Here’s a comment from Steve to our post “Why Was The Cross Necessary?”. I wish to highlight it because he hits upon something that has bothered me in the past, having come to the Catholic Faith from being raised in a Baptist home and having had the Evangelical experience and all that entails. First, here is the comment; Continue Reading »
Here are a couple of segments that pertain to the discussion from our most recent post.
Here’s another from Insight Scoop posted by Carl Olson of Father Barron talking about why God made the world.
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One particular anti-Catholic of note today was brought to my attention through John Martignoni’s Newsletters(138, 139). His name is Mike Gendron and his mission, at least in a principle part, is to evangelize Catholics. In the world of apologetics that makes him fair game for direct and public response, and once one gets a taste of his imflammatory rhetoric, one ceases to be overly concerned with gentleness of response, or any nuance of the truth.
Here’s a quote from an Apostolic Exhortation called “Reconciliatio et Paenitentia” that Pope John Paul II issued on December 2, 1984. This is an important document here because it is the source of a quotation that Mike Gendron uses to misrepresent Catholic teaching. The following deals with our approach to those, among others, who are outside of communion with the Church, such as Mike Gendron. Continue Reading »
A recent video from Father Barron. Once again spotted at Insight Scoop.
Here’s the full story from Foxnews;
This is much like the way that Pope Benedict’s remarks at Regensburg were misconstrued by Muslims, causing a violent backlash. In this case the backlash from Jewish groups is rhetorical. However, in either case the problem is the same. In this case they engaged their reflexes before engaging their minds and actually listening to what the papal preacher was saying in the words of his Jewish friend. Continue Reading »
…for the Month of January 2010 are completed. This being the liturgical Year C of the Roman calendar.
You’ll find them at THOUGHTS.
Did you know that the Big Bang theory of the beginnings of the universe originated from a Belgian priest?
Here’s Father Barron’s sermon from Sunday Jan. 3/2010 called;
Religion, Science and the Journey of the Magi: Feast of the Epiphany
Some other not well known facts in this sermon;
Pascal, Descartes, Newton, Copernicus all devoutly religious men. Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics, a priest.
Georges LeMaitre, Belgian Catholic priest, big bang theory.
His list goes on, the point being that science is only possible with a Christian foundation and that the myth that the two are opposed in principle is just that, a myth.