#catholic perspective

[itsmythang]

Senator Mark Kelly

As a Catholic, I find it abhorrent that the President of the United States would publicly attack the Successor of St. Peter. Donald Trump is flailing. His war in Iran has led to the death and injury of American servicemembers and the death of Iranian children. He will attack anyone or anything to try to protect himself, even the Church that millions of Americans find faith and comfort in every day. The American people deserve a president who understands the consequences of his words and takes responsibility for his actions.

[haveacupofjohanny]

Watching The Deliverance: Pushing My Horror Movie Boundaries

Curious about The Deliverance? 🌙 As someone who avoids horror, this film surprised me! Check out my latest blog post for my thoughts on this supernatural thriller. Fellow scaredy-cats, this one’s for you! 👻 #moviereview #TheDeliverance

So, I did something out of character today—I watched The Deliverance. If you know me, you know that I’m a big baby when it comes to horror movies, especially those involving exorcisms or anything of that nature. Usually, I steer clear of them, but a Facebook friend mentioned watching it, and my curiosity got the better of me. Growing up, my grandma always warned us about these kinds of movies.…

Watching The Deliverance: Pushing My Horror Movie Boundaries

[honest-confession]

Every now and then I fall apart

And I need You now tonight

And I need You more than ever

[nannykim]

A Catholic and Protestant discuss theology

[blacklaceandcandles]

Thoughts on Pride

A friend of mine brought to my attention a discussion he was having with one of our mutual friends--is pride the gravest of the seven sins? The one who told me the story believed it is, but apparently his interlocutor disagreed. Because the latter was not there to defend himself, I never did hear his side of the story, but I came into the discussion already agreeing with the former.

Pride is the gravest of the seven deadly sins for a few reasons. To begin, a definition of pride: to think that one knows better than God. This makes the first sin of the angels and the first sin of man both sins of pride, since Tradition holds that the Fall of the Angels occurred after God showed them His plan for the Incarnation and they disagreed with it. The first sin of man is clearly one of pride because Eve thought she knew better than what God told her--and then Adam followed suit, not even thinking to ask God or to correct Eve.

In addition to this fact, pride is the only sin the angels can commit because the other six are corporeal. Pride is a sin of the spirit; the others are, primarily, sins of the flesh. This makes it a more grave one because it is more insidious--a sin of the spirit is more difficult to "weed out."

One last point, which I am still looking to flesh out more fully and would appreciate some help with (if you agree, of course): pride is the root of the other six. The other six deadly sins are simply "pride-plus." Pride with an element of something else--but at their root, they are still pride. Flavours of it, if you will.

...this is kind of an ongoing thought process, so it hasn't been finished completely, but it's fleshed-out enough to post here and discuss, if anyone so chooses.

[nannykim]

The Catholic paradigm includes the notion of “participation in” as secondary causes in the order of grace, much as, in the natural order everything lives, moves, and has its being in God who is the source of all being, without either deism or occasionalism being true. That is, occasionalism is false. God is not the only cause. He is the First Cause, but He has given to creatures the dignity of being genuine secondary causes (contra occasionalism) which act within and according to the movement of the First Cause (contra deism). In the Protestant paradigm, by contrast, this sense of participation is absent in the order of grace

from comment 15 here