𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

I wonder what Tolkein thinks about being cited in an encyclical:
The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world,

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@redeemed_zoomer @CalebDixonSmith Indeed, it does.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

The DoW just clarified this: we are Catholics and no longer called Roman Catholics

[Bryan of Alexandria ✠🕊️ @DBryanRhodes]

Protestant friends.
Please stop calling the Roman Catholics "Catholics."

We are catholics.

I humbly suggest
Romanist
Papist
Or just Roman Catholic.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@JosephBenJ2 What would it mean for God to love us less? He is Love. His love for us is infinite

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

Consciousness does not determine worth.
Usefulness does not determine worth.

Our worth is determined by how much we are loved, and even if a mother should forsake her child, God still loves them.

No one can declare anyone worthless whom God loves.

[Jesse Ridgway @McJuggerNuggets]

How many animals have you eaten this past week? Slaughtered just for you. Are you a second-hand murderer as well?

Wouldn’t you agree that a cow or pig crying and screaming as its throat is slit has significantly more consciousness than an 18-week old fetus?

“But it’s different because we EAT them and they’re not human…We’re made in God’s image.” - will this be some version of the response thou Holy one?

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@PhilCatholic As for a through/from distinction: who could imagine that we could understand such a subtle distinction within the Godhead?

The Filioque includes the Son in the Spiration, as He rightly is so included. Adding a preposition implies more subtle knowledge than we have.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@PhilCatholic Further, if the Spiration was only from the Father, it is difficult to understand how he wouldn’t be a second Son. God would not beget twice. It is the joint source of the Spiration which is the distinction of the Third person.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

Chapter 7 of this book by @FeserEdward is particularly excellent. The whole book is good in its own way, but Chapter 7 is a real must-read for both the educated and those new to philosophy.

https://t.co/rhliDTSu8b

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@PhilCatholic Do you know what I would say if I found out that a significant number of people in my parish were praying some Eastern traditional prayer?

"Great. Keep praying."

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@PhilCatholic It sums up the main issue with eastern Christianity. Its inferiority complex is so strong that it primarily defines itself as being not-Latin. The Filoque? Obviously true theology, but generally rejected even by Eastern Catholics because they obsess to be not-Latin.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

So, the lesson is: stay away from all ghosts and tarot cards and UFOs and every other thing that purports to offer super powers through special secret knowledge. This is even true of some quasi-religious things.

If your power source doesn't explicitly worship God, stay away.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

I am not a fan of celebrity exorcists. But...

The UFOs are demons thing is sort of the argument that Lewis makes in That Hideous Strength: demons try to get atheists to believe in only the demonic side of the supernatural by pretending to be science fiction stuff.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@christian_state @fr_faulkner I think that it is possible that Gaudi meant this as an artistic object and not to ever be used. Otherwise, it would be because many priests have the prayers memorized and don't actually look at the cards.

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@NickFreiling @agostino_harry @PopePiusIXStan The entire purpose of social security is to make sure that the elderly underclass don't starve. This would be a terrible plan. All the wrong people would take it and then we would have starving 70 year olds to deal with.

The logical solution is very easy: move the age to 70

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@agostino_harry @PopePiusIXStan I remember learning this in the 90s and doing the math and understanding that social security would never be something I would get

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@ErickYbarra3 He held to the Immaculate Birth. The Immaculate Conception was a technical question that hadn't developed by AD 400.

But he did believe she was sinless.

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@ChillaMandate This is a too individual view of the matter. Adding the other things might be a good spiritual discipline for you, but what we lost with that document was a communal sense of penance. The Church was powerful enough to affect a basic aspect of life across all groups

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I don't think anyone ever went to hell for eating meat on a Friday, but I think some people have gone to heaven because they didn't.

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@ChillaMandate "In the past meat was the luxury food item"?

It is today too. We just are so overstuffed with luxuries that meat seems further down the list. The absurdity of people claiming that
"meat is no big thing nowadays"
but can't bring themselves to go one day a week without eating it

[𝙵𝚛. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙼𝚌𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 @RejoiceCC]

@ChillaMandate It is true all up to the last word. People always try to mix true things in with the final error. No meat isn't hard. Meat isn't somehow a requirement of human life. Why end that sentence with "included meat"?

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@HarrierMagnus This isn't wrong, but get the potato burrito at Taco Bell. It is silly to say this as an excuse to get meat and treat that as somehow morally superior to people eating lobster