"Our meeting rests on the pillars of dialogue and friendship, which were fundamental in the life of Pope Francis and which we now wish to strengthen by building new bridges, that is, new paths of cooperation in the society in which we live."
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@pomo_realist@BishopBarron This is subjective. I believe it is impossible to assume anything in the scientific method of searching for knowledge. So, I did not like the bishop's word "assume". That's all I wanted to say. Rational cause or a puff of smoke or whatever are irrelevant to the act of searching.
@pomo_realist@BishopBarron Not all the factors are known to us so the empirical knowledge arrived at is the result of analysis of the known factors and so the knowledge is limited within those factors.
I don't know what you mean by "scientific method assumes empirical observations have a rational cause."
@sonsrap10 We used to visit there 70s. I looked at your picture again. The slanty bark shapes are highlighted - being metallic silver of course. Thanks for posting. All good wishes.
@holysmoke More to the point, journalists must do better like breaking their addiction to "Breaking News". Pretty meaningless to a reader who sees it 5 hours later in any case and I've noticed one has to scan up and down and sideways to see the very important date and time stamp.
@sonsrap10 Keeping with the New Forest -and I've just noticed your other pictures from there - Greta Hopkinson (my 2nd cousin) used to collect old driftwood from there and sculpt and polish them into abstract pieces.
Every scientist does not "assume". Every scientist is like Moses who said to himself: "I must go see why that Bush is alight and not burning up" or words to that effect.
Thanks to his curiosity (not assumption) we have The Decalogue.
Friends, every scientist assumes that the world is intelligible, that it is marked in every nook and cranny by understandable patterns.
So what is wisdom? Aquinas said that it is the view of things from the highest possible pattern of meaning.
But here is the biblical difference: Wisdom is not just dumbly out there waiting to be found. This pattern of all patterns is a person—the Logos—who seeks us out: “In the beginning was the Word. . . . And the Word became flesh and lived among us” (John 1:1, 14).
For information:
The meeting with the youth in Singapore was officially titled:
Interreligious Meeting with Young People.
The Church follows an accepted protocol for inter-religion, ecumenical matters, Christian (no unitarians) Unity Week yearly in January.
@E4Apple Pope Francis' critics demonstrate their unbelief that God is Father of All. Pope Francis acknowledged this truth and applied it to *all* the youth from different religious, secular and cultural beliefs. He met them in their moment; one of many moments that will lead them to God.
At the largest Mass of his pontificate, an estimated 2.5 million people in Buenos Aires, Pope Leo XIV said: "Do not give in to those who dismiss the Christian family as outdated." Plus his labor speech and abuse-survivor meeting. Today's Morning Keys: https://t.co/XjkSvo6FKP
I would also like to address fathers and grandfathers. Young people need to see that you pray, receive the sacraments, treat your wives with respect, ask for forgiveness and live with integrity, even when doing so requires sacrifice. Children learn a great deal by seeing that their father can kneel before God without feeling that he is any less of a man for doing it.