-by Parker Manning /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/amazon_polly_139465.mp3 “Imagine a scenario. My name is Parker. Imagine that my twenty closest friends all told you, “Parker’s favorite color is red.” Without even talking to me, you could probably assume that my favorite color is red. That’s how the unanimous consent of the Church Fathers works, too, when it comes to determining how […]
-by Parker Manning /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/amazon_polly_139219.mp3 “Defenders of divine simplicity often say that God is existence itself, and that God’s essence and existence are the same. What does this mean? Let’s break it down. When we talk about the essence of God, we mean what God is. So God’s essence being equal to existence is just another […]
-by Joseph Heschmeyer, a former lawyer and seminarian, he blogs at Shameless Popery. /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/amazon_polly_44638.mp3 “There are a great many intelligent Protestant Christians, well-versed in Scripture, faithfully seeking to know and follow the will of God, who have concluded that Jesus’ words about the bread and wine of the Last Supper becoming his body and blood […]
-by Parker Manning /wp-content/uploads/2024/01/amazon_polly_138996.mp3 “One of the biggest things that separates Protestants from other Christians is their belief regarding the authority of Scripture. Protestants will claim that only Scripture is infallible—the only thing that cannot be wrong. Protestant apologist James White defined sola scriptura in a debate with Jerry Matatics in 1992. Here he is making his case: The […]
“If I had to summarize the new magisterial document on blessings I would say the document is about blessings FOR a same-sex couple but not OF the same-sex couple. The UNION cannot be blessed, but the PEOPLE in the disordered union can be blessed (and the blessing is not an approval, but is a petition […]
-by Bp Robert Barron, Bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota. 12/21/23 “A few weeks ago, at the commencement of Hanukkah, my Word on Fire team published on our social media platforms a graphic of a Menorah accompanied by a text from St. John Paul II celebrating the spiritual bond that connects Catholics and Jews. Harmless enough, right? Wrong […]
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-by Casey Chalk /wp-content/uploads/2023/12/amazon_polly_138596.mp3 There are a lot of reasons to believe that the Catholic Church is what it says it is. If you already believe in the Bible, there’s the evidence that the institutional church compiled and defined the contents of the biblical canon. If you believe in Jesus, there’s the evidence that He gave His apostles […]
-by John M. Grondelski /wp-content/uploads/2023/12/amazon_polly_137955.mp3 “When it comes to love, English is impoverished. It’s not that English-speakers don’t love but that our language is so limited. “I love God,” “I love my wife,” “I love chocolate ice cream” all use the same verb, but that word cannot mean the same thing in all three cases. […]
-by Joseph Shaw /wp-content/uploads/2023/11/amazon_polly_130486.mp3 As the liturgical year comes to a close….”This week begins the Church’s month of the dead. We remember those who have died, and this should stimulate us to keep our own deaths in mind. With All Souls’ Day approaching, I wish to focus on the latter activity: the remembrance of death, […]