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Your memory of BR historic crimes is not a normalization of what is happening now. Those were huge stories back then. Now we have today's shooting, the police motorcop who was run over last year, Madison brooks, Alli Rice....all in a short span. Just because major crimes happened over the 50year span of our memories doesn't exonerate what's happening now as historical normalcy.

Anecdotally, the more I treat my St.Aug for weeds the more susceptible it becomes to fungal infections, in my case the brown/large patch variety. I'm about ready to start over with zoysia.

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The median home price = $420,000

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And the median square footage is 2-3x what our grandparents lived in.

Our "cheap" cars now have leather seats, we eat out 50x as much as they did, and almost everything we buy is made with designed obsolescence. Let's not even start on higher education.

It's our own choices. Our own fault. It's possible to live differently.

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I’ll be dead before it makes a difference. It sucks now based on what is going on at this moment.

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It's already making a difference. As someone who left the church for over 20 years, then came back, you shouldn't dismiss the change. Not only that, but if we're honest, life was convenient and unaccounted when we (collective) were/are outside the church.

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Both terms have been misapplied and overused into uselessness, unfortunately. There’s nothing to take away from data like this.

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The changes seen in many parishes, including my own, are already palpable. Good things are happening.

ETA: It's also not coincidental that the media-driven divisiveness surrounding the Pope is happening. They want to drive a wedge between conservatism and Catholicism, and some of you are playing right into it.

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ForTheWin81
Because he's continually been offering his hypocritical opinions on everything we're doing, it's been basically just shitting on everything Trump does and hiding it behind his so called religion.

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First, I'm Catholic and I don't agree with the Pope's political opinion. That said, is he not just ANSWERING the questions he is asked? The media is driving an anti-catholic/divided Trump narrative via the questions, and some of you are falling right for it.

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So my point stands. Disordered men are not allowed in the priesthood and yet the church does nothing to expel them in fact it is well documented that Cardinal McCarik, Cupich et al protect them.

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No it doesn't. Your point was rooted in your own falsehoods. And you still fail to see what the church is teaching. Homosexual ACTS are gravely disordered. A chaste person with same sex attraction is not living in mortal sin. The ACT is the issue.

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You never sang the song”We are Church, You are the Church”? Evil men apparently were pretty pervasive in the “Chirch” to allow that to go on so long.

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There are over 1 billion Catholics in the world. I have no doubt that some of them are evil men and women who in no way are truly Catholic. Pervasive? No. Evil? Yes.

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Well, I straight up asked "DID" and the first word was "NO".

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None of this is even relevant. As champagne mentioned, and I earlier stated, it's all laid out in the CCC.

I was challenging GunToter on his statements, only because they were demonstrably false.

The accusations of "where are the Catholics in this thread?" are met with Catholics in the thread, but then clear lies and accusations from the protestants. It gets old.

"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
- Ven. Fulton Sheen

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ChatGPT disagrees with you.

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Quote the relevant statements from the council.