Small surprise for its content, but really how many people actually care about this? More crucially, how many could apply this information in any meaningful way or capacity? Who actually listens to the voice of the Church which has become so publicly discredited. It's likely that many listeners here live in the past and at best a contemporary echo chamber of dreaming idealists. It's not easy to accept that the Church no longer bears it's past influence.
No separation of church and state? Pope Gregory 16 is a bit late and outdated. Who in society respects apostolic authority? Fr. Martin Luther, the Protestants, and the French Revolution made short work of apostolic authority. Now even within the remains of the Catholic Church few listen to the clergy and many clergy don't even preach what the Church teaches officially.
It’s worth exploring because we have to get the principles correct now to know where we need to go and to identify what we can do now if the ideas are in fact pleasing to God. The fruits of our labor likely won’t be an officially confessional nation in our lifetime, but it can lay the foundation for a later generation to build/rebuild upon. And certainly, no secular government today cares what the Church says, but (i) governments have always come and gone, and (ii) the recognition of the Church’s authority and the level of dignity of its leaders has been as poor as it now many times throughout history. We can’t mistake influence in a particular point in time, namely the present, as equivalent to or indicative of the veracity of an argument. Cheers.
I stand by Jesus Christ and the church. I believe we as humans are fallible as well as the people in the church. I stand by the church and pray for us to see that Satan delights in the empty pews. Jesus Christ is undeniable the truth the way and the light..🕊️🕊️🕊️
If you find this video offensive, consider our form of government offends God. Christ is lumped together with all religions and therefore is not king but rather the state reigns over Christ and his followers
That isn’t our form of government. Our institutions affirm an authority higher than the state. The Declaration is explicit on that point. Harry Jaffa’s work is essential on this point. The vision of man present in our founding documents is fundamentally Aristotelian.
The Declaration of Independence: An Accurate Transcript of the Catholic Mind “If the Declaration [of Independence] is ‘an expression of the American mind,’ it is, to say the least, somewhat remarkable that it should be such an accurate transcript of the Catholic mind.” ~ Rev. Dr. Alfred O’Rahilly, recipient of The Order of St. Gregory the Great and President of University College Cork, 1919 (1) Notes: 1. O’Rahilly, Alfred, “The Sources of English and American Democracy,” (Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 8, No. 30, Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, June, 1919), p. 209.
This is why Protestants and Bible believing Christians, like me, were afraid of Catholic infiltration in America. Comic strip from the 19th and 20th centuries have warned us about the Papal Octopus and its been severely underestimated. They don't want our ordered American liberty and democracy to work. Why did Pope Pius IX make a deal with D.C. in 1871? That way when our country falls, the other mask of the Catholic Church, Traditionalists like you will say that the American way has never worked and has failed so we can return to slavery under Rome. Don't think its Traditionalists vs Modernists going on one another like the Fundamentalists do with us Evangelicals. Traditionalists and Vatican 2 are all part of the same octopus 🐙.
@@dariusvilla5680 I'm sorry you feel that way. However, I ask you to consider, we are not created to be equal, or rich or free even. We are created to seek holiness. Everything else is a gift from God, freely given.
Man: "I am subject to no one" = (theoretically) 7 billion plus governments, one for each human on the planet. Luther: humans are to be guided by Sola Scriptura and not subject to the church = (theoretically) 7 billion plus different denominations, one for each person's interpretation of the scriptures as they think proper.
Look into Benjamin Franklin’s background. He was involved with the occult. (Probably also how he ‘discovered’ electricity.) He was good buddies with Erasmus Darwin, Charles’ grandfather, who wrote much about ‘evolution’ and hated Christianity. Also look into Thomas Paine’s statements on Moses and the Bible. These are our ‘heroes’?
Plus, Franklin didn't even do the electric kite experiment himself, he got his illegitimate child do do all the work for him, while he just sat back fat and happy inside his cabin.
Amem! Hallelujah! Repent, fast, and pray everyone while there is still time! We must wake up to the enemy’s lies and deceit. There is only freedom in Christ!!! 💜🙌🤲✝️
I love USA so much. I love the colonial history, the independence movement and revolution. But it is a great woe that our founders did get this wrong. We have to redirect our country lest she is destroyed for her grievous faults...
I feel your pain man. I have a deep love for my homeland and my people fought in the revolution, and were here 100 years before it from England. I grew up staunch WASP too. But the truth supercedes everything.
Bellarmine’s Theory of Government: Acted on by the Framers of the American Constitution “Bellarmine’s teaching on the subject of the State and of law and government is, in its more characteristic and fundamental points, the same as the theory acted on by those chiefly responsible for the framing and the sound and successful interpretation of our American Constitution.” ~ Rev. Moorhouse F.X. Millar, S.J., Head, Department of Political Science, Fordham University, New York, 1930 (1) Notes: 1. Millar, Moorhouse F.X., “Bellarmine and the American Constitution,” (Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 19, No. 75, Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, September, 1930), p. 361.
@@anticoomer "Bellarmine, strange as it may seem, has perhaps the greatest claim to the gratitude of the people of the United States, because he stated and defended in advance those principles of government which the United States have made their own and upon which their government firmly rests. If we of the United States were to have a patron - and in our case a political - saint (Protestant in large part though we be), we might indeed do well to choose the Cardinal and sainted Bellarmine.” ~ James Brown Scott, Professor of International Law, Roman Law and Jurisprudence in Georgetown University, 1939 (1) Notes: 1. Scott, James Brown, Law, the State, and the International Community, Vol. I (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939) p. 546.
@@anticoomer I don't think we need to have a totally negative opinion of the fathers or of our founding documents. If Jefferson was wrong to say the government derives it's authority solely from the consent of the people, he's right to say that all our political rights come from God- NOT the government. The founding fathers repeatedly stated that this form of government is designed for a moral and religious and Christian people.
Why was the original post removed? I save many of these video Homilies and when they are removedi often don’t recall which topic is covered. Fortunately someone had responded to a previous comment so I was able to find and resave this one. Is there a website that shows/lists which videos were previously removed and reloaded?
Am studying political philosophy and I admired John Locke so much only to learn that he advocated tolerance to all accept Catholics and ofcourse his ideas influenced much the U.S declaration of independence.
In pagan Rome the only religion that was prohibited was that which was not hostile to the state - i.e. uncritical - and which didn't claim to be the exclusively true one.
I have some questions. According to the Church, what would a well-founded America look like? Would we have remained under the authority of England? Why or why not? What men would be allowed government offices, and to what degree? (For example: only clergy could hold government office) Could you lose your office if you failed to recognize the Divine Source of your authority? If so, how would this be enforced? Would love to hear specific examples. For instance, how would laws be decided and enforced? Especially very local laws, like what is the speed limit on Smith Road? Speak slowly, I am very pregnant and have no braincells left. 😅
My only question is, is there a form of gov't that is preferred by God? While the liberalism that has come to characterize the gov't we have now is indeed problematic, it was constituted under the auspices of Natural Law and the inalienable rights of man granted by his Creator - the right of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happyness. While I agree that the liberalism we see today is an overcorrection, or an excess of the principles we were constituted on, Humanae Vitae speaks to the human conscious and is in line with a form of gov't that is closer resembling a gov't that facilitates the ability of man to have dominion over the created world, including himself and while we do err greatly as humans, the ability to choose between right and wrong and then submit to the form of gov't we've consented to is important is indispensable. Only then can we truly see the state of man's heart. No gov't is perfect, but a gov't that acknowledges no man is God and no man can inherently claim the authority is given to him by God is preferable to the Law by Inheritance model granted to it's predecessors. God rightly downgraded the Emperor of Rome to be merely a man and the gov't given to man as one given to it by the consent of the governed. To the degree that we detach the will of the governed from the authority of God, we are wrong but there is nothing divine about a king's lineage other than the authority they have which is in no way presupposed to that lineage by God. Only the authority itself
“We wish that Your Eminence would express to the President [Grover Cleveland] all our admiration for the Constitution of the United States, not only because it permits active, intelligent citizens to achieve such a high level of prosperity, but also because under its protection, Catholics have enjoyed a liberty that has undoubtedly spurred their extraordinary religious development in the past and that will permit them we believe to further America’s political institutions in the future.” ~ Pope Leo XIII, in a letter to the Cardinal of Baltimore, 1887 (1) Notes: 1. Zaratti, Alfonso, The Work of the Catholic Church in the United States of America (Rome: Nardini, 1956), p. 271.
I know Protestants who truly believe the United States was founded on the word of God and think God will protect our government from never failing. They seem blind to all the flaws in the government. I appreciate this sermon because I’m trying to understand the divide between the Catholic Church and the government of the US.
yeah the shining city on a hill thing. It's complicated bc the problem is 'gov't of the US' as it's not supposed to be a centralized consolidated go'vt (as Patrick Henry warned) but a republic of republics where each state is a soverign state united to a federal gov't that has limited power whereas the states have unlimited. See 10th amendment center and Brion McClanahan channels for that.
Jefferson’s Formulas: Propositions in Medieval Philosophy “Jefferson’s formulas with regard to the equality of men, the seat of authority in the people, the right to be consulted in the levying of taxes, are all definite propositions in medieval philosophy taught at all the colonial colleges.” ~ James J. Walsh, Ph.D., 1935 (1) Note: 1. Walsh, James J., Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges (New York: Fordham University Press, 1935), pp. 117-118.
I’m in the middle on this. While the government does receive its power from the people, the people still receive their morality and authority from the church. Isn’t it easier to corrupt the few that govern in monarchs, than to corrupt the millions that “should” receive their morals from the church? This failure of morals has much longer effected monarchs than this country. While depravity is definitely there, there is ultimately a failure of the people and the church. Also the freedom of speech does not say that you should say anything you want, it only says that you can say things without being oppressed by the government. Ideally the government should answer to the church, but we know how this all ends. We have lived that reality too. The Papal States were broken up because the corruption of government. USA is behind in liberalism in comparison to other forms of government. I think there is truth in what you are saying, but there seems to be more to the story than this simple explanation. Help me think this out.
No... You are right. The separation of Church and State was not intended to keep the Church from influencing the government. The separation was meant to keep the government from interfering in the Church. We have not kept this as staunchly as we should've because the government's hand can be found reaching into the Church. Half of this sermon comes to good conclusions but not from proper premises. The right to free speech being granted to citizenry is in no way in conflict with the Church anymore than the heathen choosing a false religion. The Law was first given to Israel as a covenant and not to the Gentiles. When the Israelites broke certain Laws they were cut off from their people or stoned. The Jebusites, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc. were not stoned by the prophets for breaking the Laws of Israel. In the same way, St. Paul says "is it not those inside the Church we are to judge", and "cast the evil one from among you." The Church then cant hold the governments of the world accountable for not using force against unbelievers when the Church Herself was sent out to gather the Gentiles into Her loving refuge BEFORE Jesus returns with His rod of Iron. Jesus will return and then re-establish His perfect theocracy. If we want the worldly to live righteously then we need to go out and do missions, not mandate that they live according to the mandates of the Church. Its obvious that the large moral laws written on the conscience of every man should be mandated by governments... Consider though how ridiculous it would be for example to mandate an unbeliever to marry according to the Church when he has no desire to make a covenant with God and no desire for the sacrament. Would the church use governments to enforce a law saying that only Catholics can marry? Sticky issue there. 1 Cor 5:9-13
I totally agree with you. This sermon has truth but only if the leaders of the church are 100% incorruptible which is highly not likely if we look back at history of the Catholic Church we can see time and time again how the same tyranny he denounces is the same tyranny that the Catholic Church became at one point
@@offtheroutetours2190 The head of the church is Jesus Christ and it is guided by the holy spirit in faith and morals. Other elements like charitable works while mandated by scripture as required for salvation,(matt 2:24) are open to adapation by weak, fallen humans.
“My tenth grade teacher told me America was liberal from the start. I agree with that but think it’s bad.” Maybe your teacher was just lying to you to begin with
Did you miss the "one nation under God " part? How does attacking the American Founding advance the Catholic Faith? If individualism is a sin how come there is only individual salvation? Too many unanswered questions
Salvation isn’t an individual salvation, salvation is a group effort. Truth & Life App Ephesians 4:11-14 11 And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.
The vague appeal to a monotheistic god, one which the masonic founding fathers of America believed in, is not whatsoever the same as the One True God that Catholicism holds to. The freemasons, whom are naturalists and deists, believe God to be an impersonal being, who set the universe in motion but otherwise has no participation in it. They do not believe that God has revealed Himself supernaturally whatsoever - through revealed theology, through Christ and His Church, etc. Freemasons hold to the idea that liberty is the paramount ideal by which their society is to governed. They believe that man’s will should be moved only by his own self-determination, free from any appeal to authoritative knowledge, except that which his own conscience finds agreeable. This runs completely counter to the natural theological and moral obedience to a Christ-centred state, as it was in Catholic Europe, before the global freemasonic push for freedom of religion. Read the formal proclamations of First Vatican Council. It is condemns these particular and exact ideological principles.
Actually, all of these questions have been answered if you were to read the doctrines of the Church. In fact, most of these questions were answered hundreds of years ago.
Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights and among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By the way today’s liberals are more like the Tories of the colonial days.
Men and women that refuse to overcome greed gluttony pride envy sloth anger and lust don’t deserve freedom. God gives freedom and takes it from those that misuse it.
The description written for this page tells you all Yo Ned to know about religion! One of the differences of secular and religious people is that people like me at least listened to this drivel and contemplated it and decided it was a bunch of crap whereas religious people believe what they are told to believe!! Directions for the simple minded so I guess it may be of some use!
Religion is not for the poor and/or stupid. That is a cope by Atheist to stroke their own egos and believe themselves far more intelligent than they really are. Well newsflash, people far smarter than you and far more accomplished than you, have also been highly religious. That's a fact. The Saints of yesteryear have done far more good for the World than their Atheist counterparts ever did (or will ever do). That's another fact. You can no more have a functional Atheist society than feminist can have a functional society without men. There's a reason why no great civilizations were ever built on such grounds as irreligion or female primacy. On the contrary, you typically only see such disordered ideas like that root in civilizations at the start of their instability and decline. There would be no such thing as Western Civilization if it were not for the Catholic Faith. Just remember that. And Western Civilization is imploding as we speak because more and more people everyday arrogantly believe that they can have a society while abandoning the Church, the very thing that allowed society to prosper in the first place. It won't work. You might think that it's all drivel. Old men and even older dogma. But that drivel is the largest, farthest reaching and longest standing institution in the history of mankind. Nothing even compares. You should think twice before insulting it. Something that billions adhere to, and has outlasted the greatest of human empires - Any intellectually honest person can immediately look at the church and recognize, "Hey... There's probably something to all of this". But keep thinking that religion is for the poor and stupid (at the peril of your own soul).
The irony of this comment is that the entirety of the media-propaganda machine espouses pro-atheism and pro-agnosticism rhetoric. Even the rhetoric you’re espousing of “religion being for the simple-minded” is exactly the type of perspective the media DESIRES to impose on the population of its citizens. Funnily enough, YOU are one who is, in fact, holding to the opinion of the simple-minded, because it is the very perspective that modern media, news, and entertainment WANTS you to have of religion and religious people. Your inability to hold steadfast to a theological system actually makes you EASIER to control. Why, you may ask? Because the moral and philosophical principles you hold to can be much more easily changed and subverted to the secular position that the propagandists in power want you to have. This is why religious people in modern entertainment are depicted as old, out-of-date, senile, ideological dinosaurs. The people in power want you to have no religious system, so you will better conform to the system of morality and philosophy they wish to impose on you through propaganda. So yeah, what a hilarious comment.
@@chefmichaelgriffin4005 Wherein did I espouse any form of conspiracy? All I pointed out was that the media and entertainment encourages godlessness and mocks Christian religiosity. In reality, you just can’t formulate a good enough reply to actually counter what I’m saying.
Thank you for re-uploading after it was taken down!!!
I was wondering what happened to this video.
Small surprise for its content, but really how many people actually care about this? More crucially, how many could apply this information in any meaningful way or capacity? Who actually listens to the voice of the Church which has become so publicly discredited. It's likely that many listeners here live in the past and at best a contemporary echo chamber of dreaming idealists. It's not easy to accept that the Church no longer bears it's past influence.
No separation of church and state? Pope Gregory 16 is a bit late and outdated.
Who in society respects apostolic authority? Fr. Martin Luther, the Protestants, and the French Revolution made short work of apostolic authority. Now even within the remains of the Catholic Church few listen to the clergy and many clergy don't even preach what the Church teaches officially.
It’s worth exploring because we have to get the principles correct now to know where we need to go and to identify what we can do now if the ideas are in fact pleasing to God. The fruits of our labor likely won’t be an officially confessional nation in our lifetime, but it can lay the foundation for a later generation to build/rebuild upon. And certainly, no secular government today cares what the Church says, but (i) governments have always come and gone, and (ii) the recognition of the Church’s authority and the level of dignity of its leaders has been as poor as it now many times throughout history. We can’t mistake influence in a particular point in time, namely the present, as equivalent to or indicative of the veracity of an argument. Cheers.
I stand by Jesus Christ and the church. I believe we as humans are fallible as well as the people in the church. I stand by the church and pray for us to see that Satan delights in the empty pews. Jesus Christ is undeniable the truth the way and the light..🕊️🕊️🕊️
If you find this video offensive, consider our form of government offends God. Christ is lumped together with all religions and therefore is not king but rather the state reigns over Christ and his followers
That isn’t our form of government. Our institutions affirm an authority higher than the state. The Declaration is explicit on that point. Harry Jaffa’s work is essential on this point. The vision of man present in our founding documents is fundamentally Aristotelian.
Based.
@@balong2000 your black
@@balong2000 and yet you’re not allowed to invoke any ‘authority higher than the state’ when legislating laws here.
@@balong2000 _Our institutions affirm an authority higher than the state_
Such bullocks
For some reason, I love listening to this over and over.
same here, I even downloaded it in case it was deleted.
The Declaration of Independence: An Accurate Transcript of the Catholic Mind
“If the Declaration [of Independence] is ‘an expression of the American mind,’ it is, to say the least, somewhat remarkable that it should be such an accurate transcript of the Catholic mind.” ~ Rev. Dr. Alfred O’Rahilly, recipient of The Order of St. Gregory the Great and President of University College Cork, 1919 (1)
Notes:
1. O’Rahilly, Alfred, “The Sources of English and American Democracy,” (Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 8, No. 30, Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, June, 1919), p. 209.
@@st_robert_bellarmine Rev. Dr. Alfred O'Rahilly wasn't infallible, you know
The star spangled heresy!
@Maximillian Wylde Quite provocative, and yet a necessary new angle to consider in light all that has transpired in the past 5 years.
Powdered wig cult
Oh say can you see the pride flag gleaming!
This is why Protestants and Bible believing Christians, like me, were afraid of Catholic infiltration in America. Comic strip from the 19th and 20th centuries have warned us about the Papal Octopus and its been severely underestimated. They don't want our ordered American liberty and democracy to work. Why did Pope Pius IX make a deal with D.C. in 1871? That way when our country falls, the other mask of the Catholic Church, Traditionalists like you will say that the American way has never worked and has failed so we can return to slavery under Rome. Don't think its Traditionalists vs Modernists going on one another like the Fundamentalists do with us Evangelicals. Traditionalists and Vatican 2 are all part of the same octopus 🐙.
@@dariusvilla5680 I'm sorry you feel that way.
However, I ask you to consider, we are not created to be equal, or rich or free even.
We are created to seek holiness. Everything else is a gift from God, freely given.
Thank you Father Kluge! This was my last mass before leaving Colorado for Florida. May God protect you Father and all those who attend OLMC.
The Catholic Church is my Noah's ark. I will not perish. AVE MARIA Purisima 🌹🤍🌹🤍 and Viva Cristo Rey 👑.
Don't follow Antipope Francis.
Man: "I am subject to no one" = (theoretically) 7 billion plus governments, one for each human on the planet.
Luther: humans are to be guided by Sola Scriptura and not subject to the church = (theoretically) 7 billion plus different denominations, one for each person's interpretation of the scriptures as they think proper.
Spiritual anarchy
@@jasonroberts2249 I like to call it religious schizophrenia.
Look into Benjamin Franklin’s background. He was involved with the occult. (Probably also how he ‘discovered’ electricity.) He was good buddies with Erasmus Darwin, Charles’ grandfather, who wrote much about ‘evolution’ and hated Christianity.
Also look into Thomas Paine’s statements on Moses and the Bible.
These are our ‘heroes’?
Supposedly Ben Franklin was also the person who initiated Voltaire into Masonry
Plus, Franklin didn't even do the electric kite experiment himself, he got his illegitimate child do do all the work for him, while he just sat back fat and happy inside his cabin.
Wondering, why I did not receive the notification of this video?
Great sermons!
Always good to hear priests calling out the evil of the United States.
Thank you Rev Fr.
Thanks for saying it, Father.
Amem! Hallelujah! Repent, fast, and pray everyone while there is still time! We must wake up to the enemy’s lies and deceit. There is only freedom in Christ!!! 💜🙌🤲✝️
I love USA so much. I love the colonial history, the independence movement and revolution. But it is a great woe that our founders did get this wrong. We have to redirect our country lest she is destroyed for her grievous faults...
I feel your pain man. I have a deep love for my homeland and my people fought in the revolution, and were here 100 years before it from England. I grew up staunch WASP too. But the truth supercedes everything.
Bellarmine’s Theory of Government: Acted on by the Framers of the American Constitution
“Bellarmine’s teaching on the subject of the State and of law and government is, in its more characteristic and fundamental points, the same as the theory acted on by those chiefly responsible for the framing and the sound and successful interpretation of our American Constitution.” ~ Rev. Moorhouse F.X. Millar, S.J., Head, Department of Political Science, Fordham University, New York, 1930 (1)
Notes:
1. Millar, Moorhouse F.X., “Bellarmine and the American Constitution,” (Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 19, No. 75, Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, September, 1930), p. 361.
@@anticoomer "Bellarmine, strange as it may seem, has perhaps the greatest claim to the gratitude of the people of the United States, because he stated and defended in advance those principles of government which the United States have made their own and upon which their government firmly rests. If we of the United States were to have a patron - and in our case a political - saint (Protestant in large part though we be), we might indeed do well to choose the Cardinal and sainted Bellarmine.” ~ James Brown Scott, Professor of International Law, Roman Law and Jurisprudence in Georgetown University, 1939 (1)
Notes:
1. Scott, James Brown, Law, the State, and the International Community, Vol. I (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939) p. 546.
@@anticoomer I don't think we need to have a totally negative opinion of the fathers or of our founding documents. If Jefferson was wrong to say the government derives it's authority solely from the consent of the people, he's right to say that all our political rights come from God- NOT the government. The founding fathers repeatedly stated that this form of government is designed for a moral and religious and Christian people.
Why was the original post removed? I save many of these video Homilies and when they are removedi often don’t recall which topic is covered. Fortunately someone had responded to a previous comment so I was able to find and resave this one. Is there a website that shows/lists which videos were previously removed and reloaded?
The youtube overloads didn't like the original video, I guess.
AMERICA IS A PROTESTANT NATION
COME GET ME WHEN IT TIME FOR THE HOLY EMPIRE TO RETURN
🇻🇦THERE'S ONLY 1 HOLY CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC CHURCH🇻🇦
total powerhouse sermon! Thank you!!!
Am studying political philosophy and I admired John Locke so much only to learn that he advocated tolerance to all accept Catholics and ofcourse his ideas influenced much the U.S declaration of independence.
In pagan Rome the only religion that was prohibited was that which was not hostile to the state - i.e. uncritical - and which didn't claim to be the exclusively true one.
🇻🇦The VATICAN FLAG is my allegiance 🇻🇦
I have some questions.
According to the Church, what would a well-founded America look like? Would we have remained under the authority of England? Why or why not? What men would be allowed government offices, and to what degree? (For example: only clergy could hold government office) Could you lose your office if you failed to recognize the Divine Source of your authority? If so, how would this be enforced?
Would love to hear specific examples. For instance, how would laws be decided and enforced? Especially very local laws, like what is the speed limit on Smith Road?
Speak slowly, I am very pregnant and have no braincells left. 😅
The whole continent of America should be under the kingship of Castilla & Aragon, as dictated back then by the Church :3
Our nations are ruled by puppets controlled by international bankers. Choice is an illusion.
My only question is, is there a form of gov't that is preferred by God? While the liberalism that has come to characterize the gov't we have now is indeed problematic, it was constituted under the auspices of Natural Law and the inalienable rights of man granted by his Creator - the right of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happyness. While I agree that the liberalism we see today is an overcorrection, or an excess of the principles we were constituted on, Humanae Vitae speaks to the human conscious and is in line with a form of gov't that is closer resembling a gov't that facilitates the ability of man to have dominion over the created world, including himself and while we do err greatly as humans, the ability to choose between right and wrong and then submit to the form of gov't we've consented to is important is indispensable. Only then can we truly see the state of man's heart. No gov't is perfect, but a gov't that acknowledges no man is God and no man can inherently claim the authority is given to him by God is preferable to the Law by Inheritance model granted to it's predecessors. God rightly downgraded the Emperor of Rome to be merely a man and the gov't given to man as one given to it by the consent of the governed. To the degree that we detach the will of the governed from the authority of God, we are wrong but there is nothing divine about a king's lineage other than the authority they have which is in no way presupposed to that lineage by God. Only the authority itself
God Is The King...
Amen.
“We wish that Your Eminence would express to the President [Grover Cleveland] all our admiration for the Constitution of the United States, not only because it permits active, intelligent citizens to achieve such a high level of prosperity, but also because under its protection, Catholics have enjoyed a liberty that has undoubtedly spurred their extraordinary religious development in the past and that will permit them we believe to further America’s political institutions in the future.” ~ Pope Leo XIII, in a letter to the Cardinal of Baltimore, 1887 (1)
Notes:
1. Zaratti, Alfonso, The Work of the Catholic Church in the United States of America (Rome: Nardini, 1956), p. 271.
🇻🇦THERE'S ONLY 1 HOLY CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC CHURCH🇻🇦
I know Protestants who truly believe the United States was founded on the word of God and think God will protect our government from never failing. They seem blind to all the flaws in the government. I appreciate this sermon because I’m trying to understand the divide between the Catholic Church and the government of the US.
yeah the shining city on a hill thing. It's complicated bc the problem is 'gov't of the US' as it's not supposed to be a centralized consolidated go'vt (as Patrick Henry warned) but a republic of republics where each state is a soverign state united to a federal gov't that has limited power whereas the states have unlimited. See 10th amendment center and Brion McClanahan channels for that.
So what do we do
Jefferson’s Formulas: Propositions in Medieval Philosophy
“Jefferson’s formulas with regard to the equality of men, the seat of authority in the people, the right to be consulted in the levying of taxes, are all definite propositions in medieval philosophy taught at all the colonial colleges.” ~ James J. Walsh, Ph.D., 1935 (1)
Note:
1. Walsh, James J., Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges (New York: Fordham University Press, 1935), pp. 117-118.
Jefferson was a deist
This is 💯 true to God...We are under God's rule.
Long live King Francis!
I’m in the middle on this. While the government does receive its power from the people, the people still receive their morality and authority from the church. Isn’t it easier to corrupt the few that govern in monarchs, than to corrupt the millions that “should” receive their morals from the church? This failure of morals has much longer effected monarchs than this country. While depravity is definitely there, there is ultimately a failure of the people and the church. Also the freedom of speech does not say that you should say anything you want, it only says that you can say things without being oppressed by the government. Ideally the government should answer to the church, but we know how this all ends. We have lived that reality too. The Papal States were broken up because the corruption of government. USA is behind in liberalism in comparison to other forms of government. I think there is truth in what you are saying, but there seems to be more to the story than this simple explanation. Help me think this out.
No... You are right. The separation of Church and State was not intended to keep the Church from influencing the government. The separation was meant to keep the government from interfering in the Church. We have not kept this as staunchly as we should've because the government's hand can be found reaching into the Church. Half of this sermon comes to good conclusions but not from proper premises. The right to free speech being granted to citizenry is in no way in conflict with the Church anymore than the heathen choosing a false religion. The Law was first given to Israel as a covenant and not to the Gentiles. When the Israelites broke certain Laws they were cut off from their people or stoned. The Jebusites, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc. were not stoned by the prophets for breaking the Laws of Israel. In the same way, St. Paul says "is it not those inside the Church we are to judge", and "cast the evil one from among you." The Church then cant hold the governments of the world accountable for not using force against unbelievers when the Church Herself was sent out to gather the Gentiles into Her loving refuge BEFORE Jesus returns with His rod of Iron. Jesus will return and then re-establish His perfect theocracy. If we want the worldly to live righteously then we need to go out and do missions, not mandate that they live according to the mandates of the Church. Its obvious that the large moral laws written on the conscience of every man should be mandated by governments... Consider though how ridiculous it would be for example to mandate an unbeliever to marry according to the Church when he has no desire to make a covenant with God and no desire for the sacrament. Would the church use governments to enforce a law saying that only Catholics can marry? Sticky issue there. 1 Cor 5:9-13
I totally agree with you. This sermon has truth but only if the leaders of the church are 100% incorruptible which is highly not likely if we look back at history of the Catholic Church we can see time and time again how the same tyranny he denounces is the same tyranny that the Catholic Church became at one point
@@offtheroutetours2190 The head of the church is Jesus Christ and it is guided by the holy spirit in faith and morals.
Other elements like charitable works while mandated by scripture as required for salvation,(matt 2:24) are open to adapation by weak, fallen humans.
You guys aren't really seeing this from a philosophical point of view. You're only thinking pragmatically.
Non serviam.
Christ is King of Kings.
“My tenth grade teacher told me America was liberal from the start. I agree with that but think it’s bad.” Maybe your teacher was just lying to you to begin with
Did you miss the "one nation under God " part? How does attacking the American Founding advance the Catholic Faith? If individualism is a sin how come there is only individual salvation? Too many unanswered questions
Which ‘God’?
Salvation isn’t an individual salvation, salvation is a group effort.
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Ephesians 4:11-14
11 And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;
14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.
The vague appeal to a monotheistic god, one which the masonic founding fathers of America believed in, is not whatsoever the same as the One True God that Catholicism holds to.
The freemasons, whom are naturalists and deists, believe God to be an impersonal being, who set the universe in motion but otherwise has no participation in it. They do not believe that God has revealed Himself supernaturally whatsoever - through revealed theology, through Christ and His Church, etc.
Freemasons hold to the idea that liberty is the paramount ideal by which their society is to governed. They believe that man’s will should be moved only by his own self-determination, free from any appeal to authoritative knowledge, except that which his own conscience finds agreeable. This runs completely counter to the natural theological and moral obedience to a Christ-centred state, as it was in Catholic Europe, before the global freemasonic push for freedom of religion.
Read the formal proclamations of First Vatican Council. It is condemns these particular and exact ideological principles.
Ok Freemason
Actually, all of these questions have been answered if you were to read the doctrines of the Church. In fact, most of these questions were answered hundreds of years ago.
Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights and among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By the way today’s liberals are more like the Tories of the colonial days.
Seeth and cope Americanist. America is a failed liberal nation get over it.
Men and women that refuse to overcome greed gluttony pride envy sloth anger and lust don’t deserve freedom. God gives freedom and takes it from those that misuse it.
Viva Christos Rex! Death to America! Universal Austrian Hegemony awaits a free and Catholic world!
Stay in your own country
@@_Breakdown No.
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.” Ronald Reagan
The description written for this page tells you all Yo Ned to know about religion! One of the differences of secular and religious people is that people like me at least listened to this drivel and contemplated it and decided it was a bunch of crap whereas religious people believe what they are told to believe!! Directions for the simple minded so I guess it may be of some use!
Religion is not for the poor and/or stupid. That is a cope by Atheist to stroke their own egos and believe themselves far more intelligent than they really are. Well newsflash, people far smarter than you and far more accomplished than you, have also been highly religious. That's a fact. The Saints of yesteryear have done far more good for the World than their Atheist counterparts ever did (or will ever do). That's another fact. You can no more have a functional Atheist society than feminist can have a functional society without men. There's a reason why no great civilizations were ever built on such grounds as irreligion or female primacy. On the contrary, you typically only see such disordered ideas like that root in civilizations at the start of their instability and decline.
There would be no such thing as Western Civilization if it were not for the Catholic Faith. Just remember that. And Western Civilization is imploding as we speak because more and more people everyday arrogantly believe that they can have a society while abandoning the Church, the very thing that allowed society to prosper in the first place. It won't work.
You might think that it's all drivel. Old men and even older dogma. But that drivel is the largest, farthest reaching and longest standing institution in the history of mankind. Nothing even compares. You should think twice before insulting it. Something that billions adhere to, and has outlasted the greatest of human empires - Any intellectually honest person can immediately look at the church and recognize, "Hey... There's probably something to all of this".
But keep thinking that religion is for the poor and stupid (at the peril of your own soul).
The irony of this comment is that the entirety of the media-propaganda machine espouses pro-atheism and pro-agnosticism rhetoric. Even the rhetoric you’re espousing of “religion being for the simple-minded” is exactly the type of perspective the media DESIRES to impose on the population of its citizens. Funnily enough, YOU are one who is, in fact, holding to the opinion of the simple-minded, because it is the very perspective that modern media, news, and entertainment WANTS you to have of religion and religious people.
Your inability to hold steadfast to a theological system actually makes you EASIER to control. Why, you may ask? Because the moral and philosophical principles you hold to can be much more easily changed and subverted to the secular position that the propagandists in power want you to have. This is why religious people in modern entertainment are depicted as old, out-of-date, senile, ideological dinosaurs. The people in power want you to have no religious system, so you will better conform to the system of morality and philosophy they wish to impose on you through propaganda.
So yeah, what a hilarious comment.
@@benakinjo none of your comments are “Fact”. Just typical rhetoric to make the sheep feel protected?
@@brahhuzzah3743 not even going to make a reply to an ignorant conspiracy theorist!!
@@chefmichaelgriffin4005 Wherein did I espouse any form of conspiracy? All I pointed out was that the media and entertainment encourages godlessness and mocks Christian religiosity.
In reality, you just can’t formulate a good enough reply to actually counter what I’m saying.