The Answer to Heresy

I answer that, With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death. For it is a much graver matter to corrupt the faith which quickens the soul, than to forge money, which supports temporal life. Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.

On the part of the Church, however, there is mercy which looks to the conversion of the wanderer, wherefore she condemns not at once, but "after the first and second admonition," as the Apostle directs: after that, if he is yet stubborn, the Church no longer hoping for his conversion, looks to the salvation of others, by excommunicating him and separating him from the Church, and furthermore delivers him to the secular tribunal to be exterminated thereby from the world by death. For Jerome commenting on Gal. 5:9, "A little leaven," says: "Cut off the decayed flesh, expel the mangy sheep from the fold, lest the whole house, the whole paste, the whole body, the whole flock, burn, perish, rot, die. Arius was but one spark in Alexandria, but as that spark was not at once put out, the whole earth was laid waste by its flame."

Saint Thomas Aquinas- ST: SS Q[11] A[3]


Monday, August 2, 2010

Excommunicate the Gay Priests Already!

Again, we see scandal caused by the negligence of the Church heirarchy in the latest immoral acts of gay priests living openly homosexual lifestyles in Italy. On July 23rd a story broke on this, and yet all we see are words, no public action by the Church heirarchy. Catholics want these public scandals addressed publicly. We want a public inquisition and we want them excommunicated. The punishment for this type of scandal is coming down upon the Church as we speak. As long as this negligence persists, only God knows how many souls will be lost in the Church by those who follow these bad examples, and those lost outside the Church because of our inability to evangelize them.


"The wolves that catch and scatter the sheep of Jesus Christ, are the authors of scandal, who, not content with their own destruction, labour to destroy others. But the Lord says: "Woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh" (Matt. 18:7). Woe to him who gives scandal, and causes others to lose the grace of God. Origen says, that "a person who impels another to sin, sins more grievously than the other." If, brethren, there be any among you who has given scandal, I will endeavour this day to convince him of the evil he has done, that he may bewail it, and guard against it for the future. I will show, in the first point, the great displeasure which hte sin of scandal gives to God; and, in the second, the great punishment which God threatens to inflict on the authors of scandal." Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Latin phrase for today
bellum letale
Lethal war, deadly war

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