Posted on 11/10/2009 11:55:00 AM PST by B-Chan
Well, after all, he DID write the Bible...or was that the Boible?
It has been striking in my experience to witness how pervasive the problem of Arrested Development is among the adherents of Romanism.
It’s like watching children who say, “I know I am but what are you”.
Can't help you there. I've never met one.
“SINGLE ACTS OF TYRANNY MAY BE ASCRIBED TO THE ACCIDENTAL OPINION OF A DAY; BUT A SERIES OF OPPRESSIONS, BEGUN AT A DISTINGUISHED PERIOD, AND PURSUED UNALTERABLY THROUGH EVERY CHANGE OF MINISTERS (ADMINISTRATIONS) TOO PLAINLY PROVES A DELIBERATE, SYSTEMATIC PLAN OF REDUCING US TO SLAVERY.” -Thomas Jefferson.
If you check carefully, you'll see that I don't advocate monarchy for the United States.
And don't worry -- I don't insist that my friends share my opinions!
I’ll take you at your word. :-)
No, not Elvis.
I used [The Last Crusade by Warren Carroll] as a textbook for my history class this last year (I wrote this in 2006) and one of my students asked me the most important (and most obvious) question: "Why haven't we heard about Franco and the murders of all these bishops, priests, and religious?"Well obviously, because America didn't baptize this baby. America, led by such "luminaries" as Hemingway (who wrote his For Whom the Bell Tolls during this time period) showed that they would rather line up with the Commies than the dirty Catholics.
Before you damn Franco and his Spain, I suggest you read Warren G. Carroll's history of the war mentioned above. It'll open your eyes -- not only to the truths of the Natonalist cause in Spain, but to how heavily we Americans have been propagandized in favor of the WASP worldview.
The idea of rights is by and large an enlightenment concept.
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That’s a trio of question marks—which one is most important?
Read the book and learn something.
You might use HTML to cross through the original words and follow them with your own.
Or you might show what you believe it ought to have said in brackets or parans, e.g. "Ratzinger [Pope Benedict] ..."
Thank you.
No one cares what Chesterton had to say about anything. Certainly not about men and women who possessed more grace than he ever exhibited.
Chesterton was a pseudo-intellectual who went from dabbling in the occult to Roman Catholicism -- a short journey.
Chesterton wrote...
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."
It's that kind of moral equivocation we've come to expect from papists. We certainly see enough of it on threads like this.
I'm sure that was part of it. Imperial overextension in Europe and the "brain drain" to the New World colonies didn't help, either.
What's relevant is that Edgar was well taken care of and obviously loved -Our Blessed Lord must have wanted him to become a Franciscan sense he lived a holy life even as a child. He was blessed and our Lord works in mysterious ways as I said before,dear friend
I believe you are mistaken. From what I've read, Edgar Mortara entered the Augustinian, not the Franciscan, order.
Once again, your response to the Mortara case puzzles me. You appear to be arguing that the end -- little Edgar becomes a RC and a priest -- justifies the means -- the kidnapping of Edgar by officers of the state at the behest of Piux IX. I had thought that ends/means rationality was a big no-no in RC moral teachings. Am I wrong to think this?
I wasn't aware of the abduction and resettlement of Irish orphans/vagrants in 19th century NYC, but from what you posted it seems perfectly awful. If the account is accurate, the participants in this scheme -- along with the child-snatching mobs in Arizona -- should have been ashamed of themselves.
However, given that I have not been advocating individual Methodist ministers, NYC bureacrats, or racist mobs from the 19th century as moral examplars, I fail to see the relevance of these shameful occurrences in US history to the issue we've been discussing: namely, the Holy Office-sponsored kidnapping of a Jewish child from his family so that he would be raised as a RC.
Another book for the “to-be-read” stack!
Roman Catholic being the biggest.
The religious community often referred to as the Eastern Orthodox also call themselves the Catholic Church, this despite the fact that they vehemently deny "papal" claims to universal jurisdiction (they believe that the true head of all the Churches is Christ, not the Bishop of Rome). Or so I've read.
The Eastern Orthodox also used to refer to themselves as ρομανοι, but I don't know if that is the case these days.
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