Actual Catholic Priest - AMA and self-improvement help

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As I mentioned yesterday:
As I’ve mentioned before, Catholicism is the only coherent system capable of combating the competing totalitarianisms that plague our world. Furthermore, the greatest thing that Catholicism has going for it is that it is true. In addition to the self-actualization program that I will lay out, I will try to explain WHY Catholicism is true. I will lay out proofs for God’s existence, the historical reality of Jesus Christ, and why Catholicism is the one true faith vis-à-vis Protestantism and other sects.

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>>136396839
are nuns secret sluts?

>>136396839
Best. Thanks for doing this. What's a man of the cloth doing on a poophole place like 4chan?

>>136396839
Why choose Catholicism over Orthodox Christianity?

>>136396839
Stop LARPing

>>136396839
Why are you doing here? Isnt this your busy day irl?

>>136396839
Oh boy, you'll want to turn around and get right out of here. You aren't the first Catholic priest to come here, and you all eventually have some sort of /pol/ induced crisis and leave.

So do yourself and your faith a favor and GTFO before they're both irreparably damaged.

>>136396966
>>136396966
I need this answered

>>136396981
Jesus went to the lepers.

>>136396839
Catholics don't belong in the United States

>>136396839
How many children are locked in the Vatican's basement?

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The question was raised yesterday about God's existence. Can we know that God really exists? I was honest yesterday when I said that I didn't have time to go into it, but today I do. I wish to: 1. Demonstrate that God's existence can be known. 2. Answer arguments against God's existence (notably, the problem of suffering). I will also demonstrate the veracity of the Catholic faith itself if so desired.

What are the right books and what are the wrong books? There are a lot of /pol/ reading lists that suggest Mein Kampf and Nietzsche. Would you advise against reading those books? I ask as a catholic

>>136396966
I have never found this to be the case. It seems to me that priests go against the promise of celibacy much more.

>>136396839
Stay the fuck away from the kids

>>136396904
Your pope is a Muslim-fetishist faggot enabler. Now go turn yourself in before you rape another little boy.

What do you think of mudslimes?

>>136396981
There are tons of redpilled people here who are open to reason.

>>136397079
Orthodoxy itself is split into many different groups. Catholicism (including eastern Catholics) are all united under the Pope. If one were to Orthodox, what kind would they be?

>>136396904
>Furthermore, the greatest thing that Catholicism has going for it is that it is true.

Yeah, praying to saints and statues instead on focusing all your religious effort towards God is a great way to practice monotheism. It's not pagan at all.

>>136397084
Believe it or not, Sundays are not that busy (weddings, quinceaneras, etc happen on Saturdays). I had two Masses today and now I'm done.

How does it feel that the leaders of the catholic church have ties to the mafia?

>>136396839
If you are a priest then you should know hating someone based on race or skin color is against cuckstanity. Cuckstanity says there is no jew or greek.

If God is real how do you know that your religion is the correct one?

Why is the worls upside down these days? Started thinkong about.goong to church recently, everythings about sex and how much money your dad gave you.

>>136397099
I've been coming to 4chan for years. I don't think anything could keep me away now...

>>136396839
Why choose Catholicism over Orthodox Christianity?

>>136397384
Eastern/Greek Orthodox

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>>136396839
Which Touhou would you procreate with?

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>>136397182
I want to hear this.

>>136397210
Next time I'm on here I'm going to cover topic #2 which will include a good reading list. I would recommend Kreeft's "Summa of the Summa" for an intro to the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.

>>136397271
I'm not a huge fan of the pope. I have to respect him, but I believe he is very destructive to both the Church and the world.

>>136396839
Not a religious person by any means, but read something the other day that made me think.

> too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil,” i.e. many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-catherine-bateson-composing-a-life-aug2017/?utm_source=On+Being+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d466369751-20170805_mary_catherine_bateson_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1c66543c2f-d466369751-69877297&goal=0_1c66543c2f-d466369751-69877297&mc_cid=d466369751&mc_eid=c54866fdb3


It really becomes very obvious nowadays, people only see bad things and horrors.

>>136396839
Do you believe that Mary was a virgin?

>>136397449
There are people in the Church with ties to worse things than this. We have always had Judases in our midst.

>>136397616
I read a book that Islam will be the "one world religion" of end times, and that perhaps the Mahdi and the AntiChrist will be related/the same. Thoughts?

>>136397182
Please demonstrate that God's existence can be known. I'm anxious to hear what you come up with.
I'd also like to hear why you think catholicism is superior to the other larger branches of Christianity.

Malichi Martin: truth or trash?

>>136396839
I'm Church of England and work and live in germany.


I have beautiful girlfriend who looks after me great job.


But every single german girl flirts with me.


How do I resist temptation. It's really hard.

It's like every single girl here sees me as a catch .

Help

>>136397501
how often do you go on >>>/b/?

Okay so there are a ton of great questions here and I do want to answer them, but I'd like to lay out the proof for God's existence, if I may.
First of all, the proof I'm going to lay out is, I believe, the most convincing. There are others that may be better. I have a friend who was earning a PhD in philosophy at a top school and he swore by Alvin Plantinga's modal proof, but I confess I cannot understand it well (I took philosophy for 2 years and have read a bunch besides, but I never delved much into the analytical branch).

Thank you for being here.

>>136397856
Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity you igoramus.

>>136397616
Any good books you could recommend about Our Lady?

So the proof I'm going to lay out is one of St. Thomas Aquinas' "Five Ways." You can look this up yourself online ("quinque viae) but I'm going to try to put it into modern terms.

>>136397935
Very, very rarely. I used to much more - before I went into sem.

>>136398039
I meant the other large branches... English is not my native language.

>>136397501
Then it's just a matter of time.

>>136396839
How can you prove your a priest?

Why should I acknowledge Francis as the pontiff when he is clearly a political tool of the enemies of the Church?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-white-house-team-apocalyptic-geopolitics-isis-terrorism-pope-francis-allies-a7840821.html

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cults ruin everything they touch and take credit for things they did not do

they are one of the the social opiates the enable the continuation of male circumcision

you deserve to be eliminated from society, by force if necessary

>>136398265
https://archive.is/t7onO

I'm lapsed. How do I come back? I have no one to go to church with either, and I'm too shy to go alone

Do you fuck little boys?

>>136396904
>Catholicism is the only coherent system capable of combating the competing totalitarianisms that plague our world.
What do you mean by totalitarianisms? For you, does that also include nationalistic movements, which, I assume, are not supported by the universalistic tendencies in the Catholic church.

what do you think of Hitler and Natsoc?

Essentially, things can be placed into two categories: Necessary and Contingent. Don't let the word "contingent" scare you - it just means "not-necessary." Now "not-necessary" has a wide meaning: it can mean something that is not necessary on a practical level, but it can also be on a logical level. So for example, it is absolutely necessary that 2 and 2 be 4. Yes, I know one can invent all sorts of weird mathematical models, but the fact is, all other things being equal, 2+2=4. This is a necessary fact. Even God Himself cannot make 2+2=5

>captcha streetsign was where I drove recently

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Marxist Jewish pedophiles have infiltrated the church and are turning people away from Christianity. How can this be stopped?

i bet this priest cunt brap posts

>>136396839
how do I overcome addiction? I am in serious need. I have gotten lost into tons of addictions and I need help.

>>136398385
that is the most cancerous meme

Father, tell the story of your "initiation" to priesthood. My teacher (a former priest) back in elementary told us that it consists of praying at wee hours of the night. I'm not sure if it's actual memories since it was two something decades ago.

>>136396839

Do you do confessions?

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>>136396904
>the greatest thing that Catholicism has going for it is that it is true

yes sir mr. pedo i will just go ahead and take your word for it

>>136398336
Is it true that Pope Francis allowed muslims to pray at the Vatican?

Take your shit to /adv/, because it's not political.

>But how can God not make 2 and 2 be 5 if He's all powerful?
God Himself (as we will see) is not something OUTSIDE of logic. Rather, He necessarily flows from it.
So some things are necessary and others are contingent. What is an example of something contingent? Well, any one of us. 100 years ago, none of us existed. The world was able to go on. There was no NECESSITY that any one of us actually ever came into existence. In fact (think about this!) it would have been possible for billions and billions (and trillions and trillions) of people to come into existence, but it was never necessary that YOU would exist. And yet here you are, lucky you.

>>136398123
thank you for the (you), father. where do you go for quality keks?

>>136398590
religion is fundamentally political

>>136398386
Step one: Decide today is the last day.
Step two: Submit yourself to God's authority.

Step three: Join a junky anonymous group.

Why believe in the cucktholic faith ?

Here is another fact about contingent things: every contingent thing requires an explanation for its existence. So for you, for example, you came from your parents. They came from their parents, etc. Contingent things do not happen without explanation. If you go to the zoo and see a hippo, it's not because it fell from the sky into a cage. It came from other hippos and was placed there. So the key idea here is that contingent things require an explanation for where they came from. They do not just pop into existence on their own.

>>136398336
>it is absolutely necessary that 2 and 2 be 4. Yes, I know one can invent all sorts of weird mathematical models, but the fact is, all other things being equal, 2+2=4.
Must disagree. Different linear systems (where 2+2=/=4) aren't weird mathematical models, so, saying God Himself cannot make 2+2=5 is a a logical fallacy in itself.

Father my wife has spent us into an incredible amount of debt yet keeps spending. Her only solution is for me to get a higher paying job but between the two of us we make over $100k.

She does not listen and does not offer other solutions, what do I do?

>>136398336

hello priest. Anglican baptized here (please no bully)

Have you done any missionary work?
How to you feel as an individual about the Vatican church paying priests to drive SUVs in areas where church goers starve but still pay tithe.

The priest says "it is God's reward."

Do you believe this, or do you believe it is actually tithe from the poor paying this.

>>136396839
Which seminary did you go to?

>>136398901
Please demonstrate for us, Pythagorus.

>>136397529
Fuck off, weebfaggot

>>136398596
Are you still here?

I have questions and I need your help.

How can i stop fapping to traps? Will I burn for it?

But here's the thing: as you begin to look out into the world, you realize that all objects are by nature contingent. The earth doesn't logically NEED to exist. It came into existence around 4.6 billion years ago, but for most of the life of the universe it wasn't here. But if you look even more beyond, you notice this fact staring you in the face: EVERYTHING in the universe is contingent. Every single atom, all of "time" which is so intimately bound to movement and energy, the entirety of the universe is contingent. Which is another way of saying that there is no LOGICAL necessity to the universe's existence.

>>136398901
Show me how 2 and 2 can be 5

>>136399030
please answer my question
>>136398386
if you are truly a priest. please pray for me.

>>136399030
What is the churches current stance on the existence of dinosaurs?
(asking for a friend)

>>136399030
4.6 billion years? So you fell for the Darwinian heresy. And then you all wonder why there is a crisis of faith in Chrsit's church.

>>136398336
>captcha streetsign was where I drove recently
Use legacy, friend

>>136399030
Answer this
>>136399017

So if the whole universe is contingent, you are left asking where it came from (since all contingent beings require an explanation for their existence). So you are left with two possibilities, each with their own difficulties:
1. The universe came from some other contingent thing
2. The universe came from (was created by) something that is by definition necessary.
The one thing we cannot say is that the universe just "came from nothing." Something cannot come from nothing. A hippo cannot materialize and fall from the sky into a cage at the zoo.

>>136396839
Why is the church such a liberal cuckfest? You promote and preach tranny rights, pro refugee bs even when you know those groups hate you. Meanwhile you chase off conservative people, the only ones willing to fill your seats.

The constant political preaching is the reason I havent returned. Even though I want to rediscover it.

>>136396839
Any tips for a seminarist who's stuck with a liberal bishop?

>>136399402
You don't need the church to be a Christian anon.

1. If the universe came from another contingent being, then THAT contingent being's existence must be explained. It CANNOT be an infinite regress of universes or an infinite cycle of universes (I will prove this in a moment)
2. The only other option is that the universe came from a being that is by definition necessary. Asking "who made God?" is then like asking "who decided that 2 and 2 would be 4?" The answer is that it is simply the case, necessarily so.

>>136399314
You have studied Philosophy and come to interesting conclusions, but you made the mistake of thinking that Philosophy can be used to better understand physics. Stop being lazy and study physics.

>>136399314
What do you think of chinks and niggers?

>>136399410
Hide your beliefs. Get ordained. I and a great number of others have been and are doing the same.

>>136396839
Why don't you trim your fingernails? Does it help you keep the little boys from getting away?

>>136399490
No, but I would like to go to church and hear mass. Go there to pray or clear my head. Enjoy the artistry and feel connected to my culture.

But what I described is keeing me out, and even making me question what it's worth.

>>136399501
I've read a lot of popular astrophysics books (including Laurence Kraus' book on how something can come from nothing.... tl;dr he defines "nothing" as a "something," so he fails to prove what he set out to do).

>>136399501
He's making a logical argument, don't be so critical.

Also, Biocentrism is a pretty good (long-winded) explanation of God.

>>136399402
The Church is the infallible dogma, the councils and official teachings. The retarded opinions of some people are just retarded opinions.

But if you want an answer, it's easy: everything you mention correlates with the increase of atheism, protestantism, lower mass attendance and contempt towards the Church. Any illness you see among the members of the Church is caused by the rejection of the Church.

>>136396839
I'm not letting you touch my cock, you kiddly fiddling gay bastard.

>>136399314
you're a fraud. God will judge you based on what you said today.

The most pathetic part is you didn't even appeal to many people in context.

>>136396839

How many boys do you diddle a week?

So that's the essence of the proof: The whole universe is contingent. All contingent beings require an explanation for their existence (they must come from something). Since the universe cannot come from an infinite regress of other contingent beings, a necessary Being must have created it. That Being we call God. QED

>>136396839
How do you feel about the current pope?
If you are catholic and get a blessing form a protestant priest, does it still count?

>>136399501
You are a little baby that thinks someone cares about physics here. They are irrelevant. Because these are metaphysics. Stop being lazy and study theology or philosohpy.

>>136396839
Ok, why do you sick bastards literally build a chapel to fuck young boys and disguise it as a religion?

>>136399761


would you surrender to muslims?

>>136399649
Do you believe in Adam and Eve and a literal garden of eden? If not whence came the fall of man, and if man is not fallen what of the atonement? Surely a literal understanding of Genesis is fundamental to the Christian faith.

>>136399639
Valid point. But you cannot continue to support apostasy and heresy. Maybe find fellowship elsewhere.

>>136399649

inspite of that, you still look at time as linear constant. you talk about what happened "before" or "after" creation. In simple terms, "before" creation, there was no mass in the universe beyond the centre point at the apex of the big bang. There was no mass, therefore there was no TIME. There was no "before" the universe because time did not exist before the universe.

>>136399017
>>136399282
Stop watching porn.

>>136396839
I'm an atheist and I applaud your work. Teaching people to be responsible for themselves is a prerequisite for teaching society to be responsible as a whole.

>>136399808
>Stop being lazy and study theology or philosohpy.

No thank you, I want to be employed.

>>136397384
What are your thoughts of the current Pope? I believe he is a phony.

>>136396839

>5. Romance. How to find a worthy spouse who is loving, faithful and pure.

Wrong century, bodyofchristmuncher

>>136396839
I left the Catholic Church because they were resettling refugees, and became disgusted with sexual abuse within the church. I want to go back but I can't make peace with this, but I have never lost my faith. I feel torn.

>>136396839
do you believe that extraterrestrials created us as a genetically modified species and that they are "God"?

Now finally I will address the question of infinite regress. After that, I'll answer as many questions as I can.
>why can there not be an infinite cycle of universes without beginning?
Here we are talking about things happening in a series. Another example might be the seconds that are going by, one after the other. Even though we now know that time had a beginning, the proof that time must have had a beginning (as any sequential series must) can be proven logically.
The sequence of universes in this example would be following one after the other (at least logically, if not temporally). But they are certainly happening sequentially. But we have to take into account a fact about counting. If one was to sit and begin counting, you would never reach infinity. Even if you lived forever, you could get to a really high number, but you would never REACH infinity.

do the other priests know that you're posting as an anonymous and untraceable representative of the church on the quasi-ironic racism section of an online laotian basket-weaving forum?

>>136399700
Those 'some people' are everyone from the priests up to the pope himself.

>>136399833
Regardless of going to church or not, I was mostly just asking out of curiosity in hopes of getting an answer from an actual priest, now I have the chance. I just wznt to know the logic behind it.

>>136396839
i was born a heathen, i really dont know for sure if yours is the true god. what ou ishment awaits me in mephistocoles' playground, or is it like how dante described it?

>>136399858
"before" can be a temporal or a logical construct. Think of it logically rather than temporally if that helps.

>>136396839
What do you think of Elizabeth Anscombe and Roger Scruton? Do priests still study Aristotle, the Stoic philosophers, etc?

If you can answer this: what is the justification of the modernist wing of the Church for changing traditional Catholic positions? If you look at the Bible, tradition and the Church professors, sodomy was never considered OK. But now, since most of those who hold power in society are liberal, there are some in the Church that are trying to make it look OK.

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>>136397128
I can show off diagrams too

>>136399941
There is no bigger lack of responsability than denying God and labelling him as nonexistent. Without God there is no good, no bad, no responsability and no guilt. That is why people push for atheism

Is a moderate sinner who abides by catholic morals but only goes to church for Easter/Christmas/Ash weds better than the Catholic who attends church weekly but doesn't follow any teachings? I always gathered from Ash Wednesday that the first is superior. The "hypocrites" being the Jews and Muslims (and false Catholics) who preach their religion rather than keeping it entirely private.

Thank you for the thread, Father. Please ignore the butthurt protestants. Their childish, feel good interpretation of Christianity prevents them from engaging in peaceful dialogue with those of a different belief set.

There are many Catholics here on /pol/ and we welcome you with open arms.

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>>136396839
Why is the Catholic church dying?
Why are masses getting smaller and smaller?
Why don't Catholics actually practice what they preach?
Why has Catholicism become a complete joke of a religion? A hollow shell of what it once was?
t.former catholic

>>136400091
>Those 'some people' are everyone from the priests up to the pope himself.
I don't see what your point is

>>136400136
THERE WAS NO "BEFORE".

NOTHING existed before the univere. no light, no mass, no TIME.

>>136396904
faggot

But here's the thing: if the number of universes goes backwards in an infinite sequence, then that would mean we are currently on universe number "infinity." In other words, an infinite number of events would have had to go by, but this is impossible.
This is called that kalaam argument and it proves that there are not an infinite cycle of universes. In short, because you can't reach infinity, this universe can not be universe number "infinity," if that makes sense.

>>136400292
Your position is illogical and inconsistent, so it is a complete failure. If there was nothing, then you will always have nothing, since there is nothing that causes anything else.

How is repenting meant to work.

I traveled to a poor catholic country and the criminals would repent weekly to 'clean themselves', then commit theft monday - friday.

Are they doing it wrong, or am i missing something.

Can repenting be done often.

>>136399858
The "Big Bang" was originally proposed as a joke to explain the unexplainable. Today, people treat it like it is a basic, unquestionable truth.
>A bunch of mass randomly came together in a vacuum and exploded, creating the Universe...with no solid explanation for a cause.
>muh science

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What are your political beliefs/ideology?

>>136400292
Right. I'm right with you on that. But here's the thing, if there is no before (as you are right to say), then the question is: where did this contingent universe come from? Why is it here? "Something" cannot spring from nothing.

>>136399858
> therefore there was no TIME.
Says who? Time is a logical concept which is fundamental to any proper metaphysical understanding on the etymology of being. Time is not bound to any physical properties of the cosmos, though natural properties may reflect it within the confines of our physical reality. Expand your mind. Science is not the answer.

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>>136400443
I'm curious about this too.

I've done some bad shit and want to go to confess but some of it was illegal. What do father?

>>136400454
I consider myself pretty redpilled. I'm a race realist (though I don't hate people for their race, I do think multiculturalism is not working), I believe in the importance of the JQ (read Culture of Critique) but I'm not anti-semitic. I want Jews to accept the truth rather than be destroyed. I'm very traditional/conservative, and yes, I voted for Trump.

>>136400418
Not really. When you have no Time, you have eternity. No time and eternity existing together, so everything that can possibly happen will happen. including the birth of a universe.

>>136400443
That is not repenting. The details about interior penance (stage of reconciliation):

1430 Jesus' call to conversion and penance, like that of the prophets before him, does not aim first at outward works, "sackcloth and ashes," fasting and mortification, but at the conversion of the heart, interior conversion. Without this, such penances remain sterile and false; however, interior conversion urges expression in visible signs, gestures and works of penance.23

1431 Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions we have committed. At the same time it entails the desire and resolution to change one's life, with hope in God's mercy and trust in the help of his grace. This conversion of heart is accompanied by a salutary pain and sadness which the Fathers called animi cruciatus (affliction of spirit) and compunctio cordis (repentance of heart).24

1432 The human heart is heavy and hardened. God must give man a new heart.25 Conversion is first of all a work of the grace of God who makes our hearts return to him: "Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored!"26 God gives us the strength to begin anew. It is in discovering the greatness of God's love that our heart is shaken by the horror and weight of sin and begins to fear offending God by sin and being separated from him. the human heart is converted by looking upon him whom our sins have pierced:27

Let us fix our eyes on Christ's blood and understand how precious it is to his Father, for, poured out for our salvation it has brought to the whole world the grace of repentance.

1433 Since Easter, the Holy Spirit has proved "the world wrong about sin,"29 i.e., proved that the world has not believed in him whom the Father has sent. But this same Spirit who brings sin to light is also the Consoler who gives the human heart grace for repentance and co

As someone who hears confessions on a regular basis (many hours per week) I can tell you that people do not go around sinning on purpose thinking "I can just go to confession on Saturday." People like that don't go to confession. People are on the whole very sincere.

>>136400490
What stops it from always having existed?
Since "before" doesn't exist, shouldn't it mean that the universe always existed?

>>136400221
>Why is the Catholic church dying?
Rampant apostasy.
Phony ecumenicalism.
Denial of ancient traditions and theological dogmas.
Catholic weakness in the face of modernist heretics both inside and outside the church.
These are the causes for the decline, though the Lord predicted the great crisis, and our Lady of Fatima also warned of us the coming falling out of the faith. It is all a part of God's greater plan for His church.

>>136400731
When you have no time you have eternity. So if we are at the current state, then we can say that eternity ended and we arrived at the current state.

You should question your framework if it includes the end of eternity

>>136400185
If by "abides" you mean: that you've accepted Christ died for your sins, was resurrected, and you've requested him to redeem you for your sins?

Then yes. If not, then you're not getting to Heaven.

>>136400490
see
>>136400731

>>136400785
Do you ever have a wank in the confessional? I know I would...

>>136396839

I can't seem to force myself to go to mass with this false/black/anti pope leading the Church to ruin.

How are we going to defeat his evil? Yes, he is evil, and he is NOT Catholic.

Sorry if I've missed questions from above. I was pretty focused on explaining the proof.
However, I can respond to a few things that passed by. If I missed you, just try your question again.
Regarding the pope, I'm not a huge fan. It is unprecedented that we have had a pope so challenge the teachings and practices of the faith (though he has carefully skirted around actually making a heretical statement). But the current pope was nudged into power by a bad cabal within the Church. This is fully documented and not some wacko conspiracy theory. Take a look at the "St Gallen Mafia."

>>136400136
I agree with
>>136399858
I have always thought that aquinas's 5 ways were shit tier proofs because he makes some great assumption. The only reason we can even talk about contingency is because we have observed it within our own universe. You say the universe cannot come from nothing but how do you know that? It seems to me that to even ask the question of what came before the universe, logically or temporally, is a meaningless question. We cannot even know what it means to conceptualize a "before the universe" because we are stuck within it.

>>136400785

I would encourage you to visit the Philippines, atleast once in your life, to soak in the effect of the vatican's doctrine on the poor.

I am curious if the vatican really knows what is going on in the coalface of some of the countries she holds power.

In no way will this alter your connection to god, but you may think differently about the operations of the vatican.

Thank you, priest, for your answer and taking the time. ( respect )

>>136400990
>But the current pope was nudged into power by a bad cabal within the Church. This is fully documented and not some wacko conspiracy theory. Take a look at the "St Gallen Mafia."
Why couldn't Benedict excommunicate all of them? If I were the Pope, excommunications would rain. De Kesel would never be a cardinal.

>>136396839
Curb your Pedophilia father,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZQedZWy9M

>>136400858
Well we know that the universe has an age- about 13.8 billion years. But remember, we are talking about logical sequence as well as temporal. So this means that we must explain why there is a universe at all. Think of it this way: we accept it as fact that "matter can be neither created nor destroyed" (though one can convert into the other, provided that the total sum is preserved. But if matter/energy cannot be created nor destroyed, how did it get here?

>>136400990
Care to answer this Father?
'Do you believe in Adam and Eve and a literal garden of eden? If not whence came the fall of man, and if man is not fallen what of the atonement? Surely a literal understanding of Genesis is fundamental to the Christian faith.
'

>>136400542
Time is dependent on both mass and velocity. There's no universal time.

>>136400891
There is also a lot of scriptural evidence that the Church may appear to fall in the end before being rescued by the returning Christ. This was all prophesied. It could be that we are leading up to the end times.

>>136400990
See
>>136400443
>>136400642

I've given up masturbating for over 2 months now
Considering that I'm not socialising at the moment, I'm basically celibate. Can you enlighten me on the positive aspects of celibacy? It seems to have had a positive impact on my life and I'm currently looking into why this my be the case, I think you could provide me with an interesting insight to this.

>>136400979
In the end we must be faithful to Christ. It is still His Church. Don't leave the table of the Last Supper just because Judas is sitting at it too. Remember the wheat and the tares.

>>136400990
>Take a look at the "St Gallen Mafia."
Quick rundown please.

>>136401132
>Well we know that the universe has an age- about 13.8 billion years

We don't KNOW that father. You have been told that - it has been surmised by fallible men. It may or may not be so. Your faith in the scientist is admirable, I wonder if your faith in the Lord is as strong?

>>136400990
I would like to ask this again. >>136400151

At least the part about priestly education.

>>136400162
I don't believe in things for which no evidence exists. If a belief in a god improves your life in a tangible way then I recommend that you keep at it.

>>136401000
Then here's what you're left with: if you believe that the existence of God is illogical, you have settled for an equally illogical position, namely, that something can spring from nothing (which it clearly cannot).

>>136401344
An Australian Creationist. A potent combination.

>>136401121
I'm right there with you.

What is the current catholic stance on dinosaurs?
(asking for a friend)

>>136400947
Well, yes. I just feel an immense guilt every time I pass the church I grew up going to because -despite him dying for my sins- I can't spare one hour for a mass. I occasionally pop in for a quick prayer on special days to me, but besides that I go for holidays.

>>136396839
Got back from Orthodox Liturgy today. Give me one reason why I should be Catholic instead of Orthodox without using these arguments
>Apostolic succession from Peter gives only the Catholic Church authority
>Rome is older or more Western

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>>136401418
Are you well aware of September 23rd and it's relation to the eclipse on august 21st?

>>136401331
I'm not him, but...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-danneels-admits-being-part-of-clerical-mafia-that-plotted-francis

>>136401344
Strong statement brother.

>>136401142
Thank you. I do believe that we all came from an original pair (it MUST be the case that we are all descended from the same pair since we are all of the same species). However, it could very well be (and I believe it to be) that we evolved from other hominids and at some point God Himself conferred the first souls. So the whole question of "where did Cain's wife come from?" is easy to answer: he was with another homo sapien, but one which did not possess a rational, eternal soul. But there was definitely some first true humans with souls, and they definitely rejected the divine commandment. Whether it was a literal tree or not is not important.

>>136401213
You make a statement of fact, from a point of ignorance. You cannot possibly know that time as a 'logical construct' is contingent upon matter. Time existing as it does in this physical realm we inhabit does not mean that it cannot also exist in other forms in other realms.

>>136401579
Thanks.

>>136401536
You are ok brother, but I can tell you know that you can do better.

>>136401281
I think I answered the first part above. Don't worry about the legal/illegal part. The priest is bound to say absolutely nothing. If he ever did say anything (I'm not aware of any case where that happened) he would be excommunicated. In truth, we hear illegal stuff all the time. Doesn't really phase us.

>Saved Trip
>>136396839
Hey father, how bad is the 5 circle of hell?
>ib4 confess
No saving for me, even if believing in Jesus teaching, soul sold for some dark shit and the 14 word.

priest-op do you think all the molestation shit in the early 2000s was a attempt by (((((((them)))))) to weaken the catholic church in preparation for the migrant invasion

lookin back on it i accepted what it was at face value but now im thinking its too much of a coincidence

>>136401293
This is really good. I imagine you've experienced some of the benefits of "nofap." What it means is that if you are called to marriage, you will be better suited to give yourself totally to your spouse. Many blessings will come from this. It also allows you to stay in a state of grace. Keep going to Mass/confession and keep praying!

>>136396839
Can I still get into heaven if I masturbate?

>>136401774
Also, look at this
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-mafia-blamed-for-papal-resignation-in-cardinals-report

>>136401695
So genesis is allegorical? Why stop there Father? Might not the Incarnation be allegorical too, or the Resurrection for that matter?
Darwin's theory has plenty of holes in it.

>>136401132
The Big Bang wasn't the creation of the universe, we only know that -Considering the expansion rate of our universe and taking into account redshift- logically there must have been a time when all matter and energy was in a single point.
We don't know if time was created at that moment, only that the 4 fundamental forces were spawned from the transformation of all that convergent energy into the gluons and photons that spread them, the latter which later turned into protons and electrons by quantum fluctuations we already observe happen in vacuum (Virtual particles).
The real gaps in our knowledge are:
-Why there's so few antimatter if the universe is so symmetrical
-If the energy came from somewhere (i.e. was created) or if it always existed
-If the universe is symmetrical at all.

>>136401323

That's what my wife says but I just can't do it. It also bugs me immensely that the church is big into multiculturalism and bringing in foreigners into nations where they don't belong.

It's likely I will convert to rthodox if this pope doesn't get deposed soon. We need Ratzinger back.

>>136401331
Yes. So the St. Gallen Mafia is basically this: The former archbishop of Belgium, Cardinal Daneels wrote an autobiography which was recently published. In this book he explains how he and other liberal bishops would meet in St. Gallen Switzerland and were trying to devise a way to get rid of Joseph Ratzinger, at the time the head of the CDF under John Paul II. Since they could not promote themselves, they promoted a little-known bishop way out in Buenos Aires...

>>136401418
You totally missed my point. And I don't think explaining over the Internet will ever make it clear. Read wittgenstein if you havent. And also I never said that the existence of God is illogical. The standard position for someone in my camp is that he could be real or fake. But we can never logically prove it. You could only know through divine revelation of some sort

>>136396839
Forgive my sins father

>>136401952
It is better to remove the offending appendage than to damn your mortal soul.

Castration isn't the only answer, but it IS an answer.

>>136402061
It turns out, Jorge Bergolio was the second place person in the conclave that elected Benedict (I remember reading this in the paper when it was leaked). So, once Benedict abdicated, they were able to put Francis in. It was part of a plan to attack the traditional Faith.

>>136401344
I believe so...

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>>136396839
Tell us about the satanic ritual child sexual abuse you guys do when the laity isn't looking


PS DOTR means you, too

>>136402156
does a lot of the clergy feel the same way, or do most of them still love Francis?

>>136401587
Yeah, I hope I wasn't out of line (if so forgive me father) but Scientism is a source of a great deal of the problems facing the Church. One should not abandon science but a degree of skepticism is warranted and entirely congruent with the arch of history.

>>136401367
We studied tons of philosophy in the sem, including Aristotle and the Stoics.
Regarding the liberals in the Church, in short I believe it is the influence of the evil one. How else to explain their continuous destruction? In the past, all persecution came from without. Now it is coming from within.

>>136402116
If so, you've explained the concept of "faith" pretty well.

>>136396839
Jesuits or Opus Dei?

>>136401577
checked and also here's the link to it just to save me posting space
http://imgur.com/gallery/OFn9e
>>136402198
what do u think?

>>136397743
freemasons?

>>136401487
We believe in them and in the rest of the fossil record. Fundamentalism has always been more of a Protestant thing.

>>136396839
If you're real 4Channer I've to ask you 2 essential questions before we proceed any meaningful discussion:
1) who's your waifu,
2) who 3dpd would you consider fapping to? (post pic)

>>136401544
Why be Orthodox then? Is it the liturgy? Have you tried eastern Catholic liturgies?

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>>136401743
Make two nuclear clocks that are synchronized.
Put a nuclear clock in Earth.
Put a nuclear clock in a rocket.
Make the rocket go outside of Earth's atmosphere and come back.
Now both clocks are not synchronized.

>>136397182
Lol this gonna be good. Had a good laugh with the whole ontological argument.

>>136401577
This is new to me...

>>136402328

I believe this as well. I think Satan is gaining in power, and has infiltrated MUCH (not just he church). I believe almost the entire left side of the political spectrum is demonically possessed. No I am not joking. And I believe the right is starting to be affected as well.

>>136396839
Looks like a black tshirt (see pocket on left side) and a collar, which could easily be made of something else.
More time stamped pics or confirmed LARP.

>>136401579
Thank you! Yes. It's not some wacko conspiracy theory. He admits to it.

>>136400949
Happening is a verb that implies time

>>136396839
All Christians are united under Christ, as our broker and Savior. I don't hate Catholics and I think many of them unfortunately put much negativity on their image by claiming their institution is the only right one. Through Christ Jesus we are the ekklasia and thus the "church"

>>136402328
I've been saying this for years: Liberals are influenced by he who was cast down. Thank you for saying it.

>>136397084
The busy thing is writing the speech your giving, if your actually giving a fuck, not doing anything else, this is what he has slaves for.

>>136401743
But then you still must explain how something can come from nothing, whether you take time into account or not.

>>136396839
why did your church throw out the book of enoch, et. al. ??

I know this isn't related to self-improvement but I would really like your opinion on this.

What's your opinion on Orthodox Christianity?

>>136401386
Why do you respond when there is no evidence tyou are communcating with a real person?

>>136401818
"levels" of hell are found in literature. the Bible does not speak of different levels, as far as I can tell.

>>136401934
I must admit father, I don't attend regularly but I do pray. Thank you for your response. I believe I have great potential but to realise this I must free myself from earthly desires. It's nice that you mention marriage but honestly I'm starting to have my doubts, women of virtue are in short supply, I thought I had one once but she betrayed me with malice. I don't know if I can bring myself to take that risk again. This causes me great despair, I hope God will guide me to peace about this issue when the time is right. Right now I'm focusing on self improvement

>>136402395
Ugh, is it that obvious i'm Protestant?

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>>136400990

Actual Catholic here.

>It is unprecedented that we have had a pope so challenge the teachings and practices of the faith

This is the fastest way to spot a fake Catholic.

I'm not saying everyone in the Church likes the Pope.
I'm frequently around traditionalists who criticize the Pope. But here is the thing; they don't criticize him because he is a radical heretic who is challenging the faith. They criticize him for the complete opposite reasons. They say he is too safe, conservative, and soft. That he isn't willing to take a hardline stance on issues and aggressively advocate discipline which the trads argue is what the Church needs.

The only people who think that our Holy Father is a heretic are ignorant people who only get their information about the See from sensationalist news outlets like Huffpost and Reuters, or rabid anti-Catholics like Proddies and Sedes who only want to believe the worst about the Church.

>>136396839
This is great. I recently escaped the progressive mental prison and look forward to your posts

Thank you for doing this. I am not a Catholic and I have a problem with Catholics but your willingness to come walk amongst us is admirable.

God bless you and I hope that you change lives for the better.

ALSO, I believe global warming is literally the left's religion now. it is Earth worship and Satan is using this as an avenue for infiltration.

This is why I believe the pope is evil, because he pushes global warming so hard.

>>136401894
So here's the redpill on the priest/pedophile meme. You can look up the John Jay Report yourself and see: priests are LESS likely to molest children than non-priests. HOWEVER, what we see is that 80% of the so-called "pedophile" molestations were actually young homosexual priests committing acts with older teen males. It was HOMOSEXUAL crisis above all. That is the part the (((media))) tries to hide.

>>136402487
>properties may
I'm well aware of Einstein's theory but you miss my point. I am stating that because time manifests as it does in the space time continuum we inhabit it does not necessarily follow that time itself cannot exist in other forms in other realms.... say a realm that we God inhabits. Materialism kills the imagination and caps our ability to understand that which exists beyond ourselves.

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>>136401386
By the way, improvement implies good. But there is no good without imprivement. There is no reason to keep at anything without God. The rejectiong of God always leads to absolute nihilism, lack of purpose and eventually suicide.

Right now you are just trying to keep an illusion alive, pretending there is, in your materialistic, arbitrary world, "good", which defines your "purpose".

Learn something about sciences, theology, principles and evidence and I guarantee you will not say again those stupidities.

>>136396904
Catholicism is fine. Your pope is a faggot commie tho

>>136401952
Say an act of contrition after and get to confession at the next reasonable opportunity. Do this and never fear hell. Of course, try to stop (the Church has recognized that "force of acquired" habit reduces culpability).

>>136398386
I will pray for you, but I also need help. I would appreciate a response too

>>136401934
Do you believe there is such thing as being called to the "single life" IE: not married or in the clergy.
If so how would one feasibly know whether one is meant to be single or married? Is it pure chance? If so is it really a calling?

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>>136402870
here's the rest

>>136401982
Not purely allegory, but not purely literal (the earth was not made in 6 days...) It is a blend of the two.

>>136397740
Mary being a virgin at the time of Christ's birth is a basic tenet of Christianity.

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>>136402915

I was raised as a Catholic but have sort of drifted away from it. Maybe it's time I start looking more into it, thanks father.

>>136401805
You're absolutely right. Thank you for the eye opener. God bless.

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Why is the pope kiss islams ass?
He left Christians refugees behind to take moslems instead.

Catholicism seems to be a tool of the globalists, and promotes the NWO.

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>>136402945

>>136396839
Thanks a lot anon. I really enjoy these threads. If more priests were like you. I'd probably still go to church.

>>136402789
Interesting point. I kind of agree anon.

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>>136402978
pretty freaky right?

>>136401997
The whole question of "where the energy came from" is what it hinges on. It cannot have "always existed" (cf kalaam argument).

is astrology heretical?

>>136402031
Don't leave! We need to stick together more than ever.

>>136397930
This.
I need to know

>>136402864
Would you mind explaining what you mean? Not the same anon

>>136396839
46 yo agnost and raised Catholic.
Need your help.

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1Tim 2:5-1Tim 2:6 ESV For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

Oh shit! Looks like Mary worship is heretical! Looks like you'll have to find a denomination that's less Mormon-tier now.

>>136402843

well, considering our interaction with reality is highly filtered through senses, it is unlikely that we will be able to break free from the biological filter to explore energies we are not designed to experience.

>>136402116
I have read Wittgenstein, thank you ("old" Wittgenstein as well as "new"). I actually like a lot of what he has to say.
Since you seem to know your stuff, maybe check out Plantinga's proof. He comes from the analytical school (to which Wittgenstein contributed so much).

>>136402117
I can't do it over the internet... you have to go to confession. Would if I could though...

>>136403105

praying to, does not equal worship you dirty baptist.

fucking larpers i swear

>>136403054
yes. wtf anon.

>>136402604
I see time as being a facet of God's nature, much as love, justice and logic is. Since god exists, so to does time. God is not timeless He IS time. We experience an aspect of time much as we experience consciousness (which is also a part of God's nature) through the medium of the physical world God prepared for us.

>>136402843
So you ignore how time works in our universe and then say "Well, maybe in God's realm it works different".
And what we can't experience through our senses we use math to make abstract ideas. That's physics.

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>>136396839
Fuck you, stop force feeding people your lies and stop molesting children, help yourself not others you fucking jew

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>>136396839
What are you doing to stop the spread of heretical islam, which by it's own words written in quran, is ok to kill non-belivers this includes chirstians.
To take them as slaves
And to force them to pay abusing them for not converting

>>136396839
If you bless the ocean, does all if it become holy water?

>>136403277
so I'm not allowed to read my horoscope?

>>136402272
The young priests feel as I do, but we are somewhat in "hiding" right now. There's a great deal of persecution (or a "soft" variety) that we are subjected to right now. I'm hoping for things to change soon...

The Vatican is Satan's throne.

>>136402275
Agreed.
>more signs of places I've been lately!

>>136402466
I have considered Eastern Catholic Lithurgy, and I have a lot of respect for Eastern Catholics, but there are absolutely none in my area. Most Catholics around me are Hispanic, because I'm in California. Seems counterintuitive to become one though, just because I like their simmilaries to the Orthodox Church.

>>136403213
Tell us about the satanic ritual child sexual abuse you guys do when the laity isn't looking

the thing we are going to hang you for on DOTR

>>136403252

why was confession added in the 1600s?

when at mass and you do the, 'I confess, to almighty God, and to you my brothers and sisters.. etc.', does that not count as confession?

>>136396839
Fuck off trip fag. Any faggot can be given holy orders.

>>136399078
I'm not that guy but I think he meant that hanging onto the labels "2" and "5" is pointless because they were made by man arbitrarily? Therefore they have no concrete meaning and could be thought to mean anything? Kind of a guess there desu.
Also there's a lot of edgelords in here

>>136403398
well DUH, thank you captain obvious

>>136402359
Jesuits are either really good or really bad. I've met some good ones. Opus Dei... I've been disappointed by a lot of them. I don't think there as orthodox as people make them out to be. Though there are some great ones. I'd choose FSSP over them

>>136403105
Well besides Mary, which is a non-issue, the idea that anyone but Jesus can mediate for us is what I find heretical. Also, the priesthood of the Catholic institution reads just like the Levitical priesthood fundamentally, which has been overridden in the New convenant with Jesus as our priest. Catholics are believers still, and thus inherent the promise of Abraham, so they could not enemies of Yaoah.

>>136403358

what advice would you give to the next generation.

What character traits do you feel are more weak in mankind than 20-30 years ago.

After my wife gives birth, I will pass on your advice to my child.

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Have you seen The Young Pope? did you like it?

>>136403008
Environmentalism is paganism rearing its ugly head again...

>>136403077
Every science does the same thing: you take a set of principle and from those principles you prove other things. The set of principles used to prove the other things are what could be called the evidence.

Then, however, you have the problem of why that first set of statements are considered to be true in the first place.

There are two possibilities: either the principles are explained by an upper science, or they are evident. There is no other option, so everything is ultimately based on evident principles. So everything is ultimately based on things we don't prove.

Theology is the superior science, since its principles do not come from the reason, but are divine revelation, since they are beyond the reason.

All of this, and more in http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1001.htm

Every single atheism claim you have seen has already been debunked hundreds or thousands of years ago by fat monks.

>>136403405
Do you think single mothers should focus on raising their child or try and find a mate to possibly help raise that child?

>>136402369
Possibly. I'd say even likely. There is evidence that Bugnini, who masterminded the changes in the Mass and sacraments was an active mason. I wouldn't be surprised.

>>136403529
t. Mexican intellectual

I know how you guys are, you don't read books

>>136403355
For entertainment, perhaps. If you have any inclination that it holds power or worth, then you're messing with idolatry and holding a god as higher than The Most High.

Granting that perhaps there might be a cosmic being able to perceive multiple dimensions that propelled change in the universe, you have to admit that the anthropomorphic description we give it and creation as a whole through sand nigger books is asinine. Or will you just say "yeah the Old Testament is BS, the New Testament is where it's at!"

>>136396839
Why is catholic leadership full of coke-fueled gay orgies? Put that term into a search engine to see the news stories.

>>136400045
Thanks! I hope you know you have a captive audience here!

>>136398314
Go alone

>>136402495
I am not a fan of the ontological argument at all (nor was St. Thomas Aquinas, pictured)

>>136403529
Thanks man, I pity atheists that don't want to be in the Covenant... It's so sad to me. I will check out the link.

>>136396966

Covert lesbians.

>>136403185
That is where faith and revelation come in to play, and that is why holding faith in the scientific method is irrational.

>>136403595
Fuck you faggot

>>136402510
It's an RJ Toomey shirt.

>>136403499
Fuck off LARP

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>>136403670
because they are Satanists

>>136403595
Tell us about the satanic ritual child sexual abuse you guys do when the laity isn't looking

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>>136397669
Is it because the jesuits are basically crypto-jews, and since the pope is a jesuit its only natural to assume hes either a crypto-jew, or works for them?
>How do you feel about jesuits? Harmful with their globalism goals, or good because of the colleges they built?

>>136396839
do you think its wrong to racemix?
t. gook

>>136403285
>And what we can't experience through our senses we use math to make abstract ideas. That's physics.
No that is speculation dressed up in a fancy academic dress...

>>136402556
What had the biggest effect on me was how the canon of Scripture was put together. The New Testament was compiled by Catholic bishops. I actually "accepted Christ" through an evangelical church. It was there I first came to really love and read the Bible. But my study of where it came from led me to the Catholic Church.

>>136400045
Meant that in a positive way, like we are forced by our keen interest

>>136403677
that would be pretty awkward though

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>>136397669

http://redefininggod.com/2016/10/how-the-kabbalist-jews-took-over-the-roman-catholic-church-through-the-jesuit-order/

*FORGOT THE LINK*

>>136403026
But you are making the assumption that it can't.
For our universe to exist there HAS to be the energy that makes it, the energy is necessary.
If there wasn't a kind of energy lying around always, then there wouldn't be energy now, since it's a necessity for energy to exist.
If energy was created, then it is completely NECESSARY that something had the power to create said energy.
And if that something existed then it also necessitates that something else created it.
It's an infinite regression.

We know that our universe wasn't always in the state that it is now, and that for some reason it has been around since at least 13 billion years. And that's using Einstein's equations without yet making the corrections used by quantum mechanics. We do not know yet for sure how it all works.

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>>136403866
Tell us about the satanic ritual child sexual abuse you guys do when the laity isn't looking

>>136403798
You earned your name with that fully retarded post

>>136402621
I believe they are my close brothers. I'm a huge fan of the orthodox and I look forward to when we can unite again.

>protties ITT

You dumb faggots wouldn't even have a New Testament without the Church.

Why do you read Revelations and not the Epistles of Clement?

Why do you read the Gospel of John and not the Didache?

Do you think God gave the apostles a table of contents on Pentecost?

Fucking cucks. Using the Bible to argue against the group on whose authority the entire canon rests.

>>136399761
>All contingent beings require an explanation for their existence
That doesn't make sense if you're really serious about your logic. Your just opening a gap you fill with God. Study some logic then come back or talk sense without referring to something you have no idea of.

>>136402661
Take a look at the link I posted in the first post. I'll be back on here and I'll keep on with the other topics. I hope you find them helpful. God bless you.

>>136403595
Do we need a new Holy Order of Warriors to protect Christians in Outremer and Christendom?

>>136402328
Thank you for the answer!

When I see priests in my country, some of them don't look like they have a great philosophical education. I'm happy that in America, they are doing better.

>>136402505
Didn't Paul VI say something about the infiltration?

>>136403945


Anglican. ( Wife is catholic ). A handful on wonderful orthodox friends.

When a death cult attacks the one true God, even I believe it is a calling all catholics, and to all who were touched by the holy bible ANYTIM
E in their lives.

Agree with you, father.,

>>136403866
You are not a priest and even if you received Orders you shouldnt be. Tell me, does your fathet approve of you posting here?

>>136402681
No one is saying the pope is too conservative... where do you get this???
Furthermore, I'm not saying he is a heretic. He has however promoted the flourishing of heretical practices (amoris laetitia and the subsequent interpretations that go against the teaching of Christ). I still respect him as the pope though.

>>136404106

*a calling to all Christians <-- typo fix

>>136403866
Noted, thank you. God willing, we will unite at the New Jerusalem and then brothers and sisters will know that Catholics aren't Satanists. They may be Judiasers but they may also be saved. I don't think damnation comes from an institution, nor salvation from another. I hope to see you in due time.

>>136402061
>>136402156
Thank you for the rundown.

>>136402883
What is the addiction to?

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>>136403945
Tell us about the satanic ritual child sexual abuse you guys do when the laity isn't looking

>>136402904
It can be a calling. This can be done alone or in a community. You should discern this with prayer and a good spiritual director. Maybe you have a call to the religious life...

>>136404122
Not catholic
Not a priest

Fuck off LARP

>>136402915
thank you!

>>136402156
What should I read up on to know more about st Galen guys?

>>136402950
Your welcome. God bless you. And stay posted for the reading list I'll post next time I'm here.

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How incredibly difficult is to be obedient, and deny yourself. But that's the narrow path.

>>136402328
>In the past, all persecution came from without. Now it is coming from within.
Not true, see the Reneissance and then the Reformation.

>>136403837
Maybe for (you)

>>136404367
Based Priest. Thanks for dropping in!

>>136402681
What? There are plenty of traditionalists that complain the Pope is too aggressive in his liberalism.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-appoints-very-liberal-progressive-cupich-a-cardinal

>>136402981
Go because it's true, not because there are good priests or not. Even if Einstein was a jerk, I'd still believe in relativity. Pursue the truth above all else and don't let anyone stop you.

>>136404367
FRAUD.

>>136403054
It's both anti-science and a sin. Total waste of time.

>>136404122
>amoris laetitia
Em, not that a soul less believer has any thing to criticize, but going through this, reminds me on some Satanist literature. I knew Jesuits are literal heretics, but that, holy goly, the church has become the house of the lightbringer