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Just like the last 4 Popes, Leo is a moderate The idea that Francis was a moderate is risible. You sure seem to like that word. Yes, using it twice in the course of a few weeks definitely means I like it :) I suppose I could have said "comical" or "laughable" instead. What marke...

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:01 pm Just like the last 4 Popes, Leo is a moderate

The idea that Francis was a moderate is risible.

That sounds risible ... who is doing the disputing?

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 2:20 pm I think Wright allows for Pauline authorship of some of the disputed books.

Which books apart from Hebrews are disputed?

Doom wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:49 pm There is nothing wrong with this as long as it is not frequent, such as once a month.

Once a month seems pretty frequent.

If you are on vacation and it isn't easy to find a Mass, you are not required to get up at 3 AM and spend the next 5 hours looking for a Mass. The issue is that some people will tell you that you shouldn't go on vacation where it might be difficult to find Sunday Mass. But this isn't true, as long ...

Tired wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:03 pm Guilty pleasure... I'm reading Jurassic Park and Ender's Game again (it's fun to read them a chapter at a time and then switch to the other book).

Have you read Speaker for the Dead? Very powerful.

Doom wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 8:49 am Is this what Poland, Germany, and Argentina went through?

Poland certainly but I don't think Ratzinger was popular in Germany. No idea about Argentina

And every other song is written to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", which the music snob in has to point out is not the name of anything Beethoven wrote, but is just the choral part of the 4th movement of the 9th Symphony. It must be easy to be an organist/pianist in a Catholic paris...

As an aside it is interesting how the new rite of Mass has more or less official music (Haugen/Haas/Schutte/etc.) and "art" (Rupnik).

And every other song is written to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", which the music snob in has to point out is not the name of anything Beethoven wrote, but is just the choral part of the 4th movement of the 9th Symphony. It must be easy to be an organist/pianist in a Catholic paris...

p.falk wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 10:14 am Wonder Years is one that I recall ending on a high note.

Really? I thought the series finale was really bad. Paul isn't even in it until the last scene.

Riverboat wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 10:25 pm The Peanuts gang, by philosopher-artist Charles Schultz. Alas, we never would find out if Charlie Brown was destined to kick that football after all.

There is a strip where Lucy holds the ball instead of pulling it away and Charlie Brown misses the ball and kicks her finger.

I think if I had to say "Walker, our bishop" I might accidentally slide into "Walker, Texas Ranger"

I've never been more grateful for the silent Canon

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 7:51 pm Trump and Pope Francis both are/were populists.

Was definitely odd when Pope Francis said that populism was bad

Eamon Duffy's "Ten Popes Who Shook the World". I read it shortly after reverting back to the faith and was a bit bothered by it. I don't want to say he was critical of the Church's claim of an unbroken line since St. Peter... but there were comments here and there which shook my fledging ...

That book is not very accurate though, it perpetuates the myth of the "Papal Oath", which was supposedly said by every Pope for more than 1,000 years until John Paul I refused to say it (or in some versions of the legend, Paul VI or John XXIII were the first to omit it), yet the "oat...

I'm fond of this one

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Highlander wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 11:32 pm Heard he had dual citizenship -- US and Peru. So, is he the first Peruvian-American Pope?

He's a naturalized citizen of Peru so I would not say that he's "Peruvian-American"

He's Catholic. Also, note that a majority of both houses voted in favor. More grandstanding. But the real culprit is the Attorney General an angry former Catholic with an axe to grind. She spen 4 years pushing for this law, she has also been pushing a law to force churches to perform gay marriages....