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- Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:07 am
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate: Dilexi te
- Replies: 10
- Views: 292
Re: Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate: Dilexi te
Do you think Cardinal Fernandez had no hand in it?
- Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Lyceum
- Topic: Bible "what-ifs" that you think about?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13021
Re: Bible "what-ifs" that you think about?
What if God had made Eve out of the dust of the ground instead of from Adam's rib? Would Adam not feel incomplete without her? (I have noticed that chromosomes look like a rib cage and that indeed a man's sex chromosome (Y) is like the X missing one piece.)
- Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Lyceum
- Topic: The First is the Greatest
- Replies: 1
- Views: 46
The First is the Greatest
Both paragraph 24 in Leo's Exhortation and #2055 in the Catechism speak of the two greatest commandments as constituting a single commandment, as if Jesus joined together what the Old Testament had held apart. It is good that he did lay them next to each other, but I think he purposely distinguished...
- Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Y'All Be Wary
- Replies: 16
- Views: 888
Re: Y'All Be Wary
The place we need y'all is in Bible translations. Older English used to distinguish singular (thou) from plural (you). The Douay-Rheims (and the King James) reflect that. It made statements clearer, like "Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat, but I have pr...
- Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:25 am
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: "if you do not forgive"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1869
- Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:35 am
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: "if you do not forgive"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1869
Re: "if you do not forgive"
As often, Doom makes some excellent points.
- Tue Aug 05, 2025 9:25 am
- Forum: The Lyceum
- Topic: The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1152
Re: The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...
The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? Forgiveness implies the sinner may change. Satan, the father of lies, will never change. We're juggling two teachings here: 1. It is commonly said that unforgi...
- Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:34 am
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: What if you accidentally forgot a sin during Confession?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4536
Re: What if you accidentally forgot a sin during Confession?
Catholic Answers: It was absolved already. If it is a venial sin, you do not need to confess it. If it was a mortal sin, it was absolved, provided you at least implicitly intended to mention it if you had remembered it. What this means is that you confessed all known sins and would have confessed w...
- Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Lyceum
- Topic: The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1152
The Devil trespasses against us; therefore...
The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? It's true that we don't get to blame him for our own sins, but I'm thinking that he has done as much damage in God's creation as Adam and Eve. So it can be natu...
- Sat Apr 26, 2025 9:30 am
- Forum: Apologetics
- Topic: Call no man father!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
- Replies: 26
- Views: 23760
Re: Call no man father!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
No, that isn't what he meant, and I can't believe you just tried to give a serious answer to this joke thread When is a thread a joke? When people needle each other. ( :lalala People who needle people are the luckiest people in the world.) When is a joke a thread? When the punch line is hanging by ...
- Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:40 am
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: Catholic and dealing with transgender relatives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1441
Re: Catholic and dealing with transgender relatives
We have a daughter who leaned the way the world has been leaning about sexual identity. She came out as Lesbian during college and even "married" (in Canada which recognized such a thing before the U.S.). But before long she went on into "transition" and so has a groomed beard an...
- Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: The Pub
- Topic: HELP! Electric appliances failing...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16531
Re: HELP! Electric appliances failing...
Next time anyone has what might be an electrical problem, private message me. Troubleshooting home electrical, even remotely, was my professional niche. Sorry I didn't see this topic till now.
- Sun Oct 27, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: The University
- Topic: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17754
Re: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
Around here "full, active, conscious" participation in the Mass is commonly touted as calling for singing all the hymns (and it doesn't help that my wife loves to sing and doesn't understand why I don't always). But I do sing the mass settings, once I get the hang of the latest one.
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: The University
- Topic: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17754
Re: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
Depending on how you define it, hundreds if not thousands of musical settings for the Mass have been written. I'm happy to enjoy hundreds of settings, but the difference now is that we non-musician, non-choir people are expected to perform them (even while processing up for communion somehow, in th...
- Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: The University
- Topic: Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17754
Liturgy: Rich or Restless?
What prompts this question is that my parish has now led us into learning yet one more "mass setting" (of music). Yes, besides more than four mass texts that a priest may opt to use, there are in the U.S. now at least eleven ways for us to sing our parts of the mass, as well as the hundred...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: Funeral Mass
- Replies: 20
- Views: 28973
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: Funeral Mass
- Replies: 20
- Views: 28973
Re: Funeral Mass
If you want to affect how people will remember you, get in their face now. (They shouldn't be fooled by something you chose for your funeral.) I'm 77 and don't see the end of the tunnel yet. I'm happy for Providence (including relatives and the parish priest) to arrange my funeral. If they don't do ...
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Lyceum
- Topic: Today's reading from 1 Cor.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10292
Re: Today's reading from 1 Cor.
11:19 "19 there have to be factions among you in order that [also] those who are approved among you may become known.[j]" The footnote says: Paul situates their divisions within the context of the eschatological separation of the authentic from the inauthentic and the final revelation of ...
- Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Pub
- Topic: Feedback Requested re: Peculiar interaction (probably not demonic?)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3122
Re: Feedback Requested re: Peculiar interaction (probably not demonic?)
Off the top of my head, any chance she might have needed to stick the buds in her own ears and hear what you were hearing?
- Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: Catholicism 101
- Topic: NABRE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16982
Re: NABRE
The cynic or the fundamentalist would say that the Catholic Church, having been forced against its will to issue a Bible, has decided to only make it available in the most worthless, useless editions that no one who loves books would ever buy, and thereby discourage anyone from reading it. Another ...