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Where Do Suicides Go According to the Catholic Church?
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 5 Replies
Then when Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.—Mt 27:3-5.
There are two things that kill the soul: despair and false-hope.—St. Augustine, Sermon 87
Let me say at the outset of this article that I have had friends commit suicide. So, I don’t like writing this. But a major corrective needed to be issued against some high-profile modernist theologians who are currently misleading many vulnerable Catholics on this topic of self-harm. The fact is if this article turns many readers against me but saves one life or one soul, it is worth it.
As we approach Holy Week, I remember how Judas was always my least favorite person in the Passion narratives. It wasn’t just because he betrayed Christ, precipitating His crucifixion, but because his betrayal ends without hope. We know Judas went to hell precisely because Christ said: “The Son of Man goes as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by Whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would have been better for that man if he had not been born”.—Mt 26:24.
The Catholic Church has always held that suicide is murder, not a psychological-game to play of “who can prove reduced culpability.” You see, if your last act on earth was a murder you didn’t have the right to commit, you probably didn’t have time to repent.
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There are two things that kill the soul: despair and false-hope.—St. Augustine, Sermon 87
Let me say at the outset of this article that I have had friends commit suicide. So, I don’t like writing this. But a major corrective needed to be issued against some high-profile modernist theologians who are currently misleading many vulnerable Catholics on this topic of self-harm. The fact is if this article turns many readers against me but saves one life or one soul, it is worth it.
As we approach Holy Week, I remember how Judas was always my least favorite person in the Passion narratives. It wasn’t just because he betrayed Christ, precipitating His crucifixion, but because his betrayal ends without hope. We know Judas went to hell precisely because Christ said: “The Son of Man goes as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by Whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would have been better for that man if he had not been born”.—Mt 26:24.
The Catholic Church has always held that suicide is murder, not a psychological-game to play of “who can prove reduced culpability.” You see, if your last act on earth was a murder you didn’t have the right to commit, you probably didn’t have time to repent.
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Where Do Suicides Go According to the Catholic Church?
Then when Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the...
www.padreperegrino.org
Trump says Congress should push 'for more Daylight at the end of a day'
- By Michie
- Current News & Events (Articles Required)
- 10 Replies
President Donald Trump is weighing in on a national debate, apparently calling on Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
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Trump says Congress should push 'for more Daylight at the end of a day'
President Donald Trump called for "more Daylight at the end of a day," apparently advocating for permanent Daylight Saving Time.
President Trump Is Saving Social Security and Stopping Fraud – Don’t Believe Media Lies
- By Valletta
- American Politics
- 89 Replies
The manufactured Social Security panic began before President Trump even won last November’s election, with the liberal establishment claiming that he wanted to “cut Social Security” and kick seniors off their benefits. In reality, Trump has repeatedly promised to “not touch” Social Security.
But the lies and misdirection have only grown more egregious since Trump took office, with every upgrade to how the program is run and every revelation of fraud treated as tantamount to ripping grandma’s check out of her hands.
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So many of those against Trump listen to the same old propaganda without checking the facts.
But the lies and misdirection have only grown more egregious since Trump took office, with every upgrade to how the program is run and every revelation of fraud treated as tantamount to ripping grandma’s check out of her hands.
President Trump Is Saving Social Security and Stopping Fraud – Don’t Believe Media Lies | @AmacforAmerica
Trump Social Security reforms improve service and eliminate fraud — ensuring seniors get the benefits they deserve without waste or abuse.
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So many of those against Trump listen to the same old propaganda without checking the facts.
Give me that old time Fundamental Attribution Problem...
- By 2PhiloVoid
- Ethics & Morality
- 4 Replies
Yeah, it's something like this these days, isn't it? We maximize the meaning of other's wrongdoing while diminishing the meaning of what we, ourselves do wrong.
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I mean, politics and business seems to be rife with this sort of erroneous thinking.
Then again, this video above is 6 years old. Maybe people and politics have changed and when people point the finger, they're now right?
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I mean, politics and business seems to be rife with this sort of erroneous thinking.
Then again, this video above is 6 years old. Maybe people and politics have changed and when people point the finger, they're now right?
Republicans are Losing the Image of Being Financially Responsible
- By Stephen3141
- Current News & Events (Articles Required)
- 11 Replies
Trump's tariff tantrum showed why he's wrong about global trade
Trump hoped to reshape the economic system, but he just proved why it works.
www.msnbc.com
For decades, America has been a place where other nations could safely
invest. And the Republican Party has held the image of fiscal responsibility.
The president's eratic declaring of tariffs, has changed the global perception that
America is a safe and predictable place to invest.
Denisovan jawbone dredged up by fishermen near Taiwan
- Physical & Life Sciences
- 3 Replies
Fossil jawbone reveals mysterious Denisovans lived in ancient Taiwan
First confirmed fossil found outside Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau shows the archaic human also lived in hot climates
In 2008, Kun-Yu Tsai was shopping for antiques in southern Taiwan’s Tainan City when an unusual relic caught his eye: a brownish jawbone with blackened, thickset teeth that fishermen had dredged up from the nearby Penghu Channel. An amateur fossil hunter, Kun-Yu recognized the mysterious jawbone as human—but noticed it was distinct from modern mandibles. Intrigued, he bought the fossil and later donated it to Taiwan’s National Museum of Natural Science.An analysis of ancient proteinspreserved within the fossil, published today in Science, pegs the jawbone as belonging to a Denisovan, a close cousin of Neanderthals that lived from roughly 400,000 years to 30,000 years ago. Previous confirmed fossils of the enigmatic hominin were found only in the cold, high-altitude climes of Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau. But Penghu 1, as the jawbone is known, shows Denisovans were also at home in humid lowland tropics, says Fabrice Demeter, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Copenhagen (KU) who wasn’t involved with the work.
The first Denisovan remains were uncovered by Russian scientists in Siberia’s Denisova Cave in 2008.
Hmmm... that's the same year this jawbone was found.
MAGA Maoism - Parallels With the Past
- By iluvatar5150
- American Politics
- 9 Replies
Many have made comparisons between Trump and two well-known autocrats from the 1930's-40's, but a new one is making the rounds now: Trump and Mao. It's more novel (at least to me), but also strikes me as being potentially more accurate, with Mao's emphasis on personalist propaganda; his purging and destruction of elite institutions; his revenge after losing and then returning to power; and his exaltation of rural life physical labor over urban life and the knowledge economy.
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Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America
People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.
MAGA Maoism | by J. Bradford DeLong - Project Syndicate
J. Bradford DeLong finds disturbing parallels between today's Republicans and Chinese Communists during the Cultural Revolution.
www.project-syndicate.org
As the United States grapples with the upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration, many Chinese people are finding they can relate to what many Americans are going through.
They are saying it feels something like the Cultural Revolution, the period known as “the decade of turmoil.” The young aides Elon Musk has sent to dismantle the U.S. government reminded some Chinese of the Red Guards whom Mao Zedong enlisted to destroy the bureaucracy at the peak of the Cultural Revolution. Upon hearing President Trump’s musing about serving a third term, they joked that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, must be saying, “I know how to do it” — he secured one in 2022 by engineering a constitutional change.
The United States helped China modernize and expand its economy in the hope that China would become more like America — more democratic and more open. Now for some Chinese, the United States is looking more and more like China.
“Coming from an authoritarian state, we know that dictatorship is not just a system — it is, at its core, the pursuit of power,” Wang Jian, a journalist, wrote in an X post criticizing Mr. Trump. “We also know that the Cultural Revolution was about dismantling institutions to expand control.”
They are saying it feels something like the Cultural Revolution, the period known as “the decade of turmoil.” The young aides Elon Musk has sent to dismantle the U.S. government reminded some Chinese of the Red Guards whom Mao Zedong enlisted to destroy the bureaucracy at the peak of the Cultural Revolution. Upon hearing President Trump’s musing about serving a third term, they joked that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, must be saying, “I know how to do it” — he secured one in 2022 by engineering a constitutional change.
The United States helped China modernize and expand its economy in the hope that China would become more like America — more democratic and more open. Now for some Chinese, the United States is looking more and more like China.
“Coming from an authoritarian state, we know that dictatorship is not just a system — it is, at its core, the pursuit of power,” Wang Jian, a journalist, wrote in an X post criticizing Mr. Trump. “We also know that the Cultural Revolution was about dismantling institutions to expand control.”
FCC Chair Sports Gold Trump Lapel Pin
- By iluvatar5150
- American Politics
- 60 Replies
FCC chair's Trump pin likened to Mao, stirs online controversy
The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, appeared with a golden pin featuring the image of …
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The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, appeared with a golden pin featuring the image of Donald Trump on his jacket lapel. Australian activist Drew Pavlou compared the image of the U.S. President to that of Mao Zedong. "Welcome to MAGA Maoism," he concluded.
Pope Francis’ shock untidy appearance in Vatican: Was it intentional?
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 2 Replies
The timing and manner of his guest-starring appearance in the Vatican today will have reminded the Roman Curia just how hard to pin down, or predict, Francis really is.
VATICAN CITY (PerMariam) — In a surprise move, Pope Francis appeared in the Vatican today in an event most notable for the fact of the strikingly disheveled nature of his appearance.
A little before 1 p.m. Rome time on Thursday afternoon, tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica were greeted by a shock sighting of the Pope. Reports, broken first by ANSA, documented how he came to inspect the just-concluded restoration work on the Altar of the Cathedra, before then being wheeled to pray at the altar of St. Pius X.
After that, he returned to the Casa Santa Martha guesthouse which he has made his home for the duration of this pontificate.
But even more striking than the surprise appearance by the Pontiff – of which more further down – was his appearance and that of his assistants.
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Pope Francis’ shock untidy appearance in Vatican: Was it intentional?
The timing and manner of his guest-starring appearance in the Vatican today will have reminded the Roman Curia just how hard to pin down, or predict, Francis really is.
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