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Pope Francis Names New Consultors to Vatican’s DDF, Including Controversial Theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, including moral theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi, who has expressed opinions contrary to Church teaching.
Chiodi, a moral theologian, has come under media scrutiny in recent years for suggesting contraception use in marriagecould be morally permissible in some circumstances.
In a 2017 lecture in Rome, the priest also said that homosexual relationships “under certain conditions” could be “the most fruitful way” for those with same-sex attraction “to enjoy good relations.”
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Chiodi, a moral theologian, has come under media scrutiny in recent years for suggesting contraception use in marriagecould be morally permissible in some circumstances.
In a 2017 lecture in Rome, the priest also said that homosexual relationships “under certain conditions” could be “the most fruitful way” for those with same-sex attraction “to enjoy good relations.”
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Pope Francis names 28 consultants to Vatican doctrine office
Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, including controversial moral theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi.
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Every Catholic Needs to Know About This Little-Known Eucharistic Doctrine
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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‘Concomitance,’ as St. Thomas Aquinas explains it, means that ‘nothing is lost by the body being received by the people without the blood.’
This summer, I got to celebrate Holy Mass in the Brooklyn parish where I stay when I’m home from my assignment as the academic dean of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. It is always a joy to offer Mass for a parish community. For me, it is a homecoming.
This parish is a multi-ethnic one in my diocese with a pastor born in Pakistan, an Urdu Mass, growing Haitian and Hispanic communities, and many other people, most of them longtime residents of this area of Brooklyn. It has in many ways become a welcoming oasis for me, a true family, and a place of rest and prayer. Named after the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I feel her motherly protection and presence — never more so than this summer when I offered my own mother’s funeral Mass in this parish.
One of the things that the parishioners of this parish have told me over my many years of association with it is that they truly appreciate homilies that teach them about the faith. These are parishioners who tell me that they are yearning for content and catechesis. They have mentioned that, as much as they appreciate nice stories about nice people being nice to others (basically what Bishop Robert Barron has described as “beige Catholicism,” which is its own brand of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism), what they want most of all is to learn about the faith — its contents, its practices and tradition, and how best to live this faith out in the world today.
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This summer, I got to celebrate Holy Mass in the Brooklyn parish where I stay when I’m home from my assignment as the academic dean of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. It is always a joy to offer Mass for a parish community. For me, it is a homecoming.
This parish is a multi-ethnic one in my diocese with a pastor born in Pakistan, an Urdu Mass, growing Haitian and Hispanic communities, and many other people, most of them longtime residents of this area of Brooklyn. It has in many ways become a welcoming oasis for me, a true family, and a place of rest and prayer. Named after the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I feel her motherly protection and presence — never more so than this summer when I offered my own mother’s funeral Mass in this parish.
One of the things that the parishioners of this parish have told me over my many years of association with it is that they truly appreciate homilies that teach them about the faith. These are parishioners who tell me that they are yearning for content and catechesis. They have mentioned that, as much as they appreciate nice stories about nice people being nice to others (basically what Bishop Robert Barron has described as “beige Catholicism,” which is its own brand of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism), what they want most of all is to learn about the faith — its contents, its practices and tradition, and how best to live this faith out in the world today.
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Every Catholic Needs to Know About This Little-Known Eucharistic Doctrine
‘Concomitance,’ as St. Thomas Aquinas explains it, means that ‘nothing is lost by the body being received by the people without the blood.’
English &Italian &Chinese Catholic Mass in Beijing
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Yes it is! I enjoyed the pictures. Thank you! 
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‘Better Off Dead?’ documentary sharpens suicide prevention focus
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Last week, the first screening in the U.S. of the BBC documentary “Better Off Dead?” took place in the United States Congress.
Produced by British actress and renowned disability rights advocate Liz Carr, the film shows from a secular perspective how assisted-suicide laws around the world threaten the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Carr, who is not religious, told CNA that for many people, the absence of nonreligious arguments against assisted suicide has disadvantaged the cause.
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‘Better Off Dead?’ documentary sharpens suicide prevention focus
Liz Carr’s “Better Off Dead?” documentary shows how assisted-suicide laws around the world threaten the lives of individuals with disabilities.
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Democrats Double and Triple Down on Abortion
- OBOB General Politics Forum
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It is as if a murderous spirit of death has spread across our land ... like an uncontrollable cancer ... and only God can stop it.I can never understand that mentality. Makes no sense to me.
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The Pope’s Next Visit to the ‘Peripheries’ Is in the Heart of Europe
- By RileyG
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Lord, have mercy on Belgium 
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Abortion amendment on Florida ballot ‘brutal and dangerous,’ physician says
- By trophy33
- General Politics
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For a comparison:
Common Time Limits: Many EU countries permit abortion on demand or for broad social reasons within a 10 to 14-week gestational limit. For instance, Germany and Italy set the limit at 12 weeks, while France and Spain allow it up to 14 weeks.
Exceptions for Later Abortions: After these initial limits, many countries provide exceptions for medical reasons, such as threats to the woman's health or severe fetal anomalies. For example, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom allow abortions up to 24 weeks under certain conditions.
Abortion in Europe - Wikipedia
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Language?
- By Bob Crowley
- General Theology
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When Christ was challenged about the woman who had seven husbands, and whose wife she would be in heaven when she died, He replied there is no marriage but that we would be like the angels.
Since we will be like the angels, it stands to reason the saints will communicate like angels.
There's an article here on angelic communication.
catholicmagazine.news
That is not to say that angels can't manipulate our atmosphere for purposes of speech when it suits them. Gabriel spoke to Mary. Now either he was actually "speaking" or just going through the motions with the actual communication being spiritual, but appearing as speech to her.
I've often claimed the night my father died he appeared in my room. We talked and argued. His body was lying dead in a flat miles away, so he had no brain, no ears, no vocal apparaturs, no eyes. But it was obvious he could see, talk, hear and think.
Now was our communication actually physical, ie. did the air molecules vibrate, or was it spiritual with the appearance of being physical?
I don't know, but if it was the latter it went right down to the tone of his voice. I knew what he sounded like, having lived in the same house for the better part of 20 years altogether and he was "talking" in his usual voice, sans vocal apparatus.
I think we'll communicate directly, and possibly obtain "enlightenment" from suprerior angels as per the referenced article, and speak back to them directly by infused concepts, without language as angels do. Likewise we'll speak to God and He will enlighten us, although He may choose to do so through angelic beings rather than directly which could be a bit overwhelming, like trying to empty the Hoover Dam through a household tap.
Since we will be like the angels, it stands to reason the saints will communicate like angels.
There's an article here on angelic communication.
Do Angels Speak? | Heralds of the Gospel Magazine
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Heaven will not have the physical requirements for speech. For a start there will be no air to transmit sounds.
That is not to say that angels can't manipulate our atmosphere for purposes of speech when it suits them. Gabriel spoke to Mary. Now either he was actually "speaking" or just going through the motions with the actual communication being spiritual, but appearing as speech to her.
I've often claimed the night my father died he appeared in my room. We talked and argued. His body was lying dead in a flat miles away, so he had no brain, no ears, no vocal apparaturs, no eyes. But it was obvious he could see, talk, hear and think.
Now was our communication actually physical, ie. did the air molecules vibrate, or was it spiritual with the appearance of being physical?
I don't know, but if it was the latter it went right down to the tone of his voice. I knew what he sounded like, having lived in the same house for the better part of 20 years altogether and he was "talking" in his usual voice, sans vocal apparatus.
I think we'll communicate directly, and possibly obtain "enlightenment" from suprerior angels as per the referenced article, and speak back to them directly by infused concepts, without language as angels do. Likewise we'll speak to God and He will enlighten us, although He may choose to do so through angelic beings rather than directly which could be a bit overwhelming, like trying to empty the Hoover Dam through a household tap.
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