Defender of the Faith?

I was once again dragged into a debate about the modernisation of the Catholic Church. There is a very simple concept that a lot of people do not grasp, which is the fact that the Church is not allowed to change the Faith it defends and upholds.

The Church’s holy mission is to announce, safeguard and keep Divine Truth as it was delivered, in trust, by God and by His Son Jesus Christ, whilst He walked amongst us here on Earth. It is not within the competence of the Pope and of the Church to modify this Faith in any way. It is God’s alone to do with as He pleases. To the Church falls only the duty of defending It and making It available to all who would willingly partake in God’s blessing.

Every time the Church has allowed itself to be either seduced or bullied into conceding to changes to the precepts of Faith; it fell in contradiction and disgrace. Presently, our Pope is accused of being a reactionary on account of performing his most solemn duty of returning to the True Path that is preserving our Faith from corruption into something else. For this very reason, the Church is not a democratic institution. It cannot be!

Nowadays, no one is obliged to pursue Catholicism, but to those of us who chose it as their path to God and to a happier life, the precepts defended by the Church are absolute.