In this execrable epoch of Ecclesiastical Ecumenism and Indifferentism the gigantic truth that The Catholic Church is the sole owner of every single word of Holy Writ - from In the beginning God created Heaven and earth...to...The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen - has been obscured in the modern and monstrous modesty of a refusal to proclaim this Salvific truth.
But, it is so much more than a modern modesty, it is a monstrous sin of omission.
This past one-half century, the Church has courted the approval of the world - its ancient and permanent enemy - and in so doing it has forced "Triumphalism" to walk the plank off The Barque of Peter; but that "Triumphalism" was a accusation against Holy Mother Church leveled by her ancient enemies when it is the case, however, that Triumphalism is part and parcel of the Divine Deposit of Faith (at least as insofar that I understand it) and has not a whit to do with arrogance.
What is arrogant is to arrogate power to one's own self - which is a distillation of what the Protestant Revolution was all about.
There is no arrogance, but there is a defensible and sensible Triumphalism in effect when even such relatively modern sources, such as the1952 text, Dom Orchard's, "A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture," proclaims the gigantic and Salvific Truth:
The Bible as The Church's Exclusive Possession:
It is a teaching of the Church that the Old Testament Scriptures were transferred to her ownership by Christ himself in view of her position as the new 'Israel of God' and the heir of the OT promises; and that the New Testament Scriptures being written within the Church by some of its members for the benefit of all (or more precisely, within the society of the Catholic Church by Catholics for Catholics), are likewise her exclusive property, of which she is the absolute Owner, Guardian, Trustee and Interpreter....
The Church, being the divinely appointed trustee of the whole deposit of revelation, holds the Scriptures as her very own. They are part of the patrimony or dowry that she has received as the Bride of Christ...
There is danger in treating with protestant Bibles and, especially, is there danger in protestant exegesis for it is not infrequently the case that one ends-up reading protestant eisegesis anchored in the errors and heresies of their 16th century progenitors.
It took the modern Ecclesiastical Praxis of Ecumenism and Indifferentism to create a fog of liberty gigantic enough to obscure the Salvific truth that it is Holy Mother Church, and Holy Mother Church alone, who owns the Bible, lock, stock and barrel.
Because I am the same age as Israel, I am old enough to remember the Ecclesial Orthopraxis prior to the lamentable 1960s when there was not one Catholic Prelate or Priest who publicly praised protestants and their denominationally ideological approach to Holy Writ.
Now, I must write that I am not attacking individual protestants who read and revere Holy Writ but it is quite clear to Catholic men of a certain age that were a protestant to become an expert in Scripture, he would cease to be a protestant.
If that be Triumphalism, make the most of it.
Don't go to the left,
Don't hang a Louie;
Stick with what's right
Read only Ol' Douay:
And, if you want the truth, read only Catholic Commentaries
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