Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

Great.

 

Keep in mind that this was shared by Steve Skojec, the founder of OnePeterFive, who unfortunately lost his faith a few years ago and now considers himself an agnostic.

 

I am very disappointed in this man's take on things. This has all the marks of a great deception spoken of in scripture.

 

Dear Jesus have mercy on this poor man.

 

He was a reliable authority on Fatima and its message. Many people leave the Church because they see only a caricature of it, but he understood the essence of what it means to be Catholic throughout the ages, including the existence of a faithful remnant. I find myself wondering, then, what ultimately led him to lose his faith. He did not even consider the Orthodox Church as a possible path, something many have done in light of the fruits of Vatican II.

 

Its a mystery. Is it St Paul or St Peter who said " many have gone from us because they were never part of us."
My sense is he gave in to bitterness but I have no way to know this. Just a sense.

 

From reading a lot about him and his own words, I think that he had gone too far down the path of criticism and condemnation. Too much of this leads to pride, unfortunately. Every single one of us is capable of falling away from faith through pride. Faith is a gift from God.

 

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An FSSP priest did not want to baptize his newborn son because of his family's lack of Mass attendance? Can Catholic priests do that?

 

If he was already experiencing an internal crisis of faith, this was a huge push for him to leave the Church altogether. God can call people to their vocation from a very young age, but for that, the sacrament of Baptism, as the gateway, is necessary to impart initial grace. I may be mistaken, but I believe it was a serious mistake for that priest not to baptize Steve's son.

 

Perhaps God was looking for a response of meekness. A humble asking of the priest what he must do to get his son baptized.

 

https://x.com/i/status/2051153642871521752

 

If Pastors ask you to do something, attend Mass more, attend a certain class etc., you do it or you walk away.
It is common here in USA, if a Priest doesn't see you often to ask you to attend Mass for a Month or 2 first.
I remember when this happened and it just seemed like steve was looking for
Public support on a private Church matter. Prayers for him.

 

Hmm.

 

I think there is an emphasis on flesh and blood throughout the entire process of salvation. Jesus sheds His blood on the cross for us and shows His glorified wounds in many of His apparitions. However, the popular and mystical imagination about aliens portrays them as beings that are biologically different from us; they do not have flesh and blood in the same way as Jesus, who was like us in all things except sin. I believe that one way people drift away from the mystery of the Incarnation is by focusing on the nature of beings that bear no resemblance to Christ and are supposedly free from any guilt or evil—thus, in a sense, suppressing the universal cosmology of the Fall, sin, and the need for a personal Savior.

 

To me these are the myths and fables that St Paul speaks of--so many turning from sound doctrine to embrace these delusions. I think there will be terrible pressure on everyone to accept these myths. They really intend to debunk or rewrite the Bible.

 

I question whether God would deny the baptism of a helpless, innocent child to make a point?

It also seems something of a scandal, denying a baptism.

 

It seems overly coincidental that just as the post-Enlightenment atheistic theories of science, such as Darwinism and Positivistic Determinism, are becoming completely unmoored, the rumours of such a psyop should begin to emerge. I’d suspect that it is the last desperate attempt by our elites to despiritualise the world-they cannot fully control those who follow another Master. As their work of several centuries shows signs of unravelling, they may be going with their last throw of the dice with this spectacular.

I have a feeling that the majority response will be completely underwhelming.

 

We don't know all the details. I highly doubt the priest just decided the baby wouldn't be baptized at all. I suspect he wanted the family to have some classes, catechesis or signs of attending Mass first. In parishes all over the world, you can't just have your baby baptized without going through classes first.

 

Belief in God and belief in extraterrestrials are inversely proportional—the more you believe in God, the less you believe in UFOs. Young people have grown up with films and TV series where that element is normalized, while they haven’t been raised with faith in the family like previous generations. In other words, a person becomes what they are raised to be and the values instilled in them.

However, this again shows that people tend to believe in something superior that transcends them, and belief in extraterrestrials does not necessarily reject God, since they too would require a creator. The only thing is that people find it easier to believe in certain beings than in God, because God demands responsibility for one’s own actions.

 

But, what if the child died? I’m sure they were a little more urgent in the days of high infant mortality.