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[Anonymous No.17793505]

Books to explain to me why the Catholic Church is more obsessed with guilt and absolution than love and anti-materialism.

[Anonymous No.17793538]

It isn't.

[Anonymous No.17793593]

>>17793505
>Catholic Church
As a non-Christian, that institution is very interesting. It is a thousand+ years old, few institutions can claim that age

[Anonymous No.17793604]

>>17793505
They consider all of those ideas...

[Anonymous No.17793609]

Did somebody get their ass hurt by the declaration on gay marriage today?

[Anonymous No.17793612]

Do you want to learn about the Catholic Church and answer your own questions or just to bash the strawman?
If the former, the Summa can probably help. If the latter, pick up some book in the last 20 years by a Pentecostal or Jehova's Witness or something.
>t. Protestant that's growing more disillusioned with Protestants

[Anonymous No.17793629]

>>17793505
Guilt needs to break you before love can give you peace

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.17793639]

Probably because they diddle children

Can we go read good books now?

[Anonymous No.17793648]

>The Confiteor is not meant to paralyze us with sadness or even shame; we do not confess our sins to remain guilty. It is a plea for reconciliation and forgiveness; it is as a child full of repentance who goes to embrace his Father. “I confess to God, for Whom I was made, and to Whom I desire to return.”

[Anonymous No.17793651]

people who don't want to surrender their sins try to focus on love, to no avail

repent first, then forgiveness comes

[Anonymous No.17793654]

Gnosticism.

[Anonymous No.17793660]

>>17793639
post nose

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.17793697]

>>17793660
Why?

[Anonymous No.17793766]

The Didache confirms confession and all of those ideas are equal in worth.
>“Confess your sins in church, and do not go up to your prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life. . . . On the Lord’s Day gather together, break bread, and give thanks, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure” (Didache 4:14, 14:1 [A.D. 70]).

[Anonymous No.17793806]

>>17793660
Tbh anyone defending the Catholic Church today is likely to have the schlomo nose.

[Anonymous No.17793874]

>>17793609
What was it? "Cannot bless sin" ?

[Anonymous No.17793876]

>>17793806

[Anonymous No.17793884]

>>17793876
Yeah cool. In reality the average Catholic Church has pro-migrant banners draped outside it and is at 15% capacity with mostly old people.

[Anonymous No.17793893]

>>17793884
my catholic church does not have pro-diversity banners and is full of people with really loud babies

[Anonymous No.17793897]

>>17793874
Basically yes. The CDF just laid down the law and Pope Francis put his own personal approval on the document.

[Anonymous No.17793901]

>>17793884
Catholic teaching on immigration is very nuanced and seems to support common sense. Countries are only to allow immigration if they are able to. And immigrants must respect the laws and customs of the countries.

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>Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

[Anonymous No.17793904]

>>17793893
I don’t doubt you but you’re not grasping with the reality of the overall composition and state of the Church in the West. I’ve seen this a lot with the ailing ranks of online tradcaths.

[Anonymous No.17793918]

>>17793904
tradcaths attend SSPX and latin masses; which does not represent the wider church. the actual church goers are minorities going to Novus Order Masses, and they're still doing quite well

[Anonymous No.17793923]

>>17793897
So who is mad now? The lib or the trad?

[Anonymous No.17793925]

>>17793918
They also go to FSSP and ICKSP

[Anonymous No.17793930]

>>17793923
the lib of course

[Anonymous No.17793939]

>>17793930
>pic related
so funny how proties want everybody to be proties like them.

[Anonymous No.17793945]

>>17793904
Real Catholics do not despair, but take joy in everything, because Christ is Risen and eternal life is open to all who believe.

[Anonymous No.17793951]

>>17793930
Do they not realize there are more than 4 books in the Bible? Also Christ defined marriage as that between a man and a woman anyway.

[Anonymous No.17793954]

>>17793918
Yeah that’s why tradcaths are either obnoxiously arrogant there’s going to be a major resurgence in the one true faith or massively blackpilled in realising their last bastions of tradtionalism are getting snaller and smaller. Obviously I’m focusing on the former here because they’re the only ones who go on about Rome’s potential to fight da Joo. Which is pure nonsense.

[Anonymous No.17793968]

>>17793954
The majority of people that go to TLM are on the younger side (18-40). Novus Ordo goers are all boomers.

[Anonymous No.17794024]

>>17793654
The deluge and you lose conscious when in extreme pain.

[Anonymous No.17794048]

>>17793968
Novus Order is where all the families and babies go, I don't really notice babies at TLM.

>>17793954
It's wishful thinking, sure, but only God really knows. Revelation does imply that the Church would "enter the Desert" again; I've taken it to mean that we're in a rough-time like the Mosaic Israelites were in the OT.

[Anonymous No.17794077]

>>17793505
Dick rubbing is not love.

[Anonymous No.17794089]

>>17793697
you are a castizo, i'm sure trannie.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.17794104]

>>17794089
No.

[Anonymous No.17794119]

>>17793897
>>17793930
funny that people don't realize that the Church hasn't even removed the ban on condoms 60 years after the sexual revolution and they think that they gonna fall to the sodomite psy op which has barely 10 years lmaoooo. Delusional.

[Anonymous No.17794142]

>>17793505
The Name of the Rose