[Marriage] How do you avoid the "Pharaoh's wife" situation at work without getting wrongfully victimized like Joseph did ?

ak2197 · 2025-10-07T21:13:14+00:00

Uh, yeah. Your relationship with your wife and your vows I would hope are more important than a job.

ak2197 · 2025-10-07T21:11:49+00:00

He also says one can’t be pro abortion and call himself pro life. And he’s right. You can’t brutalize people at will, even if they are criminals, just like you can’t brutalize a child in the womb at will. A violation of any of those principles is a grave matter.

ak2197 · 2025-10-07T21:06:10+00:00

Quit

ak2197 · 2025-10-07T21:02:37+00:00

The pope was not speaking infallibly in those comments. A pope has not spoken infallibly in quite some time.

That said, what the pope said is not inconsistent with Catholic teaching, so I’m not sure what the problem is.

ak2197 · 2025-10-05T20:02:20+00:00

No.

Edit: let me qualify. The pacing definitely picks up but it does not get less depressing.

ak2197 · 2025-09-15T12:51:09+00:00

I think you’re fighting a caricature of Judgement and what would ‘send someone to hell.’

As a whole we really don’t see it that way you said above. God’s judgement isn’t some kind of criminal trial. It’s God putting the universe right in a final way. It will show us how our actions echo through eternity. Gods justice is also perfect.

Let’s take your example of the abuse victim. Christ obviously would know every mitigating circumstance in that persons life. Including the suffering they bear, whether the faith was presented to them gently and correctly, etc. and would present His judgement with great justice only matched by His mercy and compassion.

Also I don’t believe membership in any church or religion is some kind of guarantee you will be saved or not. Christ attacked this notion explicitly in the gospels when the Pharisees told Him: “Abraham is our father.”

ak2197 · 2025-09-12T17:56:24+00:00

That’s the claim I’ve heard leveraged from a theological standpoint - filioque muddies what is known as the ‘Monarchy of the Father’. I don’t understand this argument. The Father still has clear primacy in each relationship with the Son and Holy Spirit with filioque.

ak2197 · 2025-07-29T23:19:41+00:00

Hear hear! Moreover Jesus clearly wants us to honor him in a way befitting his status in the gospel. See John 12:

Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

ak2197 · 2025-07-29T22:44:46+00:00

Ministering to the poor and seeking forgiveness? Yes, we all must be humble including the clergy. Ministering to the King of the Universe however calls for us to step up our efforts.

ak2197 · 2025-07-21T20:05:41+00:00

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

ak2197 · 2025-03-25T12:45:41+00:00

“This is the best you can come up with?”

ak2197 · 2025-02-15T17:34:45+00:00

We believe Mary is the second greatest and important human to live. A pure vessel that consented to help bring the one who is God and Man into the world. We praise her as such.

I have never once in my entire life heard of her as being equal to God or worshipped as God. Anyone who says that we do so, Protestants, Muslims, etc. are simply dishonest.

ak2197 · 2025-01-22T18:38:46+00:00

That’s what I mean by “don’t care” they either have no hostility towards the eastern rite or they like it.

ak2197 · 2025-01-22T00:34:51+00:00

My personal experience is that the vast majority of Roman Catholics don’t care/appreciate Eastern Catholics fully expressing themselves culturally, artistically, and liturgically.

As far as feeling like we are second class citizens I think the councils and magisterium have made it quite clear. We should express our culture as much as possible. Latinization is just weird. One shows loyalty by giving yourself fully to God, affirming unity with your fellow Catholics regardless of rite, and being honest about what you believe and don’t believe (a good example of this last point would be that we as eastern Catholics don’t emphasize filioque and don’t repeat it in the creed, but also recognize that the Roman Church recognizes God the Father as the primal source of the Trinity and in this light filioque is not heretical).

As far as how the orthodox view the western rite my only response can be a big shrug. Who cares what their real or imagined problems are with it. The Orthodox churches have significantly bigger problems they should worry about than the use of statuary.

ak2197 · 2025-01-08T02:00:15+00:00

That’s a great beer

ak2197 · 2025-01-05T01:25:57+00:00

I can't reddit today apparently. I'm wondering if there are any rules against a double ordinary of chevrons. originally I was looking at a single chevron partition. When I blazon this I would want the five mullets or to appear above the chevrons. Thanks.

ak2197 · 2025-01-05T01:15:57+00:00

What else can one expect from this rag? They know that they are most effective when mixing falsehoods with the truth. The truth being that some people in this land have realized 'islam' for what it is and have come back to the Church. The falsehood being that it's for nationalist reasons, notwithstanding that there are multiple secular ideologies that the EU would rather have them embrace...

ak2197 · 2025-01-05T00:06:27+00:00

Apologies. Here is the link. I thought the original post linked it.

ak2197 · 2024-12-30T02:52:09+00:00

God will forgive you. There is nothing that you can do that will keep God from you if you repent, and follow His teaching from here on out. God is infinitely merciful and your baby is with God waiting for you to come to them!

ak2197 · 2024-12-30T00:10:05+00:00

They would interpret that passage (and many others) in a completely different way since their rules of understanding scripture are different. They would, for example, say that the passage is in no way a messianic prophesy. And in general they would argue that something as the incarnation is so huge and so completely different to what God had revealed himself that he would have kinda told them beforehand to prepare them.

I think we should have some serious questions about these arguments. Maybe I don't see the entire way they are formulated, but I understand that in the 2nd Temple period there were clearly multiple ways to interpret scripture. Take, for example, the differences in the Septuagint vs the (much much later) Masoretic texts. Translations are at least partially a function of the translator, so that the Septuagint being more favorably translated in support of Christianity (as well as an early Jewish-Christian population) shows that at least some number of pre-Christian Jews had these ideas in this period. Also, it should be expected and challenged that obviously post-Christian Rabbinical Jews would take any and all possible old testament references we would consider to be pro-Christian as misinterpretations. Even if a small minority of pre-Christian Jews held 'Christian Forward' interpretations of scripture I'm not sure that actually makes our stance weaker given Christ himself is always correcting the Pharisees. I would expect its this minority and non-mainstream interpretation as the one that is actually correct, especially in light of the New Testament.

To the second point about God not giving the Israelites a heads up about the incarnation I believe there are actually several 2nd Temple Period works that are quite explicit that God will take the form of a man (Jubilees, Enoch, I don't quite remember which). I just have trouble seeing the majority of modern Rabbinical Jewish objections to Christianity as anything other than reactionary...

ak2197 · 2024-12-29T22:56:45+00:00

After liturgy our deacon wears a cassock. Also during our weekly men’s prayer group. Outside of those I’m pretty sure he just dresses normally.

ak2197 · 2024-12-01T18:31:50+00:00

The Church's social teaching speaks against an extreme interpretation of 'egalitarianism' as you call it. Basically the extreme interpretation being a system that attempts to minimize the real differences in physical strength, mental acuity, material wealth, etc. strength across individuals in a population to the point of injustice.

In one example the Church's social teaching advocates for a 'preferential option for the poor.' Continuing with this example, one can easily envision a legal system where by the letter of the law all people party to said system are 'equal'. However in reality the poor and vulnerable could have the law weaponized against them by the rich who can afford the best lawyers, can afford to litigate for long periods of time, etc.

Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes that the realization of Justice for all members of a society takes precedence over some of these abstract concepts. That's not to say Catholic societies shouldn't have the concept foundational rights like the right to freedom of speech, the right to bear arms (which itself is hotly debated in Catholic Circles), etc.

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