@Jeffrey Ade Trying to get your comment on top instead of under my comment shows exactly who you are and what you are up to. Nice try! Doesn't work with me. I can see threw people like you. As another person tried to trick me. He is no longer on. First time he changed his name. Second time, bye bye.
I am not about to read anything you post. As you refuse to see anything I post.
Again you didn't read or maybe you didn't understand. Let's look our Saints. Shall we?
Padre Saint Pio to a woman in mourning for her husband who committed suicide. No worries before he died he asked Our Lord for forgiveness.
St. John Vianney. and other Saints who saw souls who we would think were doomed, GOD or His Holy Mother saved them in the end.
The man who was an atheist, What happened? It is said, he placed flowers at the feet of The Blessed Mother. Maybe he had a love for her which maybe he kept to himself? WE don't know the hearts of others.
WE CAN NOT SPEAK FOR GOD NOR HIS HOLY MOTHER ON WHO THEY DEEM AS WORTHY.
Put your stupid crystal ball down and wake up! And stop speaking for GOD! Stop thinking you are a god and know more than anyone else. Worse, speaking for GOD and telling Him or His Mother what they will do and not do. Or what they should do and not do.
Thank you for your comment, Communist Troll! You do crack me up! Your attachment to the PSYOP is quite intense! You make a comment, "WE CAN NOT SPEAK FOR GOD NOR HIS HOLY MOTHER ON WHO THEY DEEM AS WORTHY." I agree! But we can know what the Catholic Church Teaches and accept it or reject it. Charlie Is not Catholic and never will be! It is all fake and your trying to prove the truth of the PSYOP only shows others how deep into it you actually are! God bless you!
@Jeffrey Ade Is there something wrong with you? You laugh over everything. Including the truth. Especially when you can't deal with the truth. Who are you Jeffrey Ade?
Do you know who you remind me of? The paid hacks on yahoo news. cnn, nbc. They hire people like you to attack us who know the truth. Who hate it and are paid to attack us for it.
Not only that, but we are threatened as well. Your anger the other day showed you are not who you pretend to be.
I never did say Charlie was a Catholic. He was leading to the Faith. You are a very sad person. I know what I was taught. I know the teachings. I also know GOD and what He told our Saints. I guess you believe only what you want from them. Now please go and play with your propagandist freaks.
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Sorry, not reading any more of your stupidity or lies or ignorance.
@Instaurare Omnia in Christo Thank you for your comment, Communist Troll! Firstly you still believe everything you see on tv about the fake "assassination!" LOL! Secondly, Charlie Kirk was not a member of the Catholic Church. Period, full stop. End of line! The Catholic church Teaches "extra ecclesiam nulla salus." Once again you are attacking me for taking the side of the Teaching of the Catholic Church! I have posted here At Cyzicus, on the Propontis, the anniversary of … and here How non-Catholics become members of the One True … two Catholic examples of how a person who is not a visible member of the Catholic Church may become an invisible member through Baptism of desire. Charlie Kirk is not a member of the Catholic Church, never was, never will be, isn't even dead! God bless you!
On Debate and the Pursuit of Truth
In the Catholic Church, we engage in debate on matters of free opinion—those things that do not bind conscience or constitute de fide doctrines—for the purpose of arriving at a closer approximation of the truth. This method of intellectual inquiry is exemplified by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae and is particularly relevant in secular, social, and political discussions.
Catholics do not resort to name-calling, such as branding opponents as "trolls," nor do we dismiss their opinions a priori. We believe in listening to all voices, even those of our opponents or enemies, as truth can come from any source. As the saying goes, "Even if it is the devil who speaks, if he speaks the truth, listen to him."
The possession of truth is not the monopoly of those with whom we agree.
St. Thomas Aquinas himself engaged with and learned from the writings of pagans, rabbis, and imams, alongside the works of the Doctors of the Church and Catholic philosophers. A significant portion of his teaching and the synthesis of Christian philosophy was built upon the intellectual foundations he received from these non-Christian sources.
For example, concepts like substance and accidents, fundamental to the dogma of Transubstantiation, were adopted from the pagan Greeks and transmitted to the West through Jewish and Arab scholars.
In the Quaestiones of the Summa, St. Thomas first meticulously lists all the contradictory opinions (disputatio). He then resolves the debate (a contrario) by discerning what is true and what is false in the various arguments. He never hesitates to accept what is true from a contradictory opinion, just as he never hesitates to condemn what is false.
It is important to remember that there is always some element of truth within every falsehood. Just as pure evil cannot exist on its own, neither can pure falsehood. Error is the absence of a truth that ought to be present but that is omitted. Heresy, for example, is often a near-truth—ninety-eight percent truth and two percent error. The error lies in what is missing from true doctrine, whether it is "faith without works," "the Bible without Tradition," or "the Church without the pope."
In all his writings, St. Thomas Aquinas never once called his opponents "trolls". He dispassionately used reason, illuminated by the Catholic Faith, to out-think and confound them. K R Ross
@Katrin Kaufmann Like all young people. They fall in with the wrong crowds. In his case with religion. Young people love to do their own thing and break away from their parents and their teachings. But sooner or later you find that they are exactly like their parents and realize they were right all along.
Anyone can see he was turning back to the faith. GOD has his ways of leading them back. And it is clear to see that The Blessed Mother was leading him as well.
People like him who start to notice The Blessed Mother more and more as more than just a nice woman, and saying the Rosary is a sure sign he was soon to convert. His friends have said he was having a spiritual conversion. Going to Mass as well. That's how it always starts. Rosary, Mass learning about the faith.
He was headed there. Our Lord is very merciful and so is His mother. So have hope for this young man and pray for him. As we know The Blessed Mother saved many people who said her Rosary. And he was leading and teaching about her towards the end. All good signs. Especially from our Saints and what they said about people like him.
If he really had respect, he would have become one with all those excellent examples!
lol You are so funny Jeff. GOD does things in His own way. Not in Jeff's ways. Did he have time? Do you think it happens in an instant? You don't seem to know much about GOD or His Holy Mother. Was it his fault he was murdered before he converted? Do you think GOD threw him away as trash? Or did GOD look into his soul and saw he would have converted "IF" he hadn't been murdered. Are you once again speaking for GOD?
Only GOD knows our hearts. And He also knows the future. I guess you expected he convert immediately? It takes time for people to take that step. Only The Blessed Mother and Our Lord knows what he would have done "IF" he wasn't murdered.
So leave it in GOD'S hand and stop trying to play a god. Leave the poor kid alone. Anyone can see he was leading to the True Faith. And if he was going to convert. And by the sound and looks of it. He was going to take that leap into The True Faith. Again, GOD knows. So leave it to Him and His Holy Mother. And pray for him.
@Instaurare Omnia in Christo Thank you for your comment, Communist Troll! Firstly you still believe everything you see on tv about the fake "assassination!" LOL! Secondly, Charlie Kirk was not a member of the Catholic Church. Period, full stop. End of line! The Catholic church Teaches "extra ecclesiam nulla salus." Once again you are attacking me for taking the side of the Teaching of the Catholic Church! I have posted here At Cyzicus, on the Propontis, the anniversary of … and here How non-Catholics become members of the One True … two Catholic examples of how a person who is not a visible member of the Catholic Church may become an invisible member through Baptism of desire. Charlie Kirk is not a member of the Catholic Church, never was, never will be, isn't even dead! God bless you!
On Debate and the Pursuit of Truth
In the Catholic Church, we engage in debate on matters of free opinion—those things that do not bind conscience or constitute de fide doctrines—for the purpose of arriving at a closer approximation of the truth. This method of intellectual inquiry is exemplified by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae and is particularly relevant in secular, social, and political discussions.
Catholics do not resort to name-calling, such as branding opponents as "trolls," nor do we dismiss their opinions a priori. We believe in listening to all voices, even those of our opponents or enemies, as truth can come from any source. As the saying goes, "Even if it is the devil who speaks, if he speaks the truth, listen to him."
The possession of truth is not the monopoly of those with whom we agree.
St. Thomas Aquinas himself engaged with and learned from the writings of pagans, rabbis, and imams, alongside the works of the Doctors of the Church and Catholic philosophers. A significant portion of his teaching and the synthesis of Christian philosophy was built upon the intellectual foundations he received from these non-Christian sources.
For example, concepts like substance and accidents, fundamental to the dogma of Transubstantiation, were adopted from the pagan Greeks and transmitted to the West through Jewish and Arab scholars.
In the Quaestiones of the Summa, St. Thomas first meticulously lists all the contradictory opinions (disputatio). He then resolves the debate (a contrario) by discerning what is true and what is false in the various arguments. He never hesitates to accept what is true from a contradictory opinion, just as he never hesitates to condemn what is false.
It is important to remember that there is always some element of truth within every falsehood. Just as pure evil cannot exist on its own, neither can pure falsehood. Error is the absence of a truth that ought to be present but that is ommitted. Heresy, for example, is often a near-truth—ninety-eight percent truth and two percent error. The error lies in what is missing from true doctrine, whether it is "faith without works," "the Bible without Tradition," or "the Church without the pope."
In all his writings, St. Thomas Aquinas never once called his opponents "trolls". He dispassionately used reason, illuminated by the Catholic Faith, to out-think and confound them.
@K R Ross It's ok, He has swamped me with a communist troll in most of my comments and posts. I actually laugh at it. It does not offend me at all. Besides, I have a great sense of humor and don't let too much if hardly anything get to me. Name calling only means I am winning!
He posts propaganda from third party paid hacks. Then I post the truth. That's when he attacks me the most. And it shows I won! So, it's all good. Thank you for your comment and explanation. May GOD Bless you and keep you in His Sacred Heart safe and close to Him.
As for his being an intercessor for you, Mazza, he may not be in hell as it seems he was on his way to the Faith, but he may not yet be in heaven either. So be sure, in charity, to pray for the repose of his soul.
He is become an intercessor for me..
what because of my name on here?? I am not Italian.. just a catchy name really..