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Why Catholics Call Priests "Father" FAITH AND REASON - May 16, 2013 ... reasons: 1) this is always an important issue to address, as it does cause concern among non-Catholic Christians, and 2) this very issue was raised with me on at least two separate occasions recently - it is thus fresh on my mind and deserves my attention. As a bonus, I had already planned on re-posting my blog series on the "male-only priesthood," and this current post presents a nice lead-in to that topic. + + + Non-Catholic Christians often object to the ...http://faithandreasonblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-catholics-call-priests-father.html
Show Joy As Catholics THE JOYFUL CATHOLIC - May 15, 2013 "We Do Indeed Need to Show Joy as Catholics." My motto — "Be happily and uncomplicatedly Catholic." Michael J. Sheehan, Archbishop of Santa Fe _______________________________________________________________________________________ News Flashes - Swanson Christian Products of Tennessee is selling golf balls with this saying "I once was lost but now I'm found." - Columnist Mollie Wilson O'Reilly blasted Archbishop Charles Chaput in Philadelphia for inserting politics ...http://thejoyfulcatholic.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/show-joy-as-catholics/
Switching Sides: Latinos Ditching Catholicism for Evangelical Churches CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 14, 2013 Alfredo De Jesus is a fire-and-brimstone preacher who represents a global groundswell of Hispanics who've left the Catholic Church to become Protestant Evangelical Christians. De Jesus pastors the New Life Church in Chicago, helping to expand it from 120 members in 2000 to over 17,000 today on multiple campuses. "In the Evangelical church, we find freedom to worship, and with Hispanics, it's in us to be able to love people. Naturally, we just love people. ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/switching-sides-latinos-ditching.html
The Strengthening Catholic South DA MIHI ANIMAS - May 11, 2013 The following comes from the NCR: In the waves of turbulence that rippled throughout the Catholic Church in the 1970s, the nuns of St. Dominic's Monastery found themselves forced to leave their longtime home in Wisconsin in search of a new one. The nuns moved to a temporary residence in Washington, D.C., while looking for a permanent setting conducive to the cloistered, contemplative life they sought to lead. It would be more than two decades before they found one. When ...http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-strengthening-catholic-south.html
Why Confess Sins to a Man? (Blanquette De Veau Vs Burrito Supreme) DR. TAYLOR MARSHALL CANTERBURY TALES - May 10, 2013 Why do we Catholics confess our sins to priests who are mere men? This is a question that Protestants repeatedly raise. I raised it as a Protestant almost every time I spoke to a Catholic about matters of religion. Even Catholics are puzzled by it. Even one of my sons asked me, "Dad, it's difficult. Why must we confess our sins to a priest when it is God that forgives us? Why not go straight to Jesus?" This is a great question and it deserves more than ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/taylormarshall/~3/-WiO8CQWkMA/why-confess-sins-to-man-blanquette-de.html
Thoughts and Afterthoughts 5.7.13 IN SPIRITU ET VERITATE - May 7, 2013 · The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn launched a campaign this month, proclaiming Jesus Christ to be "The Original Hipster." The ads appear at bus stations and on phone kiosks in Brooklyn and Queens. There is no explanation to this mysterious statement. But there are "hipster" red Converse shoes peeking out of the Savior's robe, his feet arranged in a nonchalant "hipster" manner as if he's resting after turning water intoPBR. When I first saw this I said "What the hey!" ...http://inspirituetveritate.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-and-afterthoughts-5713.html
On My Bookshelf: Evangelization CATHOLIC SENSIBILITY - May 3, 2013 ... approach to the Great Commission. Fr Brennan takes Evangelii Nuntiandi seriously. But it was also a time when many Catholics fretted about the word "evangelization." I remember those discussions in my first parishes. "Evangelization" sounds too darned Protestant. Our people will misunderstand. Can we call it something different? Outreach? Re-Membering Church? What a difference a generation makes. The first book, The Evangelizing Parish, from Tabor Publishing ...http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/on-my-bookshelf-evangelization/
Why the Doctrine of Transubstantiation Matters FAITH AND REASON - May 2, 2013 ... Eucharist has been on my mind lately, especially the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation - that the bread ceases to be bread and becomes wholly Christ's Body, and likewise the wine becomes His Blood. Or more precisely, the entire substance (the " be -ing" or the actual reality) of the bread/wine passes away and is replaced by the substance of Christ's Body and Blood; only the accidents (the physical properties) of bread and wine remain. In this post I just wanted to ...http://faithandreasonblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-doctrine-of-transubstantiation.html
Cardus' Research THE THEOLOGY OF DAD - April 29, 2013 ... real point of interest for me, however, was how 'private' Catholic schools were stacking up. Not well . But let me offer some explanation. Cardus surveyed people of the age group 23-39, I think it was. What serious Catholic out there would think that this age group would have received a good Catholic education? As my colleague, Adam Parker, Principal of Wayside Academy , indicates, these good private schools are mostly all younger than 20 ...http://thetheologyofdad.blogspot.com/2012/10/cardus-research.html
Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 25, 2013 HARVESTING THE FRUITS OF CONTEMPLATION - April 25, 2013 ... often spoke of the eternal consequences of not accepting his teaching – being lost forever, hell – and did not just give the command to evangelize. This is why Mark 16:16, which is referenced in LG [ Lumen Gentium] 16 but not directly quoted, makes explicit that what is at stake in being "saved" or "condemned." Jesus makes clear that Christianity is not a game or an optional enrichment opportunity but a precious and urgent opportunity to find salvation and escape damnation. In ...http://harvestingthefruitsofcontemplation.blogspot.com/2013/04/pondering-tidbits-of-truth-april-25-2013.html
How Would You Answer Someone Who Claims That Catholics 'Worship Mary Like a Goddess of Sorts'? ALL ABOUT MARY. - April 23, 2013 I had this discussion with a Protestant friend just a few days ago, and I tried to explain to him there is a great difference between worship and veneration. When you are a Catholic you have a firm belief in the communion of saints, of which Mary is the greatest. In the Catholic mind this communion is not some distant theological concept, but a very real part of the faith. In as much so, that the saints ...http://allaboutmary.tumblr.com/post/48683418422
Thoughts and Afterthoughts, 4.23.13 IN SPIRITU ET VERITATE - April 23, 2013 ... reminded of this by Simcha Fisher's witty "Theology of the Bathroom ." • Not to be outdone, see Jennifer Grant's Thrift Shop Theology . • Somebody pointed out that in a recent post I segued from a blurb about plus size dresses at Target, to another about social justice saying, "Which brings me to an obliquely related thought." Her point was that the two were not even remotely—much less obliquely—related. True that. An ordering error in cutting and pasting, or, an error ...http://inspirituetveritate.blogspot.com/2013/04/thoughts-and-afterthoughts-42313.html
The Culture of the Bullfight-- The Culture of a Catholic Society? SAINT LOUIS CATHOLIC - April 23, 2013 ... Catholic culture. Though forced to travel off-season on account of airfare costs for a family of 37, one of my favorite memories was being able to witness an excellent-- a real-- bullfight in a pueblito called Villamuelas, about 60 km south of Toledo in the middle of nowhere Castile-La Mancha. Wikipedia says that the town's population is 737, and I cannot doubt it. Though the bullfight season ends in October, some friends and I were wandering the streets of Toledo in November ...http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-culture-of-bullfight-as-culture-of.html
Six Reasons to Reject "The Perspicuity of Scripture" SHAMELESS POPERY - April 22, 2013 ... Protestantism from Catholicism is a question concerning the clarity (or, in technical parlance, the "perspicuity") of Sacred Scripture. The Catholic view is that Scripture needs interpretation; the typical Protestant view is that Scripture is so clear that there are no ambiguities needing authoritative interpretation by the Church. Rembrandt, The Baptism of the Eunuch (1626) As classically articulated, this doctrine holds anyone guided by the Holy Spirit can ...http://catholicdefense.blogspot.com/2013/04/six-reasons-to-reject-perspicuity-of.html
Catholicism in America IN SPIRITU ET VERITATE - April 21, 2013 ... Out of Touch") vis-à-vis the Catholic Church and her American members. In "Catholicism in America" Reno tries desperately to salvage some positive glimmer. Unsuccessfully, one might lamentably add. Differentiating between three cohorts, the committed core, the lukewarm and lapsed Catholics, he finds hope in the fact that the numbers trend better for the "committed core." But how much better? He writes: "The poll shows that all types of Catholics tilt in a ...http://inspirituetveritate.blogspot.com/2013/04/catholicism-in-america.html
And He Sent Them TWO BY TWO GLORIA OLIVAE - April 19, 2013 ... are in the supernatural level , like the 'new evangelization that leads to Faith.' To understand it one has to undergo an essential addition to his soul by being fortified with grace and specially the supernatural virtue of Faith. Pope Benedict noticed that many did not understand the 'new evangelization' within the Catholic Church. He had already described this topic from the time he was head of the CDF in his best seller 'Ratzinger Report,' pinpointed the cause for the total ...http://odondecastro.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html#8584029207452859331
The Difference Between Protestant and Catholic Conversions to the Other Faith BREAD FROM HEAVEN - April 11, 2013 ... by my parents or my pastor when I was considering becoming Catholic. I decided to read through his testimony again, and remembered why I had written him off the first time around. I had read his testimony before, and I remember being surprised that an ex-priest used the same lies about Catholicism as his reason for leaving the Church that most protestants (who I often just assume to be ignorant) use…..To read more click the link—> ; EX-PRIEST, RICHARD BENNETT ...http://bfhu.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/the-difference-between-protestant-and-catholic-conversions-to-the-other-faith/
Tuesday, Second Week, 10th Day of the Resurrection Season PRAYER ON THE HILL - April 9, 2013 ... garbage. We who live in a land of abundance dispose of millions of tons of food at the end of each meal. And yes, there are those who struggle just to get a bowl of soup. Just as an exercise of mind and heart, try imagining what life would be like for all of us if we lived as St. Luke describes the early Christian communities. Surely most would conclude the same: we can't live that way today. The gospel also offers us another way of looking at the way we live our lives in this modern society. ...http://prayeronthehill.blogspot.com/2013/04/tuesday-second-week-10th-day-of.html
An Excellent Book: The Quest for the Trinity ARTICULI FIDEI - March 28, 2013 ... Theology, page 181.) Concerning this issue/theory, Dr. Holmes writes: The proposal is that a paradigm for interpreting patristic Trinitarianism was offered by Theodore de RÄ—gnon over a century ago; this paradigm suggested that Latin Trinitarianism, supremely represented by Augustine, started with one God, and asked how he could be triune; by contrast Greek Trinitarianism began with the three hypostases, and asked how they could be one God. (Page 129) Dr. Holmes included the above in his ...http://articulifidei.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-excellent-book-quest-for-trinity.html
Welcome Back, Easter Catholic THE CATHOLIC FAMILY - March 27, 2013 ... is the 'heart' of Deacon Tom's EASTER HOMILY given at his parish in north central Arizona. A bit of it has been modified for the readers at the Catholic Family Podcast site. Dear parishioners … dear folks visiting family members … dear visitors. We wish you a most holy and blessed Easter. Let me start with a brief story from my past. My wife Dee and I were in our previous parish for just under ten years – you get to know a lot of people… their ...http://catholicfamilypodcast.com/2013/03/27/welcome-back-easter-catholic/
