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“It is not only a pious opinion that the Risen Savior first appeared to His Mother Mary on Easter Sunday. No less than six Doctors of the Church, including Sts. Ambrose, Anselm and Albert the Great held that Our Lady was the first witness of the Resurrection.” Fr. Hardon.

You might understand why this exchange has been difficult. By *we* you meant "they" and when I described the leaders as habitually supine you counter by pointing out that the members don't obey anyway. This is true. Supine leadership and no unity of government.

A rational man would employ a reasonable argument against the things he finds emotionally unsettling. Not you eh?

Well I guess the answer was "yes, I am!" In his bio @FatherChrisVor1 claims to have "Old Catholic Orders." @BevONei95513056 @FeserEdward #CatholicTwitter

A nice Catholic lady, Bev, offered you Catholic doctrine (not a dogma, agreed) and you directly denied it, in a tone of authority. Have you considered that she might actually believe you? Do you have no sense of responsibility? Are you an Old Catholic heretic? Is that it?

Praising the Virgin is a work of mercy. But you're changing the subject. You could just admit that you said things that aren't true. This would also be a work of mercy, towards those who otherwise might mistake you for somebody who has learned what the Church teaches.

4. Wrong: "we stand on Scripture and the Church’s enduring tradition." Sola scriptura and rejecting the work of countless theologians including 6 Doctors isn't standing with tradition, but rather against it.

3. Misleading: "While some saints imagined" No, theologians did theology. Using the imagination to describe the scene is mere additional decoration, not at all the arguments used.

1, Wrong: "The Church...has always taught that Mary Magdalene was the first to see the Risen Christ." Doctors of the Church rejected Church teaching? 2. Irrelevant: "is rightly called Apostle to the Apostles." Yes, but this doesn't rest on her being absolutely the first.

Yes, He did. Claiming to know that He didn't based upon the silence of Holy Writ is illogical and contrary to tradition, equivalent to sola scriptura.

This is one of the least understood aspects of true Christian culture, in which political authority was structured radically differently from anything before or since, and it was wonderful.

"Where the crusaders emphasized their own sinfulness and need for penance, the Puritans emphasized the godliness of their soldiers. Where the crusaders saw the kingdom of God as a place of reward after death... the Puritans sought to realize God’s reign on earth."

Our position is that if one signs up to heresy then one is a heretic, just as the incense to the divine Augustus was apostasy, no matter the insincerity.