I try to avoid politics as much as possible on this blog. I do that because the Catholic faith doesn’t mandate certain political views, save for a few key issues. About two weeks ago, I came to a shocking realization. Pretty much all of North America, South America, and Western Europe have been taken over by hordes of raging leftists. These leftists are super anti-Christian and are working to undermine the Church at every point.
In the last few years there has been a surge in the demand for female deacons(or deaconesses) and surprisingly not just in the Catholic Church. I’ve read articles about certain Eastern and Oriental Orthodox jurisdictions that are experimenting with it. Liberal Protestant movements have been doing this for a long time and it has yielded anything but positive results.
Some people may have heard the term Phyletism before. It’s a heresy that the Eastern Orthodox Church has had to deal with. While we Catholics typically don’t worry about it, we have a sort of pseudo-phyletism of our own. It’s not identical to what the EOC deals with but it might be just as dangerous in a different way.
Because my website is starting to get traction, I’m getting a lot of emails. One that I recently got was from a Canadian Catholic. I asked him if I could respond to the email in a post and he agreed so here is the email and my response.
Jagmeet Singh
We all know that the left hates all religion. We know that they hate Christianity more than any other religion but they hate other religions as well. However, they do have a use for them. They don’t want them gone; at least not yet. They have a role to play in the leftist war on our Lord Jesus Christ.
An Eastern Orthodox reader of this blog recently posted the following in the comments section on one of my previous posts:
I was recently discussing with a muslim gentleman on twitter, and he constantly stated that Mohammed was mentioned in the Book of the Prophet Haggai, specifically Chapter 2 verse 7. Have you come across this further example of rather peculiar Islamic exegesis?
Two garbage books
In my last post I reviewed Jon Sweeney’s biography about renegade cleric Fr. James Martin. It’s really not a book worth reading. I suppose that it’s the opposite of hagiography when you think about it. Pray for the lost soul.
Yes I know I am a snob but I am a missionary so I am allowed a few vices.
– Fr. James Martin
There is a clip going around of the well known Evangelical Francis Chan saying that for the first 1,500 years of the Church, the unanimous belief was that the Eucharist was the body and blood of Jesus Christ. I want to say that I don’t agree that it was unanimous. It was about 95% but still a strong majority. When Protestants start to read the Church Fathers their jaw drops at the early view of the Eucharist. They clearly viewed it as the body and blood of Christ and Francis Chan sees that.
Believe it or not, I don’t like writing about Michael Coren. I’d rather be talking about something else but he’s the gift who keeps on giving. On and on he goes. He loves to wear his clerical collar and boy does he look smugger than ever. He was “ordained” by a lady named Susan Bell. Susan Bell is a member of the Anglican Church of Canada who calls herself a bishop. There is no such thing as a female bishop. Her ordination is just as bogus as the one she gave to Coren.