someone should start making movies about the Super Saints, and call it the CCU - Catholic Cinematic Universe.

Beautifully put! Super heroes are just that, beyond what a human can accomplish. Saints (aka superhumans) are unique humans magnified through Christ and possible to do with a means of accomplishing it.

A saint is any true believer in JesusChrist not a superhuman !, the apostles addressed those believers in the various churches to which they wrote as saints. They were not super humans just ordinary believers. @@georgefuentes4112

I wanna see a video on Fatima or Guadalupe’s Tilma. Let’s make it happen guys!

He should do a video on Fatima, or the Shroud of Turin, or Guadalupe. Great Miracles. Let’s make it happen guys!

@@kyrptonite1825 haha yeah, although this wasn't just a little KZfaq video, this was a full feature film. It was really well produced as well.

i agree with this and have said as much elsewhere it’s clear how revelation illuminated what God had already written in man’s heart

Have any more info on this? I heard the Golden Rule is similar to something called the “silver rule” or something in rabbinic Judaism.

Nvm… the silver rule was a negative haha

My confirmation saint. When I first heard his story I was so struck by it I knew he was my saint.

Just because the Liberals have attacked one of our great Saints, St. Mother Teresa, doesn't mean that we should lower her standing vs. St. Maximilian Kolbe. Both of these great Saints have given all of us something to strive for, and how we too, can live out the Christian message!

@rosiegirl2485 nah. Its the catholics who served with and under her who shared horror stories of abuse and forced conversions. Some we so scandalized by her they converted to other religions, not wanting to be associated with her.

@@thehitomiboy7379 Go away...

@@thehitomiboy7379 source please, i would like to read up and research. Mystery of our good God: why her congregation of nuns still exists today continuing her type of ministry.

@po18guy “1. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” (John 17:1-4, KJV)

@po18guy τη γαρ χαριτι εστε σεσωσμενοι δια της πιστεως και τουτο ουκ εξ υμων θεου το δωρον ουκ εξ εργων ινα μη τις καυχησηται

@po18guy you must be a muslim, because you believe in mans traditions and not Gods

Teresa

@@po18guy הבטחים על־חילם וברב עשׁרם יתהללו׃ אח לא־פדה יפדה אישׁ לא־יתן לאלהים כפרו׃

@@po18guy if you do not believe in the finished work of Christ then you are going to take the full brunt of the law in the second death because you make a mockery of what God has done for you.

Forcing people to convert does absolutely nothing. God sees the matters of the heart, if it's not an honest conversion then you're wasting water and disrespecting the sacrament. That alone discredits the claim. No serious Catholic missionary would consider that approach.

@@alonsoACR which is why I don't believe it too, I think it's way too stupid if you really believe in God to do something like that, but I am really curious as to why my Indian roommate says Mother Theresa is not loved there. I want to hear the arguments against her to be treated objectively.

@@this_is_arge Agreed, every position should be given a fair chance. Maybe you can tell your roommate that you can't just "join" the Catholic Church in a day. Muslims just say one sentence in front of two witnesses, Hindus don't do anything, some Protestants give you same-day baptism, but we're Catholic. It takes months, including lots of classes, then after you're proven knowledgeable and willing, a baptism with a priest and then after that a visit to the Bishop to get a Confirmation. I know cradle Catholics who weren't given Confirmation, because they said they were feeling a bit of pressure from their parents. That is enough to postpone the event. You can't just get sick, visit a hospital, and leave a Catholic Catechumen.

From what I have generally gathered, a lot of negativity about Mother Theresa came after she was already gone and the main Church investigations were concluded. Despite what some people may think, the Church does and has postponed or even dropped cases for sainthood if there’s a lot of issues surrounding a person. As an example, there was a priest (can’t think of his name right now) whose cause for canonization has been paused for a long while because of alleged connections to the “Gunpowder Plot” during England’s Catholic persecution. That’s the one where Guy Fawkes, a Catholic, planned to blow up the English Parliament after years of persecution by English authorities and he got caught before the plot took effect. Some say the mentioned priest and others had NOTHING at all to do with the plot, others paint all Catholics as itching to blow up Parliament. Obviously the plot didn’t work and given the tangled history of the whole thing, quite a few good Catholics who died in the ensuring years have been denied case openings because of unreliable and/or suspicious accounts of what happened. A mess all around as one can see and one that the Church does have to tread with caution on given how she defines Saints and what support is needed for their cause (miracles, holy life, etc). If Mother Theresa was this horrible person as current people claim, then either the Church was incompetent in the investigation and later miracle documentation or there’s an effort to mar her reputation. Given the statements and evidence at the time, I doubt the former but can concede there may have been cultural differences and unclear events that may have been negatively perceived by onlookers. To the extent that paints Mother Theresa and the other Sisters as monsters, though, seems more like a deliberate attack on people who cannot defend themselves. @alonso19989 is also right that Catholic conversions normally take a lot of time, and forced conversions are disallowed by the Church since they violate a person’s free will. Perhaps as the people lay dying during their last days on earth, Mother Theresa and the Sisters spoke of God, Jesus, church teachings, etc and the patients thought they would “take a chance” on the Catholic view of death and converted in their last moments. I remember secular people decrying Mother Theresa and the Sisters as ‘terrible’ because they wouldn’t give women birth control, but… that’s kind of a Catholic thing to not allow BC for a variety of theological reasons, and honestly recent studies heavy point to there being health reasons why BC should be a carefully monitored and prescribed thing. So maybe the “forced conversions” were claimed by family, friends, or opportunists who didn’t want others to know the person wanted to genuinely convert for personal, family, political, or social reasons. India does have a strong caste system which greatly shapes and affects how people interact with each other. Part of the caste idea is that one who is born in a “lower level” must have done something bad to merit such station in their life so they “deserve” whatever happens to them. Christian theology, however, endorses innate human dignity for ALL people, especially the poor and those who cannot fend for themselves. Perhaps those in certain positions were worried that people would start demanding better treatment for the less well to do of society, so they painted Mother Theresa and the Sisters of Charity as this malicious, foreign group who did not actually care about the poor and had ulterior motives for what they did. Not saying abuse can never happen, as history shows that where humans exist, there’s instances of sin and people not living up to Christian virtues, but once again the “widespread” claims seem more of an opportunistic attack on Mother Theresa’s credibility and trying to downplay or demonize the work done by the Sisters.

After the accelerated westernization of India (even more with the internet) and the smear campaign spearheaded by Hitchens I imagine she may be conflating what younger indians think (or what the perceived idea she gets from the media, be it MSM or Tiktok) with what actual Indians from all age brackets actually think. There's an reddit post explaining all the lies and misrepresentations Hitchens did, and Joe summs it up perfectly: the guy is complaining about lack of medication and perfect sanitary conditions when even hospitals in Kolkata lacked. If I find it I'll edit this post and you can show it to your roomate.

Joe should definitely write a book! And make a video about Fatima’s sun miracle!

While Catholic miracles are awesome, and are some of my favorite things to research and talk about, this may be an area that requires some navigation. The big thing I can think of is making sure the person is receptive to the idea of miracles in the first place. For example, there’s some people who set up criteria of what a miracle is and put the Catholic on the defensive to explain it. Well, the Catholic can do the best they can, provide all the scientific evidence, witness statements, physical evidence, etc, yet the person will then claim “miracles can’t exist because they defy X laws.” At that point, they can never be convinced of miracles because they deny miracles can ever exist because of X, Y, Z laws and ‘science’, even though a miracle is partially defined as an event happening DESPITE the X, Y, Z laws. Kind of like how Matt Dillahunty will constantly demand “evidence” for theistic claim, and then change the criteria of what evidence is “credible” or even narrow it further to “actual evidence” and then claim “there’s no *evidence* of this, therefor I’m not convinced so this theistic point is dumb/unfounded.” If you get past the “miracles can happen” hurdle, it then becomes working with what’s available and presenting it in a way that can convince the other party. This can be tough for Catholic miracles like Fatima, apparitions, etc because some fundamentalists think EVERYTHING Catholic related is actually demonic, especially Marian related miracles. Or that the Church “covers up” or “manipulates” things. There’s also those open to supernatural things, but chalk things up to aliens. Hence Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World phrase “It’s always aliens” or “It’s always demons”, though apparently demon-aliens have a following as well 😂😅 Not saying one can’t reasonably support and explain miracles in a way that points to the Church as being true, but all it takes is some person to knit-pick one relatively minor or inconsequential thing and *poof* the miracle is “disproven” to the public. Like, think of the trove of scientific data from Eucharistic miracles (blood samples, witness statements, some repeatable miracles, etc), the water from Lourdes healing people (along with other similar places, including oil from relics and saints), and even Fatima had self-acclaimed skeptics who supported the Dancing Sun. All this, and people either plug their ears to it, find one or two small things to over blow and discredit the whole miracle for, or bend themselves backwards into knots to explain it all away as “natural” causes. In the end, miracles are a nice ornament to bolster Catholic claims, but they shouldn’t be the crutch or main focus when trying to convince others. If we can’t get them to believe the Church professes truth, or at least get people to stop calling the Church “satanic” and all that, then it’s like the Pharisees claiming Jesus worked with Beelzebub to cast out demons. As an aside, I actually have seen quite a number of apologists and others talking about miracles and the like. Even some great updates on things like the Shroud from what I’ve gathered. But, that’s also by people who really study the miracle and have made it part of their mission to spread the truth and support for it. For some apologists, miracles are not their focus and their talents are geared toward another aspect of the faith. In fact, an apologist who isn’t aware of the ins and outs of a miracle can say something misleading or incorrect about the miracle, ruining the truth and turning people away instead of toward truth.

@@jendoe9436can you please provide the names of the apologetics who talk about miracles? I’m intrigued as to how they would explain it to Protestants who claim it’s all demonic etc…

@@stallelio376 Not sure if he uses it in his apologetics work that much, but Jimmy Akin has numerous videos on his ‘JA’s Mysterious World” podcast that involve miracles. He’a gone over Marian apparitions like Our Lady of Akita and Our Lady of Egypt (starts with a Z but the exact name escapes me right now), general miracles, Eucharistic miracles, and other seemingly miraculous things like prophecies. Given the format of the show he presents what happened, follows up of anything has changed since the initial occurrence, and then evaluates the claim based on reason and faith. In the Egypt apparition, he goes over why things like human involvement, light tricks, mass hysteria, etc don’t work as natural responses and that since Mary wanted everyone to repent and follow Jesus that it couldn’t be demonic. That’s one example that I think helps form a basis for anyone who wants to use miracles in their apologetic discussions. Trent Horn has sometimes cited Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun has prove that miraculous things can happen, and point out how dissenters still complain about ‘lack of evidence’ even though non-believers witnessed and attested to the truth of the events. I know other Catholic Answers people have talked about certain miracles sometimes, but not that often cause as I mentioned previously, it’s not something they employ that much.

@@jendoe9436 thank you! I’ll go check them out

The argument here is for the existence of beauty _itself._ Technically, last video's argument. A book, true or false, can be beautiful. The Islamic argument is that the beauty of the book itself proves their claim, and it doesn't.

You didn't watch the video so I'm not reading your comment. If you are too hung up on anti Catholicism to even hear an argument long enough to know what it is, you definitely don't have any worthwhile counter point

There's no room for the true definition of saints, in your belief. (souls who are purified (state of grace) in heaven are called saints). People still on earth are not called saints. They are not mere men and women. They contributed to the Christianization of Europe and to the birth of the Western society. There are thousands of saints. Saints like: St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuits with the aim of proclaiming the Gospel in charity and truth, placing an emphasis on interior renewal. They brought the evangelic message to the whole world with their missionary activities..

​@@marvalice3455You're right. I'm watching it now.

Brother, as a former protestant who majored in Bible at an evangelical college, your scriptural references are totally legit. HOWEVER... just because a word is used one way in scripture does not negate another, more technical, use of the same word. The Catholic Church doesn't deny your usage. It simply has another usage to draw distinctions. Saint means, essentially, Holy. When we say Saint Paul, we mean. Holy Paul. This is why you sometimes hear angels referred to as saints. Holy Gabriel, etc etc. So, while all of those who are set apart by God are in one sense saints, we can also say that those who have lived heroic lives of faith and received the crown of glory are Saints in another, more specific sense. I hope that's helpful.

I guess what I mean to say is we can recognize our disagreements without getting hung up on word usage. It's fine to discuss our differences, but let's not waste time with something on which we DON'T actually disagree.

Gods grace first Men co operate with God

There’s a lot of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and lies told about Mother Teresa. But Catholic sites do a good job defending her.

stop playing with yourself then you won't have the willies

nah, you and your faith tradition is too shallow, ignorant, and illogical to understand any "catholic" teaching. You gotta await for the Holy Spirit to school you further.

U attend a church that is 20yrs old and has skipped 2000yrs of Christianity. How very sad

I'm glad Joe didn't bring the opposite of saints as examples of false churches produce, we have them here in the comments.

May God bless you, enlighten your soul with the truth and fill your speech with love instead.

Saints made Christianity alive and real. They are men and women with spiritual strength and faith, who sacrificed their existence, giving up everything else, sacrificed themselves to God’s will and for the sake of their brothers..

@@MartinaStC “24. ¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 25. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26. Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 27. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” (Luke 13:24-28, KJV)

@@joekey8464 “10. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11. He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15. For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.” (Matthew 13:10-15, KJV)

AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Lesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.