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We've all seen the statistics. All the polls show it. People are leaving the Catholic church, Especially the youth. In the United States: 4 out of 5 cradle Catholics, who were brought up in the novus ordo, leave the faith by age 23. the percent of Americans who self identify as Catholic, with a 70 year average of 25%, is currently 22, 23% Of those people less than half attend mass at all, of that roughly half attend only Easter and Christmas. The number of people who identify as Catholic who actually attend mass regularly is some where around 15 to 20% Prior to the second Vatican council regular mass attendance among Catholics was over 70% And of course, we all know that the fastest growing religious denomination is ex-catholic. So what happened? sources: https://www.axios.com/2022/04/28/catholic-decline-latin-america-evangelicals https://news.gallup.com/poll/245858/catholics-faith-clergy-shaken.aspx https://www.statista.com/statistics/245478/self-described-religious-identification-of-americans/

"Are you saved?" This question is often asked of Catholics by fundamentalist, Evangelical Christians such as Baptists, Assemblies of God and members of other rivivalist or bible-only churches. Sometimes its our friends or family, colleagues at work, although their really not supposed to do that, people knocking on doors and sometimes its total strangers coming up to you off the street asking: " Are you saved?" The idea is that Salvation is a 1 time event in which a person makes the decision to be a christian by asking Jesus to save them. Once this is done they are "Saved"

In 1858 the blessed virgin mary appeared to a young peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous in a grotto in Lourdes, France. She appeared to Bernadette 18 times. After four years of investigations, the Catholic Church proclaimed the apparitions at Lourdes in 1858 as valid and pronounced this site a place worthy of pilgrimage. Why? Because of the miraculous healings that have occurred to those who have bathed in, or drank the water of lourdes. Claims of cures were so numerous that various medical boards have been set up to verify these claims. Since the beginning of the phenomena, almost 8,000 cures have been examined by the Lourdes Medical Bureau. Sources: ( some extensively quoted) Vittorio micheli Miracle hunter (https://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/lourdes/miracles1.html) (The Miraculous Cure of a Sarcoma of the Pelvis: Cure of Vittorio Micheli at Lourdes) Barbara A. Neilan https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027009/ Fr hollowell Priest who offered up cancer for clerical abuse victims says he was healed at Lourdes February 1, 2023 By Gina Christian OSV News Serge perrin and Delizia Costa (Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Medical_Bureau) Marie Bally/ Dr Alexis Carrel (The Lourdes miracle that brought a Nobel prize-winning doctor to faith, aleteia https://aleteia.org/2018/11/06/the-lourdes-miracle-that-brought-a-nobel-prize-winning-doctor-to-faith/) Lourdes sanctuaire: the message of lourdes (https://www.lourdes-france.com/en/the-message-of-lourdes/)

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Where is hell? Before we answer that question we need to answer another question: What is Hell? The ancient religions believed in the underworld. A place where all people went when they dies.. The Jews call it sheol, the Greeks called it Hades, and the Germanic tribes called it Hell. So you see the original meaning of the word Hell did not exclusively mean the abode of the damned or the lake of fire where damned souls go for all eternity. Even in Christian folklore it wasn't always exclusively for the damned.

*****I do not agree with the position that says " Francis is not the Pope" however I do have sympathy for it, and do not consider those who hold to this position to be schismatic, outside the church, heretics, going to hell for it, or anything less then Catholic. st Cajatan said: If someone for a reasonable motive holds the person of the Pope in suspicion and refuses his presence, even his jurisdiction, he does not commit the delict of schism, nor any other whatsoever, provided that he’d be ready to accept the Pope were he not held in suspicion. i believe this applies to the situation we find ourselves in with Francis************** Fr Altman has recently come out with a video declaring that Jorge Bergoglio aka Pope Francis is not the Pope. Former Catholic Answers host Patrick Coffin believes francis is not the Pope And Taylor Marshall has at least explored the possibility. Whether he has officially declared that Francis is not Pope I don't know. I haven't watched Taylor Marshall in a while. Why would these people take such a controversial opinion? In some cases risking their livelihoods and reputation? Because, not only do they believe Francis is not the Pope, they believe Francis is actively trying to destroy the Church. Some believe a Prophecy by St. Francis of Assisi is being fulfilled

Sorry about the spelling error at the end. It should be Cognitive dissonance, not Cognitive dissidence. for some reason my phone brings up dissidence instead of dissonance when I type it out and I didnt catch it. And since I read from a script dissidence is what I said. I looked at trying to edit it but looks like the only way to fix it is to edit the original, delete this video and up load the corrected verson. sorry, but this video has been up for too long for me to do that. So I guess we'll just have to live with it. No other religious group is lied about like the Catholic Church. And Anyone who's dealt with Protestants knows that they believe some pretty ridiculous things about Catholics as a result. This can be frustrating since Catholics end up defending the church against the same accusations over and over again. In this video I will go over a few of the most ridiculous things Protestants believe about Catholics. And give a brief refutation. The purpose is not to give a complete apologetic of each subject. I have videos on my channel giving a more indepth defense on these topics. So those video for a complete analysis. So let's get into it. Here are some of the most ridiculous things Protestants believe about Catholics.

Our society has a problem. A problem that has both spiritual and temporal ramifications. its our attitude towards marriage. We live in a culture of temporary marriage. where marriages are entered into, but a few years later, dissolved. the people then find other people to marry. and so on and so on. Our society has redefined marriage to mean things that, quite frankly, it doesn't mean .This is a serious problem because marriage does not come from us or the state. The state has no right under the natural law to define marriage. Marriage comes from God. And it is his rules that apply. Breaking these rules can result in one's eternal damnation. But also breaking these rules are bad for society.

refuting the false claim that the Catholic Church added books to the bible. those books have always been there, and it was Protestants who threw them out

Many Christians believe that the Roman Catholic Church was started by Emperor Constantine. that the early church operated the way their church operates today. With beliefs such as scripture alone, faith alone, once saved always saved, etc. Now I have videos refuting all these doctrinal errors on my channel. Please see those videos for further examination of those topics. They believe that all the uniquely Catholic doctrines were added either by constantine or sometime later, Doctrines such as papal infallibility, bishops, confessing sins to a priest, praying to Mary and other saints, purgatory, infant baptism etc… and that the true church was driven underground. Is this true?

belief in the real presence of the Eucharist, that the bread and wine become the body blood soul and Divinity of our lord Jesus Christ, is difficult even among Catholics. Even among Priests and Bishops. But God in his mercy for his creature's has seen fit to show us that the bread and wine do indeed become his flesh and blood by causing, on various occasions, the bread and wine to transform, not just Transubstantiate, but transform, physically become his flesh and blood. These miraculous hosts have been tested by independent scientists, often times without knowing what they are testing. Here are a few examples:

Did the Vatican replace sister Lucy, the Fatima seer chosen by the Blessed Virgin Mary to give the Fatima message to the world, with a look a like to help the Vatican 2 transition in the church? So that people would not resist the radical changes in the church? She virtually disappeared for around 20 years only to pop back on to the public scene in 1967 with Pope Paul 6th, apparently giving her approval of the changes implemented a few years latter This is significant since a lot of evidence seems to say that the real 3rd secret of Fatima was a warning against the changes of the 2nd Vatican council.

*********Pope Leo xiii was 1884 not 1984****** One point that I continuously make in my videos. Is that the Catholic Church, for over a hundred years, has been infiltrated by communists, sodomites and Freemasons. the Communist infiltration we know of from a woman who went by the name of Bella dodd. She was part of the American wing of the Communist party, and testified before congress that they were responsible for putting some 1100 communists into Catholic seminaries. That's just in America. Fr John O'connor was suspended by his superior in the late 1980's for teaching the true catholic position on homosexual acts. When a canon lawyer went to Rome on his behalf, he came back saying that fr O'connor would never get his faculties back because there were too many pro sodomites in the Roman curia. But where does all of this really stem from?

In my last 2 videos we saw that our current world was crafted behind the scenes by freemasons through revolutions for freedom against legitimate Christian Monarchies and world wars. Establishing new secular countries with universal bodies such as the League of Nations, and the United Nations to give over sight. We briefly looked at the history of Freemasonry and touched on the spiritual problems often suffered by its members and their descendants due to the horrible oaths they take, which include oaths to false gods In this video we will discuss freemasonry and the Catholic church. What the Church has said about freemasonry, and what has been the masonic activity towards the Catholic church

Have you ever noticed that If you compare various bible translations they don't necessarily agree. In fact the difference between the various translations can mean a profound change in the meaning of the text.

While on our Christian journey it is natural to contemplate the afterlife. What will heaven be like? What is Hell like? And so on.. It is also normal for the Christian to have loved ones who are living lives that we know will send them to Hell. Oftentimes this is a child who, though raised in the true and Catholic faith, decides to leave the Church. Some leave the Catholic Church for another, more palatable form of Christianity. And while Salvation is possible for those in other forms of Christianity. Such as Protestantism and Orthodoxy, their Salvation is only possible if they are unaware of Christ's desire for all men to be Catholic.

What happens to us when we die? Some say we come back and live another life. And this happens over and over again. . Others believe we wonder the earth helping our family members who are alive. Like a guardian angel. And can even talk to those family members through ouija boards. mediums and psychics. some believe you might get trapped on your way to eternal rest and my be in need of help getting to the "other side" Again, with the aid of mediums and psychics. But none of this is true.

Is the Sspx preparing to, once again, consecrate bishops? Rumors are circulating that the Sspx is preparing to consecrate as many as 6 new bishops.

****yes, this is the same video I uploaded earlier, I changed the ending. I didnt realize permission was needed to use Divine Mercy Image in the manner I used it.****** What happens to infants, and other children before the age of reason, or people who never reach a state of reason, who die without baptism? Look, I know this is a sensitive topic. But, Unfortunately the truth doesn't care about our feelings. And just so you know I have 5 grandchildren and only 1 of them is baptized. So it's not as though I'm unsympathetic to anyone's individual situation. But the truth is the truth. And the truth is hard to bear sometimes. And just because we don't like the truth, doesn't mean we can change it.

Source fsspx news april 11th 2023 Philippines: The Church Says “No” to Freemasons The Conference of Bishops of the Philippines (CBCP) has just issued a statement reminding the faithful of the impossibility of a Catholic being a part of Freemasonry. A welcome clarification, as it appears that Freemasons in the archipelago had been participating in the preparatory work for the Synod on Synodality. “We thought that the teachings of the Catholic Church on the matter had evolved. Since several participants in the Synod are Freemasons, we thought that the Church had relaxed its rules on joining Masonry and participating in activities of the Catholic Church,” explains Gloria Buencamino. For this parishioner from Quezon City, the episcopal development is surprising, because in some churches, “Catholic Freemasons help the priest distribute communion; in our parish alone we have two and they were delegated to the Synod on Synodality. They are good and pious Catholics,” she says. Suffice to say that the CBCP's warning came at the right time: the Filipino prelates recalling that “since 1954 and until today, the Philippine Church has always taught 'the incompatibility' between the fact of being Catholic and belonging to Freemasonry, because of the serious errors contained in Masonic principles and philosophy.” Thus, the Church's position on Masonic sects remains unchanged “due to beliefs, practices, and rituals incompatible with the doctrines of the Church.”

Is Hell real? It seems, today, many people who call themselves Christians, or state a belief in God, either don't believe in hell, or believe almost no one goes there. And they certainly don't believe they will be going to Hell. But I have some bad news. Hell is real, and you might go there. Jesus Christ talked about Hell more than any other topic.