Illicit Celibacy and the Deposit of Faith

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION
PART I – BACKGROUND
1. Deposit of Faith – The Unchangeable Foundation  
  -Infallible Church Teaching must be found within the Deposit of Faith
   -Illicit Acts
2. Precursor of the 21st Century
  -How and Why?
3. In the Beginning – the Apostles
  -The Twelve Tribes of Israel
  -Jewish Family laws
  -Obligatory Jewish Marriage
  -Jewish Theocracy
  -The Twelve and Others
  -Jesus’ Family
4. Future Priests
  -Gnosticism and Celibacy Condemned
  -Bishop Cerdo Excommunicated
  -Bishop Marcion Excommunicated
  -Gnostic Valentinus Excommunicated
  -Celibacy Rejected
5. Early Years and House Churches
  -The Jewish-Christian Messiah
  -“Jews First”
  -Gentiles finally admitted into Jewish-Christianity
  -St. Peter and St. Paul support Gentile conversion
6. Christian Hierarchy
  -A Monarchial Pope?
7. Christian Teaching and Growth
  -Household Priests
8. From Jesus to Constantine
  -The Jewish- Christian Gospel
  -Jewish-Christians
  -Heresies prior to the New Testament
  -Jewish-Christian Norms
  -Christian Divorce vs. Jewish Mandatory Celibacy
9. Hellenism
  -Stoicism
  -Platonism
  -Christian - Hellenism
  -Alexandria Egypt
  -Jewish-Christianity in Alexandria
  -Philo and Cabala
10. Patristic Fathers – Against Women
  -Bishop Clement of Alexandria
  -The Word of God
  -Tertullian
  -St. Gregory – St. Ambrose
  -Augustine
  -Justin
  -Christian-Pagan Castration
  -Origen
  -St. Jerome
11. Patristics and the New Testament
  -Apocryphal Writings of Early Christianity
12. Celibacy Considered
  -The Jewish Experience
  -The Essenes
  -Married Essenes
  -The Christian Experience
  -Gnosticism
  -Montanism
  -Celibates Awaiting Jesus
  -Christian Celibacy
  -Was St. Paul always Celibate?
  -Was John the Baptist Celibate?
  -In Defense of Celibacy
  -Closing
13. Separation
  -Anti-Pope Hippolytus vs. The Deposit of Faith
  -Mandatory Celibacy Fails
  -Dark Ages Chaos Slows Celibacy Movement
14. Political Authority and Power
  -The Change from Married to Celibate Popes
15. Struggles Against Celibacy
  -325 AD Council of Nicaea
  -355-1049 AD and St. Damian
  -Imprisonment and Slavery
  -1139 AD Lateran Council and the Coup de grace
  -Gregorian Reform
  -Synod of Lillebonne

PART II -- THEOLOGY
16. What is One to Believe?
  -Sacraments
  -Dogma vs. Doctrine - An Important Difference Exists
  -Confusion and Duplicitous Language
  -Hierarchy of Truth
17. The Infallible Error Begins
  -From Lateran to Trent
  -Third Lateran Council
  -Papal Bull
  -Fourth Lateran Council
  -Avignon Papacy
  -Fifth Lateran Council
  -The Magisterium vs. the Reformers
  -1545 AD, Council of Trent
  -Details of Trent
  -Codification of Error Begins - Trent
18. Some New Doctrine” – Error Revealed
  -Vatican Council I - Papal Infallibility Declared 1870 AD
  -Limitations of Papal Infallibility Defined-“Some new Doctrine”
  -Papal Infallibility Considered
  -Infallibility Nullified?
  -Creeping Infallibility?
19. Illicit Canon Law
  -Legalisms and Confusion
  -Development of Doctrine
  -“Vows freely taken?”
  -Consequences of Illicit Celibacy
20. The Institutional Church Today
  -Victim Priests
  -Afterthought –Tortured Scripture
21. Conclusion – Scandal
  -Heresy?
22. Epilogue – Catholic Birth Control