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Who purchased them? Just curious. I haven't trusted LSN for a while and wasn't inclined to start, but I didn't know it could have been linked to someone buying the site. I know at some point it changed from being about the pro-life movement to being something like the cable news of Catholic media.

The way I put it is this: It is conceivable that there are people who are not Catholic and still will be saved by the grace of God. However, they are saved in spite of their error, not because they weren't in error at all. That is one reason why it's so important to pray and work for real unity...

Ask and you shall receive: https://sophiainstituteforteachers.org/curriculum/lesson/six-early-church-fathers-on-confession/print Though Tertullian and Origen aren't saints, their testimony as Fathers is still valuable (and I personally think Origen got the shaft, but that's off-topic)...

A cursory look found quite a few quotes from Church Fathers about the importance of confessing sins, but we can leave this aside, since I sense it's not really important. Never heard this. Infant baptism is biblical and it's been defended by Fathers since Origen. "Confession of desire" is a...

The comment was referring to the bishop's bizarre comment that the "universal Church" favours celebrating ad populum. Almost all of the Eastern Rites celebrate ad orientem, similarly to the Traditional Latin Mass.

He did. Ad Orientem is one of those ways an understanding of the EF can enhance the OF. Abp Sample has said every priest should at least know the Traditional Mass, so that they understand the roots of the OF. That said, rubrics are rubrics. The priest isn't allowed to mix things, though...

I understand whence your reasoning comes. This is as good an opportunity as any to explain the nature of the Church's authority, and how it relates to this. The Church has the apostolic authority granted by Christ to bind and loose (Mt 16:18-19 to Peter and 18:18-19 to the Apostles...

I wasn't meaning to contradict this. I was supplementing that I believe the practice of private confession, as opposed to public confession, seems to have originated with the Irish. I agree that doing penance on another's behalf is, at best, specious, though that's distinct from indulgences...

Generally speaking the modern practice of individual private confession came from the Irish, actually. Not all of the Irish practices made it to the present day—for instance, the Celtic penchant for fines solving everything led to being able to pay people to do penance on your behalf!—but that's...

Then those companies should do the sensible thing and let their employees collect unemployment, instead of garnishing a government stimulus and treating it like solidarity. What we don't know is whether the employees at this firm are still working. If they are, then this is nothing short of...

I guess it depends on your diocese. Mine hasn't suspended Confession, only public Masses and the like. As doors close, windows open. The explosion in streamed Masses is a boon that will pay off for other people who are in homebound situations even after this all ends. I do wonder if there is...

Jesus was also not at risk of death from disease. This strikes me as a rather thorny issue. You don't want your priests getting sick, or becoming carriers of disease, and the one thing we have known for a while about COVID-19 is that it's incredibly communicable. I'm not sure what the best...

Different places are adapting in different ways. My parish is having confessions in side vestibules so you can still have privacy while maintaining adequate distance to avoid infection. I'm thankful that the Church is finding ways to continue being an ever-flowing conduit of Grace even in the...

I think this is a more prudent interpretation. That said, I'm sticking with it; I still have a few more cans of kippers, and thankfully our grocery stores are still open and well-stocked as long as you aren't looking for toilet paper.

One thing we don't know is if this company is shuttered by the current quarantine or if the workers are telecommuting. If they're telecommuting and therefore still working, then the company is simply withholding their just wages, which is wrong. If it's shuttered, then I'm surprised they're...

Wish they'd named the company. People forget this is the fourth sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.

It depends on the person. They may prefer face-to-face interaction to texting. Or they may be busy at the times you're texting. I'd take it as a sign to interact face-to-face more with your friends, guys and girls. Honestly, in my friend group (guys and girls) half the conversation is memes and...

Upon the recommendation (not personal) of PP Benedict and Francis, I read Lord of the World by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson. Though it doesn't seem to be at first, it follows certain aspects of end-times fiction quite well, all without ever using the word "Antichrist." Not to mention its chillingly...

I think that idea I bolded is the core of the whole idea of Baptism of Desire and the controversial "Anonymous Christian" idea put forth by theologians such as Karl Rahner, SJ. At its core it is nothing more than a supposition based on the premise of God's infinite mercy. God is not confined by...

I can't help but point out that none of us were there either at or immediately after Trent. I haven't researched on Trent's impact specifically, but I seriously doubt it was instantly and universally accepted. If that were the case, it would certainly be one of very few councils with that...