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Our recent bulletin series about abortion attitudes and advocacy at Notre Dame has been largely bleak. So, now that Christmas is almost upon us, we are pleased to be able to reassure our readers that the pro-life cause remains vibrant at Our Lady’s university.
We have taken note of the student Right to Life club and Merlot Fogarty, its courageous president, and now we bring you an account by Professor O. Carter Snead, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, about the work of this remarkable institute.
We leave to Professor Snead’s essay a description of the Center, which was founded in 1999 by Professor Emeritus David Solomon, one of Notre Dame’s most gifted and influential teachers, and which has been led for the last ten years by Professor Snead.
As you will see, the Center is an ornament to the university and a powerful pro-life actor in the battle for the lives of the pre-born.
But first a few words about Professor Snead, whose Notre Dame bio opens with “Professor Carter Snead is one of the world’s leading experts on public bioethics – the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods.”
The balance of the richly detailed account, which we urge upon you, supplies ample support for that accolade. Professor Snead has been widely published in both scholarly and popular journals, periodicals and newspapers, and he has frequently advised national, state, and international governmental bodies and organizations.
Perhaps the most striking testimony to his stature is the praise that has been accorded his recent book What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics, which was named by the Wall Street Journal one of the “Ten Best Books of 2020” and listed in The New York Times as one of “Ten Books to Understand the Abortion Debate in the United States.”
The university and the pro-life cause – and we at Sycamore Trust — are deeply indebted to the Center and to Professor Snead, as well as to Professor Emeritus Solomon. They have demonstrated how the intellectual and spiritual life of students can be enriched and the Church served despite the secularizing forces working against the school’s Catholic identity.
de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
by O. Carter Snead, Professor of Law, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, and Director, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
I am extremely grateful to my good friend Bill Dempsey for this opportunity to share briefly about the work of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and its role in advancing Notre Dame’s distinctive Catholic mission, including its work as the primary engine of the university’s institutional pro-life research, teaching, service, and public witness.
The Center was established in 1999 by our visionary founder, Prof. David Solomon, who will be well familiar to readers. I took the reins as Director ten years ago, in 2012. In 2019, the Center was endowed by an extraordinary and transformative gift from Christie and Tony de Nicola.
The Center’s mission, in short, is to share and explore the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through student formation, research, and public engagement across a variety of disciplines, at the highest level. In this way we support the Catholic mission at Notre Dame, and seek to project her Catholic and countercultural voice into higher academia and the global public square as Notre Dame.
We pursue this mission within the framework of four “pillars”: (i) student formation and teaching; (ii) research and academic programming; (iii) culture of life initiatives; and (iv) an intentional program of recruiting, hiring, and retention of elite faculty who share our passion for Notre Dame’s unique Catholic mission.
Student Formation
The flagship program of the dCEC’s student formation efforts is the “Sorin Fellows Program.” Sorin Fellows receive faculty and senior student mentoring, consider enduring and contemporary issues through the lens of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition, nourish their interior life and appreciation for the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church, and discern and cultivate their gifts and talents through grant funding and internships. The Center supports nearly 400 Sorin Fellows at the undergraduate and graduate levels, representing nearly every field of study from across the range of the university’s colleges and departments. The dCEC sponsors more than 100 internships around the world every summer. Sorin Fellows go on guided pilgrimages to Rome and the Holy Land, and have even spoken before participants in the Synod on Youth at the Vatican. They dine in the homes of faculty as part of the “Sorin Fellows Supper Club.” And they go on to great things – we have had dozens of Sorin Fellow marriages and religious vocations. Indeed, of the 103 student 2022 graduating class of Sorin Fellows, eight are pursuing religious life as priests and sisters. Sorin Fellows are a joyful, faith filled, highly talented community of friends who are already a great “force for good” in the world, as envisioned by Father Sorin.
In addition to the Sorin Fellows, the dCEC provides funding for outstanding mission-focused PhD students (“Solomon Fellows,” named for our founder), as well as law students committed to using their talents to build a culture of life (“Polking Fellows”). There are 10 Solomon Fellows and 7 Polking Fellows, including alums.
Research and Academic Programming
The dCEC aims to be a countercultural beacon in the world of higher academia, showing that Notre Dame’s Catholic identity is a rich source of intellectual dynamism, freedom, and excellence. In partnership with UND Press (directed by our good friend, Steve Wrinn), the dCEC is the home of multiple book series: (i) Catholic Ideas for a Secular World, (ii) Notre Dame Studies in Bioethics and Medical Ethics, (iii) Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series, and (iv) Notre Dame Studies in African Theology. We have published 26 books since 2016, including multiple national and international award winners.
We have recently begun to develop four research foci exploring: (i) public bioethics and the human person (building on my own work in What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics (Harvard University Press 2020)); (ii) the transformative power of beauty; (iii) racial justice, healing, mercy, and reconciliation in the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition; and (iv) how to imagine a post-Roe world in which women, babies, and families are loved and protected as they deserve (“Women and Children First”).
We host nearly 50 academic events each year, including the “Fall Conference” – Notre Dame’s largest interdisciplinary gathering featuring more than 100 eminent and emerging luminaries as speakers (e.g., Nobel Laureates, acclaimed artists, and thought leaders from around the world), and 1000 participants. Each year explores a broad humanistic theme from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. It has been referred to (lovingly!) as “Catholic Woodstock” – a life giving intellectual feast par excellence, and celebration of friendships, old and new.
The dCEC also regularly hosts visiting scholars who enrich our community of learning while working on their own transformative research (e.g., Harvard’s Jim Hankins, St. John’s College’s Zena Hitz, and Georgetown’s John Keown).
The Center is advised by nearly 40 Notre Dame “Faculty Fellows” – eminent scholars from a variety of colleges and departments on campus who could work anywhere in the world, but chose the Blessed Mother’s University as their academic home because of her Catholic mission and dynamic community of learning. Finally, the dCEC is home to three permanent senior research fellows who are among the most brilliant and inspiring Catholic thinkers living today – Alasdair MacIntyre, John Finnis, and Mary Ann Glendon.
We also are the home of the “Ethics and Culture Cast,” a podcast that has over 100,000 downloads in 104 countries.
Culture of Life Initiatives
We at the dCEC are proud and honored to be the most important and dynamic unit at the Blessed Mother’s University dedicated to advancing its institutional mission to build a culture of life and civilization of love for mothers, babies (born and unborn) and families. We have myriad initiatives and programs oriented to this end. First, we advise the amazing student Right to Life club (the largest club on campus) and support their important work. We help to organize and fund ND’s participation in the annual March for Life in DC, where Notre Dame routinely sends 800-1000 students who march, pray, and bear witness to their dedication to building a society where everyone is “welcomed into life and protected by law,” in the words of St. John Paul II. The dCEC funds travel and lodging for faculty and staff to attend each year as well (usually around 100 folks). We also partner with the Alumni Association to host a DC reception following the March that regularly draws 600 members of the Notre Dame family. The dCEC hosts “Bread of Life” dinners each semester, drawing 100 students to hear pro life reflections from senior campus leadership, including Deans, Department Chairs, and senior staff. The dCEC administers the University of Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, the nation’s most important lifetime achievement award for heroes of the pro life movement, conferred following Mass in the Basilica at a banquet of 500-600 every April. We also organize the “Vita Institute” – an intellectual formation program for leaders from every corner of the pro life movement. There are now more than 1000 alumni of the Vita Institute, representing the leadership of the most important pro life organizations on six continents.
The dCEC and its affiliated scholars were the leading voices before and after the landmark Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade. We filed amicus briefs, wrote op-eds, made countless media appearances, and our Understanding Dobbs flash panel hours after the opinion was released has already drawn 5000 views on YouTube.
We have begun what we mean to be Notre Dame’s signature pro life initiative post-Dobbs – “Women and Children First: Imagining a Post-Roe World,” which seeks to contribute to a landscape in which mothers, babies, and families are loved and protected as they deserve. This includes research (e.g., we are partnering with ND LEO on a national maternity housing study, and beginning our own maternal mortality study), academic conferences, service projects, course development, public policy advice, and witness. We have already hosted several conferences and webinars, hired student interns, and appointed research fellows. On Thursday, January 19, 2023 (the day before the March for Life) we will host a major roundtable discussion at the National Press Club in D.C.
Mission Hiring
The Notre Dame mission statement says that “The Catholic identity of the University depends upon, and is nurtured by, the continuing presence of a predominant number of Catholic intellectuals.” Accordingly, our fourth and final pillar is an intentional program of recruiting, hiring, and retaining elite faculty of all levels who share our passion for Notre Dame’s mission. We currently fund eight faculty members and have four endowed faculty lines in the College of Arts and Letters used to hire tenure/tenure track faculty. Additionally, the dCEC offers support to current and future faculty members from the Congregation of the Holy Cross.
Conclusion
None of the dCEC’s work would be possible without the tireless work of our small but mighty staff of eight amazing colleagues, and the support of our chaplain, numerous faculty advisors, Deans (especially Dean Sarah Mustillo), department chairs, senior university leadership, benefactors and friends, including the unfailingly generous dCEC Executive Advisory Committee (chaired by Christie and Tony de Nicola).
O. Carter Snead
Professor of Law
Director, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Concurrent Professor of Political Science
Professor Carter Snead is one of the world’s leading experts on public bioethics – the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods. His research explores issues relating to neuroethics, enhancement, human embryo research, assisted reproduction, abortion, and end-of-life decision-making.
Learn how you can support de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture in its work to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition at ethicscenter.nd.edu or subscribe to the Center’s monthly newsletter and its bi-weekly podcasts at ethicscenter.nd.edu/subscribe
Let Us Pray
O God, our gracious Father, in the gift of Your Son, You have given us the Light of the world! As we prepare to celebrate His birth, we recognize that the darkness of error and sin continues to shroud much of our land. Looking to the crib at Bethlehem, we are reminded of the infinite power hidden in that lowly place. May all who worship this Child be inspired to courageously bear witness to Him and to the truth he reveals, in all circumstances and using every gift Your bounty has bestowed upon us. May no obstacle discourage, no opposition overwhelm, no scorn or contempt defeat those who worship at the manger. May they ever have the unfailing intercession and sure protection of Notre Dame, Mary Our Mother, and of the chaste Foster-Father of this Child, Joseph, who were first to behold the Messiah and to bear witness to His Name. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate, and Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever, Amen!
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J.M.J.
The Question Is, will you remain with Christ, or will you be part of The Great Apostasy, as you can only have an Apostasy from The True Church Of Christ.
“Again, this does not mean that he has lost his teaching authority.”
“All One In Christ”, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost.
“It s not possible to have Sacramental Communion without Ecclesial”, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost; for it is “Through Christ, With Christ, And In Christ, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost,(Filioque), that Holy Mother Church, outside of which, there is no Salvation, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque) exists.
It has always been about The Marriage In Heaven and on Earth.
“Blessed are those that are Called to The Marriage Supper Of The Lamb.“
If a man is elected to The Papacy, who, prior to his election, was not in communion with Christ and every other validly elected Pope in communion with Christ, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque), that man, having not repented of his heresy or in this case Apostasy, having denied The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, and thus The Divinity Of The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, could not possibly be Pope.
Jorge Bergoglio lost his teaching authority prior to his election to the Papacy and thus his election to the Papacy is null and void.
Jorge Bergoglio’s heresy was external and made public and notorious, when as a cardinal, he stated in his book, On Heaven and Earth, in regards to same-sex sexual relationships, and thus same-sex sexual acts, prior to his election as pope, on page 117, demonstrating that he does not hold, keep, or teach The Catholic Faith, and he continues to act accordingly: “If there is a union of a private nature, there is neither a third party, nor is society affected. Now, if the union is given the category of marriage, there could be children affected. Every person needs a male father and a female mother that can help shape their identity.”- Jorge Bergoglio, denying The Sanctity of the marital act within The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, and the fact that God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, Is The Author Of Love, Of Life, And Of Marriage, while denying sin done in private is sin.
The Papacy is not actually vacant, as The Deposit Of Faith, Christ’s Revelation to His Church , Through Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, And The Teaching Of The Magisterium, Grounded In Sacred Tradition And Sacred Scripture, Remains Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost.
It would be accurate to say the Office Of The Ministerium is currently vacant, but the office of the Munus remains, Through The Deposit Of Faith, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, In Communion With Christ, And His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, outside of which, there is no Salvation, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, although there will be some, hopefully a multitude, who, like The Good Thief, will, at the moment of their death, recognize Christ, In All His Glory, and come late to The Fold, The One Body Of Christ.
Catholics and Catholic Institutions are Called to be Temples For The Holy Ghost, they are not called to misrepresent The Word Of God Made Flesh.
“For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the Revelation, the Deposit of Faith, delivered through the Apostles. ”
Christ Be With you
May Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Heart Triumph soon at The University Of Notre Dame!
J.M.J.
“…you know how to interpret the face of the heaven and of the earth:but how is it that you do not discern this time?”
First principles matter; one can only have a Great Apostasy from The True Church Of Christ, which Through, With, And In Christ, Is One, Holy, Catholic And Apostolic, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque).
If a man is elected to The Papacy, who, prior to his election, was not in communion with Christ and every other validly elected Pope in communion with Christ, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque), that man, having not repented of his heresy or in this case Apostasy, having denied The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, and thus The Divinity Of The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, could not possibly be Pope.
Jorge Bergoglio’s heresy was external and made public and notorious, when as a cardinal, he stated in his book, On Heaven and Earth, in regards to same-sex sexual relationships, and thus same-sex sexual acts, prior to his election as pope, on page 117, demonstrating that he does not hold, keep, or teach The Catholic Faith, and he continues to act accordingly: “If there is a union of a private nature, there is neither a third party, nor is society affected. Now, if the union is given the category of marriage, there could be children affected. Every person needs a male father and a female mother that can help shape their identity.”- Jorge Bergoglio, denying The Sanctity of the marital act within The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, and the fact that God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, Is The Author Of Love, Of Life, And Of Marriage, while denying sin done in private is sin.
The Papacy is not actually vacant, as The Deposit Of Faith, Christ’s Revelation to His Church , Through Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, And The Teaching Of The Magisterium, Grounded In Sacred Tradition And Sacred Scripture, Remains Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost.
It would be accurate to say the Office Of The Ministerium is currently vacant, but the office of the Munus remains, Through The Deposit Of Faith, In The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, In Communion With Christ, And His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, outside of which, there is no Salvation, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, although there will be some, hopefully a multitude, who, like The Good Thief, will recognize Christ, In All His Glory, and come late to The Fold, The One Body Of Christ.
Catholics and Catholic Institutions are Called to be Temples For The Holy Ghost, they are not called to misrepresent The Word Of God Made Flesh.
“For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the Revelation, the Deposit of Faith, delivered through the Apostles. ”
“4For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come…”, to not believe that Christ’s Sacrifice On The Cross will lead us to Salvation, but we must desire forgiveness for our sins, and accept Salvational Love, God’s Gift Of Grace And Mercy; believe in The Power And The Glory Of Salvation Love, and rejoice in the fact that No Greater Love Is There Than This, To Desire Salvation For One’s Beloved.
“Hail The Cross, Our Only Hope.”
“For God So Loved the world, as to Give His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth .In Him, May not perish, but have Eternal Life.”
Dear Blessed Mother Mary, Mirror Of Justice And Destroyer Of All Heresy, Who Through Your Fiat, Affirmed The Filioque, and thus the fact that There Is Only One Son Of God, One Word Of God Made Flesh, One Lamb Of God Who Can Taketh Away The Sins Of The World, Our Only Savior, Jesus The Christ, thus there can only be, One Spirit Of Perfect Complementary Love Between The Father And The Son, Who Must Proceed From Both The Father And The Son, In The Ordered Communion Of Perfect Complementary Love, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity (Filioque), hear our Prayer that A True Pope, and those Faithful Bishops In Communion With Christ and His Church, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, will do The Consecration Of Russia to your Immaculate Heart, exactly as you requested, visibly separating the counterfeit schismatic church from The True Church Of Christ, and affirming The Filioque. Although at the end of the Day, it is still a Great Mystery, It is no Mystery, that we exist, because God, The Communion Of Perfect Love, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque) Exists.
“When The Son Of Man Comes Will He Find Faith On The Earth?”
I certainly Hope He Will, but it is up to us to be Faithful-
God Bless And Keep The Faith!
“Now go and sin no more.”
“It is a sin to accommodate an occasion of sin.”
“For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.”
In conclusion, All Catholics are called to be, in The Holy Name Of Jesus, “a counter cultural light” that shines in The Darkness illuminating The Sacred Heart Of Jesus. How then, can any Catholic Institution honestly claim that substituting “Pride”, which serves to exclude respect for The Sanctity of the marital act, within The Sacrament Of Holy Matrimony, for Christ’s Sacred Heart, in order to tolerate, accommodate, justify, and eventually mandate respect for the engaging in or affirmation of sexual acts, that regardless of the actors, or the actors desires, evepn if the actors are a man and woman, united in Marriage as husband and wife, are physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually harmful, demeaning the inherent Dignity of every beloved son and daughter, and thus, due to the fact that these sexual acts are not and can never be, acts of authentic Life-affirming and Life-sustaining Love, can never serve for The Common Good or the Good of any beloved son or daughter.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-praises-dodgers-prayer-rally-blasphemous-to-celebrate-lgbt-pride-over-the-sacred-heart/
The Notre Dame mission statement says that “The Catholic identity of the University depends upon, and is nurtured by, the continuing presence of a predominant number of Catholic intellectuals.”
Even with the continuing presence of a predominant number of Catholic intellectuals, there is no guarantee that a Catholic school’s identity will remain Catholic as evidence by the fact that a Catholic University must first and foremost remain in communion with Christ and His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, which is impossible to do if you do not affirm The Deposit Of Faith.
When you compromise God’s Truth, you will always end with error, due to a denial of The Unity Of The Holy Ghost.
“Come Holy Ghost”.
“Cheap grace ( I would add, and cheap Mercy), is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession…Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We can know through both our Catholic Faith and Reason that ““Modernism, dating to the second half of the 19th century and condemned by Pope St. Pius X in “Pascendi Dominici Gregis” is dubbed the “synthesis of all heresies.” This is because “Modernism”, denies The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque) and thus The Divinity Of The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Father, Son, And Holy Ghost, making it appear as if it is possible to have Sacramental Communion without Ecclesial Communion. and that it is possible to have more than One Word Of God Made Flesh, and thus The Word Of God Made Flesh could serve in opposition to The Truth Of Perfect Love, God, which is Apostasy.
In denying, The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque), one denies that The Holy Eucharist Is The Source And Summit Of The Catholic Faith.
We can know through both our Catholic Faith and Reason that Modernism is the spirit of freemasonry. Catholics affirm that we are Called to be Temples Of The Holy Ghost, The Breathe That Is The Lord And Giver Of Life, Salvational Love, God’s Gift Of Grace And Mercy, while modernists reject Salvational Love, God’s Gift Of Grace And Mercy.
https://biblehub.com/drbc/1_corinthians/6.htm
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius10/p10pasce.htm
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/clem12/c12inemengl.htm
If you want to remain Faithful to Christ and His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, outside of which there is no Salvation, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, and promote both the Intellectual and Spiritual Life, one must be able to discern The Spirit Of Christ, while rejecting that which is anti Christ.
For example, if a Baptized Catholic were to affirm that we are Called to accept Salvational Love, God’s Gift Of Grace And Mercy, and thus we are Called to be “ Temples Of The Holy Ghost”, we would recognize this statement to be thoroughly modernist:
“I say this because it transcends the religious issue, it is anthropological, “If there is a union of a private nature, there is neither a third party, nor is society affected. Now, if the union is given the category of marriage, there could be children affected. Every person needs a male father and a female mother that can help shape their identity”, because although this statement may have some elements of truth, it is not in essence, True, because it denies The Sanctity of the marital act within The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, and the fact that God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, Is The Author Of Love, Of Life, And Of Marriage, while denying sin done in private is sin.
And yet this statement, made by a man elected to The Papacy, has yet to be corrected by The Magisterium Of Christ’s Church.
God Save The Papacy!
“For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the Revelation, the Deposit of Faith, delivered through the Apostles. “
It has always been about The Marriage, In Heaven and On Earth.
“It is not possible to have Sacramental Communion without Ecclesial Communion”, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost. (Filioque)
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/church-as-sacrament-4840
The Eucharist Prayer:
https://biblehub.com/drbc/john/17.htm
1These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. 2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. 3Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.
Prayer for all Believers
20And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me. 21That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that, they may be one, as we also are one. 23I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me. 24Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.
25Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me. 26And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
https://biblehub.com/drbc/john/17.htm
“4For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come…”, to not believe that Christ’s Sacrifice On The Cross will lead us to Salvation, but we must desire forgiveness for our sins, and accept Salvational Love, God’s Gift Of Grace And Mercy; believe in The Power And The Glory Of Salvation Love, and rejoice in the fact that No Greater Love Is There Than This, To Desire Salvation For One’s Beloved.
“Hail The Cross, Our Only Hope.”
Perfect Love does not divide, it multiplies, (Filioque), as in the Miracle Of The Loaves and Fishes.
https://catholicexchange.com/the-charitable-anathema/
And yet, there are a multitude of Baptized Catholics who have spiritually and thus physically separated themselves from The Catholic Church but have been allowed to remain physically present making it appear as if one can be for Christ, and against Christ and both remain, in essence, Catholic, exchanging The Truth Of Love, for a lie.
One cannot be an atheist materialistic over population alarmist globalist, who renders onto Caesar or themselves, that which belongs to The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque), The Author Of Love, Of Life, And Of Marriage, and still be, in essence, a Catholic. A Catholic, first and foremost, is in communion with Christ, and His One, Holy, Catholic, And Apostolic Church, Through The Unity Of The Holy Ghost(Filioque).
Perfect Love does not divide, it multiplies, (Filioque), as in the Miracle Of The Loaves and Fishes.
When exactly did Christ remove The Charitable Anathema from The Deposit Of Faith?
“Penance, Penance, Penance.”
https://catholicexchange.com/the-charitable-anathema/
9And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are true. 10
J.M.J.
The only Faithful Catholic response is one that begins and ends with refusing to identify any beloved son or daughter, brother or sister, husband or wife, father or mother, according to sexual desire/inclination/orientation, for that would first and foremost sexually objectify all beloved sons and daughters, in direct violation of God’s Commandment regarding lust and the sin of adultery while denying The Sanctity of the marital act within The Sacrament Of Holy Matrimony,
Love Is rightly ordered to the inherent personal and relational inherent Dignity of the persons existing in a relationship of Love,is devoid of every form of lust.
One should never underestimate the value of a friendship that is grounded in authentic Love because, in denying every form of lust, it serves only for that which is Good, Beautiful, and True.
Lust does not serve for the Good of any person thus it can never serve for The Common Good.