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Nov 12 2009
As we close the 4th Century, at least in this aspect (we must remember that Augustine did his fair share of doctrinal development regarding the Trinity) we find that in the end, a young Emperor used the force of Rome to settle the councils and their questions.
Continue reading “4th Century Christianity: Damasus and Theodosius, 381″
Nov 11 2009
The best part of the 4th Century of Christianity was the intervening years between 325 and 381. Here, Roman almost slipped back into Paganism at the most and a pluralistic society as the least:
Continue reading “4th Century Christianity: Arian Councils and a Pagan Emperor”
Oct 18 2009
I have never read the book, The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, nor do I intend too; however, since I was recently hit with ‘facts’ from this book, I thought that maybe I would add a few links for rebuttal that I can refer to later.
Jul 21 2009
Dan Gilgoff has posted an email exchange with John Hagee, the Christian Zionist of Christian Zionists. During the presidential campaign last year, I and a former friend were discussing the break down in John McCain’s Campaign, especially in relation to the Religious Right, starting with John Hagee’s break.
His comment was to the effect that he admired Hagee because he stuck to his convictions – from which I understood him to mean the anti-Catholic stance as well as the pro-Israel stance. Well, while he may not back away from his pro-Israel above all stance, he has raced away from his previous anti-Catholic stances:
CUFI has recently stepped up outreach to Catholics. What precipitated that , and how is the effort going so far? What are your goals for that outreach?
Yes, we are reaching out to Catholics. These efforts started last year, during the presidential campaign, when Bill Donahue of the Catholic League claimed that I had slighted the Catholic Church while teaching from the Book of Revelation. He was mistaken on this point. But he and I handled this disagreement the way that Christians should. We met. We had fellowship. We learned from one another. A few months after the controversy, he came to our Washington, D.C., Summit as my guest. When I recognized him during my keynote address, he received a rousing ovation from our CUFI audience. I consider him a friend.
Bill and I decided that we should turn our personal reconciliation into a broader reconciliation. We decided to try to bring Catholics and Protestants together on behalf of Israel. Some of Israel’s best friends and strongest defenders are devout Catholics. They should be a part of this movement.
No, I do not think Rome is the great whore of Babylon, but I think it political that John Hagee no longer does.
Read the rest here: Exclusive: Pastor John Hagee on Zionism and John McCain – God & Country (usnews.com).
Jul 16 2009
As the TEC in Canada and the Unites States continues a steadily descent into liberalism, while maintianing that it is historically Christian, the Anglican Communion will have to face some serious descisions in the coming months. Personally, I see that the entire Anglican Communion will soon face balkanization heading into directly into liberalism, into Rome, and into Orthodoxy.
The General Synod of the Church of England is to be asked to decide whether it wants to be in communion with the newly founded Anglican Church of North America.
A Private Members Motion (PMM) was tabled at the York General Synod last Friday by lay member Lorna Ashworth calling for recognition of ACNA, which unites into a single church some 100,000 Anglicans in 700 parishes that have severed ties with The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada over their liberal shift.
The PMM invites Synod to “express the desire that the Church of England be in communion with the Anglican Church in North America”.
It has received 126 members’ signatures at the York General Synod, meaning that the Synod’s business committee will have to set a date for the debate when it meets in September.
The Bishops of Winchester, Ely, Europe, Rochester and Blackburn have all expressed public support for the PMM, as well as the Suffragan Bishops of Willesden, Beverley and Burnley.
Church of England General Synod to debate communion with ACNA.
Jul 14 2009
In the closing years of the last decade of the last century of the last millennium, when the news of these types of allegations started to break, I was starting to attend orientation at my first university in Hammond, Louisiana. I met a cab driver who was a Catholic (I was a Catholic hater at the time) and we began to speak about the sexual abuse claims. It distressed him a great deal over these allegations, and proofs. He was a big fellow, tough, but teared up thinking about what these foul priest had done to his beloved church.
These allegations are still breaking, and I suspect will continue to break for the rest of the previous generation. I have my suspicions on why it seems Rome attracts these types of people – nothing conspiratorial or heinous.
A Catholic priest has been suspended in Lexington while authorities investigate claims of sexual abuse.
A spokesman for the Lexington Diocese said the Rev. Joseph N. Muench (MINCH’) was barred from performing any ministerial duties after an internal investigation and that the diocese findings were forwarded to Commonwealth’s Attorney Larry Cleveland.
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The diocese said the allegations date to the mid-1980s when Muench was an associate pastor of Good Shepherd parish in Frankfort.
This is a deep and serious crime – and while I am not in favor of the death penalty, there are times I might make an exception – but what bothers me the most about all of this are the cover-ups. It is a tragedy when the young are raped of their innocense by anyone, and graver still those in authority, religious or otherwise; however, it is more heinous yet when you see that those in authority choose not to tell legal authorities. The moment you find out that these crimes are being committed you are guilty of at least two things:
Harsh, I imagine, but not so harsh as what has happened to others in the absense of your ability to do what is required by the Law and God.
I am not Catholic, and have no say in their polity, but if they find out about these cover-ups, then those who covered it, or choose not to tell for what ever imagined reason, should resign.
May 28 2009
It’s April in Rome. The birds are singing, the tourists are flocking and the Pope is calling Mary a participant in the Redemption provided by Christ. What?
Virgin Mary “silently followed her son Jesus to Calvary, taking part with great suffering in his sacrifice, thus cooperating in the mystery of redemption and becoming mother of all believers,”
According to the Religious News Service,
At least 7 million Catholics from more than 170 countries, including hundreds of bishops and cardinals, have reportedly signed petitions urging the pope to proclaim Mary “the Spiritual Mother of All Humanity, the coredemptrix with Jesus the redeemer, mediatrix of all graces with Jesus the one mediator, and advocate with Jesus Christ on behalf of the human race.”
And…
According to Mark Miravalle, a professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, the new dogma would mean the “climax of the `Age of Mary’,” a period that began in 1830 with apparitions of the Virgin in France, and witnessed papal proclamations of her Immaculate Conception (1854) and bodily Assumption into heaven (1950).
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