The Rosary And Other Stephanian Objections
Stephanus wrote, Oct. 9, 2025, 2:52 p.m. IST, via WhatsApp: «The rosary itself isn't mentioned in the Bible, it's a symbol created by people to help us pray. So for me, it's not about the object, it's about the belief behind it. I didn't throw it away or step on it. I just kept it with my key because it's something close to me. My intention was to keep it near, not to disrespect it. God looks at our heart, not at how we use or hold an object.
«Luciano, listen bro, I've known you for a long time, but honestly, I don't agree with the way you talk most of the times, about others or judge people based on language or religion. I've heard you many times speaking badly about Muslims and Marathi people, and that's not right. Jesus never taught us to look down on anyone. He taught love, not hate. And about Konkani, speaking Konkani doesn't make someone more Christian. There are Christians all over the world who speak many different languages, and that doesn't change their faith. Even Jesus didn't speak English or Konkani; He spoke Aramaic. So, language doesn't define faith, the heart does. Talking bad about other religions doesn't make us better Christians; it just shows disrespect. God looks at how we live, not what language we speak or who we judge.»
Thank you for your notes.
- My name is Lucio, as I have repeated several times, not "Luciano," and not "Lucifer," as some have maliciously called me, because of my bearing witness to the Good News of our Lord God Jesus Christ. Lucio is Portuguese, and Spanish and Italian for Latin Lucius, which comes from Lux, light. It is the name of several popes, saints, also of sainted popes.
- The Rosary is not mentioned in the Bible. True enough. The Trinity is also not mentioned in the Bible. Does that mean that we can treat the Trinity with disrespect? You are using a Rosary, or "Cont" in Concannim, (not "Konkani"), as a key-chain. In response to your statement in person where you said that the Rosary is not mentioned in the Bible, I explained that the Rosary IS The Bible, because the Rosary is the Psalter, the 150 Psalms. Due to the laity's inability to recite the entire Psalter of 150 Psalms, it was gradually replaced with the Rosary. Also, the Rosary, in its present form (I disregard the changes made by Antipope Karol Wojtyla, adding the Demonic "Luminous Mysteries") is what was given by Our Lady herself to St. Domingo de Guzmao (Footnotes 1, & 2). The Rosary is a Sacramental, an object exorcised, to remove it from the Dominion of Satan, and blessed, to bring it into the Dominion of our Lord God Jesus Christ. The Rosary is also an object and a symbol of Catholicism, a thing sacred in itself, and any insult to the Rosary, is an insult to God. Using a Rosary, where the Crucifix has fallen off, as a keychain, replacing the Crucifix with a key, is disrespectful towards God and towards Our Lady (Disrespect to Our Lady is Disrespect to Our Lord God Jesus Christ). I have not said that you replacing the lost Crucifix with a key is intentional disrespect, but it is disrespect, nonetheless. The presumption is always "Innocent until proven guilty," and I was drawing your attention to your perhaps inadvertent disrespect towards the rosary, not accusing you of deliberate, malicious disrespect. Yet, there is certainly disrespect, regardless of what your intention may be. People see, and they do not see your intention; they see the Rosary disrespected, and one possible conclusion they can draw is that it is okay to disrespect the Rosary, "It's no big deal" (Footnote 3). It's a big deal, and deliberate, malicious, disrespect to the Rosary, is disrespect to God, and will assuredly lead to Eternal damnation in hell!
- I do not "judge people based on language and religion." As a Christian, the Bible warns that the Jewish people were the Chosen People, betrayed & murdered God Incarnate, due to which, they were grafted out, and we were grafted in. The Bible goes on to warn us against boasting, or becoming prideful, because just as we have been grafted in, we too can be grafted out (Romans 11, footnote 4). I understand that your objection is really regarding two aspects: I am an unashamed Christian apologist and polemicist, and I am a Concannim Nativist.
The Bible makes it clear that no man is innocent, everyone is guilty; no one is a pagan or an infidel due to accident of birth or geography, but God is present to all humanity, constantly acts upon, and seeks out each soul, has set forth His witness before every human being, and so, any that walks wrong, is guilty of their own sin, their own blood, before God (Romans 1, footnote 5).
Nativism is the belief that in every native homeland given by God to a specific nation, such as the Concannim nation in the Concan, must, all other factors being equal, have predominance in their native homeland (Footnote 6). The standpoint that you make, is the Condemned & Excommunicated Heresy of Indifferentism.
Modified from Google's AI: The Catholic Church has condemned & excommunicated "latae sententiae" religious indifferentism as a heresy, which is the belief that all religions are equally valid and that a person can be saved through any of them.
This condemnation stems from the belief that there is one true religion and that a loving, holy God cannot be equally pleased with both truth and error, or good and evil. The Church teaches this through dogma, Scripture, and tradition, citing popes and councils like the Council of Trent to reaffirm the unique role of the Catholic faith and the necessity of a response to God's truth for salvation.
Condemnation of indifferentism: In 1832 A.D., Pope Gregory XVI in his Encyclical "Mirari Vos" strongly condemned indifferentism, calling it a "deadly error" that claims eternal salvation can be obtained through any religion, provided morality is maintained.
Indifferentism is also condemned by Pope Pius IX's "Syllabus of Errors."
Pope St. Pius X issued the "Syllabus of Modernist Errors," further zeroing down on Indifferentism.
Indifferentism and or Panreligionism AKA Omnism is one of the Central Doctrines of the #WhoreChurch, #HomoChurch, since its secession from Catholicism in Oct. 1958, and which I summarize as "All gods are one, all religions are true, one can attain to heaven by the sincere practice of any belief system."
"Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" Or "Outside the Church, there is no salvation": This doctrine, declared by the Ecumenical Council of Florence, based on the teachings of St. Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspa in Numidia ("Algeria") and himself a disciple of St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regis in Numidia, is a key part of the Church's teaching against indifferentism, and is a binding and inalterable tenet of Catholicism.
Blasphemy against God: The Church views indifferentism as blasphemous because it suggests God does not care what people believe, which is seen as inconsistent with a God of essential truth and holiness.
Heresy and its implications:
Denial of duty: The heresy is specifically defined as denying that it is a man's duty to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion.
"Most subtle enemy": The Church considers indifferentism a subtle and dangerous enemy of religion that is harder to combat than open hostility.
Challenge to evangelization: The belief undermines the mission of evangelization and the efforts of those striving for holiness, as it suggests that all paths lead to salvation.
Response and or duty of the faithful:
Defending the faith: The Church encourages its members to understand and defend their faith with charity and clarity.
Living witness: Catholics are called to be a living embodiment of Christ's teachings through love, compassion, and understanding as a way to witness to the truth of their faith.
Embracing divine truth: Catholics must remain committed to the truths of their faith, acknowledging the Catholic Church's unique role as the one and only path to salvation as instituted by Jesus Christ. - Does one have a duty to respect Hitlerism, Nazism? If not, why not? What, in its essences, is different between Hitlerism and or Nazism and the Foreign, Central Asian, Uttarakuruvan Cult presently called Hinduism, which includes Manuwad, the teachings of the Manusmriti, as an essential element, and which worships gross and grotesque monsters, worships dumb animals as gods, while dehumanizing humans and degrading them below the level of animals, on one side, and the gross and grotesque cult of Mahomettanism, which boldly lies, falsifies, distorts, and grossly blasphemes the God of Abraham Elohim-Jehovah, Christianity, the Mosaic Covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ, and Mother Mary?
If you believe that "All belief systems are good and true, must be equally respected," you must equally respect Hitlerism and or Nazism, or the beliefs of the Thugees who kidnapped, robbed, abused, including sexually abused, and "sacrificed" human beings to their demons, and you must also equally respect and honor the beliefs of cannibal tribes who wish to kidnap and eat you as food, sacrificing you to their demons. If not, why not? Be consistent, do not be inconsistent! - What is my objection to the Marathi? The Marathi are outsiders, foreigners in the Concan. You and I are both Concannim, although we have been heavily Anglicized & factually Anglicanized by the Macaulayan "Education system." I am "Goan," while you are a Mangalorean "Konkani." In both Mangalore, Udipi, Karwar, etc. of the former North Canara & South Canara Districts, and in the "Maharashtra Konkan or Kokan," the native Concannim are LEGALLY 2nd class citizens with aliens, foreigners, specifically, Kannadigas, and the Marathi, being "legally" recognized as "Bhoomiputras," ("Sons of the Soil") and or as "Sthaniya Lok" ("People of the Land") with preferences and quotas in jobs in government services, bureaucracy, municipality, police employment, employment as judges and magistrates, licenses for vending on the streets (hawker's licences, and or "Concessionaries," ), employment prospects in both public or governmental jobs and in private, etc., a situation that is a Grave Offense to the Justice of God, an offence to the Just God, and by no means a situation of indifference to God, and not an attitude of indifference tolerable by the Just God! There is active political persecution of the Concannim by the Marathi, not only by the Shitsenas, including by the MNS, but also by the Government of Maharashtra illegally ruling the "Maharashtra Concan," where only the Marathi are allowed, Bhaiyas are tolerated, and the Concannim are treated, by foreigners and aliens, as instead being foreigners and aliens!
As a native Concannim, I and my fellow Concannim have an exclusive & God-given right to my homeland, the Concan, and all its resources, and no other nations, nationalities, and ethnicities, such as the Gujaratis or Saurashtrians, Marathi or Maharashtrians, Kannadigas, Malayalis or Keralites, etc., have any rights on my homeland, my motherland, my fatherland, my patria, the Concan!
If I were to watch with indifference how my native homeland, the Concan, is being raped and bartered by foreigners, aliens, while I and my own native people are "legally" disenfranchised, we are not merely "indifferent," we are grossly stupid, and also disloyal to God, who has not in vain set the boundaries between nations!
I am determined that regardless of the number of Concannim quislings, I will not compromise, I will continue to affirm and uphold my rights to my homeland, my motherland, my fatherland, my patria, the Concan national homeland, I will not, like Esau, the progenitor of the nation of Edom, sell off and betray my birthright for a meal!
Nor is my fight for Concannim Irredentism a betrayal of my duty to Jesus Christ, and to His Good News, the Gospel, nor does it compromise, and negate, my duty to Jesus Christ, to His Gospel, and to Christianity! For both duties are from God, and commanded by God to be offered to Himself, to God. God is integral, and my Concannim Patriotism and Nationalism is as important an aspect of my duties to God as is my witness to Christianity.
Of course, Christianity, preaching the Gospel, has a higher hierarchic standing as compared to patriotism, which is an inferior good, yet, nevertheless, a real good. Am I a "Racist Supremacist"?
I am not a Racist Supremacist because I believe with the Catholic Church that the human race is one single race and because, with the Catholic Church, I reject the heresy of Racialism, the notion that the Whites, Blacks, "Orientals," etc., constitute separate races.
I am the adoptive father of daughters of an Ambedkarite Marathi or Maharashtrian of "low caste" according to Hinduism, the daughter of a Mahomettan from Philibit, the daughter of "Bhaiyyas," the daughters of Brahmins of Kumaon in Uttarakhand. I could not have accepted as my adoptive daughters, these children, if I was a RacistSupremacist!
Lúcío João Mascarenhas, #BombayNotMumbai & Goa, Whatsapp; repairmychurch.blogspot.com, Interdum blog & The Way Of The Saints. The Eteo-Catholic or Sempiternal orthodox True Catholic Church: VaticanInExile-Official.org.
FOOTNOTES:
- Fathers Herbert Thurston & Andrew Shipman, article "The Rosary" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13, Robert Appleton Company, New York City, 1912 A.D.
- Wikipedia: History of the Rosary
- 1 Corinthians chapter 8, & 1 Corinthians chapter 10
- https://drbo.org/chapter/52011.htm
- Romans chapter 1 6. Deuteronomy 32:8 & Acts 17:26
Stephanus wrote, Oct. 11, 2025, 9:57 p.m. IST, via WhatsApp: Dear Lucio, — Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed reply. I read it carefully and appreciate your effort to share your thoughts. However, I would like to respond respectfully, because I believe faith and understanding grow through open dialogue — not through fear or condemnation.Hi Brother Stephanus,
First, regarding the Rosary — I fully understand its importance in Catholic tradition, and I never intended to show disrespect toward it. But faith is not found in the object itself, it's found in the heart of the believer. A blessed item is sacred when it reminds us of God, not when it replaces Him. Even if someone accidentally uses a rosary in a way you don't approve of, God sees their heart before He sees the object. Jesus taught us this clearly when He said that "it is not what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out of his heart."
Faith is not proven by how tightly we hold the rosary, but by how much love, humility, and forgiveness we show in our lives.
You mentioned that using the rosary as a keychain is disrespectful because others might misunderstand. I respect that point, but faith is not lived to please the opinion of "others." Jesus Himself was misunderstood and falsely accused, yet He responded with grace, not anger. Our job is not to police symbols but to reflect God's love through our actions.
Regarding religion and judgment, I want to be clear: I never said all religions are equal or that truth doesn't matter. What I said — and still believe — is that God loves every human being and calls us to treat them with dignity, even if we disagree with their beliefs. Condemning or insulting entire groups of people — calling them demonic or foreign — does not represent Christ's teaching.
Jesus didn't insult the Samaritan woman or the Roman centurion; He showed compassion and truth together. True evangelism begins with love, not with hostility or superiority.
The early Christians changed hearts through humility and mercy, not by comparing faiths or declaring others condemned. Scripture says: "If I speak in tongues of men and angels but have not love, I am nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:1).
As for your points on ethnicity and homeland, I understand the emotional pain behind your words. Every person has love for their land and culture. But nationalism should never outweigh compassion or unity in Christ. Christianity is not bound to geography — it's universal. Paul wrote, "There is neither Jew nor Greek… for all are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28).
If we begin to divide people into "true natives" and "outsiders," we move away from the message of the Gospel. Jesus Himself was born in Bethlehem but fled to Egypt as a refugee — proving that our worth before God is not based on birthplace or bloodline, but on faith and love.
Finally, I want to say this with respect — your passion for defending the Catholic faith is admirable. But when passion loses compassion, it becomes pride. The moment we use our beliefs to look down on others, we stop representing Christ and start representing ego.
I choose to walk with love and peace, not because I am indifferent, but because that is how Jesus walked — forgiving even those who crucified Him.
Faith without humility becomes arrogance; truth without love becomes cruelty. And both are far from the heart of the Gospel.
With respect and peace,
Stephanus
Thank you for your 2nd missive.
- Proposition #1: "Faith is not lived to please the opinion of others.
The Word of God teaches that when a man eats food offered to false gods, e.g. "prasad," although, in his own mind he knows that the false gods are nothing, a man, woman or child oberving him do so, can be thereby misled to believing that it the worship of false god is a matter of indifference, and can thus go to hell; for that reason, St. Paul writing, by Divine Inspiration, the Word of God, warns that even when we ourselves know that false gods are nothing, we must be careful not to cause damage to the faith of others (1 Corinthians viii & x). The Cross & the Crucifix are widely misused, both in the West, and also in South Asia, and by misusing the Rosary as a keychain, we therefore, in the Eyes of God, run the risk of causing others to believe that the Rosary is not a thing to be respected and handled devoutly, piously! - Proposition #2: Condemning, or insulting, entire groups of people — calling them demonic or foreign — does not represent Christ's teaching.
This is called "Begging the question"!
You say, or imply, that I am indulging in "rash judgment," and that is precisely what you are doing here: Indulging in rash judgment.
Which are the "entire groups of people" that I insult or condemn as Demonic or foreign?
Again, apart from being rash, it is also mixing up two entirely different things.
God commands honesty, truthfulness: "But let your speech be 'Yes!, Yes!, No!, No!,' and that which is over and above these, is of evil." (Mt. v, 37)
Or "Call a spade a spade" in colloquial language.
There is nothing "insulting or demonic" in calling Foreigners, foreigners.
On the contrary, it is being truthful, factual.
Putting things in the right perspective can be Godly.
Charity is not the same thing as Voluntary Helotship! When the Israelites sinned, God delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who invaded their homeland. When they repented, God helped them to drive out the invaders and oppressers. Nowhere in the Bible do I find that God instead told the repentant Israelites to lump it, to coexist with the invaders and oppressers, to submit to them!
The #WordOfGod: «Against the children of Ammon: Thus says the Lord, "Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why then has (the false god of the Ammonites) Melchom 'inherited' Gad: & his people dwelt in Gad's cities?"» (Jeremias 49:1)
Why have the children of Ganapati usurped the land of the Concannim, the land that Portugal won from the Arab Mahomettan Infidels at the Treaty of Bacaim, Treaty of Sao Mateus?
I have "Marathi" friends and colleagues at work, and I have openly challenged them and also members of the Shitsenas, challenged the Marathi lying pretension to be the "natives of the Concan, to be the natives of Bombay," and they have not been able to justify themselves, and they have not reproached me for telling them the truth, but you, a "Konkani" object to me factually and truthfully and Godlily calling the Marathi foreigners, foreigners? That is not Christianity. That is the mental disease of Liberalism, a condemned heresy! (Look up Fr. Sarda y Salvany's "El Liberalismo es Pecado")
I have not said that the Marathi are "Demonic" except, of course, in boldly lying that they are the true owners of the "Maharashtra Kokan," instead of the Concannim nation.
Very certainly the Shitsenas, including the MNS, are Demonic, a truth for which I owe nobody an apology!
If you do not like the truth, the fault is yours!
Hatred of truth is demonic! - Proposition #3: Jesus Himself was born in Bethlehem but fled to Egypt as a refugee — proving that our worth before God is not based on birthplace or bloodline, but on faith and love.
It is true that Jesus Christ was carried by St. Joseph and Mother Mary, for safety into Egypt. It is also true that our Lord God Jesus Christ, in His human ministry, travelled into Phoenicia, near Sidon & Tyre. The point you're making, however, is false. It is a point repeatedly made, but it is made by people who are either stupid, or malicious.
It is stupid and malicious to speak of our Lord Jesus Christ's travel to Egypt and to Phoenicia, because he was living within, and travelling entirely within, the Roman Empire.
If, during the British India Empire, I travelled by train from Peshawar, to Delhi, on to Calcutta, on to Dhaka, was I travelling between separate countries? If a man travelled before 1937 from British Baluchistan through South Asia, through what is now Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Burma, was he travelling through different countries in the legal sense?
It seems that you are reading a Bible that has large parts cut out of it. Bloodline is very important to the God of the Bible, who affirmed that the Promise would be through the bloodline of Isaac, and not of his elder brother Ismael, and who cooperated with Jacob and Leah to obtain the Promise for the bloodline of Jacob instead of his elder brother Esau! What are you talking about?!
Bloodline is important to the genealogy of our Lord God Jesus Christ, which is why His genealogies are carefully given in the Bible! What are those genealogies about, if they are not about a bloodline?
Catholicism teaches that all Christians who are baptized in Christ Jesus are thereby made adoptive sons of Abraham, and, by that same logic, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and of King David, and so on, down to Mother Mary herself, from whom God took His flesh! - Proposition #4: If we begin to divide people into "true natives" and "outsiders," we move away from the message of the Gospel.
The Catholic Church was blissfully ignorant, for the last 1900+ Years, that because we are united into one body in Christ Jesus, we legally ceased to be citizens of our states, and members of our nationalities or ethnicities. For the Catholic Church has always taught that Patriotism is a sacred duty to God!
«Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resists the power, resists the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation. For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and you shall have praise from the same. For he is God's minister to you, for good. But if you do that which is evil, fear: for he bears not the sword in vain! For he is God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil! Wherefore be subject of necessity, not only for wrath, but also for conscience's sake. For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving unto this purpose. Render therefore to all men their dues: Tribute, to whom tribute is due, custom, to whom custom, fear, to whom fear, honour, to whom honour.» (Romans xiii, 1-7)
Now, however much I search, I can't find anything that tells me that the above Word of God applies to only some peoples and states, and not to others. So, could I say, perhaps, that this applies to Christians in France, but not to Christians in Germany? It applies in Poland, but not in Czechia, or Hungary? Where, specifically does this apply, and where does it NOT apply?
The only reasonable explanation is that it is universal, applies to all Christians, everywhere, in whichever nation and state.
Therefore, when England and France are at war with each other, English Catholics owe a patriotic duty to the lawful rulers of England, and French Catholics owe a patriotic duty to the lawful rulers of France, even when those duties involve fighting against each other, killing each other in the defence of their nation and country!
If that is true, why is it untrue for me, for the Concannim nation? Why am I "obliged" to suffer without protest, but am indeed "obliged" to gladly welcome in, invaders and oppressers, foreigners, to lord it over me and my nation of the Concan? - Proposition #5: Jesus didn't insult the Samaritan woman or the Roman centurion; He showed compassion and truth together. True evangelism begins with love, not with hostility or superiority.
I am totally baffled as to which "version" of the Bible you are reading. Jesus quite firmly affirmed to the Samaritan "Salvation is from the Jews." Yes, He said it: "Salvation is not from the Samaritans, but is from the Jews."
Our Lord God Jesus Christ's exact words are: "You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews."
You are telling me that this is not "insulting"? If I am a Banderitesque Samaritan who believes that the true place of the Temple is Mount Sichem and not Mount Moriah, I would find that insulting. Yet, the Samaritan woman was moved by God's grace to overcome bigotry and to conform to Jesus.
Our Lord Jesus Christ made it quite clear that He came first of all to the Jews, the Hebrews, the Israelites.
When he was in Phoenicia, a Phoenician woman sought healing for her daughter. Our Lord told her: "Suffer first the children of Israel to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children of Israel, and cast it to the dogs!" (Mark vii, 27 & Matthew xv, 26).
What Bible version are you reading? - Proposition #6: You speak of hostility and superiority. I have known you for some 8 years. For more than the last 30 years, I have carried a burden given to me from God: Ezechiel, chapter 3 & chapter 33: "I have made you a watchman." I have sought to bear witness, to be the watchman that God has called me to, acutely aware of my own unworthiness, crying out the warning to the souls straying on the path of error. I have only met with scorn and contempt, with hostility and ridicule, and I have, for that reason, been maliciously called "Lucifer"!
I am not complaining, because this is what God says is the lot of truthbearers, and that if I were to be welcomed and rejoiced over, I need to be afraid that I have compromised God's message.
My message is this: The "Church" that claims to be the "Catholic Church" since October 28, 1958, is a stranger to Catholicism, has formally repudiated Catholicism, wholesale, and most flagrantly the First Commandment, "I Alone Am The Lord Your God, You Shall Know No Other gods Besides Me!"
Instead, this sect teaches, "All gods are One, All Religions are True, one can attain to Heaven by the sincere practice of any belief system!"
This was taught by Apostasiarch Antipope Angelo Roncalli, and was formalized by the Pandemonium called VaticanTwo.
No soul that is a member of this sect can attain to heaven. Every soul that is a member of this sect is guaranteed Eternal Damnation in Hell.
At the same time, what God taught, still remains true: There is no salvation outside the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church.
The Sempiternal orthodox, true Catholic or Eteo-Catholic, Church, was recovered by the late Pope St. Michael I, Catholic Pope from 1990 to 2023, and is currently led by His Holiness Pope Michael II, who can be found at https://vie-official.org.
I once again call upon you, and all souls, first of all, those of Catholic heritage, to return to the true Catholic Church, under His Holiness Pope Michael II!
I make this appeal with the fullest confidence that this appeal too will be discarded, put away into the rubbish.
Yours in Christ Jesus,
The #WordOfGod: "I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before Me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none!" — Ezechiel xxii, 30.
Lúcío João Mascarenhas, #BombayNotMumbai & Goa, Whatsapp; repairmychurch.blogspot.com, Interdum blog & The Way Of The Saints. The Eteo-Catholic or Sempiternal orthodox True Catholic Church: VaticanInExile-Official.org.
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