Ocean Kayaker: Fight Like the Poles to Restore the Culture

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Fight Like the Poles to Restore the Culture

From Life Site News, August 4, 2017:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/we-must-fight-like-the-poles-to-restore-the-culture

The future of whole nations depends on a re-appreciation of the family as the living cell of society, on the preservation of Christianity, including the “cultural Christianity.”

Rebuilding the family, nourishing our Christian roots and restoring love for our western histories may seem an impossible task. Like the Polish Home Army, we are fighting against the most terrible odds, abandoned by our supposed allies amid the ruins of our cultural homes. However, Western Civilization isn’t yet dead, so long as we still live. As some American said, let’s fight like the Poles.

Transubstantiation

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”

Pope Benedict XVI

The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.

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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Fight Like the Poles to Restore the Culture

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