Despite the allegations against him, Father Rupnik continues to live an unrestricted life as a priest and resides at his Rome art center.

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has said the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has completed its investigation into the Father Marko Rupnik case and is currently setting up an independent tribunal to take it forward.

In a Jan. 23 interview with Spanish publication Alfa y Omega, the prefect of the DDF said the dicastery “had completed the stage of gathering the information, that was in very different places, and has made a first analysis.”

“Now we are working to constitute an independent tribunal that goes to the last stage through a penal judicial procedure,” he added. “In cases like this it is important to find the most suitable people, and to get them to agree.”

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Two conditions present themselves. The first is to have the Holy Spirit at all. This is binary. One either has the Spirit or does not.

The second condition is analog. The degree to which the Holy Spirit is allowed to work in a believer. To be "full" of the Holy Spirit might mean that significant progress has been made by a believer in not walking after the flesh.

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timf said:

Two conditions present themselves. The first is to have the Holy Spirit at all. This is binary. One either has the Spirit or does not.

The second condition is analog. The degree to which the Holy Spirit is allowed to work in a believer. To be "full" of the Holy Spirit might mean that significant progress has been made by a believer in not walking after the flesh.

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And I use only the KJV , can be translated either FILLED or FULL // PIMPLEMI , which is in the Aorist Tense , Passive

Voice , in the Subjunctive Mood , in the Singular .

dan p

We’re just a few days into President Trump’s second term and already we can say this is the best presidential term of the 21st century. It’s enough to make this political cynic giddy with excitement for what the next four years hold.

My political cynicism is deep and is based on long years of disappointment in our politicians and our political system. This cynicism began in force all the way back in 1996, when the Republican Party treated the presidential nomination like a retirement gift, handing it to the uninspiring and totally forgettable Bob Dole. His lack of enthusiasm for defending conservative principles helped shape my pessimistic political outlook.

George W. Bush got me a little excited in 2000, but the eight years of his disastrous presidency (anyone remember his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court?) only deepened my distrust of politicians. Other than Ron Paul and a handful of others, no politician has given me reason to change my pessimism, distrust, and cynicism; it has only been reinforced in the years since.

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timf said:

The election quandary might be resolved in seeing it referring not to any individual, but to a group of individuals. What was elect was a category that would be made available. Those in this category could be called "elect".

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I believe that the Body of Christ , ELECTED before the foundation of the WORLD . EPH 1:4 !!\\

Israel chosen in Rom 9:11 as a nation !!

Verse as too why you disagree ??

dan p

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-CryptoLutheran

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Excellent. Couldn't have said it better myself

AMBASSADOR HAT​

This thread has been moved to Praise Reports, since it is a praise report.

Plato's ideal form of government was a benevolent dictatorship ruled by philosopher kings. He believed that this type of government would provide the greatest chance for citizens to experience justice, happiness, and peace.

Ezekiel 20:

45 Furthermore the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

46 Son of man, set your face toward the south; preach against the south and

prophesy against the forest land, the South,

47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God:

Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree and every dry tree in you;

the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be scorched by it.

48 All flesh shall see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.

49 Then I said, Ah, Lord God! They say of me, Does he not speak parables?

Comments on the interpretation of this parable/prophecy would be welcomed and appreciated.

I see that a fire to the South is kindled by the Lord that will not be quenched.

Would this follow?

Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth and look
Upon the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm does not die,
And their fire is not quenched.
They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

In a video message, the 47th president promises to ‘stand proudly for families and for life.’

Hello to everyone at the March for Life. It’s a pleasure to speak to you from the beautiful Oval Office. That’s where we are right now, the magnificent Oval Office. And thank you for turning out once again to show your extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn.

Each year, Americans of every age, color and background travel to our nation’s capital by the tens of thousands to stand up for precious little babies who cannot stand up for themselves. I am proud to be the first president ever to havejoined you in person.

As you know, this annual march started 52 years ago, on the first anniversary of the disastrous ruling known as Roe v. Wade. That unconstitutional decision took power away from the states and the voters, kicking off 50 years of division and anger. But thanks to your tireless work and devotion across five decades, that historic wrong was set right three years ago. I was so proud to be a participant. Six courageous justices of the Supreme Court of the United States returned the issue to the state legislatures and to the people, where it belongs. It became a vote of the people.

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Thank you, EU.
The world should be concerned about foreign interference in elections, especially considering the anti-Democracy dictators abd oligarchs who are supported by Russia and China to create chaos.

How to take the above three Chapters of the Book of Ezekiel? Should they be taken as a mere historical event? Is there a lesson here? If so, who is the lesson for? Could the events described in the above Chapters happen again?

At first glance, we must take heed of 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and presume to that end that there is a value in every Passage in the Bible. Could variations of the events in the above Passages be repeated? If so, where is the trial and at what dates? The Bible mentions that there are Judgements yet to come, but there is no timetable. And so bearded men dressed in robes and standing at busy street corners hold up signs saying, “The End is Near,” with no one to say, ‘No it’s not.’

We don’t know what God’s Plans are. He controls the future, and we don’t. There are lessons to heed in the Bible, but in terms of what God will do, they amount to just guesses on that score. We can go about striving for a righteous manner, but how can we be sure we’ve covered all the bases?

We can only hope that God’s System of Justice is better than the justice we see served in many jurisdictions, where innocent people are behind bars and even worse are slated for execution for murders they didn’t commit or other things they did which the government they’re subjected to have decided they must die for.

Ironically, under Romans 13:1, the different governments are expected to preside as an extension of God, but it appears that in many lands, such is not the case. And the only state that many may live is in a state of Woe.

One thing that may be for sure in Ezekiel 20-22, and that is God is displeased with the way things have turned out at that point in time. And it suggests that God has only called the evil ones to Israel to be arraigned, so to speak, tried and punished. Many are purged there. Has judgement only fallen on the Chosen? No mention is made of any Gentiles being there, though we can presume there are Gentiles in places other than Jerusalem, which God names in Ezekiel 25, that He is bent on destroying. Did the people in those places know that God exists? If not, should such people nowadays look over their shoulders to see if God is gaining on them?

Trump allies told to avoid referring to immigration 'camps'​

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” a Trump ally told [Rolling Stone]. “Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.”

As Rolling Stone reports, the term “camps” originated in Trump’s own orbit. Last year, Trump’s deputy chief of staff pick Stephen Miller “routinely and specifically using the word 'camps' to describe what he and his boss wanted the military to build, should they retake power in 2024.”

What is coming to mind here is what we are taught in Romans 8 about the mind, and what our minds are/are not to be set on:


So, this is really our guideline here as we consider what this is teaching us in Philippians 4. For example, just because something is true, that doesn’t mean that it is something good and healthy that we should be thinking about. And just because something is a lie, that doesn’t mean that we are to give no thought and no consideration to that lie and to the damage that it is doing to people’s lives and to what we can do, as followers of Christ, to expose and to refute the lie. We aren’t to just ignore it.

So, this is not teaching that we should give no thought to the lies that are being spread, and that are deceiving and literally murdering many people, which are also sending many people to hell. We shouldn’t just ignore them. And this is not teaching that just because something is true that it is a good thing for us to think on those things. Are you with me? We really have to look at the intent of what this passage in Philippians 4 is teaching us and not get so literal that we totally miss the point of what it is saying to us.

What this passage is teaching us is that our minds should be set on things above and not on the things of this earth. Our minds are to be set on what is godly and holy and righteous and honest and morally pure and right in the eyes of God. And our minds should not be set on evil and what is of the devil and of the flesh of man and on what is morally impure and dishonest and wicked and hurtful to other humans. We are to have pure minds, not filthy minds, and not immoral minds, and not slothful and self-centered minds.

Many professing Christians need to get their minds out of the gutter and to set their minds, rather, on what is holy and righteous and morally pure in the eyes of the Lord. And what we set our minds on is who we become in character and deed. So this isn’t just about what we think about, but it is about what we do and who we become. For if we are filling our minds with the trash of the world, that is what is going to come out in our speech and in our behaviors. And that really is the point of Philippians 4:8-9.

And rather than just believing people just because someone has told us that we should believe these people, we should be people of God who are testing whatever we hear or read or think we see against the Scriptures in their context to make certain that what we are setting our minds on is of God and that it is actually the truth and not the lies. I see far too many professing Christians following after lies and actually turning against their fellow (or other) Christians because they don’t believe the same lies they do.

So much is so backwards these days. So much that is going on in Christian culture today is the exact opposite of what Jesus and his NT apostles taught. And so many people are setting their minds on and thinking about (in acceptance of) what is opposed to God and to his word and to his morals and to his will for our lives. And so many of them are not living godly and holy lives with their minds set on Christ, but they are living just like the world, living in sin and in self-indulgence, for their minds are in the gutter.

The mind is a very powerful thing, you know! For like Paul said in Romans 8, if our minds are set on the flesh, and not on the Spirit, we are going to be those who are living according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit. And the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. And what is this also saying? It is saying that we need to be those who are submitting to God’s commandments (New Covenant) and that we are to be those who are literally and deliberately living to please God.

For what if we don’t? What if we have this mistaken notion that God is pleased with us regardless of what we do? What if we are believing lies which are telling us that once we “get saved” that now all our sins are forgiven and no matter what we do from this moment forward that it will not impact our salvation nor our eternal life with God? And so we continue living in deliberate and habitual sin and not in obedience to our Lord, and not in holy living? What then? We will not inherit eternal life with God!

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-24; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-11; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 10:23-31; 1 Co 10:1-22; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

So, what are we to do? What are we to be like? Whatever we have learned and received and heard and seen in Jesus Christ and in the life of Paul, his servant, and in the teachings of Christ and Paul and the other NT apostles, which are examples and instructions to the church, the body of Christ, we are to be obeying and putting into practice. So we need to be filling our minds with the Scriptures and putting those things into practice, and we need to rid our minds of all the worthless and unholy junk of this world.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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What are You Thinking About?
An Original Work / Originally posted October 26, 2023
Reposted January 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I found this interesting:

Birth rate in South Korea rises for first time in 9 years​

South Korea has the world’s lowest recorded fertility rates, but the birth rate in that country has risen for the first time in nine years.

The number of newborns from January 2024 to November 2024 rose 3% from a year earlier, according to monthly government data. South Korea’s government last year encouraged young people to get married and have children. The now-impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a “national demographic crisis” and put forth a plan to create a new ministry to address low birth rates.

Eva Edl, an 89-year-old survivor of a Second World War concentration camp, was awaiting sentence for her part in two protests at the time Mr Trump issued his pardon.

According to reports, she could have faced up 10 years in prison under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

The legislation was brought in to protect churches and clinics but 97 per cent of prosecutions have been of pro-life activists, many of whom were guilty of minor trespassing offences.

Under the Biden-Harris administration not one person was prosecuted under the FACE Act in connection with the 436 attacks against churches that took place in 2024 alone.

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DOJ drops case against Texas doctor who shared transgender care data​

Eithan Haim was accused of leaking health records of patients at Texas Children’s Hospital. Haim, who calls himself a whistleblower, had pleaded not guilty.

Though he had finished his last rotation at the hospital in 2021, he attempted to reactivate his login over the course of several months before gaining access in 2023 to information on pediatric patients not under his care, “under the false pretenses that he needed to urgently attend to adult care services,” the indictment said, adding that he then turned over the information to his media contact.

“Communication means stepping outside ourselves a bit to give something of myself to another,” Pope Francis told hundreds of communication professionals Saturday, speaking spontaneously after setting aside his prepared remarks at the Vatican’s Jubilee of Communication.

“In my hands, I have a nine-page speech,” the pope said with a smile to participants gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. He announced to an applauding audience that he would have this document distributed but only speak briefly, given the hour and the fact that everyone was hungry.

“To know how to communicate is a great wisdom, and I am happy that this jubilee of communicators is taking place. Your work is one that builds. It builds society and it builds the Church,” the pope said, provided journalists are truthful and “real” in their interior life.

The Jan. 25 encounter with communicators was one of several Saturday jubilee audiences of 2025, following a first meetingwith pilgrims.

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tonychanyt said:

Synoptic gospels mean Mk, Mt, and Lk.

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Thanks, Tony! My mistake!

Well he is in now.

HARK! said:

Through its oversight and investigations, the Select Subcommittee found numerous instances of the federal government being weaponized against the American people. For example, the Select Subcommittee: :

• Highlighted censorship by Big Tech that led to Mark Zuckerberg admitting Facebook was pressured by the Biden-Harris White House to censor Americans.

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Zuckerberg is lying to get in Trump's favor. There was no censorship, as we've already established.

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• Empowered whistleblowers to come forward and have their voices heard despite retaliation by the Department of Justice and the FBI.

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There was no retaliation.

HARK! said:

• Protected the First Amendment, leading to the dissolution of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and other organizations that worked to censor Americans' speech.

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Except nobody's speech was censored. There are no examples of censorship by the Biden administration.

HARK! said:

• Revealed the weaponization of federal law enforcement against the American people, leading to important policy changes from the Department of Justice and IRS.

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Pretty vague claim. Was anybody killed or injured by these "weapons"?

HARK! said:

• Uncovered evidence that the Biden campaign coordinated with 51 former intelligence officials to interfere in the American electoral system weeks before the 2020 presidential election by signing the statement calling Hunter Biden's laptop disinformation.

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There is no such evidence, because they signed no such statement calling Hunter Biden's laptop disinformation.

Praise & Thank The Heavenly Father for freeing Israeli hostages Daniela Gilboa, Liri Elbag, Naama Levy & Karina Ariev who have returned to Israel: