Faith&Life&Love&Death

@EVR_Forge @PaulinusOfTrier The TLM is just one edition of the liturgy which can be amended by the Pope as has happened many times. The Mass is God given, the version used is a creation of men. And the normal version is what you call NO. You might prefer the TLM but it's not "better".

"I've no problem with the TLM if there are priests and congregations willing and able." Which can't occur if it is suppressed. Again: One can't "favor" the NOM when the TLM is not even available. I'm stunned at how many Catholics don't even know just how dramatic and radical are the differences between the two. But when one realizes that the TLM has been effectively suppressed for so long, I guess it isn't really shouldn't be so surprising.

Why are people so surprised that the young are flocking to Masses celebrated in Latin? The use of Latin has never been an obstacle to faith. Even at the Reformation, the argument against Latin was not that people were losing faith because of the language, but rather that the use of Latin concealed what they saw as the real meaning of the Mass, a different issue altogether.

@EVR_Forge @PaulinusOfTrier "Everyone I disagree with is a modernist" response. I've no problem with the TLM if there are priests and congregations willing and able. I do have a problem with those who oppose V2, those who are misogynistic, those who are antisemitic, those who oppose religious freedom.

That is not an accurate statement. The fact is that outside the Anglo/French nations the TLM is a very rare thing indeed so you cannot say "Catholics across the world favour Mass in the vernacular". You may say with more accuracy that their Modernist Bishops do. Unchain the TLM from episcopal suppression and see what happens.

@ModernPapist @PaulinusOfTrier I love Latin, I studied it at university and I wish all Catholics knew the parts of the Mass in Latin, particularly for international celebrations, but ultimately it's just a language. It's not actually sacred. In its day it was the vernacular.

@IrelandOCDS @PaulinusOfTrier "Favor" is doing a lot of work there when the Bishops don't promote the use of Latin in the NO.

@DermotKearney3 @colmflynnire Very similar to Irish people who think that because they were nominally Catholic they are entitled to constantly attack the church.

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Belgium’s publicly funded youth radio station, Studio Brussel (VRT), featured a sketch in which its breakfast presenters smashed various items on air, including a statue of Our Lady and Jesus. I asked if they were concerned it would cause offence, and if they would do the same to a symbol of Islam or Judaism.

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@rvh1t @McCormickProf She was married to a Catholic. She was never a Catholic. Her children, Tom and Laura are Catholics.

@McCormickProf Nothing to do with belief but they have to be a member of the CofE. The present Queen was a Roman Catholic but converted ( not given much publicity).

I have no idea what Prince William really thinks about religion. I have a question, though, for friends who are knowledgeable about the Church of England. If the monarch is an unbeliever (or not a believing Christian or not an Anglican) can he or she nevertheless serve as Supreme Governor of the Church of England?

@AnalogRules61 @McCormickProf It wasn't foreign owned. It was owned by the church in England. Henry confiscated the property and gave it to his mates, depriving religious people of their homes and income, destroying local welfare systems. He was a monster and the Anglican communion is the result.

Keep in mind being the "Supreme Governor" of the Church is mainly a legal thing...really meaning that Church property is part of UK, and NOT foreign owned. Before Henry VIII, all Church property (about 25% of the land in the UK) was literally foreign owned, that is by the Vatican. It was treated like that of a foreign government's land, with different laws, courts, etc. A crime committed by clergy, or on Church property--was outside the legal authority of the King. So for the monarch to become the Supreme Government of the Church...wasn't about them determining any doctrine, or even influencing the Church on religious matters--but being legally sovereign over the Church's property and clergy. We take that for granted in the US, in that not only do we not have any state church, but church property--of all denominations, while being untaxed, is under the full legal jurisdiction of government. It's not treated--as in medieval times, as under another sovereign, the Pope. Clergy are given no special treatment legally...we only have one government (well 2, federal & state) in control in the USA. We inherited this from our English legal system...and the monarch being the "Supreme Governor" of the Church of England.

@ifat1styoudont1 @RobLooseCannon The original planning for the building was as CIÉ headquarters and the restaurant was to be for the public. But well before the building was built and completed CIÉ were almost bankrupt. The government bought it as HQ for Social Welfare. Canteen was for SW staff only.

@IrelandOCDS @RobLooseCannon That’s what I was told on the Open House tour. It was for travelers and general public right at the start.

There’s an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busáras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated 240 people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin, first cited by Ptolemy in 140 AD. Eblana`s brutalist design, without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture, was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busáras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent, as was the intimate ambience. The main Busáras structure took six years to build, construction starting in 1947 and finishing in 1953, at a then stratospheric cost over £1 million. And it was controversial from the start. This modern piece of architecture was paradoxically dated looking from the get-go. The Eblana Theatre itself opened on the 17th of September 1959. For the first two years, the vaguely depressing theatre entertained passengers until their buses came, showing newsreel clips on a cinema screen. Thespian and director Phyllis Ryan`s (1920 –2011) Gemini Productions drama company took over the lease and showcased the idiosyncratic little space during the Dublin Theatre Festival. This prestigious, independent alternative to the Abbey Theatre championed playwrights like John B. Keane Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. But even this veneer of artistic glamour did little to elevate the Eblana. One constant source of scorn against the little space was its placement close to the large seedy bus station public toilets. Anecdotes abound of intoxicated travellers strolling into the middle of a play, seeking a place to take a leak before their bus arrived. This led to the witty insult that Busáras had "The only public toilet in Dublin with its own theatre." After Gemini productions parted ways the Andrew's Lane Theatre briefly took over, then the Northside Theatre Company. Eblana`s days were numbered , and it closed in 1995. There was much talk of refurbishment and relaunch as the new home of the Fry Model Railway in 2012. However, the estimated millions in funding never manifested. The most recent plan was converting the unique space in to a training centre for Bus Éireann staff, with Dublin City Council granting planning permission.This is earmarked to happen when Bus Éireann relocates its headquarters from Broadstone to the Busáras site. Until then, though, the errie theatre has become a bizarre time capsule. Its tattered seats, creaking floorboards, and peeling posters gently dilapidating in the subterranean Dublin air. The abandoned auditorium feels like a spectral audience and cast has just stepped out a moment ago, as if it could very easily screen horror movies to an assembly of ghosts at night after the rest of Busáras has shut up shop and gone home. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@ifat1styoudont1 @RobLooseCannon It was never open to the public nor used for wedding receptions.

@RobLooseCannon I got in at Open House a few years ago. Stunning. When it was open to the public it was popular as a wedding venue.

@RobLooseCannon It wasn't built as a theatre, but a a cinema. That's why no wings or dressing rooms. And no way does it hold 240.

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@JeremyTate41 @Sachinettiyil How often do you think Catholics heard music like that at Mass? Almost never.

And honestly, I’m a convert to Catholicism, but how did Catholics trade this for what sounds like bad 70s music, can we go back already?

@GigiLevangie @ImtiazMadmood Utter nonsense. While Germany had accepted its war guilt, Japan never has, promoting itself instead as the great atomic victim.

@ImtiazMadmood Love this perspective - thank you.

Do you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history. Trump's Pearl Harbor joke wasn't an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul. For 80 long years, we've carried apology and guilt like a permanent shadow—haunted by the past, bound by the Constitution America wrote for us, forever in "reflection mode." He turned that raw wound into a shared laugh between equals. No more endless atonement. No more vassal shadow. The curse is broken. Japan is free now. Thank you, Mr. President. We're allowed to stand tall again—as true partners, not subordinates. The strongest alliance in the world is rising—equals, brothers, ride-or-die. - @sow413

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@HollieAgombar With Leeds only getting a point it's a real opportunity to move to 15th. So it'll probably be a draw with some terrible referee decision and an injury.

Honestly so gutted I’m not there tomorrow! Massive game but it’s the first time in a long time I have some confidence. Bring it on! Hollie’s Hotspurs also back Monday!

@holysmoke @DictatorPope Rowan Williams would be a better Catholic.

Curious rumour going round that Justin Welby, furious at his treatment by the CofE, has considered becoming a Catholic.

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@Eirinn76 @PeterPaulGuy @EoinLenihan @MCC_Brussels Irish people voted for divorce. We voted for same sex "marriage". And we voted to kill our own unborn children. The destruction of our country begins with ourselves.

@PeterPaulGuy @EoinLenihan @MCC_Brussels The problem now is all migration

🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Ireland didn't fight for independence just to become a "managed asset" for Brussels and US tech giants. Dr. Eoin Lenihan [@EoinLenihan] tells @MCC_Brussels why Ireland is being vandalised by its own elites aided by the European Union.

@mysticwond55871 @JamieBrysonLLB Given that there was an earlier judgment that he couldn't claim costs from them, why have they withdrawn at this stage? Anyone with some (informed) insight?

@JamieBrysonLLB Under Civil Procedure Rule 38.6, the general rule is: The claimant must pay the defendant’s costs of the proceedings up to the date of discontinuance. This is because the defendant is treated as the party who has “won” once the claimant abandons the case. Your views Binlid

Gerry Adams has been exposed for what he is and always was. Whether the claimants got £1 damages or not is irrelevant. This was about bringing lawfare right to the heart of republicanism; you won’t have it all your own way anymore. Adams didn’t get vindication, and he didn’t have to pay £1 (but did have to pay his costs presumably). The claimants got to show the world the real face of Sinn Fein and the IRA. Well done to them!