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Pope Francis joking with the cardinals

That was really, really funny! well done to whoever put it together!
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Gloria TV News on the 14th of October

@Holy Cannoli, 😇 great! At last you see the light!
Well done! I always thought that you'd get there eventually. Good on ya mate!!!!
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Gloria TV News on the 14th of October

@louella, though I agree that more should be done for persecuted Christians ... I think that blaming the Vatican is missing the real target ... what are Catholic politicians doing all over the world? US Vice President Biden is a Catholic ... any words demanding his co-religionists security? German Chancellor Merkl is the daughter of a Lutheran Pastor. Has she uttered a word to ensure the welfare of …More
@louella, though I agree that more should be done for persecuted Christians ... I think that blaming the Vatican is missing the real target ... what are Catholic politicians doing all over the world? US Vice President Biden is a Catholic ... any words demanding his co-religionists security? German Chancellor Merkl is the daughter of a Lutheran Pastor. Has she uttered a word to ensure the welfare of fellow Christians? It is too easy to blame the Vatican ... but it is the laity that should take up the battle.
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Obama’s Christian Problem

@louella 👍 ... yes, there should be a modern day "Catholic League" ... but, unfortunately, that is only a dream. If the Popular Party comes back to power in Spain and if Italy's centre-right government can rid itseld of that reprobate Berlusconi and get a true Catholic [in private actions as well as public words and deeds] ... well there might be a chance. Despite all his personal scandals, …More
@louella 👍 ... yes, there should be a modern day "Catholic League" ... but, unfortunately, that is only a dream. If the Popular Party comes back to power in Spain and if Italy's centre-right government can rid itseld of that reprobate Berlusconi and get a true Catholic [in private actions as well as public words and deeds] ... well there might be a chance. Despite all his personal scandals, Berlusconi's Government did fight, and win, to retain the Cross in all public places.
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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Why this scientist believes in GOD

Fantastic testimony!!! And on CNN, wow! Thank you for sharing this "Ira".
SboC
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A Long View of Vatican II

@tbswv - as Catholics we are not free to pick and choose from Ecumenical Councils what we like and dismiss and disparage what we don't like. Catholicism isn't a "smorgasbord" ... unfortunately or fortunately. The Second Vatican Council was the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. Whether we like it or not, that is a fact ... and as you say this Council is "valid". As such one must accept …More
@tbswv - as Catholics we are not free to pick and choose from Ecumenical Councils what we like and dismiss and disparage what we don't like. Catholicism isn't a "smorgasbord" ... unfortunately or fortunately. The Second Vatican Council was the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. Whether we like it or not, that is a fact ... and as you say this Council is "valid". As such one must accept all its decisions. If one does not accept that the 2nd Vatican Council is Ecumenical then one puts oneself with the Orthodox who only accept the first 7. As all of us know, the Orthodox are schismatics. The basic definition of an Ecumenical Council is "a meeting of all the Catholic Bishops called by the Pope". Vatican II clearly fits this definition. To be Ecumenical [i.e binding on "all the world" - all the world of believers] a Council need not be expressly dogmatic, in opposition to what some people think and argue. Naturally, the "interpretation" of the decisions of an Ecumenical Council is up to the Supreme Pontiff and the Bishops in communion with him. A greater understanding of these decisions may well come with time but it is best, as faithful Catholics, to leave the "interpretation" and the "further understanding" to the Holy Father and his Bishops.
Finally, look at Church History ... just about every Ecumenical Council [even several of the first 7] was followed by a period of "adjustment" and even controversy. This did NOT negate their Ecumenical status.
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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Obama’s Christian Problem

Well said "Gloria.TV - News Briefs"!!! These cherry-picked cases ARE well publicised!!! Amnesty International has lost so much credibility and it deserves to lose support!
SboC
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The Monk

Very funny! Thanks for the laugh!!!
SboC
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Obama’s Christian Problem

Hi, ACL, amice 😇 🤗 👍
Thanks a million, I'll try to that in the future!
Ciao,
SboC
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Obama’s Christian Problem

Sorry everyone, I've been trying to post a cutting from a newspaper but I am NOT computer savvy enough to do so!
Anyway, the article was about "Amnesty International" wanting the Canadian Government to arrest George Bush "for authorising torture as he directed the US-led war on terror", when he attends an economic summit in Surrey, British Columbia, next Thursday.
This reminds me of those "nuts" …More
Sorry everyone, I've been trying to post a cutting from a newspaper but I am NOT computer savvy enough to do so!
Anyway, the article was about "Amnesty International" wanting the Canadian Government to arrest George Bush "for authorising torture as he directed the US-led war on terror", when he attends an economic summit in Surrey, British Columbia, next Thursday.
This reminds me of those "nuts" who were clamouring for the arrest of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI when he made a Pastoral visit to the UK recently, again for "crimes against humanity" for his alleged complicity in the "cover-up" of paedophile priests!
Now, I am neither pro nor anti-Republican [I'm an Australian living and working in Hong Kong ... I couldn't care less about either US party] ... and I am neither pro nor anti-Bush ... BUT it seems to me that the World is a far better place with the Taliban out of Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein out of Iraq ... and we DO owe all that to George W. Bush!
What is it about the "left-wing" agenda??? They say nothing about the nutcase who is destroying North Korea or the maniac who runs Iran [either the religious one or the political one ... they are both as bad as each other] ... but when it comes to Christian leaders or politicians they are always baying for their blood!!! Furthermore, the world-wide silence as Christians are being butchered in Moslem majority states is positively deafening!!! What is all this about???
PS Can anyone teach me how to upload [is that the term?] texts and videos onto this website????
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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While We Wait -- Some Level-Setting ..

Hi ACL!!! 👍
Procedamus in pace.
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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While We Wait -- Some Level-Setting ..

Hi SBpfu 😇 🤗 👍 !!!
Well said!
There are two things that I don't understand about all this. Firstly, why all the fuss about a miniscule splinter group? I'm sure the Holy Father has far more important and pressing things than to be waiting by the phone for a call from bishop Fellay and his ilk. From how some people talk, however, it sounds like a case of "the tail wagging the dog"! Secondly, what …More
Hi SBpfu 😇 🤗 👍 !!!
Well said!
There are two things that I don't understand about all this. Firstly, why all the fuss about a miniscule splinter group? I'm sure the Holy Father has far more important and pressing things than to be waiting by the phone for a call from bishop Fellay and his ilk. From how some people talk, however, it sounds like a case of "the tail wagging the dog"! Secondly, what has happened to the fervent Christian hope that should animate us as followers of Christ? Don't we believe anymore in Our Lord's promise that not even "the gates of hell shall prevail" against the Church? And His promise to send the Paraclete to watch over His Church? It is always good when sheep that have strayed do return to the fold and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, as the true Vicar of the Great Good Shepherd, is trying to facilitate this return. Nevertheless, whether the SSPX submits to Rome or not ... the One Holy Catholic Church will continue to preach and spread the Good News regardless. And we have the Lord's own words on that.
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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The Priest and His Donkey

Far better jokes, funnier and in much better taste, have been posted on this site. Quite frankly, I'd expect this kind of joke on a fundamentalist Protestant [I can't even imagine mainline Anglicans/Episcopalians or Lutherans doing so] or an Islamic site.
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Vatican’s Pact with Islam

Hi Trinitas!!! 👍
Actually, it was the great Catholic Anglo-French writer Hilaire Belloc [1870-1953] who counted Islam as a Christian heresy [as well as a threat to the West] in his book, aptly named, "The Great Christian Heresies".
The following website has further information on this:
chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/…/belloc-islam-is…
Thanks for the welcome ... yes the typhoon was a tad hairy …More
Hi Trinitas!!! 👍
Actually, it was the great Catholic Anglo-French writer Hilaire Belloc [1870-1953] who counted Islam as a Christian heresy [as well as a threat to the West] in his book, aptly named, "The Great Christian Heresies".
The following website has further information on this:
chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/…/belloc-islam-is…
Thanks for the welcome ... yes the typhoon was a tad hairy [as we say in Oz!].
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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Vatican’s Pact with Islam

My dear friend Trinitas, I am not sure where you got that [partial] quote supposedly attributable to St Thomas Aquinas regarding Islam. If you go to this website:
www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/islam/thomas.htm
you will see that St Thomas Aquinas did not believe that Mohammed was a true prophet and he cogently argued against the Moslem objections to the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation …More
My dear friend Trinitas, I am not sure where you got that [partial] quote supposedly attributable to St Thomas Aquinas regarding Islam. If you go to this website:
www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/islam/thomas.htm
you will see that St Thomas Aquinas did not believe that Mohammed was a true prophet and he cogently argued against the Moslem objections to the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation. Nowhere, however did he say anything about Moslems not worshipping the same God as the Christians.
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!
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While We Wait -- Some Level-Setting ..

You state that "the Pope was flat out, and loudly, wrong". You talk of "silliness within the Catholic Church". You refer to actions of a Supreme pontiff of the Universal Church [Pope Paul VI] as "unjust and illegal" and as "nutty-novel". You attack Religious Orders with whom you disagree as "malign and mephitic" [the latter, presumably, a reference to Mephistopheles, a demon] and to their actions …More
You state that "the Pope was flat out, and loudly, wrong". You talk of "silliness within the Catholic Church". You refer to actions of a Supreme pontiff of the Universal Church [Pope Paul VI] as "unjust and illegal" and as "nutty-novel". You attack Religious Orders with whom you disagree as "malign and mephitic" [the latter, presumably, a reference to Mephistopheles, a demon] and to their actions as stinking "like the bottom of a monkey cage". You say that you have "excommunicated" yourself from a whole body of Catholics - those you mock as "mock conservatives". And yet you are telling me to NOT:
"engage in these kinds of abusive comments in which you make an equivalency between the SSPX and Lucifer. They are unproductive and do not reflect well on either you or this website."
Is Gloria.TV a website which is truly Catholic, i.e. in full communion with the Holy Father and through which Catholics can express their loyalty to Rome or not? That is not a rhetorical question, I really need to know.
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
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While We Wait -- Some Level-Setting ..

As you you say, the SSPX has been the carrier of many lights. So was "Lucifer". His sin and that of the Lefebvrists has also been the same: "Non serviam".
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May the Great Servant of God Pope Paul VI pray for us all!
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Vatican’s Pact with Islam

Naturally, as you have so rightly enumerated, there are myriad doctrinal differences, of fundamental importance, between ourselves and Moslems [actually, as someone has already mentioned on this website, there are some who have categorised Islam as a "Christian heresy"] this, however, does not negate the simple reality that Yahweh, Allah and God are one and the same Deity. In fact, our Eastern …More
Naturally, as you have so rightly enumerated, there are myriad doctrinal differences, of fundamental importance, between ourselves and Moslems [actually, as someone has already mentioned on this website, there are some who have categorised Islam as a "Christian heresy"] this, however, does not negate the simple reality that Yahweh, Allah and God are one and the same Deity. In fact, our Eastern Christian brothers and sisters who use Arabic to pray, refer to God as "Allah" because "Allah" in Arabic simply means "God". Jews also do not believe in the Trinity, nor that Jesus is the Eternal Son of the Father, nor in the Divinity of Jesus ... BUT ... do you then go on to say that Yahweh, the God of the Jews, is not the same God as the One Jesus prayed to in the Garden of Gethsemane in the New Testament ... that Christians do not adore the same God as the Jews?
Since the Catholic Faith has the fullness of truth ... the further a religion is from Catholicism then the further it is from the fullness of truth but both Judaism and Islam do have that most important spark of ultimate truth ... belief in the One True God.
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Viva il Papa!
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While We Wait -- Some Level-Setting ..

In his letter of the 10th of March 2009 His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI wrote:
"The fact that the Society of St Pius X does not possess a canonical status in the Church is not, in the end, based on disciplinary but on doctrinal reasons. As long as the Society does not have a canonical status in the Church, its ministers do not exercise legitimate ministries in the Church."
Christus vincit Christus …More
In his letter of the 10th of March 2009 His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI wrote:
"The fact that the Society of St Pius X does not possess a canonical status in the Church is not, in the end, based on disciplinary but on doctrinal reasons. As long as the Society does not have a canonical status in the Church, its ministers do not exercise legitimate ministries in the Church."
Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat
Viva il Papa!