@ Holy Cannoli, great! At last you see the light!
Well done! I always thought that you'd get there eventually. Good on ya mate!!!!
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@ Louella, though I agree that more should be done for persecuted Christians ... I think that blaming the Vatican is missing the real target ... what are Catholic politicians doing all over the world? US Vice President Biden is a Catholic ... any words demanding his co-religionists security? German Chancellor Merkl is the daughter of a Lutheran Pastor. Has she uttered a word to ensure the welfare of fellow Christians? It is too easy to blame the Vatican ... but it is the laity that should take … [More]

@ Louella ... yes, there should be a modern day "Catholic League" ... but, unfortunately, that is only a dream. If the Popular Party comes back to power in Spain and if Italy's centre-right government can rid itseld of that reprobate Berlusconi and get a true Catholic [in private actions as well as public words and deeds] ... well there might be a chance. Despite all his personal scandals, Berlusconi's Government did fight, and win, to retain the Cross in all public places.
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@ signofcontradiction YES!!!
SboC

Fantastic testimony!!! And on CNN, wow! Thank you for sharing this "Ira".
SboC

@ tbswv - as Catholics we are not free to pick and choose from Ecumenical Councils what we like and dismiss and disparage what we don't like. Catholicism isn't a "smorgasbord" ... unfortunately or fortunately. The Second Vatican Council was the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. Whether we like it or not, that is a fact ... and as you say this Council is "valid". As such one must accept all its decisions. If one does not accept that the 2nd Vatican Council is Ecumenical then one … [More]

Well said "Gloria.TV - News Briefs"!!! These cherry-picked cases ARE well publicised!!! Amnesty International has lost so much credibility and it deserves to lose support!
SboC

Very funny! Thanks for the laugh!!!
SboC

Thank you "Ira" ... that DEFINITELY closes the matter. Upon seeing the video, and "mis-interpreting" it, I too had been worried that some "disrespect" had occurred. Your posting completely reassures me. Thank you so much!
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Hi, ACL, amice
Thanks a million, I'll try to that in the future!
Ciao,
SboC

Sorry everyone, I've been trying to post a cutting from a newspaper but I am NOT computer savvy enough to do so!
Anyway, the article was about "Amnesty International" wanting the Canadian Government to arrest George Bush "for authorising torture as he directed the US-led war on terror", when he attends an economic summit in Surrey, British Columbia, next Thursday.
This reminds me of those "nuts" who were clamouring for the arrest of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI when he made a Pastoral visit … [More]

Hi ACL!!!
Procedamus in pace.
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Hi SBpfu !!!
Well said!
There are two things that I don't understand about all this. Firstly, why all the fuss about a miniscule splinter group? I'm sure the Holy Father has far more important and pressing things than to be waiting by the phone for a call from bishop Fellay and his ilk. From how some people talk, however, it sounds like a case of "the tail wagging the dog"! Secondly, what has happened to the fervent Christian hope that should animate us as followers of Christ? Don't we believe … [More]

Far better jokes, funnier and in much better taste, have been posted on this site. Quite frankly, I'd expect this kind of joke on a fundamentalist Protestant [I can't even imagine mainline Anglicans/Episcopalians or Lutherans doing so] or an Islamic site.
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Hi Trinitas!!!
Actually, it was the great Catholic Anglo-French writer Hilaire Belloc [1870-1953] who counted Islam as a Christian heresy [as well as a threat to the West] in his book, aptly named, "The Great Christian Heresies".
The following website has further information on this:
http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2010/06/belloc-islam-is-christian-heresy.html
Thanks for the welcome ... yes the typhoon was a tad hairy [as we say in Oz!].
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My dear friend Trinitas, I am not sure where you got that [partial] quote supposedly attributable to St Thomas Aquinas regarding Islam. If you go to this website:
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/islam/thomas.htm
you will see that St Thomas Aquinas did not believe that Mohammed was a true prophet and he cogently argued against the Moslem objections to the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation. Nowhere, however did he say anything about Moslems not worshipping the same God as the … [More]

You state that "the Pope was flat out, and loudly, wrong". You talk of "silliness within the Catholic Church". You refer to actions of a Supreme pontiff of the Universal Church [Pope Paul VI] as "unjust and illegal" and as "nutty-novel". You attack Religious Orders with whom you disagree as "malign and mephitic" [the latter, presumably, a reference to Mephistopheles, a demon] and to their actions as stinking "like the bottom of a monkey cage". You say that you have "excommunicated" yourself … [More]

As you you say, the SSPX has been the carrier of many lights. So was "Lucifer". His sin and that of the Lefebvrists has also been the same: "Non serviam".
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May the Great Servant of God Pope Paul VI pray for us all!

Naturally, as you have so rightly enumerated, there are myriad doctrinal differences, of fundamental importance, between ourselves and Moslems [actually, as someone has already mentioned on this website, there are some who have categorised Islam as a "Christian heresy"] this, however, does not negate the simple reality that Yahweh, Allah and God are one and the same Deity. In fact, our Eastern Christian brothers and sisters who use Arabic to pray, refer to God as "Allah" because "Allah" in … [More]

In his letter of the 10th of March 2009 His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI wrote:
"The fact that the Society of St Pius X does not possess a canonical status in the Church is not, in the end, based on disciplinary but on doctrinal reasons. As long as the Society does not have a canonical status in the Church, its ministers do not exercise legitimate ministries in the Church."
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Who is one going to believe and follow? The Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church on March 10th 2009 declared that the SSPX has no "canonical status in the Church" and that ministers of the SSPX "do not exercise legitimate ministries within the Church". In a magazine dated July 11th 2008, a Monsignor Camille Perl the Vice President of PCED is quoted as saying that "the SSPX is not in formal schism". [Notice the qualifier "formal".]
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While we wait for official response from the SSPX to the Vatican ...

What "official response"???? The SSPX has NO CANONICAL standing within the Church. And the Vatican has to wait for the Lefebvrist response??? What, in fear and trembling??? That splinter group should kneel in gratitude that Rome has deigned to re-open dialogue.

In his letter of the 10th of March 2009 "to the Bishops of the Catholic Church concerning the remission of the excommunication of the four bishops consecrated by … [More]

"On September 12th, 2006, Joseph Ratzinger claimed that the god of the Muslims is both transcendental and unreasonable."

Firstly, Pope Benedict would never have referred to "the god of the Muslims" because Jews, Christians and Moslems are all monotheists and all worship the One same God. Secondly, and consequently, the Pope could not have said, and indeed did not say, that this "god ... is ... unreasonable". The point he was very clearly, and correctly, making is that the "understanding" that … [More]

The situation, surely, is simple and anyone with even the most basic ability to think logically and even the most rudimentary understanding of the Sacramental system of the Catholic Church surely comprehends: Marriage is a Sacrament ... a Sacrament before Almighty God between one man and one woman. What is so difficult to understand about that? What is conservative, reactionary about that? There is no "homophobia" here. "Civil Unions"? Go for it! Holy Matrimony conducted in a Catholic Church? … [More]

Thanks Gloria.TV ... I just love your jokes ... and this one is GREAT!!! Not only is laughter the best medicine but a sense of humour is a great way to facilitate ecumenism ... we all tend to take ourselves far too seriously!
SboC

@ Ira Yessss!!! Why do they stay if they only criticise???
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Hi ACL!!!
The point that I was trying to make, and responding to, turns on whether the Popes have been wrong in beginning the "Assisi Ecumenical Meetings of World Religious Leaders". Philosopher would argue, I think [please correct me if I'm wrong, Philosopher] that those issues do not involve the teaching authority of the Pope and, as such, can not only be criticised by ordinary Catholics but can be openly classed as disasters and mistakes in prudence. I, on the other hand, hold that it is … [More]

Gregory!!!
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Hi Philosopher, please allow me to enter the discussion. You set up an hypothetical situation which, though highly unlikely, is within the realms of possibility. I think that you are correct in saying that in such a situation, [the selling off of St Peters' etc., etc.,] Catholics could openly and rightly disagree with the Pope. They would do so, however, not with the pope as Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church but with the pope as Sovereign of the City of the Vatican. The former institution … [More]

Very true Gregory. I take your point about the "fracturing nature" of those who break away from Rome. The "Orthodox" are nothing but national churches and in some countries there are even 2 or more "Orthodox" Churches. And the protestants ... well, they have continued fracturing and splitting further to this very day. No wonder so many Anglicans have realised that the only road ahead is through Rome. "Ut unum sint!"
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Hi ACL! That's very interesting and great good news about the "Lefebvrist" Benedictine Monastery returning to Rome's allegience. May we all be one! Especially with the Eastern Churches, the Anglicans and the Lutherans.
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Are we giving the Lefebvrists too much importance and thus flattering their self-importance? It is they who left the Church. We can't be "Papists" only when we agree with the Pope. We can't be Catholics only when we agree with what the Church does. Even more so, we can't portray ourselves as the only "true Catholics" while the overwhelmingly vast majority of the rest of the Church has fallen into error! "Roma locuta est - causa finita est" [paraphrasing St Augustine of Hippo] ... when Rome has … [More]

@ Gregory Hello my friend!
One small step from Congress to the White House for Obama; one giant leap for the Black People of the USA ... so much promise ... I remember the joy and the hope ... but what have the concrete results been? Utter disappointment. Mr Obama is long on rhetoric but falls far too short in terms of real action.
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Dear Ira, thanks for the response. I'll follow this up with our friend SBpfu tomorrow. It is getting very late in HK!
Good night
SboC

My brothers and sisters, my fellow Catholics, should GloriaTV become a very specific Internet "Pressure Group" pushing orthodox Catholic causes and total reverence and obedience for the Holy Father? I know that I am a "Johnny come lately" on this website so that I have really no right to be proposing things ahead of more senior members ... BUT ... regardless of what happened on this occasion [and the longer video does seem to suggest a more "benevolent" interpretation of the event] ... there … [More]

@ schoole & Trinitas, Yes ... I see that now ... and I am so relieved!
Thanks to you both for pointing that out to me.
SboC

Doina, thank you ... thank you ... thank you!!!! The vast majority of Catholics are right behind our Holy Father!!!
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I have watched this video several times ... always hoping that that my previous view was somehow faulty!!! I CANNOT believe that a bishop would refuse to shake hands, and even avoid making eye-contact, with the Vicar of Christ!!!! Are we worthy of the name Catholic? May God Almighty forgive us!!! This is the most horrible video that I have ever seen! It is the first time that I have had feelings of absolute disrespect for members of the Episcpacy and may God forgive me for that.
Sboc

@psmamere67 ... YES! Well said!
May God continue to bless you,
SboC

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR GLORIATV TO SEND THE HOLY FATHER A LETTER OF LOYALTY, or something similar, SIGNED BY AS MANY OF US AS WE CAN MUSTER????
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Oh my God!!! This is incredible!!! Quite clearly some bishops are snubbing the Holy Father!!! What is happening to the Church in the "German" countries? I make a point of watching all the Papal visits within Italy and outside and I have NEVER seen something like this. In the UK, everyone was rightfully respectful, so where they in Croatia, Malta, before that in Portugal, and, naturally in Spain for the WYD, and recently in Ancona for the 25th Eucharistic Congress in Italy.
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Hi ACL ,
As always, you are spot on. Christians, and specifically Catholics, are the most persecuted religious group on earth at the present moment ... anyone can say whatever they want about our most sacred and revered institutions and beliefs ... do whatever they want to us ... and NO-ONE lifts a finger or utters a single word in protest!!!!!
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Hi IRA, YES!!!!!!
May God continue to bless you.
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Yes, we should alll oppose this blasphemy! It is incomprehensible to me that no-one would dare [these days!] do something similar about Islam and Judaism [and rightly so, we should have respect for all religions though we know that they do not have the fullness of truth] yet it is perfectly acceptable, in fact seemingly encouraged, to attack, mock and defame the Christian Religion and especially the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith!!!
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Hi ACL
Definitely mentally ill! It's something going round!
LOL
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@tbswv Without wanting to be offensive to you, I have to say that your comments about the Holy Father are bordering on the disrespectful. Are you suggesting that we, the laity, know better than the Supreme Pontiff of God's Church on Earth and can do a better job at restoring and preserving our Catholic Tradition? Remember that Christ founded His Church on the Rock and Benedict is Peter today ... he, and he alone under Christ, is the Rock. We as faithful Catholics should respect, revere and obey … [More]

Alleluia! It is great that Communion on the tongue while kneeling will become the norm at Pontifical Masses. It is as it should be. In fact, always and everywhere we should kneel and receive the Most Blessed Sacrament on the tongue. We must restore reverence and veneration for the Sacred Species.
I would like to clarify one thing though. When people kneel to receive the Eucharist at Papal Liturgies, they are doing so not because it is the Pope who is giving Communion but because it is Our Lord … [More]

Dear Rhemes,
Firstly, let me say how happy I am that we can engage in a respectful conversation as Catholic gentlemen even though we have disagreed. I am relatively new to this site and I haven't seen too many of these "pro-life videos". My comments were specific to this particular one. Taken in isolation, one cannot accuse it of "indifferentism" but I take your point that when I see more, I'll notice whether there is a strong "indifferentist" element. If that is the case, then naturally I … [More]

@ Trinitas
and what a beautiful melody we make!!!
Yeah!!!!!
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@ Rhemes1582,
I really don't understand what you find so objectionable about this video. There is no sense of "indifferentism" in it. The video is under 3 minutes long and "non-Catholics" are first mentioned only at the 1.29 mark. In fact, and please look/listen to it again, anything that could be classified as specifically "non-Catholic" is mentioned only that one time. The video deals with the upcoming "World Synod of Catholic Bishops" with its theme of "The New Evangelization" and Fr Pavone … [More]

Hi ACL
Have a great Sunday!!!
SboC

@ Rhemes 1582 Hi!
I agree with you that as Catholics we should profess publicly and proudly ALL that we believe. Finding common ground with men and women of all faiths for a common cause, such as the ending of abortion, should NOT mean that we ignore what it is that gives us our very identity. On the other hand, we cannot expect Jews, Moslems, Protestants to ignore their own identity either. So, don't you think that if we are joining for a common purpose with others we should all concentrate … [More]

Gregory, amice, your distinction is most apposite. The Church, for instance, cannot proffer advice or presume to tell us how to behave on secular matters. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to tell where the purely secular ends and the religious/spiritual/moral begins since they are so interwoven. For example, though Holy Mother Church cannot tell us who to vote for it can, and should, insist that Her children must not vote for pro-abortion candidates. The Episcopal Conference in any country … [More]

I have to confess, obviously, to being naive. I would never in my worst nightmare have thought such an event possible. That a Prelate of Holy Mother Church would, without a second's demur, give the Consacrated Species to two men not only dressed as women, and wearing make-up, but also mockingly parodying nuns, is beyond believable. And yet, there we have it on camera. I am in no position to judge Archbishop Niederauer's motives nor do I know anything about the pressures he faced and, above all, … [More]

@ Gregory: The "Good" Pope Blessed John XXIII chose as his Papal Motto "Obedientia et Pax". It doesn't just have its literal meaning, "Obedience and Peace", but it goes far deeper. It is only through obedience to God and to the legitimate religious authority that He has constituted on earth, the Magisterium - the Holy Father and the Bishops in Communion with him - that we can and will find peace. This applies to everything: how we pray liturgically, what we do in politics, all matters of faith … [More]

But now that I look at it again ... notice the Holy Father's total poise and composure? He doesn't even look around. He simply stops, waiting for the "bogman" to remove his hoof! Fantastic!!! I did find Merkle's smirk as she looks at the situation a bit much, though! And she's the Chancellor from the "supposedly" pro-Church party! Give me a Spanish Conservative politician anytime!!!
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Though I did see the Holy Father's speech to the German Bundestang live ... I was late and so did not catch this totally inexcusable act of "lese majeste". In Thailand they would know how to deal with this kind of absolutely unacceptable behaviour most appropriately - the offending buffoon would be thrown in jail for 3 to 14 years! How dare anyone do this to the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church!
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HI ACL!
You're right ... King Juan Carlos of Spain was pressured by that crypto-Communist Zapatero to sign all sorts of laws that are against Catholic teaching [though I am impressed that the King insisted on meeting the Pope at every opportunity in Spain during WYD despite an accident that would have made walking considerably painful] ... but remember the saintly King Baudouin of the Belgians? He abdicated for a day rather than sign an abortion law. OK, the law was still passed ... but at … [More]

Yes, ACL, THAT is a point ... protecting children from having to witness inappropriate sexual display in a PUBLIC space. I think that parents should have the right to remonstrate with overly "passionate" couples [of whatever persuasion] and politely ask them to desist.
Changing the topic just a little, but staying on the theme that "Catholic Orthodoxy is NOT Bigotry", ACL, did you see the wonderful news about tiny Lietchtenstein showing the rest of Europe the way? A referendum to legalise … [More]

The Holy Father looks so old in this film clip. May the Lord continue to guide and sustain him and protect him and our Holy Catholic Church from all enemies.
Ad multos annos, Sancte Pater!
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@Holyrope3, this is hilarious!!!
Hahaha

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@ ACL,
Yes ... I think about what Christ would do ... and what He would want to do through us ...
The words He spoke are pretty strong ... "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
Isn't the Church all about condemning the sin but converting the sinner?
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@ ACL, great story!
@ Irapuato, thanks for uploading that video - wow!

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Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the situation, and I have absolutely no expertise or inside knowledge to comment on either [though the Canon Lawyer Mr Peters does make things pretty clear indeed], it seems to me that whenever there is dissention in the Church it causes scandal and that must be avoided at all costs since it divides us and gives comfort to the enemies of Holy Mother Church.
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@ Philosopher

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Muuno,
I have really only come to this particular discussion very late in the piece. Please allow me, however, to add my twuppence-worth. I am sorry to pick up the dejected tone in your posting and I'm sorry if you feel that those who disagree with you are coming from prejudice rather than love. But at times what is required is tough love. The Church as a good Mother must set boundaries for its children otherwise passions, bad company, experimentation, rebellion, drugs and alcohol can lead … [More]

Sbpfu, I am really appreciative of the fact that we can disagree without resorting to offensive language. It would be an understatement to say that I don't know as much as I should about liturgical music and so on. I am, therefore, learning a lot from reading what you and ACL are posting. And I thank both of you! I still find myself, however, disagreeing with you on two points. One is terminology. There is really no such thing as the Roman Catholic Church. In that sense, "Roman" was a construct … [More]

Gregory — 16/09/2011 01:25:00:
Holy Cannoli, It is a little thing to be judged by you!

@ Gregory ... truer words were never spoken!
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Whether people like it or not, Latin is not the only liturgical language of the Universal Catholic Church ... and using childishly offensive words won't make it so.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=official+language+of+catholic+church+latin&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla
Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Liturgical or Church Latin) is the Latin used by the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in all periods for ecclesiastical purposes. Having developed as a style of Late Latin called sermo humilis, used to preach and otherwise communicate to the people in ordinary language, it can be distinguished from Classical Latin by some lexical variations, a … [More]

With all due respect, SBpfu, I have to disagree with you. Latin is not the official language of the Catholic Church. It USED to be the only LITURGICAL language of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. It now shares that honour with the various vernacular languages of the Western Church. The Catholic Church has many RITES and, therefore, many liturgical languages. One example is the Byzantine Rite which uses Greek as its liturgical language. There are even Rites in full Communion with the Vicar … [More]

Dear Father Worthley, Thank you so much for giving us the full, unvarnished Catholic truth. I am so tired of "sedevacantists" on this site and others who try to divide the Church between "modernists" and "traditionalists". The only test of Catholicity is filial and loving submission and obedience to the Supreme Pontiff. No-one should set himself up as "more Catholic than the Pope" nor should we try to second guess the Holy Magisterium. We must all humbly follow His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI … [More]

As usual, ACLumsden, you understand the very point in question immediately! Thank you.
To others, what I wrote wasn't basic Google French at all ... but my extremely poor 6th Form French! Sorry if it upset anyone ... especially Mr Landry!
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Mon cher monsieur Michel-Rene Landry, nous sommes tous Catholiques! N'importe pas si nous allons a la Sainte Messe en latin ou en anglais/francais. S'il vous plait, pardonnez mon execrable francais! C'est definement mon 3eme langue!!!
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Yes, HolyRope3, PAX!
I'm looking forward to enjoying another one of your great videos that you regularly download!
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@ ACLumsden Have you heard the latest? SNAP [the "Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests"] and the "US Centre for Constitutional Rights" [sic] are taking [or attempting to take] Pope Benedict to the International Criminal Court [ICC] for "crimes against humanity". They filed a complaint calling on the ICC to "take action and prosecute the Pope" for "direct and superior responsibility for the crimes against humanity and other acts of sexual violence committed around the world" against … [More]

I perfectly agree [naturally!] about the absolute centrality of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His Redeeming Sacrifice which we relive in the Mass, and the Most Holy Trinity, and the Catholic Church established by Our Lord, when we talk about the FULLNESS of belief in the One God ... BUT ... that was NOT the focus of the original discussion. One does not go to someone else's place and offensively [there is no other way to describe it] tell them that they are wrong in all their beliefs! Furthermore, … [More]

@ Holyrope3 You know that I respect you immensely [my responses to the videos that you post should, I hope, make you realise that]. But on this, I have to say that I disagree with you. There are three reasons why I think that what these men did [well-meaning as I'm sure they were] is wrong. Firstly, it is a matter of simple "courtesy and manners". One does not go uninvited to another's feast and preach beliefs that are not shared by the hosts. That is offensive. We Catholics wouldn't like it so … [More]

Dear Kfarley,
I have actually lived and worked in the "Holy Land" of Islam - the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [I got out after 3 months because I made sure that my contract had a clause allowing departure after 3 months if I "felt under threat"!!! ... thank God I got out!]. So, I know how oppressive Islam is in a "majority Moslem" country: Mass is proscribed; no Churches are allowed; priests, if found [and there are some "pretending" to work for TEXACO but actually secretly ministering to the needs … [More]

Wouldn't Catholics find it offensive if Moslems started coming uninvited to Catholic events [for example "World Youth Day"] and preached their religion? Isn't the corollary self-evident?

@ Holyrope3 I have watched this video over and over and over again ... I have even shown it to non-Catholic friends ... we have all run out of adjectives to describe it ... and it fills me with incredible joy whenever I watch it. May God continue to bless you for posting it!
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On the day in which we honour the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, on Her birthday ... we pray that She will intercede before Almighty God for the needs of the Church - the Holy Father, all members of the Episcopate, the Priesthood and the Religious Life, and all the rest of us who have the honour to have been given the totally undeserved precious gift of belonging to the One, Holy, Apostolic and Roman Catholic Church!
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So funny ... thanks!!! And that is the best way to "attack" those who hate the Church and all she stands for ... with humour!
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Holy rope3: As usual ... fantastic ... awesome ... inspiring ... uplifting ... THANKS!!!!!!!
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The title of one of today's "News Briefs" is also apt.

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St Matthew 7, 3-5
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My dear "Tradizione", you are flying far too close to the "sedevacantist" position. How can the "New Order of the Mass" promulgated by a Supreme Pontiff who, please remember, is infallible in all matters of Faith and Morals, and based on the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, an Oecumenical Council of the Universal Church, be "far from Catholic theology"? And you quote dear old Cardinal Ottaviani in opposition to, most importantly, 4 Popes and, also, the overwhelming "sensus fidei … [More]