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It's so unfortunate when you give more importance to temporal and political matters that are not essential to the Christian faith than to the core of the faith that actually matters for your salvation, and allow them to obstruct you from finding the true faith.
I was close to converting to Catholicism, but one of the reasons I did not convert to Catholicism was because of the striking inconsistencies.
Look at today's popes who promote universalism, call the death penalty evil, etc. The rhetoric is radically different from the popes of the past who sanctioned holy wars against barbarians and executed blasphemers. Not to mention the facilitation of mass third migration. The claim that Rome is the original Church that never changed is hard to believe when doctrine has changed throughout history, especially after Vatican II.
Truth doesn't bend to the times, neither should the Church.
That being said, I have much love for my Catholic brothers and sisters, and I learn so much from Catholic theologians and writings from the past. Even many modern Catholics are extremely edifying to me, so I praise God for you!
EXΛNXC 🇻🇦 retweeted
Here are a few of Martin Luther's 95 theses that we completely agree with:
21: [T]hose indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.
35: They who teach that contrition is not necessary on the part of those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessional privileges preach unchristian doctrine.
52. It is vain to trust in salvation by indulgence letters, even though the indulgence commissary, or even the pope, were to offer his soul as security.
53. They are the enemies of Christ and the pope who forbid altogether the preaching of the Word of God in some churches in order that indulgences may be preached in others.
71. Let him who speaks against the truth concerning papal indulgences be anathema and accursed.
91. If, therefore, indulgences were preached according to the spirit and intention of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved. Indeed, they would not exist.
It is certainly true that Luther wrote these when he was still a "papist." Would he have repudiated those last couple later on? Probably. We're not trying to pull a "gotcha" on modern-day Protestants here.
But it's still worth pointing out that in these theses, he recognized contemporary problems in the Catholic Church—and the solution—with clarity. Indulgences themselves were never the problem; corrupt behaviors surrounding them and teaching about them against "the spirit and intention of the pope" were.
> Pope Leo says something that is entirely true and perfectly consistent with historical Christian teaching.
> Stupid American Evangelicals who can't even read or comprehend what the Pope is saying call him the Antichrist and accuse him of being demonic. 🤦🏻
Faith can be embodied in all cultures, because it does not identify itself with any of them in a specific one. It dwells within them, shaping them from within according to the “form” of Jesus Christ; that is, through charity, service and the filial recognition of God’s fatherhood. In this way, the Church draws from the various cultures all that is good, beautiful and true, in order to embody and transmit the message of the Gospel. #GeneralAudience
EXΛNXC 🇻🇦 retweeted
>1865, Saint John Bosco has a dream where a horned black figure entertained young people with a “magic lantern”
>It shows them games, distant places, money, vacations & sinful scenes
>They become addicted to it & drift away from the sacraments, especially Holy Communion
Saint Don Bosco was warning us about smartphones
En el año 1865, San Juan Bosco soñó que había un hombre alto, de color negro y con cuernos, que tenía en su mano "una linterna mágica" con la cual entretenía a los jóvenes
A través de esa "linterna mágica", los jóvenes podían ver cosas divertidas, partidos de fútbol que se habían perdido, pueblos lejanos, libros, familiares, amigos, vacaciones que habían tenido, dinero que les debían, y hasta "escenas pecaminosas", entre otras cosas
Don Bosco relató que este dispositivo los entretenía tanto que alejaba a estos jóvenes de los sacramentos, especialmente de la comunión
Este texto se encuentra bien documentado y disponible para el que quiera leerlo, en G. B. Lemoyne, Memorie Biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco, vol. VIII, p. 110.
