This is the priest who died on the Titanic to hear confessions and administer last rites.
Given the opportunity to board a lifeboat on two separate occasions, Father Thomas Byles firmly declined. He chose instead to stay behind, absolving sins and consoling the doomed passengers.
Following the vessel's collision with the iceberg, he assembled the remaining crowds on the aft deck.
Those who lived through the disaster recalled him standing bravely amid the panic, listening to confessions, granting collective absolution, and reciting the Rosary right up until the ocean claimed the stern.
This is the type of story we should elevate, heroic virtue. May the Lord bless us with more holy men possessing the courage of Father Thomas Byles.
The reformation was an attempt to reform the Catholic Church. The reformation failed because the gates of hell won’t prevail against the church of God. Long live Rome, Christ is King.
@zoomafrika1@Lilith_Atheist Your people did much worse to each other but you like to pretend this is tied to religion. Slavery ended because of Christianity.
Belief isn’t a passive mental state, it’s something you do or do not, according to your volition. Because it involves the will and any willed action toward God is by definition a work.
God commands us to believe which presupposes agency, one can’t be commanded to do an involuntary act.
“You’ll never see Muslims acting this hostile to another faith”.
You’re right, Muslims are almost always much more hostile, they’d never just peacefully wave flags.
Look at this! You’ll never see Muslims acting this hostile to another faith, yet they want you to believe their religion teaches “turn the other cheek.”
Alhamdulillah for the modesty and tolerance of Islam 😇
@bxieus I’m against most Chinese dictators as much as anyone else but let’s at least acknowledge there were a handful of good emperors, that’s why we almost never deal in absolutes.