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Social Security works when Grandma dies at 67 and each set of parents has 4 kids. It doesn't work when the largest generation retires and lives to 80+ after having 2 kids and an aborted granddaughter.

I read this in a commentary to the Council of Trent from the late 1800s. Number of Cardinals who believe this?

This is what @johnbugay. Rampant inclusivism except for former Catholics. If the Magisterium cares about this any more is an open question. @AngAesthetics

The same RCs who say "why would the demonic lead someone into the RC Church if it can be a means of salvation" will also say that Satan leads people away from RC even though Protestantism can still be a means of salvation.

A strange Eucharistic miracle reported by St. Augustine, in which a mother applied the Eucharist to open her son’s eyelids, which had been closed from birth (ankyloblepharon). "There was among us a certain Acatius, born in an honorable position among his people. He said that he had been born with his eyes closed; but because, although sound within, they were not open because the eyelids were joined together, he said that a physician wanted to open them with a knife, but that his religious mother would not allow this. Instead, she accomplished it by applying a poultice made from the Eucharist, when the boy was already about five years old or perhaps older; and he said that he remembered this quite well." Unfinished Work Against Julian, bk. 3, n. 162 (PL 45, 1315).

Paying into social security is only half of the deal. The other half is raising enough children to keep the program solvent once you have to draw from it. The boomer generation dropped that second condition, so they have not leg to stand on.

I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.

Higher rates inject more money into the economy, that money gets allocated to equities, and the effects of passive management drive valuations higher.

During the World Cup, I heard Brazilians think their decline in soccer came with the rise of evangelicals because evangelicals made their society more moral. So the people on the ground don't view it this way. But, to those caught up in works righteousness, let me help explain something to you. When you are regenerated through the preaching of the gospel, you want to obey God even if you don't fear hell.

Are we talking about the death penalty again?

Last Bulwark Also, ruining soccer I guess

The problem with that is interest rates are dictated worldwide. You have long-term rates rising everywhere. You can’t have Europe swearing they’re going to be in war with Russia in a matter of weeks and interest rates go down. I don’t know what planet he’s on.

Trump is the gunfighter we hired to drive the bandits out of town. The necessary evil. He was hated in office, and he'll be hated as he rides off into the sunset. But he was the exact person we needed at the time. Anyone who's seen a Western knows this won't end with a parade.

The shortest proof that the death penalty is being taught by the Roman See today as evil, immoral, and, as Pope Francis said contrary to the Gospel, is proven by the fact that the recent revision (CCC 2267) implies that there is no crime, no matter how evil (let your imagination reign), that would incur the penalty of death. In theory, if the very worst criminals imaginable were caught and caged in a house-pod in space for the rest of their lives, they retain, per the Catholic Catechism, the right to live until natural death and can never incur the just penalty of death in that state. For anyone, even the State, to open that pod and administer death would be equal to abortion or murder. If you think on that enough, you will begin to see how the whole “he never said InTrinSICalLy!!!!” is a moot point. Two statements from Pope Francis justify this interpretation. The first is an address he gave in 2017 and the second is from Fratelli Tutti in 2020: “The death penalty is inadmissible, no matter how serious the crime committed. It is an offense against the inviolability of life and the dignity of the human person, which contradicts God’s plan for man and society, and his merciful justice, and prevents the penalty from fulfilling any just objective. It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance. … It is, in itself, contrary to the Gospel, because a decision is voluntarily made to suppress a human life, which is always sacred in the eyes of the Creator and of whom, in the last analysis, only God can be the true judge and guarantor.” And “The firm rejection of the death penalty shows to what extent it is possible to recognize the inalienable dignity of every human being and to accept that he or she has a place in this universe. If I do not deny that dignity to the worst of criminals, I will not deny it to anyone.”

The Council of Trent called the Death Penalty "an act of paramount obedience to this divine law (5th Commandment). Now: "in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide. (CCC 2267). How can we say one moment that an act is an act of obedience to the Word of God, and now it must be abolished? God's Word is clear. The Death Penalty is God's righteousness against evil (Rom 13:4).

Leftist say that 1/3 of women who go to college are sexually assaulted Conservatives say that women who go to college are brainwashed into ugly hateful feminists Both will still send their daughters to college without hesitation Status trumps everything

The most obedient Catholic

Non sequitur. Christianity's core (Christ's resurrection and apostolic teaching) does not depend on the Roman papacy, which developed later. The claim assumes what is disputed.

Papal infallibility is actually a way to give the Pope less authority in modern Catholic discourse. Rather than having to treat everything he says as authoritative, they simply debate whether or not it was infallible, and if they decide it's not, they completely disregard it.