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Another poster once asked: What if Jesus comes tomorrow and it turns out these scriptures mean exactly as they read? I agree. What if John 6 means exactly what it says? What if Matthew 16:18-20 means exactly what it says, and makes Peter the head of the apostles, and thus the entire Church...

To put it very simply, we've all been quarantined because of government regulations, and our churches and the sacraments are denied to us. So, as you watch Mass on TV or on line, I wonder how you worship? What I mean is, do you adopt the postures as you would if you're actually there? Do you...

Especially for @Tone You quoted Romans "For who has known the mind of God...", and I will answer you. Jesus knew the mind of God, knew that He wanted Jesus to start A (one) Church. Jesus did so, and even before He did so, people began fragmenting away (read John 6). We believe our bishops...

Trump calls lots of white men dogs, too: https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/15/19-times-trump-dog-omarosa/

My mother called me on Sunday asking if I had watched the Royal Wedding. I had not, it was on too early on the West Coast, so no, I didn't. She praised the black Episcopalian bishop, saying he had given what-for to them royals, preaching love and the Ten Commandments at them. So I found a...

The “scientific consensus” on “climate change” isn’t a real consensus, and even if it were, so what? In the 1930s, all respectable economists agreed that capitalism was dead, and that the future lay with “planned economies” and technocratic leadership of the kind thought to be working miracles...

Bishops urge calls for DACA protections What I don't know is, what do the USCCB want us to ask Congress to do? Congress has already been asked to enact laws to protect DACA 'kids', but Democrats don't seem to really want to.

So many people hate what the President "stands for" or what he says, or just have a general bias. I want to know what President Trump's policies have done to hurt you, personally, or help you, personally. Concrete things: For example "I got a bonus from my company directly attributable to...

I see that most of the books in this section are faith oriented, and I usually stick to those as well. But I have read a new book on Kindle about the politics in the Vatican at the current time. The book is critical of Pope Francis, but that's not where I feel the focus lies. Politics, as we...

The money used, according to the book "Dictator Pope", was from the Peter's Pence fund, which is contributed to by every parish in the world. If this is true, is it a misuse of this fund? Does it constitute an attempt to influence the politics of the United States, as Russia is being accused...

Friends, I want to be clear that I am not a sedevacantist, or someone who considers this pope, or any validly elected pope, to be false. The reason I bring up this book is to highlight what's going on in the curia, as much as what is being allowed by the person of the pope. It's the politics in...

When people celebrate their birthday, invariably, we give them gifts. Or we offer them something to help them commemorate that special day. So why is it that, on Christmas, we give other people gifts, or receive gifts, ourselves? The question is, whose birthday is it? (Regardless of the actual...

This also proves that context means a lot... I believe that Revelation was written in the 60s during the reign of Nero. In fact, the Syriac version of the Apocalypse even says "written in Patmos, to which John was sent by Nero Caesar." Clement tells us that it was written while John was on the...

What It Means to Be Catholic: The Past, the Present, and the Future What does “Catholic” really mean? In order to answer that question, to the benefit of Catholic and non-Catholic alike, I’d like to examine the core distinguishing elements of catholicity. I hope to reveal the inner logic of...

Has anyone asked the donee?

While I am not a believer in AGW, I believe that climate cools and warms naturally. And I know that those of you who think Global Warming will have catastrophic results believe that sea level is going to rise because of the phenomenon of Global Warming. So...I want to ask why it is that nobody...

Protestants know the personal presence of Jesus, because they recognize Him as their personal Lord and Savior (a liturgical formula, by the way). But there is only one place where He is always completely present, and every Christian in the world knew it until the Protestant Reformation: in the...

The myth of the Crusades, to sum it up, is that "During the Crusades, an expansionist, imperialist Christendom, directed by the Pope, brutalized, looted and colonized a tolerant, and peaceful Islam." In recent years, these claims have been utterly refuted by distinguished historians. They...

Why is it common knowledge that the Dark Ages was all that dark? It has long been received wisdom that following the collapse of Rome, Europe slumbered through a millenium of ignorance that came to be known as the Dark Ages. Historian JB Bury noted that when Emperor Constantine adopted...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more/ Please feel free to discuss!