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What's more annoying is the fact that some Protestant leaders expect the Pope and the bishops to celebrate it as well.. Some Catholics wouldn't mind either..

I've read both The Rite and Hostage to the Devil. I preferred the theological approaches in Hostage to the Devil but could have done without the.. graphic.. descriptions. I understand that it truly is like that, but as I say, I could have done without it. The Rite was interesting with how...

I've not read any replies so I'm sure someone has already laid it out for you but if not hopefully it helps. Your friend fails here when he states that sin is a temporal crime. It is not. Sin at its heart is something which offends God. God is infinite in every sense of the word. His...

Et apparuit Simoni, alleluia!

Absolutism is a later development and was condemned by the Church.

Well Mrs Rice, two can play at this game.. Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!

Deo gratias!

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus does exactly what it says on the tin. There is absolutely no salvation outside of the Catholic Church. This is the dogmatic teaching of the Church from day one. It is found in the Scriptures, the writings of the Saints, the Popes and the documents from various...

There's no denying the KJV's importance in the English language.. but seeing as at the time, and for the greater part after that time, Latin was the language to know, Jerome still comes out on top :D.

Yes as Original Sin is a matter of the deposit of the faith and is dependant on Adam being a real man.

I was reading his Compendium of Theology the other week, his writings on the Trinity.. it was the first time I ever properly understood the Trinity in as much as we humans can. I actually understood what the Divine Persons are. Like I said.. deo gratias!

I am a Catholic because God wants me to be Catholic because He is Catholic.

Thank God for Saint Thomas Aquinas..

Exactly.

Christ could have sinned as easily as nine (9) can be divided by zero (0).

Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with Rome of course.

I've been praying all fifteen mysteries a day but I'm still using a rosary chaplet for my prayers because I decided to take Saint Louis de Montfort's advice and spread the rosary out during the day. Joyful in the morning, Sorrowful in the Afternoon and Glorious in the evening. Now I'm after...

We need good priests not those who are disobedient to their lawful superiors and insulting to the local ordinaries of the diocese in which they invade. The SSPX are no different from the "spirit of Vatican II" crowd. That they call themselves "traditionalist" is hilarious.

They were just beans.. I never thought to check. I never knew they could be used in the manner you describe :P.

I broke my fast after noon today with a few slices of toast and some beans. Had a lovely dinner of battered-fish, mash potato and sweet corn, and had a few slices of toast in the evening after Mass. This will be my template for all the days of Lent (with the fish on days on which I abstain...