Hugh Mannity +JMJ+

@Joeinblack To get an apartment like that in China you have to be a respectable party member.

Not only is the rent in China really cheap, but they do all their executions for free!

Under Edward VI 5,000 Catholics in Cornwall were massacred during the 1549 Prayerbook Rebellion. Under Elizabeth I another 500+ were martyred. Tyndale was burned for heresy, not reading the bible. The Bible has always been translated. It was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Translated into Latin in 382 AD. By 500AD there were over 500 languages into which the Bible had been translated. There was an Anglo Saxon (early English) translation in 995 AD John Wycliffe produced the first "modern" English bible in 1384 AD. 42 years before Tyndale. Even when the official Catholic Bible was the Vulgate, the Mass Bible readings were repeated in the vernacular before the homily.

The Catholic Church did, in fact, burn people at the stake for reading the bible for themselves, having it translated into their own language, or for possessing copies of it. When it was read at Mass, it was read in Latin -- a depracted language that the common people didn't know or understand. The priest would tell them what it said and what it meant. And what they said didn't always fall in line with scripture -- such as being able to purchase indulgences for the forgiveness of sins. I agree with your last statement. The Reformation as a very dark and dangerous time, and I sincerely hope no one wants to return to that. I sure don't. But there's no way I'd ever convert to Catholicism. The question is, will a death decree be issued by the papacy for people like me at some point? If that's where this is heading (and I sincerely hope it's not), then history is likely to repeat itself.

When the Pope makes questionable comments, it makes me GRATEFUL to be Catholic. Because the Pope has no authority to unilaterally change Catholic dogma with his pastoral comments. The Pope speaks in two ways, pastorally and rarely, infallibly (called ex Cathedra, which requires a certain set of specific circumstances as the Pope acknowledges, not invents, a doctrinal interpretation). The latter almost never happens. That’s important— His comments today are in his pastoral capacity. He wasn’t speaking ex Cathedra. Catholics aren’t required to agree with his opinions. It’s annoying for sure, I wish the Pope was a wiser leader on matters of politics. But I’m SO grateful to be Catholic because imagine he were the leader of a Prot church—he could change doctrine based on his own faulty opinions at a whim. That’s not the case with Catholicism. Grateful to God for His Church that remains as it always was and always will be despite the turmoil of the world and the sins of man. 🙏🏼

@PaulMay9115 @SteveLovesAmmo Two-Tier Starmer's way ahead on that front. And he lacks bollocks too.

@SteveLovesAmmo No one fears stupidity, though based on your president, perhaps we should.

This is what the British government fears.

@JimReid44831291 @SteveLovesAmmo Except the UK doesn't count murders it doesn't solve.

@SteveLovesAmmo America has a murder right 5 times per head higher than the UK, why don’t you concentrate on that instead of lecturing us.

@JonSVautour @BishopJaxi You're confusing Catholics with public school teachers.

@BishopJaxi Catholicism is the same, except the one interpreting the scripture for everyone is a lot more likely to be a pedophile.

Who decides what "true faith" is? Who defines the "true Christ"? Who identifies the "true gospel"? In Protestantism, the answer is always the same: the individual, appealing to his own interpretation of Scripture, and however he feels that day. "Faith alone" functionally becomes: "faith, as I personally define it, in the Christ and gospel as I personally declare them to be." This is why they all run around shouting "faith alone" while continually fracturing into thousands of contradictory sects.

@BasedMikeLee Get rid of the thieving trash and make this a high trust society again.

Japan, please teach us how to replicate this

The Catholic church didn't burn people alive for reading the Bible. The Bible is read at every Mass, always has been. Which was very important when most people were illiterate and handmade books were prohibitively expensive. The Catholic Church did burn heretics, but so did the Protestants. The Reformation was an ugly and dangerous time.

When the Protestants finally got their hands on a bible and started reading it for themselves (which, btw, was forbidden and the Roman Catholic Church burned people alive at the stake for it), they discovered that the Roman Catholic priests were teaching a doctrine counter to what the bible says. This was what the Protests were protesting, and called to reform tbe corrupt Roman Catholic Church. The Protestants never sought to change biblical doctrine. They sought to correct the false doctrine they were being presented with by the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is still teaching this false doctrine to this day. 👇 youtu.be/_vpOEE9oaTA?si…

@MUKIDEZA2 I have both Japanese and Chinese chopsticks and use them very badly. I think the problem is that I have right-handed chopsticks and I'm left-handed.

日本の箸って今、アメリカでどれくらい使える人居るんだろう？

@Matt_Pinner Dizzie Gillespie. We talked about classical music and Bach's great Toccata & Fugue. Nina Simone - why she didn't need another drink before her performance that evening (she was already well drunk)

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever spoken to? Not “seen from far away” — actually talked to, even for a minute. A quick hello, a handshake, a normal conversation… and you still remember it. Who was it?

@kengakusha1 Mostly we laugh at them and call them "snow Mexicans"

俺のタイムラインが1日で急速にワールドワイドになったので ものすごく勉強になった しかし一つ謎がある アメリカの人はカナダが嫌いなのか？

The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will. At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistery and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim, so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week. The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide. The Episcopalians tried a much more unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do. But the Catholic church came up with a very creative strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter. And not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven't seen a squirrel since.

@AristotleIan7 @Appjn382337 @lnnerDimensions @EYakoby That's because he was produced after the Bible was written. Mentions of Satan will do nicely as a substitute if one is needed.

@Appjn382337 @HughTauerner @lnnerDimensions @EYakoby There is absolutely NO mention of that evil charlatan, Muhammad in the Holy Bible.

BREAKING: A massacre has taken place in Nigeria against Christians by Islamists on Palm Sunday. Bodies line the streets of their village. Where is the outrage?

@TaylorRMarshall The Cardinal. Not the heretic.

Pick your warrior. Who do you trust? Cardinal Pizzaballa or Reverenda Paula White

@TaylorRMarshall 1. The modern state of Israel is not the Biblical Israel. 2. Women should not preach, nor run "ministries". If Jesus had wanted women to do such things, he'd have ordained some.

This woman is the chief spiritual advisor to Trump 👇🏻

@Witchwatch99 There are 2.2 pounds to a Kilogram. Also plenty of online calculators which can do conversions.

…本当に申し訳ないのですが。 単位はメートル法でお願いします。

@gonefishin1948 ICWYDT

German Sausage is the WURST!

@EdsPurgatory I wouldn't pay that much for a car.

Never. This will contribute toward the mark of the beast

@catholicpat Reverent Mass, welcoming congregation, greeters who smile well. My town gets a lot of tourists in the summer, plus a good number of snowbirds. Our Mass numbers are substantially higher in the summer. Many of the visitors come back year after year.

Easter Catholics are coming to Mass in 6 days. Does your parish have a strategy to reach them?

@catholicpat @RobertWeidner11 That's been and gone: Laetare Sunday.

@RobertWeidner11 maybe Mother's Day! lol

@RevivedThoughts There's 2000+ years of Catholic church history (we've continued having history since the reformation) There are a mere 500 years of Protestant churches dividing and multiplying like amoebae.

Church history is on the protestants side. But we have to actually teach it.