Mike N

due to its anti-Catholic bias, in one of it's more disgusting programs (Pawn Stars), which is televised in Las Vegas, Nevada, that promotes itself as "Sin City", televised today what we've all already known for decades or longer, that the Bible is the BEST-SELLING, NON-FICTION book, EVER??!!! So much for atheism and those who "want proof" of whether God exists or not. Score: God 100; Atheism -1,000,000. Even the devil knows there is a God, and he knows who He is, and what His best resource "manual" is. If you have any comment, please try to keep it mature and civilized. Thank you.

Douay-Rheims Bible. I have several concordances but none complete, or "exhaustive" enough for me. It would also be good so I could go to one book instead of researching through several concordances. Any help you could give me will be dearly appreciated. God Bless you.

. . . screen that says Yahoo Answers isn't available right now? And I've been doing this over a spread of several hours today, and the only thing I can't do is get my editing to one of my answers submitted, and the question is still listed as "Open".

. . . "devout Roman Catholic" ("Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", William L. Shirer, 1981 Touchstone edition, paperback, p. 1028) who, despite his "characteristic energy" which he initially devoted to being a professional German soldier in Nazi German, was also THE man who, once he discovered that "the Jews, Russians, and POWs behind the lines" were being exterminated, characteristically devoted himself to the assassination of Hitler, even at the risk of his own life, in Operation Valkyrie, which resulted in his own execution by firing squad? It was reported that he was doing "much more" than the other conspirators in this attempt to overthrow Hitler. "His dynamic personality, the clarity of his mind, the catholicity of his ideas and his marked talents as an organizer infused new life and determination into the conspirators." (pp. 1028 & 1029). And all we hear here on Answers is that Hitler was Catholic and that the Pope (Pius XII) aligned himself with Hitler. Isn't it nice to know the truth as opposed to the ignorant and prejudiced lies? No one could've been more pro-Jew than Pope Pius XII, but his intellect was so high and the prejudice against the Church was (and is) so enormous that ignorance and hate and prejudice prevailed over knowledge and truth. Klaus von Stauffenberg, who was known for his "brilliant, inquisitive and splendidly balanced mind" would be grossly insulted to be in the presence of such ugly stupidity, as would Pope Pius XII. Since what I'm saying here is very well known fact, answers aren't really necessary.

As I do my Bible copying, I often come across verses that really make me "nervous", and these do. Are you comfortable after reading them?

removed?? That just happened only moments ago. That suggests to me a level of incompetency on the part of Yahoo that I had already suspected long ago. Your help in understanding this quagmire would be appreciated.

J.H.H. Weiler as "a religious antipathy towards believing Christians, and an intense fear of Christian moral principals, especially on issues concerning life and human sexuality", don't you think?

In the mental health field, especially in what is called Behavioral Sciences / Behavior Therapy, even a change of emotion is a change of body processes such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and thereby ruled a change of behavior, and if "work" is a behavior, which it is, then can't some agreement be reached that at least some "work" doesn't necessarily mean going out and building houses for the poor or having charitable car washes, etc., but means a much deeper and seemingly sublime internal change of body processes that come with prayer, which does occur? The behavior sciences have been aware of this for decades, and having been in the mental health field for decades as I have (now retired), I keep wondering where the incongruence of understanding is in the issue of whether we're saved by faith "alone" or works are also involved. I'm not trying to get agreement in the matter, rather, wanting your thoughts on the idea that real faith, which may include prayer and going to church and singing the songs in church and tithing, etc., are in fact works, and so "the great debate" of faith alone vs. faith and works has long ago been solved by the reality that even experiencing faith through prayer and songs and tithing, etc., and maybe even charitable car washes, etc., ARE works, as clearly established by the Behavioral Sciences many decades ago. Your thoughts.

Doesn't it seem real obvious that the q & a we get from non-Catholics, and more specifically I mean atheists and "fundies", reveal a "feel good" theology / philosophy that resembles the shallowness of that "feel good" psychology so prevalent in the 1970's? More specifically, I read their answers and questions and I feel like I'm interacting with young teenagers, or even pre-teens, who haven't gone past their adolescence and certainly lack the in-depth thinking processes, whether that be reflective thinking or intuitive thought, and certainly indicate the lack of much formal education, whether that be academic or religious. They seem stuck in either their adolescent protestations or their "terrible-twos" when they ask questions which are obviously nothing more than attacks on the Roman Catholic Church, and even then, they pick only the most publicized subjects and follow only the more "popular" lines of accusations that the press already spells out for them. Now I'm not saying I'm the best Roman Catholic there is, God forgive me, but, there seems a very clear line of distinction in the quality of questions asked and answered by Roman Catholics as opposed to the rest of those here on Answers R&S. Atheists say they don't believe there is a God, and "fundies" lack the real, unabridged Bible and the Catechism and Traditions. Again, I'm asking this only of Roman Catholics, and not attempting to insult atheists and fundies or other generally labeled protestants, but these observations have been growing in me for quite some time, so I decided to try to risk asking this potentially sensitive question simply to check them out with others of my Roman Catholic friends. God Bless you.

Or should I look at the spam e-mail before I delete it. If I open the spam folder, am I opening the spam e-mail, or just the folder? I don't want to expose my computer to viruses or even just a source of trashy e-mail.

I hate to be so blunt about it, but every time I come on here I read some of the absolute dumbest and immature and poorly thought out "questions" about the Roman Catholic Church that it just turns my stomach. Do we have so many participants that are truly so ignorant of the Roman Catholic Church, or are there so many individuals who just love to act so immature and ignorant? I laud the well thought out answers given by some of my contacts, and wonder how they can actually take the time to address the "questions" posed about the Roman Catholic Church and faith. Please, especially from my contacts, and others I guess, can you help me understand the extremely poor quality "questions" about the Roman Catholic Church / Faith?

Throughout your life, when you've come near exceeding beauty, whether you see it or hear it or feel it, or some combination of the senses, has the beauty been so beautiful that you just had to stop, or hesitate, or sometimes completely back off because it grabbed your senses so strongly that you just HAD to "slow down" or stop in your tracks?