.Iona. said:

Hey, I'm new here. Been feeling sad about being single but praying for God to show me what His plans are for me.

Hello all

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bèlla said:

At what point in my response did I mention the Jesus prayer or a specific practice? You jumped the gun.

~bella

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If we believe we have to ‘honor the Sabbath day,’ why aren’t Catholics obliged to attend Mass on Saturday instead of Sunday?​

And behold, one came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?” And [Jesus] said to him . . . “If you would enter life, keep the commandments” (Matt. 19:16-17).

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Since they express man’s fundamental duties towards God and towards his neighbor, the Ten Commandments reveal, in their primordial content, grave obligations. They are fundamentally immutable, and they oblige always and everywhere. No one can dispense from them. The Ten Commandments are engraved by God in the human heart (2072).

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Sunday Is Not the Sabbath

If we believe we have to "honor the Sabbath day," why aren’t Catholics obliged to attend Mass on Saturday instead of Sunday?

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David Lamb said:

I know very little about artificial intelligence, but I thought that any information AI has to work with came in the first instance from human beings. The idea that AI can "believe" something sounds extremely unlikely to me.

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A sacred space​

Encounter God in the heart of creation

The wisdom of St. Benedict and the faith of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati inspire encountering God in the quiet strength of his creation.

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Michie said:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA failed to include multiple buildings on its flood risk map for Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, according to an analysis by NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and data scientists.

At least 27 camp attendees died and five others remain unaccounted for after massive flash flooding swept the private Christian summer camp for girls along the Guadalupe River on July 4.

These findings come from a new analysis by NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and data scientists, which show that at least eight buildings, including four cabins housing younger campers at Camp Mystic, are located within FEMA’s designated floodway, which is a dangerous area expected to see high-velocity water.

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FEMA missed major flood risk at Christian Camp Mystic, analysis claims to show

The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to include multiple buildings on its flood risk map for Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, according to an analysis by NPR, PBS s FRONTLINE and data scientists

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timothyu said:

I agree, but we are also told to put the Kingdom into practice, acting in servitude to the Father and each other in need.

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JSRG said:

I'm not sure why anyone would care what a random Catholic newspaper (from over a century ago at that) said; it means as much as a blog post does.



This one carries a little more authority than a random newspaper, though obviously hardly constitutes some kind of official declaration of the Catholic Church. Still, setting that aside, there are bigger issues with this one. In fact, it's odd you post it, given that in a previous topic I already pointed out the problems with this; one of the big ones being that "modify" is a mistranslation. This is especially problematic given you put so much emphasis on that word.

Since you apparently missed it the first time, here we go again. The below is a slightly edited version of exactly what I posted to you the last time:

Before we get into the mistranslation, I should note quite a while ago someone offered this analysis:

I did a bit of research to find some more details. First off, this is the page on which the sentence appears – I’ve highlighted the relevant phrase.

Notice that the phrase appears in italics, after a citation: “Petrus de Anchar [asserit], in consil 373, n. 3, vers.” This citation is a reference to a book by Peter of Ancarano, whose name is also spelled Petrus de Anchar. The book in question is probably Consilium, which, according to an Italian page I found, is indeed by Peter of Ancarano and is available in printed form at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. The book principally discusses a heresy called conciliarism.

After googling for more information about this Peter of Ancarano fellow, I think I may have found out why he seems to have said that the pope can modify divine laws. The explanation involves a case of marriage law, so bear with me.

This page contains a description of a controversy in the 1400s, when Peter of Ancarano was alive, involving two competing anti-popes. One of these antipopes refused to grant a marital dispensation to a couple who wanted to marry but were impeded from doing so because they were members of the same family by a previous marriage. The other anti-pope acted differently in a similar case invovling a couple who thought he was the rightful pope – he granted them permission to marry even though they too were impeded for the same reason the other couple was. Before he made this decision, this second anti-pope consulted Peter of Ancarano and asked him for his opinion.

Now, in this controversy some people appealed to divine law to prove that the pope could not grant a dispensation in these cases. Specifically, they appealed to Leviticus 18:16, which forbids a man to marry his brother’s wife. The couples in question were each a nobleman and his brother’s widow – they probably wanted to marry to keep an inheritance in the family. Peter of Ancarano apparently argued that the pope had the power to dispense with the law of Lev. 18:16, even though it was a divine law, because Old Testament laws don’t work in the New Covenant.

So that seems to be the context in which this claim about the pope “modifying divine law” appears: it is a reference to the pope’s power to dispense with canonical impediments arising from Levitical laws that are no longer binding in the New Testament. Not the whopper that Seventh Day Adventists appear to think it is.

This seems to add up, and clears up what it's talking about. However, there is another big problem that is not even touched on by that analysis, namely the fact that the usage of "modify" is a mistranslation to begin with.

The Latin word being translated as modify is modificare (or modifico--some dictionaries list Latin words as infinitive (modificare), whereas others use the first person singular present tense (modifico)). This is where the word "modify" in English comes from. However, meanings can shift over time, and especially when they cross languages. In Latin, modificare does not mean to modify; it means to set limits or to control or regulate. This can be easily confirmed by any Latin dictionary; see, for example, this one. Thus what this was saying, especially when viewed in the context of the above, is that the pope has authority to determine instances when divine law--the example being marriage law--does not apply. It says nothing about modifying it.

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The Bible is the book of the Catholic Church--no Catholic Church, no Bible.

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Apple Sky said:

I don't know but some did. Google it.

A human tail, also known as a caudal appendage, is a rare congenital anomaly where a baby is born with a tail-like structure. These structures are typically lumbosacral coccygeal appendages, remnants of the embryonic tail that normally disappears during fetal development. While sometimes considered a throwback to earlier human ancestors, they are more accurately described as a developmental anomaly, often associated with other spinal abnormalities.

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