Here’s a great post I found linked from Insight Scoop;

Spock Would Make A Great Catholic

Well done by Larry D.

…regardless of how I understand the doctrine Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, whether in the strict sense of Fr. Feeney or in a more nuanced sense that seems to prevail in the thinking of the Magisterium including Benedict XVI and John Paul II, as evidenced in encyclicals and the CCC.

Let’s say just a word about EENS. (more…)

Here’s the headline;

‘Monogamous’ Gays Can Serve in ELCA
Largest Lutheran Denomination in U.S. Split on Divisive Issue

From the Washington Post articlehere is an interesting quote;

“We live today with an understanding of homosexuality that did not exist in Jesus’ time and culture,” Tim Mumm, a lay delegate from Wisconsin and supporter of Lutherans Concerned, an gay-rights organization, said during the debate. “We are responding to something that the writers of Scripture could not have understood.”

Does this then mean that for at least the part of the ELCA Sola Scriptura has been dropped?

This is a subject that I have pondered for some time, occasionally aloud, and one which came to mind once again during this time of reflection during the Triduum.

The first question I ask is this;

We express our realization that the Incarnation of the second person of the Holy Trinity, his life, ministry, death and resurrection were all done out of love for us, to redeem us from the situation that we are in because of the sin of Adam and Eve.

The Question:  If Adam and Eve had not sinned would Jesus have incarnated to become one of us? (more…)