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Answering Mother Teresa SLANDER by Joe Rogan guest:

Seven reasons St. John Paul II was a great pope: 1. He provided an extraordinarily large body of orthodox, articulate, intellectually rigorous teaching in his encyclicals and other documents. 2. He helped reestablish stability in many Catholic circles during the turbulence following Vatican II. 3. He promulgated the 1983 Code of Canon Law (for the Western rite) and the 1990 Code of Canons for the Eastern Churches (for the Eastern rites), the latter being the first time that the Eastern Catholic churches have had a complete code of canon law. 4. He promulgated the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the first catechism of its kind since the Roman Catechism in the 1500s. 5. He personally helped bring about the fall of Communism and the destruction of the Iron Curtain. 6. He served as a staunch pro-life, pro-family advocate–among other ways, by standing up to attempts made at the Beijing Women’s Conference and the Cairo Population Conference (both by the United Nations) to force anti-family, anti-child policies on the nations of the world. 7. He was remarkably holy and a man of deep prayer who set a great example for others. BONUS: He had a deep friendship with another great 20th-century saint, Mother Teresa. Learn more about them in our new book, Icons of Mercy: bit.ly/4dVGoJj

God is not a bearded man in the sky. If you say "God doesn't exist" or "There's no evidence for God" and something like that is what you mean by "God," you are entirely correct.

Many skeptics have tried to discount the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, but the story is too compelling to dismiss. In 1917, three peasant children claimed to be communicating with the Blessed Virgin Mary and announced that a miracle would occur in October. As promised, an extraordinary event, witnessed by thousands of rain-soaked onlookers, did occur. Without any reports of eye pain, direct viewing was reported of what appeared to be the sun, undergoing dramatic motions. An object spinning and zigzagging fell rapidly toward the earth, only to return to its original position while illuminating the field below with various colors. Reports from believers and non-believers also confirm, after hours of heavy rain, that onlookers experienced rapid drying of their belongs and surroundings. Not all eyewitness accounts were the same. Some experienced only unusual lighting and others nothing. Since there wasn’t any unusual astronomical reporting of the sun’s motion, some skeptics suggest that the event was a hallucination or an optical effect. Reporting sources estimate that between 30,000 and 80,000 people were present in Fatima and an additional 25,000 in the countryside around Fatima, as far as 25 miles away. The crowd included government officials, religious believers, and curious onlookers. Skeptics and nonbelievers looking to discredit any supernatural claims were also present, including newspaper reporters not sympathetic to Catholicism, who previously had published negative articles on the apparitions. Although substantial differences in the eyewitness accounts are claimed, no counter-evidence, beyond perceived visual differences, was reported. In the decades since, scientific explanations to discredit this event have been suggested, but they all fail for one reason or another. What are they? Read here: bit.ly/4Bvmteq

Minutes before this incident, Fr. Molinari preached the following in his homily: “All of us are going to die. Sometimes the time we have spent on things has far less meaning than the time we spend with God, the quality time we give to God, to our brothers and sisters, to our husbands, wives, children and families. That is the time best spent.” Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

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