Mission
Catacomb is an online community of fervent and zealous Christians loyal to the One, True Church of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As such, we profess the Ancient Roman Catholic Faith as it has been held Everywhere, Always, By Everyone (Ubique, Semper, Ab Omnibus, i.e. the Vincentian Canon).
Problem: Heresy, Apostasy, Hypocrisy, & Sabotage
By forensic evidence, it is irrefutable that this selfsame Sacred Faith is not the one which is being magisterially taught and professed by the current occupiers of each and every Episcopal See on earth, including the Apostolic See in Rome. Either the magisterial deposit of the Catholic Faith has defected, or these occupants do not profess the Catholic Faith. Since the former would render our religion void, and thereby negate Our Lord’s promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail against My Church*, it is the latter indisputable reality to which we hold; and since non-Catholics have no jurisdiction within the Church, these Sees are, therefore, theologically vacant, and physically occupied by malicious, deceitful, traitorous, and cowardly usurpers, who profess Christ with their lips, but their hearts are far from Him (St. Matt. 15:8).
* Gates of hell (St. Matt. 16:18) defined by the Magisterium to mean heretics: “We bear in mind what was promised about the holy Church and Him who said the gates of hell will not prevail against it (by this we understand the death-dealing tongues of heretics).”
—Pope Vigilius, Second Council of Constantinople, A.D. 553.
Solution: Ora et Labora, Laborare est Orare
Whereby we discern, by reason illumined with His Wisdom and Understanding, as instructed by the Roman Catechism, that the Seat is vacant, because the ape in Rome which arrogates to itself the name of “church” is not One in Faith*, but scattered and stricken with diabolical disunity; and since when the Shepherd is struck the sheep are scattered (St. Matt. 26:31), all members of Catacomb offer their ceaseless work and prayers for the singular intention that Almighty God may look down with favor upon our prayerful labors, finding His Church Militant worthy of relief from this chastisement of desolation, and deserving of an end to this dreadful interregnum, by His Willing the restoration of the only Rule of Unity, His Vicar on Earth, the Throne of Peter.
* “For in later ages there would not be wanting wicked men who, like the ape that would feign pass for a man, would claim that with them alone is the Catholic Church; but as this One Church cannot err in faith or morals, since it is guided by the Holy Ghost, so, on the contrary, all other societies arrogating to themselves the name of ‘church’, must necessarily, because guided by the spirit of the devil, be sunk in the most pernicious errors, both doctrinal and moral.”
—Roman Catechism, Ninth Article of the Creed.
That We May Be One
We do not accept the proposition to lay down our arms and sit idly awaiting the promised return of Our Lord, for “of that day and hour no one knoweth” (St. Matt. 24:36); lest we risk being found complicit in failing to uphold Faith in Our Lord’s prayer to the Father:
“Father, I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth; that they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one, and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.”
Born For Combat
Indeed, we acknowledge and proclaim that, with the help of God’s Grace, and for the salvation of souls, we are duty bound to wage war for the eradication of error and the triumph of Truth:
“When necessity compels, not those only who are invested with power of rule are bound to safeguard the integrity of faith, but, as St. Thomas maintains: ‘Each one is under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.’ (Summa Theologiae, IIa-IIae, qu. iii, art. 2, ad 2m.) To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good. Moreover, want of vigor on the part of Christians is so much the more blameworthy, as not seldom little would be needed on their part to bring to naught false charges and refute erroneous opinions, and by always exerting themselves more strenuously they might reckon upon being successful. After all, no one can be prevented from putting forth that strength of soul which is the characteristic of true Christians, and very frequently by such display of courage our enemies lose heart and their designs are thwarted. Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world.’ (St. John 16:33.) Nor is there any ground for alleging that Jesus Christ, the Guardian and Champion of the Church, needs not in any manner the help of men. Power certainly is not wanting to Him, but in His loving kindness He would assign to us a share in obtaining and applying the fruits of salvation procured through His grace.”
“He who is a member of the Catholic Church and does not put her teaching into practice is a dead member, and hence will not be saved; for towards the salvation of an adult not only Baptism and Faith are required, but, furthermore, works in keeping with Faith.”
“The kingdom of heaven shall not be attained by the half-hearted and tepid, or the weak or the slothful. Rather, Christ tells us that it will be seized by violence (St. Matt. 11:12); in other words, by energy and determination! Your time on earth is short. Make each moment count towards achieving the eternal glory which is your destiny!”
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