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C'mon stone and pdudgeon. Middle Eastern and American politics are so petty in the grand scheme of things. God once destroyed the entire human race in the Deluge with the exception of one just man and his family. Israel's existence and its politics simply doesn't register on the...

Liberasit, buy the Lidl kilts and sew coppers into the pleats. :) It won't be a 8 yarder woolen tank, but it will give it a bit of a swing and a more attractive hang.

It is both. Catholic prayer to Our Ladyis generally expressed in two ways: veneration and petition. Look at the Hail Mary as an example. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother God, pray...

Except there is a stark difference between suicide and sacrifice. Before you go canonising this poor woman, I strongly urge you to refrain from making any comparison between her suicide and the Passion and Death of our most holy Redeemer. Yours in Jesus and Mary, Mary's Bhoy.

Well, as I said, papal infallibility has nothing to do with excommunications. If you want a serious understanding of papal infallibility, then read Dom Guéranger's The Papal Monarchy. It can be found here. Yours in Jesus and Mary, Mary's Bhoy.

Excommunication doesn't mean automatic damnation. It is an ecclesiastical penalty that certain authorities have the right to execute. All it means is that a person is refused communion with the Church and that they are forbidden to access the Sacraments. If an excommunicated man dies alone in...

The bishop has authority to excommunicate the faithful that are a part of his diocese. So say this Italian bishop did formally excommunicate those that attend the Society Masses in his diocese, it wouldn't have any effect whatsoever in the diocese next door to his. In fact the faithful could...

The PCED is usually the office people turn to for this answer. Their response has been rather schizophrenic to say the least. It's a murky issue, but I think that it can be answered on a case-by-case basis. The other week I went to my first SSPX Mass. I hadn't been to my traditional Mass in...

Nor does your denial of my statements constitute and adequate rebuttal of what I have said. You're doing exactly what you just condemned me for. No matter how much you repeat it, it doesn't make it true. Suicide is not glamorous. Now you just said I was wrong on all counts. Are you saying...

Yes, there is. It is a cowardly act, and it is easy. It's so much easier just to finish things on your "own terms" than accept suffering as a part of life and unite your sufferings to Christ and His Passion. I'm sorry but I'm not going to sit by and glamourise suicide. The media's been doing...

How incredibly sad and disheartening. I will pray for her, and may the Lord have mercy upon her soul. God willing she was given the grace to see the error of her ways at the end. This event will cause untold damage to the lives of many who look to her as a model to aspire too. The culture of...

I'm a Catholic, simple, black and white Catholic, and I stand by the Magisterium. I believe that the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is a superior expression of the Church's liturgy over that of the Ordinary Form. I believe that without a revival of the Divine Office in the life of...

And I would like your help! I have already chosen my preferred tartan, but because my paternal lineage is Irish, which I am very proud of, it may make getting my kilt difficult. And I'm wearing it at my wedding, so we'll want to get this right! In case I can't get my preferred tartan I...

He likely did say it. I don't understand the problem, though. He's voiced a concern about the pope's handling of the Church, he's voiced the concern of many of the faithful, myself amongst them. Whenever will Catholics abandon their extreme ultramontanist clericalism? Popes can be...

Athanasius Contra Mundum. Once the whole world groaned and awoke to find itself Arian, Fantine. And we all saw how that turned out. :) Yours in Jesus and Mary, Mary's Bhoy.

“Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.” He did not categorically state anything as scientific fact. He stated that a certain scientific theory is not incompatible with the Christian faith. He...

The abominable schisms of Luther and his cohorts that created a breeding ground for the multiple Protestant heresies we witness today in contradiction to the orthodox Christian faith that preceded them by 1500 years. False. First off, the Protestants did not reform any practises in...

As has already been said, the Pope did not state that any evolutionary model is absolute fact. He didn't even say the Big Bang is an absolute historical fact. He said that there are models that are not inconsistent with the Christian faith, which is absolutely true. I reject Darwinian...

But at the same time a few historical realities must be kept in mind. Catholicism was always the religion of the privileged upper classes. I don't doubt for a moment that millions of simple and poor Latin Americans were extraordinarily devout, but the Catholicism that grew up in the lower...

The problem is not so much that Catholicism does not demand as much of a person, though in modern practise that is true, but rather it is because Catholicism in Latin America is an extraordinarily shallow creature. Our missionising efforts in the continent were abysmally disgraceful and...