@prageru TV does not give you the opportunity to think. A sentence, one story, one idea after another, with no opportunity to ever think. Even if the program is ‘good’, it exists to move you through the commercials.
The solution? Read. Even poorly written words give you a chance to think.
@FloraLuzz_ No. Offense like that (nothing criminal) is the responsibility of the offended.
Why do people think they have both legislative and judicial powers, let alone executive?!?
@gonefishin1948@5SolasMissy A poor translation of one of John's letters leads to both this, and the infamous 70's music lyric, "Never been a sinner, I've never sinned, I've got a friend in Jesus." ('Spirit in the Sky' Norman Greenbaum January, 1970)
I forget what church group perpetuates this teaching.
I am very proud that the Catholic Church holds itself to a high standard that we will not tolerate 1.5 to 2% of priests that have done wrong in the time studied as of 20 years ago. The same study found school districts with 15% of PE teachers offending. Yes, bring the equity.
We should not tolerate the silence.
But no, the Catholic Church teaches the dignity of the human person, even sinners. And, yes, particularly victims.
@gonefishin1948@MJKelleyII And how about people go back and give back their free will? If we could, it would mean that it wasn't free will giving anything back.
I mean, just imagine the horror of losing free will. What kind of God would take that back?
Hey, you! You're no longer capable of processing this!
@petersbarque I never invoke the intercession of Saint Anthony…
Without asking him to help me find Jesus.
Think about it-why did I lose my keys? I am likely not in full possession of my capabilities.
Is my full capability is a 'key finder?' Is that any Saint?
How about a little more of Jesus?
Well said. There is a part of even me that wants to keep Jesus either safe, small or in some box.
What a glorious few days here through which we are living! The Holy Father in Madrid and Barcelona, Washington DC and the National consecration with our bishops.
And today's Feast...
My parish in Washington State was just today consecrated to Jesus' Sacred Heart!
@petersbarque I remember being taught this in Bible College, something always in conflict with tangible holiness in some religious people I would meet.
Another meme that could find its way into your lyrics is a question I posed there: "did the Bible just come floating down on a pie plate?"
@gonefishin1948@PapistPilled I spent 30 years in evangelical circles and understand this as a youth group stunt. Now, my current pastor was a former priest chaplain at a Newman Center. He simply encouraged young people to do bold things for God and surprised them with a backflip.
Tasteful - and entertaining!
I dreamed last night I was an abortionist assistant.
I was frozen I could see the baby but prepared material to complete the abortion. I could feel me-divided-like I couldn't change 'anything-anyway.'
I was stuck.
If that's you, I have friends.
You are not stuck. @ATTWNministry
A profound silence fell over Madrid’s usually bustling streets as Pope Leo elevated the Body and Blood of Christ during Holy Mass on Corpus Christi Sunday.
Oh my word. You just quoted something wonderful 'and' so very Catholic-after a couple filters!
A priest and an atheist were engaged in good debate. The priest listened.
Then he said, "I agree with you. The God that you do not believe exists… I don't believe in that God either."
What I offered @NateBornAgain, I offer you. 2pmET @EWTN
https://t.co/EXAO94vlBa
And thank you for starting with… love.
My next step is to remember what I discovered in Bible College and being back in the church: the number one difference between Christians is not Mary-Pope-purgatory-numbers of books! It's the way we use our tongue and words. We talk differently, we've returned to the Tower of Babel!
But the tongue is not healed by debates and Doctrine. Love must go to the heart and heal.
And I'm just 'gonna call you out': you started this with the word!
Love you, bro!!
Thanks for the love-and love back at you. Really, try Catholic Radio. I helped popularize 'Contemporary Christian Music' by assisting a few CCM station startups in the 70's*. Then I learned a few things, returned, and helped start a group of Catholic stations.
My favorite program s still are 'Called to Communion' 2pmET, and 'Catholic Answers' 6pmET. @EWTN
So this is like Jesus' crucifixion. He was -we could say- neurologically 'disassembled.' But He -the innocent One- did this willingly.
Abortion violates a different form of innocence.
Avoid indifference to this spiritual wickedness. It bears a different form of culpability.
Dr. David Prentice confirms that unborn babies feel EXCCURCIATING pain during abortions.
David A. Prentice, Ph.D. is the Vice President and Research Director of the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
He is a former biology professor at Indiana State University.
Here's what he says about the pain babies feel during abortions, especially at 20 weeks.
"The science is pretty conclusive at this point.
And there are always going to be people, especially those in favor of abortion, who will say, “Oh that really doesn’t happen, and they’ll throw up a smokescreen. And what they usually do is they refer to an old study back in 2005 that was published actually by people who had associations with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers."
Dr. Prentice continues:
"But the real science – and there’s some new things in fact, that have come out in the last few months – but the science pretty conclusively demonstrates: Young babies still in the womb at 20 weeks after conception, and probably even earlier, do indeed feel pain, and in fact, may feel more intense pain than a newborn or an adult."
Why do babies feel pain before birth?
"They have a higher density of nerve receptors. Your skin is not very thick at that point, but there is another aspect.
There are certain pathways that sort of tone down pain. If I hit my thumb with a hammer, I’m going to feel it because the pain sensation goes up to my brain, but there is also a return path to try and tone that down. That doesn’t even start to develop until about the time that you’re born, so you don’t get this dampening of the pain.
In fact, there was a study done, reported just a couple weeks ago, where they were looking at pain experience of newborns – just between one and six or seven days old and adults, and the headlines were, “Babies feel pain like adults and they feel it more intensely.”
The study actually looked at regions of the brain associated with pain using very sophisticated technology and comparing not really pain, just sort of like you’d take the end of a pencil and press it against the bottom of this baby’s foot, a little bit of pressure, a little sensation there.
A lot of the babies even slept through this whole procedure, but they were in this functional MRI machine, very sophisticated technology, and then they would do the same thing to adults to see how they responded.
Eighteen of the twenty pain regions lit up in babies, eighteen of the twenty that are the same as adults, and at four times as sensitive. So again, you don’t develop this feedback loop to shut down pain until right about that time, and it takes even several months after birth for it to start to mature.
Now, wind back the clock to five months after conception, you’re a little past halfway through development in moms womb. You don’t even have that feedback loop at all; it’s not starting until months later in your life – and now the pain is very intense. We don’t know exactly how much, but much more intense for the small amount that you might feel as an adult."
Abortions kill babies.
And babies feel pain.
Please RT this truth.
@BreeSolstad I've come to understand any sin as a distorted expression of a gift-one given originally from God-only deeply disguised.
Our deepest, most true call to one another, one often distorted and misunderstood, may be, "I want to go to heaven - with you."
Called to communion, we are.
@capnchappy@DavidSHolz From what I understand, N Tesla's answer was in using the right frequency. We have Stone Age understanding of stuff like this and we keep venerating 60 cycle, 1 & 3 phase or DC electricity that belonged to or was co-opted by Mr Tesla's competitors.