In continuing our series intent on simplifying the holy Faith for those so confused over the past 50 years by all the alterations of the truths and traditions of holy Mother Church, we focus today on the very essence of the Church Christ founded: the four indelible Marks of the Church that prove She is the only true Church, the only true religion by which we can reach Heaven. Christ as said it, that settles it. Over two millennia, many churches, claiming to be Christian, have broken away from the One True Church established by Christ. To date there are over 33,000 different sects who thought they had a better idea than the Son of God. These sects were founded by men who had no authority from God to found a church and this is proven by the fact they do not possess the authentic authority To Teach, Sanctify, and Govern The holy Doctor St. Anthony is often depicted holding the Christ Child in such a loving, gentle manner, yet he was not so gentle on those who sought to deceive the faithful through heresy. When he died at age 36, church bells rang throughout Italy, in many with no human person ringing the bells. People attributed the bellringers to the angels who had come to earth to ring them as children wailed in the streets crying aloud, "Our dear father, Anthony is dead." But his spirit and on-going miraculous wonders have lived on for nearly 8 centuries. He's the patron saint of the poor and oppressed, the one many pray to when something or someone is lost. He so wanted to convert the Moors and was willing to be martyred. Where are the St. Anthonys today when the infidels are overrunning Christianity? Take a cue from the Hammer of Heretics In back to back Doctors of the Church, with June 13 being St. Anthony's feast, on the following day June 14 the Church celebrates another of the magnificent luminaries God rose up in the 4th century. The holy bishop and Doctor of the Church Saint Basil the Great also faced the intense persecutions and calumnies of the Arian bishops and suffered greatly, never complaining and living a life of austerity while his fellow Arian bishops lived high on the hog. Like his good life-long friend and fellow Doctor of the Church St. Gregory Nazianzen, he,too, came from holy stock and had two brothers who became bishops; a father, mother and sister who became saints. This Bishop of Caesarea is one of the few, along with Popes St. Leo I and St. Gregory I and St. Albert to be given the august title "Magnus" - great. For a profile of this holy Bishop and Doctor, see Orator of Orthodoxy Saint Ephrem the Deacon, the holy Doctor and saintly Syrian who was the second chronologically to receive such a title following Saint Athanasius, was an early luminary of the Church. St. Ephrem was beloved by the faithful and one called the "Prophet of his people" and a deacon who combated heretical sects and Roman emperors, not by raising his voice in anger, but through Syriac poetry in winning the people to the Faith. His works are integral to the Syrian Church. In adherence to yesterday's gospel, Ephrem reached out and cared for the least of his brethren leaving the 99 to go in search of the one who was lost. This dedication to the will of God and uncompromisingly living the Gospel to win souls to the Lord show why he was a clarion of clarity to those suffering from the confusion of the Arian heresy. He is affectionately known as the Harp of the Holy Ghost In continuing our series intent on simplifying the holy Faith for those so confused over the past 50 years by all the alterations of the truths and traditions of holy Mother Church, we focus today on the very essence of the Church Christ founded: the four indelible Marks of the Church that prove She is the only true Church, the only true religion by which we can reach Heaven. Christ as said it, that settles it. Over two millennia, many churches, claiming to be Christian, have broken away from the One True Church established by Christ. To date there are over 33,000 different sects who thought they had a better idea than the Son of God. These sects were founded by men who had no authority from God to found a church and this is proven by the fact they do not possess the four necessary indelible marks for authenticity. In step three we provide the evidence for this and how one can always prove the Catholic Church is the only true Church for She alone possesses the four indelible Marks of being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic This series is an effort to return to basics since too often we all make the holy Faith complicated, whereas in reality the truths and traditions of the Catholic Faith are quite simple. God doesn't complicate things, man does. Realizing this fact, we've decided to employ this series to simplify the tenets of the Faith for those who continue to wallow in what they think is the 'Catholic Church' out of obedience to a man and his hierarchy who long ago betrayed Christ and His flocks. This then, is an affirmation of the basic truths the Spotless Bride of Christ has always taught and cannot change or evolve as "living documents" for truth is truth. As we say every day in the Act of Faith, "We believe these and all the truths which the holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived." If you have been deceived, and the vast majority have been, then realize what you've been indoctrinated with over the past 50 years cannot be from God but from His adversary. Our advice: flee the conciliar confines as well as other man-made religions which do not teach these truths without compromise. Seek out a traditional chapel nearest to you. Knowing that is not as simple as it sounds, you can at least keep the Faith by knowing it. This is the intent of this series, continuing with Step Two: The Blessed Trinity With all the scuttlebutt and spewing about illegal immigration and amnesty raising its ugly head again when terrorism is reaching its highest threat level and our borders have become a sieve as well as Obama's political welcome mat despite national security, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey has filed two excellent essays on the problem in retracing the roots of immigration and the prejudices that arose because of Naturalism. He traces the history of Mexico and why today it has become an unstable bed of revolution, a rebellion against all Our Lady established through Guadalupe. Today her adversary has succeeded in not only fueling his minions to lie and deceive, but to twist the situation where decency doesn't stand a chance. All the ranting and rhetoric is futile if we as a nation and those residents of foreign nations continue to reject Christ as our Sovereign King and Mary as our Immaculate Queen. There is a right way and a wrong way and the wrong way is winning thanks to the godless politicians who place votes above all else, even to jeopardizing the very sovereign duty of a nation to protect its own borders. Security be damned as the dam is full of holes where every criminal riffraff and terrorist steal in beside those who are only seeking a better life. If the latter are so inclined, then get in line as all immigrants have in the past and then, in accordance with the melting pot that America has become, melt in, but never forget without Christ there is no hope. Tom explains in exposing the radical progressivists from the evil Woodrow Wilson to the likeminded Barack Hussein Obama. History has a way of repeating itself if we do not learn from history. As is only too evident, we haven't learned. Good Catholic Common Sense Must Prevail Part One and Good Catholic Common Sense Must Prevail Part Two With the above, we wanted to bring you a redux of Gabriel Garnica's poignant piece on the brouhaha that consumed Congress three years ago and thus present a bonus for June for his article truly is a Diadem of the Decade. Just as the U.S. Government is doing today what Gabriel pointed out in 2007: The politicians continue to ignore the majority of their constituents. The public be damned. Lobbyists live and prosper in the dens of iniquity behind closed doors. Whether it's the Bush or Obama Administration, corruption still reigns. Just as satan never gives up in his relentless pursuit to damn souls, so also Congress continues to hammer away at the very foundations of our country by trying to make Illegal Immigration legal and turning law abiding citizens into righteous alarmists who have consistently shouted "No on Amnesty!" Truly we are living in a time when evil is having a field day and good has taken a holiday because so few are willing to stand for God's Laws and obey their only King. But then, in the legal ramifications that have corrupted our system of government because the U.S., like the conciliar church, have abandoned the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ, the sentence will be severe both temporally and spiritually. Despite the will of God and the will of the people, Congress and the conciliarists forge ahead with their acrimonious agenda. When will we truly realize the "liberal lie"? You can't say you weren't warned! Gabriel laid out the true Catholic response in his essay What Would Christ Say About Illegal Immigration?

It has definitely been a decade of transition, as this editor dubs it - Transition to Tradition, our last opportunity before God really lowers the boom. Looking back, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to see the deterioration in society as the ranks of the good, decent ones striving for holiness grow smaller and the enemy flanks are massing larger and larger, more threatening than ever. With every day we inch closer to the apocalypse foretold in the book of the same name, contrary to Protestant and conciliar concerns that it was always called "Revelation." Would St. John the Evangelist be surprised, and for that matter the holy Doctor of the Church who translated it and several of the holy hierarchs who ratified the Scriptures at various major councils of the Church, most recently at the dogmatic Council of Trent. Many closet conciliarists reading this may not be familiar with that council since the robber barons have sought to eliminate any mention of Trent in the same manner as the U.S. Government is doing everything it can to wipe out any mention of God. For both these offenses there are consequences, grave ones and we are beginning to see now that both anti-Catholic campaigns by the counterfeit church of conciliarism and the United States Congress and its cohorts in the Obama administration both in Washington and Chicago are getting more desperate as each day passes. Those not grounded in grace had best get right with God before it is too late. Call it "gloom and doom" if you want, but that doom can be eternal and that would cause anyone gloom. Can you say fire and brimstone? To remind you, we will be bringing you throughout this year "Diadems of the Decade" featuring an article from each month of each of the past ten years. We're not saying these are the "Best" of the decade for how do you choose which ones are the best? Yet, they are gems that we want to share for we're sure you will treasure them and realize, like fine jewels, they are still as valuable today especially when investing in souls. For this edition, we present a diadem for each June from 2000 through June 2009.

Forget gun control! There's something much worse. If we don't help...and soon, the preborn will continue to be sitting ducks for the pro-abort killers! This column ran ten years ago in which Dr. Frank Joseph, one of our first contributing writers, asked why so many pro-lifers fall into that trap of calling the senseless and selfish slaughter of the innocents "abortion" when in truth it is "killing." Murder plain and simple. The reason, he deduced then, and holds to it to this day, is because pro-lifers are too nice and don't want to hurt feelings. Ten years ago the good retired doctor was righteously impatient in the fact that it was time to get tough and start hurting feelings if it would help save the lives of countless innocents in their mothers' wombs. He illustrated how if pro-aborts could use the word "choose" why can't we. In addition, he entreated the readers to choose to be heard by encourage then Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush to choose Alan Keyes as his running mate to assure a solid choice for pro-lifers everywhere. As we can clearly see Bush did not heed Frank's sage advice and we're much worse off today than even then. Think of the innocent souls slaughtered since then and shudder. . Abortion is a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance. Why aren't the American Princes of the Church taking a Catholic stance? Has modernism gained that strong a foothold? Sadly the answer is YES! Nine years ago Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey already had a bead on pinning the problem on where it belonged: with the heads of the hierarchy in America. He asled how could a regular Catholic know how grave a sin abortion is when the top cardinals in America passed up golden opportunities to define exactly how bad it truly was. Dr. Droleskey pointed out particular incidences where one, who everyone was counting on to speak out strongly. didn't: Cardinal Edward Egan of New York. If he wouldn't, Tom asked who would in America? Yet, hope as we do - and our series "Herod's Heroes" had proved this point - it would seem it was not then nor is it today politically correct and thus, in order to placate man, the bishops have continued to confuse the common Catholic and further angered a Just God as the killing of the unborn has continued unabated. Modernism, so strongly condemned by past Sovereign Pontiffs, has gained a stronger foothold than ever. Tom warned that the bishops needed to stop playing politics and be shepherds, guiding their flocks and defending their flocks against sin, against modernism, against murder! Few realized then how bad these potentates really were and are! Tom explained in Nothing But An American Right Before you race down to your neighborhood video store to rent Harry Potter films or buy the books, you should read what's really behind all the hype. Eight years ago Dr. Marian Therese Horvat addressed a seemingly harmless issue for all parents. However, as we warned back then, that before you raced down to your neighborhood video store to rent the newly released Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone you should read what's really behind all the hype. Since then more installments have been released and her words hold truer than ever about the occult as she explained in 2002 that the books are even more subliminal. The problem, as we can see today is that so many have become desensitized to the warnings as the world embraces a darker age than the dark ages. The demonic rages and rules as she noted in quoting the only true exorcist in all of Rome Fr. Gabrielle Amorth. As we know it has only grown worse than when she first explained the problems in her column Harry Potter and the Problem of Good and Evil Seven years ago Gary L. Morella filed a commentary in exposing how convoluted the wolves in shepherds' clothing were in twisting the truths. He presented the evidence where conversion of the sheep into the one true fold is no longer relevant. Rather, as Gary Morella commented on the totally humanist and worldly direction modern Rome has chosen to travel, what is important to the counterfeit church is "ecological conversion" and submission to mammon through "globalization" by pandering to the UN as the governing authority, whereas it should be the Church alone as the Authority of all souls as Christ commanded. It was so sad to realize then how so few could see the ecumaniacal bent of "John Paul the Great" which had blinded so many to the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church and has proven alien to Apostolic tradition. Today we can see Ratzinger not only following suit, but releasing a conciliar encyclical that shouts Marxism in the greening and globalization of mankind. Gary had it right back in 2003 when he asked, What are the sheep to think? Six years ago Stanford Gabiel Espedal provided an excellent essay on the Dogma of the Faith in confirming the infallible dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus - 'Outside the Church there is no salvation.' He documented the Fathers, Doctors and infallible Papal pronouncements of this first dogma of the Faith and pointed out that, since the advent of Vatican II, pastors have veered from Pope Pius XII's words in Humanis generis and have "reduced to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the one, true Church in order to obtain salvation." Mr. Espedal pointed out succinctly that Vatican II is toothless and those gumming mandates that we must follow those relative "opinions" are way out in left field and have forgotten that Trent is still in full force and to veer from that in anyway is apostasy. He expanded his facts in deprogramming diabolical disorientation of Vatican II and ecumenism with his magnificent essay The Word of God, The Church, and Salvation Thee Word of God, The Church, and Salvation Back in 2005, we brought you a guest editorial by Kevin Tierney in which he focused on the smoking issue which has clouded many a mind and stirred vigorous emotions on both sides. While the PC Police have done all they can to tolerate every sin possible and basically made smoking the only sin against society, the Church, contrary to New Order parsimony, does not see it the same way. The Fish is a symbol of Christians. Therefore we have posted a fish smoking a cigarette to illustrate Kevin's point that tobacco is not sinful, only in its excess and abuse could it be sinful just as many other items are not sinful per se, yet modern society is quick to condemn while not only giving a pass to, but encouraging abortion and sodomy. In fact, smokers and Traditional Catholics have more in common than one might think since both are shunned and forced to find out-of-the- way areas to continue their practice. Contrary to popular thinking, God does love smokers. In fact, before Vatican II 7 out of 10 priests smoked. Today 7 out of 10 don't believe in the True Presence. Which is worse? Kevin provided the moral theology in his musings on smoking and morals in Smoke 'em if you've got 'em! Five years ago, John Gregory presented a poignant piece in which he focused on the divine number three, especially in this time when we are still basking in the grace-filled glow of Trinity Sunday. He pointed out that there are often three ways of looking at things. Sometimes that is healthy, but not when it contradicts what the Divine has ordained or what Peter's legitimate successors have decreed. This is true regardless of the fact the vast majority ignore this wisdom already proclaimed by the Church and past reliable and holy Pontiffs in opting for their own way of thinking. It can create problems when what should be the progression of one, then two replacing one goes too far towards establishing three. There are Three Persons in One God, and only One Church - Unam Ecclesiam: the Roman Catholic Church and that you can take to the bank - as in the thrice-defined dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. For some reason, the conciliar church doesn't get that as John expounded in his column back in 2006 titledhe "New" New Covenant The "New" New Covenant Before submitting to surgery three years ago, Cyndi Cain felt it necessary - rather she insisted on writing an article to not only assure all that she would be okay, but to plead with those who have been so deceived by the claptrap that Benedict XVI is going to "turn things around" and is really a "friend of tradition." NOT! In effect her article had to do with surgery in that we can cut out the cancer that afflicts holy Mother Church by abhorring it and exposing it because when we weren't looking, the VulgArians changed the "seven hills of Eternal Rome that symbolize the Seven Sacraments and Gifts of the Holy Ghost" to the "seven hideous mounds of Modern Rome that personify the Seven Capital sins." She called upon all to turn to Our Mother of Perpetual Help whose feast is celebrated in June. She explained in her column, Flee from those who deceive Two years ago, editor Michael Cain illustrated that to make a tree grow straight and tall, it needs a lot of wind. Well, you asked for it because we're in for a storm to end all storms. You know the signs, the very ones Christ identified in St. Matthew 24. Are you ready? Let's hope and pray your roots are firmly planted on firm foundation, deeply embedded in the rocksolid truths and traditions of holy Mother Church. The operation of error engulfs more every day, satan has satiated consciences. The lukewarm continue to languish in ever greater numbers, seemingly oblivious to what is so obvious on the near horizon. It's coming faster than you may think as events, not to mention consequences, spiral out of control, knocking common sense, decency and goodness off its proverbial axis. That wobble you've felt from Rome to Beijing to Washington D.C. to San Francisco to Sydney and all points in between, should shake you into hying yourself to the nearest traditional priest to cleanse your soul and light your lamp before the Bridegroom cometh and all else is plunged into darkness. The times we are in and the even more ominous period we are entering are not to be taken lightly. Since this editorial ran, it has grown ever darker as Cain identified the more obvious signs in his commentary Preparing for the Perfect Storm Last year Griff Ruby filed an open letter to one of the leading voices in the "resist and recognize" camp, Atila Guimarães. It was addressed to other like minded resisters who think they can be more effective "inside." It is not possible. For to be inside the wrong something can put one outside the right something. Thus in order to return to the inside, one must shed all that he has insisted on on the outside during the time he thought he was on the inside, but really was and continues to be outside the Church. That logic is not thinking outside the box, but rather inside the Church as laid down by the perennial Magisterium of the Church and therefore in harmony with the will of God. And that is the key point Griff laid out for those still in denial that we are in an interminable interregnum in hopes that perhaps it will prompt them to want to get out of the soul-suffocating constraints of the conciliar box as soon as they can and realize that sedevacantism is not only a "viable option" but, under the circumstances, the only option! Griff provided the logic in Thinking Inside the Church and Outside the Conciliar Box

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