Bishop Barron on the New Pope, the Foolishness of Atheism, and Why Young Men Are Turning to Christ

Theonomy VS Autonomy

To pray is to deliberately transcend self, overcoming autonomy.

"Bob Dylan is one of my great heroes. 'Look around this whole world and all that I'm finding is the saving grace that's over me.'"

"Grace is being."

"Grace is what's real."

Saving Grace

If You find it in Your heart, can I be forgiven?

Guess I owe You some kind of apology.

I've escaped death so many times, I know I'm only living

By the saving grace that's over me.

By this time I'd-a thought I would be sleeping

In a pine box for all eternity.

My faith keeps me alive, but I still be weeping

For the saving grace that's over me.

Well, the death of life, then come the resurrection,

Wherever I am welcome is where I'll be.

I put all my confidence in Him, my sole protection

Is the saving grace that's over me.

Well, the devil's shining light, it can be most blinding,

But to search for love, that ain't no more than vanity.

As I look around this world all that I'm finding

Is the saving grace that's over me.

The wicked know no peace and you just can't fake it,

There's only one road and it leads to Calvary.

It gets discouraging at times, but I know I'll make it

By the saving grace that's over me.

Tucker: "I was thinking more of the iPhone. Which, when I use it, cuts me off completely from other people, ...from the world around me, ...from nature, ...from myself."

"Augustine's curvatus in se, that's what is looks like."

"'Thin places' are places of peace."

"What we see cannot be all there is."

Creation is much more than the discussion of the development of biological forms.

Yahweh: I AM! God is the Being which created all beings.

"The New Atheists" are regurgitating old, tired ideas, but they awakened the Christian churches.

"Thomas Aquinas and Why the New Atheists are Right" --Barron lecture

Secularism is hiding from God, a vain attempt.

How do you explain the being of a thing whose nature is not to be?

God is superior summo meo et iterior intimo meo. --Augustine

God wants the openness of heart signaled by the sacrifice.

The great modern revolutions were all anti-Christian!

We killed God; and God returned in forgiving love.

Christian persecution is on the rise. Now, throughout the world, we are by far the most persecuted religion in the world.

It's hard to blame the mass deaths of the 20th century, Christians killing Christians, simply on politics. The 20th century belonged to the devil, according to the mystical intuition of Pope Leo XIII and his Prayer to Saint Michael.

Prayer to Saint Michael (Long Version)

O Glorious Prince of the heavenly host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle and in the terrible warfare that we are waging against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits. Come to the aid of man, whom Almighty God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of Satan.

Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist thee, nor was there place for them any longer in Heaven. That cruel, ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels. Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of men has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to blot out the name of God and of His Christ, to seize upon, slay and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory. This wicked dragon pours out, as a most impure flood, the venom of his malice on men of depraved mind and corrupt heart, the spirit of lying, of impiety, of blasphemy, and the pestilent breath of impurity, and of every vice and iniquity.

These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

Arise then, O invincible Prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and give them the victory. They venerate thee as their protector and patron; in thee holy Church glories as her defense against the malicious power of hell; to thee has God entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude. Oh, pray to the God of peace that He may put Satan under our feet, so far conquered that he may no longer be able to hold men in captivity and harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that they may quickly find mercy in the sight of the Lord; and vanquishing the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, do thou again make him captive in the abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations. Amen.

V. Behold the Cross of the Lord; be scattered ye hostile powers.
R. The Lion of the tribe of Judah has conquered, the root of David.
V. Let Thy mercies be upon us, O Lord.
R. As we have hoped in Thee.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.

Let us pray. O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we call upon Thy holy Name, and as supplicants, we implore Thy clemency, that by the intercession of Mary, ever Virgin Immaculate and our Mother, and of the glorious St. Michael the Archangel, Thou wouldst deign to help us against Satan and all the other unclean spirits who wander about the world for the injury of the human race and the ruin of souls. Amen.
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Chrisitan Liberalism: a tendency to reduce the supernatural to the natural.
Religion is reduced to simply being a good person. That morphs into exclusive social justice concern, when the critique of sexual morality is taken in. This is rooted philosophically in Kant.

Christianity is a religion which shows the absorbing of violence by God: Christ giving mercy from the Cross.

Tom Holland, Dominion, 2019.

The enemies of the Church know that we are the enemy that matters. The whole trans thing is to show who believes and who doesn't.

Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: The Universal Destination of Goods
The "universal destination of goods" is a key principle in Catholic Social Teaching, asserting that all goods of creation, including the earth and its resources, are intended for the benefit of all people, not just for the private ownership of individuals. It acknowledges the right to private property but emphasizes that this right is always subordinate to the universal destination of goods, meaning private property should be used in a way that ensures everyone's basic needs are met.

It is wrong to exploit people in business.

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