It’s really the fault of parents. They gave up on their job of raising and civilizing their children and then expected the school system do it for them. As a very conservative teacher, I can confirm that only about 10% of parents do their job. Then they send their feral children to school expecting teachers to work miracles.
@NathanH1998_ I have never been more disappointed by a movie than I was when I walked out of the theater after having seen MOS. It broke my heart. It was the Last Jedi of DC.
"Men without beards might cause 'indecent thoughts' in other men because they look like women."
An Islamic scholar in Spain is claiming all men must grow a beard for this reason. What do you think?
@JimSanoBC79@_jonbowlin Protestants like him would think that God himself violated the commandments when he told then Israelites to put golden angels on the top of of the ark of the covdnent.
This is a GREAT opportunity to settle the record with Ryan on Catholic teaching. I'm glad to help. And tell me what you disagree with.
1) We do not believe we can "purchase heaven" simply because we obey.
2) Human effort, no matter how intense in "doing good" can save someone apart from Grace.
3) The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1977) says: "Christ is the end of the law… only he teaches and bestows the justice of God.”
4) Obedience isn't a post conversion appendage, it's the very shape of a life transformed by Grace.
5) Obedience is not simply “what we do after the real thing happened”... it is one of the real things grace produces in us.
6) obedience does not earn salvation but obedience is not therefore unimportant. It is important because it is the way the saved person begins to live like Christ.
7) Obedience is NOT the cause of justification.
8) The commandments remain valid for the justified, and obedience is part of the life that grace produces
9) Christ saves first and completely
10) Grace comes before obedience
11) Obedience is a free and joyful response to grace
12) Faith, unless hope and love be added to it, neither unites man perfectly with Christ nor makes him a living member of his body.
13) Through the observance of the commandments of God and of the Church, faith co-operating with good works, increase in that justice which they have received through the grace of Christ.
14) operative grace “precedes all human efforts or merits,”
15) Cooperative grace “permits the active cooperation of the human being with God.”
16) Cooperation is itself a gift, and that grace can be resisted.
17) God does not forsake those who have once been justified by His grace, unless He be first forsaken by them.
18) We cannot merit the grace of final perseverance, or know when we possess it, because it depends entirely upon God’s mercy and not upon our actions.
19) the grace of justification, although received, is lost not only by infidelity … but also by any other mortal sin, although faith be not lost.
20) lost grace can be recovered
A new study has shown that Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication
The University of Arkansas found that urban raccoons have smaller snouts, a sign of domestication syndrome.
@DrShayPhD@Pontifex Denying the concept of a common good destroys the foundation of all ethical standards like “thou shalt not kill,” and “though shalt not steal.” You literally have no idea what is meant by “common good.” Read a freaking book.
If I were not Catholic, and were looking for the true church in the world today, I would look for the one church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the church which the world hated…
Fulton Sheen.
St Francis saw sinful clergy and corruption in the Church during his time. In his effort to reform he doesn’t start a new Church. He first reforms himself. Be like Francis.
What the SSPX is doing is wrong. But you know very well that the most just and loving thing Leo could do is grant SSPX the bishops they need. They are more in line with Vatican 2 than are most bishops in Europe and the United States, yet these heretical bishops face no consequences.
I love and pray for our Holy Father, but you know very well he has been a disaster for the Church, just like his predecessor Francis. I don’t approve of the SSPX actions, but I do have tons of sympathy for them. When they teach, they are more in line with what the Church has taught for centuries than is Pope Leo. God will protect him from falling into formal error, but his words and actions will lead others into error.
When the Feds got his phone, they discovered this guy was talking to another pedo about getting married and "adopting" a baby boy to "f*ck and groom." He also admitting to raping a little kid. People like this should be put to death in public as a warning to every pedophile.