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 [...]

The choice…

What is the Pope saying? *UPDATED*

**UPDATE**  Rorate has an update on the Popes remarks.  Much better… but still……
 
Well, over at the New Liturgical Movement there is a post (“An Act of Tolerance”) on the Pope’s comments about the TLM and the MP to the French people via the media in a short press conference.
I am a little confused by his comments.  [...]

The Ten Commandments and Natural Law

The Decalogue has been often called the Law of God, with overtones of Divine Inspiration and Revelation. It may seem that what is being asserted is that the Ten Commandments belong to Supernatural truths that are not accessible to natural reason. That is, we couldn’t by any amount of thinking hard or reasoning from what [...]

Atheist Prof. Desecrates the Eucharist

Father Z has the story.  It is really hard to pray for the guy and not against him.  But even the worst can be converted, as I am sure St. Paul would say.  But, man I wanna just twist this jerk’s head right off.

The Nominalist, Islamic and Sophist roots of Protestant Thinking

I have been listening to the esteemed Dr. Rao’s series on the legends created by enemies of the Catholic Church and what methods were used to debunk the Church throughout the ages.  He arrived at the Reformation and started making some very interesting points.
It seems that the distrust in natural reason to know anything for [...]

“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 [...]

Analyzing Analyticist

This is my rant against Analytic Philosophy after nearly being strangled to death by studying Analytic philosophers for nearly a year.
Let B stand for the the belief that Analytic Philosophical Reasoning is the best way to do philosophy.
Let S stand for the seriousness with which Analytic Philosophers take their enlightened position.
Let P stand for the [...]

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 [...]

SSPX on its way back?

Well, we can only hope.  Rorate and Father Z have a good bit to say about it.  Please pray for the Church.

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 [...]