I can't really find anyone interested in the truth, your
daily quote on spirituality and doctrine has been most helpful.
I would like to know if it's right to attend family gatherings for Chinese New
Year celebration. My relatives are non
Catholics, and this is the only time that we usually meet. Though I do not join
in their pagan worship nor eat food offered to devils, I feel it's a kind of
passive attendance you mentioned in one of your articles.
Jerome
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. We pointed out
that passive attendance at non-Catholic funerals and weddings is not acceptable
for a Catholic. Can one passively attend
non-Catholic funerals, weddings? No. We would say the same thing about
participating in the Chinese New Year: a Catholic should avoid doing so.
“Father”
Gruner
Dear Dimond Brothers,
I was going through the Spring 2008 issue of
the Fatima Crusader and couldn't help noticing what a complete phony Gruner
is. The front cover reads, "Our Lady visits Her priests in
India". Gruner plays up to the Novus Ordo. By all evidence
these people are members of the Vatican II sect. Almost all of the
pictures in the magazine are of Gruner attending conferences with these people
and/or praying with them. Notably, in the centerfold, there is a picture
of him standing in front of the Novus Ordo altar, which is really just a table,
with several Novus Ordo clergy and laymen. This absolutely proves that
Gruner is in communion with the Vatican II sect and Antipope Benedict
XVI. Oh, on page 50 there is a picture of the phony Sister Lucy.
She bears absolutely no resemblance to the younger real Sister Lucy. And
of course in the back there is a picture of Antipope Benedict XVI with a
petition to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As far as
I know, Gruner has never stated in his magazine that these Novus Ordo people
who he is in communion with, must abandon the New Mass. Of course there
is no mention of Antipope Benedict XVI's numerous heresies and acts of
apostasy.
AP
MHFM: Yes, he’s pathetic.
He’s utterly pathetic. He’s
undoubtedly a heretic. Not only is he a
heretic for obstinately considering manifest heretics (the Vatican II
hierarchy) to be Catholics, but he’s an outrageous hypocrite. What you have noticed is an example of the
disgusting phoniness which typifies him.
He tries to have the best of both worlds because he doesn’t stand for
God or the truth, but what’s best for him.
He gives the impression that he’s with traditionalists who
reject or oppose the Vatican II sect, yet claims approval from and communion
with the Vatican II hierarchy. He claims
to denounce the ecumenism of the Vatican II sect, yet (as you mention) puts
pictures of all of these people (who are in communion with this false
ecumenism) as if they are true Catholics and as if he is in communion with
them.
He claims to accept the phony “Sister Lucy” because he doesn’t
want to upset people, but then dismisses almost everything she said in favor of
the post-Vatican II false line on Fatima.
He claims she was silenced and misrepresented. This is absurd because the impostor Sr.
Lucy’s endorsement of the false line on Fatima is a fact. It was proven at Fatima, on television, on
May 13, 2000.
Therefore, either 1) the true Sr. Lucy endorsed the Vatican’s
false version of the “Third Secret” and the Vatican’s false interpretation of
it, or 2) there was a false Sr. Lucy put in place after Vatican II. Those are the only two options. Honest Catholics know that the latter is the
truth. Everyone who rejects the
Vatican’s “Third Secret” must hold the latter position. But Gruner bends over backwards to have it
both ways and thus he perverts the truth.
He claims that she was the real Sr. Lucy, but was “silenced” and
misrepresented. This enables him to
avoid shaking up the Novus Ordo crowd, while disagreeing with the Vatican II
sect’s position on Fatima.
Similarly, he claims that the Third Secret has yet to be
revealed. At the same time, however, he
doesn’t denounce the Vatican’s (phony) version of the “Third Secret” as
fraudulent! Wow, that’s amazing. Surely the Devil came up with that one. There
actually are two texts, you see… This allows him to not accept the
Vatican’s phony Third Secret, while at the same time not accuse them of
fraud! Isn’t that great! They
just didn’t give all of it to us, you see…. What nonsense… What lies… What pathetic distortions…
He claimed to denounce the Assisi-like abomination at the Fatima
shrine, but at the same time he promoted John Paul II. John Paul II was the one who, by his
promotion of false ecumenism, was responsible for the very false ecumenism that
occurred at Fatima. John Paul II was the
one who was leading the charge of apostasy, yet Gruner gave the impression that
John Paul II was the light who was warning people about bad bishops!
“Fr.” Gruner,
“God Have Mercy on us all,” Fatima Crusader 71: “To put that statement in plain
English, Pope John Paul II is saying as follows: Do not follow the one-third
of the Cardinals, one-third of the Catholic bishops, and one-third of the
Catholic priests, who have been dragged down by the devil from their
exalted position of leading the faithful to Heaven. In other words, the Holy Father is telling us what the Message of Fatima is warning
us about today. That is that one-third of the clergy (who are the stars of
Heaven) have been dragged down by the devil and his co-workers — the
Masons, communists, homosexual networks — and are now working for the devil
himself; not for God, not for the Church of Christ, but for the devil.”
The point you mention about the New Mass is crucial. It’s one of his most egregious sins of omission. He never warns these people that they must
not attend the invalid New Mass. He
endorses attendance at the New Mass in two ways: 1) by omission, his failure to
tell people they must not go; and 2) by his promotion of the heretical Vatican
II clergy who accept it. The example you
have given is a case in point of number 2.
Yet, his colleague “Fr.” Paul Leonard Kramer has given talks about why
the New Mass cannot be considered valid.
Kramer even told one of us that he considers it of highly doubtful validity. Think about that. Gruner’s good friend and co-worker considers
the New Mass to be gravely doubtful.
(Catholic teaching is that a sacrament that is gravely doubtful is
considered invalid.) That means that it
must be avoided under pain of grave sin.
Yet Gruner doesn’t say anything, and gives the opposite impression.
He won’t get away with his heresies, compromises, and sins of
omission and commission before God.
1.
There was also the
outrageous nonsense which his organization promoted with regard to Mother
Angelica and EWTN. This is discussed
here: A review of EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong.
Once again, all of this was a calculated attempt to have the best of
both worlds and to compromise.
Trent
on Consecration
MHFM,
I am arguing with a V-2 apologist. He insists that the Catechism of the Council
of Trent and the canons of the Council of Trent say that the only words
necessary to confect the sacrament of the Eucharist are "For this is my
body" and "For this is my blood" What are the canons and
sessions of the Council of Trent that deal with the Eucharist? And my Trent Catechism
has all the words of consecration on p. 238 for the wine which says he is
wrong. I would appreciate the help.
Kenneth Connelly
MHFM: A number of Vatican II “apologists” make the very claims
you are asking about. At the same time,
they purport to be knowledgeable and to be able to “refute” people such as
ourselves. Yet, what they are saying on
this matter is outrageously false.
First, regarding the claim that the Council of Trent says that
only “For this is my body” and “For this is my blood” are necessary for the
consecration, it’s simply not true.
The Council of Trent makes no mention whatsoever of the words of
consecration. The words of consecration
are not addressed in the Council of Trent.
It has a Decree on the Eucharist in Session 13, and a Decree on the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass in Session 22.
Neither one mentions the words of consecration. Considering that the Council of Trent didn’t
even mention the words of consecration, it obviously did not teach that only
“For this is my body” and “For this is my blood” are necessary for the
consecration.
There is only one general or ecumenical council in Catholic
history which mentions the words of consecration. It’s not the Council of Trent, but the
Council of Florence. The Council of
Florence says that all the words – not just “For this is my body” and “For this
is my blood” – are part of the consecration.
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441: “…the holy Roman Church, relying on the teaching and authority of
the apostles Peter and Paul… uses this form of words in the consecration
of the Lord's Body: FOR THIS IS MY
BODY. And of His
blood: FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY
BLOOD, OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL TESTAMENT: THE MYSTERY OF FAITH, WHICH SHALL BE
SHED FOR YOU AND FOR MANY UNTO THE REMISSION OF SINS."
(Denz. 715)
Second, regarding the claim that the Catechism of Trent also
teaches that only “For this is my body” and “For this is my blood” are
necessary, it’s again the opposite of the truth. The Catechism of the Council of Trent says
that all the words are part of the form, and that the words “for all” were NOT
used in the form of consecration with good reason!
The Catechism of the Council of Trent, On the Form of
the Eucharist, p. 227: "The additional words for you and for many, are
taken, some from Matthew, some from Luke, but were joined together by the
Catholic Church under the guidance of the Spirit of God. They serve to declare the fruit and
advantage of His Passion. For if we
look to its value, we must confess that the Redeemer shed His Blood for the
salvation of all; but if we look to the fruit which mankind has received from
it, we shall easily find that it pertains not unto all, but to many
of the human race. When therefore (our
Lord) said: For you, He meant either those who were present, or those
chosen from among the Jewish people, such as were, with the exception of Judas,
the disciples with whom He was speaking.
When He added, And for many, He wished to be understood to
mean the remainder of the elect from among the Jews and Gentiles. WITH
REASON, THEREFORE, WERE THE WORDS FOR ALL
NOT USED, as in this place the fruits of the Passion are alone spoken
of, and to the elect only did His Passion bring the fruit of salvation."
Thus, the Vatican II “apologist” couldn’t be more wrong. The fact that more than one Vatican II
“apologist” is spreading these outrageous falsehoods tells us that they
are probably repeating arguments which they’ve heard from one another. They are so unfamiliar with the issues
involved, however, that they haven’t discovered their mistake.
More
on Halloween
About 4 years ago (maybe even 5), I learned
from your website that a Catholic cannot participate in Halloween. So, that
first Halloween, I wasn't sure if my kids would complain, or be upset, or
cry.....but they didn't...they didn't even care....or notice for that
matter. (And they like having fun just like any other kid). And
every Halloween after, the only reason my kids know it's Halloween, is because
of the appalling Halloween decorations around. (The dummies hung from
trees, corpses coming out from graves, orange tree lights, etc....)
But I wanted to share something with you that I
found interesting. Over the past month, lots of people have
asked my kids "What are they going to be for Halloween" My oldest son
always answers for everyone else and says "We don't do that"....
Here's what is interesting....everyone who reacts terribly to his answer, seems
to be over the age of 45. They give me the most horrifying
look and it shocks me each time....like I am the worst mother. One
60 year old lady the other day said, "What do you mean you don't do
that"....and my son said "we don't celebrate Halloween"....she
glares at me and says "Well, I ALWAYS let MY children go and they
LOVED it. It's for the children, you know" Then she walks
away...I wanted to ask her, "is it for the children or you old
people? You seem to be more upset than they are."...but she scurried
away too fast.
But (and I am not exaggerating) anyone under 40 who asks them, and are given
the same answer from my son, will say something like "good for you....I am
terrible, I shouldn't let my kids go." And, I have spoken to
quite a few different moms my age (and not traditional Catholic) that don't let
their kids go either.
Anyway....thank you for your very sound Catholic advice. I wasn't spared
from this atrocity in my childhood, but my kids are (thanks to the Good
God through the Rosary). One last thing,
when I first learned that we can't celebrate Halloween, I told a 65 year old
sedevacantist...who obviously is a false traditionalist, she said "that's
ridiculous....you sound like a 7th day adventist.....it's just for fun...you
are too extreme." I hate the
way false traditionalists throw around the word "extreme". It's
the only word they can come up with when they don't have an honest way to
refute the truth.
Thanks again, and May God reward you through Mary, the Mother of Mercy!
Teri
Bible
on Praying to Saints
I would like to know where in the Word of
God we are taught to pray to angels and saints. Jesus taught His disciples to
pray to the Father in His name, not even in the name of Mary. I noted that one
of your articles has Pope Leo XIII (?) praying to Michael the archangel.
We are told in Hebrews 1 that angels are ministering spirits and that the Lord
Jesus is superior to them and He must be the focus of our prayers… The Lord
Jesus Christ is the One Mediator between God and man according to I
Timothy 2:5. You are condemning your fellow Catholics but you seem to be very
much in error yourself.
A. Horsford
MHFM:
No, all Catholic teachings are in total harmony with the teaching of the
Bible. You really should listen to this
audio, which answers your question: The Bible on Praying to and Venerating Saints [New 53 min. audio].
“Jehova’s
Witnesses”
Dear Brothers,
In view of your writing a book on the Bible
proving Catholic Teaching, here are a few things I have found helpful when
escaping from the Jehovah’s Witnesses (and in deprogramming since), who are
famously Sola Scriptura and Anti-Catholic:
1.
John 10:18 ‘No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself,
and I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.’
This is absolutely crucial because it
demolishes 5 of the major errors of the JW’s in one go:
A) The Divinity of Christ - Only God can
raise the dead and so Christ must be God.
B) The Holy Trinity - If Christ is God,
then He is also the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, since he was
conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Father from all eternity, etc.
C) The Immortality of the Soul - if Christ
was unconscious when dead, which is what the JW’s teach is the state of the
dead, then he could not have raised himself.
D) The Resurrection of Christ’s Physical
Body - is the foundation of our faith (1 Cor. 15:14,17) and could not have
occurred without Christ being 100% God and having an immortal soul so as to be
conscious of raising himself (the JW’s teach a Physical Resurrection only for
those who will ‘enjoy’ life on earth forever. They teach that those who go to
Heaven are only spiritually resurrected, including Christ!).
E) The Existence of Hell – Christ’s decent
into Limbo proves Hell’s existence because Limbo is a part of Hell. Also Christ must have an immortal soul to
have done so and he must also be God to have escaped from there with the
‘captive’ Fathers!!!
Of course, other scriptures support all of
these issues as well, but this is the only one I know of that flattens all five
in one go because it explicitly ties up Christ’s ability to control his own
death and Physical Resurrection, and implicitly witnesses to his Divinity (and
hence his Person of the Trinity) and descent into Hell (Limbo)…
No doubt you have all bases covered, but if
not, I hope these can help.
God Bless,
Kit White
P.S. I was officially a JW for 3 years
(‘studied’ with them on and off prior to that over about 4-5 years). For 18
months of that, morning and night (30 mins each), I would read their Bible in
an ‘undertone’ (out loud but softly) - this was not a Watchtower recommended
practice; just my own. This gave me a very sore throat but also a fairly good
general knowledge of the Bible. Having read out loud, I was forced to think
very carefully about what I was reading and so retained much more detail than
if I had simply mentally read it.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. We also have this file, Where does the
Bible teach that Jesus is God?,
which is geared toward “Jehova’s Witnesses” and other people who reject the
Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
Confession
and Purgatory Audio now available
MHFM: Our audio programs which prove that the Bible
teaches Confession to a Priest, Purgatory, Baptismal Regeneration and Infant
Baptism have been combined into one audio cassette. It is now available for order.
The prices are 1 copy for
$2.00; 15 for $10.00; 25 for $15.00; 50 for $27.00; 100 for $35.00.
The tape is over 1 hr. and 30 minutes in
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Is
Masturbation a Mortal Sin?
When
that John guy sent the E-Exchange about self-love, does that mean
masturbation? Does it exclusively mean that? Would praying the
Rosary daily abolish all temptation to touch yourself? Or would the
temptation still be there, but your love of God will be stronger and thus you
will not be able to bring yourself to crucify Him again no matter how strong an
urge to do such a thing?
MHFM: We regret that we have to address these issues. However, due to the fact that we have
received a high number of queries on this issue, it must be addressed. Since so many are coming out of mortal sin and
are convincing themselves that certain things are not sins, we must preach against those sins with some
specificity lest people perish in their ignorance.
Masturbation
is definitely a mortal sin. Those who took the time to read our recently-posted
article against Justification
by Faith Alone [PDF FILE] should have
noticed a point which concerns this issue.
There are about three places where St. Paul gives a list of some of the
main mortal sins which exclude people from Heaven. These lists do not comprise every mortal sin,
of course, but some of the main ones.
Well, it always puzzled many people exactly what is being referred to in
the following passages by the sin of “uncleanness” and “effeminacy.” St. Paul says that these sins exclude people
from Heaven. Does “effeminacy” refer to
acting like a homosexual? What does
“uncleanness” refer to?
Galatians
5:19-21- “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,
wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Corinthians 6:9-11-
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and
by the Spirit of our God.”
Ephesians 5:5-8-
“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor
unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God. Let no man
deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of
God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are
ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
Well, some time back one of us came
across the following point in St. Thomas Aquinas. St.
Thomas Aquinas identifies masturbation as the biblical “uncleanness” and
“effeminacy.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. II-II, Q. 154, A. 11: “I answer that, As
stated above (A6,9) wherever there occurs a special kind of deformity whereby
the venereal act is rendered unbecoming, there is a determinate species of lust. This may
occur in two ways: First, through being contrary to right reason, and this is
common to all lustful vices; secondly, because, in addition, it is contrary to
the natural order of the
venereal act as becoming to the human race: and this is called "the
unnatural vice." This may
happen in several ways. First, by
procuring pollution, without any copulation, for the sake of venereal pleasure:
this pertains to the sin of "uncleanness" which some call
"effeminacy." Secondly, by copulation with a thing of undue species, and this is
called "bestiality." Thirdly, by copulation with an undue sex, male
with male, or female with female, as the Apostle states (Romans 1:27): and this is
called the "vice of sodomy."
Fourthly, by not observing the natural
manner of copulation, either as to undue means, or as to other monstrous and
bestial manners of copulation.”
Thus, not only is masturbation a mortal sin, but it’s a mortal sin
which is identified in three different places in Scripture as one which
excludes from the Kingdom of God. It’s
also classified by St. Thomas as one of the sins against nature, for it
corrupts the order intended by God.
That’s probably why it’s called “effeminacy.” Though it’s not the same as the abomination
of Sodomy, it’s disordered and unnatural.
We believe that this sin – since it’s contrary to nature and is
classified as “effeminacy” and “the unnatural vice” – is the cause of some
people being given over to unnatural lusts (homosexuality).
Therefore, people who are committing this sin need to cease the
evil immediately and, when prepared, make a good confession. If people are really struggling in this area,
then they are not near the spiritual level where they need to be. God’s grace is there for them; but they need
to pray more, pray better, avoid the occasions of sin and exercise their
wills. They need to consistently pray
the 15-decade Rosary (i.e. daily). They
need to put out more effort spiritually and then it shouldn’t be a problem.
We have made this response a “Frequently Asked Question,” and it
is accessible from our “Many Other Topics” section.
Kiss
of Apostasy
John Paul II kissing the Koran is apostasy
and anyone with an ounce of Catholic faith should be able to see that.
However, when bringing this up with people who don't have that ounce (novus
ordos) I am thinking of using this argument. In one of the Gospels Jesus
says "you betray the Son of man with a kiss". Jesus tells
us that by A KISS he was betrayed. JP2 betrays him with a kiss
also. What do you think?
Jaime
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
Without question kissing the Koran was a very significant act of
apostasy. However, we believe that there is a more precise application to the
betrayal with a kiss by the Antichrist antipopes of the Vatican II sect. We believe it applies to Paul VI’s first
major “ecumenical” event in 1964. On
January 5, 1964, the schismatic Patriarch Athenagoras
(leader of “Orthodox” schismatics) met with Antipope Paul VI on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. This was extremely significant because it was
the first major “ecumenical” event
which the world covered; it was sort of the “breakthrough” for all the apostasy
and acts of indifferentism which would follow.
In that event, Paul VI exchanged
a “kiss of peace” with the schismatic patriarch in Jerusalem. We believe
that represented the modern version of Judas’ betrayal with a kiss [Luke
22:48]. Paul VI, a demonic antipope who
was in possession of the Church’s buildings, etc., would be betraying Jesus
Christ and the Catholic Church by the apostasy of the Vatican II sect. This betrayal would occur principally with
religious indifferentism and false ecumenism, and it began with a “kiss of
peace.”
Pride
Dear Brothers,
I would like to share with others how the PRIDE some people have stands in
the way of them accepting the Truth of the False Vatican 2 and its
anti-popes.
Pride is really the root of all evil and sin. After I received the
material with the dvds and books on your website I wanted to share this with my
mother and I think everyone deserves to know the truth no matter how hard or
impossible it may seem to be. I can't
get through to her and even she saw the books in front of her face and all the
evidence she did not even want to accept to read them. I told her all the
truth about why I don't go to mass anymore(false mass that is)and why I keep
saying ben16 is the false pope that their religion is not catholic...is in the
book "what happened to the Catholic Church" and "outside
the Church ther is no salvation" the proof is in there and
she still refuses to read the material.
Pride=stubborness=bad wil=sins of the faith. I knew she would reject the material and say
it's diobolic and she continued to hurt me by saying I am crazy for saying that
Ben16 is a false pope. She said how can that be... I said "read
the Book!" Then I reminded her of the words of
Notre-Dame de la salette. She didn't say a word. I hurt too
much her pride. She got angry and insulted me again. I said to her
that she was of bad will and one cannot please God without
faith. I am frustrated and now I think we won't be talking for
awhile. I believe there is nothing more I can do. She is
too stubborn and proud of her false faith. It's like half traditional and
half novus ordo. Half with the devil half with God. Sister Lucy
said we had to choose one side. My
mother does many traditional devotions and acts: prays the rosary,
communes on the tongue, goes to confession, wears the scapular, prays for the
souls in purgatory, but beside that she attends the false mass, goes to the
Legion of Mary, keeps telling she stopped going to protestant services and then
goes again....It looks like confusion with a capital C. So lost and
I feel sorry for her and I do really love her, but I strive to love
God more and his TRUTH. Will my mother go to purgatory or hell...even if
she wears the scapular and prays the rosary and offers sacrifices, practices
the first Saturdays and first Fridays, gives to the poor. I need your
prayers for my mother. Thank you and I hope I will hear from you. I
am really hurt by my mother's insults please console me brothers and my God.
Pat from Québec persevering to stay among the few.(thanks to you)
God bless
MHFM: Thanks for the
interest. Unfortunately, she will go to
Hell if she continues on her present path.
There is nothing more that you can do for her. Some people are just of bad will and refuse
to see the truth.
Halloween
Hey brothers I'd like to hear what you have
to say about Halloween. Do you think
this is a festival which Catholics should be a part of or is it nothing but
pagan in origin?
MHFM: Yes, it’s definitely pagan in origin. It involves people dressing up as evil
spirits and the like. It’s definitely
not something in which any Catholic can take part. We find it interesting that the day on which
Halloween is celebrated (Oct. 31) – the day on which the evil spirits are
supposed to come out – not only is the day before All Saints’ Day, but the very
day on which Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses (Oct. 31, 1517).
This posting of the 95 Theses represented the beginning of the
Protestant revolution. It’s as if Martin
Luther’s act of revolution – which certainly released a torrent of evil and
brought out devils – is being unwittingly commemorated by the modern world on
Oct. 31 (the day dedicated to the coming out of the devils); or that Luther was
inspired by Satan to make his stand against the true Church on the very day
which represented the releasing of the devils.
Materials
Dear Brothers,
Thank you again for all the materials I've
received from you.
Walt Brown's "In the Beginning" is
a 'must have' (I consider it one of the most important books I have), and I
love the debate with Mr. Golle. I live
in Toronto… Thank you.
God bless,
Stephen
Blessed
Sacrament
Dear Brothers in Christ,
I have been following your website with
interest and find myself in a spiritual conflict as I'm sure many other readers
are. I was a Catholic convert in the late fifties early sixties which I
believe was before the Novus Ordo and preVatican II Council changes. Although I
have been away from the church for a while I do have a strong attachment and
defense of my Catholic faith and early Latin traditions. I was taught by
Jesuits in High school and like some young adults strayed away from
the faith for a while. I have stopped going to Mass recently since I
believe it is the Novus Ordo style. However I have always had a
strong devotion to spending time before the Blessed Sacrament and Forty
Hours Devotion and I used to be involved in this in my Parish church
until recently after I became aware of your website.
What is your view on this devotion
and should one continue this in a Novus Ordo Church since by your
teachings it is not a truly consecrated Host. ? What should one do ?
I pray the Rosary but I found my greatest comfort being in the presence of Jesus
in the Blessed Sacrament. Is there any alternative ? I feel lost.
c
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail. The New Mass is definitely invalid. It doesn’t have the form of
consecration. You should watch our video
on the issue or read this file: The
Liturgical Revolution: A New Mass [PDF File]. Thus, you certainly should not visit what is
falsely deemed to be the Blessed Sacrament in those churches; for Jesus is not
present there. Please consult our file
on where to go to Mass and contact us.
Consecration
of Russia Argument
Brothers Michael & Peter Dimond ,
As I was reading this morning I came across a passage in Amos that
corraboates what you were saying concerning the "conversion of
Russia" in the message of Fatima.
You stated that "conversion" does not mean a converting to the
Catholic Faith. Amos 1:3 says, "Thus saith the Lord: For three
crimes of Damascus, and for four I will not convert it: because they have
thrashed Galaad with iron wains".
The foot notes say (Douay Rheims version) "That is, for their many
unrepented of crimes. - Ibid. I will not convert it . That is, I
will not spare them, nor turn away the punishments I design to inflict upon
them".
Therefore If He will not convert them meaning He will not withhold the
punishments: Likewise when Heaven (through Mary) says Russia will be
converted if... then He is saying He will withhold the punishments He designed.
Thought you would like to see this
Paul Smith
TO JESUS THROUGH MARY
St Philomena pray for us
MHFM: Yes, we were aware of that. There are numerous examples one could use,
but the one from Proverbs corresponds to Our Lady’s words most precisely. Everything fits with the fact that Pope Pius
XII did the Consecration of Russia, as the response to the next e-mail will
point out again.
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Dear Most Holy Family Monastery
I read the article on Our Lady of Fatima
and the conversion of Russia. I don't agree with your, interpretation
of the message. You quote Proverbs and compare to Mary's words. In
Proverbs convert and peace are one sentence. In Mary's message convert and
peace are two separate sentences. Throughout Church History, the Church
has had to face many Heresies. The Arian Heresy brought down more than 80
percent of the Bishops. Every age, the devil has raised his ugly head to battle
the Church. It is no different in our own age. Satan chose Russia to be it's
battleground against the Church in our time. " I will put enmities between
thee and the Woman and thou shall lie in wait for her to crush thy
head". You say that Satan has triumphed and won the battle. I believe Our
Lady's words are true. The devil used Russia to battle the Church and Our Lady
will convert it and triumph over Satan's proud head. Russia will be
instrumental in restoring the damage done by Satan. Through the centuries and
Old Testament times, God permitted punishments for long periods of
time, many cases lasting more than a hundred years. God will restore the
Church in His own time and I still believe that Mary will play a part in her
triumph over Satan. Thank You
May The Infant Jesus of Prague Bless
You
Philip Schwebs
MHFM: Sir, you are not correct. Many people refuse to look at the facts on
this issue with an open mind. They
refuse to look at the issue calmly and rationally because they have been
brainwashed into an emotional attachment on this matter. They are emotionally attached to the idea
that the conversion of all of Russia to the Catholic faith (and a worldwide
restoration) is in our future, even though there is nothing which proves
that. This would include you. You are so brainwashed, in fact, that you
falsely assert that we are stating that Our Lady’s words are not true. On the contrary, you simply don’t understand
what she said.
|
Proverbs 16:7- “When the ways of man shall
please the Lord, He will convert even his enemies to peace.” |
Our Lady: “If they listen to my requests, |
The quote from Proverbs definitely
parallels Our Lady’s words. Your
argument doesn’t hold up. Though the
structure is not exactly the same, one can see the clear parallel. Your argument is equivalent to saying that because
Jesus says to St. Peter (in Matthew 16) that he will give him the “keys” to the
Kingdom of Heaven, that cannot be compared to Isaias 22:22 because in Isaias it
says “key,” not “keys.” Similarly,
because Jesus says to Peter: “whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in
Heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven,” it cannot be
compared to Isaias 22 (according to your argument) because the language is not
exactly the same. In Isaias 22 it says:
“so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and
none shall open.”
Matthew 16:18- “And I will
give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on
earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Isaias 22:22- “And the key of the house of
David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and
he shall shut, and none shall open.”
But there is no doubt that Jesus’ words to St. Peter are
structured along the words of Isaias 22, even though they are not exactly the
same. Basically every
professing-Catholic who addresses this issue agrees that Matthew 16:18 is
structured on Isaias 22:22. There is
also a parallel between Proverbs 16:7 and Our Lady’s words. It certainly shows that God uses the word
“convert” sometimes to signify something other than a religious conversion – a
conversion of a hostile enemy to a more peaceful posture. The bottom line is that what Our Lady meant
by conversion is demonstrated from the following facts, which are elaborated
upon in our article:
Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. 2,
p. 465: “Let us point out right away
that in 1930, in two letters to Father Goncalves, Sister Lucy was to express in
a slightly different manner the requests of Heaven… [Sister Lucy]: ‘The good Lord
promises to end the persecution in Russia, if the Holy Father will himself make a solemn act of reparation and
consecration of Russia to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as well as ordering
all the bishops of the Catholic Church to do the same. The Holy Father must then promise that upon
the ending of this persecution he will approve and recommend the practice of
the reparatory devotion already described.’”[5]
So, according to Sr. Lucy, the message at Tuy that
Our Lord will “save”
Our Lord to Sr. Lucy, Oct. 22, 1940: “I will punish
the nations for their crimes by means of war, famine and persecution of My
Church and this will weigh especially upon My Vicar on earth. His Holiness will obtain an abbreviation of these days of tribulation if he takes heed of My
wishes by promulgating the Act of Consecration of the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, with a special mention of
The consecration of
“The war is going to end. But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an
unknown light, know that it is a great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its
crimes by means of war, of hunger, and of persecution of the
Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this I come to ask the
consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of
reparation on the first Saturdays. If
they listen to my requests,
Notice, the consecration of Russia was specifically
requested to prevent “war… hunger and persecution of the Church…” This shows us how firmly set within this
specific context Our Lady’s words were on the consecration of Russia –
converting this enemy to peace from these persecutions of “war… hunger… of the
Church.” We consider this fact to be
quite significant.
So, as we can see, we have provided many strong
points which favor our position on this issue.
Can you quote anything to favor your opinion, that she meant that the
entire nation would convert to the Catholic faith? The answer is no.
Everything fits with the fact that Pope Pius XII
did it. He did it “late,” just as Our
Lord said he would, after Russia had already spread its errors and Communism
had annihilated and engulfed a host of nations.
It would only grant a “certain” period of peace – which ended that
horrible era – not a permanent period of peace.
And those who think that what did change in Russia – how it converted to
a certain period of peace from its horrible and satanic era – was
insignificant, demonstrate a callous ignorance to the horrible sufferings and
the true nature of what was occurring in Russia and behind the Iron Curtain
during that awful era.
The Whole Truth about the Consecration and Conversion of Russia
Cardinal
John O’Connor - Freemason
Dear Dimond Brothers
I don't know if you seen this photo but this guy is the Late Close Friend of
Antipope John Paul 2 his name is John "Cardinal" O Conner.As you can
see he is beside two freemasons.
Sean Keogan.
MHFM: Yes, it’s an interesting photo. According to Malachi Martin, “Cardinal”
O’Connor was a Freemason. Malachi Martin
was not reliable on doctrinal matters, but he seemed to be privy to that kind
of information. Certainly “Cardinal”
O’Connor was a notorious apostate. He
said on national television that God was smiling on a person who abandoned Catholicism
to become a Jew. Thus, it wouldn’t be
surprising if he had been a Freemason.
Confused
I've
been reading your site off and on for a while now. You have so much
information that is hard for me to digest. I didn't know there was so much
difference in the RCC. I'm having the hardest time wrapping my arms around
the doctrine of no salvation outside of the Church. I've not been
taught faith in Christ is all a person needs for salvation. I don't
believe that gives a person the right to go out and live any way they want
to. I understand works are a witness of a person's faith in
Christ. The more I read on your sight, the more I question this teaching
I've received. Am I losing my mind? Am I endanger of eternal hell
fire? Would you instruct me in this matter? I really want to know
the truth.
Confused,
Ken
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Christ only founded one Church. That Church is the Catholic Church.
It's necessary for your salvation to belong to it. Justification by faith
alone is false, as this new document we just posted proves:
A Definitive
Refutation of Justification by Faith Alone [PDF FILE]
So, you need to accept the Catholic
faith to be saved. Also, I would recommend that you begin to pray the
Rosary and listen to the other information we have regarding Protestantism on
our website. Please obtain a rosary from us.
Water
Dear Brothers,
I can't get over your website. It is so
thorough and factual.
I've written another little saying; it's
based on the three 'triple' sayings :The Way the Truth and the Life, Faith,
Hope and Charity and Spirit, Water and the Blood. I was wondering one
day if the three are connected in any way:
The Way of the Spirit is Faith
The Truth of the Water is Hope
The Life of the Blood is Charity
I'm not sure if there is much to it; just
interesting! (That is the order they all appear in Holy Scripture; e.g. not
hope, faith charity!)
The truth about water baptism being the
only means of entry into the Catholic Church has indeed given me hope!
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM: Yes, there is truth in the point you have made. When one is convinced of the truth about the
necessity of water baptism, it provides a solidity to the faith. That solidity – that unshaken confidence in
the realities of the faith – begets zeal and hope. Numerous people have commented to us that,
once they became convinced of it, their entire outlook changed.
Benedict
XVI on the limited permission for the traditional Mass
… on a flight from Rome to Paris, Benedict
XVI commented on the SP:
"This 'motu proprio' is simply an act
of tolerance, with a pastoral objective, for people who have been formed in
this liturgy, who love it, know it and want to live with this liturgy. It is a
small group, given that it presupposes a formation in Latin, a formation in a
certain culture. But it seems to me a normal demand of faith and pastoral
concern for a bishop of our Church to have love and tolerance for these people
and permit them to live with this liturgy.
There is no opposition whatsoever between the liturgy renewed by the Second
Vatican Council and this liturgy. Each day, the Council fathers celebrated Mass
according to this old rite and, at the same time, have conceived a natural
development for the liturgy in all of this century, since the liturgy is a
living reality that develops and that conserves its identity in its
development.
Therefore, there are certainly distinct accents, but a fundamental identity
that excludes a contradiction, an opposition between the renewed liturgy and
the preceding liturgy. I think that there is the possibility of mutual
enrichment. It's clear that the renewed liturgy is the ordinary liturgy of our
times."
This proves what you said in your DVD about
Benedict XVI when you said, "Don't be fooled in he grants a universal
indult for the Latin Mass." Even JPII probably wouldn't have been so
stupid as to make a remark about Traditional Catholics like that!
-Michael Rudnicki
MHFM: Yes, it’s definitely a calculated move to deceive
“conservatives.” It’s one that he could
afford to make simply because the apostasy is already well in place, most of
the priests are invalid, and it won’t have much of an impact.
Comment
[This comment concerns the recent
comments on the discussion with the Protestant about faith alone.]
Dear Bro Michael and Peter Dimond,
The second comment sums it up precisely...why
was he so upset if he truly believed he was saved? His 'apple cart was upset a little', me
thinks; not only his false human pride, but his delicate
stomach, which by the way a little Alka Selsa for the latter is known to cure
in most cases.
Another David
N.Z.
St.
Francis Solanus
MHFM:
We have added the following file, containing a prayer to St. Francis Solanus
and some interesting quotes about his life.
This file is accessible from our “Spiritual Issues” section. If you
don’t already practice devotion to a saint or a few saints, consider adding St.
Francis Solanus and this prayer to him.
It’s very effective for both temporal and spiritual needs to invoke the
saints. We consider him to be very
powerful.
Prayer
to St. Francis Solanus, Apostle to South America [Also interesting quotes on his miracles]
Below
are some interesting quotes on his life, including one on Baptism.
St. Francis Solanus (Apostle to South America)
St. Francis Solanus lived from 1549 to 1610. He was a Spanish Franciscan missionary to
South America. Though he is not
well-known in the United States, he is indeed to be classified among the
extraordinary saints. He was gifted with
an abundance of miracles. He converted
and baptized many natives and explored uncultivated regions.
Prayer to him:
“O powerful St. Francis Solanus, thou who explored and
evangelized in the wilds of South America, please assist me in the wilds of
this world and obtain for me, through our Lord Jesus Christ, the grace I ask of
thee. Amen.”
(Specify your petition and then say one Hail Mary
in honor of St. Francis Solanus)
St. Francis Solanus miraculously heals the mangled
face of a five-year-old girl and raises her to life: “…the five year-old Maria Monroy had fallen from the second story of
her parents’ home. An iron latticework,
which she had dragged down with her in the fall, had put out one of the nina’s
eyes, destroyed her face, and split her skull.
When picked up, she was dead. The
desperate screams of the grief-crazed mother immediately brought the entire
neighborhood to the scene; but nothing anyone could do or say served to console
the woman or assuage the shock incurred when she had first glimpsed the ruin of
her baby’s head and features.
“Above the bed of the dead child there
hung a likeness of Fray Francisco [St. Francis Solanus]. Only when the mother’s eyes lifted to this
picture was she somewhat calmed.
Beginning to pray before it, she experienced a sudden wild hope. Loudly she demanded that someone bring her
oil from Padre Solano’s lamps – at once!
It must have seemed quite hopeless to the numerous onlookers, but to
pacify the poor mother, this was done, and the oil was applied to the broken
little face and head. The miracle which
followed worked instantaneously! The eye
returned to its orbit, the break in the head closed, and little Maria returned
to life with the exclamation, ‘Jesus, remain with me!’” (Fanchon Royer, St. Francis Solanus – Apostle to America,
St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, N.J., 1955, p. 187.)
St. Francis Solanus miraculously crosses a river: “The river was wide and there was no boat to carry him to the opposite
shore. How happy were his Indians in
their belief that, for this reason, they would have their padre with them a
little longer. But he, it seems, was
hearing the voices which cried to him from the other side. For a last time he exhorted his dear Indios
to persevere in seeking God’s grace, in the Faith, and in love of neighbor; and
he gave them his blessing. Then, lifting
up his eyes to heaven, he was elevated to ecstasy. He now spread his mantle upon the water and
embarked upon it without fear, and thus passed over to the opposite shore,
leaving those who had accompanied him as far as the river in the extreme of
astonishment.” (Fanchon Royer, St.
Francis Solanus – Apostle to America, St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson,
N.J., 1955, p. 117.)
His extraordinary travels: “The diligent apostle did not content himself with ministering to his
own converts, the Christian thousands about Socotonio and Magdalena. As soon as he was confident that their feet
were firmly placed upon the Christian path of life, he set his own to another immense tour which, owing to the
rigors of the terrain which he chose to penetrate, was to prove a classic
chapter in the marvelous epic of record-breaking travel and spiritual
adventure… while evangelizing and instructing the natives he might encounter in
the great wastes that stretched between the heroically founded stations. But this tour was so largely devoted to the
Gran Chaco that one imagines he must have known from the start that this vast,
still almost completely unexplored region was the prize for which he would
contest – alone and totally unsupplied with provisions of any sort.” (Fanchon
Royer, St. Francis Solanus – Apostle to
America, St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, N.J., 1955, p. 111.)
Witnesses to his miracles: “…eight hundred witnesses had presented themselves to testify under oath
to the saint’s prodigies. Among these,
five hundred and twenty were Limenos.
The list included prelates, savants, physicians, army officers of high
rank, religious, and ladies of prominent social standing. Also a witness was the temporal ruler of them
all, the Marques de Montesclaros, Viceroy of Peru.” (Ibid, p. 183.)
St. Francis Solanus believed that no man is saved
without Baptism. In his
life, there is a story about a ship on which he was traveling which came upon a
terrible storm. This ship contained many
religious, as well as natives who had received some instruction from him but
had not yet been baptized. “They ran
head into a violent hurricane. Almost
immediately the cumbersome wooden ship went out of control, to become a mere
chip on the frantically churning seas… Water was now passing freely through the
hold. In the midst of the tempest’s
fury, the ship was falling to pieces beneath them; and as there was but a
single lifeboat aboard, the disaster could only mean death for the majority of
the company… the Captain made all haste
to get the Franciscans and some of the more prominent passengers over the side,
that they might be given this one last slim chance of survival [on a
lifeboat]. Seeing that Fray Franciso
made no move to join his brothers in the boat, Juan de Morgana implored him to
hurry. There was space for but one
more. But the missionary had already decided that he could not leave his
stricken Negritos [the natives] to die abandoned in their agony. Who could say that he might not be granted
the time to administer Baptism to some of them?... [He said]: ‘God will not allow me to save myself by
leaving my poor brothers to lose not only the life of the body, but also that
of the soul, which is eternal.’” (Ibid, p. 71.)
Thus, he clearly
believed that they would not be saved without Baptism, despite the knowledge or
“desire” they had. So he risked his life
to stay, to make sure they were convinced of the faith and baptized. He immediately went to work. “… imploring [God] for the time to complete
his holy mission, the priest immediately went to work. There were so many to whom he must administer
the Sacrament [of Baptism], and under circumstances which almost anyone else
would have found quite impossible!”
(Ibid, p. 73.)
As he continued
to baptize, the ship was actually broken into two by the hurricane. “When
the vessel had cleft in twain, Fray Francisco [St. Francis] was hastily
baptizing his Negritos. He barely
looked up as he heard the noise… Quite naturally there were many who were still
hysterical from fright and the misery of their half-submerged positions. But Fray Francisco was perfectly calm; and as
the fragment of the ship miraculously continued to stay afloat, one by one, the
frightened men edged into their places before him and the crucifix still held
high by an arm which should by now have broken beneath it. In
this manner the hours dragged on, and finally the Sacrament had actually been
administered to all who wished to receive it.” After days of struggling on the seas in the
face of the hurricane, God intervened with a number of extraordinary events
which allowed the vessels to survive.
(Ibid, pp. 70-77.)
New
Document refuting Justification by Faith Alone
MHFM:
This is a new document which will be part of an upcoming book which proves
Catholic teaching from the Bible.
A
Definitive Refutation of Justification by Faith Alone [PDF FILE]
In just
26 pages, see how the ideas of justification by faith alone and eternal
security are completely contrary to the teaching of the Bible. This file uses the King James Version to
prove the point. Just scroll through
this file and look at all the proof. The
end of this file also responds in detail to common Protestant objections and
passages which are frequently brought up. It covers and refutes objections from
passages which Protestants bring forward from Romans, etc. on “works of the
law,” from Ephesians 2:8-9, from John 3:16, etc.
This file will be found permanently in our
“Refuting Protestantism” section.
Comments
on Recent Discussion/Debate
Hi Brothers…
This last debate shows again clearly
that pride causes one to be so sure they're correct that they deny truth
which leads them to their salvation when they comply with Grace.
He'd clearly (through his
pride) rather go to Hell then HEAVEN. All while thinking in his
pride he's saved.
You display patience, charity, &
knowledge. You have more concern for his soul than he does.
dave
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Brothers,
If a protestant revolutionary is once saved
always saved then why was this same revolutionary's day ruined?...
MHFM: Yes, the fact that he said his day was ruined
demonstrates, in our opinion, that deep down he was convicted and bothered by
the scriptural evidence which refutes his false position.
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I listened to
your debate. I've never heard of someone who would divide the scripture like
this guy did. Kind of reminds me of Nestorius, who divided Jesus. I had a about
1.5 hour debate with a friend of mine over justification by faith and/or works,
and purgatory at 3 today. He had no answer to 1 John 5:16 in the argument over
sin. I hope it gets him to think.
Kenneth Connelly
No
Gay Priests
I also read your article about rampant
homosexuality in the seminaries and I completely agree. I only have one
question: are you saying that a gay man cannot become a priest even if he
endeavors to live a celibate and holy life?
MHFM: Homosexuals should
not be admitted to seminaries and should not be ordained, even if they are not
“active.” The inclination to
homosexuality, even if it’s not acted out, is not natural. It arises from mortal sin (see Romans 1 and our article on it). Those who are afflicted with it are afflicted
as a result of grave sin. Homosexuals
were rightly not admitted to seminaries before Vatican II. If a homosexual happened to be ordained by
someone in the traditional rite, then it would be valid, just like the
ordination of heretics could be valid.
However, it would be illicit and displeasing to God.
In fact, if a real Catholic were somehow able to regain control
of one of the Vatican II dioceses, one of his very first actions (after
outlawing the New Mass, condemning Vatican II, etc.) would and should be to
immediately bar all homosexuals from all seminaries and religious orders. That, in itself, would do an immense amount
of good and drastically reshape things.
Searching
Dear Brothers:
I barely remember the remnants of the
Tridentine Mass from when i was 3 years old, and my parochial school days were
steeped in Vatican II. Now, at age 47, I find myself searching.
Please pray for me as a renew my dedication
to the Rosary, which I have always struggled with. At some point, I'd
like to correspond in detail on what needs to change in my life. I have a
feeling that if you pray for my spirit to be more willing with the Rosary, a
lot of other things will follow more easily.
Thanks,
T. D.
MHFM: We’re glad that you came across the information. As you continue to consult it we think that
what one needs to do in order to practice and believe the true Catholic faith
will become clear for you.
Faith
Alone Debate/Conversation
MHFM:
This is an audio of a recent conversation one of us had with a Protestant who
believes in Justification by faith alone and eternal security (i.e., “once
saved always saved”). He had called us and
left a challenging message which essentially stated that we (as Catholics)
reject the teaching of the Bible. The
recording begins during a discussion of some of the scriptures which refute his
false position on justification. This
conversation is another illustration how Protestants, while they claim to be
Bible-believing Christians, completely reject the clear teaching of the Bible.
Interesting Conversation with
Faith-Alone Protestant [1 hr. and 5 min. audio]
This
fellow happened to be a Dispensationalist-type of Protestant, with very strange
and heretical views on how certain books of the New Testament (including the
preaching of Jesus) are completely irrelevant to the post-Resurrection
Christian. Instead, they think that only
St. Paul’s epistles deliver that actual Gospel which applies to Christians
after the Resurrection. (They like to
use and focus on certain things from St. Paul because there is much in St. Paul
that can be misunderstood by
heretics.) But, as this conversation
shows, when their heretical position on justification is refuted even from St.
Paul they still reject it and hold on to their heresy.
Sample
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Comment
on UFO book
Dear brothers in Christ,
I've received your book on UFO. Although of
small volume, its content is absolutely convincing. There is no doubt that UFO
is a spiritual deception coming directly from Hell. I've just recalled that
there is one (or even more) of Bayside "prophecies" which says
basically the same thing---that the UFO is a Devil's deception. Knowing these
"prophecies" are also Devil's deceptions it is interesting to note
how Devil mocks the unbelieving people. We can see the same his strategy in the
case when the antipope Paul VI. looks his fellow apostates right to their eyes
and says that the Devil has entered the Church.
Of course, it didn't occur to those poor apostates that it is the very
same Devil who speaks to them about devil entering the Church.
Thank you for this book on UFO, and all other books you produced. They all have the same purpose--turn the poor
people of these last times to the One and True Faith. May Our Saviour Jesus
Christ have mercy on all poor people and open their eyes.
Be blessed in your valuable and worthy efforts through the help of our Holy
Mother Mary.
Vladimir D., from Zagreb, Croatia
More
on Self-Love
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
Below are some interesting quotes from St.
Alphonsus concerning the dangers of self-love.
These relate to your most recent quote from St. Thomas Aquinas on
inordinate self-love being the cause of every sin. St. Alphonsus quotes St. Augustine, Blessed
Angela of Foligno, St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi and others who have written on
this topic. I thought these quotes might
be of interest to others.
St. Augustine writes, that two cities may
be built up in the heart of a Christian; one by the love of God, the other by
self-love… Thus, if the love of God reign within us, we will despise ourselves:
if self-love reign, we will despise God.
But, in conquering self-love consists the victory to which shall be
given a crown of eternal glory… Hence we must, during our whole life, zealously
combat and conquer the evil inclinations which continually rise within us, as
noxious weeds spring up in our gardens. (Serm. XLIX On the predominant passion,
par. 6)
All bad passions spring from
self-love. This is, as Jesus Christ
teaches all who wish to follow him, the principal enemy which we have to
contend with; and this enemy we must conquer by self-denial. “If any one shall come after me let him deny
himself.” (Matt. xvi. 24.) Unless we
banish self-love from the heart the love of God cannot enter. Blessed Angela of Foligno used to say, that
she was more afraid of self-love than of the devil, because self-love has
greater power than the devil to draw us into sin. St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi used to say the
same, as we read in her life: “Self-love is the greatest traitor we have to
guard against. Like Judas, it betrays us
with a kiss. He who conquers it conquers
all enemies; he who does not conquer it is lost.” (Serm. XLIX On the
predominant passion, par. 8)
Death, says St. Basil, is the reward which
self-love gives its followers. The wages
of self-love is death; it is the beginning of every evil. Self-love seeks not what is just and
honourable, but what is agreeable to the senses. Hence Jesus Christ has said: “He that loveth
his life”–that is, his sensual appetite or self-will–“shall lose it.” (John
xii. 25.) He who truly loves himself,
and wishes to save his soul, should refuse to the senses whatever God has
forbidden; otherwise he shall lose God and himself. (Serm. XLIX On the
predominant passion, par. 8)
-John.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
We just want to emphasize (because someone asked about it) that we’re
not saying that to love oneself is a sin, but inordinate self-love is the cause of all sins.
Blatant
Contradiction
Hello there. I've been reading
through your website and watching the videos recently, and have been quite
amazed at how blatantly obvious the teachings of, and since "V-II"
are wrong. I'm not Catholic, but have been going to the Traditional Mass
for the past couple weeks at a parish (well, actually an Oratory) that is led
by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest… I am to meet with the
Priest this coming Friday to discuss how I would enter the Catholic Church.
After watching the videos I did, as well as the articles I read, I'm unsure if
I should go through with this. I've only spoken to him once, and had
mentioned the term "RCIA" to which he said they didn't do that there,
and that he doesn't encourage people to go to RCIA classes, as one never knows
what is taught at them.
I guess I'm hoping you'll have something to
say on the matter! Do you know of anyone in or around Green Bay,
WI? Or in Wisconsin in general (churches, priests, faithful, etc that you
would recommend??).
Thank you for all your work, I look forward
to hearing from you soon!
Sincerely,
R.
MHFM: We’re glad to hear about your interest. You don’t want to go to the church you’re
going to because those “priests” were ordained by bishops who were made bishops
in the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration.
Thus, they cannot be considered valid priests. They also accept Vatican II and are part of
the Vatican II sect. On our site we have
the information on how to convert and we really hope you follow through with
it. We can help you to do this.
Miraculous
Medal
Dear MHFM
I am reading The
Miraculous Medal
by M. Aladel,C.M.
This is the original story. Father
Aladel was one of Sister Catherine's spiritual directors. Catholics during
this time (nineteenth century) were all concerned with salvation of the
soul. No Mother Teresa of Calcuttas or JPII's here, and the Church
was flourishing during the time of distrubution of the medals. "By their fruits you
will know them."
Reading books like this and the old
lives of the saints (never the doctored post Vatican II lives), is a great aid
in the restoration of the faith and how to think and believe as a true
Catholic…
PM
Response
Thank you for your reply, but I do not see what
the actual Pope and the post Vatican, have done for being call heretic. Vatican 2 was to renew and review… tell me
where JP2 was wrong. The basic teaching
of Jesus, the Eucharist, and his legacy does not change, nor he depends in man
to come to us, because he is omnipresent, therefore, may be a few devils
infiltrated the Church, and by the fruits will be known, specially when we do
not look at each other with the eyes of love, seeking to understand and look at
each other with eyes of Love.
We are all sinners, only by the blood of
Jesus, and with the intercession of our Holy Mother, we have hope. No longer we depend in Popes and teachers, we
need to follow our Heart were Jesus himself will disciple us. Thank you, lets keep open this dialogue.
Clara Mendieta Reg Nurse.
MHFM: All we can say is that you are in a fog. You need to read our sections on Vatican II
and John Paul II and wake up.
NFP
i just finished watching a EWTN discussion
on natural family planning, which i disagree on very much. this was the used
example: whats the difference of killing grandma and letting grandma die
naturally? " killing grandma would mean making yourself
God"(using artificial contraception), "letting grandma die naturally
you'll allow God to work" ????...(natural family planning) killing grandma
would mean taking God into your own hands is correct, but we have a sin
attached that we call murder! letting grandma die naturally allows God to
work in his time is correct, and there NO sin attached to that! how could this
speaker on EWTN us that as a example to promote natural family planning??? i
agree that natural family planning is LUST!!...
thanks for ur time,
david matthews
Judgmental
Explain
to me, why there is so much judgmental, even if you say the truth and the
Vatican does not.
Jesus
is the truth and the life, in obedience to Christ we obey the pope, .
Jesus
is the only Judge, and he would not let anyone of his sheep's be deceived, and
the gates of hell will not prevail"
The
worst deceiver is lack of love for one another, will be great to pray pray
pray, for the souls to be saved, for everyone to love one another, and for
truth to be poured, and is only one truth, Jesus and his Church, mine is better
than yours in immaturity
He
won already, now is our choice, keep plying Judge, that we are not, or love one
another, and give fruits of the spirit.
What
I am trying to say is, Let God be God.
Love
to you all, and may my prayers be with you,
Clara
NY.
MHFM: Without faith it’s impossible to
please God (Hebrews 11:6). The worst
deception is one which hides, removes or perverts the truth, for without the
truth one cannot be saved or truly love his neighbor.
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (#9), Jan. 6, 1928: “…
the foundation of charity is faith pure and inviolate…”
Further, without the true faith
prayers will be of no effect. They will
be rejected by God. God desires
obedience to His truth (i.e. accepting what He has said/revealed), not sacrifices
(i.e. prayers, offerings, etc.) from one
who cares not for His truth. (He
desires them from those who accept His truth.)
Saul was rebuked and cast off for offering sacrifice while disobeying
God’s voice. That can be compared to a
person who preaches unity and “prayer,” but tolerates heresy, heretics and
violations of God’s truth.
1 Kings
15:22-23: “And Samuel said: Doth the
Lord desire holocausts and victims [i.e. sacrifices], and not rather
that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For
obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer
the fat of rams. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft to rebel: and like the crime
of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch as thou hast rejected the word
of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.”
Those who love the Lord love the
truth. Those who love the Lord hate
evil.
Psalm 96:10- “You that love the Lord, hate
evil.”
You need to remove the liberal
mentality which tolerates heresy and those who promote it. Denouncing heresy, heretics and evil men is
not only not wrong; it’s necessary and justified.
Shocking
After reading so many shocking disclosures
on your site, are Roman Catholics not supposed to go to church? Where
does a Catholic find a church that falls prior to Vatican II. I am
sickened while reading this distubing information on your
site, being a church lecture and trying so hard to do the right
thing. I have recently become engrossed reading… the Miracle of
Fatima and our Mother's message and it seems to all be coming true. That
Third Secret would probably confirm everything that is happening today if we
could see the real third sercet. I am struggling on where to find a
Catholic church I can attend service and accept the body and blood of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
My Church believes and follows the order of
Vatican II. When I suggested that "man" changed the rules with
Vatican II, they got angry with me and told me to ignore all of it. I
remember kneeling taking my Holy Communion and when the rails were removed it
confused me. Why would you not kneel to pay honor to our Lord while taking the
Holy Eucharist? I was a little girl and remember how church used to
me.....and I am sickened by what I am reading on your sight. Please
advise. If there are no churches, then how does one take Holy Communion
or go to church? Are you suggesting to avoid church then? I pray I
find the answers to these important questions.
Thank you and anxiously awaiting your
response.
Many Blessings
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
If you contact us here, we can help you more specifically. We also have a section on our site which
gives guidelines on that issue. But you
would need to leave the Vatican II church you are going to and be in full
agreement on all the issues of faith. As
you read more on our site, what is going on will become more clear to you.
Also
banned
Dear MHFM:
Referring to the recent e-exchange by
William who was banned from posting on a "Catholic" website - I have
had my own similar experience. About 2 - 3 years ago I joined a Catholic
singles website. In my profile, I clearly made myself out to be a
sedevacantist who rejects the teachings of Vatican II. After submitting
my profile, I discovered they had deleted it and sent me a message stating that
I needed to create a new one because the one I submitted violated their policy
of maintaining Catholic principles. I subsequently deleted my account
with them.
R.R.
Pre-Vatican
II
Just
heard on… Radio about a CCD teacher who was told not to teach the kids about
the devil because it was "too intense and pre-Vatican
II"!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
for all your good work.
H.O.W.
MHFM:
Readers of our site will notice that the Heresy of the Week has been modified
to Benedict XVI’s Recent Heresies. That
section of our site will be updated periodically.
Martial
Law in America?
Here
is a C-Span video clip of House of Representatives Democrat Brad
Sherman from California stating that they were threatened with martial law if
they didnt go along with passing the Bail out Bill....
"The
only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic
atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted
against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two
or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second
day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in
America if we voted no."
You tube video clip [1 min. video]
MHFM: Very interesting… no one talks about the problem, which is
that the Federal Reserve is a private bank that prints the country’s money out
of nothing and then charges interest on top of it. The fact that this is never mentioned by the
media is an astounding example of how controlled the media really is. This clip above – and the bailout that the
bankers desired to have passed – reminds one of something. The
Money Masters covered how, in order to get the privately-owned Central Bank
approved by the government, the bankers repeatedly had to threaten – and
sometimes enact - economic recessions by using their control over the money
supply, etc. By doing this, they were
able to get arrangements which were most favorable to them officially approved
by various governments. Andrew Jackson’s
battle to kill the central bank idea in the 18th century is a case
in point.
Sheen
and John XXIII
Bishop Sheen expresses his love of the
revolution of "Pope John" and the council.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcVpg8qctQ
As someone in charge of the propagation of the faith, he should have been more
concerned with bringing people into THE TRUTH rather than a universal
brotherhood of mankind.
MHFM:
Yes, that’s an interesting clip. It
confirms our previous commentary about Sheen, in which we pointed out that he
was a modernist heretic. He clearly
demonstrates his approval of Antipope John XXIII’s Vatican II revolution and
John XXIII’s approach of religious indifferentism. He also repeatedly mentions his attitude of
“opening up to the world” – which contradicts Scripture: “…a friend of the
world is an enemy of God” (James 4:4).
For
easier reference for our readers, here’s a link to the clip:
Bishop
Fulton Sheen showing his approval of John XXIII and his Vatican II revolution [6 min. video]
Related: The Scandals and Heresies of John XXIII [PDF File]
Division
Dear MHFM
Here's a quote
from a blog on the Macy's Illuminati t shirt article:
"...It’s
pagan, but because you are a miserable, negative and hateful individual that
prides himself on divisiveness and discord...”
This is exactly
the same thing that the Vatican II priest wrote to me when I complained about
the plethora of illegal Eucharistic ministers. He didn't tell me I was
right or wrong. He just accused me of bring division and
dissension.
Same demon,
obviously.
PM
MHFM: Yes, it’s all about accepting people… unity
without the truth and without God.
Rabbi
at “Catholic” Synod
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
I am writing in response to your most
recent article posted in your News and Commentary section entitled, “Benedict
XVI selects rabbi to speak at ‘Catholic’ synod”. It is, frankly, outrageous to think that a
Catholic Pope would invite a Jewish rabbi to explain their false interpretation
of the Old Testament, according to which Jesus in not the Messiah, to supposed
leaders of the Catholic Church. Below,
by way of comparison, I have listed some statements and actions from real
Catholic Popes concerning the Jews.
POPE BENEDICT XIII. His Bull on the Jewish issue
(1450) declared: "The heresies, vanities and errors of the Talmud prevent
their knowing the truth."
POPE
BENEDICT XIV. Quo Primum (1751) denounced Jewish control of commerce and
"systematical despoliation" of the Christian through usury.
POPE
BENEDICT XV. Warned, in 1920, against "the advent of a Universal Republic
which is longed for by all the worst elements of disorder."…
John
MHFM:
Since we’re so used to hearing about the religious indifferentism of the
Vatican II sect, something like this can sort of be passed over or minimized by
many. But when you really think about
it, having a rabbi speak to a “Catholic” synod about what the Bible means to
them is a proof of apostasy on the part of the one who invited him.
Banned
Hi,
I came across your work on the internet, and its content interested me deeply.
I am loathe to accept anything without considerable investigation, so I decided
to find a Catholic website, and ascertain the reactions there ...
I thought you might be interested to see how much I was able to discuss on the
Catholic Answers website before the web page was taken down, and I have now, I
believe, been prohibited from further postings…
Best wishes
William
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
Yes, they are a pathetically heretical group. They accept the heresies of Vatican II,
salvation outside the Church, and they swallow wholesale the apostasy of false
ecumenism and the Vatican II antipopes.
As soon as any truth about the post-Vatican II Church and its antipopes
gets circulated in their arena, they block it.
Thus, those who are following them will not hear any bit of the truth
about what’s really going on with the post-Vatican II sect. They are very evil.
They are very much in darkness as a result of their human
respect and their complete rejection of the salvation dogma. But what’s perhaps most remarkable is the
activity of so many of the laypeople out there who are part of their camp. Since they have an interest in Catholic
matters, one would think that many of these people, after becoming exposed to
some of the truth about what’s happening – for instance, to some of the material
covering the heresies of Vatican II, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, etc. – would
be intrigued and the light would come on.
Sadly, with most of them that’s not the case. Most of them attack the truth and ridicule it. Many of them call it ridiculous – remaining
oblivious and blind to the fact that they are completely wrong. They are so deceived, yet so confident in
their defense of the apostate Vatican II sect.
It just shows you the level of bad will and dishonesty out there. It’s really pathetic.
Thanks
Dear Brothers and Sister,
Thank you for the recent update letter on your monastery. I like the
improvement to the website design… After seeking guidance from other
semi-traditional organizations for a long time, it was a friend who pointed me
in your direction. Thank you for the frequently updated E-Exchanges,
which recently have been useful to me and others…
Matthew
Recommendation
Hi
Bros Michael and Peter Dimond,
Just
read your latest e-exchanges. Great idea on establishing community for women.
Will
order another UFO book from you…
About
the person who was asking for help in dealing with sins of the flesh
etc....your mention of the praying of the Three Hail Marys is especially
important. People should say these prayers every morning and evening ADDING
the Following: "O, Mary, by thy holy and Immaculate
Conception, make my body pure and my soul holy, preserve me from mortal sin all
this day/night." Saints have recommended
this devotion and it WORKS. So try it and see for yourselves. Mothers and Fathers
should teach it to their children. Young or old, sinners and the devout
should adopt this good habit. Precious indulgences have been attached to
this practice, by several Popes.
David
S.
N.Z.
Interest
Hello
and God Bless!
Although
I have a lot of questions to ask, I will not send them in this email. I came
across your site a few days ago, and I must say that it has not made my “life”
any simpler. To get right to the point,
I want to make (with God’s help) subtitles in Romanian for the videos from your
site…
Eduard
from Romania
Self-Love
MHFM: Here’s an interesting point from St. Thomas Aquinas on
inordinate self-love being the cause of every sin.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. I-II, Q. 77, A. 5, Whether Self-Love is the
Source of Every Sin?: “I answer that, as stated above, the proper and direct
cause of sin is to be considered on the part of the adherence to a mutable
good; in which respect every sinful act
proceeds from inordinate desire for some temporal good. Now the fact that anyone desires a temporal
good inordinately, is due to the fact that he loves himself inordinately;
for to wish anyone some good is to love him.
Therefore it is evident that inordinate love of self is the cause of
every sin.”
Quick
audio on Canonizations
This
is a very short audio with some quick points on the infallibility of
canonizations. It quotes an interesting
summary of points from a famous 19th century priest named Fr.
Frederick William Faber.
Fr.
Faber on the Infallibility of Canonizations [4 min. audio]
St. Alphonsus
Liguori, The Great Means of Salvation and
Perfection, 1759, p. 23:“To
suppose that the Church can err in canonizing, is a sin, or is heresy,
according to St. Bonaventure, Bellarmine, and others; or at least next door
to heresy, according to Suarez, Azorius, Gotti, etc.; because the Sovereign
Pontiff, according to St. Thomas, is guided by the infallible influence
of the Holy Ghost in an especial way when canonizing saints.”
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Session 4,
Chap. 4, ex cathedra:
“… to this Holy See …. where faith cannot
experience a failure.”
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Session 4,
Chap. 4, ex cathedra: “… knowing full well that the See of St. Peter always
remains unimpaired by any error, according to the divine promise of our Lord
the Savior made to the chief of His disciples: ‘I have prayed for thee [Peter],
that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren
(Lk. 22:32).’”
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, Session 4,
Chap. 4, ex cathedra: “…. in the Apostolic See the Catholic religion has always
been preserved untainted, and holy doctrine celebrated.’”
St. Francis De
Sales: (+1602): “…to say the Church errs
is to say no less that God errs, or else that He is willing and desirous for us
to err; which would be a great blasphemy.” (The Catholic Controversy, p. 70.)
Pope Benedict XIV: “If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff
had erred in this or that canonization, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic,
at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favorer of
those heretics who deny the Church’s authority in canonizing saints,
savoring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the
assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.”[7][i]
T.
Walton and R.
Dear MHFM
I too with others read and loved your UFO
book, it was something I have wanted for a long time, a catholic book on
UFO's. I went to see the movie about Travis Walton when it came out and
had thought at the time it was convincing but reading your recount of the facts
I see now how false the movie was with its lack of factual events.
On another note I have a friend who
communicates with R.I.… I was wondering if you could give me the scoop on this
guy. My friend comes up with some strange things from him like R.I. says
there are no catholic priests left and that he R.I. is one of the two witnesses
of the book of the Apocalypse. I keep telling my friend to
keep an arms length from him but he still keeps coming back with things from
R.I…
THANKS for all you do, and with Our Lord's
Blessings
R.B.
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
Yes, the real facts behind the Travis Walton story are quite
interesting. We definitely had some
hearty laughs about some of the more amusing aspects of the case. For example, when Travis’ mom broke the
tragic news of Travis’ “abduction” to his sister, she said: “A flying saucer
got him.”
Concerning R.I., in the Beware section of our website we have
numerous articles about his heretical teachings and blatantly schismatic
positions. At length we proved, on
dogmatic grounds, that he is not a Catholic.
In case there remained any doubt about that, just recently R.I. reached
a new low and confirmed everything we said about him. He actually denounced St. Alphonsus and St.
Thomas Aquinas as heretics. That’s
correct: he denounced both of those canonized saints as heretics. (He has also proclaimed that Pope St. Pius V
was not a saint.) This proves without
any doubt that he’s not a Catholic, but an outrageous non-Catholic heretic. He even said that if he “could pull St.
Thomas Aquinas out of Hell, put his skin back on him, and then peel it off and
pour vinegar on his wounds [to increase his torment]” he would do it. Does one need to say more? He’s a truly demonic character, a false
prophet.
What’s sad is that we know a few people who actually fell into schismatic
positions (and thus outside the Church) as a result of reading his heretical
and schismatic writings. These writings
specialize in distortions, straw-man arguments, exaggerations and slightly
wrong conclusions which lead to disastrous results. His writings were quite dangerous because they
did run along Catholic lines in many cases, only to insert deadly errors here
or there; but now they are even less dangerous because of his recent
denunciation of canonized saints. This
should alert anyone who possesses even a modicum of fidelity to Catholic truth
that R.I. is not remotely Catholic.
Perhaps now these few individuals who were spiritually seduced by him
can see what spirit moved them: the evil spirit. But perhaps not, since their own bad will –
their lack of charity, pride, and Pharisaical tendencies – played a major part
in the fact that they were deceived.
What’s interesting about his case is that, while he purports to
be an uncompromising Catholic, it’s not an exaggeration to say that he is now
on the level of the Protestant “reformers.”
That’s correct: he has truly founded his own “Church.” This isn’t an exaggeration. His few followers now rip prayers to St.
Thomas from Catholic prayer books, and he boldly proclaims that he edits papal encyclicals. He’s actually right there with the most
notorious Protestant heretics in history – not in terms of effect, of course,
for only a few pay attention to him – but in terms of content. Many of the Protestants who founded their own
sects said that the Catholic Church fell into apostasy, but that they were here
to “restore” the original purity of the Gospel.
They also attacked the saints.
Though he would try to deny it, R.I. holds the same. For he says that the Catholic Church has
honored, approved and recommended heretics for about 1000 years now, and that
he has come to restore the “Church” and the “Gospel.” It’s only by a startling inconsistency that
he doesn’t conclude that the popes who canonized and praised these saints (whom
he considers Luciferian heretics) were not heretics themselves. If the saints whom the Church canonizes are
heretics, as he says, then the Catholic Church is heretical. It cannot be “the pillar and foundation of
the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15) if it honors, approves and recommends heretics.
He took his schismatic position, that anyone who utters a
statement that is wrong or at variance with Catholic teaching is necessarily a
heretic – with no room for mistakes or good faith – to its heretical
conclusion: by denouncing as a heretic every saint who made a mistake.
On the other side of this, we have the false traditionalist
idolaters. They go to the other extreme
and hold that a canonized saint cannot possibly make a mistake. These false traditionalist heretics attempt to
explain away every error of St. Thomas Aquinas, including his blatant errors on
the issue of the Immaculate Conception.
These idolaters are so enamored by St. Thomas’ intellect that they
cannot believe that he could have been wrong about anything, so they deny the
truth. The Catholic position, which we espouse, is that these great saints are
in Heaven; and that they were great teachers of the faith and models for our
imitation. However, they were not
infallible and made some mistakes.
They were human beings. They
wrote voluminous amounts and thus were bound to make some mistakes.
In the coming days, we will have more information on the
infallibility of canonizations, in order to refute false arguments made by
those who attack the Church’s canonizations.
New
Quote from St. Alphonsus refutes “Invincible Ignorance”
MHFM:
One of us recently discovered a very
interesting new quote from St. Alphonsus which refutes the heresy that people can be saved who
are ignorant of the Gospel, the Trinity and the Incarnation (the essential mysteries of the Catholic faith). This is important because many baptism of
desire heretics in our day – who believe that souls can be saved in false
religions and without belief in Christ – falsely assert that saints such as St.
Alphonsus agreed with them. This is
totally false.
This is obviously not to suggest that saints, such
as St. Alphonsus, were correct about everything; rather it is prove, once
again, that not one saint held the heresy of “invincible ignorance,” the idea
that ignorant non-Catholics can be saved in false religions or without belief
in the Trinity and the Incarnation. This
heresy of invincible ignorance is held by almost all people who believe in
“baptism of desire” today. Here’s the
quote from St. Alphonsus’ book, The
History of Heresies.
St. Alphonsus,
The History of Heresies, Refutation
6, #11, p. 457: “Still we answer the
Semipelagians, and say, that infidels who arrive at the use of reason, and are
not converted to the Faith, cannot be excused, because though they do not
receive sufficient proximate grace, still they are not deprived of remote
grace, as a means of becoming converted.
But what is this remote grace? St. Thomas explains it, when he says, that
if anyone was brought up in the wilds, or even among brute beasts, and if he
followed the law of natural reason, to desire what is good, and to avoid what
is wicked, we should certainly believe either that God, by an internal
inspiration, would reveal to him what he should believe, or would send someone
to preach the Faith to him, as he sent Peter to Cornelius. Thus, then, according to the Angelic Doctor
[St. Thomas], God, at least remotely, gives to infidels, who have the use of
reason, sufficient grace to obtain salvation, and this grace consists in a
certain instruction of the mind, and in a movement of the will, to observe the
natural law; and if the infidel
cooperates with this movement, observing the precepts of the law of nature, and
abstaining from grievous sins, he will certainly receive, through the merits of
Jesus Christ, the grace proximately sufficient to embrace the Faith, and
save his soul.”
The
above quote has been added to this short article: St. Alphonsus rejected the
idea that souls in invincible ignorance can be saved [This article is accessible from the Outside the Church There is No
Salvation section of our site]
As we see, St. Alphonsus is clearly making
reference to and agreeing with the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas below (which
is cited in our book), in which St. Thomas denies that any soul who is
ignorant of the Gospel can be saved. If
there is a person who is completely ignorant of the faith but who is of good
will, God will make sure that he comes to a knowledge of the faith.
St.
Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate, 14, A. 11, ad 1: Objection- “It is possible
that someone may be brought up in the forest, or among wolves; such a man
cannot explicitly know anything about the faith. St. Thomas replies- It is the characteristic of Divine Providence to provide every man with
what is necessary for salvation… provided on his part there is no hindrance. In the case of a man who seeks good and shuns
evil, by the leading of natural reason, God would either reveal to him
through internal inspiration what had to be believed, or would send some
preacher of the faith to him…”
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Sent. II, 28, Q. 1, A. 4, ad 4:
“If a man born among barbarian nations, does what he can, God Himself will show
him what is necessary for salvation, either by inspiration or sending a teacher
to him.”
St. Thomas Aquinas,
Sent. III, 25, Q. 2, A. 2, solute. 2: “If a man should have no one to instruct
him, God will show him, unless he culpably wishes to remain where he is.”
In the Summa
Theologica, St. Thomas further taught the truth that all men above reason
are bound to know the principal mysteries of Christ for salvation with no
exceptions for ignorance.
St. Thomas, Summa
Theologica: “After grace had been
revealed, both the learned and simple folk are bound to explicit
faith in the mysteries of Christ, chiefly as regards those which are
observed throughout the Church, and publicly proclaimed, such as the
articles which refer to the Incarnation, of which we have spoken above.”
Saint Thomas, Summa
Theologica: “And consequently, when
once grace had been revealed, all were bound to explicit faith in the
mystery of the Trinity.”[8][260]
Therefore, St. Alphonsus and St. Thomas, like all
of the fathers of the Church, rejected the modern heresy of “invincible
ignorance” saving those who die as non-Catholics. Their speculation and erroneous teaching on
baptism of blood/desire only regarded those who believe in the Trinity and
Incarnation (the most essential mysteries of Catholic faith). And this point really shows the dishonesty of
modern heretics, who like to quote St. Alphonsus and St. Thomas Aquinas on
baptism of desire to somehow justify their heretical idea that members of false
religions can be saved by “baptism of desire.”
Book
Dear MHFM
I just finished reading the UFO book.
It's very thorough and makes perfect sense. You've managed to put another
puzzle together for us.
Most interesting is page 20 and the list of
their messages: the bible is outdated....Jesus Christ is not God...false
prophecies...global religion and government...false Jesus....sin doesn't
exist....we can also evolve into gods...everyone is God...
All of these messages are part of the
Vatican II theology; I've seen them all at one time or another in this false
church.
UFO belief is just another demonic
religion. Many of them are real all right and that's good to know
because they reveal the fact that Satan is very real at a time when most people
believe the Satanic lie that Satan is a joke.
PM
-----------------
Greetings
Brothers!... I received the UFO book and was enlightened. Never
thought that these might be demons, but it certainly seems to be the
case. Thank you so very much for your invaluable work! God help us
all in these apocalyptic times.
Sincerely
in Christ,
Margaret
New
Name
Dear Brothers,
I've decided to start designing some more bumper stickers for the monastery,
assuming you don't mind of course. I see that you have a new shorter web
address, so I intend to use that one instead of the longer mhfm one, unless I
hear otherwise from you. I'll likely email you a copy of what it will look like
before I send it to print.
God Bless,
Josh
MHFM: Thanks. It would be
a good idea to use the vaticancatholic.com domain. One of the reasons for having that name is
that it’s much easier to use in situations of evangelization and for something
like a bumper sticker. For example, if
you get into a conversation about the faith with a stranger at the store, and
you want to make sure that person has an opportunity to consult the
information, it’s much easier to simply tell him or her to check out
vaticancatholic.com than mostholyfamilymonastery.com. The former is obviously easier for the person
to remember.
Perpetuity
of the Papal Office
Some people I've discussed the sede-vacanist
issue with resort to Denzinger to try to support thieir position that all the
recent "Popes" have been/are valid ones. Specifically they
reference: Page 453 Chap 2. The
Perpetuity of the Primacy of Blessed Peter among the Roman Pontiffs. As I
have a discussion coming up with a non-sede-vacanist Independent Priest about
all this coming up in a few days could you tell me if you have addressed this
reference or could you please reply with your response to this?
Thank you!
GOD BLESS YOU!
Bill
MHFM:
Yes, that’s addressed in detail in the “Answers to Objections” section of our
book. See this file: Responses
to 19 of the Most Common Objections Against Sedevacantism [PDF file]. Scroll
down to Objection 6 and you will see a detailed discussion of those very
passages. Those who read that section
will see that it’s not the sedevacantist who denies Vatican I and the papal
dogmas, but Benedict XVI and those who support him.
Pope
on Slavery?
Dear Brothers,
During my Ethics class the concept of
slavery came up in our assignment for our discussion groups. One of the
questions asked where were the religious leaders in the 19th century? At
the time I got kind of defensive, especially because I thought I had a
rebuttal. I had thought that I read something on the internet about Pope
Pius IX condemning slavery, but now I can't find a source for what I thought I
read. Did I get this off of a bad internet source, or is there something
from Pope Pius IX that I missed? Is there anything from the
Church that condemned slavery during that time? Any help
on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Sincerely,
Jude Miller
MHFM: Yes, here’s a 19th century condemnation of it
from Pope Leo XIII:
Pope Leo XIII, In Plurimus (#3), May 5, 1888: “In the presence of so much
suffering, the condition of slavery, in
which a considerable part of the great human family has been sunk in squalor and
affliction now for many centuries, is deeply to be deplored; for the system is one which is wholly
opposed to that which was originally ordained by God and by nature. The
Supreme Author of all things so decreed that man should exercise a sort of
royal dominion over beasts and cattle and fish and fowl, but never that men
should exercise a like dominion over their fellow men. As St. Augustine puts
it: "Having created man a reasonable being, and after His own likeness,
God wished that he should rule only over the brute creation; that he should be
the master, not of men, but of beasts."
There are other relevant passages on this point, but hopefully
this will suffice for your group.
H.O.W.
Newest
heresies from Benedict XVI….
MHFM
Newsletter, Fall 2008
MHFM:
This is a letter about the recent activities of our monastery.
MHFM Fall 2008
Letter [PDF]
Comments
"Thank
you for my eternal salvation and those who I may help with God's grace."
Ed,
Staten Island, NY.
"The
Padre Pio book is the best book I have ever read." Kathy, CA.
MHFM: Thanks for the comments.
It’s not the best book, but we’re glad that you liked it and got
something out of it.
Adviser
Dear
Brothers Dimond: I wish I could find a spiritual advisor, but have
trouble trusting most priests, have difficulty talking to them. Could you
offer any suggestions?... Praying, but what else could I do? Thanks so
much. I read some of your website every day.
God
bless.
MHFM: Thanks for the question. We don’t think people need a spiritual
adviser. We think that people need to
dig into the faith and the spiritual life and get to know God. People should let God be their adviser.
In a similar vein, some other people say “if I could get away or
move to a different place, then I could really dedicate myself to God”; or “if
only I was able to relocate and get away from these bad people and influences,
I could change my life.” The fact is
that people don’t need to go anywhere to dedicate themselves to God or change
their lives. [We’re not talking here
about pursuing a religious vocation, but rather about people in general.] They can do everything they need to do to
please God and gain more graces for themselves right where they are. That’s the transcendent thing about prayer
and the Rosary. No matter where you are
– the city, the country, the jungle, the woods – you can access Heaven whenever
you choose to. No matter where a person
is he can help convert others; he can help convert himself; he can gain
tremendous graces, etc.
So we would say that the teachings of the Church and the
treasury of spiritual writings in Catholicism provide plenty of advice. We also cover many questions. So a person should, after praying for
guidance, simply employ common sense and Catholic principles to handle other
dilemmas he or she encounters. But we
strongly recommend that people make the True
Devotion to Mary explained by St. Louis De Montfort. (Important Spiritual Information [more])
Trouble
…I am having such trouble with temptations
and sins of the flesh and I dont know what to do I tried praying the rosary,
and there's no Mass I could go to. What should
I do.
MHFM: You must avoid the occasions of
sin (e.g. parties, bad shows, etc.). Consider where or what is causing
you those temptations, and cut them out if they are indeed drawing you into sin
or might be drawing you into sin.
Mark 9:42- “And if thy hand scandalize
thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having
two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire:”
You need to have a strong prayer life
and a true devotion to Mary. If you do,
and are praying the full Rosary each day, then you will get the grace to avoid
the sins of the flesh. But not everyone who says he is praying the Rosary
really is praying it. The question is:
are you really praying it and thinking about the mysteries?
Also, we hope you don't listen to
popular or rock music. If so, that's a
problem. It will shut graces out from
one’s life and move him into the spirit of the world. Spiritual reading is very important. Read the lives of the saints, the Gospels,
etc. Praying three Hail Marys for
specific intentions or graces is also very effective.
Regarding Mass, we have a section on
our site which explains that. If you
don’t have a legitimate option, then you must stay home on Sundays.
Forbidding
to Marry
How do catholics interpret 1 Timothy 4:3
(KJV) Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath
created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the
truth. Does that apply to forbidding priests to marry and not having meat on
fridays? I've also read Matthew 19:12 (KJV) which says for there are
some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs which have
made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heavens sake. He that is able to receive
it, let him receive it. Why does the catholic hurch prohibit priests from
marrying? Weren't they allowed to marry at some point? I will be looking
forward to your response.
Jamie
MHFM: We should quote the passage, so that your question is
clear to our readers:
1 Timothy 4:1-5 “Now the Spirit manifestly
saith, that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
spirits of error, and doctrines of devils, Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and
having their conscience seared, Forbidding to marry, to abstain from
meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the
faithful, and by them that have known the truth. For every creature of God is good, and
nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified
by the word of God and prayer.”
There is a very definite meaning to this passage. The passage speaks of the various dualist
sects throughout Christian history.
Examples of these were the Gnostics, the Manicheans, the Cathars (the
Albigensians), etc. These people
believed in two gods: one evil and one good.
They held that the evil god was the god of matter, and the good god the
god of the spirit. These groups
developed a theology which was destructive to all use of material things, to
more or less a degree depending upon the sect and their zeal for it. Hence, they forbade marriage, abstained from
meats, preached poverty (for to own material things was evil), etc. The most devoted would even kill themselves
to put an end to their material existence.
There is no doubt that this is what the passage is referring to,
as a careful study of Christian history will show. These types of dualist heretics popped up
again and again. They became such a
problem in the Middle Ages that the war against Cathar-dualist heretics in 1208
was called a crusade by Pope Innocent III (Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol. 3, p. 175.) So the passage is not remotely forbidding
celibacy, which the Bible clearly teaches is superior to marriage. See this file:
Refuting the
Protestant rejection of the Catholic and Biblical teaching on celibacy
You ask, why does the Church prohibit priests from
marrying? Catholic priests in the Roman
Rite are forbidden to marry because of the Bible’s teaching that the celibate
state is superior to marriage. But you
should understand that in the Eastern Rite married men can be ordained to the
priesthood, but once ordained a man cannot be married. So a celibate clergy is a disciplinary law,
but one which is rooted in doctrine and biblical truth. This discipline began to be enforced in the
early Church.
EWTN
Response
[NOTE: THIS EXCHANGE WAS IN RESPONSE TO OUR
E-EXCHANGE FROM ABOUT A WEEK AGO WHICH EXPOSED THE LATEST HERESY FROM EWTN AND
FR. GROESCHEL, WHO STATED THAT THERE SHOULD BE NON-CATHOLIC SAINTS]
Here is the response I received from EWTN,
after forwarding them one of the email questions you received in regard to EWTN
heresy... just thought you might find it of interest...
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Dear Linda,
A formal heretic is
someone who knowing that a truth of faith is revealed by God or taught with
authority by the Church nonetheless rejects it. Without such knowledge, the
rejection of a revealed truth makes a person a material heretic (someone who
holds a heresy), but not a formal heretic (one culpable before God). As Blessed
Pius IX taught,
We must hold as of
the faith, that out of the Apostolic Roman Church there is no salvation; that
she is the only ark of safety, and whosoever is not in her perishes in the
deluge; we must also, on the other hand, recognize with certainty that those
who are invincible in ignorance of the true religion are not guilty for this in
the eyes of the Lord. And who would presume to mark out the limits of this
ignorance according to the character and diversity of peoples, countries, minds
and the rest? (Allocution, December 9th, 1854).
Fr. Groeschel was
most likely thinking of this truth in suggesting that someone known for his
Christian faith and good works could be a candidate to be an example of the
Christian life. Indeed, St. Paul in his letters uses the term “saint” (Greek:
hagiois; Latin: sancti; English: saint) for the just generally, not only those
in heaven, as all the just are “holy,” having God within. Whether William Booth
was or is a “saint” in this sense, or is with God now, we cannot know. However,
a “saint” in the canonical sense is indeed an example of the complete Christian
life, including holding the fullness of the faith, participation in the
Church’s sacramental life, and communion and obedience to the Pope and the
bishops. For this reason the many good people outside the Church postulated by
Pope Pius IX would never be canonized. They may be in heaven, however.
Finally, it is
difficult to understand why anyone would listen to those who reject the living
Magisterium of the Church obliged by the First Vatican Council on all Catholics
for their salvation, in favor of self-appointed shepherds who by their own
admission reject communion with the Bishop of Rome, while making themselves the
judge of the Tradition – a role reserved to the Magisterium.
In the peace of
Christ,
Gordon
EWTN Viewer
Response
MHFM: Typical of heretics, he attempts to use one or two
passages from Pius IX. In section 16 of
our book on salvation, we have an entire discussion of these quotes. In the passage which he quotes, Pope Pius IX
is simply teaching that those who are invincibly ignorant of something are not
held guilty IN THAT MATTER. That’s
true. They aren’t damned for something
they don’t know. Rather, they are left
in ignorance of Christ and the true faith because of other mortal sins and it
is those mortal sins which damn them. So
the quote doesn’t prove the heretic’s argument at all. And it’s not even infallible anyway.
What’s interesting, however, and
further confirms the point we’re making, is that in Singulari Quadem,
after explaining how the invincibly ignorant are not held guilty in this
matter, Pope Pius IX declares that a Catholic must hold one Lord, one Faith
and one Baptism, and that it is unlawful to proceed further in inquiry! –
probably in an attempt to stem the tide of belief that one could be saved
outside the Church by “baptism of desire.”
The people who believe in salvation outside the Church almost never
quote this part of the allocution.
Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quadem: “For, in truth, when released from these corporeal
chains, ‘we shall see God as He is’ (1 John 3:2), we shall understand perfectly
by how close and beautiful a bond divine mercy and justice are united; but, as
long as we are on earth, weighed down by this mortal mass which blunts the
soul, let us hold most firmly that, in accordance with Catholic teaching,
there is ‘one God, one faith, one baptism’ [Eph. 4:5]; it is unlawful
to proceed further in inquiry.”[9][313]
Therefore, even Pope Pius IX, in the very statement wrongly quoted by the liberals
against the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation, admonishes that such theorizing about
salvation by other baptisms and other faiths is unlawful.
Finally, it’s also interesting to see (once again) how the
modernist pro-Vatican II heretics use the very same arguments as the false
traditionalist sedevacantists who love baptism of desire. That’s because they believe the same thing on
that issue. The “traditionalist”
defenders of baptism of desire in our day are really the same as the modernist
pro-Vatican II heretics on the salvation dogma.
Vatican
II word search
Dear
Brothers,
I'm
doing a word search on the Vatican II documents:
'Man'
appears 1566 times; Christ, 1319; Church, 1302; God, 1019; Faith, 668; Life,
661; Spirit, 655; Holy, 371; Father, 243; Community, 161; Earth, 153; Jesus,
118; Kingdom, 77; Heaven, 77.
And:
baptism,
66; cross 32; evil, 32; Jew, 19; forever, 9; condemn, 7; heretic, 6; devil,
5; Judgement, 4; fire, 4; immortal, 4; idol, 3; satan, 2; antichrist, 1; Islam,
1; Buddhism, 1; Hindu, 1; Infallible, 1; antichrist, 1; catechism, 1; anathema,
0; heresy, 0; schism, 0; apostate, 0; Hell, 0.
And
would you believe it, the number 6 appears 1789 times!!! The year of the French
Revolution!!! It all goes to show how diabolically manufactured the whole thing
was!
God
Bless,
Kit
White
New
Look to Website
Brothers:
I love the look of the new web site...good job.
D R
MHFM: Thanks, we’re glad you like it. There are still some modifications to be
done. There are still some sub-pages and
sub-sections that do not have the header, the navigation sections, the search
feature, etc. that one sees on our homepage.
Within a week or so every page (or almost every page) of our website
will have those things.
There is also another significant addition we plan to make to
our homepage in the coming days.
Death
Penalty
A friend showed me a pamphlet he
acquired after a NO "Mass". In it, the "Archbishop"
wrote that a "good" Catholic could vote for a candidate who supports
legalized abortion (and of course, many other abominable evils, since we all
know the demonic-idiot he is talking about) if they took preferance for a candidate's
positions on the pursuit of peace, economic policies benefiting the poor,
support for universal health care, a more just immigration policy, etc, so long
as his conscience
allowed
him to do such and that he did not specifically vote for the man
because he supported moral evils such as abortion. CAN YOU BELIEVE
THIS? IT PROVES YOU BROTHERS ARE RIGHT! Also, the Vatican II sects
anti-death penalty stance is just sick! For 2000 years, the Catholic
Church supported the death penalty, and now all of the sudden we can't? OUTRAGEOUS! Does not the True
Catholic Church 100% support the death penalty?
God Bless you dear brothers and your monastery
-Michael R.
MHFM: Yes, the Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty
can be acceptable. The position that the
death penalty must be universally outlawed is contrary to Catholic
teaching. God Himself included the death
penalty as part of His law in the Old Testament (Exodus 21, etc.). It should be pointed out that even in
Catholic states it was the civil authority, not the clergy, which was
responsible for inflicting such punishments on criminals.
To
pray in Nig.
Dear Brothers,
I am
a Nigerian and have accepted the true faith courtesy of you people
together with some of my cousins. I
live with my parents, brother, and sisters. We have talked to them on the faith
but they always argue since some people had told them before that we were
fighting and attacking the church - V 2. so they still continue to go to V
2. For some of my younger ones, i know
they would have followed me where our small group do meet on sundays and would
have also accepted the faith but for my parents whom they are still very much
under their control. Brothers, please i
want to know if praying the Angelus and our usual family night Rosary with them
( of course i always lead or my cousin who has also accepted the faith, so
mystery of light is totally out of it ) is bad?
This is because if we do not call for these prayers, they all would be
watching T.V at night and before you know go to bed so the family lacks total
devotion though my mother sometimes call for the night rosary. Little by little, i keep on telling them the
truth of the faith especially my younger ones e.g abstinence on
friday which they have adopted , why they should not say mystery of light
etc and hope that by praying with them too, our Lady would convert them on
or before their death. Please i need
your urgent reply less i am right or wrong.
BENEDICAMUS
DOMINO ---- DEO GRATIA
KENNETHMARY
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail and the
interest. We believe that you should not pray the Rosary with them, since
they still accept Vatican II. We would recommend that you try to find a
place to pray by yourself, or with those who are in full agreement. You
should kindly explain to those family members why you are not praying with
them. If they change their position, agree with you and come to the
traditional faith, then you could pray with them.
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5
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Image
of God
MHFM: Some people surely wonder what it means when the Bible
says “for man was made to the image of God” (Gen. 9:6; see also Wisdom
2:23). Does this mean that man looks
like God? How was man made to the image
of God? This has undoubtedly confused
some. The answer is found in the teaching
of St. Thomas Aquinas. He explains:
St.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. 1, Q. 91. A. 2: “Augustine says: Man’s excellence consists in the fact that God
made him to His own image by giving him an intellectual soul, which raises
him above the beasts of the field.
Therefore things without intellect are not made to God’s image.”
So it is in the fact that man has been given an intellectual
soul and intellectual powers that he is made in God’s image. God possesses those same powers which He gave
to man, but God obviously possesses them in an infinitely greater way.
Another
Story
I went to visit my younger brother and his
wife at their new home about week ago and he told me that the priest that
lives across the street from them was ordained in the early 60's-
So I went and knocked on his door and asked if he would hear my
confession...1st thing he asked me was '' Where do you go to
church?'' & I said, to the Latin Mass...He said ''Oh no, your
not caught up in all of that are you?'' I said Yes... He
asked me that even though
his own diocese
offers the Latin Mass..Anyway, we got into a 2 hour debate over Vatican II
after I told him that Im an advocate for the true mass. Then he
asked me questions such as, how many friends I had, if I had any hobbies, if I
was married, did any drugs in the past etc....HA, there you have it, I
knew immediately on why he was asking me those questions, He was trying
to find out if I was some kook, because anyone that professes One Baptism
instead of Three must be some sort of a mental case on the fringes
of society...Go figure.. He even said that he would hear a protestants
confession...I didnt receive the sacrament from him...Oh and by the way, Jesus
loves you and all what people of false faiths have to do is live their
conscience & need not convert..(according to him)- I told him I converted
after watching you DVD on Hell, in which he requested a copy in which I
forwarded to him with some of your other info..So say some prayers that he will
adhere the info...Also I said the perfect example of religious indifferentism
is John Paul II and Benedict XVI in which he replied ''Im surprised
lighting hasnt zapped you from the sky'' How sad
Steve from Wisconsin
Watching
Dear Brothers,
Thank you very much for the vast amount of information in response to my
question about the looming economic depression. I am currently watching
Money Masters and learning a great deal from it.
I will surely send a check to secure the 6 DVDs and 3 books of information. I
remember hearing about this promotion during the Alex Jones Show a few months
ago, but I have not heard the advertisement lately. I believe I have already
seen some of your documentaries on YouTube, but I would still prefer to obtain
the hard copies so that I can screen them to family and friends.
Thank you and God bless you.
Michael D.
Typical
Novus Ordo
I remember it was around this time last
year when I was new to sedevacantism and in my quest for the truth my staunchly
N.O. mother was begging me not leave "the church" and had set up a
meeting between a monsignor who would "set me straight and back on the
right road". When I met with this priest (he was a true priest as he was
validly ordained pre-v2) I began to question him about the information I had
been reading in your books, and in particular, the no salvation outside the
Church for all heretics, schismatics, Jews, Muslims, etc. His response was,
"what kind of loving God would damn these brothers of ours." For some
reason that quote of his has stuck with me, and represents the epitome of the
Vatican 2 revolution, that of replacing God with man, and putting God on the
same pedestal as false gods (demons and satan). In their earnestness not to
offend heretics and worshippers of false gods, they blaspheme God almighty.
Wake
Up
Hello,
I'd like to ask what brotherhood you belong to which might validate your
heresy? You seem to be a group of extremists, and, by definition of your
heresy, Protestant, but it's difficult to make a reasonable assumption from the
musings I've read so far.
thanks for your time and I look forward to any reply you might grant me.
MHFM: You
know nothing about the Catholic faith. If you had clue about what's going
on, you would see that the Vatican II antipopes consider Protestants part of
the Church. They praise Protestants;
they say that they can receive Communion; they have agreed with the Protestants
on Justification; etc. That's precisely why the Vatican II sect and the
Vatican II antipopes are not Catholic. You are defending
Protestantism. Wake up.
St.
John Vianney and the Protestant
“The
Curé of Ars and the Protestant – The Curé of Ars [St. John Vianney] once gave a medal to a Protestant who
visited him, who exclaimed: ‘Dear sir, you have given a medal to one who is a
heretic, at least I am a heretic from your point of view. But although we are not of the same religion,
I hope we shall both one day be in Heaven.’
The holy priest took the gentleman’s hand in his own, and giving him a look
which seemed to reach his very soul, answered him, ‘Alas! My friend, we cannot be together in Heaven,
unless we have begun to live so in this world.
Death makes no change in that. As
the tree falls so shall it lie. Jesus
Christ has said, ‘He that does not hear the Church, let him be to thee as a
heathen and a publican.’ And He said
again, ‘There shall be one fold and one shepherd,’ and He made St. Peter the
chief shepherd of His flock.’ Then, in a
voice full of sweetness, he added, ‘My dear friend, there are not two ways of
serving Jesus Christ; there is only one good way, and that is to serve Him as
He Himself wishes to be served.’ Saying
this, the priest left him. But these
words sank deeply into the… man’s heart, and led him to renounce the errors in
which he had been brought up, and he became a fervent Catholic.” (Life of the Curé of Ars; quoted in The
Catechist, G.E. Howe, Tan Books, p. 71.)
Stories
from Ireland
Hello Dimond Brothers,
I just wanted to let you know somethings about what goes on here in Ireland
with the Catholic Clergy. First off all
these things are after Vatican II. A Parish in Dublin had a beautiful Church
which had a beautiful Stone Altar with a Crucifix over it and a giant statue of
Our Lady as well on the Altar. A few years back the Parish got a new
"Priest". This "Priest" the first thing he did in the
Church was ripped the altar out and you have to understand to rip this altar
out he had to rip out the statue of Our Lady.
Everyone in the Parish even people who
didn't go to Mass objected and said it was terrible. When one man said to this Priest that what he
did was terrible the Priest replied "I don't tell you how to run your home
so don't come here and tell me what to do with my Church". My parish
"Priest" asked me why I won't go to mass. I told him because I do not support the new
Mass. When he asked why not. I said
because the Tabernacle is pushed to the side people receive Holy Communion in
hand, There are female altar servers and in fact there is a wooden table instead
of an altar. Then this Priest said there is nothing wrong with communion in
hand. So I said to the Priest so why did
the angel in Fatima tell the three children how to receive Holy Commuion. He
replied he never heard such thing. There was another case here which I
read about where the Priest put his phone number in the news paper so people
could make over the phone confessions. A
young man who my dad gave the story of what the three children of Fatima said about
hell. The young man brought the story to
the Parish Priest and asked the Priest to start warning people about Hell. The Priest said to him "God doesn't send
anyone to Hell". The young man who
was shocked at what the priest said asked "So what about Drug Dealers,
Drunkards, Rapists, Satanists, Murders and all other sinful people you can't
tell me they go to Heaven". The Priest then said "Ah they go to
Purgatory for a while"… I would just like to ask one question in the bible
it says call no man father does this mean that you only call God your Father?
because We Call Priests by Father.
MHFM: Thanks for the
e-mail. Those are some interesting
stories. The main reason that one cannot
go to the New Mass is because it’s not valid and it’s not a Catholic Mass. To your question, the Bible doesn’t forbid
calling someone “Father.” In
saying “call no man Father,” Jesus is saying that we should regard no one the
same way we regard God. There are
numerous examples of passages in the New Testament in which the term is
used. St. Stephen, who is without
question one of the greatest saints, uses the term:
Acts 7:2-
“[Stephen] said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear.”
There are many other examples, including Stephen again in Acts
7:51. The term is applied to priests in the
same way that St. Paul speaks of himself as a spiritual father to the
Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 4:15:
“For if you have ten thousand instructors
in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have
begotten you.”
UFO
book now available
MHFM:
The new book on UFOs is now available for order. The
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include shipping). We also have
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Books
question
Dear Brothers,
One writer in the E-exchanges mentions a new
book on UFOs. Could you please give me some information on this, its
availability, cost etc.
Also, I would like to know your response to
the SSPX's book "Sedevacantism: A False Solution to a Real Problem"
(Angelus Press).
I admire the important work you are doing.
Sincerely,
Stephen
MHFM: Yes, the UFO book is now
available for order here. The information
about it is also posted above.
Regarding your question about the
book on sedevacantism by the SSPX, we are familiar with it. Simply put, their book is irrelevant and
pathetic. Much of the book doesn’t even
deal with sedevacantism. The entire
first portion of it deals with the "Cassiciacum Thesis." This thesis is not sedevacantism, but rather
the idea that a pope can materially hold office but not formally. So the SSPX goes on and on about the
false and confused “Cassiciacum Thesis” – something that is not the
sedevacantist position – in a book which is supposedly about
sedevacantism. This is quite
dishonest.
It’s called a
straw man argument: when one attributes to his opponent a position which his
opponent doesn’t hold, and then refutes the position which his opponent doesn’t
hold to give the impression that he has refuted his opponent’s position. So, when people look at this book, if they
are not familiar with the issue (as many adherents of the SSPX aren’t), they
will almost certainly get confused and frustrated by the contradictory and
disordered Cassiciacum Thesis. This will
cause them to say: “The Sedevacantist position is a heap of complex,
contradictory and confused nonsense!”
Little will they know, however, that the Cassiciacum Thesis is not the
sedevacantist position! Little will they
know that the sedevacantist position is extraordinarily simple and logical: A
non-Catholic cannot be pope because a non-Catholic is not a member of the
Church, and Benedict XVI is a non-Catholic.
The book also
covers the actions of Archbishop Thuc.
This is another example of information which is not relevant to the
theological arguments at the heart of the sedevacantist issue. So, in short, the book is a typical of the
SSPX: it’s lifeless and misses the point; it bores and confuses people with an
irrelevant topic and discussion; it dishonestly uses a straw man argument to
deliberately confuse readers; and it presents nothing to refute the irrefutable
fact that the Chair of Peter is vacant – a position they illogically reject.
SSPX
[To MHFM]
I am a traditional catholic in Oregon and
my in-laws have started attending SSPX and I am wondering if there is any way
that I could receive a copy of the Angelus with the articles about the Speech
Bishop Fellay made concerning Baptism of Blood and Baptism of Desire and no
salvation outside the Catholic Church. I am trying to come up with some
good ammunition with which to fight this fight but the devil seems to be
running the show right now. I would like to obtain a hard copy but if I
could get a copy of the actual document I would appreciate that very much.
Long live the one true Catholic Church,
Chad Kosel
MHFM:
If someone really requires a hard copy of it to believe that Fellay said that,
then we would recommend obtaining a back copy of the issue. In it one will find the heresy, just as we
quoted it in this file: Bishop Fellay of the SSPX
rejects Catholic dogma by teaching that Hindus can be saved. However, they can find the same heresy,
uttered by many different authors of the SSPX, in many different books. We prove this in the following file: The
Society of St. Pius X. Thus, if your
in-laws are not convinced by the documented heresies in the book Against the Heresies (by Archbishop Lefebvre)
and the other books – books which are available at SSPX bookstores – then they
are not of good will.
Heresy
of the Week
NOTE:
The Heresy of the Week will return this Wednesday.
Saints
audio
Subject: The Bible on Praying to and
Venerating Saints
The Bible
on Praying to and Venerating Saints
This is a great lecture. Is it
possible to get the text?
Keith
MHFM: Thanks, we’re glad you liked
it. At some point we will make it
available in written form.
Sheen
and Communists
Brothers,
Regarding Archbishop Fulton Sheen; I read
Dr. Bella Dodd's book, "School of Darkness," and she states that
after she left the Communist Party, the Archbishop helped with her conversion.
The intriguing thing is that when Dr. Dodd wanted to expose the Communists
and their plans, Sheen dissuaded her from doing so. I don't know if this was
from fear or some other motive on his part. It would have been
interesting to see just how much damage this one brave woman could have done to
the Communists, had God permitted it.
I also found a poignant phrase that I
wanted to share with you from the book, Catholic Customs and Symbols;"
"The cathedral was the workshop of the
Church during the Middle Ages. It was vast because she had the whole city to
train up. It was open on all sides because she was the common mother of civil
society. It was high because she aimed at uplifting both mind and heart, and
making for them a level just below the angelical and celestial. It was manifold
in its members and elements, for she permeated all society and challenged every
activity and every interest. It was all lightsome and soaring because it was
the spiritual mountain top whence the soul could take its flight to the unseen
world of light and joy. It was long drawn out because the long journey of life
ends happily only for those who rest in Jesus. It lay everywhere cruciform on
the earth, for the shadow of the cross fall henceforth over all humanity,
blessing, enfolding, saving."
Howard
AR.
EWTN
heresy
Dear Dimond Brothers,
I just finished watching Sunday Night With
Father Groeshel on
EWTN. His guest was a "priest" (forgot his name) who is
the postulator for the "canonization" of Cardinal Cooke. A
caller called in and asked if the Catholic Church would ever consider
canonizing a non-Catholic such as Martin Luther King. The
"priest" replied that the person must be a Catholic for canonization
but it doesn't mean that there are not saints in other faiths! Father Groeshel agreed with him and what
Father Groeshel said next revealed his blatant apostasy. He said that a
good candidate for canonization is William Booth, the founder of the Salvation
Army! A Protestant heretic!
AP
MHFM: That’s quite a heresy.
It’s also what John Paul II taught in Ut Unum Sint. If that
doesn’t show someone that EWTN and similar groups are not Catholic, we don’t
know what will. Groeschel is an outrageous
apostate; he’s almost at the level of history’s notorious Protestant
“reformers.” In addition to other
astounding utterances of heresy, Groeschel has said that he “never bought” the
Church’s teaching that it’s necessary for salvation to be Catholic. The fact that EWTN continues to present Fr.
Groeschel is abominable, but it’s not surprising. They put him on because they agree with
him. Considering his beliefs, for them
to put him out there to teach “the faith” involves a major mortal sin and demonstrates
that they are a network of apostasy, despite some of the true and interesting
things they do.
“Material
Heretics”
Dear Brothers,
I'm reading the article defending
Sedevacantism. The argument that the 'popes' have been (all 4!!!) 'material
heretics' is ludicrous. Surely, the one Catholic (the Pope), who is given the
divine protection of infallibilty when teaching the universal Church on faith
and morals, cannot possibly fall into ignorance regarding heresy by that very
same power...'that thy faith fail not.' - what of all his advisors, etc.?!
God Bless,
Kit White
MHFM:
Yes, the argument is quite ridiculous.
The reasons why it’s a false argument are covered in detail in Response
to Objection 4 on page 5 of this file: Responses
to 19 of the Most Common Objections Against Sedevacantism [PDF file].
Sinner
vs. Sin
I keep hearing more recently & in the
media over & over & over again that the God loves the sinner but
hates the sin. Is this true? What bible verse says that
? I dont think there is one but the media an everyone keeps hanging their
hat on that.. Yes.. the bible it mentions many sins that the Lord hates, but
what about the following verses:
Psalm 5: 5&6 ''The
boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity. You will send
destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are
hated
by the Lord.''
Proverbs 6 : 16 & 19 ''The Lord hates a false witness and
the man who stirs up dissension among brothers.''
Steve
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
You bring up some relevant passages.
Another verse that comes to mind is Wisdom 14:9:
“But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful
alike.” (Wisdom 14:9)
So, the proper understanding of this issue is, in our opinion,
that God loves the sinner in the sense that He desires the sinner’s eternal
good: He desires the sinner to convert and gives him or her the grace to do
so. However, as the sinner is in a state
of mortal sin, the sinner is hateful to God just like his sin. That’s why, if the sinner were to die in that
hateful state, God would punish the mortal sinner eternally in Hell.
Economy
Dear Brothers,
I understand that neither of you profess to be financial experts, but I see a
looming economic collapse in the U.S. having some spiritual significance. I see the forthcoming
depression as being a much-deserved chastisement for this country's anti-family,
anti-God, anti-freedom and anti-life legislation. I see an economic, global
meltdown as another sign that we are in the end-times and on the eve of the
anti-Christ's terrible reign.
We see the Federal Reserve consolidating Bear Stearns, Fannie-Freddie and AIG,
the DOW plunging more than 300 points, the dollar hitting an all-time low and
Americans starting to make bank runs. Do you believe that a Great Depression is
imminent in the U.S.?
Again, I know you are not financial analysts, but as I greatly value your
truthful perspectives on the crisis in the Church, I would also value your opinion on these current economic
events.
Thank you and God bless you.
Michael Dougherty
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
For some years now, in the “WATCH OUR DVDS ONLINE”
section of our site, we’ve had a video and an audio lecture dealing with that
issue. We believe that those
presentations answer the question concerning what’s going on in the economic
arena. Those presentations are at the
same time fascinating and frightening.
One can see them on our “Watch our DVDs” page, but below we’ve copied
the links and our description of them:
----------------------------
The Money Masters (3 hr. 35 min
video)
This
is a link to a fascinating and important two-part video presentation
called: The Money Masters: how international bankers gained control over
America. On this topic there is
also the excellent lecture by G. Edward Griffin below. Some may find this lecture below better as an
introduction to this topic. It is
certainly powerful and frightening, though it doesn’t cover the history and
many other important points covered in The
Money Masters. Both of them are
worth watching/listening to.
The Creature from
Jekyll Island: Audio Lecture on the Federal Reserve (1 hr. 13 min. audio) – need a real player for this one
"G.
Edward Griffin exposes the most blatant scam of all history. It’s all here: the
cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. It's just
exactly what every American needs to know about the power of the central
bank."
While
these excellent presentations obviously don’t deal with a strictly spiritual
topic, and therefore are not necessary to know for salvation as the spiritual
truths are, they are definitely worth watching. This issue has also been addressed by popes,
as we will see below. The Money Masters video and The Creature from Jekyll Island audio
expose the Federal Reserve System. The Federal
Reserve System – and this is sure to be a shock and even a jaw-dropper to those
unfamiliar with some of this information – is actually a private bank that creates America’s money out of nothing and
charges interest on top of it!
It constitutes one of the biggest secular scams in all of history. (By the way, former Chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan, is Jewish.
The current chairman, Ben Bernanke, is also Jewish.) This private bank, deceptively called the
Federal Reserve System, essentially runs America; and the money masters have
used their power, influence and deceit to get the leaders of other countries to
accept similar arrangements. The video quotes
many prominent politicians who admit that the international bankers constitute
an invisible government; these politicians also admit that the bankers control
the majority of newspapers.
As
The Money Masters video presentation
so effectively shows, understanding the
money masters and how they gained control of the world’s finance is the key to
understanding major events in American history. It uncovers the real reason for the
Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln,
President Garfield, etc. It also covers
the rise of the Jewish Rothschild banking dynasty, the most powerful family in
the world, and the incredible way that it came to take control of England’s
central bank. The Rothschild family was
said to hold half of the wealth of the world by the end of the 19th
century. This corresponds to the assessment
of Pope Pius XI.
Pope Pius XI, Caritate Christi compulsi (#3), May 3, 1932: “… the wealth of nations is heaped up in
the hands of a very few private men, who – as We warned you last year,
in Our Encyclical Letter Quadragesimo anno – control the trade of the whole world at their will, thereby doing
immense harm to the people.”
This
video presentation reveals that, since the money masters have such power over
the money supply, they can create wars and depressions (the latter by
tightening the money supply). These
created recessions and depressions are used to threaten and/or punish
governments if they resist the international bankers aims to take control of
their money supply. In other words, they
are used to get countries to submit to the central-bank-in-private-hands
system. The quotations from Pius XI
above and below confirm the accuracy of the message contained in The Money Masters.
Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno (#106), May 15, 1935: “This dictatorship is being
most forcibly exercised by those who, since
they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the
lending of money. Hence they regulate the flow, so to speak,
of the life-blood whereby the entire economic system lives, and have so
firmly in their grasp the soul, as it were, of economic life that no one can
breathe against their will.”
These
presentations are not only a history lesson, but will change the way one looks
at the world.
Thank
you
I thank you, I love your website looking
through and learning something every time I go to your website. I grew up as
baptist not liking to go to church knowing that it wasnt real but i knew about
God and prayed and always wondered what the Catholic religion was about. I did
not really now why I was so drawn to the religion, but I knew there was
something great about it. I was about 13 or 14 when I went to a
"catholic" church (it was novus ordo, I knew there was something
wrong but I still wanted to learn more) a few years went by I was 18 and had
friends that took me to church and taught me about mass and how great god was.
I met a traditional catholic man… I have been baptized and trying to be a good
catholic. So thank you for putting together a website that teaches real
traditional ethics and lessons.
God Bless
Jennifer
Mortal
Sin
MHFM,
A question from another site asks; "Is it true that not knowing certain
creeds/prayers constitutes mortal sin?" One of the replies was,
"In my daily missal (1957) from Laverty & Sons, Leeds, UK - it says it
would be a mortal sin for any Christian not to know the Pater, Ave, Gloria and
Credo and their basic meanings in substance."
Would you expand on this?
God Bless,
Tom
MHFM: Yes, traditional Catholic teaching is that to be gravely
neglectful of one’s duties before God, such as to learn the basics at one’s
disposal, is to commit mortal sin.
Similarly, if a person goes without any prayer for some time that, by
itself, would be considered a mortal sin.
Besides, one who would go without any prayer for some time would
certainly fall into other mortal sins.
Frequently we hear from adult professing Catholics who don’t
know the basics about the Catholic faith, even though they have claimed to be
Catholics for decades. It’s one thing if
they don’t know but are ready to learn and increase their spiritual
intensity. In other words, if they’re
ready to change, that’s great. But
frequently, even though they have slothfully not learned or done almost
anything to deeper their knowledge of the faith they claim to possess, they
arrogantly insist they know the Catholic faith and refuse to hear the
truth. That pride – a spiritual
blindness – has arisen as a result of years of living in mortal sin. This is the mortal sin of neglecting one’s
duties before God: to learn the faith, practice the faith and spread the
faith.
Book
and FM
Dear MHFM
Am anxiously awaiting the UFO book....
Lots of great comments. Right.
Freemasonry is not the only issue. The real issue is sin. Freemasonry
is simply the leader of the one world government issue and they make use of
everything anti-Christ. Protestantism was not a Freemason's idea but it
serves them well. Everything sinful serves their cause to destroy the
Catholic Church. They've already set up our Catholic Churches into
Masonic temples and thrown out all they can get away with that's
Catholic. It's only a matter of time.
If Catholics had recognized this false
church when the first table was placed in front of our altars, and walked out,
they could have not succeeded as well as they have. It was us, the V2
false Catholics who helped and who help Freemasonry and it's demonic goals.
PM
New
Audio: The Bible on Praying to Saints
MHFM:
This is an important new audio on the Bible’s teaching on praying to and
venerating saints.
The Bible on Praying to and Venerating Saints [New 53 min. audio]
This
audio contains powerful evidence. It
covers this important issue from new angles and with unique points. In addition to covering the biblical basis
for the communion of saints, this audio covers the Bible’s teaching on
venerating relics, images and statues.
This has been added to our: Refuting Protestantism and Eastern
"Orthodoxy" * Audio Programs.
Last
Days
Dear
MHFM I just wanted to share some thoughts with you on the
last days. I am convinced we are right now living in the time just
before the second coming of christ and the final judgment. we are in the last
days. there is just too much evil and sin in the world. and all the signs
that christ warned in scripture are coming to pass, and also from true
approved apparitions and prophecies. dont follow or believe false
apparitions and prophecies not approved by church they are probably
from the devil. all we need is sacred scripture, public revelation, apostolic
tradition, teachings of early church fathers, and private revelations and
prophecies that have been approved by legitimate authority. these are the only
sources we can completely trust...
sincerly mark
MHFM: We don’t disagree with your comments.
Saints
and Vatican II
Hi! I am wondering how one should see the
saints that died after Vatican 2 like Theresa Neumann or Padre Pio or
other saints, if they were saints why didnt they oppose or expose the heresy of
Vatican 2? If they didnt see it, how could they be saints? These are questions
that haunt my conscience! Please help!
MHFM: With regard to Theresa Neumann, she died in 1962. This was before Vatican II really got
started. But we’re not sure about her
anyway. With regard to Padre Pio, he
died in 1968. It was early on in the
Vatican II apostasy. Further, even
Catholic saints and holy men don’t know everything. Some people are under the false impression
that they do. Certain saints, such as
St. Vincent Ferrer, mistakenly followed antipopes: i.e., men who claimed to be
popes but had not been validly elected.
Saints can make mistakes, but they cannot be heretics.
There is no proof that Padre Pio was a heretic. He was simply unaware of the full scope of
what occurred at Vatican II. Thus, we
don’t see any problem with the notion that Padre Pio is among the saints in
Heaven, but he obviously has not been canonized by a true pope.
Jesus
and God
MHFM: This e-mail is from a person questioning the Divinity of
Jesus Christ. He is asking How Jesus can
be God, yet have a God and a Father.
(Ephesians 1:3) 3 Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,. . .
does Jesus have a father and does Jesus
have a God?
(Revelation 3:12) . . ."‘The
one that conquers—I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will
by no means go out [from it] anymore, and I will write upon him the name of my
God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which descends out of
heaven from my God, and that new name of mine.
MHFM: Yes, that’s the profound truth and the mystery of the
Incarnation. Jesus is God, yet He is
also true man. He has a Father and a
God, while also being God. As God (in His
divine nature) He is equal to the Father.
But as man (in His human nature) He is less than the Father. That’s why we see passages such as John
14:28, where Jesus says that the Father is “greater than I.” But the Scriptures also clearly indicate that
Jesus is God: “Thomas answered and said
to him: My Lord, and my God”
(John 20:28). There is much more evidence on this point in
this file:
Where does the
Bible teach that Jesus is God?
Hence, understanding that JESUS IS ONE DIVINE PERSON with two natures
(divine and human) clears away any trouble in understanding those passages
which you cite. A proper comprehension
of Catholic dogma makes understanding this issue so much easier. The perspicacity of the Catholic magisterium
is truly remarkable. Concerning an issue
which has tripped up so many heretics throughout history (e.g., Arians,
“Jehovah’s Witnesses,” etc.), the Catholic magisterium cuts through the fog by
its precise definitions which illuminate the teaching of Scripture. These definitions demonstrate the divine
protection the Catholic Church receives in its teaching office. Errors on the Incarnation, which have been
the special object of the condemnation of Catholic councils, are made even more
dangerous by the fact that they are propped up by misused passages from
Scripture. Without the Church’s
guidance, one can fall into a pit of misunderstanding and false interpretation
on these passages.
Pope
St. Leo the Great, Council of Chalcedon,
451, ex cathedra: “… we all with one
voice teach the confession of one and same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same
perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man,
of a rational soul and a body; consubstantial
with the Father as regards his divinity, and the same consubstantial with us as
regards his humanity… one and same Christ… a single person and subsistent
being; He is not parted or divided into two persons, but is one and the same
only-begotten Son, God, Word, Lord Jesus Christ…”
V-2
Seminaries
Hello Bro Dimond,
I want to thank you for all the research
you have put together on this subject. The contradictions of Vatican-II are
very plain to see.
I used to be a seminarian in 2 Catholic
prep schools back in the late 1970's (at St. John Vianney Seminary in Richmond
VA, and then at St. Joseph Prep Seminary in Parkersburg, WV), both of which
were minor seminaries which have since been closed down.
St John's was considered a liberal
seminary, even by the Bishop of the Richmond diocese who shut it down back in
1978 (there was "liturgical dancing" and rock music during mass, and
also, it was rather difficult to tell it was a seminary... Some of us from St.
John's then went to St Joseph's, which was much more conservative (and remained
open until about the mid 80's). At St. Joseph's I wasn't as conservative as
some students who had thought seminarians should wear a cassock & surplus.
But there was one priest (Fr. Claro) who many of us believed to be gay, and we
didn't have to be conservative to notice it. Fr. Claro was very effeminate, and
a few students who were known to be gay seemed to have an affinity towards him… and with the recent gay-priest scandals that broke out
between 2002-2005, I wasn't surprised that it would eventually surface somehow.
I just never knew it was that bad until it all came out….
Your
brother in Christ Jesus our God & Savior.
Tony
Iglesias
Answer
Dear Brothers: I am shocked and bewildered
to say the least that my soul is not capable of protecting itself from a diabolical
trap set by satan himself self with the help of men who claim to be
catholic but destroy any vestige of hope for us the sedavacentist (spelling) by
the stroke of diabolical infusion of John 23d, Anti-Pope Paul 6th,and ensuing
popes all anti-traditionalists.
I for one not to mention my loved ones who
are either not aware or are not willing to listen to me a nut. However, none
the less, I cry for their souls as I do for mine. You see they are subjected to
what I am also subjected to and that is no church no sacrament and after 76 and
the idiot apostate Paul IV destroying the priesthood by bogus consecration with
most of the validly ordained priests dying away, no church no salvation. Now
the question is: how do we survive and burn our way into heaven? There is no
way or avenue is there? You wonder why I am scared of loosing my soul? There
has to be a way, God would not allow us to fester here on this earth without a
way for those of us who see the destruction. I saw this coming since 1960. I
never knew of Cardinal Siri until now and the illegal methods used to destroy
the appointment. I personally saw white smoke
and I wondered why but was never told. The Masons installed John the mason and the
other apostates.
Saint Pius X, Society of Saint Joseph and
others no good if they adhere to the apostate non-catholic Popes. You see, this
leaves us nothing not to mention that even the validly ordained priests will be
extinct in a few years then where does it leave us-no mass and more important
no EUCHARIST. I traveled several miles to go to confession and at least if
ordained before 76 I am absolved at least clear of the devils grip. And when I
die, will I be able to receive anointing properly before death? This is more
than scary it is devastating.
The crucified Christ has been abandoned and
the average catholic does not know it and those of us who do are not left with
a church we can go to and keep our faith. If one does not have a place to go
and receive valid Bread and Wine, then all is lost for us and we lose our faith
all together as we cannot keep up the good fight without the support of the
Church which now does not exist.
Can you tell those of us who are desperate
the answer? That is the question which trumps all the other…God the Savior of
all who love and revere Him await His Divine Help. Could you please give
guidance or advise? Thanks and God Bless.
Lou M.
MHFM: It's not true that the Church
doesn't exist. It exists, and it will always exist. It's heretical
to say that it doesn't. Going to a church is normally something one can
do, but it's false to say that all hope is lost if you have nowhere to go to
church on Sunday. In certain periods of Church history there were
Catholics who had nowhere to go to Mass.
Further, if a person is convinced and has made a traditional profession
of faith, there should be a place to make a good confession. Where to go to Mass or
confession today?
Regarding advice, we would say that
you must be totally convinced of the faith; return to and stay in the state of
grace; pray the full 15-decade rosary each day (if you can); dedicate yourself
more energetically to the spiritual life and to the study of Catholicism.
Really cultivate a true devotion to the Hail Mary and the Rosary. Keep your faith active by evangelizing and
spreading the information to others.
This shows charity – a concern for others. Try to learn more. Avoid the occasions of sin. Those are a few quick things we would mention
on the matter of guidance and what one should do.
Debate
Dear MHFM,
I concur with you on Freemasonry being ONE
of the evils, there are countless others. One item I see with FreeMasonry
is it's infiltration along many aspects of life today, not just within the
church but within government and other areas of political focus. I also
agree that by focusing on just one aspect one could loose sight of the
real importance, faith and devotion. I had the opportunity to listen to
your debate with Mr. Golle. This was truly eye opening as he consistently
centered around one item and returned to it over and over. The fact that
how would one know when a valid Pope was elected and who would do the
electing. This was his ONLY rebuttal. The item he seemed to miss on
most clearly was heresy by deed. Even if you eliminate ALL the quoted
passages, simply look at the actions of these individuals. It is more
than clear in this alone. Has he ever come back for a future debate with
you?.....my guess would be no.
God Bless,
Bruce Knapp
MHFM: Yes, and even on that point, he was completely wrong. As we pointed out, there are numerous
historical examples where it’s not clear precisely when or how many electors
were involved in the election of the true pope.
Rather, the election was simply acknowledged at some point by the
Catholic clergy of Rome. The same
process could apply to a future valid election.
Thus, his only argument was refuted; and, of course, he had no response
whatsoever to any of heresies of the Vatican II antipopes, including those in
deed (as you mentioned).
Has he ever debated us since that time? Yes, we had a debate on whether Vatican II
teaches that non-Catholics may receive Holy Communion. He argued vigorously that Vatican II does not
teach that non-Catholics may receive Holy Communion. As any honest person who hears the debate can
tell, such a position is nonsense. You
can listen to the debate here:
Debate: does Vatican II teach that
non-Catholics may lawfully receive Holy Communion? [39 min. audio – June 2, 2008]
After the debate, Golle wrote to us and reversed his
position. He now admits that Vatican II
does allow non-Catholics to receive Holy Communion. He now admits that what we argued for in the
debate is correct. But he thinks that
Vatican II’s teaching, that non-Catholics may receive Holy Communion, is
fine. But it’s actually heretical.
Golle has also offered to debate us on baptism of desire. He’s the only person who has been willing to
debate us on that matter. We have
challenged many prominent sedevacantists; none of them have been willing. If that remains the case, then we will debate
Golle on the matter. But we really
wanted to debate one of the sedevacantist heretics, rather than a pro-Vatican
II heretic like Golle. This is because
in a debate with a sedevacantist who believes in baptism of desire certain
issues – the proper understanding of which is critical to holding the true
Catholic faith in our times – will come up and be emphasized. These issues might not come up or be
emphasized in a debate with a pro-Vatican II heretic. It’s very important that these issues and
principles, which would be raised by a sedevacantist baptism of desire
supporter, come up in a debate on the topic.
For when they do, many sedevacantists who believe in baptism of desire
will (or, at least, should) see just how wrong they have been in applying
certain principles and making certain arguments. That’s critically important. That’s why we’re really looking for a debate
discussion with a sedevacantist who believes in baptism of desire.
UFO
book
hi,
was wondering if the ufo book is available
yet?
MHFM: The new book on UFOs should be available for order this
week.
Library
sale
Mhfm,
My Library is having a book sale on November 1 and needs DVD and book donations.
I immediately thought of your books and DVDs to give them. The library will
though be trying to make money. It might give a lot more people the
chance to see the faith. Is it okay If I let them resell your
material for profit?
Kenneth C.
MHFM: That’s fine.
Hopefully they will get circulated.
Fasting
MHFM,
Would you explain or direct me to the info for Fasting and abstinence. As
I've heard Fasting should be done on Wednesday and Friday, Saturday for our
Mother Mary, and Monday for others.
Thank you,
Tom
MHFM:
Yes, certain days of the year are days of fasting. You can find the laws of fasting and
abstinence explained, together with the traditional Catholic calendar, in this
file: Traditional Catholic Calendar and Fast Days.
Tapes
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery, I love to
listen to your tapes while I work. Even when I'm busy I hope they give me a
good kind of… message. My favorites are : "Hell and the Brown
Scapular" and "Death and the Journey Into Hell".
Thank you
T
Convinced
and Freemasonry
Dear Brother Dimond,
God Bless you, not only for the information I have received from your
website and within your materials (I have been reading the books and watching
the DVD's) but also the ability to tear away the veil that has kept me blind
for sooo long. I can now truly say that I renounce the Vatican II church
along with it's false Pope's (most recent being John XXIII, Paul 6, John
Paul II, and Benedict XVI). I will never again attend the Novus
Ordo mass and have taken the "Profession of Catholic Faith for
Converts" in the back of your book "What really happened to the
Catholic Church after Vatican II"?. I am praying the rosary every day
and working towards the 15 decades. I believe firmly that
"outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation". My next
steps are to find a priest that was ordained prior to 1968 and confess my sins,
an all encompassing confession as I am not sure if my past confessions were
valid since I cannot be sure of when the priests were ordained. I am also
working on trying to find a church and priest that hold to the above statements
as well (I realize this may be difficult).
On some general observances, I have also read much on FreeMasonry in the past
to learn of this vile religion... It seems quite obvious to me that
FreeMasonry is the true evil that seeks to destroy Christianity. Their
worship of Lucifer (the light) and all the monuments that are being constructed
for his "coming". I have listened to your overviews of this on
your programs but was wondering if you had more insight. Now that I am
aware of it it seems to be everywhere!......
Once again, God Bless you and the Monastery for all that you are doing.
The site is incredible and I find myself spending more and more time just
wanting to "catch up". There is so much there......
God Bless,
Bruce K.
MHFM: Thanks for the
e-mail. It’s very encouraging to hear
about your interest. Freemasonry is one
evil; it’s just one aspect of the Devil’s plan.
It’s definitely important to be aware of it and to expose it, as we
do. We’re not saying that you feel this
way, but some people out there tend to see everything with relation to
Freemasonry. They make the battle
between good and evil essentially the battle against Freemasonry, as if forces
pro and con Freemasonry define everything.
That would be a huge mistake.
When people do that, they often lose focus of the Gospel, the matters of
faith, and the real spiritual evils (e.g., heresy, mortal sin, immorality,
etc.). Freemasonry is only one of these
evils – albeit a significant one, especially when it comes to matters of modern
states and the political structure.
Reconnected
Dear
Brothers,
I have
a question regarding religious images. Is it ok to have Russian or Greek
Orthodox images in the home? I ask this because on some websites selling
religious items they sell these - I don't want to assume they are ok just
because a "Catholic" website sells them that this means they are
acceptable.
Thank
you for your the information you have made available through your website, it
has reconnected me with the church that I thought was dead and gone… I was
recommended this site by a friend.
Thank
you.
Jim
MHFM; Thanks for the e-mail.
Perhaps you mean Eastern rite icons or Byzantine art or images and icons
of Eastern Christianity. Yes, if they
are Eastern images or icons of Jesus, Mary or a Catholic saint, and they seem
traditional, they would be good to have.
They wouldn’t be Russian or Greek “Orthodox” images because that which
is Russian or Greek “Orthodox” indicates an affiliation with those schismatic
sects which reject the Papacy. The
members of those sects do use the traditional images of Eastern Christianity,
but the images themselves are not affiliated with and do not represent their
schismatic sects.
New
Audio on Carroll
MHFM:
This is a new, short audio discussion of an outrageous heresy. The heresy comes from the well-known “conservative
Catholic” historian named Warren H. Carroll.
Carroll was the founder and former president of “conservative”
Christendom College. The audio is a
brief analysis of the heresy with some related comments on intellectual pride,
impurity of intention, and other things.
Audio on an outrageous heresy of Warren H. Carroll [12 min. audio]
Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol. 3 (The Glory of Christendom), p. 340: “[He quotes Pope Boniface VIII’s
Bull, Unum Sanctam] ‘… We declare, we
proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every
human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.’
“[Carroll says] The great problem with this document comes in the last sentence,
the last and worst example of Pope Boniface VIII’s tendency to overstate. The rest of it is a clear, forthright, and
effective exposition of the Hildebrandine doctrine of the place of the Pope in
Christendom. But the last sentence
sounds like a claim of universal sovereignty, temporal as well as spiritual,
and also – though this was not an issue at the time, more than two hundred
years before the appearance of Protestantism – a solemn declaration that only
practicing Catholics can be saved. In
fact Pope Boniface VIII, as we have seen, had explicitly repudiated any claim
to be a temporal ruler outside the Papal state in this very year 1302, and
there is nothing whatever to indicate that he was even thinking of the doctrinally
separate question of the salvation of persons who are not practicing
Catholics. Rather he was addressing
those in almost universally Catholic western, central, and northern Europe who
might willfully refuse obedience to the Pope despite fully understanding the
nature of the office he held and his supreme authority in the spiritual
realm.”
Not
heresy?
To whom it may concern,
I reviewed your article and I believe you
overlooked something. “Protestantism” refers to any number of various sects
that have broken away from Rome. In that sense, you are a protestant. Realizing
that to assert that would be ridiculous, I move on. Is Protestantism
technically a heresy, or is it schism, or what? There is a great difficulty in
identifying the one heresy that all protestants share in common, they are so
opposed to one another in their own beliefs that it is almost impossible to
single out anything. So, I would like to know how Ratzinger’s conclusion that “Protestantism today is something different
from heresy in the traditional sense, a phenomenon whose true theological place
has not yet been determined” Referring to Protestantism as the summation of
all heresies is a flawed identification, they are not heretics in every regard,
so I fail to see why his classification of what Protestantism is today is
flawed.
What makes him a heretic?
In Christ,
Dan Henson
MHFM: No, sir, you are completely wrong. A heretic is a person who rejects a teaching
of the Catholic Church. You don’t seem
to understand that fact. Protestants
reject teachings of the Catholic Church, in case you didn’t know. They reject Catholic sacraments; they reject
dogmatic councils; they reject papal dogmas; they reject dogmas about Our Lady;
etc. That makes all Protestants
heretics, most of them on more than one issue.
They are Protestants because they do not accept or agree with all the
teachings of the Catholic Church.
Protestantism refers
to the general belief system exhibited by the collection of sects which broke
away from the Catholic Church and which reject teachings of the Catholic
Church. Protestantism is, therefore,
without any question heretical/heresy, and Protestants are heretics. Thus, for Benedict XVI to say that
Protestantism is not heresy is to say that the movement of thousands of sects
which reject Catholic teaching, dogmatic councils, certain sacraments, etc. is
not heresy. That’s clearly an outrageous
heresy. So, frankly, your comments are absurd. Any honest person who has a level of fidelity
to Catholic truth can recognize that.
However, honest people are unfortunately in short supply today.
Since Protestants typically reject Vatican I, the papal primacy
and the authority of the true popes, they are also schismatic. You are the Protestant heretic and the
justifier of Protestants, not us.
Pope Pius XI, Rerum omnium perturbationem (#4), Jan. 26, 1923: “The saint was no
less a person that Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the
Universal Church. Like those brilliant
examples of Christian perfection and wisdom to whom We have just referred, he seemed to have been sent especially by
God to contend against the heresies begotten by the [Protestant] Reformation. It is in these heresies that we
discover the beginnings of that apostasy of mankind from the Church, the
sad and disastrous effects of which are deplored, even to the present hour, by
every fair mind.”
Jungle
Argument
Dear MHFM
The Jungle argument is hilarious and I find
it hard to believe I actually used this argument myself as a V2
"Catholic".
If God can't reach his people in the jungle
who love and want to know the truth, then God can't do much of
anything else and we are left to our own devices.
MHFM: Well, once a Catholic becomes familiar with the dogmatic
teaching of the Church on salvation (e.g., the ex cathedra pronouncements), if
he still insists on that kind of objection then he has a big problem. He has a big problem because his resistance
on that point shows that he has a major problem with supernatural faith and
submission to God’s revelation.
Confession
If I've committed mortal sin and have
nowhere to go for confession then what should I do? Should I ask God for
forgiveness? Are there any specific prayers I must say?
Also does it matter for one's salvation if one was baptized by a novus ordo
"priest"?
Thanks, Richard
MHFM:
You should make an Act of Contrition, if you have not
done so. Further, to be forgiven without
confession one needs to have perfect contrition plus the desire to go to
confession. But there should be a priest
you can find, who is valid, who can hear your confession. On that issue, consult Where
to go to Mass or confession today?.
Zambia
interest
Bro. Micheal Dimond,
I honestly came across your web site by
accident. However, I got interested immediately with what I read about the
great apostasy, traditional catholic, and many other things.
I am a Roman Catholic since birth and my
parents were also Catholic. I am 52 years old. The information I came accross
were quite new to me. Especially about Vatican II and thereafter. Naturally, I
thought I some get some more details. Hence my writing to you.
To start with, your video called
"Abortion, Rock Music and Freemasonary" is very interesting and
highly educative that made me so unhappy and made me resolve to help the youth
and GOD fearing Catholic to fight it at all cost. The death and resurrection of
LORD Jesus Christ should not be allowed to be diluted by such abomination as
you revealed. Keep up this revelation. It is very important that the true
picture is made known.
I had wanted to download the video,
unfortunately I failed. Could you send me a copy of the video.
I am looking forward to hear from you and
best regards.
ABTONE TEMBO
ZAMBIA
Savages
and Invincible Ignorance
Dear
Brothers,
I
was discussing about the dogma "Outside the Catholic Church there is no
salvation" with a friend. My friend asked, then are the savages in
the jungle damned? How do I answer this?
God
bless and thank you
Alex
MHFM: As our book ► Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf file] covers in much detail, the Catholic Church teaches that
those who die in ignorance of the Gospel are lost. If they died in ignorance of Christ and
without water baptism, it’s because they were not of good will. Thus, you respond to the person by pointing
out that the Church and Jesus Christ teach that knowing the essential mysteries
of the Gospel (the Trinity and Incarnation) is necessary for all people above
reason, and that all who die without that knowledge are not saved. Such people were left in ignorance because of
their mortal sins and bad will. That’s
Catholic teaching.
Since you mentioned the savages, the
first thing that comes to mind is the quote from St. Isaac Jogues below. He was the amazing 16th century
missionary to the North American heathen.
This quote is also particularly relevant because a baptism of desire
advocated actually argued just recently that our lengthy quotes from St. Isaac
Jogues and St. Francis Xavier (the extraordinary missionary to Asia) do not
prove that these missionaries did not believe in invincible ignorance. Such an idea is absurd, of course. The quote below is sufficient to prove our
point:
St. Isaac Jogues: “Although, in all probability, I could escape [from
the Iroquois] either through the Europeans or through the other savages living
around us, if I should wish it, I decided to live on this cross on which Our
Lord had fixed me in company with Himself, and to die with His grace helping
me… Who could instruct the prisoners who
were being constantly brought in? Who
could baptize them when they were dying, and strengthen them in their
torments? Who could pour the sacred
waters on the heads of the children? Who
could look after the salvation of the adults who were dying, and after the
instruction of those in good health? Indeed,
I believe that it happened not without a singular providence of the Divine
Goodness, that I should have fallen into the hands of these very savages… These savages, I must confess, unwillingly
and reluctantly have thus far spared me, by the will of God, so that thus through me, although
unworthy, they might be instructed, they might believe, and be baptized,
as many of them as are preordained for
eternal life.”[10]
This clearly shows that St.
Isaac rejected invincible ignorance. His
whole life shows it, as any honest person who has studied it knows. St. Isaac knew that those heathen who did not
come to know the Catholic Faith, but remained ignorant of it, simply were not
preordained for eternal life. As
Catholics, of course, we don’t believe as the heretic John Calvin, who held a
predestination according to which no matter what one does he is either
predestined for heaven or hell. That is
a wicked heresy. Rather, as Catholics we
believe in the true understanding of predestination, which is expressed by St.
Isaac Jogues and Romans 8. This true
understanding of predestination simply means that God’s foreknowledge from all
eternity makes sure that those who are of good will and are sincere will be
brought to the Catholic faith and come to know what they must – and that those
who are not actually brought to the Catholic faith and don’t know what they
must were not among the elect. Many other
quotes from St. Isaac Jogues and St. Francis Xavier all indicate the same
thing, despite what some heretical liars contend.
Culture
of Death
Regarding an earlier e-exchange someone
wrote of Paul6's quotation about the smoke of satan having entered the church. On
the heels of that statement, I'd like to also add anti-pope JP2's infamous
declaration of ours being a "culture of death". The same pro-NFP,
pro-communist, pro-NWO, pro-satanic anti-pope JP2 has the audacity to make such
a statement. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Make no mistake, this
is a tactic that has been used time and time again by Freemasons and the
powerful elite, known as "hoodwinking". And yet the masses fall for
it because they have no love of the truth.
Spiritual
Struggles
Dimond Brothers,
At the very end of your exorcism audio
involving Analiese, you well remind us of the malice of mortal sin and that
everyone should do their utmost to avoid it.
In this light I believe it would do us all
well to share our experiences, successes and failures, in resisting temptation.
Since there are fewer and fewer faithful priests who understand the gravity of
our current situation (in part due to the fact that their apostasy has made
them more ministers of Satan than ministers of God), we must allow the Holy
Spirit to guide us into the Life, Truth and Way of Christ.
I am suggesting that you have a special
e-mail category on your website where people are encouraged to share their
spiritual struggles, successes and failures, with regard to their attempts to
successfully detach from Satan, the world and the flesh.
We may be able to help one another in ways
too few priests can truly help in the confessional today.
Although Satan, the world and the flesh
sometimes interact, you can through discernment of Spirit see where the primary
source is. For example, religious indifferentism is of Satan; notions of one
world government is both Satan and the world; fornication and masturbation and
pornography would be both Satan and the flesh.
It is absolutely terrifying the extent to
which Satan controls our world through his minions to the extent that he has
deceived us into thinking that he has nothing at all to do with the so-called
terrorism that we are sacrificing our Christian soldiers to defeat. It is
almost as if all governments together with the apostate Church and all other
false religions are in the grip of the devil and are ministering to him rather
than to Christ our Risen Lord.
It would be great comfort to me and I am sure
to others to have some place through e-mail communication on your website to
discuss our everyday struggles with Satan, the world and the flesh.
If one soul is saved through this effort,
it would be well worth it. My hope is that millions of souls could be saved.
Yours in Christ,
James K.
MHFM:
We appreciate the sentiments, and we do post e-mails of this sort. If one is speaking of people’s struggles in
and out of mortal sin, we must point out that a true Catholic who is serious
about his/her salvation should not be falling into mortal sin. One who is serious about saving his/her soul
must break from mortal sin. Certainly
the Sacrament of Penance is there for people who are converting to the
traditional faith and changing their lives.
But I guess the point we’re making here is you sometimes here priests,
especially those in the Novus Ordo, say things like: “I love it when people
come to me and confess the same sin over and over again. It shows their confidence in the sacrament
and God’s mercy.” We heard a
“conservative” priest on EWTN make that statement. If we’re talking about mortal sin (the priest
made no distinction), then that’s a terrible statement. People should not be confessing the same
mortal sin over and over because that means that they have not broken from
it. It means that they have not
demonstrated the firm purpose of amendment that they need to make a good
confession. If one is talking about venial
sins, then it’s a different story, even though one should also try to avoid
them. But Catholics who are falling into
mortal sin are not yet serous about their salvation.
Protestant
Lie
Brothers,
I was perusing a website as I was looking
up info on "The Great Raid," an American rescue operation of
P.O.W.'s in 1945 that was made into a movie a few years ago.
Now in this war movie, one of the U.S.
Rangers has a picture of Mary and he says to another soldier, "we're going
to need a little miracle." I happened upon a website in connection
with "Focus On The Family," a protestant organization as you are
aware. I was browsing through their screening of the different aspects of
this film. But in their preview, it states that the soldier has a picture of
Jesus, not Mary. An utter, bare-faced lie!!!
I saw the movie in the theatre and I have
it on disc, and there is no mistake.
The Catholic and Marian flavor of
the movie, along with a re-enactment of a rescue of my dad's P.O.W.
buddies at this death camp (my dad was at a different camp)
prompted me to read a little book gathering dust called "The Glories of
Mary." Within a year, I stopped attending the novus ordo sect's service.
I am eternally in debt to the Holy Spirit
and to Mary for converting me to the true faith, and may the Holy Spirit
and the Mother of God convert those at Focus On The Family as I was.
Sincerely,
Howard
AR.
MHFM: That’s interesting; thanks for the e-mail.
Damned
Souls
I read
Annilse Michelles Exorcism and it said Baal,Lucifer,Beezlebub,Judas and Hitler Possesed
her.Can the sould of a damned Human like Hitler take possesion of sombody?Then
in an exorcism called warnigs from beyond it says that Judas was in the
person.By the way if you havn't read the exorcism Warnigs from beyond you
should try find it,the exorcism was preformed sometime during the 70's.It's
good in the the Exorciam Akabor says that Vatican 2 was the work of Hell.
God Bless
Sean Keogan
MHFM: We’re not aware of any teaching of the Church which
conflicts with that idea. Regarding Anneliese
Michel, we discussed that case in some detail in this audio. It contains some interesting points. This is the real story behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose. A
discussion of the Exorcism of Anneliese Michel [19 min. audio]
Smoke
of Satan
I read that Paul VI once said
"It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some
crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God." So how
could on one hand someone reside over and orchestrate such chaos in
the Church, which I believe he did, but then on the other hand lament the
results? That is the real mystery to me.
MHFM:
He did it precisely as a calculated and diabolical move to confuse people. The Devil knew that, as soon as Paul VI made
that statement, everyone would look around at everyone else for the cause of
the smoke of Satan, when it was Paul VI who was the cause. There is more on exactly what Paul VI
probably meant by that statement in our article on Paul VI: Paul VI (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope 1963-1978)
Sheen
So sorry to hear that Bishop Sheen was a
heretic. I kind of suspected it. I have many of his books and
he is well worth quoting most of the time. Seems he was a player.
Pride steps in and we're lost.
MHFM: Yes, he certainly was a heretic. The problem comes when people attempt to
please people and not God alone. It
comes when they start to conform or hide the truth because they are afraid of
losing people. There are too many out
there who purport to teach the traditional Catholic faith but don’t really
believe or are not serving God with a pure intention. Instead, they wind up serving Satan. They need to stop serving Satan. Nick Gruner is a prime example. That happened a long time ago to him, with
his failure to condemn Antipope John Paul II and his promotion of John Paul II
with positive pictures, well after John Paul II engaged in horrible, repeated
and public acts of apostasy. All of that
was done to please man.
Buchanan
…I also wanted to comment
on the question and your response regarding Buchanan.
I like a lot of Buchanan's work. In his book, probably 20 years old
now, Right From the Beginning, he unabashedly credits Franco with
saving the Church in Spain, implying that he should be canonized, an
attitude with which I agree. Buchanan says things which are ture, that
virtually no one else in the media with any name recognition will say. He
goes as far as he can go I think and still be published. Others,
like Joe Sobran, who pushed a little harder, have been virtually blacklisted and
cannot be found in any main stream papers any longer.
That said, I cannot disagree with your
conclusions. Nevertheless, I think Pat deserves our prayers for his
conversion. I think it is incredibly difficult for those of his
generation, raised with respect for authority and love of country, to really
see what is going on. I know I was a cradle Catholic and lifelong
conservative, who hated what was done by Vatican II, however I had never
heard the term "Sedevacantist" nor even contemplated the possibility
that the Pope wasn't a Catholic until I was introduced to you.
Or maybe he is just part of the "controlled opposition", but I
don't know, that would seem just too clever.
MHFM: We like a lot of his work, as well. He’s a fascinating speaker on many
matters. But whether we like it or not,
we have to point out that he doesn’t serve God and he’s not a real
Catholic. When he called John Paul II “a
saint,” that revealed the depth of his spiritual darkness. This came to be after years of compromise and
serving man instead of God. We do not
believe he is part of a controlled opposition.
He is, rather, controlled by his failure to believe in the truth and
stand for it. We hope for his
conversion.
Abelard
and B.O.D.
[Note:
This reader is asking about a heretic named Griff who has been attacking the
necessity of the Catholic faith and baptism for salvation.]
I am
a little concerned with what he said but I know you can counter-attack his
heresies. But what makes me angry is that HE IS A COWARD!!... he wont
even debate you, that's dishonesty. He prefers to debate someone
like me or those who are still learning to reject us and say that you guys are
wrong just because we don't know much. Like a bully from school who picks
on the little ones.
To be a little more specific with what
bothers me the most when I read them was that he mentioned that you, Brother
Peter, did not mention in your book about Abelard and St. Bernard, he stated
that Abelard was rejecting the "teaching" of BOD… I really need to
clear this up and also to denounce this heretic. I will let you know if
he is willing to debate with you. God bless you, good-bye.
-Bernard
MHFM: This is why we wish
we had a debate. For in a debate,
pathetic arguments such as the one advanced above (by the heretic you are
asking about) would be shown to be what they are: completely false. That’s why the heretics aren’t willing to
debate. They prefer to spread their lies
in forums where they cannot be put on the spot and refuted, to the delight of
their bad willed friends and dupes.
The issue with the Council of Sens and Peter Abelard is this: it
goes against the false doctrine of baptism of desire. It doesn’t in any way, shape or form support
it. This point was mentioned way back in
one of our first magazines. The Council
of Sens, during the reign of Pope Innocent II, condemned some 19 errors of
Peter Abelard. Peter Abelard was also
one who, at the time, did not believe in baptism of desire. His belief against baptism of desire was well
known. Among the 19 errors of Abelard which were condemned by the Council of
Sens, guess what’s not included? Yes,
you guessed it. There is no mention of
his belief against baptism of desire.
So the Council of Sens (Denz. 368) condemned an assortment of Abelard’s
false teachings. It had every
opportunity to condemn his denial of baptism of desire – which, as many
acknowledge, was no secret – but it didn’t.
What do you call that? That’s
called the intervention of the Holy Ghost, sorting out the bad from the
good. It didn’t condemn his denial of
baptism of desire because he was correct on that point. He was following the majority view of the
fathers on that matter. [And just in
case one of the deluded baptism of desire heretics attempts, in grotesque
fashion, to read something against baptism of desire into one of the
propositions of Abelard which were condemned, note that there is nothing at all
in the 19 condemned propositions which even mentions the word “baptism,”
baptism of desire or anything of the sort.
So it would just be another lie on their part.]
So, contrary to what the deluded heretic whom you reference
says, exactly the opposite is true: The
Council of Sens, by the fact that it did not condemn Abelard’s well known
denial of baptism of desire, would be a point which weighs against baptism of
desire, not for it.
But then again, the fact that the heretic you mention thinks it
favors baptism of desire should not be a surprise. He’s an utter liar. He’s the same heretic who thinks that one
must be an enlightened believer to perform a valid baptism (completely wrong);
that St. John Chrysostom, in a quote in which he says that unbaptized
catechumens are excluded from Heaven, actually favors baptism of desire (!);
that it’s wrong to say that the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary for salvation
(the Council of Trent anathematizes those who won’t say that in Can. 5 on
Baptism); and that Martin Luther might have been sincere at the very time he
was viciously denouncing the Catholic Church and the Papacy as diabolical. Even though we cannot have a debate on this
topic, because none of the false traditionalist heretics are willing, consider
this a debate response to one of their arguments. For more on these heretics, this was the
audio we posted a few weeks back:
"Baptism
of Desire" heretics update [53 min. audio]
A
Seed
Just
wanted to let you know I was in our local library the other day and was about
to use one of the computers and noticed that someone had accidently left
their wallet and library card. I took the wallet to the librarian and she
called the man on the intercom to retrieve it. When he came for his wallet and
card, I introduced myself and told him I could have easily stolen it, but
decided to do the right thing and turn it in. He was very thankful and he took
ten dollars out of the wallet and offered to "buy me dinner." I
kindly refused his money and told him there is one thing he can do to
thank me, and that would be for him to watch the DVD I had in my
car (I keep several copies of your DVD in my car at all times
for occasions just like this!). I went and got the DVD… and told
him that I'm trying to get people to wake up, and that this DVD would change
his life, even if he's not Catholic. He then thanked me and told me he'd
definitely watch the DVD. I pray he did watch it and perhaps it has planted a
seed.
M
Overwhelmed
Thank you for your site. I am trying
to pray my way through all this and my head is spinning. I am hoping the
rosary and the intercession of The Blessed Mother will help me to digest all of
this.
I have so many questions. I guess the
first is, if I, my husband, and four children were baptized in the NO church,
using words that ended with "The Holy Spirit" as opposed to "The
Holy Ghost" was the baptism valid?
Thank you. I am filled with fear,
sadness and simply overwhelmed at this realty that our church is not THE
CHURCH. Please pray for us.
God bless,
Charise
MHFM: Yes, it would be valid because the meaning is the same.
What
is?
What exactly is Most Holy Family
Monastery? Is it a Sedevacantist group? How does it differ from other
Traditional Catholic groups?
I’ve read the info on your site and it is
very impressive—in a disturbing way.
Donald
MHFM: We are traditional Catholics. We accept all the teachings of the Catholic
Church and all the dogmas, including all the papal dogmas, ecumenical councils
and true popes. We hold the
sedevacantist position, that the Chair of Peter is presently vacant, because
that is the true position. Any
consistent Catholic must come to that position.
We differ from almost all other groups, priests, societies, etc. which
purport to be “traditional Catholic” today because they’re actually not
Catholic. Almost all of them compromise
and deny the Catholic faith in one or more areas. Almost all of them deny the necessity for the
Catholic Church for salvation. They
believe that people can be saved by “baptism of desire” and/or invincible
ignorance.
The Catholic Church teaches that all must be baptized Catholics
to be saved. The dogma Outside the
Church There is No Salvation is at the heart of the battle for the Catholic
faith today. Essentially there are two
camps: those who truly believe that one must be a baptized Catholic for
salvation, and those who do not. People
who accept and/or defend baptism of desire today are on the side of those against
the dogma. Many of them also accept the
birth control method of Natural Family Planning. That is not acceptable. Many of them teach major errors on
Jurisdiction and other important issues.
But our books and articles cover these matters.
Only
the Waters
Dear Brothers,
Thank you once again for your website.
I was trying to think of a pithy saying to
sum up the Dogma, 'Outside the Church there is no Salvation… Here it is:
Blood and Desire, like murder and lust, simply
fuel the fires of hell; Only the waters of Baptism can quench the flames of
Hell.
Thanks again, and God Bless.
Kit White
Buchanan
and B. Sheen
How does the Most Holy Family Monastery
feel about Pat Buchanan and Bp. Fulton J. Sheen?
MHFM: Pat Buchanan is an interesting speaker and we like many of
the things he says. However, he’s an
utter heretic. He claims to be a
Catholic, and even one who questions, in certain ways, the post-Vatican II
orientation. But he accepts the Second
Vatican Council and the men who imposed it. That’s horrible. Worst of all, in an interview
with EWTN he publicly called John Paul II “a saint”! He came right out and made that
statement. Think about the significance
of that statement. That’s totally evil. It shows that Buchanan is essentially an
apostate: one who has abandoned the true Catholic faith. He certainly knows what John Paul II did in
trashing the Catholic faith and embracing apostasy. He certainly knows or could easily find out
what the Catholic Church has taught about the false ecumenism in which John
Paul II engaged. Not only does he think
that John Paul II was Catholic (which is heretical), not only does he think
that he was not a bad man (which is outrageous), but he thinks that he was a
“saint”! This shows that Buchanan and
his pretension to be a devoted Catholic who stands for truth are utterly
phony.
Bishop Sheen was a man who had great exposure, being on
television in front of so many people.
This caused many to be introduced to the Catholic faith. However, Sheen was also a heretic. He went along with the Vatican II
apostasy. He also rejected the Catholic
dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
In one sermon of Sheen’s, which is
so bad that it’s even criticized by priests of the SSPX who themselves deny the
salvation dogma, Sheen said that the ignorant people in India are all other
“Christs” and that “they don’t need to know” Jesus for salvation (on Suffering and the Passion of Christ). Simply put, Sheen could hardly have denied the
dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church more thoroughly.
Even before he became a full-fledged apostate (which certainly
happened after Vatican II), as he became more popular he seems to have shifted
his message. His message went from being
more specifically Catholic in orientation to one which focused more generally
with conservative and life issues, such as education, combating communism,
proper living, etc. This message was
more palatable to members of various creeds.
It had a very secular emphasis.
This started him on his road to compromise and apostasy, but made him
very popular with the non-Catholic world.
Heresy
at “Catholic” school
I go to a Catholic school that openly
preaches heresy that just makes me sick.
One time our religion teacher even said, and I quote, "If
somebody was a really good muslim or a really good hindu, then they could still
go to Heaven." I almost swallowed
my teeth. At the time I didnt really know about the dogma that outside the
church there is no salvation, I was confused because I thought if they dont
believe in Jesus and the Holy trinity, then how could they go to Heaven? Wouldnt they be confused when they got there?
And thats just common sense. but to teach children basically that it doesnt
matter what religion you are, that just makes me sick. My question is what would I tell the religion
teacher that tries to preach this or other various heresies and what would I
tell the students?
Thank You,
Daniel
MHFM:
That’s quite heretical. First you should
tell them that such an idea rejects the teaching of Jesus in the Gospel. Jesus repeatedly teaches that it’s necessary
for salvation to believe in Him and get baptized, and that those do not will
not be saved. See section 34 of our book
on salvation for many other passages on this point:
Mark 16:15-16- “And he (Jesus) said to
them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach
the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”
Acts 4:12: “… the name of Our Lord Jesus
Christ… Nor is there salvation in any other.
For there is no other name under heaven, given to men, whereby we must
be saved.”
Second,
tell them that such an idea rejects Catholic dogma, which declares specifically
that 1) there is no salvation outside the Church, 2) that faith in Jesus Christ
is necessary for salvation, 3) that the Catholic faith is necessary for
salvation, and 4) that members of pagan, false and non-Catholic religions go to
Hell unless they become Catholic before death.
Third,
tell them that such an idea (i.e., that one can be saved by being “good”
without being Catholic) has been specifically and precisely addressed by popes and rejected as heretical. All of this is covered in our book: Outside the Catholic Church There is
Absolutely No Salvation [pdf
file]. But here is one quote for each of
the above points.
1 John 5:11-12:
“And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us eternal life. And
this life is in his Son. He that
hath the Son, hath life. He that hath
not the Son, hath not life.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22,
1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to
be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves
this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.– But the
Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity
in unity... Therefore let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the
Trinity.
“But it is necessary for
eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our
Lord Jesus Christ...the Son of God is God and man...– This is the Catholic
faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be
saved.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex
cathedra: “The Holy Roman
Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside
the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical
body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he
has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ,
unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (#13), Aug.
15, 1832: “Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the
Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is
spread on all sides by the fraud of the
wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of
the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is
maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to
your care. With the admonition of the apostle that "there is one
God, one faith, one baptism" may those fear who contrive the notion
that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever.
They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that "those who are
not with Christ are against Him," and that they disperse unhappily who do
not gather with Him. Therefore "without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate."
NFP
& Divine Mercy
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ,
I was pleasantly surprised to find an
article like this. I was actually introduced to a group of missionaries
from Peru and they also said the same thing about NFP and the Chaplet of the
Divine Mercy.
NFP is a sin as we do not surrender to the
will of God. One of the missionaries is an example of faith. She
felt in her heart that by submitting to the will of God, she did not perform
NFP… she believed that God is a God of equilibrium and he will never give more
than what you can handle. Indeed, she only had two daughters even though
she did not do NFP.
Regarding the Divine Mercy Chaplet, the
group believes that Jesus already offered up his body, soul and divinity for
our salvation. We have no right to say that. In any event, only the
Priest should say that offer during consecration. The group even pointed
out that there is a passage in the bible where it mentions that the Evil will
sit in the Altar. That is what's happening with the Divine Mercy
picture. Others have found that the belt Jesus use in the Divine Mercy
picture is a serpent.
Thanks,
Graciela
Pathetic
I am praying that you can move beyond your
massive conspiracy theories, constructed out of straw, and return to the one true
faith that the Lord promised would stand, such that even the gates of Hell
would not prevail against it. Your little movement is not that Church. The one,
holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, under the guidance of the Bishop of Rome,
Pope Benedict, is that Church. Turn back from error. Humble yourselves before
the Lord. Mercy is ever available.
Blessings,
J.P. Gamaliel
MHFM: The Vatican II sect, which you falsely think is the one,
holy, Catholic and apostolic Church, formally and repeatedly professes its
communion with non-Catholic sects and leading schismatics. But that doesn’t make any difference to you
because you are not remotely Catholic.
You people are totally faithless and pathetic. You couldn’t care less about what the
Catholic Church teaches and what the Vatican II sect denies. You don’t have the first clue about the real
Catholic faith.
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of
Benedict XVI File)
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope
1978-2005)
Second
Thoughts
I am supposed to start RCIA on September
the ;8th. I found your web site and am now having second thoughts. Did I
understand you right that Post Vatican II Catholic Church's are not valid? And
if not? Where are the Pre Vatican II Catholic Church's located at? I have not
seen any that I know of. Thanks.
Ken
MHFM:
Thanks for the e-mail. Yes, the
post-Vatican II churches are not Catholic. Do not go to RCIA there.
You are getting a modernist phony version of "Catholicism" which was
invented at Vatican II and foretold in prophecy. If you study the material, you will see what
the Catholic Church teaches, and how the Vatican II sect is not the Catholic
Church. Contact us and we can help you.
See
to Believe- John 20:29
Is it not possible that John 20:29
"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed" has a
deeper meaning pertaining to the current great apostasy? On the surface,
it would seem that Jesus was intoning that those who believe in Him without having
seen Him physically are blessed because they have the grace of faith. But a
thought occurred to me this morning that John 20:29 could also apply to
sedevacantists who have maintained the true faith inviolate, and have not gone
along with the Novus Ordo, that abominable counter-church which seeks to
"experience the 'divine' " rather than truly believing in the one and
only religion instituted by Jesus at Pentecost.
MHFM: Yes, we believe that the
message of the passage has many applications to our day. One that comes to mind right away concerns
those who insist that Cardinal Siri must have remained the pope until his death
and/or must have appointed a valid successor.
They insist that Cardinal Siri remained the pope, even though he
publicly recognized the Vatican II antipopes and the Vatican II sect for
decades. They insist on this because their
faith is weak and/or non-existent.
Hence, they must have a man to follow; they must find a visible
personage they can identify with (someone they can see), rather than
remaining content to have a faith in the existence of the office itself without
a present occupant (something they cannot see).
Another clear application of the
passage concerns those who fail to take the position that Benedict XVI is not
the pope. Here we’re speaking
specifically of the more traditional types, those who are appalled by Benedict
XVI’s heresies. They recognize, on a
certain level, that he’s an unbeliever.
I mean, come on, who cannot tell that he doesn’t believe in Outside the Church
There is No Salvation, which is a dogma?
But they fail to take the position that he’s not the pope, even though
they have major misgivings about his teachings.
They cannot come to take the position that he’s not the pope because it’s
hard or impossible for them to not believe in what they see in Rome. They cannot come to believe that the man in
the Vatican, who dresses in papal garb, occupies the papal palace, goes through
all the motions and ceremonies as if he’s
the pope, is not. They cannot believe
that what they see – and what millions of others see – is not what is
real.
They cannot come to accept that what
the world sees as the visible “Catholic” Church, which is in possession of the
Church’s structures, chancery offices, etc., is also not real; or that it could
really be the case that the true supernatural Church is the one which most
people don’t see. Since they only have
“faith” in what they see, they don’t really believe at all.
On the other hand, a true believer is
interiorly convicted of the fact that the Church is supernatural. He is convinced that it truly exists on a
supernatural level (in addition to being visible): that Jesus Christ, looking
down on us in Heaven, truly removes from His Church those who reject the faith,
even if such faith-rejecters and heretics appear to be part of the Church in
the eyes of most or dress up as the pope in the Vatican. A true Catholic is convinced that membership
in this real and supernatural Church is inextricably bound up with realities
that aren’t always seen. He also knows
that Benedict XVI is an unbeliever, which is obvious to the informed. He thus knows and firmly believes that
Benedict XVI is therefore not the pope, even though he externally appears to
be. The real believer knows this just as
much as he knows that someone like John Kerry or some other pro-abortion
politician or figure is not a Catholic, even though he appears to be.
Devil
at L.A. Cathedral
This
is a blog, but I thought it was an interesting story.
From:
http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2008/08/devil-worship-promoted-at-front-lines.html
“I was able to visit the Los Angeles
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels yesterday. More will be said on its
architecture in a later post. However, I did visit the gift shop, which has
many nice Catholic books and other things. The problem came when I began
talking with a man who worked there. His customer service couldn't have been
better. His shiny jewelry and over-the-top attitude was a bit off-putting, but it
was California, after all. My friend was looking for a rosary for his
girlfriend, and the store worker started asking him about her favorite colors,
what kind of clothes she wore, what sort of textures she liked, etc., in order
to help him pick a rosary that best agreed with her fashion sense. So far, very
Californian, but not a big problem. Kind of HGTV: Rosary Edition.
“Then he asked what I did for a living and I told him that I teach architecture
and theology, and he said with a casual
smile: "oh, that's great, my partner would love that. He was a monk
for 4 years." Again, this was California, and maybe even the cathedral
shop has legal issues about who it can hire and who it can't. Then I started
talking to my friend about one of the architects who was a finalist for the
cathedral design a few years back, whose architectural philosophy is radically
anti-Incarnational and anti-Catholic, and the salesman said "well, everyone is welcome in this
cathedral." Being cheeky, I said "how about Satanists?" He responded:
"Satanists aren't devil worshipers, you know. I know some Satanists and
they aren't devil worshipers." So, following up, I said: "OK, then
what about devil worshipers? Are they welcome here at the cathedral?" He
replied: "Well, devil worshipers are actually Christians, because God made
the devil." Another woman in line chimed in with a smile: "that's
right, God made the devil." I decided it was best to leave at that point.
“Honestly, I couldn't have made this up. A staff member of the cathedral gift
shop might be the first and only person a visitor might talk to who represents
the cathedral, as it was in my case. And what do we get? A person who gladly
flaunts his open defiance of the Church's moral teaching and has a positive
view of devil worship.”
MHFM: Yes, that is very interesting. It really reveals the degree of apostasy
among the members of the Vatican II sect, especially at its most liberal
churches.
Confession
Audio
Brothers,
Thank you for another audio pertaining to
our Faith (The Bible Teaches Confession).
The audio provided insights to which I had
not been exposed. Of these insights, "Numbers 3:3" was valuable in
three regards:
1. I had passed over this passage during
previous readings and therefore missed its implications
2. The fact that protestant
"bibles" remove the consecrated hands portion
3. Bible resouce from false church
"bishops" also removes the consecrated hands portion
( http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/numbers/numbers3.htm) - not surprising
but amazing none-the-less
Searching for additional detail on the
removal of the "consecrated hands" detail I came upon a site for the
first time (http://bible.cc/numbers/3-3.htm). It was interesting to note the
similarities of all the cross-referenced "bibles" and that the
KJ version included a footnote somewhat pertaining to consecrated hands (quite
deceiving it seems)
Thanks as always
Thanks
Dear Brothers,
First off I want to thank you for your
site. I will be 77 years old in October and have been dissatisfied with the
"NEW MASS" for many years. I had stopped going to Church for a long
time because I didn't feel right being there….
I also need to thank you for leading me to
finding out about St. Lucy's impostor. (Again, BLIND FAITH, only seeing
what you are told and not looking for one's self.) The pictures of Lucy 1 and
Lucy 11 are definitely not the same person. If anyone thinks they are one and
the same, they are as blind as I was. Please put me on your e-mail
list and I am looking forward to hearing from you….
May Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Blessed
Mother continue to guide you in your efforts to save souls. Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
Gladys G.
Arkansas
Out
of Context
I have been debating with Vat. II
supporters over the years, showing them your materials, and they constantly say
"you're taking the council out of its proper context by isolating the
quotes" and "you're using your own interpretation". But
no, they are the ones taking the Holy Ghost out of the proper context (in their
own minds) because they believe He is changeable. They believe He could
say one thing in the Middle Ages and a totally different "more
ecumenical" thing today.
Matthew
MHFM: Claiming that things have been “taken out of context” is
one of the most common tactics employed by liberals, heretics and bad willed
liars. The people who believe in
salvation outside the Church do it all the time when presented with dogmatic
statements they refuse to believe. The
fact is that it’s rare for something to be taken out of context. People say what they mean, and their words
stand. If something is truly given a
false meaning by wrenching it out of its proper context, which is possible even
though its rare, then it’s usually quite easy to demonstrate. This is done either by focusing in on the
precise subject under discussion when the words were uttered or by quoting
other portions of the text which clarify the part that has been misused. Thus, if someone is going to make such a
claim, it should be very easy for him or her to articulate exactly how it has been “taken out of
context.” But the heretics who use that
argument to defend Vatican II, John Paul II, salvation outside the Church, etc.
can’t do that because what they are saying is simply not true.
The idea that the heresies we have documented from Vatican II
are “out of context” is just another lie – period. People who can look carefully at them and
still believe that are just not of the truth.
Comment
on Museum
Dear MHFM
Interesting museum story, esp. JP2's Satanic robe.
The V2 church claims to be about social justice and they do not hide this
fact. The lie (and boy do these people lie) that the money was given to
the
poor is told in order to infuse more V2 theology, which is to ignore the
true Catholic teaching about sin and repentance (too harsh according to V2ers)
and replace it with giving to the poor. But, what, may we ask, do the
poor have for their theology?
Another thought. The rich have the Vatican treasures to which they have
no right. Why don't they allow the Vatican to keep their treasures and
let THEM give the money to the poor?
Many V2 parishes have built buildings or sheds or have made room for centers
where they provide food and used clothing for the poor: Mother Teresa centers;
St. Vincent DePaul centers, etc. This is a good thing, but they make it
to be what Catholicism is all about.
A pre V2 priest who hated the V2 changes cited the scripture story of Mary [and
her anointing of Christ with ointment – Mt. 26]. It was Judas who said
the
money should be given to the poor instead.
This priest, who had just completed the building of a new church (part
V2 and part traditional, as much traditional as he could get away with) said
that we give our best to God and God will take care of the rest.
Another V2 lie, which is also included in BOD and BOB and salvation ourside the
church, is that God is incapable of doing all things so we have to sell
what belongs to God… in order to give to the poor.
PM
Vatican
Splendors Museum
Dear Brothers,
My daughter and I attended the Vatican
Splendors museum visiting in Cleveland. It was very interesting.
One display was Papal Tiara of Pius VII a
gift from Napoleon .Very beautiful.And the ring of Pope Pius VI.
Then they had the Papal Tiara from Paul
VI. And in that one they said that it
was SOLD and the money given to the Poor! That was unbelievable! When
we know that was not true.
They had some beautiful Chalices, Papal
Robes, etc. But then they had the Papal Robe of JPII. My daughter
and I laughed, after seeing the beautiful robes, because this one looked like
it had lightning bolts all over it in abstract!
Of course they had the crooked witches' cross of JPII. And they
had this cast of the hands of JPII , , which we missed seeing. But there
was an article in the Cleve PD July 12,2008 . I quote:"A hand and parting
gifts: Virginia Trivisonno of Mentor visited the Vatican Splendors exhibit at
the Western Reserve Historical Society and Museum on Thursday looking forward
to a spiritual experience.
By the time she finished, she felt
like a GAME SHOW CONTESTANT! Trivisonno
placed her hand in the bronze cast of JPII's hand "put my fingers on every
one of his fingers" and was immediately declared the one millionth US
visitor to have touched the pope's hand.
The museum's marketing folks, approached her with a prize bag.
"I was so tickled" said
the 84 year old Trivisonno, who credited her own Polish heritage and love of
JPII with the fortuitous timing.
This woman next to me, who was in our
group, she was reading the placard and she said "I'm supposed to be the
that millionth one" But she's Slovenian. I told her, The pope knows
I am Polish . Boy, he's my man"
This woman was so taken in by the
"circus" atmosphere. Game Show contestant??!!!
Also, the Papal Tiara was there that Paul
VI sold to the Jews. But it did not say that. Instead it said that The
Tiara was sold to give the money to the poor!!
Most of the exhibits were very beautiful,
but they did throw in the fake popes stuff.
The Exhibit will be in Cleveland till Sept 7 then off to St. Paul.
Kathryn Rubio
OH
Passover
and Justification
Brother Dimond,
I am a Protestant seeking the truth of the Catholic faith and have enjoyed your
website and the material I have been able to purchase from your website.
It's so very difficult because I'm struggling with Catholicism versus
Protestantism and there seems to be so many differing views of the
"true" Catholic faith.
I have recently listened to your audio tape refuting faith alone theology, and
I had a question about this. A common Protestant proof text of imputed
righteousness is the Old Testament Passover night. The blood of the lamb
was placed over the door of the Israelites and the death angel "passed
over" when seeing this blood. The argument is that we, in the New
Covenant, when justified are imputed the righteousness of Christ and God passes
over us as well. There was no inherent righteousness of the Israelites
only the blood of the lamb which the angel recognizes. Likewise we have
no inherent righteousness, but rather Christ's blood covering us causes God's
wrath to passover us.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Please pray for me to see the truth.
Harrison
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
You raise an important one. There
are a number of things to consider in response.
First, putting the blood of the lamb on the doorpost – which was
clearly a type of the Blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ – was only one
part of the requirement to be passed over.
God also commanded the Israelites to eat the lamb. See Exodus
12:8 and following. So, one not only had
to be marked with the blood of the lamb, but also eat it. The eating of the lamb signifies the
Eucharist: eating the actual Body and Blood of Jesus. But non-Catholics generally fail to see that
part of the type – one which is, frankly, devastating to the denial of Catholic
teaching on the Eucharist. It’s also
interesting that no one who was not of the family of God could eat the lamb
(Exodus 12:43-45), just like no one who is not of the true faith can receive
the Eucharist.
Second, if we consider the Passover in its greater context, the
deliverance was ultimately about bringing the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt and delivering them from Pharaoh.
See Exodus 12:51. But that wasn’t
fully accomplished until the crossing of the Red Sea, with the miraculous
parting of the waters and the destruction of Pharaoh’s hosts. See Exodus 14:29-30. If you were passed over, but didn’t follow
through to the Red Sea, you would be destroyed.
The Crossing of the Red Sea signifies baptism, as St. Paul says in 1
Cor. 10:2. Thus, it’s important to
consider the deliverance of Israel from Egypt and from Pharaoh as a whole,
rather than in the limited way the Protestant is trying to do it. When one does that, he sees the following in
the signification: to be saved from destruction one not only has to be marked
with the Blood of the Lamb, but also eat the Lamb of God (Eucharist), and pass
through the waters of baptism.
Third, the marking with the blood of the lamb does indeed
foreshadow that one must have the application of the Blood of Jesus, the Lamb
of God, to be saved. But those particular passages don’t get
into the nature of that marking of the blood: that is, what that marking
confers upon the individual. Thus, even
if one ignored the previous two points, the Protestant argument fails because
it’s gratuitous to assert that the idea of being marked with the blood of the
lamb necessarily means imputed righteousness and excludes an infused one. For as the following Catholic teachings show,
Catholics believe that it’s necessary to be marked or sprinkled with Christ’s
Blood. However, we believe that that the
sprinkled Blood confers upon the individual who receives it a true
sanctification.
Pope St.
Leo the Great, dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon,
451: “Let him heed what the blessed apostle Peter preaches, that sanctification
by the Spirit is effected by the sprinkling of Christ’s blood (1 Pet.
1:2); and let him not skip over the same apostle’s words, knowing that you
have been redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your fathers,
not with corruptible gold and silver but by the precious blood of Jesus Christ,
as of a lamb without stain or spot (1 Pet. 1:18). Nor should he withstand the testimony of
blessed John the apostle: and the blood of Jesus, the Son of God,
purifies us from every sin (1 Jn. 1:7); and again, This is the
victory which conquers the world, our faith.
Who is there who conquers the world save one who believes that Jesus is
the Son of God? It is He, Jesus Christ,
who has come through water and blood, not in water only, but in water and
blood. And because the Spirit is truth,
it is the Spirit who testifies. For there are three who give testimony –
Spirit and water and blood. And the
three are one. (1 Jn. 5:4-8) IN OTHER WORDS, THE SPIRIT OF
SANCTIFICATION AND THE BLOOD OF REDEMPTION AND THE WATER OF BAPTISM. THESE THREE ARE ONE AND REMAIN
INDIVISIBLE. NONE OF THEM IS SEPARABLE
FROM ITS LINK WITH THE OTHERS.”
Pope Paul
III, Council of Trent, Sess. 5, on original sin, ex cathedra: “If
anyone asserts that this sin of Adam... is taken away either by the forces of
human nature, or by any remedy other than the merit of the one mediator,
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has reconciled us to God in his own blood,
‘made unto us justice, sanctification, and redemption’ (1 Cor. 1:30); or
if he denies that the merit of Jesus Christ is applied to adults as well as to
infants by the sacrament of baptism… let him be anathema.”
Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, a type is something
in the Old Testament which foreshadows something in the New Testament. The
fulfillment (called an antitype) is greater than the type which foreshadows it. For example, the Lamb of God (Jesus Christ)
is clearly greater than, and different from, the passover lamb in the Old
Testament which signified Him. The same
is true with baptism, circumcision, and other things. Well,
we know from a variety of things that justification itself in the Old Testament
was inferior to the justification granted in the New.
Hebrews 8:7-8 “For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place
have been sought for a second. For
finding fault with them, he saith: Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord:
and I will perfect unto the house of Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new
testament:”
The justification in the Old Testament could restore one to a
friendly relationship with God, but it did not make people sons of God and
heirs to Heaven in the same way that Jesus’s coming gave one the “power” (John
1:12) to do. The point is that just
as the other fulfillments are greater in reality and nature than the type, so
is the justification given by the Blood of Jesus Christ. In fact, the following passage specifically
makes the distinction between what was conferred by the blood in the Old and
what is given by the Blood in the New!
Hebrews 9:13-14- “For if the blood of
goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as
are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy
Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse
our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?”
So we see the scripture distinguishing between the blood of the
Old and the Blood of the New. The blood
of the Old covered sins and set people aside as God’s servants; but the Blood
of Christ provides a true interior cleansing of souls and of conscience, an
interior sanctification. We see that
again here:
Hebrews 10:1-4, 22“For the law having a
shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things; by the
selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect: For
then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once
cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer: But in them there is
made a commemoration of sins every year.
For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be
taken away…. [Speaking of the Justification of Christ] Let us draw near with a
true heart in fulness of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean
water.”
In the latter passage (verse 22), we see a reference to the
justification by the Blood of Christ.
Notice the reference to “clean water” (water baptism) because the Blood
is given by the water of baptism.
Further, we see clearly that what the early verses (1-4) say was not
given by the blood in the Old (a cleansing of “conscience”) is given by
the Blood in the New. This shows us that
the Blood in the New provides a true interior cleansing, not just an imputed
righteousness – a justification greater in reality and effect that the limited
kind available in the Old! All of this
demonstrates that the objection by the Protestant is unfounded; and, when
examined, it points one to the biblical proof that Catholic teaching is correct
again. This is not to mention the other
passages, such as Titus 3:5, which clearly show that justification involves a
true interior cleansing.
Unbaptized
not part of the Church
MHFM: Here’s an interesting quote from the ancient liturgy of
St. James. This liturgy arose from the
apostle St. James, and provided the foundation for the Byzantine rite. Notice the dismissal of the unbaptized,
including unbaptized catechumens, before the Mass of the faithful. This is a feature of all the early liturgies,
but it’s interesting to consider the language:
Liturgy
of St. James, Dismissal of the Unbaptized: “Let
none of the catechumens remain, none of the unbaptized, none of those who are
unable to join with us in prayer.
Look at one another. The
doors! The doors! Be attentive, and let us again pray to the
Lord.” (cited by Aquilina, The Mass of
the Early Christians, p. 212.)
This represents the ancient faith of the Church. So, contrary to the lies of the baptism of
desire heretics, we can see that the apostolic faith of the Catholic Church is
that the unbaptized, including unbaptized catechumens, are not part of the
Church, not inside the Church, and not part of the faithful. For more on this, see our book: ► Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf file]
Female
Altar Servers
Hi
My name is Nigel and I am trying to save my soul! Sometimes, I am not sure I am
trying hard enough but I have been refusing the NO Mass and its allies in
all forms for many years now. And, yes, the battle gets harder.
I am looking for a synthesised article(s) to refute the following activities:
Women serving Eucharist at the altar to assist the priest
(I accept that the NO Mass functionally produces no valid Sacrament but the
effect on witnesses in my family is still severe)
Women offering prayers at the graveside or a funeral to assist or replace a
priest. (I accept that anyone can pray but that a priest can actually seek to
use a replacement seems unacceptable).
Women leading parish advisory teams or liturgy teams. For your information, I only attend the Old
Mass. I am happy to call you if
that will help.
Nigel Edwards
Australia
MHFM: As quoted in our article on The Heresies of John Paul II - a comprehensive
presentation [PDF file], three different popes condemned the practice of
female altar servers. It also goes
without saying that women are not allowed to take over the functions of a
priest at liturgical ceremonies.
Pope Benedict XIV, Allatae Sunt, July 26, 1755: “Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter to
the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced
of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since
this abuse had spread to the Greeks,
Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: ‘Women
should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this
ministry.’ We too have forbidden this practice in the
same words in Our oft-repeated constitution...”
On this subject one could also consult 1 Cor. 14:34.
Comments
on Baptism
[This
person is commenting on those who deny the necessity of the Sacrament of
Baptism]
Dear
Brothers,
I have wrestled much with the idea of how God can condemn pre-born infants to
hell, whether they be victims of abortion or still-borns. And there in lies the
answer. I, as a faulty sinful human will never be able to "think for
God" and understand His infinite wisdom. Some things we just won't ever
know in this life why He allows certain things to happen. All I have to do is
put faith in what the magisterium of Holy Mother Church has already
dogmatically defined.
Here is an interesting thought to consider. We may think it's "cruel"
of God to deny the beatific vision to infants who were victims of abortion or
still-birth, but consider the fact that even those infants who do get born and
nevertheless die before reaching the age of reason and whose parents or
guardians never get around to having them baptised! Are those infants any less
innocent than those who were never born to begin with?? Yet these non-baptised
babies who die without baptism will not see heaven just the same.
…One could also think of it this way- If all infants who died in the womb went
to heaven, then that would have to mean that all children who die before
reaching the age of reason without being baptised would go to heaven also. That
totally diminishes the notion of original sin! There would be no urgency for
baptism, and one could "get around to it when they felt like it". And
hey, if a child were to die before being baptised, then all is still okay, for
he or she is definitely in heaven! God help us all.
MHFM: Yes, it rejects original sin. Most people today – including most
“traditionalists” who believe in baptism of desire, invincible ignorance, etc.
– are modern-day Pelagians. They deny
the reality of original sin.
Comment
on Communists in CA Schools
I thought this was quite telling. So
often people read over things not realizing what they read. But the
enemies of God and His Church always show their hand, we just have to
vigilant enough to recognize it when they do it. Here is an example from the
news section from you website. It says, "
According to current postings on the
website (http://www.cpusa.org/article/static/758/) for the Communist Party USA,
racism, sexism and male supremacy, national chauvinism, homophobia, anti-Semitism,
and anti-communism all can be blamed on capitalism. NOTICE: anti-Semitism is
thrown in with everything else. And some think communism isn't a Zionist
organization.
Paul
Texas
Comments
on salvation heresy
Dear Brothers,
I wanted you to know how much we Appreciate
your… It seems like there is a Never ending supply of people who want to argue
about Baptism ? It seems like telling them Several times, would be
Enough, but they keep coming back for more. I especially enjoyed you
reply to this Ott thing, as well as the Mejugorje one. Hope they start
getting the message...
May God Bless you exceedingly,
Carol D.
===========================================================(Letter
to a friend: )
Good Grief.....It's a Wonder these poor
Brothers have any sanity Left ...after all these idiot letters they get !
This Ott.... I'm getting so Tired of these nut jobs Constantly arguing that you
can be saved without proper baptism. Who ARE these dweebs??? By the
time they type up the letter and argue about it....they could have Baptized the
person with water and been Done with it !
LOL...I love this paragraph where the
Brothers are obviously reaching the End of their rope....."It's a pity
that the Catholic Church was stupid enough to define more than...............
seven times.............. that outside the Catholic Church no one at all is
saved, ...... "
Where
to?
Where can I find a Tradtional Catholic mass
today? I'm from Ireland and although I have not attended the new mass in awhile
I'm aware of what a mockery it is. If I cannot find the true mass then can I
return to the new mass and seek weekly confession at my church? Also I commend
you for the great work you do, thanks.
MHFM: You can’t go to the New Mass,
even if you have nowhere to go. So if you have nowhere to go you must
stay home. The following file gives the guidelines on where you might be
able to go today. You will have to apply them to your area, but you
must be convinced on all the issues first. Where to go to
Mass or confession today?
Reading
Good morning
Brothers,
I have been reading
you website, viewing videos of yours and the books which came in the package I
requested two years ago. Since that time I am closer to God and my faith is
strong. Everything you write about the current catholic church was true for me.
I was in 7th grade in 1958. I tried to stay loyal from there on the religion I
had been Baptised and Confirmed into. As a matter of fact I was confirmed in
1959 I believe. I do stray. My sons tossed my box of books and videos when they
moved me but I will replace them soon.
My problem is
not the difficulty staying on the straight and narrow etc. but
finding a priest to hear my confession. I was looking on the web recently to
see if such a man (Priest) existed. If I had missed him in searches a couple of
months ago perhaps he had surfaced by now for a Google hit. I have asked
everyone I know that is catholic around here and they lead me to several
churches locally. I tracked them all down and each was flawed…
And then as
any sinner does I find myself straying from the important mission. I have
nothing in my life that brings shame to me nor do I forget to pray but I stray
and forget the confession I need after 40ish years. I will try again to not
stop hunting…
Do you have
any suggestion on how to find a priest ordained before 1958? I know this covers
the year but it may not be spot on.
I thank you
for all you have done for me so far. Since 1958 I've know in my heart something
was wrong with the Popes. After I heard you on Coast to Coast I knew I'd been
right all along and was such a burden lifted. You can't know what it meant to
me. You probably do!
The time is
very urgent, as you know, and I have been blessed with the time God has given
me to find the right priest.
Prayers and
Blessings as you walk your path everyday.
Ruth S.
MHFM: Thanks for the interest.
If you consult our file on Where to go to Mass or confession today?, it
will give you important guidelines on that issue. If you contact us here, we can also help you
with specifics. The spiritual desolation
of our day is certainly one most difficult aspects of this period. It arises from the small number of people who
stand for the true faith and the dearth of true Catholic priests. It’s combated by a strong prayer life and an
active interest in the faith: study, spiritual reading, evangelizing…
Comments
on Music
Personally I would recommend checking out
John Michael Talbot, Charlotte Church & Josh Groban pretty closely before
allowing them to be recommended on your web site (or perhaps you have?)
Anyway my memory of Talbot was that he has
an interesting background and the music he currently writes & performs is
"fodder" for the NO church. It's also my understanding that
though Church initially recorded "good" music she has since changed
her ways in regard to what she sings and how she lives. I am not at all
familiar with Groban but his web site does not give me any assurance as to
where he is "coming from!"
I don't believe any of these are
Traditional Catholics either!
Thank You!
GOD BLESS YOU!
Phil
----------
I would highly urge restraint in who you
recommend your visitors to listen to for "Christian" musicians. I hardly
ever watch television anymore, and one night I watched a little bit of the
"Jimmy Kimmel" show, not as a source of entertainment, but just to
see how low today's so-called comedians will go to seek laughs. Jimmy Kimmel
(an apostate jew) was doing a song about homosexual acts, and he had various
pop-musicians sing different parts of the song (similar to the infamous
"we are the world" song) and each "musician" would sing
their part glorifying homosexual acts, and to my utter shock, Josh Groban was
one of them who glorified homosexual acts. Take this information for what it's
worth.
MHFM: Let’s be accurate. We didn't recommend the Groban guy; a reader
did. We know nothing about him. The song he sang was not evil. That’s why we allowed the link to be
posted. We have no idea of what else he's involved with.
Second, we didn't recommend any of them as “Christian” musicians. Since
it seems clear that none of them are traditional Catholics, none of them are
true Christians. So the comments above, which imply that we somehow
endorsed them as Christian musicians because we posted a link to a few songs as
ideas for traditional music, are inaccurate on a number of fronts. We
don't have the time to check into the backgrounds of every singer of Christian
music (note that we didn't say Christian singer). We trust our
readers to use discretion if they come across something that's wrong.
Further, people need to be
reasonable. They must distinguish
between benefitting from a particular piece of music, and supporting what that
performer believes and/or does. They are
two different things. There are
countless books which can greatly benefit a traditional Catholic, in terms of
gaining a better understanding of Church history or some other topic, which
were written by men who teach other horrible heresies. Some fall into a Pharisaical trap in this and
other areas, and miss the bigger picture.
If one only purchased music (or other products) from traditional
Catholics, there would be essentially nothing one could purchase today because
almost all of them are evil and non-Catholic.
We do appreciate you pointing out the
fact that the guy did something that was pro-homosexual, which is
abominable. If people have other
recommendations for music, we’re open to them.
Infant
Baptism
I greatly
enjoyed your audio file concerning the Biblical justification for the practice
of Infant Baptism. Too many Catholics have been swayed by Baptist &
Campbellite heretical arguments.
Best Wishes & God Bless,
Joe Kelly
MHFM: Glad you liked it… the Purgatory audio, the Confession
audio and the two on baptism will soon be put on one audio tape.
Mortal
Sin
Dear Brothers,
Should a penitent give an estimate of the number of times he committed a
particular mortal sin?
Tom
MHFM: The answer to your question is yes; he definitely should.
Music
Recommendations
I
have a few ideas for musical choices for the person who was wondering. I
included the links of most of them so you could sample them first in case you are
going to post this information. I can send you the Charlotte Church songs if
you are interested in hearing them.
I bought this CD of Gregorian chants a few years ago and I really enjoy it. It
is by John Michael Talbot. Here is a link that will give you a sample of each
song
http://www.emusic.com/album/John-Michael-Talbot-Chant-From-The-Hermitage-MP3-Download/10898870.html
Charlotte Church has also done a few Catholic songs: The Lord's Prayer, Ave
Maria, Sancta Maria, Tantum Ergo and Panis Angelicus.
Josh Groban does a really beautiful version of Ave Maria. You can listen to it
at the link below
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/josh-groban-ave-maria-with-lyrics/1455276452
He also did a really great version of Panis Angelicus. You can listen to it at
the link below
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/josh-groban-panis-angelicus-with-lyrics/3232146196
M…
Following
man
Regarding people like Michael C., Thomas
D., and John G., they have fallen into the same trap they were in during their time
in the Vatican establishment "Catholic Church". Back then, they
marched in lock-step behind counterfeit popes and bishops to the point of
ignoring / denying blatant apostasy. Now they have found other clergy
which they idolize to the point of giving them pious-sounding awards and naming
days after them. They have to realize that if hundreds of Roman Catholic
bishops could be wrong during the 1960s, so could a relative handful of more
traditional ones today. They assume that since these bishops and priests
are right about the counterfeit popes and "sacraments" then they must
be our God-given authorities to get us through these times, and must be
submitted to. I think they are definitely tailoring their beliefs so they
can fit in at various Mass centers around the world and have their comfortable
and traditional-looking "Catholic community" with their
friends. Plus B.O.D. is a more comfortable belief than the truth.
M.
B.O.D.
Heretics Update – Heretic Uses Outrageously False Argument
Dear Brothers Peter and Michael,
Thanks for mentioning you had requested two
persons to debate you on the baptism of blood and desire. I had read…
Michael C…’s decision recently to directly attack your position… and was
disturbed at the thought of so many readers taking in their views without
having the sound arguments available to present the correct positions…
I did decide to email Mr. C…, copying your
request for a debate on that topic – asking him to debate you as well as to
extend the invitation to any of his supporting writers. I hope he decides
for the debate.
…I don’t understand why people cannot look
at the facts as presented to them honestly, verifying for themselves, the
writings and accuracy, and draw the proper conclusion. There is so
much at stake – so much at stake… so many souls being misled and
scandalized.
Praying for you and your monastery,
Pax Christi,
Melanie
MHFM: No, of course they won’t have a recorded
conversation. That’s because they don’t
want their false arguments and distortions to be refuted. They are all cowards and liars. We’ve challenged many of these sedevacantist
heretics to a recorded discussion/debate on the issue. So far, not one of them has been
willing. This is not a surprise. Here’s an audio which addresses and refutes
some of their distortions. "Baptism
of Desire" heretics update [53 min. audio] Entire audios could be done which cover, one
by one, all of their lies. For
instance, the heretic named Griff R., whose outrageous statements are covered
in the above audio, made the following argument. It’s supposed to lend credence to his belief
that pagans don’t need baptism for salvation.
Griff R.: “Suppose some ignorant
savage living on an island is told all about Christ through some special Divine
revelation, and even about being baptized in water. So then he goes to his neighbor savage and says, "Please baptize
me." Even if this neighbor were to be willing to pour the water correctly
and to say the right words, how could he possibly have the intention "to
do what the Church does" or even to say the words with the meanings that
the Church intends? Whatever such a thing could mean to the one who is
enlightened, to the one being asked to the baptizing, the whole thing is only a meaningless ritual, unless he also be
similarly enlightened. In other words, there would be real issues about
validity, however pious and virtuous the attempt.”
His argument is that a pagan on the island – even if he got a
special revelation, and desired to be baptized – couldn’t benefit from water
baptism unless his pagan neighbor were also enlightened about the truth of the
faith so that he could perform a valid baptism.
This is COMPLETELY WRONG!!!! It
demonstrates that Griff truly doesn’t have a whiff of an understanding of basic
Catholic sacramental theology on baptism.
The intention to do “as the Church does” – especially in baptism
– is an extremely minimal intention. It
does not require a belief in Catholic teaching. It simply requires a true intention to pour
the water and say the words. It’s
literally that minimal. That’s why the
Council of Florence defined that even an unbelieving pagan can validly
baptize. Try to get that through your
heretical head, Griff.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence,
“Exultate Deo,” 1439: “In case of necessity, however, not only a priest or a
deacon, but even a layman or woman, yes
even a pagan and a heretic can
baptize, so long as he preserves the form of the Church and has the
intention of doing as the Church does.” (Denz. 696)
Thus, if a pagan were enlightened by a special revelation – as
the doctors of the Church explain would happen, if a pagan were of good will
and couldn’t find a missionary – he could just get his friend or neighbor to
pour the water on his head and say the correct words. He would then be validly baptized. So, the above is just another example of a
completely false argument, advanced by a faithless heretic, in a futile attempt
to defend heresy. Their whole false
position is based on lies, distortions, ignorance and a rejection of Catholic
teaching.
By the way, there’s another heretic named John G. He also attacked the true position of the
Church on this issue. John G. had been
totally convinced, or so he said, after reading our book on the issue. That is, he claimed to be a supporter of the
position that one must be baptized for salvation. But then he realized that so many of his friends
and so many priests didn’t agree with him.
This troubled John G., because his faith was not rooted in God and
Catholic dogma. Unfortunately, it was
rooted in man. This is the case with
every single person who is in heresy on this issue. They are followers of man. So John G. completely changed his position
back to salvation for members of false religions. Notice how he explains that what troubled him
most was the fact that so many “traditionalist” priests didn’t agree with
“Feeneyism”:
John
G.: “Now these above named scholarly consecrated true shepherds, who refuse to
compromise with error and seek to please God rather than man and who have been
shown to be followers of the truth wherever it leads them, regardless of the
cost, all are unanimous in their conclusion against Feeneyism while the two
young bright men… beg to differ. Wow, that was a wake-up for me because I know
that each and every man mentioned above would preach Feeneyism from the
roof-tops had they known such a teaching to be a part of Sacred Tradition. But they didn't and we know from their
other teachings that they are not afraid of human opinion and they do not
cower or compromise the truth for the sake of convenience. So why do they all
claim Feeneyism to be a false understanding of the Deposit of Faith and even an
objective heresy that puts one outside the Church?”
Notice how much trust he has in these men! He has no doubt that they would preach it if
it were true. How does he know
that? Is he omniscient? Are these priests indefectible? Wake up, John, these are the same heretics
who believe that Jews who reject Christ can be saved. They are the same priests who teach that one
may deliberately avoid children. John G.
will be sadly mistaken at his judgment, having placed his trust in man (and
heretical men) instead of Catholic dogma.
Then it will become clear to him that he has become a heretic by
following heretics, who all believe that souls can be saved in false religions. We also challenged John G. to a debate. After waffling on whether he would be willing
to do it, he refused. An exchange then
heated up between us; he even had his wife chime in. Here are a few of the exchanges:
John G.: “I have heard those debates.
The one on the phone is always in a low tone. I would love to debate you,
piece by piece on e-mail (time permitting) if you would like. Remember I
have read your book and am very familiar with your side of the issue and
briefly embraced it.
But you see where these debates go.
The one in the wrong refuses to admit his errors regardless of all
the proof.
But here at least you can say the “coward
refuses to debate us”.
Is there a way that you can make my voice
as loud as yours on the phone?”
-----
MHFM
reply: If you listen to the debates, you can see that one voice is not lower
than the others. You must be referring to certain conversations, where
the person just speaks in a low tone. If you listen to the debate with
Golle, then you will see that both are heard very well and equally loud.
As we can see, he was just supplying
excuses in order to avoid a debate. We
continued to press him to debate us, but he refused. His wife then wrote to us. They attacked us with all kinds of
criticisms. We responded by challenging
her to a debate as well. Not
surprisingly, she refused. It got kind
of ugly, and then John G. and his wife wrote to us (on 8/8/08):
“It
looks like I have a crystal ball see the email I just sent.
You know how it feels when you just can’t
win no matter how right you are.
Facts are stubborn things but obstinacy
even more so in some cases.
I’m going home my friend.
I’ll be back Tuesday.
God Bless.
AMDG,
John”
So, in the midst of the heated
exchange, he and his wife write back and make reference to using a “crystal
ball.” This is in the context of a
discussion where both sides are making accusations that the other is not on the
side of God. We appropriately responded:
MHFM:
"Crystal ball" is a reference to the occult, more evidence that you
are of the Devil...
We haven’t heard from them since, probably because they have
nothing to say about their endorsement of the occult. Is it just a coincidence that these shocking
words emanated from them in midst of this debate, in which they were attacking
the true position on baptism and defending their heresy? No, the words of the Devil came forth from
them because they are of the Devil.
Music
Dear MHFM brothers,
We are really struggling to find good Catholic songs on CD and we want to get
it right, aren't there any you could recommend to us. Please. We bought some
'Songs for Worship' CD's but they're not Catholic hymns etc....
What to do?
Sorry novice here, about these Saint's what does that make Bl. Padre Pio???
Kind regards
The Mortune's
MHFM: We would recommend Gregorian Chant CDs. If you search that on the internet, you can
surely find a huge selection. Perhaps
our readers have some suggestions as well.
Regarding Padre Pio, it means that he’s never been canonized or
beatified because the Vatican II “popes” are not true popes. It doesn’t mean that he couldn’t be canonized
by a true pope, of course, but simply that it hasn’t been done.
“Baptism
of Desire”
[Subject: Baptism of Desire]
We seem to have a contradiction of dogma's
here. Let me quote from "The Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma" by Dr.
Ludwig Ott:
Page 114
"The Spiritual rebirth of young infants can be achieved in an
extra-sacramental manner through baptism by blood (cf. the baptism by blood of
the children of Bethlehem). Other emergency means of baptism for children
dying without sacramental baptism, such as prayer and desire of the parents of
the Church (vicarious baptism of desire-Cajetan, or the attainment of the use
of reason in the moment of death, so that the dying child can decide for or against
God (baptism of desire---H. Klee), or suffering and death of the child as
quasi-Sacrament (baptism of suffering--H. Schell), are indeed, possible, but
their actuality cannot be proved from Revelation. Cf. D 712."
Why is there a contradiction? Shouldn't it be one way or the other?
MHFM: There’s no contradiction in Catholic dogma. You are quoting the false opinions of
theologians. They contradict themselves
all the time. In fact, the position
advanced in that citation, that infants can be saved without the Sacrament of
Baptism, is heretical.
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “Regarding
children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, when
no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of
baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the
Devil [original sin] and adopted among the sons of God, it advises that
holy baptism ought not be deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time
according to the observance of certain people…”
Pope Paul III, The
Council of Trent, On Original Sin, Session V, ex cathedra: “If anyone says
that recently born babies should not be baptized even if they have been born to
baptized parents; or says that they are indeed baptized for the remission of
sins, but incur no trace of the original sin of Adam needing to be cleansed
by the laver of rebirth for them to obtain eternal life, with the
necessary consequence that in their case there is being understood a form of
baptism for the remission of sins which is not true, but false: let him be
anathema.”
Moreover, you are quoting from a book by Ludwig Ott. Even though he wrote before Vatican II, and
is used approvingly by many so-called traditionalists, the fact is that he was
a modernist heretic. Notice how Ludwig
Ott blatantly denies the dogma in this following paragraph.
Fundamentals
of Catholic Dogma, by Ludwig Ott, Imprimatur 1954, p. 310: “The
necessity for belonging to the Church is not merely a necessity of precept, but
also of means, as the comparison with the
It’s a pity that the Catholic Church was stupid enough to define more
than seven times that outside the Catholic Church no one at all is saved,
because (as the “great” Ludwig Ott reveals) “those who are in point of fact outside
the Catholic Church can achieve salvation.”
It’s a shame that the Church didn’t possess this profound enlightenment,
that it didn’t know that what it had been teaching “infallibly” for all of
these years was actually just the opposite of the truth.
In truth, what Ludwig Ott says above is equivalent to
declaring that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in Original Sin. There is no difference whatsoever. If the Church defines that outside the Church
no one at all is saved (Pope Innocent III, etc.), and I assert that “those who are
in point of fact outside the Catholic Church can achieve salvation,” then I
am doing the exact same thing as if I were to declare that the Virgin Mary was
conceived in some sin, when the Church said she had no sin. I would be stating exactly the opposite of
what the Church had infallibly defined, and this is precisely what Ludwig Ott
does.
But shortly after explicitly
denying the dogma that no one can be saved outside the Church, notice what
Ludwig Ott says:
Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, p. 311: “It is the
unanimous conviction of the Fathers that salvation cannot be achieved
outside the Church.”
“But let your speech be
yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil” (Mt.
5:37). From one page to the next, Ludwig
Ott contradicts himself on whether those who are outside the Catholic Church
can achieve salvation! He even uses the
exact same verb – “achieve” – in both sentences, but with the opposite meaning
from one to the next: 1) those “outside the Church can achieve salvation”;
2) “salvation cannot be achieved outside the Church.” His speech is not of God, but of the
Devil. Black is white and white is
black; good is evil and evil is good; truth is error and error is truth;
salvation can be achieved outside the Church and salvation cannot be achieved
outside the Church.
For the pre-Vatican II
heretics who despised the dogma Outside the Catholic Church There is No
Salvation, it is no problem believing that there is salvation outside the
Catholic Church, while simultaneously believing that there is no salvation
outside the Catholic Church. It is no
problem for these people because they are of evil (Mt. 5:37).
Pope
Clement V, Council of Vienne, Decree # 30, 1311-1312, ex cathedra:
“… one universal Church, outside of which there is no salvation,
for all of whom there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism…”
See more in our book: ► Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf file]
Medjugorje
Hi from Ireland
Hi my name is Marc. I’m a catholic from Ireland…. I’ve been going
through your home page and videos on youtube… I admire the courage and knowledge
of the young brother in the videos… More priests should stand up and tell
people the truth about Freemasons, the spirit of the world, etc…. But one thing
on your site bothers me. That is your
article on the false apparitions at Medujorge.
All I can say is you really need to go there. I cannot describe in words the feeling of Our
Lady in that place. She says if you knew
how much I love you, you would cry. I
was there at 2 apparitions and I felt it.
If you were there when Fr. Joso speaks of it then you would
believe. You are doing a great job, but
I think you need to visit there. Peace
and love from Ireland
Marc Brennan
MHFM: No, if we were there (and we wouldn’t go) we certainly
would not believe it. You have fallen
prey to the false signs predicted in the Bible (2 Thess. 2:9-12; Mt.
24:24-25). It’s almost like a spiritual
curse, which has made you oblivious to the blatant heresies in the
message. You must go by Catholic
dogma! You are completely ignoring
that. Medjugorje teaches blatant
heresies which endorse false religions and the members of false religions. It cannot, therefore, be from God. To state otherwise is blasphemous. Have some faith in Catholic dogma! You need to stop blaspheming God by
defending a false message which blatantly contradicts the Gospel.
False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje)
Confession
Dear Brothers,
What is one to do if they are unable to find a validly ordained priest (even an
older Novus Ordo priest) to go to confession to?
Thanks,
Dylan.
MHFM: Most people, especially if they can travel a little bit,
can find a validly ordained priest for confession. If a person is in mortal sin, he or she needs
to make a major effort to find a valid priest who can hear a confession. This section gives guidelines on that: Where to go to Mass or confession today? If one simply cannot find such a priest, then
he or she needs to have perfect contrition: this is sorrow for sin primarily
for having offended God, and secondarily out of fear of the punishments for sin
in Hell.
Celibacy
New?
Dear Brothers Dimond:
An Anglican told me that the Catholic
Church allowed priests to marry until the 8th Century. He claimed that the only
reason the Church stopped allowing priests to marry was the issue of
inheritance ( i.e. when the priest died there was a conflict of who would
inherit his land - his children or the Church). I never heard this before but
wanted to get the real story and stand up for the truth. I look forward to your
reply.
Your website is inspiring. Keep up the
wonderful work.
God Bless you- Patricia
MHFM: The first thing that one should understand about this is
that the Bible teaches the superiority of the celibate state. The Bible thus teaches that it is the ideal
for a religious vocation. On this point
see: Refuting the Protestant rejection
of the Catholic and Biblical teaching on celibacy. That puts to rest the notion that a celibate
priesthood arose from some financial or other consideration, rather than from
the teaching of Jesus delivered to the Apostles.
Second, his statement that all priests were allowed to marry
until the 8th century is false.
Canon 33 of the regional Council of Elvira in the 4th century
commanded priests to remain celibate. By
the time of Leo the Great (5th century), celibacy was generally
accepted as the law in the Western part of the Church. While some could debate the full extent of
its meaning, Canon 3 of the Council of Nicea in 325 also at least implies that
clerical celibacy was widely spread at that time:
Council of Nicea, Can. 3, 325: “The great Synod
has stringently forbidden any bishop, presbyter, deacon, or
any one of the clergy whatever, to have a woman dwelling with him, except only
a mother, or sister, or aunt, or such persons only as are beyond all
suspicion.”
However, in the Eastern part of the Church, some married priests
were always accepted and still are. That
is to say, married men can get ordained in the Eastern Church; but men who are
ordained cannot get married. The
allowance for the Eastern Rite priest is a permissible exception because it is
a disciplinary issue. But the celibacy
of the clergy, which is observed strictly in the Latin Church, did not come
from the 8th century. It was
observed much earlier than that and the reasoning behind this law comes from
biblical teaching.
Advice
Dear Catholic Monks,
I would greatly appreciate it if you can help or advise me with the following
situation. This is very serious for me
and some members of my family, unfortunately not so with all of them.
I've a brother (he's 30) who has a child out of out of wedlock (she's 4yrs old)
, the child lives with her mother and he sees only the child once each week and
pays child-support; both him and his now ex-fiancee have nothing to do with
each other and are not on speaking terms other then on the brief minute he
takes his child out, or brings her back.
Last year, he met a new woman, and has been seeing her ever since. 5
months ago, this woman claimed she was pregnant, which turned out to be a false
alarm. (My brother admitted to fooling around still with this woman too, even
now just as his girlfriend.)
Anyway, now they are getting married next week.
I told my brother I won't be attending his wedding, and explained (somewhat)
why it was wrong as best I could. He didn't want to hear it… So my family was raised Roman Catholic (
sedevacantist). Although I must say, now my mother is a declared evangelist (heretic)
and my father who claims to still hold the Catholic faith, is still very VERY
hypocritical in his ways, and says how wrong some things are, and in the next
breath continues to go along with them (while still holding true that they are
wrong, or he seeks loopholes, etc., )
The church they plan on getting married in is also an Evangelist
church, another reason why I refuse to go. So, my brother who has
fornicated… has nothing to do with the mother of his child, and he again
fornicated with this other woman who he is going to marry next week at a
protestant place. My father is STILL
coming up with excuses why this may be alright for him to do, and says I have
some right to what I say, that is.. "..if I want to take the absolute way
of truth" (he calls me extreme). But now my family turns to arguing
and yelling that I should honor my brother and family and attend. I will not
attend this at all, I see it as a great sin a lot of the things happening, not
only by my brother and his now fiancee, but my father and family as well.
Please give me any advice you may have on this situation, my father claims to
be a devout Roman Catholic and also has seen some of your videos, but
he is bent on finding loop holes on this, and if there's any more he or my
brother can be told before they continue in this, I would be very thankful to
hear from you.
I'll wait for your reply.
-K.
MHFM: Thanks for the e-mail.
Unfortunately, we must say that your father is a heretic. He thinks it’s okay to marry in a Protestant
setting, in an invalid ceremony. You
should explain to him that he’s not a true Catholic and that he’s sinning
mortally by his liberalism. He tolerates
mortal sin and heresy. He fails to stand
against the activities of his son. You
should explain to your brother that he is on the path to lose his soul, and
that his marriage will be invalid. As
far as going to it, it’s simple: you can’t.
You shouldn’t go or get him a gift or anything.
He obviously doesn’t have any fear of God. He lacks the first degree of humility. This causes a person to fear God enough to
avoid mortal sins such as fornication, which will send one to Hell.
Signal
Grace
To
MHFM: What is a signal grace ?
MHFM: We suppose people could debate the matter or have
different opinions about it, but we believe that a signal grace is an unusual
grace which serves as a sign from Heaven.
This can be something such as a spark that appears out of nowhere or
something else. One of the promises of
the Rosary is that those who pray the full Rosary each day will receive signal
graces. But people shouldn’t look for
signs or read too much into them.
London
Hello,
can you recommend a traditional Catholic Church in the London UK area please? I
found your website by accident and it seems to raise a lot of questions.
Thanks,
Ron
MHFM: We don't have a complete list
of London, but we have a section on our website which explains certain
guidelines. One must be in agreement on all the issues before one
receives the sacraments. This includes
accepting all other Catholic teachings and the commitment that one will never
go to the New Mass. Once that's done, perhaps there is a valid Eastern
Rite priest who fits the guidelines who can hear your confession and give you
Communion. But almost all of the traditionalist priests today hold some
heresy, so they couldn’t be supported.
We would also recommend getting our special offer and praying the Rosary
each day. Let us know if you have further questions and we hope you don't go to
the New Mass.
Where to go to Mass or confession today?
Unbaptized
Infant
I was reading your web site and listened to
some of the audios and watched your dvd. I am a Roman Catholic but wasn't
for many years. I was taught that the Popes were elected under the
power of the Holy Spirit. Your explanations of the antipopes seem more
like the views of many protestants - dispensationalists, evangelists
etc.
I also was confused about baptism by desire
. As I understand you, and correct me if I am wrong. I lost my 5
month old baby ( miscarrage ) when i was in my early 20's. I was not
attending any church at that time. As I
understand you - because my baby wasn't baptized nor buried ( I was never told
I could by anyone). my baby is not in
heaven? Would God really do this to an innocent? My baby died in my
womb. So where did my baby go?
I try to do what God would want me to do
but it seems now from reading your web site that men argue against men on what
interpretations are correct. No wonder the world is in such a mess.
I would appreciate it if you could e-mail me back regarding my baby. I am
really so discouraged now and don't know what to believe.
Thank you for your time.
Margie
MHFM: No, your baby was not saved precisely because it was not
baptized. That is Catholic dogma. We didn’t make it up. We’re sorry to say, but if you cannot accept
that then you are not a Catholic.
Infants cannot be saved without baptism because of something called
original sin, the sin of Adam which is transmitted to his descendants. The reality of original sin is a dogma which
Catholics must accept. Original sin bars
unbaptized people, whether infants or adults, from Heaven. Unbaptized infants, who die only with
original sin on their souls, go to a part of Hell where there is no fire. Obtain this book for all the documentation: Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf file] And look at these quotes below:
Pope Eugene
IV, Council of Florence, “Letentur coeli,” Sess. 6, July 6, 1439, ex cathedra: “We define also that… the souls of those who depart this life in
actual mortal sin, or in original sin alone, go straightaway to hell,
but to undergo punishments of different kinds.”
Pope Pius
XI, Mit brennender Sorge (# 25), March 14, 1937: “‘Original sin’ is
the hereditary but impersonal fault of Adam’s descendants, who have sinned in
him (Rom. v. 12). It is the loss of
grace, and therefore eternal life, together with a propensity to evil,
which everybody must, with the assistance of grace, penance, resistance and
moral effort, repress and conquer.”
Pope Eugene
IV, Council of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “Regarding
children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, when
no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of
baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the
Devil [original sin] and adopted among the sons of God, it advises that
holy baptism ought not be deferred for forty or eighty days, or any time
according to the observance of certain people…”
Pope
Eugene IV here defined from the Chair of Peter that there is no
other remedy for infants to be snatched away from the dominion of the
devil (i.e., original sin) other than the Sacrament of Baptism. This means that anyone who obstinately teaches that infants can
be saved without receiving the Sacrament of Baptism is a heretic, for he is
teaching that there is another remedy for original sin in
children other than the Sacrament of Baptism.
Pope Martin
V, Council of Constance, Session 15, July 6, 1415 - Condemning the
articles of John Wyclif - Proposition 6:
“Those who claim that the children of the faithful dying without
sacramental baptism will not be saved, are stupid and presumptuous in saying
this.” Condemned
This is a fascinating proposition from The Council of
Constance.
Unfortunately, this proposition is not found in Denzinger, which only
contains some of the Council’s decrees, but it is found in a full collection of
the Council of Constance. The
arch-heretic John Wyclif was proposing that those (such as ourselves) are
stupid for teaching that infants who die without water (i.e.,
sacramental) baptism cannot possibly be saved. He was anathematized for this assertion,
among many others. And here is what the Council of Constance had to say
about John Wyclif’s anathematized propositions, such as #6 above.
Pope Martin
V, Council of Constance, Session 15, July 6, 1415: “The books and
pamphlets of John Wyclif, of cursed memory, were carefully examined by
the doctors and masters of Oxford University… This holy synod, therefore, in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, repudiates and condemns, by this perpetual
decree, the aforesaid articles and each of them in particular; and it forbids
each and every Catholic henceforth, under pain of anathema, to preach, teach,
or hold the said articles or any one of them.”
So those who criticize Catholics for affirming the dogma that no infant
can be saved without the Sacrament of Baptism are actually proposing the
anathematized heresy of John Wyclif.
Here are some other dogmatic definitions on the topic.
Pope St.
Zosimus, The Council of Carthage, Canon on Sin and Grace, 417 A.D.- “It
has been decided likewise that if anyone says that for this reason the Lord
said: ‘In my Father’s house there are many mansions’ [John 14:2]:
that it might be understood that in the kingdom of heaven there will be some
middle place or some place anywhere where the blessed infants live who departed
from this life without baptism, without which they cannot enter into the
kingdom of heaven, which is life eternal, let him be anathema.”
Pope Paul
III, The Council of Trent, On Original Sin, Session V, ex cathedra: “If anyone says that recently born babies
should not be baptized even if they have been born to baptized parents; or
says that they are indeed baptized for the remission of sins, but incur no
trace of the original sin of Adam needing to be cleansed by the laver of
rebirth for them to obtain eternal life, with the necessary consequence
that in their case there is being understood a form of baptism for the
remission of sins which is not true, but false: let him be anathema.”
Questions
Hi,
I have a few questions I would like to
ask. Do you still print the magazine out regularly? If so is there
a way to subscribe to it? Do you know of any churches close to Sierra
Vista, Arizona that I could go to, that are not part of Vatican II? And
lastly, Under the old laws of Marriage Annulment, would on be granted if a Catholic
knowingly married someone of another religion who had been married before in a
church?
I am not sure how I stumbled on your
website at the beginning of this month, but have learned much. I am in
the process of trying to buy whatever books I can find that contain all the old
church Councils and documents. I believe doing this will be an
invaluable resource to have now and for the future.
I was like many, who have
been deceived by John Paul II. John Paul II was one of the reasons I
started looking into the Catholic faith more. But I know by what he
taught and what you have pointed out that he was a heretic. I find it sad
that I had the idea about him and Mother Theresa being heretics, but did not
know enough about the Catholic faith to pursue finding out for sure.
Thank you so much for your website. I
pray that all those who say things against you and what you write will look
into it further and see as I have that what you say is true.
Thank you. God bless you and protect
you.
Anita G.
Palominos, Arizona
MHFM: Anita, you should really get
our DVD special. That includes very important books, as well as other
publications. That will give you all the important information you need
about the current ecclesiastical situation.
You should also get Denzinger, a source book for dogmatic
pronouncements. You can get that from our online store. If you are
in agreement on all the issues, and committed to never attending the New Mass,
call us here and we can help you with a Mass location in your area.
Regarding the marriage question: if a
baptized Catholic marries a person of another religion – and it is not done
with a dispensation in a Catholic form (e.g. before a priest in a church) –
that would be invalid. That would especially be true if the person was
married before. To better understand what an annulment is, please read
this:
The Annulment Fiasco - The Vatican II sect's De Facto acceptance of Divorce and
Remarriage [PDF File]
“Crime
of Century”
Dear Brothers in Christ,
As I re-read the news, commentary and e-exchanges on your site concerning Vatican
II and the foretold false Church, I think of the 100 years that Lucifer was
given to try and take over the Church. Definitely the "Crime of the
Century" that has gone unreported until your website was
established. Thank you for your inspirational Quotes of the Day.
God continue to Bless your work,
Tom Miles
Received
Dear Brothers,
Yesterday I
received your bumper sticker. Thank you so much! I hope it will
catch peoples' attention and perhaps convert a few.
Alain
New
Audios on Baptism
The
Bible teaches Baptismal Regeneration and that Baptism is necessary for
salvation
[New 33 min. audio]
Even though they practice
baptism, most Protestants do not believe that baptism spiritually
regenerates… They hold that it’s a sign of a conversion or a spiritual rebirth
that already happened when one accepted Jesus as the Savior… This audio shows
how they contradict the clear teaching of Jesus and the Bible on baptism and
what it means to be born again… The biblical proof for baptismal regeneration
is one of the easiest ways of demonstrating that Protestantism is not biblical
Christianity… This audio covers many verses; it addresses objections (such as
from Ephesians 2:8-9); it covers a well-known Protestant’s pathetic attempt to
respond to the proof for baptismal regeneration in Acts 2:37-38, and much more
The
Proof for Infant Baptism [New 11 min. audio]
This audio shows
that the Bible teaches that infants should be baptized and that baptism can be
done either by immersion or by effusion (i.e. pouring)
These audios have been added to our: Refuting Protestantism and Eastern
"Orthodoxy" * Audio Programs
Abortion
and Multiple Personalities
Hello
Brothers
I would just like to know about aborted babies as they are not baptized do they
go to hell? On a different matter a man
where my dad works regularly comes into the shop now he is said to have
multiple personalities. Now my dad doesn't believe in multiple personalities
and either do i we believe they are possesed.So is this man possesed.My dad
offered him a brown scapular but the man refused because he says it puts him in
pain and he gets depressed by it. Do you think he is possesed and if so should
I recomend a priest to investigate him. Thank you for reading this.
Sean Keogan
God Bless.
MHFM: It’s a dogma that all unbaptized children – which includes
aborted babies – cannot be saved. This
is a dogma, defined by the Councils of Trent and Florence. They go to a part of Hell where there is no
fire.
Regarding multiple personalities, we are convinced that it is
demonic in origin. The individual
doesn’t necessarily require an exorcism; he might be able to be freed from it
by praying the Rosary, converting to the true faith, making a good confession,
and getting into a state of grace. So
that’s what you should try to get him to do, first of all. He must believe correctly, however, to be
blessed by God and freed from his spiritual malady. His problem is spiritual.
Apostate
sede nuns on EWTN
Recently representatives of a new group of
religious sisters, formerly of the CMRI, appeared on EWTN's "Life on the
Rock" show which is geared for youth. They had attended the recent World
Youth Day in Sydney and were aglow at "finally being part of the
church". Obviously the hosts were in a bind because they had to
reconcile pre and post Vatican II together. One of the hosts,
"Father" Mark Mary mention of the salvation dogma but spun everything
in their direction. The emphasis of the show was on "trusting
authority" and "bringing reverance back into the liturgy".
It was Divine irony that the first question emailed in (before the sisters even
came on) was about the Catholicity of Aboriginal dancing on the sanctuary as
the warm-up for a "papal event". The co-host, Mr. Doug Barry,
said something like (my paraphrase) "we don't know what they could mean by
those dances". In other words, dancing around nearly naked on the
"sanctuary" could be an act of worship to The Holy Trinity akin to a
Catholic praying in union with the True Church. This tells me that some of the
youth who grow up with poor catechesis at their NO parishes and schools are
beginning to ask questions (based on obvious religious pluralism and downright
demonic activity shown at such youth events) and God willing they will find the
answers thanks to apostolates like yours. Keep up the excellent
work.
Matthew
MHFM: That’s quite interesting, and despicable. It disgusts us just to think of their bad
will and their apostasy. It should be
pointed out that, in addition to their horrible bad will, there was another
factor which contributed to the apostasy of those nuns. Shortly before their decision to embrace the
Vatican II sect, their heretical sedevacantist group (which denies the dogma
Outside the Church There is No Salvation) subjected them to a
presentation/argument for the sedevacantist position by a heretical
pseudo-sedevacantist. In making his
arguments, this individual did a very poor job of presenting evidence of the
heresies which have been taught by the Vatican II antipopes. The presentation on the whole was defensive
and powerless. This caused the
already-faithless nuns to feel that the arguments for sedevacantism are rather
weak.
Thanks to this weak presentation (and their bad will), they were
persuaded that fidelity to the Papacy rests with the Vatican II antipopes. This was because the pseudo-sedevacantist
didn’t establish or emphasize that it’s just the opposite: the Vatican II
antipopes are, in fact, the biggest deniers of the Papacy in the world. The poor presentation and their own bad will
left the heretical nuns with the impression that sedevacantism is based more on
nostalgia, an exaggerated opposition to change, and a dissatisfaction with
scandals, rather than on solid and irrefutable doctrinal arguments and proofs
of heresy. We are convinced that this
was a significant factor in their decision to go forward into the apostasy of
the Vatican II sect. But one can see
God’s justice on all sides in this situation.
The heretical nuns (who don’t believe in the necessity of Jesus, to whom
they claim to be committed) received the just deserts of their bad will: being
spiritually blinded and jumping wholesale into the apostasy. The heretical group which they left also
suffered a just punishment. Since it
chose to enter a spiritual battle (a debate) which it was not equipped to fight
– it was not equipped precisely because it is without the true faith: it denies
the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation – it wound up making a weak
and feeble fight. As a result, its group
was mortally wounded (See 1 Machabees 5:56-61).
Finally, people cannot underestimate how evil it is to embrace
the Vatican II sect after coming to the knowledge that it is a Counter
Church. It is truly to abandon
Christ.
More
on Valtorta
A little while back a person that I know
was reading Maria Valtora's work(the poem of the Man-God), so I decided to
check it out because I didn't know anything about it. The person I know claimed
it gave details about the lives of Jesus and Mary that are not found in
scripture and she had told me there was a lot of strange things in there. I
don't think her work is something people should waste their time with. There
were a lot of red flags that came up when I was looking for information about
it. For example: it was on the Index of Forbidden books, it was supported by
Paul VI and it contrasts with scripture. One article I read that reviewed
the text said that her work contains a lot of geographical, theological
and historical blunders. For example it said in Vol 1 pp 195, 223 Jesus was
using screwdrivers and screws didn't exist until centuries later. She(Maria
Valtora) also claimed that the first sin was sexual and scripture does not
teach that, that can be found in Vol 1 pg 30. In Vol 1 pg 7 it claims that
"Mary can be called the 'second born' of the Father" and Vol 4
pg 240 claims that she is second to Peter with regard to the ecclesiastical
hierarchy. One thing that I found interesting about Maria Valtora was that her
spiritual advisor claimed that she had written the text without correction,
revision or review and often without even understanding what she had written. I
find this interesting because it sounds like automatic writing which is a
form of spirit communication very popular with people involved with the occult.
The definition of automatic writing is: Writing performed without conscious
thought or deliberation, typically by means of spontaneous free association or
as a medium for spirits or psychic forces….
Blessed
Sacrament
Dimond Brothers,
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament
of the Altar.
That is one of the Divine Praises.
Please clarify and/or respond to the following:
When the antipopes, since 1958, celebrate
the novus ordo mass, is Jesus truly present? is transubstantiation effected? or
is it just bread and wine because the words of consecration have been altered?
and the antipopes, as you have proven, are heretics and therefor not part
of the Church.
Faithfully,
James K.
MHFM: No, Jesus is most certainly not present at the New
Mass. It’s invalid.
The prayer simply refers and applies to those places where He is
present.
Encounter
with Being
Dear Brother Dimond,
I am writing to you with a question and please do not dismiss this as some type
of hoax or crackpot observation. Please hear me out and if you could
point me in the right direction or provide some type of explanation. We
(my family) would be most grateful.
About 3 weeks ago my family (myself, my wife and our 2 children ages 8 and 12)
went to an amusement park near our home (Ohio). This park is Cedar Point
Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. We were all having a wonderful day and
near the end of the day my eldest (12 years old) and I decided to ride a ride
called Disaster Transport (basically a roller coaster in the dark, located in a
large building). Midway through waiting through the line, my 12 year old turned
to me and said "I don't want to ride this ride, can we please
exit"? There were not any available exits so we rode the coaster and
at the end he told me why he wanted to leave.
He explained to me that while we were waiting in line he saw a pair of eyes floating
the dark and "ghost like" in appearance. I could tell from how
frightened he was that he was and is telling the truth. It gets a bit
more bizarre. We left a few hours later and during the car ride home
(after about 30 minutes) he tells us that he now sees this being outside of the
car. He described it as having long fingers and nails, blueish long hair
and yellowish eyes. It was not large in appearance 3 feet or so and the
back end was more of a wisp as opposed to legs.
He then saw it again for the last time as he described it circling up a
telephone pole (corkscrew fashion) to the top and then that was all. My
question is why is he seeing this, what is it and should we be concerned?
I've been looking into this and to me it seems to be an Imp or some type of
detached spirit. The telephone pole part seemed to be it was bounded by
an area and could continue no further.
I know this isn't exactly what you normally reply to but any insight would be
most beneficial. Thank you VERY much for you time and any insight you can
offer.
Sincerely,
Bruce
MHFM: That’s very significant.
We wonder if the roller coaster had an occult theme or motif. If so, that could be the reason why God
allowed it to occur. If it did have an occult
theme or motif, one should not have ridden on it. If it did not, then God allowed it to happen
for some other reason, such as for a further confirmation of the reality of the
supernatural world or because of something else he is doing in his life.
His problem sounds very similar to many other cases we’ve come
across. For instance, in this audio
discussion: A case of demonic possession
[44 min. audio], we
covered the extremely interesting case of a young man whose encounter with a
similar unknown being sadly resulted in demonic possession. He first saw an apparition; he then began to
see it more; it then began to speak to him; it then wouldn’t leave him alone;
it then began to command him; it then took him over and possessed him. In these kinds of cases, the common theme is
that the more attention one gives to these beings, the more power and influence
they are allowed to have in one’s life.
This is because God gets upset if the attention to such a thing detracts
from His power. Your son should be made
to understand that these things are completely powerless and can only do what
God allows them to do.
What your son needs to do immediately is pray the Rosary every
day, if he does not do so. He needs to
pray 15 decades a day, if possible. He
needs to ask Our Lord and Our Lady to protect him from this being, and for it
to go away. He should pray the prayer to
St. Michael every day. He also needs to – and this is crucial –
ignore this being completely. He
shouldn’t look for it, and shouldn’t ever listen to it if it communicates with
him. You should probably explain to
him that it’s almost certainly a demonic being who might be allowed to bother
him even more if he doesn’t ignore it or if he gives it too much
attention. He needs to focus on his
spiritual life, Jesus Christ, living the Catholic faith and making sure that he
has confessed and is in the state of grace.
You probably should listen to the above audio to see how serious things
can get if one doesn’t take the proper remedies and ignore such a thing.
Lord’s
name in vain
Dear Brothers,
I have a question about those who use the Lord's name in vain. My brother
uses the Lord's name in variety of profane ways very often. However, I'm
not quite sure how to exactly tell you all of his uses without doing it myself,
but I'm sure you get the idea. I have told him numerous times that if he
continues to commit the sin, I will not help him whenever he needs me.
Tonight he wanted me to help him with something and when some things went wrong
he got mad and committed the sin again, and I told him, "One more time and
you can forget it." He asked me why I had to be that way, and I told
him, "Fine get out!" Then he was really upset and left.
My V2 sister told me that he doesn't mean it, but I figured I gave him enough
warnings. Was it right to refuse him help, or should I have just told him
not to do it again?
Thanks,
Jude Miller
MHFM: Yes, the right thing to do is to refuse to him help
him. As you pointed out, you have told
him numerous times about this very serious sin.
He has been warned, but he continues to do it. So it’s very clear that you should not help
him in the future. Your V2 sister is
completely wrong. She is more concerned
with respect for man than respect for God and, of course, she makes excuses for
the sin. But what should one expect from
a V2 phony “Catholic.” You might have
already, but it should also be made clear to your brother that what he is doing
is not just wrong and sinful; it’s mortally sinful and places him in a state of
damnation.
By the way, since so many today have not been exposed to many
aspects of Catholic faith and tradition, below are the Divine Praises. These are excellent prayers in honor of the
divine name. These tremendous prayers
are geared specifically toward making reparation for blasphemy and the taking
of the Lord’s name in vain. This sin has
become so common in our day, in general speech, entertainment, etc. that it’s
almost mind-boggling. It’s truly one of
the worst aspects of society today.
The Divine Praises
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
Blessed be the name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His angels and in His Saints.
Divorce
and children
MHFM,
Suppose that a person (husband) of bad will marries inside the V2 Church someone
(N.O. wife) that was previously married inside the V2 Church, divorced and was
granted a false annulment from the V2 Church. Now that they are separated and
the wife has moved out, and state law requires one year of separation before a
divorce will be granted, what are the husband's options in order to continue to
serve the true Catholic Church? Is separation sufficient for the time being?
Knowing that the N.O. wife is (in god's eyes) still married to the first (still
living) man, will the husband be able to remarry as his marriage was not valid
to begin with?
What responsibility does the husband have to try and gain custody of a child in
the wife's care? Should the husband spend no expense fighting in court or
should I put the matter in God's hand's and wait for God's will to be known?
God Bless you,
Tom
MHFM: Yes, if the woman had been clearly married before in the
Novus Ordo – to another person who purported to be a baptized Catholic – then that
marriage was valid and he would be free to marry again. Certainly the traditional Catholic man should
make an effort to gain custody of the child; for obviously the child should be
raised by the traditional Catholic and not the N.O. “Catholic,” if possible.
The question concerning to what expense one should go in this
endeavor is another issue. That depends
on the likelihood of success, one’s financial means, the age of the child,
etc. For example, if the child is a
teen then he or she will be free at 18 anyway.
One should consider all of those factors and make an informed and
prayerful decision. Another factor to
consider is child’s level of interest in God, salvation, the Catholic faith,
etc. If the child has no interest in the
faith, then fighting for custody might be a fruitless endeavor, for the child
is going to spurn your religious instructions and admonitions anyway. All of that has to be considered, and prayed
over. Don’t make the mistake of ruining
your own life – or making your own life much more difficult – for someone who
doesn’t care anyway. People frequently
fail to do what God wants because they spend so much time and effort worrying
about people who don’t care anyway. But
then again, if that person is still very young and would be different in a
different environment, that has to be considered as well.
Opinion
or Doctrine?
Hello MHFM,
I have been debating with a couple of non-Sedecavantist and they conclude that
Sedevacantism is just a theological opinion. What bothers me the most is
that they do not understand Catholic teaching and the more I give 'em quotes
from the Catholic Church, (which I took from "21 Answers to the Objections
against sedevacantism" article) and they seem to or are falling more into
heresy. One of them told me that it is wrong to make an opinion a
doctrine but I find that the Church has declared that when a pope falls into
heresy it looses authority. They told me that they want more than
that...I mean how blind are they? But I do wish an answer, is
sedevacanstim just a theological opinion and not a doctrine? Because, the
way I see it is that if a pope has solemnly declared that a baptized person who
rejects one(or more) dogmas becomes a heretic and is no longer a member, but
when the pope has declared this, does it mean its now a doctrine? Or is
it an opinion? But then again it can't be just an opinion because the
dogmas are truths fallen from heaven and it was condemned to say that dogmas
are not truths fallen from heaven. I do wish for an answer to this new
confusion I just came upon. I will keep you in my prayers. Thank you and
God bless you.
-Bernardo T.
from Oregon
MHFM: A doctrine is simply a teaching. There can be good doctrines or bad
doctrines. The word doctrine doesn’t
necessarily mean a true doctrine. For
example:
1 Timothy 4:1- “Now the Spirit manifestly
saith, that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error, and doctrines of devils…”
It should be pointed out, however, that while “doctrine” doesn’t
necessarily connote something good, it is used in some contexts to indicate
official Catholic teachings. That’s just
something to be aware of.
A dogma is a truth of divine revelation which has been revealed
by Christ and solemnly declared by the Church.
A dogmatic fact is something that is so intimately tied up with a dogma
that, if it were not true, the dogma itself would not be true. To relate this to our issue, it’s a dogma
that heretics are not members of the Catholic Church (Eugene IV, etc.). It’s also a dogma that a true pope is a member of the Church (Vatican I,
etc.). Therefore, it follows logically – it’s a dogmatic fact – that a heretic
cannot be a pope. It’s something that,
if it were not true, would render the dogma that heretics are not members of
the Church false. Dogmatic facts are as
certain as dogmas. So it’s certain that
a heretic cannot be pope. It’s a fact bound up with a dogma.
So the only question is: is it certain that John Paul II,
Benedict XVI, etc. are heretics? Yes, it
is certain for three reasons, as our material proves. 1)
They are not ignorant, but well aware, of the dogmas they deny; 2) They
hold and teach things which are incompatible with the possession of Catholic
faith, even if they were not aware of what the Church and popes have taught on
those matters (e.g., the heresies that all religions are more or less good and
that non-Catholics don’t need to be converted are incompatible with core belief
in Christ); 3) They have solemnly invoked their “authority” to teach
heresy. Thus, it’s certain that they are
not true popes. To believe otherwise is
to embrace something incompatible with the faith; it is to deny, in effect, the
dogma that heretics are not members of the Church.
Freemasonic
Roots of Darwinism
Dear Brothers,
I found some interesting information regard the Freemasonic/Jewish roots of the
myth of evolution that I thought you might be interested in.
Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin was initiated at the St. David's
Freemason Lodge No 36. Edinburgh in 1754. In early 1788 he also became a member
of the Time Immemorial Lodge of Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2, of Scotland. Note:
The majority of Freemasons in these lodges were Jewish.
Charles Darwin's uncle Francis Darwin was made a Freemason in the Tyrian Lodge,
No. 253, at Derby, in 1807.
Robert Darwin the father of Charles Darwin was initiated by his father Erasmus
Darwin to a Freemason Lodge. So Darwin came from a whole family of Freemasons
who were linked to Jewish Freemasonic lodges. It appears the theory of
evolution was invented by anti-religious Freemasons in Jewish Freemason lodges.
Hope this is of some interest to you,
D…
Fatima
Secret
Dear Brothers,
Far be it from me to question the truths of
Fatima, but there's one thing I just don't get, and I'm hoping you can shed
some light on this. Why would Mary decide to make Vatican II out to be the
third secret. Why should V2 be kept a secret at all? Logic would seem to
dictate that exposing this future false council would be something Our Lady
would be very open about. I am trying to understand the logic of why it was
kept as a secret at all. Thanks for your time.
MHFM: We believe that the simplest answer to your question is
that God puts people to the test. He
allows heresies to arise (1 Cor. 11:19).
He allows spiritual deceptions to arise and He puts people to the test
to see if they will adhere to the true faith or just follow whoever is “in
power.” Thus, He’s not always going to
give the answer to the upcoming dilemma in a well-known prophecy or sign that
is readily available to everyone.
More
on Valtorta
Maria Valtorta is author of The Poem of the
Man God and other nauseating books. The Poem is contained in several
thick volumes. The Poem was
condemned sevaral times by the pre Vatican II church. Its
printing was forbidden… "Our Lady" of Medjugorje recommended the Poem
as "a good read."
This crazy V2 Catholic woman I used to know would loan some of the volumes to
her friends who told her it was wonderful. She said she
had read the entire dozen or so volumes three times, and I believe it
because she had so many warped ideas about Christ and his Blessed
Mother. After hearing this woman talk for some time (she was also a
devoted Medjugorje advocate; got free trips there about three times) I went to
church one day and looked at the
beautiful crucifix hanging there. I felt disgust because I identified
with the Christ she talked about. I also felt disgust when I looked at my
statue of Our Lady of Fatima at home, but the feelings lasted less than a day
because I knew where they came from and ignored them. I've heard of
others having the same experience.
One day, at this woman's urging, I took one of the
volumes home. I skimmed through it quickly and I don't think I read more
than three pages worth till I felt nauseous. I returned the book and told
her it made me sick…
This same nutty woman and others I knew were also obsessed by the
Marian Movement of Priests, EWTN and any and every apparition that came down
the pike. She also liked to talk about her former bawdy life and many
husbands. I tried to talk some truth
into her on the phone one day and when she had
nothing to refute the truth she yelled loudly, "Why don't you go
down to the chancery and have yourself
ordained!!" then slammed the phone down very hard.
The Poem's "Jesus" fit right in with that kind of garbage, but when
she went to confession she would say she had nothing to confess. Lots of
these reverent V2 Catholics would say
the same thing. One terrible gossip said
she never committed a mortal sin because "I am a prudent
thinker."
PM
Nicholas
V
MHFM: We found it somewhat interesting that at the coronation of
Pope Nicholas V there was a symbolic act of condemnation of the Jewish
religion. Pope Nicholas V was the pope
who reigned after Pope Eugene IV. This
quote is another interesting illustration of how far removed the actions and
beliefs of the Vatican II antipopes are from the true popes. Surely the following would be apologized for
and excised from any post-Vatican II “papal” ceremony. Such an action would be condemned as
outdated/overturned by Vatican II and Nostra
Aetate’s new vision of the Jews as “not rejected by God.”
Concerning
his coronation and a procession immediately following: “The Pope [Nicholas V]
was preceded by three banners and an umbrella; he rode on a white horse, bore
the golden Rose in his left hand, and blessed the people with his right. The ambassadors of Aragon and the Barons
alternately led the Pope’s horse. At Monte Giordano the Jews delivered to him
their law, and he condemned their interpretation. After the conclusion of the ecclesiastical
function in the Lateran…” (Dr. Ludwig Pastor, History of the Popes, Vol. 2, p. 31)
Conversion
rare before death
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter:
Below is an interesting quote from St.
Alphonsus concerning the idea of conversion to the Catholic Faith at the end of
one’s life. Although these types of
conversions are possible, as you point out in your most recent email exchange
(Specific Individuals in Hell), they are extremely rare. St. Alphonsus states that these types of
conversions proceed out of necessity, and that it would be very difficult for
God to pardon such a person:
He that lives in sin till death shall die
in sin. “You shall die in your sin.”
(John viii. 21.) It is true that, in
whatsoever hour the sinner is converted, God promises to pardon him; but to no
sinner has God promised the grace of conversion at the hour of death. “Seek the Lord while he may be found.”
(Isa. Iv. 6.) Then, there is for some sinners a time when
they shall seek God and shall not find him.
“You shall seek me, and shall not find me.” (John vii. 34.) The unhappy beings will go to confession at
the hour of death; they will promise and weep, and ask mercy of God, but wi
thout knowing what they do. A man who
sees himself under the feet of a foe pointing a dagger to his throat, will shed
tears, ask pardon, and promise to serve his enemy as a slave during the
remainder of his life. But, will the
enemy believe him? No; he will feel
convinced that his words are not sincere–that his object is to escape from his
hands, and that, should he be pardoned, he will become more hostile than
ever. In like manner, how can God pardon
the dying sinner, when he sees that all his acts of sorrow, and all his
promises, proceed not from the heart, but from a dread of death and of
approaching damnation.” (Serm. XXXVIII On the death of the sinner, par. 8)
-John.
Converting
to real Church
In this time, with the state of the church
being as it is; how can a person convert to the Catholic Church as it existed
before Vatican II? Is there a process? I know this may sound like silly
questions but I just do not know. From what I find, there is now no real pope
to ordain persons at other positions in the church and to thus guide
non-Catholics into the faith. There is no one authority to declare who is and
is not a member of the church, so it would to me sound like Protestantism where
each person determines for themselves with no core central authority to define
infallibly such things. I know these are days markedly different from the
previous 2000 years and I do believe even today God will hear to those who call
for him and seek his truth, and I have to maintain hope that one can even in
this day convert to the original, first, and true Church of God.
J…
MHFM: We have a section on our website which explains just how
one does that: The Steps to convert to the
traditional Catholic faith and for those leaving the New Mass - Baptism and
Conditional Baptism - the Council of Trent's Profession of Faith for
Converts.
Concerning your second point, just because there is no pope does
not mean that a Catholic cannot identify what he has to believe or who adheres
to the true rule of faith. That’s what
the magisterial teachings are for; that’s what the dogmas enable a Catholic to
do. The Papacy is the principle of unity
in the Church, as Vatican I defined, precisely because of the powers that rest
in the office of the Papacy. In other
words, those dogmas and teachings which have come down to us from the previous
popes who occupied the office remain the binding rule and the principle of
unity even when those popes have passed and even when there is no pope. Adhering to papal teaching and Catholic
dogmas, and refusing to recognize as part of the Church of Christ those who
clearly do not, is not in any way comparable to Protestantism. It’s the antithesis to Protestantism.
Maria
Valtorta
Greetings, dear Brothers.
Quick question: what is your opinion
of the revelations and writings of the Italian woman, Maria Valtorta?
Were these ever approved by the Church?
Sincerely in Christ,
Margaret Moore
MHFM: Thanks for the question.
We haven’t had the time – nor frankly the inclination – to study her
writings. However, a knowledgeable
person we know did spend significant time with her stuff. We do recall that he was convinced they were
false and that he considered many things he read problematic. Perhaps some of our readers can help here
with specific examples. We would also
say that, generally speaking, one should be super-cautious about voluminous
amounts of visions/messages which are purportedly being received by individuals
who haven’t been canonized. Since Jesus
and Mary typically don’t say very much in the true and authentic apparitions,
voluminous amounts to a non-canonized person is frequently, if not usually, a
case where the Devil has been involved.
Abortion
Now here's a good question concerning
abortion. Those who have had abortions are not only responsible for committing MURDER
but they are also responsible for that soul not having a chance at
salvation/eternal life, because the aborted babies souls(since they are not
baptised) end up in Hell, am I correct here?
HOW IN THE WORLD are those of us who are convinced and fully believe
that life begins at conception and that you can't have eternal life without
baptism supposed to view,deal with and handle these people if we happen to
stumble upon one or some? I say "stumble" because ON PURPOSE I would
want nothing to do with them and if I had somekind of advance warning of these
kinds of people I would RUN THE OTHER WAY and try my best to avoid them,
because for me MURDER of unborn babies and then their souls ending up in Hell
(due to peoples selfishness+selfcenteredness and convenience) is a little bit
WAY TO MUCH for me to handle and it's a BITTER PILL to swallow thinking about
these FACTS!
MHFM: Like with any other individual who is involved in
something against the faith, you just lay out the facts and the teaching of the
Church in a straightforward, charitable and matter-of-fact fashion.
Answering
claims
Dear Brothers,
I have been debating some V-2 "Catholics" lately. They have made
statements that I'm not sure how to respond to. One said "Sedevacantism is
protestantism", another referred to Sedevacantists as being
"schismatics". Another one asked me for proof that the V-2 antipopes
are invalid. In response to that I sent them links to your PDF files regarding
the V-2 antipopes' heresies. This person then claimed that "they prove
nothing" and then asked for, "adequate documentation showing explicit
heresy. Not JPII praying in a temple with a statue of Buddha. Not Benedict XVI
saying Mass facing the congregation. But an encyclical where they are openly
teaching error."
Could you please help me out with answering these claims?
Thank you very much,
Dylan.
MHFM: First, regarding “Sedevacantism is Protestantism”… you
should respond by pointing out that the Vatican II antipopes agree with the
Protestants on Justification. They teach
that Protestants are part of the Church and can be saved, and they have praised
the worst Protestant heretics of all time.
Second, regarding “Sedevacantists as schismatics”… you should
respond by pointing out that Benedict XVI teaches that Vatican I (they might
not even know what that is) doesn’t need to be accepted. Further point out that Benedict XVI praises
the leading schismatics basically weekly, and that he has declared that they
are part of the true Church. That means
that he’s a schismatic.
Third, regarding the documentation of heresies, the PDF files
have all the information you need.
That’s what they are there for.
They not only cover their many heretical actions, but they cover (in
more depth than you will find anywhere) the loads of explicit heresies in their
writings, in their speeches and encyclicals.
For example, to just give a quick few, the file on John Paul II covers
how in one encyclical (Ut Unum Sint)
he teaches that non-Catholics can lawfully receive Holy Communion (heresy),
that non-Catholics are saints (heresy) and that the Catholic Church is in
communion with non-Catholics (heresy).
You need to look more carefully at those files. The people you are conversing with probably
didn’t give them five minutes of their attention. You should keep in mind that the people you
are conversing with are demonstrating bad will.
If they are indeed of bad will, rather than just unaware of their
heresies, then there probably won’t be anything that you could show them to
prove the point because they are simply of bad will. That’s unfortunately why God has to send
people like that to Hell; they could look at a thousand different proofs and
not be convinced. Any person who could look at these files and
still maintain that John Paul II and Benedict XVI are not heretics is simply a
liar and of bad will. It should also
be pointed out that documenting heretical actions – in addition to documenting
heretical statements – does prove heresy; for heresy is manifested by deed as
well as by word.
The Heresies of
John Paul II - a comprehensive presentation [PDF file]
The Heresies of Benedict XVI [PDF file]
EWTN
Dear Bro. Dimond,
I have been watching EWTN for a long time and accidentally, I opened your very
intriguing and interesting website and I am hanging now of which one to believe
and which one to reject because there are good programs in EWTN. What I
did is to keep my heart and mind open but I have such turmoils as whether I
would continue watching EWTN channel. What is your opinion about this?
Sincerely,
Alejandro C.
MHFM: Well, you should definitely agree with us and not with
EWTN because EWTN teaches and accepts heresies which are contrary to the
Catholic faith. As far as watching it
goes, one could watch certain programs.
But one should not watch the invalid New Mass or other programs that
would be a danger to one’s faith. A
person who is strong in the traditional Catholic faith should be able to
determine which programs would be acceptable and which ones would not be.
EWTN and the Charismatic
Movement [PDF File]
Levels
of Hell
Dear Monks,
Are there different departments/compartments or sections or levels (whatever
you want to call it) of Hell? Because not every soul who will not make it into
Heaven is alike, and not all of the souls who will end up in Hell will have
belonged to REAL EVIL people or real REAL EVIL DOERS like Hitler and
his henchmen or Stalin or other dictators and communists and other REAL EVIL
people. Most people in this world(the ones we are around most of our lives and
meet everyday and spent our lives with and around) are not really good but they
are also not really bad or EVIL. Most people live their lives in a LIGHT GREY
ZONE( on a symbolic color scale ranging from white to black, white being SAINTLY
and BLACK being EVIL, Light to darker Grey ZONE is where I would
place the majority and average human being from any background or religion). As
one of your videos states(death and the journey into Hell) most people won't
get into Heaven not because they are bad but because they are just NOT GOOD
ENOUGH, ok then where are these good but just not good enough for Heaven souls
going to end up? And even for those who die in a state of mortal sin, not all
of the mortal sins are the same in weight or seriousness, for example should
somebody who died after telling a lie end up in the same place as a Jeffrey
Dahmer mass murderer? or again Hitler,Stalin,Lenin ?
PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FOR ME.................
MHFM: Yes, there are different levels in Hell for different
levels of evil people. It’s true that
most people who find themselves on the road to Hell aren’t as overtly evil as
the characters you mentioned. But they
are liars at heart, and they don’t care enough about God and the truth. Their bad will only comes out on certain
occasions because much of their life is spent in indifference to God. In the case of those who claim to be
Catholics, their bad will only surfaces when presented with certain truths. So they might seem to be okay, but God sees
that interiorly they are liars who are not of the truth. It’s not enough to simply not be really evil;
one must be good and of the truth to get to Heaven. That’s why Jesus said:
Luke 13:24- “Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek
to enter, and shall not be able.”
John 18:37- “Every one that is of the truth,
heareth my voice.”
Purgatory
Dimond Brothers,
There are too many so-called Catholics
today who have a very false notion that everything will be straightened out for
them in purgatory, as if purgatory were even guaranteed to them. You have done well in your recent audio to
disabuse them of that notion.
My thought is that it would be far better
to go straight to heaven and not have to depend on the prayers of the Church
militant as you experience purgation in purgatory.
If possible, it would be far better to die
in the state of grace (justified), and having endured all necessary temporal
punishment on earth, have one's soul fly directly to God...
Faithfully,
James K.
World
War II
I'm writing to recommend Pat Buchanan's
most recent book, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War. While not a
religious book, its well documented and cited facts which recount the origins
of World War II, all the way back to the late 19th Century and the First
World War should prove nothing sort of stunning revelations to most
contemporary Americans. In the final analysis, any serious Catholic should
easily see that the essential result of World War II was to enable
the spread of Godless Communism throughout all of Eastern Europe,
China and Southeast Asia. However the near incredible way in which
these events were engineered, the terrible slaughter and enslavement of
millions of Catholics which occurred before during and after the war with the
consent of the Western Allies, while all the while "good"
Americans thought they were pursuing a noble cause, is both mind boggling
and infuriating. Of course besides Communism, the other great benefactor
of the war was Zionism.
I think it is worthwhile because it really
turns what I would say is the conventional wisdom regarding the history of this
time on its head. Churchill emerges as a villain. Hitler is
certainly no worse than any of his contemporaries. Buchanan proves that
Hitler never sought war with the West, in fact Hitler is quoted as naming the
British Empire and the Catholic Church as two indispensable institutions in the
maintenance of world order. Hitler's two ambitions were to reverse the
injustices of the Versailles Treaty and to destroy Bolshevism. It
is incredible how much what everyone "knows to be true" can be so
completely backward. A tribute to the quality of the propaganda served up
by Hollywood, the news media and the government controlled education
system.
Bill Mulligan
Specific
Individuals in Hell
Is there anything that says that certain
individuals are in Hell? The Church teaches
that there is no salvation outside the Church, but is there any statement that
this or that person is in Hell. Certain
liberals like to harp on this.
MHFM: There are
statements that indicate that certain individuals are damned. For example, St. Alphonsus points this out:
“Three sects take their origin from
Valentine. The first were called
Sethites: These paid honor to Seth, that they said Jesus Christ was born of
Him, and some went so far as to say that Jesus Christ and Seth were one and the
same person. The second sect were called
Cainites: These venerated as saints all
those who the Scripture tells us were damned – as Cain, Core, the
inhabitants of Sodom, and especially Judas Iscariot.” (History of Heresies, p. 38)
Thus, Scripture indicates that certain specific individuals were
damned. Further, there are papal decrees
which state that certain individuals died as heretics. It’s de
fide that those who died as heretics are damned. So, contrary to the liberal modernists, the
teaching of the Church does indicate by such things that certain specific
individuals are in Hell. But it really
doesn’t need to because it’s a dogma that all who die in mortal sin and outside
the Church go to Hell. Hence, all who
fit into one of those categories go to Hell.
Now it’s true that any person can convert at the end of life,
even if that kind of conversion is extremely rare. But there must be evidence of such a
conversion in the external forum for a Catholic to consider that person to have
died a Catholic. If there is no such
evidence, that person is considered to have died as he or she lived and is
therefore considered lost. Note: the
presumption in certain cases is about
whether the person died as a Catholic
or not. There is no presumption, but a
certitude of faith, that if a person died
a non-Catholic, he or she is without any doubt not saved.
Jesus also indicates that most people are lost (Matthew 7:13).
Bible
question
Dear Brother Dimond :
2 days ago at work I had an interesting
conversation with one of my co-workers about religion. It started when he
told me that growing up he knew many Catholics and Baptists and that each one
thought the other was going to Hell. I replied and told him I believed
that everyone except Catholics were going to Hell. I explained to him
that God reveals Himself to everyone. It is just a question of whether or
not the person responds to God's graces. God knows everything and He
knows in advance whether or not a person will accept Him. If someone has
no interest in God or religion then God will not bother to reveal the Gospel or
the name of Jesus to that person. Such a person is indifferent and is of
bad will. This leaves no excuse for invincible ignorance. He seemed
to agree with me, saying that it makes sense. Further in the conversation
speaking of Protestantism, I told him that Protestants reject certain teachings
in their own bibles which was clearly taught by Jesus, such as the papacy,
confession, etc. He stated that the problem he has is that the bible was
written by men and therefore he doesn't trust it. It is true that the
bible was written by the hands of men but with the guidance of the Holy
Ghost. I'm not sure how to respond to such a thing, for I've heard that
argument before. Can you please tell me the best answer to give the next
time someone raises such an argument? By
the way, towards the end of the conversation, again speaking of Hell, I told
him he was on the road to Hell. Of course being a heretic he doubted it.
I told him what Padre Pio said, "You'll know when you get there", and
then I told him it will be too late. Once you get there, it's forever.
Randy R.
MHFM: Yes, just because a man does something does not mean that
God cannot inspire him or guide him or help him to do it without error. Consider this hypothetical situation: suppose
a plane was severely damaged and was barely operational. Suppose the pilot found himself in treacherous
flying conditions, a massive storm, etc.
Could God guide the pilot to a safe landing? Of course he could, and your co-worker would
probably accept that example. So, even
though God used men to write the Bible, he inspired and protected those men in
their writing. God is all-powerful. It’s not difficult for him to use human
instruments in this way. So your
co-worker shouldn’t have a difficult time accepting the fact that, even though
the books of the Bible were written by men (and thus they contain the
originality and personality of their authors), they were written under the
inspiration of God and are protected by God from error.
Pope Leo XIII, Proventissimus Deus, Nov. 18, 1893: “For all the books which the Church receives as sacred and canonical,
are written wholly and entirely, with all their parts, at the dictation of the
Holy Ghost; and so far is it from being possible that any error can co-exist
with inspiration, that inspiration not only is essentially incompatible with
error, but excludes and rejects it as absolutely and necessarily as it is
impossible that God Himself, the supreme Truth, can utter that which is not
true. This is the ancient and unchanging faith of the Church, solemnly defined
in the Councils of Florence and of Trent, and finally confirmed and more
expressly formulated by the Council of the Vatican. These are the words of the
last: "The Books of the Old and New Testament, whole and entire, with all
their parts, as enumerated in the decree of the same Council (Trent) and in the
ancient Latin Vulgate, are to be received as sacred and canonical. And the
Church holds them as sacred and canonical, not because, having been composed by
human industry, they were afterwards approved by her authority; nor only
because they contain revelation without error; but because, having been written
under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their
author."(57) Hence, because the
Holy Ghost employed men as His instruments, we cannot therefore say that it was
these inspired instruments who, perchance, have fallen into error, and not the
primary author. For, by supernatural power, He so moved and impelled them to
write-He was so present to them-that the things which He ordered, and those
only, they, first, rightly understood, then willed faithfully to write down,
and finally expressed in apt words and with infallible truth. Otherwise, it
could not be said that He was the Author of the entire Scripture. Such has
always been the persuasion of the Fathers. "Therefore," says St.
Augustine, "since they wrote the things which He showed and uttered to
them, it cannot be pretended that He is not the writer; for His members
executed what their Head dictated."(58) And St. Gregory the Great thus
pronounces: "Most superfluous it is to inquire who wrote these things-we
loyally believe the Holy Ghost to be the Author of the book. He wrote it Who
dictated it for writing; He wrote it Who inspired its execution. "(59)
Questions
Dear MHFM,
I greatly appreciate any time or
consideration you can give my email. I
was raised Roman Catholic, but left the church in my late teens. I have
gone to every denomination and read tons of literature. My Dad used to
talk about Vatican 2 and changes and how sad he was over it. I am
confused. I don’t know what happened with V2 and I don’t know what
Traditional Catholic means. I do know that I miss the reverence of mass
and I do miss celebrating the Eucharist. If you can help me at all on my
journey I would appreciate it.
There is a Traditional Catholic Monastery
an hour or so from where I live, but it has been blessed by JP2...............? Thanks for any information.
Peace,
Deirdre M.
MHFM: What you need to do is come back to the traditional
Catholic faith. You need to become
convinced of all Catholic teachings first, and then we can help you with where
to receive sacraments. Some people have
the impression that showing up at a building is the main part of religion or
what being a Catholic means. That is not
correct. First and foremost you need to
believe in all Catholic teachings and reject all other religions because the
Catholic religion is the only true religion – the one revealed and established
by Jesus Christ. You must have the true
faith whole and undefiled to be saved (Athanasian Creed; Hebrews 11:6). Thus, it’s necessary for your salvation to
become Catholic. So we would recommend
that you begin to pray the Rosary, that you obtain our basic package, and that
you begin to study the catechism and the material we have concerning the
traditional Catholic faith.
Help
needed
to Most Holy Family Monastery,
…i was just wondering if you would be able to help myself, my brother and my
sister. we have made a friend who wishes to discuss our differing opinions
concerning Vatican 11. this person recently discovered that we refuse to attend
any vatican 11 masses. we only attend the mass in the traditional roman
rite. needless to say, on finding out, he wanted to immediately get in a
discussion about it. we would find it most helpful if you could manage to give
us a good list of reasons why the novus ordo is invalid, and why vatican 11 is
so bad.
thankyou kindly for all your help,
[name withheld]
MHFM:
These two files have the information you are looking for:
Baptism
of Death
Dear Brothers,
This is from Philip Schaff's book,
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH… He's talking about Zwingli.
"This liberal extension of Christ’s kingdom and
Christ’s salvation beyond the limits of the visible Church, although
directly opposed to the traditional belief of the necessity of water baptism
for salvation, was not
altogether new… Zwingli was a humanist, but he had no sympathy with
Pelagianism. On the contrary, as we have shown previously, he traced salvation to God’s sovereign grace,
which is independent of ordinary means, and he first made a
clear distinction between the visible and the invisible Church. He did not intend, as he has been often
misunderstood, to assert the possibility of salvation without Christ. "Let
no one think," he wrote to Urbanus Rhegius (a preacher at Augsburg),
"that I lower Christ; for whoever comes to God comes to him through Christ
.... The word, ’He who believeth not
will be condemned,’ applies only to those who can hear the gospel, but not to
children and heathen ....
I openly confess that all infants are saved by Christ, since grace extends as
far as sin. Whoever is born is saved by Christ from the curse of original sin.
If he comes to the knowledge of the law and does the works of the law (Rom.
2:14, 26), he gives evidence of his election. As Christians we have great
advantages by the knowledge of the gospel…”
Even Schaff, a
protestant, recognized "the traditional belief of the necessity of water
baptism for salvation." And the rest of it sounds like the usual BOD
stuff.
By the way, in Fr. S's
"Letter to a Correspondent Named John," he said "prevented by
death" and "overtaken by death" so many times it seems BOD
should stand for "Baptism of Death;" especially since he said, "The salvation
of those baptized by way of Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood comes about
immediately, at death. Such souls are brought by God into His Church at death..." This is in direct contradiction to Cantate Domino, "unless before
death they are joined
with Her..." Death is NOT the eighth sacrament!
Keep up the good work!
The audio refuting the latest BOD nonsense was great!
Thanks,
LM
MHFM:
Thanks for the e-mail. It’s interesting
that Zwingli (non-Catholic heretic) also spoke of the visible and invisible
Church. This is just like the baptism of
desire heretics in our day, who speak of people who are without the faith being
invisibly united to the Church by desire.
Infallibility
Just visited your website and was enlightened. Lucky for Catholicism that you are a
fringe minority and when you die off so does your Medieval mentality and
theology. Who are you to say that ANY
Pope, being Infallable, cannot change the teachings of predecessors, with
new more enlightened and God-sent teachings?
Jesus Christ wants ALL to come to Him!
You limit and exclude that number to the "MANY", who you claim
to be part of but whose numbers along with you are diminishing, hopefully soon,
to NONE.
But, Please don't worry, because, yes, Jesus will even accept you into
His Eternity, in spite of your own heresies. You have after all been
faithful in spite of your closed-minded and close-hearted positions. God Bless and Keep you.
MHFM:
Perhaps if you did your research and looked more carefully at our site, you
would see that the Catholic Church teaches that a pope cannot change what
another pope has infallibly taught. This
is because when a pope defines a dogma infallibly he is not making it up; he is
infallibly setting forth what Jesus Christ revealed to His Church. That’s why no pope can change it.
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, Session 4, Chap. 4: “…the Roman
Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra [from the Chair of Peter], that is, when
carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord
with his supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals
to be held by the universal Church... operates with that infallibility with
which the divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining
doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself,
but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.”
Further,
you need to wake up and realize that Christ only left one Church and it’s the
Catholic Church. Refuting Protestantism and Eastern
"Orthodoxy" * Audio Programs
Distributed
I recently distributed almost all of the 180 copies of Padre Pio's
booklet that I ordered from you. Recently, I received a card of Padre Pio
with the news that his body has been exhumed and now lies in state in San
Giovanno Rodondo.
Just in case you didn't know.
Mary P.
B.O.D. Anathema
MHFM:
In our book (► Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf file]), on pages 275-276, we
sum up some of the main arguments from the infallible teaching of the Catholic
Church which contradict baptism of desire.
In trying to respond to them, one baptism of desire advocate named Griff
has made a mockery of himself. What’s
worse, he has brought down anathema upon himself. We will just look at one point of what he says
now.
“1) The Catholic Church teaches that the Sacrament of Baptism is
necessary for salvation. - False. The Church teaches that Baptism is necessary,
but nowhere describes the Sacrament of Baptism as being any more than being
"of relative means," thus admitting BOB and BOD.”
False? Just so we’re clear, this person asserts that
our point #1 – our first point in a summation of the points against baptism of
desire – that the Catholic Church teaches that the SACRAMENT of Baptism is
necessary for salvation, is false!!!
According to him, it’s FALSE to say that the Church teaches that the
Sacrament of Baptism is necessary for salvation. But the Council of Trent specifically
anathematized anyone who says that the Sacrament of Baptism is not necessary
for salvation!
Pope Paul III, The Council of Trent, Can. 5 on the Sacrament
of Baptism, Sess. 7, 1547, ex cathedra: “If anyone says
that baptism [the sacrament] is optional, that is, not necessary for salvation
(cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.”
When
reading this canon remember: 1) This is a canon on THE SACRAMENT. Thus, it’s
infallibly condemning those who say that THE SACRAMENT is not necessary for
salvation (just what the baptism of desire heretic cited above says); 2) All
baptism of desire advocates admit that “baptism of desire” is not a sacrament;
they say it confers the grace of baptism without the sacramental
character. So this canon not only
contradicts their position, but it shows that the audacious heretic quoted
above – who even had the opportunity to carefully review this canon – has
fallen under its specific anathema by boldly denying its teaching. He specifically says that what the canon
declares is FALSE! What an outrageous
heretic… These people think that they
can just deny the words of infallible definitions and get away with it. They don’t know what they’re dealing with.
We’ve
also come across some interesting new counter-arguments and quotes which are
relevant to defending the dogma against these salvation heretics. We will be covering them in due time.
Stigmata?
Hello Dimond brothers.
What is your take on Zlatko Sudac, a Croatian priest who, according to many,
has stigmata? He was born in 1971, so after Vatican-II, and was ordained a
priest on 1998, in the new rite of ordination. Would you consider his stigmata
to be real or some how a fake? Below I have posted a link which covers an
interview with Sudac.
Thank you!
MHFM: No, it’s
definitely fake or of demonic origin (probably the latter). This is proven because the “priest” was, as
you mentioned, ordained in the New Rite of Ordination. He is also in favor of Vatican II and
Medjugorje. Need one say more? Well, we guess one could also mention that he
is in favor of the Charismatic movement.
This is a false movement which is not of the Holy Spirit, in which false
signs and wonders abound.
False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje)
EWTN and the
Charismatic Movement [PDF File]
Question
Hello Brothers:
I have a follow up question to Steve’s e-exchange (More on
Gravesites). I understand from your
quote from Council of Laodicea that a “Catholic cannot go to a non-Catholic
cemetery or to the graves of non-Catholics to honor them, pray for them or to
attend religious services”. Well, I’ve
been going to West Laural Hill Cemetery a non-denominational cemetery right
outside of Philadelphia just because it’s close to my work. As I’m entitled to my lunch break I refuse to
stay in my dark and loud cubicle and always seek solace from my pagan
co-workers. Before, in the last 10 years
(or so), I’ve been going there very often.
During some period of my life when I was despairing, low and lonely that
I would even go there three times a day.
Iit’s been my asylum, this was during my N.O. times. While I still go there every day during my
lunch break I never pray for anybody there.
I go purely because it’s like an arboretum and gives me a quite time
that I can do my spiritual readings without getting bombarded from those loud
and obnoxious Americans that I work with.
Yes, I’ve been thinking about dying and death a lot in these long
years. Is it a sin that I go there for
‘recreational’ purposes without paying homage to anyone? I need to know (gravity and frequency),
because I never confessed this as a sin.
Please reply.
Thank you.
MHFM:
No, as touched on below, we think that can be a good idea; for you are not
praying for or honoring those who died outside the faith or attending a
non-Catholic funeral.
More on Gravesites
In regards to the E Exchange 'Gravesites of Relatives Theres times I go to a N.O
Cemetary and pray for the Catholics, since lots of people there died back in
the 1800's but the dioscese burys people there too...its a so called
catholic cemetary, I have no relatives that are buried there nor do I know
anybody there, I just go there at times and say some Hail Marys for the true
Catholics that died there prior to Vat ii....Would this be
acceptable? Plus it brings tears to my eyes at times looking and
being around all those gravestones...its a form of meditation to me, if you
will...what do you think about me praying there?
-Steve
MHFM:
Yes, thanks for the e-mail. Our
E-Exchange below (and the accompanying quote from the Council of Laodicea) was
meant to show that a Catholic cannot go to a non-Catholic cemetery or to the
graves of non-Catholics to honor them, pray for them or to attend religious
services. But if one is going to a Catholic cemetery, where presumably there
are people who died as traditional Catholics long ago, to pray on his/her own
or to take in the experience, then that can be a good idea.
We
say “take in the experience” because walking around a cemetery and seeing all
the people who have come and passed – whose lives have been lived and forgotten
– can be an extraordinarily powerful experience. The events of their lives – so many lives,
represented by one row of gravestones after another – which at one time seemed
so significant, are now completely gone.
Seeing this, understanding this, taking this in cuts to the heart of
true wisdom: how quickly everything passes; how quickly men are forgotten; and
how salvation and eternity are all that matter in the end.
Akita
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I hope you are well.
Our Lady at Akita, Japan, October 13, 1973 "...With the Rosary, pray for
the Pope, the bishops and the priests." Pope Paul VI was Pope in
1973. Our Lady at Akita acknowledges to us that he really and truly was
Pope which also means that all the Vatican II Popes are valid as well.
In +JMJ,
Roger
MHFM: It’s not
a true apparition. Haven’t you realized
that the Bible tells us that there will be false signs in the final days to
deceive, if that were possible, even the elect?
See Mt. 24:24-25, 2 Thess. 2:9-12 and False Apparitions (Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje).
Baptism
MHFM, I haven't finished all of your salvation book, but i find it very
revealing, and much truth in it. … Jesus was sent to the temple, and was
circumcised as all Jews had to be to enter into the Kingdom of God. And
as Catholics baptism is the new and everlasting circumcism. We all have
to be circumcised, that is baptized to enter. Also, Council of Nicea
explains beautifully how the Paulinists had to be rebaptized to enter in the
Church, i haven't seen anything on that either, yet. That would exclude desire
or blood, a noxious, liberal idea of satan. Mater Immaculata, ora pro nobis.
Comments
Was the “arrogant guy” addressing MHFM or God Himself in his email? I had
to ask, as his diatribe and vitriol had the resonance of an atheistic communist
rather than an obedient child of Jesus Christ and Holy Mother Church.
In the book, “Life of Pius X” page 121, the author quotes Cardinal
Mercier from his Eminence’ book, “Modernism in Science;” Yes or no, do you
believe in the divine authority of the Church?” asks Cardinal Mercier. “Do you
accept outwardly and in the sincerity of your heart what in the name of Christ
she commands? Do you consent to obey her? If so, she offers you her Sacraments
and undertakes to conduct you safely into the harbor of salvation. If not, then
you deliberately sever the tie that unites you to her, and break the bond
consecrated by her grace. Before God and your conscience you no longer belong
to her; remain no longer in obstinate hypocrisy a pretended member of her fold.
You cannot honestly pass yourself off as one of her sons; and as she cannot be
a party to hypocrisy and sacrilege, she bids you, if you force her to it, to
leave her ranks….The Modernism condemned by the Pope is the negation of the
Church’s teaching.”
St. Ambrose – “He who does not believe all that Christ taught denies
Christ himself.”…
St, Thomas Aquinas – “It is absurd for a heretic to assert that he
believes in Jesus Christ. To believe in a man is to give our full assent to his
word and all he teaches. True faith, therefore, is absolute belief in Jesus
Christ and in all he has taught. Hence he who does not adhere to all that Jesus
Christ has prescribed for our salvation has no more the doctrine of Jesus
Christ and of his Church, than the Pagans, Jews, and Turks have.”…
Howard
Arkansas
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Dear brothers in Christ,
I would like to add a short comment on a recent letter from one of Novus Ordo
"Catholics", that you rightly called "Arrogance..". Well,
these N.O. people out there are insane indeed. Look what he says:
1.) "It is arrogance to say that God would never save someone who is not
catholic, or outside the Church."
and
2.) "No matter how you consider yourselves Catholic, without humility
you will never enter the kingdom of God."
So, in 1.) he says exactly contrary to what he claims in 2.). It's incredible.
This kind of stupidity is supernatural. In addition, before 1.) and 2.), he
says:
3.) "It is arrogance for you to say that God is no greater than his dogma
when He in fact is sovereign over everything He created and revealed, even
dogma."
Well, you stupid apostate, is your claim 2.) a kind of dogma? Is it?
Is God greater even than humility? Is He?
Please remember me in your prayers. I really need it because it impossible to
endure this avalanche of apostasy coming from Rome without immense help from
God.
New Audio: The Bible Teaches
Confession to a Priest
The Bible teaches Confession to a
priest [New 23 min. audio]
MHFM: This is a
new audio which gives the proof that the Bible teaches Confession to a
priest. This has been added to our Refuting Protestantism and Eastern
"Orthodoxy" Audio Programs.
Confessing Heresy
Hello Brothers,
I was hoping you could answer a question for me.
I've been following the exchanges between you… and others on the BOB/BOD issue.
What I'm curious about is if someone holds to heresy than renounces that heresy
he or she would have to go to confession for breaking the first commandment.
How would one go about confessing that heresy if the vast majority of priests
hold to it and would tell the penitent that he or she is guilty of no sin.
Thank you for your time, this is something that I've been thinking about since
following your discussions.
David
MHFM:
If one believed in and/or taught heresy against that dogma, then he
could say: I ask forgiveness for denying the Catholic Church’s teaching on
the necessity of the Catholic faith and Baptism for salvation. There are a good number of priests who would listen
to that and simply give you absolution without necessarily getting into their
heretical beliefs on the issue.
Arrogance… to deny dogma
[NOTE: THIS MAN ALLEGES TO BE A CATHOLIC.
HE WROTE IN ABOUT TEN E-EXCHANGES DOWN; IT’S CALLED “BAPTISM OF DESIRE.” HE’S ANOTHER HERETIC WHO WAS ARGUING FOR
BAPTISM OF DESIRE BASED ON THE CATECHISM OF PIUS X. NOTICE HOW HIS OUTRAGEOUS HERESY REALLY COMES
OUT HERE.]
I really don't appreciate your saying you are a true Catholic and I am
not. You don't know me or what I think. One thing I do know
however: Your contempt for people who you don't think are
"true" Catholics is arrogance in the eyes of God, whether your
Catholic or not. It is arrogance for you to say that God is no
greater than his dogma when He in fact is sovereign over everything He created
and revealed, even dogma. It is arrogance to say that God would
never save someone who is not Catholic, or outside the Church. Who
are you to say what God will or will not do? Did you create the
world? Can you read the hearts of men? You treat God as if He were
a lawyer bound by the law, rather than the Almighty who, as the Bible says,
does as he pleases. Even the Church, out of humility, does not say
who is in hell. You, on the other hand, profess to know everything and
speak for the almighty Creator as if you sat at His right hand. Your
problem is that you love Catholic dogma more than you love God, and
you place dogma above God. That is foolish pride. And by the way,
it is also foolish to say the Pius X's Catechism is not fully Catholic, or
contains errors. Pius X was well aware of Catholic dogma and I dare say
he knew much more that you do. No matter how much you consider
yourselves Catholic, without humility you will never enter the kingdom of
God. Don't be so sure of yourselves or you own salvation. Only a
fool is sure of his salvation.
MHFM:
No, sir, you are so mistaken. We are
being humble in submitting our minds to what God has revealed. You are being insufferably arrogant in
refusing to accept what the Creator has revealed to His Church. In your pathetic unbelieving liberalism and
bad will, you cannot see the justice in what God has said: THAT IT’S NECESSARY
TO BELONG TO HIS CHURCH TO BE SAVED!!!
To deny that teaching of God is abominable arrogance! You are the arrogant heretic. You even say that it’s arrogant for the
Church to have declared that God will not save someone outside the Church! What an outrageous blasphemy and a blatant
heresy. God will not contradict what He has revealed in His dogma.
Hebrews 6:18- “That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible
for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge to hold
fast the hope set before us.”
Maybe
you heretics out there can think about the above passage and try to get it
through your unbelieving heads and hearts.
We love and accept Catholic dogma because we love and accept God, not
the other way around. But you cannot
love God without accepting His dogma (Heb. 11:6). You clearly have no faith in papal
infallibility, and thus no belief in Jesus Christ. You are saying that all the ex cathedra
definitions on this topic are wrong and can be dismissed. You are a disgrace.
And
like so many other heretics, you again bring up the Catechism attributed to
Pius X, which we already addressed. It’s
not infallible and there is no proof that he had anything to do with its
specific teaching. The fact that you
think you are Catholic is just another outrageous lie.
------FROM
SECTION 2 OF OUR BOOK ► Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf
file]-------------------------------------------------------------
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#
9), June 29, 1896:
“…
can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without by that
very fact falling into heresy? – without separating himself from the Church? –
without repudiating in one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? For such is
the nature of faith that nothing can be more absurd than to accept some things
and reject others. Faith, as the Church teaches, is that
supernatural virtue by which… we believe what He has revealed to be true, not
on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural light of human
reason [author: that is, not because it seems correct to us], but because of
the authority of God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive nor be
deceived… But
he who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely
rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.”[11][16]
Those who refuse to believe in the dogma
Outside the Church There is No Salvation until they understand how there is justice in it are simply
withholding their faith in Christ’s revelation. Those with the true faith in Christ (and His
Church) accept His teaching first and understand the truth in it (i.e., why it is true) second. A Catholic does not withhold his belief in
Christ’s revelation until he can understand it.
That is the mentality of a faithless heretic who possesses insufferable
pride. St. Anselm sums up the true
Catholic outlook on this point.
St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church, Prosologion,
Chap. 1: “For
I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to
understand. For this also I believe, that unless I
believed, I should not understand.”
Romans 11:33-34- “O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of
God! How incomprehensible are his
judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath
first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?”
Isaias 55:8-9- “For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are
exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and
my thoughts above your thoughts.”
Gravesites of Relatives
Dear Brother Dimond,
What is the Catholic teaching on visiting the gravesites of relatives?
TD
MHFM:
Thanks for the question. You should not
go to the gravesites of relatives who died outside the traditional Catholic
faith. You cannot pray for those who
died in heresy or outside the Church. So
you shouldn’t visit their graves. This
concept can be found as far back as the fourth century.
Council of Laodicea, Can. 9, 343-381: “The members of the
Church are not allowed to meet in the cemeteries, nor attend the so-called martyries of any of the heretics,
for prayer or service; but such as so do, if they be communicants, shall be excommunicated for
a time; but if they repent and confess that they have sinned they shall be
received.”
This
clearly rules out going there to pray for them or to attend a religious service
or funeral. We consider this quote to be
particularly important. This is because
we have been criticized by some – those we would deem compromising heretics –
for asserting that you cannot attend the funerals of non-Catholic family
members, etc. We have also said that you
cannot pray for those who die outside the true faith. This came up, for instance, after the heretic
John Paul II died. One heretic in
particular, named John L., stated that our position is wrong: i.e., according
to him, you can pray for those who die outside the Church or, by all
appearances, in heresy (e.g., John Paul II).
As this quote confirms, we are correct.
The aforementioned individual was completely wrong again, as usual. Our
position is what the Catholic Church has traditionally taught. You cannot honor those who die outside the
Church by going to their funerals, and you cannot pray for them because they
are lost if they die outside the Church.
To do otherwise gives a heretical impression.
Now
someone might argue that this quote rules out going there for prayer or
services, but not showing up on your own to look at the grave or just to be
there. Perhaps one could split hairs on
that point, but if the person died outside the Church and cannot be prayed for
and is to be considered lost, why would you be going there? What would you be doing there? So even in that very limited capacity,
there’s no reason for it, as sad as it is to say.
Bro?
MHFM:
Just an update: Bro. Michael has been involved in a major way with a huge
project on UFOs. It’s going to be a
small book, which contains what he deems to be the most important and
interesting parts of a vast amount of research.
Hopefully it will be finished soon.
A DVD on the topic might be done as well.
Makes sense
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
Thank you so much for the DVD's and books! I was really blown away
by the research. Everything makes sense now. Could you let me know
where there is a traditional Latin Mass in my area?...
God bless,
Jackie Dean
More on Marriage
Dear Brothers,
Re: this question on the E-Exchanges page.
"the the hypothetical situation I'm referring to is this: Suppose a man
and woman get married in the Novus Ordo and let's say the man was previously
married also in the N.O. and he's since got an annulment in the N.O. but in
God's eyes he is still married to his first wife, but yet the man and woman
actually believe they are married because his "annulment" was
"granted". situation I'm referring to is this: Suppose a man and
woman get married in the Novus Ordo and let's say the man was previously
married also in the N.O. and he's since got an annulment in the N.O. but in God's
eyes he is still married to his first wife, but yet the man and woman actually
believe they are married because his "annulment" was
"granted".
My question:
If the the hypothetical husband was married the first
time in the N.O. how was that even a legal marriage ? Most N O priests are not
even truly ordained are they? How could either marriage be legal in the eyes of
God?
Thx in advance,
Darla
MHFM:
It can be valid because in marriage the two getting married administer the
sacrament to each other, and the priest is just an official witness. So if he was ordained in the New Rite, and
therefore was not a valid priest, the marriage wouldn’t be invalidated.
Savior
If you accept Jesus as your
saviour can you go to Heaven?
Rm…
MHFM: That’s
necessary, but it’s not enough for salvation, as shown here: Justification by Faith Alone
refuted and the Catholic teaching on Justification proved by the Protestant
Bible [1 hr. 30 min.
audio]. You must also accept the
fullness of the one true faith that Christ revealed, the Catholic faith, to be
saved.
B.O.D. Audio Update
MHFM: This is
an audio update which responds to recent attacks on the Catholic Church’s infallible
teaching on the necessity of water baptism and the Catholic Faith.
"Baptism of Desire" heretics update
[New 53 min.
audio]
This audio
addresses and refutes the heresies of Fr. Martin S., Griff R., Tom D., and
Michael C. The heresies of these
individuals are held by countless other false traditionalists and phony
“Catholics.”
THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH – NOTICE
THAT THESE ARE INFALLIBLE PAPAL SOURCES, NOT FALLIBLE THEOLOGIANS
Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex
cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all
those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or
heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the
everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they
are joined to the Church before the end of their lives;
that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only for
those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do
fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian
militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how
much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of
Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic
Church.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari
Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832: “With the
admonition of the apostle, that ‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’
(Eph. 4:5), may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of
salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ
Himself that ‘those who are not with Christ are against Him,’ (Lk. 11:23) and
that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate (Athanasian
Creed).”
Pope
Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832:
“Finally some of these
misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not
saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal
life.”
Pope Boniface VIII, Unam
Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra:
“With Faith urging us we are
forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that,
apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this Church outside
of which there is no salvation nor remission of sin… Furthermore, we declare,
say, define, and proclaim that it absolutely necessary for the salvation of every
human creature to be entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
Pope Clement V, Council
of Vienne, 1311-1312, ex cathedra: “Besides, one baptism which
regenerates all who are baptized in Christ must be faithfully confessed
by all just as ‘one God and one faith’ [Eph. 4:5], which
celebrated in water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit we believe to be commonly the perfect remedy for salvation for
adults as for children.”
Pope
Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, “Exultate Deo,” Nov. 22, 1439: “Holy baptism, which is the gateway to the
spiritual life, holds the first place among all the sacraments; through it we
are made members of Christ and of the body of the Church. And since death entered the universe
through the first man, ‘unless we are born again of water and the Spirit, we
cannot,’ as the Truth says, ‘enter into the kingdom of heaven’ [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and
natural water.”
Pope Paul III, The
Council of Trent, Can. 2 on the Sacrament of Baptism, Sess. 7, 1547, ex
cathedra: “If anyone shall say that real and natural water is not
necessary for baptism, and on that account those words of Our Lord Jesus
Christ: ‘Unless a man be born again of
water and the Holy Spirit’ [John 3:5], are distorted into some sort of
metaphor: let him be anathema.”
Pope Paul III, The
Council of Trent, Can. 5 on the Sacrament of Baptism, Sess. 7, 1547,
ex cathedra: “If anyone says that baptism [the sacrament]
is optional, that is, not necessary for salvation (cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be
anathema.”
Outside
the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [pdf file] COMPLETE BOOK
B.O.D. Debates Refused
MHFM: We recently
challenged two individuals, who had been critical of our view on baptism and
salvation, to a debate/discussion on the issue.
They both refused. We will have
more to say on this in a bit. If any baptism
of desire supporter would like to consider entering into a discussion/debate on
this issue, e-mail us.
Sede Divorce Dilemma
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I've been reading the e-exchanges and regarding the issue of
annulments/divorces, I want to see how you would answer this
potential dilemma with the sedevacantist point of view on annulments. I
say "potential" because I'm almost certain there is indeed a
solution, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what it would be. By the
way, I myself hold the sede point of view.
Okay, the hypothetical situation I'm referring to is this: Suppose a man and
woman get married in the Novus Ordo and let's say the man was previously
married also in the N.O. and he's since got an annulment in the N.O. but in
God's eyes he is still married to his first wife, but yet the man and woman
actually believe they are married because his "annulment" was
"granted". Now let's fast forward say 5 years into the future, and
all of a sudden the man and woman received your material about the great
apostasy that is underway and they convert to sedevacantism out of the Novus
Ordo, and now they realize they aren't really married afterall, AND THEY NOW
HAVE 3 CHILDREN TOGETHER. You see, if they didn't have any children I could
understand them parting ways knowing that to stay together they would be
committing adultery. But since innocent children have been brought into the
world and need a proper upbringing, do the man and woman still separate and
raise their children as two separated individuals? Or could (or would it be
best) the man and woman live together in the same house and raise the
children as if they were together (yet they not engage in the conjugal act?)
But that would be giving false witness to the children I would think. It just
seems so damaging to the children to have the two parents separate and I am
speaking from experience as I am the child of "divorced" Novus Ordo
parents. I really would appreciate your expert advice on what the right thing
to do is. Somehow I don't think there's a simple answer to this one.
MHFM:
Thanks for the question. They couldn’t
live as man and wife since the man is married to the other woman. To the question of whether they can live in
the same house but as brother and sister, for the sake of raising the children
and other conveniences, it can be done in exceptional cases. We say “exceptional” because it is not
ideal and would only be a rare situation, in which separating would entail
a greater evil or would make their spiritual situation potentially worse. It could only be done if they live in
separate rooms (obviously) and are extremely confident that no improper behavior would
occur. But if there is a danger there,
then they must arrange for different homes.
In the case that they would remain in the same house, but not as married
people, they would simply explain to their children the entire situation when
the children are mature enough to understand and appreciate it.
Those
who would say that they could never remain in the same house as brother and
sister are not taking into account all the exigencies of human existence. Suppose they were extremely impoverished and
couldn’t afford another home. Suppose
they lived in a country at war or which was invaded. In those cases, they would have to make the
best of the predicament and preserve themselves from sin in the circumstances
in which they would find themselves. So
it really depends on their particular situation and how confident they are that
nothing improper will occur and how difficult it would be to arrange different
homes. Ultimately it’s their salvation
and so they have to be totally honest in assessing themselves and their
circumstances. But in almost all cases,
it should not be done.
Fatima Relevance?
Dear Brothers, I just re-read your article on Fatima and also the fake
Sr. Lucy and what I'd like to know is this: What is the relevance of the Fatima
messages today, since the consecration of Russia was done in 1952? Also, since
there is no major triumph of Our Lady as far as world conversion to
Catholicism as falsely interpreted by the Gruner group, what is the
purpose of devotion to Fatima in 2008? Maybe you have already
addressed this issue. Thank you for all
your great work.
Sincerely,
Barbara
MHFM:
The false traditionalists, who have brainwashed so many on the Fatima message, assert
that if the consecration is done already then Fatima is no longer
relevant. It’s one of their techniques
for intimidating people not to question their opinions, as if by disagreeing
with them you are dismissing Fatima altogether.
It’s similar to the technique that if you disagree with a certain
“priest’s” apostolate you are not supporting the work of “Our Lady.” It’s completely untrue. It’s a major distortion. The statements about the consecration and
conversion of Russia are set firmly within the context of the July 13 message,
the second part of the Secret. It
constitutes only a portion of the whole Fatima message and event. The Third Secret, which has not yet been disclosed,
but which obviously deals with the apostasy in the Vatican, of course still
bears as much relevance as ever because we are living through it.
Further,
the rest of Fatima, which concerns prayer, the Rosary, devotion, the
sacraments, the miracle, the reality of the Faith, etc. still transmits the
same powerful and striking message.
Devotion to Fatima in 2008 is as meaningful as devotion to it was in the
1950’s. This is because Fatima
represents perhaps the most profound appearance of the Mother of God in
Catholic history, and perhaps the greatest miracle after the Resurrection. It also concerns the lives of three saintly
Catholics whose example is a tremendous benefit and inspiration to souls.
As
much as some don’t like to face this fact, the truth is that the statements
about the consecration and conversion of Russia are set within the context of
what Russia was doing during that period.
The facts absolutely support our understanding of what is meant by the
consecration and conversion of Russia, and honest people who look carefully at
them should see that.
Fatima (the sign, the
miracle, the Consecration of Russia, the False Sr. Lucy)
Vatican II Spiritual
Fornication
I just wanted to let you know that it was right after my release from
federal prison last year that I left the Novus Ordo and became a sedevacantist
after someone in the halfway house I was living in presented your information
to me. While I was in prison, and still in the Novus Ordo, I'm ashamed to say I
committed the sin of spiritual fornication whereas I studied all kinds of
"religions" in search of one that would give me some kind of an
experience, some kind of power. You see, prison is an extremely desparate place
to be, and while it doesn't excuse my sins, it doesn't surprise me that studies
of occultism by prisoners is not uncommon. I found that every
"religion" I researched had a common denominator- they all lead
directly to evil even if on the surface each one seemed distinctly different.
But I know this now because I sought these New Age practices ought for selfish
ends. God has brought some good out of this by the wisdom I now have of knowing
without a doubt that all other religions outside of the true Catholic Faith are
false, AND THEREFORE EVIL. The point I'm getting to is that the majority of
Novus Ordo go along blindly with V2 endorsing false religions without ever
studying them to see that they are evil. First of all, they should reject
ecumenism outright just because the church says so, but if they actually took
the time to study these religions they would see that they are all demonic and
evil. Matthew 16:4 says: "A WICKED and ADULTEROUS generation seeks after a
SIGN, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet
Jonah." This is the kind of spiritual fornication which God forbids but V2
endorses...
Comment
On what basis is Father Martin Sedevacantist? Why would a man
who could write these two sentences in the same paragraph have
any problem at all with the ambiguities of a JP II?
"But you cannot handle, nor answer definitively, the question of how
God deals with those who ‘fear Him and do what is right’ and who are
‘acceptable’ to Him, but who are still ‘outside the Church.’ "...your ‘Salvation Doctrine’ is
not in accord with the Catholic Faith.
It is not in accord with the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church,
‘outside of which there is no salvation.’”
Which is it Father? Can one be acceptable to God but be outside of
His Church; or, is the dogma, which you seem to be using in support of the
contrary position really true? Such blindness and illogic is
unfathomable. And why Father S, would you presume, that the omnipotent
God would allow someone He deems worthy of salvation to "die
suddenly", thus making a liar of Christ? Would keeping the
man alive and bringing him to Baptism be beyond His
power?
It would be funny if it weren't so sad. It seems to me that such
blindness and illogic could only be supernaturally induced.
Bill Mulligan
Communion Debate
I wonder what that Phony William Golle would have to say about this in
regards to Communion Debate??
Quote from Washington Post Article: ''...John Paul II gave Holy Communion
to British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2004, before he converted from
Anglicanism to Catholicism. In Johannesburg, South Africa, President Bill
Clinton, a Protestant, received the Holy Eucharist at Queen of the World
Church. And Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave communion to a minister of the Swiss
Reformed Church at Pope John Paul II’s funeral.''
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sally_quinn/2008/07/why_i_took_holy_communion.html
-Steve
MHFM:
Yes, thanks for the e-mail. After
arguing vigorously in the debate that Vatican II did not teach that
non-Catholics can lawfully receive Holy Communion, Mr. Golle wrote to us after
the debate and admitted that we were correct: Vatican II does teach that
non-Catholics can lawfully receive Holy Communion. He now argues just as vigorously that it’s okay
for non-Catholics to receive Communion.
Embraced
Dear Brothers
I am from Malaysia… I am 30 years old by the end of this year, was converted
from Buddhism in 1990, and embraced a sede position after reading your
materials just recently…
Thank you and God bless.
Sincerely
Jerome Ho
Comment
Dear MHFM
Quoting Fr. Stepanich (e-exchanges):
But you cannot handle, nor answer definitively, the question of how God
deals with those who ‘fear Him and do what is right’ and who are ‘acceptable’
to Him, but who are still ‘outside the Church.’
The reason Brother Michael cannot handle nor answer definitively Fr.
Stepanich's question of "how God deals with those who 'fear Him and do
what is right....who are still outside the Church," is because his
statements are oxymoronic. You cannot
please God and remain outside the Catholic church. ONE God in the person of Jesus Christ created
ONE church with ONE baptism for salvation.
To worship God outside of this church offends Almighty God.
Those who"fear God and do what is right" all, with God's assistance, become Catholic. If they reject God's call in their
conscience, and they do not become Catholic, they are NOT acceptable to
God. A child can understand this simple truth.
To insist that it is possible for man to be ignorant of the Almighty God
is blasphemy…
I just passed the TV and stopped for a moment to hear a man bragging that
he had spent his entire life studying theology and had earned three degrees in
(Lutheran) theology. He has, literally,
learned nothing in spite of the truth he has "studied" for
years.. Obviously this man is evil and
unacceptable to God. He is blinded by
human respect and interprets scripture accordingly. Vatican II theologians do the same and they
will live eternally in the same Hell as
all non-Catholics.
PM
MHFM:
Yes, we are getting fed up with these salvation heretics. We will be posting more refutations of them
in the future, even though their arguments have been refuted in our book. We have also challenged a number of them to
debates. Not surprisingly, not one of
them so far as has been willing to debate the issue. They like to promote their errors in forums
where they cannot be immediately refuted.
We’ll see if any of them are willing to come to the table. These sedevacantist phonies, who reject the
dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous than many of the Vatican II
apostates. Even if they are too cowardly
to debate, we will be refuting their false arguments.
News Comment
Re: "Boys in UK punished with detention for refusing to pray to
Allah"
Dear Brothers,
To Peace to you in Our Lord Jesus Christ
I understand why these parents are so upset, the problem is that they should be
upset with their sons. These parents, who I assume are novus ordo
"catholics", should be upset that their sons are refusing to worship
their god. Their "pope", their Vatican 2 council, and their
catechism all state that the god of Islam is the same as their god. So
the parents should be punishing their sons for refusing to worship their
god.
These novus ordo people are so blind, confused and deluded that even when they
follow the teachings of their religion and the examples of their hierarchy it
drives them mad.
Our God, the One True God, is not a God of confusion.
Paul Smith
Fr. Martin Stepanich – total
heretic
MHFM:
There’s an old sedevacantist priest named Fr. Martin Stepanich. This priest is actually “well respected” by
many sedevacantists. He claims to be a
Franciscan and he loves to write articles about why he thinks souls don’t need
the Sacrament of Baptism for salvation.
His arguments are elementary and easily refuted, but what we want to
point out is that this priest is a complete heretic who believes in salvation outside the
Church. It’s necessary to point this out
because this heretical priest is respected by many sedevacantists. This just serves to prove again that the
pro-baptism-of-desire crowd today is a crowd of pro-salvation-outside-the-Church
heretics.
This
Fr. Stepanich is particularly devilish because of his deception. As we will see below, his problem with the
necessity of water baptism is clearly because he believes that all kinds of
non-Catholics be saved. That’s the
reason he loves to spend his time penning articles arguing that people don’t
need water baptism. However, he attempts
to hide his blatant heresy under arguments in favor of “baptism of blood.” He spends most of his time talking about
“baptism of blood.” This creates the
false impression that all he is arguing for is the (erroneous) idea that
martyrs who believe in Christ can be saved without baptism. But that is so far from the truth. Stepanich believes that all kinds of people
in non-Catholic religions, etc. can be saved, as will be shown below.
In
a letter written to us a few years back, which was an attack on the Catholic
position that one must be baptized to be saved, after going on about “baptism
of blood,” Fr. Martin stated the following:
“You
should be able, Brother Michael, to handle the reasons why there is no
salvation ‘outside the Church.’ But you cannot handle, nor answer
definitively, the question of how God deals with those who ‘fear Him and do
what is right’ and who are ‘acceptable’ to Him, but who are still ‘outside the
Church.’ You dare not tell the Divine Judge that
such are to be rejected by Him if they die suddenly, either without having been
baptized with water or without having formally professed the true faith. You are not the one to tell God that He
cannot or may not give the grace of salvation except through baptism with water
or except through a formal profession of the true Faith. God knows how to handle such matters. You don’t know how. God is pretty good at that sort of
thing. You aren’t.
“Honesty and good will should prompt you
to acknowledge that your ‘Salvation Doctrine’ is not in accord with the
Catholic Faith. It is not in accord with
the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, ‘outside of which there is no
salvation.’”
No,
Martin, you abominable heretic… you who are without a whit of faith in the
dogmatic definitions revealed by Christ… you better dare not tell the Divine
Judge that people who die outside the Church have a chance for salvation WHEN
THE DIVINE JUDGE HAS INFALLIBLY REVEALED TO US THAT THEY DON’T. YOU, FAITHLESS HERETIC, BETTER RECOGNIZE THAT
YOUR JOB IS NOT TO QUESTION THE TRUTH REVEALED BY GOD BUT TO ACCEPT IT.
YOU,
O UNBELIEVING ONE, BETTER REALIZE THAT UNLESS YOU SUBMIT YOUR MIND TO WHAT THE
DIVINE JUDGE HAS REVEALED – AND ACCEPT THAT GOD KNOWS INFINITELY BETTER THAN
YOU DO, AND THAT HIS DOGMAS ARE UNERRING AND MUST BE UNHESTATINGLY SUBMITTED TO
AND BELIEVED WHEN THEY DECLARE WITHOUT EQUIVOCATION THAT ALL WHO DIE OUTSIDE
THE CATHOLIC FAITH ARE LOST – YOU WILL BE CAST IMMEDIATELY INTO HELL AT YOUR
JUDGEMENT.
YOU
HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO BELIEF IN WHAT JESUS CHRIST HAS REVEALED TO THE CHURCH. In your blind and faithless pride, you
even have the audacity to tell us, when we are repeating and believing the
dogmatic teaching of the Church, that we must reform the dogmatic teaching of
the Church and change it to suit your heretical and liberal ideas! You are an execrable man! And, O dishonest apostate, you even have the
nerve to act as if you are faithful to Catholic teaching, when
your very bolded words above prove that you believe in salvation “outside the
Church” (your words). You believe
in salvation outside the Church; you are a total heretic! You are ipso
facto excommunicated. And the more
articles you pen, in your effort to promote the false Gospel of salvation
outside the church and salvation outside of baptism, the deeper the pit waiting
for you in Hell becomes.
Fr. Martin, your words above are equivalent to arguing that Mary
has some taint of Original Sin; they directly contradict a solemnly defined
dogma. You are so blind, Martin. You are over 90 years old, and you have spent
much of your life apparently in religious life.
All of your years will be wasted because, should you continue on your
path, you will without any doubt be cast into the eternal fires of Hell; for
you are a faithless and dishonest heretic.
You are used by the Devil to attack the necessity of baptism and to
confirm souls who tend toward faithlessness on their faithless and heretical
paths. The Devil finds a pliable
instrument in your faithless soul, for you are a man without regard for the
truth of dogmatic definitions. You
cannot bear the thought that what God has revealed on this issue of salvation
is true. You just cannot accept it. So with all of your wicked heart you fight it
and attempt to corrupt the truth in this area.
You make every effort to stop belief in the truth that there is really
no salvation without Jesus Christ, the Catholic Faith and baptism.
All
of those people out there who are familiar with this abominable heretic Fr.
Stepanich and those like him, and do not denounce them, are mortally sinful
heretics as well.
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church
firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the
Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body
is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody
can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has
shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and
unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13),
Aug. 15, 1832: “With the admonition of
the apostle, that ‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’ (Eph. 4:5), may
those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to
persons of any religion whatever. They
should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that ‘those who are not with
Christ are against Him,’ (Lk. 11:23) and that they disperse unhappily who
do not gather with Him. Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate (Athanasian
Creed).”
Pope Gregory XVI, Summo
Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832:
“Finally some of these misguided people attempt to
persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the Catholic
religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.
Divorce
Dear Most Holy Family Monastery,
I am writing to see if I can get some clarification on whether my
parent's divorce in the Novus Ordo was really valid, i.e., that their marriage
was null and void to begin with. My mother divorced my father when I was 3 years
old. He was a violent alcoholic and would physically abuse my mom, me and my
siblings. He even sexually abused my sister at one time. Did my mother have a
valid reason to divorce him? He REFUSED to get "treatment" for his
alcoholism which meant he remained obstinate in his mortal sins. What is a
mother to do in a situation like that? Should she have instead of getting a
divorce, separated from him? She has since "remarried" in the novus
ordo as the annulments were granted. But I wonder if she is still married to
her first husband in God's eyes. I would appreciate your opiion.
God Bless, and thanks.
MHFM:
He sounds like a very bad man who did very evil things. However, that doesn’t render his marriage to
your mom invalid. An annulment is a declaration
that a marriage never existed in the first place due to a hidden or known
impediment. So for their marriage to
have been invalid, one would have to demonstrate that some clearly invalidating
impediment existed at the time they were married. It doesn’t sound like there were any.
So,
unless there is some other invalidating factor that you are not mentioning, it
seems that they are married and that your mom is living in an adulterous and
invalid second “marriage.” The proper
course for her was to remain separate from your dad – and to possibly file for
divorce for legal reasons – but she would not be free to marry again.
The
Novus Ordo Church, on the other hand, would of course grant the invalid
annulment for her in a heartbeat. The
Vatican II sect cannot disappoint almost anyone, especially when your dad did
such horrible things. The fact that his
behavior in the marriage is a separate issue from whether the marriage contract
was validly entered into doesn’t matter at all to the Vatican II sect. All that matters to them is the plight of man
or woman – not disappointing them by reminding them of obligations toward God
or by rejecting their desires for a new marriage.
The Annulment Fiasco - The Vatican II sect's
De Facto
acceptance of Divorce and Remarriage [PDF File]
V-2 Church
Dear Brothers: I just finished your little book about Padre Pio and
he had it right. I always thought that the Holy Ghost was missing
in the Vatican II Church. I have read your articles on this matter, and I
know what your are saying is the truth. EWTN embraces V2 and I do
not know why these brilliant theologins, like Father Corapi, seem to think that
everything is right with Vatican II. The V2 Church seems to be more
interested in gigantic youth celebrations, and celebrity status of its
hierarchy. I have not heard a sermon about the dangers of mortal sin and
they rarely, if ever preach the horrible reality of hell.
It seems that the whole congregation goes to communion, but when I go to
confession there are only a handfull of the faithfull to be seen.
There is something wrong here. Tony
MHFM:
Yes. By the way, “Fr.” Corapi is a
complete phony. He doesn’t believe that the
Catholic faith is necessary at all. Any
appearances of devotion to it from him are a bunch of nonsense. He is a complete heretic who doesn’t have a
clue about what’s going on. We also hope
you realize that you must not go to the New Mass at all.
“Baptism of Desire”
Hello,
On your website you state the following: Many ask about the “baptism of
desire” and “baptism of blood.” This is the idea that an unbaptized
catechumen (a person who professes belief in the Catholic Faith and is
preparing to be baptized) can be saved without Baptism by his desire for it or
by his martyrdom. This idea has never been taught in any infallible
pronouncement of the Catholic Church. On the contrary, the infallible
teaching of the Catholic Church proves that no man can be saved without the
Sacrament of Baptism.
Perhaps you are unaware of what Pope Pius X said on this subject in his
catechism. I believe you consider him a valid pope, as do I.
"I he (a person) is outside the Church through no fault of his, that
is, if he is in good faith, and if he has received Baptism, or at least has the
implicit desire of Baptism, and if, moreover, he sincerely seeks the truth and
does God's will as best he can such a man is indeed separated from the body of
the Church, but is united to the soul of the Church and consequently is on the
way of salvation." (The Catechism of Pope Pius X pages 32-33. The
implication is that this person can be saved if he were to die is such a
state. This statement does not mean the person is "on the way of
salvation" but still must be Baptised, otherwise the "implicit
desire" for Baptism is meaningless. The Council of Trent also
teaches: "the state of grace cannot be had except through the laver of
regeneration or a desire for it".
Are either of these "infallible pronouncements?" It seems
clear that both Pius X and the Council of Trent are traditional sources and
their teaching should be recognized. I appreciate your research and
wealth of information. However, clearly someone can be saved without
Baptism as taught in the above statements. Besides, to claim otherwise is
to say that God is not free to judge in ways we cannot forsee or
understand. He sees the heart and is not bound by anything except
His own sovereign will.
Peace,
Steve
MHFM:
We are well aware of the arguments. In
our book there are sections which specifically address both of the issues you
bring up. The “Catechism of Pius X” is
not infallible. It holds no weight
against the ex cathedra definitions
which contradict its teaching on whether those who have the Catholic faith and
are baptized can be saved. Further,
there is no proof that Pius X had anything to do with the specific teaching of
that Catechism. The Catechism also
contains heresy, for it teaches that souls can be saved “outside” the
Church. (Even many of the heretics who
deny the dogma by watering-down its meaning would admit that saying that souls
can be saved “outside” the Church is false; but that’s what the Catechism
attributed to Pius X says.) It is a clear
example of a fallible document before Vatican II which contained heresy against
the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation. These documents contributed in great part to
the apostasy of the Vatican II sect.
If
there is a conflict, it is a clear sign of bad will to want to
deviate from the indisputably infallible dogmatic pronouncements to follow the
teaching of fallible documents, such as that Catechism. A person would obviously only do that because
he finds the fallible teaching more palatable to his liberalism; he thus
chooses to depart from the dogmatic teaching of the Church because he has a
problem with the truth revealed by God: that there is no salvation outside the
Catholic faith. The dogmatic definitions
leave no room for exceptions. Therefore,
if a person is familiar with the dogmatic pronouncements – and our material
makes people familiar with them – and chooses to follow the false teaching of
that Catechism over the dogmatic definitions, he is a heretic.
Regarding
the Council of Trent, it did not teach baptism of desire. The words you cite are a mistranslation of
Sess. 6, Chap. 4. “Except through” is
inaccurate, even though countless heretics quote it that way. (Many of them have been made aware of this
and thus sin mortally on that point alone by refusing to correct the blatant mistranslation.) The passage says “without” (sine). This has a different meaning than the false
translation. The meaning of the accurate
translation is: Justification cannot happen without this or that; that is, you
need both. And immediately after the
part of the passage to which you refer, it says this: “as it is written, unless a man is born again of water and the Holy
Ghost he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God” (John 3:5). In other words, there are no exceptions to
being born again of water and the Holy Ghost to enter Heaven, just
as it is written in John 3:5.
All
of this is covered in our book; we recommend that you obtain it. You can find the sections on these issues in
the Table of Contents:
Outside the Catholic
Church There is Absolutely No Salvation [PDF FILE] –
complete book
Regarding
another point you mentioned, that God can do whatever He wants, that is an
argument for Modernist apostasy. God
cannot lie (Hebrews 6:18). That’s what a
true Catholic believes. A real Catholic
knows that the Holy Ghost watches over the Church’s dogmatic definitions. So if God saved people outside the Church
(which He doesn’t), then He never would have allowed His infallible Church to
infallibly define the dogma the way it did!
And there are many definitions which all repeat the same truth without
any exceptions! The definitions wouldn’t
have declared that all who die outside the faith are lost (without exception)
if what you are saying is true; on the contrary, they would have included all
kinds of qualifications. But they
didn’t. That’s the difference between
true Catholics who believe in the dogma and people like yourself. We actually believe in the dogmas and in what
they have declared; you hold them to be meaningless.
Comment
Dear brothers in Christ,
I felt compelled to lament over the news in your News and Commentary section in
general, and the news "Boys in UK punished with detention for refusing to pray to Allah" in
particular. One parent said "This isn't right, it's taking things too
far." Excuse me? How far in
praising false religions is not too far? When all secular media
together with V2 sect controlled media, with all the V2 "priests",
"bishops", "cardinals" and especially the "pope",
during decades and decades are chattering about 'dignity of human person',
about 'salvation of adherents of non-catholic religions', etc.—what could we
expect if not the demand to bow our heads before false gods? I mean, why not to praise false prophet
Muhammad, if the false religion of islam is salvific? Why not? Did it ever
occur to those parents that there is only one true religion, and all other religions being false
and abominable? Apparently it did not. They are accused right from their own
mouths. I can see the similar horrible situation in my own homeland, Croatia,
supposedly catholic country. The "priests", "bishops" and
"cardinals" are praising every single damned false religion
under the heaven and yet they find themselves bitterly offended if
the secular power does not praise them more than other heretics, apostates and
adherents of false religions.
Let our Lord Jesus Christ keep and watch your efforts to spread one and only
true, catholic, religion, through the intercession of Mary with Joseph.
Vladimir
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Salvation, NM
Hello Brothers,
As a Catholic I do not believe that salvation can be gained outside the
church.But I was just thinking I know Protestants,Jews,Muslims and other
Churchs followers won't be saved.But what about people born in Countrys were
they will never be told about Jesus or the Blessed Mother Mary. But live a decent life will they all go to
Hell? The other day I went into a Church
to say a few prayers but there was a wedding about to take place so I said I'd
stay at the back. But when I looked up
at the alter the Priest was there talking to the people like he was discussing
the lasted fashion design.Another time I went around to my Parish preist to
discuss the Church which has the Blessed sarcarment at the side and has no
altar rail. He tried to tell me that
there is no probelm with Communion in hand and I told him so why did the angel
tell the three Children in Fatima how to recevie Holy Communion. He told me that he never heard such thing….
Thank you for reading this God Bless.
Sean Keogan.
MHFM: Thanks
for the interest. You need to stop going to the New Mass. It's
invalid. A Catholic may not go there for
any reason, not a wedding - nothing. That's covered on our
website. The Invalid New Mass
The people who don't hear of Jesus don't hear of Him
because they are not of good will. This is covered in our book on the
topic. There are no exceptions to the necessity of having the Catholic
Faith. That's a dogma.
Everyone who is of the truth hears His voice (John 18:37).
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13),
Aug. 15, 1832: “This perverse opinion
is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible
to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of
religion, as long as morality is maintained… without a doubt, they will
perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate
(Athanasian Creed).”
Panama
First off, I would to congratulate you for your great work, fighting
against the heresy, of what might the last days time. I´m from Panamá
(Latin America) and I´m in despair because, I haven´t found an ordained
priestly who is not into the Novus Ordo rite and I have not been able to
abandon this church completely, It´s so hard to believe that our church,
doctrine and clergy have been subverted in such amazing ways. I came
across your website just by coincidence, in a posted blog in the
telegraph. I´ve been reading your website during a week or
so, I ´ve been grieving about how much time I´ve wasted uselessly.
I always thought JP II was a great man, a Saint, but now I´m not so sure
as you can see, after all the things I´ve learnt from him. The same goes for
B16, who formerly was my "doctrinal" heroe… I´m repentant, hopefully
on the way to salvation, if I mend my ways completely and get assistance
from above…
Héctor Mendoza
MHFM: Thanks for the interest and the words of
support. However, you need to
stop going to the New Mass. You also need to become convinced that John
Paul II was an evil heretic. You need to be convinced of all the issues
and you need to make a traditional profession of faith. That's explained
on our website.
A valid priest is not necessary for a valid
marriage. The two people administer the
sacrament to each other with the priest usually acting as the official
witness. So the fact that many of the
Novus Ordo “priests” aren’t validly ordained does not invalidate the marriages
occurring there. Likewise, baptism is
also valid in the Novus Ordo because a priest is not necessary for a valid
baptism. Confirmation, however, is not
valid in the Novus Ordo because an essential part of the rite has been changed.
Realization
In reference to the article
"The Vatican 2 sect promotes idolatry by its general worship of man, by
its particular worship of man in the new mass and by its promotion of
idolatrous religions"
Back when I was at Resurrection
church when all the changes were coming about in the Mass, it was one day
during mass that the realization that this was not a mass honoring God, but the
reverse; a false mass putting down God and honoring man as God. That was
why no one no longer needed to kneel when receiving communion and could take
the host in the hands. Who was God, that he would expect them to bow down
before him. God should bow down to man.
This is what came to me on that
day and ever since that day, I have read articles such as yours concerning the
same thing.
I will repeat here again.
Back during those years that I had the dreams that came true, it was God
bringing me back to the "real truth' and the "true Roman Catholic
Church"
Sylvia Dixon
NFP
i love my catholic faith that Jesus left for me to help me understand. and
as far as im i know nfp is what the church offers instead of bc witch it is not
any form of bc. if you actually did your hw you would know that bc is an
alternative to abortion wich in many cases babys are aborted all the time of
chemical bc. and abortion is the death of a baby due to unatural causes. thats
why bc is wrong. nfp doesnt in any way keep you from having gods will in
your life you have no barriers its complete life giving natural sex. there is
ALWAYS a possiblity to pregnancy you have to be open to life in order to do
this sex is ALWAYS your choice. your goign way out there in saying its sinful
and trying to act like the church backs you up you want to be a good catholic
learn to love the word of god without becoming stuck on everything word for
word not even understanding what he means in his teachings…. by the way i love
mother angelica shes done great things read up on what you write about before
you go around trying to leads gods children away
MHFM: No, sir,
you are deceiving yourself. You are not
being open to life when you deliberately try to avoid it. When you use NFP you are deliberately trying
to avoid life. Wake up and start to be
honest. Mother Angelica is a complete
heretic who believes in salvation outside the Church. That is heresy. She also accepts false ecumenism and has
respect for false religions.
Why Natural Family
Planning is Sinful Birth Control [PDF File]
EWTN and the
Charismatic Movement [PDF File]
Angry with Vatican II sect
I'm a 19 year old of Italian heritage from NJ… I used to go to the Novus
Odro but that was years ago and I knew no better. The false Mass of that
wicked, evil heretic Paul VI(who now melting in agony in a place where he
deserves to be like no other man in history ever deserves their
punishment) is no Mass, it is a non-Catholic service and an
abomination. And I swear before God I shall do everything in my power to
make sure every one who claims to be a Catholic know this!!! (One such
non-Catholic who thought he was a Catholic, Tim Russert, a
liberal menace, by the way, died...) The evil that befell the Catholic
Church after Vatican II is enough to demoralize any true Catholic.
Those wicked, vile false-Catholics who have taken over all of the
beautiful cathedrals, basilicas, etc., across the world. And worst
of all, the Vatican! Why did this have to happen?!...
MHFM: Yes, a true Catholic must feel outrage at the
injustice and the apostasy of the Vatican II sect.
Ghana
Hi,
We are Renee and Lovia. We live in Ghana and we are 15 and 12 yrs old
respectively. We are scared and confused. We don’t know what to do. When I
first saw your material I was shocked! I never knew all of this about the
Catholic Church. There is so much we will like to ask you, because our country
is totally soaked up in the works of the Vatican II and there is almost no way
out around here… Also my sister and I started praying the rosary after what we
saw and read on your website…
Important “Una Cum”
Discussion
[It should be
noted that this was a telephone conversation.
This person called us up and asked us about this issue. If we had known that he was going to call and
ask about this issue, many other points could have been prepared on the issue
in general (e.g., the teaching of St. Thomas on these issues). But what is covered is extremely important
and sufficient to demonstrate the points, especially the new points covered.]
Conversation about the "una cum" issue, where
one may receive sacraments, refuting radical schismatic views [44 min. audio]
MHFM: Why is this
quote below, from Pope St. Pius V, so significant in vindicating the position
we have enunciated on where Catholics may attend Mass or receive sacraments in
these times? Why is it so significant in
refuting the views of a certain number of radical false traditionalist
schismatics on where one may go in our day?
Listen to the audio above to find out why. [The accompanying file of relevant quotes will
also make following the points in the audio much easier.]
“When Cardinal Inquisitor, Pius had granted certain English priests
faculties for re-admitting schismatics into the Catholic Church, the only condition
then having been to refrain from reception of the Protestant eucharist. In 1567, as Pope, he made the further, more
rigorous condition of non-attendance at Protestant services.” (Robin Anderson, St. Pius V, Tan Books, p. 45.)
Background to
above conversation: A reader of ours was concerned about the “una cum” issue:
whether people may receive the Eucharist from or attend the Mass of certain
priests who pray in communion with Benedict XVI. This is done in the Te igitur prayer of the Mass in the Roman Rite, where the priest
prays “una cum” Benedict XVI. The
Eastern Rite liturgies have an equivalent prayer, but with different
wording. Does this make approaching them
for Communion absolutely off-limits?
Some are arguing yes. Some are
saying that to go or teach that one may go is mortally sinful and/or
heretical. This discussion refutes that
false position. It also proves that some
of the more radical adherents of that position are without doubt wrong and
schismatic.
It should be
noted that none of this is meant to suggest that it’s acceptable for a priest
or bishop to include Antipope Benedict XVI’s name in the Te Igitur prayer of the Mass (or the equivalent prayer in an
Eastern Rite Liturgy). It is not
acceptable for them to do so, of course.
Nor is this meant to suggest in any way that all or most of the
traditional Masses where the priest accepts Benedict XVI as pope should be attended. In our view, only a very limited number of
them may be attended because only a limited number of those priests would not
be notorious heretics, as our guidelines explain. Rather, this discussion, with the accompanying quotes,
is meant to show how a traditional Catholic can be justified in receiving
Communion from certain priests who are celebrating a traditional Mass and recognizing Benedict XVI as
the pope. It serves as a defense of the
position we have enunciated. This will
be found permanently in our Where
to go to Mass or confession today? and the Telephone Conversations section
of our Traditional Catholic Audio Programs.
New Conversation
MHFM: This is a
recent conversation with a German non-Catholic Protestant of some type. He raises certain objections and asks
questions about the Bible, Fatima and other matters.
Conversation with German non-Catholic about Bible, etc.
[18 min. audio]
Possibly tomorrow
we will be posting a discussion we recently had concerning the “Una Cum”
issue. This discussion also brings out some
new points regarding the general question of where it is permissible to receive
sacraments today. There is one new point
in particular that is extremely important.
Before we post it we want to type in a few of these quotes, so that it’s
easier for people to follow the points being made in the conversation.
Contra NFP
Dear Brothers,
I wrote you not long ago, wondering if you were too severe in your
'interpretation' of the Natural Law...as I don't think I could have had the
stamina to have more babies than I did...and yet take decent care of
them. It only takes a Reminder like ole Margaret here to sober one
up....and see the Down side clearly. My own father came
from a family of 13 and he was near the end of the line. Had he not been
born, neither would I, I guess. It's a hard one sometimes.
MHFM: Yes, that’s
right. That’s why the NFP issue (i.e.,
opposing it) is so crucial. Just
contemplating the magnitude of that statement – I or you would not have existed
– is almost overwhelming. It’s thoughts
like that which put the issue into its proper perspective. That’s why people cannot underestimate the
error of this natural family birth control.
It’s very serious: Why Natural Family Planning is Sinful Birth Control [PDF File].
It’s a good thing that your grandparents weren’t following the
instructions of the modern-day “traditionalist” priests who support, defend and
promote NFP. (That includes most of the
sedevacantist priests out there.) You
wouldn’t even be here or have a chance for eternal salvation.
Cleared
Dear Bro. Michael and Bro. Peter Dimond,
My brother and I have basically cleared all our shelves of certain
books, dvd's and music that we now know are offensive to the one
true Trinity, our blessed mother Mary and all the Angels and Saints of Heaven.
Please help us to build up an arson of catholic hymns and gregorian chants,
books, dvd etc that will help us and our family grow spiritually and keep us
busy.
We, the Mortune family wish to thank you all at MHFM for placing us on
the narrow path. You all are truly sons/warriors of the one true God.
Heaven bless you always.
P.s Is it also true that certain Saints aren't actually true Saints as
in Saints made Saints after the 1st vatican? (obviously minus blessed
Padre Pio)
Kindest regards
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. Those who have
been “canonized” after 1958 (when Antipope John XXIII took over) have not been
canonized. Some of those individuals
were modernists and therefore could not be canonized. But the point is that the Vatican II
antipopes have no authority to canonize anyone, so their “canonizations” are
invalid.
GB
Hello MHFM,
A while ago I wrote to you enquiring if you could help provide my family with
information as I couldn't afford the cost of postage from the USA to Great
Britain… I spoke with several friends to see if anyone could help in this
matter. I am pleased to say that a friend of mine managed to download all
the audio and video files from your website, and all the pdf documents
too. These he has put on cd for me. He has also kept a copy and is
distributing copies to all the Catholics we know.
Thank you for allowing us access to this vital information. Keep up the
good work!
Best wishes,
Russell
MHFM: Thanks, we’re glad to hear it.
Lefebvre
Dear Brother,
I am curious about people like the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. They endured
tremendous hardships opposing the Second Vatican Council's errors while still
believing in instances of salvation outside the Catholic Church; can it be said
with absolute certainty that that belief was rooted in malice and not in
honest error? Seminaries had been teaching salvation outside the Church
well before the council and it could be that the archbishop was merely taken in
by all the complex but false arguments the salvation heretics used. If St.
Alphonsus Liguori was, then perhaps Archbishop Lefebvre could have as well.
It's just difficult to believe that Lefebvre consciously and deliberately
denied any dogma of the Faith.
Thank you,
Adam Twardowski
MHFM:
Unfortunately it must be concluded that Lefebvre’s heresy against the dogma was
obstinate and therefore malicious.
Lefebvre not only believed in the error of baptism of desire, but he
held that souls can be saved in false religions. He actually indicated that it could be any
religion. No saint of the Catholic
Church ever believed in anything of the sort.
Some of them were flat out wrong
regarding baptism of desire, as we have pointed out, but they only extended
that to those who believed in Jesus Christ and the Trinity. They certainly did not believe, as Lefebvre
did, that souls can be saved in false religions.
If
a person has heard of the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation –
especially if he or she has seen some of the dogmatic definitions on the topic,
as Lefebvre must have – and still believes that Jews, Buddhists, etc. can be
saved, that person rejects the dogma and is a heretic. There is no way that a person who has seen
those definitions can, in good faith, say that he truly believes them while
holding that Jews, Buddhists, etc. can be saved. It is a flat out contradiction. A person who doesn’t have a huge problem
in his conscience and in his soul, when trying to reconcile those two
contradictory things, is just a liar and is not of the truth.
He is comfortable with the lie because he is a man of lies. Also, Lefebvre was an archbishop who had
studied these matters; he purported to be an expert on them. This is further evidence that his heresy was
formal.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Against the Heresies, Angelus Press [SSPX],
p. 216: “Evidently, certain distinctions must be made. Souls can be saved in a religion other than
the Catholic religion (Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, etc.), but not by this religion.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Summo
Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832: “Finally some of these misguided people
attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the
Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.”
Now it should be pointed out that Lefebvre, despite his heresy,
was a bit more honest in one regard.
Notice that he clearly and bluntly says what he really believes on this
matter. He comes right out and tells you
that he thinks souls can be saved in other religions. What Lefebvre says above is exactly what the
SSPV, CMRI, and almost every other independent priest today believes. The difference is that these other priests
are not as honest or blunt in expressing it.
They find euphemisms and clever explanations to obfuscate the
issue. This makes their heresy sometimes
more difficult to detect. But when they
are put on the spot and asked the proper questions – and on the few occasions
when they discourse in detail on the topic – their heresy comes out.
[For
those who might not have seen it, check out: The File on the Society of St. Pius X]
Pius V audio and the false
Sr. Lucy
The Pius V tape is very informative. He really laid down the
law. Nothing like the lives of the saints to teach us
correctly, but the V2 church says these sainted popes were too harsh.
Today we don't admonish the sinner; we hug him. .
Re: weddings. I saw a brief news item about the cost of weddings
these days: $28,000 average, but couples are paring down. One
couple made their own invitations and did several other things that cut their
expenses down to "just" $14,000.
Looking through some papers I found an old… article asking why Sister
Lucia changed her mind about the consecration of Russia. Seems Sister
Lucia changed a lot. Changed her teeth, changed her convent (both seem to
have changed at the same time) and changed her mind…
One commentator, quoted in the article, said the false Lucy theory is
wrong because "risk of exposure" would be too great.
HA! She's already been exposed. They could have put Whoopi
Goldberg in that Carmelite habit and these V2 yahoos would not have suspected
a thing. It's all so exasperating. So many plots, so many
lies, so many abortions, contraception. CVS has a family planning section. ....
.
PM
What?
Subject: heretics can ordain??? What???
[MHFM writes]: "Being a valid bishop, on the other hand, does not
require one to be Catholic. So the two
issues are distinct. Heretics can
validly ordain priests."
Where in the heck did you get this information, I'm dying to know…
Sam…
MHFM:
Well, we got that “information” from the teaching of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church teaches that heretics can
confer valid sacraments. Heretics can ordain and be ordained validly,
but they definitely sin when they do it.
When a bishop becomes a heretic, he doesn’t lose the powers received at
Episcopal Consecration. A bishop will
always have the powers of a bishop, as a result of his valid Episcopal
Consecration, but when he becomes a heretic he loses his place in the
Church. He also loses any office and
authority he might hold. So a heretical
bishop doesn’t lose the power to say Mass and ordain. He can do so validly, if he uses the
traditional rite. But he definitely sins
mortally when exercising these powers outside the true Church.
That’s
why the Catholic Church has regarded the bishops of the heretical and
schismatic Eastern “Orthodox” sects as valid bishops who are outside the true
Church. It’s
called receiving or administering a sacrament validly, but illicitly.
Maybe you should learn a little about Catholic teaching in this area (or
about Church history, for that matter) before mocking us when we repeat
Catholic truth. There is no doubt that
the tenor of your e-mail is meant to mock what we said. [This individual also sent us things which
further confirmed that his “question” was in fact a condemnation of what we
said; that’s obvious, however, from the above.]
The
fact that you are ignorant of this basic concept of sacramental theology is one
thing. Of course, we have no problem at
all with someone who would ask us about this issue, as the person a few
E-Exchanges below asked us. But the big
problem for you is that you send an e-mail with this sardonic tenor, which
clearly condemns what we said, when you are the one who is completely
wrong. This is very bad, and it
reveals a spiritual blindness. We had
simply repeated Catholic teaching.
Here’s the quote from Pope Leo XIII’s Bull regarding the invalidity of
Anglican Orders, in which he teaches the same thing. It’s obvious that you have no familiarity
with the Bull or the issues dealt with in it.
He declared the Anglican ordinations invalid because of a defect of the
rite they used. If heretics could never
ordain, then he would have simply said: their ordinations are invalid because
they are not Catholic, as the reader a few E-Exchanges down also pointed
out.
Pope Leo XIII, Apostolicae
Curae, Sept. 13, 1896: “When anyone has rightly and seriously made use of
the due form and the matter requisite for effecting or conferring the sacrament
he is considered by that very fact to do what the Church does. On this principle rests the doctrine that a
sacrament is truly conferred [i.e. validly conferred] by the ministry of one
who is a heretic or unbaptized, provided the Catholic rite be employed. On the other hand, if the rite be changed,
with the manifest intention of introducing another rite not approved by the
Church, and of rejecting what the Church does, and what by the institution of
Christ belongs to the nature of the sacrament, then it is clear that not only
is the necessary intention wanting to the sacrament, but that the intention is
adverse to and destructive of the sacrament.”
We could give many other quotes. When Pope Leo XIII says the “unbaptized” can
confer a sacrament, he is only speaking of the ability for the unbaptized to
baptize people. The sacraments of holy
orders, confession, confirmation, extreme unction, Eucharist are all sacraments
which require a valid priesthood. The
unbaptized cannot confer them validly.
Heretical priests can do so validly, but they do so illicitly
(unlawfully and sinfully).
Comment
Dear brother in Christ,
Let me add a short comment to your answer to the reader who asks about
valid ordination of priests. Namely, the pope Leon XIII in his letter
"Apostolicae curae et caritatis" confirms the decisions of his
predecessors that the ordination of priests in anglican rite is totally
invalid. The pope (that is *the real pope*) didn't just say "the anglicans
are heretics, therefore they can't ordain any priest". No, Leon XIII
explained what is wrong with the anglican rite of ordination that makes it
invalid. Sad to say, those very same things are wrong in V2 sect ordinations
too.
Greetings in Christ through Mary with Joseph,
Vladimir
Order Change
MHFM:
Readers of our site probably noticed that we moved the News and Commentary
section above the E-Exchanges. We want
to make it clear that we are still going to be updating the E-Exchanges as
regularly as usual, with new exchanges, quotes, questions, comments,
audio debates, conversations, etc. But
there have been so many interesting news headlines of late that the News and
Commentary section has become so frequently updated that we placed it on
top.
Sede Question
Dear Brothers,
I've been debating a Protestant on the subject of Sedevacantism. He brought up
this issue, "If the Catholic Church has been in sede vacante for 50 years,
then that would mean that for 50 years there has been no valid ordinations, and
therefore only a handful of ordained clergy remain. When they die away of old
age, then no one will be validly ordained, and therefore: no one will be able
to celebrate Mass, hear confessions, consecrate Holy Communion, etc. and then
the Catholic Church is dead."
I'm not quite sure how to answer this claim. What is the answer to this?
Thanks,
Dylan.
MHFM:
The issue of whether the man in Rome is a valid pope (he’s not) is one
matter. That requires that the man in
Rome be a Catholic. Being a valid
bishop, on the other hand, does not require one to be Catholic. So the two issues are distinct. Heretics can validly ordain priests. Further, priests and bishops have been
ordained in the traditional rites after Vatican II. So it’s wrong to say that the only validly
ordained priests and bishops are extremely old.
If you communicate to him a proper understanding of Catholic sacramental
theology, then he will see that his objection is invalid.
New Papacy Audio Cassette now
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MHFM: We’re glad
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Rome.
To hear this presentation,
which is now available in audio tape form, go to: The Bible teaches that Jesus made St. Peter the first
pope [1 hr. 11 min. audio], which is found in our Refuting Protestantism and Eastern
"Orthodoxy" * Audio Programs.
M-Debate
Hi Brother,
I just finished listening to the mini-debate you had with the SSPXer. Brother, I am deeply moved by your zeal for
his salvation. He certainly sounded like an SSPXer according to my
experience with them… What a great pity that he would laugh about the most
serious matter of all. He should watch MHFM's Death video instead of
going off with his heretical friends.
May Our Dear Lord grant us perseverance in prayer...
Sincerely,
Sister Joseph Anne
MHFM:
Frankly, his lack of interest in the truth – his bad will – was quite
frustrating and disappointing. That was
the predominant feeling coming out of the conversation. With so many of these people, all that
matters to them is the communal aspect of their lives. They only care about where they show up on
Sundays, the externals of the place, their friends, and the fact that they feel
traditional and Catholic there.
The
fact that the SSPX and similar groups reject dogmas doesn’t mean anything to
them, simply because they are not of truth.
It’s sad to say, but they just don’t care about the issues of faith
because they are not real believers.
That was especially confirmed by his adherence to the salvation heresy
near the end of the conversation. The
fact that the dogma declares that all who die as pagans, etc. are lost, when he
believes to the contrary (that pagans, etc. can be saved), doesn’t even bother
him.
------------------------
…just listened to your conversation with the gentleman from the SSPX and
found in him someone to feel sorry for. I myself and family attended SSPX
masses for about three years. After being exposed to your material about 2
years ago I quit supporting them and here recently (about 3 months ago) after
researching more of your material and others we left the SSPX… We lost friends
because of our departure but our souls are more important, thats what this
gentleman needs to understand its all there in black and white, centuries of
popes and church fathers. So like all the other people like him he calls our
Lord a liar. That everything the Gospel says and the Holy Spirit showers our
"true church" with His word.......... is false. Wake up and lose the
pride!...
Stu, Montana
SSPX mini-debate
MHFM:
This is a new conversation we had with a supporter of the SSPX. This conversation is revealing. It turned into a debate.
Mini-Debate with supporter of the Society of St. Pius X
(SSPX) [28 min. audio – June 23, 2008]
This
individual had watched the Creation and
Miracles video, which he liked, and he was poised to order of some our
material. He then asked us about the
Fraternity of St. Peter and the SSPX and the conversation essentially turned
into a debate. This exchange covers some
very relevant points, such as sedevacantism, the position of the SSPX, and
other matters. We think that people will
find it interesting. In an effort to
ignore the truth, this SSPX supporter throws out an
array of questions and objections typically brought forward by false
traditionalists. It’s almost
as if he was following the false traditionalist playbook of objections and
distortions. These concern things such
as whether Vatican II was infallible, how will we get a pope, the meaning of
Fatima’s promise, the era of peace, etc.
The importance of understanding the truth in these areas, and refuting
false arguments on these points, is illustrated quite clearly by this
exchange. Sadly, it’s clear that this
fellow was not interested in the truth of the points being presented to him,
but rather in looking for excuses and ways to hold on to his false
position. This exchange also shows us,
once again, why baptism of desire is a devastating false doctrine, and how it
has become the primary false doctrine (and justification for heresy) in our day. This SSPX supporter attempts to use “baptism
of desire” to justify his heretical belief of salvation for members of false
religions.
Convert
From: Canada
After hearing a radio announcement for the Most Holy Family Monastery several times
over the past year, and frankly scoffing at it, I suddenly decided in May to
visit the website anyway, even though I have been an active Pentecostal here in
Canada for 25 years and a Bible college graduate. I have been reading
about the Catholic faith for two months, from the sedevacantist position taught
by Brothers Michael and Peter Dimond. I am now studying a 1928 Catechism,
and I have already fully joined myself to the Catholic faith, outside of which
I now realize there is no salvation. Unfortunately, I have not been able
to locate any priest or church group in this province which is free from the
Novus Ordum heresy, so I cannot participate in a Mass... I am praying the
Rosary, and I was baptized by full immersion in the Name of the Father, of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in 1983. I am also publicizing the teachings
and audio messages of the Most Holy Family Monastery whenever I can,
particularly the information about Benedict XVI, and I understand how Cardinal
Ratzinger was undermining the faith for decades before his election, in
collusion with the powerful antipopes who preceded him. I cannot thank
the Brothers Dimond enough for their diligence in preaching the truth and
continuing their excellent research.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Thomson
V-2 schools
Hello Brother me and my dad recently came across some of your videos on
youtube and we have now visted your website and do everyday keep up the great
work. I am 14 years old so I have a few
stories to tell about school things and it concerns religion I'll try make
things short. First off I am a Catholic as my dad brought me to mass every
Sunday and still does he gave me the brown scapler and told me how to say the
rosary he told me everything I need to know and I thank God that he told
me these things after what I was told in school. One time in school we were
reading this book about a protestant girl and a Catholic boy in English
class. One of the students asked the
English teacher the differnce between the Catholic faith and the Protestant one
the teacher repiled "there is no differnce"how could someone say such
a thing and this is sussposed to be a Catholic School. But it just gets worse
in Geography class we were told that Family planing is great and when I told my
dad he said he'll be saying it to them at the next parent teacher meeting the
real probelm is most of the other students now think family planing is
good.Also in Religion class they try teach us all differnt religions and they
tell us that all them lead to almighty God and as I said this is supposed to be
a Catholic school… One more thing have you ever seen the demonic faces in the
911 smoke if so what is your opininon on them.
Please write back when you can thank you for reading this God bless.
S…
MHFM:
Thanks for the e-mail. It’s great to
hear about your interest in the faith.
It’s important to be clear on the fact that the New Mass is not a valid
Mass and that no one may attend it for any reason under pain of mortal sin,
since it’s an invalid and non-Catholic service: The Invalid New Mass.
Regarding
your question about the face in the 9/11 smoke, yes we have seen the picture of
it. It does look like an evil face to
us.
Witness to “J Witnesses”
For the first time in my life today, I had two J-Wit's come ring my
doorbell. At first I didn't realize who they were. It was two elderly women who
seemed benign at first, and I thought maybe they were lost and asking for
directions or something. Then they whipped out the infamous
"Watchtower" propaganda and before they got two words in about their
cult, I interrupted and exclaimed, "excuse me, I'll be right back!"
and then I went to my closet and grabbed a spare copy of your Padre Pio book
and brought it to the door where the heretics were still waiting. I said to
them, "Here's the deal, let's trade, I'll take your information but you
have to take mine also." The one lady began reading the title out loud:
"Padre Pio: A Priest Who......Hmm, I really have no interest in reading
this." Then I replied, "and I have no interest in your material
neither. Have a good day." Now after the fact, I wish I had confronted
them about their cult and called out the many evils and falsehoods they believe
in. But at least they know where I stand. They had the chance to receive the
truth, but they rejected it to their own misfortune...
MHFM:
Thanks, we think that was a good idea.
Also, since the “Jehova’s Witnesses” reject the Trinity (and thus the
Divinity of Jesus Christ), the facts in this article are important in refuting
their main heresy: Where does the Bible teach that
Jesus is God?. Quickly covering how their rejection
of the Divinity of Christ proves that they are not following the one true
religion is a good way to evangelize them.
EENS
[EENS= Extra ecclesiam nulla
salus: Outside the Church There is No Salvation]
Dear brothers in Christ,
I would like to share with you some thoughts which came up to me just by
listening the conversations you had with some people. First, there is no doubt
that the dogma EENS is a stumbling block for many people, as it was once for me
also. They find it difficult, almost impossible, to accept. We, the people,
easily forget that God, our heavenly Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
cannot, wish not, do any injustice to anyone and that He does not need our
judgments about His works. We cannot, should not, try to correct Him, to
counsel Him what is better or worse. He knows everything,
everywhere, the past, the present and the future. We are here to
obey God, to love Him above anything else, to love Him more than ourselves. At
the first glance the EENS dogma does not appear to have the form as "do that, do not do
this", but at the second glance this dogma
is another form, another wording, of The First Commandment.
Let us see how the Serpent manage to seduce the people to break
God's commandment, as he already did
once in the Eden. The Serpent is continuously suggesting us that
"there are so many innocent people who die outside the Church, so how can
it be that the Justice cast them all into the Hell?" Of course, he would not like to remind us that
this Justice is The Absolute Justice, who knows with absolute certainty what
the "innocent one" would do if he/she continue his/her life on
Earth. Have you, dear reader, never
experienced the situation when you were
certain that some man/woman is a very good, almost holy, person but some
time after you discovered that he/she was a very cruel and hardened criminal?
If you know that the appearances can
fool you, no matter how intelligent and smart you are, why do you suppose that
the same thing can fool God? Why do you waste you precious time on Earth to try
to invent the never and nowhere mentioned "exceptions" to the dogma,
the God's Command?.. God can perform as many miracles as He wishes; e.g. He can
nullify the law of gravitation, and make you stay alive when you fall from a
very high building. Does this gives us right to hope that He will always
suspend the natural law if we "innocently" transgress it? Obviously, it doesn't. The background of all
Devil's temptations put in human minds is in the suggestions:"If the God is such and
such, then He will respond to your actions in such and such ways." The Truth is: Do not
test your God for any reason whatsoever. You should never do that. There is no
justice above The Justice, there is no mercy above The Mercy, there is no love above The Love.
"If you love me, keep my commandments."( John 14:15)… There are so
many people who find it difficult to
keep the EENS because they think they have better love than "the strict
sense of EENS". "And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not
die the death." (Genesis 3:4). Dear reader, please answer the questions to
yourself: If you think you have better
sense for love than God's death sentence on all human race because of the sin
of one man, then how is it possible to commit a sin at all? Can't you see that
the denial of "the strict sense of
EENS dogma" is the total rejection of God because you assume you know
better
than Him?...
May our Savior lead you in your holy efforts, through the intercession of our Immaculate Mother.
Vladimir
New Conversation
MHFM:
This is a new conversation we recently had.
This person asked about how to respond to those who say that Catholicism
comes from Babylonian false religions. Certain
other “traditionalist” heretics also come up in the conversation. The Divine Mercy Devotion is also briefly
addressed.
Catholicism
and Babylonian religion? and other heretics [18 min. audio]
Alexander
the Great and the Pharaohs of Egypt come up quickly in this conversation. To supplement the point that’s made, it could
be mentioned that Alexander the Great was truly an Antichrist before Christ. As mentioned in the conversation, he claimed
on a certain level to be an incarnation of God, claiming to have been born of a
woman and Zeus. He also died at 33 years
old (Carroll, A History of Christendom,
Vol. 1, p. 206) and received divine honors.
Also,
one of the heretics who is discussed briefly near the end of the conversation
has recently declared that St. Alphonsus, a Doctor of the Church, was a
non-Catholic heretic! That just further
proves what we have said about this individual for many years: he is without
question a non-Catholic heretic and a false prophet. In fact, we have proven in our material that
he is, in reality, a false Christ who has founded his own Church. We even know a small number of individuals,
who used to be Catholics, who sadly fell outside the Church through the evil
influence of this non-Catholic heretic.
Perhaps
now that he has denounced a saint and Doctor of the Church as a non-Catholic
heretic they can see the (evil) spirit which was guiding his works – works
which influenced them to leave the true Church.
He is actually a Protestant, even though he claims to be Catholic. He is a Protestant who condemns Catholic
tradition and the saints, just like Luther, Calvin, etc. A Doctor of the Church can certainly make
mistakes, as St. Alphonsus did; but one who has been solemnly canonized by a
pope, as St. Alphonsus has been, is infallibly a saint in Heaven. The entire Catholic Church recognizes this
fact as a result of a solemn decree from the supreme pontiff of the Catholic
Church. Those who don’t are simply not
part of the Catholic Church. What is
mentioned briefly in this conversation about this individual’s ridiculous
blasphemies against the Church constitutes just a tiny bit of the evidence that
could be brought forward to prove that he is not a Catholic.
Paralipomenon
Dear Monks,
What kind of a scripture is 2 Paralipomenon 19:2 ? !!! " WHAT IN THE WORLD"?!!! I have never seen or heard of such a thing
before! Care to enlighten me pretty
please? So we are not supposed to help
ungodly or bad, immoral, evil people in need then? What about God Himself then, who (as the
Bible says)gives to the wicked and just alike,takes care of the bad and the
good alike,lets the sun shine and the rains fall on the wicked and just
alike? What about all those things Jesus
said in the NT about loving our enemies that seems to contradict your WEIRD
little scripture? These are just my
sincere questions that your weird little scripture brought
up...................
C…
MHFM:
It’s a book in the Old Testament. It’s
called Chronicles in the Protestant bible.
The Scripture makes it clear that God will reject and be displeased with
those who don’t oppose evil. He will
reject those who respect evil or support it.
He will reject those who fail to condemn the enemies of the truth. There is no respect for false religions with
God. Loving one’s enemies involves
sharing the true faith with them.
Why?
Hi Brothers,
Yes, the last few posted HOWs have been quite bad. And, yes, this astounding evidence should be
more than enough for… the SSPXers, the SBC, and anyone else who holds their
schismatic position, to finally denounce B16 (and his V2 predecessors) as a
true pope. Well, having already made my
decision on the matter, I will not hold my breath waiting for their
conversion. After all, MHFM has been exposing the anti-popes and their V2
sect for more than a decade and their adherents still refuse to acknowledge the
facts. Why? That is the real mystery to me - the why. Why do
they have such bad will? I just don't get it.
Why do they hate their own souls? Why do they hate the truth and
hate those who love it? WHAT IS THEIR
PROBLEM?!!! Are they simply evil or
what? I'm not expecting you to answer
this email. I only wanted to add my two cents, as usual.
Sincerely,
Your Sister in the Most Holy Family
MHFM:
Thanks for the comments. The answer is,
sadly, that they are just evil. They
don’t believe that the Church is supernatural; hence it’s not a big problem for
them to regard a clear heretic (a clear unbeliever), such as Benedict XVI, as
in the Church. They value the comfort of
their current position more than standing for the truth. Finally, they are given a false sense of
security by being surrounded by like-minded heretics who are also compromising
God’s truth in this area.
H.O.W.
MHFM: In case you
missed it, we just added this week’s Heresy of the Week (changed on Wednesdays). The last few from Benedict XVI have been quite bad.
Debate notes
MHFM:
William, with whom we recently debated [Debate: does Vatican II teach that non-Catholics
may lawfully receive Holy Communion?], has written to us and admitted that he
was wrong. He has admitted that Vatican
II does indeed teach that non-Catholics may receive Holy Communion.
So he is now admitting exactly what we said in the debate with him, and
what he vigorously denied. Here are some
recent e-mails we received from him:
Brothers,
It appears as if I was wrong. The Church does in fact,
allow Orthodox Christians, in rare circumstances, to receive communion. I
will be happy to go public with a discussion on this in the future. (please
dont call me 10 minutes before we are to discuss this) Please contact me
if you are interested. You may publish this e-mail. My
challenge to discuss sedevacantism still stands also.
[from William, 6/5/08]
--------------
Hey Brothers I would like the opportunity to again talk about the
issue of communion for non-catholics. Since our conversation I have
studied the issue a little closer, and believe I can shed some light on the
issue. I was wrong in our previous conversation. The Church does allow
Non- Catholics , in some cases, to receive communion. I'd like to explain
why this is justifiable.
Also, if you arent interested in that would you be interested in
discussing Religious Liberty. You are on record as saying Vatican II
contradicted previous Church teaching. I'd like to discuss the issue and show
that Vatican II did not contradict previous Church teaching. Please try to give
at least 24 hour notice for an informal discussion and at least two weeks for a
formal debate.
[from William, 6/11/08]
But
just in case someone thinks that William is beginning to see the light, which
would be our hope, we can see that he still wants to defend Vatican II! William wants to defend his new understanding
of the heretical council. He now
wants to defend that it’s okay for non-Catholics to receive Holy Communion, as
Vatican II teaches! Isn’t this
incredible? These people are of amazing
bad will, aren’t they? Vatican II could
say anything, and they would defend it.
Along
the same lines, we recently received a similar e-mail from another fellow,
named Aaron, with whom we had a debate.
Like William, Aaron wrote to us and admitted that he was wrong about the
main points he was arguing for in the conversation. For example, he admitted that he was wrong
when he asserted in the conversation that a person cannot be subject to the
Roman Pontiff (after the age of reason) without knowing him. He also admitted he was wrong for denying
what we said, that schism is an obstinate
separation from Catholics or the Catholic hierarchy. He also admitted that he was wrong for saying
that St. Vincent Ferrer was a schismatic during the Great Western Schism, when
St. Vincent wrongly followed Antipope Benedict XIII. In our debate/conversation, we refuted his
false position on St. Vincent Ferrer.
When we did so, Aaron stated forcefully: “don’t deny the dogma, Peter.”
In other words, Aaron accused us of heresy for not asserting that St. Vincent Ferrer was a schismatic when St.
Vincent believed that an antipope was a true pope. Now Aaron admits that he was completely wrong on all of these points
– which are absolutely central to the whole debate and the position he was
espousing. He thus admits that he was a
schismatic for falsely accusing us of heresy when we were in fact correct. So much for: “Don’t deny the dogma,
Peter.” He now acknowledges that he was
completely wrong, just as we tried to tell him in the conversation. But just in case one might think that his
apology/recognition of his errors on these points might have humbled him, or
caused him to realize that he is very
deceived and blinded, think again.
Just like William, Aaron is as convinced as ever in his totally false
position. Now he is arguing for a
different variation of the same schismatic position. These people are abominable.
They
are so dishonest that we fear that there is nothing that will convince
them. Even having falsely denounced
people as heretics in a debate, on matters concerning which they now admit they
were completely wrong, doesn’t cause them to realize that they are not on the
side of Catholic truth. It doesn’t cause
them to realize that they don’t know what they are talking about. You can see why, if they die as they are,
there is no other place that God can send them but Hell. They are so blinded by pride and bad will.
Moving
back to William, it’s also interesting that in a recent e-mail he complained
that we didn’t give him enough time to prepare for our debates.
Come on Brothers!!!!!!!! You call people cowards yet
the two debates we have had you gave me a total of 2 days and 10 minutes
notice…
[From William, dated 6/15/08]
So
he’s complaining that we didn’t give him enough time to prepare, especially for
the recent debate on Non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion. But look at this e-mail below. This was from the same William, on May 29, before
the debate. He was begging us to debate
him and he was telling us that we were wrong on this very point: with regard to
Vatican II and non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion. He was also telling us that we need to do our
research on the matter, as if he has done his:
Are you guys really serious? I mean how can you debate that person
from Chicago, and not debate me. He couldn't even name the
Council of Nicea. Are you kidding? Put me on your "phone
debate" list please….
p.s. you misrepresented Vatican II's teaching in your conversation about communion. If you read
number 25 of Orientalium Ecclesiarium you will see the "separated"
Eastern Church member can receive communion only when he states his belief in
the Catholic faith. That is why # 27 (which you quoted) says they must
have "the proper disposition." They have already received all the
valid sacraments so a simple confession of faith is all that is required (to
recieve the Eucharist). After they make the confession they are in fact
Catholic. Notice in 27 it states confession(sacrament of) as a
sacrament they can partake in. They have to receive confession before receiving
the Eucharist. SORRY BROTHERS DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP PICKING
ON THE DISABLED!!!! CALL ME OR EMAIL ME AND I WILL CALL YOU. I HOPE YOU SEE THE
LIGHT BEFORE YOU TWO BURN IN HELL!!!
[From William, 5/29/08]
So
we can see that on May 29 he is saying that we don’t know what we’re talking
about and that we will burn in Hell. He
is begging to debate us. (He also told
us that he would debate us “anytime, anywhere.”) He is telling us that he has done his
homework on this point in Vatican II, and that we need to do ours. So we call him up and debate, and the rest is
history: He now admits that what we said in the debate is completely true, and
that what he argued for is completely wrong.
Hence, this is an interesting illustration of how confident these
heretics are before their lies can be refuted in a debate. But after the debate – after their false
positions and lies have been tested and refuted – they are often forced to
admit that they were completely wrong, as William and Aaron did; but, since
they are not of good will, they still refuse to come to (and are unable to see)
the true position.
Divine Mercy
Dear Brother,
I am from Singapore. I just read the article
on the Divine Mercy. I am confused. If
the Devotion is something to avoid , why then did the Pope approve of it. All over the churches in Spore we have Novena
Devotions to the Divine Mercy. Pls
advise.
Thanks & regards
Anna Marie
MHFM: It’s because
the Vatican II “popes” are not true popes, as our material proves. So what they approve doesn’t hold any
authority: The Catholic Teaching that
a heretic cannot be a valid pope [PDF file].
Please also consult:
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of
Benedict XVI File)
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope
1978-2005)
Entirely Rejected
Dear Brothers:
Since my phone conversation with you two months ago, I was able to find a priest
ordained before 1968, made my confession and have ENTIRELY REJECTED the Vatican
II Sect with all of its heresy, blasphemy and apostasy. The more I read your
website, the more my insights from years past have been vindicated!!... Keep up
the SUPER work on the website!!!
-Derek A.
Sign?
Dear MHFM: do you believe the earthquake that almost
destroyed the church at assisi Italy in 1998 ,where in 1986 john
paul 2 prayed together with many pagan religions, was a sign that god
was displeased with this idolatry?
sincerly mark CA
MHFM:
Yes, we would have to think so.
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Quotes
Hello MHFM,
It has been a pleasure being able to read, listen, and watch your
material. I have taken it slow but the way I see it, you are not heretics
nor schismatics because you hold the True Catholic Faith. It is a sad
thing to see what has happen with the Church, and how the prophecy of Our Lady
of La Sallete has been fulfilled when she said "...Rome will be in an
eclipse." I have looked at your website and I read your Quote of the
Day, almost everyday since I found this website… I can't thank you enough for
all the knowledge I have gain. It is a blessing from God. Thanks
for the Book True Devotion to Mary, it has changed my ways of sinful
life. The Rosary truly is powerful against the Devil, I am a witness.
May God bless you in all your continuing work and I am patiently waiting for
upcoming material you guys have come up with.
From Oregon,
Bernardo T.
Pius V
Dimond Brothers,
Thanks for your presentation on Pope St. Pius V. I would have enjoyed late evening conversations
with him. Is it possible through prayer
to actually have late
evening conversations with a canonized saint such as Pope St. Pius V? or can we only
hope for intercession on our
behalf? I would be interested to know if
he felt his response to prostitution was
consistent with the manner in which our Lord saves Mary Magdala from
certain stoning. It doesn't appear to
be. I wonder why? No matter how great,
how pious, the particular Pope, I always find with St. Jerome that failure to
understand the scriptures is failure to know Christ and that it is always best
to seek the Word because that is one sure way to find Christ our Savior.
And I am truly amazed that people just don't understand how Jesus leads
us to the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, long before we are dead if we
only truly absorb everything he tells us to think, feel and do. Ex cathedra
papal, magisterial statements are fine but they do not compare with being an
actual disciple of Christ who have the power to lead others into the Kingdom
here and now.
If you connect all your dots you will see that it is possible to sin no
more and that is precisely how you enter the Kingdom, through great humility,
and once there you say no to all of Satan's temptations from that point and forevermore...lest
you become like little children...lest your righteousness exceeds that of the
Pharisees...and so you actually enter the Kingdom here and now and live for the
rest of your mortal life in the world but not of the world. It's not boring. It's
really quite wonderful. The only problem is to get there. You see, sometimes
you have to endure some if not all the sufferings of Christ himself or St.
Paul. Most people turn away at some point from entering the Kingdom because the
Church has never truly understood that the Kingdom is at hand for anyone who has chosen through
grace to sin no more. I hear too
much vague talk about faith...angry talk of heresy. The truth is that we have
the freedom to choose either God or Satan and the vast majority of people
literally
choose Satan. Has no one observed that all the antipopes since Vatican II
have been tempted by Satan's false promise to gain all the power, the
wealth, the glamour of this world...just bow down and worship me (Satan)
and do the bidding of those who preach one world religion, one world
government and literally attempt to
destroy the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church. That demonic path is
of no interest to the true Catholic who is seeking the kingdom. What I am
saying is that some
people are already in the Kingdom which happens to be the only sensible
alternative to the political and economic systems invented by man for the devil
in his attempt
to destroy man….All the infallible statements are fine but if you are
still Jew or Greek, male or female, Democrat or Republican you have failed to
enter the Kingdom which is the true fulfillment of the Lord's prayer
which states thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. I forgive those who have not chosen the Kingdom for themselves and
their families but for the life of me I cannot understand why all people don't
come to realize that Jesus truly loves us and asks us to sin no more and wants
us to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect.
Yes, you are correct. Salvation comes only through the Catholic church.
But it takes a great deal of wisdom, strength and all the gifts of the Holy
Spirit to discern the right path, the true from false spirits, the Way, the
true Light (Christ) of the World, to experience what the early martyrs and
disciples experienced in their relationship to Christ.
The early Church showed us how we were meant to live for Christ. As time
went on it seems that Satan has distracted us more and more with his false
promises.
Verily I say to you, enter the Kingdom and you will have found
Heaven...no death, no sickness, no sin, no suffering...wonderous love,
wonderous life, wonderous light, wonderous joy with Christ sitting at the right
hand of the Father with all the angels and saints in worship of the glory of
the Trinity. And our Holy Mother through the assumption is there as well.
Neither Jew, nor Muslim, nor Hindu, nor Protestant etc. can lead us into
the Kingdom because none of them have experienced Pentecost in the Upper Room.
True disciples and true saints can. Satan is totally opposed. And that is man's
only problem. If we all focused more on our baptismal vows to reject Satan and
his false promises and stopped falling into the trap of attacking God's
creatures who may be prostitutes and/or heretics but are so only because of
Satanic deception and temptation (including the antipopes) we would have a far
better chance to taste heaven on earth than we do if we continue to think that
it is God's will for us to kill with the tongue, the whip or the sword.
Faithfully,
James K.
MHFM:
We appreciate your interest, but some of your comments are off base. They savor of a Protestant, Bible-alone
mentality. You don’t seem to realize
that most people are too proud and don’t fear God enough to stop offending
him. Thus, strong preaching and measures
are necessary. The fear of Hell and the
fear of punishments is usually the only thing which gets through to them. It’s after one breaks from mortal sin that he
or she can begin to understand the love of God and begin to serve Him primarily
on that basis. St. Pius V reigned when
the Catholic Church was dominant, so those who engaged in mortal sins such as
prostitution and adultery were going directly in the face of the teaching of
the Church (not to mention the natural law).
Strong measures are frequently the only thing which will stir blind,
puffed up sinners to change. And that’s
how a great and saintly pope looked at these matters. Certainly St. Pius V arranged for the
conversion of the prostitutes; he called for measures below the death penalty,
but ones which delivered the message about the gravity of such evils. If people are preached to in a strong way,
they are more inclined to change. For
example, you can be sure that if even the Novus Ordo apostate “bishops”
excommunicated all who voted or supported abortion, the entire country would be
different. Abortion probably would be
illegal. So to put the issue in general
terms, it’s not only because people choose evil that they go to Hell and lead
others there, but evil grows and finds a climate in which to flourish when it
is not opposed by strong preaching and measures.
New St. Pius V Talk
MHFM: This is a
new informal discussion of Pope St. Pius V, one of the greatest popes in
Catholic history. This covers some very
interesting quotes and facts about his life.
Pope
St. Pius V: Profile of a Strong Catholic Pope [30 min. audio]
This informal discussion
covers St. Pius V’s strict views. It
covers his insistence on truthfulness, his detachment from relatives, his
measures against adultery, sodomy, blasphemy, concubinage, immorality, the
disturbance of divine worship and Sundays, and pomp in marriages. It also covers his renewal of the Bull Cum ex apostolatus officio of Pope Paul
IV, his actions against heresy, etc.
[We also came
across something else from St. Pius V which is extremely relevant to the issue
of where people can receive sacraments today.
It serves to vindicate the position we have enunciated. That will be posted soon.]
This will be
found permanently in the Traditional Catholic Audio Programs section of our
website.
Shocked
Hello,
My friend told me about your website. I told him I was wanting to learn
more about our faith so we can teach our children. I'm finding that the
Catholic church does not teach the same things. Our catholic
bookstore now carries christian authors!! I was shocked. We are confused now
who do we believe in our catholic faith? Who is giving us the correct material?
Your website is quite overwhelming! How do I know you are teaching the truth? I
am a home school mother of 6. Do you recommend a specific home schooling
curriculum and which books should I use for religion? In the past we have used Seton home study and
Catholic Heritage curriculum. I will continue to look over your website, a
little bit at a time. Thank you for your
time.
Lisa Petrone
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. You can know
that what we’re saying is the truth because we are documenting what we’re
saying from the infallible and authoritative teaching of the popes (i.e., the
teaching of the Catholic Magisterium).
That is the authority that Jesus Christ instituted in Peter to guide His
Church. That is what all Catholics must
accept and follow and by which they must measure everything. Also, it’s important to note that “Catholic”
and “Christian” are one and the same thing. We hope you continue to look at the
material, and listen to the audio programs.
Coincidence
Greetings, Brothers!
What a coincidence. The other day, while contemplating removing my
Ron Paul bumper sticker from my car, I thought, "wouldn't it be great to
have a MHFM bumper sticker" -- and lo and behold, there it was on your
website! I would love to have one if they are still available. One
more way to get the word out! Thank you so much. You are in my
prayers daily.
Mrs. Margaret Moore
Michigan
Pathetic Coward
Subject: MHFM- no authority and not Catholic hence lost all debates.
NEXT!!!
MHFM: We received an e-mail with the subject line
above. It’s from a person who defends
Antipope Benedict XVI. The person didn’t
put his name. We responded by
challenging the person to a recorded telephone conversation about the
matter. Not surprisingly, the person
ignored the challenged. He even said
that he would block our e-mails, and continued to send us easily-refuted
arguments against the sedevacantist position.
What more do you expect from a bad willed heretic?
This
is an example of the cowardice and insincerity of these heretics. They can say anything they want when no one
is there to refute them. They convince
themselves of their lies because they refuse to hear or to look at the truth.
How shocked they will be when they die and are cast into Hell for stubbornly
defending as a Catholic pope a man who holds that Protestants and schismatics
don’t need to be converted.
It’s
also worth noting that some of the easily-refuted information against the
sedevacantist position, which this individual sent to us, comes from an
independent “traditionalist” bishop who recognizes Benedict XVI as the
pope. It comes from an independent
bishop who thinks that Benedict XVI is the pope, but obstinately operates
completely separate from his “hierarchy.”
So this heretic who e-mailed us is not only demonstrating his blindness
by accepting Benedict XVI, but he is piling a double punishment of damnation on
his head for promoting the information of an independent bishop whose position
is obstinately schismatic for being separate from the “hierarchy” he recognizes
as valid (i.e., the “hierarchy” of Benedict XVI). In other words, the more he defends Benedict
XVI, the more he condemns his own independence from him, as well as the independence
of the bishop he promotes.
Discovered
Dear Brother Dimond,
I recently discovered some of your videos on YOUTUBE. Needless to say,
they are very well done. Your research and your obvious scholarship are
the hallmarks of your productions. As I have always been fascinated and
concerned by the "inconsistencies" of the conclave of 1958, I found
your series on invalid popes and councils utterly enthralling. Not since I read
"The Four Last Things," have I been rendered so completely
spellbound. I have watched but a meager sampling of your videos. I hope to
watch them all. The first few minutes of your 6 part series on Hell was
terrifying -- which is actually a good thing! I suppose this is a largely
rhetorical question, but: if all popes since Pius XII have been invalid (and
all their subsequent priestly and bishop ordinations, as well), how does
the Church return to validity? I, like yourself, love the Catholic Church. I
join you in praying for her.
God Bless You,
Bill
MHFM:
Thanks for the interest. The Church
continues to have validity even when there is no pope. As long as there are true Catholics left, the
Church still exists. With only a remnant
of true faithful left, we are in a situation that is exactly what Jesus
indicated it would be at the end (Luke 18:8).
In our debates and audio programs, we explain ways by which a true pope
could return to Rome. The Roman clergy
elected a true pope for the first millennium, so the Roman clergy could elect a
true and Catholic pope in the future.
But the fact of the matter is that this Counter Church in Rome is a
major feature of the end times. So
people need to focus on being traditional Catholics, getting into or remaining
in the state of grace, and spreading to the uncompromising traditional Catholic
faith to others.
Likes bumper sticker
Dear Bros Michael and Peter Dimond,
Bumper stickers are a great idea...we made our own several years
ago...these are great ones, which we will put to good use!
Tks to guy who designed this one...
D. Shone
New Zealand
---------------
Love the bumper sticker. Could you please save one for me.
I'll mail a contribution for postage.
What a kind gentleman to make them for you.
It's the only bumper sticker I would put on my car besides the "Pray
the Rosary for peace on earth" I already have. I'm listening
to all the tapes. Excellent teaching on all of them. A good review
is always good. So many things are so easily forgotten or not known at
all. Some of these poor people don't realize they must leave their V2
churches…
PM
Anglican Conversation
MHFM:
This is a conversation one of us recently had with a Protestant who came across
our material. He asks some interesting
questions about Church history, the Anglican and Episcopalian sects, the
Eucharist, Scripture, etc. It also covers
the necessity to convert and to break from mortal sin:
Talk with Episcopalian [37 min. audio]
Convert
My name is Cameron Burton, please send me the DVD offer, a rosary, + a
how to pray the rosary sheet, please. I
called the toll #, talked with someone and am intent on taking the first steps
to conversion from currently Protestantism to Catholic. Thank you for your help and service in
answering my questions.
Cameron Burton
Oklahoma
Bumper Stickers
Dear Brothers Michael and Peter,
….I bring your attention to the enclosed bumper sticker. I firmly believe that you are promoting the whole
Truth of what’s going on in these dark days… and so I thought that a good way
to promote your cause would be for you to include a bumper sticker with each
order you send out. I hope you like
them. I had 250 of them printed, and
they are on their way to you in a separate package. I’ve kept a few of them for myself. One of them now adorns my Honda CRV, and I
kept 10 more to hand out to other people.
This is my gift to you in hopes that they may be an instrument to
further promote the monastery.
God bless,
Josh
MHFM:
Thanks a lot. [This is an image of the
MHFM bumper sticker which he sent to us.]
Great Western Schism False
Apparitions
MHFM:
We have discussed in detail that the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) was a
precursor to the kind of crisis we are facing right now in the Great
Apostasy. That awful period of Church
history, with antipopes, etc., was comparable in many ways to our own. Another way in which it was similar to our
own period is that the period of the Great Western Schism saw a multiplication
of false prophets and false apparitions.
This is another very interesting parallel to our own day:
“Among the
darker shades of the picture of this period [the Great Western Schism], we must
count the formation of sectarian Conventicles by laymen and the increase of false prophecies… The false prophecies, on account of their wide
diffusion, demand a more detailed examination.
The difficulty of
ascertaining which Pope was the true one, and the anxiety and perplexity of
conscience of the chaotic state of the Church, led to a notable multiplication
of visionaries and prophets.” (Dr.
Ludwig Pastor, History of the Popes,
Vol. 1, p. 151.)
For our article
on the Great Western Schism, see: The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) and what it teaches us
about the post-Vatican II apostasy - Massive confusion, multiple antipopes,
antipopes in Rome, an antipope recognized by all the cardinals; The Great
Western Schism proves that a line of antipopes at the heart of the post-Vatican
II crisis is absolutely possible-.
Remarriage
If a woman were to fall away from the Catholic faith, then
"marry" a man who was previously married (presuming
validity here) and divorced from his first marriage (not annulled, of course),
possibly having children together in this second "marriage"... supposing
late in life she were to have a conversion and realize she must become a
Catholic, would she have to refrain from communion for the rest of her life if
she still lives as husband and wife with this man? Can she receive last
rites and viaticum at the very end, God willing, should that opportunity
ever come to pass? The reason I ask is that this is possibly the
situation someone I know may fairly soon find herself in. She was
baptized Catholic and raised in the Novus Ordo, but knows enough about what the
Church believes and the basic do's and don'ts for adults of the faith.
For years she has just flatly rejected them and does not in any way consider
herself a Catholic, nor wanted to change that as long as I knew her.
I haven't had contact with this person in a long time, but it is
someone I pray for, and maybe we may bump into each other someday. What
is your take on this?
Through Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
John
MHFM:
Since that man is already validly married, the woman would clearly be living in
sin by living as if she were married to him.
The only way that she could ever receive the sacraments lawfully is if
she converted from her sinful activity, truly
and totally. It’s true that this can
happen at any point in life, as long as one is alive. So if one truly and totally turns from that
sin, and has the firm commitment not to commit it again, even if it’s just
before death, he or she could receive the last rites. However, the idea that one would, for years,
spurn the grace of conversion from this sin, but suddenly and sincerely embrace
it just before death, is extremely unlikely.
St. Jerome says that of 100,000 sinners who persist in sin until death
scarcely one will be saved.
Ecumenism conversation
MHFM: This
conversation is with a woman who is completely new to the traditional
information. She came across our
material. What’s very interesting is how
she explains that she began to go to Jewish synagogues and Buddhist Temples
after seeing John Paul II do it:
Conversation with woman who followed John Paul II into
religious indifferentism but is open to the truth [22 min. audio]
Scapular
I suspect that the full brown scapular that is worn by religious is
removed by them when they dress for bed at night. Would it be appropriate
for lay Catholics who wear the small brown scapular to remove it when they go
to bed as well?
K.
MHFM:
Thanks for the question. We believe that
people should keep the scapular on when they go to bed.
Rosary and N.O.
MHFM,
I just finished reading the book "The Secret of the Rosary". It
was a great book and I would like to thank you for having it recommended on
your site. It has given me wonderful insight on how to say the Rosary
better. On the last rose St. Louis de Montfort gives various methods to
start and vocally pray the Rosary, I really liked those, it gave different
ideas on how to start the Rosary and remained focused. Thank you for this
wonderful book.
I would like to also share one of my last Novus Ordo experiences with
you. About four months ago, I attended this big "Catholic"
conference/ gathering of college students hosted by FOCUS, which brings
together all "Catholic" university students from around the country.
There were two really disturbing books I saw "nuns" and
"monks" selling, one concerning the "common heritage"
of the Catholic Faith and Islam Faith, second was a book that talked
about there being no necessity for there to be any veneration of Mary. I
found both to be pretty bad at the time, but after reading "The Secret of
the Rosary," I find the second book these "religious" were
selling to be close to horrifying (not that the other one was any
better). I'm glad I never wasted my money on that garbage.
Thanks for all you do and keep up the great apostolate.
Kenneth
Salvation conversation
MHFM:
This is a short, but somewhat interesting, audio with a reader who was formerly
from Jordan. This person comments upon
how when the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation is denied the rest
of the faith becomes meaningless. This
shows us again how the belief that “baptism of desire” can save people without
the Catholic faith destroys faith.
Conversation with man formerly from Jordan about heresy
against salvation dogma [7 min. audio]
This
will be found permanently in the Telephone Conversations section of our Traditional Catholic Audio Programs.
Likes Debates
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that you have done a wonderful job. Your
debates have been great listening. I could not believe the debate with
the vatican II apologist and with william.
I also could not believe the debate with the other guy. (aaron) I
believe was his name. His argument was
pathetic. He was dishonest. He was purposely denying the truth so that he could
win the argument. You proved his position wrong so obviously. It was sad that
he just wouldn't admit it. I was shocked when he was calling St. Vincent and
the other saints heretics.. You proved him wrong with the Church teachings
you read to him, but he just wouldn't admit it. It was shocking..
It was also shocking that he was saying that children of the age of reason are
heretics even when they haven't obstinately denied any teachings of the faith. That was also sad when he changed his
position in the middle of the debate.. He sounds misguided..
We need to pray for him and for all of these people to come home to the
Catholic faith.
God Bless
Jack
Bind and Loose
Dear Brothers,
Your site has been very helpful to me over the years in regaining the
true faith and defending it. Thank you! I can imagine what you’ve been
going through these years defending the faith, just by some of the e-mail
exchanges I’ve read on your web site and the personal attack’s against you and
your work standing up for the true faith. It’s shocking to see that most
of the people today that call themselves Catholic have no idea what the true faith
is. Very sad! Could you please explain
the passage in the bible; “Amen, I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon
earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth
shall be loosed in heaven.” I have a brother and many others that brings this
up every time we discuss the problems with the Neo Church, as if this passage
gave the Pope’s free reign to change whatever they wished.
Sincerely,
James
MHFM:
It means that a pope has the power to bind teachings and laws, and to change
disciplinary laws (not dogmas) and lift penalties (e.g., excommunication). It certainly does not mean that a pope has
the power to change a dogmatic teaching of the Church. That is why Vatican I, the dogmatic council
which most extensively defined on the papal office, specifically rejected any
such idea.
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council,
Session 3, Chap. 4, Canon 3:
"If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the
advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded
by the church which is different from that which the Church has
understood and understands: let him be anathema."
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council,
Session 3, Chap. 4, on the true progress of knowledge:
"For, the doctrine of faith which God revealed has not been handed down
as a philosophic invention to the human mind to be perfected, but has been
entrusted as a divine deposit to the Spouse of Christ, to be faithfully guarded
and infallibly interpreted."
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council,
Session 4, Chap. 4:
"For, the Holy Ghost was not promised to the successors of Peter that
by His revelation they might disclose new doctrine, but that by His help they
might guard sacredly the revelation transmitted through the apostles and the
deposit of faith, and might faithfully set it forth."
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council I, 1870, Session 4, Chap. 4: “…the Roman
Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra [from the Chair of Peter], that is, when
carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord
with his supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals
to be held by the universal Church... operates with that infallibility with
which the divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining
doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from
himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.”
New Non-Catholic Nuns
Hello Brother Dimond,
I heard you on coast to coast, and to be honest, as a 25 year old person who'd
been baptized Catholic but never really practiced it, I was amazed at the info.
you provided all of us listeners. I'm astonished with your
research. Anyway, I live in an
area without a proper sedevacantist church or priest, so I've basically just
been praying on my own.
I live in an area close to two monasteries in southern indiana. I was
thinking of going to one for a few days of personal meditation. I was on
the website of the Sisters of St. Benedict and was astonished at the services
they are currently providing...
psychological services
http://www.thedome.org/SeekGodWithUs/sm/counseling.html
and Reiki and "quantum healing" http://www.thedome.org/SeekGodWithUs/sm/eh.html
There was even a retreat titled "Praying the Eastern Way" based on
Eastern "Orthodox" Catholicism.
Needless to say, I was a bit confused. I'd heard of Reiki before
but never would have associated it with anything to do with Catholicism. Is this fairly common amongst nuns? ... to be
trained in such practices? Thanks a
lot! God bless you for your work and your website!!
MHFM:
It’s fairly common among the nuns and religious of the Vatican II sect. But it’s a mortal sin against the faith, and
a complete rejection of traditional Catholic teaching. One must have nothing to do with such
apostasy.
Wants to return
Dear Brothers,
I am a 47 years old Uruguayan woman, resident of the US since the year
2000. I immigrated to the US after marrying my husband who was born here. I am
a professional engineer. I was baptized
in the Catholic Church in Uruguay. But I was never confirmed in the Catholic
faith, and even when I attended masses every now and then, I never went into
confession nor I was ever an active participant in any church or faith
community. Some days ago I found
some information on the books of the late Fr. Malachi Martin, and it was very
enlightening to me. For the first time in many years I felt I wanted to become
closer to the Catholic faith and to the teachings of Jesus Christ. I read all the information I could find about
Fr. Martin and the Latin Mass. And this is how I found the website of Holy
Family Monastery.
I live in Tacoma, WA, and the only Latin mass offered in the area is at
St. Joseph’s Chapel (Josephinum) in downtown Seattle. I would like to take the
Sacrament of Confirmation, and attend the Latin Mass.
Could you give me some advice? Is this Latin mass offered in Seattle the
True Holy Mass? Could you recommend any Churches here in Tacoma or Seattle,
where I could take the true Holy Sacraments of Confirmation and Penance?
Thank you.
Martha H.
At local level
Dear Brothers:
I attached 3 articles I read and believe that you may want to post some
of this later or at least for your knowledge. Nothing surprising to us but I
being in this diocese am doing all I can to expose these scum clergy and
apostate new ordo bishops and criminal redbird Rigali: One is the new high
school called Pope John Paul II they are building about 11 or 12 miles from
where I live in Upper Providence. It is bad enough 3 or four elementary schools
in the archd. are called Pope John Paul II and one with a 15 thousand dollar
bronze statue of antipope JP II inside one of the schools that should be
destroyed since it is actually an idol.
The funeral mess at the Cathedral was an interfaith mess with the Jewish
"community" Muslim and other false faiths. This monsignor about ten
miles from where I live in his parish is now the head of the ecumenical affairs
in this diocese. Last week he and a novus ordo nun with that novus smile were
photographed with a member of the local ADL and a Rabbi in an article about
common bonds between the Jews and the "catholic" novus ordo church.
It just adds to the argumetn the Vatican II sect is a part of the State of
Israel and Zionist movement of the new world order. The actual articles I think
are more in depth when you read the weekly paper.
Dave B.
Lion Dance
Dear Sir/Madam,
After seeing part of the video clips, it reminds me that our catholic church at
our country has start to allow lion dance infront of church entrance during
Chinese New Year. I'm personally not a very good catholic, but by looking at
his act, i have leave the church b4 the during final hyms is played. Is this
Lion dance correct in their act?
David from KL, Malaysia.
MHFM: No, you
have to get out of that church; it’s not a real Mass: The Invalid New Mass. You need to return to the traditional
Catholic faith and praying the Rosary, and study the information we have about
what’s going on.
Happened
Greetings. My name is Christine and while doing some personal research
I happened upon your website.
Needless to say I found its contents disturbing in the very least.
I am only eighteen, and I am seeking some kind of understanding, some kind
of permanence in this beautiful religion, the one I grew up with, the one
I maintain even while all around me young people are turning their backs on the
Church.
Thanks to your site, I have a better understanding of why they do.
I think the part of it that bothered me the most was at the very end,
directly preceding the "hell is forever" quote - young adults DO NOT
worship the Pope like a rock star. My practicing friends and I were
fortunate enough to see the Pope when he was in New York and I can assure
you, we love him only because he is a tangible connection to Christ Jesus,
because we understand and admire his devotion and commitment. There are
still good, faithful Christians out there, you don't seem to have met many
lately.
I guess my real question is, how do you say that you are a monastery that
does not accept the teachings of the Vatican Councils, that you make so many
false claims against the Papacy and the Church? Please, I only want to
know.
~Christine
MHFM:
Christine, we accept
all Catholic councils, including Vatican I. We can prove that Vatican II
is not a Catholic council, and that the post-Vatican II church is not the
Catholic Church precisely because it rejects the Papacy. Our introductory audio
programs demonstrate this, and we would be happy to help you more fully
understand these issues. But if you
continue to study the material, you will see that one cannot be a consistent
Catholic and accept the Vatican II counterfeit “Church.”
Started
Hello,
I happened upon your website today and was very interested to learn of your
position on many issues within the Christian faith. I'd like to learn
more, but the sheer amount of info on your site is overwhelming! Can you
recommend a handful of articles as a "starting point" to help me
understand your beliefs from a broad overview perspective?
Thanks very much for your consideration.
Best regards,
Bill
MHFM: Thanks for
the e-mail. For someone coming from a
non-Catholic perspective, we would recommend our video Creation and Miracles, the Padre Pio book and the Refuting Protestantism and Eastern
"Orthodoxy" * Audio Programs. For those coming from a
Vatican II “Catholic” perspective, we recommend these audio programs, The
Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II Audio
Program, Part 1, Part
2 [2 hrs. each part], as important
introductory audio presentations/discussions about what’s going on. We also recommend the other audio files in Traditional Catholic Audio Programs, and our $10.00 DVD special. This is an incredible offer which includes 3
books, 10 DVD programs and more.
Purgatory
Dear Brothers,
THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the EXTRA goodies you included in my box of books
!! I listened to your Audio on Justification using their own
KJBible. LOL.... You Really blow them out of the water!
… you manage to put in a way with your incredible knowledge of the Bible, that
really Zings them. Great Job!
I plan to send these books out to my family who Need them. A book can say
it better than I can, and there is something about the Printed Word that always
grabs people. Like it isn't real, until you read it in print.
I know I'll enjoy the many videos and other wonderful information you have
Generously included. I have been wanting to learn more about Padre
Pio for some time now, and just not gotten around to ordering it. Yikes,
if he is thinking he will only make Purgatory; it gives us pause to wonder if
we will Ever make it, at All ....
Thank you again for your extreme generosity,
Carol Delger
“Properly Disposed”
I listened to you newest debate with Mr. Golle and it was great as usual.
I am actually surprised that he was willing to debate you again since he
claimed that you had won the first debate. It is even more surprising that
he took the position that he did and stuck to it the whole
time because it is so obvious he is wrong. I cannot find one teaching or
source that claims properly disposed means acceptance of the Catholic
faith. Every source claims properly disposed means to be free from mortal
sin, and his view that the Orthodox can receive Holy Communion is
against the 1917 Code of Cannon Law: It is forbidden that the Sacraments of the
Church be ministered to heretics and schismatics, even if they ask for them and
are in good faith, unless beforehand, rejecting their errors, they are
reconciled with the Church." (1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 731.2) St.
Justin Martyr described the Eucharist in this way: “No one may share the
Eucharist with us unless he believes that what we teach is true, unless he is
washed in the regenerating waters of baptism for the remission of his sins, and
unless he lives in accordance with the principles given us by Christ.” Even V-2
websites define properly disposed as free from mortal sin so I find it
interesting that he tried to defend something his own church doesn't even
believe to be true. Keep up the good work.
God Bless
MHFM: This reader also found quotes from Novus Ordo
websites which further prove that “properly disposed” refers to a moral
disposition, not accepting Catholic teaching.
These just serve to confirm exactly what we said about “properly
disposed” in the context of the debate with regard to the quotes from Vatican
II, etc. on non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion:
http://www.notredameparishdenver.org/Sacraments/eucharist.htm-
Any baptized Catholic who has made their first Communion and is properly
disposed may receive Communion. To be properly disposed a person must be
free of all mortal sins and have fasted for one hour before receiving
communion.
http://fatherjoe.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/question-divorced-remarried-holy-communion/
Only Catholics properly disposed
(in a state of grace) should make themselves available for holy communion. I regularly
make an instruction about this during Masses. A person’s conscience should be
properly informed and respectful of Church teaching. Freedom of conscience does
not mean license.
http://www.motherofdivinegrace.com/sacraments/index.html
Guidelines For Receiving Communion- For Catholics: Catholics
fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when they receive Holy
Communion in fulfillment of Christ's command to eat His Body and drink His
Blood. In order to be properly disposed to receive Communion,
communicants should not be conscious of grave sin, have fasted for an
hour, and seek to live in charity and love with their neighbors. Persons
conscious of grave sin must first be reconciled with God and the Church through
the sacrament of Penance. A frequent reception of the sacrament of Penance is
encouraged for all.
http://www.sjy.org/Church/Eucharist.asp-
Catholics may receive Communion when they attend Mass provided they are: -properly
disposed: that is spiritually motivated to receive the Eucharist;
-fasted for an hour before
Communion; - are not conscious of any grave sin.
Bayside
Hello,
I have a fundamentally undermining question for you: Why would there need
to be "false apparitions" such as Bayside if without them people
would be equally (if not more) in the dark? Honestly, how many more people do
you think would be saved if it were not for the "false apparition"
Bayside? If anything, the Bayside apparitions only lead people closer to the
truth and encourage praying the rosary, wearing the brown scapular, and
opposing Vatican II (When hypothetically without it even MORE people would be
in the dark about the evils of Vatican II and, according to you, would be
damned).
You can counter-argue that Satan mixes truth with falsity, but I would
reiterate that there would be no need to mix truth and falsity when, without
the apparition in question, even more people would be going along COMPLETELY
blind to what happened with Vatican II. The fact of the matter is that the
Bayside apparitions awakened many more people to what is going on, and this is
unnecessary (and detrimental to Satan even by your standards) due to the fact
that most people were unaware of what is going on before Bayside and because
more people are now praying the rosary and wearing the brown scapular. This is
supported by a passage in the Bible by Jesus when he said how to judge fruits
and how evil cannot stand divided against itself:
"Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and
every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. And if Satan cast
out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand? And
if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
Therefore they shall be your judges. But if I by the Spirit of God
cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you? Or how can
anyone enter into the house of the strong, and rifle his goods, unless he first
bind the strong? and then he will rifle his house. He that is not with me, is
against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. Therefore I say to
you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the
Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son
of man, it shall be forgiven him : but he that shall speak against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to
come. Either make the tree good and its fruit good : or make the tree evil, and
its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known." ~Matthew 12: 25-33
You can counter-argue that evil necessarily mixes truth and falsity as
you claim is the case with Bayside, but I would respond that this is only relevant to rhetoric and propositions, and that evil cannot cause good fruits to be produced or produce good actions due to what Jesus said. Granted, there will be false miracles in the end
times, but
I'm not arguing that all miracles are inherently good. I'm arguing
that only those miracles that intentionally produce good fruits must be
good due to what Jesus said about the nature of evil. Therefore, by Jesus'
standard, Bayside cannot be said to be a false apparition because it directly
produces good fruits such as praying the rosary, wearing the brown scapular,
more awareness of the evils of Vatican II, and testimony of conversions and
healings.
The bottom line is this: Why bring people closer to the truth and have
them produce good fruits when they would have been completely in the dark and
produced less good fruits in its absence?
Michael Pasquini
MHFM:
Here’s what people need to understand about this issue: people who are more
conservative in nature will look for something which opposes the novelties and
the changes, for they know in their hearts that something is wrong with Vatican
II, the New Mass, etc. So if the only
options for them were 1) a wholesale acceptance of the Vatican II Church and
the New Mass or 2) the independent traditional groups which reject Vatican II
and the New Mass, then many more people who have conservative tendencies would
have chosen #2. Left with only those
choices, many more would have become independent traditionalists who oppose the
main features of the New Church. The
Devil definitely didn’t want that.
So
to keep many of these conservative-minded people inside the Counter Church, and
at the New Mass, the Devil offers them a false apparition such as Bayside. This false apparition criticizes some of the
“abuses” which occur at the New Mass, and some of the things involved with
Vatican II. The Devil further lures them
in by telling them other true and good things in the message. This tickles the ears of the conservatives;
they know that there is something wrong with Vatican II and the New Mass, so
they think the message is true, and then the Devil keeps them following the
Counter Church by telling them the lies: to stay at the New Mass (despite its
problems) and to stay loyal to the manifestly heretical non-Catholic antipope
who imposed it (despite his “weakness”).
So
it’s beyond question that Bayside, and other false apparitions like it, serve a
major purpose for the Devil. It should
be noted that, in the process of deceiving these people through this false
apparition, the Devil certainly runs the risk of providing an avenue to the
true faith for a person who is more inclined to truth. If such a one doesn’t know about anything
relating to traditional Catholicism and then hears about Bayside, he might act
upon the true aspects of the (otherwise false) message and then move down the
path to what’s really going on. That’s
something the Devil is willing to risk, however, because there
are so many more “conservatives” who will be deceived by Bayside and will stay
in the Counter Church as a result, than there are ignorant searchers who
will hear about Bayside and then use that knowledge to come to traditional
Catholicism. Besides, people who have
heard about Bayside are usually people who are more interested in these matters
and thus have already heard about the traditional Latin Mass, etc. So the message is not so much alerting them
to it but keeping them from it.
We
know many people who have remained inside the New Church precisely because of
the false apparition of Bayside. We
believe that their damnation will be attributed in significant part to
following its false signs, as well as other false apparitions, which the Bible
warned us about in Mt. 24 and 2 Thess. 2.
If they continue on their path, they will forever curse the false
prophet Veronica Lueken and the false apparition of Bayside. Moreover, Bayside
contains clear heresy, as is proven in the file below. If a person cannot reject it as a false
apparition based on that fact alone, then that person has no faith.
The
False Apparitions at Bayside, NY [PDF File]
More Debate Comments
Dear Mhfm
Latest tape: Re: Non-Catholics receiving Communion
I remember reading these statements in V2 and the New Code of Canon Law
about non-Catholics receiving Communion, but that’s when I believed (wrongly)
in salvation outside of the Catholic church. It seems that the caller knows that
this is wrong in any circumstance, because one must be Catholic and unattached
to any other religion in order to be “properly disposed,” otherwise he commits
mortal sin. If he were to be convinced
that the V2 church really allows non-Catholics to receive Communion, as its
canon law, Vatican II, Catechism, etc., so clearly state, then he would
have to give up his attachment to the false V2 church. He can’t do that so he
must win his argument with a lie. Again--amazing.
PM
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Brothers
I thought that William sounded like Mr. Golle, whom you previously
debated. It sounds like he has entrenched himself in error even more so since
your last encounter.
I just wanted to mention to you that the U.S. Dept. of Homeland
Security is researching new methods of torture, I mean, interrogation.
Perhaps a a tape of one of your debates with a heretic would suffice.
After a few hours, there would be no physical signs of trauma, and any
psychological trauma could be explained away quite easily. This form of
coercion is most definitely superior to any Chinese water torture or Russian
Soviet sensory deprivation techniques. And if the subject managed to maintain
his sanity, most likely he would be a solid convert to the faith.
Howard
Arkansas
Interested
Dear Sirs,
As a Catholic convert, I have studied the scriptures for the last four years
and am very unhappy with what I have witnessed. I have witnessed a change in
the biblical Txt from that which I believe it should be, to that which takes
away from the true meaning altogether. I have been told that I should accept
the changes made, but I can not. I have never liked the present Pope since I
first saw a picture of him. I firmly believe that he is going to destroy the
true teachings of Jesus Christ. Many Biblical wording has been changed,
One such text is the words spoken by the angle Gabriel to Mary, the mother of
God. The wording has been changed in the New Jerusalem Bible to, You who are
favoured, when it should clearly say, Hail, Full of Grace. Mary was not just
favoured, she was full of Grace.
I am very interested in becoming a strong member of of the true church of
Christ. Can You help me.
Yours In Christ
Christy Carr.
Debate Comments
Dear MHFM,
I listened to your debates with William Golle a.k.a. Mr. Broken Record. I
listened to both your first debate you had with him roughly 2 years ago and the
most recent one. The guy is just unbelievable. In his first debate when he
realized he has no arguments whatsoever against the sedevacantist position, he
just repeated the same sentence ad nauseam for almost 3 hours ( something
like:'' if there is no pope we have chaos and God would never allow that
etc....''). After almost two years one would think that he became a bit smarter
or that he had read a book or two, a quote or something. But no, he again
thought he had an ace up his sleeve and when you again totally refuted
his ridiculous argument, he went back to his old tactic. He just ignored all
the quotes you provided ( just like in the first debate) and kept repeating one
and the same phrase ('properly disposed') over and over and over....It is not
easy to listen to such people and I really admire your patience.
Keep up the good work,
A reader from Croatia
P.S. Are you maybe planning to debate some of the more prominent
heretics… I believe that these debates would be very interesting and
very enlightening for the faithful. As you have said :'' ....the truth is
irrefutable, the facts speak for themselves...''
MHFM:
Thanks for the comments. Almost none of
the heretics to whom you refer are willing to debate. No matter how much they might appear to be
confident in their positions, almost none of them want to face the arguments in
a debate, in which they could not ignore the points we would bring forward.
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Hi, Brother!
Wow, I just finished listening to your debate with William on whether
Vatican II (and the Vatican II sect) teaches the heresy that non-Catholics may lawfully
receive Holy Communion. This is the same William that has a degree in
Systematic Theology from Seton Hall University, right? It's evident that
these V2 religion 'theologians,' 'apologists,' etc., are (bad)willfully trained
liars, although William expressed reluctance to be compared with the lunatic
'apologist' from Chicago. And I'm glad that you brought up the fact that
the Church teaches that one need not have the ability to read hearts (sorry,
William) in order to prove and declare that someone is a liar in the external
forum. These guys need to actually study the material they attempt to
defend; but no, that would mean they would need to find other jobs since
they would have to agree with you if they studied it as well as you do/have.
They're such pathetic liars who obstinately reject the truth. So sad.
Speaking of pathetic liars . . . I would like to see some false
Traditionalist heretic of the 'bishop' Dolan variety debate you on the dogma
Outside the Church There Is No Salvation, since they plainly reject it.
Or maybe a false Traditionalist schismatic of the Fr. Gavin Bitzer variety
debate you on how one can accept the V2 hierarchy as the valid hierarchy, while
praying for the conversion of this same 'hierarchy,' yet operate independently
from it. But they won't debate you. They say there is no need to debate,
but the fact is that they are simply cowards and liars, which would be made
clear to every sincere Catholic who listened to such a public debate.
Brother, may God grant you the strength to continue in this battle for
His glory and the salvation of souls and may Our Lady watch over you tenderly.
Sincerely,
Sister Joseph Anne
Uganda Faith
Thanks be to God for having made me learn of this webside, of which I
think maybe the right place to solve my problems of understanding the Church
teachings.
Well to start with I am a Ugandan, and I am writing on our Martyr's day, and I
am glad I also got this side today.
Now my request is can you people Kindly send me passages on how the Catholic
Church can help me along the following line.
1 The protestants opposes the Catholic church on the issue of salvation.
2 Other churches in Uganda eg the seven days adventist oppose the
Catholics on the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist what biblical defense do we
have as Catholics to this.
3 Explain to detail who Martin Luther was, how and why he broke from the
Catholic church.
4 The Jehovah witness do not believe that Jesus was both Man and God instead
they say He was not God, can you help clarify.
I shall be very grateful to receive from you answers to these question and many
more still to come.
I am a Catholic
Mathew Otika Maria
MHFM: Thanks for
the e-mail. You can hear how the
Protestant view of salvation is refuted in this program: Justification by Faith Alone
refuted and the Catholic teaching on Justification proved by the Protestant
Bible [1 hr. 30 min. audio].
The Catholic teaching on the Eucharist is clearly proven by John 6 and 1
Cor. 10:16. Some of our archived radio
programs discuss Luther; they explain why he created his own religion and broke
from the Catholic Church. [Radio Program and Archived Radio Programs (Debate)]
Regarding the
“Jehovah’s Witnesses,” their denial of the Divinity of Jesus Christ is refuted
here: Where does the Bible teach that
Jesus is God?. Check
out our Traditional Catholic Audio Programs
as well.
Our website also
explains how people become traditional Catholics. We hope that you recognize that you must not
attend the New Mass.
Papal Primacy
Dear Brother Dimond
I recently converted to Orthodoxy and baptized in a ROCOR parish.
Before I was a Baptist and early in my life I was raised an atheist.
First, as a historian, I came to realize the superiority of the LXX over any
Jewish text. Then I noticed that most Orthodox teaching is nowadays much
more traditional than any other Christian teaching, including the post Vatican
II, Catholic, at least as far as I was able to confirm. Later I realized
that most Orthodoxy has been taken over, though more mildly, the same way as
Rome has been in 1958. Old calendarist is what remains of
traditional Orthodoxy, in my view. I read about the process of
separation between East and West and, with the intent to find the truth, I
ask you the following questions: Please provide evidence from the first
seven councils or from the early church fathers that show that the supremacy of
the pope was anything more than moral and that he was more than the "first
among equals". Provide evidence that the Pope had administrative
jurisdiction in the East…
Even though I have sided with Orthodoxy, I believe pre-Vatican II
Catholicism shows lots of evidence of God being with it,
something Protestants lack. I would very much appreciate your answer
or at least direction where to find the answers. May God bless for all the
wonderful work you are doing.
Joe
MHFM: We have
numerous audio programs in this section which provide that very evidence: Refuting Protestantism and
Eastern "Orthodoxy" * Audio Programs.
The next archive for E-Exchanges (Archive 2) is here
[1] Decrees of the Ecumenical
Councils, Vol. 1, p. 113.
[2] Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, B. Herder
Book.
[3] The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers,
Regnery, Co:
[4] Denzinger 423.
[5] Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite,
The Whole Truth About
[6] Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite,
The Whole Truth About