Michael Lofton’s smug arrogance turned me off minutes into watching him a number of years ago - just stop giving him the light of day. Not worth talking about, except of course, he somehow still has a large following of people who need to have a reeducation after watching him.
"Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! " Matt. 7:13-14
How narrow is the gate...
and strait is the way....
that leadest to life...
and FEW there are that find it!
I've always had the idea that Michael Lofton is a paid shill of the USCCB, hired to counter the likes of Taylor Marshall. It's sad that his labored arguments to justify heresy are so easily exposed as false by those in the know (thank you, Chris), but that those who listen only to him will be deceived into following the wolves in sheep's clothing.
Vatican 2, its promulgators, its pontiffs, and all its works are aimed at demonstrating to people who want to follow Christ that He was mistaken about the narrow way. The way for these prelates, theologians and popes is broad, and you can’t miss getting to Heaven. In their poisonous irreligious sect, you have to be really determined to go to Hell, because there is no real damnation to be saved from. They excommunicate Jesus for saying that the way is narrow, that leads to life, and few are those who find. “Tutti, tutti! All!” That is the abyss of unbelief.
The 2001 CDF Notification attributed to John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger, stating that the Holy Spirit accomplishes salvation through the “elements of truth and goodness” found in other religions is heresy, and Lumen Gentium 16, upon which that statement is based, which states that “the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator… among whom are the Muslims,” if it is not heretical, is tendentious Modernist ambiguity intentionally meant to open the door for all the ecumania & religious indifferentism that we've witnessed in the Vatican II church, which I am morally certain is not the Catholic Church.
«“Whosoever shall offend in one point, is become guilty of all.” (Epistle of St. James ii., 10) Nay, it applies with greater force to an erroneous opinion. For it can be said with less truth that every law is violated by one who commits a single sin, since it may be that he only virtually despises the majesty of God the Legislator. But he who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honour God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith. “In many things they are with me, in a few things not with me; but in those few things in which they are not with me the many things in which they are will not profit them.” (St. Augustine, On the Psalms (54)55, no. 18)»
[Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum, on the Unity of the Church]
Acts 13:46-47 St. Paul speaking to the Jews: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and JUDGE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF ETERNAL LIFE, behold, we now turn to the Gentiles."
Paul is telling the Jews that they must accept Christ to be saved and that now he is going to give the same opportunity to the non-Jews.
But according to Michael Lofton, he was really wasting his time...as were all the missionaries down through the centuries.
This 1951 book by Catherine Goddard Clarke, one of the founders of the St Benedict Center which supported Catholic students at Harvard in maintaining their faith, is a treasure upholding the Catholic doctrine of No Salvation Outside the (Catholic) Church.
"Lofton quotes a non-magisterial source to define magisterial doctrine, then presents it as dogmatic fact: the newest trick in the postconciliar apologist’s playbook." I'm sympathetic to your doctrinal complaint, but to be honest, your issue is not with Lofton. It is with the entire Vatican II project regarding other religions, one that has now been confirmed by 5+ popes. He is only parroting what he has been taught.
Loftin is a lost soul. I hope he is not doing this for some rich benefacator, an enemy of Holy Mother Church. But I am disgusted and angry every time I see something of his.
The primary lesson here is a simple, but very familiar one. It has to do with the primary rule of logic: "If the premise is false, the conclusion is also false, regardless of how elegant the facts appear to be."
Michael Lofton seems to be right in line with the teachings of the conciliar/synodal church.
One can think of koran kissings, Assisi meetings, Abrahamic houses, Abu Dhabi declarations, etc. in addition to Nostra Aetate, Lumen Gentium, Unitatis Redintegratio, Redemptor Hominis, the 1993 Ecumenical Directory, and even "For you and for ALL," in the New Order "mass."
Universal salvation is taught by the conciliar/synodal church.
Religious indifferentism is promoted by the conciliar/synodal church.
You cannot blame Michael Lofton for inventing it, even if you can blame him for following it. Blame the real perpetrators, the supreme authorities over the institution born at the New Pentecost of Vatican II.
Trey, there are so many Papal howlers in respect of Islam that you couldn't keep up with them all. There was "May Saint John Baptist protect Islam" in 2000.
Then in 2013 Pope Francis told us that Islam is a religion of peace. (Evangelii Gaudium, para 253). Then in 2016, after Father Hamel got his throat cut in Rouen, Pope Francis insisted that Islam is not violent. Then in 2019, 11 weeks after that Abu Dhabi declaration that all religions are willed by God, hundreds of Christians were massacred in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Pope Francis' response? There are always some people opposed to dialogue.
Being utterly discouraged and unable to recognize the hijacked Church as even being Catholic anymore, I think 99.99% percent of priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Pope of today, would agree with Lofton.
Muslims often impress me by their displays of natural virtue but I agree with everything said here. I think... no, I know that in many ways, especially in regard to modesty, it would be preferable to raise a family in a nation with a larger muslim influence.
I do hear plenty of reports of places such as Ethiopia where the muslims and the Catholics/orthodox get along very well because they share the same basic love of peace, family, stability and ability to practice their faiths and they don't fight about it, so I think it depends mostly upon the culture and how they generally practice what they profess to believe.
I know in Australia I would have a better experience of neighbours if they were muslim than in they were Australian, statistically, because they are more respectful. Same with hindoos or buddhists unfortunately. Obviously a believing Catholic would be the best of all but chances are their kebab skills would be wanting!
Chris in your conclusion, your sentence saying, "If God saves someone outside Her visible bounds it is despite their false religion, not through it." This contradicts the Outside the Church dogma.
There is no if. The Magisterium cannot contradict its own dogma. Those who practice a false
religion are absolutely outside the saved as the dogma says. Baptism of contradicts Jesus, John 3:5.
Michael Lofton’s smug arrogance turned me off minutes into watching him a number of years ago - just stop giving him the light of day. Not worth talking about, except of course, he somehow still has a large following of people who need to have a reeducation after watching him.
"Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! " Matt. 7:13-14
How narrow is the gate...
and strait is the way....
that leadest to life...
and FEW there are that find it!
I've always had the idea that Michael Lofton is a paid shill of the USCCB, hired to counter the likes of Taylor Marshall. It's sad that his labored arguments to justify heresy are so easily exposed as false by those in the know (thank you, Chris), but that those who listen only to him will be deceived into following the wolves in sheep's clothing.
Vatican 2, its promulgators, its pontiffs, and all its works are aimed at demonstrating to people who want to follow Christ that He was mistaken about the narrow way. The way for these prelates, theologians and popes is broad, and you can’t miss getting to Heaven. In their poisonous irreligious sect, you have to be really determined to go to Hell, because there is no real damnation to be saved from. They excommunicate Jesus for saying that the way is narrow, that leads to life, and few are those who find. “Tutti, tutti! All!” That is the abyss of unbelief.
When a person's starting block is lies the finish line will be more lies. The motto of V2 and its 'spirit' ought to be 'iniquity hath lied to itself.'
The 2001 CDF Notification attributed to John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger, stating that the Holy Spirit accomplishes salvation through the “elements of truth and goodness” found in other religions is heresy, and Lumen Gentium 16, upon which that statement is based, which states that “the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator… among whom are the Muslims,” if it is not heretical, is tendentious Modernist ambiguity intentionally meant to open the door for all the ecumania & religious indifferentism that we've witnessed in the Vatican II church, which I am morally certain is not the Catholic Church.
«“Whosoever shall offend in one point, is become guilty of all.” (Epistle of St. James ii., 10) Nay, it applies with greater force to an erroneous opinion. For it can be said with less truth that every law is violated by one who commits a single sin, since it may be that he only virtually despises the majesty of God the Legislator. But he who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honour God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith. “In many things they are with me, in a few things not with me; but in those few things in which they are not with me the many things in which they are will not profit them.” (St. Augustine, On the Psalms (54)55, no. 18)»
[Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum, on the Unity of the Church]
Acts 13:46-47 St. Paul speaking to the Jews: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and JUDGE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF ETERNAL LIFE, behold, we now turn to the Gentiles."
Paul is telling the Jews that they must accept Christ to be saved and that now he is going to give the same opportunity to the non-Jews.
But according to Michael Lofton, he was really wasting his time...as were all the missionaries down through the centuries.
This 1951 book by Catherine Goddard Clarke, one of the founders of the St Benedict Center which supported Catholic students at Harvard in maintaining their faith, is a treasure upholding the Catholic doctrine of No Salvation Outside the (Catholic) Church.
https://archive.org/details/gateofheaven_202004
Fr Leonard Feeney was a hero. The truth is getting out. Shame on the SSPX for misrepresenting this great man.
Thank you for the link to this book! I’m listening right now! 💖
"Lofton quotes a non-magisterial source to define magisterial doctrine, then presents it as dogmatic fact: the newest trick in the postconciliar apologist’s playbook." I'm sympathetic to your doctrinal complaint, but to be honest, your issue is not with Lofton. It is with the entire Vatican II project regarding other religions, one that has now been confirmed by 5+ popes. He is only parroting what he has been taught.
Loftin is a lost soul. I hope he is not doing this for some rich benefacator, an enemy of Holy Mother Church. But I am disgusted and angry every time I see something of his.
The primary lesson here is a simple, but very familiar one. It has to do with the primary rule of logic: "If the premise is false, the conclusion is also false, regardless of how elegant the facts appear to be."
Michael Lofton seems to be right in line with the teachings of the conciliar/synodal church.
One can think of koran kissings, Assisi meetings, Abrahamic houses, Abu Dhabi declarations, etc. in addition to Nostra Aetate, Lumen Gentium, Unitatis Redintegratio, Redemptor Hominis, the 1993 Ecumenical Directory, and even "For you and for ALL," in the New Order "mass."
Universal salvation is taught by the conciliar/synodal church.
Religious indifferentism is promoted by the conciliar/synodal church.
You cannot blame Michael Lofton for inventing it, even if you can blame him for following it. Blame the real perpetrators, the supreme authorities over the institution born at the New Pentecost of Vatican II.
Trey, there are so many Papal howlers in respect of Islam that you couldn't keep up with them all. There was "May Saint John Baptist protect Islam" in 2000.
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/travels/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000321_wadi-al-kharrar.html
Then in 2013 Pope Francis told us that Islam is a religion of peace. (Evangelii Gaudium, para 253). Then in 2016, after Father Hamel got his throat cut in Rouen, Pope Francis insisted that Islam is not violent. Then in 2019, 11 weeks after that Abu Dhabi declaration that all religions are willed by God, hundreds of Christians were massacred in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Pope Francis' response? There are always some people opposed to dialogue.
Being utterly discouraged and unable to recognize the hijacked Church as even being Catholic anymore, I think 99.99% percent of priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Pope of today, would agree with Lofton.
Muslims often impress me by their displays of natural virtue but I agree with everything said here. I think... no, I know that in many ways, especially in regard to modesty, it would be preferable to raise a family in a nation with a larger muslim influence.
I do hear plenty of reports of places such as Ethiopia where the muslims and the Catholics/orthodox get along very well because they share the same basic love of peace, family, stability and ability to practice their faiths and they don't fight about it, so I think it depends mostly upon the culture and how they generally practice what they profess to believe.
I know in Australia I would have a better experience of neighbours if they were muslim than in they were Australian, statistically, because they are more respectful. Same with hindoos or buddhists unfortunately. Obviously a believing Catholic would be the best of all but chances are their kebab skills would be wanting!
Lofton doesn't have any content like many other talking heads, on youtube, ever since their favorite person passed away on Easter Monday.
Chris in your conclusion, your sentence saying, "If God saves someone outside Her visible bounds it is despite their false religion, not through it." This contradicts the Outside the Church dogma.
There is no if. The Magisterium cannot contradict its own dogma. Those who practice a false
religion are absolutely outside the saved as the dogma says. Baptism of contradicts Jesus, John 3:5.
I put a link to this substack in the comments on YouTube of the Lofton video in the article. It was removed within minutes.