Pope St. Gelasius: Only The Baptized Are The Faithful

This is another quote that demonstrates the Catholic Church’s teaching that only the water baptized are part of the faithful. That’s very significant because the Church infallibly teaches that there’s absolutely no salvation outside the one Church of the faithful. Hence, no one can be saved without water baptism.

Gelasius & Julius

Eastern “Orthodox” Deception About The Papacy Exposed – Early Pope Proves Catholicism

Yet again, an astounding piece of research from Br. Peter. Related to the same subject seems to be a quote from a letter Pope St. Julius I (who succeeded Pope St. Mark in 337), sent to the Eusebian bishops in the East regarding the case of St. Athanasius, in which he calmly and impartially meets their accusations one by one and refutes them. Towards the end he states the procedure they ought to have followed:

“Are you not aware that it is customary that we should first be written to, that from hence what is just may be defined? … Whereas you expect us to approve condemnation in which we had no part. This is not according to the precepts of Paul or the tradition of the fathers. All this is strange and new. Allow me to speak as I do: I write what I write in the common interest, and what I now signify is what we have received from the blessed apostle Peter”. This letter has been characterized by Tillemont as “one of the finest monuments of ecclesiastical antiquity”, and by Monsignor Batiffol as “a model of weightiness, wisdom and charity”. Pope St. Julius I died in A.D. 352…

May God bless… all of you.

John

Debunking “Orthodoxy”

Eastern “Orthodox” Deception About The Papacy Exposed – Early Pope Proves Catholicism

… I do appreciate you guys debunking orthodoxy!

Sebastian