Filum Romanum - A Thread for the Catholic Church

But he still would have had to mingle among them to feed them and clean up after them.

And again, there's the whole thing that crowded ships are a terrible place to have a quarantine.

I don't think any of the christian tropers around here are of the kind that take every bible story literally.

I’m a Catholic of the Augustinian tradition from my school and Jesuit from my university; the first thing we were taught is that the Bible cannot be taken literally and that historical context is important to understand the scriptures.

Yeah I once had a sermon on how taking the bible literally was strait up dangerous.

Take Noah as a prime example. Given the wide distribution of a suspiciously similar legend across Europe and the Indian Subcontinent...

Some clan/ family probably did survive a tremendously great flood by having a larger than average boat to act as a head colony vessel (of a flotilla of other, less memorable vessels). Upon which they had room for at least two of each of their herd and herding animals. And possibly a hoard of seeds, too.

Around which much embroidery later happened.

Edited by Euodiachloris on Apr 6th 2020 at 1:13:47 PM

Cardinal George Pell's sexual assault conviction has been vacated by the High Court of Australia as Not Proven. He remains under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, however.

Edited by Ramidel on Apr 8th 2020 at 11:53:54 AM

I'm happy priests and bishops have taken to livestreaming the mass.

But it feels so wrong to not have the Eucharist for a month.

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)

The same applies to other holidays and sacraments.

I’m seeing reports that the pope has spoken in favour of UBI.

Sauce for that

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3091880/vatican-hits-stumbling-block-road-rebuilding-ties-beijing

SCMP reports that China and the Vatican are encountering obstacles...

Random question.

So I'm a former Protestant (specificaly, started as a Presbyterian and then switched to Baptist) and currently a non-denominational Christian who has been considering converting to Catholicism for many years now.

I got two questions:

1. Is is really "converting" if it's within same branches of Christianity?

2. Kinda stupider question but does Catholic accept Protestants? They do seem to disagree on several fundamental aspects of Christianity.

1. Usually considered so, because other branches are basically considered heretical.

2. Yes, they disagree but so long as you accept Catholicisms general few hard rules on things they'll let you in.

As a protestant, you are welcome to attend the mass (though you wont be able to follow some of their prayers and such), but you arent supposed to take communion, unless you are baptized as a Catholic.

Edited by DeMarquis on Aug 13th 2020 at 10:04:13 AM

Yeah while the Catholic Church does allow Eastern Orthodox to take communion that’s it, not even the Co E, and we’re still technically followers of the Catholic Church, just not the Roman Catholic one.

Thanks for the answers!

Interesting. I never knew that about communion part.

Like, if a Protestant just goes ahead and partake in a communion without being baptized as a Catholic first, would that be considered offensive to the Catholics or something?

I mean if it was a genuine mistake and done without malice I’m sure it’d be moved past, but yes deliberately getting communion by deception is not going to go down well. I think a couple popes have actually given communion to non-Catholics though, so the rule may not be that hard and fast.

I also think there are some special exceptions for if a person is about to die or something.

Edited by Silasw on Aug 13th 2020 at 2:18:12 PM

Oh yeah, it's offensive.

Edited by M84 on Aug 13th 2020 at 10:18:25 PM

I mean, people wouldn't burn you at the stake, but it's still a breach of decorum at the very least.

You might end up looking like you're making light of a important tradition, regardless of intentions.

Edit: first post I make here in years and I get

Edited by HailMuffins on Aug 13th 2020 at 11:19:28 AM

They might make a whip of cords and drive you out though.

Reasonable enough.

Nah that’s used for price gougers. Also catholic’s don’t burn people, I’m pretty sure they’re the ones who kept getting set on fire.

Catholics did use whips...though mostly on themselves.

Now, now, don't go kinkshaming people.

So the Church beatified Carlo Acutis.

But did they really have to parade his corpse?