“If the world stands against the truth, then I stand against the world.” – St Athanasius // Historian and former Protestant
Archdiocese of Indianapolis
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I was an anti-Catholic non-denominational “born again” Christian and got into a debate with a Catholic.
I used the same tired lines – you guys don’t read the Bible, you’re basically pagans for worshipping Mary and the saints, etc.
He challenged me on the topics of apostolic succession, sola scriptura, and Marian prayer.
So I began researching. I needed to understand Catholicism better so I could more effectively debate these fools!
But the more I researched, the more I struggled to find valid arguments against the Catholic faith. I set out to disprove Catholicism, and found myself unable to do so – so much so, that Catholicism became impossible for me to disprove.
I didn’t become Catholic because I wanted to. I became Catholic because the Holy Spirit called me home to the Church Christ founded. It wasn’t up to me. Catholicism is much harder than being a Protestant; I am called to a much higher standard.
It is at times unpleasant. But God calls us to worship Him in the manner in which HE chooses. Worship isn’t about us. Church isn’t about us.
It’s all about Him.
It’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation.
On Halloween night, 15 year old Austin Payne was out trick or treating with friends when he was confronted by a group of individuals who pulled a gun on him and demanded everything he had. He fled, and they chased him into an abandoned apartment building, where they shot him and left him for dead.
He called his mother, begging for help. It was the last time she’d ever hear her son’s voice. His body was found the next morning.
He was white — the perpetrators were black. The story got minimal coverage and then was swept under the rug.
Meanwhile some drunk teenagers making monkey noises is a national headline. It’s a joke.
The racial discrimination and manufactured outrage against white people has got to stop. Until it does, the racial divide will only continue to get worse.
It’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation.
I watched the viral video of Jakiyra Metcalf, a student at Ole Miss, being harassed outside her own home by individuals making monkey noises. And as I sit here looking at those images, one simple, baffling question keeps echoing in my mind: I don’t know why one would choose to be racist?
Think about that word. Choose. Because racism is not an accident. It is not a reflex, it is not a slip of the tongue, and it is not a momentary lapse in judgment. It is a conscious, active decision to weaponize history, pain, and systemic degradation against another human being simply because of the color of their skin.
In a world filled with endless possibilities… where you can choose to be kind, choose to be empathetic, choose to pursue excellence, or simply choose to mind your own business… why choose to be racist?
We’re done caring about this shit when we see a dozen new videos a week of black kids beating up white kids, or a black man murdering a white woman for no reason other than being white.
Sorry. No one cares. Take your performative outrage elsewhere.
It’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation.
I watched the viral video of Jakiyra Metcalf, a student at Ole Miss, being harassed outside her own home by individuals making monkey noises. And as I sit here looking at those images, one simple, baffling question keeps echoing in my mind: I don’t know why one would choose to be racist?
Think about that word. Choose. Because racism is not an accident. It is not a reflex, it is not a slip of the tongue, and it is not a momentary lapse in judgment. It is a conscious, active decision to weaponize history, pain, and systemic degradation against another human being simply because of the color of their skin.
In a world filled with endless possibilities… where you can choose to be kind, choose to be empathetic, choose to pursue excellence, or simply choose to mind your own business… why choose to be racist?
These nine goofballs who struggle to coordinate a fucking pothole repair really looked at the greatest existential threat in human history and thought, “You know what? We should handle this at the municipal level.”
On another note, this would make a pretty funny Parks & Rec episode
SITUATION DETECTED: Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control.
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Bishop Barron gives me hope for the future of the Catholic Church. He does not waver on the fundamental essentials of the Catholic faith. That is unfortunately rare for many of the men in his station these days.
When we pray for our Church leaders we should include him in our prayers, and pray that more like him would rise up in the Church.
Friends, I don’t think we Christians fully understand how radically we must think about the goal of the Christian life. It is not to become a nice person. An atheist can be a nice person.
The goal is to become a new creation, someone living the very life of God. Jesus is the Son of God by nature, but we become sons and daughters of God by adoption, brought into a share in his life like a child welcomed into a family and their home.
That’s what it means to be a saint: to be invited into the household of God, and to worship God by eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus, becoming assimilated unto him.
“James and Romans conflict with each other so you have to choose one or the other”
The fruits of the Protestant Reformation.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
The problem is that that verse conflicts with other verses in the New Testament. The book of James it’s not a deep theological book. It’s a book of mostly superficial sayings and the deep theological books like Romans conflict with it. So you have to choose.
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This is unironically precisely the reasoning behind iconography
The icons do not themselves contain God or holiness, but nonetheless evoke thoughts of God and holiness — thereby extolling us to virtue
Bro’s only post during an entire day of college football is about Indiana seemingly losing a football game (spoiler alert: Indiana won the game)
The Hoosiers are the main character of college football. Sorry Bama. Maybe once Cignetti retires you can have the limelight again.
DOWN GOES INDIANA
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Disgusting and embarrassing. Cardinal Vesco should resign or be defrocked. Absolutely ridiculous for any Christian to say, let alone a Cardinal.
The post-conciliar clergy have utterly lost the plot.
Terrific response by Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco to @BishopBarron disgraceful attack on his integrity. Vesco speaks from the Church, Barron for himself.
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“You should actually start to worship the Bible”
That’s insane for a Christian to say.
No created thing is due worship — not even the most sacred created thing on earth.
The Bible is obviously unique on account of its divine inspiration, but it is not God. To call it divine is to confuse inspiration with incarnation. It is idolatry — the worship of a created object.
Please learn more before spouting this drivel. You are gravely misunderstanding the Christian faith, the Bible, and the nature of God. This is dangerous for your soul.
You should actually start to worship the Bible.
If you did, you would understand that all scripture is INSPIRED.
INSPIRED means God breathed.
Man is not God breathed as scripture is.
Super weird how Catholics are so triggered by this. It's because you hate the scripture. You worship the bureaucracy known as the Roman Catholic Church.
Sad.
A relationship goes both ways.
God gave you your life. Everything good flows from Him. All He asks in return is your love, expressed through worship and obedience.
A vague relationship status is insufficient to that end. You are not giving Him what He is owed.
If you truly want a relationship with Christ you must receive your Lord through the Eucharist, which is the highest form of worship, and this isn’t optional — it is a command (John 6). There is nothing more important that you can do in this life than to receive Him in Holy Communion.
I don’t want to pile on cause I want to be supportive of our guys.
But I think today has made it abundantly clear that this offense is severely limited right now by the QB play, and adjustments must be made to salvage the season. Shanahan and Sunseri need to figure it out.
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Hey guys the guy named “Rock” isn’t actually the rock. How did we make such a mistake?
Pack it in, we had a good run. 2000 years down the tube cause we all assumed that Jesus meant what He said. Thankfully it’s all been explained now.
Jesus said on this, not on you. "This" is what Peter said, he called Jesus the Messiah. So if you believe what Jesus literally said then you believe that "on this" what Peter said. Because Jesus didn't say on you. Also two verses down Jesus said, "get behind me Satan" to Peter
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“When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward — in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it.
“All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible. For no chain is stronger than its weakest link.”
G. K. Chesterton
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