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CARA Reflections on Pew’s survey about Catholic members losses

Posted in Catholic, Catholic education, Catholicism, Ecclesiology, Roman Catholic, christian, church, religion on April 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Much has been written about the Pew Survey and the loss of the number of Catholics in the USA. If they qualified as a separate denomination, the Americans who have deserted the Catholic Church of their childhood would constitute the third-largest religious group in the country, with 10.1% of the population.  For every convert to the Catholic [...]

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The Pope can’t lift excommunication on Luther

Posted in Catholic, Catholicism, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Lutheran, Papacy, Papal Supremacy, Pope Benedict, Ratzinger, Roman Catholic, christian, church, church history, faith, religion, theology on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is driving me nuts. I have read in several places where Pope Benedict XVI is having discussion on writting a document on Luther and lifting the excommunication edit on Luther. The London Times has a rumor article on the Pope issuing on in the fall.
Here at least is someone that went to the wizard and received a functioning [...]

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What does “Catholic” historically mean? Christian is my name, Catholic my surname

Posted in Anglicanism, Anglo-Papalist, Apostolic Fathers, Catholic, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecclesiology, Episcopalianism, Papacy, Patristics, christian, church, church history, consensus patrum, faith, patriarchy, religion, sensus plenior, theology on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Perhaps its the internet or more specifically the blogs that I read weekly, but over the past 3 years or so there seems to be a concerted effort in some quarters to reclaim(from their viewpoint) the term “Catholic”.  As a Catholic myself I have some problems with them doing so; their claim is that one can [...]

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Specialization faith

Posted in Bible, Catholic, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, christian, church, religion, theology on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I think that the fragmentation of the Protestant church is excellerating-Study Reveals State of U.S. Church Planting
approximately 4,000 churches are being planted in the United States each year – an all-time high….church planting is much more varied than in the past with “missional,” “seeker-sensitive,” “purpose-driven” and ethnic church planting models being developed. And these new [...]

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What’s in a chair, depends on the Apostle

Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Papacy, Papal Supremacy, Saints, church, church history, religion, theology on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today is the Feast of Cathedra Petri at Rome.

This feast celebrates the first service St. Peter held in Rome. There is another feast of St. peter in which the church celebrates his confession to the Divinity of Jesus (Matthew 16:16-18) on Feb. 22nd.

This is the photo of the one in St. Peter’s today. I didn’t [...]

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Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Episcopal -Anglicanism, Orthodox, & Catholicism

Posted in Anglicanism, Bible, Catholic, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Episcopalianism, church, church history, religion, theology on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Church history is an amazing field of endeavor. I wish I had taken that up in my college years, but I doubt you can make a living out of it or at least I doubt that I could do so. Anyway division within Christianity [by that I mean those who accept at a minimum two [...]

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True or dare – Mortalium Animos,Satis Cognitum,Unitatis Redintegratio,& Unum Sint

Posted in Canon Law, Catholic, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Encyclical, Encyclicals, Papacy, Papal Supremacy, church, church history, consensus patrum, religion, theology on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Before I begin I want to say that this is my personal opinion & understanding of the aforementioned documents and can not be construed as having any sort of teaching authority as a Catholic (pre or post Vatican II) would understand those terms, except where I quote the document directly. I don’t have any specialized [...]

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The conundrum – Swimming the Tiber- Hart’s 17 points

Posted in Anglicanism, Catholic, Chalcedonian, Conciliar Supremacy, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Episcopalianism, Papacy, Papal Supremacy, Patristics, church history, consensus patrum, patriarchy, religion, theology on January 3, 2008 | 10 Comments »

1. An Anglican is fully Catholic by the standards of the Scriptures and the Patristic period.
This is pretty non-specific and therefore difficult to address. Since Fr. Hart has refered to the Vincentian Canon in the past which was written in the 5th century, what are the odds that the Catholic church St. Vincent refers to [...]

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We need to listen to the objections to the reform of the reform liturgy

Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Encyclical, Gregorian chant, Liturgy, Papacy, Pope Benedict, latin mass, religion, theology on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The National Catholic Reporter had a letter Liturgy reform: No going back
The throne room protocols of the Tridentine Mass, the elevations, barriers, brocade, structures and language separating clergy from laity gave way to a worshiping community in which all the baptized were called to full, conscious, active participation. A new way of worshiping marked the [...]

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Saint Silvester I, Pope

Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Papacy, Papal Supremacy, Saints, church history, patriarchy, religion, theology on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today the Catholic church commemorates the death of Pope Silvester I.
Little is actually know of this Pope, but because it was during his reign that the 1st Ecumenical council was held various supporters of the papacy and those opposed to it have by my understanding made mountains out of mole hills.
Various Catholic e-polygists will [...]

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