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Media vita in morte sumus quem quaerimus adiutorem nisi te, Domine, qui pro peccatis nostris juste irasceris? Sancte Deus, sancte fortis, sancte et misericors Salvator: amarae morti ne tradas nos.

Catholics confess directly to God. Protestants attack the priest as a "middleman" because sacramental confession requires what their private version avoids: contrition, accountability, and the humiliation of actually naming your sin. The Bible says to confess your sins to one another. Christ gave His apostles authority to forgive and retain sins. It does not teach "go hide alone, say a quick prayer, and call that repentance." A quick "God forgive me" costs nothing. Real confession humbles you, exposes your sin, and demands that you actually turn away from it. Something the majority of Protestants simply do not want.

@Catholic_bro "Period end of story" ROFL

I read the Bible from cover to cover every year I’ve only grown in my Catholic faith by doing so How many times do I have to read it before I “leave Rome” ?

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!

The gaming news site TheGamer shows their double standards again by publishing an article about the new game Neverness to Evernes claiming the game is already being turned into the ultimate “gooner game.” They criticize how some players use the first-person camera to focus on female characters in suggestive ways. The same site also ran a story calling the Resident Evil Requiem character Leon Kennedy “a hot uncle.” Journalism is getting worst every day

Hello again Dr. White, Attacking my character instead of addressing the text or the argument is, at this point, entirely unsurprising. When I was Protestant, I spent years watching your debates and working through your “pages and pages.” Ironically, it was precisely that process that led me into the Catholic Church. So please, spare me your narcissistic appeal to your own material where you do professional mental gymnastics butchering the Bible to add “faith alone” into the text when it doesn’t exist. If quoting the very passages you claim as your authority provokes this kind of ad hominem response, that says far more about the fragility and lack of foundation in your position than it does about me. Have a blessed Sunday, Dr. White. God bless.

@TheosophicalW @catholiccom We didnt determine that certain books are inspired. The early church did. Because they were guided by the Holy spirit. As Jesus said they would be. And they had Popes. We arent our own Popes like you. We have Popes. They declared it. Thanks for reading.

@catholiccom So “The Catholic method” is to recommend you become your own Pope and use your own private judgement to determine that certain books are inspired. Just like Protestants. 😉 It’s not too late to delete this Catholic Answers (not that we want you to delete it ).

Catholicism does not argue anything like this. The Catholic method of proving the Bible to be inspired is this: The Bible is initially approached as any other ancient work. It is not, at first, presumed to be inspired. From textual criticism we are able to conclude that we have a text the accuracy of which is more certain than the accuracy of any other ancient work. Next we take a look at what the Bible, considered merely as a history, tells us, focusing particularly on the New Testament, and more specifically the Gospels. We examine the account contained therein of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Using what is in the Gospels themselves and what we find in extra-biblical writings from the early centuries, together with what we know of human nature (and what we can otherwise, from natural reason alone, know of divine nature), we conclude that Jesus was who he claimed to be—God. Further, Christ said he would found a Church. Both the Bible (still taken as merely a historical book, not yet as an inspired one) and other ancient works attest to the fact that Christ established a Church with the rudiments of what we see in the Catholic Church today—papacy, hierarchy, priesthood, sacraments, and teaching authority. We have thus taken the material and purely historically concluded that Jesus founded the Catholic Church. Because of his Resurrection we have reason to take seriously his claims concerning the Church, including its authority to teach in his name. This Catholic Church tells us the Bible is inspired, and we can take the Church’s word for it precisely because the Church is infallible. Only after having been told by a properly constituted authority—that is, one established by God to assure us of the truth concerning matters of faith—that the Bible is inspired can we reasonably begin to use it as an inspired book. Note that this is not a circular argument. We are not basing the inspiration of the Bible on the Church’s infallibility and the Church’s infallibility on the word of an inspired Bible. That indeed would be a circular argument! What we have is really a spiral argument. On the first level we argue to the reliability of the Bible insofar as it is history. From that we conclude that an infallible Church was founded. And then we take the word of that infallible Church that the Bible is inspired. This is not a circular argument because the final conclusion (the Bible is inspired) is not simply a restatement of its initial finding (the Bible is historically reliable), and its initial finding (the Bible is historically reliable) is in no way based on the final conclusion (the Bible is inspired). What we have demonstrated is that (1) the Church gets its authority from Jesus, not the Bible per se, and (2) without the existence of the Church, we could never know whether the Bible is inspired.

@Inthelight17 @hdpayens @BishopJaxi John 20:22–23: “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain them, they are retained.” Jesus speaks this to his apostles after the resurrection.

@Inthelight17 @hdpayens @BishopJaxi Also to your earlier point about confessing not to one another. James 5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.”

This is such an ignorant take. I’m not interested in debating whether Candace is right or wrong. If she believes what she’s saying, she isn’t lying, even if she’s mistaken. That’s beside the point. What’s absurd is the assumption that only sinless people can be confirmed in the Catholic Church. And it’s deeply ironic. Protestant churches are full of people they would admit are sinners, yet the Catholic Church is condemned for receiving one more. Worse, Protestants insist salvation is by faith alone, apart from works… yet object to someone being received because of her works. So which is it? This is the same mindset of the Pharisees who said, “Why does He eat with sinners?” Because the Church is not a museum for the righteous. It’s a hospital for the sick.

@Inthelight17 @hdpayens @BishopJaxi Also, Jesus didnt care about religion? Jesus lived as a Jew in first-century Judea. He: Attended synagogue, Knew and quoted Scripture, Observed major Jewish practices. What he criticized was empty or hypocritical religion. He rejected only shallow, performative religion.

@Inthelight17 @hdpayens @BishopJaxi The word Christianity does not exist in the Bible? Acts 11:26 “And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” Acts 26:28 "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.’"

@hnmr_rng 数日前に、生まれたばかりの姪っ子に初めて会いました。彼女を守るためなら、世界中を相手に戦っても勝てるような、そんな強い気持ちになっています。ww

親孝行は姪御孝行になりましたが、相手の仕方が分からずに途方にくれてます⁽⁽꜀(.ω. ꜆)꜄⁾⁾

Mother Teresa visits her Sisters in NY. Goes to the subway to beg for the poor. Atheist comes. “Do you have anything for the poor?” He spits in her face. She wipes it off & says, “That was for me. Do you have anything for the poor?” He cries. She says, “It’s OK. You’re loved.”

@Inthelight17 @hdpayens @BishopJaxi The catholic church has been plagued with scandals for THOUSANDS of years. Yes, and it is STILL the true church of Jesus. What were you expecting? Perfect, sinless clergy? Are you daft?

@hdpayens @BishopJaxi The Catholic church has been plagued with scandals for hundreds of years. The catholic church worships the Pope and Mary more than God. You do not confess to Men....you confess your sins only to God. Jesus is the son of God and he died on the cross so people will confess to God.

@abstract3d I see that its an RPM package. So it's currently available for the RHEL and Fedora line of distributions. Are there plans for Deb or Arch releases?

More information: abstract3d.com/2026/05/01/abs…

🐧 Native Linux support for InstaMAT + InstaLOD is now live. For the first time, both platforms run natively on Linux. No workarounds. Opening the Abstract ecosystem to even more studios, pipelines, and power users. ✅ Download and more: Link in the comments youtube.com/watch?v=vs9MNJ…

@ringring_room Happy 7th Anniversary! Stay healthy and hydrated! Keep up the good work!💛🎉

🌟本日🌟 活動がはじまって7周年です🎉🎊 かみさまに出会って、みんなに出会って、楽しい日々がはじまって続いているよ。続いていくよ。 かみさまに、みんなに、ありがとう！ これからもよろしくね🥳🐈️

INSTALOD and INSTAMAT are now available on Linux. Long live the mighty penguin.

@Pirat_Nation Did someone say 'Goblin'?

OpenAI recently open-sourced parts of its Codex CLI, and a prompt for the GPT-5.5 Just Told Its AI: “Never Talk About Goblins” “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.” This instruction appears multiple times in the 3,500-word base prompt file on GitHub. According to them, earlier model versions kept randomly inserting goblin and gremlin references into code reviews and bug explanations. OpenAI had to ban them all

@momoshiraha Dont be sad Momo! It'll be alright!

good morning! im still not feeling well today so my internet installation got postponed 😭 so sad T_T what are you doing ʕ ◦`꒳´◦ʔ

Evangelicals, it’s 100% your own fault that you keep coming across as unintelligent. The POPE commissioned St. Jerome to translate the Bible “from the Koine Greek” into the common language of the time, Latin (the “Vulgate”—from the root word, “vulgus”, meaning “common people”).