Downers Grove?
And they wear habits!
From all of the details about the various cases brought against him, it seems he primarily went after adolescents (who are of course still legally minors), in addition to adults, and that in turn suggests that he does not meet the psychiatric diagnosis for pedophilia. It doesn't change the horror of what he did. He's still an unrepentant monster either way.
Problems in Protestant churches don't make headlines, and they're no less bad.
McCarrick is not a pedophile. He is a predatory homosexual who commanded a network of men just like himself which enabled many things to happen which should not have. I personally think anything in the Church he touched should be examined closely because he so obviously was a cancer that was festered for years. The Chicom deal was pushed by him. I think it should be thrown out entirely.
Ahh someone finally did it 🤣
Clinton on blast, oooh.
Priests are called "father" in virtue of their spiritual fatherhood of the people they shepherd. St. Paul himself refers to "our father Isaac" as he denotes the spiritual fatherhood of Isaac to the Jewish people. St. Paul describes himself in 1st Corinthians by saying "For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the Gospel." That is the nature of the spiritual fatherhood of priests. In the passage you quote, Jesus is referring not only to those who claim fatherhood, but also mastery, meaning that they seek to stand in the place of God in the spiritual lives of others. Priests exercise their spiritual fatherhood by virtue of fulfilling Christ's command to make disciples of all nations, baptize, and teach the Gospel, just as St. Paul did.
There is absolutely Biblical support for devotion to Mary and asking her to pray for us. Jesus himself on the Cross said to St. John, the beloved disciple who stands in place of all future disciples to approach the Cross, "Behold your mother." Jesus' last act before breathing his last breath was to give his mother to be a mother to all Christians. Mary is the perfect example of what it means to be faithful to God's word ("Let it be done unto me according to your word") and to follow Jesus Christ, her Son. Everything about Mary directs to her Son. Her last words in Scripture are the perfect instruction for those who seek to live a Christian life: "Do whatever he tells you."
In the Old Testament, Mary is prefigured in the mother of the Israelite kings. As the king had many concubines, the queen of Israel was the Queen Mother. If anyone wanted to beg a favor of the king, they would petition his mother to present their needs to him. Asking Mary to pray for us is no different than asking your earthly mother to do so, but we are also asking the mother of the King of Kings to present our needs to her Divine Son. As Christians, we are united through the bond of the love of God to those who have gone to heaven before us. Those people in heaven--the saints--continue to love those of us on earth, and pray for us before the throne of God as they adore Him forever. It is the love we share in Christ that unites us. We can never be afraid of loving Mary more than Jesus does.
You absolutely can lose your salvation. God has given us free will, freedom to even reject what he has done for us in Christ's sacrifice, We are saved in the waters of baptism by virtue of Christ's sacrifice for our sins, but we have to cooperate with God's grace in our lives and strive to live according to God's will. It is not a passive thing on our part. We can refuse to live according to God's will and reject God, which is to sin. What do you think Judas, who lived and walked and was taught by Christ himself did? He betrayed Christ, betrayed the Savior of the world, his friend, and killed himself rather than seek forgiveness. We are called to be perfect, as our heavenly Father is perfect. We cannot live and die in unrepentant sin and expect to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Celibacy for the sake of the kingdom in the Church has been around since St. Paul wrote about it. Jesus himself was both chaste and celibate. It is done by priests today to both conform themselves more closely to live as Christ lived and as a visible sign of their participation in the mystical union between Christ, the Bridegroom, and the Church, the Bride. Priests marrying will not solve immorality problems. I've seen multiple Baptist church congregations be completely destroyed when their "pastor" announced he had an affair or was divorcing his wife to marry someone else, in addition to a congregation that was torn in half because people didn't like the young pastor's girlfriend acting like she was his wife already. It's a form of spiritual abuse when things like that happen.
Fren, I am here for it too 🤣
In the time since papal infallibility has been formally defined (the definition of the concept of the dogma itself is a specific formal act that was done at a particular time by the pope), papal infallibility has only ever been invoked by a pope twice. It has always been understood to exist in the Church, but since it was formally defined as a dogma of the Church during the 1st Vatican Council, it has only happened twice in history that a pope stated that he was teaching ex cathedra ("from the chair,") on a matter of faith and morals (a condition for papal infallibility to exist), to be held by the whole church (also a condition for papal infallibility to exist), thereby invoking papal infallibility as he did so. This is what it means to say it has only been "done" ie; invoked, twice since the formally declared definition of its existence. The actual text of the decree from the pope concerning the matter for which he would be invoking papal infallibility also has to formally state that he is doing so.
The pope solely as a human being is not infallible. The Pope acting and speaking in virtue of the divinely instituted office of the Successor of St. Peter, declaring something that regards a matter of faith and morals ex cathedra, does so infallibly, by virtue of the office as Vicar of Christ, Successor of Peter, and the promises of Christ himself of the protection of the Holy Spirit and that the Church itself will never fall away from the truth of the faith. As I said before, this has only ever been done twice in history since papal infallibility has been declared. The concept of papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals has always been understood to exist in the Church, even as the understanding of it has developed and eventually been declared under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. *A particular pope saying something in an interview is NOT the pope acting infallibly or speaking ex cathedra. *
That is not what the Church teaches nor has ever taught regarding papal infallibility. Papal infallibility has only ever been invoked twice in all of history since it has been declared.
prayer and reparation fren
No, it's not comfortable, but it is a fact of history to be learned from.
I don't hate the pope. There have been absolutely despicable popes before this one, and history will see the end of him too, and he will pass on to his eternal reward. I should add that I think his muddying the waters in his manner of speaking and who he choses to surround himself with have done inestimable damage to many people's perception of his office. I'm reminded of the saying that there is no worse chastisement from God than bad priests and well, this time it seems to go all the way to the top. And should we really be surprised, the lines for confession are short and the lines for communion are long, and statistically barely a quarter of the people who call themselves Catholic believe the fullness of what the Church teaches. Christ's Body is being scourged and crowned with thorns again, and faithful Catholics can feel it.
Edit: "I know by experience that the greatest punishment that can befall a people is a bad priest." -St. Anthony Mary Claret
I've heard something like this before. Foreign workers hired by these huge tech companies don't come with the same attitude as US citizens towards censorship, and would have no moral qualms about participating in it. Americans by our culture abhor intrusions on freedom of any kind, including of speech, and are less likely to go along with enabling the censorship, causing a "problem" for the companies' agenda. I think Facebook had an issue with their people doing "content moderation" or something basically getting red-pilled last election and agreeing with the content they were supposed to be "moderating" and quitting.
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Beautiful house, great windows and color (and porch that everyone in the comments likes 😂)
Said a prayer for you just now. So sorry for your loss.
The Cook County swamp rivals the one in DC
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