Casting Them Aside – “After almost a decade in power, there’s an increasingly long list of figures who were once part of the pontiff’s inner circle, but who, for one reason or another, have lost that standing.” Vicar of Rome latest papal confidante to fall out of favor (Crux)
Mainline Decline – “American denominationalism is fading. Non-denominationals are now the largest non-Catholic religious group in America.” Post-Denominational America (Juicy Ecumenism)
Tradition Against Modernity – “It’s no secret that Benedict, who embodied Catholic tradition and orthodoxy in a way which the modern world saw as anachronistic, was no media darling in life.” Why they hated Benedict (The Critic)
Honest Dialogue – “While Benedict XVI may not himself have made great contributions to the natural sciences, he made what is much more important: a contribution to understanding a world in which the truth is one, is God’s, and, from atoms to archangels, is capable of being seen as connected.” Benedict XVI on Science, Philosophy, & Faith (The Imaginative Conservative)
Pro-Life Investing – “Albeit it’s known that major companies have specific political inclinations, they do not openly discusses their stance on issues like abortion. How does one find pro-life companies to invest in, then?” 10 pro-life companies to invest it (Yahoo Finance)
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ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 5, 2023 / 13:27 pm (CNA).
In a new attack against the Catholic Church, the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega in Nicarag… […]
The sisters Madeleine and Marie-Liesse together with Louis Antona at the entrance of Greece. The three young people covered the distance from Paris to Jerusalem on foot, arriving in mid-May 2024. “I needed to walk 4,500 kilometers to understand that Jesus is not just in Jerusalem, but was by my side every step of the way,” Antona told CNA. / Credit: Photo courtesy of French pilgrims Madeleine and Marie-Liesse
Jerusalem, Jun 18, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
On Sept. 17, 2023, two sisters left Paris and walked for approximately eight months to Jerusalem. Madeleine and Marie-Liesse, 19 and 22, who grew up in a Catholic family, decided to become pilgrims to grow in their faith.
“We needed to make the faith our own,” they told CNA. “This pilgrimage was to discover God, to truly search for him and deepen our faith. We learned that we can trust God; he takes care of us in everything. The Gospel is not a joke.”
Two months later, in mid-November 2023, Louis Antona, 24, also left Paris on foot, bound for Jerusalem. The three young people met providentially in Albania, walked together through Turkey, then parted ways and reunited in Jerusalem. They shared the story of their pilgrimage with CNA.
“I needed to walk 4,500 kilometers to understand that Jesus is not just in Jerusalem but was by my side every step of the way,” Antona told CNA. He walked a total of 189 days and arrived in Jerusalem on May 18.
Madeleine and Marie-Liesse — who asked that their last name not be used to protect their privacy — left from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre in the center of Paris with the blessing of their parents and a priest.
“It was a calling from God,” Madeleine said of the decision she and her sister made to leave. “There’s no need for reasons when God calls; you simply need to follow what he tells you.”
Madeleine and Marie-Liesse during a moment of their journey, between Slovenia and Croatia. “The faith of the people struck us: during Advent, tradition dictates that Mass be attended every morning at 6, and every time we went, the church was packed with people,” they told CNA. The two sisters left Paris on September 17, 2023, and walked for about eight months to Jerusalem. Credit: Courtesy of French pilgrims Madeleine and Marie-Liesse
The sisters created a simple blog to keep friends and family updated on their pilgrimage. The photos and brief stories reveal all the freshness of two young people on a journey while not hiding moments of doubt and difficulty.
“We chose to embark on this journey as beggars,” Marie-Liesse told CNA. “We left with just a few clothes and nothing else — no food, no money. We wanted to surrender ourselves into the hands of providence. Every evening, we knocked on people’s doors asking for shelter, a bed, and food. The Lord always provided.”
Their days were marked by walking and prayer.
“We didn’t have a strict rule because we had to adapt every day to the people who hosted us, the place, and the situation,” Marie-Liesse explained. “But we had a framework: We knew we had to pray in the morning, at midday, at night… It was important for us to be faithful to God. Every day, we also recited a rosary, praying for the intentions entrusted to us.”
The most challenging moment was making the decision to continue the journey after hearing that war had broken out in the Holy Land. “We were in Germany and full of doubts about whether to go on.”
Their journey led them to cross Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. In Croatia, “the faith of the people struck us: during Advent, tradition dictates that Mass be attended every morning at 6, and every time we went, the church was packed with people,” the sisters wrote on their blog.
They stopped for a month in Medjugorje (Bosnia and Herzegovina), where their family joined them for Christmas.
“It was a difficult time. Again, we didn’t know what to do. But after a period of discernment, we realized that Christ was calling us back on the road again,” Madeleine said.
Madeleine and Marie-Liesse crossed Montenegro and arrived in Albania, where they encountered Antona.
“I had just finished my studies and wanted to offer something to God,” Antona told CNA. “I wasn’t sure what, but I thought that the best thing I had at that time was time itself. So, I decided to offer God a year of my life by embarking on a journey. It was a challenge; I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy walking and being alone.”
Louis Antona, 24, during a moment of his journey. “I had just finished my studies and wanted to offer something to God,” he told CNA. “I thought that the best thing I had at that time was time itself. So, I decided to offer God a year of my life by embarking on a journey.” Credit: Photo courtesy of Louis Antona
Antona decided to leave, despite the war. “I believe the hardest part of a pilgrimage like this is deciding to start. I knew that if I gave up because of the war, I would never do it again. Anyway, I thought that by the time I arrived, the war would already be over.”
Madeleine and Marie-Liesse are filled with wonder at the manifestation of providence in every detail of their pilgrimage, in the beautiful weather and in the rain, in every small encounter — those who hosted them after seeing them at the bus stop, those who taught them how to make bread, the gentleman who opened his door just before a downpour. “If we had arrived a minute later, we wouldn’t have met him,” they said.
The encounter with Antona wasn’t coincidental either. The two sisters had prayed to God to give them a travel companion.
“We planned to not go through Turkey because we were two women alone, but we would have liked to go that way. So we asked God to meet one pilgrim, and we met him,” the sisters explained.
The three crossed Macedonia and Greece, arriving in Turkey on Palm Sunday. In this predominantly Muslim country, they celebrated Easter, warmly welcomed by the small French-speaking community there.
The sisters Madeleine and Marie-Liesse together with Louis Antona received a blessing from a priest during a Mass in Turkey. They arrived in Turkey on Palm Sunday 2024. In this predominantly Muslim country, they celebrated Easter, warmly welcomed by the small French-speaking community there. Credit: Photo courtesy of Louis Antona
“Every day of this pilgrimage was a miracle,” Antona said. “Every day we have met people who smiled or were nice to us. I have to say that in Turkey we found the most welcoming people.”
“It is not uncommon for the Turks to spontaneously lend us a hand,” Madeleine and Marie-Liesse wrote on their blog. “In Turkey, we encountered an infinite respect for passing strangers and for Christianity, even though Christians here are forced to protect themselves from regular attacks.”
The arrival of Madeleine and Marie-Liesse in Albania. In the photo, Marie-Liesse is in front of a statue of Mother Teresa, who was originally from this country. “Every evening, we knocked on people’s doors asking for shelter, a bed, and food. The Lord always provided,” they told CNA. Credit: Photo courtesy of French pilgrims Madeleine and Marie-Liesse
Upon leaving Turkey, the paths of the three pilgrims split again. The sisters’ route went through Cyprus but they could not find a way from there to Jerusalem by sea due to suspension of transportation because of the war. Providentially, they met someone in Cyprus who offered to pay for airfare, and the sisters arrived in Tel Aviv on May 6. Three days later, on the feast of the Ascension, they were in Jerusalem.
“Many times, we thought we couldn’t reach Jerusalem,” Madeleine said. “We learned that the journey is even more important than reaching the goal. Being here is a great gift, just to be here.”
“We unpacked our bags once and for all, knelt before this Holy Land, and prayed. What peace, what a moment of grace! As we admired the sunrise and the golden light that brought color to the roofs of the old city, we could reread the wonders of God and meditate on the Gospels. His infinite love overwhelmed us,” the two sisters wrote on their blog.
The sisters Madeleine and Marie-Liesse received a blessing from a Franciscan friar at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher after their arrival in Jerusalem. “The greatest gift is to be here and understand what happened here, to see with our own eyes, to witness the actual places,” Madeleine said. “We were able to pause in every place, to pray and meditate in silence.” Credit: Photo courtesy of French pilgrims Madeleine and Marie-Liesse
Madeleine has no doubts: “Prayer is what carried us. When you’re weak, that’s when you’re strongest because that’s when God can act in you; you don’t take up all the space. Trusting in God can be challenging, but when you understand that God only wants you to be happy and will give you everything you need, then you realize you have everything to be happy in this moment; you can trust him.”
Ten days later, on the eve of Pentecost, Antona also arrived in Jerusalem. “Even if I had to stop somewhere else, at least I would have aimed to reach Jerusalem. This is a very important city for Christians, but the journey you take to reach it is also very important.”
French pilgrim Louis Antona arrived in Jerusalem on May 18, at the vigil of Pentecost. “Every day of this pilgrimage was a miracle,” he said. Credit: Photo courtesy of Louis Antona
The three pilgrims are still in the Holy Land. They have had the opportunity to participate in various celebrations and to visit the holy places in addition to many other sites in the area.
“The greatest gift is to be here and understand what happened here, to see with our own eyes, to witness the actual places,” Madeleine said. “We were able to pause in every place, to pray and meditate in silence.”
A journey like this isn’t for everyone, but all three of the pilgrims agree that “if God calls you, go in peace. If God helps you, everything becomes possible.”
The French pilgrims rest under the portico of the Church of the Beatitudes on a hill overlooking the Sea of Galilee. In the photo is Louis Antona. A journey like this isn’t for everyone, but, the three young people said, “if God calls you, go in peace. If God helps you, everything becomes possible.” Credit: Photo courtesy of French pilgrims Madeleine and Marie-Liesse
Pope Francis’ General Audience in St. Peter’s Square on March 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Following news of Pope Francis’ hospitalization on Wednesday, U.S. bishops asked for prayer for the pontiff’s quick recovery.
“On behalf of my brother bishops, I invite all the faithful to pause, if possible before the Blessed Sacrament, and pray for his speedy recovery. May our dear shepherd and all those in need of healing experience the comfort of Christ,” said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The pope was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital Wednesday due to a respiratory infection, the Vatican reported. He is expected to remain there for a few days.
“We have received word that Pope Francis is receiving treatment for a respiratory infection at Gemelli Hospital in Rome,” said Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago Wednesday afternoon. “I am asking the people of the archdiocese to join me in praying for the swift and complete recovery of the Holy Father.”
“Over the past month, people around the world prayed millions of Hail Marys to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Holy Father’s election to the chair of Peter. We responded then to Pope Francis’ often-repeated request to pray for him. Let us continue our prayers, this time for the return of this extraordinary shepherd to good health and to his work of spreading the joy of God’s love and mercy,” Cupich added.
Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles said Wednesday night: “Let’s pray for our Holy Father Pope Francis as he undergoes his medical treatments at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. We entrust him to the tender care of Our Lady of Guadalupe and we ask that she keep him close in her love.”
Let’s pray for our Holy Father Pope Francis as he undergoes his medical treatments at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. We entrust him to the tender care of Our Lady of Guadalupe and we ask that she keep him close in her love. pic.twitter.com/GXsUTFD8fR
“Pope Francis often speaks about the power of prayer, and time and time again he has entrusted himself to our prayers. Let us once again pray for him during this time of need. We pray for a quick and full recovery and walk with him to overcome this health issue. Please join me in saying Pope Francis’ own prayer to Our Lady, Health of the Sick,” Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore said.
“Pope Francis, the love of God surrounds you and dwells within you,” said Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller. “You are bearing the cross of Jesus, your life and your love. We pray for you. We love you. Adelante y Arriba!”
Pope Francis , the love of God surrounds you and dwells within you. You are bearing the cross of Jesus, your life and your love. We pray for you. We love you. Adelante y Arriba!
On Thursday morning Pope Francis tweeted his gratitude for the many prayers, saying: “I am touched by the many messages received in these hours and I express my gratitude for the closeness and prayer.”
As of Thursday morning, the pope’s agenda lists no appointments for the day on March 30. He is still scheduled to preside over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on April 2 for Palm Sunday and to give the usual Sunday Angelus address.
@ Why they hated Benedict The Critic.
The Peter Hullermann case remains a flaw since the child rapist continued as pastor long after his second arrest by police when serving in Munich. Hullermann later was reinstated and continued until exposed by Der Spiegel. When the issue of Benedict’s legacy was recently assessed on WorldOver Robert Royal answered “at the time, Benedict’s record was acceptable” words to that effect. None of our best pontiffs were perfect.
Author Paul Sapper goes directly to philosophy after defending Benedict’s record against accusations. Although he doesn’t clearly define the nexus with Benedict regarding, for example, David Hume. Sapper quotes Hume’s premise that Man knows primarily through the senses secondarily and less certain via the intellect. Hume was correct regarding the senses not regarding the intellect. Man in accord with Aristotle and Aquinas identify sense perception as the first principle of all knowledge. Although apprehension of the moral good or evil of an act, requiring sensible perception is simultaneously an apprehension of the intellect’s inherent capacity to distinguish between good and evil, inherent as prescient knowledge realized in the act of apprehension [reasoned deliberation generally preceding] of the morality of the given act.
I haven’t come across Benedict acknowledging this process, Benedict generally in favor of the thought of Augustine. Josef Pieper is among the few who have acknowledged Aquinas’ doctrine of intuitive moral apprehension. Otherwise Benedict was in tandem with the moral intellectual thought of Aquinas.
Benedict was a great intellectual with superb acumen, that inherent gift came through regardless of a specifying philosophy in his work, for this writer seen in his identity of truth, ultimately in all its variations to the self revelation of God in the Person of Christ.
#4 Active Participation:
We read of the “Frascati report…the product of two weeks’ worth of work in late September by its authors at a retreat center in Frascati, Italy, not far from Rome. It was there that a few dozen select interpreters—mostly theologians—were asked to ‘authentically’ synthesize …” etc., etc., etc.!
The interpreters, mostly theologians (authentic!)—cast elsewhere as “experts” (all genuflect!) except for one window-dressing bishop—Are they now to replace the “hierarchical communion” (Lumen gentium), synodally marginalized “primarily as facilitators”?
The Apostolic Succession—the new “periphery”! Parsing Orwell: all peripheries are equal, but some peripheries are more equal than others. Behold, soon their “continental” “syntheses” (!) will be spin-cycled into a homogenized kitchen-blender plebiscite, thrown up (so to speak) at the fluid Synod on Synodality.
Ressourcement and aggiornamento—pioneered by the Council and worked now by three popes, but now running off course. Ice berg ahead! Captain to the bridge! If there is a bridge…
@Police State Tentacles
Michael Lesher Brownstone Institute rediscovered meaningful Judaism in Orthodox Judaism rather than Conservative, which is more humanistic than religious. Apparently intuiting [from my perspective] the entirely radical transformation of American Liberty, the once political light of the world, into the police state polity. Why, he asks, do we not defend liberty?
Response to this question may best be answered by borrowing a title from another article Driven by Catholics, the work of many fighting for the lives of the innocent. Whereas Liberty in once freedom loving America has been driven to the extreme dictatorship and all the horrors of the police state primarily by whom? By Catholics. Politics Biden, Pelosi, Durbin, [Ed] Kennedy, Judiciary A Kennedy, Church McElroy, Tobin [the elder] et al. All have left the traditional God of the Gospels and convinced themselves of a better God, a god who cherishes liberty. In effect the concept of Liberty is deified. Catholics, traditionally convinced in the unsurpassable good of the divinity possessed an unusual fervor, though tempered by justice.
The new found faith in the god goddess [we must watch our pronouns] of Liberty anomalously possesses no justification in the limitation of the practice of Liberty, nor limitation in the defense of goddess Liberty. Restrictions on a free press, the right to worship Christ with its limitations to behavior as well as its [coercive] requirements becomes the enemy of limitless Liberty. Voila the police state, the restrictive, punitive laws, the expected [looming before us] incarcerations.
A great anomaly. Vatican polity seems to favor the new found version of liberty oriented Catholicism. What must we do? Steel the will and prepare for sanctification.
Pope Benedict XVI was right. Atheist scientists are hiding the truth about the subatomic particle ‘double slit’ experiment. One hundred years ago, in the double slit experiment, scientists discovered that the universe does not exist when man is not looking at it. According to factual science, our realities are only a Creation from our All Powerful God, which only come into physical existence, when we go to look, touch, smell, hear, taste, them. When we are not experiencing our universe, as when we are sleeping, our universe does not exist. Though your unconscious body may still exist in other people’s, individual, shared, reality from God. God’s Creation is so scientifically counterintuitive that atheist scientists easily hide from Christianity, the scientifically proven fact that the universe does not exist when man is not looking at it.
Neils bohr VS Albert Einstein. Neils Bohr says that there is no universe when a conscious man is not looking at it. Albert Einstein says, “I’d like to think the moon was there even when I wasn’t looking at it.” After over a century of fierce debate and mountains of scientific research to settle this debate, Neils Bohr’s ‘ ‘Peek A Boo’ universe, a universe which does not exist when man is not looking at it, is dominating the debate, over Albert Einstein’s “I’d like to think the moon was there even when I wasn’t looking at it.”, ‘Realism”. By the end of the PBS video, the narrator indicates that there is only a slim chance that Albert Einstein’s ‘Realism’ can be salvaged. Proven science says there is no universe when Adamkind is not looking at it and experiencing it.
Proven science has now shown us that our reality is more like a tv picture, with God holding the remote control. God can show two different people, two different realities, using the same subatomic particles of the universe.
Science has now observed multiple realities, from two different observers observing the same subatomic particles. In the lab, scientists have mimicked ‘The miracle of the Sun’, where 60000 people witnessed one reality, while the rest of the world witnessed an alternative reality. Wow!
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it. https://www.technologyreview.com/…/a-quantum…/
Neils Bohr, “It is meaningless to assign Reality to the universe in the absence of observation; in the intervals between measurement, quantum systems truly exist as a fuzzy mixture of all possible properties.”
Subatomic particles make up everything physical in the universe. Science has proven, through the double slit experiment, that all subatomic particles exist only as a wave of all possibilities. It is only when Adamkind, look, touch, hear, smell, that subatomic particles switch to become specific physical particles, and put themselves together to make up all that we physically sense in the universe.
Like our Omnipresent to all physical time God, so do subatomic particles carry all possible physical time, presents, pasts and futures in their makeup, which scientists see as the ‘Multiverse’. It is only a specific, present, past and future, which becomes a specific Reality to an individual, when that individual observes them. The combined Realities of all people on earth then becomes our combined timeline history. There is only one timeline with a multiverse of possibilities at any given moment.
When you look at a star 13.8 billion light years away, it is only at the moment you look at the star, that a specific past, present and future comes into existence for that star. Yes! Proven science tells us that a star, even 13 billion light years away, knows when Adamkind is looking at it, and it is Adamkind looking at it which causes ‘wave collapse’, which is subatomic particles putting themselves together to build a star, for Adamkind to look at. Wow! When the star is no longer observed, it no longer exists as a collection of physical subatomic particles, and we are simply back to a soup of all possibilities.
The universe is just a soup of all possibilities, until Adamkind, conscious observers, open their eyes and senses to see, touch, hear and smell the universe. Once Adamkind goes to experience our universe, this is when subatomic particles switch into physical particles, joined together to make up our physical universe reality. Different people can have different realities, which do not collapse into a common reality, until the two different people tell one another what they are experiencing. Once an observer opens their eyes, this is when subatomic particles go back in physical time to make up a specific, past, present and future, reality. How on earth can atheist scientists not see that it takes God to do all this! It is their atheist pride, of course.
Science has proven that, If there was a universe six days before Adam opened his eyes to look at it, it would have to be a six day miracle from God. This is because it takes conscious man to cause ‘wave collapse’, which ‘wave collapse’ is subatomic particles switching to become physical particles, to build complex structures, for Adamkind to look at and experience. The universe and Adamkind are linked together and you cannot have one without the other, unless it is a miracle from God.
An Electron cannot ‘evolve’ to know how to go back in physical time, to produce an individual Reality, for an individual observer, which collapses into a common Reality with another individual’s Reality, when they share their realities with one another. ‘Scientism’,’ Realism’, atheist scientists are deceiving the world away from our All Powerful God.
A few verses on reality! We ponder, yet God provides us with comprehension if we are willing to humble ourselves and listen to what He is saying.
1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Romans 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Psalm 27:1-4 Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
It is the pride of atheist scientists which leads them into error.
Albert Einstein (Determinism) says,
“God does not throw dice!”
Neils Bohr (Chance) replies,
“Nor is it our business to prescribe to God how He should run the world.”
Albert Einstein hated the fact that, if Quantum Mechanics sees everything in the quantum world, (subatomic particles), as ‘chance’, ‘weird’, ‘in determinant’, yet we get high precision at our macro level of the world we experience, this is because God is controlling everything, at the Quantum level, every millisecond of the day. It is not by ‘chance’ that the world is the way that it is; It is God very actively making the world the way that it is, every millisecond of the day.
Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein were actually good friends and colleagues. Neils Bohr just accepted proven science at the subatomic level and then used this knowledge to go to bank on inventions and discoveries, like computers, x ray machines and the like. While Albert Einstein fought God at the subatomic level. Niels Bohr felt bad for his good friend Albert Einstein, who wasted his later decades of life, focused on trying to debunk the scientifically proven fact that the universe does not exist when man is not looking at it, which meant that there is a God controlling everything in the universe. Now, 100 years later, we see that Albert Einstein has failed.
Battle over Quantum Mechanics Albert Einstein VS Neils Bohr
In my twenties, enjoyed reading the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer. In one of his novels he maintained that Einstein had plagiariized the idea of the theory of relativity. Whether or not this is the case, he did work in the Swiss Patent Office. Perhaps none of his colleagues understood the concept that had been submitted. Yet, he not only understood it but was able to formulate the logical sequence of events and present it. Of course this is only speculation on my part, never the less, why would Singer otherwise offer the argument?
We should acknowledge God as the author, as all great ideas come from the Lord, yet man likes to take the credit.
I think Albert Einstein, as a science patent clerk, started to see all the repetitive physical time variations, in the massive amount of scientific data, from multiple patent claimants research, and then figured out what was causing the repetitive physical time variations. He then published his ‘Theory of Relativity’. I see no foul play in doing so. Einstein was simply in the right place to feed off all the modern scientific data research of others, and apply it to his ‘Theory of Relativity’, which was unrelated to what the patent claimants were filing for.
But Yes! Albert Einstein being angry with God, “God does not throw dice!”, for leaving nothing but ‘chance’, indetermination and chaos, below the level where God Himself Creates the infinite wonder of our massive universe in all its precision, through ‘wave collapse’, is a catastrophic blow to Atheist scientists. Atheist scientists have nowhere to go. Christian Scientists who believe in God as our Creator, on the other hand, “Oh! There is the Hand of God our Creator!”
Would like to hear more of what the physicists Einstein and Bohr had to say about metaphysics, if anything…
As in, if a guy in a white robe averts his eyes from the ultrasound, does the child not “exist” and the pending abortion not actually happen? You know the line: “it’s [only] my body!” Or as in, if I do not see you, do you even exist? As in, I am “the All Powerful God”!
Metaphysics is about stuff being organized within the next level up, not only the next level down (e.g., only waves and particles and multiple universes). Can we think in both of these dimensions? Is it possible to walk and chew gum at the same time? This multi-layered question even applies to churchy stuff like a prevalent version of synodally “synthesizing” (!) our “walking together.” Synthesis, what’s that, Real-ly?
Modern sophistry no longer depends on clever argument. Impressionistic language bleaches the mind from coherent challenges since there was never any coherent content in the original propositions.
@ Why they hated Benedict The Critic.
The Peter Hullermann case remains a flaw since the child rapist continued as pastor long after his second arrest by police when serving in Munich. Hullermann later was reinstated and continued until exposed by Der Spiegel. When the issue of Benedict’s legacy was recently assessed on WorldOver Robert Royal answered “at the time, Benedict’s record was acceptable” words to that effect. None of our best pontiffs were perfect.
Author Paul Sapper goes directly to philosophy after defending Benedict’s record against accusations. Although he doesn’t clearly define the nexus with Benedict regarding, for example, David Hume. Sapper quotes Hume’s premise that Man knows primarily through the senses secondarily and less certain via the intellect. Hume was correct regarding the senses not regarding the intellect. Man in accord with Aristotle and Aquinas identify sense perception as the first principle of all knowledge. Although apprehension of the moral good or evil of an act, requiring sensible perception is simultaneously an apprehension of the intellect’s inherent capacity to distinguish between good and evil, inherent as prescient knowledge realized in the act of apprehension [reasoned deliberation generally preceding] of the morality of the given act.
I haven’t come across Benedict acknowledging this process, Benedict generally in favor of the thought of Augustine. Josef Pieper is among the few who have acknowledged Aquinas’ doctrine of intuitive moral apprehension. Otherwise Benedict was in tandem with the moral intellectual thought of Aquinas.
Benedict was a great intellectual with superb acumen, that inherent gift came through regardless of a specifying philosophy in his work, for this writer seen in his identity of truth, ultimately in all its variations to the self revelation of God in the Person of Christ.
#4 Active Participation:
We read of the “Frascati report…the product of two weeks’ worth of work in late September by its authors at a retreat center in Frascati, Italy, not far from Rome. It was there that a few dozen select interpreters—mostly theologians—were asked to ‘authentically’ synthesize …” etc., etc., etc.!
The interpreters, mostly theologians (authentic!)—cast elsewhere as “experts” (all genuflect!) except for one window-dressing bishop—Are they now to replace the “hierarchical communion” (Lumen gentium), synodally marginalized “primarily as facilitators”?
The Apostolic Succession—the new “periphery”! Parsing Orwell: all peripheries are equal, but some peripheries are more equal than others. Behold, soon their “continental” “syntheses” (!) will be spin-cycled into a homogenized kitchen-blender plebiscite, thrown up (so to speak) at the fluid Synod on Synodality.
Ressourcement and aggiornamento—pioneered by the Council and worked now by three popes, but now running off course. Ice berg ahead! Captain to the bridge! If there is a bridge…
@Police State Tentacles
Michael Lesher Brownstone Institute rediscovered meaningful Judaism in Orthodox Judaism rather than Conservative, which is more humanistic than religious. Apparently intuiting [from my perspective] the entirely radical transformation of American Liberty, the once political light of the world, into the police state polity. Why, he asks, do we not defend liberty?
Response to this question may best be answered by borrowing a title from another article Driven by Catholics, the work of many fighting for the lives of the innocent. Whereas Liberty in once freedom loving America has been driven to the extreme dictatorship and all the horrors of the police state primarily by whom? By Catholics. Politics Biden, Pelosi, Durbin, [Ed] Kennedy, Judiciary A Kennedy, Church McElroy, Tobin [the elder] et al. All have left the traditional God of the Gospels and convinced themselves of a better God, a god who cherishes liberty. In effect the concept of Liberty is deified. Catholics, traditionally convinced in the unsurpassable good of the divinity possessed an unusual fervor, though tempered by justice.
The new found faith in the god goddess [we must watch our pronouns] of Liberty anomalously possesses no justification in the limitation of the practice of Liberty, nor limitation in the defense of goddess Liberty. Restrictions on a free press, the right to worship Christ with its limitations to behavior as well as its [coercive] requirements becomes the enemy of limitless Liberty. Voila the police state, the restrictive, punitive laws, the expected [looming before us] incarcerations.
A great anomaly. Vatican polity seems to favor the new found version of liberty oriented Catholicism. What must we do? Steel the will and prepare for sanctification.
Pope Benedict XVI was right. Atheist scientists are hiding the truth about the subatomic particle ‘double slit’ experiment. One hundred years ago, in the double slit experiment, scientists discovered that the universe does not exist when man is not looking at it. According to factual science, our realities are only a Creation from our All Powerful God, which only come into physical existence, when we go to look, touch, smell, hear, taste, them. When we are not experiencing our universe, as when we are sleeping, our universe does not exist. Though your unconscious body may still exist in other people’s, individual, shared, reality from God. God’s Creation is so scientifically counterintuitive that atheist scientists easily hide from Christianity, the scientifically proven fact that the universe does not exist when man is not looking at it.
Neils bohr VS Albert Einstein. Neils Bohr says that there is no universe when a conscious man is not looking at it. Albert Einstein says, “I’d like to think the moon was there even when I wasn’t looking at it.” After over a century of fierce debate and mountains of scientific research to settle this debate, Neils Bohr’s ‘ ‘Peek A Boo’ universe, a universe which does not exist when man is not looking at it, is dominating the debate, over Albert Einstein’s “I’d like to think the moon was there even when I wasn’t looking at it.”, ‘Realism”. By the end of the PBS video, the narrator indicates that there is only a slim chance that Albert Einstein’s ‘Realism’ can be salvaged. Proven science says there is no universe when Adamkind is not looking at it and experiencing it.
https://youtu.be/tafGL02EUOA
Proven science has now shown us that our reality is more like a tv picture, with God holding the remote control. God can show two different people, two different realities, using the same subatomic particles of the universe.
Science has now observed multiple realities, from two different observers observing the same subatomic particles. In the lab, scientists have mimicked ‘The miracle of the Sun’, where 60000 people witnessed one reality, while the rest of the world witnessed an alternative reality. Wow!
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
https://www.technologyreview.com/…/a-quantum…/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4IbOzuNlmE
Neils Bohr, “It is meaningless to assign Reality to the universe in the absence of observation; in the intervals between measurement, quantum systems truly exist as a fuzzy mixture of all possible properties.”
Subatomic particles make up everything physical in the universe. Science has proven, through the double slit experiment, that all subatomic particles exist only as a wave of all possibilities. It is only when Adamkind, look, touch, hear, smell, that subatomic particles switch to become specific physical particles, and put themselves together to make up all that we physically sense in the universe.
Like our Omnipresent to all physical time God, so do subatomic particles carry all possible physical time, presents, pasts and futures in their makeup, which scientists see as the ‘Multiverse’. It is only a specific, present, past and future, which becomes a specific Reality to an individual, when that individual observes them. The combined Realities of all people on earth then becomes our combined timeline history. There is only one timeline with a multiverse of possibilities at any given moment.
When you look at a star 13.8 billion light years away, it is only at the moment you look at the star, that a specific past, present and future comes into existence for that star. Yes! Proven science tells us that a star, even 13 billion light years away, knows when Adamkind is looking at it, and it is Adamkind looking at it which causes ‘wave collapse’, which is subatomic particles putting themselves together to build a star, for Adamkind to look at. Wow! When the star is no longer observed, it no longer exists as a collection of physical subatomic particles, and we are simply back to a soup of all possibilities.
The universe is just a soup of all possibilities, until Adamkind, conscious observers, open their eyes and senses to see, touch, hear and smell the universe. Once Adamkind goes to experience our universe, this is when subatomic particles switch into physical particles, joined together to make up our physical universe reality. Different people can have different realities, which do not collapse into a common reality, until the two different people tell one another what they are experiencing. Once an observer opens their eyes, this is when subatomic particles go back in physical time to make up a specific, past, present and future, reality. How on earth can atheist scientists not see that it takes God to do all this! It is their atheist pride, of course.
Science has proven that, If there was a universe six days before Adam opened his eyes to look at it, it would have to be a six day miracle from God. This is because it takes conscious man to cause ‘wave collapse’, which ‘wave collapse’ is subatomic particles switching to become physical particles, to build complex structures, for Adamkind to look at and experience. The universe and Adamkind are linked together and you cannot have one without the other, unless it is a miracle from God.
An Electron cannot ‘evolve’ to know how to go back in physical time, to produce an individual Reality, for an individual observer, which collapses into a common Reality with another individual’s Reality, when they share their realities with one another. ‘Scientism’,’ Realism’, atheist scientists are deceiving the world away from our All Powerful God.
A few verses on reality! We ponder, yet God provides us with comprehension if we are willing to humble ourselves and listen to what He is saying.
1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Romans 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Psalm 27:1-4 Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
Blessings
Hello Brian,
Very good Biblical quotes!
It is the pride of atheist scientists which leads them into error.
Albert Einstein (Determinism) says,
“God does not throw dice!”
Neils Bohr (Chance) replies,
“Nor is it our business to prescribe to God how He should run the world.”
Albert Einstein hated the fact that, if Quantum Mechanics sees everything in the quantum world, (subatomic particles), as ‘chance’, ‘weird’, ‘in determinant’, yet we get high precision at our macro level of the world we experience, this is because God is controlling everything, at the Quantum level, every millisecond of the day. It is not by ‘chance’ that the world is the way that it is; It is God very actively making the world the way that it is, every millisecond of the day.
Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein were actually good friends and colleagues. Neils Bohr just accepted proven science at the subatomic level and then used this knowledge to go to bank on inventions and discoveries, like computers, x ray machines and the like. While Albert Einstein fought God at the subatomic level. Niels Bohr felt bad for his good friend Albert Einstein, who wasted his later decades of life, focused on trying to debunk the scientifically proven fact that the universe does not exist when man is not looking at it, which meant that there is a God controlling everything in the universe. Now, 100 years later, we see that Albert Einstein has failed.
Battle over Quantum Mechanics Albert Einstein VS Neils Bohr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgC0PyIomU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7jd7opGOQ
Always a pleasure to read your words at CWR.
In my twenties, enjoyed reading the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer. In one of his novels he maintained that Einstein had plagiariized the idea of the theory of relativity. Whether or not this is the case, he did work in the Swiss Patent Office. Perhaps none of his colleagues understood the concept that had been submitted. Yet, he not only understood it but was able to formulate the logical sequence of events and present it. Of course this is only speculation on my part, never the less, why would Singer otherwise offer the argument?
We should acknowledge God as the author, as all great ideas come from the Lord, yet man likes to take the credit.
Blessings,
Brian
So true!
Thanks Brian.
I think Albert Einstein, as a science patent clerk, started to see all the repetitive physical time variations, in the massive amount of scientific data, from multiple patent claimants research, and then figured out what was causing the repetitive physical time variations. He then published his ‘Theory of Relativity’. I see no foul play in doing so. Einstein was simply in the right place to feed off all the modern scientific data research of others, and apply it to his ‘Theory of Relativity’, which was unrelated to what the patent claimants were filing for.
But Yes! Albert Einstein being angry with God, “God does not throw dice!”, for leaving nothing but ‘chance’, indetermination and chaos, below the level where God Himself Creates the infinite wonder of our massive universe in all its precision, through ‘wave collapse’, is a catastrophic blow to Atheist scientists. Atheist scientists have nowhere to go. Christian Scientists who believe in God as our Creator, on the other hand, “Oh! There is the Hand of God our Creator!”
Would like to hear more of what the physicists Einstein and Bohr had to say about metaphysics, if anything…
As in, if a guy in a white robe averts his eyes from the ultrasound, does the child not “exist” and the pending abortion not actually happen? You know the line: “it’s [only] my body!” Or as in, if I do not see you, do you even exist? As in, I am “the All Powerful God”!
Metaphysics is about stuff being organized within the next level up, not only the next level down (e.g., only waves and particles and multiple universes). Can we think in both of these dimensions? Is it possible to walk and chew gum at the same time? This multi-layered question even applies to churchy stuff like a prevalent version of synodally “synthesizing” (!) our “walking together.” Synthesis, what’s that, Real-ly?
Modern sophistry no longer depends on clever argument. Impressionistic language bleaches the mind from coherent challenges since there was never any coherent content in the original propositions.