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

Inauguration Post

Welcome to my memoirs. I will be writing this memoir for future faithful Catholics in the United States, assuming that any will survive this pestilence of the modernism plaguing the Church today. Although there are many news sources today about various happenings in the Catholic Church in the US today, there are not many personal memoirs written by those Catholics who are trying to survive in this deluge. It is this void that I will try to fill. I will write memoirs for those Catholics in the future, so that they will know how their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ before them suffered for the faith, and yet hopefully prevailed to keep the Catholic Church in the US alive. I will also document the heretics and the heretical outrages that plague the Church in our time so that those Catholics in the future may not fall prey to similar pestilences.

May we fight the good fight!
T. Torquemada.
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