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Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 9 Nov 20

Do you realize that sixty years ago the United States of America elected the first Roman Catholic president? And it was quite a spectacle! As you know, I love to go through newspaper archives. In 1960, when John Kennedy...

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Saintly Spanish Friar was in our midst.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 2 Sep 20

The Filipinos did rally a revolution against the cruelty of Spain, friars included, as epitomized in the Rizal classic Noli Me Tangere. Or so I believed - that that time before the turn of the century was Spain's most severe...

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Scholasticism Par Excellence

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 30 Jun 20

Dominican education was definitive, students were endowed with units on 'The Church We Love.' Enjoyed the classroom discourses in college at the royal, pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. It was a privilege and an honor...

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A Glimpse of the Catholic Church.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 4 Mar 20

Back in college, I had one semester of studying the Church We Love - the Catholic Church, the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church that Jesus instituted. As college opens minds to all isms, I did get a panoramic view of the...

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Do you pay any attention to Mardi Gras?

The Horse @TheHorse (238306) • Walnut Creek, California 26 Feb 20

The American city of New Orleans LA is famous for holding a rather wild Mardi Gras celebration. I have been to New Orleans, but it was to present a paper at a conference, not "party." Apparently the celebration involves "Fat...

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Hero or Villain

Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 7 Nov 19

A story out of Rome didn’t get much news attention in the “secular” media in America because (a) it was a religious subject, and (b) it was in Rome. I found it rather interesting, however. The Vatican held a synod about...

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Bible-based Christian is a misnomer.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 25 Feb 19

For the purpose of clarification, let it be known that the Bible was not written by our Lord Jesus Christ. First, the only time our Lord wrote in His 33 years in history was when he wrote on the sand to defend a woman about to be...

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From Prisoner to Pope

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 2 Apr 18

Picture courtesy of google. It was a novel set into motion picture of the same title. The movie was released half a century ago, in 1968, a tumultuous time when Russia, China, etcetera, were asserting superiority for world...

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Silence, a movie delving on apostasy.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 2 Apr 18

Poster from google This is a Martin Scorsese movie, released two years ago, but was not shown in the local cinemas. Because of the title, I did ask my daughter to play it, we were trying our very best to keep our quiet on Black...

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Can an Atheist say "God Bless"?

josefina @josie_ (10033) • Philippines 22 Jun 17

One of my cousin who is a devout Catholic always ends her text messages with the phrase "God Bless". I use to be a Catholic but through the years have come to lost faith in the church as well as it's teachings. I am now at the...

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crazy conversations

Elizabeth @Poppylicious (11134) • United Kingdom 19 Feb 16

I had lunch out today, with my beautiful Italian friend and our friend, The Phone Addict {so called because she's *always* connected to her phone in some way.} We stuffed our faces full of a selection of global treats at...

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Every Sin We Commit Is A Cry For Love...

almightybong @almightybong (186) • Philippines 11 Mar 12

2011 and the 2012 so far has been life-turning years for me and I have been so blessed to have fallen and risen again. These years brought about the biggest change in my life as I have been given a chance to press that very...

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Could this be just co-incidence or a realization of Biblical prophesy?

JER616 @JER616 (545) • Philippines 21 Feb 12

"They say to the wood, 'You are my father.', and to the stone, 'You gave me birth.'. They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, 'Come and save us!'."--- Jeremiah 2:27 I...

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May 1 will be Pope John Paul's beatification! Are in Favor of him as SAINT?

paries @paries (29) • Philippines 27 Apr 11

Of all the Pope who reigned the Catholicism, Pope John Paul is regarded as the superstar among them.. Now, the Catholic religion decided to beatify him and make him as a saint. whats your side on this?

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Do you think the Pope is avoiding the Philippines?

manilatop10 @manilatop10 (371) • Philippines 19 Sep 10

With the recent 4-day visit to the UK, Pope Benedict XVI has shown that even at 83, he has the stamina and fortitude to travel and speak to the people. 1995 was the last year the Philippines had a Papal visit diba? Why...

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Catholicism, Christianity

Nickfyoung @Nickfyoung (323) • Australia 14 Jun 10

The Philippines is classified as the most Christianised country in the world being 80% Catholic. Some commentators in their writings refer to Christianity and Catholicism as being two different things. Why is that? What is...

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the vatican should take the blame?

jrocas05 @jrocas05 (114) • Philippines 6 Apr 10

the greatest scandal on the history of catholicism has emerged for the last couple of weeks. I admit that I am very disappointed on how did the vatican handled these situation. Instead of trying to bring justice to the...

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what the heck is purgatory?

pattiurlvd @pattiurlvd (137) • United States 5 Sep 09

Purgatory is actually another misunderstood Catholic doctrine. It's not considered a spiritual jail or hell with parole. And Catholics don't teach that everyone goes to purgatory. The Church actually believes that many people are...

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catholics are more misunderstood than anything else

pattiurlvd @pattiurlvd (137) • United States 5 Sep 09

The most interesting thing I've noticed in my lifetime of being a "Cradle Catholic" (that's a person born and raised a Catholic) is the fact that so many people don't seem to think that Catholicism is Christian. When in fact it's...

The things we do for God ....

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 5 Mar 09

There have been any number of discussions in this arena bashing Islam for the things religious fanatics do in that religion, but how about this piece of obscenity from the catholic church. [b][i]A nine-year-old girl who was...

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obscene religious scruples

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