I hope that everyone is having a good day as we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s certainly an important day. I tend not to like the Christmas season because the materialism forces all of November and December to revolve around this one holy day.
Category Archives: Catholicism
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.
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.
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.
Another Discussion With Chris Plance
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When I had Chris Plance on for the first time we had a great discussion. He said that we should do this again. I was more than happy to have him on again. I had him on because I wanted to have a video where Catholics would get a good introduction to the Bible.
LDS, Muslims and the Latin Mass
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In the morning I had to take care of some business downtown. When I was finished I was walking back and noticed some LDS missionaries. Downtown is pretty empty on the weekends so when I saw them I knew that I’d be able to get a conversation going.
The Impressive Venerable Bede
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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.
Questions Starting With Arius
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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.
“Born Again” Experiences
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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.
Book Review: Reclaiming Faith: Inclusion, Grace, and Tolerance by Michael Coren
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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.