Philosophy & Theology 🇺🇸🇻🇦
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Takes about philosophy & theology.
The papacy is biblical. Jesus established it. And the Bible names three popes. 🧵👇
‘Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.’ - St Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, on his way to be fed to the lions in the coliseum, c. AD 107.
Taybeh is a quiet Palestinian Christian village south of Jerusalem w/ a lot of American citizens that has been vandalized-including fires set at ancient church. I visited there today. Desecrating a church,mosque or synagogue is a crime against humanity & God.
The success of the Christian West is the success of the Catholic Church.
Some protestants (not Luther or Calvin) say nothing in Scripture *implies* that Jesus' brothers were from Joseph's prior marriage. Not true. Jesus tells John to care for Mary after Jesus' death. Jn. 19:26-27. Why, if Mary had other children around Jerusalem?
Nothing in scripture says or implies that Joseph was married before or had previous children. That comes from a gnostic writing written over a hundred year after Jesus. Mary and Joseph were married. If Jesus had brothers & sister, then the obvious reading is that they are…
The Orthodox broke with the Catholic Church partly over the filioque—the view that the Spirit proceeds from the Father *and* the Son. The problem: Orthodox saints like Gregory of Nyssa taught exactly that. Awkward, unless you remember: they were Catholic!
Some people expressed doubt that the Ecumenical Patriarchate will take the East back to Rome. Orthobros like Jay Dyer are concerned he’ll do just that: ‘It has a pretty strong desire … to go back to Rome.’ Amusingly, he subconsciously concedes it would be going *back* to Rome!
The Eastern Orthodox Church will come back home to Rome at the Second Council of Florence. These two patriarchs agree far more than they disagree. Bartholomew and Pope Leo will bring the East and the West together again.
The great English cathedrals will be returned to the Catholic Church within this century, 500 years after they were expropriated.
ENGLAND The INCREDIBLE moment when Catholics sang SALVE REGINA after Mass in Canterbury Cathedral this evening