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Very good summary. Keep in mind that Luther and Calvin started out as Catholics, Luther a priest, Calvin a layman, and neither of them were nearly as removed from Catholicism as those in later years, and in the present day, who look to them as their spiritual forebears. Mainstream Protestants...

Though I was never formally a Protestant (I wasn't really anything), I was raised in such an environment, fundamentalist evangelical Protestantism permeated the whole culture, and in all honesty, yes, Marian devotion is something I had to acquire and make sense of in my own mind. I am deeply...

I found the papers. I had created for myself a false memory of them being in a manila envelope (I had another such envelope in my mind, one I had handled when I was sorting papers). The fact that they were actually in a nondescript white envelope, face down in a stack of papers, so that I could...

No idea. I have three first-class relics, those of St John Neumann, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, and St Maria Goretti.

Update, my insurance agent told me that the underwriters aren't requring copies of the papers, to waive the roof replacement requirement. My word is sufficient. So Our Lord did indeed answer the prayer, just not in the fashion I expected. Whether I have the papers or not is immaterial...

I have lost a large manila envelope that had paperwork proving that my father had a roof put on his house (the one I inherited) in 2012. I need them to provide documentation for the insurance company, to back up the fact that the roof was replaced in that year. I found them yesterday...

This is a good discussion, if a vigorous and spirited one, and I just remind everyone to keep comments within the bounds of fraternal charity, without attacks on persons or their motivations. That doesn't seem, strictly speaking, to have happened yet. Let's all assume one another's good will...

Other news reports indicate that the killer had lately come to regret the decision to identify as female, at least exclusively, and spoke of self-brainwashing. That is what I was going by.

I am not going to take a position one way or the other on whether "he" or "she" pronouns should be used such cases. To my knowledge, the Church has not directly addressed the matter of which pronouns to use in these circumstances, and some languages do not have discrete masculine and feminine...

The basic teachings of the Catholic Church can be found in the most recent catechism, as well as those that preceded it (Catechism of St Pius X, Baltimore Catechism, and so on). There have been sinners from the time of Adam and Eve and there always will be. The teachings of the Catholic Church...

Okay, then, socialism, I am aware of the difference, but socialist systems actually did exist and can be assessed for their merits or demerits as the case might be. As to the two things you cite here, neither of which have anything to do with being forced to date or socialize with others...

My (ex-)wife was raised under the communist system in Poland, and I never heard her, or any other Poles, speak of being forced to date or socialize with anyone they didn't want to. Not clear where you're getting that, could you provide any examples of this ever having been done in actual...

I've been largely (though not entirely) staying out of this thread in recent days, as I think the rest of you have this under control and there's really nothing I can add to it. I am curious, though, as to what you mean by "best thinking". You use the term three times in this one post, as well...

I would rather have a president who gets along with Putin and Kim Jong-un, than not. Xi would be good too.