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“I am Catholic”
I was contemplating the use of the words “ I am Catholic” and wondering when and why it became necessary to say that.
A rant:
Today, unfortunately it’s not enough to say I am a Christian as that doesn’t describe your faith and your belief system.
Christianity has in many cases been hijacked by the very opposite of what it means to be Christian
You have some “Christians” that believe a third temple needs to be built so that a red cow can be sacrificed before Jesus returns. These “Christians” believe that killing the enemy of this plan is Gods will. How does anyone who read the bible with the key to understanding it being Jesus in the NT reconcile with this?
When people try to justify violence or the destruction of “enemies,” the New Testament leaves no room for it. Jesus consistently confronts the human impulse to harm, dominate, or destroy those we fear or dislike.
His words cut directly against injustice and the taking of life.
1. Jesus commands love, not violence, toward enemies.
He says plainly: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5).
This is not sentimental. It is a direct prohibition against treating enemies as disposable or less human.
2. Jesus rejects retaliation and cycles of harm.
When Peter tried to defend Him with a sword, Jesus stopped him: “Put your sword back… for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”
He refuses to let violence, even “justified” violence, define His movement.
3. Jesus exposes the injustice of harming others in God’s name.
In Luke 9, when the disciples wanted to call down fire on a Samaritan village, Jesus rebuked them.
He shuts down the idea that God endorses destroying people who oppose or offend us.
4. Jesus identifies mercy, not vengeance, as the mark of God’s people.
He teaches: “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
Mercy is not weakness.
It is the refusal to participate in injustice, cruelty, or dehumanization.
5. Jesus reveals God’s heart for every person, even those labeled “enemy.”
On the cross, facing state violence and mob hatred, He says: “Father, forgive them.”
He refuses to mirror the injustice done to Him. He breaks the cycle instead of continuing it.
I also find We are losing something deeply human
Our sense of dignity, restraint, and the Christian values we claim to hold.
There is a righteous anger many feel at the suffering and injustice in the world. But alongside it, I’ve noticed something darker taking root in me: a steady anger that doesn’t leave, and a growing struggle with hatred in my heart.
As a Catholic, I’m called to love my enemy and pray for those who do wrong. I’m trying to live that out, but I find it difficult when I witness suffering and the seeming celebration of destruction.
I feel guilt over the anger I carry. I go to confession with it, I pray with it, and still it remains.
I don’t know how we are meant to reconcile loving our enemies with the reality of evil and the harm it causes. I can understand praying for transformation—for peace, for repentance, for light—but forgiveness feels far away right now.
What I do know is that I don’t want this anger to harden my heart.
I pray for healing, for peace I don’t feel yet, and for the grace to hate evil without becoming consumed by it.
For the world. For everyone. Everywhere.
We need help beyond ourselves.
Wake up and stop following those who say Jesus is anything but peace, love and mercy.
My sincere wish to get to a state where I feel no more hate but a strong burning desire to pray for those that I am criticizing and those that are gleefully engaged in war and endless killing.
“War can never be waged in the name of God. For us believers, to fight in the name of religion means attacking religion itself. There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy.”
Pope Leo XIV: "There is no such thing as a Holy War: only peace is holy."
Marking the 40th Anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace held in Assisi led by Pope John Paul II with the leaders of world religions, cults and sects, Pope Leo XIV says:
"Dear brothers and sisters,
You are gathered in Assisi forty years after the World Day of Prayer for Peace held on 27 October 1986. That event was initiated by Saint John Paul II, who on that occasion emphasized the intrinsic bond between a genuine religious attitude and a keen sense of peace.
I extend my cordial greetings to the Patriarchs and religious leaders, many of whom have actively taken part in the various days of prayer and dialogue that have been held over the years. I also warmly greet His Excellency Felice Accrocca, Bishop of Assisi, the Franciscan Families and all those in attendance. I would very much like to have been with you at the tomb of Saint Francis on this important anniversary, to see your faces and bear witness together to the fact that living as brothers and sisters is already possible!
I thank the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Community of Sant’Egidio for their commitment to continuing along the path laid out by my predecessors. I am heartened by the long and faithful journey made over these years, which has borne much fruit. Pope Francis said of that unforgettable day in October 1986: "It should not and could not have remained an isolated event. You have continued on this path and have increased its momentum."
Indeed, following that first historic meeting, Saint John Paul II called for us to “continue to live the spirit of Assisi” (Address to Leaders of the World Religions in Assisi, 26 October 1986). That was at the time of the Cold War, a very different situation from the one we face today. After 1989, many believed that globalization would ensure lasting peace for the world. Unfortunately, as I wrote in Magnifica Humanitas, “an almost blind faith was placed in the ability of the markets to generate prosperity, democracy and stability. In reality, rather than automatically generating unity and peace, globalization has provoked fundamentalist, identity-based and nationalistic reactions.”
Against this backdrop, there has been “troubling revival of war as an instrument of international politics.” As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “the accumulation of arms strikes many as a paradoxically suitable way of deterring potential adversaries from war. They see it as the most effective means of ensuring peace among nations,” thus betraying the memory of the twentieth century and the senseless slaughter of millions of human lives. Precisely in these times marked by a “culture of power,” there is a need to cultivate the spirit of Assisi, which entails a rejection of the religious justification of war, a spirit of mediation and dialogue, and contemplative reflection combined with creative action in the service of a future of peace. Yes, peace must once again become the common ideal of all peoples, the guiding star for all our choices, the standard that exposes injustice, and the shared horizon for all.
We must rebuild peace everywhere, not prepare for more wars. War can never be waged in the name of God. For us believers, to fight in the name of religion means attacking religion itself. There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy.
That is why the journey begun in Assisi as a shared quest for peace is, first and foremost, the path of prayer. Prayer may seem weak in the face of the powers of the world, but it is the humble strength of believers. Let us turn to God, the giver of peace, that he may touch the hearts of those who seek war and terrorism. Let us not forget that prayer is never in vain.
Indeed, prayer is a school of dialogue with God, with people and with all creatures. Let us think of Saint Francis, whose death we have commemorated on his eight-hundredth anniversary.”
🚨 ANTHROPIC’S IPO COULD CHANGE THE AI INVESTMENT DEBATE FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
The numbers behind $ANT are extraordinary:
• $16.3B revenue in 6 months (14x YoY)
• $974M Q2 operating profit
• 11,900+ customers spending $100K+ annually
• 900% net revenue retention
• $6.6M+ revenue per employee
• ~$132B in cash and short-term investments
• Compute costs dropped to 55% of revenue (down from 201% the previous year)
Enterprises aren’t just experimenting with AI anymore. They’re dramatically increasing spending.
But there are catches.
Although Anthropic earned an operating profit in Q2, it still lost $693 million on operations over the full first half of 2026 with a reported $80.7 billion net loss that seemingly includes substantial “accounting adjustments” largely due to non-cash paper charges related to the surging fair value of its convertible notes.
The prospectus openly warns investors of the potential for frontier models to "resist shutdown," "conceal or manipulate information," or engage in autonomous blackmail.
The company disclosed a staggering $417 billion to $567 billion in future minimum infrastructure obligationsto secure necessary server power and chips.
The filing revealed a testing misconfiguration where a model gained unauthorized admin access to a third-party system, alongside a recent one-month self-imposed training freeze to secure internal intellectual property.
The document lists material revenue risks stemming from ongoing friction with the Trump administration over federal artificial intelligence frameworks.
With massive computing commitments, fierce competition, friction with the Trump administration and an IPO valuation of between 1.5-2T at a time many are calling a bubble, I’m still going for it.
Will you buy at IPO?
Bilo retweeted
Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.
Bilo retweeted
If you did not want to watch the 30 minute version, here is a short one: the story of every child killed on October 7th and why not a single one of them was executed or killed deliberatley by Hamas. Indeed, their share among the killed is infinitesimal showing that Hamas tried to spare children when they could.
Today’s Catholic gospel reading from Mathew 22
When the Pharisees asked Jesus which commandment in the law is the greatest
He said to him,
"You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your mind.
The second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Do you follow Jesus’s commandments?
Its hard
Bilo retweeted
Melchizedek offered bread and wine to God in Genesis 14, and almost nobody asks the one question that passage demands: what kind of sacrifice is that?
Most Protestants assume sacrifice in Scripture always means blood and death. Burnt animals. Altars. Slaughter.
But Genesis 14:18 records a priest of God Most High offering bread and wine, and Scripture calls it a priestly act. The Psalms then declare the Messiah a priest "after the order of Melchizedek" (Psalm 110:4). A priesthood whose defining recorded offering was unbloody.
Hebrews 5-7 confirms Christ holds this exact priesthood, not the Levitical one. The Levitical priests offered animals. Melchizedek offered bread and wine.
So the question writes itself: if Christ is a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, what does his priesthood offer?
A priest without an offering is a contradiction in terms. And the offering of his order, established in the first mention of a priest in the entire Bible, is bread and wine.
That is the Mass. Not a symbol borrowed from paganism. A priesthood older than Aaron, offering what Melchizedek offered, now transformed into the Body and Blood of the One who said "this is my body."
The early Fathers saw this connection immediately. So did the author of Hebrews, who spends three chapters on it.
If the Lord's Supper is only a memorial, then Christ's Melchizedekian priesthood has no visible offering at all. What is a priest who never sacrifices?
Bilo retweeted
Today’s AI race mirrors the 20th-century nuclear arms race:
An existential threat that will likely end in an AI non-proliferation treaty, much like the NNPT.
🤖 Made with AI
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Bilo retweeted
You have eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear if you claim to be a Christian & don’t believe that the Holy Eucharist is the Body & Blood of Jesus Christ.
1. Genesis 14:18
Melchizedek, priest of God Most High, offers bread & wine
The Church Fathers see this as a foreshadowing of the Eucharistic sacrifice
2. Exodus 12:8
The Passover lamb had to be eaten, not merely sacrificed
Jesus is the true Passover Lamb
3. Exodus 16:4-15
God gives manna from heaven
Jesus later identifies Himself as the true bread from heaven in John 6
4. Psalm 78:24-25
Israel ate the "bread of angels."
5. Proverbs 9:1-5
Wisdom invites people:
"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed."
6. Malachi 1:11
A pure sacrifice will be offered among all nations.
Early Christians saw the Eucharist as the fulfillment of this prophecy
7. Matthew 26:26
"Take, eat; this is my body."
8. Matthew 26:27-28
"Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant."
9. Mark 14:22
"Take; this is my body."
10. Mark 14:23-24
"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."
11. Luke 22:19
"This is my body, which is given for you."
12. Luke 22:20
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you."
13. John 6:27
Jesus speaks of food that endures unto eternal life.
14. John 6:32-33
Jesus identifies Himself as the true bread from heaven.
15. John 6:35
"I am the bread of life."
16. John 6:41
"I am the bread that came down from heaven."
17. John 6:48
"I am the bread of life."
18. John 6:50
"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die."
19. John 6:51
"The bread that I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."
20. John 6:52
The Jews dispute:
"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
Jesus does not correct their literal understanding.
21. John 6:53
"Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."
22. John 6:54
"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life."
23. John 6:55
"My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink."
24. John 6:56
"He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him."
25. John 6:57
"He who eats me will live because of me."
26. John 6:58
"This is the bread which came down from heaven."
27. John 6:60
Many disciples say:
"This is a hard saying."
28. John 6:66
Many disciples leave Jesus after this teaching.
He does not call them back to explain it symbolically.
29. John 6:67-69
Jesus asks the Twelve whether they also wish to leave.
30. Luke 24:30-35
The disciples recognize the risen Christ in the breaking of the bread.
31. Acts 2:42
The early Christians devoted themselves to "the breaking of bread."
32. Acts 2:46
The Church gathered daily for the breaking of bread.
33. Acts 20:7
Christians gather on the first day of the week to break bread.
34. 1 Corinthians 10:16
"The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?"
"The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"
35. 1 Corinthians 10:17
"We who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread."
36. 1 Corinthians 10:21
"You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons."
Paul treats the Eucharist as a sacred reality.
37. 1 Corinthians 11:23
Paul receives the Eucharistic teaching directly from the Lord.
38. 1 Corinthians 11:24
"This is my body which is for you."
39. 1 Corinthians 11:25
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood."
40. 1 Corinthians 11:26
Every Eucharist proclaims the Lord's death until He comes.
41. 1 Corinthians 11:27
Anyone receiving unworthily is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
42. 1 Corinthians 11:28
A person must examine himself before receiving.
43. 1 Corinthians 11:29
Anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.
44. 1 Corinthians 11:30
Some are sick and have died because of irreverence toward the Eucharist.
Bilo retweeted
Explain Yoma 39b. In the period immediately following Jesus's crucifixion up until the Temple’s destruction, the lot for the Lord no longer came up in the high priest’s right hand, the crimson thread tied to the scapegoat ceased turning white, the westernmost lamp of the menorah would not stay lit, and the doors of the Hekhal would open by themselves at night.
Bilo retweeted
A growing number of Protestant churches are completely unable to provide answers to this. They lack that true worship, worship that is only given onto God, which is the Eucharist.
Revelation : 12 : 17 - And the dragon was angry at the woman. And so he went away to do battle with the remainder of her offspring, those who keep the commandments of God and who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ.
How can anyone not see this is about Mary and that we, who keep Christs commandments are her offspring
Mary is our mother ❤️
You do realize that Paul’s letters were directed at the certain audience they are named after right?
As to your poor understanding of kecharitōmenē, what you fail to realize is that in the original Greek, it’s written in the perfect tense, meaning past, present and future
How does Full of grace in past, present and future = sinful in your eyes?
Paul did NOT use “kecharitōmenē” for all Christians. Ephesians 1:6 uses a completely different grammatical form. Luke uses the perfect passive participle kecharitōmenē, while Ephesians uses the aorist active verb echaritōsen. They share the same root but are not the same word or grammatical construction. Don’t believe me? Research it yourself!
Also, Paul never calls the Church “kecharitōmenē” as a title, while Gabriel does address Mary that way. That’s why the comparison isn’t at all devastating to the Catholic position as you may think,
Is it really that difficult for your mind to accept that God made Mary, the. Safire that borne him and delivered him perfect and sinless?
I feel sorry for you
Romans 3:23 says all have sinned.
Catholic apologists answer with one Greek word: kecharitomene.
Problem is, Paul uses the same verb in Ephesians 1:6 for the whole church at Ephesus. Nobody thinks they were immaculately conceived.
Jesus being sinless? Scripture says it outright (Heb 4:15). Mary? Nothing. She even calls God her Savior (Luke 1:47).
You can't build a dogma on a participle Paul hands out to every believer.
