The Churches Hemorrhage Members Because They Went Pacifist

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Alert: In May of 2015, I became aware of indications (and here, here, and here) that Liberation Theology is a disinformation active measure of the KGB … and, one presumes, its continuation under the name FSB.  I am inclined to credit these indications.  Therefore, although…

Socialism vs. The Church

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT By believing man educable, socialism takes man in his essential nature and in his existential condition as down low bad.  By believing man redeemable, The Church takes man in his essential…

Education And The Church

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT At the moment, the American system of compulsory (K-12) and coerced/beguiled (13+) education is receiving the furry eyeball at an extraordinary degree of public visibility.   About time.  Here are some…

Collectivization Of The Churches

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Abraham Lincoln The Church and the churches are not the same.  The churches more or less express the Church, which is…

The Church Is Power – E Pluribus Unum

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The words of The Church’s Creed include these: “… and [we believe] in One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church ….” The object of the verb believe in the phrase just quoted…

Apologia Ecclesiae: The Church Answers “A Common Word Between Us and You”

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To the Ulema Pretenders And The Khalifah Pretender, Abdullah The Hashemite, Who Convenes Them Grace to you and Peace from God the Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ,…

Where Is The Church? … Take One

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Faith, Prayer, Service, Evangelism The Church comprises four activities.  The Church, therefore, may be identified by the presence of these four activities.  They are: Faith Prayer Service Evangelism Where these activities…

The Churches Are A Corpus Mixtum

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The churches are a corpus mixtum. Some members belong to the Church and some do not. Since, in the churches, those who do not belong to the Church outnumber those who do,…

The Church And The Vatican

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT There is some lack of understanding about the Vatican position on the papacy and the pope. The pope IS Christ. He is God, pure and simple. It is important to understand…

Building The Churches From Here

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Looking Into the Abyss Decades of entrenched simony have left ECUSA and other Christian judicatories weak to the point of forcing consolidation of officer corps (clergy rosters) in order to have…

Paradigm Shift For The Churches

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I am very happy the subject of an ecclesiastical, even ecclesiological, paradigm shift is being discussed in the parish. For what they are worth, I am enclosing my thoughts on the

Christian Ordination And Clerical Succession: A Memorandum For The Churches

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Jerusalem means My God is the Sun. Jesus the Christ was a Priest-King in the perpetual Order of Melchizedek.  This Order conducted the worship of the universal God, the Ground of…

Church And State In Russia

The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, a correlate of the Primakov Doctrine, the root of Russian Foreign Policy. Church and State in The USofA Principle I The United States have no authority in the domestic affairs of other nations and expect other nations to reciprocate by not feigning authority…

The All American Party Platform VI: Rebuild Church And State

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Somehow, since 1949, Americans let their leaders talk them into fights that…

Fin De Siècle – The Episcopal Church

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. These statistics represent a phenomenon of globe-wide extent: renegotiation of the institutional arrangements made upon the conclusion of WWII. The utility of those arrangements has run its course. The arrangements, therefore, are in collapse or advanced stages of decline while fresh institutional arrangements are being brought into existence.…

Church And State

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. This one is a theologian’s candy garden. Rather goes to essentials very rapidly. The situation reminds me of a famous Aquinas dictum to the effect that an unjust law — one that restricts freedom without demonstrable intent to prohibit or punish a harm — is a species of…