Usury, Lending, Money, and Banks

Update: 2023-05-11

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This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador Of Nonsense) discuss the banking and money lending institutions--is usury as big a problem as the Church has described? Why does the principal of usury not extend to property rental?

In current events, many people killing many people. Ancient DNA from elk tooth. Proud Boys convicted. WHO says Covid not emergency. Fire in gold mine. Hot in Vietnam. MiG-21 kills 3 women. Trump found guilty of rape. Kamala Harris announce AI Czar. Josh Alexander fighting for parents. Oklahoma says no to BlackRock. Manhattan church pro-gay art. Tucker Carlson to tweet. Pope Francis hosts Coptic Mass. Complains about TLM. Planned Parenthood now in the gender reassignment business. Pope Francis claims secret mission. Biden tells sanctuary to blow out candle. Texas Capitol occupied by gays. RFK Jr. says he'll cut big parma spending.

In the land of Nonsense, space rock invades house. Vampire fish. Star Wars weddings.

Trivia question: What 2 things does Jesus compare us to?

Show Notes:

Dan's Notes:

Holy space rocks, Batman!
https://apnews.com/article/meteorite-hits-home-hopewell-new-jersey-fd8391f8c5daea1e596ed85ed3ae5a68

Another fish story (and this time it's not a repeat)
https://apnews.com/article/washed-up-weird-fish-fangs-oregon-beach-2f68e2ab46caa9a645d137e7f22735b7

A match made in .... space?
https://apnews.com/article/star-wars-weddings-may-fourth-ohio-dd6ad971a7af909cc7b48f99c2a6a439

Eric's Notes:

Josh Alexander says his parents have been suspended from their Ontario school board jobs
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/josh-alexander-says-his-parents-have-been-suspended-from-their-ontario-school-board-jobs/

San Antonio voters overwhelmingly reject radical pro-abortion, pro-marijuana referendum
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/san-antonio-voters-overwhelmingly-reject-radical-pro-abortion-pro-marijuana-referendum/
- SAN ANTONIO, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — The second-largest city in Texas rejected a pro-abortion, leftist referendum during Saturday’s local elections.

Oklahoma bans state business with BlackRock, other financial companies over woke ESG policies
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/oklahoma-blacklists-blackrock-other-financial-companies-from-state-business-over-woke-esg-policies/

New York Catholics outraged by blasphemous transgender art exhibit at Manhattan church
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-york-catholic-outraged-by-blasphemous-transgender-art-exhibit-at-manhattan-church/
- The paintings displayed at the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in Manhattan, run by the now notoriously liberal Paulist Fathers, espouse the idolatrous and heretical ideas that we can make a “god” according to our own liking and that “there is no devil.”

Tucker Carlson to relaunch his show, post it directly to Twitter after being ousted by Fox
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/tucker-carlson-to-relaunch-his-show-post-it-directly-to-twitter-after-being-ousted-by-fox/
- ‘Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,’ the immensely popular conservative commentator said, also promising to bring ‘some other things too which we’ll tell you about.’

Pope Francis hosts Coptic Patriarch at Vatican, approves schismatic liturgy in papal basilica
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/pope-francis-hosts-coptic-patriarch-at-vatican-approves-schismatic-liturgy-in-papal-basilica/
- The Coptic Patriarch’s visit to Rome chiefly marks the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and Coptic Patriarch Pope Shenouda III in 1973. During that meeting, Paul VI and Shenouda III signed the “Joint Christological Declaration,” heralded as a breakthrough in relations between the two churches after years of “estrangement,” and which reads in part:
- The 1973 statement also condemned any attempts at “proselytism” from either the Catholics or from the Coptics: “In the name of this charity, we reject all forms of proselytism, in the sense of acts by which persons seek to disturb each other’s communities by recruiting new members from each other through methods, or because of attitudes of mind, which are opposed to the exigencies of Christian love or to what should characterize the relationships between Churches.”
- despite the fact that the Coptic Orthodox liturgies are valid but schismatic, Pope Francis has given permission for Tawadros to offer a liturgy in St. John Lateran’s Basilica this Sunday, for the Coptic faithful in Italy. The Patriarch will be given a “specially constructed altar” for the ceremony, said Father Martin Browne, an official at the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.

Planned Parenthood is now giving transgender drugs to tens of thousands of people
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-is-now-giving-transgender-drugs-to-tens-of-thousands-of-people/
- Planned Parenthood offers transgender hormone drugs in at least 31 states as of 2020 and supplied the dangerous drugs to more than 35,000 people in 2021.

Trudeau Liberals approve proposal to censor news using anonymous sources
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-liberals-approve-proposal-to-censor-news-using-anonymous-sources/
- The first reads, “BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Liberal Party of Canada: Request the Government explore options to hold on-line information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced.”
- The second resolution reads that the government “provide additional public funds to support advertisement-free news and information reporting by Canadian media through an arm’s-length non-partisan mechanism.”