Credit goes to Insight Scoop where I saw this link from Return To Rome blog. (The blog of Francis Beckwith, former evangelical returned to the Catholic faith)
This story is almost a year old, but I first heard about it on Catholic radio last week, on the Catholic Channel on Sirius, Across the Nation with Bob Dunning.
I don’t wish to mock those Christians who are dispensationalist, even though there is no warrant, either in Tradition or Scripture for their fanciful end times theories, but I have to admit I had a belly laugh at this one.
http://www.mainstreet.com/article/lifestyle/all-dogs-dont-go-heaven-post-rapture-pet-care
John Martignoni’s latest newsletter, taking on the vitriolic anti-Catholic Mike Gendron reminded me of something that struck me the last time I read his newsletter on the same topic.
A core element of the doctrine of purgatory and also of merit and indulgences is the distinction between punishment due to the guilt of sin, and the temporal punishment that may quite likely be a result of that sin.
Here’s an article regarding the Kenyan constitutional vote upcoming;
http://www.cisanewsafrica.org/news.php?id=4605
It seems the Catholic(?) Vice-President of the U.S. would like to bribe the Kenyans into a constitution that would support abortion. The man will have a lot to answer for one day.
Here are some of our Catholic Kenyan brothers and sisters. I like this one;
They love to praise God. Let us pray for them, that they can resist the abomination of abortion in their constitution.
Here’s a fascinating look from a very articulate and plain-spoken man who converted from Calvinism to the Catholic Church. He brings something unique to the discussion, in my opinion, which I have not seen brought into focus, and which caught my eye and ear. First the discussion with Fr. Mitch Pacwa and Dr. David Anders.
I think back and realize that in the course of my life, for the sake of brevity and short-hand shall we say, somewhere along the way I fixed a time point of my own conversion experience, my own “born-again” experience in my youth, growing up in an Evangelical Protestant home. There is a time Continue Reading »
