tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160092102012-01-01T08:17:55.983-05:00From shadows and appearances into truthSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17722926355376060377noreply@blogger.comBlogger1081100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16009210.post-72136333061020827222007-03-10T01:57:00.000-05:002007-03-10T02:01:09.232-05:00

Welcome home...Levi Garrison Reed.Born 2.28.07He weighed in at 6lbs. 14 oz.He was 1' 7.5" tall.He had lots of hair for a Reed.He currently cries a lot and eats a lot.His mother needs rest and your prayers.Click here for pics.

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Here it is.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.VoltaireFrench author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)I wonder if he considered this as certain? Interesting.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Banyan Tree, originally uploaded by reedfamilypicks. Banyan Tree

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This is about what our baby looks like at this point.Here is a break down of the next few weeks of development. WEEK 12 - Nearly all organs and structures are formed. Fingers and toes are separated, hair and nails begin to grow. Genitals take on gender characteristics, and the kidneys begin producing and excreting urine. WEEK 13 - The

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The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, falsely ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite. If we consult genuine writings in the East, it is

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This photo was taken today on Isaac's one year birthday. August 4, 2006. (I tried to match the pose but he was little more active today, he just about fell off the changing table.)This photo was taken within the first minute or two after Isaac was born.One year ago today.

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WEEK 9 - At this time cartilage and bones are developing, and the basic structure of the eye is well underway. The tongue develops, and short, webbed fingers and thumbs appear.

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volcanoairplane

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Roots #2

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Sorry about the blury pictures. My brother took them. He said his eye sight was bad, I guess he was right.Here are a handful of quotes from some early church fathers about infant baptism."He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants,

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roots under a waterfall in maui

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"When you shall have been baptized, keep to a good life in the commandments of God so that you may preserve your baptism to the very end. I do not tell you that you will live here without sin, but they are venial sins which this life is never without. Baptism was instituted for all sins. For light sins, without which we cannot live, prayer was instituted. . . . But do not commit those sins on

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The Immaculate Conception about 1618 VELÁZQUEZ, Diego1599 - 1660 Doesn't God despise sin and death with all of His being, as much as He despises Satan? So much so, that God became incarnate, walked on this earth among sinners, resisted the harshest temptations from Satan face-to-face, and finally submitted to the most cruel humiliation and death, all to defeat sin and death? Given that, why

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WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER BABY!!!The baby is now about 2wks old. Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.Psalm 127v3,4,5At this point the

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What have you loved? What have you sought?Examination of Conscience from the Magnificat

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David Bennett has raised the question of the plain meaning of Scripture. Does it exist? He thinks not. “If there were a “plain sense” of Scripture,” he writes, “an obviously clear reading that can’t be missed, a reading that is available if one just tries hard enough in humility, the hundreds of denominations that appeal to the ‘plain meaning’ of Scripture would be in agreement. Even in matters

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The following is a segment of Chapter 1 from Ann Coulter's new book "Godless"...The beginning of the whole chapter is linked above.You have to read the whole thing. It's great.The people who call Republicans “evil” subscribe to a political platform that essentially consists of breaking the Ten Commandments one by one. They are for adultery, lying about adultery, covetousness, killing the unborn,

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Just some recent family pictures etc...The My New Picture link on the side of my blog here really does have new pictures.Finally. 

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Which is how universalists reachout to doubting christians and other people that are struggling. Edenside Christian Church in the Highlands has begun offering a different kind of worship experience with its monthly Thomas Mass -- a nondenominational, alternative worship service open to people of all faiths and spiritual backgrounds. Thomas Masses were started in Finland in the late 1980s and were

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A very good thing.WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops will be asked to approve a new translation of the Order of Mass when they meet in Los Angeles June 15-17.If the new translation is adopted as proposed and subsequently approved by the Vatican, Catholics will have to learn a number of changes in their Mass prayers and responses. Among the more obvious will be:-- Whenever the priest says "The

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LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer, "Menstruation Is Fast Becoming Optional": "Thanks to birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a growing number of women are taking the path chosen by 22-year-old Stephanie Sardinha. She hasn't had a period since she was 17."Fair enough. But what's to prevent, in ten or twenty years (with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight), a mounting silent

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Part A: How the pill works The oral contraceptive pill, also known as the birth control pill, is currently being used by over 10 million women in the U.S. 1. A number of physicians and researchers have noted that the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) is actually an abortifacient (ie, an agent that causes an early abortion; specifically, any agent that causes death of the

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While my wife and I have been researching Natural Family Planning we have come across some shocking research regarding artificial birth control. Particularly regarding the birth control pill. The effects of this form of birth control is devistating not only to the woman regarding her endometrium lining and propensity for cancer but the fact that no pill is safe from being an abortifacient.This

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Radical materialism makes no sense. For the words in this post exist in one’s mind not in any material way but they have a non-material existence. They are symbols for things material and for intellectual concepts that themselves have no material existence, but exist nonetheless. Universal ideas of non-material things such as love, truth, and beauty have a universal existence that comes about

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Unity of life, as Opus Dei sees it, is about discovering a lens through which all of one's life can he seen as a single, whole thing. This, members say, is what transforms a series of random or isolated movements, the end-less string of hours, days, and years that make up a life, into a meaningful unity—a work of art. The spirit of Opus Dei is supposed to transform a multitude of different steps

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The following is from an article over at Pontifications...check it out...This is the authority that the Catholic Church believes Jesus gave to Peter and the other Apostles. But the ultimate authority lies with Peter. In paragraph 883 of the CCC it states, “The college or body of bishops has no authority unless united with the Roman Pontiff, Peter’s successor, as its head.” As such, this college

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There has been a paradigm shift in my thinking and asking questions over the last few years on my way into full communion with the Church.As a protestant I was always posing questions to various peers about any given issue ie. infant baptism, escatology.I would start the question with the words "What do you think about X" then discussion would follow and eventually one would maybe persuade the

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Gen. 14:18 - this is the first time that the word "priest" is used in Old Testament. Melchizedek is both a priest and a king and he offers a bread and wine sacrifice to God. Psalm 76:2 - Melchizedek is the king of Salem. Salem is the future Jeru-salem where Jesus, the eternal priest and king, established his new Kingdom and the Eucharistic sacrifice

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Over the past week it was brought to my attention that a Catholic trying to live a life faithful to the Magisterium can be percieved as a member of that "horrible"(sarcasm implied) organization called Opus Dei.It's amazing how much a novel can spread lies about the Church and her people.I didn't know much about Opus Dei and still don't. However, I believe the Church definitely approves of the

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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science...A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elemetary forms-it is this knowledge and this emotion that

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Ecumenical Council of Nicea.Irenaeus...."[I]t is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the Church—those who, as I have shown, possess the succession from the apostles; those who, together with the sucession of the episcopate, have received the infallible charism of truth, according to the good pleasure of the Father. But [it is also incumbent] to hold in suspicion others who depart from the

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In becoming Catholic, however, one enters a wonderously and sometimes confusingly capacious universe of faith, prayer, piety, and forms of discipleship. As G. K. Chesterton observed, the Catholic Church is so much larger from the inside than the outside. One enters in order to be changed. One is changed by Mary and Marian devotion, for a very big and transforming instance. One is changed by

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Litany Of Saint Joseph Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.God, the Father of Heaven,Have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world,Have mercy on us. God the Holy Ghost,Have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God,Have mercy on us. Holy Mary, Pray for us. Holy Joseph, Pray for us.Noble Son of the House of David,Pray

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Everyone should check out this new blog that is going to be opening on Easter.It sounds great.(linked above)

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And this food is called among us Eu0xaristi/a143 [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as

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I shall finally be recieved into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 15th at the Easter Vigil at San Segundo d'Asti in Ontario, California.

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CHAPTER II HANDING ON DIVINE REVELATION 7. In His gracious goodness, God has seen to it that what He had revealed for the salvation of all nations would abide perpetually in its full integrity and be handed on to all generations. Therefore Christ the Lord in whom the full revelation of the supreme God is brought to completion (see Cor. 1:20; 3:13; 4:6), commissioned the Apostles to preach to all

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It's too bad this guy is not a priest. Click on title for link.What a powerfull testament to the natural law, sin, conscience, something outside of ourselves, our cry for help, the truth of the catholic church and the sacrament of reconciliation.If they only knew the truth, how they could really be free.

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The Feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on March 25 each year. The Feast commemorates the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God, would become incarnate and enter into this world through her womb

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For those of you who may have never read it, here it is. It has relevance regarding the post below this one.We believe (I believe) in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. (God of God) light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not

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This is the introduction to a comparison of beliefs, see link above for the whole article.The question “Are Mormons Christian?” is probably the most popular question in the world for those just discovering the church and its beliefs. It’s also probably the most polarizing one. How should it be answered?To help everyone understand the question, I’ve prepared a brief comparison of the beliefs of

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The Transfiguration vs. Jackson PollackThe following is a section from "The Spirit of the Liturgy" by Ratzinger.See the full article by clicking the title....our world of images no longer surpasses the bounds of sense and appearance, and the flood of images that surrounds us really means the end of the image. If something cannot be photographed, it cannot be seen. In this situation, the art of

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I, N.N., ______ years of age, born outside the Catholic Church, have held and believed errors contrary to her teaching. Now, enlightened by divine grace, I kneel before you, Reverend Father _____________, having before my eyes and touching with my hand the holy Gospels. And with firm faith I believe and profess each and all the articles contained in the Apostles’ Creed, that is: I believe in God,

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Happy Birthday to Me. I can't wait to taste this sweet kentucky bourbon. My wife gave me some nice Woodford Reserve.

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As you can see I have changed the name of my blog. I changed it due to the article below (and to a lack of being clever enough to come up with something on my own). I believe it describes clearly what drives me most. The quest for truth. And that is primarily what this blog of mine goes through.Click link above for the full article by George Weigel over at PontificationsNewman was no romantic

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The full lecture titled "The Challenge of Historic Christianity to Post-Modern Fantasy" can be found at the link above.Let me sum up this lecture in the following way. The Da Vinci Code is a symptom of something much bigger, a lightning rod which has throbbed with the electricity of the postmodern western world.One of the basic fault lines in the contemporary Western world is the line between

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Scripture gives us a still clearer knowledge of the truth. For it is most evident that the covenant, which the Lord once made with Abraham, is not less applicable to Christians now than it was anciently to the Jewish people, and, therefore, that word has no less reference to Christians than to Jews. Unless, indeed, we imagine that Christ, by his advent, diminished or curtailed the grace of the

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DSC03350.JPG Originally uploaded by reedfamilypicks. Here is our new house that we will be moving into on March 24th.Finally out of the nest.

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DSC03233 Originally uploaded by reedfamilypicks. Isaac 6mo.

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An excerpt from Neuhaus' new book.click on subject link for full article.For the Protestant, the act of faith is an act of faith in Christ, and only then, if at all, is it an act of faith in the Church. They are two acts of faith. For the Catholic, the act of faith in Christ and his Church is one act of faith. In the Nicene Creed we do not say, “I believe that there is one, holy, catholic, and

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Here is part of an enlighting article I read over a Pontifications. Check out the link for the full article.Somehow this changed in the shift from traditional society to modern. We see it already in the Peasants’ Revolts of the late Middle Ages. One of the consistent and most urgent targets of peasant mobs when they sacked monasteries or castles was the archives, in order to burn the documents

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Click on link above for a schedule of readings of the church fathers for the lenten calendar.I'm going to try and pull it off.

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For links to Cardinal Schonborn's Lectures on the evolution debate, and other Schonborn material.

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I've been recently visiting this site linked above. It is a very interesting ongoing discussion site about the reformation, protestant, catholic, and anglican theology and ecclesiology. They seem to be very intellegent, however missing the truth of catholicism. You can join the discussions or just read and learn.

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Click link above for full article and response at William Dembski's blog.Darwin himself wrote that if it could be shown that an organ could not evolve in a stepwise fashion with each step representing a fitness improvement for Natural Selection to act upon, that his theory would be in serious doubt. ID claims to have met that challenge using design detection. In that case, intelligent design is

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I am still reading through this article, however here is a highlight I wanted to share.Everyone needs to read this whole article sometime. It sums up the whole issue brilliantly.Third, sola scriptura is self-defeating, because it rests on a presupposition that cannot be proved from Scripture (let alone from history)—namely, that the whole content of God’s revealed will for the ongoing instruction

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What should the Protestant do? If his denomination represents a valid ecclesiastical authority, he should submit. If it does not, he should not. But how does he know? The answer to the question “Which religious authorities are valid?” cannot be “Those whose doctrines are biblical,” because that is exactly what is under dispute. This would be as redundant as saying: “The only biblical leaders

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Now, since Mary is of all creatures the one most conformed to Jesus Christ, it follows that among all devotions that which most consecrates and conforms a soul to our Lord is devotion to Mary, his Holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to her the more will it be consecrated to Jesus Christ”.(22) Never as in the Rosary do the life of Jesus and that of Mary appear so deeply joined.

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Check out link for full article.Co-Redemptrix and Sola Fide: The Ecumenical Fortunes of Two Theological Controversiesby Philip BlosserThree years after the ground-breaking initiative, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together,” or “ECT” (1994), another evangelical-Catholic joint statement, “The Gift of Salvation,” appeared in print for the first time last fall in Christianity Today (12/8/97). This

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In exchange for the return to full communion of the Lefebvrist bishops -- which by no means could come immediately, but toward which goal tomorrow's summit is oriented -- and other, unspecified conditions, it's said the Holy See could be prepared to grant:an acknowledgment that the Pian, or Tridentine, rite was not abrogated in the liturgical reforms following the Second Vatican Council;an

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Code: ZE06011705Date: 2006-01-17Pope's Homily on Day of Baptisms in Sistine Chapel"We Need to Say 'No' to Culture of Death"VATICAN CITY, JAN. 17, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered without notes on Jan. 8, feast of the Baptism of the Lord, the day he baptized 10 infants in the Sistine Chapel. * * * Mass in the Sistine Chapel and Baptisms Homily of His

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Judge Alito is so frightening to the Left. He truly believes that the purpose of a judge and of the Supreme Court is to apply the law in as agenda-free a manner as humanly possible. He knows that the role of the Supreme Court is not to promote socioeconomic equality but to preserve the rule of law.These are the closing lines to an article by Dennis Prager about the lefts view of inequality and

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What do you think about what this article is saying?What do you think about the I.D. movement?Have you read any of the books i.e. William Dembski or Micheal Behe's writings

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Check out Benedict's first encyclical of his papacy.click title for link.

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I have finally got to post something. It has been forever. My computers hard drive crashed and I got it fixed a couple weeks ago.But now Im in California at my new job. And I actually have a computer here to work on.Betsey, Isaac and I moved out here about a week and a half ago.We are staying with my parents until we can rent a house or an apartment. (no money yet)Hopefully I'll have some

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What do you think about this? Incorruptibles Through history, the bodies of a considerable number of deceased Catholic Saints and other blessed persons, have not undergone the normal processes of disintegration. Without any kind mummification or embalming methods, their corpses have

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DSC02882.JPG Originally uploaded by summavitae.

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If saints and angels are so holy and so aware of our affairs, why should we not ask them to pray for us, since "the prayer of a righteous man availeth much" (Jas 5:16)? Protestants say that this raises them to the level of God (thus, the charge of idolatry). But they need not be all-knowing, nor perfect, like God, only out of time and glorified, to hear our prayers. We venerate them (particularly

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There is a larger sense in which circularity, as Pontificator suggests, cannot be avoided in arguing for the ultimate criterion of a system. This is what Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas meant by saying that first principles are indemonstrable. Why should one be logical? Because it would be illogical not to be! Why should one believe God's Word? Because it is the Word of God, of course! Every

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DSC02876.JPG Originally uploaded by summavitae.

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"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn." Fulton J. Sheen

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Luther biographer Hartmann Grisar, S.J. (author of a massive six-volume biography), writes: His criticism of the Bible proceeds along entirely subjective and arbitrary lines. The value of the sacred writings is measured by the rule of his own doctrine. He treats the venerable canon of Scripture with a liberty which annihilates all certitude. For, while this list has the highest guarantee of

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A STANDING COMMAND 2 Thessalonians 2:15 commands its readers to hold fast to all the Apostolic Traditions, whether written or oral. This is a standing command of the New Testament. As many in Reformed circles have noted, once God gives a command it is binding until he specifically revokes it. If God had not revoked the Mosaic ceremonies, such as the circumcision, food, and separation laws, they

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smile Originally uploaded by summavitae. One of Isaac's first smiles.

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"Heretics called Antidicomarites are those who contradict the perpetual virginity of Mary and affirm that after Christ was born she was joined as one with her husband" (Augustine, Heresies 56 [A.D. 428]). When Catholics call Mary the "Blessed Virgin," they mean she remained a virgin throughout her life. When Protestants refer to Mary as "virgin," they mean she was a virgin only until Jesus’ birth

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Click on title to get whole article. It's short don't worry.1. Sola Scriptura is Not Taught in the Bible Scripture certainly is a "standard of truth" (we agree fully with Protestants), even the preeminent one, but not in a sense that rules out the binding authority of authentic apostolic Tradition and the Church. The Bible doesn't teach that. Catholics agree with Protestants that Scripture is

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Is the doctrine of sola scriptura self-defeating since it can't be found in scripture?

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The Second Council of Nicaea (787), the seventh Ecumenical Council, which is fully accepted by the Orthodox, declared: The Lord, the apostles and the prophets have taught us that we must venerate in the first place the Holy Mother of God, who is above all the heavenly powers . . . If any one does not confess that the holy, ever virgin Mary, really and truly the Mother of God, is higher than all

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The two most important books I have read regarding Catholic theology are Jesus, Peter, and the Keys- A Scriptural Handbook on the PapacyandThe Hidden Manna- A Theology of the EucharistCheck out the linked title to read a review of the first one.and check out this page to read a description and review of the second one.http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=2450&AFID=12&

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The daunting word "transubstantiation" is easily understood when broken down: "trans" means "change." Therefore, the term is defined literally as the process of change of substance. The Catholic Church, in seeking to understand the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist, a doctrine delivered directly by our Lord and St. Paul, gradually developed an

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Ignatius of Antioch "I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for drink I desire his blood, which is love incorruptible" (Letter to the Romans 7:3 [A.D. 110]). "Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions on the grace of Jesus Christ which has come to us, and see

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What is the eucharist? Is it plausible that it is actually the body and blood of Christ.I found this article from Catholic Answers to sum up a lot of important evidences from the bible.What did the people who saw and spoke with Jesus think he was saying? Did they think he was using symbolic language? If they misunderstood him, why didn't he correct them? Christ repeats himself to three different

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Who was Melchizedek?Rabbinic texts (midrashs and targums) view Melchizedek as Shem.What do you think?

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"For a long time my [adult] friend suffered from a high fever and lay unconscious in a sweat that looked like death. When they despaired of his recovery, he was baptized. He knew nothing of this himself, and I paid little attention to the fact of his baptism. I assumed that his soul... would not be affected by something done to his body while he was unconscious. But it turned out very differently

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I was asked this question last night in a discussion I was having.I didn't really know a good answer.The link above is a short answer to this question.

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I had to switch the template I was using because the other one broke somehow. I don't know, I'm not very proficient with computers. I was lucky to get my picture up and add links. That took me about 10 hours to figure out.I think the new look is a "lighter" approach.By the way, I usually post a lot of articles with their links because I don't have time to reinvent the wheel. I will usually try

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During the first century, the Jews disagreed as to what constituted the canon of Scripture. In fact, there were a large number of different canons in use, including the growing canon used by Christians. In order to combat the spreading Christian cult, rabbis met at the city of Jamnia or Javneh in A.D. 90 to determine which books were truly the Word of God. They pronounced many books, including

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The following is from John Calvin's commentary on Corinthians: 9. For we are fellow-laborers with God. Here is the best argument. It is the Lord's work that we are employed in, and it is to him that we have devoted our labors: hence, as he is faithful and just, he will not disappoint us of our reward. That man, accordingly, is mistaken who looks to men, or depends merely on their remuneration

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Paul notes that baptism has replaced circumcision (Col. 2:11–12). In that passage, he refers to baptism as "the circumcision of Christ" and "the circumcision made without hands." Of course, usually only infants were circumcised under the Old Law; circumcision of adults was rare, since there were few converts to Judaism. If Paul meant to exclude infants, he would not have chosen circumcision as a

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Protestants love to quote this early church father.One thing that we need to keep in mind is that Augustine was 100% Catholic.I will keep posting these from time to time as I come across them, and hopefully provide some balance in quoting this Catholic.Here are a few quotes from Augustine that you won't read in Protestant sources.For MY PART, I should NOT BELEIVE the gospel except moved by the

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Some christians believe that immersion is the only way to baptize. In reply I would like to state a few things.Immersion is not the only meaning of baptizo. Sometimes it just means washing up. Thus Luke 11:38 reports that, when Jesus ate at a Pharisee’s house, "[t]he Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash [baptizo] before dinner." They did not practice immersion before dinner,

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What is Baptism?What does it do?Is it just a symbol?Can infants get baptized?

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