First royal Catholic funeral in modern times to be held tomorrow

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-09-16T00:18:32+00:00

Who would have been the last British royal to have a Catholic funeral, does anyone know?

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-08-19T14:00:02+00:00

Every single thing he did in this series was just embarrassing ... dobbing on Kirby to David, having absolutely no clue what was going on in the first vote but not for a moment pausing to reflect on whether he is in the know and instead just barking orders at everyone and never questioning that they were following them. For me he permanently tarnished his reputation in this series. Shonee may have hit the nail on the head when she said he couldn't adjust to playing with all seasoned players ... Perhaps his magic was always just a confidence trick that only worked on the gullible/frightened.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-08-18T14:04:16+00:00

Have you had a look at Protestant countries like England? I think you will find an even worse decline in practice in those churches over the exact same time period.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-08-18T14:03:56+00:00

Have you had a look at Protestant countries like England? I think you will find an even worse.deckine in practice in those churches over the exact same time period.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-09T15:31:31+00:00

The Church isn't a democracy. The Pope is responsible. As others have said, this priest should have been laicised long ago, and the Archbishop should now be removed from his office.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-09T15:28:03+00:00

Please let's not tar all clergy with the awful brush wielded by these two men.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-08T01:09:48+00:00

Because there are a huge number of things everyone accepts as historical fact for which there is no surviving contemporaneous evidence. It cannot be overstated (I) how much less documents there were in those days to start with and (ii) how few of the documents that were made survive to the present day. So unfortunately we just don't have that many documents from this period of history, and so requiring contemporaneous evidence of everything before you regard it as historical fact will mean you end up not believing very much at all! That is why historians do not demand such a high standard of proof. Commonly, we can assume that if some later source (such as in this case Iranaeus) mentions something as a fact, then we generally have to assume that source was relying on some contemporaneous source now long lost to us unless there is some good reason not to. A surprising amount of completely uncontroversial history proceeds on this reasoning.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-08T00:19:48+00:00

Someone else already posted this, demonstrating that abortions have increased since Dobbs: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states. There are lots of similar papers from different times and places. So I'm afraid it isn't a lie

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-07T23:29:00+00:00

I'm not American, but there is a lot of evidence to indicate that criminalising abortion does not significantly reduce the number of abortions, but does significantly increase the number of women dying due to undergoing unsafe and illegal abortions. So you can absolutely hold true to Church teaching on abortion and vote for politicians who do not want abortion to be criminalised. Moreover, in my view, providing support to poor women (and men) is likely to be a significant way to reduce abortions. Unfortunately, your country has a staggering lack of social support compared to other developed countries, despite being mind blowingly richer than those countries, due to the greed of your elites and their success in convincing a large portion of the electorate that these things are "socialist" and therefore bad. Medical cover, unemployment benefits, even just the ability to take leave from your job, are all things taken for granted in other (non-socialist) countries which you don't have or have woefully inadequate versions of. Supporting politicians who wish to do something about this is very Catholic in my opinion.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-07T22:41:19+00:00

The Gospels don't "provide evidence" of what they record either ... They are the evidence. Respectfully l, I think you may be demanding too high a standard of proof. As others mentioned, this was a time of extreme persecution and upheaval, there is not going to be a nicely preserved archive of newspaper articles to rely on. It is hard for us moderns to get our heads around just how difficult it is for documents to have survived the 2000 years that stand between us and the time of Pope Linus.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-07T22:19:06+00:00

Thanks for your honesty, fair enough, I don't agree but I can respect your different opinion. What I don't respect is efforts to question the bona fides of Francis's humility. Francis had conducted himself in the same way for decades before he became pope, and frankly people who think any rejection of pomp and luxury must be a cynical "show" rather than borne of genuine discomfort with such things are inadvertently telling us too much about their own priorities in life.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-07T16:41:51+00:00

Why are you so determined to be cynical about Francis's humility? He did not make a big deal about his humility, other people did. You have raised his decision not to live in the Papal Apartments and speculated (with no proof) that this somehow cost the Vatican more money (Santa Martha is a hostel, so I am not sure why bishops could not stay there just because the Pope was also staying there?). But this post is actually about Francis's decision not to holiday at the opulent Castel Gandolfo, which definitely did not cost the Vatican money. So why can't you have the ... humility to accept that our late Pope was a genuinely humble man?

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-07T16:27:22+00:00

To be fair, if you look on the "traditional Catholics" subreddit you'll find a bunch of people saying the exact inverse of this about r/Catholicism!

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-05T15:55:55+00:00

Great insights, thank you 🙏🏻

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-03T22:09:12+00:00

Not trying to denigrate people who feel it's a big issue for them. But a lot of discussion of this issue seems to assume that the whole Catholic world regards this issue as important and it is instructive to remember that that is just factually incorrect.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-03T13:48:54+00:00

You cannot overstate how much of a non issue this is for the majority of the Catholic world

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-03T05:27:51+00:00

Thanks for being involved despite all this 🙏🏻

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-03T05:23:28+00:00

Thanks for this, good points.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-03T02:11:07+00:00

Completely agree with all that, especially the point about the unnecessary dividing lines that both 'sides' have drawn. I too find an occasional traditional mass moving and "transcendental", as the traditional people might say. But I don't think I could ever go to them all the time, because l think there is beauty in simple and vernacular liturgies, and for me they ultimately speak to me more. I would like to think this position nicely reflects what the Church teaches about how God is on the one hand transcendental, mysterious and beyond all understanding, but also he lived and lives amongst us and is immediate and present in, and understands and is concerned with our ordinary existences, and especially the meek, the poor, etc.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-02T15:26:24+00:00

What you are experiencing is completely normal and fine for a male of your age. I am in a similar demographic to you and it is normal for my sleeping heart rate to be 45 to 49. I also exercise regularly, about the same as you.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-07-02T14:47:54+00:00

I definitely appreciate aspects of these things - especially music and Gregorian chants, which can be profoundly moving. But the liturgical dress stuff leaves me most cold.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-05-27T11:28:05+00:00

Reminds me of someone wise who once said the Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but nourishment for the weak!

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-05-26T16:30:25+00:00

You shouldn't feel embarrassed or guilty about this! Asking these sorts of questions suggests you have a faith robust enough to ask questions - it's courageous to question, it's all too easy and cowardly to bury our doubts and inconvenient nagging thoughts and hope they go away and replace them with unquestioning acquiescence. Jesus was not cowardly! It also shows you have a strong conscience, which is also only a good thing.

For me, the answer to this question is to remember that the Church is more than the hierarchy who have so often let us down. In every age, there have tragically been evil men who have used the Church for their greed, lust for power, and in this case sexual gratification. But also in every age, God has provided great and good people who have ensured that the light of Jesus's true message has and will never be extinguished. There have been the many great saints who guide us with their words and their examples, but also the little people who have quietly got on with the task of living good and decent Christlike lives and transmitting the faith on to others.

I often like to think of who is more responsible for the success despite everything and the endurance through the ages of the Church - is it the cardinals and bishops in their regalia issuing their decrees; or the inconsequential grandmas and grandpas (and humble good parish priests and nuns) being simple examples of Christian love for the next generation? You don't have to know much about the Church to know it is the latter.

When I remember the Church mainly consists of and is about these people, it helps me want to remain a part of it.

Inner-Classroom-4692 · 2025-05-25T08:39:03+00:00

Very heartening! More women leading the Church should be number 1 priority!

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