Gaudete in Domine Semper

"A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use."

The one who has hope lives differently. Because the one who has hope understands pain is never permanent. There is life before and after the battle. The Cross is linked, interconnected to the Resurrection. Life comes from the Cross. That’s how Jesus endured the Cross, with hope that God would rescue Him from death and bring Him to life. That’s how He despised its shame for the glory of God. He had hope in that pain is never permanent; life goes on after death, with faith in God’s promise and mercy.

The Canadian government is currently in the process of expanding access to medically-assisted suicide, extending it to people whose conditions are not terminal and whose natural deaths are not ‘reasonably foreseeable’. In essence, it’s being extended to people with any sort of ‘serious’ disability or chronic health issue, including chronic and recurring mental illness, i.e. this law could kill me. 

Under current regulations there isn’t even a mandatory psychiatric evaluation to access it, a GP has to sign off and there’s only a 10-day ‘reflection’ period. This law could kill me.

I’m not dying. If I don’t off myself I’ll probably live to the average life expectancy. Under this law, if I hit a bad enough relapse - almost inevitable given my combination of disorders - I could die if my suffering is deemed ‘bad enough’ by some random GP. I’ve had episodes way longer than 10 days. 

Even if you support access to medically-assisted suicide, the government is making no moves to give people with these illnesses access to affordable and reliable palliative care/hospice care/disability assistance/mental health care/etc. The only ‘right’ that seems to matter is to access medically-assisted suicide, there is no equal support for giving people access to the care they need should they desire it. There is no right to basic, necessary healthcare for people who want to keep living but might need a little help to do so. The government is prioritizing our right to die over our right to get help - this is a clear message that disabled and chronically ill people (non-terminal!) aren’t valued.

I feel like you’ve been slightly mislead about Catholic beliefs and teachings. While I frankly do not have enough time to address everything you’ve written out I hope clarify some misconceptions for you. This article by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I think might clarify some of your misunderstandings. Some highlights from this include: 

“The mission of Jesus continues through the ministry of the Church that he founded, and he has given the Church the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for guidance in everything. The Revelation of Jesus is thus extended to the Apostles and handed on through two means: Sacred Scripture and Tradition. Sacred Scripture is the inspired word of God, the collection of sacred books that hand on the truth of Revelation in written form… The Living apostolic Tradition highlights the fact that the Apostles received the words and deeds of Jesus who passed on the authority to teach in his name.”

Another important point this article mentions is the fact some Christian (not just Catholic!) teaching is explicitly stated in the Bible while others are more implicit. Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly stated in the Bible, therefore most (if not all) Christians believe Christ was resurrected. The Trinity, while heavily hinted at, is not explicitly stated in the Bible. This doesn’t mean that the Trinity isn’t true, it just wasn’t explicitly stated. 

If you want to read this stuff from a more official source, here is the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s view of this.

In summary: The Bible is the Word of God. Some things are explicitly stated in the Bible while others things are implicitly stated in the Bible (usually the implicitly stated stuff causes more controversy). The Catholic Church also believe that Jesus gave the Apostles an oral tradition that is not entirely included in the Bible. 

In my opinion (oh no, here we go!) that last part is implicitly in the Bible. John 21: 23 says, “But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” This explicitly states that there are things Jesus did that are not written down in the Bible, and in my opinion implicitly confirms the idea of oral tradition that can be passed down from Apostle to follower and towards us. 

Next, before we get to your list of things that you think Catholics believe, I would like to clarify things about tradition. In Catholicism is there is three types of tradition. The first is the type you are probably most familiar with and that is the Jewish Law found in the first 5 books of the Bible (from here on out I will refer to it as the “Law’.) Catholics do not generally hold to the Law. We believe Jesus came to fulfill the Law and therefore things like circumcision, not eating shellfish, etc. are no longer binding. Hence paragraph 26 (I think? It’s late so my counting might be a bit off) is misinformed.

The second type of tradition is one you’ve probably never/rarely heard of yet you will definitely recognize some of the examples of it. In some English speaking Catholic circles it is called “little t tradition,” (as it is usually written as just tradition, while Apostolic Tradition is usually written as Tradition,) but I’m going to call it cultural tradition. Cultural traditional is different than Apostolic Tradition (which I will get to next)  in that it is not doctrinally binding.This means it can technically be reversed at any time. It also means that different Catholic Churches may have different cultural traditions. I should probably clarify what I mean by different Catholic Churches. I don’t mean actual physical churches, I mean different groups of people who all have slightly different beliefs and cultural traditions, but all are in communion with each other and all recognize the Pope as head of the Church. There are 24 Catholic Churches, the largest is the Roman Catholic Church (which is the only Western Catholic Church), and there are also 23 Eastern Catholic Churches (some examples you might be familiar with depending on where you live are the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic Church, etc.) The Wikipedia page has a fairly good article about these Churches, which I will attach here in case you are interested. Anyway, one cultural tradition you are definitely familiar with is that of celibate priests. The Roman Catholic Church for a variety of reasons decided to implement practice of celibate priests, yet many Eastern Catholic Churches do not have celibate priests. Even the Roman Catholic Church occasionally allows married men to become priests. This of course directly contradicts point 10 on your previous list. 

(Since I’m already talking about celibacy I might as well address points 11, 12, and 13 on your list. You have to understand that people who become Monks and Nuns willing choose to not get married. They know what they are getting into and not being tricked. I might be misreading your intentions, but you are seemingly under the impression that God wants everybody to get married which is 1. kinda disgusting because there are certainly people who for a variety of reasons do not wish to get married and forcing them would be horrendous, and 2. is unbiblical. Paul directly says in 1 Corinthians 7:7-9, “I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain unmarried as I am. But not if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.” Essentially, Paul wished everyone would be celibate but acknowledged that some people couldn’t handle it. Therefore, saying that choosing to remain celibate is not biblical is, well, unbiblical.)

Let’s start with things on this list that just aren’t true (that’s okay though, these are often common misconceptions that are even believed by some Catholics who aren’t particularly knowledgeable about the faith. This is in no particular order, sorry).

1. I’ve already addressed the whole celibacy thing, but I just want to clarify that we know that there have been several married Popes. We know St. Peter was married as it explicitly states that in the Bible. We are not idiots. We consider his daughter to be a Saint (St. Petronella.)

2. We believe that every Christian is a saint. The Bible explicitly states that. We also call the people in heaven Saints. To distinguish between the two we call a Christian on earth a saint and we call those in Heaven a Saint (little s vs. big S. We Catholics seem to have a thing for distinguishing two things by capitalizing letters.) Of note, everyone in heaven is a Saint however some particularly pious people are proclaimed a Saint by the Church. The reason for this and how this happens is very google-able. If you’re curious feel free to google.

1. (Salvation in Catholicism is kinda complicated to explain, I’ll try to give you the best summary I can and I will also try to give plenty of resources for you to check.) The Bible is explicitly clear on salvation. The Catholic Church does not teach that we can work our way into Heaven or that we obtained salvation through works alone. Yet, the Catholic Church does approach salvation slightly differently than Protestants do. We do believe that works play an important role in salvation and that is we will be judged by our works (See Matthew 15 and 16, Revelation 20 and 22, Romans 2, 1 Peter 1, 2 Corinthians 5, and 1 Corinthians 13:13.) But works alone is not enough. (Note: when I say works, I do not mean works of the Law [ie. following the Law of Moses], I generally mean doing things that unite us with God and our neighbour, google corporate and spiritual works of mercy if you are interested.) Catholics believe that Salvation is complete union with God. The Bible is explicitly clear on how this happens, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-not the result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Ephesians 2:9-8, NRSV.) However it is also explicitly stated in James 2:14-26 (but I will only quote 14-17) that “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” Essentially, we are saved by God’s grace through faith, but we need to actively participate with God. Here are some absolutely fabulous resource that explains Catholic views on salvation much better than I can.

2. Let’s talk about Papal Infallibility. Before I even begin to address this I think we should clarify that the Pope is not always infallible. He is only infallible under certain circumstances. Those circumstances have only happened about 2 dozen time (if I’m remembering right, I’m really tired.) Speaking on me being really tired, I’m just going to give you sources for this topic and then call it a night. I might expand on it more in the morning but it’s my birthday and I have church so I may not have time. Here is a fabulous explanation on what papal infallibility is and the history behind it. 

I’m going to sign off now, but I might address more of these claims in the morning. In the mean time, Catholic Productions has many videos that may help clear things up about Mary (1,2,3), Apostolic Succession, purgatory, and the primacy of Peter. All of which you might be interested in.

@tradcatmaria​ @tradfems @alwaysabeautifullife and @by-grace-of-god​ I believe all have resources that might interest you.

And one slight thing I want to mention that is not theologically related. Your tone throughout this post was less than ideal, especially when talking about another brother/sister in Christ. At times you appeared to me to be very condescending. I would like to kindly suggest that you work on humility. The Catholic Church has been combating some of these arguments and misconceptions for the last 500 years, the idea that she does not have some type of response to these questions is unrealistic. I hope at no point I came off as condescending or rude, and please know that if that ever happened it was unintentional and I am sorry. Good night, and God bless.

Pax Christi, 

I feel like you’ve been slightly mislead about Catholic beliefs and teachings. While I frankly do not have enough time to address everything you’ve written out I hope clarify some misconceptions for you. This article by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I think might clarify some of your misunderstandings. Some highlights from this include: 

“The mission of Jesus continues through the ministry of the Church that he founded, and he has given the Church the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for guidance in everything. The Revelation of Jesus is thus extended to the Apostles and handed on through two means: Sacred Scripture and Tradition. Sacred Scripture is the inspired word of God, the collection of sacred books that hand on the truth of Revelation in written form… The Living apostolic Tradition highlights the fact that the Apostles received the words and deeds of Jesus who passed on the authority to teach in his name.”

Another important point this article mentions is the fact some Christian (not just Catholic!) teaching is explicitly stated in the Bible while others are more implicit. Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly stated in the Bible, therefore most (if not all) Christians believe Christ was resurrected. The Trinity, while heavily hinted at, is not explicitly stated in the Bible. This doesn’t mean that the Trinity isn’t true, it just wasn’t explicitly stated. 

If you want to read this stuff from a more official source, here is the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s view of this.

In summary: The Bible is the Word of God. Some things are explicitly stated in the Bible while others things are implicitly stated in the Bible (usually the implicitly stated stuff causes more controversy). The Catholic Church also believe that Jesus gave the Apostles an oral tradition that is not entirely included in the Bible. 

In my opinion (oh no, here we go!) that last part is implicitly in the Bible. John 21: 23 says, “But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” This explicitly states that there are things Jesus did that are not written down in the Bible, and in my opinion implicitly confirms the idea of oral tradition that can be passed down from Apostle to follower and towards us. 

Next, before we get to your list of things that you think Catholics believe, I would like to clarify things about tradition. In Catholicism is there is three types of tradition. The first is the type you are probably most familiar with and that is the Jewish Law found in the first 5 books of the Bible (from here on out I will refer to it as the “Law’.) Catholics do not generally hold to the Law. We believe Jesus came to fulfill the Law and therefore things like circumcision, not eating shellfish, etc. are no longer binding. Hence paragraph 26 (I think? It’s late so my counting might be a bit off) is misinformed.

The second type of tradition is one you’ve probably never/rarely heard of yet you will definitely recognize some of the examples of it. In some English speaking Catholic circles it is called “little t tradition,” (as it is usually written as just tradition, while Apostolic Tradition is usually written as Tradition,) but I’m going to call it cultural tradition. Cultural traditional is different than Apostolic Tradition (which I will get to next)  in that it is not doctrinally binding.This means it can technically be reversed at any time. It also means that different Catholic Churches may have different cultural traditions. I should probably clarify what I mean by different Catholic Churches. I don’t mean actual physical churches, I mean different groups of people who all have slightly different beliefs and cultural traditions, but all are in communion with each other and all recognize the Pope as head of the Church. There are 24 Catholic Churches, the largest is the Roman Catholic Church (which is the only Western Catholic Church), and there are also 23 Eastern Catholic Churches (some examples you might be familiar with depending on where you live are the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic Church, etc.) The Wikipedia page has a fairly good article about these Churches, which I will attach here in case you are interested. Anyway, one cultural tradition you are definitely familiar with is that of celibate priests. The Roman Catholic Church for a variety of reasons decided to implement practice of celibate priests, yet many Eastern Catholic Churches do not have celibate priests. Even the Roman Catholic Church occasionally allows married men to become priests. This of course directly contradicts point 10 on your previous list. 

(Since I’m already talking about celibacy I might as well address points 11, 12, and 13 on your list. You have to understand that people who become Monks and Nuns willing choose to not get married. They know what they are getting into and not being tricked. I might be misreading your intentions, but you are seemingly under the impression that God wants everybody to get married which is 1. kinda disgusting because there are certainly people who for a variety of reasons do not wish to get married and forcing them would be horrendous, and 2. is unbiblical. Paul directly says in 1 Corinthians 7:7-9, “I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain unmarried as I am. But not if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.” Essentially, Paul wished everyone would be celibate but acknowledged that some people couldn’t handle it. Therefore, saying that choosing to remain celibate is not biblical is, well, unbiblical.)

Let’s start with things on this list that just aren’t true (that’s okay though, these are often common misconceptions that are even believed by some Catholics who aren’t particularly knowledgeable about the faith. This is in no particular order, sorry).

1. I’ve already addressed the whole celibacy thing, but I just want to clarify that we know that there have been several married Popes. We know St. Peter was married as it explicitly states that in the Bible. We are not idiots. We consider his daughter to be a Saint (St. Petronella.)

2. We believe that every Christian is a saint. The Bible explicitly states that. We also call the people in heaven Saints. To distinguish between the two we call a Christian on earth a saint and we call those in Heaven a Saint (little s vs. big S. We Catholics seem to have a thing for distinguishing two things by capitalizing letters.) Of note, everyone in heaven is a Saint however some particularly pious people are proclaimed a Saint by the Church. The reason for this and how this happens is very google-able. If you’re curious feel free to google.

1. (Salvation in Catholicism is kinda complicated to explain, I’ll try to give you the best summary I can and I will also try to give plenty of resources for you to check.) The Bible is explicitly clear on salvation. The Catholic Church does not teach that we can work our way into Heaven or that we obtained salvation through works alone. Yet, the Catholic Church does approach salvation slightly differently than Protestants do. We do believe that works play an important role in salvation and that is we will be judged by our works (See Matthew 15 and 16, Revelation 20 and 22, Romans 2, 1 Peter 1, 2 Corinthians 5, and 1 Corinthians 13:13.) But works alone is not enough. (Note: when I say works, I do not mean works of the Law [ie. following the Law of Moses], I generally mean doing things that unite us with God and our neighbour, google corporate and spiritual works of mercy if you are interested.) Catholics believe that Salvation is complete union with God. The Bible is explicitly clear on how this happens, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-not the result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Ephesians 2:9-8, NRSV.) However it is also explicitly stated in James 2:14-26 (but I will only quote 14-17) that “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” Essentially, we are saved by God’s grace through faith, but we need to actively participate with God. Here are some absolutely fabulous resource that explains Catholic views on salvation much better than I can.

2. Let’s talk about Papal Infallibility. Before I even begin to address this I think we should clarify that the Pope is not always infallible. He is only infallible under certain circumstances. Those circumstances have only happened about 2 dozen time (if I’m remembering right, I’m really tired.) Speaking on me being really tired, I’m just going to give you sources for this topic and then call it a night. I might expand on it more in the morning but it’s my birthday and I have church so I may not have time. Here is a fabulous explanation on what papal infallibility is and the history behind it. 

I’m going to sign off now, but I might address more of these claims in the morning. In the mean time, Catholic Productions has many videos that may help clear things up about Mary (1,2,3), Apostolic Succession, purgatory, and the primacy of Peter. All of which you might be interested in.

@tradcatmaria​ @tradfems @alwaysabeautifullife and @by-grace-of-god​ I believe all have resources that might interest you.

And one slight thing I want to mention that is not theologically related. Your tone throughout this post was less than ideal, especially when talking about another brother/sister in Christ. At times you appeared to me to be very condescending. I would like to kindly suggest that you work on humility. The Catholic Church has been combating some of these arguments and misconceptions for the last 500 years, the idea that she does not have some type of response to these questions is unrealistic. I hope at no point I came off as condescending or rude, and please know that if that ever happened it was unintentional and I am sorry. Good night, and God bless.

Pax Christi, 

I feel like you’ve been slightly mislead about Catholic beliefs and teachings. While I frankly do not have enough time to address everything you’ve written out I hope clarify some misconceptions for you. This article by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I think might clarify some of your misunderstandings. Some highlights from this include: 

“The mission of Jesus continues through the ministry of the Church that he founded, and he has given the Church the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for guidance in everything. The Revelation of Jesus is thus extended to the Apostles and handed on through two means: Sacred Scripture and Tradition. Sacred Scripture is the inspired word of God, the collection of sacred books that hand on the truth of Revelation in written form… The Living apostolic Tradition highlights the fact that the Apostles received the words and deeds of Jesus who passed on the authority to teach in his name.”

Another important point this article mentions is the fact some Christian (not just Catholic!) teaching is explicitly stated in the Bible while others are more implicit. Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly stated in the Bible, therefore most (if not all) Christians believe Christ was resurrected. The Trinity, while heavily hinted at, is not explicitly stated in the Bible. This doesn’t mean that the Trinity isn’t true, it just wasn’t explicitly stated. 

If you want to read this stuff from a more official source, here is the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s view of this.

In summary: The Bible is the Word of God. Some things are explicitly stated in the Bible while others things are implicitly stated in the Bible (usually the implicitly stated stuff causes more controversy). The Catholic Church also believe that Jesus gave the Apostles an oral tradition that is not entirely included in the Bible. 

In my opinion (oh no, here we go!) that last part is implicitly in the Bible. John 21: 23 says, “But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” This explicitly states that there are things Jesus did that are not written down in the Bible, and in my opinion implicitly confirms the idea of oral tradition that can be passed down from Apostle to follower and towards us. 

Next, before we get to your list of things that you think Catholics believe, I would like to clarify things about tradition. In Catholicism is there is three types of tradition. The first is the type you are probably most familiar with and that is the Jewish Law found in the first 5 books of the Bible (from here on out I will refer to it as the “Law’.) Catholics do not generally hold to the Law. We believe Jesus came to fulfill the Law and therefore things like circumcision, not eating shellfish, etc. are no longer binding. Hence paragraph 26 (I think? It’s late so my counting might be a bit off) is misinformed.

The second type of tradition is one you’ve probably never/rarely heard of yet you will definitely recognize some of the examples of it. In some English speaking Catholic circles it is called “little t tradition,” (as it is usually written as just tradition, while Apostolic Tradition is usually written as Tradition,) but I’m going to call it cultural tradition. Cultural traditional is different than Apostolic Tradition (which I will get to next)  in that it is not doctrinally binding.This means it can technically be reversed at any time. It also means that different Catholic Churches may have different cultural traditions. I should probably clarify what I mean by different Catholic Churches. I don’t mean actual physical churches, I mean different groups of people who all have slightly different beliefs and cultural traditions, but all are in communion with each other and all recognize the Pope as head of the Church. There are 24 Catholic Churches, the largest is the Roman Catholic Church (which is the only Western Catholic Church), and there are also 23 Eastern Catholic Churches (some examples you might be familiar with depending on where you live are the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic Church, etc.) The Wikipedia page has a fairly good article about these Churches, which I will attach here in case you are interested. Anyway, one cultural tradition you are definitely familiar with is that of celibate priests. The Roman Catholic Church for a variety of reasons decided to implement practice of celibate priests, yet many Eastern Catholic Churches do not have celibate priests. Even the Roman Catholic Church occasionally allows married men to become priests. This of course directly contradicts point 10 on your previous list. 

(Since I’m already talking about celibacy I might as well address points 11, 12, and 13 on your list. You have to understand that people who become Monks and Nuns willing choose to not get married. They know what they are getting into and not being tricked. I might be misreading your intentions, but you are seemingly under the impression that God wants everybody to get married which is 1. kinda disgusting because there are certainly people who for a variety of reasons do not wish to get married and forcing them would be horrendous, and 2. is unbiblical. Paul directly says in 1 Corinthians 7:7-9, “I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain unmarried as I am. But not if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.” Essentially, Paul wished everyone would be celibate but acknowledged that some people couldn’t handle it. Therefore, saying that choosing to remain celibate is not biblical is, well, unbiblical.)

Let’s start with things on this list that just aren’t true (that’s okay though, these are often common misconceptions that are even believed by some Catholics who aren’t particularly knowledgeable about the faith. This is in no particular order, sorry).

1. I’ve already addressed the whole celibacy thing, but I just want to clarify that we know that there have been several married Popes. We know St. Peter was married as it explicitly states that in the Bible. We are not idiots. We consider his daughter to be a Saint (St. Petronella.)

2. We believe that every Christian is a saint. The Bible explicitly states that. We also call the people in heaven Saints. To distinguish between the two we call a Christian on earth a saint and we call those in Heaven a Saint (little s vs. big S. We Catholics seem to have a thing for distinguishing two things by capitalizing letters.) Of note, everyone in heaven is a Saint however some particularly pious people are proclaimed a Saint by the Church. The reason for this and how this happens is very google-able. If you’re curious feel free to google.

I feel like you’ve been slightly mislead about Catholic beliefs and teachings. While I frankly do not have enough time to address everything you’ve written out I hope clarify some misconceptions for you. This article by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I think might clarify some of your misunderstandings. Some highlights from this include: 

“The mission of Jesus continues through the ministry of the Church that he founded, and he has given the Church the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for guidance in everything. The Revelation of Jesus is thus extended to the Apostles and handed on through two means: Sacred Scripture and Tradition. Sacred Scripture is the inspired word of God, the collection of sacred books that hand on the truth of Revelation in written form… The Living apostolic Tradition highlights the fact that the Apostles received the words and deeds of Jesus who passed on the authority to teach in his name.”

Another important point this article mentions is the fact some Christian (not just Catholic!) teaching is explicitly stated in the Bible while others are more implicit. Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly stated in the Bible, therefore most (if not all) Christians believe Christ was resurrected. The Trinity, while heavily hinted at, is not explicitly stated in the Bible. This doesn’t mean that the Trinity isn’t true, it just wasn’t explicitly stated. 

If you want to read this stuff from a more official source, here is the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s view of this.

In summary: The Bible is the Word of God. Some things are explicitly stated in the Bible while others things are implicitly stated in the Bible (usually the implicitly stated stuff causes more controversy). The Catholic Church also believe that Jesus gave the Apostles an oral tradition that is not entirely included in the Bible. 

In my opinion (oh no, here we go!) that last part is implicitly in the Bible. John 21: 23 says, “But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” This explicitly states that there are things Jesus did that are not written down in the Bible, and in my opinion implicitly confirms the idea of oral tradition that can be passed down from Apostle to follower and towards us. 

Next, before we get to your list of things that you think Catholics believe, I would like to clarify things about tradition. In Catholicism is there is three types of tradition. The first is the type you are probably most familiar with and that is the Jewish Law found in the first 5 books of the Bible (from here on out I will refer to it as the “Law’.) Catholics do not generally hold to the Law. We believe Jesus came to fulfill the Law and therefore things like circumcision, not eating shellfish, etc. are no longer binding. Hence paragraph 26 (I think? It’s late so my counting might be a bit off) is misinformed.

The second type of tradition is one you’ve probably never/rarely heard of yet you will definitely recognize some of the examples of it. In some English speaking Catholic circles it is called “little t tradition,” (as it is usually written as just tradition, while Apostolic Tradition is usually written as Tradition,) but I’m going to call it cultural tradition. Cultural traditional is different than Apostolic Tradition (which I will get to next)  in that it is not doctrinally binding.This means it can technically be reversed at any time. It also means that different Catholic Churches may have different cultural traditions. I should probably clarify what I mean by different Catholic Churches. I don’t mean actual physical churches, I mean different groups of people who all have slightly different beliefs and cultural traditions, but all are in communion with each other and all recognize the Pope as head of the Church. There are 24 Catholic Churches, the largest is the Roman Catholic Church (which is the only Western Catholic Church), and there are also 23 Eastern Catholic Churches (some examples you might be familiar with depending on where you live are the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic Church, etc.) The Wikipedia page has a fairly good article about these Churches, which I will attach here in case you are interested. Anyway, one cultural tradition you are definitely familiar with is that of celibate priests. The Roman Catholic Church for a variety of reasons decided to implement practice of celibate priests, yet many Eastern Catholic Churches do not have celibate priests. Even the Roman Catholic Church occasionally allows married men to become priests. This of course directly contradicts point 10 on your previous list. 

(Since I’m already talking about celibacy I might as well address points 11, 12, and 13 on your list. You have to understand that people who become Monks and Nuns willing choose to not get married. They know what they are getting into and not being tricked. I might be misreading your intentions, but you are seemingly under the impression that God wants everybody to get married which is 1. kinda disgusting because there are certainly people who for a variety of reasons do not wish to get married and forcing them would be horrendous, and 2. is unbiblical. Paul directly says in 1 Corinthians 7:7-9, “I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain unmarried as I am. But not if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.” Essentially, Paul wished everyone would be celibate but acknowledged that some people couldn’t handle it. Therefore, saying that choosing to remain celibate is not biblical is, well, unbiblical.)

I feel like you’ve been slightly mislead about Catholic beliefs and teachings. While I frankly do not have enough time to address everything you’ve written out I hope clarify some misconceptions for you. This article by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I think might clarify some of your misunderstandings. Some highlights from this include: 

“The mission of Jesus continues through the ministry of the Church that he founded, and he has given the Church the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for guidance in everything. The Revelation of Jesus is thus extended to the Apostles and handed on through two means: Sacred Scripture and Tradition. Sacred Scripture is the inspired word of God, the collection of sacred books that hand on the truth of Revelation in written form... The Living apostolic Tradition highlights the fact that the Apostles received the words and deeds of Jesus who passed on the authority to teach in his name.”

Another important point this article mentions is the fact some Christian (not just Catholic!) teaching is explicitly stated in the Bible while others are more implicit. Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly stated in the Bible, therefore most (if not all) Christians believe Christ was resurrected. The Trinity, while heavily hinted at, is not explicitly stated in the Bible. This doesn’t mean that the Trinity isn’t true, it just wasn’t explicitly stated. 

If you want to read this stuff from a more official source, here is the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s view of this.

In summary: The Bible is the Word of God. Some things are explicitly stated in the Bible while others things are implicitly stated in the Bible (usually the implicitly stated stuff causes more controversy). The Catholic Church also believe that Jesus gave the Apostles an oral tradition that is not entirely included in the Bible. 

In my opinion (oh no, here we go!) that last part is implicitly in the Bible. John 21: 23 says, “But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” This explicitly states that there are things Jesus did that are not written down in the Bible, and in my opinion implicitly confirms the idea of oral tradition that can be passed down from Apostle to follower and towards us. 

And like, I’m only saying this cause people have such a poor understanding of actual, legitamite and Holy Christian theology that they can’t even comprehend that we have a complex relationship with God where we question things and doubt and fear.

Controversially, Christian people have struggled and fought from the very start to exist and continue to suffer and die for their faith.

I’m ranting but it’s just sad. Maybe actually bother to learn something about Christianity (or Catholicism since I am coming from a Catholic point of view) because a whole bunch of what people say and think is wrong because every one has a watered down, secularized and poorly represented version of Christians.

I also feel that many Christians are disconnected from their Jewish roots.  How many people’s Bible studies have focused on Leviticus and how it relates to Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross? 

But that doesn’t mean people should diss Christians who are unfamilar with Temple Law and the dispora, but rather welcome them into a fuller understanding of the faith.

Jews would prefer you didn’t try to reconnect with “your Jewish roots.” Learn about other cultures but don’t do it to get closer to Jesus. For fuck’s sake, Leviticus in the Torah is not related to Jesus on the cross.

I am not dissing people who are unfamiliar with temple law and the diaspora. I am dissing people who know they are unfamiliar and pretend otherwise. People who refuse to learn. People who want to insist Judaism and Christianity are the same. We’re not. We’re incredibly different.

And like, I’m only saying this cause people have such a poor understanding of actual, legitamite and Holy Christian theology that they can’t even comprehend that we have a complex relationship with God where we question things and doubt and fear.

Controversially, Christian people have struggled and fought from the very start to exist and continue to suffer and die for their faith.

I’m ranting but it’s just sad. Maybe actually bother to learn something about Christianity (or Catholicism since I am coming from a Catholic point of view) because a whole bunch of what people say and think is wrong because every one has a watered down, secularized and poorly represented version of Christians.

I also feel that many Christians are disconnected from their Jewish roots.  How many people’s Bible studies have focused on Leviticus and how it relates to Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross? 

But that doesn’t mean people should diss Christians who are unfamilar with Temple Law and the dispora, but rather welcome them into a fuller understanding of the faith.

Jews would prefer you didn’t try to reconnect with “your Jewish roots.” Learn about other cultures but don’t do it to get closer to Jesus. For fuck’s sake, Leviticus in the Torah is not related to Jesus on the cross.

I am not dissing people who are unfamiliar with temple law and the diaspora. I am dissing people who know they are unfamiliar and pretend otherwise. People who refuse to learn. People who want to insist Judaism and Christianity are the same. We’re not. We’re incredibly different.