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YEMnyiDKUJI#! Yeah, kinda sinks that pro-choice argument that "everyone agrees abortion is a bad thing but it has to be legal to protect women from dying on the streets". There are indeed some sick twisted ****s that celebrate the death of the unborn. The Center for Reproductive Rights wants...

Oh, my recommendation: The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development by Joseph A. Jungmann, S.J. I think it's on a 6th edition or so as of 2012. It's a thesis which envelops the theological (and some musical) developments of the Roman-rite liturgy up to right before Vatican II...

How does that have "nothing to do with religion"?

Plotinus and I have been discussing on this very page about the Catholic criticisms of the Nazi Party.

Hm; well, yes, I probably shouldn't have used the word "primary" given that (a) they weren't the largest opposition party and (b) they were entangled in an eventually-failed conspiracy to utilize the Nazi Party. I'll grant you this. The Catholics, though, were a persistent and vital part of the...

There has never been a fascist regime in Spain or Hungary; the Catholics were the primary opponents to the Nazi Party in Germany; and Mussolini was never elected in Italy, he came to power from a coup d'etat lead by the secular Fascist Party. Congratulations though on continuing the victim...

Probably helps that the film was based on the aforementioned book. I thought Herbert's biography Lincoln was both better written and more factually rigorous.

Does he still think Johnson assassinated Kennedy?

I was not aware that theology and ethics were mutually exclusive domains. Furthermore, seeing as how its main audience was Catholics at Mass, its primary intention was to tell Catholics that their faith could in no way be reconciled with Nazi ideology. A thorough assault on every crime the...

Pfft, I was the original plagiarist. I sniped that joke in the second reply to the thread.

Can we assume all white people are Nazis unless they explicitly, publicly, and with full force, denounce 'Aryanism'? Probably not. Some terrorists may have considered themselves Catholic, but that doesn't mean the default is that they were Church-supported unless thoroughly proven otherwise...

The Catholic Church historically has only opposed labor movements that have inherently materialist/morally relativistic manifestos, like Marxists. So the Nazi suppression of labor unions was indeed held to be a bad thing, which can be seen as in contra to Rerum Novarum. But the Nazi Party's...

If you'll forgive me for the tangent, but it seems Catholics are frequently held to an extreme double standard on this kind of matter. If Catholics aren't actively denouncing bad people in a bad society to the point of being firebombed or shot in public, they're "tacitly approving" of them...

Harding smiles upon your mercy. You could inflate anybody's faults to make it sound like they were abysmal with this kind of rhetoric. "Martin Luther King, Jr. was unable to avoid being assassinated, which unarguably makes him a failure as a civil rights leader since he stubbornly refused to...

Yes. That the modern United States is moving towards communism when that was our primary and irrevocable enemy in the 1950s would be shocking. /sarcasm In most places in the world, and for a fairly modest cost, I can use a handheld device to instantly access a network which includes the...

The Catholic Church says, from both natural law and divine revelation, that it is immoral to harm another human being (principle of double effect excepted). But it does not stake a claim as to when, biologically speaking, a human being is actually formed by reproduction. In the medieval times it...

Yes, but at least Hinduism actually is polytheistic. Merging shamanism and voodoo with Christianity makes about as much sense as unveiling off-shore oil with the Music tech. But you know, we're basically already at the bottom of the slippery slope anyway, so there's not much to argue against...

I'm a little skeptical that such borders is correlated with violence instability in central Africa. You could probably draw the same kind of borders over Canada or China.

I do think most people against slavery were abolitionists, and probably for moral reasons; only a handful of entrepreneurs would have been against slavery since it cut into their profit. I don't think it's very hard to think that anybody that voted Republican were opposed to slavery, considering...

that really wasn't a clever response at all, nor does it address the reason why necroing is against the rules. Frequently these decade-old threads are filled with tons of popular misinformation that are annoying to read, and can mislead newcomers to this board. Plus the original posters are...