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Here's what I read: Acts 10:28 — Peter’s statement This reflects Jewish custom/tradition, not Mosaic law. By Peter’s time, rabbinic regulations had grown up around the Law to prevent ritual defilement — things like: entering a Gentile’s house, sharing food or table fellowship, touching...

The opposite is true.

Never said it did. I was responding to a particular post. Religious practice and observation, and an organization composed of offices, are not the same thing. @chrysostom was talking about an organization that has persisted continuously with no disruption since c. AD 33.

No pope has ever taught ex cathedra an error. We don't believe in impeccability, but infallibility, and only under the precise conditions (ex cathedra). Beyond this charism, popes (supreme pastors of the Church) are only men. The authority is conferred in the office they hold, and it does not...

He meant any institution, apart from marriage and family, which has persisted for as long. Governments, corporations, etc. Krishna. But no, as it is not an institution or organization, but a practice. And that's not what @chrysostom meant by what he said. Again, marriage far exceeds even...

It's the same one sacrifice. Catholicism believes in grave moral obligations, the obligation to avoid grave sins. Acts 9erism also believes in this. (Acts 9erism is not antinomian, libertine Christianity.) He is the One mediator because He is our High Priest. Priest = mediator in this...

The only distinction I could see as meaningful would be in the spiritual realm. A fully able bodied man could be a wretched soul, and a fully retarded cerebral palsy sufferer could have a soul of pure light. And isn't it in what we approve, or "alloweth"? $$ Ro 14:22 Hast thou faith? have...

I ran the latest version of the OP (which is in post #6) through one of these AI machines, asked it to write it better. Here's what it did: Language: Our Window to the World Language serves as our primary window to the world. Without it, we do not merely fail to observe; instead, we confront a...

The Catechism (JPII's, and Francis's) is like the Apostolic case law, and the canons are like the Apostolic statutes, if we compare the Church to secular political society. It's a GIFT. Agreed.

When was the office of rabbi made? And nowadays, how do you know whether it's a real rabbi? Can someone just say, "I'm a rabbi," and that counts? There used to be the offices of priest and high priest, but they no longer exist. It's impossible for them to resuscitate those offices too. They...

This is what I mean. This is a Boomer Catholic's response when an honest Protestant (@Lon ) says he disagrees with about 10% of Catholic teaching: :/ It's zero percent for fundamentalist converts (non-perfunctory—meaning to say, not those who are only converting because they want to marry a...

The Boomers are feminists, in case that's not been made clear. Boomer Catholics are feminists, that's their problem. The men. And then also their women—but primarily the men, because it's abdication. Feminism is abdication, if you're a man who holds to feminism. You have abdicated. Meaning...

I love how the other Catholics don't fraternize with me. Like they're trying to disavow me. "That's not what being Catholic's about, what he's doing"—yes it is. It's the other way around. It's the zealous fundamentalists like me, entering the Church, and rearing Catholic kids who are just...

Yes they are the same. Short of miracles (disclaimer), He deals with us through institutions /organizations. Most basic and fundamental such institution is marriage, consisting of pair-bound male and female offices, husband, or man; and wife. You can only hold the office of husband if you're...

You have to remember, they only had to live in the boat for part of a year. After that, they were going to have all the space they could handle, but when escaping from the Flood, it was going to be cramped. How many months were they at sea? It took British ships sometimes four months to get...

There's one exception to this and it's if your confessor gives you the penance of praying the Hail Mary, which is a common penance (along with the Our Father). Under such circumstance, you absolutely are gravely obligated to petition her. But, if you never fall into mortal sin, you also never...

Did they vote for Trump or Harris a year ago? With two of those, there's no change.

I don't disdain Clavinists, I disdain Clavinism. So do I. So what? Where? I don't see any back stabbing here. If someone has a negative opinion of someone else on TOL, they say it openly. The whole World knows. Where's the back stabbing? Wouldn't it make so much more sense then...

You let a guy outta prison, you're letting him carry guns, is my view. To say his right to bear arms is restricted because he's an ex-con, means you should have kept him in jail. You don't let a guy out who you're only OK with him being in society, as long as he's not carrying a gun. He's...

Where in the Law is that? "it is unlawful for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation", where is that in the Law? I think it's an oral law, or what today would be called a canon law, in the Catholic Church. But there's no Catholic canon law that says anything at all...