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How any believer can stay in the RCC

Quite easy, when belief is not premised upon men...

Exactly.

The 'diversity' propaganda and attempts to normalize the abnormal and perverse is now beyond absurd.

If there are records of citizens then a citizen count should be easy and a subsequent simple subtraction from the census count yields the answer.

You’re right they’re not cheap labor

In many cases you are correct; HOWEVER, in all cases they're not American labor. In other words they are not culturally Americans and as such they are much more 'flexible' to not defend God-given rights and to assist Leftist ideologues in "sticking it to" Americans. I would suggest that many of these foreigners are conspirators in much of the censorship on Social Media as well as being willing or unwilling useful idiots for foreign and domestic activists that are or represent enemies of America...

Agreed. Our plan is and always has been NO PLAN.

Imagine Reagan saying:

"Tear down that wall and replace it with high tech surveillance"

or

"We seek to topple the evil of Communism and replace it with a kinder friendlier form of totalitarianism"

This is a question for the men here: you either schwing for it or you dont? Correct or incorrect?

No way “therapy” is changing that...

To put things in context as it relates specifically to the subject of the article, one must understand Catholic teaching on the topic and the actual 'science' involved. In a nutshell, Catholic teaching is that homosexual tendencies, cause unknown, are intrinsically disordered and engaging in homosexual activity should be avoided. The 'science' involved regarding 'therapy' has everything to do with behavioral psychology.

As well, Catholic teaching states that individuals have free will and just because they may be inclined or predisposed to engage in sin, cause unknown, does not mean they have no choice but to do so. In other words; sinful thoughts are beyond our control; however, sinful activity must be avoided, sin must not be engaged in and if one repeatedly engages in sinful activity it ill further entrench one in the activity --the activity will become habitual and normalized.

Finally, those that seek to remove themselves from and avoid sinful activity should be helped by the Church.

In a nutshell, an apt analogy might be comparing habitual sin to alcoholism. One may always feel predisposed to consume alcohol; however, this does not mean one has to actually consume alcohol and that there is support and there are coping strategies based upon behavioral psychology that can be learned by those seeking to do so.

Looks like it has passed in the House. Will the Senate take it up and pass it? If so, I hope Trump vetoes it.

In my opinion, this is another negative for American workers and all this does is magically open up 300,000 more H1B slots by rubber stamping 'immigrant status' on 300,000 supposedly temporary foreign workers.

The open borders gang does the same thing with TPS temporary protected status refugees. TEMPORARY simply means almost permanent.

Regardless, the government ever grow a spine and actually make temporary actually mean temporary, all the temporary and illegals are also birthing anchor babies.

The third world is invading America and our government is aiding and abetting them...

Anchor babies grow up and vote...

Ayoola Ajayi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Why? Because he thinks that citizens should live with the decisions made by their legislators.

EVEN when the decisions clearly violate the Constitution and Individual's God-given rights? Legislators are NOT above the U.S. Constitution.

Rather than divining intent or refashioning the hot mess the Left imposed upon Americans, Roberts should have kicked it to the curb.

To combat clericalism (which has yet to be coherently defined)

On Clericalism - The Catholic Thing

The pejorative notion of clericalism has a number of different meanings. For many Protestants and secularists, this term simply means that the clergy have, and exercise, too much authority in the Catholic Church. Just how that’s their business is a mystery, unless they assume that the Church is somehow subject to their ideas and should conform to them.

For Catholics, clericalism usually refers to a kind of dominance of laity by clergy outside of their rightful spiritual authority. Pope Francis often speaks of this form of clericalism, in the way that clergy behave either in their regular daily pastoral work or in the political sphere.

St. Jose Maria Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei, identified another kind of clericalism in those who try to turn the laity into pseudo-clerics – and identify the truly “committed” layperson as someone who directly serves the Church, rather than someone who is immersed as a Christian in social and political life.

But there is yet another form of clericalism that seems just as widespread today. This is the clericalism that assumes that many of the laity are simply incapable of really understanding the Church’s teachings or are incapable of living up to them when the demands are high. This is the kind of subtle but deadly clericalism Pope Paul VI hinted at in Humanae vitae.

It appears that the definition of Clericalism is a matter of perspective. In my opinion, the discussion of the matter itself implies opposing opinions as to men: whether the men be secular, protestant, lay or cleric. As well, the discussion of the matter implies a failure of the Church to teach clearly the meaning of and content of the Deposit of Faith. Catholics that put their faith in men rather than the Magisterium will always lose when inevitably men fall short as happened plainly with the sex abuse crisis.

As well, Catholics that do not possess a well-formed conscience premised upon the Magisterium may easily get lost and stray from His path when clerics fall short of teaching clearly the message of truth and instead focus on messengers.

The Church teaches that a priest, by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, acts in persona Christi Capitis...

In my opinion, denying the presence of Father in a priest is tantamount to denying transubstantiation (the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist).

Denying the Real Presence, IOW denying the reality of God, is what novelty of this type is is all about...

A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private

excerpt:

Georgia Clark, a veteran high school English teacher in Fort Worth, had an urgent request for President Trump: She needed help pulling undocumented immigrants from her school.

“Mr. President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico,” Clark wrote May 17 on her now-deleted Twitter account, @Rebecca1939. “Anything you can do to remove the illegals from Fort Worth would be greatly appreciated,” she wrote in another tweet.

Clark was careful in her approach, she believed, and told the president she needed guarantees her identity would be protected when action was taken. “Texas will not protect whistle blowers. The Mexicans refuse to honor our flag,” she wrote.

In my opinion, using the term “Islamic Supremacist” is a politically correct unnecessary surrender and in actuality, a form of compromise -it's use, as redundant as using the terms "Fascist Supremacist" or "Communist Supremacist". In essence such usage, intended to identify a threat, actually grants cover to a threat. In other words, such usage implies there can be good Fascists or good Communists or good Islamists when ALL are ungood and comprise anti-American totalitarian ideologies.

Anyway, I myself, just use the term Islamist when referring to those who promote Islamic supremacy...

No accommodation, no compromise. God-given rights trump government created special rights ALWAYS.

It is much easier to plead guilty to something that is not a crime than it is to convict another of the non crime you plead guilty to.

In my opinion, the terrorists that commit crimes against humanity have to be dealt with either militarily or civilly. I myself, prefer that ‘citizens’ be dealt with by their respective nations; however, if that can not happen then I would suggest the nations they committed the crimes in take jurisdiction. Regardless, in no circumstance should ‘returning’ terrorists get a free pass to carry on as if there were no crimes and the were not involved in perpetrating or even aiding and abetting the criminals.

This is already the law of the land. Less talk and more action is needed, investigate and prosecute law breakers.

Agreed. The climate ‘experts’ are nothing more than glorified weather forecasters.

“We can simply look at the actual climate record,”

LIAR...

They can not simply look at the 'climate' record because Climatology is all about averages -Climate is Weather averaged. In other words, they have to create a damn model to look at the climate record AND therein lies the beginning of the rub.

They collect data points, put them into an algorithmic model then they tweak the model. I will add that the collection of historical data is much more accurate (save measurement precision limits and any error inherent to the measurement process) and easier than predicting data points because ALL the variable, known and unknown) are already factored into the existing data points. Accurate prediction; however, requires knowledge of and inclusion of each and every variable into the model with each variable identified necessarily increasing the error inherent to the model created.

REGARDLESS, all the climate experts' claims of accurate and precise climate prophecy, the precision they claim far exceeds the variability error of their models. Add to all this supposed magic, the fact that Climatology is simply averaged Meteorology --with data points of a chaotic system collected at a moment in time that can be measured only so precisely, never perfectly, and never without error.

As such, the models will only generate predictions that will always exhibit increasing error and decreasing reliability directly proportional to how far into the future the predictions are made.

Climate just like Weather can be predicted quite accurately in the short term but not the long term. The butterfly effect effect is real and Meteorologists can no more predict accurately the weather 20 weeks from today than Climatologists can accurately predict the Climate 20 years from today.