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Semantics are VERY IMPORTANT.  We should say, "We are Catholics who are faithful to ALL of the  teachings of the Catholic Church."    
 
We do not have a designated title of “Faithful Catholics.”  No, we are simply Catholics who are faithful. 
 
We must NEVER say that we are "Conservative Catholics.”  No, we are Catholics who are obedient.  
 
We should never say that we are "Traditional Catholics."  No, we are Catholics who follow the traditions and teachings of the Catholic Church.  
 
It serves no purpose to call ourselves anything but Catholics.   Anything less than 100% obedient is technically dissenting.  Dissenters are not Catholics by the mere definition.  The word faithful can be used to distinguish between dissenters and real Catholics.  We are not anything but Catholics, real Catholics. 
 
We are not anything but Catholics and we are inviting those who may be dissenting to be 
real Catholics, too. 
  
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TRUE OR FALSE?              
 
As Catholics, each one of us has the right to decide what we will believe (obey) and what we will not believe (obey), in what the ‘Church’ teaches.  We have a duty to ‘responsibly dissent’ on moral, doctrinal and liturgical issues, acording to our own personal consciences.   FALSE! 
 
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Canon law clearly indicates that all Catholics are bound by law to give their submission to Catholic doctrines. READ THIS 
 
Obtained courtesy of the Catholic Encyclopedia: 
 
Dissent  - An act of will to deny, refute or knowingly disobey the teachings of the Church.  A person who dissents is called a dissenter. Dissent is the general term applied for refusing to accept (e.g. assent to) God's revealed religion with the person's will. Dissent has several forms and can result in loss of Faith.  It takes form as shown below. 
 
Heresy - Practically speaking, this is false teaching against the dogma and doctrine of the Church. A person who obstinately follows false teaching is called a heretic.  
Canon Law #751 says "Heresy is the obstinate denial or doubt, after baptism, of a truth which must be believed by divine and catholic faith." One notable heretic was Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestantism.  
 
As St. Thomas Aquinas writes, "The believer accepts the whole (100%) deposit as proposed by the Church; the heretic accepts only such parts of it as commend themselves to his own approval." This is a general term which can be understood under many other practical, more focused names, such as   “moral relativism" or "situation ethics."  A more commonly used term today in this regard might be “cafeteria Catholic."   
 
A person who follows modernism beliefs is called a modernist. Pope St. Pius X aptly called Modernism the "synthesis of all heresies." See the definitive Church proclamation regarding Modernism in the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Doctrine of the Modernists), written by Pope St. Pius X. 
Liberalism - Liberalism is a common form of Modernism today. Its most fundamental principle asserts an absolute and unrestrained freedom of thought, religion, conscience, creed, speech, press, and politics. The necessary consequences of this are, on the one hand, the abolition of the Divine right and of every kind of authority derived from God; the relegation of religion from the public life into the private domain of one's individual conscience; the absolute ignoring of Christianity and the Church as public, legal, and social institutions; on the other hand, the putting into practice of the absolute autonomy of every man and citizen, along all lines of human activity, and the concentration of all public authority in one "sovereignty of the people". 
Liberalism is the root of heresy, the tree of evil in whose branches all the harpies of infidelity find ample shelter; it is today the evil of all evils and is therefore the radical and universal denial of all divine truth and Christian dogma, the primal type of all heresy, and the supreme rebellion against the authority of God and His Church. 
As with Lucifer, its maxim is, 'I will not serve. whereby it is the dogmatic affirmation of the absolute independence of the individual and of the social reason. Liberalism and Modernism are sinful (read entire book), as well shown by Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany, a priest of Barcelona, sometime ago. 
(Radical) Feminism - A female focused version of Liberalism which intends to create its own religion based on "feminist theology" which purports to free itself from an "oppressive patriarchy." When analyzed, one will clearly find a new age pagan influence in their "new morality and spirituality" featuring, in many cases, "sacred prayer circles," "feminine deities" and "God as Mother." These traits are common with Wicca, a form of witchcraft. 
These definitions are inter-related. Dissent begins with an act of will and is the root of heresy, schism and apostasy. Specific types of dissent include Modernism and Liberalism. Such dissent results ultimately in a person following false teaching (heresy) and subsequently refusing to obey the Pope (schism), both of which lead to loss of faith (apostasy). 
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'Therefore no other person whatsoever, not even a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on their own authority' (Vatican II, Sacrosanctum Concilium, #22.3). 
Since the arrival of the Missal of Pope Paul VI, much damage has been done to the fabric of the unity of the Church by irresponsible innovators who have confused and even scandalized the lay faithful. This is why the Vatican issued a recent document in an attempt to halt the many dangerous and insidious errors that have crept into the Mass. 'Whenever an abuse is committed in the celebration of the sacred Liturgy, it is to be seen as a real falsification of Catholic Liturgy.  
St Thomas wrote, 'the vice of falsehood is perpetrated by anyone who offers worship to God on behalf of the Church in a manner contrary to that which is established by the Church with divine authority, and to which the Church is accustomed'' (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Redemptionis Sacramentum, #169). 
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All the problems that we see today in society and in our church can be traced to these three fundamental strategies. It is the basis of the politically correct movement and of the heresy of individualism.   It is the basis for the lie of ‘relative truth’, and ‘Moral Relativism.’   
 
These strategies are the fuel that powers feminism, the engine that drives liberalism, and the vehicle of the post-modern worldview that predominates our world today and that contaminates the Church.  
 
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There is a judgment of every human being according to the state of our soul when we pass from time to eternity.    What are the Last Things -  There is 'death, judgment, heaven, hell and purgatory'. To deny any of these essential teachings of the Catholic faith is for a Catholic tantamount to a denial of the faith itself.        
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