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Sep 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Happy Name Day to me
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#FeastofStMatthew
St. Matthew is patron saint of tax collectors. He is also patron saint of the Archdiocese of Washington. Make of that what you will.
A personal favorite depiction of St. Matthew from the Cathedral that bears his name in the Archdiocese of Washington. St. Matthew baptizing in Ethiopia.
And looking at the calendar date, I'm noting that St. Matthew should also be patron saint of Earth. Not to mention wind, and probably fire as well. #DoYouRemember

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Sep 22
Sometimes someone who has a strong aversion to the Catholic Church will post an example of something that serves to them as a "proof" that the Catholic Church persists in theological error.

Some of those conversations aren't resolvable, but the one I came across today is. Image
The allegation: Catholics worship Mary, and this bumper sticker is proof.

Except I am 99% sure this is not a Catholic bumper sticker.

I have a strong hunch that this is a Mormon bumper sticker. And here's why:
As it turns out, there's been a debate recently in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on gender stuff and the question of God's wife. And yes, they believe that God, who they call Heavenly Father, has a wife. They call her -- you guessed it -- Heavenly Mother.
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Dec 5, 2019
A question I never really asked until my mid-20's: If the Bible was supposed to be so important, what mechanism did Jesus put in place to make sure it would one day get compiled into a single book?

I realized that whatever that mechanism was, I needed to be in communion with it.
And of course, looking around my American protestant landscape at the time, I wondered: if the Bible wasn't yet a book, which present-day denomination could I trust to make sure it became one? Would the Methodists, Baptists, etc. of today come up with the same table of contents?
In order for there to be a consensus on what the Bible's table of contents were to be, there had to be a consensus on what authority could legitimately put out that table of contents.
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