The Catholic Trumpet: Who Will Confess Him?

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WHO WILL CONFESS HIM?

The Catholic Trumpet [Slightly adapted and reformatted]| May 28, 2025


“Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.” — Matthew 10:32–33, Douay-Rheims

To confess Christ is not merely to say His name. It is to profess the true Catholic Faith: whole, public, and uncompromised, the Faith as it was always held before the disasters of Vatican II, and defended without wavering by +Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. It is to say: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus—outside the Church there is no salvation.

It is not enough to believe this privately. Our Lord binds us to speak it openly, or be counted among those who deny Him.

And make no mistake: when a Protestant or false Christian says, “We are all Christians”, and we respond with silence, we do deny Him.

We deny His Church.

We deny His truth.

We deny the One whom we pretend to honor.

As St. Thomas Aquinas teaches:

“There is no confession of faith unless there is also the confession of those truths without which salvation is not possible.”
— Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 3, a. 2, ad 2

This is why silence is not neutrality. It is betrayal. It is cowardice wrapped in counterfeit charity.

St. Thomas More was beheaded for refusing to acknowledge a false head of the Church. He would not lie by silence. On the scaffold, his final words were:

“I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.”
(Witness account, July 6, 1535)

St. Thomas Becket was murdered before the altar for defending the liberty of the Church against a crown that wanted submission. In a letter to Pope Alexander III, he wrote:

“It is because I fear the judgment of God more than the judgment of men, that I refuse to betray the liberty of the Church.”
(Letter to Pope Alexander III, 1166)

Both could have lived, if only they had kept silent.

But silence is not confession.

Silence, when truth demands a voice, is denial.

To withhold the Catholic Faith from a Protestant is to deny the visible Church of Christ. It is to speak a lie by omission. This violates the law of non-contradiction: what is true must be spoken; to remain silent in the face of heresy is to permit and promote error.

And Our Lord has warned us with eternal clarity:

“He that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him.”

There is no middle.

Confess Him, or deny Him.

Confess Him in His divinity.

Confess Him in His Sacraments.

Confess Him in His Church.

Confess Him through the Immaculate Heart of His Blessed Mother, without whom no one can truly know or love Him.

And if the world rejects us, then we will join the company of the martyrs.

St. Thomas More and St. Thomas Becket died with the Church. The question is not whether we admire them, but whether we will join them.