News Item: : Raymond de Souza Amply Refutes Martin Luther (With Help from an Unlikely King of England!)
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Wednesday 19 October 2016 - 17:08:59

The Catholic activist, apologist, author and broadcaster Raymond de Souza is one of the most encouraging lights of orthodoxy shining in the Church these days.

Brazilian by birth, Catholic by grace and an American citizen, Mr. de Souza is also the President of the Sacred Heart Institute of the United States, a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Co-ordinator of the Knights of the Sacred Heart Legion. He will be known to many readers through his splendid apologetics programmes which have been aired throughout the world on EWTN.

About six years ago, Providence led to Angeline being asked to ferry Raymond de Souza in our car between the Birmingham Oratory and the Maryvale Institute during one of his speaking tours in England. In the evening of that day, we were both blessed to attend a meal at which Raymond de Souza was also present. It was clear from his conversation and conduct that he was both a gentleman and a faithful son of Holy Church.

About a week prior to this, Angeline and I had been driving through the British Midlands when we came across a massive roadside billboard advertising the horror movie Drag Me to Hell. This is a film which depicts evil and contains both strong horror and strong violence. When I saw that poster and the associated image dominating a busy stretch of road I was angry; and I actually wept.

There were a few reasons for this: the public insult being given to God; the sign that this gave of a disturbing social acceptance of evil; the souls that may become endangered by it; the bad example and temptation being put in the path of so many young people who passed that way; the spiritual and psychological harm which may be caused to the many infants who passed that way with their families.

During Angeline's subsequent journey with Raymond de Souza along that road about a week later, he expressed his own concern and righteous indignation that such a sign had been permitted to advertise such a strong horror film in such a place.

A few days later, a priest with a high rank and title that we know also encountered the foul advert. Angie and I were both shocked when he responded by chuckling about it merrily.

A few weeks later, another priest who we know - a man renowned by many for his orthodoxy and for regularly offering the Traditional Latin Mass - actually went to the cinema to see the film and laughed about it later in our presence. The same priest also thought it fun to frequently watch Desperate Housewives.

Whilst we do know many good and faithful priests, one cannot help but thinking that these four responses present us with something of a microcosm of the wider crisis in the Church: Two laymen publicly displaying reactions of spiritual disgust for the acceptance of evil; a high-ranking priest thinking the thing not evil but somehow funny; and another priest actually engaging with the evil as entertainment and thinking it funnier still.

Needless to say, Raymond de Souza's reaction to this advertisement was both an encouragement to us and a testament to the authenticity of his various Catholic apostolates.

2009: Raymond de Souza is given a tour of the library at Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman's Birmingham Oratory. Angie's claim to fame: If you look closely, Angeline is at the rear of the photo by the books (wearing a lilac blouse, brown jacket and black skirt). I saved this image from the internet some year's ago and am therefore not certain whose it was originally. It may be from Jackie Parkes' blog. If it is, thank you Jackie!

If, like us, you are deeply disturbed by the overt displays of affection being given by Pope Francis and his entourage for the excommunicated heretic Martin Luther, then you will likely enjoy a bit of an uplift by watching a splendid on-line video, featuring Raymond de Souza, about the truth of the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther's ''Deformation''.

A series of these videos is being put on-line by The Wanderer. We especially recommend a video entitled Shield of Faith, Episode 2, Luther: 500 Years of Heresy and Doctrinal Confusion.

Here are a couple of marvellous quotes from the film to whet your appetite!

''500 years of the Lutheran Revolution... When that nervous, rebellious, German monk revolted against the Catholic Church and made his own religion based upon his own individual interpretations of the Bible, to satisfy his pride and his lust.''

Elsewhere in the video-presentation, Raymond de Souza courageously describes Martin Luther as a, ''foul-mouthed, blasphemous, proud and lustful man, who abandoned his vows to God and lived with a runaway nun in a convent, who drank beer to his heart's content from his own provided cellar... A proud man who thought of himself as a big deal, an infallible prophet; even demanding the murder of thousands of people who disagreed with him.''

The video is about 25-mins and is well worth your time to view. If you do watch it, you will see what I mean about the help from an unlikely king of England! May God continue to bless Raymond de Souza and his various orthodox apostolates!   

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