The Catholic Monitor

  September 05, 2019 - Vatican I expert Fr. Chad Ripperger, PhD, in his book "Magister Authority" shows that almost all Francis apologists be they liberal, conservative or traditionalist are "proximate to heresy": "[T]reating ALL papal statements as if they are infallible... is proximate to heresy because it rejects the precise formulation of the conditions of infallibility as laid out in Vatican I... by essentially saying the pope is infallible regardless of conditions..." "... Worse still, those who were to follow a pope who was in error in a non-infallible teaching which is taught contrary to something that is infallible is not, therefore, excused." (Magisterial Authority, Pages 5-14)   At times, I have found that the comments in the Catholic Monitor comment section are better than my post. This was true of the last post in which Jack  wrote a deeply insightful comment that mirrored Fr. Rippinger's above explanatio...

  - Marie Robinson's "The Power of Sexual Surrender" explains that woman are presently at war with men because of the Protestant "Victorian or feminist mothers" reaction to the "so-called Industrial Revolution, which was to change the whole fabric of society" especially the family home. - Catholic Monitor - "At first blush, the new [ Lutheran/Calvinist Francis ] Jansenism sounds encouraging—none are guilty, all are saved! In truth, however, a p essimism that would canonize all is only a shade less pessimistic than one that would condemn all to hell. As St. Thomas notes, both despair and presumption are sins against hope." - Theologian Jessica Murdoch [ Amoris Laetitia's Lutheran Sin of Presumption vs. Sacred Heart of Jesus Devotion of Reparation: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/06/amoris-laetitias-lutheran-sin-of.html ] - And since [the apparent Francis] Balthasar’s theology of Christ’s descent entails a de facto rejection o...