#  @JoshuaTCharles Joshua Charles Joshua Charles posts on X about the church, rome, jerusalem, israel the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::332663881/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -20% - [--] Month [---------] +27% - [--] Months [---------] -3.30% - [--] Year [----------] -31% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::332663881/posts_active)  - [--] Months [---] -3.60% - [--] Year [---] -20% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::332663881/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.25% - [--] Month [------] +1% - [--] Months [------] +6.10% - [--] Year [------] +19% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::332663881/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [finance](/list/finance) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [us election](/list/us-election) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) **Social topic influence** [the church](/topic/the-church), [rome](/topic/rome), [jerusalem](/topic/jerusalem), [israel](/topic/israel), [has been](/topic/has-been), [in the](/topic/in-the), [if you](/topic/if-you), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [we are](/topic/we-are) #1807, [christ](/topic/christ) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@realdonaldtrump](/creator/undefined) [@catholicizm1](/creator/undefined) [@kamalaharris](/creator/undefined) [@catholiccom](/creator/undefined) [@cancelwok3](/creator/undefined) [@mrcasey62](/creator/undefined) [@feseredward](/creator/undefined) [@chesterbelloc3](/creator/undefined) [@farmingandjesus](/creator/undefined) [@hwseleutheroi](/creator/undefined) [@jordanbpeterson](/creator/undefined) [@smashbaals](/creator/undefined) [@gavinashenden](/creator/undefined) [@dragodimitrov](/creator/undefined) [@redeemedzoomer](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@pontifex](/creator/undefined) [@gavinortlund](/creator/undefined) [@taylorrmarshall](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Jesus Coin (JESUS)](/topic/jesus) [Catholic (CATHOLIC)](/topic/catholic) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "I am a student of American history. Ive read every major speech by every President since Washington. That was the single most toxic inflammatory and hypocritical speech by an American President I am aware of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1565503340812701696) 2022-09-02T00:54Z 45.4K followers, 72.7K engagements "16/18 There are countless similar stories all over the writings of the Church Fathers and Saints that testify to this reality. If this is indeed the means by which Antichrist comes it would be foolish to assume it comes out of nowhere a complete vacuum" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1597471265643978752) 2022-11-29T06:03Z 45.1K followers, [--] engagements "17/18 No the path will have been cleared in advance. Now if we assume that all these holy often martyred Christians are not crazy; if we acknowledge they are consistent in their testimony;" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1597471267157729280) 2022-11-29T06:03Z 45.1K followers, [--] engagements "We are entering the historical epoch of not just a non-Christian civilization but an anti-Christian civilization. Everything the Catholic Church taught the West and through it the world is being actively abandoned despised and spat upon. We know how this will end" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1674535180663689216) 2023-06-29T21:52Z 32.2K followers, 24.4K engagements "POPE BENEDICT XV WARNED OF SATANIC GLOBALISTS: The coming of a world state is longed for by all the worst and most distorted elements. This state based on the principles of absolute equality of men and a community of possessions would banish all national loyalties. In it no" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678206532260069376) 2023-07-10T03:54Z 32.1K followers, 126.3K engagements "Every deed of Christ is a cause of glorying to the Catholic Church but her greatest of all glorying is in the Cross. St. Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lecture [--] (1) (c. 350)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678305379200155648) 2023-07-10T16:32Z 32K followers, [----] engagements "The absurdity of absurdities and the most horrible unreason of all is this: that while holding that the whole Church may have erred for [----] years in the understanding of the Word of God Luther Zwingli and Calvin can guarantee that they understand it aright. St. Francis" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678440049279660033) 2023-07-10T16:32Z 32.2K followers, 12.6K engagements "@1689Jeff I no longer call you servants but friends.Jesus Such expressions in no way derogate from authority. Peter was writing a letter to multiple churches and giving commands. One of the Popes oldest titles is servant of the servants of God" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678508320293003264) 2023-07-10T20:56Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "@1689Jeff Well Peter wast originally named Peter. His name was Simon. His name was changed to Peter. The rock is obviously his faith but it is also his person. The Catholic Church continues to assert both. Even the Catechism says rock refers to his faith. But it also refers to" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678516019546181632) 2023-07-10T21:39Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Cr82worship777 @1689Jeff Because he wanted to stop him from being killednot because he denied the Faith. Ill go with constant Christian belief and the rest of Scripture. The Church was not wrong for [----] years" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678520592671072259) 2023-07-10T22:20Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "ST. POPE GREGORY II COMMISSIONS ST. BONIFACE TO TEACH THE GOSPEL TO THE GERMANS (May [--] 719): Therefore in the name of the indivisible Trinity and by the unshaken authority of the blessed Peter prince of the Apostles whose government we administer by divine dispensation in" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678646998965313536) 2023-07-11T06:23Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements "DISCIPLE OF THE APOSTLE JOHN: REMAIN UNITED TO THE ALTAR AND BISHOPS ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST AVOID HERETICS AND SCHISMATICS St. Ignatius of Antioch my patron saint and a disciple of the Apostle John did so much to open my eyes to the Catholic Faith. He testified in" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678826600333471745) 2023-07-11T18:00Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The disciples of the Apostles were Catholic. Let all reverence the deacons as an appointment of Jesus Christ and the bishop as Jesus Christ who is the Son of the Father and the presbyters as the Sanhedrin of God and assembly of the apostles. Apart from these there is no" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678893022896082949) 2023-07-12T04:49Z 32.1K followers, 15K engagements "The Catholic Church begins and ends with a Passion: the Passion of Christ and the Passion of the Church. How the Catholic Church begins: And in the days of those kings Roman Empire the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed nor shall its" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1678979168942592000) 2023-07-12T07:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "COVID 2020: A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR ANTICHRIST I was received into the Catholic Church on July [--] [----] which meant my first Easter as a Catholic was in [----]. During that time the public sacrifice of the mass was suspended virtually worldwide. Given my reading of the Fathers" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1680989777183780864) 2023-07-19T05:11Z 32.1K followers, 50.8K engagements "Intellectual pursuits whose end and foundation are not love will end in Hell. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but have not love I am nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1681096720573415425) 2023-07-18T03:07Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "From reading the Church Fathers I have concluded that Apocalypse [--] is an outline of post-Incarnation history. The binding of the dragon was achieved by the Passion and Resurrection of Christ (20:1-3). Even when they differ in their commentaries on Apocalypse [--] the Fathers" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1681369239863836672) 2023-07-18T20:21Z 32.1K followers, 18.4K engagements "One of the most beautiful profoundly dense yet remarkably succinct statements of truth I have ever encountered. A gem I find myself recurring to over and over again that sheds so much light on the Faith and the Scriptures. To restore man who had been laid low by sin to the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1681428931713572864) 2023-07-19T05:56Z 32K followers, 20.6K engagements "During the time of Our Lords Passion the two people who saw it most clearly for what it wasSt. John and Our Ladywere also completely silent about it. There is a great mystery in this. I continue to ponder it" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1681706278253637632) 2023-07-19T23:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Antichrist himself will seem to darken the Church but the darkness will be driven out by brightness; for whatever the Antichrist claims will be shown to have been a lie. St. Thomas Aquinas Commentary on II Thessalonians (Ch. [--] Lecture 2)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1681807198933106690) 2023-07-19T23:50Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "The crisis of faith that led me to the Catholic Church began long before reading a single Catholic. I loved the Bible since I was a kid and for many years tried to make sense of it with protestant doctrines. But I never could. The deeper I went the less sense it made" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1684114217560047622) 2023-07-31T18:24Z 32.1K followers, 91.4K engagements "ANCIENT ECUMENICAL COUNCIL ACKNOWLEDGES PAPAL AUTHORITY The interaction between Philip the papal legate to the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in AD [---] and the Council Fathers who affirmed his words. Philip: It is doubtful to no one rather it has been known in all ages that the holy and most blessed Peter the leader and head of the apostles the pillar of the faith and the foundation of the Catholic Church received the keys of heaven from our Lord Jesus Christ the savior and redeemer of the human race and was given the power to bind and unloose sins and that he lives and performs judgment until" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1684260427495280640) 2023-07-26T17:52Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements "I love this observation from Dr. Lawrence Feingold a Jewish convert to the Catholic Faith seminary professor and theologian: In the first years after our conversion people often asked me why I chose Christianity or the Catholic Church and not Judaism or Buddhism or" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1685520181173616640) 2023-07-30T05:25Z 25.8K followers, 264.6K engagements "G.K. CHESTERTON: WHY I AM A CATHOLIC Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever as people always" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1685849714108039168) 2023-07-31T03:07Z 32.2K followers, 43.4K engagements "J.R.R. TOLKIEN ON THE DEAD END OF PROTESTANTISM I read this letter in the years leading up to my conversion. As I discovered not only was Tolkien right about the mistaken search for primitive purity in the Church (read Scriptureit never existed) but the primitive churchto the extent we have artifacts of it in documents archaeology etc.was very Catholic in its beliefs and practices. What I had been told my whole life were medieval accretions were widespread in the ancient Church and defended from both Scripture and the constant practice of the Church since the Apostolic age. The protestant" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1685854514619039749) 2023-07-31T03:26Z 32.1K followers, 238.6K engagements "Dr. Roy Schoeman came to the Catholic Faith after while a non-believer receiving a powerful vision of the Virgin Mary who pointed him to Her Son and His Catholic Church. I would claim that a Jew who has become Catholic is the best person to explore the true meaning of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1685895160952176641) 2023-08-06T15:17Z 32.1K followers, 27.4K engagements "G.K. CHESTERTON: SCRIPTURE ALONE NEVER WAS NOR CAN IT EVER BE THE BASIS FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY It the Catholic Church knows where the Bible came fromIt knows there were many other Gospels besides the Four Gospels and that the others were only eliminated by the authority of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1686207153332535296) 2023-08-02T19:25Z 32.2K followers, 45.3K engagements "One thing that has bothered me since I was young was that most people in their behavior seemed to treat religion as my thoughts about God. But if religion is something real and if there is one God it would seem that the proper definition of religion is Gods thoughts about Himself and me. Given the scope of human history time and space isnt that a far more interesting thing to pursue Thus if someone understands religion to be revealed from the mind of God and thus not the result of our personal opinions then the quest for whatever truth may be found via religion must be a quest in search of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1686633658801954816) 2023-08-02T07:02Z 32.2K followers, 229.7K engagements "ST. POPE LEO THE GREAT: THE MARTYRDOM OF PETER AND PAUL MADE ROME HEAD OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD On June [--] AD [-------] years agoSt. Pope Leo the Great described in Sermon [--] how pagan Rome was founded by the fratricidal murder of Remus by his twin brother Romulus. He compares this with Romes re-founding by the blood shed by the Christian brothers St. Peter and St. Paul for their love of Christ a blood which sanctified Rome as the head of the Christian world. The whole world dearly-beloved does indeed take part in all holy anniversaries and loyalty to the one Faith demands that whatever is" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1686805721676120064) 2023-08-02T18:26Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "It is often claimed that the Catholic Church today is not the Catholic Church referred to by the Church Fathers. This claim can be refuted by mountains of evidence. But one simple question gets to the heart of the matter: What did all those Christians who were in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome call their Church Indeed there is an answer to this: beginning with St. Ignatius of Antiocha disciple of the Apostle Johnin c. AD [---] they called their communion explicitly the Catholic universal Church to distinguish it from the many heretical and schismatic groups that had already arisen (as" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1686815289273622528) 2023-08-02T19:04Z 32.1K followers, 87.5K engagements "Since then the primacy of the Apostolic See is established by the merit of St Peter (who is the chief among the bishops) by the majesty of the City of Rome and finally by the authority of a holy council no one without inexcusable presumption may attempt anything against the authority of that see. Emperor Valentinian III Edict on Papal Authority (requested by St. Pope Leo the Great) (AD 445)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1686999397857665024) 2023-08-03T07:16Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "@sincy_varghese @thomasryan_bcn They did not have a spectrum of opinions on this. They speak of mortal and venial sin all over the place" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1687569990231416832) 2023-08-04T21:04Z 32.1K followers, [--] engagements "The Church Fathers everywhere teach the Catholic doctrine of baptism. So faith procures this for us as the elders the disciples of the apostles have handed down to us: firstly it exhorts us to remember that we have received baptism for the remission of sins in the name of God the Father and in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God who was incarnate and died and was raised and in the Holy Spirit of God; and that this baptism is the seal of eternal life and rebirth unto God that we may no longer be sons of mortal men but of the eternal and everlasting God St. Irenaeus of Lyon The Apostolic" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1687588196715225088) 2023-08-04T22:15Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Church has consistently warned us. Let all remember that Liberalism is the father of this Socialism that is pervading morality and culture and that Bolshevism will be its heir. Pope Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno (122) (1931)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1687700279066832897) 2023-08-05T05:41Z 32.2K followers, 61.7K engagements "Pope Innocent III gave the most succinctly beautiful summary of the purpose of the sacrament of confession to a Roman synod of priests near the end of the 12th century: He who accuses himself before God God will excuse him; and he who excuses himself before God God will accuse him" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1687939595533697024) 2023-08-05T21:32Z 32.2K followers, 80.3K engagements "Fulfilling the Catholic sacraments. As a former protestant phrases like this remind me of the fundamental misunderstanding and distortion of what the sacraments are that many protestants often fall into. We do not fulfill the sacraments. That sort of language is very strange and not at all how the Church talks about the sacraments. The sacraments are not works we do for God. They are Christs free gifts to us. They extend His own ministry throughout the world through all time through the Church. They heal us and help us become holy by giving and strengthening us in the Spirit. This is all over" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1688342645981245440) 2023-08-07T00:13Z 32.1K followers, 29.1K engagements "St. Pope Gregorys commentary on Job is quickly becoming one of the best if not the best work of any of the Fathers that Ive read. Those who really want to strive for the heights of virtue whenever they hear about the faults of others they immediately focus their attention on their own; the more deeply they bewail the latter the more correctly do they evaluate the former. All the elect force themselves to consider their own weakness so we are rightly told that the holy man Job sat sadly on the dung heap. The one who truly humbles himself looks steadfastly on the sordid sin that surrounds him" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1688933992123518976) 2023-08-08T15:23Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Of all the non-ancient books I read this one had a huge and disproportionate impact on my conversion to the Catholic Faith. Not only did it present a very convincing biblical case for the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist but I saw this case was supported by mountains of testimony from the ancient Church Fathers. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. At the risk of being anachronistic Judaism at the time of Jesus was much more like Catholicism (priests leading worship centered on sacrifice) whereas rabbinic Judaism after the Temples destruction was much more like Protestantism" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689116836380778497) 2023-08-09T03:30Z 32.2K followers, 206.2K engagements "For the ancient Church Fathers there were only three categories those who claimed to be Christian could be in: [--]. Catholic (the vast majority) [--]. Schismatic [--]. Heretic Catholics were part of the one true Church (some righteous some wicked). Schismatics maintained most if not all the Faith but broke off Catholic communion. And heretics went in every sort of direction rejecting the divine authority of the Church to teach coming up with novel doctrines and scriptural interpretations left and right and were often named after their founders. I am of Paul I am of Apollo I hope you get the point:" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689150795357515777) 2023-08-09T05:45Z 44.5K followers, 41.8K engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: FAITH WITHOUT WORKS WILL BE PUNISHED ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT Perhaps they have faith without works trusting in that faith to save them on the day of the final judgment. But their hope will be disappointed because in their life they destroyed that faith they confessed; otherwise they may have displayed their good actions for the sake of human praise but they wait in vain for the Judge to come and reward them for their good works. Why Because they did them in order to show off and be praised so they have already received their reward from the lips of humans. Truth is our" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689330771176337409) 2023-08-09T17:40Z 24.9K followers, 12.3K engagements "I have yet to meet a red-blooded male who was not psyched up by this music" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689368540430876672) 2023-08-09T20:10Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "One of the many reasons Im Catholic is because the Church has all the right enemies. Communists Socialists Nazis Freemasons occultists Satanists etc. They all identify the Catholic Church as their greatest enemy which is why they attack it so fiercely without and within" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689494888147234816) 2023-08-10T04:32Z 32K followers, 112.1K engagements "The idea that Pope Francis is a Marxist is completely and totally false and slanderous. Liberation theology has been officially condemned by the Church many times. No religion is more biblical than the Catholic Faith. Protestants have devised their own erroneous interpretations of Scripture that are almost completely disconnected from the Christian Faith as it has always been believed. I am now Catholic and have NEVER loved and believed Scripture more than I do now. The same is true of many converts. The teachings of the Catholic Church are FAR more biblical than anything protestantism has to" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689506299447508992) 2023-08-10T05:17Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: HERETICS TWIST SCRIPTURE AND WHY CHRIST ESTABLISHED THE AUTHORITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Since the canon of Scripture is complete and sufficient of itself for everything and more than sufficient what need is there to join with it the authority of the Church's interpretation For this reasonbecause owing to the depth of Holy Scripture all do not accept it in one and the same sense but one understands its words in one way another in another; so that it seems to be capable of as many interpretations as there are interpreters. For Novatian expounds it one way Sabellius" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1689712269507325952) 2023-08-10T18:56Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Thank you @BishopBarron. This is 100% true. As a convert to the Catholic Faith I can tell you what drew me was the clear witness to TRUTH in the Church Fathers the great saints and doctors the Councils and the Popes of the last [----] years. Nothing like boomer Catholicism" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690063374368014339) 2023-08-11T18:11Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements "Your Mother Church Mr. Dugin is the Catholic Church in communion with Rome the Apostolic See of St. Peter the rock. As was acknowledged by the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus nearly [----] years ago: It is doubtful to no one rather it has been known in all ages that the holy and most blessed Peter the leader and head of the apostles the pillar of the faith and the foundation of the Catholic Church received the keys of heaven from our Lord Jesus Christ the savior and redeemer of the human race and was given the power to bind and unloose sins and that he lives and performs judgment until now and" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690072832338993152) 2023-08-11T18:48Z 32.2K followers, 12.9K engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE FIRST GIFT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE SEE OF PETER IN ROME You the Donatists cannot deny that you know that the first episcopal see was set up in Rome which was occupied by Peter the head of all the Apostles (for which reason he was called Cephas) so that in this one see unity might be preserved by all lest each of the other Apostles should maintain his own; thus anyone who set up another see against this one see would be a schismatic and a sinner. Therefore the one see which is the first of the gifts was first occupied by Peter then Linus succeeded himPope" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690230482120949760) 2023-08-12T05:15Z 32.1K followers, 11.6K engagements "Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal Penses" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690457138303516672) 2023-08-12T20:16Z 32K followers, [----] engagements "Imagine my surprise as a protestant reading ancient Church Fathers talk about heretics of their day tearing down altars as many of my protestant ancestors had done in theirs. The look on my face was close to this: 😳 In my view your the Donatists profane acts with regard to the divine sacraments have been clearly demonstrated For what is so sacrilegious as to break level or remove the altars of God where you too at one time made your offerings where both the prayers of the people and the limbs of Christ are borne up where Almighty God is invoked where the Holy Spirit descended at the prayer" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690491926246772736) 2023-08-12T22:34Z 25K followers, 19.3K engagements "America is by no means a "free" society. A government that claims the right to change the definition of marriage is totalitarian. If it can change the nature of marriage if it can kill unborn people youre not living in a free society anymore. Youre living in a state that depends on whatever the government says. Thats not the America I was born in and I hope its not the America youll have to live in because it wont be a free country. Thats the beginning of a totalitarian unlimited state that claims the ability to recreate the world. Francis Cardinal George" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690503431545651200) 2023-08-12T23:20Z 32.1K followers, 198.7K engagements "The spirit of heresy as Chesterton outlines by analogy here is this: we need not know what is ultimately true good and beautiful in the Faith. Thus we must make doctrinal contradictions and endless schisms somehow fit into "orthodoxy." We are fond of talking about liberty; but the way we end up talking of it is an attempt to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about progress; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about education; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. The modern man says Let us leave all these arbitrary standards" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690537377197109248) 2023-08-13T01:34Z 32K followers, 26.1K engagements "For four centuries every man has been not only his own priest but his own professor of ethics and the consequence is an anarchy which threatens even that minimum consensus of value necessary to the political state. Richard M. Weaver "Ideas Have Consequences" (1962)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690544019238199296) 2023-08-13T02:01Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: CHRIST ENTRUSTED THE CHURCH TO PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS "For what purpose did He shed His blood It was that He might win these sheep which He entrusted to Peter and his successors. Naturally then did Christ say 'Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his Lord shall make ruler over His household.' Matt. 24:45" St. John Chrysostom "On the Priesthood" (Book [--] 1) (late AD 300s)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690551284171165697) 2023-08-13T02:30Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements ""But since they differ so widely among themselves both as respects Christian doctrine and tradition and since those of them who are recognized as being most modern make it their effort daily to invent some new opinion and to bring out what no one ever before thought of it is a difficult matter to describe all their opinions." Was this written yesterday Last year [--] years ago [---] years ago [---] years ago No. Over [----] years ago around AD [---] by St. Irenaeus of Lyon in his work "Against Heresies" (Book [--] Ch. [--] 5). I read this in [----] and it was one of the many ancient quotes from the Fathers" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690617027847938048) 2023-08-13T06:51Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements "Protestantism ultimately began the process by which Christendom was destroyed. For many many reasons it cannot be the basis of a new Christendom. The idea that a broad array of sects that contradict each other on everything under the sun and have no means of attaining agreement and unity (even in theory) can be the basis of a Christian civilization is simply bad theology bad political philosophy and bad history. Its never happened it never will happen and theologically we should never desire for it to happen because God is Truth and truth never contradicts itself. AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT:" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1690997856226914304) 2023-08-14T08:04Z 32.1K followers, 54.3K engagements "Christian worship is the sacrifice of the Eucharist at which a priest in succession from the Apostles invokes the Holy Spirit over bread and wine which then become the Body Blood Soul and Divinity of Our Lord and thus the all-perfect sacrifice of the Son to the Father" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691006974169858048) 2023-08-14T08:40Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "Given that over [----] years of Christian civilization preceded Luther and the [---] since has seen its total collapse I think thats an untenable case. Which light Protestants dont have a unified doctrine just tons of conflicting beliefs. Most Protestants today would be considered a heretic by Luther. The Catholic Church is not afraid of truth wherever it comes frompagan protestant etc. Thats why much of the writings of Tertullian Origen and others can be helpful while their erroneous ideas condemned. But the idea that Catholic scholarship relies on protestant is simply not tenable. Your other" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691016908546707457) 2023-08-14T09:20Z 25K followers, [----] engagements "Here is Part [--] of my article John Calvins Gnostic Canon of Scripture. Part [--] dives deeper into Calvins argument for his [--] book canon of Scripture in his Institutes. Once again reading this as a protestant I was shocked by what I found. His arguments were entirely circular and Gnostic. He everywhere fails to argue for some of his biggest assumptionsnamely that what he says is an inward illumination from the Holy Spirit but what the Catholic Church had said over [----] years was simply human judgment. The more people read and ponder Calvins mode of arguing on the canon of Scripture the more they" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691150495665340416) 2023-08-14T18:11Z 24.1K followers, 25.1K engagements "I respect the Protestants who believe I apostatized when I became Catholic. I believe they are profoundly wrong and misguided. But their belief and mine stems from a shared assumption: there is such a thing as truth. I do not share that assumption with those Catholics and Protestants who wish to pretend our religions are fundamentally the same. I consider them likewise profoundly wrong and misguided. That we share some important points of commonality is beyond question. That we should emphasize those points of commonality whenever possibleespecially in our theological discussionis wise and" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691256550214828032) 2023-08-15T01:12Z 26.3K followers, 71.5K engagements "Catholic teaching on consecrated virginity is so beautiful. St. Athanasius believed consecrated virginity (usually men being monks and women being nuns) was one of the signs that the Catholic Church had the true religion. "The Son of God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ having become man for our sakes and having destroyed death and delivered our race from the bondage of corruption in addition to all His other benefits bestowed this also upon us that we should possess upon earth in the state of virginity a picture of the holiness of Angels. Accordingly such as have attained this virtue the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691323376068132864) 2023-08-15T05:38Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "My copy just arrived today. It was originally published by a scholar who did his doctoral work under Joseph Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI. Now republished for the first time since by Emmaus Road (thank you Scott Hahn et al). Pope Emeritus Benedict heard in [----] that the book would be republished by Emmaus and said the following in correspondence with the author: That Emmaus Academic is preparing a new publication of your Apostolikos Thronos is for me a personal and ecclesial joy. My hope is that your great opus can indeed help bring us a step further in the dialogue with the Churches of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691328231423750144) 2023-08-15T05:57Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The dirty little secret is that the conservative wing of American politics has often shown profound disrespect for the holy institution of marriage as well. This also showcases the slippery slope of accepting the antichristic idea of Christian divorce" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691494470926360576) 2023-08-15T16:58Z 23.9K followers, 22.9K engagements "Happy Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady Arise O Lord and go to thy resting place thou and the ark of thy might. Psalm 132:8 The prophet Jeremiah said The place where the ark is hidden shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. Then the Lord will disclose these things and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear as they were shown in the case of Moses and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated. [--] Maccabees 2:7-8 Then God's temple in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691511750372519942) 2023-08-15T18:06Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Religious tolerance religious liberty. Religious liberty assumes God has not spoken or if He has we cant know what He said. Did God say as its earliest proponent famously and subversively asked. Its underlying theological/metaphysical assumption is agnosticism which always ends in functional if not instantiated atheism. This is why even natural law will never survive under a religious liberty regime because such a regime at best begs the question of whether God (the source of natural law) is even useful; and at worst whether He even exists. Need evidence Look outside. Religious tolerance" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691697884478193780) 2023-08-16T06:26Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "There need to be more discussions between Catholics and Reformed Protestants about Christian Nationalism. I do not believe Protestantism has a coherent theological/metaphysical basis for rebuilding Christendom. But more discussions would be worthwhile given whats at stake" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1691984604843163756) 2023-08-17T01:25Z 32.1K followers, 10.8K engagements "When the biblical Church had a theological controversy they didnt tell anyone to study their Bibles and act according to their own best judgment. The rulers of the Church settled it with divine authority. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us (Acts 15:28)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692004029818413238) 2023-08-17T02:42Z 32.6K followers, 13.4K engagements "ST. JEROME TO THE POPE: THE CHAIR OF PETER IS THE ROCK OF THE CHURCH My words are spoken to the successor of the fisherman to the disciple of the cross. As I follow no leader save Christ so I communicate with none but your blessedness that is with the chair of Peter. For this I know is the rock on which the church is built Matt. 16:18 This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten. Ex. 12:22 This is the Ark of Noah and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. Gen. 7:23He that gathers not with you scatters Matt. 12:30; he that is not of Christ is of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692023044531978295) 2023-08-17T03:58Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Protestantism does not naturally flow from the Bible. The reason why we know that is we can read what the [----] years of Christians before them believedand the further back you go the less Protestant it often gets. Nor is this only in places subject to the authority of Rome. It includes places like India Africa and Persia over which the Pope could impose very little influence for much of history. And yet their faith was either completely Catholic or very much closer to the Catholic Faith of Romepriesthood seven sacraments sacrifice of the Eucharist baptismal regeneration apostolic succession" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692224427382186374) 2023-08-17T17:18Z 32.1K followers, 76.6K engagements "ST. ATHANASIUS: THE TRUE FAITH IS PRESERVED IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Let us note that the very tradition teaching and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning which the Lord gave was preached by the Apostles and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from it he neither is nor any longer ought to be called a Christian. St. Athanasius Four Letters to Serapion (Letter [--] 28) (mid AD 300s)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692430576098353238) 2023-08-18T06:57Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "ST. ATHANASIUS: THE POPE SPOKE INFALLIBLY FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH For since Dionysius bishop of Rome wrote against those who said that the Son of God was a creature and made c. AD [---] it is clear that not now for the first time but years ago the heresy of the Arian anti-Christians has been anathematized by all. St. Athanasius De Sententia Dionysii (13) (AD 352)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692431423830106283) 2023-08-18T07:01Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "@DebbieHenkes @PierreLittle_ They are deeply Scriptural. One has to dive into how the Catholic Church reads the Bible and how it has done so for [----] years. That is a HUGE conversation. Are you willing to hear out the Catholic Church" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692578030135263486) 2023-08-18T16:43Z 32.2K followers, [---] engagements "The difficulty of explaining why I am a Catholic is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. G.K. Chesterton Why I Am A Catholic (1926)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692582981020385770) 2023-08-18T17:03Z 44.4K followers, 14.9K engagements "There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution the Catholic Church that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them. G.K. Chesterton Why I Am A Catholic (1926)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692583613840175500) 2023-08-18T17:05Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Church is not merely armed against the heresies of the past or even of the present but equally against those of the future that may be the exact opposite of those of the present. Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists. Thus when the world went Puritan in the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692584344152330248) 2023-08-18T17:08Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Catholic/protestant divide over authority is not a 16th century thing. It has been the reality of every conflict between the Catholic Church and every new heretical group since the beginning. Realizing this was one of the most shocking red-pilling moments of my life. We protestants were doing nothing newwe were simply utilizing the exact same methods all heretics had utilized since the beginning. Let me explain. The new heresy ALWAYS claims The Bible says but they contradict not only constant Christian belief (informed directly by Scripture) but the countless other heresies that make the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692600005352210746) 2023-08-18T18:11Z 24.4K followers, 34.7K engagements "Thats silly. The Church condemned Nazism and Pope Pius XII personally saved more Jews (hundreds of thousands) than any other single human being. If your criteria for rejecting the Church is some of her members sinned/were unwise/didnt fully perceive evil at every moment then you will reject not only Christianity but any religion whatsoever. You can post pictures for shock value all you want. But thats not a serious way to go about this issue" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692645459821535479) 2023-08-18T21:11Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "My latest (link in following tweet): Becoming Catholic #38: Protestantism's Mormonism Problem. This post is about one of the most fundamental problems I discerned in protestantism: it relies on a theory of history virtually identical to the Mormon theory of the "Great Apostasy" right after the death of the last Apostle. This can be proven with certainty and it has disturbing consequences. As I write at the beginning of the article. This post will make the following three-part argument: (1) Mormons (Latter-Day Saints or LDS) believe that after the death of the last Apostle there was a Great" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692729230080037017) 2023-08-19T02:44Z 26.3K followers, 21.1K engagements "A most insightful observation from an ancient Pope for both our personal lives and what is happening in our society. There are four ways in which sin is committed in the heart and four ways in which it is finally acted out. It is committed in the heart by suggestion desire consent and brazen defense. It is the enemy who suggests the flesh then desires the mind consents and pride brazenly defends. Guilt ought to terrify the mind but it lifts it up; by casting it down it raises it. What is still more serious is its overthrow as a result of this elevation. The ancient enemy thus brought down the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692957401572347919) 2023-08-19T17:51Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Once more an ancient Pope offers piercing insight into the degenerate dynamics we human beings often fall into to justify our sins. Especially relevant today. What he is talking about also relates to heresy. For example countless protestant sects have convinced themselves of a lie: that there is no true Church who speaks for God; that their relationship with Jesus no matter what sorts of errors it falls into is just fine for them and Christ will account it legitimate since there is no objective voice that has the right to teach any of them. Many perhaps do this with no bad intention. But they" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1692965160573440198) 2023-08-19T18:22Z 32.1K followers, 15.3K engagements "The Catholic Faith (the Gospel) is very simple: To be saved repent be baptized and obey the commandments. The Catholic Church is very simple: To be in the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church be in the flock under a successor of the Apostles in communion with the successor of St. Peter. The Catholic Church can explain and expand on all of this in extraordinary depth and detail because many have contradicted each one of these things over the last [----] years and the Church has had to articulate and re-articulate itself throughout that time. Most of Her aggressors have disappeared while the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693040363068375359) 2023-08-19T23:20Z 32.1K followers, 33.6K engagements "@jimbretzke Father Bretzke as a layman I would ask that you show more charity in your tweets. Im a very conservative person and I know many on the Catholic right wing. They would fully agree with Archbishop Sheen. Many reject unfettered capitalism. Please dont misrepresent them" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693043333847793966) 2023-08-19T23:32Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "We enter into the New Covenant by Faith. But we enter into Heaven only by Love. If I have all faith so as to remove mountains but have not love I am nothing. St. Paul (1 Cor. 13:2)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693096418997837902) 2023-08-20T03:03Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Fr. Martinyou are a priest of Jesus Christ. Why did you not warn Gregory a married homosexual man that living in such a state is incompatible with being a practicing Catholic His precious soul is in danger of Hell and you encouraged him in his sin. I offer this fraternal correction from the Holy Scriptures: If I God say to the wicked You shall surely die and you give him no warning nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way in order to save his life that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693119447995949136) 2023-08-20T04:35Z 32.1K followers, 60.4K engagements "Many do not want the Catholic Faith to be true because it truly does require us to live a life of heroic virtue empowered by the love and grace of Christ. This is a life many Catholics themselves do not want to live though it is what the Church calls us to. I know this was certainly true of me in the months leading up to my conversion. I knew my life would be changing quite dramatically and it made me nervous. The Church would expect me to take up the cross of mandatory Sunday worship of a far greater and more disciplined prayer life of much more frequent and consistent fasting of the moral" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693161894717292668) 2023-08-20T07:23Z 32.1K followers, 39K engagements "As I said at the very beginning: This is a life many Catholics themselves do not want to live And as St. Augustine said in the late 300s: Therefore because you have become members of Christ I warn you; I fear for you not so much from the pagans nor so much from the Jews nor so much from the heretics as from the bad Catholics. Choose for yourselves those whom you may imitate among the people of God. For if you wish to imitate the crowd you will not tread the narrow path in the company of the few. St. Augustine Sermon 224: For Easter Sunday Plenty of bad Catholics. Not a new problem. Warned" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693311176544018467) 2023-08-20T17:16Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE MASS IS HEAVEN ON EARTH A happy Lords Day to all. For when you see the Lord sacrificed and laid upon the altar and the priest standing and praying over the victim and all the worshippers empurpled with that precious blood can you then think that you are still among men and standing upon the earth Are you not on the contrary straightway translated to Heaven and casting out every carnal thought from the soul do you not with disembodied spirit and pure reason contemplate the things which are in Heaven Oh What a marvel What love of God to man He who sits on high with" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693326559128826287) 2023-08-20T18:18Z 26.3K followers, 13K engagements "It is not an exaggeration or distortion to claim that prior to Martin Luther and other "reformers" you find virtually zero evidence of uniquely protestant beliefs on justification such as the imputed righteousness of Christ (forensic justification). And yet this many protestants claim is the very heart of the break with the Catholic Churchit is a matter of "the gospel." But this is problematic because if there is no evidence of this very unique protestant belief about "the gospel" prior to protestants then the only conclusion one can reach is that virtually no Christian actually knew the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693358080371888195) 2023-08-20T20:23Z 32.1K followers, 22K engagements "To be baptized is to die and resurrect with Christ (Rom. 6:3-14). Hence Christ in you the hope of glory. (Col. 1:27) In that renewed reborn regenerate state to intentionally engage in grave sinthe very thing you died to in baptismis to crucify Christ again and abandon being crucified with Him. Thats why grave sin separates us from Christ. Not because our works earn salvation (we didnt earn our new birth in baptism and never can). They do not. But because sin is the very thing Christ came to destroy and liberate us from. Once weve been reborn we no longer have the excuse that we were" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693378538362335664) 2023-08-20T21:44Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: EPIC DESCRIPTION OF CHRISTS DEFEAT OF DEATH This is such an epic description of Our Lords defeat of death especially the second half. Since our Lord Jesus Christ was without sinHe was not subject to death since death came into the world through sin. He dies therefore because He took on Himself death on our behalf and He makes Himself an offering to the Father for our sakes. For we had sinned against Him and it was meet that He should receive the ransom for us and that we should thus be delivered from the condemnation. God forbid that the blood of the Lord should have" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1693699352357896348) 2023-08-21T18:59Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The insanity and tyranny of the left is encouraging the rise of rank Gnosticism and blood lust on the right. Legitimate suspicion has been transformed into rampant paranoia which is slowly destroying the basis for any objective knowledge. This is the permanent fog of war Ive surmised weve been in since COVID. It so traumatized society and so thoroughly destroyed trust in so many institutions that this is the inevitable result. It will end very badly without a remarkable course change" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694064563275321433) 2023-08-22T19:10Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Great Tragedy. Before Luther defected from the Catholic Church nearly the whole West was of the same faith and religion and in whatever direction a man might go he would always find his brethren. All were then in light. But after the fall of Luther such a smoke of errors sects and schisms rose out that now even in the same province nay more in the same city or even house one does not recognize another. St. Robert Bellarmine Antichrist (Ch. 23)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694170479849050446) 2023-08-23T02:11Z 32.1K followers, 89.5K engagements "Protestants have divided into a million different sects over a million different issues. And its been that way since day [--]. Luther said Zwingliwho had the same position as most evangelicals on various issues including the Eucharistwas of the devil. That wasnt even [--] years after his excommunication. And the divisions have only gotten worse including on things as basic and fundamental as baptism the nature of Christian worship Church government the moral law etc" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694174038191681708) 2023-08-23T02:25Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "ANCIENT POPE: THE STUPID AND UNWISE OFTEN CRITICIZE THEIR BETTERS St. Pope Gregory the Great has an interesting take on the criticism of Job leveled at him by his friends. He compared this to the Levite trying to keep the Ark of the Covenant from falling when he had no right to touch it: Stupid people often taken offense at the acts and words of smart individuals just because they cannot understand them. But they should not lightly oppose these acts and words simply because they cannot be rightly understood. Adults often make arrangements that children consider erroneous. Strong leaders often" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694411376247411093) 2023-08-23T18:08Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "Here is the third and final part of my article with @catholiccom about John Calvins Gnostic canon of Scripture: Where John Calvin Meets Mormonism" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694451760474255467) 2023-08-23T20:49Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "Soon we will have priests reduced to the role of social worker and the message of faith reduced to political views. But this prospect is followed by a message of hope: Everything will seem lost but at the right moment in the most dramatic stage of crisis the Church will be reborn. It will be smaller poorer almost catacombal but even more holy. For it will no longer be the Church of those who seek to please the world but the Church of those who are faithful to God and His eternal law. The rebirth will be the work of a small seemingly insignificant yet indomitable remnant that has gone through" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694539110470635903) 2023-08-24T02:36Z 25.4K followers, 87.4K engagements "The pastoral letter of Bishop Strickland (@Bishopoftyler). It is beautiful and prophetic. He says absolutely nothing that any Church Father Saint Council Popein short any true Catholichas or could disagree with. Simply the Deposit of the Faith" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694584986110988290) 2023-08-24T05:38Z 24.6K followers, 28.1K engagements "This is very easy to explain though I understand why it can appear confusing but only superficially. If you cite Jesus words without contextthe Father is greater than I (John 14:28)youd easily conclude the Bible taught Arianism. Dont treat Catholic prayers undergirded by a theology you despise and know little about in the same way. You may end up misunderstanding itor like the Arians TOTALLY misunderstanding it. Have you ever said or heard someone say Your prayers helped me find Jesus or Your prayers saved me (perhaps from an atheist who becomes a Christian) or something to that effect Have" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694596515891920945) 2023-08-24T06:24Z 44.4K followers, 20.4K engagements "Here is my conclusion at the end of my latest Catholic Answers (@catholiccom) article (link in next tweet) exposing John Calvins truly Gnostic theology of the canon of Scripturea discovery that absolutely shocked me as a protestant and played a big role in my conversion. While the topic I raise at the end is a huge one I believe you can trace a direct through line from the foundational premises of many of the protestant sects of the 16th century to the spirit of our age today. They are by no means the only cause. But protestant premiseswith both their explicit *and implicit* implications now" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694787833708564756) 2023-08-24T19:04Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "For it is not by some accidentno it is because of our own moral failingsthat we are left with the name of the Republic having long since lost its substance. Cicero The Republic (Book 5) (c. [--] BC)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1694971024448934106) 2023-08-25T07:12Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "Reading the Church Fathers on baptism was truly eye-opening. Why Because literally from the Fathers who were discipled by the Apostles themselves forward they uniformly articulated a belief in baptismal regeneration that most protestants have rejected. As a protestant reading this unanimous testimony that had me deeply concerned. Who were we to contradict what quite literally all Christians of which we have any record believed and [----] years after the fact Did Christ allow His Church to err on such a fundamental matter despite promising to guide it into all truth and that the gates of Hell" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695126644435140690) 2023-08-25T17:31Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "A friend of mine made this wonderful graphic for a catechetical course explaining the typology of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel and its relation to the structure of the Catholic Church. Its very straightforward. For those who dont know the Gebirah (essentially the Queen) of the Davidic Kingdom was not the Kings wife but his MOTHER. In all the listings of the Davidic kings youll find the name of the King how long he reigned and who his mother was. Not an accident" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695154611785773113) 2023-08-25T19:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "A Jewish Catholic convert friend offered this brilliant summary of what he sees as the difference between the Catholic Faith and Protestantism: The fundamental distinction in many ways between Catholicism and Protestantism is whether one believes the Temple Jews to have been right in basic principle but dreadfully wrong in specific belief (as I see Catholicism) or altogether wrong and innovative (Protestantism). If one accepts that there *is* a legitimate binding Sanhedrin but that Caiaphas led a specifically unjust one then it is no great leap to say that the Catholic hierarchy inherited the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695168974647087401) 2023-08-25T20:19Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS THE SEE OF PETER AND THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN What truth can be found among you Donatists which the Catholic Church is seen to withstand or what lie can you prove to be among us Can you possibly prove it a lie to say that we are in one communion with the whole world Can you possibly prove it a lie to say that we retain and defend the true and unique creed Can you possibly prove it a lie to say that the see of Peter and the keys of the kingdom of heaven were bestowed by Christ where our society is Moses was first so the Catholic Church is" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695313642915594744) 2023-08-26T05:54Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Converts know the struggle especially in the early days" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695314414269087814) 2023-08-26T05:57Z 32.1K followers, 13.1K engagements "I encourage people when they see videos or pictures like this of these poor souls PRAY AND FAST FOR THEM. This is the radical love we can show as Catholics. Many of these poor people probably have no one or few who pray for them. But our prayers can help lead them to Heaven" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695322505131831406) 2023-08-26T06:29Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Just finished this work from the mid AD 300s by a lesser known Church Father last night. Full of fulsome and clear testimonies to the Catholic Faith including the priesthood the sacrifice of the Eucharist at a Christian altar the papacy etc. Amazing" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695497039600292240) 2023-08-26T18:02Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "This represents the epitome of anti-logos and thus Antichristic thinkinga regression that falls beneath even that of godless pagans. The Nazis would have been proud Yuval" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695572110524236126) 2023-08-26T23:01Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "But dont worrythe damn masks oughta do it" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695595065190793478) 2023-08-27T00:32Z 44.5K followers, [----] engagements "I can understand why you say that but its not the case. Popes can have non-definitive and fallible opinions on all sorts of things. Pope Francis has tied his teaching on the death penalty to prudential considerations. Many Catholics have said he is in errorand he can be according to Catholic dogma. He has not dogmatically defined this. Not everything a Pope says is dogmafar from it. This has never been the case. In the meantime Catholic teaching on the sacraments Christian worship priesthood moral life etc. are consistent and stablemuch of it explicitlyfor [----] years" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695595778495111263) 2023-08-27T00:35Z 32.1K followers, [--] engagements "A protestant acquaintance who recently began asking questions about his own faith and diving into the Church Fathers wrote the following to me (shared with their permission). I share it because I believe it is very honest very reasonable and very sincere. I came to virtually identical conclusions in [----] as do many converts. There is simply no wayin theory or in practiceto say what THE faith is in a protestant framework. Fortunately Christ gave us a different framework: His Catholic Church. Well see where this acquaintance ends up going. HIS WORDS I go to a thoroughly Protestant liberal arts" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695658117772853420) 2023-08-27T04:42Z 32.1K followers, 34.2K engagements "@Ratisbonus Been my opinion since [----] and it has been proven correct many times" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695692602459451868) 2023-08-27T06:59Z 32.2K followers, [--] engagements "Behold the Gnostic Right. Q is a deeply occultic movement that co-opts a lot of Christian sounding language in very syncretistic fashion to deceive people. It has infected the minds of millions of people giving many who feel vulnerable and powerless a false sense of power and security in the midst of an insane world. It preaches a false anti-cross gospel of vengeance worldly power and so-called enlightenment. Its the original temptation in the Garden wrapped up in a new cloak of light (quite literally). Its goal is to make people look for a worldly victor who will satisfy their bloodlust" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695899634445713411) 2023-08-27T20:42Z 32.1K followers, 12.2K engagements "God bless Bishop Joseph Strickland and Dr. Scott Hahn" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695922773661753768) 2023-08-27T22:14Z 44.4K followers, 74.8K engagements "ST. POPE GREGORY THE GREAT: THE SACRIFICES OF HERETICS ARE WORTHLESS; THEY MUST RETURN TO THE UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH In the book of Job St. Pope Gregory the Great sees a typological presentation of the history of the Church. Job is Christ and the Church and Jobs merciless friends are heretics and schismatics who speak lies while claiming to speak the truth about God. Heretics sometimes return to the unity of Holy Church after they have been doused by a liberal outpouring of divine grace. That return is indeed what is signified by the reconciliation of Jobs three friends for whom" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695926059211034815) 2023-08-27T22:27Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "The biographer Piers Paul Read quotes Alec Guinnessthe great actor (Obi-Wan Kenobi etc.) and a convert to the Catholic faithspeaking about the changes in Catholic liturgy post-Vatican II: The drab liturgical goings on and the rustle of folding missalettes and the ghastly hymns are killing my soulIn my childish way I WANT a touch of mystery and strangeness in my worship. The present situation seems to me as insipid as bread and milkWhy did we ever abandon a Latin liturgy It contained words weighted with [----] years of Christian theology devotion and daily usage" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695983714222973423) 2023-08-28T02:16Z 44.5K followers, 92.2K engagements "Im huge on original sources and classics. We have to be familiar with them to properly understand our civilization and what we have a duty to pass on. That includes texts music and art. Ive been working on getting these beautiful books of the complete works of various artists published by Taschen. So far I have Leonardo da Vinci Caravaggio Michelangelo Rembrandt Bosch Vermeer Velzquez Van Gogh and Monet. Well today Raphael came in. This book is HUGE Probably [--] x [---] feet and [--] inches thick Its amazing. Its such an extraordinary blessing to have a copy of every work of each of these masters" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1695991422879776847) 2023-08-28T02:47Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "@Catholicizm Get Michuta on to talk about the deuterocanonical books" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1696180801086345455) 2023-08-28T15:19Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "He that is born of the Catholic Church is born as it were of Sarah of the free woman. He that is born of heresy is as it were born of the bond woman Hagar but of Abrahams seed. St. Augustine Tractate [--] on the Gospel of John (7)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1696615917436969372) 2023-08-29T20:08Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "Can confirm. I came in through an FSSP parish and most young converts I know either came in through a Latin Mass church/rite or much prefer it since being in the Church. In a world gone mad the unchanging is all the more attractive. Improvised banal religion is gross. IRELAND Archbishop of Armagh and Primate Of All Ireland Eamon Martin praises the LATIN MASS and its effect on young people As Primate Martin is the current successor to Saint Patrick https://t.co/DG1vMK8emA IRELAND Archbishop of Armagh and Primate Of All Ireland Eamon Martin praises the LATIN MASS and its effect on young people" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1696641124650360970) 2023-08-29T21:49Z 44.5K followers, 39.4K engagements "PS I often go to a Novus Ordo daily mass. There are reverent ones out therethough they are much rarer than they should be" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1696678658096910601) 2023-08-30T00:18Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements "As a Protestant I struggled finding our method of resolving controversy about Scripture in Scripture itself. In Acts [--] apostolic authority (including non-apostles) rendered a verdict in Gods name. Despite this we denied men could do this" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1696753324316598371) 2023-08-30T05:14Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "God will vindicate His name and His Church. Selah" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1696936782196269423) 2023-08-30T17:23Z 32.2K followers, 15.5K engagements "I was honored to join Fr. Richard Heilman and Doug Barry on the Graceforce podcast. I hope it is enjoyable and edifying particularly given the subject" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697037212578349408) 2023-08-31T00:02Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "The West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss. Western societies are losing more and more of their religious essence as they thoughtlessly yield up their younger generation to atheism. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Acceptance Address for the Templeton Prize (May [--] 1983)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697057189494723019) 2023-08-31T01:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "I have dear protestant friends who are conservative and orthodox (by protestant standards). Yet they balk at the idea that there is one true Church and Faithas if Jesus founded or Scripture clearly and repeatedly commands any other. The moral relativism of our age began with the Christian relativism of protestantisma relativism that has infected a staggering number of Catholics as well. Why Because if we believe we can never be CERTAIN about the truths of Faith God intended to REVEAL to the world and are thus BINDING on us as individuals regardless of our opinions then we are implicit" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697062251180789825) 2023-08-31T01:42Z 32.1K followers, 12.5K engagements "It was always the women and above all the young ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. George Orwell 1984" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697108706654290311) 2023-08-31T04:47Z 32.6K followers, 23.2K engagements "TWO ANCIENT EASTERN BISHOPS TESTIFY TO THE DIVINELY-ESTABLISHED AUTHORITY OF THE PAPACY Stephen of Dora representing bishop St. Sophronius of Jerusalem addresses St. Pope Martin I at the second session of the Lateran Synod in AD [---]. Like so many witnesses to the papacy in the first millennium he likewise declares it was divinely established by Christ Himself: As a result of their heretics troubling of the whole Catholic Churchwe fly away and announce these things to the See that rules and presides over all others (I mean your sovereign and supreme See) Rome in quest of healing for the wound" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697282622823788813) 2023-08-31T16:18Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements "My friend Dr. Alan Fimister (an atheist convert) joined the wonderful Suan Sonna (a baptist convert) to discuss the topic of how the reformation led to secularism. Very much worth a listen" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697652697493827802) 2023-09-01T16:48Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "My protestant brethren often said we recovered the Gospel Well as a protestant for [--] years of my life I knew that was a false claim. Why Because we protestants disagreed about just about everything under the sun. What exactly had we recovered To recover something implies it can be identified. But we couldnt even agree on the very thing Christ commanded in the Great Commission (baptism) to say nothing of worship the sacraments the governance of the church countless moral issues etc. The more charismatic among us would often appeal to the Holy Spirit guiding them. But seemingly very good" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697657198766330111) 2023-09-01T17:06Z 32.1K followers, 19.4K engagements "ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ONE TRUE CHURCH IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH "We believe also in The Holy Church intending thereby assuredly the Catholic. For both heretics and schismatics style their congregations churches. But heretics in holding false opinions regarding God do injury to the faith itself; while schismatics on the other hand in wicked separations break off from brotherly charity although they may believe just what we believe. Wherefore neither do the heretics belong to the Church Catholic which loves God; nor do the schismatics form a part of the same." St. Augustine "Of Faith and the Creed"" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697666563057520904) 2023-09-01T17:43Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements "FORMER ATHEIST EXPLAINS WHY PROTESTANTISM MADE NO SENSE TO HIM While I was never an atheist I had to confront this very issue as a Protestant in college engaged in evangelism when asked by the atheists which church should I go to I had no principled answer I could give them beyond appealing to my personal interpretation of the Bible and other subjective criteria. Here is how my friend Dr. Alan Fimister a seminary professor and theologian recently explained how as an atheist he knew that if Christianity was true Protestantism couldnt be: I knew that Christianity had been made to look silly by" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697727997623861314) 2023-09-01T21:47Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: CHRIST "TRANS-ELEMENTS" THE BREAD AND WINE INTO HIS BODY AND BLOOD The eastern Church Father St. Gregory of Nyssa writing around AD [---] in his "Great Catechism" (Ch. 37) described in remarkably explicit detail the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. He teaches that Christ deifies our bodies by joining them to His through our consumption of the Eucharist so that we may grow in holiness and combat sin. He uses the word "trans-elements" to describe the process by which the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ by the prayer of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697802927417782758) 2023-09-02T02:45Z 26.8K followers, [----] engagements "My latest "Becoming Catholic." Here is my Quote Archive on the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist in the Church Fathers. Once again this is but the tip of a growing iceberg" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1697826289850433962) 2023-09-02T04:18Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "Protestantism cannot rebuild Christendom. The Great Commission commands baptism. Protestants cannot even agree about this central act commanded by Christ among countless others. If you cant arrive at a common answer on baptism dont presume to rebuild Christian civilization" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1697904739655254057) 2023-09-02T09:30Z [--] followers, 20.1K engagements "As the number of unmarried Americans skyrockets Catholics should see a huge opportunity. Through evangelism and discipleship its possible there will be many later vocations to religious life and consecrated virginity. This could immeasurably benefit the Church and the world" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698027385168494787) 2023-09-02T17:37Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "I met an older gentleman in line for Confession today. His name was Ken. He has what sounded like terminal cancer. But he was at total peace. In your charity please pray for Ken and for all of us that we may die holy deaths at peace with the Lord and His Church at our time" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1698119308575146185) 2023-09-02T23:42Z [--] followers, 19K engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER TO HERETIC: COME HOME TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH May the Lord see fit to guard and protect you forever and cause you to live as a Christian and as a Catholic and come into agreement with us St. Pacian of Barcelona Letter 2: To Sympronian the Novatian (AD 300s)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698407375487812047) 2023-09-03T18:47Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "(1/2) BAPTISM: THE REASON PROTESTANTS GET SO MUCH OF SCRIPTURE WRONG Two-part thread (the tip of the iceberg on this topic). Scripture and the ancient Church are crystal clear about how we are saved through faith through no works of our own: being reborn regenerated in baptism. It was a completely free unmerited gift of Gods love and grace. One of the key reasons protestants butcher various prooftexts from Romans Galatians Ephesians etc. is because they have lost the glorious truth of the new birth in baptism and why God gave it to us. Because they have lost this truth theyve lost many others" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698457357225779203) 2023-09-03T22:06Z 27K followers, 50.3K engagements "(2/2) This doctrine of baptism works and salvations is UNANIMOUS from the days of the Apostles. There is not a single Church Father who does not believe it. This is as true before the days of Constantine as after them (lest anyone continue to peddle the nonsense that Constantine founded the Catholic Church). This is why St. Paul is crystal clear about what being saved is actually all about and it all goes back to being reborn being made a new creation in baptism for the purpose of doing what our first parents not only failed to do but made it impossible to do by passing on to us their" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698457361206120792) 2023-09-03T22:06Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "I said most Protestant sects toward the end of my postI should have put that at the beginning to be even clearer I know not all Protestants reject baptismal regeneration. Lutherans/Anglicans accept itbut they are only about 20% of Protestants. So unfortunately what I wrote does in fact refer to those I spoke of: most Protestants" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698480616281354743) 2023-09-03T23:38Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "@MrOctaviusRex I said most protestants. And yes they are wrongunless one wants to claim all Christians of which we have any record were wrong about an essential part of the Great Commission prior to protestants showing up [----] years later" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698500285285470691) 2023-09-04T00:56Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "Only those who know history and the traditions of our civilization know and feel what we have lost and how utterly ABSURD many modern pretensions of progress are" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698864192688934932) 2023-09-05T01:02Z 28.4K followers, [----] engagements "Dear Mel Gibson Please please please make a Braveheart style movie about the Maccabees. Sincerely in Christ All Catholic Men (and Protestant dudes who will see what theyve been missing out on) P.S. I volunteer to write and research if you need either. 😁" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698866134337110192) 2023-09-05T01:10Z 27.8K followers, 57.8K engagements "@tonyannett Tony you have a concerning fixation not only with my tweets but with wildly misrepresenting them or presenting even the most innocuous and innocent things as sinister. Its not only strange but uncharitable. I genuinely hope you find more meaningful things to do. Soon" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698922757634060636) 2023-09-05T04:55Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "ST. AUGUSTINE: HISTORY PROVES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH The last few years St. Augustine feels like he has become a friend given how much of his writings I've read. One of my great loves is history and St. Augustine is in large part behind my desire now endeavor to attempt a comprehensive theological historical theory. I'm many years away from completing it but it's in the works slowly but surely. History is one of the things that drew me to the Catholic Church and St. Augustine uses history over and over again to prove the veracity of the Scriptures the reality of the Catholic Church and the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1698935899097293123) 2023-09-05T05:47Z 32.1K followers, 15.3K engagements "Very humbled to have reached [-----] followers Surprises no one more than me. Im committed to producing content and commentary that is edifying thought-provoking and hopefully holiness-encouraging in these dark days. God bless you all Please pray for me as I pray for you" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699089051264139647) 2023-09-05T15:56Z 32.1K followers, 11.8K engagements "ST. AUGUSTINE: SCRIPTURE PROPHESIED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THAT HERETICS/SCHISMATICS WOULD SEPARATE FROM IT As a protestant countless words such as these by the Church Fathers revealed to me that they would have considered my way of doing Christianity unbiblical heretical and schismatic. They described the Church not only as it was but what they believed it would be until Christs return per Christs own promisesand it was nothing like protestantism of any variety. You cannot deny that you see what we call heresies and schisms that is many cut off from the root of the Christian society the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699167469024547298) 2023-09-05T21:07Z 44.5K followers, [----] engagements "Social media not exempt. I tell you on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned. Jesus Christ (Matt. 12:36-37)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699241397906481193) 2023-09-06T02:01Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "Lots of complete myths about the inquisition. The inquisition by the standards of the day was a model of justice and equity. Prisoners in secular prisons would sometimes commit fake religious crimes to get transferred to inquisition prisons because they were much better taken care of. The number of people executed over [---] years was minuscule compared to modern free countries over similar time periods. Again lots and LOTS of myths based on pop protestant histories that were pure propaganda. Please dig deeper. The Catholic Church created hospitals orphanages the university classical music the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699306016654156208) 2023-09-06T06:18Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements "Veneration of relics is 100% part of Christianity. Why Because Gods saints have become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4). Hence the countless accounts of miracles both ancient and modern. Its in both Testaments. Elishas bones: So Elisha died and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being buried lo a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood on his feet (2 Kings 13:20-21). There are other examples of relics of" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699574769983893724) 2023-09-07T00:06Z 53.1K followers, 176.3K engagements "Satan knew Scripture by heart and weaponized it against Christas all heresies do. Certainly to quote Scripture alone is not commendable. Understanding what it means and living it is. That can only be done to the full through the Catholic Faith in the Catholic Church" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699607693106065846) 2023-09-07T02:17Z 32.1K followers, 37.4K engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: ALL HERETICS QUOTE SCRIPTURE OFTEN TO DISGUISE THE POISON OF THEIR ERRORS I am Catholic today after [--] years as a Protestant because when I began diving into the Church Fathers in [----] I saw their descriptions of heretics and everything they said matched how we Protestants did thingsprimarily denying the authority of the Catholic Church and asserting private interpretation of Scripture. The heresies all ended up with different doctrines but their method was the sameexactly like Protestantism St. Vincent of Lerins blew my mind on this. Writing in the early 400s he" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699617473438548014) 2023-09-07T02:55Z 25.1K followers, 17.6K engagements "Not just biblical miracles. Miracles over the last [----] years of the Church including many modern ones that have been scientifically confirmed in a vigorous way. There is nothing more silly than to presume the universal pattern we see over thousands of history recorded in Scripture will simply STOP. Scripture doesnt teach it and the experience of the Church contradicts it" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699657476076089345) 2023-09-07T05:34Z 28K followers, [----] engagements "When Protestant besmirching of the Blessed Mother comes hot and heavy" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699669957985141243) 2023-09-07T06:24Z 32.2K followers, 27.2K engagements "After being shocked by how deeply and ubiquitously Catholic the ancient Christians were in [----] I finally became willing to hear out the Catholic Church I had despised my entire life and take the deep dive. What I found is that the Church had consistently read the Bible more deeply more comprehensively and more consistently than anything I had ever encountered in Protestantism. I also saw that Her teachings had been consistently misrepresented and slandered by most Protestants I had ever known heard of or read my entire life. When I finally began to be willing to SIMPLY LISTEN to the Catholic" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699695903995818153) 2023-09-07T08:07Z 46.7K followers, 208.1K engagements "@jfferick So all Christians got it wrong before you EK Good luck with that. Jesus Christ explicitly promised otherwise" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699836405160243472) 2023-09-07T17:25Z 28.4K followers, [----] engagements "Yes Christ also died for and saved Her. But no She was not a sinnerbut only because of HOW Christ saved Her which was uniquely tailored to Her role in salvation history. The Old Adam fell. This was preceded by the Old Eve choosing the serpent over God. Both sexes were" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699899385734447554) 2023-09-07T21:36Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "A friend of mine on his own conversion: I came from a Seventh-day Adventist background. The wonderful thing with Catholicism is that once you let go of your prejudice against it youll find that the things you loved about your previous tradition whatever is good beautiful and true is still there in the Catholic Church but magnified clarified and intensified. I instantly felt at home in the Catholic Church when I saw her for what she truly is. The only things I had to let go were pride prejudice confusion and misinformation. I agree 100%. Nothing that was great about what I had before is gone." [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699908148159738018) 2023-09-07T22:10Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "The person who has done by far the most of anyone in my life to help me love and follow Jesus Christ is The Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin Immaculate Mother of God. My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my savior (Luke 1:46-47)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699923236174332204) 2023-09-07T23:10Z 32.1K followers, 16.2K engagements "Unless this woman in heaven created/crowned herself then the only other option is God (the Trinity) created & crowned her. And a great portent appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars (Rev. 12:1)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699933151785804221) 2023-09-07T23:50Z 32.1K followers, 22.3K engagements "Theres a very simple question that gets to the heart of whether or not a Protestant has the requisite humility to engage in a good discussion about the Catholic Faith. I ask some form of it all the time because many are actually not willing to answer yes and if they are not theres no reason to engage further. The question is this: If Christians were essentially consistent on a doctrine for [----] years and it contradicts yours are you willing to consider the possibility youre wrong and hear them out This was a question I asked myself while still a Protestant being presented with the astounding" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699937983854731287) 2023-09-08T00:09Z 32.1K followers, 33.1K engagements "But mark how sandy is your own pretence Who setting Councils Pope and Church aside Are evry man his own presuming guide. The sacred books you say are full and plain And evry needful point of truth contain: All who can read Interpreters may be: Thus though your sevral churches disagree Yet evry Saint has to himself alone The secret of this Philosophick stone. These principles your jarring sects unite When diffring Doctors and disciples fight. Though Luther Zuinglius Calvin holy chiefs Have made a battle Royal of beliefs; Or like wild horses sevral ways have whirld The torturd Text about the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1699964140130029672) 2023-09-08T01:53Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "@JonnyRoot_ Jon you are proffering a false and propagandistic narrative that countless protestant converts to the Catholic Faith (like myself) often discover is not true on our own when we read the ancient Christians who were Catholic. Uniquely protestant beliefs are virtually nowhere" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700059459362619589) 2023-09-08T08:12Z 32.2K followers, [---] engagements "The Catholic Church has always and everywhere taught that we are saved by Gods grace which makes us new creatures in baptism and sustains and revives us through the sacraments through no works or merits of our own. Protestants who tell you otherwise are either confused ignorant or lying. Since by sin man is deflected from his last end God sins cannot be forgiven unless man is again rightly ordered to his end. This is accomplished through the gifts of grace which come from God alone since they transcend the power of nature. St. Thomas Aquinas Compendium (Ch. 146)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700194895238173098) 2023-09-08T17:10Z 32.1K followers, 19.9K engagements "There is not a SINGLE example in Catholic theology of souls going from a state of non-justification to justification by their own works or merits. NOT ONE. Only by grace. Many Protestants have been lied to by those who would know better if they simply showed basic fairness" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700201281762242746) 2023-09-08T17:35Z 32.1K followers, 19.3K engagements "As a Protestant I heard many testimonies of people who strayed from Jesus and repented. Often they would credit the prayers of their friends and familyespecially their mothersfor their return. But the moment a Catholic credits the prayers of Mary and the Saints in heaven" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700221044597076036) 2023-09-08T18:54Z 32.1K followers, 41.8K engagements "I decided to add a new category of content to "Becoming Catholic." I'm calling it a "Study Bank." See the post below. When preparing articles I typically engage in a substantial amount of research and often organize it in separate documents I then use as a reference when writing the article. Sometimes these are Scripture word studies other times they are compilations of verses or patristic and other quotes on particular subjects etc. I have found that organizing the data often leads to a better understanding of the topic at hand. A Study Bank therefore is in no way an article or presenting an" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700273472768012792) 2023-09-08T22:22Z 25K followers, [----] engagements "Ben has proof-texted a nearly [-----] word letter to make it seem like St. Pope Clement had a Protestant view of justification. He did not. Clement speaks of justification (salvation) in three ways: (#1) APART from works (quoted by Ben); (#2) BY works (not quoted); and (#3)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700331302720008361) 2023-09-09T02:12Z 25.8K followers, [---] engagements "A most happy birthday to the Woman the New Eve the Daughter of Zion the Immaculate Ever-Virgin Mother of God who more than any other brings me near and disciples me in the ways of loving Him. O noble Virgin truly you are greater than any other greatness. For who is your equal in greatness O dwelling place of God the Word To whom among all creatures shall I compare you O Virgin You are greater than them all. O Ark of the New Covenant clothed with purity instead of gold You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna that is the flesh in which divinity resides." [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700397290949943724) 2023-09-09T06:34Z 32.2K followers, 15.2K engagements "Dr. White the exact same reality applies to the Old Testament. God established His particular people *centuries* before Scripture was written down. So its the same pattern Dr. @TaylorRMarshall pointed out. That doesnt denigrate Scripture at all. But it does show that the people came long before the textjust like Jesus and the Apostles shared the Gospel before the four gospels etc. were ever written. In the same way God gave Moses the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai before he wrote it down in the Torah and all the events of Genesis happened centuries if not thousands of years before they were" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700567600412213671) 2023-09-09T17:51Z 25.8K followers, 23.1K engagements "You are misrepresenting the Catholic argument. The Catholic Church has never argued we cant know anything about Scripture or its contents simply by reading it. You wont find a single Catholic dogmatic statement that makes that claim. The issue is that diverse opinions arise almost immediatelynot only as to the meaning of Scripture but which books are part of Scripture at all. Therefore there must be some means to settle those differences with PUBLIC FINALITY so issues can be resolved rather than perpetually infecting the Church. Imagine court cases never settled or constitutional questions" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700592504507449685) 2023-09-09T19:30Z 32.1K followers, 38.8K engagements "@voxtexian @HwsEleutheroi @TaylorRMarshall Indeed. I want to start a Rosary prayer campaign where thousands maybe even millions of Catholics pray the Rosary for our Protestant brethren so that they see the truth. Our Lady is the New Ark of the Covenant and thus She is a weapon of spiritual warfare" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700592744148971797) 2023-09-09T19:31Z 32.2K followers, 182K engagements "@joshfontanilla Yet the angels in Heaven cry Holy holy holy forever. Hmmm. Jesus didnt condemn repetitive prayers because they are repetitive. If that was the case half the Psalms would be out. He condemned repetitive prayers done with a certain pharisaical posture of heart" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700628612943405078) 2023-09-09T21:53Z 32.1K followers, 10.7K engagements "(1/2) Yes Dr. White. Spiritual warfare. First of all I would like to thank you for your courageous stance on many cultural issues. We agree on much. Second Id welcome a deeper conversation with you sometime if you are open to it. I will offer a two-part response" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700643023393308964) 2023-09-09T22:51Z 25.1K followers, [---] engagements "(2/2) The Ark of the Covenant was an instrument provided to Gods people foramong other thingsconquering their adversaries. Likewise the New Ark of the Covenant. And if Christian spiritual warfare as we said at the beginning is first and foremost PRAYERthen why would we ever want to deprive ourselves not only of the prayers of our brethren in Heaven but the prayers of the greatest saint of them all the Blessed Mother of Our Lord After all She alone can speak of Christ with God the Father as Our Son. In Her womb divine and human nature were joined for the first time and it was flesh provided" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700643027927322876) 2023-09-09T22:51Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements "Ive seen it produce many miracles Dr. White. Including bringing people Im close with who were deep in homosexuality transgenderism drugs etc. with absolutely no sign of hope to repentance and to Christ and His Catholic Church. Since Ive asked for Her prayers Ive had more victory over sin than Ive ever had in my life and my love and devotion to Christ has never grown as much as since I began asking for Her intercession. Christs saints are alive. They are in Heaven. None is closer to Him than Her who bore Him. None desire His glory more than Her. As the old ark brought down the walls of Jericho" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700658866042945589) 2023-09-09T23:54Z 44.5K followers, 14.8K engagements "@ChrisGrundmeyer @Catholicizm1 Id love to hear that story. You read it as a protestant but it convinced you protestant arguments were empty" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700675051354488974) 2023-09-10T00:58Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "As a Protestant I used to believe asking the prayers of the saints and venerating their relics was pagan. Then I studied the history and saw that it was the pagans who hated this stuff not the Christians. Why Because this Christian practice brought the world of the living into direct contact with the world of the dead. The pagans were the ones who kept them strictly separate. But with the opening of heaven by Christ and the bringing to life of all who died in Him those days were over. The kingdom of God reigning from Heaven with His saints had begun. In fact no less than the pagan emperor" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700689315813306799) 2023-09-10T01:55Z 44.5K followers, 130.3K engagements "A society whose public order is consistently determined by agnosticism is not a society that has become free but a society that has despaired marked by the sorrow of man who is fleeing from God and in contradiction with himself. Pope Benedict XVI The Yes of Jesus Christ (2005)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700771323688132705) 2023-09-10T07:20Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "The only thing that makes a soul timid is the guilty conscience of a bad life. St. Martin of Braga Rules for an Honest Life (Ch. 3) (AD 500s)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700775968573694239) 2023-09-10T07:39Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements "In our day with the open demonic assaults all around us it is worth meditating upon this brief exchange among ancient monks reported by a Church Father: A brother asked an old man: Father why are we thus attacked by demons The old man answered: Because we have thrown away our weapons; that is our penitence humility obedience and poverty. St. Martin of Braga Questions and Answers of the Greek Fathers (Ch. [--] 1) (AD 500s)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700783942142677305) 2023-09-10T08:11Z 32.1K followers, 52.2K engagements "ST. AUGUSTINE: HERETICS WHO DENY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ARE LIKE THE PHARISEES WHO DENIED CHRIST Im Catholic today because I realized that virtually everything the Fathers said about the true Church and the heretics of their day was still true of the true Church and the heretics of our day of which I was one. Whatsoever heretics there are who confess the Holy Ghost but deny that He is in the Body of Christ which is His One Only Church none other than the One Catholic Church are without doubt like the Pharisees who at that time although they confessed the existence of the Holy Ghost yet denied" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700950128579031102) 2023-09-10T19:11Z 32.1K followers, 19K engagements "ST. AUGUSTINE: CATHOLICS IN SIN AND HERETICS IN ERROR ARE BOTH SEPARATED FROM CHRIST Supposing therefore two menone a Catholic with all these vices the other a heretic free from all from which a heretic can be freealthough they do not both contend against the faith and yet each lives contrary to the faith and each is deceived by a vain hope and each is far removed from charity of spirit and therefore each is severed from connection with the body of the one dove St. Augustine On Baptism Against the Donatists (Book [--] Ch. 20)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700965427151790263) 2023-09-10T20:12Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements "The conversion story of @ChrisGrundmeyer is a familiar one to many protestant converts. Once you take the first step to being fair to the Catholic Churchthe Golden Ruleyou find its nothing like what you thought and most of your life youd been told falsehoods and even lies" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1700995653638524938) 2023-09-10T22:12Z 32.1K followers, 13.7K engagements "And some people wonder why I have spent three years studying the katechon or restrainer that holds back Antichrist in [--] Thessalonians [--] The largest nuclear power on the planetanimated by a state-controlled schismatic sectconsiders itself the third Rome and thus the katechon. The katechon is in fact essentially related to the Roman Empire and thus the Catholic Church (Christendom). It is not Russia. But the fact that some in Russiaperhaps even Mr. Putin himselfthink it is the katechon cant but be exceptionally significant and ominous" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701003325599305966) 2023-09-10T22:42Z 32.1K followers, 32K engagements "Dr. White you are distorting the words of St. Athanasius I hope not purposely or through negligence in reading them. This is quite frustrating. As someone who read all of Athanasiuss works in the Schaff set I know he believed something quite different than Dr. White's" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701045676665360489) 2023-09-11T01:31Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "9/11 was a huge milestone in my life. I was in 8th grade and it basically marked the beginning of my political awareness. My patriotism and love of countryas of so many otherswas viciously taken advantage of by our imperial government to engage in stupid immoral wars abroad that cost countless lives (American and others) and trillions of dollars. How many thousands and millions of people have been killed or exiled from their homes and continue to suffer to this day because of the American government Its a catastrophe. That government eviscerated our Constitution under newspeak worthy bills" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701319593686663412) 2023-09-11T19:39Z 32.1K followers, 65.7K engagements "You cited Irenaeus as an example of something taken out of context. Yet this same Irenaeus stated in very clear terms that all churches must agree with the Church of Rome. THIS is the Catholic Church. The quotes are also meant to show people how the Fathers talk about the Catholic Church and it is ALWAYS as a single society of Christians the only true one and sharing a common faith worship and government. In other words the exact opposite of protestantism" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701430485577322532) 2023-09-12T03:00Z 32.2K followers, [--] engagements "ST. ATHANASIUS: HERETICS WHO REJECT THE TEACHINGS OF THE SAINTS AS "TRADITIONS OF MEN" ARE IN ERROR St. Athanasius is clear and consistent: the right interpretation of Scripture isn't some nebulous abstract thing up for grabs by individuals. It is found only in the Catholic Church according to the traditions passed down by the fathers (bishops) and as articulated by those same fathers in solemn definitions (such as the Council of Nicaea). In contrast with this he points out how the Arians and many other heretical groups constantly appeal to Scripture alone supposedly unbound by the tradition" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701432446515056729) 2023-09-12T03:08Z 32.2K followers, 14.7K engagements "Theres a term I invented almost a decade ago One-niner referencing Ecclesiastes 1:9There is nothing new under the sun. I coined it in the midst of a deep dive into the writings of Americas Founding Fathers. Ive always been an original sources guymeaning while I think secondary sources can be very helpful reading what people in a given time and place actually wrote themselves has always proven to be FAR more interesting and illuminating. I invented One-Niner because the more I studied the original sources of history the more I realized how little in essence has ever changed. One of the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701471568533287002) 2023-09-12T05:43Z 32.2K followers, 34.3K engagements "Nothing new. These are heresies that have arisen in opposition to the Catholic faith and have been condemned by the apostles and Holy Fathers or by the Councils. These heresies although they disagree with each other differing among themselves in many errors nevertheless conspire with a common name against the Church of God. St. Isidore of Seville Etymologies (Book [--] Ch. [--] 70) (c. AD 612)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701507203734306984) 2023-09-12T08:05Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements "The Catholic Church teaches that She the Mystical Body of Christ will endure a Passion just like Christ did in His individual body (Catechism pars. 675-77). Its quite unlike various Protestant views that what they call the church will somehow have something more triumphantly prepared for Christs returna view very much like the Jews many of whom believe they must attain a certain level of worthiness for Messiah to appear. Many Fathers Popes saints theologians etc. have said the Church will be in Her worst earthly state ever prior to the appearance of Antichrist. This of course will be at the" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701679023238308083) 2023-09-12T19:27Z 32.1K followers, 63.5K engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: HERESY KILLS ONLY THE CATHOLIC FAITH SAVES You will find countless examples of the Church Fathers comparing and contrasting heresy with the Catholic Faith throughout the ancient Church. Many Protestants try to claim that the "Catholic Church" referred to" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701792442843070816) 2023-09-13T02:58Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements "CATHOLICS (C): Quotes a Church Father usually a martyr (or persecuted) way closer to the Apostles and some even knew them. (TOO MANY) PROTESTANTS (P): What THATS NOT SCRIPTURE Thats the TRADITIONS OF MEN😡 P: Quotes Luther Calvin Edwards MacArthur etc. C: 😐🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701808936708698141) 2023-09-13T04:04Z 27.3K followers, 17.2K engagements "Just heard great news from a Protestant friend of mine that he and his wife are coming into the Catholic Church. This guy was among the most virulently anti-Catholic guys I have ever known. But then when asked whether he had spent any significant amount of time hearing what" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701820615546823082) 2023-09-13T04:50Z 26.5K followers, [----] engagements "O Sacrament most holy O Sacrament divine All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine By the economy of grace He Jesus sows Himself in all the faithful through the flesh whose composition derives from wine and bread mixing with the bodies of the faithful so that by union with the immortal man might become a partaker of incorruption. And He gives these things by the power of blessing re-elementing the nature of those things that appear to the senses to that immortal nature. St. Gregory of Nysssa Catechetical Discourse (Ch. [--] 12) (late 300s)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1701838193375776771) 2023-09-13T06:00Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "JOHN ADAMS: THE MODESTY AND DOMESTIC VIRTUES OF WOMEN DETERMINE WHETHER WE KEEP THE REPUBLIC OR NOT I read this observation from the American Founding Father John Adams many years ago. Hence my generally pessimistic appraisal of the American future on its current trajectory. From all that I had read of History and Government of human Life and manners I had drawn this Conclusion that the manners of Women were the most infallible Barometer to ascertain the degree of Morality and Virtue in a Nation. All that I have since read and all the observations I have made in different Nations have" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1702007730956066913) 2023-09-13T17:13Z 32.2K followers, 48.8K engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS YOUR HOPE YOUR SALVATION YOUR REFUGE Happy Feast Day of St. John Chrysostom Do not hold aloof from the Church; for nothing is stronger than the Church. The Church is thy hope thy salvation thy refuge. It is higher than the heaven it is wider than the earth. It never waxes old but is always in full vigor. Wherefore as significant of its solidity Holy Scripture calls it a mountain; or of its purity a virgin or of its magnificence a queen or of its relationship to God a daughter and to express its productiveness it calls her barren who has borne" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1702090083225182653) 2023-09-13T22:41Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements "ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: DEMONIC POWER AND PAGANISM WERE DEFEATED BY THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND PRIESTHOOD There are so many words like these in the Church Fathers as well as incredible stories of priests combatting demons directly often in dramatic fashion. We do not realize how vital the sacraments are to Christendom. The sacraments are the means by which Christ communicates His own divine life to our bodies and souls. That is why Christendom was built by the Catholic Church through the power of the sacraments and primarily that of the altar of the Eucharistic sacrifice. Protestantism has no" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1702189305870102600) 2023-09-14T05:15Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements "ST. AUGUSTINE: THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION REQUIRES BEING IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH We must hold fast the Christian religion and the communion of the Church which is Catholic and is called Catholic not only by its own members but also by all its enemies. Whether they will or no heretics and schismatics use no other name for it than the name of Catholic when they speak of it not among themselves but with outsiders. They cannot make themselves understood unless they designate it by this name which is in universal use. St. Augustine Of True Religion (12)" [X Link](https://x.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1702491530957857090) 2023-09-15T01:16Z 32.2K followers, 49.8K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"I am a student of American history. Ive read every major speech by every President since Washington. That was the single most toxic inflammatory and hypocritical speech by an American President I am aware of"
X Link 2022-09-02T00:54Z 45.4K followers, 72.7K engagements
"16/18 There are countless similar stories all over the writings of the Church Fathers and Saints that testify to this reality. If this is indeed the means by which Antichrist comes it would be foolish to assume it comes out of nowhere a complete vacuum"
X Link 2022-11-29T06:03Z 45.1K followers, [--] engagements
"17/18 No the path will have been cleared in advance. Now if we assume that all these holy often martyred Christians are not crazy; if we acknowledge they are consistent in their testimony;"
X Link 2022-11-29T06:03Z 45.1K followers, [--] engagements
"We are entering the historical epoch of not just a non-Christian civilization but an anti-Christian civilization. Everything the Catholic Church taught the West and through it the world is being actively abandoned despised and spat upon. We know how this will end"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:52Z 32.2K followers, 24.4K engagements
"POPE BENEDICT XV WARNED OF SATANIC GLOBALISTS: The coming of a world state is longed for by all the worst and most distorted elements. This state based on the principles of absolute equality of men and a community of possessions would banish all national loyalties. In it no"
X Link 2023-07-10T03:54Z 32.1K followers, 126.3K engagements
"Every deed of Christ is a cause of glorying to the Catholic Church but her greatest of all glorying is in the Cross. St. Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lecture [--] (1) (c. 350)"
X Link 2023-07-10T16:32Z 32K followers, [----] engagements
"The absurdity of absurdities and the most horrible unreason of all is this: that while holding that the whole Church may have erred for [----] years in the understanding of the Word of God Luther Zwingli and Calvin can guarantee that they understand it aright. St. Francis"
X Link 2023-07-10T16:32Z 32.2K followers, 12.6K engagements
"@1689Jeff I no longer call you servants but friends.Jesus Such expressions in no way derogate from authority. Peter was writing a letter to multiple churches and giving commands. One of the Popes oldest titles is servant of the servants of God"
X Link 2023-07-10T20:56Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@1689Jeff Well Peter wast originally named Peter. His name was Simon. His name was changed to Peter. The rock is obviously his faith but it is also his person. The Catholic Church continues to assert both. Even the Catechism says rock refers to his faith. But it also refers to"
X Link 2023-07-10T21:39Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Cr82worship777 @1689Jeff Because he wanted to stop him from being killednot because he denied the Faith. Ill go with constant Christian belief and the rest of Scripture. The Church was not wrong for [----] years"
X Link 2023-07-10T22:20Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"ST. POPE GREGORY II COMMISSIONS ST. BONIFACE TO TEACH THE GOSPEL TO THE GERMANS (May [--] 719): Therefore in the name of the indivisible Trinity and by the unshaken authority of the blessed Peter prince of the Apostles whose government we administer by divine dispensation in"
X Link 2023-07-11T06:23Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements
"DISCIPLE OF THE APOSTLE JOHN: REMAIN UNITED TO THE ALTAR AND BISHOPS ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST AVOID HERETICS AND SCHISMATICS St. Ignatius of Antioch my patron saint and a disciple of the Apostle John did so much to open my eyes to the Catholic Faith. He testified in"
X Link 2023-07-11T18:00Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The disciples of the Apostles were Catholic. Let all reverence the deacons as an appointment of Jesus Christ and the bishop as Jesus Christ who is the Son of the Father and the presbyters as the Sanhedrin of God and assembly of the apostles. Apart from these there is no"
X Link 2023-07-12T04:49Z 32.1K followers, 15K engagements
"The Catholic Church begins and ends with a Passion: the Passion of Christ and the Passion of the Church. How the Catholic Church begins: And in the days of those kings Roman Empire the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed nor shall its"
X Link 2023-07-12T07:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"COVID 2020: A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR ANTICHRIST I was received into the Catholic Church on July [--] [----] which meant my first Easter as a Catholic was in [----]. During that time the public sacrifice of the mass was suspended virtually worldwide. Given my reading of the Fathers"
X Link 2023-07-19T05:11Z 32.1K followers, 50.8K engagements
"Intellectual pursuits whose end and foundation are not love will end in Hell. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but have not love I am nothing"
X Link 2023-07-18T03:07Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"From reading the Church Fathers I have concluded that Apocalypse [--] is an outline of post-Incarnation history. The binding of the dragon was achieved by the Passion and Resurrection of Christ (20:1-3). Even when they differ in their commentaries on Apocalypse [--] the Fathers"
X Link 2023-07-18T20:21Z 32.1K followers, 18.4K engagements
"One of the most beautiful profoundly dense yet remarkably succinct statements of truth I have ever encountered. A gem I find myself recurring to over and over again that sheds so much light on the Faith and the Scriptures. To restore man who had been laid low by sin to the"
X Link 2023-07-19T05:56Z 32K followers, 20.6K engagements
"During the time of Our Lords Passion the two people who saw it most clearly for what it wasSt. John and Our Ladywere also completely silent about it. There is a great mystery in this. I continue to ponder it"
X Link 2023-07-19T23:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Antichrist himself will seem to darken the Church but the darkness will be driven out by brightness; for whatever the Antichrist claims will be shown to have been a lie. St. Thomas Aquinas Commentary on II Thessalonians (Ch. [--] Lecture 2)"
X Link 2023-07-19T23:50Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The crisis of faith that led me to the Catholic Church began long before reading a single Catholic. I loved the Bible since I was a kid and for many years tried to make sense of it with protestant doctrines. But I never could. The deeper I went the less sense it made"
X Link 2023-07-31T18:24Z 32.1K followers, 91.4K engagements
"ANCIENT ECUMENICAL COUNCIL ACKNOWLEDGES PAPAL AUTHORITY The interaction between Philip the papal legate to the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in AD [---] and the Council Fathers who affirmed his words. Philip: It is doubtful to no one rather it has been known in all ages that the holy and most blessed Peter the leader and head of the apostles the pillar of the faith and the foundation of the Catholic Church received the keys of heaven from our Lord Jesus Christ the savior and redeemer of the human race and was given the power to bind and unloose sins and that he lives and performs judgment until"
X Link 2023-07-26T17:52Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I love this observation from Dr. Lawrence Feingold a Jewish convert to the Catholic Faith seminary professor and theologian: In the first years after our conversion people often asked me why I chose Christianity or the Catholic Church and not Judaism or Buddhism or"
X Link 2023-07-30T05:25Z 25.8K followers, 264.6K engagements
"G.K. CHESTERTON: WHY I AM A CATHOLIC Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever as people always"
X Link 2023-07-31T03:07Z 32.2K followers, 43.4K engagements
"J.R.R. TOLKIEN ON THE DEAD END OF PROTESTANTISM I read this letter in the years leading up to my conversion. As I discovered not only was Tolkien right about the mistaken search for primitive purity in the Church (read Scriptureit never existed) but the primitive churchto the extent we have artifacts of it in documents archaeology etc.was very Catholic in its beliefs and practices. What I had been told my whole life were medieval accretions were widespread in the ancient Church and defended from both Scripture and the constant practice of the Church since the Apostolic age. The protestant"
X Link 2023-07-31T03:26Z 32.1K followers, 238.6K engagements
"Dr. Roy Schoeman came to the Catholic Faith after while a non-believer receiving a powerful vision of the Virgin Mary who pointed him to Her Son and His Catholic Church. I would claim that a Jew who has become Catholic is the best person to explore the true meaning of"
X Link 2023-08-06T15:17Z 32.1K followers, 27.4K engagements
"G.K. CHESTERTON: SCRIPTURE ALONE NEVER WAS NOR CAN IT EVER BE THE BASIS FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY It the Catholic Church knows where the Bible came fromIt knows there were many other Gospels besides the Four Gospels and that the others were only eliminated by the authority of"
X Link 2023-08-02T19:25Z 32.2K followers, 45.3K engagements
"One thing that has bothered me since I was young was that most people in their behavior seemed to treat religion as my thoughts about God. But if religion is something real and if there is one God it would seem that the proper definition of religion is Gods thoughts about Himself and me. Given the scope of human history time and space isnt that a far more interesting thing to pursue Thus if someone understands religion to be revealed from the mind of God and thus not the result of our personal opinions then the quest for whatever truth may be found via religion must be a quest in search of"
X Link 2023-08-02T07:02Z 32.2K followers, 229.7K engagements
"ST. POPE LEO THE GREAT: THE MARTYRDOM OF PETER AND PAUL MADE ROME HEAD OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD On June [--] AD [-------] years agoSt. Pope Leo the Great described in Sermon [--] how pagan Rome was founded by the fratricidal murder of Remus by his twin brother Romulus. He compares this with Romes re-founding by the blood shed by the Christian brothers St. Peter and St. Paul for their love of Christ a blood which sanctified Rome as the head of the Christian world. The whole world dearly-beloved does indeed take part in all holy anniversaries and loyalty to the one Faith demands that whatever is"
X Link 2023-08-02T18:26Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It is often claimed that the Catholic Church today is not the Catholic Church referred to by the Church Fathers. This claim can be refuted by mountains of evidence. But one simple question gets to the heart of the matter: What did all those Christians who were in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome call their Church Indeed there is an answer to this: beginning with St. Ignatius of Antiocha disciple of the Apostle Johnin c. AD [---] they called their communion explicitly the Catholic universal Church to distinguish it from the many heretical and schismatic groups that had already arisen (as"
X Link 2023-08-02T19:04Z 32.1K followers, 87.5K engagements
"Since then the primacy of the Apostolic See is established by the merit of St Peter (who is the chief among the bishops) by the majesty of the City of Rome and finally by the authority of a holy council no one without inexcusable presumption may attempt anything against the authority of that see. Emperor Valentinian III Edict on Papal Authority (requested by St. Pope Leo the Great) (AD 445)"
X Link 2023-08-03T07:16Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@sincy_varghese @thomasryan_bcn They did not have a spectrum of opinions on this. They speak of mortal and venial sin all over the place"
X Link 2023-08-04T21:04Z 32.1K followers, [--] engagements
"The Church Fathers everywhere teach the Catholic doctrine of baptism. So faith procures this for us as the elders the disciples of the apostles have handed down to us: firstly it exhorts us to remember that we have received baptism for the remission of sins in the name of God the Father and in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God who was incarnate and died and was raised and in the Holy Spirit of God; and that this baptism is the seal of eternal life and rebirth unto God that we may no longer be sons of mortal men but of the eternal and everlasting God St. Irenaeus of Lyon The Apostolic"
X Link 2023-08-04T22:15Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Church has consistently warned us. Let all remember that Liberalism is the father of this Socialism that is pervading morality and culture and that Bolshevism will be its heir. Pope Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno (122) (1931)"
X Link 2023-08-05T05:41Z 32.2K followers, 61.7K engagements
"Pope Innocent III gave the most succinctly beautiful summary of the purpose of the sacrament of confession to a Roman synod of priests near the end of the 12th century: He who accuses himself before God God will excuse him; and he who excuses himself before God God will accuse him"
X Link 2023-08-05T21:32Z 32.2K followers, 80.3K engagements
"Fulfilling the Catholic sacraments. As a former protestant phrases like this remind me of the fundamental misunderstanding and distortion of what the sacraments are that many protestants often fall into. We do not fulfill the sacraments. That sort of language is very strange and not at all how the Church talks about the sacraments. The sacraments are not works we do for God. They are Christs free gifts to us. They extend His own ministry throughout the world through all time through the Church. They heal us and help us become holy by giving and strengthening us in the Spirit. This is all over"
X Link 2023-08-07T00:13Z 32.1K followers, 29.1K engagements
"St. Pope Gregorys commentary on Job is quickly becoming one of the best if not the best work of any of the Fathers that Ive read. Those who really want to strive for the heights of virtue whenever they hear about the faults of others they immediately focus their attention on their own; the more deeply they bewail the latter the more correctly do they evaluate the former. All the elect force themselves to consider their own weakness so we are rightly told that the holy man Job sat sadly on the dung heap. The one who truly humbles himself looks steadfastly on the sordid sin that surrounds him"
X Link 2023-08-08T15:23Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Of all the non-ancient books I read this one had a huge and disproportionate impact on my conversion to the Catholic Faith. Not only did it present a very convincing biblical case for the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist but I saw this case was supported by mountains of testimony from the ancient Church Fathers. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. At the risk of being anachronistic Judaism at the time of Jesus was much more like Catholicism (priests leading worship centered on sacrifice) whereas rabbinic Judaism after the Temples destruction was much more like Protestantism"
X Link 2023-08-09T03:30Z 32.2K followers, 206.2K engagements
"For the ancient Church Fathers there were only three categories those who claimed to be Christian could be in: [--]. Catholic (the vast majority) [--]. Schismatic [--]. Heretic Catholics were part of the one true Church (some righteous some wicked). Schismatics maintained most if not all the Faith but broke off Catholic communion. And heretics went in every sort of direction rejecting the divine authority of the Church to teach coming up with novel doctrines and scriptural interpretations left and right and were often named after their founders. I am of Paul I am of Apollo I hope you get the point:"
X Link 2023-08-09T05:45Z 44.5K followers, 41.8K engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: FAITH WITHOUT WORKS WILL BE PUNISHED ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT Perhaps they have faith without works trusting in that faith to save them on the day of the final judgment. But their hope will be disappointed because in their life they destroyed that faith they confessed; otherwise they may have displayed their good actions for the sake of human praise but they wait in vain for the Judge to come and reward them for their good works. Why Because they did them in order to show off and be praised so they have already received their reward from the lips of humans. Truth is our"
X Link 2023-08-09T17:40Z 24.9K followers, 12.3K engagements
"I have yet to meet a red-blooded male who was not psyched up by this music"
X Link 2023-08-09T20:10Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"One of the many reasons Im Catholic is because the Church has all the right enemies. Communists Socialists Nazis Freemasons occultists Satanists etc. They all identify the Catholic Church as their greatest enemy which is why they attack it so fiercely without and within"
X Link 2023-08-10T04:32Z 32K followers, 112.1K engagements
"The idea that Pope Francis is a Marxist is completely and totally false and slanderous. Liberation theology has been officially condemned by the Church many times. No religion is more biblical than the Catholic Faith. Protestants have devised their own erroneous interpretations of Scripture that are almost completely disconnected from the Christian Faith as it has always been believed. I am now Catholic and have NEVER loved and believed Scripture more than I do now. The same is true of many converts. The teachings of the Catholic Church are FAR more biblical than anything protestantism has to"
X Link 2023-08-10T05:17Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: HERETICS TWIST SCRIPTURE AND WHY CHRIST ESTABLISHED THE AUTHORITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Since the canon of Scripture is complete and sufficient of itself for everything and more than sufficient what need is there to join with it the authority of the Church's interpretation For this reasonbecause owing to the depth of Holy Scripture all do not accept it in one and the same sense but one understands its words in one way another in another; so that it seems to be capable of as many interpretations as there are interpreters. For Novatian expounds it one way Sabellius"
X Link 2023-08-10T18:56Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Thank you @BishopBarron. This is 100% true. As a convert to the Catholic Faith I can tell you what drew me was the clear witness to TRUTH in the Church Fathers the great saints and doctors the Councils and the Popes of the last [----] years. Nothing like boomer Catholicism"
X Link 2023-08-11T18:11Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Your Mother Church Mr. Dugin is the Catholic Church in communion with Rome the Apostolic See of St. Peter the rock. As was acknowledged by the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus nearly [----] years ago: It is doubtful to no one rather it has been known in all ages that the holy and most blessed Peter the leader and head of the apostles the pillar of the faith and the foundation of the Catholic Church received the keys of heaven from our Lord Jesus Christ the savior and redeemer of the human race and was given the power to bind and unloose sins and that he lives and performs judgment until now and"
X Link 2023-08-11T18:48Z 32.2K followers, 12.9K engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE FIRST GIFT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE SEE OF PETER IN ROME You the Donatists cannot deny that you know that the first episcopal see was set up in Rome which was occupied by Peter the head of all the Apostles (for which reason he was called Cephas) so that in this one see unity might be preserved by all lest each of the other Apostles should maintain his own; thus anyone who set up another see against this one see would be a schismatic and a sinner. Therefore the one see which is the first of the gifts was first occupied by Peter then Linus succeeded himPope"
X Link 2023-08-12T05:15Z 32.1K followers, 11.6K engagements
"Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal Penses"
X Link 2023-08-12T20:16Z 32K followers, [----] engagements
"Imagine my surprise as a protestant reading ancient Church Fathers talk about heretics of their day tearing down altars as many of my protestant ancestors had done in theirs. The look on my face was close to this: 😳 In my view your the Donatists profane acts with regard to the divine sacraments have been clearly demonstrated For what is so sacrilegious as to break level or remove the altars of God where you too at one time made your offerings where both the prayers of the people and the limbs of Christ are borne up where Almighty God is invoked where the Holy Spirit descended at the prayer"
X Link 2023-08-12T22:34Z 25K followers, 19.3K engagements
"America is by no means a "free" society. A government that claims the right to change the definition of marriage is totalitarian. If it can change the nature of marriage if it can kill unborn people youre not living in a free society anymore. Youre living in a state that depends on whatever the government says. Thats not the America I was born in and I hope its not the America youll have to live in because it wont be a free country. Thats the beginning of a totalitarian unlimited state that claims the ability to recreate the world. Francis Cardinal George"
X Link 2023-08-12T23:20Z 32.1K followers, 198.7K engagements
"The spirit of heresy as Chesterton outlines by analogy here is this: we need not know what is ultimately true good and beautiful in the Faith. Thus we must make doctrinal contradictions and endless schisms somehow fit into "orthodoxy." We are fond of talking about liberty; but the way we end up talking of it is an attempt to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about progress; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about education; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. The modern man says Let us leave all these arbitrary standards"
X Link 2023-08-13T01:34Z 32K followers, 26.1K engagements
"For four centuries every man has been not only his own priest but his own professor of ethics and the consequence is an anarchy which threatens even that minimum consensus of value necessary to the political state. Richard M. Weaver "Ideas Have Consequences" (1962)"
X Link 2023-08-13T02:01Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: CHRIST ENTRUSTED THE CHURCH TO PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS "For what purpose did He shed His blood It was that He might win these sheep which He entrusted to Peter and his successors. Naturally then did Christ say 'Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his Lord shall make ruler over His household.' Matt. 24:45" St. John Chrysostom "On the Priesthood" (Book [--] 1) (late AD 300s)"
X Link 2023-08-13T02:30Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
""But since they differ so widely among themselves both as respects Christian doctrine and tradition and since those of them who are recognized as being most modern make it their effort daily to invent some new opinion and to bring out what no one ever before thought of it is a difficult matter to describe all their opinions." Was this written yesterday Last year [--] years ago [---] years ago [---] years ago No. Over [----] years ago around AD [---] by St. Irenaeus of Lyon in his work "Against Heresies" (Book [--] Ch. [--] 5). I read this in [----] and it was one of the many ancient quotes from the Fathers"
X Link 2023-08-13T06:51Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Protestantism ultimately began the process by which Christendom was destroyed. For many many reasons it cannot be the basis of a new Christendom. The idea that a broad array of sects that contradict each other on everything under the sun and have no means of attaining agreement and unity (even in theory) can be the basis of a Christian civilization is simply bad theology bad political philosophy and bad history. Its never happened it never will happen and theologically we should never desire for it to happen because God is Truth and truth never contradicts itself. AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT:"
X Link 2023-08-14T08:04Z 32.1K followers, 54.3K engagements
"Christian worship is the sacrifice of the Eucharist at which a priest in succession from the Apostles invokes the Holy Spirit over bread and wine which then become the Body Blood Soul and Divinity of Our Lord and thus the all-perfect sacrifice of the Son to the Father"
X Link 2023-08-14T08:40Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Given that over [----] years of Christian civilization preceded Luther and the [---] since has seen its total collapse I think thats an untenable case. Which light Protestants dont have a unified doctrine just tons of conflicting beliefs. Most Protestants today would be considered a heretic by Luther. The Catholic Church is not afraid of truth wherever it comes frompagan protestant etc. Thats why much of the writings of Tertullian Origen and others can be helpful while their erroneous ideas condemned. But the idea that Catholic scholarship relies on protestant is simply not tenable. Your other"
X Link 2023-08-14T09:20Z 25K followers, [----] engagements
"Here is Part [--] of my article John Calvins Gnostic Canon of Scripture. Part [--] dives deeper into Calvins argument for his [--] book canon of Scripture in his Institutes. Once again reading this as a protestant I was shocked by what I found. His arguments were entirely circular and Gnostic. He everywhere fails to argue for some of his biggest assumptionsnamely that what he says is an inward illumination from the Holy Spirit but what the Catholic Church had said over [----] years was simply human judgment. The more people read and ponder Calvins mode of arguing on the canon of Scripture the more they"
X Link 2023-08-14T18:11Z 24.1K followers, 25.1K engagements
"I respect the Protestants who believe I apostatized when I became Catholic. I believe they are profoundly wrong and misguided. But their belief and mine stems from a shared assumption: there is such a thing as truth. I do not share that assumption with those Catholics and Protestants who wish to pretend our religions are fundamentally the same. I consider them likewise profoundly wrong and misguided. That we share some important points of commonality is beyond question. That we should emphasize those points of commonality whenever possibleespecially in our theological discussionis wise and"
X Link 2023-08-15T01:12Z 26.3K followers, 71.5K engagements
"Catholic teaching on consecrated virginity is so beautiful. St. Athanasius believed consecrated virginity (usually men being monks and women being nuns) was one of the signs that the Catholic Church had the true religion. "The Son of God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ having become man for our sakes and having destroyed death and delivered our race from the bondage of corruption in addition to all His other benefits bestowed this also upon us that we should possess upon earth in the state of virginity a picture of the holiness of Angels. Accordingly such as have attained this virtue the"
X Link 2023-08-15T05:38Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"My copy just arrived today. It was originally published by a scholar who did his doctoral work under Joseph Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI. Now republished for the first time since by Emmaus Road (thank you Scott Hahn et al). Pope Emeritus Benedict heard in [----] that the book would be republished by Emmaus and said the following in correspondence with the author: That Emmaus Academic is preparing a new publication of your Apostolikos Thronos is for me a personal and ecclesial joy. My hope is that your great opus can indeed help bring us a step further in the dialogue with the Churches of"
X Link 2023-08-15T05:57Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The dirty little secret is that the conservative wing of American politics has often shown profound disrespect for the holy institution of marriage as well. This also showcases the slippery slope of accepting the antichristic idea of Christian divorce"
X Link 2023-08-15T16:58Z 23.9K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Happy Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady Arise O Lord and go to thy resting place thou and the ark of thy might. Psalm 132:8 The prophet Jeremiah said The place where the ark is hidden shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. Then the Lord will disclose these things and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear as they were shown in the case of Moses and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated. [--] Maccabees 2:7-8 Then God's temple in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there"
X Link 2023-08-15T18:06Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Religious tolerance religious liberty. Religious liberty assumes God has not spoken or if He has we cant know what He said. Did God say as its earliest proponent famously and subversively asked. Its underlying theological/metaphysical assumption is agnosticism which always ends in functional if not instantiated atheism. This is why even natural law will never survive under a religious liberty regime because such a regime at best begs the question of whether God (the source of natural law) is even useful; and at worst whether He even exists. Need evidence Look outside. Religious tolerance"
X Link 2023-08-16T06:26Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"There need to be more discussions between Catholics and Reformed Protestants about Christian Nationalism. I do not believe Protestantism has a coherent theological/metaphysical basis for rebuilding Christendom. But more discussions would be worthwhile given whats at stake"
X Link 2023-08-17T01:25Z 32.1K followers, 10.8K engagements
"When the biblical Church had a theological controversy they didnt tell anyone to study their Bibles and act according to their own best judgment. The rulers of the Church settled it with divine authority. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us (Acts 15:28)"
X Link 2023-08-17T02:42Z 32.6K followers, 13.4K engagements
"ST. JEROME TO THE POPE: THE CHAIR OF PETER IS THE ROCK OF THE CHURCH My words are spoken to the successor of the fisherman to the disciple of the cross. As I follow no leader save Christ so I communicate with none but your blessedness that is with the chair of Peter. For this I know is the rock on which the church is built Matt. 16:18 This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten. Ex. 12:22 This is the Ark of Noah and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. Gen. 7:23He that gathers not with you scatters Matt. 12:30; he that is not of Christ is of"
X Link 2023-08-17T03:58Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Protestantism does not naturally flow from the Bible. The reason why we know that is we can read what the [----] years of Christians before them believedand the further back you go the less Protestant it often gets. Nor is this only in places subject to the authority of Rome. It includes places like India Africa and Persia over which the Pope could impose very little influence for much of history. And yet their faith was either completely Catholic or very much closer to the Catholic Faith of Romepriesthood seven sacraments sacrifice of the Eucharist baptismal regeneration apostolic succession"
X Link 2023-08-17T17:18Z 32.1K followers, 76.6K engagements
"ST. ATHANASIUS: THE TRUE FAITH IS PRESERVED IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Let us note that the very tradition teaching and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning which the Lord gave was preached by the Apostles and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from it he neither is nor any longer ought to be called a Christian. St. Athanasius Four Letters to Serapion (Letter [--] 28) (mid AD 300s)"
X Link 2023-08-18T06:57Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"ST. ATHANASIUS: THE POPE SPOKE INFALLIBLY FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH For since Dionysius bishop of Rome wrote against those who said that the Son of God was a creature and made c. AD [---] it is clear that not now for the first time but years ago the heresy of the Arian anti-Christians has been anathematized by all. St. Athanasius De Sententia Dionysii (13) (AD 352)"
X Link 2023-08-18T07:01Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@DebbieHenkes @PierreLittle_ They are deeply Scriptural. One has to dive into how the Catholic Church reads the Bible and how it has done so for [----] years. That is a HUGE conversation. Are you willing to hear out the Catholic Church"
X Link 2023-08-18T16:43Z 32.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The difficulty of explaining why I am a Catholic is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. G.K. Chesterton Why I Am A Catholic (1926)"
X Link 2023-08-18T17:03Z 44.4K followers, 14.9K engagements
"There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution the Catholic Church that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them. G.K. Chesterton Why I Am A Catholic (1926)"
X Link 2023-08-18T17:05Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Church is not merely armed against the heresies of the past or even of the present but equally against those of the future that may be the exact opposite of those of the present. Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists. Thus when the world went Puritan in the"
X Link 2023-08-18T17:08Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Catholic/protestant divide over authority is not a 16th century thing. It has been the reality of every conflict between the Catholic Church and every new heretical group since the beginning. Realizing this was one of the most shocking red-pilling moments of my life. We protestants were doing nothing newwe were simply utilizing the exact same methods all heretics had utilized since the beginning. Let me explain. The new heresy ALWAYS claims The Bible says but they contradict not only constant Christian belief (informed directly by Scripture) but the countless other heresies that make the"
X Link 2023-08-18T18:11Z 24.4K followers, 34.7K engagements
"Thats silly. The Church condemned Nazism and Pope Pius XII personally saved more Jews (hundreds of thousands) than any other single human being. If your criteria for rejecting the Church is some of her members sinned/were unwise/didnt fully perceive evil at every moment then you will reject not only Christianity but any religion whatsoever. You can post pictures for shock value all you want. But thats not a serious way to go about this issue"
X Link 2023-08-18T21:11Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"My latest (link in following tweet): Becoming Catholic #38: Protestantism's Mormonism Problem. This post is about one of the most fundamental problems I discerned in protestantism: it relies on a theory of history virtually identical to the Mormon theory of the "Great Apostasy" right after the death of the last Apostle. This can be proven with certainty and it has disturbing consequences. As I write at the beginning of the article. This post will make the following three-part argument: (1) Mormons (Latter-Day Saints or LDS) believe that after the death of the last Apostle there was a Great"
X Link 2023-08-19T02:44Z 26.3K followers, 21.1K engagements
"A most insightful observation from an ancient Pope for both our personal lives and what is happening in our society. There are four ways in which sin is committed in the heart and four ways in which it is finally acted out. It is committed in the heart by suggestion desire consent and brazen defense. It is the enemy who suggests the flesh then desires the mind consents and pride brazenly defends. Guilt ought to terrify the mind but it lifts it up; by casting it down it raises it. What is still more serious is its overthrow as a result of this elevation. The ancient enemy thus brought down the"
X Link 2023-08-19T17:51Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Once more an ancient Pope offers piercing insight into the degenerate dynamics we human beings often fall into to justify our sins. Especially relevant today. What he is talking about also relates to heresy. For example countless protestant sects have convinced themselves of a lie: that there is no true Church who speaks for God; that their relationship with Jesus no matter what sorts of errors it falls into is just fine for them and Christ will account it legitimate since there is no objective voice that has the right to teach any of them. Many perhaps do this with no bad intention. But they"
X Link 2023-08-19T18:22Z 32.1K followers, 15.3K engagements
"The Catholic Faith (the Gospel) is very simple: To be saved repent be baptized and obey the commandments. The Catholic Church is very simple: To be in the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church be in the flock under a successor of the Apostles in communion with the successor of St. Peter. The Catholic Church can explain and expand on all of this in extraordinary depth and detail because many have contradicted each one of these things over the last [----] years and the Church has had to articulate and re-articulate itself throughout that time. Most of Her aggressors have disappeared while the"
X Link 2023-08-19T23:20Z 32.1K followers, 33.6K engagements
"@jimbretzke Father Bretzke as a layman I would ask that you show more charity in your tweets. Im a very conservative person and I know many on the Catholic right wing. They would fully agree with Archbishop Sheen. Many reject unfettered capitalism. Please dont misrepresent them"
X Link 2023-08-19T23:32Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We enter into the New Covenant by Faith. But we enter into Heaven only by Love. If I have all faith so as to remove mountains but have not love I am nothing. St. Paul (1 Cor. 13:2)"
X Link 2023-08-20T03:03Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Fr. Martinyou are a priest of Jesus Christ. Why did you not warn Gregory a married homosexual man that living in such a state is incompatible with being a practicing Catholic His precious soul is in danger of Hell and you encouraged him in his sin. I offer this fraternal correction from the Holy Scriptures: If I God say to the wicked You shall surely die and you give him no warning nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way in order to save his life that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from"
X Link 2023-08-20T04:35Z 32.1K followers, 60.4K engagements
"Many do not want the Catholic Faith to be true because it truly does require us to live a life of heroic virtue empowered by the love and grace of Christ. This is a life many Catholics themselves do not want to live though it is what the Church calls us to. I know this was certainly true of me in the months leading up to my conversion. I knew my life would be changing quite dramatically and it made me nervous. The Church would expect me to take up the cross of mandatory Sunday worship of a far greater and more disciplined prayer life of much more frequent and consistent fasting of the moral"
X Link 2023-08-20T07:23Z 32.1K followers, 39K engagements
"As I said at the very beginning: This is a life many Catholics themselves do not want to live And as St. Augustine said in the late 300s: Therefore because you have become members of Christ I warn you; I fear for you not so much from the pagans nor so much from the Jews nor so much from the heretics as from the bad Catholics. Choose for yourselves those whom you may imitate among the people of God. For if you wish to imitate the crowd you will not tread the narrow path in the company of the few. St. Augustine Sermon 224: For Easter Sunday Plenty of bad Catholics. Not a new problem. Warned"
X Link 2023-08-20T17:16Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE MASS IS HEAVEN ON EARTH A happy Lords Day to all. For when you see the Lord sacrificed and laid upon the altar and the priest standing and praying over the victim and all the worshippers empurpled with that precious blood can you then think that you are still among men and standing upon the earth Are you not on the contrary straightway translated to Heaven and casting out every carnal thought from the soul do you not with disembodied spirit and pure reason contemplate the things which are in Heaven Oh What a marvel What love of God to man He who sits on high with"
X Link 2023-08-20T18:18Z 26.3K followers, 13K engagements
"It is not an exaggeration or distortion to claim that prior to Martin Luther and other "reformers" you find virtually zero evidence of uniquely protestant beliefs on justification such as the imputed righteousness of Christ (forensic justification). And yet this many protestants claim is the very heart of the break with the Catholic Churchit is a matter of "the gospel." But this is problematic because if there is no evidence of this very unique protestant belief about "the gospel" prior to protestants then the only conclusion one can reach is that virtually no Christian actually knew the"
X Link 2023-08-20T20:23Z 32.1K followers, 22K engagements
"To be baptized is to die and resurrect with Christ (Rom. 6:3-14). Hence Christ in you the hope of glory. (Col. 1:27) In that renewed reborn regenerate state to intentionally engage in grave sinthe very thing you died to in baptismis to crucify Christ again and abandon being crucified with Him. Thats why grave sin separates us from Christ. Not because our works earn salvation (we didnt earn our new birth in baptism and never can). They do not. But because sin is the very thing Christ came to destroy and liberate us from. Once weve been reborn we no longer have the excuse that we were"
X Link 2023-08-20T21:44Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: EPIC DESCRIPTION OF CHRISTS DEFEAT OF DEATH This is such an epic description of Our Lords defeat of death especially the second half. Since our Lord Jesus Christ was without sinHe was not subject to death since death came into the world through sin. He dies therefore because He took on Himself death on our behalf and He makes Himself an offering to the Father for our sakes. For we had sinned against Him and it was meet that He should receive the ransom for us and that we should thus be delivered from the condemnation. God forbid that the blood of the Lord should have"
X Link 2023-08-21T18:59Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The insanity and tyranny of the left is encouraging the rise of rank Gnosticism and blood lust on the right. Legitimate suspicion has been transformed into rampant paranoia which is slowly destroying the basis for any objective knowledge. This is the permanent fog of war Ive surmised weve been in since COVID. It so traumatized society and so thoroughly destroyed trust in so many institutions that this is the inevitable result. It will end very badly without a remarkable course change"
X Link 2023-08-22T19:10Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Great Tragedy. Before Luther defected from the Catholic Church nearly the whole West was of the same faith and religion and in whatever direction a man might go he would always find his brethren. All were then in light. But after the fall of Luther such a smoke of errors sects and schisms rose out that now even in the same province nay more in the same city or even house one does not recognize another. St. Robert Bellarmine Antichrist (Ch. 23)"
X Link 2023-08-23T02:11Z 32.1K followers, 89.5K engagements
"Protestants have divided into a million different sects over a million different issues. And its been that way since day [--]. Luther said Zwingliwho had the same position as most evangelicals on various issues including the Eucharistwas of the devil. That wasnt even [--] years after his excommunication. And the divisions have only gotten worse including on things as basic and fundamental as baptism the nature of Christian worship Church government the moral law etc"
X Link 2023-08-23T02:25Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"ANCIENT POPE: THE STUPID AND UNWISE OFTEN CRITICIZE THEIR BETTERS St. Pope Gregory the Great has an interesting take on the criticism of Job leveled at him by his friends. He compared this to the Levite trying to keep the Ark of the Covenant from falling when he had no right to touch it: Stupid people often taken offense at the acts and words of smart individuals just because they cannot understand them. But they should not lightly oppose these acts and words simply because they cannot be rightly understood. Adults often make arrangements that children consider erroneous. Strong leaders often"
X Link 2023-08-23T18:08Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Here is the third and final part of my article with @catholiccom about John Calvins Gnostic canon of Scripture: Where John Calvin Meets Mormonism"
X Link 2023-08-23T20:49Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Soon we will have priests reduced to the role of social worker and the message of faith reduced to political views. But this prospect is followed by a message of hope: Everything will seem lost but at the right moment in the most dramatic stage of crisis the Church will be reborn. It will be smaller poorer almost catacombal but even more holy. For it will no longer be the Church of those who seek to please the world but the Church of those who are faithful to God and His eternal law. The rebirth will be the work of a small seemingly insignificant yet indomitable remnant that has gone through"
X Link 2023-08-24T02:36Z 25.4K followers, 87.4K engagements
"The pastoral letter of Bishop Strickland (@Bishopoftyler). It is beautiful and prophetic. He says absolutely nothing that any Church Father Saint Council Popein short any true Catholichas or could disagree with. Simply the Deposit of the Faith"
X Link 2023-08-24T05:38Z 24.6K followers, 28.1K engagements
"This is very easy to explain though I understand why it can appear confusing but only superficially. If you cite Jesus words without contextthe Father is greater than I (John 14:28)youd easily conclude the Bible taught Arianism. Dont treat Catholic prayers undergirded by a theology you despise and know little about in the same way. You may end up misunderstanding itor like the Arians TOTALLY misunderstanding it. Have you ever said or heard someone say Your prayers helped me find Jesus or Your prayers saved me (perhaps from an atheist who becomes a Christian) or something to that effect Have"
X Link 2023-08-24T06:24Z 44.4K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Here is my conclusion at the end of my latest Catholic Answers (@catholiccom) article (link in next tweet) exposing John Calvins truly Gnostic theology of the canon of Scripturea discovery that absolutely shocked me as a protestant and played a big role in my conversion. While the topic I raise at the end is a huge one I believe you can trace a direct through line from the foundational premises of many of the protestant sects of the 16th century to the spirit of our age today. They are by no means the only cause. But protestant premiseswith both their explicit and implicit implications now"
X Link 2023-08-24T19:04Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"For it is not by some accidentno it is because of our own moral failingsthat we are left with the name of the Republic having long since lost its substance. Cicero The Republic (Book 5) (c. [--] BC)"
X Link 2023-08-25T07:12Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Reading the Church Fathers on baptism was truly eye-opening. Why Because literally from the Fathers who were discipled by the Apostles themselves forward they uniformly articulated a belief in baptismal regeneration that most protestants have rejected. As a protestant reading this unanimous testimony that had me deeply concerned. Who were we to contradict what quite literally all Christians of which we have any record believed and [----] years after the fact Did Christ allow His Church to err on such a fundamental matter despite promising to guide it into all truth and that the gates of Hell"
X Link 2023-08-25T17:31Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A friend of mine made this wonderful graphic for a catechetical course explaining the typology of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel and its relation to the structure of the Catholic Church. Its very straightforward. For those who dont know the Gebirah (essentially the Queen) of the Davidic Kingdom was not the Kings wife but his MOTHER. In all the listings of the Davidic kings youll find the name of the King how long he reigned and who his mother was. Not an accident"
X Link 2023-08-25T19:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A Jewish Catholic convert friend offered this brilliant summary of what he sees as the difference between the Catholic Faith and Protestantism: The fundamental distinction in many ways between Catholicism and Protestantism is whether one believes the Temple Jews to have been right in basic principle but dreadfully wrong in specific belief (as I see Catholicism) or altogether wrong and innovative (Protestantism). If one accepts that there is a legitimate binding Sanhedrin but that Caiaphas led a specifically unjust one then it is no great leap to say that the Catholic hierarchy inherited the"
X Link 2023-08-25T20:19Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS THE SEE OF PETER AND THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN What truth can be found among you Donatists which the Catholic Church is seen to withstand or what lie can you prove to be among us Can you possibly prove it a lie to say that we are in one communion with the whole world Can you possibly prove it a lie to say that we retain and defend the true and unique creed Can you possibly prove it a lie to say that the see of Peter and the keys of the kingdom of heaven were bestowed by Christ where our society is Moses was first so the Catholic Church is"
X Link 2023-08-26T05:54Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Converts know the struggle especially in the early days"
X Link 2023-08-26T05:57Z 32.1K followers, 13.1K engagements
"I encourage people when they see videos or pictures like this of these poor souls PRAY AND FAST FOR THEM. This is the radical love we can show as Catholics. Many of these poor people probably have no one or few who pray for them. But our prayers can help lead them to Heaven"
X Link 2023-08-26T06:29Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Just finished this work from the mid AD 300s by a lesser known Church Father last night. Full of fulsome and clear testimonies to the Catholic Faith including the priesthood the sacrifice of the Eucharist at a Christian altar the papacy etc. Amazing"
X Link 2023-08-26T18:02Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This represents the epitome of anti-logos and thus Antichristic thinkinga regression that falls beneath even that of godless pagans. The Nazis would have been proud Yuval"
X Link 2023-08-26T23:01Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"But dont worrythe damn masks oughta do it"
X Link 2023-08-27T00:32Z 44.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I can understand why you say that but its not the case. Popes can have non-definitive and fallible opinions on all sorts of things. Pope Francis has tied his teaching on the death penalty to prudential considerations. Many Catholics have said he is in errorand he can be according to Catholic dogma. He has not dogmatically defined this. Not everything a Pope says is dogmafar from it. This has never been the case. In the meantime Catholic teaching on the sacraments Christian worship priesthood moral life etc. are consistent and stablemuch of it explicitlyfor [----] years"
X Link 2023-08-27T00:35Z 32.1K followers, [--] engagements
"A protestant acquaintance who recently began asking questions about his own faith and diving into the Church Fathers wrote the following to me (shared with their permission). I share it because I believe it is very honest very reasonable and very sincere. I came to virtually identical conclusions in [----] as do many converts. There is simply no wayin theory or in practiceto say what THE faith is in a protestant framework. Fortunately Christ gave us a different framework: His Catholic Church. Well see where this acquaintance ends up going. HIS WORDS I go to a thoroughly Protestant liberal arts"
X Link 2023-08-27T04:42Z 32.1K followers, 34.2K engagements
"@Ratisbonus Been my opinion since [----] and it has been proven correct many times"
X Link 2023-08-27T06:59Z 32.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Behold the Gnostic Right. Q is a deeply occultic movement that co-opts a lot of Christian sounding language in very syncretistic fashion to deceive people. It has infected the minds of millions of people giving many who feel vulnerable and powerless a false sense of power and security in the midst of an insane world. It preaches a false anti-cross gospel of vengeance worldly power and so-called enlightenment. Its the original temptation in the Garden wrapped up in a new cloak of light (quite literally). Its goal is to make people look for a worldly victor who will satisfy their bloodlust"
X Link 2023-08-27T20:42Z 32.1K followers, 12.2K engagements
"God bless Bishop Joseph Strickland and Dr. Scott Hahn"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:14Z 44.4K followers, 74.8K engagements
"ST. POPE GREGORY THE GREAT: THE SACRIFICES OF HERETICS ARE WORTHLESS; THEY MUST RETURN TO THE UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH In the book of Job St. Pope Gregory the Great sees a typological presentation of the history of the Church. Job is Christ and the Church and Jobs merciless friends are heretics and schismatics who speak lies while claiming to speak the truth about God. Heretics sometimes return to the unity of Holy Church after they have been doused by a liberal outpouring of divine grace. That return is indeed what is signified by the reconciliation of Jobs three friends for whom"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:27Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The biographer Piers Paul Read quotes Alec Guinnessthe great actor (Obi-Wan Kenobi etc.) and a convert to the Catholic faithspeaking about the changes in Catholic liturgy post-Vatican II: The drab liturgical goings on and the rustle of folding missalettes and the ghastly hymns are killing my soulIn my childish way I WANT a touch of mystery and strangeness in my worship. The present situation seems to me as insipid as bread and milkWhy did we ever abandon a Latin liturgy It contained words weighted with [----] years of Christian theology devotion and daily usage"
X Link 2023-08-28T02:16Z 44.5K followers, 92.2K engagements
"Im huge on original sources and classics. We have to be familiar with them to properly understand our civilization and what we have a duty to pass on. That includes texts music and art. Ive been working on getting these beautiful books of the complete works of various artists published by Taschen. So far I have Leonardo da Vinci Caravaggio Michelangelo Rembrandt Bosch Vermeer Velzquez Van Gogh and Monet. Well today Raphael came in. This book is HUGE Probably [--] x [---] feet and [--] inches thick Its amazing. Its such an extraordinary blessing to have a copy of every work of each of these masters"
X Link 2023-08-28T02:47Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@Catholicizm Get Michuta on to talk about the deuterocanonical books"
X Link 2023-08-28T15:19Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"He that is born of the Catholic Church is born as it were of Sarah of the free woman. He that is born of heresy is as it were born of the bond woman Hagar but of Abrahams seed. St. Augustine Tractate [--] on the Gospel of John (7)"
X Link 2023-08-29T20:08Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Can confirm. I came in through an FSSP parish and most young converts I know either came in through a Latin Mass church/rite or much prefer it since being in the Church. In a world gone mad the unchanging is all the more attractive. Improvised banal religion is gross. IRELAND Archbishop of Armagh and Primate Of All Ireland Eamon Martin praises the LATIN MASS and its effect on young people As Primate Martin is the current successor to Saint Patrick https://t.co/DG1vMK8emA IRELAND Archbishop of Armagh and Primate Of All Ireland Eamon Martin praises the LATIN MASS and its effect on young people"
X Link 2023-08-29T21:49Z 44.5K followers, 39.4K engagements
"PS I often go to a Novus Ordo daily mass. There are reverent ones out therethough they are much rarer than they should be"
X Link 2023-08-30T00:18Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements
"As a Protestant I struggled finding our method of resolving controversy about Scripture in Scripture itself. In Acts [--] apostolic authority (including non-apostles) rendered a verdict in Gods name. Despite this we denied men could do this"
X Link 2023-08-30T05:14Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"God will vindicate His name and His Church. Selah"
X Link 2023-08-30T17:23Z 32.2K followers, 15.5K engagements
"I was honored to join Fr. Richard Heilman and Doug Barry on the Graceforce podcast. I hope it is enjoyable and edifying particularly given the subject"
X Link 2023-08-31T00:02Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss. Western societies are losing more and more of their religious essence as they thoughtlessly yield up their younger generation to atheism. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Acceptance Address for the Templeton Prize (May [--] 1983)"
X Link 2023-08-31T01:22Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I have dear protestant friends who are conservative and orthodox (by protestant standards). Yet they balk at the idea that there is one true Church and Faithas if Jesus founded or Scripture clearly and repeatedly commands any other. The moral relativism of our age began with the Christian relativism of protestantisma relativism that has infected a staggering number of Catholics as well. Why Because if we believe we can never be CERTAIN about the truths of Faith God intended to REVEAL to the world and are thus BINDING on us as individuals regardless of our opinions then we are implicit"
X Link 2023-08-31T01:42Z 32.1K followers, 12.5K engagements
"It was always the women and above all the young ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. George Orwell 1984"
X Link 2023-08-31T04:47Z 32.6K followers, 23.2K engagements
"TWO ANCIENT EASTERN BISHOPS TESTIFY TO THE DIVINELY-ESTABLISHED AUTHORITY OF THE PAPACY Stephen of Dora representing bishop St. Sophronius of Jerusalem addresses St. Pope Martin I at the second session of the Lateran Synod in AD [---]. Like so many witnesses to the papacy in the first millennium he likewise declares it was divinely established by Christ Himself: As a result of their heretics troubling of the whole Catholic Churchwe fly away and announce these things to the See that rules and presides over all others (I mean your sovereign and supreme See) Rome in quest of healing for the wound"
X Link 2023-08-31T16:18Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements
"My friend Dr. Alan Fimister (an atheist convert) joined the wonderful Suan Sonna (a baptist convert) to discuss the topic of how the reformation led to secularism. Very much worth a listen"
X Link 2023-09-01T16:48Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"My protestant brethren often said we recovered the Gospel Well as a protestant for [--] years of my life I knew that was a false claim. Why Because we protestants disagreed about just about everything under the sun. What exactly had we recovered To recover something implies it can be identified. But we couldnt even agree on the very thing Christ commanded in the Great Commission (baptism) to say nothing of worship the sacraments the governance of the church countless moral issues etc. The more charismatic among us would often appeal to the Holy Spirit guiding them. But seemingly very good"
X Link 2023-09-01T17:06Z 32.1K followers, 19.4K engagements
"ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ONE TRUE CHURCH IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH "We believe also in The Holy Church intending thereby assuredly the Catholic. For both heretics and schismatics style their congregations churches. But heretics in holding false opinions regarding God do injury to the faith itself; while schismatics on the other hand in wicked separations break off from brotherly charity although they may believe just what we believe. Wherefore neither do the heretics belong to the Church Catholic which loves God; nor do the schismatics form a part of the same." St. Augustine "Of Faith and the Creed""
X Link 2023-09-01T17:43Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements
"FORMER ATHEIST EXPLAINS WHY PROTESTANTISM MADE NO SENSE TO HIM While I was never an atheist I had to confront this very issue as a Protestant in college engaged in evangelism when asked by the atheists which church should I go to I had no principled answer I could give them beyond appealing to my personal interpretation of the Bible and other subjective criteria. Here is how my friend Dr. Alan Fimister a seminary professor and theologian recently explained how as an atheist he knew that if Christianity was true Protestantism couldnt be: I knew that Christianity had been made to look silly by"
X Link 2023-09-01T21:47Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: CHRIST "TRANS-ELEMENTS" THE BREAD AND WINE INTO HIS BODY AND BLOOD The eastern Church Father St. Gregory of Nyssa writing around AD [---] in his "Great Catechism" (Ch. 37) described in remarkably explicit detail the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. He teaches that Christ deifies our bodies by joining them to His through our consumption of the Eucharist so that we may grow in holiness and combat sin. He uses the word "trans-elements" to describe the process by which the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ by the prayer of"
X Link 2023-09-02T02:45Z 26.8K followers, [----] engagements
"My latest "Becoming Catholic." Here is my Quote Archive on the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist in the Church Fathers. Once again this is but the tip of a growing iceberg"
X Link 2023-09-02T04:18Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Protestantism cannot rebuild Christendom. The Great Commission commands baptism. Protestants cannot even agree about this central act commanded by Christ among countless others. If you cant arrive at a common answer on baptism dont presume to rebuild Christian civilization"
X Link 2023-09-02T09:30Z [--] followers, 20.1K engagements
"As the number of unmarried Americans skyrockets Catholics should see a huge opportunity. Through evangelism and discipleship its possible there will be many later vocations to religious life and consecrated virginity. This could immeasurably benefit the Church and the world"
X Link 2023-09-02T17:37Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I met an older gentleman in line for Confession today. His name was Ken. He has what sounded like terminal cancer. But he was at total peace. In your charity please pray for Ken and for all of us that we may die holy deaths at peace with the Lord and His Church at our time"
X Link 2023-09-02T23:42Z [--] followers, 19K engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER TO HERETIC: COME HOME TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH May the Lord see fit to guard and protect you forever and cause you to live as a Christian and as a Catholic and come into agreement with us St. Pacian of Barcelona Letter 2: To Sympronian the Novatian (AD 300s)"
X Link 2023-09-03T18:47Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"(1/2) BAPTISM: THE REASON PROTESTANTS GET SO MUCH OF SCRIPTURE WRONG Two-part thread (the tip of the iceberg on this topic). Scripture and the ancient Church are crystal clear about how we are saved through faith through no works of our own: being reborn regenerated in baptism. It was a completely free unmerited gift of Gods love and grace. One of the key reasons protestants butcher various prooftexts from Romans Galatians Ephesians etc. is because they have lost the glorious truth of the new birth in baptism and why God gave it to us. Because they have lost this truth theyve lost many others"
X Link 2023-09-03T22:06Z 27K followers, 50.3K engagements
"(2/2) This doctrine of baptism works and salvations is UNANIMOUS from the days of the Apostles. There is not a single Church Father who does not believe it. This is as true before the days of Constantine as after them (lest anyone continue to peddle the nonsense that Constantine founded the Catholic Church). This is why St. Paul is crystal clear about what being saved is actually all about and it all goes back to being reborn being made a new creation in baptism for the purpose of doing what our first parents not only failed to do but made it impossible to do by passing on to us their"
X Link 2023-09-03T22:06Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I said most Protestant sects toward the end of my postI should have put that at the beginning to be even clearer I know not all Protestants reject baptismal regeneration. Lutherans/Anglicans accept itbut they are only about 20% of Protestants. So unfortunately what I wrote does in fact refer to those I spoke of: most Protestants"
X Link 2023-09-03T23:38Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@MrOctaviusRex I said most protestants. And yes they are wrongunless one wants to claim all Christians of which we have any record were wrong about an essential part of the Great Commission prior to protestants showing up [----] years later"
X Link 2023-09-04T00:56Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Only those who know history and the traditions of our civilization know and feel what we have lost and how utterly ABSURD many modern pretensions of progress are"
X Link 2023-09-05T01:02Z 28.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Dear Mel Gibson Please please please make a Braveheart style movie about the Maccabees. Sincerely in Christ All Catholic Men (and Protestant dudes who will see what theyve been missing out on) P.S. I volunteer to write and research if you need either. 😁"
X Link 2023-09-05T01:10Z 27.8K followers, 57.8K engagements
"@tonyannett Tony you have a concerning fixation not only with my tweets but with wildly misrepresenting them or presenting even the most innocuous and innocent things as sinister. Its not only strange but uncharitable. I genuinely hope you find more meaningful things to do. Soon"
X Link 2023-09-05T04:55Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"ST. AUGUSTINE: HISTORY PROVES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH The last few years St. Augustine feels like he has become a friend given how much of his writings I've read. One of my great loves is history and St. Augustine is in large part behind my desire now endeavor to attempt a comprehensive theological historical theory. I'm many years away from completing it but it's in the works slowly but surely. History is one of the things that drew me to the Catholic Church and St. Augustine uses history over and over again to prove the veracity of the Scriptures the reality of the Catholic Church and the"
X Link 2023-09-05T05:47Z 32.1K followers, 15.3K engagements
"Very humbled to have reached [-----] followers Surprises no one more than me. Im committed to producing content and commentary that is edifying thought-provoking and hopefully holiness-encouraging in these dark days. God bless you all Please pray for me as I pray for you"
X Link 2023-09-05T15:56Z 32.1K followers, 11.8K engagements
"ST. AUGUSTINE: SCRIPTURE PROPHESIED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THAT HERETICS/SCHISMATICS WOULD SEPARATE FROM IT As a protestant countless words such as these by the Church Fathers revealed to me that they would have considered my way of doing Christianity unbiblical heretical and schismatic. They described the Church not only as it was but what they believed it would be until Christs return per Christs own promisesand it was nothing like protestantism of any variety. You cannot deny that you see what we call heresies and schisms that is many cut off from the root of the Christian society the"
X Link 2023-09-05T21:07Z 44.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Social media not exempt. I tell you on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned. Jesus Christ (Matt. 12:36-37)"
X Link 2023-09-06T02:01Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Lots of complete myths about the inquisition. The inquisition by the standards of the day was a model of justice and equity. Prisoners in secular prisons would sometimes commit fake religious crimes to get transferred to inquisition prisons because they were much better taken care of. The number of people executed over [---] years was minuscule compared to modern free countries over similar time periods. Again lots and LOTS of myths based on pop protestant histories that were pure propaganda. Please dig deeper. The Catholic Church created hospitals orphanages the university classical music the"
X Link 2023-09-06T06:18Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Veneration of relics is 100% part of Christianity. Why Because Gods saints have become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4). Hence the countless accounts of miracles both ancient and modern. Its in both Testaments. Elishas bones: So Elisha died and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being buried lo a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood on his feet (2 Kings 13:20-21). There are other examples of relics of"
X Link 2023-09-07T00:06Z 53.1K followers, 176.3K engagements
"Satan knew Scripture by heart and weaponized it against Christas all heresies do. Certainly to quote Scripture alone is not commendable. Understanding what it means and living it is. That can only be done to the full through the Catholic Faith in the Catholic Church"
X Link 2023-09-07T02:17Z 32.1K followers, 37.4K engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: ALL HERETICS QUOTE SCRIPTURE OFTEN TO DISGUISE THE POISON OF THEIR ERRORS I am Catholic today after [--] years as a Protestant because when I began diving into the Church Fathers in [----] I saw their descriptions of heretics and everything they said matched how we Protestants did thingsprimarily denying the authority of the Catholic Church and asserting private interpretation of Scripture. The heresies all ended up with different doctrines but their method was the sameexactly like Protestantism St. Vincent of Lerins blew my mind on this. Writing in the early 400s he"
X Link 2023-09-07T02:55Z 25.1K followers, 17.6K engagements
"Not just biblical miracles. Miracles over the last [----] years of the Church including many modern ones that have been scientifically confirmed in a vigorous way. There is nothing more silly than to presume the universal pattern we see over thousands of history recorded in Scripture will simply STOP. Scripture doesnt teach it and the experience of the Church contradicts it"
X Link 2023-09-07T05:34Z 28K followers, [----] engagements
"When Protestant besmirching of the Blessed Mother comes hot and heavy"
X Link 2023-09-07T06:24Z 32.2K followers, 27.2K engagements
"After being shocked by how deeply and ubiquitously Catholic the ancient Christians were in [----] I finally became willing to hear out the Catholic Church I had despised my entire life and take the deep dive. What I found is that the Church had consistently read the Bible more deeply more comprehensively and more consistently than anything I had ever encountered in Protestantism. I also saw that Her teachings had been consistently misrepresented and slandered by most Protestants I had ever known heard of or read my entire life. When I finally began to be willing to SIMPLY LISTEN to the Catholic"
X Link 2023-09-07T08:07Z 46.7K followers, 208.1K engagements
"@jfferick So all Christians got it wrong before you EK Good luck with that. Jesus Christ explicitly promised otherwise"
X Link 2023-09-07T17:25Z 28.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes Christ also died for and saved Her. But no She was not a sinnerbut only because of HOW Christ saved Her which was uniquely tailored to Her role in salvation history. The Old Adam fell. This was preceded by the Old Eve choosing the serpent over God. Both sexes were"
X Link 2023-09-07T21:36Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"A friend of mine on his own conversion: I came from a Seventh-day Adventist background. The wonderful thing with Catholicism is that once you let go of your prejudice against it youll find that the things you loved about your previous tradition whatever is good beautiful and true is still there in the Catholic Church but magnified clarified and intensified. I instantly felt at home in the Catholic Church when I saw her for what she truly is. The only things I had to let go were pride prejudice confusion and misinformation. I agree 100%. Nothing that was great about what I had before is gone."
X Link 2023-09-07T22:10Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The person who has done by far the most of anyone in my life to help me love and follow Jesus Christ is The Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin Immaculate Mother of God. My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my savior (Luke 1:46-47)"
X Link 2023-09-07T23:10Z 32.1K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Unless this woman in heaven created/crowned herself then the only other option is God (the Trinity) created & crowned her. And a great portent appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars (Rev. 12:1)"
X Link 2023-09-07T23:50Z 32.1K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Theres a very simple question that gets to the heart of whether or not a Protestant has the requisite humility to engage in a good discussion about the Catholic Faith. I ask some form of it all the time because many are actually not willing to answer yes and if they are not theres no reason to engage further. The question is this: If Christians were essentially consistent on a doctrine for [----] years and it contradicts yours are you willing to consider the possibility youre wrong and hear them out This was a question I asked myself while still a Protestant being presented with the astounding"
X Link 2023-09-08T00:09Z 32.1K followers, 33.1K engagements
"But mark how sandy is your own pretence Who setting Councils Pope and Church aside Are evry man his own presuming guide. The sacred books you say are full and plain And evry needful point of truth contain: All who can read Interpreters may be: Thus though your sevral churches disagree Yet evry Saint has to himself alone The secret of this Philosophick stone. These principles your jarring sects unite When diffring Doctors and disciples fight. Though Luther Zuinglius Calvin holy chiefs Have made a battle Royal of beliefs; Or like wild horses sevral ways have whirld The torturd Text about the"
X Link 2023-09-08T01:53Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@JonnyRoot_ Jon you are proffering a false and propagandistic narrative that countless protestant converts to the Catholic Faith (like myself) often discover is not true on our own when we read the ancient Christians who were Catholic. Uniquely protestant beliefs are virtually nowhere"
X Link 2023-09-08T08:12Z 32.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The Catholic Church has always and everywhere taught that we are saved by Gods grace which makes us new creatures in baptism and sustains and revives us through the sacraments through no works or merits of our own. Protestants who tell you otherwise are either confused ignorant or lying. Since by sin man is deflected from his last end God sins cannot be forgiven unless man is again rightly ordered to his end. This is accomplished through the gifts of grace which come from God alone since they transcend the power of nature. St. Thomas Aquinas Compendium (Ch. 146)"
X Link 2023-09-08T17:10Z 32.1K followers, 19.9K engagements
"There is not a SINGLE example in Catholic theology of souls going from a state of non-justification to justification by their own works or merits. NOT ONE. Only by grace. Many Protestants have been lied to by those who would know better if they simply showed basic fairness"
X Link 2023-09-08T17:35Z 32.1K followers, 19.3K engagements
"As a Protestant I heard many testimonies of people who strayed from Jesus and repented. Often they would credit the prayers of their friends and familyespecially their mothersfor their return. But the moment a Catholic credits the prayers of Mary and the Saints in heaven"
X Link 2023-09-08T18:54Z 32.1K followers, 41.8K engagements
"I decided to add a new category of content to "Becoming Catholic." I'm calling it a "Study Bank." See the post below. When preparing articles I typically engage in a substantial amount of research and often organize it in separate documents I then use as a reference when writing the article. Sometimes these are Scripture word studies other times they are compilations of verses or patristic and other quotes on particular subjects etc. I have found that organizing the data often leads to a better understanding of the topic at hand. A Study Bank therefore is in no way an article or presenting an"
X Link 2023-09-08T22:22Z 25K followers, [----] engagements
"Ben has proof-texted a nearly [-----] word letter to make it seem like St. Pope Clement had a Protestant view of justification. He did not. Clement speaks of justification (salvation) in three ways: (#1) APART from works (quoted by Ben); (#2) BY works (not quoted); and (#3)"
X Link 2023-09-09T02:12Z 25.8K followers, [---] engagements
"A most happy birthday to the Woman the New Eve the Daughter of Zion the Immaculate Ever-Virgin Mother of God who more than any other brings me near and disciples me in the ways of loving Him. O noble Virgin truly you are greater than any other greatness. For who is your equal in greatness O dwelling place of God the Word To whom among all creatures shall I compare you O Virgin You are greater than them all. O Ark of the New Covenant clothed with purity instead of gold You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna that is the flesh in which divinity resides."
X Link 2023-09-09T06:34Z 32.2K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Dr. White the exact same reality applies to the Old Testament. God established His particular people centuries before Scripture was written down. So its the same pattern Dr. @TaylorRMarshall pointed out. That doesnt denigrate Scripture at all. But it does show that the people came long before the textjust like Jesus and the Apostles shared the Gospel before the four gospels etc. were ever written. In the same way God gave Moses the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai before he wrote it down in the Torah and all the events of Genesis happened centuries if not thousands of years before they were"
X Link 2023-09-09T17:51Z 25.8K followers, 23.1K engagements
"You are misrepresenting the Catholic argument. The Catholic Church has never argued we cant know anything about Scripture or its contents simply by reading it. You wont find a single Catholic dogmatic statement that makes that claim. The issue is that diverse opinions arise almost immediatelynot only as to the meaning of Scripture but which books are part of Scripture at all. Therefore there must be some means to settle those differences with PUBLIC FINALITY so issues can be resolved rather than perpetually infecting the Church. Imagine court cases never settled or constitutional questions"
X Link 2023-09-09T19:30Z 32.1K followers, 38.8K engagements
"@voxtexian @HwsEleutheroi @TaylorRMarshall Indeed. I want to start a Rosary prayer campaign where thousands maybe even millions of Catholics pray the Rosary for our Protestant brethren so that they see the truth. Our Lady is the New Ark of the Covenant and thus She is a weapon of spiritual warfare"
X Link 2023-09-09T19:31Z 32.2K followers, 182K engagements
"@joshfontanilla Yet the angels in Heaven cry Holy holy holy forever. Hmmm. Jesus didnt condemn repetitive prayers because they are repetitive. If that was the case half the Psalms would be out. He condemned repetitive prayers done with a certain pharisaical posture of heart"
X Link 2023-09-09T21:53Z 32.1K followers, 10.7K engagements
"(1/2) Yes Dr. White. Spiritual warfare. First of all I would like to thank you for your courageous stance on many cultural issues. We agree on much. Second Id welcome a deeper conversation with you sometime if you are open to it. I will offer a two-part response"
X Link 2023-09-09T22:51Z 25.1K followers, [---] engagements
"(2/2) The Ark of the Covenant was an instrument provided to Gods people foramong other thingsconquering their adversaries. Likewise the New Ark of the Covenant. And if Christian spiritual warfare as we said at the beginning is first and foremost PRAYERthen why would we ever want to deprive ourselves not only of the prayers of our brethren in Heaven but the prayers of the greatest saint of them all the Blessed Mother of Our Lord After all She alone can speak of Christ with God the Father as Our Son. In Her womb divine and human nature were joined for the first time and it was flesh provided"
X Link 2023-09-09T22:51Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive seen it produce many miracles Dr. White. Including bringing people Im close with who were deep in homosexuality transgenderism drugs etc. with absolutely no sign of hope to repentance and to Christ and His Catholic Church. Since Ive asked for Her prayers Ive had more victory over sin than Ive ever had in my life and my love and devotion to Christ has never grown as much as since I began asking for Her intercession. Christs saints are alive. They are in Heaven. None is closer to Him than Her who bore Him. None desire His glory more than Her. As the old ark brought down the walls of Jericho"
X Link 2023-09-09T23:54Z 44.5K followers, 14.8K engagements
"@ChrisGrundmeyer @Catholicizm1 Id love to hear that story. You read it as a protestant but it convinced you protestant arguments were empty"
X Link 2023-09-10T00:58Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"As a Protestant I used to believe asking the prayers of the saints and venerating their relics was pagan. Then I studied the history and saw that it was the pagans who hated this stuff not the Christians. Why Because this Christian practice brought the world of the living into direct contact with the world of the dead. The pagans were the ones who kept them strictly separate. But with the opening of heaven by Christ and the bringing to life of all who died in Him those days were over. The kingdom of God reigning from Heaven with His saints had begun. In fact no less than the pagan emperor"
X Link 2023-09-10T01:55Z 44.5K followers, 130.3K engagements
"A society whose public order is consistently determined by agnosticism is not a society that has become free but a society that has despaired marked by the sorrow of man who is fleeing from God and in contradiction with himself. Pope Benedict XVI The Yes of Jesus Christ (2005)"
X Link 2023-09-10T07:20Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The only thing that makes a soul timid is the guilty conscience of a bad life. St. Martin of Braga Rules for an Honest Life (Ch. 3) (AD 500s)"
X Link 2023-09-10T07:39Z 32.2K followers, [----] engagements
"In our day with the open demonic assaults all around us it is worth meditating upon this brief exchange among ancient monks reported by a Church Father: A brother asked an old man: Father why are we thus attacked by demons The old man answered: Because we have thrown away our weapons; that is our penitence humility obedience and poverty. St. Martin of Braga Questions and Answers of the Greek Fathers (Ch. [--] 1) (AD 500s)"
X Link 2023-09-10T08:11Z 32.1K followers, 52.2K engagements
"ST. AUGUSTINE: HERETICS WHO DENY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ARE LIKE THE PHARISEES WHO DENIED CHRIST Im Catholic today because I realized that virtually everything the Fathers said about the true Church and the heretics of their day was still true of the true Church and the heretics of our day of which I was one. Whatsoever heretics there are who confess the Holy Ghost but deny that He is in the Body of Christ which is His One Only Church none other than the One Catholic Church are without doubt like the Pharisees who at that time although they confessed the existence of the Holy Ghost yet denied"
X Link 2023-09-10T19:11Z 32.1K followers, 19K engagements
"ST. AUGUSTINE: CATHOLICS IN SIN AND HERETICS IN ERROR ARE BOTH SEPARATED FROM CHRIST Supposing therefore two menone a Catholic with all these vices the other a heretic free from all from which a heretic can be freealthough they do not both contend against the faith and yet each lives contrary to the faith and each is deceived by a vain hope and each is far removed from charity of spirit and therefore each is severed from connection with the body of the one dove St. Augustine On Baptism Against the Donatists (Book [--] Ch. 20)"
X Link 2023-09-10T20:12Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The conversion story of @ChrisGrundmeyer is a familiar one to many protestant converts. Once you take the first step to being fair to the Catholic Churchthe Golden Ruleyou find its nothing like what you thought and most of your life youd been told falsehoods and even lies"
X Link 2023-09-10T22:12Z 32.1K followers, 13.7K engagements
"And some people wonder why I have spent three years studying the katechon or restrainer that holds back Antichrist in [--] Thessalonians [--] The largest nuclear power on the planetanimated by a state-controlled schismatic sectconsiders itself the third Rome and thus the katechon. The katechon is in fact essentially related to the Roman Empire and thus the Catholic Church (Christendom). It is not Russia. But the fact that some in Russiaperhaps even Mr. Putin himselfthink it is the katechon cant but be exceptionally significant and ominous"
X Link 2023-09-10T22:42Z 32.1K followers, 32K engagements
"Dr. White you are distorting the words of St. Athanasius I hope not purposely or through negligence in reading them. This is quite frustrating. As someone who read all of Athanasiuss works in the Schaff set I know he believed something quite different than Dr. White's"
X Link 2023-09-11T01:31Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"9/11 was a huge milestone in my life. I was in 8th grade and it basically marked the beginning of my political awareness. My patriotism and love of countryas of so many otherswas viciously taken advantage of by our imperial government to engage in stupid immoral wars abroad that cost countless lives (American and others) and trillions of dollars. How many thousands and millions of people have been killed or exiled from their homes and continue to suffer to this day because of the American government Its a catastrophe. That government eviscerated our Constitution under newspeak worthy bills"
X Link 2023-09-11T19:39Z 32.1K followers, 65.7K engagements
"You cited Irenaeus as an example of something taken out of context. Yet this same Irenaeus stated in very clear terms that all churches must agree with the Church of Rome. THIS is the Catholic Church. The quotes are also meant to show people how the Fathers talk about the Catholic Church and it is ALWAYS as a single society of Christians the only true one and sharing a common faith worship and government. In other words the exact opposite of protestantism"
X Link 2023-09-12T03:00Z 32.2K followers, [--] engagements
"ST. ATHANASIUS: HERETICS WHO REJECT THE TEACHINGS OF THE SAINTS AS "TRADITIONS OF MEN" ARE IN ERROR St. Athanasius is clear and consistent: the right interpretation of Scripture isn't some nebulous abstract thing up for grabs by individuals. It is found only in the Catholic Church according to the traditions passed down by the fathers (bishops) and as articulated by those same fathers in solemn definitions (such as the Council of Nicaea). In contrast with this he points out how the Arians and many other heretical groups constantly appeal to Scripture alone supposedly unbound by the tradition"
X Link 2023-09-12T03:08Z 32.2K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Theres a term I invented almost a decade ago One-niner referencing Ecclesiastes 1:9There is nothing new under the sun. I coined it in the midst of a deep dive into the writings of Americas Founding Fathers. Ive always been an original sources guymeaning while I think secondary sources can be very helpful reading what people in a given time and place actually wrote themselves has always proven to be FAR more interesting and illuminating. I invented One-Niner because the more I studied the original sources of history the more I realized how little in essence has ever changed. One of the"
X Link 2023-09-12T05:43Z 32.2K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Nothing new. These are heresies that have arisen in opposition to the Catholic faith and have been condemned by the apostles and Holy Fathers or by the Councils. These heresies although they disagree with each other differing among themselves in many errors nevertheless conspire with a common name against the Church of God. St. Isidore of Seville Etymologies (Book [--] Ch. [--] 70) (c. AD 612)"
X Link 2023-09-12T08:05Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Catholic Church teaches that She the Mystical Body of Christ will endure a Passion just like Christ did in His individual body (Catechism pars. 675-77). Its quite unlike various Protestant views that what they call the church will somehow have something more triumphantly prepared for Christs returna view very much like the Jews many of whom believe they must attain a certain level of worthiness for Messiah to appear. Many Fathers Popes saints theologians etc. have said the Church will be in Her worst earthly state ever prior to the appearance of Antichrist. This of course will be at the"
X Link 2023-09-12T19:27Z 32.1K followers, 63.5K engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: HERESY KILLS ONLY THE CATHOLIC FAITH SAVES You will find countless examples of the Church Fathers comparing and contrasting heresy with the Catholic Faith throughout the ancient Church. Many Protestants try to claim that the "Catholic Church" referred to"
X Link 2023-09-13T02:58Z 32.1K followers, [---] engagements
"CATHOLICS (C): Quotes a Church Father usually a martyr (or persecuted) way closer to the Apostles and some even knew them. (TOO MANY) PROTESTANTS (P): What THATS NOT SCRIPTURE Thats the TRADITIONS OF MEN😡 P: Quotes Luther Calvin Edwards MacArthur etc. C: 😐🤔"
X Link 2023-09-13T04:04Z 27.3K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Just heard great news from a Protestant friend of mine that he and his wife are coming into the Catholic Church. This guy was among the most virulently anti-Catholic guys I have ever known. But then when asked whether he had spent any significant amount of time hearing what"
X Link 2023-09-13T04:50Z 26.5K followers, [----] engagements
"O Sacrament most holy O Sacrament divine All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine By the economy of grace He Jesus sows Himself in all the faithful through the flesh whose composition derives from wine and bread mixing with the bodies of the faithful so that by union with the immortal man might become a partaker of incorruption. And He gives these things by the power of blessing re-elementing the nature of those things that appear to the senses to that immortal nature. St. Gregory of Nysssa Catechetical Discourse (Ch. [--] 12) (late 300s)"
X Link 2023-09-13T06:00Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"JOHN ADAMS: THE MODESTY AND DOMESTIC VIRTUES OF WOMEN DETERMINE WHETHER WE KEEP THE REPUBLIC OR NOT I read this observation from the American Founding Father John Adams many years ago. Hence my generally pessimistic appraisal of the American future on its current trajectory. From all that I had read of History and Government of human Life and manners I had drawn this Conclusion that the manners of Women were the most infallible Barometer to ascertain the degree of Morality and Virtue in a Nation. All that I have since read and all the observations I have made in different Nations have"
X Link 2023-09-13T17:13Z 32.2K followers, 48.8K engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS YOUR HOPE YOUR SALVATION YOUR REFUGE Happy Feast Day of St. John Chrysostom Do not hold aloof from the Church; for nothing is stronger than the Church. The Church is thy hope thy salvation thy refuge. It is higher than the heaven it is wider than the earth. It never waxes old but is always in full vigor. Wherefore as significant of its solidity Holy Scripture calls it a mountain; or of its purity a virgin or of its magnificence a queen or of its relationship to God a daughter and to express its productiveness it calls her barren who has borne"
X Link 2023-09-13T22:41Z 32.1K followers, [----] engagements
"ANCIENT CHURCH FATHER: DEMONIC POWER AND PAGANISM WERE DEFEATED BY THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND PRIESTHOOD There are so many words like these in the Church Fathers as well as incredible stories of priests combatting demons directly often in dramatic fashion. We do not realize how vital the sacraments are to Christendom. The sacraments are the means by which Christ communicates His own divine life to our bodies and souls. That is why Christendom was built by the Catholic Church through the power of the sacraments and primarily that of the altar of the Eucharistic sacrifice. Protestantism has no"
X Link 2023-09-14T05:15Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements
"ST. AUGUSTINE: THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION REQUIRES BEING IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH We must hold fast the Christian religion and the communion of the Church which is Catholic and is called Catholic not only by its own members but also by all its enemies. Whether they will or no heretics and schismatics use no other name for it than the name of Catholic when they speak of it not among themselves but with outsiders. They cannot make themselves understood unless they designate it by this name which is in universal use. St. Augustine Of True Religion (12)"
X Link 2023-09-15T01:16Z 32.2K followers, 49.8K engagements
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