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    Allan Ruhl

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    James White and the Early Christian View of the Eucharist

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    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.

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    Wisdom From the Movie Spotlight

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    In 2015 the movie Spotlight came out.  It was such a hit that it ended up taking best picture at the Academy Awards in February 2016.  It was certainly a controversial movie as it dealt with a sensitive subject which was homosexual priests raping children and an entire system covering it up.  This system included bishops, priests, lawyers, and others.

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    Michael Coren’s God

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    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.

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    Pope Francis and the “Migration” Issue

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    Here is a Tweet from the Pope from a couple of days ago.  It’s a very sloppy Tweet with bad theology.  There is no such thing as the “city of God and man”.  St. Augustine tells us about the City of God and contrasts it with the City of Man.  This is just sloppy theology from the Pope here.

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    Coren, Ashenden, England, and France

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    About a month or two ago, the former Catholic Michael Coren received ordination as a “deacon” in the Anglican Church.  He loves to wear his clerical collar and simply can’t stop talking about it.  On the other hand, the Queen’s former chaplain Gavin Ashenden is being received into the Catholic Church on the fourth Sunday of Advent.  The Anglican Church got Michael Coren and the Catholic Church got Gavin Ashenden.  I’d say that the Catholics won this swap hands down.

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    Muhammad vs. Photios on Oral Tradition

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    Both the Catholic and Orthodox Church have been debating an issue called the Filioque for centuries.  Basically the Orthodox Church claims that the Catholic Church has innovated in saying that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son(Filioque in Latin).  This caused a small controversy in the 7th century but erupted in the 9th century with a guy named Photios of Constantinople.  Today the Orthodox Church reveres him as a Saint and Pillar of Orthodoxy while the Catholic Church doesn’t think much of him.  Photios wrote a book called Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit which argues against the Filioque doctrine.