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Quotes from Catholic Catechisms and Church Councils

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@Knifer51 @poperespecter1 I think this is a reasonable counter argument

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@AstuteLogic489 @poperespecter1 You are conflating dogmas and doctrines. The death penalty is not a divinely revealed truth by God and is therefore not a dogma.

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@TiredZoom3r @poperespecter1 Effectively yes. It was not in any way sufficient to guarantee public safety because it wasn't a system.

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@Ninjaslushi @LeadingReport What facts? You basically just played six degrees of Kevin Bacon and you think that amounts to some kind of evidence.

[Scott @Scottobix]

Please pray for me. I've been given 6-12 months to live having stage 4 esophagus cancer. I'm fighting for my life.

Any and all prayers are appreciated.

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@WalmartThomist Consider that this is the natural result of fornication and adultery.

[Brian Burgess @Burgess7281975]

Friends,

I will be grateful if you will join us in praying for my friend Catherine who has been bedridden for several weeks. By the Grace of God she is being ministered to by her Parish and receiving the Eucharist.

Archangel Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael and all you celestial choir of Seraphim, we humbly implore your intercession on behalf of Catherine by and through the Holy Name and Precious Blood of Our Lord.

Amen

[American Reform @AmericanReform_]

Cardinal Manning explains true, Catholic ecumenism:

“We are ready to purchase the reunion of our separated brethren at any cost less than the sacrifice of a jot or tittle of the supernatural order of unity and faith... We cannot barter or give that which is not our own... We can offer unity only on the condition on which we hold it —unconditional submission to the living and perpetual voice of the Church of God. If this be refused, it is not we who hinder unity. For it is not we who impose this condition, but the Spirit of Truth who abides in the Church forever... Compromise, concession, conditions, transactions, explanations which soften the Divine decrees, and evade the precisions of infallible declarations of the Church are not inspirations of the Holy Ghost. To hold out hopes of impossible events is deception and cruelty… Clear, open, patient, loving exhortations, definite and precise declarations of truth without sharpness, and without controversy; holding up the light of faith, which by a sacramental power of its own enters into men and illumines them when they are least aware; confidence in the supernatural grace and the Divine mission of the Church, in its authority to teach and its power to save — these are our nets to let down into the sea, our sickles to reap in the Master’s field.”

— England and Christendom, (1867), London, pp. 513 & 219.

[Brian Burgess @Burgess7281975]

Father Emmanuel Doronzo, O.M.I. On the error of Rationalism below.

It is important for us to understand, as Catholics, that the Church teaches, De Fide, that God’s existence is susceptible to being known by the light of natural reason from created things.

It is of equal importance to understand that our knowledge of God’s existence is not merely an object of rational knowledge but also an object of Supernatural Faith. This is also a De Fide Truth of the Faith.

With these Truths in mind Father Doronzo explains the error of “Rationalism.”

“Rationalism, from its general and common principle of the complete autonomy of natural reason, draws the conclusion that these is no supernatural order, that is, an order of things and truths above reason. This is the teaching of pure Positive
Rationalism, either materialistic (as that of E. Haeckel), or idealistic (as that of
Hegel), both of which deny the very existence of God, identifying him with the world. A form of apparently mitigated Rationalism teaches that, even if there were a supernatural order, the human intellect would not in any way be able to know it,
and therefore its revelation would be impossible. This is the Agnostic Rationalism, which denies directly not the existence of God, but the possibility of knowing him and the objective value of the principles of reason leading to knowledge of him. The reason for this agnosticism would be either the pure phenomenal nature of our
ideas (Agnostic Empirical Rationalism of H. Spencer, A. Comte, and W. James), or their purely subjective value (Agnostic Idealistic Rationalism, founded by E. Kant).
This agnostic rationalism, under both forms, was adopted within the Church by Modernism. Modernism denies that human reason can reach beyond phenomena and know with certainty even the existence of God.”

Father Emmanuel Doronzo
The Science of Sacred Theology
Book 2
Part 1:2 “Possibility of Revelation”

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[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@GeneralMCNews Only in this dimension

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

Tertullian wrote one of the most devastating arguments against private Bible interpretation ever composed.

He wrote it around 200 AD. Before the printing press. Before the Reformation. Before anyone thought to ask "who gets to interpret Scripture?"

A thread.

[Brian Burgess @Burgess7281975]

Let me help your AI Program out.

(1) The term “Ekklesia Kata Holos” first appears in Acts of the Apostles which was completed in approximately A.D. 63.

Acts 9:31 the church throughout all [Greek: ἐκκλησία,καθ’,ὅλης ,τῆς ]  Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria..." = Kataholos Church.

ἐκκλησία = ekklésia = Church 
καθ’  : kata = according to
ὅλης : holos = whole, complete
τῆς  : ho, hé, to = the

Of course this Book documents the Church’s Council of Jerusalem between A.D. 48 and 50 so it’s likely the term was in use well before A.D. 63.

(2) Ignatius of Antioch explains, in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans (110 A.D. 110) that:

“See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.”

(3) Patristics

(A) Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

For, having through patience overcome the unjust governor, and thus acquired the crown of immortality, he now, with the apostles and all the righteous [in heaven], rejoicingly glorifies God, even the Father, and blesses our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of our souls, the Governor of our bodies, and the Shepherd of the Catholic Church throughout the world. (Martyrdom of Polycarp A.D. 156)

(B) Saint Justin Martyr

For the men of former generations, who instituted private and public rites in honor of such as were more powerful, caused forgetfulness of the Catholic Faith to take possession of their posterity… (On the Sole Government of God).

(C) Saint Iranaeus of Lyon

But [the superior skill spoken of] is not found in this, that any one should, beyond the Creator and Framer [of the world], conceive of the Enthymesis of an erring Æon, their mother and his, and should thus proceed to such a pitch of blasphemy; nor does it consist in this, that he should again falsely imagine, as being above this [fancied being], a Pleroma at one time supposed to contain thirty, and at another time an innumerable tribe of Æons, as these teachers who are destitute of truly divine wisdom maintain; while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, as we have already said. (Against Heresies A.D. 180).

(D) Saint Clement of Alexandria

Therefore in substance and idea, in origin, in pre-eminence, we say that the ancient and Catholic Church is alone, collecting as it does into the unity of the one faith—which results from the peculiar Testaments, or rather the one Testament in different times by the will of the one God, through one Lord—those already ordained, whom God predestinated, knowing before the foundation of the world that they would be righteous. (The Stromata).

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[Brian Burgess @Burgess7281975]

“The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle, because they do not believe, and intolerant in practice because they do not love.”

Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

“On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith.”

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@scotus_wire Wasn't this already a thing? Exigent circumstances?

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@immutablechrist @DHSgov @grok Grok might believe this is true based on the way it was presented online as being true.

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@HumanityFirstX_ @LeadingReport Let me know how that works out for you.

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@LeadingReport Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@japetti @jrl_josh @LeadingReport You mean when the Democrats unlawfully installed an octogenarian socialist into the White House?

[Cameron Riecker @riecker]

At least 64 Catholics dead.

Lord have mercy,

https://t.co/eqx8w7npHn

[The Echo @Lost_n_Echoes]

@Thomisticae @ModernBoethius Do we still stone adulterers or was that something that was permitted and appropriate at the time?