T.D. Barrett

Catholic + Ecumenist (the good kind)

Author = Sola Fide & Merit: The Catholic Perspective on Paul & the Dialectic of Salvation

DM me if you cant afford a copy

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@Immaculata_City The broader thread gives more context. He isn’t completely on point re: women but he has more sense about relationships than the incels who are always complaining about women.

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@_CatholicWest Obeying the Church = good

Feeling bad about missing Church = good

The Church making a law when it knows it’s not God’s law, mandating something as a grave obligation when it knows God does not mandate it as a grave obligation = bad

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The responses to this are always off. They either don’t realize that this is a matter of ecclesial law and not divine law, and argue as if it’s divine law, or that merely pound the gavel about the authority of the Church to make ecclesial law, as if the fact it’s ecclesial law means it’s infallibly guaranteed to be a good and wise expression of divine law. In reality we know mere ecclesial law can be unwise, foolish, imprudent, and erroneous. We should obey when it’s not a call to sin, but we don’t need to defend it in all cases. The Church deciding to mandate something as a grave obligation when it knows God does not mandate it as a grave obligation just seems like an entirely backwards, pragmatically unproductive, and ideologically blasphemous/arrogant thing to do. We don’t know better than God.

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In 1928 the Pope expresses concerns about the need for reforms in the old liturgy to prevent people from being mere spectators. Among the suggested reforms includes an emphasis on people participating by verbal responses in the vernacular.

“IX. In order for the faithful to participate more actively in divine worship, Gregorian chant—insofar as it pertains to the people—should be restored to popular use. Indeed, it is absolutely essential that the faithful not attend sacred functions as outsiders or silent spectators but, truly immersed in the beauty of the liturgy, participate in the sacred ceremonies—even in solemn processions where the clergy and pious associations participate—in such a way as to alternate, according to the appropriate norms, their voices with those of the priest and the choir . If what is desired comes to pass, it will no longer happen that the people will not respond at all, or will respond only with a low murmur, to the common prayers proposed in the liturgical language or in the vernacular.”

Pope Pius XI, in 1928’s Divine Cultus.

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@IFFFMEISTER @AbaddonSpeaks You are responding to an account named after a demon..

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@thomaesplendor @AngAesthetics I deny that God has an infallibly efficacious grace He can use in such manner. I’m not a Thomist.

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@crean_fr @HilarityjaneArt No it’s not

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@thomaesplendor @AngAesthetics In my view it could only be instant if the person instantly released all desire and will for the venial sin. I do not think God ever forces that.

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Faith is required as faith is the mind and heart directed towards union with God, but there is no strict need for explicit knowledge of special revelation. God is more than able to move the person to perfect contrition so long as their heart and mind are directed towards Him in faith.

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@crean_fr @HilarityjaneArt *reception of

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@crean_fr @HilarityjaneArt No, there only need be a movement of the will towards God, enabled by grace, and the redemption of infused charity before passing into the next life.

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Women have plenty of poor behaviors and problems but as a man you shouldn’t have women as one of your problems. One of their problems is that they bend over backwards for male attention. As a man you should be going through life knowing you live in a man’s world, knowing that women love you and like you and are falling over themselves to get your attention. But the moment a man starts complaining about women being a problem, he’s automatically got a negative loser energy that repels them and makes them a problem.

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@agusofpare @AllanRuhl This isn’t what I was referring to

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(1) was suggested by John Paul II, B16, and Francis as well, and already being slowly implemented rolled out now by Leo

(2) already has examples of Vatican approved practices in various diocese and communities around the world, following the same logic we used to open up to Orthodox

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I was contacting members of the Vatican synod group 10 for help with my dissertation and was informed that their study group report should be published “imminently.” This one is going to be a firecracker. The three sub groups focus on:

(1) re-interpreting Vatican 1 in a way amenable to historic eastern ecclesiology to allow for a more synodal form of the papacy (a decreased papal primacy) to help promote ecumenism

(2) the pastoral best-practices for extending Eucharistic hospitality for baptized Protestants, especially those in mixed marriages with Catholic spouses

(3) studying the attraction of non-denominational and Pentecostal movements and locating places where the Church and these traditions can grow closer to each other and learn from each other

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@agusofpare @AllanRuhl He was arguing about the sacrifice of the Mass. I don’t recall where exactly. One of his major works.

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Back in 2023 when I built my dream car.

Pearl white 2nd generation Escalade.

The two 18” subwoofers in the back would have the pictures hanging on the walls inside your house falling down when I drove by. Honestly had to turn it down in old neighborhoods because I didn’t want to damage peoples property.

Also had the 26” rims on there. Whole thing was clean inside out. Unfortunately it got stolen while parked at the San Antonio airport. One day I’ll get another one, this time with the 6.2L.

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Black people are great. I had never been the only white person in a room until around the age 25 when I attended a black Church. They were super welcoming. Then I moved to the southside of Chicago and was the only black person in every store I went in, every school I subbed in, for miles. Again always very welcoming people.

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@AngAesthetics @thomaesplendor I would want to say that a person can get baptized with only the intention not to commit grave sin and thereby receive it efficaciously for regeneration but not have the intention to not commit venial sins and thereby still need purification from that will.

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@OrdinariateUSA Where did their family immigrate from?

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@Sensus_Fidelium @zagovornika0 @Catholicizm1 Yeah people have blood lust, to be sure. I have no idea if this woman was insane or not, but it’s plausible she was, and I find those with rabidly strong opinions that she was not, to be strange.