Cordelia_Fitzgerald

Why would God choose to reveal himself to only one nation? If the goal is for people to know God, why didn't he make covenants with peoples all over the world so everyone would have an equal chance to know him?

Why do I get the benefit of being born into a Catholic family while other people may have never heard of God? It seems like I have an unfair advantage right from the start.

This was one of the top comments the last time he did an AMA.

His answer that time was “ask Harry Potter”.

But a major breaking point was that at the time I was studying philosophy (with permission from the order), and I was studying Kant, Hegel, Marx, Neitzsche. Really hard to maintain it if you take any of those guys seriously.

Don't all Jesuits spend several years studying philosophy as part of the standard Jesuit education? They all study those philosophers, yet most of them maintain their Catholic beliefs. You can study different perspectives without adopting them.

To become a priest they generally need at least two years of philosophy study. They don't necessarily need a degree in it.

Nowerdays they usually like men to already have a bachelor's before entering seminary. Many who already know they want to be priests double major in Philosophy and Theology. But men can enter with any degree (I know a college freshman who wants to be a priest who's majoring in business management, which will actually be extremely helpful in managing a parish).

After that they have six years of graduate level study-- two focusing on Philosophy and four on Theology with classes on things such as pastoral counseling, financial management of a parish, homiletics, working with diverse communities, practicums in how to say Mass, and other things like that sprinkled in.

Of course not all monks are priests. Some are lay brothers and they would generally have much less education.

Those aren't the Catholic definitions of charity, faith, and hope.

You guys are using different definitions.