Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam Meam.
Considering the claims that the See of Rome makes, then, while individual
Popes might be or have been charlatans or lunatics, the institution itself is
either telling the truth in making those claims, or else it is indeed the
Antichrist, and any professing Christian who does not submit to Rome on Rome’s
own terms must believe it to be so.
Who will call good evil by pointing to the
Papacy’s defence and promotion of metaphysical realism, of Biblical
historicity, of credal and Chalcedonian orthodoxy, of the sanctity of human
life, of Biblical standards of sexual morality, of social justice, and of
peace, and by then saying, “Behold, the Antichrist”? That is the question.
Ah, Faith of Our Fathers. Father Faber was the son of the Rector of Stanhope, and, like a
striking number of Tractarian or Tractarian-influenced converts, his
ancestry was largely Huguenot (as is part of mine, although another side
is Highland Catholic). So his “fathers chained in prisons dark” were
not quite as his thoroughly rousing hymn would suggest.
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