Recent content by vz71

I would encourage you to read up on both Fr Ripperger and Father Carlos Martins. You can get a fair amount of research in as to what they have witnessed. It doesn't matter if I have or have not seen anything personally. I am just an anonymous name on the internet.

The exorcists do. On a routine basis.

I'm not so certain that would work out either. I think it would be better to just have the priests emphasize God's justice and mercy.

Trump being Trump. What about it?

Looks verbatim, actually.

That sounds like the lopsided 70's and 80's. We can see how that worked out.

I have always been told that. But my experience is that those most successful churches are the ones that call their members to task for their behavior. I am convinced that it is a mistaken notion that people would simply leave should the church highlight God's justice.

I doubt she would have been able to navigate the deep water of this aggressive negotiation.

Yes... I do not believe the pope should be responding at all to Trump. For the same reason that one doesn't wrestle with pigs. Trump is going to be Trump. Anything less then agreement that he is right is going to be perceived as an attack. He will be loud, extremely critical of anyone with a...

3 hours and you apparently have access to the internet. Hardly seems like punishment.

Indeed. Should the punishment for wasting a teachers time reflect wasted time for the student? Are they not already in school for the math, geography, grammar, etc.? It would hardly seem a punishment to apply more of the same...would it?

It seems every day we get more variables to consider in this just war calculus. Today I woke up to read headlines about Trump promising to bomb Iran back into the stone age. I am sure there is an exaggeration there somewhere. But we do need to question how much bombing can we do before the...

Yes. You could. But the mode of a given punishment is not dictated by the offender. Perhaps the additional annoyance of wasting time provides incentive to not violate the rules in the future.

I do not understand how one relates to the other. Did your parents specifically raise you against the faith?

Very good questions. If we keep the 'just war' theory, then we do not wait for an invasion...assuming that the invasion to be predictable and imminent, and that diplomacy has not been successful. As to prudence. I am afraid prudence has long given way to political expediency.