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Chapter 1. The Two Ways; The First Commandment

There are two ways, one of life and one of death; but a great difference between the two ways.

The way of life, then, is this:



First, you shall love God who made you;

Second, your neighbour as yourself; and all things whatsoever you would should not occur to you, do not also do to another.

And of these sayings the teaching is this:
Bless those who curse you, and pray for your enemies, and fast for those who persecute you.

For what reward is there, if you love those who love you?

Do not also the Gentiles do the same?

But love those who hate you, and you shall not have an enemy.

Abstain from fleshly and worldly lusts.

If someone gives you a blow upon your right cheek, turn to him the other also, and you shall be perfect.

If someone impresses you for one mile, go with him two.

If someone takes away your cloak, give him also your coat.

If someone takes from you what is yours, ask it not back, for indeed you are not able.

Give to every one that asks you, and ask it not back; for the Father wills that to all should be given of our own blessings (free gifts).

Happy is he that gives according to the commandment; for he is guiltless.

Woe to him that receives; for if one having need receives, he is guiltless; but he that receives not having need, shall pay the penalty, why he received and for what, and, coming into straits (confinement), he shall be examined concerning the things which he has done, and he shall not escape thence until he pay back the last farthing.
Matthew 5:26

But also now concerning this, it has been said, Let your alms sweat in your hands, until you know to whom you should give.



Chapter 2. The Second Commandment: Gross Sin Forbidden

And the second commandment of the Teaching;

You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, Exodus 20:13-14 you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal,
Exodus 20:15

You shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten.

You shall not covet the things of your neighbour, Exodus 20:17 you shall not forswear yourself,
Matthew 5:34

You shall not bear false witness,
Exodus 20:16

You shall not speak evil, you shall bear no grudge.

You shall not be double-minded nor double-tongued; for to be double-tongued is a snare of death.

Your speech shall not be false, nor empty, but fulfilled by deed.

You shall not be covetous, nor rapacious, nor a hypocrite, nor evil disposed, nor haughty.

You shall not take evil counsel against your neighbour.

You shall not hate any man; but some you shall reprove, and concerning some you shall pray, and some you shall love more than your own life.



Chapter 3. Other Sins Forbidden

My child, flee from every evil thing, and from every likeness of it. Be not prone to anger, for anger leads the way to murder; neither jealous, nor quarrelsome, nor of hot temper; for out of all these murders are engendered.

My child, be not a lustful one; for lust leads the way to fornication; neither a filthy talker, nor of lofty eye; for out of all these adulteries are engendered.

My child, be not an observer of omens, since it leads the way to idolatry; neither an enchanter, nor an astrologer, nor a purifier, nor be willing to look at these things; for out of all these idolatry is engendered.

My child, be not a liar, since a lie leads the way to theft; neither money-loving, nor vainglorious, for out of all these thefts are engendered.

My child, be not a murmurer, since it leads the way to blasphemy; neither self-willed nor evil-minded, for out of all these blasphemies are engendered.

But be meek, since the meek shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5

Be long-suffering and pitiful and guileless and gentle and good and always trembling at the words which you have heard.

You shall not exalt yourself, Luke 18:14 nor give over-confidence to your soul.

Your soul shall not be joined with lofty ones, but with just and lowly ones shall it have its intercourse.

The workings that befall you receive as good, knowing that apart from God nothing comes to pass.



Chapter 4. Various Precepts

My child, him that speaks to you the word of God remember night and day; and you shall honour him as the Lord; for in the place whence lordly rule is uttered, there is the Lord.

And you shall seek out day by day the faces of the saints, in order that you may rest upon their words.

You shall not long for division, but shall bring those who contend to peace.

You shall judge righteously, you shall not respect persons in reproving for transgressions.

You shall not be undecided whether it shall be or no.

Be not a stretcher forth of the hands to receive and a drawer of them back to give.

If you have anything, through your hands you shall give ransom for your sins.

You shall not hesitate to give, nor murmur when you give; for you shall know who is the good repayer of the hire.

You shall not turn away from him that is in want, but you shall share all things with your brother, and shall not say that they are your own; for if you are partakers in that which is immortal, how much more in things which are mortal?

You shall not remove your hand from your son or from your daughter, but from their youth shall teach them the fear of God.
Ephesians 6:4

You shall not enjoin anything in your bitterness upon your bondman or maidservant, who hope in the same God, lest ever they shall fear not God who is over both; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1 for he comes not to call according to the outward appearance, but unto them whom the Spirit has prepared.

And you bondmen shall be subject to your masters as to a type of God, in modesty and fear. Ephesians 6:5; Colossians 3:22

You shall hate all hypocrisy and everything which is not pleasing to the Lord.

Forsake in no way the commandments of the Lord; but you shall keep what you have received, neither adding thereto nor taking away therefrom. Deuteronomy 12:32

In the church you shall acknowledge your transgressions, and you shall not come near for your prayer with an evil conscience.

This is the way of life.



Chapter 5. The Way of Death

And the way of death is this: First of all it is evil and full of curse:

Murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, magic arts, witchcrafts, rapines, false witnessings, hypocrisies, double-heartedness, deceit, haughtiness, depravity, self-will, greediness, filthy talking, jealousy, over-confidence, loftiness, boastfulness;

Persecutors of the good, hating truth, loving a lie, not knowing a reward for righteousness, not cleaving to good nor to righteous judgment, watching not for that which is good, but for that which is evil;

From whom meekness and endurance are far, loving vanities, pursuing requital, not pitying a poor man, not labouring for the afflicted, not knowing Him that made them, murderers of children, destroyers of the handiwork of God, turning away from him that is in want, afflicting him that is distressed, advocates of the rich, lawless judges of the poor, utter sinners.

Be delivered, children, from all these.

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Chapter 6. Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to Idols

See that no one cause you to err from this way of the Teaching, since apart from God it teaches you.

For if you are able to bear all the yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are not able, what you are able that do.

And concerning food, bear what you are able; but against that which is sacrificed to idols be exceedingly on your guard; for it is the service of dead gods.



Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism

And concerning baptism, baptize this way:

Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 in living water.

But if you have not living water, baptize into other water; and if you can not in cold, in warm.

But if you have not either, pour out water thrice upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit.

But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whatever others can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.



Chapter 8. Concerning Fasting and Prayer (the Lord's Prayer)

But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites; Matthew 6:16 for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week; but fast on the fourth day and the Preparation (Friday).

Neither pray as the hypocrites; but as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, thus pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Give us today our daily (needful) bread, and forgive us our debt as we also forgive our debtors.

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one (or, evil); for Yours is the power and the glory forever.

Thrice in the day thus pray.



Chapter 9. The Thanksgiving (Eucharist)

Now concerning the Thanksgiving (Eucharist), thus give thanks.

First, concerning the cup: We thank you, our Father, for the holy vine of David Your servant, which You made known to us through Jesus Your Servant; to You be the glory forever. And concerning the broken bread:

We thank You, our Father, for the life and knowledge which You made known to us through Jesus Your Servant; to You be the glory forever.

Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills, and was gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Your kingdom;

For Yours is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ forever.

But let no one eat or drink of your Thanksgiving (Eucharist), but they who have been baptized into the name of the Lord;

For concerning this also the Lord has said, Give not that which is holy to the dogs.
Matthew 7:6



Chapter 10. Prayer After Communion

But after you are filled, thus give thanks:

We thank You, holy Father, for Your holy name which You caused to tabernacle in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which You made known to us through Jesus Your Servant; to You be the glory forever.

You, Master almighty, created all things for Your name's sake; You gave food and drink to men for enjoyment, that they might give thanks to You; but to us You freely gave spiritual food and drink and life eternal through Your Servant.

Before all things we thank You that You are mighty; to You be the glory forever.

Remember, Lord, Your Church, to deliver it from all evil and to make it perfect in Your love, and gather it from the four winds, sanctified for Your kingdom which You have prepared for it; for Yours is the power and the glory forever.

Let grace come, and let this world pass away. Hosanna to the God (Son) of David! If any one is holy, let him come; if any one is not so, let him repent. Maran atha. Amen.

But permit the prophets to make Thanksgiving as much as they desire.



Chapter 11. Concerning Teachers, Apostles, and Prophets

Whosoever, therefore, comes and teaches you all these things that have been said before, receive him.

But if the teacher himself turn and teach another doctrine to the destruction of this, hear him not; but if he teach so as to increase righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.

But concerning the apostles and prophets, according to the decree of the Gospel, thus do.

Let every apostle that comes to you be received as the Lord.

But he shall not remain except one day; but if there be need, also the next; but if he remain three days, he is a false prophet.

And when the apostle goes away, let him take nothing but bread until he lodges; but if he ask money, he is a false prophet.

And every prophet that speaks in the Spirit you shall neither try nor judge; for every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven.

But not every one that speaks in the Spirit is a prophet; but only if he hold the ways of the Lord.

Therefore from their ways shall the false prophet and the prophet be known.

And every prophet who orders a meal in the Spirit eats not from it, except indeed he be a false prophet; and every prophet who teaches the truth, if he do not what he teaches, is a false prophet.

And every prophet, proved true, working unto the mystery of the Church in the world, yet not teaching others to do what he himself does, shall not be judged among you, for with God he has his judgment; for so did also the ancient prophets.

But whoever says in the Spirit, Give me money, or something else, you shall not listen to him; but if he says to you to give for others' sake who are in need, let no one judge him.



Chapter 12. Reception of Christians

But let every one that comes in the name of the Lord be received, and afterward you shall prove and know him; for you shall have understanding right and left.

If he who comes is a wayfarer, assist him as far as you are able; but he shall not remain with you, except for two or three days, if need be.

But if he wills to abide with you, being an artisan, let him work and eat; 2 Thessalonians 3:10 but if he has no trade, according to your understanding see to it that, as a Christian, he shall not live with you idle.

But if he wills not to do, he is a Christ-monger.

Watch that you keep aloof from such.



Chapter 13. Support of Prophets

But every true prophet that wills to abide among you is worthy of his support.

So also a true teacher is himself worthy, as the workman, of his support. Matthew 10:10; cf. Luke 10:7 Every first-fruit, therefore, of the products of wine-press and threshing-floor, of oxen and of sheep, you shall take and give to the prophets, for they are your high priests.

But if you have not a prophet, give it to the poor. If you make a batch of dough, take the first-fruit and give according to the commandment.

So also when you open a jar of wine or of oil, take the first-fruit and give it to the prophets; and of money (silver) and clothing and every possession, take the first-fruit, as it may seem good to you, and give according to the commandment.


Chapter 14. Christian Assembly on the Lord's Day

But every Lord's day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure.

But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned.

For this is that which was spoken by the Lord:

In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, says the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations.


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Chapter 15. Bishops and Deacons; Christian Reproof

Therefore, appoint for yourselves bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men meek, and not lovers of money, 1 Timothy 3:4 and truthful and proven; for they also render to you the service of prophets and teachers.

Despise them not therefore, for they are your honoured ones, together with the prophets and teachers.

And reprove one another, not in anger, but in peace, as you have it in the Gospel; Matthew 18:15-17 but to every one that acts amiss against another, let no one speak, nor let him hear anything from you until he repents.

But your prayers and alms and all your deeds so do, as you have it in the Gospel of our Lord.



Chapter 16. Watchfulness; The Coming of the Lord

Watch for your life's sake.

Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ready, for you know not the hour in which our Lord comes.

Matthew 24:42 But often shall you come together, seeking the things which are befitting to your souls: for the whole time of your faith will not profit you, if you be not made perfect in the last time.

For in the last days false prophets and corrupters shall be multiplied, and the sheep shall be turned into wolves, and love shall be turned into hate; Matthew 24:11-12

For when lawlessness increases, they shall hate and persecute and betray one another, Matthew 24:10 and then shall appear the world-deceiver as the Son of God, and shall do signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands, and he shall do iniquitous things which have never yet come to pass since the beginning.

Then shall the creation of men come into the fire of trial, and many shall be made to stumble and shall perish;

But they that endure in their faith shall be saved from under the curse itself.



And then shall appear the signs of the truth;

1. First, the sign of an outspreading in heaven;

2. Then the sign of the sound of the trumpet;

3. And the third, the resurrection of the dead;


Yet not of all, but as it is said:

The Lord shall come and all His saints with Him.

Then shall the world see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven.


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Eucharist: Is This An Emblem of Baal, the Sun-God of Paganism?
Original Remembrance Was Ordinary Unleavened Bread
Originally, the Ebionites -- the repositors of the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew -- insisted that the remembrance service about Jesus at Passover (what later became the weekly communion in Catholicism) must use unleavened bread. (See references below.)

However, the Roman Catholics did away with this notion in the 4th century, using only leavened bread, i.e., cakes, apparently round, in such services. However, as proven below, in the 10th Century the Roman church revived the use of unleavened bread, but in the shape of the round modern host which thereby kept the roundness of the cakes of the 4th century form. Why that is important will be evident later.

Here is a summary of what the Ebionites instituted which lasted in the church at large until the 4th Century:

It is related that during the first ages of the church none but unleavened bread was used in the eucharist, till the Ebionites arose, who held that all observances prescribed by Moses were still in force. Upon which both the eastern and western churches took up the use of leavened bread; and after the extinction of that heresy, the western church returned to the azymous [i.e., unleavened bread] the eastern absolutely adhering to the former usage. ("Azymous," A New, complete and universal dictionary (1764) (ed. John Marchant, Daniel Bellamy.)

Pagan Competing Practice of Round Cakes of Leavened Bread
In the pagan religion of Rome, in the Sol Invictus aka Baal religion imported from Syria in the 200s (taken from Phoenicia), a transubstantiatian ritual was performed on Sun-day with a round cake and wine which the faithful were told had become the flesh and blood of their god. This was particularly important on Easter Sun-day i.e., the celebration of the goddess Eostre / Ishtar / Ashtoreth day, the 'Mother of God' aka Baal.

Origin of Roman Church Eucharistic Practices
The famous early reformer and translator, Wycliffe, was the first to resurrect in 1381 AD knowledge that the Eucharistic practice of Roman Catholicism copied Baal practices. As Bridgett summarizes:

"And--to confine ourselves to the matter of the Holy Eucharist--Wycliffe, as we have just been told, spoke of those who held the doctrine of transubstantiation as 'priests of Baal.' Wycliffe considered that this belief brought upon its holders the anger of God." (Thomas Edward Bridgett, History of the Holy Eucharist in Great Britain: Anglo-Normans, later English and Scotch (C. Keegan Paul, 1881) at 298.)

Wycliffe was also concerned about the deification of the host in the ceremony. According to Lechler's summary:

"[Wycliffe] affirms that so-called Christians who take to be their God that 'accident' which they see in the hands of the priest at Mass, sin worse than heathen who in their fetish worship give divine honors throughout the day to whatever object they chance first to see in the early morning.' 'The indignation of Wycliffe against the idolatry committed in the worshipping of the Host,' says the same writer, 'is all the stronger that he cannot avoid the conviction that the authors of this deification of a creature are perfectly well aware of what their God really is. Such priests accordingly he does not scruple to call plainly Baal-priests.'" (Bridgett, id., at 295-96, quoting Professor Lechler Vol. 2 at 182.)

In Roman Catholic practice, as of 1200 AD, the only mandatory day of the year one had to take the host was the Sunday of "Pasqua" (Passover called Easter in British territories which followed Constantinian-era law on how to name these periods). (Bridgett, id., at 261.)

In Roman Catholic practice since the 4th century, the round Eucharist was a leavened cake; it was not made of unleavened bread until the 10th century. "Indeed Sirmondus maintains that the use of unleavened bread in the holy Eucharist was unknown in the Latin Church before the tenth century...." (John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature (Harper: 1869) Vol. 1 at 578.)

Thus, it started out more as a round cake than the host we think of today.jp2-sun_monstrance

Roman Catholicism presents today as the host at Mass conducted by the pope the round Eucharist in a sun-burst monstrance. It is called the Ostensorium. The church boasts this imagery is to convey the image of the Sun:

"During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a sun-monstrance with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold frame with rays."

Rev. Jovian P. Lang, OFM,The Dictionary of the Liturgy (N.Y.: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1989) at 436.

Ishtar aka Eostre and Baal-Sol-Invictus
Ishtar was the Mother goddess of ancient Babylon. There is a reference to her in Jeremiah 44:19. Because Ishtar was known as the Queen of Heaven, the

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Please . . . Don’t Call Protestants . . . Christians . . . They Are Heretics

Marian T. Horvat, Ph.D.

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It is very common today to hear Catholics call a Protestant “a Christian,” or even, “a good Christian.”

In the United States, it was already a practice before Vatican II because of the tendency of American Catholics to accommodate Protestantism, whose tonus dominated the social and business spheres.

Then, there was the question of adaptation as prominent Protestants joined the Catholic faith, or Catholics entered into marriages with Protestants.

It was just easier to call everyone “Christian.” Supposedly it underplayed differences.

It was meant to create the impression that Catholics and Protestants were cousins in one big, happy family.



Pope Leo XIII condemned this tolerance toward Protestantism under the name of Americanism, the heresy of Americanism, to be more precise.

After Vatican II, needless to say, the practice of calling Protestants Christias has snowballed, with the official conciliar documents assuming this same impropriety.

Hence, the Holy See, Prelates and priests have made its use as widespread as possible.

Accommodation to Protestantism in our days has reached such a point that some Catholics, to distinguish between Catholics and their Protestant “separated brethren,” call themselves Catholic Christians.

A redundancy if I've ever heard one.

Only Catholics can be true Christians.

No one who dissents from the Roman Catholic Church can be a Christian.



The terms are synonymous.

Every time I hear the term Christian used for Protestants, I cringe. Its usage clearly nourishes a trend toward a dangerous religious indifferentism.

Which denies the duty of man to worship God by believing and practicing the one true Catholic Religion.



It is an implicit admission that those who deny the one Faith can nonetheless be Christians, that is, be in the Church of Christ.

Inherently it leads to the progressivist notion that men can be saved in any religion that accepts Christ as Savior.

A “good Lutheran,” a “good Anglican,” a “good Presbyterian –

What does it matter so long as they are good people and sincerely love Christ?

Regardless of who is applying this usage today, I want to stress that it is at variance with the entire tradition of the Catholic Church until the Council.

To consider heretics as Christians is not the teaching of the Church.



Before Vatican II, the Magisterium was always very clear:

It is not a matter of an individual’s character or traits.

No one can be in the Church of Christ without professing the ensemble of the truths of Catholic Faith, being in unity with the Chair of Peter and receiving the same Seven Sacraments.

The only Christian is one who accepts Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Church he established.

Who can have God for Father and not accept the Church for Mother? (Pope Pius IX, Singulari quidem of March 17, 1856)

Who can accept the spouse Christ, and not his mystical bride the Church?

Who can separate the Head, the only begotten Son of God, from the body, which is His Church?
(Pope Leo XIII, Satis cognitum of June 29, 1896). It is not possible.



In short, only those who profess the one Catholic Faith and are united with the Mystical Body of Christ are members of the Church of Christ.

And only those members can legitimately bear the title of honor of Christian.

The Protestant sect started as a revolt, protesting the Church of Christ and, pretending to accept Christ without Peter, the authority He established on earth.

With this split, they left the Church and became heretics.

This used to be clearly said and understood, without sentimental fear of offending one’s neighbors or relatives:

A Protestant is a heretic because he severed himself from the Body of the Church.

He is not a Christian, and certainly not a “good Christian.”



Scriptures confirm this truth

My friend Jan thought I was being too severe on this topic.

“You’re making a mountain out of a molehill,” She said.

“Don’t Scriptures teach us to love our neighbor and not be judgmental?”



It is the same old post Vatican II story, claiming that it is “judgmental” to correct bad practices and false teachings and arguing with disputable interpretations of Scriptures.

Well, despite these subjective interpretations, the inspired words of Scriptures provide an unambiguous defense that the custody of the vineyard has been committed by Christ to the Catholic Church alone.

Let me quote just a few verses:

“He who hears you (Peter) hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects me, and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me.
(Lk 10:16).”


It could not be clearer:

The Protestant who rejects the head, rejects Christ himself, and should not be granted the name Christian.

Christ establishes one Church with a single head:

"And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
(Matt 16:19).

St. Paul is severe in his condemnation of false teachers, e.g. Protestants:

“If any man preaches any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”
(Gal 1: 9).

In another passage he instructs Catholics to remove themselves from the bad society of non-Catholics:

“And we charge you, brethren, in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the Tradition which they have received of us.”
(2 Thess 3:6).

The Apostle St. John forbade any intercourse with heretics: “If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house or welcome him.”
(2 Jo 1:10)”

Holy Scriptures are clear on the point that only those who belong to the one Church founded by Christ, the Catholic Church, can rightfully be considered Christians.



Popes reiterate this teaching

The traditional Papal Magisterium was also clear on this topic. Let me offer a few texts by way of exemplification.

Pius XII stated unequivocally:

“To be Christian one must be Roman.

One must recognize the oneness of Christ’s Church that is governed by one successor of the Prince of the Apostles who is the Bishop of Rome, Christ’s Vicar on earth”
(Allocution to the Irish pilgrims of October 8, 1957).

How is it possible to be clearer than this about those who can be called Christian?

Leo XIII makes it plain that separated members cannot belong to the same body: “So long as the member was on the body, it lived; separated, it lost its life.

Thus the man, so long as he lives on the body of the [Catholic] Church, he is a Christian; separated from her, he becomes a heretic”
(Encyclical Satis cognitum of June 29, 1896).

Emphasizing the fate of those who break away from the one Faith, he says:

“Whoever leaves her [the Catholic Church] departs from the will and command of Our Lord Jesus Christ; leaving the path of salvation, he enters that of perdition.

Whoever is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress.”
(ibid.).

Certainly, they do not share with us the same title of Christian.

Pope Pius IX stated:

“He who abandons the Chair of Peter on which the Church is founded, is falsely persuaded that he is in the Church of Christ.”
(Quartus supra of January 6 1873, n. 8).



In the Syllabus of Modern Errors,

The proposition that Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion was specifically condemned.
(Pius IX, n. 18)(1).

Therefore, there is only one Christian Church, the Catholic Church, and only those who belong to it should rightfully be called Christians.



How to fight Americanism?

Many persons ask me:

What can I do to fight Progressivism?

Others have requested:
Give me some specific examples of how I can combat Americanism.



Let me offer one concrete way to fight in yourself the tendency toward accommodation with Protestantism.

When you catch yourself calling a Protestant a “Christian,”

Stop and correct yourself.

Call him a Protestant.

It is a way to affirm that you do not accept the Protestant errors and that you acknowledge it for the terrible thing it is:

Protestants denied many Catholic dogmas and for this reason caused that first major crack in the unity of the Catholic Church that caused untold damage to Christendom and the perdition of those souls adhering to it.

It is a small thing, but by such small customs we as a people have been walking steadily toward religious indifferentism.

It is time to set some roadblocks on that path. We should not veil in ambiguous terms our love for the ensemble of the Catholic Faith.

The only true union possible for Catholics with Protestants is by their return to the one true Church of Christ, the Catholic Church.

Only with such a return can they rightfully call themselves Christians.

Numerous traditional Catholic teachings on the this topic can be found in Atila S. Guimarães, Aniums Delendi II, Los Angeles: TIA, 2002, pp. 205-217.
See also "Christian Ecuemnism" in Simon Galloway, No Crisis in the Church? New Olive Press, 2006, pp. 1-51.

Posted on February 6, 2007

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