@StMichael71

Dominican friar (@opdomcentral). Metaphysics, medieval Latin & Chinese, and assorted tidbits. Views are my own and do not represent my school, @hkbaptistu.

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My new book, 'Wisdom Proceeding: A Thomistic Account of Theology,' is now UP ONLINE AND AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE! taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-m…

Wisdom Proceeding | A Thomistic Account of the Nature of Theology | Ja

This book proposes a Thomistic account of theology, arguing that understanding God requires holiness and faith, not merely exceptional theological reasoning. In

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I like the idea and motivation, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired, as it seems rather anachronistic in a few ways. We have illustrations that are extant of what it looked like; the 4th century was more developed than this, as others have already pointed out on here.
Austin@monkmanqueOct 20
POV: you're attending mass in the 4th century
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JD Flynn
@jdflynn4h
Father is right that Ordinatio Sacerdotalis contains "tenende" truth, not "credende" truth. This means that one who rejects it, is according to canon law, "opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church." That is not the same as the crime of the heresy, Father is right. But it does have canonical consequences, and moral ones, and spiritual ones, and at least potentially eternal ones.
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Replying to @CatholicPods
Avery Dulles says it is not heretical to support ordination of women—& he knows a little more theology than you!
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Catholic theology does not accept penal substitutionary atonement, as far as I can see, insofar as I assume that model of atonement depends upon a forensic/extrinsic model of justification. Biblical language about satisfaction, substitution, and so forth we admit.l and accept.
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PSA involves a courtroom framework where Christ satisfies the broken Law by bearing the legal punishment due to sinners. Because the righteousness that satisfies this legal debt belongs entirely to Christ, God must justify the believer by imputing merit to the sinner.
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The Catholic/Orthodox sees justification as a real ontological renewal where God's grace transforms the soul. This framework requires rejecting PSA because a purely external legal declaration would be a fiction if the soul is not intrinsically changed.
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The Disgusting Pro-Vivek Ad in Ohio Today nationalreview.com/corner/th…

The Disgusting Pro-Vivek Ad in Ohio Today | National Review

October is known for disgusting political attacks, but we cannot be indifferent or tolerant.

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Does not seem plausible to me that the Church lacks the authority/power to suppress 'immemorial, ancient' rites. While I concede it cannot be done lightly, and the Pope alone is not the best agent, I can imagine a representative ecumenical Council deciding such a question.
倪神父@StMichael71Oct 16
Did the Church have authority for the Eastern episcopate with the patriarchate of Constantinople to suppress the rites of Jerusalem and Alexandria throughout the Empire? These rites were quite ancient, preserving an immemorial inheritance that was distinct from the Byzantine.
72%Stupid but lawful
19%Totally null and void
9%1962 Roman Rite is magic
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM premiered 14 years old ago.
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Stargate (1994) wasn't a great movie...but it was fun!
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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 18
Today we celebrate the 100th World Mission Day. Let us think of how much missionary history has unfolded over these one hundred years! Let us #PrayTogether that the Church may always remain faithful to the mandate of the Risen Lord. Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.
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Mission Sunday: "I am God; there is no other." Our world has blood of the children, poor, and defenseless on its hands, and yet demands we refrain from moral condemnation, worshipping at its feet as if this is 'tolerance.' There is no God but the true God; no salvation outside.
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My cheeky response would be "Why not both?" My actual response is most non-religious people simply don't understand vices of clergy well enough to represent them correctly. They play on inaccurate tropes, usually outdated. Few in the US today become Catholic clergy for money.
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Even in the past, very 'Machivellian' clergy that wanted power and money were still much more solidly religious than contemporary media often grant them credit for. They often thought it was true, but thought they had some cheat code or whatever to skirt certain moral strictures.
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Mike Pence
@Mike_PenceOct 16
Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. Enough is enough. President Trump should rescind the diesel deal with Russia and use the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act to impose harsh sanctions on nations purchasing Russian energy, work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
OSINTtechnical
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Moments ago, Russian forces bombed a residential neighborhood in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, hitting a grocery store. Three people lost their lives, and nine others, including two children, sustained injuries.
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He who lives in heresy through ignorance for which he is not himself to blame is not a heretic in the sight of God. Thus those who are brought up in Protestantism, and have no opportunity of obtaining sufficient instruction in the Catholic religion, are not heretics in the sight of God, for in them there is no obstinate denial or doubt of the truth. They are no more heretics than the man who takes the property of another unwittingly is a thief. Rev. Francis Spirago, The Roman Catechism Explained 1.7.1.a
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Amigo de Frodo
@bpdfloresOct 16
Replying to @ErickYbarra3
I am not unfamiliar with the teachings of the Fathers, and the great doctors, nor of the Councils and the recent Roman Pontiffs. Yet, I cannot share in your pessimism, nor in the framing you propose for the current situation.
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A paper just got put online that completes a project I had started, but not finished - a formal proof of the Filioque from Latin trinitarian assumptions. academia.edu/49073605/The_Lo… Happily, it formally demonstrates what I claimed in my own paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

The Logic of the Trinity and the Filioque Question in Thomas Aquinas: A Formal Approach

The aim of this chapter is to present a formal approach to the Filioque question based on traditional discussions, especially on Aquinas' solution. In order to do this, I construct and introduce a...

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The 'natural language' version of the proof is given on footnote 21: "Suppose for the sake of contradiction that the Filioque clause is not true, i.e., (1) assume that “the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son” is false." Etc.
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I sometimes perversely wish that the Dominicans had as many conspiracy theories involving them as the Jesuits have....
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