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Our God is Non-Negotiable
Our God is Non-Negotiable
By Brett M Petillo
It is always interesting to me when I hear Christians talk about God in a way that makes Him seem like we have some sort of a choice about who He is and what He commands. For example, just last week I was teaching a class at my parish on growing in the Holy Spirit and one of the interactions led down the road of the death penalty.
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Believing in Jesus Will Not Save You - WHAT?
Believing in Jesus Will Not Save You - WHAT?
By Elizabeth Thomas
As I lay in bed drifting off for a nap—words started to come into my mind about “Believing in Jesus, and the connection to our salvation.” Stay close with me on this and read through it all for the opening words may leave your mouth gaping open and with a ‘WHAT?’ expression.
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Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, other Christians
Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, other Christians
By De Maria
I've been cataloguing the main reasons why I left the Church. In case you're keeping up, so far I've gone through the introduction, the devil's trick, my aversion to kneeling, my hatred of the Mass, and in my previous entry, I revealed that one of the reasons that I left the Catholic Church was becauase of the witness of other Catholics. But Catholics weren't the only ones giving poor witness in
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The King of Kings: Sky Full of Stars, The Best is Yet to Come!
The King of Kings: Sky Full of Stars, The Best is Yet to Come!
By Andee de Jesus
It's been months and I haven't written any entry. I have ups and down in my life. And been busy trying to help my mom recover from mild stroke attack last May, and was mending a broken heart from a-just-blossomed relationship to a wonderful person in my life.
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The Case for the Gospels
The Case for the Gospels
By De Maria
As I mentioned before, a long time ago, a Muslim challenged me to provide a forensic defense of the Gospels. He claimed that compared to Islam, the Gospels had no verifiable evidence of even the existence of Jesus. In fact, he, point blank stated that evidence for the truth of the Gospels would be thrown out of court! So, is it true that the case for the truth of the Gospels would be thrown out
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Why We Love The Saints
Why We Love The Saints
By Mike Bugal
A favorite topic of non-Catholic when we are discussing the things of Christ with them is the presence of “statues” in our Churches. Some of them even consider them “idols” and call us “idol worshippers”. They misunderstand the practice of Catholics to asking various Saints to intercede for us in Heaven and attribute things to it that we as Catholics don’t believe…we’ll address that in another art
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The Eucharist, the Fruit of the Tree of Life
The Eucharist, the Fruit of the Tree of Life
By De Maria
The Early Church Fathers taught that the New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old is revealed in the New. This happens to be one of the most exciting and effective ways to study the Bible and the Catechism.
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The Atheist
The Atheist
By E.M. Wilson
I came across this quote today from avowed atheist Dan Baker which states, "Asking 'if there is no God, what is the purpose of life?' is like asking 'if there is no master, whose slave will I be?' If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning of life comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest."
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Five facts that will make you a more effective apologist
Five facts that will make you a more effective apologist
By De Maria
Most of us don’t have time to study the Bible. We’re busy raising families and keeping our jobs. Even if we did have the time, most of us are not highly inclined to do those things. Its too much like work, boring through that ancient tome and trying to learn and understand its lessons which are not often explicit. Its pretty hard. Right?
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The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church
The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church
By Kevin Noles
In the comments section of my article Are Good Works Automatic?, Another person and I had a good spirited debate on works and justification. He believes his interpretation is authoritative and rejects the Catholic interpretation, which the Bible agrees with. .
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Some Objections to Baptism Part 3
Some Objections to Baptism Part 3
By Mike Bugal
For some opponents of the place that the Bible gives to Baptism in the plan of salvation all that matter is the thief on the cross. Never mind what Jesus said *after* His resurrection to the apostles and never mind what the apostles themselves preached and wrote throughout the rest of the New Testament.
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Works of righteousness, what are they?
Works of righteousness, what are they?
By De Maria
the Catholic Church teaches that we are not literally saved by our faith and works. Our faith and works, combined, do not amount to the value of the gift of eternal life which Jesus died upon the Cross to bestow upon us. Nor can we, by our own physical effort, wash our souls of sins.
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Clinging to the Soul?
Clinging to the Soul?
By Tess Shore
The Book of Isaiah (55:2) says, "Why spend money on what is not bread and your labor on what does not satisfy?" It seems as Jesus wants us to be satisfied with the eternal life and allowing Him to part of our daily lives. By following the Cannon Law, we are not supposed to eat or drink one hour before Mass, so we can yearn for the satisfaction of wanting to be fed by Christ.
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Fight or Die: What it means to be a Catholic Man
Fight or Die: What it means to be a Catholic Man
By Randal Schmidt
Recently I was asked to sit on a panel for a new class of catechumens beginning RCIA in my local parish. The panel was discussing the question, “What does it mean to be a Catholic?” I had previously been on this same panel a year before, and at that time, I had answered this question in terms of my then-recent conversion.
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The Good Works of the Good Thies
The Good Works of the Good Thies
By David Vermont
Often when discussing the nature of Salvation and the role of good works with our Protestant brother and sisters the “good thief” is used as an example of salvation without works. We all know the basic outline of the story. We see the scene of Jesus being crucified with two criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
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Some Objections to Baptism Part 2
Some Objections to Baptism Part 2
By Mike Bugal
II. Acts 2:38... "For" Doesn't Mean "For". Some denominational theologians (such as John MacArthur) who deny that baptism is part of the biblical plan of salvation say that the Acts 2:38 phrase "... be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ FOR the remission of sins..." would be better translated "... BECAUSE OF the remission of sins..."
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Some Objections to Baptism Part 1
Some Objections to Baptism Part 1
By Mike Bugal
Those who oppose the place which the Bible gives to Baptism in the plan of salvation offer several fairly standard objections which they believe in their hearts mitigates against that position. Most often, they will take a Scripture verse or two out of its context and offer that as proof that the rest of the New Testament doesn't really mean what it says on the subject
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