Posted on 03/26/2011 12:59:03 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
I went to public school all the way
“Thanks for being truthful.”
Always try to be.
“Roman Catholics seem to spend so much time trying to explain how the only “prayer” that occurs is to God.”
I’m no expert, but I’ve heard different explanations. What is important is that we worship no one but God.
As an aside, not everyone agrees that Michael Archangel isn’t God.
Those biases are completely understandable.
“Finally, Free Republic is pro-God meaning pro-Judeo/Christian God.”
To be more specific, I think it is pro-Protestant opinion of God.
I see.
If it’s public knowledge on fr, what is his wife’s freeper name?
Thank you
I guess when conservatives complain about media bias, they are really being liberal crybabies attempting to intimidate and control.
Don't be silly. While I believe Dr. Eckleburg overstates the case it is true that the results speak for themself.
Perhaps the "system" attracts an unusually high number of homosexuals. Whatever the case may be the Roman Catholic Clergy is populated by an inordinately high percentage of homosexuals when compared with other religous clergy.
Do you have any proof that the case is not as I described? Silly question and one which is impossible to answer as is your request of "proof".)
No, and that in no way invalidates my point.
I don't know if that's true, but that's not what I'm arguing over.
I'm arguing over whether "Rome" actually prefers having homosexual to heterosexual priests.
Do you have any idea how many seminarians attended at this time. I admit I have no idea but I believe it is a reasonable assumption that it was a very small number. Small enough, in fact, that the seminarians knew each other.
Further, your analogy is rediculous - apples to oranges.
Then why are Protestants being castigated for Catholic bias?
Is it *Do as I say* time again?
A lot of negatives there but let's try to sort it out.
"Not everyone agrees that Michael Archangel isn't God." Which means some people believe Michael Archangel to be God.
I know the Greeks give Michael a place of prominence but I've never read they believe him to be God.
Do you believe the Archangel Michael is God?
Prove it. Let's see the numbers.
Prove it. Let's see the numbers.
***Let’s just say I’ve seen many questionable decisions in the past***
LOL! You’ve been a member for how long?!?
I don’t mean to be critical of you, not my intention. I just love history and most people get the Disney thumbnail version.
Sources you requested:
1) The Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II in 1089
“Wives and concubines were liable to be seized as slaves by the overlord, while the children were relegated to the category of servile rank, debarred from sacred orders, and declared incapable of exercising hereditary rights, because saepe solet similis filius esse patri.”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran2.html
2) Corpus Iuris Canonici, promulgated by Pope Gregory IX which remained official law of the Church until 1913
Steven Epstein, Wage Labour & Guilds in Mediaeval Europe (1995), page 226
Here is another reference:
In 1488, Pope Innocent VIII accepted the gift of 100 slaves from Ferdinand II of Aragon, and distributed those slaves to his cardinals and the Roman nobility.
Luis M. Bermejo, S.J. (1992). Infallibility on Trial. Christian Classics, Inc.. p. 315. ISBN 0-87061-190-9.
There is a bias in favor of Protestants and Calvinists.
1Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." 2And he said to them, "When you pray, say:
"Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread, 4and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation."
5And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, 6for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; 7and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'? 8I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
9And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
That's odd. I don't see any instruction from Jesus to canonize saints, make statues, light candles, bow down to or knee in front of, and pray to anyone. No instruction on praying to ANYONE but God the Father.
God knows what we need. Will He not give it to us if we ask?
What ever possesses anyone to think that praying to someone besides God will grant them their request?
If God is not going to answer someone's prayers to Him, He's not going to grant the request if someone else asks.
And even if some saint or angel had been authorized to answer prayer, not one of them is going to do it contrary to God's will.
The defense attorney should have disclosed the fact that he attended the same seminary at the same time as the alleged abuse took place because he personally may have known the victims and the accused and thus may have pertinent information about the case which could cause him to be called as a witness.
That’s what the judge is saying and it’s not a difficult concept to grasp. But once again we hear from RC apologists that everyone is wrong but Rome.
The most absurd part of this entire article is that the idiotic defense of “anti-Catholic bias” must be coded into the DNA of RCs at birth since we hear it every day from Free Republic all the way to Philadelphia.
Maybe it’s part of the regenerative baptism mojo. Regardless, it’s a common whine from bullies who lack a sound defense for their faith...and their clients.
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