What I Don’t Get About the Catholic Church

What i don’t understand is how you guys can ignore how evil the church has been in the past. BFHU: Catholics have done evil and so have Protestants. Just like it is not the Protestant Christian faith that condones evil, so it is not the Catholic Faith that condones evil. The recent sex scandal of [...]

Scripture vs. the Catholic Church: Prohibition of Drinking Blood

Constantine: SCRIPTURE “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from BLOOD, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.” Acts 15:28-29 CATHOLIC [...]

Miracle of Yom Kippur/Miracle of Eucharist

Several years ago I read Roy Schoeman’s book Salvation is from the Jews. He tells the story of his conversion to the Catholic Faith. He was formerly a devout Jew. I was struck with his story about the Jewish Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur. I had never heard of this before and I was skeptical. So [...]

Chief Justice of the Church’s Supreme Court: Archbishop Burke on Pro Abortion Politicians

Transcript of Archbishop Burke’s Interview with Randall Terry on Canon Law 915 Canon Law 915: Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion. Pewsitter.com Archbishop Burke, Prefect, Apostolic Signatura March 25, 2009 [...]

Open Communion Debate

Phillip: I have heard of priests who do not take the narrow minded view you espouse, regarding their Protestant neighbours as true followers of Jesus Christ – of priests being able to see Christ’s truth in these congregations of the faithful. BFHU: I would hope that all priests regard their Protestant brothers as true followers [...]

The Catechism Allows for Protestants to Receive Eucharist

Phillip: paragraph 1401 Catechism of the Catholic Church permits communion to Christians not of the Roman Catholic church who are in case of grave necessity. BFHU: Let us also take a look at the paragraph above the one you cite. CCC 1400 Ecclesial communities derived from the Reformation and separated from the Catholic Church, “have [...]

Are You Hostile to Christian Unity?

Phillip: It seems from all you say that either you are openly hostile to Christian Unity ( the prayer of Christ on the night He was betrayed) BFHU: I am not hostile to unity. I very much would rejoice in the unity of all of Christianity. What a witness to the world that would be. [...]

Why Don’t Catholics Have an “Open Table” Communion?

I am a Presbyterian, and from my church background we have what we call the “Open Table”… We therefore invite members of any branch thereof to join with us in this Holy meal” It is from that teaching that I divine that this is the Lords Table not the Table of Presbyterians, or Methodists, Anglicans [...]

Killing Jesus Over and Over

Q. Is the Mass a communal meal or a sacrifice? A. It is both. First, it is a re-presentation of Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross. At the mass, the scrim of time is pulled away and we communally leave “Now” and enter the precincts of the Eternal. Everything looks normal. But, the spiritual reality [...]

Hollywood Writer Conversion

2-September-2008 – Catholic News Agency Hollywood Author Writes of His Damascus-like Conversion Hollywood, Sep 1, 2008 (CNA).- The author of the dark thrillers Basic Instant, Jagged Edge and Showgirls is about to release a book unlike any script he has ever written. It is the story of his spiritual conversion from a party-lifestyle to one [...]