Where’s the love? I thought that we were to heed the media, pop-cultural, political vox de jour and tone down the vitriol. Yet, when I recently posted Is Glenn Beck a Mormon-new-age guru? and the emotive sentiments were scattered far and wide: from being referred to as hateful and someone who attacks to actually stating …
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Let us begin by, very succinctly, consider some of the papacy’s historical background. The first utilization of the term catholic in relation to the church was by Irenaeus in the second century AD. The term refers to universal and the term church or ecclesia refers to called out ones, the people who have been called …
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The Roman Catholic practice of confession entails the confession itself, the granting of absolution and prescription of penance. Venial sins may be confessed privately to God but mortal sins must be confessed to a priest. Some of the texts used to uphold this practice are: Matthew 16:19, Jesus told Peter, “whatever you bind on Earth …
Worldview Weekend’s Brannon S. Howse posted an interesting article about the ongoing spiritualism of both Glenn Beck and Oprah Winfrey. Recently, he stated that the reason that he became a Mormon is that he saw how great Mormon families are. He actually and specifically stated that in order to get that sort of family he …
Glenn Beck’s E4 Experiences: is he the Oprah Winfrey of the right? Read More »
Fr. Robert A. Macdonald, C.Ss.R. wrote of a life altering, and life elongating, event.[fn]Robert A. Macdonald, C.Ss.R., Among Mary’s Gifts – The Green Scapular (Distributed by The Fatima Crusader), Nihil Obstat: E.A. Cerny, S.S., S.T.D., Censor Librorum. Imprimatur: Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore 9-18-1962[/fn]
“The true sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ made present on the altar by the words of consecration; a representation and a renewal of the offering made on Calvary…The sacrifice of the cross was the one universal and absolute sacrifice; from it consequently the Mass derives its efficacy, consisting in an application of …
Roman Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist, part 13—Roman Catholic Dictionary Definitions Read More »
Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Materialism runs thusly, in essence:
This is interesting and clever as a truck with a sign on it reading as follows, is following atheist bus ads, I still love you —God In the section Atheist Bus Ads and Billboards, I not only illustrate various atheist bus ads and billboards but also dissect them and show how they are fallacious.
The following is from Barna Research Group, “Practical Outcomes Replace Biblical Principles As the Moral Standard,” September 10, 2001 …a new survey by the Barna Research Group (Ventura, CA) suggests that a major share of the struggle pertains to the basis on which people make moral choices.
#1068 and 1405 “For it is in the liturgy, especially in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, that ‘the work of our redemption is accomplished’…Every time this mystery is celebrated, ‘the work of our redemption is carried on.’” # 1358 “consider the Eucharist as…the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his body.” #1365 “Because it is …
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