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]


Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Saint John's Bible of Collegeville: A Disgrace to Gospel Illumination

If you are not familiar with Saint John's Abbey's attempt at making an illuminated Bible, you should take a look at this. Going against every principle Holy Mother Church has used in the past to glorify the Scriptures with heavenly illumination, they have instead desecrated it. The abbey up in Minnesota has become a den of liberalism and the Holy See should shut the place down and put all of those in authority at the place under interdict. They have a photo montage of the historical deconstruction of their abbey online. What was once a beautiful church was neutered and replaced by a tragic monstrosity. Whoever approved of this construction should be dealt with severely, and a wrecking crane should be brought in while the Pope himself personally directs the wrecking ball. The Benedictines who cherish the tradition of their order should all be up in arms over this.

Pictured below is the garbage they are trying to pass off as illumination! With a heavy heart we pass this on to those Catholics who will follow us, so that they will not fall into the same demonic traps that Catholics of this age have fallen prey to. Like the fly standing on the leaf of the Venus Fly trap, so these heretics too stand as the mouth of hell closes in upon them!


Here Pope Benedict XVI charitably looks upon the monstrosity. He should have told them to give up the project or spend the rest of their lives on an isolated island doing penance for such crimes being committed against Holy Writ. 
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