Two thousand years. One message. Unchanged.
While empires crumble and philosophies fade into footnotes, the Catholic Church stands as history's most stubborn institution—still preaching the same truths the Carpenter King declared two millennia ago.
This isn't a song about nostalgia. It's about something far more radical: an institution that refuses to bend when the world demands it bow. From contraception to abortion, from marriage to morality, every generation arrives with its "new" ideas, convinced this time will be different. This time the Church will finally modernize.
But she never does.
Watch as Protestant denominations that once stood firm on these same teachings gradually shift with cultural winds—contraception becomes acceptable, divorce becomes pastoral, abortion becomes nuanced, and marriage gets redefined. Meanwhile, Rome keeps teaching what Rome has always taught.
As Hilaire Belloc famously quipped: any merely human organization run with such apparent imbecility would collapse within weeks, let alone survive two thousand years. The only explanation? She's not merely human.
This is the story of the Rock that won't move. The Bride that won't compromise. The Church that looks at every new moral revolution and says with a knowing smile: "We've heard this before."
Because she has.
And when the last storm rises and the saints and angels sing, we'll shout forever: Holy Church, you haven't changed a thing.
Built on Peter's bones. Sustained by martyrs' blood. Guided by the Holy Spirit. Standing until the end of time.
The gates of hell keep hammering. But they never break the ring.
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