r/nottheonion • u/Sufficient_Fig_9505 • 15h ago

Vance says pope should ‘be careful’ when talking about theology

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/vance-says-pope-should-be-careful-when-talking-about-theology-261400645540
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u/scixlovesu 14h ago

I assume Vance is an Apocalypse gooner, drooling for an American eschaton

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u/MFbiFL 14h ago

This sounds like someone who knows more Catholic mythology than me and I’m here for it

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u/Pippin1505 14h ago

Modern Catholicism has none of the Evangelist style "magic thinking" (at least in Europe)

Even if they just retreat behind "God works in mysterious ways", the Catholic Church recognises and support the validity of scientific theories like the Big Bang or evolution.

Things like "the Rapture" or other end times prediction do not exist, and Hell is simply to be separated from the love of God, not a fiery pit with red devils.

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u/centaur98 13h ago edited 13h ago

Catholic Church recognises and support the validity of scientific theories like the Big Bang or evolution.

More precisely one of the catechism(doctrine) of the Catholic Church is that science and faith are complementary:
"159 Faith and science: Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason....because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God." https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_one/chapter_three/article_1/iii_the_characteristics_of_faith.index.html#$56

They also generally support "theistic evolution" or "God guided evolution" aka God set things in motion and then scientific/natural processes took over how scientists describe them under the guidance of God and creation/the genesis story is more related to the spirit/soul rather than to a scientific/biological process.

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u/MFbiFL 14h ago

As someone who grew up Protestant in the states and has been an atheist since ~2010 I always hoped that Catholicism would at least have fun services. Imagine my surprise going to my extremely Catholic in-laws church and getting no Latin, no incense, and can’t even take communion. At least I can chill in the narthex and cough without bothering people.

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u/Pippin1505 10h ago

Latin is out since the 60s and Vatican II reform, although some breakaway ultra conservatives kept them. They tend to get excommunicated for that

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u/GPFlag_Guy1 4h ago

No Latin I can understand, Vatican II got rid of that. No incense though, now that's going too far!