@gianlucadiddio @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton If you think losing a website is equivalent to, e.g. serving 10 years in jail, then you are delusional.

@gianlucadiddio @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton Again you speak like a sectarian fantasist, not a Christian. The Christian religion is centred on the local Church. The Church is not an utopian from the world, but connects with the life of the place in which it is located. Clearly you don't understand this.

@gianlucadiddio @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton You have no understanding of how power works in a country like Russia. You also have no idea what it's like to live in a country at war.

@gianlucadiddio @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton More generally @gianlucadiddio, since the only times you appear on my TL are to carp and snipe, why don't you go somewhere else?

@TheOrthoEnsign " It's whatever I don't like! "

Is Trump preparing to move the Palestinians of Gaza to Ukraine?

@kmatz174 @ZacharyOfUlster You're being trolled

@ZacharyOfUlster "And in one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church"

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton What's needed for the unity of the Church throughout the world is not a universal earthly head, but reciprocally-recognised unity in faith, sacraments, and Church order.

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton Significantly, the regional unity of the Church was expressed through synods and reciprocal recognition, rather than through any laying aside of its local diocesan structure and life.

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton I agree on that point! The Church always has to be ready to criticise secular powers circa civilia, to use a Reformed expression.

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton That's not accurate or helpful. Each Church was a local Church, and there was not "universal Church" in the early Church centuries. E.g. there was no universal Bishop, no universal Diocese, no universal Eucharist.

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton So whilst the Church certainly did not subordinate itself to the secular power, and always looked to the coming Kingdom of God, it did not do this in a way that negated the spatial and temporal identities of the place in which it was located.

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton That's part of the difference between coming from the old world and coming from the new world. There's a different sense of identity in Europe—a sense of ancestral belonging to a particular people and place, which is not something to be denied but affirmed in a Christian manner.

@BenJ79992920 @FrMatthewLC @cyber_benton Do you realise that what we today call "patriotism" is the root sense of "piety"? The problem here is that the Christian affirmation of natural & historic relations is obscured by anabaptist sectarianism, which denies them in quasi-dualistic fashion.

@FrMatthewLC The priest in depicted the role of the Church (& esp. the priesthood) as separate from the state in the manner either of an American sectarian or of Lutheran two-kingdom ecclesiology. Both are heterodox distortions. If you held to a more Catholic ecclesiology, you'd see this.