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Just as the NAACP and the FBI see Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general are demanding answers from the FBI and Justice Department and threatening legal action after a leaked internal FBI memo revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as "potential terrorists." "Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs," the AGs wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Now the Los Angeles Dodgers decided to mock the Catholic faith, prompting
CatholicVote.org's Brian Burch
"How important is the Dodgers mocking our Faith to you?
Is this fight really worth it?
Answer: a thousand times YES. And here’s why:
The Dodgers’ decision to honor one of the most flagrantly anti-Catholic hate groups as “Community heroes” is not a blip or just a flash in the pan. It’s a direct attack on all we hold sacred.
They’ve defiled the Holy Eucharist. Mocked the Mother of God.
Turned our Faith into a sexual fetish.
Dodgers Stadium is now the front line of the civilizational revolution underway. The endless marketing of “PRIDE” and “LOVE IS LOVE” have been exposed as gimmicky slogans for what the gay “rights” movement is really about: destroying the family, faith, and especially the Catholic Church.
Our campaign isn’t some political stunt for attention. It is a full-throated defense of the respect due Catholic nuns and respect for our most sacred beliefs.
And here’s the thing. We know it works.
Bud Light is still reeling from the boycott over their ridiculous campaign featuring fake woman Dylan Mulvaney. Target stores in red states have moved Pride gear off the shelves. Corporations are learning the hard way: “Go woke, go broke.”
But the Dodgers' anti-Catholic stunt is even worse.
How far will we allow corporations to push us before people finally say enough?
This may sound harsh, but there’s a reason there are no “Imams of Indulgence.” Or Rabbis of Indulgence. That’s because mocking Muslims and Jewish people is beyond the pale. And because woke corporations know they can exploit our instinct to “be nice.”
And so the Dodgers have decided to go ahead and celebrate a bunch of perverse men masquerading in sexualized religious habits of Catholic nuns – honoring one of the most vile and blasphemous groups that exists.
Because they think we won’t do anything more than issue a press release and complain.
In the last few days, I have received more emails and calls in support of this fight than I’ve seen in any other campaign in a decade. The media coverage on this is also as big as anything we have ever been involved in.
We’re done asking nicely.
We’re readying a massive ad blitz that is set to begin next week.
Enough is enough.
Keep your perverted sexual fetishes away from our Faith.
It doesn't end June 16
I want the Dodgers ownership to wake up each day fretting that these pesky Catholics just won't quit.
Here are my terms: [ ] 1) We get a complete public apology from the Dodgers, [ ] 2) the Dodgers pledge never to host or honor an anti-Catholic hate group again, 3) the people responsible for this stunt are fired, and [ ] 4) The Dodgers agree to make a gift from their foundation to a group of religious sisters that perform real charity."
The Los Angeles Dodgers mocking the Catholic Faith is not a new phenomenon. More lies have been aimed at destroying the Roman Catholic Church than any other institution in the world. So much that even most Catholics believe the lies they were taught in high school or have seen on T.V. and social media: Consider all the misrepresentations that Pope Francis has been subjected to, even when he clearly stated in his Laudato Si: “Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature, is incompatible with the justification of abortion” – Pope Francis
But let's not forget the full on attack on Christianity by Corporate America, including Bud Light, NorthFace, the US Navy and Major Leage Baseball, as the White House, DOJ, FBI and Main Stream Media are in lock step to promote the Christo-Fascist, America Is Racist narratives
According to the Palestinian Wasp, California's #GavinNewsom has announced that a High Speed System is finally operational
Because of the high demand for the system, Newsom would like potential travelers to compare GOP presidential hopeful's Tim Scott's fierce proLife stance: "If I were President of the United States I would literally sign the most conservative pro-life legislation they can pass through Congress."
Newsom feels confident the pool of potential Travellers will go down significantly, making everybody happy - a politician's blissful scenario: "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened." CS Lewis
Not only will Californians be free to stay if they choose, but the right is enshrined in the US Constitution: The Declaration of Independence specifically mentions Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness as certain unalienable rights, as in:
"....all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of …" but thanks to the Lord's "mercy, we too, men that we are, have received the inalienable promise of eterna life." CCC 1050
According to Newsom, California's high speed transportation system will offer a one-way, non-stop straight to hell.
Earlier this month, Newsom hosted the ceremonial lighting of the Capitol Holiday Tree and expertly avoided any mention of Christianity — a stunning feat considering he was overseeing the lighting of a giant evergreen tree in December (talk about cultural appropriation!)."
Since human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins, is it not reasonable then to conclude that Gödel's Theorem, just like Stephen Hawking's belief that it's not possible to find a Theory of Everything due to limitations in human understanding that all laws are subject to the Creator, including the Algorithm of Life?
In his famous commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, with over 40 million views on YouTube, the most watched commencement speech of all time, Steve Jobs’ touched on three heartfelt, compelling personal stories: How he dropped out of college, but not from learning, about what he learned rom Steve Jobs was right when he said: “remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,” particularly when he said: "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life:
Seve Jobs knew what he was talking about: “This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades,” he said referring to a successful surgery after his first fight with cancer. In May, 2021, Jobs' wife Laurene Powell Jobs, delivered a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. recalling the memory of her late husband and his 2005 speech: “Steve used to say: ‘Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet – keep looking.’ “Let his words guide you as they’ve guided me. The only way to do great work, is to love what you do. And while you’re doing it … love who you do it for – and love who you are while you do it.”
But Jobs was wrong when he said death is “very likely the single best invention of life.” At best, the statement is anthropomorphic. Unlike saying the Algorithm of Life is the Theory of Everything - a term for the ultimate theory of the universe. A set of equations capable of describing all phenomena that have been observed, or that will ever be observed. Livescience.com for example, lists the 20 Inventions that Changed the world, including the wheel, nails, nuclear energy and vaccines. Death is not one of them.
A theory of everything, final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory or master theory is a hypothetical, singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe.[Finding a theory of everything is one of the major unsolved problems in physics, while String theory and M-theory have been proposed as theories of everything.
Stephen Hawking was originally a believer in the Theory of Everything, but after considering Gödel's Theorem, he concluded that one was not obtainable. "Some people will be very disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory that can be formulated as a finite number of principles. I used to belong to that camp, but I have changed my mind. Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world
In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel published his incompleteness theorem, a result widely considered one of the greatest intellectual achievements of modern times. Gödel's Theorem states that in any reasonable mathematical system there will always be true statements that cannot be proved.
While Hawking spoke of his lack of belief in God during his life, according to his wife Adele, Gödel, did not go to church, butvwas religious and read the Bible in bed every Sunday morning. He said, "I like Islam: it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded." Whereas Peter John Kreeft a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College is a convert to Roman Catholicism, and the author of over eighty books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics.
Death is a terminal illness, as Kreeft posits and something we see as a natural irreversible event it can be viewed as a fork on the road. A major milestone on the way to the end times, then on to eternity. As Jobs might say, keep in mind that the fork on the road keep us focused on what is important to each one of us while we are alive. However, death is not part of the Algorithm of Life, but an aberration, man's last enemy to be conquered. "As a consequence of original sin, man must suffer "bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned"" (GS § 18). CCC 1018
"It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but for faith it is in fact "the wages of sin." For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.- CCC 1006
To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must "be away from the body and at home with the Lord." In that "departure" which is death the soul is separated from the body. It will be reunited with the body on the day of resurrection of the dead. CCC 1005
Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ. The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith. The parable of the poor man Lazarus and the words of Christ on the cross to the good thief, as well as other New Testament texts speak of a final destiny of the soul -- a destiny which can be different for some and for others. CCC 1021
Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him as he is," face to face: CCC 1023
The Christian vision of death receives privileged expression in the liturgy of the Church: Lord, for your faithful people life is changed, not ended. When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting dwelling place is. heaven. CCC 1013
By death the soul is separated from the body, but in the resurrection God will give incorruptible life to our body, transformed by reunion with our soul. Just as Christ is risen and lives for ever, so all of us will rise at the last day. CCC 1016
The Church's Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition, teaches that death entered the world on account of man's sin. Even though man's nature is mortal God had destined him not to die. Death was therefore contrary to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a consequence of sin. "Bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned" is thus "the last enemy" of man left to be conquered. CCC 1013
Not unlike Steve Jobs, The Church encourages us to prepare ourselves for the hour of our death. In the ancient litany of the saints, for instance, she has us pray: "From a sudden and unforeseen death, deliver us, O Lord"; to ask the Mother of God to intercede for us "at the hour of our death" in the Hail Mary; and to entrust ourselves to St. Joseph, the patron of a happy death. Every action of yours, every thought, should be those of one who expects to die before the day is out. Death would have no great terrors for you if you had a quiet conscience. . . . Then why not keep clear of sin instead of running away from death? If you aren't fit to face death today, it's very unlikely you will be tomorrow. . . .
Praised are you, my Lord, for our sister bodily Death, from whom no living man can escape. Woe on those who will die in mortal sin! Blessed are they who will be found in your most holy will, for the second death will not harm them. CCC 1014
While death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, the Christian view of death is positive, just "as the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"" Psalm 42 1. Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition. Yet, despite his anguish as he faced death, he accepted it in an act of complete and free submission to his Father's will. The obedience of Jesus has transformed the curse of death into a blessing. CCC 1009
Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." "The saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him. What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already "died with Christ" sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act: It is better for me to die in (eis) Christ Jesus than to reign over the ends of the earth. Him it is I seek - who died for us. Him it is I desire - who rose for us. I am on the point of giving birth. . . . Let me receive pure light; when I shall have arrived there, then shall I be a man. CCC 1010
You see, for Christians, Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition. Yet, despite his anguish as he faced death, he accepted it in an act of complete and free submission to his Father's will. The obedience of Jesus has transformed the curse of death into a blessing. CCC 1009
In death, God calls man to himself. Therefore the Christian can experience a desire for death like St. Paul's: "My desire is to depart and be with Christ." He can transform his own death into an act of obedience and love towards the Father, after the example of Christ:
My earthly desire has been crucified; . . . there is living water in me, water that murmurs and says within me: Come to the Father.
I want to see God and, in order to see him, I must die.
Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven-through a purification or immediately, -- or immediate and everlasting damnation.
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love. CCC 1022
Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him as he
is," face to face:
By virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According to the general disposition of God, the souls of all the saints . . . and other faithful who died after receiving Christ's holy Baptism (provided they were not in need of purification
The search for the Theory of Everything is analogous to the Athenian's search for the unknown god. Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: “You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God. '* What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you." Acts 17:23
Fides et ratio. Latin for 'Faith and Reason is an encyclical promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 1998, primarily addressing the relationship between faith and reason. '
The encyclical posits that faith and reason are not only compatible, but essential together. He starts with "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth;" Faith without reason, he argues, leads to superstition. Reason without faith, he argues, leads to nihilism and relativism.
St. John Paul II extolled faith and reason in general as both necessary and harmonious. He also applied this vision to the scientific investigation of the universe. declaring, “Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can bring the other into a wider world, a world where both may flourish.” Many struggle with believing in God because of what they think science says, and many others struggle with accepting the discoveries of modern science because they fear that it leads away from God. Perhaps looking at them together, as St. John Paul II recommended, can help us embrace both.
Human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins. CCC 286
Wit the Knowledge Doubling Curve and Artificial intelligence: The Knowledge Doubling Curve (KDC) was first described by Buckminster Fuller in 1982 notes that, until 1900, human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the middle of the twentieth century, knowledge was doubling every 25 years. As of 2013, human knowledge was doubling every 13 months on average – faster in some industries like nanotechnology research. Now, human knowledge is almost doubling every day. Pfizer's Dr Becci Corkill refers to the KDC as the reason consumers should not be afraid of the COVID Vaccine.
It can be argued that Artificial Intelligence is a byproduct of the KDC. The traditional goals of AI research include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception, and the ability to move and manipulate objects
The field was founded on the assumption that human intelligence can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. This raised philosophical arguments about the mind and the ethical consequences of creating artificial beings endowed with human-like intelligence. Earlier this year Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems, citing profound risks to society.
The existence of God the Creator can be known with certainty through his works, by the light of human reason, even if this knowledge is often obscured and disfigured by error. This is why faith comes to confirm and enlighten reason in the correct understanding of this truth: "By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear. CCC 286
Since human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins, is it not reasonable then to conclude that Gödel's Theorem, just like Stephen Hawking's belief that it's not possible to find a Theory of Everything due to limitations in human understanding that all laws are subject to the Creator, including the Algorithm of Life?
The good news is that when all is said and done, all people will be resurrected. Where resurrection is the rising from the dead of a divine or human being who still retains his own personhood, or individuality, though the body may or may not be changed.
All the dead will rise, (1 Corinth 15:22)"those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment."CCC 998
What is "rising"? In death, the separation of the soul from the body, the human body decays and the soul goes to meet God, while awaiting its reunion with its glorified body. God, in his almighty power, will definitively grant incorruptible life to our bodies by reuniting them with our souls, through the power of Jesus' Resurrection. CCC 997
From the beginning, Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition. "On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body." It is very commonly accepted that the life of the human person continues in a spiritual fashion after death. But how can we believe that this body, so clearly mortal, could rise to everlasting life? CCC 996
Belief in the resurrection of the dead has been an essential element of the Christian faith from its beginnings. "The confidence of Christians is the resurrection of the dead; believing this we live."
How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. . . . But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.CCC 991
God revealed the resurrection of the dead to his people progressively. Hope in the bodily resurrection of the dead established itself as a consequence intrinsic to faith in God as creator of the whole man, soul and body. The creator of heaven and earth is also the one who faithfully maintains his covenant with Abraham and his posterity. It was in this double perspective that faith in the resurrection came to be expressed. In their trials, the Maccabean martyrs confessed:
The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. Ccc 992
The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?" Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who "is not God of the dead, but of the living." CCC 993
But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood. Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life, announcing thereby his own Resurrection, though it was to be of another order. He speaks of this unique event as the "sign of Jonah," the sign of the temple: he announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on the third day. CCC 994
But how does this rising happen How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself"; but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body":
But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel. . . . What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. . . . The dead will be raised imperishable. . . . For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. CCC 999
This "how" exceeds our imagination and understanding; it is accessible only to faith. Yet our participation in the Eucharist already gives us a foretaste of Christ's transfiguration of our bodies:
Just as bread that comes from the earth, after God's blessing has been invoked upon it, is no longer ordinary bread, but Eucharist, formed of two things, the one earthly and the other heavenly: so too our bodies, which partake of the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, but possess the hope of resurrection. CCC 1000
The Justice System is not about justice. It's more about social control. As if it a cursory look at news reports dud not provide enough evidence, it can be argyed the just-released Durham Report is Exhibit A.
Just like journalism is not about seeking the truth: Journalists are vested in supporting their bosses' narrative, not on uncovering the truth. Pulitzer Prizes are now given to the best fake news, for example. And Scientists, like Dr. Faucci, Dr. Tedros or Pfizer's Dr. Becci Corkill, are paid to increase their employers' profitability not to make the world a better place.
Likewise, lawyers are paid to come up with the best argument money can buy. Not to uncover the truth. A lawyer will argue that because a wealthy client broke the law, the law must be changed. Explains why the poor are overrepresented in the prison system. For example, what's the difference between Fox News firing Tucker Carlson And Disneyland firing Dwayne Johnson? Both illustrate the argument that lawyers are paid to come up with the best argument money can buy and not to uncover the truth.
Judges are paid to render decisions based on the best argument presented in court. Often these arguments come from the best paid lawyers, whereas funding during the judges' campaign often sways his decisions. Historians are no different.
Like culture, the justice system is a form of social control, where the major elements include symbols, language, norms, values, and artifacts. It provides a strong sense of identification within members of the group and shared understanding among the groups' employees about what is important. Take for instance the recent news that the FBI somehow “lost” five months’ worth of text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. What is the message being sent to FBI's rank & file? Or take Attorney General Garland sending the FBI to “protect” school boards, when the FBI knows which public officials spew hate and call for violence against the police, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressing her solidarity with the antipolice demonstrations that raged in Brooklyn that included turnstile-jumping and defacing cop cars. Not to mention Mr Anh Le, savagely beaten with a bat by two people in Chinatown. Despite the high Hate Crime rate in the city, the San Francisco DA plea-deal so the perpetrators did no get jail time – Mr Le had to sue to get justice. Then there's US Rep. for California Maxine Moore Waters who regularly incites violence. For example, Rep. Maxine Waters called for protesters to “stay on the street” and “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in the killing of George Floyd.
You may recall pro-life citizen journalist David Daleiden is facing eight felony charges stemming from his undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood, that captured video evidence of the abortion goliath conspiring to illegally harvest and sell aborted baby body parts, while Planned Parenthood executives remain free. And it gets worse or better depending on your worldview: Days after President Joe Biden’s divisive speech to the nation and the FBI designating patriotic symbology as indicative of domestic terrorism, more than 20 FBI agents in full SWAT gear arrested pro-life Catholic husband and father Mark Houck, because he was praying outside an abortion clinic and defending his 12-year-old son from being screamed at and chased by a pro-abortion “bodyguard” who tried to stop them from praying.
Corollary: Most laws are designed to strengthen the aforementioned culture, including passing laws to control law-abiding citizens with little concern for law breakers. Anyone who argues that the Justice System dispenses blind justice, like perhaps far left propagandist The New York has been living under a rock or is an enabler.
Today Father Mike Schmitz in his daily podcast The Catholic Catechism In a Year Day 115 made a Passionate Plea for Church Unity echoing the letter to Laodicea's where the community is reprimanded for being lukewarm (Rev 3:15–16: To Laodicea.* “To the angel of the church in Laodicea,* write this: “‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this:
“I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot.* I wish you were either cold or hot.
So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire* so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed, and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see."
"Where there are sins, there are also divisions, schisms, heresies, and disputes. Where there is virtue, however, there also are harmony and unity, from which arise the one heart and one soul of all believers". CCC 817
You may recall Lee Strobel 's Case for Christ: When his wife announces that she’s become a believer in Christ, former Chicago Tribune legal affairs reporter and avowed atheist, Lee Strobel embarks on a quest to investigate the truth of Jesus. Using his skills as a law-school graduate and long-time journalist, Strobel interviews—and occasionally interrogates—an array of scholars specializing in Christianity and the New Testament. He discovers that the evidence for Jesus Christ—His existence, His divinity, His resurrection—is overwhelming. By the end of his journey, Strobel realizes his atheism simply doesn’t hold up against the evidence, and he takes the natural next step: he becomes a believer. The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel
Similarly, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, prolific journalist and author, was well known for his apologetics, biographies, detective fiction, literary, social, and political commentary, and modern history. In the book Catholic Church and Conversion, Chesterton's brilliance as a writer and thinker again shine through as he explains his understanding of Catholicism and the Catholic Church and how its appeal to reason and truth eventually won him over. For Chesterton, two essentials lay at the heart of conversion, and without these, a man misses the point of it all. He describes these in his own words: "One is that he believes it to be solid objective truth, which is true whether he likes it or not; and the other is that he seeks liberation from his sins." That is why Chesterton became a Catholic, and what he describes in his unique and colorful way in this book.
Meanwhile, Julie from SetApartWalk.com, uses the Jack Nickolson's movie You Can't Handle the Truth argument "how to find the restrooms is not in the operating manual" to conclude that Catholicism is not Biblical Christianity. According to hervwebsite, Julie.is a homemaker, mother of five, and pastor’s wife. She loves family, homeschooling, and most of all Jesus and is passionate about encouraging Christian women to grow in their faith, live godly lives, and discern truth from all the lies and noise of the world.
Julie is not alone. Christianity.com uses a similar argument as Julie: although more forgiving "Catholicism has many unbiblical practices and teachings, such as purgatory, sacraments, and the rosary, yet this does not mean a person is not a Christian." In fact, the Jesus Revolution protagonists like Pastor Chuck Smith, Greg Laurie & others have expressed similar views.
Charles Ward "Chuck" Smith founded the Calvary Chapel movement. Beginning with the 25-person Costa Mesa congregation in 1965, Smith's influence now extends to "more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas", Chuck has been called "one of the most influential figures in modern American Christianity."The founding of Calvary Chapel is depicted in the 2023 film Jesus Revolution, with Smith being portrayed by Kelsey Grammer.
The argument used against the Catholic Church is similar to a Time Magazine piece, by Katha Pollitt, author “Reclaiming Abortion Rights,” where she argues abortion is not found in the Bible, So it must be OK.. Pollit's argument is not unlike Justin Ling’s piece on Wired titled “Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast For Conspiracy. Even though Andrew Lowenthal says that “The #TwitterFiles show how “anti-disinformation” academics and NGOs undermined free speech and expression,” and Musk says the NYTimes’ ‘propaganda isn’t even interesting’ and their Twitter feed is the ‘equivalent of diarrhea,’
Today, Father Mike Schmitz in his daily podcast The Catholic Catechism In a Year Day 115, made a Case for Church Unity. Not to place blame or aspersions, but as Pastor Chuck Smith might say, "Focus on the Majors". After all, "Christ bestowed unity on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time." Christ always gives his Church the gift of unity, but the Church must always pray and work to maintain, reinforce, and perfect the unity that Christ wills for her. This is why Jesus himself prayed at the hour of his Passion, and does not cease praying to his Father, for the unity of his disciples: "That they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, . . . so that the world may know that you have sent me." The desire to recover the unity of all Christians is a gift of Christ and a call of the Holy Spirit. CCC 820
if every man lived a thousand years, ever y man would either end up as a nihilistic atheist or a member of the Catholic creed.- – G.K. Chesterton
" In fact, "in this one and only Church of God from its very beginnings there arose certain rifts, which the Apostle strongly censures as damnable. But in subsequent centuries much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church - for which, often enough, men of both sides were to blame." The ruptures that wound the unity of Christ's Body - here we must distinguish heresy, apostasy, and schism - do not occur without human sin:
Where there are sins, there are also divisions, schisms, heresies, and disputes. Where there is virtue, however, there also are harmony and unity, from which arise the one heart and one soul of all believers. CCC 817
"However, one cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers. . . . All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers in the Lord by the children of the Catholic Church." CCC 818
"Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth" are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements." Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him, and are in themselves calls to "Catholic unity." CCC 819
So, how do we achieve unity?
"Certain things are required in order to respond adequately to this call:
- a permanent renewal of the Church in greater fidelity to her vocation; such renewal is the driving-force of the movement toward unity;
- conversion of heart as the faithful "try to live holier lives according to the Gospel"; for it is the unfaithfulness of the members to Christ's gift which causes divisions;
- prayer in common, because "change of heart and holiness of life, along with public and private prayer for the unity of Christians, should be regarded as the soul of the whole ecumenical movement, and merits the name 'spiritual ecumenism;"�
- fraternal knowledge of each other;
- ecumenical formation of the faithful and especially of priests;
- dialogue among theologians and meetings among Christians of the different churches and communities;
- collaboration among Christians in various areas of service to mankind. "Human service" is the idiomatic phrase CCC 821
Concern for achieving unity "involves the whole Church, faithful and clergy alike." But we must realize "that this holy objective - the reconciliation of all Christians in the unity of the one and only Church of Christ - transcends human powers and gifts." That is why we place all our hope "in the prayer of Christ for the Church, in the love of the Father for us, and in the power of the Holy Spirit." CCC 822
“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” – G.K. Chesterton
if every man lived a thousand years, every man would either end up as a nihilistic atheist or a member of the Catholic creed.- – G.K. Chesterton
Accrding to All roads lead to Rome and Why G.K. Chesterton became Catholic: ‘ordinary anti-Catholic propaganda’ is not an obstacle. That is not what keeps the potential convert out of the Church. The convert is rarely frightened of the Protestant picture of Catholicism but is frightened of the Catholic picture of Catholicism., ill-judged words from Catholics do more harm to any potential conversion than any anti-Catholic vitriol from non-Catholics. – G.K. Chesterton
Then there's Dale Ahlquist who concludes, rather disconcertingly, that what kept one of the most famous converts of the 20th century out of the Church for years were other Catholics - Dale Ahlquist, president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Socie. Not to mention the Converts who followed Chesterton
Whether we are simple minded like Jesus' Apostles, or Jesus Freaks like Pastor Chuck Smith, Greg Laurie or John Michael Talbot. Pastor's wife like Julie from Christianity.com or Lee Strobel, Father Mike offers a compelling argument for putting aside differences and pray for reunification, after all Jesus says His Church is one Body. The Church is His Kindom opn Earth and it is His. Militant Church
After the FBI announced that patriotic symbology may be an indicator of domestic terrorism, the FBI has found a new gateway to declare Christians as criminals, according to a federal whistleblower
According to the Palestinian Wasp, the FBI has now determined that Catholic Symbology also indicates domestic terrorism
The symbology includes
[ ] Sheepfold [ ] Good Shepherd [ ] Prince of Shepherds [ ] Cultivated Farmland [ ] Nuclear Family & Traditional Marriage [ ] Over Tree, Branches & Roots [ ] Choice vineyard [ ] The Building of God, Temple of God [ ] The Stone the builders rejected [ ] The House of God [ ] The Holy Temple [ ] A bride adorned for her husband [ ] The Church as Jerusalem [ ] The New Jerusalem
Beware that if you use any of these symbols, the DOJ/ FBI may treat you as a domestic terrorist.
"In Scripture, we find a host of interrelated images and figures through which Revelation speaks of the inexhaustible mystery of the Church. The images taken from the Old Testament are variations on a profound theme: the People of God. In the New Testament, all these images find a new center because Christ has become the head of this people, which henceforth is his Body. Around this center are grouped images taken "from the life of the shepherd or from cultivation of the land, from the art of building or from family life and marriage." CCC 753
"The Church is, accordingly, a sheepfold, the sole and necessary gateway to which is Christ. It is also the flock of which God himself foretold that he would be the shepherd, and whose sheep, even though governed by human shepherds, are unfailingly nourished and led by Christ himself, the Good Shepherd and Prince of Shepherds, who gave his life for his sheep. CCC 754
"The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing. CCC 755
"Often, too, the Church is called the building of God. The Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the corner-stone. On this foundation the Church is built by the apostles and from it the Church receives solidity and unity. This edifice has many names to describe it: the house of God in which his family dwells; the household of God in the Spirit; the dwelling-place of God among men; and, especially, the holy temple. This temple, symbolized in places of worship built out of stone, is praised by the Fathers and, not without reason, is compared in the liturgy to the Holy City, the New Jerusalem. As living stones we here on earth are built into it. It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. CCC 756
"The Church, further, which is called 'that Jerusalem which is above' and 'our mother', is described as the spotless spouse of the spotless lamb. It is she whom Christ 'loved and for whom he delivered himself up that he might sanctify her.' It is she whom he unites to himself by an unbreakable alliance, and whom he constantly 'nourishes and cherishes.'" 757
After the FBI announced that patriotic symbology may be an indicator of domestic terrorism, the FBI has found a new gateway to declare Christians as criminals, according to a federal whistleblower
The FBI has determined that Catholic Symbolog indicates domestic terrorism
The symbology includes
[ ] Sheepfold [ ] Good Shepherd [ ] Prince of Shepherds [ ] Cultivated Farmland [ ] Nuclear Family & Traditional Marriage [ ] Over Tree, Branches & Roots [ ] Choice vineyard [ ] The Building of God, Temple of God [ ] The Stone the builders rejected [ ] The House of God [ ] The Holy Temple [ ] A bride adorned for her husband [ ] The Church as Jerusalem [ ] The New Jerusalem
Beware that if you use any of these symbols, the DOJ/ FBI may treat you as a domestic terrorist.
“In Scripture, we find a host of interrelated images and figures through which Revelation speaks of the inexhaustible mystery of the Church. The images taken from the Old Testament are variations on a profound theme: the People of God. In the New Testament, all these images find a new center because Christ has become the head of this people, which henceforth is his Body. Around this center are grouped images taken “from the life of the shepherd or from cultivation of the land, from the art of building or from family life and marriage.” CCC 753
“The Church is, accordingly, a sheepfold, the sole and necessary gateway to which is Christ. It is also the flock of which God himself foretold that he would be the shepherd, and whose sheep, even though governed by human shepherds, are unfailingly nourished and led by Christ himself, the Good Shepherd and Prince of Shepherds, who gave his life for his sheep. CCC 754
“The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing. CCC 755
“Often, too, the Church is called the building of God. The Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the corner-stone. On this foundation the Church is built by the apostles and from it the Church receives solidity and unity. This edifice has many names to describe it: the house of God in which his family dwells; the household of God in the Spirit; the dwelling-place of God among men; and, especially, the holy temple. This temple, symbolized in places of worship built out of stone, is praised by the Fathers and, not without reason, is compared in the liturgy to the Holy City, the New Jerusalem. As living stones we here on earth are built into it. It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. CCC 756
“The Church, further, which is called ‘that Jerusalem which is above’ and ‘our mother’, is described as the spotless spouse of the spotless lamb. It is she whom Christ ‘loved and for whom he delivered himself up that he might sanctify her.’ It is she whom he unites to himself by an unbreakable alliance, and whom he constantly ‘nourishes and cherishes.'” CCC 757
Since SCOTUS (1963) decided that teaching children about wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord., charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity was too radical – We have mental health crisis [ ] Infanticide turned into #BlackGenocide [ ] African American nuclear family has joined the Sea Turtles in the extinct list [ ] 80% of AA kids are raised in fatherless homes [ ] We have a fatherlesssness crisis [ ] A Girlhood Crisis [ ] A Trans Crisis
Now the White House, DOJ, FBI & MSM are in lock step to promote the #ChristoFascist, #AmericaIsRacist narrative, while the #DepartmentOfDefense & the Air Force have joined the DOJ, FBI & Intel Agencies in providing #DNC with Opposition Research
At taxpayer’s expense.
Why I argue that the Real Insurrection is on-goingk
