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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Great Commission and its Concomitant Consequences

Matthew 28:18-20 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that [...]

Inspired Bible Known by Us Requires Infallible Council-Revised

So if Protestants can agree with us that if Prophet A says “Thus saith the LORD” means that Prophet A must be infallible at the time Prophet A reported God’s word, then it seems that our Protestant friends must grant infallibility to the Church at least once; that is, when She declared the Canon.
Here is [...]

Divine Special Revelation Requires Infallibility of Revealer

It is interesting that many Protestants reject the notion that a “mere human” could be infallible. But they also think that Paul, Peter, Samuel, Isaiah and Moses (and the rest) were inspired writers. Now if we just think about it for a minute, with a mind to truth, then it seems that if [...]