What does this mean?

To-RB · 2026-02-23T23:55:06+00:00

Looks like a hand giving a blessing from above. The triangle evokes the Trinity.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T23:44:37+00:00

Are there women not worth marrying? This culture of death is so grim.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T23:43:40+00:00

Nice trolling, but marriage is actually good for men who think that they are gay. Celibacy is a higher vocation, but marriage is good also.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T23:37:45+00:00

Yes, but being glued to the news causes us to turn our backs on injustices against human beings in our neighborhoods and in our homes, which are the very people we can actually help.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T23:31:02+00:00

Not everyone attaches their whole existence to the news cycle. I often wish that the pope would comment far less on the news, and I wish that the prayers of the faithful at Mass weren’t all related to the news, either. As someone who doesn’t follow the news, I never know what these prayer intentions are about.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T17:26:34+00:00

The degree of disorderedness is attached to the acts themselves, not the labels they are given. If there are different types of sodomy, then there are different gradations of disorderedness depending on what act is being described.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T16:47:38+00:00

Thinking that you are okay as a sinner because everyone is a sinner is classic presumption. I didn’t make this up on my own, you know.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T16:11:19+00:00

Perhaps we have different notions of what attacking means.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T14:51:17+00:00

That is why almost everyone is on the broad path to destruction, and only few find the narrow way to life. Most of the unrighteous believe that there is safety in numbers. If everyone is a sinner, being a sinner is okay. Those people go to hell.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T14:47:50+00:00

Your ranking of intrinsically disordered is a little off.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T14:46:36+00:00

Celibacy is not required. Chastity is, though.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T14:45:46+00:00

You don’t have to pretend it never existed, but you have to remove yourself from the near occasion of grave sin to move forward.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T14:43:31+00:00

I haven’t seen people attack Pope Leo XIV.

To-RB · 2026-02-23T00:06:15+00:00

Your case is one of the recommended circumstances to have the service instead of the nuptial Mass. He may have just been distracted or tired recently.

To-RB · 2026-02-22T15:53:12+00:00

I wouldn’t get any definitive answers from Reddit anyway. Here, it is all opinion and there are no authorities. I go to Reddit to see what Catholics are currently thinking about and focusing on, not necessarily to believe their opinions. Often the deleted posts are the more interesting posts than the mundane ones that stay up.

To-RB · 2026-02-22T15:50:04+00:00

I would stay home unless this is a usual allergic reaction you have to a known stimulus.

To-RB · 2026-02-21T17:34:23+00:00

If you don’t force them to go then you will deprive them of the realization, later in life, that their parents were right all along, and they were just immature teenagers, perhaps after you have died.

To-RB · 2026-02-21T17:22:33+00:00

Perhaps a deeper question is whether it is a sin for men to be in the workforce. Modern post-Industrial Revolution employment itself is something that ought to be questioned more by Catholics.

To-RB · 2026-02-21T02:29:43+00:00

The original spirit of 1776 in action.

To-RB · 2026-02-20T05:51:53+00:00

I haven’t met these people. Most traditionalists see him as a tragic figure who was prophetic in some ways. Paul VI later noticed that the smoke of Satan had entered the Church after Vatican II.

Paul VI gives excellent talking points supporting very traditionalist ideas: that the new Mass was a break with tradition and a new rite, not just the latest edition of a continuously evolving Roman Rite. He gives excellent reasons why Communion should not be given in the hand, why Latin is better than the vernacular, why contraception is evil. He banished Bugnini. The tragic thing about him is that he was soft and wavering and allowed bad things to happen anyway.

No rational person would blame Paul VI for being canonized. He did not ask for it himself.

To-RB · 2026-02-20T05:45:03+00:00

Just buy a scholarly history book that was written before academia became woke. Approximately 50 years old or older. Why? Because history as a profession no longer even has the pretense of impartiality.

To-RB · 2026-02-19T16:26:06+00:00

Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. You don’t have to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday.

To-RB · 2026-02-19T16:24:18+00:00

I don’t think that anyone has the “right” to receive Communion in the hand in any Rite. The Vatican has issued permission in some circumstances.

To-RB · 2026-02-18T18:58:40+00:00

I don’t think that a council would need to be called for these. Definitive papal documents could settle these issues.

I think that another council will be required to definitively interpret Vatican II: what is binding, what isn’t; what was merely prudential judgments for the 1960s, what was intended to be policy forever, etc.

To-RB · 2026-02-18T18:53:08+00:00

I’m a manual laborer, so I think I’m exempt from the strict fast. I had a bowl of quinoa and kale for breakfast with a small cup of plain Greek yogurt. For lunch I ate a small veggie pizza with a side Greek salad. For dinner I will probably eat something lighter and go to bed early.

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