Recent content by Spence06

I can't say much about this issue, but its sports fans. They are just rude. I am a big Eagles fan in *American* football, and their games are not the safest place if your from the other team. Eagles fan threw snowballs at Santa at the Vet.

Miss Rowboat, I highly recommend reading something on the Theology of the Body. Christopher West does an excellent job explaining Pope John Paul II's work. So why would premarital sex be immoral? Because premarital sex, loses sight of the real value and importance of sex. Sex is a sign of...

You can tell a tree by its fruits. You would have to see how Fatima and those events affected people and continue to affect. Either they bring people to God or not. If the fruit is bad, then the tree is bad.

Tyndale,I do not wish to saying this scripture deals only with gnostics. I don't believe this is the same case you speak of. However, it does deal with a specific line of thought that is usually associate with fundamental gnostic belief.

Well, we can clearly see that Gnostic belief and heresy continued into "latter" times, even during the councils of Chalcedon, Ephesus and really, Gnostic Christianity as a whole stopped being a real "force" not until the 6th century(According to religioustolerance.org). At those times also...

Well, to my understanding, the most accepted understanding of that passage is the Gnostics. I think that would be most reasonable since St. Paul deals with it in other places also, so it is clear this heresy was a problem in the early Church; Col 2:16-23 - talking about people who order, "Do...

As I understand it and believe, I don't think it does. Remember it was not the fact of eating meat that was sinful, just disobeying the Church. The reason meat was used for so many years, is that meat was the most important and most treasured usually part of people's normal meals. It was the...

No, it is not a joyous event to cause us to make us "feel" happy or better. We are not to leave the Church and jump around town with the cross on our foreheads, for other men to see. It is a remembrance of our mortality and our humanity. Lent starting yesterday, is a time for a recollection to...

Of course we will not read our bibles in heaven. Just as there are no sacraments in heaven. There will be no sacramentals(the bible is one of them), in heaven.

Unwilling to be able to be humble enough to submit yourself to the Church to glory God, in such things as not eating meat on Fridays, if declared something that is binding to all the faithful, would be direct disobedience. It is not that eating meat was a sin, it was that disobedience to the...

In the case of illness or a situation like this, the priest is supposed to do whatever he is able to physically do. I would say, a bad mental picture to have is to have God sitting high above watching the priest's every move with the GIRM in hand in this situation. The next step of course, is...

Woody, Never ever would the Catholic Church come out and recommend celibacy for everyone, that would simply go against all of Catholic teaching and is just insane, to put it bluntly. There are different vocations in life, some are called to marry others are not, it is in discernment that we...

Tyndale, I looked through the Greek Lexicon, its a neutral word that has no negative meaning, I really have no idea where your coming from this. The definition of this preposition is; through of place with in of time throughout during of means by by the means of through the...

I have scanned through and done my own search on Dia, and it appears to have no basis on a negative sense. As St. Paul uses it; I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it. 1 Cor 9:23 IMO, not very negative. For the 1 Timothy 4 passage, is stating...

I believe, from scripture, especially the passage from Matthew when Christ himself, tells those that are able and called to renounce marriage in this life for the sake of the kingdom, ought to do so, I believe that is a good thing if God himself thinks it is a good thing. You are saying when you...