On the incredibly important subject of usury and its horrible effects, I would strongly urge your readers to take a look at this recent article from our substack, The Three Sages. Keep up the good work.
The one thing I would say, reading the article, is that the Church has not ever changed her stances on Usury. It is still a mortal sin, and the author is wrong. He's likely referring to the School of Salamanca, as I referred to in the podcast, and some of the.... rationalizations, they made, on starting to allow it. But, as I said, a lot of people make the rationalizations into more than they are because, at the same time, the Usury does take off. I will say that the school is responsible for giving license to sinners, by saying "The sin is ok!" but, at the same time - literally, the Council of Trent was meeting and then put together the Catechism which I read in the podcast and states as follows:
To this class also belong usurers, the most cruel and relentless of extortioners, who, by their usurious practices, plunder and destroy the poor. Whatever is received above the principal, be it money, or any thing else that may be purchased or estimated by money, is usury; for it is written in Ezekiel: " Thou hast taken usury and increase;" [25] and in Luke our Lord says: " Lend hoping for nothing thereby." [26] Even among the Gentiles usury was always considered a most grievous and odious crime; and hence the question, "What is usury?" which was answered by asking, "What is murder?" The reason why it was thus characterized is, that he who lends at usury sells the same thing twice, or sells that which has no real existence"
So no, it was still a mortal sin, as they refer to it as murder, death of the soul. It is, to this day, a mortal sin. The teachings of the Church are unchanging.
We need to sit down and have a nice talk with the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Goldman-Sachs, and Pope Francis.
On the incredibly important subject of usury and its horrible effects, I would strongly urge your readers to take a look at this recent article from our substack, The Three Sages. Keep up the good work.
https://montanarcc.substack.com/p/us-collapse-triggers-end-of-500-year
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The one thing I would say, reading the article, is that the Church has not ever changed her stances on Usury. It is still a mortal sin, and the author is wrong. He's likely referring to the School of Salamanca, as I referred to in the podcast, and some of the.... rationalizations, they made, on starting to allow it. But, as I said, a lot of people make the rationalizations into more than they are because, at the same time, the Usury does take off. I will say that the school is responsible for giving license to sinners, by saying "The sin is ok!" but, at the same time - literally, the Council of Trent was meeting and then put together the Catechism which I read in the podcast and states as follows:
To this class also belong usurers, the most cruel and relentless of extortioners, who, by their usurious practices, plunder and destroy the poor. Whatever is received above the principal, be it money, or any thing else that may be purchased or estimated by money, is usury; for it is written in Ezekiel: " Thou hast taken usury and increase;" [25] and in Luke our Lord says: " Lend hoping for nothing thereby." [26] Even among the Gentiles usury was always considered a most grievous and odious crime; and hence the question, "What is usury?" which was answered by asking, "What is murder?" The reason why it was thus characterized is, that he who lends at usury sells the same thing twice, or sells that which has no real existence"
So no, it was still a mortal sin, as they refer to it as murder, death of the soul. It is, to this day, a mortal sin. The teachings of the Church are unchanging.
If the teachings of the church have no authority and are never followed then what is their use?
They do have authority, and just because some men didn't follow them doesn't mean that all men did not. Nor does it mean that all men don't today.
Are you a usurer? I am not, because they have authority, and I follow them.