There's no veneration at all in the Roman Church but if the Eastern Churches are fully Catholic too then surely that means he is a Saint?

Yeah, but extremely wack theology

@JoeyJoestar1337 God bless

The vast majority of homosexuality comes from some sort of trauma, not necessarily physical/sexual but trauma nonetheless

it is very sad

@Arkona 92 there's a difference between what you experience/feel and what's actually going on psychologically

I thought the story these days was that you're supposed to be born gay

Not sure about born gay

as far as I know theres no gay gene or something

its all psychological

/demonic sometimes

look up Joseph Sciambra

Joseph Sciambra by his own admission went gay from porn

hes a chaste catholic

but for ages he was a gay pornstar and said it was because he couldnt get enough from "normal" porn

yeah a lot of them are but

whenever you start getting loose with chastity it all starts to snowball

Well I think you can apply that question to all types of trauma

Like serial killers also usually have messed up childhoods full of trauma, so do most drug addicts etc

Also, without contradicting the psychological explanation there is a spiritual layer

40 days on nothing but daily mass and water

epiphany salt

it's just blessed on the epiphany

always "hovering" over you

and your every action

‘The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage and the Family.’

It's not a stupid mission

you're planting seeds ayy

join the hooded soldiers

those of us who retain our hoods

you know how it was popularised in the states?

Nah it was the same guy that started Kelloggs cereal, he hated sex and said that if you circumcise your kid they physically couldn't masturbate

he also marketed cornflakes as anti-masturbatory if I remember correctly

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/corn-flakes-originally-created-to-clear-the-mind-of-sinful-thoughts/news-story/d22e8e7b8ed307347551c74131da4c13

whoops forgot about that

sorry

no

anyone know a good place to buy chapel veils, online or otherwise? My newly baptised gf wants one. I'm in Aus.

lmao it wasn't always an island

people walked here

from Asia

picked them up?

sure there's proof

well I think you're looking for a naturalistic explanation for something inherently not natural which doesn't make a whole lot of sense

whether the flood literally happened or not it doesn't say much for the existence of God either way

well belief in God can be conclusively reached through reason regardless of whether you've even heard of Christ or not

this idea that there is no proof is silly, there clearly is

perhaps not any physical or material evidence

but it's completely philosophically logical

Yes, once you acknowledge God, Christianity stands as the most rational

this ^

as for the flood situation, whatever happened has no weight on the existence of God

if you click it and then click open original you can zoom in

are you on mobile or pc?

at any rate, the existence of God is philosophically demonstrable

if the flood did happen, it's perfectly logical for God to have been able to do it, and if it didn't happen exactly literally as scripture recounts, that's also consistent with God

well, the unmoved mover

so, the mere fact that there is something, as supposed to nothing needs an explanation

something either actually is, or potentially is

potential cannot make itself actual, i.e, things need causes

so if everything needs a cause, then somewhere along the line there needs to be a reality which can cause yet is uncaused, or else you end up with an infinite regress

well to start at number 2

if the unmoved mover is purely actual, and not potential, it couldn't not exist since that would make it potential

as for omnipotence, if the unmoved mover is not omnipotent that would mean there are unrealised potentials. This cannot be since it is purely actual

as for sentient, to create ex nihilo/be the first cause requires an act of the will.

yes

or create full stop without sentience

technically only God can create, we can only make

I've got a test in 20 minutes but ill continue after

thanks

God bless

yeah, I wasn't sure what was meant in this context by infallible

Thats what I said

we can only receive communion if we can't get to a Catholic church

but their sacraments are valid, yeah

also, we do share most of the saints since a lot of them come from before the schism

yeah like if it wasn't real then Christianity would have died out before it started

aren't coptics Monophysites?

what do your EO mates think about the Papacy?

yeah thats a big one

or like any council after the schism for that matter

do Eastern Catholics acknowledge filioque?

funny, Orthodoxy used to benefit from it when it was Catholic

his wife seemed a bit whacky with all the rasputin stuff

By his own admission he didn't want the throne right?

same

I'm aware, but it is a division in theology between east and west right?

my trad uni chaplain thinks it really just more semantics once you get past all the theological definitions and in terms of spiritual life etc we believe the same

My uni has this facebook page where people post anonymously for everyone to see

today there was one about a dude saying he slept with his gfs sister because she didn't want to sleep with him since her family was Catholic

and his justification was she can't treat him like that

too true

exactly

she wants you to say no

time to join the monastery

its a joke

but also he's ortho so it doesn't matter either way

some even have several national ones