What Catholics Believe

On this episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins: discuss the report of the Pennsylvania grand jury concerning the amoral behavior in six Pennsylvania dioceses as well as the Society of St. John; comment on the new sacraments, new rites, new morals (or lack there of), and ask is this the behavior of the Catholic Church or the modernists & their Novus Ordo church?; ask why is the bishop of the diocese of Madison (Wisconsin) now speaking out?; examine Francis’ letter addressing the Pennsylvania scandals; explore the links between John Paul II, Obama, and Francis; analyze how Francis is not only destroying the concept of the papacy but also the priesthood; tackle the role of the Second Vatican Council’s ‘Dignitatis humanae’ (religious liberty) in all of this; and wrap-up with how ‘human dignity’ & homosexuality are connected. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

Fr. Jenkins addresses the growing cry in the world for "socialism" to replace "capitalism" from Francis in the Vatican to the classrooms of our colleges. Where does this cry originate from? Where does "socialism" ultimately lead its followers? Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

In this episode of What Catholics Believe, Tom and Fr. Jenkins discuss: Bp. Fellay’s 2013 comments on Francis and the Society’s flip-flop on modernist Rome; Fr. Thomas Rosica, “Pope Francis breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants because he is ‘free from disordered attachments.’”; Francis’ recent use of the term “LGBT youth”; how modernism is worse than the ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’; the parallels between the Life of Christ and His Church; human dignity, the rights of man, and the Truth; homosexuals in the Novus Ordo and abuse — the cover-up and participation; standing with Christ; and St. Louis de Montfort on the last days. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

On this episode of What Catholics Believe, What Is Spiritual Direction?, Fr. Jenkins: answers what is the role of a spiritual director and confessor; contrasts a spiritual director with the focus on God to a therapist who focuses one’s attention towards oneself; recommends five books on the spiritual life (see links below); answers a viewer’s email about the Knights of Columbus, Francis worship, and where to seek the traditional Latin Mass; answers another email concerning how to respond to someone who has never seen any abuses in the Novus Ordo and believes any abuses that exists are being eliminated; and briefly touches on the rebranding of the SSPX. --- Book Recommendations --- Introduction to the Devout Life https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Devout-Life-Tan-Classics/dp/0895552280/ Treatise on the Love of God https://www.amazon.com/Treatise-Love-God-combination-theological/dp/B00ZVOVPTU/ Three Ages of the Spiritual Life https://www.amazon.com/Three-Ages-Interior-Life-1/dp/0895552485/ Light and Peace https://www.amazon.com/Light-Peace-Instructions-Devout-Dispel/dp/0895551330/ The Spiritual Combat https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Combat-Treatise-Peace-Classics/dp/0895551527/. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

Fr. Jenkins defines what a Catholic wage or just wage is and why business should pay their workers a living wage. The discussion then turns to the ramifications in a society which pays non-Catholic wages and how this leads it to liberalism as well as socialism. Many other points are brought up in the conversation including the minimum wage. Lastly, Tom asks Fr. Jenkins about the importance of three saints who have feast days this week: St. Anne, St. Mary Magdalene, and St. James (the Greater). Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

Fr. Jenkins and Tom examine the most perfect prayer, the Our Father. Tom reads commentary from the Catena Aurea of Saint Thomas Aquinas on the sixth chapter of Gospel According to Saint Matthew on the Our Father and Fr. Jenkins clarifies the topic as well as comments. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

Father Jenkins and Tom comment on some of the recent events including: the new Superior General of the SSPX, Fr. Davide Pagliarani; Fr. Patrick Girouard’s sermon on the SSPX’s re-branding (https://tiny.cc/SSPXrebrand); Francis role in Ireland’s abortion referendum and his upcoming trip to the country; Francis surprise appearance at a Swiss Guardsman’s wedding; the strange design of the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, and ‘consecrated virgins’ no longer need be virgins in the Novus Ordo church. In Memoriam, Mr. Ronald Tihista. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

Fr. Jenkins reads an article from LifeSiteNews, ‘Former Vatican Bank chief: Authors of New World Order demographic collapse influencing the Vatican’ which covers Ettore Gotti Tedeschi’s talk, “The Rejection of Life: a Demographic Catastrophe for mankind” at a 21 May 2018 conference of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family. Father’s commentary and analysis follows. The article can be read here https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-vatican-bank-chief and Tedeschi’s talk can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOp9dryLWeg. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

*NOTE: Texts read from the book can be found below.* Fr. Jenkins discusses Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany’s book, ‘Liberalism Is a Sin’ and how it is pertinent to the world of today. Includes a short background on the times in which Fr. Sarda y Salvany wrote his work. Fr. Jenkins says of this book, “every Catholic should read this book,” as it explains what is, “happening in the world and the Catholic church today.” Protestantism, with its sliding scale of creeds, is simply an inclined plane into the abyss of positive unbelief. Protestantism naturally begets toleration of error. Rejecting the principle of authority in religion, it has neither criterion nor definition of faith. On the principle that every individual or sect may interpret the deposit of Revelation according to the dictates of private judgment, it gives birth to endless differences and contradictions. 1. The absolute sovereignty of the individual in his entire independence of God and God’s authority. 2. The absolute sovereignty of society in its entire independence of everything which does not proceed from itself. 3. Absolute civil sovereignty in the implied right of the people to make their own laws in entire independence and utter disregard of any other criterion than the popular will expressed at the polls and parliamentary majorities. 4. Absolute freedom of thought in politics, morals, or in religion. The unrestrained liberty of the press. Liberalism, whether in the doctrinal or practical order, is a sin. In the doctrinal order, it is heresy, and consequently a mortal sin against faith. In the practical order, it is a sin against the commandments of God and of the Church, for it virtually transgresses all commandments. To be more precise: in the doctrinal order, Liberalism strikes at the very foundations of faith; it is heresy radical and universal, because within it are comprehended all heresies. In the practical order it is a radical and universal infraction of the divine law, since it sanctions and authorizes all infractions of that law. It knows no dogma except the dogma of self-assertion. Hence it is heresy, fundamental and radical, the rebellion of the human intellect against God. It is, therefore, the radical and universal denial of all divine truth and Christian dogma, the primal type of all heresy, and the supreme rebellion against the authority of God and His Church. As with Lucifer, its maxim is, “I will not serve.” Liberalism in the order of action is license, recognizing no principle or rule beyond itself. Liberalism is a mortal sin. …the gravest of all sins are those against faith. The reason is evident. Faith is the foundation of the supernatural order, and sin is sin insofar as it attacks this supernatural order at one or another point; hence that is the greatest sin which attacks this order at its very foundations. The gravity of sin is determined by the interval which it places between man and God; now sin against faith separates man from God as far as possible, since it deprives him of the true knowledge of God; it therefore follows that sin against faith is the greatest of all sins. If men were absolutely logical and followed to their ultimate conclusions the premises which they lay down, they would become angels or devils in working out the consequences according to the goodness or badness of their first principles. But men are not always logical; they often stop short of the consequences logically flowing from the premises preceding… There are liberals who accept its principles but reject its consequences… Liberalism is the dogmatic affirmation of the absolute independence of the individual and of the social reason. Catholicity is the dogma of the absolute subjection of the individual and of the social order to the revealed law of God. One doctrine is the exact antithesis of the other. They are opposites in direct conflict. How is it possible to reconcile them? Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.

Fr. Jenkins examines: illegal immigration — specifically the media’s coverage of the topic, Pope Francis’ position and recent comments on the matter; politicians quoting from the Bible; Pope Francis’ statement on St. John the Baptist; parallels between Modernism and Marxism; the expanding part that public schools play in the decline of spirituality and intelligence; and lastly the role the international bankers carry out in all of this. Please visit wcbohio.com for more content.