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In 1984 the International Jubilee for the Young was celebrated by John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square in a celebration that also marked the close of the Holy Year of Redemption. At this gathering the Holy Father entrusted youth with what is now known as the World Youth Day (WYD) Cross - one of the most important symbols of WYD.The UN declared 1985 the first “International Youth Year” and to celebrate it the Holy Father welcomed youth from all over the world in Rome on Palm Sunday. In December of the same year he announced the institution of World Youth Day. It is celebrated annually at the diocesan level on Palm Sunday in Rome and at a week-long event internationally every two to three years. The last World Youth Day was in Madrid with 2millions young Catholics from all over the world attending. 2013 will be held in Rio in Brazil. http://www.rio2013.com/en/world-youth-day/history-of-wyd http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=gxOTpuQe6M4 |
realistically: God bless you for this,Catholics like you give me hope....so many people who profess the Catholic faith dont even know anything about the Faith.......they were just born into it. I returned to the catholic church after many years as a protestant(my parents left when i was still very young) and that is one of my greatest blessings......That I found my way back home. I have a better and closer relationship with God than I ever did as a protestant,I am still learning though......May Our Lady,Queen of all Hearts continue to point us in the direction of her Son,Our Lord and Saviour,Jesus Christ.Amen.Thank you and welcome back home! What we have in Catholic Church is the fullness of truth and it troubles me when I read some misinformed individuals posting absolutely trash on this forum just to bash Catholic Church. Us Catholics need to learn about our faith, the information is easily accessible online. Maybe God continue to shower you with His grace and wisdom. See you in the Eucharistic. |
Neddivine: For me i'm not vast in the history of the bible.But this thread seems to have one thing in common which is that catholics compiled the bible which is questionable to me till i can find solid historical proof.However let's just assume catholics compiled the bible:Sorry, but you are not making sense. |
truthislight: are you "christian" or "Jewish?1. The same Church that added additional 27 books to the OT to give you this Bible you have today. Secondly, I explained the biblical basis of Rosary which is quite self explanatory if you had made any effort to read it. If I can trust the Bible the gave me, then I certainly will trust the Rosary which is very and truly biblical. 2. My claim is based on common sense, from the 1st to late 3rd centuries, there was nothing like the Bible you have now. The Church decided to add 27 books to the OT , these 27 books were selected from more than 250 other books/ letters read in some Churches at that time. If you have access to all these books today, will you be able to select the same books that makesup the NT we have now? The Church through the power of the Holy Spirit chose 27 books as inspired Books that would eventually form the NT. Holy Spirit didn't stop working in the Church after that, it continued and is still working in the Church today. The Church 1800 year ago is organically the same Church it is today. If you have ever read some of the things the early Church fathers wrote, you will know that the Church didn't deviate, Martin Luther and John Calvin together with 100's of other Church founders in the last 500 years deviated. 3. Christ most certainly handed the Keys ( key signifies authority in Christ's time) to Peter and he told Peter to feed and tend His sheep. He also says to Peter that he will build His Church upon him. Christ says this not me, you can try to interpret it how you like but its as clear as morning sky. The rest of your claims doesn't deserve my answer because they are quite frankly, childish and baseless claims that you cannot back up with any fact or evidence. John Henry Cardinal Newman once said, "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." By the way Cardinal Newman was an Anglican in the 18th century England and one of the greatest minds of his generation, he hated Catholic Church somuch that he decided to debunk all Her claims, before the end of his research he converted to Catholicism. |
Thanks for the update my brother. It is important that we test our "love" with this standard. One way of doing it is to subtitute "love" with your name from verse 4 and be honest about it. I have tried it on two occassions and still haven't passed 60% mark. The secret is to keep praying for His grace because without love, it is impossibble for us to make Heaven. “If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 .....patient, ....is kind. .....does not envy, .....does not boast, ...... is not proud. 5 ..... does not dishonor others,......is not self-seeking, ..... is not easily angered, ..... keeps no record of wrongs. 6 ...... does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 ....... always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. ......’s Love never fails 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. God bless and see you in the Eucharist. |
Frosbel your hatred for anything Catholic has turned to obsession and you keep digging up all kinds of silly and frankly, weak articles and videos to bash Catholic Church. Every week you will write or dig up one useless article to attack Catholic Church. When you get hammered, you open up another tread. I try as much as possible to ignore your treads but I cannot help it when you deceive so many people that know very little about the topic. The Rosary is Biblical and from this article, it’s obvious to me that the person that wrote it wasted 20 years of his or her life calling himself a Catholic without a slightest clue of what the Church teaches. It amazes me how people will call themselves Catholic and know nothing about their faith and once they leave the Church, they claim to know everything about the Church. The first part of the rosary is straight from Luke’s gospel, (How Angel Gabriel greeted Mary), the second part continued with how Elizabeth greeted her when she visited her. “Pray of us sinner now and at the hour of our death”, we ask her to pray for us because we believe in intercessory prayer. We believe that the saints and mother of God is in Heaven and she can take our petitions to Jesus, just like she interceded on behalf of the couple in Canaan during the wedding feast. The most important part of the Rosary is also the Mysteries: Joyful- birth and childhood of Jesus Christ, Sorrowful – His passion (agony and death), Glorious - His resurrection, ascension, descending of Holy Spirit and Assumption of Mary and finally, the Luminous - From Baptism of Christ, His 1st Miracle, last Supper and so on. While reciting the rosary, you are meant to mediate on these mysteries of our Lord Jesus Christ. The essence of the rosary is to help you mediate in these important events in the life of Jesus and our salvation. To pray the rosary properly is to not only to read the Bible but to also immense yourself in the life Christ and His mother. The Mass is full of Bible, every Sunday we have 3 readings, 2 from NT and 1 from OT, together with Psalms. Daily Mass has two readings from the Bible and psalms to go with it. Half of the Eucharistic prayer is straight from the Bible; the responses from the congregation are from Bible. A typical Easter vigil mass has no less than 6 readings from both OT and NT. Catholic Church = Bible! If Catholic Church has been deceiving billions of people of the last 2000, how come all Christians still use the Bible they compiled? If you all are convinced that Catholic Church is evil and not Christian, the logical thing to do is to do away with anything associated with Catholic Church that includes the Bible. And for the person that said that King James compiled the Bible, you must be kidding! Really, so the Bible is 600yrs old then? KJV wasn’t even the first English Bible; John Wycliffe achieved that in 1380 AD, 150 before the reformation. Jesus did not write on single word down, and he did not instruct anyone to write a book. The Old Testament was there and that was what he and the apostles read from. He did ask his disciples to do certain things in memory of Him and to spread the good news to the ends of the earth. That Church He promised to build upon the Rock (Peter) is still as strong as ever, 2000 years and counting. The Church that Roman Empire, Barbarians, Communist Russia and so many other powerful empires couldn’t defeat, the Church (Body of Christ) that has seen off countless heresies. Christ promised that the gates of Hades will NOT overcome His Church and He doesn’t lie! The Church has presence all over the world, teaching, educating and saving souls. The Church decided which books should be included in the Bible and what shouldn’t out of so many books and letters circulating in the 1st and 2nd century. (The Church existed before Bible and not the other way round). The Church fought and defended the integrity of the Bible from all sorts of heresies. For more than 1000 years before the 1st printing press, Christians rely on the Church to read and teach them the word of God because it would cost equivalent of 10 years wages to buy one Bible. Your “I am Bible believing, I only follow the Scripture” rants would have been useless and unattainable 1300 years ago because could not afford a Bible then, if even if you could, you probably would not be able to read. I am a devout unapologetic Catholic Bible-believing, Charismatic, Rosary-praying Christian. Deeply in Love with God The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit and not forgetting Mother Mary. Her fiat to God made all the difference. |
It is delusional to think that God exists to prevent us from enjoying life. How atheists came to this conclusion still baffles me. |
Isn't it ironic that God/bible has been removed from state schools but is allowed in state and federal prisons. |
For all generation shall call her blessed! |
If these corrupt ex leaders were Sprinters, IBB = Usain Bolt, Obasanjo = Yohan Blake and Abacha = Asafa Powell. |
Kay 17: The Catholic Church vs Galileo is an example.What do you really know about Galileo and the Catholic Church? It seems thats what everyone jump on Galileo case without even knowing the full story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMMI1gVwTjw |
Logicboy03: What I stated was that there is a correlation between irrelegiousity/atheism and national education. What you assumed was that I stated a causation.I did not accuse you in any of my comments and i do not know how you figured that one out. Back to your assumption, the study did not make that correlation because it cannot be true if they had tried to. None of the contributing factors to the quality/standard of education in these countries can be associated directly or indirectly to you conclusion. Secondly, If the same study were carried out 70 or 80 years ago, we will most likely have the same countries in the top 10 with the exception of maybe China. Applying your assumption/arguement 80 years ago will conclude that these countries are on the list because they are religious/christian countries. Unless you will argue that quality of education today is better than 70 years ago. |
Logicboy03: Yawn.Thank you sir. This is what you wrote: Logicboy03: "It has already been noted that secular countries that have a significant number of atheists dominate the top 10 advanced countries and the top 10 peaceful countries. Now, there is another list that these countries top.".... What you are implying is that these countries that make up the top 10 are on the list due to the significant number of athesists that make up their population. All i asked you is to explain how you come to this conclusion because the researchers sure didn't have this in mind when they carried out the study. Again, could you answer or try to answer my "foolish" question. Thank you. |
Logicboy03: Another dumbazz that cant reason or cant handle the truth.Why resort to name calling? That is not a civilised way to answer or air your opinion. I thought that atheists are meant to be the educated, sophisicated and civilised ones? Name calling is a very cheap way of admitting that you have ran out of ideas or "logic". Is it still possible for you to answer my "dumbazz" question? if so, how did this list connects to a country’s religious or non-religious status? This is what the study says about the contributing factors to the success of the countries on the list.. On investment: “Looking at education systems that succeed, the study concludes that spending is important, but not as much as having a culture that is supportive of learning.” On culture: “It says that spending is easier to measure, but the more complex impact of a society's attitude to education can make a big difference. The success of Asian countries in these rankings reflects the high value attached to education and the expectations of parents. This can continue to be a factor when families migrate to other countries, says the report accompanying the rankings. Looking at the two top countries - Finland and South Korea - the report says that there are many big differences, but the common factor is a shared social belief in the importance of education and its "underlying moral purpose". “ On quality of teachers: “The report also emphasises the importance of high-quality teachers and the need to find ways to recruit the best staff. This might be about status and professional respect as well as levels of pay. The rankings show that there is no clear link between higher relative pay and higher performance.” Finally, this is what the UK Labor MP has to say. "This report shows that after 13 years of investment and reform with Labour, schools in the UK are amongst the best in the world." So Mr Logicboy, could you explain, or at least try to explain the connection between these factors listed above and States’ religious or non-religious status. Thank you Sir. |
Please read the main article from BBC website below.. "The UK's education system is ranked sixth best in the developed world, according to a global league table published by education firm Pearson. The first and second places are taken by Finland and South Korea. The rankings combine international test results and data such as graduation rates between 2006 and 2010. Sir Michael Barber, Pearson's chief education adviser, says successful countries give teachers a high status and have a "culture" of education. International comparisons in education have become increasingly significant - and this latest league table is based upon a series of global test results combined with measures of education systems, such as how many people go on to university. This composite picture puts the UK in a stronger position than the influential Pisa tests from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - which is also one of the tests included in this ranking. The weightings for the rankings have been produced for Pearson by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Global competition The two education superpowers - Finland and South Korea - are followed by three other high-performing Asian education systems - Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Continue reading the main story EDUCATION TOP 20 Finland South Korea Hong Kong Japan Singapore UK Netherlands New Zealand Switzerland Canada Ireland Denmark Australia Poland Germany Belgium USA Hungary Slovakia Russia The UK - which is considered as a single system, rather than four devolved administrations - is then ranked at the head of an above-average group including the Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland. These are ahead of a middle-ranking group including the United States, Germany and France. At the lowest end are Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia. These comparisons draw upon tests that are taken every three or four years, in areas such as maths, science and literacy - and so present a picture lagging by several years. But the intention is to provide a more multi-dimensional view of educational achievement - and create a databank which will be updated, in a project that Pearson is calling the Learning Curve. Looking at education systems that succeed, the study concludes that spending is important, but not as much as having a culture that is supportive of learning. It says that spending is easier to measure, but the more complex impact of a society's attitude to education can make a big difference. The success of Asian countries in these rankings reflects the high value attached to education and the expectations of parents. This can continue to be a factor when families migrate to other countries, says the report accompanying the rankings. Looking at the two top countries - Finland and South Korea - the report says that there are many big differences, but the common factor is a shared social belief in the importance of education and its "underlying moral purpose". Teacher quality The report also emphasises the importance of high-quality teachers and the need to find ways to recruit the best staff. This might be about status and professional respect as well as levels of pay. The rankings show that there is no clear link between higher relative pay and higher performance. And there are direct economic consequences of high and low performing education systems, the study says, particularly in a globalised, skill-based economy. But there are less straightforward and conflicting messages about how schools are organised. The ranking for levels of school choice shows that Finland and South Korea have among the lowest levels of school choice. But Singapore, another high performer, has the highest level. The UK is among the upper levels in terms of school choice. 'Significant' data Higher levels of school autonomy are a characteristic of many higher performing systems - headed by China, the Netherlands, the UK and Hong Kong (which is considered as a separate school system in such education rankings). But Finland, the most successful system, has a relatively low level of school autonomy. Sir Michael Barber, a former adviser to Tony Blair, said that the gathering of this information was the "start of something significant" - providing a practical resource for policy makers wanting to learn from other countries. In terms of the UK's performance, he said it fitted into the view that education standards had risen at the end of the 1990s and into the early 2000s and had then levelled off. Labour's education spokesman Stephen Twigg said the findings reflected the achievements of the previous government. "This report shows that after 13 years of investment and reform with Labour, schools in the UK are amongst the best in the world." And he said the findings did not provide evidence for the current government's support for free schools. "This shows there is much more to school performance than structures," said Mr Twigg. A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "We are driving up standards right across the board by bringing the best graduates into teaching, developing a world-class curriculum, and restoring order to our classrooms. "We are driving forward the academies and free schools programmes with more than half of secondary schools now enjoying academy status. "We have introduced the EBacc so more pupils are encouraged to study the core academic subjects that universities and employers demand and we will be introducing a new, far more rigorous examination system" How someone can actually read this article and somehow link this trend to religious and non-religious belief baffles me. Well, Frosbel started it with his "Catholic top ten violent cities list" and now we have copy-cats trying to follow the leader be it from a different point of view. I weak for people! |
All i see in this 3D image is a healthy BABY not Fetus.I don't know any Fetus and i haven't heard any pregnant women saying that her fetus is kicking. |
Why some people insist in making a complete full of themselves on NL? You mustn’t comment on everything, especially things you have a very limited knowledge of. It is a given fact from ages that 25th of December is not the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, no anyone knows the exact date or year. Pope is merely stating the obvious, only the ignorant think it’s a controversy. He also said that their were probably no Donkey or Angels singing at His birth since it was nowhere written in the Scriptures. These are obvious facts known to people on the know and unknown to very many ignorant people. My Grandfather’s birthday was not known because their were no form of records when he was born. His children had to make an educated guess from when he was baptised. That didn’t stop us celebrating his birthday on that day and it didn’t make him less of a man. The point Is that the date Jesus was born has nothing do with His teaching, life, miracles and divinity. He is the one true saviour of the world. He is God the Son, the Word that was made flesh and He will come to judge the living and the dead. I suggest people should make an effort to read the book before blabbing on NL. Cardinal Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI is one the greatest theologians of his generation, he not only know the Bible, he also know the history of Christianity more than any one I can think of. .FACT!! |
Having had the previledge of listening to Bishop Kukah's sermon when he was a priest in the 90's at Holy Family Festac, I can attest to this man's integrity and solid moral principles. When Abacha, Mustapha and their gangs were intimidating and oppressing poor masses, Bishop Kukah was never shy to chastise the leaders and speak out for the masses every Sunday. What he said about the jet-setting pastors is so true. I don't want to get into the theological debate about pastors riches, however when a pastor is living in million dollar mansions, flying on $40m jet and wearing the most expense outfit money can buy when most of his congregation are suffering, that is not Christianity. You cannot serve two masters at the same time for your heart is where your wealth is. |
Anyigala: Well, it apparent you are not seeking answers but just an avenue to rant your anti-Catholic views or someone to argue with. I am sorry to disappoint you my friend but i will not engage with you. If you scan through nairaland you will immediately realise that Mr Frosbel have beaten you to that. At least he is honest about his dislike of what he thinks Catholics believe in. |
Reyginus: I want to you to be the site I need. Just like micheal gave God a reason to believe in man again in the movie Legion, I want you to the same. I've read more than a thousand articles on the catholic faith and our philosophy. What's making you think this one is my eureka?Well, it apparent you are not seeking answers but just an avenue to rant your anti-Catholic views or someone to argue with you. I am sorry to disappoint you my friend but i will not engage with you. If you scan through nairaland you will immediately realise that Mr Frosbel have beaten you to that. At least he is honest about his dislike of what he thinks Catholics believe in. I am sure you have read all the Catholic books and the Bible 100 times, however, reading what you have already posted about Catholic church tells me that all you have read are few anti-Catholic books and a lot of YouTube watching. |
Reyginus: Am very busy now. When am free, I'd reply every one of you.No need to do that, as a Catholic, its quite shocking and disturbing that you have no clue what the Church you claim to belong to believe and teaches. I suggest that you should visit the websites posted earlier for your answers. |
Reyginus: Where are my catholic brothers?http://catholicdefense..co.uk/?m=1 Www.calletocommunion.com If you need more sites, will gladly supply. Blessings. |
Reyginus: where are my catholic brothers?Keep them coming Mr, I think you have a total of 44 of them. I strongly doubt if you are a Catholic Christian as you claimed. For if you are, you should know that all you have written so far are groundless. All these claims have been written and recycled over and over. I must responded to them on nairaland more than once. Since you claim to be Catholic, why don't you read "Catholicism and fundamentalism" by Karl Keaten or "Why Catholics are right" by Michael Coren. They have answer to all your questions and will even explain to you the origin of the book you are getting all the stuff you are writing here from. You May also want read "Rome Sweet Rome" by Scot Hahn, "Crossing the Tiber" by Steve Ray and "upon this rock" also by Steve Ray. These two men are just two of many and highly intelligent Protestant/anti catholic priests who asked all these question and in search of truth couldn't ignore and mock Catholic Church's claim and one by one eventually come back home. I don't have time to start debating your lists one by one, the time it took you to find these spurious allegations on the net or read the anti catholic books you copied them from, you could easily have found the answers on hundreds of Catholic blogs and websites if you are genuinely seeking answers. |
ijawkid: SMH!!!!....There is no excuse for abusing kids, that thing is sick and the perpetrators should face the most severe consequences if and when found guilty- I don’t care who they are. But the fact is that child sex abuse scandal is not just a Catholic priests thing, it’s everywhere. Take for example what is happening with Jimmy Savile and BBC in UK and that is just a tip of the ice berg. Your assertion that the child sex abuse has something to do with Celibacy is quite silly. 99% of these sex abuses allegations/acts were against young boys. Do you actually think that if these priest had gotten married they wouldn’t have abused these little boys? These priests were Gay Paedophiles and if they had the opportunity to get married, they would probably remained single. Women is not there interested as you can see. So it has nothing to do with celibacy. If these priest were getting young girls pregnant then you may have a case but that weren’t the case. Abuse happen in public schools, sports clubs, boys scout club, Protestant Churches, Synagogues, Mosques. The most scary part is that most sex abuse happens at home and this a fact. The problem is that since the culprits and victims are from the same family, most of them never get reported so as not to “tarnish” the family name. |
Anyigala: This is becoming very childish and silly. So you scanned through the internet to copy random pictures you are very much aware does not support whatever it is you are trying to accuse Catholic Church of. |