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St Thomas notion of esse as actus essendi is wholly radical and new. He was just too humble to emphasize how new and his it was but we get hints we he says “this that I call esse…” He also distances his notion of esse from that of Aristotle.
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Heaven is a hierarchically ordered monarchy.
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@mythos_a You seem to have stayed at kindergarten level catechesis
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I mean, does “Kingdom of heaven” ring a bell?
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@RussLatino @60Minutes “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Gn 1,31).
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@HowethLewis “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” (Matthew 11:11) There is greater and lesser degrees of glory and proximity to God in heaven.
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@RussLatino @60Minutes Which one do you believe in? 1. The fall and sin damage our fundamentally good human nature but don’t completely destroy it. 2. The fall and sin have so utterly destroyed any goodness in us such that we cannot be said to be in the image and likeness of God.
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@brande71113 How so? Isn’t God the king, the monarch and constantly depicted as such in the Scriptures? Didn’t Christ tell the apostles they would sit in 12 thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel?
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I don’t go to a licit mass in communion with the Roman Pontiff because some priest I don’t know in a place I don’t know did a cringe dance with people I don’t know. Yep. Totally reasonable.
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Why you’re not Novus Ordo anymore, reason #9827
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Cada vez que el Papa o el DDF saca un documento nuevo queda de manifiesto la pobre comprensión lectura (¿o la malicia?) de tantos. Lean con atención y con caridad las dificultades tienden a desaparecer.
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@Idrewabird It’s Scripture that constantly talks of God as the monarch of the universe. If that makes you feel uncomfortable based on your political leanings the problem is not with God or Scripture.
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St John Bosco was a Popesplainer?
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Pope Francis is just being a good Thomist here but people will cry because they find some sort of perverse pleasure in outrage.
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"We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good," says Pope Francis.
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La iglesia católica no enseña que nos salvamos por nuestras obras. De hecho esa postura es condenada como la herejía pelagiana
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@BushDefender45 You guys don’t stand for anything. You are just like the democrats but with a 10 year time lag.
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Siempre ha habido quienes quieren destruir a la Iglesia desde fuera o desde dentro. Pero no han podido porque la Iglesia de Cristo es indefectible. Si tú Iglesia es defectible no es la Iglesia que fundó Cristo. Si crees que la Iglesia puede ser destruida has caído de la fe.
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@SigfridoDeBCN A la Iglesia la está destruyendo su propia jerarquía desde dentro, mientras la mayoría se dedica a simular que está todo bien, y se violenta cuando alguien grita que el rey está desnudo. Acto seguido, se justifican en nombre de la “prudencia”.
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@iamAtheistGirl Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, Scotus and many many more have proved there is a God.
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@Timelord420 There’s a difference between creating a doctrine as in inventing something that is not in revelation, and defining a doctrine that is contained in revelation. It’s like saying that Fathers of Nicaea “invented” the Trinity in 325 AD.
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@TheMuhFuckinNek @RussLatino @60Minutes Imagine thinking that St Augustine was a pelagian 💀
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“Yo me aconsejo delante del Crucifijo y luego tomo mis decisiones”. - S. Pío X
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@nath_ormond Just because you call an apple a pear it doesn’t magically become a pear.
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@xingtemplars German bishops supporting Francis? This map is worthless
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@materia_ciencia “El frenazo intelectual de la Edad Media”. Dime que no sabes nada de la historia intelectual de la Edad Media sin decirme que no sabes nada de la historia intelectual de la Edad Media.
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@leavingleftism Everything very good, except the podcast choices. Those will make a convert leave, not stay.
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@stevenpmillies One thing is NFP (which is nothing but periodical abstinence) and another to mutilate oneself. It’s very silly to think that HV is giving a tacit approbation of vasectomies.
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Me causa gracia que haya tradicionalistas cismáticos que se esconden detrás de San Pío X para defender su rechazo al Papa, cuando Pío X hubiera sido el primero en disciplinarlos y condenar su actitud de desconfianza hacia el Magisterio
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We have proven God exists. Many times. Aquinas alone in his works proves God exists dozens of times.
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Still can’t prove god exists lol
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Es la sana razón (y, por tanto, la sana filosofía) la que abre las puertas a las preguntas sobre Dios y el significado de la vida, y por consiguiente, a la fe.
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No todo tradicionalismo es cismático. Tener afinidad por la liturgia tridentina, por el gregoriano y demás no lo hace a uno cismático… la rebeldía al papa y la desconfianza al magisterio contemporáneo si lo llevan a uno en esa dirección cismática
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Unpopular opinion: por culpa de la SSPX y sus actitudes cismáticas (que justamente merecen ser disciplinados) la jerarquía termina castigando a los católicos que solo quieren ir a la misa vieja y estar en comunión con el Papa
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@smashbaals Giving her too much honor would be to honor her as God. The highest expression of that would be to offer her mass. But Mass is only offered to God. I think that because many Protestants have lost the notion of worship sacrifice they see every kind of praying as worship.
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@iamAtheistGirl Which one of them have you read and seriously engaged with so you can tell us why they failed?
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Christ is King.
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@TheFancyFasho You might be surprised when you find out how much we love the Eastern Fathers too. As Catholics we acknowledge both western and eastern traditions as ours and Catholic.
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@TaylorRMarshall Why do you propagate calumny about the successor of St Peter?
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Fr Royo-Marin, Fr Garrigou-Lagrange and Fr Fabro are the greatest Thomists of the 20th century.
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@Josie_Godfrey Absolutely null and utterly void
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Science can prove that God exists. The science of metaphysics.
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@superxtianmario @TeeTrimma @langluigi_ The abysmal difference is that we have a way to definitely and universally settle the issue. Pope Paul VI did it. You simply are not able to.
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@MarielFeV Fue hecho durante el periodo de la guerra fría. Evoca que incluso ante la amenaza de extinción y guerra nuclear Cristo ha resucitado y ha vencido al mundo.
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@ArkansasTomsBBQ @HowethLewis As St Thérèse of Lisieux used to say: they all will be like containers of different sizes, all full of the degree of glory they merited by their charity. Some contain more than other but all are equally full and all contain as much as they can.
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@CatholicOrca It’s not that simple. Slavery as such was not commended as good, while there are multiple cases of Pontiffs teaching the moral licitud of the death penalty.
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@FeserEdward Because sometimes people have the nagging suspicion that they are not living according to God’s will but are not yet set on changing it (due to the obscurity sin brings on the intellect). That’s when one needs the grace to see clearly and make a decision.
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@Veroflamencos Burke lleva años sembrando desunión en la Iglesia. El Papa simplemente dejó de financiar a la oposición. ¿Qué hay de malo en eso? No dejó de ser cardenal y todav��a puede votar en el siguiente cónclave. Dejen de tergiversar los hechos solo para que encajen en su narrativa.
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Recordatorio de que una entrevista o un documental donde sale el Papa no es un documento magisterial. Si quieren saber que enseña el Papa en cuanto pastor y maestro de todos los cristianos lean los documentos oficiales.
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@MariaJoseBelHer Probablemente querías decir “protestantismo”. El cristianismo original es el catolicismo.
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Aristotle was a Platonist
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The only really serious debate
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@Paultheheretic The death penalty for the rapist makes more sense than the death penalty for the innocent baby conceived by the rape.
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I’m not in favor of dunking on people, but the enemies of the Pope really got things wrong in this one. Good thing the prefect came out and clarified things without “ambiguities”… What do think guys? @metathomist @ModernBoethius ? Source:
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@realJohnDouglas Well, there’s that and also tons of historical testimony of the church fathers and ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries.
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@marianabg10 Recibir en la mano es lícito, es antiguo y es como se hacía en el primer siglo… Hoy en día lamentablemente se cometen muchos abusos así y deberíamos hacerlo mejor, pero no nos corresponde a nosotros determinar la práctica.
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@antifa_pyro @iamAtheistGirl Am I supposed to write each one of their arguments for which numerous books and academic monographs have been written? If you are genuinely intellectually curious or interested you can google, do your own research and read books. I can even give you references if you like.
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@ema_deleonnn “Las sectas”. Emanuela, la razón porque tienes una Biblia es por la Iglesia católica. El protestantismo es un invento humano de hace 500 años, sin ningún lazo de conexión con las apóstoles.
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St Thomas absolutely never talks about a real distinction between essence and existence (existentia).
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@WalmartThomist Another St. Thomas W for the book
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Mons. Fernando Ocáriz is terribly under appreciated. We should get his stuff translated into English.
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Si pones tu juicio personal por encima del juicio del magisterio en materias de fe y de costumbres al final no eres muy distinto a los protestantes
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El Papa no usa el carisma de infalibilidad siempre que enseña, pero siempre que enseña con autoridad los fieles deben su asentimiento a su enseñanza (¡aunque no sea ex cathedra!). Esto es lo que enseña la Constitución Dogmática Lumen Gentium n. 25.
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«El Papa es infalible, pero no en todo. Cuando declara solemnemente las cosas de la fe, cosa que hace pocas veces, por cierto; pero pretender como hace muchísima gente aquí que todos los Papas o tal Papa particular son maravillas de inteligencia y rectitud, hasta llegar a
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“La Primera Sede no es juzgada por nadie” (CIC 1404).
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El sedevacantismo es una herejía
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@Der_Parrot The leader of the AfD is a lesbian woman
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@ElaineAryn @TaylorRMarshall 1. The note is true. 2. Even if it the deposition was not justified (which probably was) he has that authority.
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@RCNonsense Another prot complaining because the pope (as any Catholic) doesn’t hold to total depravity 🤦‍♂️
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Cornelio Fabro
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@TotalPhilo
Total Philosophy
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Tell me a philosopher that should be more praised
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@padrehayen Padre, el problema no es que hagan preguntas. El problema es que cuando publicaron las “respuestas” del Papa publicaron solo partes de las respuestas completa de una manera engañosa. Por suerte las respuestas completas fueron publicadas por el Vaticano después.
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@smashbaals But she told him to be faithful to Christ and the Church he instituted, while the “angel” that appeared to those two told them to go and create their own fringe movement, which is precisely what Luther and company did…
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Hot take: la mayoría de gente que habla de modernismo no tiene la menor idea que lo que es el modernismo condenado como herejía por San Pío X.
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“Since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works, unless His omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.” This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good.
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#theists , it's not looking good for your 'god.'
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@bibleradioapp That grace, which is a gift from God, makes us just. Really effects that change within us. If you think that Catholics believe that we justify ourselves by doing good deeds I’m happy to tell you that’s not the case.
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@martamarco__ La calumnia es pecado grave
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So true. You’ll never find Thomas saying that God exists. He says that God *is*.
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@RandalRauser Internet atheists is an account that makes fun of the works atheistic takes. Just look at the profile picture.
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Cuando alguien está poseído nadie llama a su pastor protestante más cercano, todos saben que tienen que llamar a sacerdote
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Basta con leer lo que san Pío X dice sobre la Iglesia y la protección que Dios le da a su magisterio (incluso cuando no está ejerciendo el carisma de infalibilidad) para ver cuan insostenible es el tradicionalismo de tendencias cismáticas
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@OrthoMemeSquad I was Christ who singled out Peter as the head. Not the other Apostles.
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Basically contemporary western morality
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thoughts?
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Pseudo-traditionalists in a nutshell.
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Este es uno de los problemas principales del tradicionalismo ideológico. No saben seguir a Santo Tomás y hacer distinciones. En este caos, entre lo que es intrínsecamente malo y lo que no es lo más conveniente/prudente dadas las condiciones actuales. 1/
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St. Thomas did not always prefer Aristotle to Plato: “Now this position of Aristotle seems to be surer because it does not depart greatly from that which is evident according to sense; yet it seems to be less adequate than the position of Plato (DeSubstant.C2).”
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@Spenc59045Jason No Jason, no Catholic believes that.
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@marianabg10 @1912_el Wow. Mientes Mariana. Di que no te gusta, di que se presta a abuso. Pero es simplemente falso que sea sacrilegio. La práctica de la Iglesia y los Padres testifican en contra de tu posición. Sembrar escrúpulos en las almas de los menos formados está mal.
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St Thomas does never, not a single time, talk about the real distinction between essence and existence understood as “the fact that it is.” St Thomas establishes the real distinction between the “ex quo” (esse, a principle by which) and “quod” (essentia). 1/
@RealAtheology
The Real Atheology Podcast
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Is there any mention of the fact of existence in Aquinas’s work, or did I just read that into his writings? Here I reply to a tweet about my video “A Flaw in Aquinas’s Case for the Essence-Existence Distinction,” which you can watch at
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Post 4 theologians that greatly influenced your theology.
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Post 4 major theologians that greatly influenced your theology
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The existence of God is a matter of certain scientific knowledge and only accidentally a matter of faith.
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@BushDefender45 That’s thinking in slogans.
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@iamAtheistGirl This is silly. The women that drink of the feminist Kool-Aid are so full of resentment—because feminism is an ideology of resentment—that judging by the rhetoric it does really seem like they want revenge (for what?). In they end they lose, since they end up bitter and alone.
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@CDamianWrites You seem to be assuming that all that the saints did was always good and that they made no mistakes in their earthly life and that somehow citing the things they did has any weight against the magisterium of the Church. That assumption is false.
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@TDisputations She should write the refutations and in a book. I’d love to read that.
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@Cowboy_Cat31 Si bien estoy de acuerdo (santo Tomás defiende esta posición muy bien en la I q. 20 a. 3) me parece que la mayoría de gente va a entender esto mal. Esto es algo que no se debería decir en un tuit de manera que generara inseguridades en los corazones de algunos.
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Christ is King
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Este es precisamente el error de los tradicionalistas cismáticos y de los adherentes a la SSPX. Creer que no debemos asentimiento al Magisterio auténtico no-infalible. Es un error porque va contra el último párrafo de la profesión de fe promulgada por JPII.
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@LinuxNT
El Pingüino Infeliz 💙 🖤 ⚜️ 📻
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@DeVeritate1 @inesands Nope... Una cosa es expresarse ex cathedra, donde se reconoce la infalibilidad del pontífice en términos teológicos y religiosos. Cuando lo hace de otra manera, sus enseñanzas pueden ser tomadas a criterio.
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We should go back to calling him Divus Thomas.
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Si los tradis más radicales se dieran cuenta que los eslóganes que repiten una y otra vez son los mismos de los sedevacantistas y demás herejes y cismáticos quizás se lo pensarían dos veces antes de andarlos publicando
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If that’s the church fathers then what are you?
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@ASanctoThoma
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@stevenpmillies Would you say that periodical abstinence is inherently anti-natalist? I would agree that some people can practice it with an anti-natalist intent or something similar. But if that were the case then NFP would be morally wrong.
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Julio 🇻🇦
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Sólo hay amor cuando se siente la ausencia de una persona y se desea su presencia. - Aristóteles
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Julio 🇻🇦
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@Veroflamencos @cparacatolicos Verónica, Strickland acusó públicamente al Papa de herejía. “La Primera Sede no es juzgada por nadie” como enseña la Tradición. No es “perseguido” por defender el depósito de fe, sino por actuar en contra de él.
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@ASanctoThoma
Julio 🇻🇦
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Deberíamos pensarlo más de dos veces antes de hablar mal en un foro público como esta sobre nuestros legítimos pastores. Hay que recordar que la calumnia es pecado grave.
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Que el Papa no esté hablando ex cathedra no significa que puedas ignorar su enseñanza.
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