I love English Catholicism. The writings of Aelred of Rievaulx have always been spiritually comforting. However, English Catholicism predates him by centuries. I had read some of the commentaries of Venerable Bede before but reading his Ecclesiastical History of the English People was a true delight.
A friend of mine called me up during the week. He was coming to Calgary for a conference and his accommodation plans fell through so he asked if he could stay in my spare bedroom. His plans were to arrive Thursday evening and leave Sunday morning. That gave us three evenings together.
I research a lot of Jewish apologetics so I usually watch whatever Jews for Judaism puts out. A man who does videos for them recently put out a video of his conversion testimony which you can see above. In the above video at 7:40 he talks about going from Catholic to Evangelical and having a “born again” experience. He essentially describes it as an indescribable feeling.
Let’s just get this over with shall we? Michael Coren’s new book is out. It’s titled Reclaiming Faith: Inclusion, Grace, and Tolerance. It’s not really a book in the same fashion as his last book, Epiphany. It’s a collection of his articles from 2015 to 2019. Basically from shortly after his apostasy to the present.
Fake Deacon Michael Coren
I’m currently finishing up Michael Coren’s new book which is entitled Reclaiming Faith: Inclusion, Grace, and Tolerance. Of course, it’s incorrectly titled because he doesn’t show any tolerance for people who hold the traditional position on marriage. I’m about 80% done the book. Expect a review here and based on what I’ve read so far, expect it to be just as bad as his last book. I’ll admit that I enjoyed shredding that book.
My French Quran
We’ve all heard of the perfectly preserved Quran, right? Millions of Muslims around the world memorize the Quran which hasn’t been changed since the time when Muhammad received it from Allah, right? We’ve all heard the argument and recently I got into a debate with a Muslim on Twitter regarding this issue.
Timothy Gordon has joined up with his brother David and their friend Chris Plance to start a new YouTube show called Rules for Retrogrades. The show has been on for less than a month and there is already 9 episodes. In other words, there is a lot of content and the topics range from the Amazon Synod to Catholic dating.
Sodomy is not a family value.
The anus is not a sex organ.
Sexual Liberation is Political Control. pic.twitter.com/jdVbTfTxxj— Dave Reilly (@realDaveReilly) October 30, 2019
There have been three pieces of good news recently and I couldn’t be happier. The first one is when Dave Reilly(the man above) challenged American conservative Charlie Kirk on his endorsement and promotion of sodomy. Turning Point USA is a conservative organization. We religious people tend to think that conservatives are on our side or at least more favorable. Dave Reilly shows that at least some of them are wolves in sheep’s clothing. As Catholics it would be wrong to give any money to Turning Point USA.
On October 31, 2019 I had a conversation with my friend Stefanie Nicholas. She became a Catholic in 2018 and has quite a testimony. I didn’t want to focus on her conversion story as it was recently made available at the Fatima Conference so people can watch it on their YouTube Channel.
Neo-Scholastic literature
One of the major issues of the recent Amazon Synod was the shortage of clergy in the Amazon region. I wrote a post on how this should be handled, but the final document didn’t include any of the stuff that I was proposing. It’s a bit of a shame really. However, this week I was browsing the website for my diocese and saw some alarming stuff. I want to take this information and build on my previous priesthood shortage solutions.