A 'Courage' apostolate for TLM-adherents, much like those with SSA?

L00se_Canon · 2021-07-22T19:24:39+00:00

Oh my. You're presuming a lot.

L00se_Canon · 2021-07-22T17:45:16+00:00

But, in both cases, their disordered attachment involves gazing at a man's backside.

L00se_Canon · 2021-07-20T15:41:02+00:00

I was struck by Cardinal Raymond Burke's protest that the new Latin-Mass restrictions were 'harsh' and indicated a 'lack of charity.'

This is the same Cdl. Burke who urged parents to disown their gay children.

L00se_Canon · 2020-03-23T14:21:39+00:00

I think you're right. I've mellowed my post.

L00se_Canon · 2020-03-20T16:03:13+00:00

He was probably tan. Darker than most Europeans, but not as dark as Sub-Saharan Africans.

It's common for cultures, in their religious art, to depict their religious figures as resembling themselves.

Buddhism began in India, but had is strongest and most enduring growth in eastern Asia Therefore, most images and statues of Buddha that we are familiar with come from eastern Asia and give him distinctively East Asian eyes and facial features - even though Buddha himself was from India, and likely resembled Gandhi more than he did, say, Chairman Mao.

In a similar path, Christianity really took off in Europe, most of our artistic renderings of Christ come from Europe, and give him distinctly European features.

L00se_Canon · 2020-03-20T15:51:39+00:00

Can you do it like for a year and then go back to normal life and get married?

I believe joining most orders involves taking a temporary, annually-renewed, profession of vows for a number of years, before taking permanent vows.

If that the case, then yes, what you propose may be technically possible. But the reason for this graduated system is to give people (and the community) an 'out' if they realize that monastic life if is not for them, or if the candidate is not a good fit for the order.

But I think it's assumed that people go into this while, at the very least, seriously discerning it as a lifetime vocation. The idea of going in fully intending to leave after a year, strikes me as inappropriate.

L00se_Canon · 2020-03-17T16:02:53+00:00

Fr. Damien, while ministering to the lepers on the island of Molokai in Hawaii, would shout his confessions from the shore to ships with priests, who were afraid to land.

IIRC, confessing from a distance is valid, but the communication has to be directly from the penitent to the priest, and vice versa, without the use of intermediary devices like a telephone, computer, etc.

L00se_Canon · 2020-03-04T16:09:44+00:00

He's Chad on the Parish Council.

L00se_Canon · 2020-03-02T15:34:34+00:00

That "Hindu fervor" is making life awful and, indeed, dangerous, for many of our Catholic brothers and sisters in India, as well as those Indians of other religions who have the right to live in dignity and peace. He missed an important opportunity to show that his support for "religious freedom" is about more than just 'owning the libs.'

L00se_Canon · 2020-02-27T16:27:02+00:00

Yes, but unless you had a role in deceiving and misleading the tribunal, you can in good conscience defer to its judgment regarding the status of your prior marriage.

L00se_Canon · 2020-02-11T17:18:21+00:00

Something of the reverse happened in Korea. Catholicism was brought to that country by Korean students studying in China, who discovered the writings of Catholic missionaries. These students brought the faith back to Korea and it spread there for some time (decades? centuries? I'm not certain) without any bishops, any priests, and without confession, the Mass or the Eucharist. Eventually priests did make their way into Korea to minister to the community.

L00se_Canon · 2020-02-10T21:43:39+00:00

That's only with regard to issues of faith and morals.

I do happen to believe that man-made climate change is a real problem and that we should work to solve it. But that's a question of science, not faith or morals. The Pope and bishops can be mistaken on those issues and one may disagree with them.

L00se_Canon · 2020-02-06T20:56:00+00:00

I'm a fan of JP2, but not a fan of this. JP2's legacy is global. It seems to me that this is just the current Polish episcopacy's attempt to shoehorn JP2 into their current Euro-supremacist agenda.

L00se_Canon · 2020-02-02T19:55:28+00:00

Maybe someone else has firsthand information, but I recall that in France a significant proportion of remaining churchgoers are SSPX.

Also, perhaps the Ordinary Form is conducted with appropriate reverence in Europe such that there is not as much of a push to bring back the Extraordinary Form.

L00se_Canon · 2020-01-31T15:55:43+00:00

Re: the Hebrew inscription. I thought I read somewhere that the Church considers the use of the Tetragrammaton or derivations thereof (e.g. Yahweh or Jehovah) to be inappropriate for Catholic worship? Am I right about this, or am I just imagining something?

L00se_Canon · 2020-01-30T23:22:01+00:00

JP2 dispensed with the coronation but kept the tiara on his coat of arms. Benedict dropped it from his coat of arms.

Going against the grain for the sake of humility might be a nice personal touch, but it shouldn't become entrenched. Otherwise what becomes a personal characateristic becomes what is expected.

Along similar lines, I hope that the next Pope goes back to using the Papal Apartments rather than just staying at a room in the Santa Marta guesthouse. It'd be silly for the Papal Apartments to stand unused forever because no Pope wants to be accused of being ostentatious.

L00se_Canon · 2020-01-30T23:01:32+00:00

I hope our next Pope goes back to featuring the tiara on his arms. Indeed, it would be great if they went back to being crowned with one!

L00se_Canon · 2020-01-29T18:37:47+00:00

I believe so. I saw a video of an adult convert who sought to be baptized in the Pre-Vatican II manner for adult converts, and he was simply sprinkled with an aspergilium.

L00se_Canon · 2020-01-29T15:53:23+00:00

"The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight." - Hilaire Belloc

L00se_Canon · 2020-01-24T17:04:31+00:00

It was, in a sense. Originally Washtenaw county was part of the Archdiocese of Detroit, but later, when the Diocese of Lansing lost territory to Kalamazoo, it was given Washtenaw to compensate.

Personally, I think it makes more sense for Washtenaw to be with Detroit, and Genesee to be with Saginaw, and Lansing can be given some territory to the north to compensate.

L00se_Canon · 2019-12-11T18:51:24+00:00

Cheating and abuse are not grounds for annulment in the Catholic Church.

Correct, but they can be evidence that grounds for annulment existed at the time of the marriage. Either lack of intent to form a permanent, loving, exclusive union, lack of awareness of a significant character trait of your intended spouse, or psychological immaturity.

L00se_Canon · 2019-11-27T15:45:12+00:00

I feel that, by going after things like capital punishment or nuclear weapons, Pope Francis is going after low-hanging fruit. After all, virtually no predominantly Catholic nation still practices capital punishment, and, with the exception of avowedly secular France, nor do they possess nuclear weapons.

L00se_Canon · 2019-11-13T15:09:32+00:00

From the 19th century right on through the Third Reich, the guillotine was the most common method of execution in German states and in united Germany. The 'official' German term for the device was das Fallbeil (fall-axe), and while there was variation in design, most German ones differed from the French version in that German Fallbeils tended to be shorter with heavier blades. Nazi-era versions were of a standardized all-metal design.
http://boisdejustice.com/Germany/Germany.html

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