True Catholic Faith: Clarion Call of the Church’s Timeless Teaching

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

In his treatise on the church, Saint Robert Bellarmine lists 15 notes, he calls them, that obviously show that the Roman Catholic church is the church that Christ founded, and that all other organizations claiming to be churches are lying. Now when I read this work for the first time years ago, I thought to myself not a single one of these 15 notes or characteristics could be applied to the institution of which I was a member. Saint Robert was describing an organization that I had no experience of. This caused a major crisis for me since the natural conclusion to draw was that the organization of which I was a member, despite my perceiving it to be the Catholic Church, was not the Catholic church.

Now strictly speaking, the Novus Ordo is not a separate church or a separate sect. However, it has all the characteristics of a separate sect. It has all the characteristics of a cult, and it ought to be made into a separate sect in an official capacity in as soon a manner as possible. For this sermon, I will list these notes or characteristics of the Catholic church which are described by Saint Robert. We will look at each characteristic and then ask, can we apply this characteristic to the Novus Ordo?

The first is the very name of Catholic. Saint Robert says that the true church has always been called the Catholic church from the earliest times until today. But he says heretics do not call themselves the Catholic church. They use other words, other terms to describe their own religious societies. Is it not interesting how many priests in the Novus Ordo seem allergic to the phrase Catholic church.

In their advertising, many of them say Catholic community or a Christian church in the Catholic tradition, or they simply omit the word Catholic altogether. Resurrection parish, divine mercy church. In sermons, they call it the church of the new Pentecost, the church of the new Advent, the church of Vatican two. You can tell immediately that the minister who uses phrases and titles like these is an avid liberal and disciple of Vatican two because he is obviously avoiding using the term Catholic church. Why do they not like the term Catholic church?

Because there is a major crisis within the Novosorta about whether or not it is the same church as existed before Vatican II. Some say it is, others say it isn't. This internal disagreement about what the religion even is, which exists within the structures of the organization, Saint Robert says, is a clear symptom signifying a heretical sect. It is a sure sign that the ministers of that sect are not telling the truth. The second mark of Saint Robert, it's characteristic of the church, he says is antiquity, and that word means ancientness.

The church, he says, is more ancient than all false sets. False religions, he says, can be characterized by several things that bring them into being, and every false religion has these same attributes. He says that they have authors who are not Christ. And it's obvious that the authors of the Novus Ordo are clearly Roncalli and Montini, John the twenty third and Paul the six. They created this religion.

Without these two men, Vatican two and the Novus Ordo would not exist. Every false religion, he says, also has false doctrine. There is new doctrine in Vatican two which contradicts the teachings of Christ, the apostles, the popes, the natural law. Every heretical religion begins at a certain moment in history. And of course, the Novus Ordo religion began officially in 1965 with the publication of Vatican two.

There was no Novus Ordo before this. He also says every false religion is traceable to a certain place where it begins. Novusordo began in Rome and spread to the world from there by being disseminated through the corporate structures of the Catholic church. Then he says one always sees people who rise up to oppose the new religion. We see that there was an outcry against Vatican II from many notable figures such as Cardinal Octaviani, Archbishop Tuch, Archbishop Lefevre, father Gerard de L'Oreal, Monsignor Joseph Fenton, and many others.

The entire traditional movement today is the successor to this general outcry against Vatican II. And finally, he says, with all new religions, there is always a small group which breaks off from the Catholic church and then begins to attract new members. The men who created the Novosorto religion were originally a very small group of mostly French and German modernists who abandoned the Catholic religion, and the only reason their numbers increased was because they were able to deceive and trick the Catholic faithful by lying to them. The third mark of the church, Saint Robert says, is long duration without interruption. He says false religions do not stand the test of time and remain strong.

They always have a brief moment of glory where they attract many members suddenly, then afterwards they lose strength and become weak. Whereas, he says, Catholicism is constantly strong even in the face of attack because it comes from God. Look at the Novosorto. How glorious was the time of its emergence in the nineteen sixties. How everyone rejoiced at the springtime of the church, so called.

And look at how far it has fallen today. Thousands and tens of thousands of defected priests and religious, hundreds of millions of souls throughout the world abandoned to apostasy, seminaries everywhere closing, convents closing, schools closing, parishes closing, retreat centers closing, churches torn down, donations dried up, charitable works at an end. No one is listening to their sermons. No one is reading their catechisms. No one is going to them for spiritual advice.

They have not stood the test of time, not even for one generation. Their ministers have completely lost all their credibility and all their relevancy. There is no future for them now except oblivion. Whereas the traditional Catholic religion continues, completely unchanged from the time of the apostles. The fourth mark of the church is, he says, the multitude and diversity of believers united in one religion.

By this he means that the Catholic church is conspicuously diverse in national and racial background despite being united in religion. Someone may say that heresy also embraces many different nationalities and races, but it is not the same. Even in a single heretical church in a single town somewhere, the people who go to that church will disagree violently with one another in matters of religion. Does this not perfectly describe the Novus Ordo? The African bishops in the Nova Sordo are against the European bishops.

The Midwestern American bishops are against the East Coast bishops. Parishes are split between liberal parishes and conservative parishes. Sometimes the split is within the single parish itself. They do not agree even in basic aspects of the Catholic faith and moral life. So yes, the novus ordo exists everywhere.

But put three random novus ordo priests into a room and ask them a few fundamental questions about Catholicism, you will get three wildly different responses. There is no unity, no agreement. Universal disagreement is a certain symptom of a false sect. The fifth characteristic of the church, Saint Robert says, is apostolic succession. Saint Robert says, where there is no succession, there is no church.

He's very firm with this. Succession means that a Catholic bishop must come from another Catholic bishop who comes from another Catholic bishop going all the way back to the apostles. Apostolic succession can never be and will never be interrupted or broken in the Sea Of Saint Peter, that is in the Roman pontificate. This means that the church that Christ founded will always either have a pope reigning over it or will at least have the means to elect a pope lawfully. Now a pope can have succession in two ways.

Formally, meaning with the power of the papacy, or materially, meaning with an election, but not with the power of the papacy. Bergoglio claims to have apostolic succession formally with the power, and the nobis ordo agrees with this claim. But this claim is bogus. For if it were true, then the pope would be a precursor of antichrist, and the Catholic church would be the harlot of Babylon of the apocalypse. And this is blasphemy.

Saint Robert's entire presentation on the nature of the Catholic church would be gravely mistaken if this were true, as would the teachings of innumerable other Catholic theologians, commentators on sacred scripture, fathers, popes, and even the infallible sacred scriptures themselves. So Bergoglio cannot have apostolic succession formally, but he does have apostolic succession materially. He has a valid election, but not the power of the papacy. Only this position is consonant with what Saint Robert teaches on the nature of the church. The sixth mark of the true church is that it agrees in doctrine with the ancient church.

The teachings that are going on in the Catholic church are in perfect agreement with the teachings that have always gone on in the Catholic church from the apostles until the present day. Wherever there is teaching going on that agrees with the teachings of the ancient church, there you will find Catholicism. There you will find the Catholic church. You do not find this anywhere in the Novosorum. Vatican too does not agree with the teachings of the ancient church or even with human reason.

From the pulpits of the novasordo comes empty babble, meaningless drivel. This is yet another symptom that the nova sorto is not the Catholic religion. There is no preaching of Catholicism that takes place in that context. The seventh mark of the true church is that all the members of it are in union with the head. Now one quick glance at the nova sorto tells us that the members are not in union with the head.

Many nova sorto bishops, priests, and laymen are very publicly and vocally opposed to Bergoglio, who whom they consider to be their head. There is a revolution going on in the novus ordo, traditionalists versus liberals. This internal battling and revolution is another symptom telling us that the novus ordo is not Catholic. It does not have unity. The eighth mark of the true church, he says, is that it has holy doctrines.

This means that the Catholic church's teachings contain no error, not even against reason, and nothing offensive to good morals. This cannot be said of the Novus Ordo, which officially teaches many errors and promotes immorality everywhere from the highest organs of its government. The ninth mark of the true church he calls efficacy of doctrine. What does that mean? He means that the church's teachings really work to convert souls.

When people hear what the Catholic church teaches, they want to be baptized and live as Catholics. Now the Novus Ordo does not do this. It does not convert souls, but rather it perverts souls, drawing them away from truth and goodness and into darkness and sin. The high schools and the universities of the Novus Ordo do not produce fervent Catholics who know their catechism. They produce worldly people who know nothing about Catholicism.

Most of them are totally indifferent to religion. Parents send their children to these schools expecting that they will turn out Catholic. They are shocked to discover that the exact opposite happens. Not only do the children lose the Catholic faith, but they become entirely irreligious altogether. And this is not surprising because, as Saint Pius the tenth so wisely observed, modernism is ordered to the destruction not only of the Catholic religion, but of all religion.

This is yet another symptom of the falsity of the Novosorno. The tenth mark of the true church, he says, is the holiness of the fathers of the religion. Saint Robert says, look at the fathers of the church, how conspicuously holy they were. And those men taught exactly what we are teaching today. And yet look at the fathers of the Novosordo.

Who created the Novosordo? De Lubac, Kangar, Rauner, von Balthasar, Skilabeeks, Kun, and Bunini. None of these men were holy. None of them were even decent people. I have read works by Rahner, Bunini, Congar, and de Lubac.

All of them express intense anger and hatred for Catholicism and the Catholic church, and it is no surprise that their religion produces people just like them. The eleventh and twelfth marks can be taken together. They are miracles and prophecies. Both the Catholic church and false religions both claim to have miracles and prophecies. Think in our own times, how many so called prophets have predicted that the end of the world is going to happen on such and such day in such and such a year.

We ought not to believe every claim that there is a prophecy here or that there is a miracle there, But only those claims which are coming from a credible source. That is a source which has a proven history of telling the truth concerning these matters. The only organization that has this credibility is the Catholic church. The church has a two thousand year unbroken track record of never lying about miracles or prophecy. But the Novosorto constantly lies about these things.

Look at the so called miracles attached to their founders, John the twenty third and Paul the six. They are obviously bogus. They are worthy of scorn by any reasonable person who investigates them. This is another symptom of its falsehood. The thirteenth mark of the true church, Saint Robert says, is the confession of adversaries.

Saint Robert says that it is characteristic of Catholics never to speak well of false religions, but rather to hold them in contempt, but that it is characteristic of heretics occasionally to speak well of the Catholic church. Even in my few years of experience in traditional Catholicism, I have received messages from people in the Novosorto, even priests, who tell me that they are deeply grateful for our apostolate and who hold our organization in far greater regard than they do their own. At first, I was astonished to hear this, but Saint Robert says that although this is not common, it does happen occasionally. He says the force of truth is so powerful that it sometimes compels our enemies to testify to the goodness and truth of Catholicism. Are the enemies of the Novus Ordo ever compelled to testify to its goodness and truth?

No. For the Novus Ordo has no enemies except one, us, and we have nothing but contempt for it. The fourteenth mark of the true church is the unhappy end of those who oppose the church. By this, Saint Robert means that the enemies of the church do not die good deaths. They do not die holy deaths.

They die badly. Let us take just as one example, the death of John the twenty third in the 1963. During his last weeks, he boasted about how proud he was of his own accomplishments, especially of Vatican two, and of his desire to further globalist initiatives. He repeatedly said that Christ died to achieve ecumenism, which is of course blasphemous. What he was reading at that time was the biography of an obscure radical left wing French politician.

The director of the American CIA, who at that time was a Catholic of considerable prestige, came to visit him in Rome asking him for a forceful condemnation of communism, which was the major issue at that time in the early sixties. But he denied the request saying, I bless all peoples. He received an award from the Italian government in appreciation for his promotion of globalism. He said while sick in bed, we are called to serve man, to defend above all and everywhere the rights of the human person. In the middle of receiving extremunction, he gave a speech in which he said his pontificate was a program of love.

This is not a holy death. This is barely even a Catholic death. It is the death that could have been died by any left wing politician, a completely worldly person who clearly has no respect for the sacraments and who seems not even to believe in God. Yet he is their canonized and sainted leader, the founder of their entire religion. And the last mark of the true church is the temporal happiness of those who defend the church.

This means that God confers great gifts upon those who stand up for the Catholic religion and defend it in the face of attack. Now we are in the midst of the greatest attack that the church has ever faced in history. Yet, look at our little organization. We have an excellent seminary, an excellent convent, an excellent school. We have many wonderful, happy families and parishioners.

We are expanding everywhere. We are flourishing. Our Lord promised that he who leaves all things to follow him shall receive a 100 times as much now in this life, and in the world to come, life everlasting. We could see that this promise is being fulfilled by God in our very midst. Now, of course, it would be best if the crisis in the church were resolved.

But until then, we are completely confident that God will provide, and not only that, that he will also reward us for defending the church during this time of attack. As I said, the Novosordo is not flourishing but crumbling despite the fact that it is not under attack by anyone. It is failing because of its inherent weakness. I hope it is abundantly clear from this sketch that what Saint Robert is describing cannot be the church of Vatican two. The nova sorto has everything in common with a heretical cult and bears absolutely no resemblance to the church which Christ founded and which is described by the fathers and doctors of antiquity.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.