Women and Children First: Reconfiguring the Roman Family | Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina

The Empire faced a crisis in the year 9 A.D. Romans were not reproducing. They weren’t even marrying. Caesar Augustus recognized that this posed a dire threat to the Roman way of life-the empire’s cultural and intellectual heritage, and its homeland security. He made new laws to encourage fertility. He even proposed a pagan “theology of the body.” His successors made more laws. All failed, and eventually it was Christianity that restored and revived the Roman family and Roman world. Here’s the fascinating story of how it happened.
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Mike Aquilina, The Christian family’s radical roots angelusnews.com/faith/the-chr...
Mike Aquilina, How young people shaped Christianity angelusnews.com/faith/how-you...
Mike Aquilina, The Church’s original social justice struggle angelusnews.com/faith/the-chu...
Mike Aquilina’s website fathersofthechurch.com
Mike Aquilina’s books catholicbooksdirect.com/write...
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  • @joekeegan937
    @joekeegan9372 жыл бұрын

    Another great talk. Thank you.

  • @dansaber8435
    @dansaber84352 жыл бұрын

    You can be LGBT and Catholic no problem 👬

  • @CatholicCulturePod

    @CatholicCulturePod

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope.

  • @dansaber8435

    @dansaber8435

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CatholicCulturePod wrong

  • @LostArchivist

    @LostArchivist

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now this depends. From a technical standpoint, one can have formally been baptized and confirmed etc. Thus one can be a Catholic and hold to such beliefs, but only in a way, not truly as one knowingly doing so against Church teaching is committing a grave sin and if with sufficient knowledge and freedom of will, mortal sin if held strongly enough to the more incompatible elements.Also one can possess same-sex attraction and be a perfectly fine Catholic as long as one is not indulging this passion in the same way as any unmarried person is obliged not to. I would also say, formally the category LGBT is not strictly speaking a personal category as it is a political and/or social label overarching either a spectrum or collective of unnaturally (that is to say, nonbiologically or spiritually, but socially) originated psychological tendencies/traits. This is all a fancy way of saying it is a subculture and community not anything that defines a person as a person. Thus no human person as a human person is unable to become Catholic, but certain aspects of the wider social environment such as being an actively practicing Buddhist, or a member of the Freemasons secret society, being a practicioner of a profession that as a due course attempts to contact the dead, or being a member of a group that denies the inherent reality of humans as being an embodied soul where both fully are as a collective whole of what makes who we are as human beings. Or put another way, one can not deny that they are their body or say they do not have a soul or that one is optional to a human qua their humanity. Thus while one can be a member of the Holy Catholic Church and a member of such a movement, as they adhere to antithetical visions of human personhood, one can not maintain such and remain in good standing with both. Gospel of St.Matthew Chapter 6: Verse 24 “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." This is of course in reference by Our Blessed Lord referring to serving God or money. But the dynamic is similar. One can not serve the various parts of (for lack of better term) Wokism philosophy and Catholicism as they are deeply opposed on several key visions of the nature and role of humanity, meaning, morality, and truth. Both require absolute loyalty from their adherents and as they oppose in vision this means intrisicly to choose one, is to definitively is to exclude the other. Thus while possible in some regards, largely one can not prescribe to and practice LGBT anthropology and be a good Catholic as well.

  • @dansaber8435

    @dansaber8435

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LostArchivist so if the serpent is anything like he is in the garden what does he say that's so tempting?

  • @LostArchivist

    @LostArchivist

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dansaber8435 He tells you, you can sit in God`s throne.