Catholic Definition Day

Just in case you were wondering I have decided to have "Catholic Definition Day". Here is the definition for today:

Heretic – a baptized person who rejects a dogma of the Catholic Church. Heretics are
automatically excommunicated from the Church (ipso facto) without any declaration for rejecting an authoritative teaching of the Faith.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
“No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself
as a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or arise some other heresies, which are
not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to a single one of these he is not a
Catholic.” The Papal Encyclicals, by Claudia Carlen, Raleigh: The Pierian Press, 1990,Vol. 2 (1878-1903), Vol. 2 (1878-1903), p. 393.

Pope St. Pius X, Editae Saepe (# 43), May 26, 1910: “It is a certain, well-established fact that
no other crime so seriously offends God and provokes His greatest wrath as the vice of
heresy.” The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p. 125.

Now heresy is not the same as "apostasy". The apostate abandons fully the faith of Christ. The heretic still maintains his faith in some fashion. So someone who rejects Christ and becomes a Mohammedan for instance would be an apostate. Someone who rejects some dogma of the Church but remains "Catholic" is a heretic.

Hope this helps!

Thank You, Vatican II!

This travesty is the closing mess from the 2011 National "Catholic" Educational Conference held in Los Angeles. They actually had super dissenting, rolemodel for IHM Marywood nuns everywhere, "Sister" Joan Chittister, as a keynote speaker. "Sister" Joan speaks and writes constantly against Church teaching on issues such as homosexuality and the ordination of women. So we have a manifest heretic addressing Catholic educators from around the country.

Maybe this is why Catholic education is so bad nowadays.

Eat up while you can, Johnny!

We all know what the Church's teaching is when it comes to "catholic" politicians that support abortion. The teaching is that they must be denied communion.

We all know these "catholic" politicians won't miss the opportunity to be front and center for the Papal Mass in Washington D.C.

The real question is do we know if they will present themselves to the Pope for communion? Would John Kerry or Teddy Kennedy dare to try to politicize the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by such actions?

What will the Pope do in the face of heresy?

Oh, I can't wait to see that Mass now!