This brought me to tears. Thank you for allowing us to know this beautiful people, family and place. I wish Calum was my grandfather! How beautiful our faith is
The beauty of this couple brought me to tears. Asking myself for praying as I married a man that rebukes his catholic faith after i found faith. Pleae treasure the immense blessing of having married a catholic practising spouse. God bless you all. Keep Françoise and Fabio in your prayers
I was following your channel but then stopped. I am not Catholic because I can’t get to a Catholic Church. I am in mid Wales. I was in Cambridgeshire but moved in 2021.
A lovely family. However, I think the title could have been "the most complete testimonial for catholicism" as I didn't really see where anything was presented in the form of an argument. A Buddhist or Hindu family could just as easily tell many an interesting story of their lives and how their faith in Vishnu inspired them and guided them through the tough times. I could tell stories of how educators and intellectuals ignited my passion for science and philosophy, and how that shift in perspective has shelved hateful ideologies I used to subscribe to and made me a better person. But, neither would be arguments for any worldview or belief structure being true, at most its anecdotal evidence that a given worldview is useful to some people in certain situations. For a blunt example; if a crackhead turns his life around because he believes the cosmic pink unicorn appeared to him and cured his addiction, that's not a justification for any sensible person to suddenly accept the existence of either cosmic unicorns or magic cures for chemical drug dependence. Again, lovely family. I bet the holidays are wonderful in that house.
If many crackheads credited a pink unicorn continually over the course of 2000 years the pink unicorn would gain a justified following. Grateful again for your thoughts. One of the channel's aim is to make the real life argument. Plenty of channels out there making the case in a more facts from a book way, all very good but Catholics have in large number rejected the tenets of the faith for a more comfortable version. I think it's good to see the faithful Catholic's life in action. Someone else doing something is an argument to do it yourself. Large parts of their testimony is uniquely Catholic and far removed even from the cultural Catholic. It's not highlighted in FOX news style but it's there. For example the boy they adopted at 7 from a single Irish mum. A difficult child with enormous medical issues. Today, in the UK, adoption is not a big thing (Government close down the largest agency, which was run by Catholics) nor would his birth have been likely. Since the abortion act in England and the repeal of the right to life in Ireland he would most likely have ended up in human waste disposal before he got out of the womb. He did however make it and a Catholic marriage took a chance on him, a leap of faith you might say. The mother credits his life and influence on their natural born son as reason behind him starting Mary's Meals, a now well known international charity. God's ways are not mans' ways and post Christian man stripes the case for life down to the individual, poor quality of life etc... should be killed as an act of mercy. The Church makes you a part of a family. You're not stand alone, you're part of something with inherent value beyond your biological matter. And so in this case it has proved to be so. Not easy, not painless, a real step into the unknown but with a legacy that has gone on to feed millions. That my friend is an argument. One made all the better, I say, for the manner of it's telling. The Atheist Carpenter alludes to former Christian? Did you throw out the pro life baby with the hateful bathwater? You must share with us. You're exactly the kind of viewer i hope for.
@@oneofnine ah, but a large following is also not an argument, or at the most its an argument ad populum which is a fallacy. "Do many people believe a claim" is a separate question from "is the claim itself true and testable". Many people believe in Islam, but you would say its false. Many people believe in crystals and voodoo and quantum vibrations or whatever Deepak Chopra is selling these days, but they cannot demonstrate the objective truth of their assertions to my satisfaction. For abortion, we'll have to talk about moral frameworks.(I'll to make this as straightforward as possible but it might take a fair bit of explaining) My morality is based not just on human life, but more broadly the well-being of conscious creatures. I don't approve of the unnecessary suffering of any human being or any animal that is conscious enough to feel pain and misery. This is particularly important to cases of abortion because I differentiate between a fetus that is technically a human with a heartbeat, and a conscious entity that has the ability to suffer. For example, if you took my brain out of my body, there's nothing really important about the rest of me. All my thoughts, beliefs, dreams, and awareness of my own existence are processes of cognition that occur in my brain. My body absent a brain is nothing but inanimate meat and skin. Another example is someone who has suffered traumatic brain injury and brain death, but modern technology can still keep them technically alive with breathing machines and heart pumps. A corpse is still "human". A mosquito is still "alive" and a comatose patient whose brain has disintegrated into mush can still be a "human life" but I would argue there's not a person with rights to consider in either of those three instances. So how this all relates to my position on abortion is that until brain activity can be detected in a developing fetus, I don't consider it a conscious creature. A human life yes, but not a person until that point. So with my moral framework I see the majority of abortions that take place in the first trimester to be acceptable. After that point the only exception is agree with are instances of still birth or medical emergencies where the mother will likely die if the pregnancy is continued. I don't factor in concepts like souls or god as I don't believe in them. I caveat all this with the knowledge that I'm not a doctor, or a woman, or a being with absolute knowledge on these things. I've done the best I can with the information available to me.
@@oneofnine I'd like to ask you a question along the same vein as abortion, would it be moral to have one if you were 100% convinced that God were commanding you to do it? A passage from 1 Samuel 15: "Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, *children and infants*, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” Is it moral for a desert barbarian to strike down infants and children with a sharpened hunk of bronze? Because he was convinced that God told a prophet it's what he wanted? It doesn't sound like this sort of scripture is compatible with a pro life stance that respects all human life from conception to natural death.
This brought me to tears. Thank you for allowing us to know this beautiful people, family and place. I wish Calum was my grandfather! How beautiful our faith is
The beauty of this couple brought me to tears. Asking myself for praying as I married a man that rebukes his catholic faith after i found faith. Pleae treasure the immense blessing of having married a catholic practising spouse. God bless you all. Keep Françoise and Fabio in your prayers
This was amazing and beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing these videos. God bless you and your work.
Ruth. It's so lovely. All these amazing ordinary lives.
Are you new to the channel, how did you come across it?
Thank you.
I was following your channel but then stopped. I am not Catholic because I can’t get to a Catholic Church. I am in mid Wales. I was in Cambridgeshire but moved in 2021.
Another well done, interesting episode; helpful for younger, youngish Catholics who might have doubts or issues with the Faith.
Beautiful. Very inspiring. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for making this!
A channel favourite for me.
What an inspirational couple!
Beautiful. Trust!
Loving this, but it would be helpful to audiences outside the UK to have English subtitles. Thank you for everything you do ❤️
Vivienne a few episodes we need to do subs for. Which language would u like?
You can follow along/read along by scrolling down and clicking on the “show transcript”.
Lovely baby ❤
Beautiful.
What a beautiful (old) couple who have blessed many.
Such a special episode.
A lovely family. However, I think the title could have been "the most complete testimonial for catholicism" as I didn't really see where anything was presented in the form of an argument.
A Buddhist or Hindu family could just as easily tell many an interesting story of their lives and how their faith in Vishnu inspired them and guided them through the tough times. I could tell stories of how educators and intellectuals ignited my passion for science and philosophy, and how that shift in perspective has shelved hateful ideologies I used to subscribe to and made me a better person. But, neither would be arguments for any worldview or belief structure being true, at most its anecdotal evidence that a given worldview is useful to some people in certain situations.
For a blunt example; if a crackhead turns his life around because he believes the cosmic pink unicorn appeared to him and cured his addiction, that's not a justification for any sensible person to suddenly accept the existence of either cosmic unicorns or magic cures for chemical drug dependence.
Again, lovely family. I bet the holidays are wonderful in that house.
If many crackheads credited a pink unicorn continually over the course of 2000 years the pink unicorn would gain a justified following.
Grateful again for your thoughts. One of the channel's aim is to make the real life argument. Plenty of channels out there making the case in a more facts from a book way, all very good but Catholics have in large number rejected the tenets of the faith for a more comfortable version. I think it's good to see the faithful Catholic's life in action. Someone else doing something is an argument to do it yourself.
Large parts of their testimony is uniquely Catholic and far removed even from the cultural Catholic. It's not highlighted in FOX news style but it's there. For example the boy they adopted at 7 from a single Irish mum. A difficult child with enormous medical issues. Today, in the UK, adoption is not a big thing (Government close down the largest agency, which was run by Catholics) nor would his birth have been likely. Since the abortion act in England and the repeal of the right to life in Ireland he would most likely have ended up in human waste disposal before he got out of the womb. He did however make it and a Catholic marriage took a chance on him, a leap of faith you might say. The mother credits his life and influence on their natural born son as reason behind him starting Mary's Meals, a now well known international charity. God's ways are not mans' ways and post Christian man stripes the case for life down to the individual, poor quality of life etc... should be killed as an act of mercy. The Church makes you a part of a family. You're not stand alone, you're part of something with inherent value beyond your biological matter. And so in this case it has proved to be so. Not easy, not painless, a real step into the unknown but with a legacy that has gone on to feed millions. That my friend is an argument. One made all the better, I say, for the manner of it's telling.
The Atheist Carpenter alludes to former Christian? Did you throw out the pro life baby with the hateful bathwater?
You must share with us. You're exactly the kind of viewer i hope for.
@@oneofnine ah, but a large following is also not an argument, or at the most its an argument ad populum which is a fallacy. "Do many people believe a claim" is a separate question from "is the claim itself true and testable". Many people believe in Islam, but you would say its false. Many people believe in crystals and voodoo and quantum vibrations or whatever Deepak Chopra is selling these days, but they cannot demonstrate the objective truth of their assertions to my satisfaction.
For abortion, we'll have to talk about moral frameworks.(I'll to make this as straightforward as possible but it might take a fair bit of explaining)
My morality is based not just on human life, but more broadly the well-being of conscious creatures. I don't approve of the unnecessary suffering of any human being or any animal that is conscious enough to feel pain and misery. This is particularly important to cases of abortion because I differentiate between a fetus that is technically a human with a heartbeat, and a conscious entity that has the ability to suffer.
For example, if you took my brain out of my body, there's nothing really important about the rest of me. All my thoughts, beliefs, dreams, and awareness of my own existence are processes of cognition that occur in my brain. My body absent a brain is nothing but inanimate meat and skin. Another example is someone who has suffered traumatic brain injury and brain death, but modern technology can still keep them technically alive with breathing machines and heart pumps. A corpse is still "human". A mosquito is still "alive" and a comatose patient whose brain has disintegrated into mush can still be a "human life" but I would argue there's not a person with rights to consider in either of those three instances.
So how this all relates to my position on abortion is that until brain activity can be detected in a developing fetus, I don't consider it a conscious creature. A human life yes, but not a person until that point. So with my moral framework I see the majority of abortions that take place in the first trimester to be acceptable. After that point the only exception is agree with are instances of still birth or medical emergencies where the mother will likely die if the pregnancy is continued. I don't factor in concepts like souls or god as I don't believe in them.
I caveat all this with the knowledge that I'm not a doctor, or a woman, or a being with absolute knowledge on these things. I've done the best I can with the information available to me.
@@oneofnine I'd like to ask you a question along the same vein as abortion, would it be moral to have one if you were 100% convinced that God were commanding you to do it?
A passage from 1 Samuel 15:
"Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, *children and infants*, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Is it moral for a desert barbarian to strike down infants and children with a sharpened hunk of bronze? Because he was convinced that God told a prophet it's what he wanted? It doesn't sound like this sort of scripture is compatible with a pro life stance that respects all human life from conception to natural death.
@@oneofnine still there?