“Have no fellowship with the works of darkness, but rather reprove them. All things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light; for all that is made manifest is light.”
Catacomb is an uncensored, private social media community, providing our members with a free platform to openly distribute and discuss Sedevacantist theology.
We have been founded for the sole purpose of the mutual spiritual and intellectual enrichment of our members; as a digital community of Christians loyal to the ancient Roman Catholic Faith as it has been handed down and defined over the millennia (Ubique, Semper, Ab Omnibus); to fortify us in our spiritual battle with the Principalities and Powers who besiege The Church on all sides.
Considering that Our Lord has seen fit to shoulder us with the burden of being born during this age, we consider it our Divinely ordained duty to engage this our putrid primordial enemy in immortal combat.
We are characterized by our collective dedication to academic precision; and our devotion to the eminent purity of the Church’s Infallible Magisterium.
We hold that the Medieval Age—the Golden Age of the Light of Faith—shines radiantly as the pinnacle of Catholic society and civilization; the embodiment of the City of God, and the epitome of the Social Kingship of Christ. Whereas our present age, the anti-Christ, post-Christian Age of Darkness, which has defiantly designated itself as the “Age of Enlightenment and Progress”, stands in malevolent opposition to Christ and His Church, waging diabolical warfare against the City of God. We hold that these two cities are utterly irreconcilable, and have been destined for fierce, ceaseless conflict until the end of time. If you are not with Us, you are against Us (St. Matt. 12:30).
It is our desired end that Catacomb be a community that nourishes our souls, and fortifies our Faith; in the internet world, but not of it (St. John 17:14-18); a community set apart, dedicated to the Glory of God, in service to His Church.
The One Thing Necessary
“The interior life is something far more necessary in us than intellectual life or the social or political life. Unfortunately, some great scholars have no interior life. Their life appears to be the search for the true and the good, but it is so tainted with self-love and intellectual pride that we question whether it will bear fruit for eternity.
“The interior life of a just man who tends toward God and who already lives by Him is indeed ‘the one thing necessary’. To be a saint, neither intellectual culture nor great exterior activity is a requisite; it suffices that we live profoundly by God.
“To save our soul, one thing alone is necessary: to hear the word of God and to live by it. Therein lies the best part, which will not be taken away from a faithful soul even though it should lose everything else.
“The question of the interior life is being more sharply raised today than in several periods less troubled than ours. The explanation of this interest lies in the fact that many men have separated themselves from God and tried to organize intellectual and social life without Him. The great problems that have always preoccupied humanity have taken on a new and sometimes tragic aspect. To wish to get along without God, first Cause and last End, leads to an abyss; not only to nothingness, but also to physical and moral wretchedness that is worse than nothingness. Likewise, great problems grow exasperatingly serious, and man must finally perceive that all these problems ultimately lead to the fundamental religious problem; in other words, he will finally have to declare himself entirely for God or against Him. This is, in its essence, the problem of the interior life. Christ Himself says: ‘He that is not with Me is against Me.'”
The Faith is One
The self-proclaimed “traditionalist” teachers, those who maintain unholy communion with the Novus Ordo Sect, who arrogate to themselves the title of Faithful Remnant, and who hypocritically Recognize & Resist their own magisterial authorities, are they who, by their own words and actions, testify that their “church” is not One, but Legion (“My name is Legion, for we are many.”—St. Mark, 5:9); and are willfully blinded to see the Abomination that leads unto Desolation, of which they are complicit accessories:
“Teachers receive the greater judgment.”
“Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate.”
“You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Behold, your house shall be left to you desolate.”
“They shall defile the sanctuary, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation.”
“Alas! Babylon* is made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.”
* “The church that is in Babylon [i.e. Rome], elected together with you, saluteth you.”
—1 St. Peter 5:13.
“Many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many … when therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.”
“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 they alone were Catholics, and with no less impiety than effrontery assert 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.”
The Vincentian Canon
“The Sure and Universal Rule for distinguishing the Truth of the Catholic Faith from the Falsehood of Heretical Depravity:
“Should any one wish to detect the frauds and avoid the snares of heretics as they arise, and to continue sound and complete in the Catholic faith, we must, the Lord helping, fortify our own belief by the Tradition of the Catholic Church.
“All possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all* (Ubique, Semper, Ab Omnibus); for that is truly and in the strictest sense Catholic.
“What is to be done if some novel contagion seek to infect not merely an insignificant portion of the Church, but the whole? Then it will be his care to cleave to antiquity, which at this day cannot possibly be seduced by any fraud of novelty.
“But what if in antiquity itself there be found error? Then it will be his care by all means to prefer the decrees of an ancient General Council.
“But what if some error should spring up on which no such decree is found to bear? Then he must collate and consult and interrogate the opinions of the ancients, of those, namely, who, though living in various times and places, yet continuing in the communion and faith of the one Catholic Church, stand forth acknowledged and approved authorities: and whatsoever he shall ascertain to have been held, written, taught, not by one or two of these only, but by all, equally, with one consent, openly, frequently, persistently*, that he must understand that he himself also is to believe without any doubt or hesitation.”
* “A manifestly heretical Pope automatically ceases to be the Pope and the head just as he automatically ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church. This is the judgment of all the ancient Fathers, who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.”
—St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30.
“If what is new begins to be mingled with what is old, foreign with domestic, profane with sacred, the custom will of necessity creep on universally, till at last the Church will have nothing left untampered with, nothing unadulterated, nothing sound, nothing pure; but where formerly there was a sanctuary of chaste and undefiled truth, thenceforward there will be a brothel of impious and base errors. May God’s mercy avert this wickedness.”
Biblia Sacra
“Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.”
“If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house.”
“Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties.”
“Stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.”
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.”
“Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock.”
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