Hero Bishop Paprocki BLASTS Pro-LGBTQ Cardinal McElroy

CHRISTIANITY / CATHOLICISM / LGBT

Bishop Paprocki of the Springfield, Illinois Diocese states the obvious: if you are a openly supporting the LGBT ideology as a Catholic, you are a heretic.  Amazingly, no one has ever said this out loud before, even though everyone knows it.    

The article he published on the First Things web site has caused a shockwave to go through all of the Catholic Church.   For the first time, a bishop is publicly taking a stand against LGBT supporters in the church.   

So just who is Boethius anyway???

PHILOSOPHY / BOETHIUS

So who is Boethius anyway?   And why did I name myself after him?   

Well, read this article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to find out!

"Anicius Severinus Manlius Boethius was born into the Roman aristocracy c. 475–7 C.E.—about the same time as the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed (August 476). Boethius lived most of his life under the rule of Theoderic, an Ostrogoth educated at Constantinople, who was happy to let the old families keep up their traditions in Rome, while he wielded power in Ravenna. Boethius’s privileged social position ensured that he was taught Greek thoroughly and, though it is unlikely that he travelled to Athens or Alexandria, the sites of the two remaining (Platonic) philosophical schools, he was certainly acquainted with a good deal of the work which had been going on there. He was able to spend most of his life in learned leisure, pursuing his vast project of translating and commenting philosophical texts. The Roman aristocracy was, by his day, thoroughly Christianized, and Boethius also became involved in some of the ecclesiastical disputes of his time, centring mainly around a schism between the Latin and the Greek Churches which was resolved shortly before his death.

"Boethius’s final years are well known to anyone who has read his most popular work, the Consolation of Philosophy. He agreed to become Theoderic’s ‘Master of Offices’, one of the most senior officials, but he quickly fell out with many others at court, probably because he attacked their corruption. Accused of treason and of engaging in magic, he was imprisoned and (probably in 526) executed, but not before he had the chance to write his literary masterpiece."

Read the full article here:  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

The Importance of Hebrew with regards to the Holy Spirit in Christianity

CHRISTIANITY / HOLY SPIRIT

A very interesting blog post from Marianne Widmalm from back in April 17, 2019:

"For those of us who are Christians there is something that has been lost since around the 2nd-3rd century after Jesus walked the earth. In Hebrew, the Holy Spirit is a feminine entity. Scholars are aware of it, but most ordinary Christians are not.

"Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic, which are closely related to each other. In both languages the Spirit is feminine. The reason you cannot see the Spirit’s femininity in the New Testament is because all the earliest manuscripts we have are Greek where the gender of the Spirit is neuter. The Old Testament on the other hand was originally written in Hebrew, with minor parts in Aramaic. But, where the feminine pronouns are present, they are left out of translations.

"When Christianity transitioned from consisting of mostly Hebrew-speaking Israelites to Greek-speaking gentiles, the gender of the Spirit was gradually lost. Once the 4th century creeds were written the Holy Spirit became part of an all-masculine Trinity and the spiritual implications the feminine Spirit had also disappeared. But, if Jesus addressed the Spirit as feminine, it is worth considering if this was theologically important."

Read the full essay here: The Importance of Hebrew with regards to the Holy Spirit in Christianity