Religious Freedom and the Catholic Church

From the Remnant…
http://remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2008-1115-religious_freedom_and_the_cathol.htm
Here is a tease…

Religious Freedom has certainly been one of those hotly debated topics in the Church before, during and after Vatican II. What are the true immutable principles involved and are these to be applied univocally or analogically according to a diversity of concrete circumstances and historical contexts?  Is the Vatican II Declaration on [...]

“All” Israel means what?

Michael Barber over at Singing in the Reign has an interesting piece on that old passage that keeps Dispensationalists alive as they continually twist Paul’s hard words to their own destruction, as our first Pope put it.
Rom. 11.25-26:
Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening [...]

Why Good Scotch is Good…

It is tasty.  It is subtle.  It is peaceful.  It is relaxing.  It lifts the mind from the base things of this world to the high things of this world.  God was good in giving us this masterful drink via the ingenuity of 4th and 5th century monks in Scotland.
Scotch.. another reason to be Catholic!  [...]

What is Faith, Part 2

Thus saith Newman- not Analytic, but also not Thomas Aquinas…
Lead on Kindly Light…
 
Now, in the first place, what is faith? it is assenting to a doctrine as true, which we do not see, which we cannot prove, because God says it is true, who cannot lie. And further than this, since God says it is [...]

What is Faith?

“Faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of
things that appear not.”
Is this a good defininition?
St. Thomas thinks that it is, especially since the Apostle himself gives it. And while the definition is not like a technical definition, St. Thomas contends that it lacks none of the necessary components of a [...]

How do we come to assent to “mere Christianity?”

Sorry this is so long.
http://www.orestesbrownson.com/index.php?id=227;http://www.orestesbrownson.com/index.php?id=228
The Church against No-Church
Part I of II
Brownson’s Quarterly Review, April, 1845
Art. 1. The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, January, 1845. Art. VI. The Church.
The Journal, the title of which we have here quoted, is the ably conducted organ of the American Unitarians. As a periodical, it is one in which we [...]

A Prayer for Protestants

I got this from my good friend Duns over at Inconvenience Rightly Considered.  Very cute.
 
May God be kind to captive fish
Who dwell in little bowls and wish
To swim, and can’t, and have no notion
Of what has happened to the ocean.
And may He Bless in aviaries
Continually caged canaries,
Who wonder, when they try to fly,
What can have happened to the sky.
(From [...]

Jesus, the New Covenant Priesthood, and the Most Holy Eucharist-UPDATED Link Fixed!

[Originally posted May of 08]
Over the weekend I listened to Dr. Brant Pitre (a Catholic version of N. T. Wright) discussing the above topic. I think it is very powerful and contains some arguments that any self-respecting Protester needs to answer. And if no answer is forthcoming, then, said self-respecting Protester ought to either quit [...]

Our faith rests on Divine Authority

I suggest that you first (re)acquaint yourself with my initial post on faith–
http://credoinunumdeum.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/faith-impossible-without-the-catholic-church/
–before reading this. This is sort of a further explanation of that post.
Since without faith we cannot be saved, and faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God, it seems to be that our faith must be in the Word [...]

Archbishop Ranjith says it like it is.

What a priest.

Hey, the Old Mass is only to get SSPXers back, right?

Enter the President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.  What does he say?
This video is from in introduction to an FSSP training video… is the Extraordinary Form only for the schismatics and the old fogies that are pining for when the priest only showed his back side?  Well…

Think again!
Deo gratias!

Only on the tongue…

Faith impossible without the Catholic Church?

Some folks argue that “saving”* faith is impossible if the Catholic Church is not true. Is that the case? Here seems to be the line of reasoning.
The object of faith is God. That is not a disputed proposition among those claiming to be Christian in any supposed orthodox sense (i.e. not liberals [...]

Summorum Pontificum finally translated from the Latin on the Vatican Website!!

Good thing I read Hungarian perfectly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/index_en.htm
Oh well…. it’s a start.

The Beauty of Goodness and the Goodness of Beauty

Now I am sure that I have heard that before, but I can’t quite remember where… maybe in Adler’s “The Six Great Ideas”.  But I got to thinking about that as I listened to “The Wisdom of Father Brown” this morning during my commute.  I had a startling rediscovery— that is, I have realized this [...]

So, will that PCED clarification ever come?

Just wonderin’.  I mean, it seems that we have been waiting for about 40 years and it just ain’t here yet.  But, peace, be still, my soul.  It shall come…
But I do have these nagging fears that our current Pope will not wake up one morning (perish the thought) and his enemies will go into [...]

The Papacy as seen from the Bible- briefly. Pt. 2

In Part 1, I argued briefly that in Matthew 16, Jesus changes Simon’s name to Peter, Rock, and then proclaims that He will build His Church on that very rock, Peter.  I pointed out that when petra is used to mean something other than a literal rock, it is always a concrete personal thing, not an abstract [...]

The Papacy as seen from the Bible- briefly. Pt. 1

This is merely a quick run down of some of the Biblical evidence for the papacy, bolstered by some pertinent historical data.1.) Matt. 16.16-19 is the classical text.  What does it say?  NIV:
16. Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17. Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, [...]

Faith Alone – feeling alone

Of course, no where does St. Paul state that we are justified by faith alone. Now, some might say that it can be inferred from many passages, just like we infer from many passages and the covenantal and cultural context that we ought to baptize our babies because they born into a believing, covenant [...]

Abraham the Multi-Justified

Man that’s catchy!
So there seems to be a problem with the view that Justification is a once-for-all, one time, never to be repeated event.
You see, Abraham was justified about three times, according to Sacred Scriptures. Genesis 12, 15 and 22. I am not saying what that means right now, I am only pointing out that [...]