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The only known picture of Venerable Matt Talbot.
He spent years addicted to alcohol, and would spend all of his money and even steal in order to buy drinks.
One day he decided to change his life, and pledged not to drink anymore. He started going to Mass, living an ascetic life, and used all the money he'd get to pay back all his debts and right his wrongs in any way he could.
It's said he'd attend multiple masses every day, and that you could find him praying in every break he'd get from his job.
His life would be just another soon-to-be-forgotten story of battling addiction, but when he died suddenly in 1925, they found out he had imposed on himself various chains, as a reminder of his pledge and religious commitments.
His story spread quickly, and he soon became an icon to Ireland's temperance movement.
Venerable Matt Talbot, pray for us!
He spent years addicted to alcohol, and would spend all of his money and even steal in order to buy drinks.
One day he decided to change his life, and pledged not to drink anymore. He started going to Mass, living an ascetic life, and used all the money he'd get to pay back all his debts and right his wrongs in any way he could.
It's said he'd attend multiple masses every day, and that you could find him praying in every break he'd get from his job.
His life would be just another soon-to-be-forgotten story of battling addiction, but when he died suddenly in 1925, they found out he had imposed on himself various chains, as a reminder of his pledge and religious commitments.
His story spread quickly, and he soon became an icon to Ireland's temperance movement.
Venerable Matt Talbot, pray for us!
Forwarded from Alítheia's Archive
“[W]e have been taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of wicked men; and this we have been taught lest we should do anyone harm and lest we should sin against God, first, because we see that almost all so exposed (not only the girls, but also the males) are brought up to prostitution. And for this pollution a multitude of females and hermaphrodites, and those who commit unmentionable iniquities, are found in every nation. And you receive the hire of these, and duty and taxes from them, whom you ought to exterminate from your realm. And anyone who uses such persons, besides the godless and infamous and impure intercourse, may possibly be having intercourse with his own child, or relative, or brother. And there are some who prostitute even their own children and wives, and some are openly mutilated for the purpose of sodomy; and they refer these mysteries to the mother of the gods”. — JUSTIN MARTYR, (First Apology 27 [A.D. 151]).
Strike it down, for what is "homosexuality" other than a curse?Forwarded from IMPERIVM
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The Archdiocese of Dublin have suspended all First Communions and Baptisms
But they have made time to take part in Pride Month by flying the flag outside churches such as this one in Ballyfermot
But they have made time to take part in Pride Month by flying the flag outside churches such as this one in Ballyfermot
Forwarded from Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
"And those who have no people, have no God! You may be sure that all those who cease to understand their people and lose their connection with them...also lose the faith of their fathers and become either atheists or indifferent."
-Dostoevsky
-Dostoevsky
Forwarded from Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
Correct take.
A questionnaire issued in the 1960s, 90% of the general public said the Catholic Church was a force for good in Ireland while only 10% of the ruling-class at the time thought so. Just like in every other cultural movement, the public converted to the views of the ruling class by osmosis through their institutions of power like the courts, parliament, media, literature etc. The fate of Irish Catholicism was destined for collapse in the 1960s, but the hierarchy was too ignorant of the subversive forces at play and still are.
As the Faith slowly eroded from Post-Vatican II as well as the ruling class growing hostility to the Church, it all climaxed around the Celtic Tiger where you then also had the Mother/Baby Home + Clerical Abuse Scandals come out which was the final push away and American Globohomo filled the vacuum instantly, tied with 2008 Bank Bailouts.
A questionnaire issued in the 1960s, 90% of the general public said the Catholic Church was a force for good in Ireland while only 10% of the ruling-class at the time thought so. Just like in every other cultural movement, the public converted to the views of the ruling class by osmosis through their institutions of power like the courts, parliament, media, literature etc. The fate of Irish Catholicism was destined for collapse in the 1960s, but the hierarchy was too ignorant of the subversive forces at play and still are.
As the Faith slowly eroded from Post-Vatican II as well as the ruling class growing hostility to the Church, it all climaxed around the Celtic Tiger where you then also had the Mother/Baby Home + Clerical Abuse Scandals come out which was the final push away and American Globohomo filled the vacuum instantly, tied with 2008 Bank Bailouts.
Because he is the Pope Francis of the “Orthodox” Church
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Can somebody explain why His Eminence Elpidophoros is serving a liturgy at an Episcopalian church in Manhattan? and calling it an 'ecumenical gesture'.... @goarch @GOARCH_Press
Forwarded from Catacombs of Dissent (Cardiac Jimbles)
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On this date in 1994, 6 Catholics were murdered in Loughlinisland as they watched Ireland play Italy at World Cup 1994.
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Not saying Francis has necessarily supported any of the following, but if you’re worried about the future of the Church as far as liberalism is concerned, take solace in the fact that the gravest evils of liberalism are already condemned infallibly by the universal/ordinary magisterium as well as the extraordinary magisterium:
So even if the Pope were to call for a different approach to sodomy, know it is already solemnly condemned as abominable by the Third and Fourth Lateran Councils (as well as by the unbroken and constant apostolic/patristic tradition)
If a Pope were to criticize Humanae vitae’s teaching on contraception, know that its teaching is already safeguarded by the universal and ordinary magisterium as well as the solemn, infallible condemnation of Pius XI in Casti connubii (as well as by the unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition)
If a Pope were to call for a softer approach to abortion, know that a strong condemnation is called for by the infallible Magisterium both in its universal/ ordinary and extraordinary form (unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition, and solemnly condemned in Evangelium vitae of John Paul II)
If a Pope were to embrace classical liberalism or religious indifferentism, know that this is already infallibly condemned by Pius IX’s Quanta cura
And if a Pope were to flirt with women’s ordination, know that women’s ordination is solemnly condemned by John Paul II
These teachings have been codified in the Church’s infallible Magisterium, and are irreformable in and of themselves, binding to all successors of St Peter, and so no future Pope can even in principle dare to overturn them.
So even if the Pope were to call for a different approach to sodomy, know it is already solemnly condemned as abominable by the Third and Fourth Lateran Councils (as well as by the unbroken and constant apostolic/patristic tradition)
If a Pope were to criticize Humanae vitae’s teaching on contraception, know that its teaching is already safeguarded by the universal and ordinary magisterium as well as the solemn, infallible condemnation of Pius XI in Casti connubii (as well as by the unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition)
If a Pope were to call for a softer approach to abortion, know that a strong condemnation is called for by the infallible Magisterium both in its universal/ ordinary and extraordinary form (unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition, and solemnly condemned in Evangelium vitae of John Paul II)
If a Pope were to embrace classical liberalism or religious indifferentism, know that this is already infallibly condemned by Pius IX’s Quanta cura
And if a Pope were to flirt with women’s ordination, know that women’s ordination is solemnly condemned by John Paul II
These teachings have been codified in the Church’s infallible Magisterium, and are irreformable in and of themselves, binding to all successors of St Peter, and so no future Pope can even in principle dare to overturn them.