There can be no Altering of the Faith or Scripture

David Martin | The Daily Knight

While the Catholic Church continues with bewildering speed to move away from its past and build toward a new secular church of man, people are forgetting that the Faith as given through the ages cannot be changed nor watered down to meet the needs of our so-called modern age of scientific advancement. Under the pretext of pastoral care, the Council of Vatican II sought to keep up with the world via change, whereas it is the hierarchy that must change its present course by returning to “the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.” (James 1:17)

The Church as founded by Christ needs no reforms or changes, but it is the bishops who need to reform themselves and return to tradition if they expect to be saved. For as God never changes, so his Church must not change, unless of course it veers from its apostolic path and drives into heresy as has happened in our time. In such a case, the Church must simply drop its manmade inventions and return to pre-Vatican II teaching and practice. The fact that loyal bishops today are punished for speaking out against the present order of change is glaring proof that Rome today is without a pastor.

Through the ages the Holy Spirit guided the tradition of the Church without change unto the salvation of many, whereas the Church in our time has turned its back on tradition and has adopted a new religion of man not connected with the Holy Spirit. What we see today is a new order of ecumenism and indigenous practice, replete with guitars, bongos, and LGBT inclusion (DEI). This is born of the jungle, not of God. This has been the work of Modernists who are not of the Faith.

Modernists Deny Doctrinal Absolutes

Modernists promote the error that whatever the Church holds to at any given point of its history is the result of a common consensus of prelates, so that as the consensus of the hierarchy changes the doctrine of the Church may also change. But this isn’t true. Modernists are heretics who deny divinely instituted absolutes and it was the modernists who infiltrated and railroaded Vatican II.

Since the Council there has prevailed the error that hierarchical consensus to a given position, ideology, or practice renders it part of the Church’s Ordinary Magisterium, but this isn’t true. Common consensus is of no significance even though the Church at large may profess a set of errors to be the truth. Even if the pope and the entire body of bishops avidly hold to a given ideology for fifty or a hundred years, it is not magisterial unless Christ Himself has established and guided this for His Church.

The words of St. Augustine apply:

“Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it, right is right even if no one is doing it”

Some may wrestle with this, but the teachings of Christ are set in stone and simply do not change. These teachings are applicable to men of every period, but it appears that the trends of the times have had more influence on the Catholic mindset than the ordinances of Almighty God.

For instance, the faithful today have made a habit of breaking out in applause during Holy Mass, which is profane. The Church through the centuries has always shunned this, yet it is done today in nearly every Catholic parish. The Church is not a festive meeting hall but is the House of God. Applauding in Church is contrary to the Gospel and to Church teaching. In the words of Pope Benedict XVI while still cardinal:

“Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment.” 

His Holiness John XXIII echoed this very point during his pontificate.

“I am very glad to have come here. But if I must express a wish, it is that in church you not shout out, that you not clap your hands, and that you not greet even the Pope, because ‘templum Dei, templum Dei.’ (The temple of God is the temple of God)."

Pope Saint Pius X said,

“It is not fitting that the servant should be applauded in his Master’s house.”

The Gospel Concerning Women Cast Aside

Volumes could be written on the sacred teachings that have been rejected in favor of Modernism. For instance, Holy Scripture says that women must cover their heads while at prayer or in Church, but the post-conciliar church says, ‘No, that’s outdated, that was just a local custom of the time.’ Not so. Consider the words of St. Paul who was Christ’s “vessel of election.”

“Every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraces her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head…. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels…. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the church of God.” (1 Cor. 11: 5,6, 10, 16)

That is, the practice of women covering their heads was not a local custom of the early Church but is a divine ordinance for all time. The head covering shows that the wife is under the authority of her husband; that she is not his equal.

Accordingly, the Apostle Paul says that women are not to assume positions of authority in the Church.

“Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.” (1 Timothy 2: 11, 12) “For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the Church.” (1 Cor. 14:35)  

As with many of the Church’s teachings, this ordinance on women has likewise been trashed by today’s “renewed” church. This is rebellious. The church today has become a defiant harlot flinging off her wedding veil so she can flirt with other religions (ecumenism). We are truly living in the days spoken of by the prophet Isaias when he said:

“In that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.” (Isaias 4:1)

That is, women would demand to be their own bread winners and buy their own clothes (jeans), and to take on the man’s name and role. This indeed has come to pass (feminism). This violates Church teaching.  

Today’s “reformed” teaching on the role of women has been advanced by feminists who boss the priests and who for the most part are lesbians. The core group of the feminist movement is entirely lesbian.  

LGBT Living Condemned

The Catholic Church condemns homosexuality and forbids that LGBT people should participate in Catholic worship (Romans 1: 26,27,32), yet Francis and his Vatican have bent over backwards to bless gay couples and to include them in the Church. The Vatican argues that expelling LGBT people is not in the spirit of the Gospel, but this isn’t so.

St. Paul commanded the Corinthians to expel the incestuous man from their gatherings.

“It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife. And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed…. I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators” but that you “Put away the evil one from among yourselves.” (1 Cor. 5: 1,2,9, 13)

If this is what Christ’s apostle said about the incestuous man, what would he say about a homosexual? Homosexuality is worse than incest. Sodomy is one of the “four sins crying to Heaven for vengeance,” while incest is not. The Church has always banished homosexuals from the Church, while today’s church goes out of its way to welcome them with “embrace.” This is not in the spirit of the Gospel no more than getting drunk in Church is.

Suffice to say, any attempt to alter the Faith or to change but one word of the Bible automatically flags one as an enemy of the Faith. Let all clergy and bishops consider the words of Christ concerning his words in the last chapter of the Bible:

“If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book.” (Apocalypse 22:18,19)