Crisis Series #6 with Fr. Reuter: Liberal Catholics Don't Exist

[@agnes8679]

I am 33 years old, approaching 34, and I only became Catholic at age 32. I was not a protestant before, I was like some sort of agnostic, but believed in Christ because of a miracle that happened in my family. But because I was more of an agnostic, I did not understand what was going on or the different Christian denominations and Churches. My mind was completely manipulated by the secular and anti-Catholic world and I even got to the point of rationalizing abortion as something okay. I was by no means a militant left-wing person, and I intrinsically leaned towards more conservative values, but I was utterly confused and accepted many liberal ideas that now I abhor. The point is, there is probably a lot of people like me (back then) and the liberal movements take advantage of our ignorance and weakness. We need to pray for all of them, because if God saved me, He will save many others like me. We need to speak up, share the truth, evangelize as Catholics, and pray non-stop so that others can find the truth like I did. I have completely converted and I love the Church and the Lord Jesus Christ is now my King.

[@vh405]

Amen, sister. My conversion story is very similar to yours, I can relate to that. I am 31 now and I was baptized 2 years ago, thank God. God bless you & your family.

[@user-ht9fr6eh9u]

Somewhere a teeny Carmelite Nun or akin is plucking Souls for Our Beloved by her beautiful incessant prayer life. May be you are one, maybe I was +

[@user-ht9fr6eh9u]

Agnes Dei +

[@christophercormier8834]

What was the miracle that happened in your family??? (I have no idea how to find any response you offer, but I will try).

[@user-ht9fr6eh9u]

I have to say I have viewed all the videos of the super stars ie Fr Hesse etc and this series is so sober, charitable but on fire with intelligence, knowledge and utter Truth. The seminaries teaching these Priests must be incredible+

[@horizon-one]

These podcasts are waking up Catholics who do love Christ and the Church. Fabulous, Father, God bless you. Thank you Andrew!

[@elizabethsheplermusic]

This is so profoundly helpful! It’s helping me understand all of life and to not feel so alone in my beliefs and thinking. This series has been a great consolation during this time of such confusion in our Church and in the world! Thank you!!

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Hi, Elizabeth Shepler, Could you get to a SSPX Mass Centre? We are part of the Society and we travel 34 miles to Mass in England, Great Britain. I thought I would just let you know that quite a few people travel many miles to get to the SSPX chapels and churches. Are you in the USA? God bless you, Elizabeth Darley

[@_chados]

This series is great. Thank you from Korea.

[@jimjessup5041]

You guys are awesome. We need this. I am not an SSPX member, but am learning so much. Thanks so very much!

[@donaldmorgan9149]

Thank you for this series.

[@jaimegrandval4738]

This is invaluable. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@ritaorourke1913]

Thank you for this series on Liberalism, which clarifies so much what we need to know about the Catholic Faith This One True Church divinely constituted our only Way to salvation

[@sajinisunil8495]

Thank you Jesus, my King to be part of His Church - The One, True, Holy and Apostolic Church, dear father and SSPX crisis series..

[@dobermanpac1064]

Great series, please continue.

[@lindadunn8787]

Thank you for this clarifying guidance.

[@blackmonkrosaries6038]

Pray the Rosary!

[@feaokautai7354]

Praise God Fr Steven Reuter for His Gracious Brillance & wisdom in you to proclaim the TRUTH. I love listening to your talks. Please feed the Christianity & the world with the TRUTH OF CATHOLISM. 🥰💯💯💯💯❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@blueskyart]

Great series...thank you!

[@prayrosary5472]

Truly so Beautiful Truth! Thank you. I will support financially each month. Praising God for the Great Archbishop LeFebvre ✝️ and his Priests continuing God's True Church! 🙏Amen! God bless you! I am praying,and looking around where to move, to attend sspx. Please pray for me, in this regard. Thank you 😊!

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Utterly brilliant!

[@rolandocoyogue6125]

Truly Thanks Father...

[@GABRIELLA3254]

What a sweet priest

[@zon3665]

The Lord taught "straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth to eternal life." There isn't a left or liberal way.

[@feaokautai7354]

Please keep on this critical evaluations Catholic nuances to keep searches of TRUTH in our Roman CATHOLICISM CHURCH to stabilize our faith in JESUS CHRIST regardless of challenges.

[@msconnleon]

I've really been enjoying this series very good 👋👋👋

[@bddulli]

Guadium et Spes was always a text I hated most. Senseless drivel really. And they force it on the novus ordo clergy regularly through the office of readings. It’s the main reason that my first foothold in traditional liturgy was to switch to the traditional breviary. Thanks for the good presentations and please pray for us diocesan clergy.

[@SSPX]

Thank you for your message Father. I am glad you were able to escape the unjust and aggressive imposition of 1960s humanism (under the the name of the Catholic Faith) by recourse to the traditional breviary. Please be assured of our prayers for you and all diocesan clergy. In Christo Sacredote, Fr. P. Franks

[@bddulli]

@@SSPX prayers for you and the society as well.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Wow, they put Gaudium et Spes in the Office of Readings?? Seriously? I had no idea-that’s whack. Glad you found the traditional breviary, Father!

[@curtbrown1161]

Amen

[@avarmadillo]

On the face of it the quote from Ratzinger may seem condemnatory. But the comment does not indicate whether he was approving or not. The quote simply states the fact of what Gaudium et Spes contained; a refutation of Pius IX's syllabus of errors. From the quote we don't even know if Ratzinger was even aware of this at the time of the Council. My own sense is that he was not altogether approving for one reason: he permitted and encouraged the Traditional Latin Mass. If he had been a true leftist, like Francis, I don't think he would have even given the TLM approval at all---it would never have occurred to him. For myself, as a convert,1982, I have to say after entering the Church I was perplexed---because even the good things I saw and those who promoted them I understood, in retrospect, to be tainted with an incipient naturalism. I understood that after I saw and experienced the TLM---THIS! THIS is the Catholicism I was looking for and expecting after I entered, THIS is the form, expression, and piety that is fitting for all that I learned of Catholic doctrine, history, and saw expressed by the saints I read about. Sadly, cradle Catholics after 1970, vast numbers of which are ignorant of the TLM, will not be able to make the comparison like a convert. As a convert, someone deeply into Protestant life, I can see clearly how, by comparison with the TLM, the Novus Ordo IS the Protestant Mass---it is a mass for Protestants, and it smacks of the relativism and naturalism so rightly condemned by Pius IX. Much of the Super Natural character so prominent in the TLM has been taken from the Novus Ordo....it is, in a phrase, watered down, or more fittingly, exsanguinate in its character. And what of the fruit? After 60 years we can see that the Novus Ordo, which was to attract Protestants and draw them to fill Catholic pews, has had the very opposite result---a massive attrition of Catholics---leaving the Church, some leaving to embrace nothing at all---being totally disillusioned regarding religion, and others finding themselves in the audiences each Sunday that watch some protestant preacher "perform" and entertain them with a false, truncated for of the gospel. As a pastoral council it think was can see it was ill advised and should be corrected---not for some other new fangled thing, but for a return to the Mass of the Ages---the mass and the Faith that has made converts and grown the Church in all times and circumstances. Deus Vult!

[@janettedavis6627]

Martin Luther was one person in Germany that questioned the Church of Rome How did he convert the whole of Germany? Then Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Then Holland eventually England that did a lot of damage even tried to kill off the Irish. Yet Vatican 11 brought the whole Church down like a deck of cards. Ignorance of the Sacraments by the laity.

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Wow! Was the Great Famine of Ireland, 1845, an effort for the enemies of Our Lady to destroy Our Lord's Holy Church in Ireland?

[@Mr777andy]

Dynamite

[@e1ay3dme12]

I see someone below asking: "classical liberal" vs. "liberal." Can you offer an ontological basis for "the good" from a classical liberal or liber al world view?"

[@dannyharvanek4334]

The distinction between the classic liberal & modern liberal ??

[@murrax7639]

Classical liberalism is still a heresy for a number of reasons. Classical liberalism is really what is being talked about in this series. It is a heresy mainly because it doesn't acknowledge that Jesus Christ is king. Classical liberalism also states that Church and State should be separated but this proposition is condemned by the Church, this is a consequence of rejecting Christ as king. Classical liberalism appears saner because it usually is compared to the insanity of the left wing today. But in reality, it still acknowledges that people can generally do whatever they want as long as it doesn't "hurt" anyone physically. This is illogical and can't be proved without invoking religion and even if it does invoke religion, it is anti-Christian and anti-Catholic for it doesn't even follow the Ten Commandments. The modern liberal is simply a liberal who takes his principles seriously. He asks himself, "If this religious business were really true wouldn't we be taking it seriously? It obviously isn't and therefore we should look elsewhere for meaning." and the modern world has looked to sex, drugs, food, pride and greed. The modern liberal might also say "I'm a Catholic when I go to Church, but when I am in public life, I don't need to be affected by that stuff" this is why we have Joe Biden "Catholics" supporting abortion. Liberalism leads to paganism, worshipping idols of sex, drugs, food and greed. Classical liberalism is fruitless and usually ends up persecuting the Church, as John Locke the founder of classical liberalism promoted. I'm guessing you are probably a fan of classical liberal personalities, which is fine because they often do have good insights. But study the Syllabus of Errors and make sure you reject the propositions and principles that go against the Syllabus. It's hard being a Catholic, and classical liberalism has this appearence of "compromise" and "unification" but just remember, this system is inherently anti-Catholic at its roots. If Catholicism is true, it affects everything, and that includes public life and the State. This starts on the invididual level though and we should work to convert souls so we can bring about God's kingdom on Earth as it is in heaven. I hope this helps!

[@elizabethdarley8646]

@Nationalist Doomer Oh! Sounds horrid.

[@jimjessup5041]

I am not nor have I ever been liberal.

[@KoalaBear499]

It would be interesting to flesh out even more a portrait of the innocent Liberal Catholic. See if people recognise themselves in it. Maybe 85% Liberal (in today’s terms, and often without even realising it because it’s never been pointed out to them) plus 15% essential Catholic embellishment or ornamentation. So in addition to “what is a Catholic” we get “what does a Liberal Catholic look/sound like and is this you”? I remember how surprised I was when I found out religious liberty is a no-no and NFP is unacceptable (and why).

[@lindadunn8787]

@Noelle Forrester this is the first I've seen about NFP not being acceptable. Please provide references if possible. Thank you.

[@marccrotty8447]

@@lindadunn8787 I do not think that occasional abstinence from marital relations is wrong.

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Please send info on how I send donations from Great Britain.

[@SSPX]

thank you: sspx.gifts/collections/frontpage/products/sspx-podcast

[@elizabethdarley8646]

@@SSPX Thank you, sir. We have just sent a donation. God bless you. Mrs Darley SSPX Third Order Postulate, Manchester UK

[@janettedavis6627]

MOST Catholics and Christians don't understand the Sacraments also they have abandoned the Jewish connection . It was the night of the Jewish Passover and Jesus and the Apostles went to the Temple The Priest Zechariah was saying the sacrificial death prayers Calvary, Altar, Priest says "I will go onto the altar of God to God Who gives joy to my youth " this is the prayer of God the Son conversing with God the Father in eternity about His Passover. He Does not worship himself the Jews have true worship of the Passover. These Prayers are perpetual. The Temple fell because the Jews said "We have no King but Caesar"

[@rosariovento5733]

Spanish please

[@kevinphillips150]

When using labels to describe someone, does that not bring ambiguity into the discussion?

[@charlesmichael9188]

Tell ya what. I am 100% ANTI abortion and a 100% active Catholic. So stuff it.

[@SSPX]

A little busy trying to save souls. But thanks for the suggestion.

[@kennyinliverpool]

Lesson: Most Catholics should just leave the Church?

[@nz3901]

What a load of reactionary nonsense.

[@paulineangelyna7453]

Thank you for this series!