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Jan 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: @Pontifex has declared St. Irenaeus of Lyons (d. ca. 202 A.D.), a very important early Church Father, a Doctor of the Church "with the title of Doctor unitatis ['Doctor of unity']." press.vatican.va/content/salast…
St. Irenaeus' five-volume work "Adversus haereses" ("Against Heresies") is one of the most important Patristic texts of the 2nd century A.D. — a text which thoroughly proves the Catholicity and Apostolicity of the early Church. Here is a sample: newadvent.org/fathers/010330…
St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Doctor, pray for us! newadvent.org/cathen/08130b.…
St. Irenaeus is also one of the earliest Fathers of the Church to describe #OurLady as the #NewEve (Against Heresies, Book III, 22, 4): newadvent.org/fathers/010332…

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Jan 21
"The promotion of the pre-Vatican II liturgy as somehow more holy or prayerful than the current liturgy 'is not basically a liturgical problem, it is an *ecclesial* problem,' the archbishop said."

Trans.: The TLM is incompatible with the new ecclesiology. ncronline.org/news/theology/…
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Dec 15, 2021
As others have pointed out, @ThomasJTobin1, "Recognize and Resist" has been around for decades and is based on St. Paul's example (Gal. 2:11) plus such texts as the following from St. Robert Bellarmine:

"Therefore, just as it would be lawful to resist a Pontiff..." 1/4
2/4 "invading a body [i.e., threatening physical harm], so it is lawful to resist him invading souls or disturbing a state, and much more if he [the Pope] should endeavor to destroy the Church. I say, it is lawful to resist him, by not doing what he commands, ..."
3/4 "and by blocking him, lest he should carry out his will; still, it is not lawful to judge or punish or even depose him [the Pope], because he is nothing other than a superior." — St. Robert Bellarmine, On the Roman Pontiff, Book II, Ch. 29 mediatrixpress.com/product/on-the…
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Oct 9, 2021
This morning in Rome, @Pontifex presided over a "Moment of Reflection" in preparation for the official opening of "the synodal Journey" tomorrow.

"The Synod," said Francis, presents "a great opportunity for a pastoral conversion in terms of mission and ecumenism..." 1/4
However, said @Pontifex, the #Synod "is not exempt from certain risks," including "formalism", "intellectualism", and "complacency".

Invoking the Holy Spirit, Francis prayed: "keep us from becoming a 'museum Church', beautiful but mute, with much past and little future." 2/4
@Pontifex also quoted Fr. Yves Congar (below, with a young Fr. Ratzinger), a progressive Dominican peritus (theological expert) at Vatican II, who "once said: 'There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church' (True and False Reform in the Church)." 3/4
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Oct 8, 2021
Kudos to @RaymondArroyo for interviewing @BishopAthanas1 on @WorldOverLive. His Excellency spends a good amount of time discussing #TraditionisCustodes.
Regarding #TraditionisCustodes, @BishopAthanas1 observes that "behind this Motu Proprio there is another agenda," namely, a "decisive rejection of Tradition".
When asked how the "Ordinary Form" (Novus Ordo) and "Extraordinary Form" (TLM) should "co-exist", @BishopAthanas1 emphasized that they are "quite different" and that it would be "more honest" to identify them as "two rites" — something @Pontifex has done, invoking "bi-ritualism".
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Mar 7, 2021
"He that is not with Me, is against Me" (Luke 11:23).

"Christianity does not tolerate indifference. He who is not firmly on Christ's side, working with Him for the extension of His kingdom, by this very fact is opposed to Him..." — #DivineIntimacy, Third Sunday of #Lent
"If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham" (John 8:39) — namely, believe in Jesus, the promised Messiah.

"Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see My day: he saw it and was glad. ... Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am." (John 8:56, 58)
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[Thread] Wrong, @FrMatthewLC. Your argument is based on the false premise that the primary purpose of the #DeathPenalty is the protection of society from dangerous criminals. That is secondary. The primary purpose is to punish the guilty as an act of retributive justice.
God Himself makes this principle of retributive justice quite clear in Genesis, something He *requires* (not suggests) for upholding the dignity of man: "Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God." (Gen. 9:6)
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