"Quid Est Veritas" has been established to explain and defend the Catholic faith during what is surely the greatest crisis the Church has ever experienced.
This Blog will seek to shine the light of doctrinal truth on the post conciliar haze of ambiguity and confusion.
It will also serve to explain and defend the teachings of the Catholic faith which are often misunderstood by non-Catholics.
"Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists." -Pope St. Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, "Where have they taken him?" -Pope Pius XII
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"Clearly, the interior life is all that really matters for each one of us. It is much more indispensable than what we speak of as the intellectual life. For without a true interior life man is the prey to selfishness and pride and can have no wholesome, lasting, and profound influence on society."
St. John Chrysostom
"The divine law indeed has excluded women from the ministry, but they endeavor to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others; and they have become invested with so much power that they can appoint or eject priests at their will: things in fact are turned upside down, and the proverbial saying may be seen realized—“The ruled lead the rulers:” and would that it were men who do this instead of women, who have not received a commission to teach. Why do I say teach? For the blessed Paul did not suffer them even to speak in the Church. But I have heard some one say that they have obtained such a large privilege of free speech, as even to rebuke the prelates of the churches, and censure them more severely than masters do their own domestics."
Dietrich vonHildebrand
"The drivel of heretics, both priests and laymen, is tolerated; the bishops tacitly acquiesce to the poisoning of the faithful. But they want to silence the faithful believers who take up the cause of orthodoxy."
Evelyn Waugh
"We had looked upon them [proponents of liturgical change] as harmless cranks who were attempting to devise a charade of second-century habits. We had confidence in the abiding Romanita of our Church. Suddenly we find the cranks in authority."
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani
"The people never on any account asked for the liturgy to be changed, or mutilated so as to understand it better. They asked for a better understanding of the changeless liturgy, and one which they would never have wanted changed."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"It is absurd, and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old."
Pope Adrian VI (1522-1523)
"If by the Roman Church you mean its head or pontiff, it is beyond question that he can error even in matters touching the faith. He does this when he teaches heresy by his own judgment or decretal. In truth, many Roman pontiffs were heretics. The last of them was Pope John XXII (1316-1334)." (Quaest. in IV Sententiam)... "After his death [Pope] Honorius was anathematized by the Eastern Church. We must remember that he was accused of heresy, a crime which legitimizes the resistance of inferiors to superiors, together with the rejection of their pernicious doctrines.” (Allocution III, Lect. In Conc. VIII, act. VII)
Pope Paul IV
"In assessing Our duty and the situation now prevailing, We have been weighed upon by the thought that a matter of this kind [i.e. error in respect of the Faith] is so grave and so dangerous that the Roman Pontiff, who is the representative upon earth of God and our God and Lord Jesus Christ, who holds the fullness of power over peoples and kingdoms, who may judge all and be judged by none in this world, may nonetheless be contradicted if he be found to have deviated from the Faith. Remembering also that, where danger is greater, it must more fully and more diligently be counteracted, We have been concerned lest false prophets or others, even if they have only secular jurisdiction, should wretchedly ensnare the souls of the simple, and drag with them into perdition, destruction and damnation countless peoples committed to their care and rule, either in spiritual or in temporal matters; and We have been concerned also lest it may befall Us to see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, in the holy place. In view of this, Our desire has been to fulfill our Pastoral duty, insofar as, with the help of God, We are able, so as to arrest the foxes who are occupying themselves in the destruction of the vineyard of the Lord and to keep the wolves from the sheepfolds, lest We seem to be dumb watchdogs that cannot bark and lest We perish with the wicked husbandman and be compared with the hireling"(Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio ).
Fr. Cekada recently released a juvenile video on Sedevacantism called “Stuck in a Rut,” which he dresses up with humorous caricatures and comical satire (techniques he commonly uses to camouflage the weakness of his own arguments). In the video, Fr. Cekada makes an embarrassing blunder when he attempts to use canon 151 from the 1917 Code of Canon Law to explain away the teaching of the theologians who teach that a declaratory sentence of the crime is necessary for a Pope to lose his office for heresy. Fr. Cekada actually wants his followers to believe that when the theologians speak of a declaration of the crime, they are merely referring to an administrative declaration the Church makes which announces that the office is already vacant by law (but being illegitimately occupied).
Obviously, Fr. Cekada has put the cart (the administrative declaration of vacancy) before the horse (the determination of the crime that gave rise to the vacancy in the first place). Any administrative declaration by the Church under canon 151 (to remove an illegal occupant) must be preceded by a judgment of that same authority establishing the basis for the removal (e.g., the crime of heresy). The example of an eviction notice after a real estate foreclosure will help to illustrate Cekada's error. In the cases of both ecclesiastical office and real estate, the underlying cause (e.g., crime/debtor default) that gave rise to the loss (office/property) has already been adjudicated by the proper authorities (the Church/secular court). Unfortunately, many unread and gullible followers fall for Fr. Cekada's ostensible erudition, which is easily unmasked when you dig just below the surface. Even Sedevacantist Bishop Donald Sanborn (left) rejects Fr. Cekada's novel theory.
Fr. Cekada recently released a juvenile video on Sedevacantism called “Stuck in a Rut,” which he dresses up with humorous caricatures and comical satire (techniques he commonly uses to camouflage the weakness of his own arguments). In the video, Fr. Cekada makes an embarrassing blunder when he attempts to use canon 151 from the 1917 Code of Canon Law to explain away the teaching of the theologians who teach that a declaratory sentence of the crime is necessary for a Pope to lose his office for heresy. Fr. Cekada actually wants his followers to believe that when the theologians speak of a declaration of the crime, they are merely referring to an administrative declaration the Church makes which announces that the office is already vacant by law (but being illegitimately occupied).
Obviously, Fr. Cekada has put the cart (the administrative declaration of vacancy) before the horse (the determination of the crime that gave rise to the vacancy in the first place). Any administrative declaration by the Church under canon 151 (to remove an illegal occupant) must be preceded by a judgment of that same authority establishing the basis for the removal (e.g., the crime of heresy). The example of an eviction notice after a real estate foreclosure will help to illustrate Cekada's error. In the cases of both ecclesiastical office and real estate, the underlying cause (e.g., crime/debtor default) that gave rise to the loss (office/property) has already been adjudicated by the proper authorities (the Church/secular court). Unfortunately, many unread and gullible followers fall for Fr. Cekada's ostensible erudition, which is easily unmasked when you dig just below the surface. Even Sedevacantist Bishop Donald Sanborn (left) rejects Fr. Cekada's novel theory.
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