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I didn't make this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen

I imagine that in Europe where most everybody's on some sort of dole, that this doesn't seem like a big deal but it's been very nearly opposite here, where most people are not on any sort of dole---even Social Security payments are paying back what oldsters have been paying in their whole...

Why would God simply 'walk away from' the then 1500-year-old institution of the office of a bishop (cf. 1 Tim 3:1)? 1500 years straight without a hiccup (on the fixed institution, not to say there weren't many disputes along the way), but then God suddenly abandons this institution, established...

Close. It is receiving the gift of the Eucharist with open hands, but in order to do so licitly does require living according to 'a moral code', which involves avoiding serious sin, and when or if you do stumble into serious sin, it requires reconciling with the Church, so that you can again...

I'm not talking about fear; I'm talking about getting arrested and getting in trouble with the law, which will happen, if you disregard our laws or criminal justice system or whatever regulating political institutions with validity or legitimacy or at any rate, that metes out force or coercion...

You can't get any closer to Christ than His Real Presence in the Eucharist. Come to Mass.

See? What an idiot. Come to Mass.

Note the difference between Matthew 7:22 ("prophesied", "cast out devils", and "many wonderful works") and Matthew 18:20 ("gathered together"). All are said to be done in His name. But only gathering together in His name, comes with the promise, "There am I in the midst of them". And smaller...

It violates incredulity. Imagine infinite improbability. Now raise that to the power of infinity. And then that expression, raise to the power of infinity. And then keep doing that, forever. That's about how likely that impersonal forces could have produced this earth, this universe, which...

OK, but just know that you'll be judged according to conventional interpretations of the Constitution, and not according to your own private interpretation. And that those conventional interpretations have logic to them, it's best to learn that logic, before deciding to run the risk of being...

We shouldn't even seriously try to conceive of eternity, just because it's a waste of time. God is not subject to time, that's what His eternality means. And that God is not subject to time, is mere grammar, since God, the noun, cannot be, semantically, subject to any other noun. He may be...

John Shelby Spong knew nothing about the Church. Come to Mass.

That's untrue. I highly recommend people disregard this statement.

By comparison to US-China relations, Russia gets along with them handsomely.

You don't even believe Catholics are Christian---what do you care?

ICBMs are the biggest guns there are. And China looks like they're building them so that the US is in their range. Big deal, or No big deal? https://us.cnn.com/2021/07/02/asia/china-missile-silos-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

So we agree that whatever the ark is, Christ died for those who are aboard the ark, because those aboard the ark are the ones who are saved and who will be saved, just like the people on Noah's ark were saved. He died to save those aboard the ark.

Well yeah. Those that are not on the ark, are not saved. The Church is the new ark, 1st Peter 3: Baptism the initiation into the Church. This is all about the unbaptized. They don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. They are not aboard the new ark. And Who is risen for them: Peace to you.

https://us.cnn.com/2021/06/28/politics/california-travel-ban-anti-lgbtq-laws/index.html

I don't associate with any known felons /violent criminals. I know that it's easy for me to do this, since I don't know many; and that it's difficult for many Black young men to do this, to not associate with such. I don't have a solution for that because I think, What are we supposed to do...