ONE Holy Catholic Church

 

To be a Catholic 3 criteria is required:

1. Baptism

2. Faith in Jesus Christ

3. Acknowledgement of the Authority of the Church's hierarchy; priests, 

    bishops, archbishops, cardinals, the Pope. 

 

1. The Baptism is the one with water. A spiritual baptism does not count, 

    it is only with water that it becomes visible.

2.  A natural consequence of true Faith is that the person will proclaim it, 

     and so renders it visible. 

3.  The acknowledgement and respect of the structure of the hierarchy of 

     the Church by it's members, renders the unity of the Church visible,

     as her members submits to the one same authority and which protects 

     her from schisms.

 

The fact that there are heretics at all levels in the Church is no excuse to

revolt against her. Because that is not new, it has always been the case.

There has been many heretical popes and ridiculous carry-on in the Church 

throughout her 2000 years history.  

How could it not be: everybody that makes up the Church are sinners,

everyone, including the Pope, our current Pope Francis is the first 

to say so himself !

The clericalistic attitude that still prevails today, where people think that 

these people are beyond reproach, is not helpful. 

We have to pray for the priests, the bishops and the Pope, because their 

positions and roles are difficult.

Those who say that Pope Francis is not Pope, those who are revolting, and 

incites others to do the same, do not accept nor respect the hierarchy which 

is the 3.rd criteria of being a Catholic. 

They destroy, rather than unite, they try to create a schism, and as they do 

not fulfill the criteria; they are not Catholic.

 

At Mass we confess in the Creed that we believe in 

ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

There is only ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH;

it is made up of US; sinners, people with blind spots, faults, weaknesses, 

all of us; a bit like a bunch of sick people in a field hospital.

To acknowledge the structure of the hierarchy, to accept and respect it, 

does not however necessarily mean that we have to obey it. 

Acknowledgement is not the same thing as obedience. 

Normally we would obey it anyway, but we can never abandon our own 

capacity to reason, to reflect, to think.

Our Pope Francis, who seems to say that all religions, paganism and even 

atheism, is on par with the Catholic Faith, obviously upsets and confuse 

many Catholics. The document on fraternity published in 2019, is a 

political document and does not concern itself with the Catholic Faith, 

so as Catholics we do not have to concern ourselves with it either. 

Obviously to put the Catholic Faith on par with other faiths is heresy, but it doesn't contain any dogma on our faith.

Pope Francis's pronouncements to Catholics regarding the experimental 

covid injection, which he said everybody should take as "an act of 

brotherly love", was deeply horrifying and shocking. 

These injections are not vaccines as they do not provide immunity against 

the disease, they weaken the immune system, they are made from stem 

cells from aborted babies and they have maimed thousands of people, 

and killed many.

Francis is Pope, but as Catholics we had no obligation to do what he said in 

this regard, as he did not speak about the Catholic Faith but on another subject

entirely, and we know he is neither a doctor nor a scientist, also the 

moral aspect and the absence of logic could not be explained away, it was 

glaring.

All the Catholics who took the injection because he said so, are maybe those 

who have a poor understanding of the faith, and who equates obedience to 

lack of free will and lack of reasoning power, both of which are fundamental

God- given gifts to humanity.