The manner in which the agent intellect reduces abstracted forms from potency to act involves a degree of spiritual intimacy between knower and known not entirely unlike the conjugal act
Hence, when the soul chooses sin, a type of spiritual adultery against the Lord is committed
JON MILLERi am getting so tired of american catholic converts who insist on overlaying a modern american evangelical prudishness onto a 2,000 year old faith. for these people, catholicism survives as a palimpsest with its old-world rituals, its deep, sensual, mysterious…
Love Jon Miller but I don’t think this take is fully accurate. It’s not to say there’s zero truth to it, in that Catholicism does reject Puritanism and piety signaling (especially of the Lila Rose and Trent Horn variety). But while Catholicism does allow for a more realistic outlook on the ongoing nature of how salvation/justification works in the soul, the notion that Catholicism differs form Protestantism by essentially being more lukewarm over sins of the flesh (whether they’re done by word or deed) just doesn’t reflect reality at all.
Crack open a single manual of how priests were instructed to handle confessions and you’ll immediately see the standards for avoiding grave sin in this area are way higher than what he’s implying. Better yet, just participate actively in the life of a normal Catholic parish and you’ll find expectations to be higher than this precisely because we believe that as grace changes the soul, so likewise does sin and the attitudes about sin that we cultivate within our interior lives
When Jews pray the psalms and when Catholics pray the psalms, while they may praying the same text, they are often praying for diametrically opposed outcomes, especially having to do with the exaltation of Israel/Sion. In this sense we do not “share” even the Old Testament.
When Jews pray the psalms and when Catholics pray the psalms, while they may praying the same text, they are often praying for diametrically opposed outcomes, especially having to do with the exaltation of Israel/Sion. In this sense we do not “share” even the Old Testament.
It is for this reason that Judaism unlike other non-Christian religions stands in unique opposition to the Catholic Church. It’s not just that they don’t believe in Jesus, but they received an identity from God that is itself a sign pointing toward something they reject. Christianity is not just an ideological opponent, its very existence creates for them a perpetual identity crisis at the most foundational level of their Jewishness.
LIVE NOW on YouTube doing a patron request stream where I’ll be demolishing anti-Catholic arguments against the Trinity and male only priestly ordination
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