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Thomas F Davis's avatar

"Every debate between Catholics could essentially be ended by invoking the phrase, “But the Church teaches…” This appeal to not just any authority, but divinely-backed, infallible authority, was a tremendously powerful intellectual shortcut."

I hate intellectual shortcuts, which is why I never thought “But the Church teaches…” necessarily invoked infallibility. I've had many fights with people over this.

Steve, I've been writing a series of Substack essays on science and religion. My goal is specifically to counter this tendency. If you read it you will see that the word 'humility' does come up:

https://thomasfdavis.substack.com

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Anne Heath's avatar

Holy Saturday Aside and "Treat": I didn't get to my other abode yet to pass along to you a very beautiful picture of Jesus' face imprinted on St. Veronica's veil, but I stumbled across a youtube last night that I found quite arresting and mesmerizing. The youtube creator used AI to bring historical figures to life (very addicting watching these historical figures get a "live make-over", and there's a whole slew of them). Anyway, here's the AI-aided rendition of Our Savior's face "brought to life", as He would appear based on the image imprinted on the Shroud of Turin.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NOxDItF9gG0

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