God created humanity as man and woman, and ordered us to "increase and multiply" and "subdue the earth" so that love should be exemplar and principle of every human organization. The modern world understands authority as a "necessary evil"- or that laws are chains binding us. But that would rob every human community of its ability to exercise what is most noble to it, reason, and thus, organization, without committing violence. This is repugnant to-

A lot of discussion on w/er or not Muslims worship the true God or not overly focuses on their written doctrine, but that is insufficient to solve the issue. Non-Catholic religions do not have a per se unity, they aren't defined solely by what some of their scholars teach. (1/x)

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Rather the question to solve on non-Catholic worship is to try to characterize the act of tending towards God which each and every human being is capable of. Every human can tend towards God which he may know from creation. This induction from created reality to its first (2/x)

It is the role of the state to ensure that workers can keep a decent standard of living and minimum wage is a valid way to achieve it. Arguments against this seem to confuse practical consideration that should regulate the specific application of min wage with moral principles- that can't be shaken, thus impugning upon a proper common good doctrine of the role of the state. There is also often an appeal to blank state hypotheses which, while they can be considered in the discussion of how the min wage laws should be applied, ignore the concrete reality-

I don't think homosexuals and tran1s can really understand Vocaloid & synth voices. They parade around the fandom bcuz they are attracted to the cuteness of it, maybe they think the synthetic element mirrors their own fake lives and delusions, but that's missing the point. (1/5) Beneath these external aspects, the beauty of synth voices is the collaborative aspect, the shared love between strangers for the characters, by which the fans love each other. Homosexuals, who can only think of satisfying themselves, can't really share this, their- (2/5)

One could, of course, point out that the signature of the bishops that "excommunicated" Vigilius was extracted out of them pretty much by force by Emperor Justinian, who had kidnapped the Pope to force him to come to Cnpl, that after the proceedings, Justinian still required-

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the Pope to sign on the Council proceedings because he knew that otherwise, the Council would never be accepted as Ecumenical, thus confirming that he understood Papal approval was necessary for a council, and that Vigilius's later "recantation" concerned his refusal-

Science, as a field, is the study of an object under a certain aspect (sub ratione) which presents a sufficient unity to be studied as such. The biologist studies living things under the aspect of their life. The method of science is to consider effect and infer the causes. Now, there are seemingly two major modern errors. The first considers that since a specific science works according to certain methods, there is some real distinction between "knowledge" and "scientific knowledge", and perhaps even a distinction between, for e.g, "biological-

On Aristotelian logic:

A common question of "basic logic" is the elucidation of the question "If 'man is an animal', why can't we say 'animal is a man'". The question revolves around the use of the word is. The answer usually given is simply that animal is a genre (1/x) man is a species,genre comprises the species, and not the opposite, and thus we can say one but not the other. This is of course, in itself correct but actually a disastrously wrong answer to the question (2/x)

Since Jesus Christ laid bare to his humanity plainly, walking the earth, eating and drinking as his fellow men, and "revealed the love of the Father and the sublime vocation of man in terms of the most common of social realities and by making use of the speech and the imagery of- plain everyday life" (GS II. 32) so too should the Church, his body on earth, act out its teaching and sanctifying mission as a human community, with all the intrinsic determinations of one, clearly and visibly united as one.

Just as no human community with no communication-

1- He never tried to burn them
2- He was carrying one of his books to a Council (a deliberation on divine truth) before his fatal accident
3- He was preaching theology on his deathbed
4- He died months after the vision
5- His final words show he believed the truth of his writings

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It is difficult to say *why* exactly Saint Thomas never wrote again (unsure, there are unconfirmed reports he was commenting the Song of Songs on his deathbed too). But he never repudiated his writings, he clearly still believed in their truth and usefulness, and his premature-

Contra both the protestant position and a certain easy answer often repeated in Catholic apologetics, the production and reception of the Bible is an internal process of the Church w/ its own dynamism.

Christians both live from the written revelation, write it under the- particular inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and come to recognize it as truly the revealed infallible word of God.

The Church has never received the Bible in a purely vertical motion w/er from God or the Church authorities, but the community, with its intrinsic organization and-

It seems that a lot of people, in an attempt to avoid concluding complete pacifism from Our Lord's words in the Sermon on the Mount, impugn on its true meaning, by making it about "defiance", or by some weird casuistry, making only about "offences to honor", but that is- circumventing the plain meaning of the text and overturning its true teaching and beauty.

The text builds upon the mosaic legal law of retribution in case of thievery and attacks on the person. It is evidently about all sorts of injustices and offenses, and furthermore, since–

On predestination according to Saint Thomas and Calvin :

In this thread I will go over an often too repeated point, the supposed similarity between Saint Thomas and Calvin on predestination. After shortly laying out the doctrines of each, I will explain out how they fundamentally diverge on key points, theologically and philosophically, and how the doctrine where they supposedly meet is actually understood wholly differently in each system.

It is by a specific light granted to the intelligence that the writers of Sacred Scripture could hand down the revelation given to them, in such a manner that they truly understood what they wrote, as David says "The Spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me". For the use of an- instrument is always according to its nature, and thus, since man is a rational being, his use as an instrument is according to its rational, knowing nature.

This assures the Catholic faithful that the Revelation handed down to them is truly fit for the human mind to understand-

You can't "focus on immigration, and leave out abortion" because the two issues are as a blade and its handle, aimed in one single motion at the heart of civilization. A civilization relies both on the local family structure and its natural extent to the nation to survive. (1/x) Abortion is the height of sexual sin, even if not a sexual sin itself, overturning what was given to us to create life, and aiming at ending it, and therefore declaring that family is meaningless, for what families can you have if women can murder their children ? (2/x)

On the importance of the Resurrection, with Ferdinand Prat and Scheeben :
Explaining the Resurrection to the Corinthians, Saint Paul calls Jesus-Christ a "spirit".
"The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening (life-giving) spirit." This is not simply to say that, as we call God a spirit, the divine nature of Christ is immaterial, or even less an identification with the Holy Spirit, but an explanation of the very importance of the Resurrection.

Attempts at representing "biblically accurate angels", even when done with pious Christians, fail for the same reason that representations from Daniel/Apocalypse look weird: the descriptions are of mystical visions meant to convey meanings rather than physical descriptions.

It is evident that angels aren't giant beasts with multiple wings or eyes, we are given these descriptions to understand their great power, mysterious, and understand specific things about them like their ability to soar towards the love of God or be receptacles of great science.

Having just finished the Divine Comedy, I will allow myself to write a few thoughts on it, to try to spread all the great insights gained from it, to put an interpretation I believe more rightly does justice to it on the forefront, and also more simply- because I truly loved reading it and wish to sing that love.

I will first start by saying that the work is above basic “literary considerations”, that is, it matters little to me to call it good, or even excellent, because it is closer to patristic writings than to -

Today is the feast of the Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Avia, that is her religious ecstasy, celebrated in the Carmelite monasteries throughout the world. In honor of this great saint, I will share this seron I translated from Bishop Fenelon that truly made me love her: Is it not after these centuries of darkness, where there has been no manifest vision, that God, who would not allow there not being witnesses for him, brings back on earth the wonders of the ancient days? Eh!

Because the Patriarchates are a purely ecclesiastical institution, that is, instituted by the common accord of the Church to have bearing on specific canonical regulations, that submit to the whims of history and politics, as evidenced by the fact that there were 0 patriarchates

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when the Church was founded, that there were considered to be 3 of importance for 4 centuries, until Jerusalem and Cnpl advanced themselves to patriarchates using political machinations, leading to Justinian to push the idea of Pentarchy, a political construction, to undermine-

@thread

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the Church was founded, that there were considered to be 3 of importance for 4 centuries, until Jerusalem and Cnpl advanced themselves to patriarchates using political machinations, leading to Justinian to push this idea of Pentarchy, a purely political construction to undermine-

The masses having no real appreciation for fine art beyond what they can consume as a product (which is what "seeing the Mona Lisa" is, a product, not even the Mona Lisa itself) and derive easy gratification from (in the form of likes and subject for vapid conversations irl) has-

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little to do with capitalism, and everything to do with destroying the cultural and religious markers necessary to develop a true appreciation for art works, and their easy availability for all, including to people who wil always be unworhy to look at them, online and on public-