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Father Connell Answers Moral Questions

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

by Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, C.SS.R., S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D.

Marriage At Mass Prescribed

Question: May a pastor make a ruling for his parish, or a bishop for his diocese, that, whenever two Catholics are married, the ceremony must take place at Mass?

Answer: A pastor may not make such a ruling. There is no law of the Church requiring the marriage of Catholics to take place at Mass; and the pastor has the obligation of assisting at a marriage when he is reasonably asked to do so by his parishioners (or at least, by the bride residing within his parish), provided they have fulfilled all the conditions demanded by the Church. However, the pastor should urge Catholic couples to have their marriage sanctified by a Mass. Per se (strictly speaking), a bishop could make such a ruling for his diocese if he believed that the public order required it; but it is difficult to see how the public order would require such a universal law. Indeed, it would seem to be almost like a general impediment, which a bishop is not empowered to established.

In any event, if a bishop should deem it suitable to make such a law for his diocese, he should be prepared to grant frequent exceptions, since there are undoubtedly many occasions in which two Catholics are justified in seeking a quiet marriage without a Mass– for example, when they are elderly, when they are having a marriage validated after many years of invalid union, or when the woman is far advanced in pregnancy.

Permission To Substitute The Scapular Medal For The Cloth Scapular

Question: When and by whom was permission given to substitute the scapular medal for the cloth scapular?

Answer: General permission for this substitution was granted December 16, 1910, by the Congregation of the Holy Office, with the approval of Pope St. Pius X. The Pope on this occasion expressed his desire that Catholics would continue to use the cloth scapular in preference to the medal. Previously to this general concession there was a special privilege to make this substitution, which could be granted by certain missionaries in Africa to the natives.

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Frank M. Rega’s heresy in “Padre Pio on Salvation Outside the Church”, part 2

Monday, July 5th, 2010

We have demonstrated that “Salvation Outside the Church” is untenable. Such idea comes from the human mind which relied on itself not on God’s truth, for God does not contradict Himself and He doesn’t change His Mind… If you believe that the Catholic Church was divinely instituted then you would readily admit that the infallible dogmas of the Church are truths fallen from Heaven proposed for our belief and that bind our conscience without reservation.

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 IV, Council of Trent, Iniunctum nobis, Nov. 13, 1565, ex cathedra: “This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved… I now profess and truly hold…”

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 8, Nov. 22, 1439, “The Athanasian Creed”, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved, before all things it is necessary that he holds the Catholic faith. Unless a person keeps this faith whole and undefiled, without a doubt he shall perish eternally.”

Going back to the article entitled “Padre Pio on Salvation Outside the Church”, the last time we left off was on the account of Adelaide McAlpin Pyle, a Baptized Protestant and Padre Pio supposedly said “She will be saved because she has faith.” We are assuming that Padre Pio knew what he was saying, perhaps having the foreknowledge that she would be converted to God at the end of her life, then there is no doubt what is meant here is that she has the life of grace, the faith that was bestowed upon her at the moment of her baptism and exercised throughout her life. Now, the faith has to be living to be sanctifying. If it was the case, then she was in the state of grace while erroneously believing in her false Protestant position due to invincible ignorance. Again, Padre Pio had certain gifts, but he could not see everything.

He was liable to be wrong as well.

Going to the case of King George V of England, a Baptized Protestant, there’s nothing wrong with prayers for a conversion of a soul at the end of its life. We are bound to pray for the conversion of everyone to God, whether Catholic or non-Catholic. Why should Padre Pio not pray for George V while he was on his death bed? Would you miss the opportunity to ask the grace of God to save that soul?

Now to the case of Julius Fine, an Unbaptized Devout Jew, the requirement is the same. There has to be faith, and that faith has to be living. How much exposure he had with the Catholic Church, whether he was ignorant of the Catholic Religion is for God to decide. But assuming that he did not know the Talmud, perhaps he himself was not aware of the teachings in it, but lived as an honest and upright Jew and obeying the laws of God, then we can believe he was found to be on God’s good side.

But it doesn’t matter, these accounts do not justify us to deny the Catholic Truth, and unbelief would be the opposite to our salvation. These stories do not save us, why wager your soul on Padre Pio’s remarks and his close associates’ fallible and human accounts.

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Benedict XVI favors separation of Church and State, rejects Catholic teaching.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

From a wise vision of life and of the world, the just ordering of society follows. Situated within history, the Church is open to cooperating with anyone who does not marginalize or reduce to the private sphere the essential consideration of the human meaning of life. The point at issue is not an ethical confrontation between a secular and a religious system, so much as a question about the meaning that we give to our freedom. What matters is the value attributed to the problem of meaning and its implication in public life. By separating Church and State, the Republican revolution which took place 100 years ago in Portugal, opened up a new area of freedom for the Church, to which the two concordats of 1940 and 2004 would give shape, in cultural settings and ecclesial perspectives profoundly marked by rapid change. For the most part, the sufferings caused by these transformations have been faced with courage. Living amid a plurality of value systems and ethical outlooks requires a journey to the core of one’s being and to the nucleus of Christianity so as to reinforce the quality of one’s witness to the point of sanctity, and to find mission paths that lead even to the radical choice of martyrdom.

Benedict XVI, Official Reception at Lisbon Portela International Airport, Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

2. Whilst the new rulers of Portugal were affording such numerous and awful examples of the abuse of power, you know with what patience and moderation this Apostolic See has acted towards them. We thought that We ought most carefully to avoid any action that could even have the appearance of hostility to the Republic. For We clung to the hope that its rulers would one day take saner counsels and would at length repair, by some new agreement, the injuries inflicted on the Church. In this, however, We have been altogether disappointed, for they have now crowned their evil work by the promulgation of a vicious and pernicious Decree for the Separation of Church and State. But now the duty imposed upon Us by our Apostolic charge will not allow Us to remain passive and silent when so serious a wound has been inflicted upon the rights and dignity of the Catholic religion. Therefore do We now address you, Venerable Brethren, in this letter and denounce to all Christendom the heinousness of this deed.

3. At the outset, the absurd and monstrous character of the decree of which We speak is plain from the fact that it proclaims and enacts that the Republic shall have no religion, as if men individually and any association or nation did not depend upon Him who is the Maker and Preserver of all things; and then from the fact that it liberates Portugal from the observance of the Catholic religion, that religion, We say, which has ever been that nation’s greatest safeguard and glory, and has been professed almost unanimously by its people. So let us take it that it has been their pleasure to sever that close alliance between Church and State, confirmed though it was by the solemn faith of treaties. Once this divorce was effected, it would at least have been logical to pay no further attention to the Church, and to leave her the enjoyment of the common liberty and rights which belong to every citizen and every respectable community of peoples. Quite otherwise, however, have things fallen out. This decree bears indeed the name of Separation, but it enacts in reality the reduction of the Church to utter want by the spoliation of her property, and to servitude to the State by oppression in all that touches her sacred power and spirit.

Pope Saint Pius X, Iamdudum, May 24, 1911.

That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man’s eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man’s supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it.

Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.

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PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS

Monday, May 31st, 2010

ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE MODERNISTS

ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS X, SEPTEMBER 8, 1907

VENERABLE BRETHREN, HEALTH AND THE APOSTOLIC BLESSING:

1. One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord’s flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith delivered to the saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so called. There has never been a time when this watchfulness of the supreme pastor was not necessary to the Catholic body, for owing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race, there have never been lacking “men speaking perverse things,”1 “vain talkers and seducers,”2 “erring and driving into error.”3 It must, however, be confessed that these latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most sacred duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our office.

2. That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is much more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false zeal for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the condition of a simple and ordinary man.

Read encyclical here

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Pope Saint Pius X against New World Order

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Here we have, founded by Catholics, an inter-denominational association that is to work for the reform of civilization, an undertaking which is above all religious in character; for there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact.

This, nevertheless, is what they want to do with human society; they dream of changing its natural and traditional foundations; they dream of a Future City built on different principles, and they dare to proclaim these more fruitful and more beneficial than the principles upon which the present Christian City rests.

No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker – the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. omnia instaurare in Christo. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)

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