Pope Francis recently at Mass stated publicly something that's against at least four

scripture verses in the New Testament and also contrary to at least, at least two church

fathers.

Pope Francis had to say at Mass quote, you can see it here on the screen, keeping the

truth does not mean defending ideas, becoming guardians of a system of doctrines and dogmas.

It means remaining bound to Christ and being devoted to his gospel.

Truth is Christ Himself end quote.

You can see here a bifurcation in the words of Pope Francis.

On one hand, you have being faithful to Christ in his gospel, yes of course, but for some

reason being faithful to Christ and devoted to his gospel in the very same breath is somehow

opposed to becoming guardians of doctrine and dogma.

So today we are going to go through the pastoral epistles of Saint Paul, Saint Paul specifically

to Saint Timothy discusses the imperative of a bishop, even more so a pope, to guard

the deposit, to guard the doctrine.

The language of guardianship and guarding is right there in the New Testament.

It's forceful words.

We're going to go into the Greek a little bit and then I'm going to share you quote from

Saint Irenaeus and a quote from Saint Clement of Alexandria, how the earliest Christians

in the first couple centuries understood that it was their duty for the lay people, but

especially for the clergy to be guardians.

That's the language they use, guardians to guard.

All right, before we get started, we need to pray.

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