This is another great article that appeared in The Catholic Thing that was written by Fr. Thomas Weinandy. In his article he lets us see who the real neo-Gnostics might be in today’s world. We should think a bit more on this before we allow the progressives and modernists to hurl their slanderous comments toward their enemies willy-nilly. Enjoy.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2018
There is much discussion today concerning the presence of a new Gnosticism within the Catholic Church. Some of what has been written is helpful, but much of what has been described as a revival of this heresy has little to do with its ancient antecedent. Moreover, attributions of this ancient heresy to various factions within contemporary Catholicism are generally misdirected. To bring some clarity to this discussion of neo-Gnosticism first demands a clear understanding of the old form.
Ancient Gnosticism came in various forms and expressions, often quite convoluted, but some essential principles are discernible:
♦ First, Gnosticism holds a radical dualism: “matter” is the source of all evil, and “spirit” is the divine origin of all that is good.
♦ Second, human beings are composed of both matter (the body) and spirit (which provides access to the divine).
♦ Third, “salvation” consists in obtaining true knowledge (gnosis), an enlightenment that allows progress from the material world of evil to the spiritual realm, and ultimately communion with the immaterial supreme deity.
♦ Fourth, diverse “Gnostic Redeemers” were proposed, each claiming to possess such knowledge, and to provide access to this “salvific” enlightenment.
Read more: https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/06/07/gnosticism-today/
All Along the Watchtower 
Fourth, diverse “Gnostic Redeemers” were proposed, each claiming to possess such knowledge, and to provide access to this “salvific” enlightenment.
That’s what the catholic church claims, amongst other things, is to be the only vehicle to salvation, if you don’t commit suicide because of priest abuse.
Here is what the cathechism says, in case some of you feel good Vat II people think everyone goes to heaven, even, god forbid, Jews.
“The Second Vatican Council’s Decree on Ecumenism explains: ‘For it is through Christ’s Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained.’” Pg. 215, #816.
“…all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body: Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation…” Pg. 224, #846
A pilgrim is a vagabond just passing thru town. The CC has a criminal drug money laundering bank, a jail, it has its own country with its own postage stamps and currency. World leaders line up to kiss the Holy Fathers hand, its prelates live in splendor and nitely parties. To call itself a pilgrim is as big a lie as any of its false claims that its faithfull believe and regurgitate.
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Since you are a Gnostic and have favored yourself with your self proclaimed assurance of salvation I doubt there is much I can add to your secret knowledge that only the few special people like yourself possess.
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You’ve known me a long time. What secret knowledge have I ever said I had? I claim to know Jesus personally just like the woman at the well. She ran into town and told everyone that she met the Lord. Unlike you and your fellow Mary worshipers, the towns people believed her, but you wont go to meet him, neither do you believe I met him. You are satisfied with your images and costumed holymen who don’t enter into salvation and bar the door to salvation from their followers. That’s rite, the first evangelist was a female.
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By the way, your female phobia catholic church has tossed females into the dust bin, Congats, your religion has alienated half the population of earth, and its working on the other half as we speak. One more thing….the first Christian evangelist with the gospel I and others preach, that the Lord has risen, was also a female. Put that in your celibate pipe and smoke it.
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Protestants have pastors and until recently they were all men as well. Catholics have priests and the priesthood belongs to men. It was ordained by Christ Himself and he breathed on the apostles the Holy Spirit. From that time hence, these bishops have ordained their successors by the rite of ordination to other men who would take their place. I wouldn’t expect you to understand that nor would I expect you to think it is a phobia against women for your thinking seems to coincide with the egalitarian spirit of this age. Men and women are different no matter how much you want them to be the same. If you want to join the chorus of the world and have masculine women and effeminate men then you go right ahead. It is obvious that you have never quite matured into a man but remain a boy. You and a a woman are exactly the same and I suspect you can’t imagine that there is any difference except for the plumbing.
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We honor women as women not as stand-ins for men. You obviously didn’t take the time to read these articles that I put in a recent post. It might do you good but I doubt you have enough sense to understand them.
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/12/20272/ – Glenn Stanton
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/06/21528/ – Anthony Esolen
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Catholics see the Church as the gospels reveal it as The Bride of Christ; not in the modern sense where a man can be a bride but in the traditional sense. It is therefore up to Christ or those who act in the person of Christ (male priests) to care for Her. They adorn Her as a bride and they look out for Her, protect Her and feed Her children (the laity) with the Bread of Angels; the living and breathing risen Christ. I would not expect you to understand such a system at all. Its all the same to you . . . men or women; what’s the difference, huh?
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Okj, I skimmed thru one of the articles. I was expecting something more. Who ever wrote that is a master of the obvious. Uh, by the way, Jesus did away with priests when he rose from the dead. We can now approach the holy of holies for ourselves. Its all there is the NT. Anyway, the priests of the god of Jacob were all Levites. No other tribe could produce priests to god. Catholic priests are phoney. That makes the whole religion phoney. Good brother scoop, you gotta put on your thinking cap. like you mentioned earlier that you are advanced in yrs, time to ask the ONE who knows whats best for you, Jesus. Ask him what to do.
I believe the scriptures. let the women stay silent in the church gathering service. This was said, not because women cant say something because of their sex, it was because the females would talk and socialize during services and that was distracting. And, let not the women teach the men. Well, we can all live with that. You have fallen prey to arguably the most wicked religion to ever hit the earth. Your pretty little nuns started out as hookers for the priests, back in the days when your pretests like women. Started in Rome where there were brothels all around the Vatican for use by the clergy. Martin Luther got a face full of it when he went to Rome. They decided to put the hookers in costumes and call them some holy sounding name…because it was freaking out the locals. Then they just looked like some holy ladies instead of what they were. Its fooled the people visiting Rome. Priests to this day use nunneries as their hen house. They do the janitor work in catholic churches and the Vatican. And you say that I, Bosco , don’t know the workings of the CC. You probably knew all this but don’t like talking about it.
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You’re a bigger idiot than I thought. Oh well.
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Well thanks, I think.
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