Expert: Fr. Michael - 5/29/2010

Question
QUESTION: Not as a tradionalist but if I was a member of a secular organistation would you drop the 'most important' word in that organisations name ?

When last did you hear a Roman Catholic Prelate ,Priest us not describe us as Catholics as if we are in union with the Orthodox,Anglican,Lutheran and Methodist faith.


Some of the worst offenders are our Roman Catholic Broadcasters.

It is not easy we have all got used to saying we are Catholics but do we know what we are saying ? I pray that more and more of us will remember the importance that we reuse the correct name, the correct and only name of our Faith - remember the successor of St.Peter is the Bishop of Rome, who is by our tradition the direct succesor of Peter.

ANSWER: Traditional Catholics haven't dropped the term, but it is an irony that the Newchurch of the New Order likes to overuse the term, not because it is Roman Catholic, but because it is in fact not.  The New Order uses the term to help it deceive others about its true nature, as if to wrap itself in the term it can appear to be what it is not.  It is much as if a Communist kept calling himself a capitalist to deceive others.  The false use of a term does not change the reality.

The Church is "Roman" Catholic not only because its Primatial See is there, but because its tradition begins in Rome and its language is the Roman language.

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QUESTION: Sorry with all the respect - a cough-up response.

Say it enough and you will believe it..... the US LIBERAL Roman Catholics perceive by removing the ROMAN then  we as American Roman Catholics we are more autonimous to ourselves and 'not' subject to Rome. Check those so-called Roman Catholic intellecturals who do not support the Right to Life etc., etc..
Fr. believe me we have to try to return to what we were always so proud to say...I AM A ROMAN CATHOLIC ! Least lets pray.

Answer
What we SAY is not nearly as important what we DO.  In the Post-conciliar period, when "Rome" has become is the Newrome of the New Order and publicly departs from the Catholic Faith in doctrine, the Mass and Sacraments, and morality, we should be more concerned about, as St. Paul says, holding fast to the (Catholic) Faith.  In the Post-conciliar period, "Rome" has become merely a code word for the New Order, not the Rome of the Roman Catholic Faith.  This deliberate obfuscation of terms is part of the Modernist trickery that has taken hold of Newchurch.