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@BreadOfLife I didn't even read this. But WHEN this happens... The Pope will have everyone on HIS side in the synod... and HE will become the supreme authority... No more magesterum. You're so far behind on the news... You just don't know what's going on in the CC.... So sad. 'Blogging'...

Catch up on the news out of the Vatican....

A, please stop. From my responses it sounds like I'd like to get to the point.

Yes...in fact in theology free will means being able to make a moral choice that is not conditioned by outside forces.

We've all felt this emptiness you speak of,,,if we're human. You're saying what I said but more beautifully. I used to teach my catechism kids that there's an heart shaped hole in all of us and only God can fill it. Yes,,,of course it's not willingly. We all suffer because Adam sinned...we all...

I agree with you, but what you're saying has nothing to do with the loss of free will. If I give up a part of myself to make everyone dinner for THEIR good, even if I feel tired...it is still my free will choice to make that dinner. I could have decided NOT TO. Free will just means having a...

What was the teaching on holy water??

I'll be asking Fra' Lorenzo about this. ( about the connection of levitation to demon possession).

I didn't say we can't keep trying. :) I certainly won't. I've read her stuff...

Hi GH, Just ran across this... You're right of course. BoL sees everything as an attack. The CC is not so sure anymore that this pope is infallible.... He's thinking of creating a man-made permanent synod, which, basically, means HE would be the authority for the church and not the magesterum...

Here's what I think: The REFORMATION caused, I think, millions of deaths. (I'd have to check that). Catholic Kings only was OK. Now we had Protestant kings too and the wars raged and many died. This was the 16th century. In more modern times, the time of VAT I, which was the question, the wars...

I studied her book for a year with a friar and some other persons. To tell you the truth, I wasn't interested in her politics. Her faith life was amazing to me.... Busy with visitors...I'd love to go through the "rooms" if I can find time.

If you've read the ECFs, you cannot really be a protestant. OR you can be but you'd also love the early catholic church. And I'd say the ECFs end with the PRE-Nicene fathers. Would you agree?

Do you think she and St. Francis had somethin' goin' ?

OK. I understand what you're saying. IOW, one must be born again first... and THEN believe. What does free will mean to you? Because if the above is correct about God allowing us to believe what we wish to believe... Then isn't that free will? Or is He playing some weird game with us...

I agree. Must say good night now! :)

I couldn't agree with you more. I might have been able to stay in the CC. It has so many good teachings. (and some I can't agree with).

She engaged in levitation? Some legends grew around saints...this is true even of the saint of my town (every town in Italy has a patron saint)....But the legends were not all true. A silly one about St. Francis speaking to a wolf that was harming the town's animals. St. Theresa reached a...

At the time of Vat I -- late 1800's --- the church here in Europe had a lot of power and ran governments...a very bad idea. What do you believe would have been a better road to take rather than placing power in the hands of the clergy? I can't think of anything.

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