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I prefer the Extraordinary Form (old Latin Mass), but the closest one to me is an hour away and it's usually not within our budget for me to attend more than every couple months. I'm lucky though, because my home parish also offers a very reverent and very traditionally-style Ordinary Form Mass...

I'll buy that. I recognize him from his avatar. I'm pretty sure he even said "I aim to misbehave". ;)

I laughed, but there have been enough lawsuits over hauntings and demonic or unexplained phenomena that there are legal precedents (Stambovsky v. Ackley is the famous one)and responsibilities to disclose in several states. It was a whole section in one of the classes I took as a real estate...

Makes sense. This actually came up when I was in RCIA, as part of a short discussion about the different Catholic Rites and a short explanation of the difference between Eastern Catholics and Orthodox. The way my pastor put it is "We (Catholics) would allow the Orthodox to commune with us, but...

I was paying $40 a month for unlimited calls, text, and data with my smartphone + $10 for my husband to have unlimited calls and text with a regular phone (this was several years ago though, so prices may have risen). Now, we pay around $75 a month for digital phone and internet plus a total...

But, for those things, you're still looking at the cost of an internet plan, phone or VOIP line, and digital camera to do all the things people do with their smartphones. Computers also become obsolete and/or need upgrading increasingly quickly. Evidently, the phone works for what he needs it...

I sometimes listen to the local Christian radio station (which is affiliated with the Billy Graham Association),which is usually teachers and preachers like Charles Stanley, James MacDonald, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll, Greg Laurie, John MacArthur, & Alastair Begg. I'm more of a...

I have a regular (non-smart_ phone because I couldn't afford an expensive phone or the data plan to go with it anymore. It annoys some of my friends to no end because I will turn it off or leave it in the car and am not reachable by text message 24/7. The biggest annoyance that I've had over it...

It's like so many other gun control schemes - Something to raise prices even further and help keep guns out of the hand of the poor, while doing so in a way that such class and income discrimination is applauded by liberals.

This is the truth. Also, the grape juice in Old Testament times was not pasteurized like modern grape juice. This is where the saying about not putting new wine into old wineskins comes from - the new wine (fresh grape juice) stretches the wineskin as it ferments into more alcoholic wine...

It's a perfectly reasonable response on the internet. It might come across as cold, but a very common tactic online and in real life is to derail a situation and try to passive-agressively bully one's opponent into shutting up or backing down by claiming that one's feelings are hurt. In other...

I was raised in a fundamentalist church that had a lot of problems and know many others with similar bad experiences in other fundamentalist churches and groups, so I am very wary of them. I think that fundamentalism can very easily fall prey to legalism and reactionary stands on modern events...

I'm not a fan. When I first heard of the idea, it sounded interesting, then I fond out it was en vogue with men who looked down on marriage and were using it as a way to keep from having to pay alimony and to try to ensure that they could leave the wife with nothing if they ever broke up in the...

You could try the EF mass or Byzantine parish if you think you'd be comfortable at either one. I don't know about your area in particular, but I have friends who are Byzantine Catholics in both NC & TX despite not being part of ethnic groups usually associated with the East and they seem to have...

Thanks everyone for your replies. I am glad to see that most people do hold hope that God can work in ways we don't understand to save people who might appear to be be beyond reach, and also that people don't accept universalism (the idea that all are saved in the end or there is nobody in...

Do we stop there? What about atheists and agnostics who live good lives and try to donate to charity and follow their morals and serve the truth as they see it (could that be their image of God)? What about Wiccans and pagans and people who worship many Gods and nature (or do we see it as...

I'm interested in the view of the majority here. From what I've gathered, it seems like the consensus is that everyone who lives a good life and tries to be good has a chance at heaven. It's been proclaimed on these threads that this included Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims, and I would...

Use the CCC as a starting point, then look for the papal documents and teachings it references. The Catechism is correct, but not infalliable, but some of the documents it references are, if they were issued ex cathedra. Go to the more detailed source for a fuller explanation. The use of the...

Not just truly ignorant, but invincibly ignorant. Meaning ignorant through no fault of their own. Someone who has the means to know better and chooses to be ignorant through laziness or malice (not bothering to learn more about their own faith or to consider the teachings of the Church because...

Holy water is holy because it has been blessed by a priest. The reason only a priest can do it is because he has the authority of the Church, passed on at his ordination and through apostolic succession, to bless holy water and other sacramentals (sacramentals are blessed items meant to be used...