The Sin of Doubting God
We know the story all too well. St. Thomas the Apostle was missing the day our Lord appeared to the other apostles. When he finally showed up, he didn’t believe their tales of a “risen Lord”, telling them he would believe it only when he could place his fingers in the nail holes of our Lord’s hands. That he could not bring himself to believe the apostles is somewhat slightly forgivable. Men do make mistakes after all. But his sin was not in disbelieving his friends, but rather in failing to believe what our Lord had told them all along—namely, that he would rise again from the dead after three days. He was not the only apostle to fail in believing what Jesus had categorically told him. But St. Thomas failed even more dismally, because he wouldn’t believe our Lord’s words even when the other apostles verified them with the confirmation of his appearance.
Poor St. Thomas was destined to be the poster-child for doubters everywhere. If one of our friends refuses to believe something we say, we dub him a “doubting Thomas” and ridicule his lack of faith. Human nature is always ready to cast aspersions on the failures of others, even when, alas, our own weaknesses and imperfections are far worse. And so, on this first Sunday after Easter, when we commemorate the sad skepticism of St. Thomas, we would do well to look at ourselves and find the mote in our own eye.
An important thing that has been pointed out to me is that, generally speaking, men do not deny the faith outright. What they do is to act as though the faith does not exist. “Yes, I believe,” we say, but does our behavior contradict that faith? Rather than get into the minutiae of our daily lives where it seems that the only time we think about the Ten Commandments is when we’re in line for confession, let’s briefly mention a far more important issue where we tend to ignore the reality of what is happening in the Church…
Fr. Malachi Martin has provided indisputable evidence that the Luciferians were successful in enthroning Satan in the Vatican on June 29, 1963. He has named the cardinals and bishops responsible, and in a 1997 interview explained that for the enthronement to take full effect it would have to be repeated within fifty years, that is, before June 29, 2013. With just two weeks to spare, on June 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was enthroned as “Pope” of the Roman Church. Coincidence?
What is our reaction to these facts? How many of our traditional Catholic friends attend a Mass where Bergoglio is hailed as a true Pope, and where they proudly display his photograph on their church walls, sacrilegiously proclaiming during the Canon of the Mass itself that they are “one in the faith” (una cum) with this servant of the Devil? They have chosen to not believe our Lord’s blessed Mother when she told them that Rome would become the Seat of the Antichrist. They are “doubting Thomases”, who will hopefully repent of their objective sin of apostasy in recognizing Bergoglio as the Vicar of Christ. It took a lifetime’s apostolate for St. Thomas to make up for his sin, one that ended in martyrdom. Let’s not ignore his story and be condemned to repeat it.
Our faith is not some vague system of thought about things spiritual. It should be the single most important motivating force for our actions and our lifestyle. It’s not enough to just believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. Our outward actions, behavior and lifestyle must reflect the reality of what we claim to believe. Externally at least, we must be devoid of all doubt!