Recent content by jas3

I'm curious if there is even one instance that we know about where a priest who has violated these requirements has faced any consequences. The whole thing seems like a "wink wink, nudge nudge" to priests who want to give these blessings, making it so that people can only criticize details about...

It is, but I don't know how you get any more absolute than saying that God agrees with your council's definition.

Your analogy is more like individual prophecy than the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the early Church. The whole point of the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople was to define dogmatically the full divinity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit with the assurance that they would not be causing the...

I think everyone would prefer to keep it simple, but the mere affirmations that "Jesus is the son of God and the son of man" and "the Holy Spirit is one with God" don't get you to the Christian God. Those affirmations would be acceptable to Arians, for example, who called Jesus the "son of God"...

No, it doesn't. The French Revolution saw a secular government killing priests, ransacking churches, and erecting idols to Reason. For most of the 20th century, Christianity was heavily persecuted by the secular governments in the Soviet Union, China, and everywhere else infected with Communism...

This is a disrespectful response to someone who has given a thoughtful and detailed response to your original claim. For that matter, why should anyone believe yours?

The Great Western Schism isn't directly applicable to today's situation though, because the key issue was one of canonical procedure, not faith and morals. And that's not just the "winners writing history," since both lines of papal claimants ultimately agreed to let a council resolve the...

To get at what seems to be the core part of the OP: the literature is contradictory because the situation has only ever been theoretical, as far as non-sedevacantist Catholics are concerned. The one possible exception would be Pope Honorius, but there are reasonable arguments against his having...

I'm no defender of Francis, but having watched the video from the linked timestamp to the end, I think it's clear that he was speaking in a vague general sense to a secular audience, so his comment doesn't deserve the detailed analysis and point-by-point criticism it's been getting. There are...

Yes. The ancient Christian writer Tertullian addresses both of these questions in his work De Spectaculis: Tertullian was not the only one who wrote against the theater, either.

This is a good summary of theological progressivism, although I would say "all Gospel no Law" is too generous to this error that is plaguing every church today. It is not teaching the Gospel to say that all religions are paths to salvation (i.e. that the Incarnation wasn't necessary) or to cast...

There is a hierarchical relationship in their origin: "For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve." (1 Tim. 2:13) Regardless of what modern scholars say, St. Paul clearly lays the blame on Eve: "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into...

My understanding of the term has always been that "spirit" is used in the general sense to mean "an air of" something, like a "spirit of hatred" or "mean-spirited." I don't think anyone is saying that there's a specific spiritual being that is "the" or "a" Jezebel spirit, even if they may use...

I'm a Purism customer and have enjoyed most of the things I've gotten from them, but I would caution anyone looking into their products to do their due diligence first. There are usually quirks or compromises that have been made in the interest of privacy or security, and sometimes just as a...

An alternative is to create a Windows virtual machine on the Linux installation. The setup can be tricky if you want to do extra things like have a shared folder between your host and guest, but for equivalent functionality to dual boot, a VM will do the job for the vast majority of people. This...