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r/Catholicism

/r/Catholicism is a place to present new developments in the world of Catholicism, discuss theological teachings of the Catholic Church, provide an avenue for reasonable dialogue amongst people of all beliefs, and grow in our own spirituality. Catholic Christianity offers the world the fullness of the Christian Faith.

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[Free Friday] Our Lady of Hope Parish in Brasilia, Brazil

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replied to Klimakos

There's still an altar and seats for the priest and altar boys - if you remove the iconography it would be high-church Anglican at the bare minimum

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In Luxembourg, Jörg Michael Peters, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, introduces himself to the Pope as a “representative of the German Bishops’ Conference” to which the Pope retorts “are you Catholic?”

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replied to Amote101

bro wants the successor of St Peter to take out a sword and cut off that Bishops ear

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This is the official community for Genshin Impact (原神), the latest open-world action RPG from HoYoverse. The game features a massive, gorgeous map, an elaborate elemental combat system, engaging storyline & characters, co-op game mode, soothing soundtrack, and much more for you to explore!

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Version 5.1 Event Wishes Announcement

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Is it really possible to be without mortal sin for long periods of time?

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It's possible but not easy. Who are you living with? A priest during confession once told me that accountability is very important, and while it's utterly amazing that you reached out to your priest for help, you should also ask someone close to you at home who can check on you too

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Feeling attacked by Protestant In laws seeking advice and counseling

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"Answering the Anti-Catholic Challenge" by Robert M. Haddad
You can buy this book and pass it to your in-laws to read, it's a compilation of various Protestant to Catholic converts who pointed out all the illogical/ahistorical views in an Anti-Catholic book, but generally will address all the generic arguments evangelicals like to use. I'm assuming they won't burn it or something.

Though for something quicker, you can look at:

For Prayer to Saints: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-bible-supports-praying-to-the-saints

For Mary's Assumption: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-assumption-of-mary-in-history and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPkkbnOM5I

Infant Baptism: https://www.catholic.com/tract/infant-baptism

Even most Protestants agree with baptizing babies, the following links you can send them directly since it's Prot people/sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHY1l5wys6g (Lutheran)
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/a-brief-defense-of-infant-baptism/ (Evangelical, this one might speak the most to your in laws)

And for the One True Church - ask them - who founded the Catholic Church? And who founded their Church?

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MCDONALDS CODE GIVEAWAY!

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Can i try?

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McDonald's giveaway code

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I participate
(Will it work with asia server?)

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Why do Protestants in SG commonly refer to themselves as Christian (and place Catholics in a separate category from Christian)

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replied to lolikuma

I can think of 2 reasons -

Being a British colony, it would have followed certain groupings based on the English system. It's a country where for a big part of its history it was anti-Catholic, so the distinction was made. Not sure how extensive the restrictions on Catholics were in the past, but till this day Catholics are not allowed to be part of the Royal Family.
Catholics have a much more strict regulations for certain life events such as marriage (for it to be valid from the view of the Church it needs to be held within a church, ROM is not enough)- the distinction was probably enough to warrant a separate category i guess?

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What is a belief that many Christian’s hold that isn’t biblical?

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The teaching is correct, the abuse of it by individual members of the clergy are not. Infallibility of the Magisterium(the teaching authority of the Church) does not mean that all members are perfectly good. No hospital would have doctors that are forever immune to disease, to give an example.

Matthew 23 " The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach"

Another thing to note is that only teachings of the Church that are classified as Dogma are unchanging, infallible teachings. If it's not Dogma, then the Church can change it if needed. For example - celibacy of priests is a Discipline, which is why married men can become priests in the Eastern Catholic Churches.

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What is a belief that many Christian’s hold that isn’t biblical?

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To add further: the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18 throws that belief out the window (unless you believe that passage affirms Purgatory)

Side note (from what I remember) is that Calvinists believe that OSAS applies to the elect only, not anyone who professes faith in God, so even though there's a lot of wrong in their theology at least they are logically more coherent than Evangelicals.

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Why Doesn’t the Catholic Church Openly Support Israel Despite Biblical Significance?

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To add on to what other's said as well - the current Israel has no connection to the Biblical Israel

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It's been a hectic week

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The reason the graph looks like that is because Pope Francis needs to evangelise, pastor the flock, engage in discourse with other religious heads, and promote correct teaching. Each mission engages with different audiences and has different needs.

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I wonder how many Protestants would have a visceral reaction to the readings from this past Sunday mass

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replied to benkenobi5

Yup, and the 1999 Joint Declaration on Justification is proof of this. Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists all agreed with the Catholic Church on this

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When you agree on theology, but not on vocabulary

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replied to Prestigious_Prize264

Eh tbf, at least they believe what they read in the Bible, unlike say Baptists where somehow it's just a symbol despite supposedly being "Bible believing Christians"

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I’m choosing to believe he meant “annulled”.

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Petrine or Pauline privelege perhaps? Or perhaps the previous spouse passed away after divorce?

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Pope in multi-faith Singapore says ‘all religions are a path to God’

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replied to MiddlingMandarin71

Perhaps you could go and read more about Singapore's early history, the government's control on media, and the geopololitics of the region.
Here's a start - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Singapore
Also pretty sure any Head of State who says sensitive things in public probably wont be invited back to Singapore for a long while

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Artist Source? Comic/Cartoon

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replied to LegitimateBeing2

For Protestants (and badly Cathecised Catholics), the since the keys in their minds don't refer to any form of authority, it ends up being misinterpreted as St Peter being the one who opens and closes the gates of Heaven

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I hate modern churches

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https://youtu.be/5DPi5iohU84?si=LGgO5Y-NDOb_etvR
True - an example shown here. The photographer really liked some of the more unique designs in church architecture (notably St Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo) - but really disliked that one church which blended gothic, baroque, classical elements into a weird mishmash

People forget traditional architecture can be done poorly

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I hate modern churches

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replied to Gemnist

Those two are beautiful! I feel like as long as the intent behind it was genuine, the churches will turn out good, irregardless of the style

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Need help when it comes to my friend who is Born Again.

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replied to zonie77

Ah yeah but OP's friend is Protestant, so OP needs to use a Prot translation to convince her

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Pope in multi-faith Singapore says ‘all religions are a path to God’

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As a Singaporean, and someone familiar with the historical and cultural context, want to chime in a bit:

He still emphasized that there is One God - and thus pointing to the fact that there is only one truth.
The only mistake I see is that he failed to clearly say which path is the correct path, which of course is an issue, but...
What many outsiders do not know is that Singapore has very strict rules with regards to speaking about religion. You are not allowed to say that other religions are wrong, especially if you are a high profile person. My wife working in a seminary was told this by her principal, and sure enough, people in Singapore have been charged in court for openly criticizing religion (a certain someone was charged for making negative comments about Christianity before). No doubt there would have been a briefing about this prior to his arrival.
This is due to the fact that Singapore is highly multicultural and multiracial. Our early years before and after independence was marked by racial and religious riots (of which Catholics were the targets in one of them). We are still a minority, and we are surrounded by large Muslim nations. The call to respectful interreligious dialogue is much more to our benefit than many people living in the West would realise.
We should also see a pattern where the Pope's comments about similarity in religions tend to be in countries where Christians and specifically Catholics are NOT the majority or even a significant part of the population. No doubt his message here was to make sure that we are not persecuted for our faith. Despite Singapore's relative peace and safety and respect for religions we are not immune to fundamentalists from other countries coming in to stir up problems.
Vatican 2's Lumen Gentium does indeed state that Jews and Muslims adore the same God, but obviously with some or a lot of misconceptions/misunderstandings. What the Pope said is not fundamentally wrong, but he is obviously missing the second half in which only the Christian path brings the correct understanding of who God is. However, as pointed out earlier, there's probably quite a few factors as to why he just recommended interreligious dialogue instead.
Evangelism is complicated. But remember that for most Catholics, we are not going to randomly quit the faith just because the Pope said this. While for many non-believers, the Pope's comments and call to dialogue might invite them to come and explore the Church. If we are constantly telling everyone else they are wrong, they're probably just going to avoid us in the future, and the general response to Protestant fundamentalist street preachers is proof of that.

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Need help when it comes to my friend who is Born Again.

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replied to zonie77

Be careful though, apparently the NIV changed "traditions" to "teachings"

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(Free Friday) Redeemed Zoomer quits Protestant apologetics

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If I remember correctly GK Chesterton had a quote saying that everyone is either becoming more Catholic or moving away from the Catholic Church. RZ is obviously in the former, and given enough time I see him joining the Catholic church, even if it maybe a few decades down the road

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(Free Friday) Redeemed Zoomer quits Protestant apologetics

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I would still give him some credit for giving rightful criticism to evangelical beliefs, and advocating for basic fundamentals like the Theokotos and even church unity. Some of his ideas funnily enough lead back to the Catholic Church

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(Free Friday) Redeemed Zoomer quits Protestant apologetics

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replied to Confirmation_Code

Some high church Protestants do follow parts of the liturgical calendar (and its corresponding readings)

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