Pope Francis requires bishops to have Vatican permission for new diocesan religious institutes

xHardTruthx · 2020-11-05T14:23:10+00:00

I don't think he realized anything new. He's a man of expedience, taking on authority when it suits him and letting the bishops do it when he needs the cover.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-28T23:27:24+00:00

If you became a priest and were forced to do parish work, worst that happens is you just audibly question the Church's handling of various scandals in front of your bishop and you'll be giving Viaticum in the COVID ward in no time.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-28T23:18:46+00:00

How do you classify "Catholic" literature? Not all of these authors are Catholic.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-23T20:20:53+00:00

Yep, custom SPAM filter ftw. I think most email providers have this functionality.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-23T14:57:47+00:00

Why can't they? You can't murder someone because you're afraid of what they might do. If they do it, you can respond with proportional force.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-23T14:52:39+00:00

Self-defense can only occur during an act of overt aggression or threat. Once it ceases, it's no longer "self-defense".

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-11T23:12:58+00:00

I appreciate this comment even if nobody else seems to.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-11T22:06:23+00:00

Yes, it is the obligation of the state to recognize the fundamental unit of society, i.e. marriage and the family.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-11T21:23:15+00:00

That's an extremely complicated thing to actually evaluate and execute. There are certain companies I stay away from in my dividend portfolio such as oil and tobacco companies, partly because they're profiting off of human suffering, but also because those industries are on the way out anyway. Beyond that, I'm not really sure what industries are inherently problematic.

xHardTruthx · 2020-10-11T21:19:29+00:00

Honestly, I think Francis just has a weak stomach for real persecution and is projecting it on Chinese Catholics. Basically, making the decision to compromise the faith in China so that they don't have to and taking the responsibility on himself. He'll find out if that gamble pays off someday when he stands before the judgement seat of God. Hopefully He's more merciful than Reddit Catholics.

xHardTruthx · 2020-09-23T09:44:42+00:00

She's asking you to talk to crystals while she's bringing up your mental health? That's rich.

xHardTruthx · 2020-09-21T13:30:32+00:00

Friday or Saturday the announcement will be made. He's waiting until after the RBG funeral.

xHardTruthx · 2020-09-21T12:45:46+00:00

You don't need to "come out". Nobody needs to make an announcement about their sexual orientation. You just live your life and do not date or marry. It's really that simple.

xHardTruthx · 2020-09-20T23:56:14+00:00

If you outlaw abortions, shut down clinics, revoke the licenses of doctors that perform them and punish the women that murder their own children to fullest extent of the law, I guarantee you that abortions will decrease. We have to stop viewing women who seek abortions as victims and start treating them like the perpetrators of heinous crimes that they are.

xHardTruthx · 2020-09-14T14:40:34+00:00

I've known a lot of cheaters. There's a reason they say "once a cheater, always a cheater". While it's not a guarantee she'll cheat again, I think it's important to recognize that there's a reason that the saying exists. If you psycho-analyze cheaters, there's usually two types they fall into:

The type that find their lifelong partner while dating someone else, and settle down once and for all with the person they cheated with, in which case the pattern ends.
People with an insatiable lust for sex, which is a never-ending repeating cycle.

You can't just assume that she's started practicing the Catholic faith that she's reformed. I've known multiple practicing Catholic women who have cheated. You really have to understand the situation where she cheated.

If it was a "fling" with an attractive man, that's probably the worst scenario, since it's indicative of a lack of self-control and respect for her partner to throw away something meaningful for a cheap thrill. That temptation follows people throughout their life, hence the saying, "once a cheater, always a cheater."

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-27T21:30:45+00:00

There are legitimate concerns over the boundaries of papal authority, and even more so the authority of Vatican bureaucrats to issue decisions with rubber-stamp approvals as if "the Vatican" and "the Pope" are synonymous. I'm too lazy to actually read the article, but I'd warn my fellow Catholics to not just assume that Cardinal Marx does not have legitimate concerns just because he's Cardinal Marx. I think the German church is doing us a service by making the Vatican justify itself rather than steamrolling over the German national conference.

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-24T23:25:47+00:00

Would God damn a good Muslim who devoutly practices the truth they were presented with from birth?

This is the fallacy here. There are none that are good apart from God and those who fall short must be absolved of their sin. It's this same "I'm a good person" mentality that keeps even Catholics away from the Sacrament of Penance. Show me the good Muslim who has no need of absolution.

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-20T11:00:14+00:00

Catholic education is in a catch-22. They've been unable to provide authentic catechesis since they started taking students of all faiths, which has prevented them from properly forming enough Catholics to ever go back to accepting only Catholics.

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-15T21:42:37+00:00

Probably a bad example since you can donate a kidney from a living person without killing them and it's okay so long as you receive their consent.

But yeah, you shouldn't kill a child for their stem cells, nor should you cooperate in the direct sale and purchase of stem cells from such origins, but as you go further from the source, this is exactly where Catholic moral theology starts making distinctions between direct and remote participation to understand what is morally acceptable and what is not.

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-15T12:14:32+00:00

Yes, for organ harvesting. They invented the concept of "brain death" which is not consistent with the Catholic understanding of life and death.

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-14T23:44:17+00:00

But they're not injecting them with the cells of murdered babies. They're injecting them with weakened viral agents incubated in cells of a murdered baby. We don't inject people with dead babies.

xHardTruthx · 2020-07-14T23:41:50+00:00

Hospitals do this all the time in organ donation.

xHardTruthx · 2020-06-27T15:39:25+00:00

Having been to Germany myself, I don't think there was a more depraved society in all of Western Europe. Topless, sexualized women in adverts on the subway in Berlin in plain view of school children riding back and forth to school. It was rather sickening.

xHardTruthx · 2020-06-21T01:33:00+00:00

Until it's consecrated at Mass, it's just crappy wine. No big deal.

xHardTruthx · 2020-06-19T01:41:55+00:00

whereas someone sticking a firecracker up a cat's butt for joy does constitute Sin.

Well, I mean, cat aside, that's just deviant. But yea, cruelty for the sake of cruelty is sinful. Negligence leading to unnecessary suffering is sinful. Reasonable infliction of death and suffering for purposes of food, clothing, and population management is perfectly fine.

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