It’s so bizarre hearing gay activists say this, as if the Church actually governing itself in harmony with what it preaches about their own lifestyle wouldn’t also solve the sex abuse crisis https://twitter.com/njchamp722_/status/1371443885445156864?s=21

I know most of you are aware, but as I still get asked how Christianity coheres with classical theism, I do have a (so far) three part series on a) the existence of God b) a philosophical argument for the Incarnation and c) the atonement:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXbTJn6BGgw94T2UvAm7rnUPgm1_2_Glr

what level of pathological gay narcissism do you have to be on to see systemic child sex abuse coverups and being told you can’t have gay sex anymore as somehow equally understandable reasons for leaving the Catholic Church

according to st jerome, Christ breathed His last with a loud voice to signify His authority over death in contrast to most of us who will die in either a low voice or without any sound at all

Lol

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“He waited so that all these things might be accomplished, after which He said “it is consummated”, and departed by His own power, for He did not come by necessity, and so some marveled more at His power of dying than His performing of miracles.” St. Augustine, Tractates on John

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as the Father goes out from the superabundant fecundity of Divinity to generate His own consubstantial self-Image (exitus), that same self-Image upon receiving that Divine Nature reflects this Divinity back in that same Love that is the Holy Spirit (reditus)

what happens here ad intra is manifested ad extra in the Incarnation (exitus), Death, Resurrection, and Ascension (reditus) of that same Divine self-Image (Son), thereby restoring the integrity of His own self-Image’s cosmic theophany (us)

The Jews reaction after finding the empty tomb

“Mystically, Mary (Magdalene), which name signifies, mistress, enlightened, enlightener, star of the sea, stands for the Church, which is also Magdalen, i. e. towered, (Magdalen being Greek for tower,) as we read in the Psalms, Thou hast been a strong tower for me. (Ps. 61:3) In that she announced Christ’s resurrection to the disciples, all, especially those to whom the office of preaching is committed, are admonished to be zealous in setting forth to others whatever is revealed from above.” St. Bede the Venerable

“O God, whither hast Thou led me that I may perceive Thine Absolute Face to be the natural face of all nature, to be the face which is the Absolute Being of all being, to be art, and the knowledge of all that may be known? He, then, who meriteth to behold Thy Face seeth all things openly, and naught remaineth hidden from him: he who hath Thee, Lord, knoweth all things and hath all things: he hath all things who seeth Thee. For none seeth Thee except he have Thee. None can attain unto Thee, since Thou art unapproachable: none, therefore, can possess himself of Thee except Thou give Thyself to him.” - Nicholas of Cusa, The Vision of God

hans kung was like every other arch heretic in church history except in the fact that he was boring and they weren’t

“And so he too rejoices over your good feeling and welcomes your respect for the Lord's own institution as shown towards the partners of His honor, commending the well ordered love of the whole Church, which ever finds Peter in Peter's See, and from affection for so great a shepherd grows not lukewarm even over so inferior a successor as myself. In order therefore, dearly beloved, that this loyalty which you unanimously display towards my humbleness may obtain the fruit of its zeal, on bended knee entreat the merciful goodness of our God that in our days He will drive out those who assail us, strengthen faith, increase love, increase peace and deign to render me His poor slave, whom to show the riches of His grace He has willed to stand at the helm of the Church, sufficient for so great a work and useful in building you up, and to this end to lengthen our time for service that the years He may grant us may be used to His glory through Christ our Lord. Amen.” - Pope St Leo I on his ascension to the Papacy

(taken from Sermon III)

they talk so robotically https://twitter.com/jgreenblattadl/status/1380528052061544455?s=21

simplified version of the argument from change:

change implies the distinction between being in potency and being in actuality

potency does not possess act by virtue of itself but can only receive act by virtue of another given that potency is really distinct from act and is by definition not actual in and of itself

if all that is are beings that receive act by virtue of another, nothing could be in act

so there must be that which is actual by virtue of itself and does not in any respect receive act by virtue of another, such that there must be reality that just is pure actuality itself, to which is given the name “God”