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And he just went on and continued his ministry outside of The Assemblies of God, his former denomination, so it made no difference, except for a serious loss of credibility with all except the most devoted of his followers

Once a TV superstar, his career came to an abrupt end when he was caught with a prostitute, which happened more than once and led to him being defrocked.

Just like the last 4 Popes, Leo is a moderate The idea that Francis was a moderate is risible. You sure seem to like that word. He was a moderate; he alienated the left by being too far to the right, and he alienated the right by being too far to the left. Classic evidence of someone in the middle ...

Doom, we can get a clear sense of Pope Leo's direction through his almost daily messages, audiences, and homilies which are all posted to the Holy See website as they happen and reported by Vatican news. False, one absolutely cannot discern what kind of Pope he is going to be by reading his homilie...

Her best work is "And Then There Were None." I prefer Poirot, even though Agatha Christie herself loathed him. She said she hated that Poirot is such an egotist and braggart, but the funny thing is, she didn't have to write him that way; she did it once, and he became so popular that she h...

I read the above with interest. I also read an article that proposed that Leo is focused (among other things, I imagine) on the renewal within the Church. Vocations, the Orders, youth. I perked up with the Orders being mentioned. I wonder if the women's orders have become a thing of the past -- ano...

I have never really cared for Tommy and Tuppance

zeno wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 11:16 pm That looks interesting but still hoping for something that encourages the devotion. Maybe there is something for young adult male spirituality in general?

I don't know, I think stuff written specifically for one demographic is lame,I certainly avoid such stuff.

Bergsma cowrote a good book taking down the JEPD theory too. Much of what passes for modern Biblical scholarship is nothing but theorizing in the absence of any evidence and then presenting the theories as certain. Literary analysis in general is like this, it is why people get PhDs for theses on t...

I first read it when I was in college

The only people who seem to obsess with Vat. II, are the people who didn't live through it. Just like the only people who are obsessed with Pope Francis are people who have few memories of any other Pope. Pope Leo is the 6th Pope of my lifetime, the more Popes you live through, the less important e...

The Secret of the Rosary by St Louis de Montfort

Well it is a classic

We will certainly be seeing a seamless continuation of Vatican II goals. I have no idea what you think you mean by that, but very few would describe what has been happening in the Church since Vatcan 2 as a "seamless continuation" of anything More "Vatican II is a super council"...

The NAB is much the same, though I don't blame him if he's never looked at its ridiculously bad footnotes. Not just the NAB, but any Bible, Bible commentary, or Study Bible, written by anyone attempting to engage with modern scholarship, other than a fundamentalist, in the last century, takes it fo...

anawim wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:55 pm

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:01 pm Francis was a little to the left, while still being moderate.

The word that springs to mind was, erratic. He was all over the board.

No, he wasn't. Paul VI, the last radical Pope, definitely was. He even complained that people didn't understand him and thought he was rudderless.

I think it's too early to tell, and I think it's a mistake to try to pigeonhole him as a Francis 2.0 or a turn-back-the-clock traditionalist. Let him tell us who he is and what he's about. He is not a Traditionist and no one thinks he is. Just like the last 4 Popes, Leo is a moderate, by which I me...

I think the arguments in favor of their being pseudonymous are poor. I made a post earlier in this thread about how there is no compelling argument against authenticy except the argument from "scholarly consensus", which, not only isn't true based on the most recent evidence (56-44 is not...

It is certainly not obvious that he will continue in a manner similar to Francis. Francis clearly broke from the path B16 was on, and with hundreds of years of tradition in many cases as well. Yes, Francis was more willing than most Popes to defy tradition, but most of what we call Papal "norm...

Pope Leo XIV is very clearly continuing on the coat tails of Vatican II and his predecessor Pope Francis which was to be expected. Following his guidance with submission is another part of the Church's 2000 year old journey. As anyone who has been paying attention would have noticed by now, Leo has...

That sounds risible ... who is doing the disputing? The majority of historical critical scholars for over 150 years, including the notes in nearly every English Bible, Study Bible, and Bible Commentary currently in print, including the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible, and the NAB. I am gen...