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@zapatas_mom Was great in Italy. Walk to the bread store, the vegetable store, the butcher, etc. all fresh and local. Small town - only me and one other American family in the town so very safe. I life in Norfolk now. I like my distance from the riff raff

Americans… this is a good faith question. I’m not baiting or trolling. Why are you so scared of condos and walkable cities? Does not having to drive for your groceries freak you out? What about it makes you uncomfortable? Please be honest.

@JohnnyB_E93 @SGTWipper1Each In the Army maybe. In the Marine Corps, the V-22 replaced the medium lift CH-46, not the heavy lift CH-53E.

@SGTWipper1Each The Osprey was supposed to replace the Chinook! Military tech & engineers ought to leave well enough alone. Keep it simple! What’s worked a few decades ago still works! B52’s. A10’s The Deuce, Cobras, Hueys the GRUNT…

Um... haven't we seen this before? And they want this to replace the workhorse Black Hawk?

@CatholicSat One can tell Hale is lying if his lips are moving or his fingers are typing

The only reason this story blew up was because Christopher Hale lied when he posted that the “Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year”, and that “Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.” Both complete fabrications. Weird that this is completely missing from this piece.

@RightRambler @TRHLofficial I believe "remission" refers to the temporal punishment for sin of the saved, after their deaths, in purgatory i.e. an indulgence. Fighting in the crusades was seen as a kind of penance in this world

According to the Catholic Church it did. “All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins.” Spoken as authoritative teaching by Pope Urban the II and later formalized through papal bull “Quantum Praedecessores” under Pope Eugenius III.

The comments are citing the Crusades, which the Christians lost, and the Old Testament. The Son of Man fulfilled the Old Testament. Jesus met those terms. Christians abide by the New and Everlasting testament where throughout His ministry, Jesus consistently emphasized peace.

@michelletandler 333 employees? ok. her employers should go to jail

Just spoke with a manager of a restaurant in NYC. She said that since the ICE raids began 100 employees have stopped coming in to work (~30% of their staff.) She said they are hiring ppl without experience to backfill. Thoughts?

@RightRambler @TRHLofficial Fighting a war never absolved sin

This is the problem with the Catholic Church…. They tell us to follow the infallible Vicar of Christ that tells us fighting a war will absolve you of sin in one century and then tells you fighting any war is evil in another. The kind of mental gymnastics that go into following this office is beyond me.

@PaleoGOP What war pushed Turks into Germany?

From a Catholic perspective, part of the remedy for mass migration is not to create the conditions of war and disorder that force people to flee their homelands.

@EODHappyCaptain I didn't sign up until I was like 23 or 24 because I entered active duty at 17 and didn't realize I still needed to register🤣

A lot of people telling on themselves today for never signing up for Selective Service.

@Taylor_A_Eaton #1 reason isn't the Bible; it's secularism

The #1 reason Catholics leave Rome? The Bible. When you compare the teachings of Rome with the plain text of Scripture, you might start to wonder which book Rome was reading.

@ChristopherHale Good to see he agrees that the US Civil War was wrong

NEW: Pope Leo XIV says God is “never on the side” of those who “today drop bombs.”

@FrDaveNix @acatholiclife One might think those who claim antiquarian bases for the NOM and communion in the hand would want to retain ancient fast and abstinence practices as well

In the early Church, Christians couldn't eat meat on any Friday of the year, even when Christmas fell on a Friday. Pope Saint Gregory the Great changed that around the year 600. Obviously, you're not bound to that, but I do find it funny how many modernists erroneously believe the early Church lived charismatically without rules. The fact is most Catholics today couldn't live a week under the rules that bound the early Church.

@MrsCathComedy Let us know how it goes. Also curious about whether or not party size affects gifts

@StochasticUltra Nothing. I'm doing it next weekend for my son. As big as we can afford. But I'm curious as a society why we don't.

Question: Why is marriage or sometimes holy orders the only sacrament that we celebrate with a giant party and invite everyone we know to? Why don't we do this with baptism and confirmation? They are both once in a lifetime sacraments too.

@VadeadIesum 83% of Catholics fail to attend Mass every Sunday, but you have decided to criticize those who are there instead of educating those committing grave sin. Interesting.

Do NOT pray the rosary during mass. This is inappropriate and against church teaching.

@MaryLTrump So Biden should not have been able to sign the automatic selective service registration that just went into effect?

Draft-dodging presidents should not have the power to impose the draft.

@UcheMaryOkoli Funerals and Requiem Masses in the TLM

Can I have your attention, please???? Can anyone kindly explain to me why our priests don't wear black chasubles??? These priests in this photo look so damn good on these black chasubles. Why can't our priests wear black chasubles???

@Joseph_Spurgeon If every person is qualified to interpret the Bible for him/herself, why do protestants have sermons? Why not just read scripture and move on?

Roman Catholics are always telling me sola scriptura is not in the Bible. That is cute. I thought you people were not supposed to interpret the Bible for yourselves. I thought that was the whole speech. The ordinary Christian cannot rightly understand Scripture. The individual believer is not authorized to settle doctrine. You need the church. You need the magisterium. You need Rome. And yet, somehow, every Roman Catholic on the internet becomes a one man magisterium the second he wants to tell a Protestant what the Bible “really says.” So here is my new rule: I do not take Bible lessons from people who insist they are not competent or authorized to give them.

@Martina Why MAGA votes since this happened in 2024 and was signed into law by President Biden?

@Martina @insatiablevine Automatically register only men to vote? OK, your terms are acceptable

@insatiablevine Why not for voting too? Nice argument you have though…

@LeftyWinter You should immigrate for that amazing Mexican health care

Mexico getting universal healthcare before America is embarrassing. Israel has universal healthcare and America doesn't. Every major democracy around the world has some form of universal healthcare. Not America.