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+ JMJ So Pope Francis has an issue with Our Lady's titles - particularly Co-Redemptrix. Oh well, Dr. Malloy has posted a series of articles highlighting some key couter-points. I have also included links to Fr. Hunwicke and Wikipedia articles. Theological Flint - Dr. Malloy - Mary Co-Redemptrix - Part 1 Theological Flint - Dr. Malloy - Mary Co-Redemptrix - Part 2 Theological Flint - Dr. Malloy - Mary Co-Redemptrix - Part 3 Theological Flint - Dr. Malloy - Mary Co-Redemptrix - Part 4 Theological Flint - Dr. Malloy - Mary Co-Redemptrix - Catholic Radio: Mary as Co-Redemptrix Fr. Hunwicke: Coredemptrix?  Wikipedia: Co-Redemptrix  Reproduced below is Dr. Ott's section on the same topic. I've been tidying it up (PDF conversion didn't work so well) ... but I have better things to do and I think you'll be able to error-correct 😀 P^3 Source: Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma - Ott 1954 Mary's Co-operation in the Work of Redemption § 7. The ...

+ JMJ This is definitely one for the chronicle: Francis to Favorite Journalist: "Jesus was not at all a God." First, the actual declarations, as reported by Francis' favorite journalist, Eugenio Scalfari, published in today's edition of La Repubblica (available online since yesterday): "Those who, as it has happened many times with me, have had the luck of meeting him and speaking to him with the greatest cultural intimacy, know that pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, man, not God incarnate. Once incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross . [...] "When I had the chance of discussing these sentences, pope Francis told me: ' They are the proven proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once having become a man, was, though a man of exceptional virtues, not at all a God.' " (Main excerpts: the original page is behind a paywall) *** Now, obviously, as it h...

+ JMJ In this crisis, we need to adhere to the Dogmas and Doctrines of the Catholic Church, no matter who contradicts them - be they your parish priest, bishop, or even the Pope. One of these doctrines is that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mediatrix of All Graces.  A thought that is repugnant to the protestants as well as foreign to some modern Catholics. Yet, a doctrine of the Catholic Church it remains. P^3 Courtesy of FSSPX.news The doctrine of Our Lady as the Mediatrix of all graces is a truth of faith pertaining to the universal ordinary magisterium (see link) . It maintains that all the graces of conversion and sanctification, merited by Our Lord through His passion and death on the cross, have been deposited in Mary so that she may distribute them to all men of good will, «whenever she wishes, to whom she wishes, how she wishes and how much she wishes» (St  Bernard). This mystery is not only one of her most beautiful pr...

+ JMJ Here's my first attempt at a list of Dogma's crucial for today's crisis! P^3 Tradicat: De Fide Teachings of the Catholic Church Book 1: The Unity and Trinity of God God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things.  The Vatican Council defined: If anybody says that the one true God. Our Creator and Lord cannot be known with certainty in the light of human reason by those things which have been made, ... " D 1806; cf. 1785, 1391. There is only One God. *  Most of the Symbols of Faith expressly teach the Umcity ofGod. The NiceneConstantinople Symbol declares: Credo in unum DeUlll. (I believe in one God) D 54, 86. "fhe 4th Lateran Council (1215) declares: Unus solus est verus Deus. (The true God is one alone) D 428: c£ 1782. Opposed to this basic Christian dogma are heathen polytheism, and gnostic-manichaean dualism which posit several eternal principles. God is infinitely just. ...

+ JMJ First step, I'm going to highlight those Dogmas that I think are either under attack or neglected in this age. Because Neo-Modernism (like its father Modernism) undermines all Dogmas, in theory all Dogma's should be highlighted!!! P^3 Tradicat: De Fide Teachings of the Catholic Church Book 1: The Unity and Trinity of God God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things.  God's existence is not merely an object of natural rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith.  God's nature is incomprehensible to men.  The blessed in Heaven possess an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence.  The Immediate Vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural.  The soul, for the Immediate Vision of God, requires the light of glory.  God's Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven.  ...

+ JMJ I almost lost patience with someone at a modern Catholic Men's meeting a couple of months ago.  My interlocutor (yes I've been waiting for years to use that word in context!) affirmed that a black mass wasn't valid. Meaning that Our Lord Jesus Christ wasn't present because the priest who attempted to confect the sacrament had a bad intention. The root of the problem is that the priest had two separate intentions: To do what the Church does when it confects the sacrament, To provide the consecrated host for the purposes of sacrilege.  When he couldn't make headway on that front, he switched to another front which was equally bad. At that point, in a firm / somewhat exasperated tone I stated: This is a Dogma of the Catholic Church, if you don't like it leave the Church!!! At which some of the other modern Catholic who know that I am a Traditional Catholic who seeks the sacraments from the SSPX chuckled. But the point is clear, I should...