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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Saint quotes
« Last post by Gray2023 on Today at 08:50:08 PM »
The only consideration of Superiors ought to be the love of God, and the sanctification of the souls committed to their care. This cannot be better attained than by humility, combined with a peaceable disposition and good example.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Catholic Living in the Modern World / Re: Home
« Last post by Plenus Venter on Today at 08:34:08 PM »
Is home really just "where the heart is" or is it more?  When you think of "home", what do you think of?  How would you describe "home"? Have you ever lived somewhere where you did not consider it "home"?  Have you lived anywhere with people you love and still not consider it "home"?
If anyone is feeling this way, don't be discouraged.
We are all in exile from our true home, which is Heaven.
God may be purifying you and detaching you from your home here below to make you desire Him more.
"Desire Heaven with all the might of your souls", St Benedict used to repeat to his monks.
I think "home is where the heart is" is the perfect definition.
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LeDeg was involved in another thread a few months back, which was anti-papacy.  Your suspicions are justified.

Yes, I posted links above.
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LeDeg, you wouldn't happen to be John Pontrello, would you?  At the very least you seem to follow his blog closely, since you immediately pointed out when he issued his attack against me.

You claimed that Pontrello made some "very good points" that have not been adequately address by Traditional Catholics, admit to having read his (heretical/schismatic) book, seem to be a close follower of his blog, and now this thread?

I see that Pontrello still has a tab page dedicated to me, on which he only puts his ignorance on display.
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The Earth God Made - Flat Earth, Geocentrism / Re: Astrophotography
« Last post by St Giles on Today at 07:48:01 PM »
Lot's of fakery there. I don't remember seeing any FE's doctoring their footage, not that they haven't or don't, but they often just use demonstrations that misrepresent reality, or they interpret what they see wrongly, or they don't consider all the variables involved in this complicated world and just jump to their preferred flat conclusion with loose ends. Then, there's GE's who add color to or over saturate their real images, enhance the clarity, and add 3D perspective changing animations with software. Who do you believe? Not the FE's, not the GE's, rather believe God.
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I find it suspicious that, as the original post was a refutation of Orthodox arguments, you change the topic to focus on something unrelated, yet playing into the arguments in favor of the eastern schismatics, even going so far as to echo their talking points.

I called LeDeg out earlier for having praised John Pontrello, the Orthodox schismatic/heretic.

https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/john-pontrello-responds-to-ladislaus/msg913918/#msg913918

He had earlier claimed that Pontrello "raises some some very good points that have not been adequately answered by the traditional clergy."

https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/the-impossibility-of-sedevacantism/msg910722/#msg910722
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Nonsense.  You have individuals in history who were taken in by the forgeries, but Rome itself never used them to prove it's claims, and never relied on them.  There is sufficient proof in scripture, the writings of the fathers, and elsewhere.   

The Dictatus Papae is attributed to Gregory VII, but it itself is a forgery in that no one can agree on who wrote it.  Most scholars agree that St. Gregory VII was not the author.

Please list the citations in the Roman Catechism that you refer to.

I have read St. Thomas' work against the Greeks, and do not recall him relying on the forged works.  If I am mistaken, please quote them.

I have come across many of the claims you make in my reading, particularly among the Orthodox apologists.  They hang on these forgeries like it's some kind of "gotcha", failing to understand that throughout history forgeries were as common as weeds in an neglected garden.  It was a massive problem.

Again, I reiterate, everyone acknowledges those docuмents you mentioned were forgeries. 

And again, what does this have to do with Vigilius?
In the middle of the ninth century—about 845—there arose the huge fabrication of the Isidorian decretals…About a hundred pretended decrees of the earliest Popes, together with certain spurious writings of other Church dignitaries and acts of Synods, were then fabricated in the west of Gaul, and eagerly seized upon Pope Nicholas I at Rome, to be used as genuine docuмents in support of the new claims put forward by himself and his successors.
That the pseudo–Isidorian principles eventually revolutionized the whole constitution of the Church, and introduced a new system in place of the old—on that point there can be no controversy among candid historians.
The most potent instrument of the new Papal system was Gratian’s Decretum, which issued about the middle of the twelfth century from the first school of Law in Europe, the juristic teacher of the whole of Western Christendom, Bologna. In this work the Isidorian forgeries were combined with those of the other Gregorian (Gregory VII) writers…and with Gratia’s own additions. His work displaced all the older collections of canon law, and became the manual and repertory, not for canonists only, but for the scholastic theologians, who, for the most part, derived all their knowledge of Fathers and Councils from it. No book has ever come near it in its influence in the Church, although there is scarcely another so chockful of gross errors, both intentional and unintentional (Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, The Pope and the Council (Boston: Roberts, 1870), pp. 76-77, 79, 115-116).

In 1264 A.D. Thomas authored a work entitled Against the Errors of the Greeks. This work deals with the issues of theological debate between the Greek and Roman Churches in that day on such subjects as the Trinity, the Procession of the Holy Spirit, Purgatory and the Papacy. In his defense of the papacy Thomas bases practically his entire argument on forged quotations of Church fathers. Under the names of the eminent Greek fathers such as Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria and Maximus the Abbott, a Latin forger had compiled a catena of quotations interspersing a number that were genuine with many that were forged which was subsequently submitted to Pope Urban IV. This work became known as the Thesaurus of Greek Fathers or Thesaurus Graecorum Patrum. In addition the Latin author also included spurious canons from early Ecuмenical Councils. Pope Urban in turn submitted the work to Thomas Aquinas who used many of the forged passages in his work Against the Errors of the Greeks mistakenly thinking they were genuine. These spurious quotations had enormous influence on many Western theologians in succeeding centuries. The following is a sample of Thomas’ argumentation for the papacy using the spurious quotations from the Thesaurus:

Chapter thirty-four
That the same (the Roman Pontiff) possesses in the Church a fullness of power.
It is also established from the texts of the aforesaid Doctors that the Roman Pontiff possesses a fullness of power in the Church. For Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, says in his Thesaurus: “As Christ coming forth from Israel as leader and scepter of the Church of the Gentiles was granted by the Father the fullest power over every principality and power and whatever is that all might bend the knee to him, so he entrusted most fully the fullest power to Peter and his successors.” And again: “To no one else but Peter and to him alone Christ gave what is his fully.” And further on: “The feet of Christ are his humanity, that is, the man himself, to whom the whole Trinity gave the fullest power, whom one of the Three assumed in the unity of his person and lifted up on high to the Father above every principality and power, so that all the angels of God might adore him (Hebr. 1:6); which whole and entire he has left in sacrament and power to Peter and to his Church.
And Chrysostom says to the Bulgarian delegation speaking in the person of Christ: “Three times I ask you whether you love me, because you denied me three times out of fear and trepidation. Now restored, however, lest the brethren believe you to have lost the grace and authority of the keys, I now confirm in you that which is fully mine, because you love me in their presence.”
This is also taught on the authority of Scripture. For in Matthew 16:19 the Lord said to Peter without restriction: Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven.

Chapter thirty-five
That he enjoys the same power conferred on Peter by Christ.
It is also shown that Peter is the Vicar of Christ and the Roman Pontiff is Peter’s successor enjoying the same power conferred on Peter by Christ. For the canon of the Council of Chalcedon says: “If any bishop is sentenced as guilty of infamy, he is free to appeal the sentence to the blessed bishop of old Rome, whom we have as Peter the rock of refuge, and to him alone, in the place of God, with unlimited power, is granted the authority to hear the appeal of a bishop accused of infamy in virtue of the keys given him by the Lord.” And further on: “And whatever has been decreed by him is to be held as from the vicar of the apostolic throne.”
Likewise, Cyril, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, says, speaking in the person of Christ: “You for a while, but I without end will be fully and perfectly in sacrament and authority with all those whom I shall put in your place, just as I am also with you.” And Cyril of Alexandria in his Thesaurus says that the Apostles “in the Gospels and Epistles have affirmed in all their teaching that Peter and his Church are in the place of the Lord, granting him participation in every chapter and assembly, in every election and proclamation of doctrine.” And further on: “To him, that is, to Peter, all by divine ordinance bow the head, and the rulers of the world obey him as the Lord Jesus himself.” And Chrysostom, speaking in the person of Christ, says: “Feed my sheep (John 21:17), that is, in my place be in charge of your brethren” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Against the Errors of the Greeks. Found in James Likoudis, Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism (New Rochelle: Catholics United for the Faith, 1992), pp. 182-184).


With the exception of the last reference to Chrysostom all of Thomas’ references cited to Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Chrysostom and the Council of Chalcedon are forgeries. The remainder of Aquinas’ treatise in defense of the papacy is similar in nature. 

In theology, from the beginning of the fourteenth century, the spurious passages of St. Cyril and forged canons of Councils maintained their ground, being guaranteed against all suspicion by the authority of St. Thomas. Since the work of Trionfo in 1320, up to 1450, it is remarkable that no single new work appeared in the interests of the Papal system. But then the contest between the Council of Basle and Pope Eugenius IV evoked the work of Cardinal Torquemada, besides some others of less importance. Torquemada’s argument, which was held up to the time of Bellarmine to be the most conclusive apology of the Papal system, rests entirely on fabrications later than the pseudo-Isidore, and chiefly on the spurious passages of St. Cyril. To ignore the authority of St. Thomas is, according to the Cardinal, bad enough, but to slight the testimony of St. Cyril is intolerable. The Pope is infallible; all authority of other bishops is borrowed or derived from his. Decisions of Councils without his assent are null and void. These fundamental principles of Torquemada are proved by spurious passages of Anacletus, Clement, the Council of Chalcedon, St. Cyril, and a mass of forged or adulterated testimonies. In the times of Leo X and Clement III, the Cardinals Thomas of Vio, or Cajetan, and Jacobazzi, followed closely in his footsteps. Melchior Canus built firmly on the authority of Cyril, attested by St. Thomas, and so did Bellarmine and the Jesuits who followed him. Those who wish to get a bird’s–eye view of the extent to which the genuine tradition of Church authority was still overlaid and obliterated by the rubbish of later inventions and forgeries about 1563, when the Loci of Canus appeared, must read the fifth book of his work. It is indeed still worse fifty years later in this part of Bellarmine’s work. The difference is that Canus was honest in his belief, which cannot be said of Bellarmine.

The Dominicans, Nicolai, Le Quien, Quetif, and Echard, were the first to avow openly that their master St. Thomas, had been deceived by an imposter, and had in turn misled the whole tribe of theologians and canonists who followed him. On the one hand, the Jesuits, including even such a scholar as Labbe, while giving up the pseudo–Isidorian decretals, manifested their resolve to still cling to St. Cyril. In Italy, as late as 1713, Professor Andruzzi of Bologna cited the most important of the interpolations of St. Cyril as a conclusive argument in his controversial treatise against the patriarch Dositheus (Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, The Pope and the Council (Boston: Roberts, 1870), pp. 233-234).

The forgeries were/are a fact of history. They were used by popes, knowingly or not of their authenticity. 
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From 1:27-1:29 :laugh2: 

Besides the time stamp I referenced where he looks absolutely retarded some of his other hand movements look bizarre. Is there a natural explanation? I’d say yes. At the same time his body language and hand movements in the video above don’t look entirely like an act, as if it’s all just putting on to add humor to the trick itself.
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For facts on HAARP, see the 1995 book
 
Angels Don't Play This HAARP : Advances in Tesla Technology by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning is a book gaining wide publicity throughout the United States having been featured on hundreds of radio programs, news reports and television programs. This book was named one of the most important books of 1996 by Project Censored : The News that Didn''t Make the News. The book is the subject of talk radio programs six to twelve times a month on both national and regional programs. The book is in its third english printing since being released in September, 1995. Translations were released in Japan and Germany in 1996.
 
The U.S. Military''s first target is the electrojet: a river of electricity that flows thousands of miles through the sky and down into the polar icecap. The electrojet will become a vibrating artificial antenna for sending electromagnetic radiation raining down on the earth. The U.S. military can then "X-ray" the earth and talk to submarines. But there''s much more they can do with HAARP.
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Catholic Living in the Modern World / Re: Home
« Last post by Giovanni Berto on Today at 06:20:44 PM »
The saying is true in the sense that a home says a lot about the people(or person) living there, but I think a home is more than that. I think of my parents' house as home, but I can't say I ever felt at home there. My house, which I live in now, is not a home to me. It's just a house. I've only ever felt at home at my close friend's house. Their home is everything I've ever thought a home should be. A loving husband and wife, happy children, and everyone's content... at peace... It's the only place in which I've felt welcome and accepted and where I could be myself. A place with no fear.

I agree.

I would describe home as a place where you feel safe.

The parents should make great efforts to ensure that the children feel safe at home, even if they don't feel the same. It will make a great difference in their development.
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