(December 2, 2023 at 4:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Christianity has a history. Therefore, Christianity is true and God exists.

Boru

Amen brutha

Namu Amida Butsu!

Are demonic possessions just mental illness? - This is what they recently asked on the Catholic news website.

Mind you, this will be aswered by Jenna M. Cooper, J.C.L. who is a consecrated virgin of the Archdiocese of New York, currently serving as staff canonist, Judge, and Coordinator of the Tribunal for the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota. She graduated with a bachelors’ degree in Philosophy from Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2008, and from Ave Maria University in Florida with a Master of Arts in Theology in 2010. After three years of living and studying in Rome, she completed a licentiate degree in Canon Law (J.C.L.) at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

Quote:The church teaches that demonic possession, while rare, is certainly something that can happen.

Because of the reality of the demonic, today every diocese is supposed to have a specially trained priest, appointed by the diocesan bishop, who serves as the diocesan exorcist. [so it's not that rare]

Throughout his ministry, an exorcist must establish a balance within his own mind between not believing too easily that the devil is responsible for what is manifesting, and attributing all possible manifestations solely to a natural, organic source.” To that end, most dioceses in United States have protocols which require an individual to have medical and psychiatric evaluations, to rule out potential natural causes, before they can receive a major exorcism.

On the other hand, introduction to the rite of exorcism lists some medically-unexplainable, positive “signs and symptoms” of demonic possession, such as: the afflicted person speaking and understanding foreign languages they never studied; revealing hidden knowledge or information they would have had no way of knowing; and demonstrating physical strength beyond what would be normal for their size and general condition. True victims of possession will typically also have a history of dabbling in the occult, such as through fortune-telling, visiting psychic mediums, playing with Ouija boards, or participating in “New Age” activities.

https://www.thefloridacatholic.org/faith...813f6.html

I don't know about demonic possessions, but after reading this article, it seems that religion is the mental illness.

Also, have you ever met a consecrated virgin?

(December 3, 2023 at 12:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Are demonic possessions just mental illness? - This is what they recently asked on the Catholic news website.

Mind you, this will be aswered by Jenna M. Cooper, J.C.L. who is a consecrated virgin of the Archdiocese of New York, currently serving as staff canonist, Judge, and Coordinator of the Tribunal for the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota. She graduated with a bachelors’ degree in Philosophy from Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2008, and from Ave Maria University in Florida with a Master of Arts in Theology in 2010. After three years of living and studying in Rome, she completed a licentiate degree in Canon Law (J.C.L.) at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

Quote:The church teaches that demonic possession, while rare, is certainly something that can happen.

Because of the reality of the demonic, today every diocese is supposed to have a specially trained priest, appointed by the diocesan bishop, who serves as the diocesan exorcist. [so it's not that rare]

Throughout his ministry, an exorcist must establish a balance within his own mind between not believing too easily that the devil is responsible for what is manifesting, and attributing all possible manifestations solely to a natural, organic source.” To that end, most dioceses in United States have protocols which require an individual to have medical and psychiatric evaluations, to rule out potential natural causes, before they can receive a major exorcism.

On the other hand, introduction to the rite of exorcism lists some medically-unexplainable, positive “signs and symptoms” of demonic possession, such as: the afflicted person speaking and understanding foreign languages they never studied; revealing hidden knowledge or information they would have had no way of knowing; and demonstrating physical strength beyond what would be normal for their size and general condition. True victims of possession will typically also have a history of dabbling in the occult, such as through fortune-telling, visiting psychic mediums, playing with Ouija boards, or participating in “New Age” activities.

https://www.thefloridacatholic.org/faith...813f6.html

I don't know about demonic possessions, but after reading this article, it seems that religion is the mental illness.

Also, have you ever met a consecrated virgin?

Yes. I anointed her myself with my divine inseminator.

Carlo Acutis was an Italian teenager who, in the early 2000s, created a website dedicated to so-called Eucharistic miracles. He also, tragically, died of leukemia when he was still in his teens. He is in a process of becoming a saint.

Now his mom, a devout Catholic, is big on lying for Jesus. Thus, she recently came to the US where she is holding insane lectures (rants) to Catholics. Even the National Catholic Register, which is highly regarded among the Catholics, had an interview with her and you can see how they encourage her insanity instead of sending her to a psychiatrist.

Quote:Carlo, a young teenager from Milan, created a website and exhibit that has gone all over the world and visited thousands of parishes. We are speaking about countries like China, India, Japan; countries in Africa, Australia, Latin America and the United States.

Angelo Libutti told me that, during Carlo’s life, his computer caught on fire five times. Can you tell me about this?

Yes, we had to buy five computers for Carlo. The devil does not want us to speak about Eucharistic miracles. Don’t ask me how it was possible that his computers caught on fire. Carlo did not do anything to cause them. We were always very careful. Mysteriously, there were always strange things happening.

I saw that there were preternatural forces acting: preternatural, because, obviously, they were operated by the devil, certainly not God. These forces wanted to, at all costs, destroy what Carlo was doing.

The fruits of Carlo’s website have been that many. Many people have been converted, and others have come back to the Catholic faith because of it. So it’s clear that someone didn’t want this.

Please tell us about the relationship between the world of science and Eucharistic miracles

Science has not always been allied with the Catholic faith. But in this case, it is a super-ally because it is incontrovertible and indisputable that if a Eucharistic Host becomes flesh, which ends up being part of the human heart, that has parameters of living tissue, with signs of the passion of Christ, with signs of the blood type similar to the Shroud of Turin — that, as you know, is the greatest relic that we have of Our Lord in the world — then certainly, this has to make one think.

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/ant...ano-acutis

St John Paul II ‘had vision of an Islamist invasion of Europe’

Pope John Paul II had a prophetic vision of an “Islamist invasion” of Europe, a former confidant has claimed.

During one meeting in 1992, Mgr Longhi says, John Paul II told of a disturbing vision he had had about the future of Europe.

“The Pope told me: ‘Tell this to those whom you will meet in the Church of the third millennium. I see the Church afflicted by a mortal wound. More profound, more painful than those of this millennium,’ referring to Communism and Nazi totalitarianism. ‘It is called Islamism. They will invade Europe. I have seen the hordes come from the West to the East,’ and then told to me each country one by one: from Morocco to Libya to Egypt, and so on till the East.

“The Holy Father added: ‘They will invade Europe, Europe will be like a basement, old relics, shadows, cobwebs. Family heirlooms. You, the Church of the third millennium, must contain the invasion. Not with armies, armies will not be enough, but with your faith, lived with integrity.”

Mgr Longhi accompanied Pope John Paul II on hiking and skiing trips from 1985 until he was ordained 10 years later. He said the Pope would leave Rome in a modest car, so as not to attract attention, and stay at an Opus Dei home in the mountains in Abruzzo.

Mgr Longhi also said that Cardinal Andrzej Deskur, one of John Paul II’s closest friends, told him the pontiff had the “gift of visions”. “He speaks to God Incarnate, Jesus; he sees His face and he sees also the face of His mother,” the cardinal said.

https://catholicherald.co.uk/st-john-pau...of-europe/

I think my favorite is the ark story. It never ceases to amaze me that some people still believe the ark story is true. Just about every aspect of that story is physically impossible.

(December 5, 2023 at 4:53 pm)Huolpoch Wrote: I think my favorite is the ark story. It never ceases to amaze me that some people still believe the ark story is true. Just about every aspect of that story is physically impossible.

Not the incestuous relations between 2nd and 3rd generation survivors of the flood. That would have to be very real.

And the women would have to be shitting out babies like a CIWS shits out 20mm shells.

OR the story is bullshit.

When you are a Catholic you have to be up for some Necrophilia.

The skull of Mary Magdalene