by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

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The last 11 years in the Catholic Church have seen so many scandals emanate from Vatican City and from the Catholic Bishops of the world, that Catholics are, after centuries, once again speaking on a daily basis about the sins and crimes of heresy, schism and apostasy.

But one of the topics which has been omitted from reports by all other news outlets, except FromRome.Info, is the rejection of Apostolic Tradition and how important and dangerous such a rejection is for the Catholic world.

Our Holy Faith is founded upon the greatest gift of God to mankind, which distinguishes Catholics from all other men: and here I speak of the gift of knowledge which makes us know the true God has He has revealed Himself and understand His will for mankind in the same authentic sense He Himself has instructed us.

This gift of knowledge is called the Deposit of the Faith. It is called a deposit both because it is a treasury of truth and a pledge given to the entire Church and to each of us to be paid back by faith and fidelity when we arrive to our last hour.

This Deposit of the Faith contains two sources of knowledge and two channels of gifts: Sacred Scripture, which is codified in the Catholic Bible alone, containing all of the inspired books and none of the fake scriptures. And Sacred Tradition, which contains all the non written teachings of Jesus Christ, the Apostles and the prophets of old. These include the Sacraments, Blessings and ways of doing sacred actions or interpreting Sacred Scripture.

That part of Sacred Tradition which was instituted and established by the teaching of the Apostles, to Whom alone the Lord Jesus entrusted His one unique Church, as He was about to ascend into Heaven, is called Apostolic Tradition.

Apostolic Tradition is a vast and authentic resource of information and things, which Christ willed His Church and everyone He loves to have the benefit of. Since this part of the Deposit is so rich and brilliant in clarity, the Catholic Church excels all others which claim the name of “Christian” because She alone knows clearly what is pleasing to Jesus Christ through it.

From the Apostles down to our day, Apostolic Tradition has been handed on by word of mouth, good example, catechesis, and preaching.

Part of Apostolic Tradition regards general things, as the form of the Sacraments. Other parts regard specific ordinances, such as how and why public sinners ought to be excluded from the Sacraments and the Divine Liturgy or offices in the Church.

For this reason, to teach or practice something contrary to Apostolic Tradition is no small sin or crime. In fact, it is not just a heresy, which is an intentional rejection of a truth, but rises to the level of formal apostasy, because to want the Deposit of Faith without Apostolic Tradition would be to want only part of what God has taught and willed, and not the rest. And the soul which does such a thing has turned aside and fallen away from the Will of God as the supreme rule of all religion.

Thus to hold or teach that public sinners can receive the Sacraments of the Living, such as the Eucharist, Marriage, or Ordination is to reject Apostolic Tradition regarding the discipline of the Sacraments. And that would be apostasy.

For this reason, for centuries, Catholics never called Protestants and Anglicans “Christians”, precisely because they rejected in part or whole Apostolic Tradition, without which there can be no Christian religion

This is what Pope Francis during his antipapacy attempted in his private letter to the Bishops of Argentina when he said that such a thing is what he intended with ‘Amoris Laetitia’.

This is what Pope Francis intends also with ‘Fiducia supplicans’, the document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, on “Gay Blessings” which he also signed in private audience.

But you can reject Apostolic Tradition also if you reject the law of Saint Peter, the Apostle, by which he gave in perpetuity to the Roman Church, the right to elect his successor.

Thus one is not only an apostate from the Catholic religion if he would accept such teachings of Pope Francis, but also if one would reject that the Cardinals had the right to elect the Pope, or in their failure to do so, that the Faithful of the Roman Church had that right.

This shows clearly how many of those who claimed Pope Benedict XVI was pope until their death really did share in the same sin of Apostasy as Bergoglio when they rejected that the Faithful of the Roman Church could legitimately and in a juridically valid manner elected Pope Benedict XVI’s successor.

If this is your sin, then you need to reflect during Lent and ask yourself how you could have allowed yourself to be so misled by fools, charlatans, heretics etc.. to break from the will of Christ for His Church. This is no small sin. You cannot be saved if you dally with it.

You can see that it is a U. S. Government agenda to destroy the Catholic Church’s adherance to Apostolic Tradition by reading these articles, here, here and here. You can find all the articles at FromRome about Apostolic Tradition here.

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