Catholicism in the Car

20/02/2024

My wife, Maria Zurbuch, is the most amazing, talented, beautiful, wonderful woman I have ever known :)

She made me a BEAUTIFUL cigar box for Valentine's Day (yes, she made this herself)!

It has burned on it Genesis 1:3 from both the Hebrew Tanakh and Greek Septuagint.

"God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light."

23/01/2024

TWO LOGICAL ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF THE “INFALLIBLE SAFETY” OF THE ORDINARY MAGISTERIUM

Thesis: Individuals cannot and ought not accuse the Ordinary Magisterium (OM) of Pope Francis as having had promulgated heresy or serious error.

NOTE: Definitions of terms used in this post, and in this blog more widely can be found here.

My reasoning for this is two-fold:

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Thesis: Individuals cannot and ought not accuse the Ordinary Magisterium (OM) of Pope Francis as having had promulgated heresy or serious er...

23/01/2024

21/01/2024

OUTLINE OF THE THEOLOGICAL CENSURES

The following is my paraphrase and synthesis of the Catholic Encyclopedia (NewAdvent) on the Theological Censures of the Catholic Church. I have quoted and given a link to the entire section at the end of this article.

I think the format that said Encyclopedia uses is a bit difficult to wrap one's mind around, so I attempt herein to outline the Theological Censures in a more understandable way.

Hope you enjoy!

The following is my paraphrase and synthesis of the Catholic Encyclopedia (NewAdvent) on the Theological Censures of the Catholic Church. I ...

13/01/2024

ON PRIVATE JUDGEMENT vs. THE MAGISTERIUM - EXCERPTS FROM TESTEM BENEVOLENTIAE NOSTRAE
POPE LEO XIII - 1899

Please excuse my editing of this excerpt. In order not to make this post too long, I cut out certain parts of this quote. It was difficult to not just leave it all in. If you want to read the document for yourself, I will attach a link below. It is beautiful... and convicting.

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Excerpt from Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (Concerning New Opinions, Virtue, Nature and Grace, With Regard to Americanism) By Pope Leo XIII -...

07/01/2024

SOME EXCERPTS ON THE "INFALLIBLE SAFETY" OF THE NON-DEFINITIVE MAGISTERIUM

More excerpts from magisterial texts in support of the proposition of the "Charism of Safety" (aka. "Infallible Safety") as regards the ordinary (non-definitive) magisterium of the Roman Pontiff:

"***So the sheep of Christ should consider safe and eat cheerfully the food to which Peter’s voice and authority directs them;*** but despite any beauty and charm, they should shun as harmful and plague-ridden, what this voice forbids them. Those who do not comply are certainly not to be counted among the sheep of Christ."
~ Pope Pius VII, Diu Satis, 1800.

https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius07/p7diusat.htm

"Therefore may the unity which is built upon the See of Peter as on a sure foundation stand firm. May it be for all a ***wall and a security, a safe port, and a treasury of countless*** blessings."

- Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, 1832
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg16/g16mirar.htm

" [D]o everything so that the faithful committed especially to your vigilance may reverently and obediently follow Us and the See of Peter. This center of Catholic unity is not only the head of all the churches, but also their mother and teacher; it dispels the darkness of error and is the ***safest port for all who are tossed about.*** "
-Pope Pius IX, Maximae Quidem, 1864.

https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius09/p9maxima.htm

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These texts are gleamed from the wonderful (and thorough) essay entitled "On the Infallible Safety of the Papal Ordinary Magisterium" of Nov. 11, 2020

https://danielscatholicresources.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/on-the-infallible-safety-of-the-papal-ordinary-magisterium/

this document, I demonstrate, by way of eight distinct arguments, and appeals to ten different pre-Vatican II theologians, that the papal ordinary magisterium, or more specifically, any doctrine th…