Animals have non-rational souls. This is Catholic doctrine. Believe it.

I remember being young and terrified of bees but one day during Mass, a bee flew in and literally landed on the pew beside me right at the start of the service. It then didn't move the whole time. Stay for the whole thing...maybe sleeping? Then as Mass ended, it up and flew away. I named the memory, "the bee who came to Mass" as a little one and I just never forgot it. Haven't been as afraid of them since. ❤️

What's your point? Two non-rational animals saw Jesus before the shepherds and magi did. Isaiah foretold them. They will tell the story themselves in heaven.

True story: Years ago, I was sitting alone in front of the tabernacle in our very large parish. It was early evening, and I became aware of a presence. I looked to my right and was startled to see Father’s cat sitting next to me looking up at me. I skritched his head, he crawled into my lap, started purring, and drifted off to sleep. He awoke sometime later, jumped off, and started wandering through the parish. I continued reading Scripture, and a few minutes later looked up: There was the cat curled up on top of the brass metal tabernacle. We know cats are heat-seeking creatures, and here in a parish that seated 800 he chose the cold tabernacle. And me without my camera.

In 1989 it was cannon that all dogs go to Heaven.

“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:40

They do. But Creation also recognizes creator. I have seen my Dogs and cats react to an Icon in a way that is unexplainable.

Not every word Aquinas put to paper is doctrine, Taylor.

any way here is Saint Francis giving mass

there is absolutely not any doctrinal document that state that. Don’t make a theological opinion a Catholic doctrine

God spared Ninevah for a generation in part because of the animals according to the account by Jonah.

To the question of non-rational souls. I have a disagreement with the great Doctor of the Church. I am well aware of how unworthy I am to even think it, but here goes. It is certain that man is made in the image of God and has eternal life. It’s clear that we could be the only species with an eternal soul, but if the evidence against animal souls being eternal is lack of rational thought, I am unconvinced. I will give two examples. A neighbor of mine had a dog who would bark affirmatively if you asked the question, “Do Chinese people cook in a wok?” It would then run to fetch the leash. Obviously a cute joke, but the dog clearly understood the word “walk” and took a rational next step. Second example. Every morning at the crack of dawn, my cat comes and stands on my chest. She meows at me to wake up and feed her. I ignore her and she lays at my feet. After a while I say, “Should I feed you?” She meows, jumps off the bed and runs to her bowl. Many other people owned by pets can probably recount similar stories. What makes thought rational?

Indeed they will. New heavens and new earth, populated with them.

Got souls, not rational souls. Humans get the rational soul directly from god after some point in pregnancy according to Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Didn't a donkey speak in the Bible? Who are you to limit how God can use his creation?

"Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war." A horse, in Heaven?.. Based Pope Paul VI

You literally posted this yesterday (below). Could you at least try to be consistent with your clickbait?

It pleases one to think kindly of these actions regardless.

Oh Deer 👀

In the Office of Readings, there is a reading that says something like every time a cow 🐄 moos or a bird stretches out its wings in the shape of a cross it is praising God. Christ was laid in a manger & animals were present at His birth maybe they realized worshipped who He was

Non-rational souls do not mean God does not or cannot preserve them in a new heaven and earth. If we find joy in the company of saints in Heaven, then doesn’t it follow that heaven is not the Beatific Vision itself in isolation? If joy in others, why not animals? It’s not Dogma.

Very fitting the Lord chose this deer to come in.

Beautiful. Their minds have a bit more to them than you think. But overall, they just "are" and they are "good".

And yet it’s the rational souls that do the damage. What a gift animals are to us.

Is it just me or does anyone get remind jimmy kimmel when you glance @TaylorRMarshall picture? Btw. Not catholic *doctrine* A dr who doesnt know what “doctrine” means.. lol

True, but in this particular case, I would just let the deer take its time.

Heck yeah. Where my last name and family crest comes from.

Neither do unrepentant sodomites, but here we are.

That's the Jagermeister Saint!

Phooey! I don’t think rationality is the measuring stick of validity, worthiness of respect or being one of G.d’s children. We are the destroyers, not them. Maybe we should desire to have souls like them, rather than of “rational souls”. I’m sure He loves them.

The video is from 2014. According to Grok: Artist Leonora Hamill brought a trained stag named Chambord into the church as part of her commissioned installation Furtherance. The animal was not a stray that happened to walk in; it was placed there for the artwork, which referenced the church’s dedication to Saint Eustace and his conversion legend. Some later social-media posts presented the clip as a spontaneous “wild deer” event, but that is incorrect. This church is in central Paris. The idea that a full grown stag would walk through the city and into this particular church is nonsense and par for the course with the fake miracles of the Catholic Church.

We had a deer walk into the steel mill I worked at. It was as if he looked at me and his eyes said, "always support your union brothers"

So what, God uses animals’ actions for symbolic effect all the time

One of these kept following me when I was at a park when I was younger, it even stopped when I stopped, I also eventually hugged it. It was clearly satisfied after that and wandered off.

“As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” —Psalm 42:1–2

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