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Surely you are not saying that the problem of division among Christians is solved in the words written in that link - are you? The problem is a bit deeper and harder than mere talk about it. right?

Does Scripture resolve the final "bottom line" question, which I was trying to put on the table in my post? Namely: "What is Truth?" What does Scripture actually, truly teach? What is, actually and truly, the Gospel? To phrase it another way, Why isn't every Christian a believer in one Truth -...

Love of money is a key indicator for discerning which "slippery slope" - among the many possible - a given person or group is dangerously dancing near. But I would place the ultimate value that I would seek to guard, not exactly " the authority of Scripture and the Gospel message," - because...

Can Absolute Truth co-exist with Independent Journalism?

Democrat words and structures weaponized to bring the chaos that welcomes dictatorship?

Yes, the evil one does not "give up" on a soul easily. I hope the author of the Register essay has gotten some spiritual advice to not only persevere, and seek to remain in the state of grace, but to see that the Lord wants us to grow in grace. We need to remain, and to grow - to mature - to...

A rhetorical question is: Which is better, growing membership in the "Church of Part-Time Catholics", or members in the Body of Christ growing in the Life of Christ? I was a former Catholic, until I learned from the outside what I had missed on the inside. Now, it is horrifying to me that I am...

A major factor in the present sad state of the institutional Church is well-described by Bp. Strickland, in terms of a falling into the natural - the worldly - and away from the essential spiritual supernatural truths of the Faith. Emphasis added, below, by me: !

The priest-author of this essay reveals some clues to the problem imho: He writes, "Monthly confession. Weekly Mass. Daily prayer. That’s the program." That program sounds excellent, to me, for the formation of part-time Catholics. Such a formation is hardly the way of Jesus, who called...

I hope you will take this response in the right way, Alex. Supernatural faith is exactly that: supernatural. It is not acquired by reasonings, by human advice or discussions, by logic, by human relationships or feelings or decisions or wishes or any act of man in his fallen human nature...

Yes, that is so like our Blessed Mother! This is the beautiful and relevant Novena Prayer to Our Lady, in the "darkness and sin which ever more envelop the world and menace the Church":

He did not "overcome" any of what we understand as temptations - The Greek word for it, interestingly, is translatable as "temptation" and/or "trial" or "test". Jesus was tried by the devil, with what would have been for us a trial and a temptation because in us is concupiscence (an inclination...

I recommend that this entire thread be erased. Satan is doubling his work - first a blasphemous homily, then this insulting "discussion" on the matter.

I'm sorry (not really) to be an irritant in a Good News Only Evangelist's Conference, but grace brings the strong word first, repent. "Repent and believe the Gospel! You are dead in your servitude to lies and your love of self - repent! Believe in the One who died in love for you on a rough...

I was greatly helped in understanding Francis in a deeper and (more) reasoned way by the confluence of three papers, which I'll suggest: 1) Pope Benedict XVI's (1st) encyclical Deus Caritas Est, on the (developing) human embrace of Love, 2) the latest Vatican document (DDF's) on apparitions, as...

I'm sorry, but this thread is resolved as far as I'm concerned. Personal subjective preferences, in the matter of worship, in a minor factor. God's absolute will settles the matter.

Yes "Disposition" is interior. It seems we have entirely different understandings of the importance - significance - relevance of the interior things to absolutely everything "exterior". I'm sorry to leave you here, but I need to attend to other matters. I sincerely hope you do not remain...

Are you familiar with the caution, "read the small print!" (emphasis below added by me, of course). Read the post you have disagreed with in the light of all these teachings. and also: and also:

I've started and erased my response to this twice now. I must leave, realizing this attempt of mine is destined to fail. One must know the difference between (for example) a priest lacking supernatural faith, who handles holy words no differently than the words of a joke he likes - and holy...

By God's grace we can do, for example, acts of holy Charity - acts worthy of the presence of God. The theological virtues Faith, Hope and Charity, and the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit (infused in Baptism) are all supernatural. When we act according to any of those gifts, with actual grace...