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I had an Ave Maria bumper sticker on my old car and a Spanish speaker thought it was Spanish (and then reeled off a Hail Mary in Spanish) so I've always thought the Spanish Hail Mary started with Ave Maria. Did it change at some point?

In French it's Je vous salue Marie "I hail thee Mary"

Jack3 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 5:45 am in exodus
Could they perform miracles too?

Sorcery

Or perhaps they were simply magicians, like those of today.

Sounds cynical to me, like something a certain trad Anglican would say

I think the article from the Catholic Encyclopedia is very helpful on this topic. One of the reasons the Church was so strict about this in the middle ages (far more than it is today) was to unite the peoples of Christendom under the banner of Christ and His Church.

So, under the natural law, you cannot marry your ancestors but you can marry cousins,amirite? What about siblings then? I think that's answered above. Siblings are not related in the direct line so unions between them are not forbidden by the natural law. If they were then the propagation of the hu...

While this makes the case that incest is risky or that non-incestuous marriages are better, it does not establish them as absolute evil under the natural law. Because they are not an absolute evil under the natural law. If they were then how did Cain, Seth, etc. have families? I think only unions t...

If this is something that is going to be a pattern, you can always go to your priest and ask for a dispensation. He might have other advice too.

Jack3 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 11:00 pm Once PED (stomachosus thomistarum?) had posted a quote saying those who die on original sin alone can't simply go to heaven.

Correct, they cannot.

ETA: but this doesn't tell us anything much about whether all unbaptized infants die in Original Sin.

In this particular case, Australian law is only a reiteration of the policies of Facebook and X, both platforms had long forbid accounts for anyone under 16. Facebook allows accounts for children as young as 13 and has had this policy for at least a decade. X has a similar policy but I don't know h...

I did observe, when I was in Russia some years ago, that the observance of religion by the people was open and apparently devout. I did visit a Catholic church in St Petersburg. Although a bit worn around the edges, perhaps due to age, it was apparently as active and observant as any parish I've se...

The White Mass isn't a novelty but the Clown Mass definitely is (or was, it seems barely to exist now), because clown ministry is itself a novelty. And I don't think the Clown Mass can be grouped together with Blue, White, or Red Masses since none of those involve the liturgical ministers dressing u...

Doom seems to be more or less correct; you can read the actual bill here: https://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-par ... -43-2.html

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 8:30 am

anawim wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 3:48 am

For 30 A.D.: May 06 Jun 04 Nov 28
For 33 A.D.: Apr 03 Sep 27

So do any of those 5 dates coincide with the Sabbath?

April 3, A.D. 30.

I'm sure you mean AD 33

Doom wrote: ↑Sun Nov 30, 2025 2:30 pmEveryone was invited, and meeting with them was the purpose of the event.

The Russian Orthodox were not invited - the Holy See left it up to the Ecumenical Patriarchate to invite the Orthodox.

Cardinal Fernandez made a statement today that he didn't mean to say the titles of "Co-Redemptrix" and "Mediatrix of all Graces" were being banned, that he meant they can be used in private devotion, but not in the liturgy. Exactly what I said, that the document says. If the doc...

LOL, I really have to hand it to Doom, he seems to have divined the esoteric meaning of Mater Populi Fideles: https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/cardinal-fernandez-clarifies-co-redemptrix I didn't "divine" anything; I read several extensive commentaries by people I trust. I just try not...

LOL, I really have to hand it to Doom, he seems to have divined the esoteric meaning of Mater Populi Fideles:

https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/ca ... redemptrix

So why would one see priests dressed as clowns?

About 20 years ago or so my wedding ring fell off while I was sleeping - still not quite sure how it happened, but I went to bed with it and woke up without it - and I couldn't find it anywhere. I went into work and was off the whole day, I had co-workers praying to St. Anthony for me. My wife tore ...

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:34 pm No podemos. We're all about barycenters now.

So hard to lose weight after 50