{"id":2952,"date":"2015-06-04T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T21:20:09","slug":"the-crescat-has-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"The Crescat Has Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The keys to the Kingdom of Heaven<\/p><\/div>\n

At Patheos the Crescat is one of many who responded <\/a>to the Anchoress’s call when she asked people why they stay Catholic.<\/p>\n

\u2026 The question of why we remain Catholic has been asked of the Patheos writers<\/a>, in response to Pew Report stating our numbers are dwindling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not much for big word-y words, preferring to keep it straightforward.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Catholic and plan to remain so until I die and my big fat Catholic soul flies off to Catholic Heaven \u2013 the part of Heaven where the alcohol and fireworks are kept in ample supply. The existence of Catholic Heaven<\/a> has been well documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If I didn\u2019t leave the Church amidst scandal or liturgical abuse it stands to reason that there\u2019s not much that would make me go. Not even other Catholics.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the coin, I don\u2019t stay<\/em> simply because I love my priests and think they are awesome guys. I don\u2019t stay for the art, the architecture, the traditions, or even the awesome nuns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t base decisions like that on such superficial reasons.<\/p>\n

As awesome as I think the Catholic Church is; with Her brains<\/a>, beauty<\/a> and generous nature<\/a>, that is not why I choose to remain a Catholic. It\u2019s not the beer nor the bacon.<\/p>\n

I remain Catholic because the Church is Truth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen the Truth. I\u2019ve experienced it firsthand. I\u2019ve been baptized in the Truth. Confirmed in it. I\u2019ve tasted and drank the Truth. I\u2019ve Adored it and received graces and forgiveness from the Truth.<\/p>\n

I have looked plainly and unflinchingly at the Truth and to leave the Church would be to turn my back on all that I know, believe, and have experienced.<\/p>\n

To leave the Church is to embrace Hell.<\/p>\n

Amen. The end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a good answer.\u00a0 It reminds me of St. Peter.\u00a0 The Church has unity in itself.\u00a0 The truth is complete.\u00a0 It has a life of its own.\u00a0 Partial truth is just false and morbid.<\/p>\n

How long must we endure all this blather about being part in and part out of the Church, about an ‘ecumenism of blood’ in the name of Jesus, and how the Devil knows all Christians are one<\/a>?\u00a0 It doesn’t stand to reason.\u00a0 It is killing souls.<\/p>\n

Let the heretics pray Our Lord will have mercy above and beyond the truth He has revealed. Let them try to make sense out of confusion, and integrate sins using false faith.\u00a0 If our own voice doesn’t ring clear how will they hear it and be saved?<\/p>\n

Katrina Fernandez makes the sacrifices and pays the price to be united to the Church.\u00a0 She’s no fool and sees the difference between black and white.\u00a0 You have to take the long view and see the ends of things to understand.<\/p>\n

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At Patheos the Crescat is one of many who responded to the Anchoress’s call when she asked people why they stay Catholic. \u2026 The question of why we remain Catholic has been asked of the Patheos writers, in response to Pew Report stating our numbers are dwindling. I\u2019m not much for big word-y words, preferring …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,424,76,425,426],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholic","tag-crescat","tag-hell","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-unity"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}