I wonder how much of the problem was due to Dinklage, and how much due to Bungie’s effects on top of Dinklage’s voice...

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“X action of thing Y causes real change” does not in any way mean “Z actions of thing Y have NOT cased EVILLLLL,” and neither have anything to do with scriptural hermeneutics. So.

You’re just stringing loosely related phrases together with no actual logical unity.

Yeah, that’s an accurate representation of post-Vatican II American middle/lower class Catholics’ experience of the religion. Not really accurate otherwise. Its post-Classical character was pretty much entirely established by the Scholastics, who were most certainly all about questioning everything and thinking…

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I’m going to quote Edward Peters here:

“Like some (but not all) sins, abortion has long been treated as a *crime* under canon law. As is true of other crimes, however, a host of legal factors must be considered in determining whether one who has become involved in the *sin* of abortion is also guilty of the *crime* of…

Well, what would happen is definitely massive schism and the election of an alternate pope, which isn’t *terribly* unusual in the history of Catholicism. But I’d bet one side would at least argue that that latae sententiae crap kicks in the moment someone begins a heretical declaration, and thus by the time he was…

Then they’re uncatechized/historically ignorant/ republican protestants who just happen to call themselves “Catholic.” Pope Francis has at no point said or done anything that should upset educated Catholics.

Crime in this case would be a crime against Canon Law, in addition to being a mortal sin.

In the Middle Ages the Church kind of/sort of/sometimes accepted the theory of delayed ensoulment— soul being used in the Aristotelian sense, not the modern “eternal ghosty thing” sense. Because definitions of “life” revolved around movement, a fetus might not be considered “alive” until the quickening. So chemical…

To answer some of your questions:

His biggest change is his *rhetoric.* But when you’re as powerful as the pope, when billions listen to what you say, changes only in rhetoric can still cause real, meaningful change in the world.

If you’ve read the jezebel article, you would know that abortion was not considered an “unforgiveable sin,” but rather one of a number of actions that incurred excommunication and thus required a more formal process to get back into the Church. The Pope is effectively streamlining that process. Well. Except in those…

CCC 1861 is relevant here. LEGALLY, according to Canon Law, one does not incur excommunication that would require the guilty party to jump through canon law hoops to get back into the Church. SPIRITUALLY, the mortal sinner cannot be said to be a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, that is, cannot be said to be in…

You’ll note that there’s something in common there— none of them are obvious Natural Law “sins,” they’re technical crimes that make sense only in the context of an ordered Church Hierarchy an Tradition. No Catholic moral theologian is going to ever argue that slapping the pope is worse than murder. No Catholic moral…

Tell that to Pixar.

what on earth does “alchemical” even mean there? And why do you need an “of” in “of where the light and water meet” ? Where by itself works just fine. Of where is just clumsy.

Pretty sure no one would call the above “entertainment.” It’s awful, distasteful, tone-deaf, etc, but it’s not “entertainment” like she made a cartoon or a videogame out of the events

Anyone else feel extremely let down by this? Almost zero dvds, zero graphic novels, almost zero books, but wow, if you want an iphone case you’re set!

Anyone else feel extremely let down by this? Almost zero dvds, zero graphic novels, almost zero books, but wow, if…