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The Virgin Mary

tim said:
Jesus came from a proletarian background he was not one of those Kulak shepherds.
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Self employed chippie, in a family business. More petite-bourgeois. Very likely only doing cash jobs. Probably accounts for all this flannel about fishy's

Jesus said to Peter, “Then the children of the king don’t have to pay taxes. 27 But we don’t want to upset these tax collectors. So go to the lake and fish. After you catch the first fish, open its mouth and you will find a coin. Take that coin and give it to the tax collectors for you and me.
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bcuster said:

St. Jerome—Against Helvidius: On the Perpetual Virginity of Mary​



Fathers of the Church

A complete set of documents from the Fathers of the Church: saintly writers of the early centuries whom the Church recognizes as her special witnesses of the faith.
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The implication of all this is that sexual intercourse is sinful.
 
bcuster said:
Breaking news from Vatican City regarding Marian apparition

www.catholicnewsagency.com

Medjugorje: Vatican gives green light to Marian devotion

The Vatican has approved Marian devotion at Medjugorje without pronouncing on the authenticity of alleged apparitions, emphasizing positive spiritual fruits.
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Ah, yes, Bosnia Herzegovina.

I remember the Roman Catholic Pope telling the Muslim women who had been raped in the war there in the 1990s that they should not seek abortions.

What a piece of callous uncalled for “advice” that was. I understand that the man who made this monstrous statement is now a Saint.
 
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Sex, lies and apparitions

The Medjugorje story begins early in 1976 when a Franciscan monk in the former Yugoslavia, Father Tomislav Vlasic, starts an affair with a nun who becomes pregnant. Frightened he will be exposed as the child’s father, Father Vlasic persuades her to move away to Germany. She hopes he will honour...
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surreybrowncap said:
Our Lady Of Zorro...?
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bcuster said:
Her heart was pierced by the sword of sorrow. Eastern and western Catholics differ as to whether Mary actually died before She was assumed into heaven. It is a relatively minor theological difference
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I wouldn't consider that minor. She could have been out shopping when the big man summoned her. Imagine the panic it'd have caused if all that was left was her body, and it collapsed in a heap in the aisle of a latter-day Tesco.
And what if she didn't want to go?
 
Saul Goodman said:
I wouldn't consider that minor. She could have been out shopping when the big man summoned her. Imagine the panic it'd have caused if all that was left was her body, and it collapsed in a heap in the aisle of a latter-day Tesco.
And what if she didn't want to go?
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Should Mary not have been judging people on their deeds, rather than making an assumption?
 
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