The Uncensored Catholic

In this episode we discuss the veneration of Images, a practice begun by the Holy Apostles. By sacred pictures or statues are meant representations of Christ, of the saints, or of the truths of religion. Pictures or statues of saints, by means of which or before which miracles have been worked, are called miraculous images. Above all representations of the saints or of holy things, we venerate the...

In this episode we discuss the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mother.  The veneration we pay to Mary is distinct from the adoration due to God. Exalted honor is due to Mary, but the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost alone, do we adore. 1, Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, is usually called the Mother of God or the Most Blessed Virgin. 2.We pay greater honor to Mary, the Mother of Christ, than...

In this episode we discuss the veneration of Saints, which is Biblical and very traditional to Christianity. We call those saints who died in the grace of God, and who are already in heaven, more especially those whom the Church has canonized. We honor the saints because they are the friends of God, princes of the heavenly court, and benefactors to ourselves; also because we obtain great graces fr...

In this episode we discuss Idolatry, false gods, superstition, fortune-telling and the occult. Idolatry is the worship of a creature which is regarded as a deity; e.g., the sun, fire, animals, images, etc. Another form of idolatry is when a human being gives up his whole self to a creature. The service of idols is high treason against the majesty of God, and the most heinous of sins. FOOLISH OR PE...

In this episode we begin to discuss the 1st Commandment. In the First Commandment God enjoins upon us to worship Him, and forbids idolatry and every false form of worship. The adoration we pay to God consists in this: That we ac knowledge both in our hearts and by our actions that He is Our Lord and we are His creatures and His servants. We worship God interiorly by acts of faith, hope, and charit...

In this episode we begin to discuss the 10 Commandments. The Ten Commandments were given by God to the Jews on Mount Sinai. We Christians are bound to observe the Ten Commandments of God, both because God has imprinted them upon the human heart, and because Christ laid them upon us anew in a more full and perfect form. The Ten Commandments of God are arranged in order. He who keeps all these comma...

In this episode we discuss the love and importance of friends, how to love your enemies and why you must also love yourself. LOVE OF ONE'S FRIENDS We call those men friends whose principles are the same as ours, and who cherish mutual good will, mutually support one another, and hold confidential intercourse one with another. Those only are true friends whose friendship is based upon principles of...

In this episode we discuss Saint Peter as the Rock upon which Christ founded His Church, the lack charity toward one's neighbor and how envy is the root of sin. He who does not desire the good of his neighbor, but is envious of him, does not possess the love of his neighbor. We call a man envious who merely through ill-will is vexed at the prosperity of another, or rejoices when misfortune overtak...

In this episode we discuss the love of the world and charity toward one's neighbor. The love of the world consists in loving, above all, money, or the gratification of one's appetite, or earthly honors or anything else in the world, instead of giving the first place to God. Through love of the world we incur the loss of sanctifying grace, and eternal felicity. The love of the world blinds the soul...

In this episode we discuss the love of God.  We ought to love God (1), because Christ commands this; (2), because He is in Himself essentially the highest beauty and sovereign perfection; (3), because He loves us and continually bestows benefits upon us. Our love of God is chiefly manifested by thinking of Him constantly, by avoiding whatever might separate us from Him, by laboring to promote His...

In this episode we discuss the Antichrist.  Who is he? From where will he come?  How will we recognize him? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: htt...

In this episode we discuss charity toward our fellow man - Love of God and Neighbor 1. The most important commandments are the two command ments of charity, that is to say, the love of God and the love of one's neighbor, for all the other commandments are comprised in them. Without the love of God and of our neighbor no man can be saved. The capacity for loving God and our neighbor is bestowed upo...

In this episode we begin to discuss the 10 Commandments, beginning with and explanation of natural and revealed law. God has imprinted the natural law on the heart of every man; this forms the fundamental rule of human actions. In addition to this natural law, God gave to man solemn precepts, more especially the Ten Commandments and the two pre cepts of charity. These are known as the revealed law...

In this episode we continue discuss the the topic of Christian Hope. THE ADVANTAGE OF CHRISTIAN HOPE. He who hopes in God enjoys the special protection of God. He who hopes in God can obtain everything from Him ; for Christ said that such a one might move mountains (Mark xi. 23). He who hopes in God is strengthened by God, so that he is not afraid of man, and is patient and courageous in suffering...

In this episode we discuss thethe topic of Christian Hope. THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIAN HOPE. Christian hope is the confident expectation of all those things which Christ promised us with regard to the fulfilment of God's will. As the reward of carrying out God's will, Christ has promised us eternal happiness, and the means required for attaining it ; in particular God's grace, temporal goods for the...

In this episode we discuss the General Judgement when Jesus will return and judge all humanity.  Again, I explain that we really are not close to the Apocalypse no matter how bad things seem.  I also explain why Catholics cannot be antisemitic without committing grave sin. Immediately after the resurrection the general judgment will take place. The general judgment will take place in order that Go...

In this episode we discuss the resurrection of the body. Christ on the Last Day will raise the bodies of all men from the dead, and unite them to the soul forever. He often declared that He would raise the bodies of all men from the grave, and proved His power by miracles; this resurrection will be heralded by many signs in nature. God will awake our bodies to life again to prove His jus tice, and...

In this episode we discuss Purgatory. Purgatory is a place where the souls of those must suffer for a time, who, though dying without grave sin on their souls, have not done complete penance for their offences against God. That there is a purgatory we learn from the teaching of Christ, and especially from the practice and doctrine of the Church, The faithful on earth can help the holy souls in pur...

In this episode we discuss Theosophy, Spiritualism, how Ben Franklin was kind of a randy old due and Hell.   Hell is the abode of everlasting torment. The tortures of the damned are eternal. The torments of the damned are not all alike, but vary ac cording to the sin. The souls of those who die in mortal sin go to hell. Sinners begin their hell even on earth. Become a supporter of this podcast: ht...

HEAVEN. Heaven is an abode of everlasting joy. The happiness of the blessed varies according to their merits. Only those souls enter heaven which are free from all sin, and from the penalty due to sin. Heaven is won by suffering and self-denial.  For the just heaven begins already on earth. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/suppor...

At death the soul is separated from the body, and enters the world of spirits; the body decays, and falls into dust. All men must die, because death is the consequence of original sin, Death is terrible only to the sinner, in no wise to the just.  In order to secure a happy death, we should in our dailyprayer ask God to grant us a happy death, and of our own accord detach ourselves now from earthl...

1. The communion of saints is the union and intercourse of Catholics on earth, of the souls in purgatory, and of the saints in heaven. 2. Catholics on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the blessed in heaven are united with Christ, just as are the members of a body with the head (Rom. xii. 4). 3. All the members of the communion of saints have a share in the spiritual goods of the Catholic Church,...

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE The Church is, in its own department, absolutely inde pendent of the State, for Christ left the teaching and government of His Church to the apostles and their successors, not to any temporal sovereign. The Church is an essential factor in promoting the welfare of the State, for she teaches obedience to authority, prevents many crimes, incites men to noble en...

I firmly believe that if most Lutherans knew what Martin Luther actually taught, they would abandon Lutheranism.  The father of Protestantism was absolutely satanic. He accused Jesus of adultery, he changed the Bible, he condemned the Ten Commandments and advocated for the death of both Jews and Christians.... and that is only scratching the surface.  Today, I read to you the actual words of the m...

The Catholic Church alone gives salvation; i.e., the Catholic Church alone possesses those means which lead to salvation, viz., the doctrine of Christ, the means of salvation appointed by Christ, and the teachers and guides of the Church established by Christ. Hence every man is bound to become a member of the Catholic Church. Whoever through his own fault remains outside the Church will not be sa...