Archive for August, 2008
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Friday, August 29th, 2008I just wanted readers of this blog to know that as of next week, I will be working full-time for School of Faith.
School of Faith is a program of adult catechesis primarily designed to provide doctrinal and spiritual formation for Catholic school teachers and administrators in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Its purpose […]
Pelosi: Meet the Bishops
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Since our last post concerning the pro-abortion views of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, where she misrepresented Church teaching about abortion.
Her public statements are increasingly drawing fire from the Church hierarchy. First, there’s the statement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, coauthored by CUF episcopal advisor […]
Separating the Men from the Boys
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church” (Eph. 5:25). The problem is, most of us can’t just flip a switch and love our wives “as Christ loved the Church,” even if–especially if–we understand the depth of St. Paul’s words. Nonetheless, we realize that the Apostle to the Gentiles is trying to give […]
Other Gospels?
Monday, August 25th, 2008A couple Catholic school teachers recently asked me how much weight we should give, if any, to the “other gospels” out there, such as the Gospel of Thomas or the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Usually when I’m asked about “apocryphal” works, it’s in connection with defending the authenticity of the so-called “deuterocanonical” books of the Old […]
The Devil in Our Midst
Thursday, August 21st, 2008In his latest column for the Catholic Sentinel, Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, Oregon discusses the realit of Satan’s presence in the world. The context for his reflections is a recent conference he attended on the subject of demonic possession and exorcism.
While an undue fascination with the details of possession might not be spiritually healthy, […]
Protestant “Verses” Catholic?
Monday, August 18th, 2008A Catholic school teacher recently posed this question to me: “Protestants always have signs, t-shirts, and the like with John 3:16, so it seems that for them that is the one definitive verse of the Bible. If you had to sum up the Catholic faith in one Bible verse or passage, what would it be?”
Obviously […]
No Moral Equivalence
Saturday, August 16th, 2008This morning Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando brought to my attention a letter he just had published in the Orlando Sentinel regarding the priority of abortion in assessing the candidates in the upcoming election. Here is what he wrote:
“Jay Hamburg’s article Wednesday, ‘Evangelical: We Can Back Dems, Obama,’ inaccurately implied that Catholic leaders shared the […]
Telling It Like It Is
Thursday, August 14th, 2008I have to admit that on some issues I don’t see eye-to-eye with Patrick Buchanan. However, I think his recent article entitled “A Catholic Case Against Barack” is on the money as it lays out the moral problems any Catholic should have with supporting an Obama victory in November. In case you haven’t seen it, click […]
No Longer “Eternally Valid”
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008We have commented in previous posts concerning the controversial sentence in the U.S. Catechism for Adults that says, “Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them.” While susceptible of an orthodox interpretation, the wording was ambiguous, giving the impression that Jews have their own independent means […]
Guardian-Variety Angels
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Today’s Gospel at Mass contains the verse that most typically is cited in support of the Church’s teaching on guardian angels–namely, Our Lord’s words in Matthew 18:10: “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly […]
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