Last year American presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was attacked because the confessions of her church declared that the office of the papacy was Antichristian / The Pope was Antichrist. This position is hardly shocking to those familiar with the history of the churches of the Protestant Reformation. Declaring the Pope as antichrist was not merely a tradition of … [Read more...]
The Death of the Oxford Movement
The time of death was July 10, 2010. In 1833 John Keble started a movement with his Assize sermon "National Apostasy" defending the Church of England as a part of the Catholic Church.Since then, the Anglican Church has allowed contraception, divorce, liberalism, women priests, and now women bishops (and arguably it tacitly supports Homosexual 'marriage').It was a great dream. … [Read more...]
Travelling & Bad Catholics
Today I'm going to my first Catholic wedding. It's over 3 hours away and so it will be a LONG drive (the farthest I've ever driven... or is it furthest?). I haven't been able to get to confession for a month, but reading Graham Greene has been helpful in reminding me that the Church bears sinners within her midst.I was thinking the other day that while I reverence people like … [Read more...]
Question on Contraception
Are Roman Catholics expected to never use contraception/artificial birth control in any circumstance whatsoever? The only exceptions I've heard of are:1. Health issues, where women's lives are at stake because of pregnancy.2. With the permission of one's parish priest after showing that they are not opposed to having children (Nancy Pelosi had 5 kids and I believe claimed that … [Read more...]
Grace and Truth
"For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." - St. John's Gospel 1:17 Yesterday I watched the beginning of a movie on the Gospel of John. I think that officially my favourite part of all the Scriptures is John 1. The whole Christology is given, and the way that St. John weaves together these great ideas of the Jewish concept of 'The Word' - God's … [Read more...]