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visit, we pray, the cities of the earth

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Bridget Christie in a “DRAMATIC meeting” with various aspects of her personality.

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My religion is not working out for me, bro. Seriously, I always worried about going to hell. Learning what the Catholic Church actually teaches has made it worse. I don’t go to confession because it worsens the worry, creating a literal “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Lhude sing Goddamm.

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This was on my mind today, for some reason: youtu.be/gTQhxhGqRao

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Bring back trains that @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social could solve a murder on!

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If the pope is personally infallible, what even is the point of a council? I know this is an old question, but I’ve never seen an answer.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

If the pope is personally infallible, what even is the point of a council? I know this is an old question, but I’ve never seen an answer.

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I would think that Cardinal Bellarmine’s comments on the Galileo affair (the sun can’t be at the center, as the Council of Trent has anathematized that belief) alone would disprove appeals to a “Magisterial authority” that is binding on the Christian conscience.

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Yes, the world situation is bad. But I went for my daily walk, and— So many beautiful birds, bounding between cables, beating their wings with blue aback, billing, cooing, doing their daily things. Glory be to God for small and simple things.

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I think I just figured out my central objection to the Catholic system, undergirding all others.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Required viewing: youtu.be/EkqY-MBPTR8

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Speaking of Wystan Hugh (were we?), I love line after line in this letter of his (anyone know the date?) to his priest: “I implore you by the bowels of Christ to stick to Cranmer and King James.”

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Sometimes I think the major difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is “Can we normally count on God’s love without the sacraments?” N.B. This has nothing to do with the goodness of the sacraments, their being the ordinary means of grace, etc. But—“can we normally?”

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

“The handful of time that I am charily granted Will likewise pass, to oblivion duly apprenticed. Summer will blossom and autumn be faintly enchanted. Then time for the grave, or the dentist.”

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Stopped by the church yesterday to pray for my grandmother’s cousin, who is in the hospital, and for the pope. Had a long talk with God (that sounds funny). One-sided conversation, of course, but I got a lot off my chest.

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Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Something funny about online super-Catholics is they’ll say believing everything the Church teaches requires a particular grace (“grace” as commodity) and then they’ll blame the doubter/dissenter for lacking that grace. So we’re just, what, predestined to reprobation? So, just Calvinism?

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I feel ya, buddy.

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Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

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At the other place, Fr. James Martin asked for spiritual questions, and I responded with my usual issues about confession. It inspired me to reread his article on confession, which is excellent and has the best argument I know for the practice:

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O Lord. Incidentally, even if I end up leaving the Catholic Church, I’ll never stop praying for the pope. That, like prayers to Mary and for the dead, is a non-negotiable for me.

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