Altar Girls? Yea or Nay?

[mourningdove~]

How does one know how conservative their diocese is?

A diocese?
By the activities the local Bishop allows to occur within his diocese; by the things the Bishop stresses as important.

As the Bishop is, so does the diocese largely appear to go.
(Least that has been my experience.)

 

[RileyG]

How does one know how conservative their diocese is?

I guess look at statements from the bishop and see how church practices are implemented?

 

[RileyG]

A diocese?
By the activities the local Bishop allows to occur within his diocese; by the things the Bishop stresses as important.

As the Bishop is, so does the diocese largely appear to go.
(Least that has been my experience.)

Yup. No altar girls here, all religious sisters and nuns wear habits, no blessing of same sex relationships, and vocations to the priesthood and religious life are booming.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

A Libertarian is a Republican that want to get high and have sex without having to explain it to an Evangelical.

Let's tell Merriam-Webster that one.

Temperamentally I’m a Social Democrat. As a matter politics I’m DFL

I am currently indeterminate.

And a lot of it is none of your business in someone else.

Agreed

The Greeks, the Hebrews, the Christians, the Philosophers, the mystics, the Muslims, the reformation, the enlightenment, age of reason and now we’ve gotten to God is dead.

are we ready for the next iteration?

I am trying to catch up on all that. I am about in 1980. The new periodical should bring me up to date though it looks quite conservative for me. It will help me balance all the liberal and process stuff I have been reading. I am some kind of Process Non-dualist at the moment.

So that would make me a "Yea" for the OP. But I am a fence sitter, a flip flopper.

 

[boughtwithaprice]

Of course she has free will and choice. We all do. But it sounds like you think women should choose to stay at home.

Only if they want children. The greatest woman that I admire and my daughter’s confirmation saint is St Rose of Lima. Look at her life. She is amazing.

She worked outside the home to support her family and remained a saint. She tried to become a nun, but Our Lady prevented her. Many men wanted to marry her, but she refused. She remained a third order Dominican.

First order is the priesthood or deaconate, they are ordained. Second order are consecrated Christian brothers and sisters, they take vows of poverty chastity and obedience, they do not take secular jobs. Third order are religious laity, that take secular jobs but still endeavor to live a consecrated life

Rose of Lima had a secular career and lived a life dedicated to God. There is no conflict

What I object to is women who think men should bow to their careers and still marry them. That is not what marriage is about. Marriage is being subject to the husband and raising children. A woman’s career undermines both. A career woman neglects her children, although she does not believe it is intentional. A career woman also treats her husband with contempt instead of the service his office is due.

A working mother denies her calling to be a woman and is as one that serves two masters. She will love one and hate the other. No one serves two masters

 

[boughtwithaprice]

Aren't I the Devil's Advocate?

Actually this has got me pondering:

"A third and final area of concentration should be the self-invention culture, which is directly repugnant to a Christian view of reality. The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, in its most radical form, is now the default position of practically every young person in the West. I mean, of course, the view that there is no objective truth, goodness, or beauty, and that one, accordingly, has the right and privilege of choosing one’s own values as one sees fit: “Existence precedes essence.” The Cartesian turn toward the subject, expressed in his famous Cogito ergo sum, has been radicalized beyond anything Descartes himself or even his most energetic epigones could have imagined—and it is causing a profound dissolution in the psyches of young people and wreaking real havoc in our society. The Casey decision of the US Supreme Court gives a stunning expression to this perspective—namely, that the range and power of personal liberty are so great that freedom itself determines “one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, of the mystery of human life.” Today, of course, this comes to the fore in regard even to gender. There is an infinite variety of genders precisely because there are unlimited options for the free and self-determining will."

The New Ressourcement

You might want to get some biodegradable pesticides, my brother. Theology is complicated stuff, and is probably the reason why I downloaded some open-access theology books from several denominations onto my computer for artificial intelligence to decipher, cos sometimes it is nice to talk with...

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I think I might be becoming a "Nay"

Descartes could be the subject of another thread
His rationalism could be a fascinating look into departure from us a children of God to scientific materialism

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Descartes could be the subject of another thread
His rationalism could be a fascinating look into departure from us a children of God to scientific materialism

And I think he was a devout Catholic. If you have the wherewith all, I would appreciate such a thread.