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Eastern Orthodoxy, Chalcedon and the Principle of Unity

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Pope Leo XIV

by Dr. Rafael Xavier Gonzalez
We currently need solid moral guidance in this new industrial age,
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, has extensively discussed the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. His unbridled optimism towards it is dangerous and for that reason we need moral regulation guided by the Magisterium of the Church. Let us briefly see the four revolutions to contextualize.
The
Many other negative changes brought about an environment denigrating to human dignity, to include child labor, poor working conditions, exploitation of workers, overcrowding and poor living conditions, pollution among other abuses. It was a bad environment for man physically and spiritually.
The next revolutions are less known but are not less important. The
A big jump occurred from the Second to the
We are currently living in the
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, has extensively discussed this concept in his book, …

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Two Forgotten Essential Catholic Doctrines: Deification and Satisfaction

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Dei Verbum, Speculative vs. Historical Truths, Tradition as the Primary Source of Revelation

Dr. Rafael Xavier Gonzalez
The Church has always believed in the essential unity of Tradition and Scripture, a belief that was officially defined by the Councils of Trent and Vatican I. Yet let us not forget the infamous actions of the Modernists to diminish and outright deny this, manifested in the
Since the original schema was not ecumenical enough according to the Modernist prelates, a newly written schema replaced it, which is was schema of
Going back to Edward Schillebeeckx, his absurd optimism, typical of the Modernists, led him to overshadow, if not deny, the source of Revelation, namely,
Now according to Schillebeeckx, both speculative truths and historical truths can be at odds, as if a sort of
Schillebeeckx gives some examples from his aforementioned book:
“The original schema on the eastern church contained the sentence: ‘The Catholic Church has always held the Eastern Churches in high regard’. As a speculative truth this is correct, i.e. the existence of the universal church …

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The New Pope and Inductive Theology

Dr. Rafael Gonzalez
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It’s more! In his sermons, Leo I identifies the Pope with Peter—in the legal sense of course—and hence the Pope is the direct inheritor of the powers that Christ conferred on Peter. The deep Roman legal mentality was able to flesh out the arguments well, leading to the defense of a strong
Leo I also stood out for his firm orthodoxy. His
(More on Leo I in another article)
Let us jump from the first Leo to the last Leo (before Leo XIV of course), namely Leo XIII (1878-1903). He was another strong defender of doctrine, being the Pope who wrote the only encyclical against Freemasonry, called
In the end, for Robert Francis Prevost to take the name Leo XIV, means
It seems that not only doctrine, but theology itself has been distorted. Actually the doctrinal content has been perverted precisely because the method, theology, has been deformed. Hence to truly establish Tradition we need to establish traditional theology.
The distorted theology prevalent today, rooted in …

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Non-Infallible Magisterium, Religious Submission of the Will and the Manualist Tradition

(The following is an article I wrote some months back)
Dr. Rafael Xavier Gonzalez
The Catholic Youtuber Michael Lofton loves to remind traditional Catholics that authentic non-infallible Magisterium should be adhered to by the faithful with internal religious assent. This is the
“This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra; that is, it must be shown in such a way that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will. His mind and will in the matter may be known either from the character of the documents, from his frequent repetition of the same doctrine, or from his manner of speaking” (LG 25a)
There is no doubting the existence of doctrinally controversial documents coming from the Vatican, particularly
So if the document is not infallible it can in principle teach …

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