Take a look at the picture above. Can anyone guess what those books are? They’re my diaries; or journals if you prefer. I make an entry every single day and have been doing so for the last ten years. I could tell you where I was and what I was doing on June 15, 2014, December 5, 2011, or April 24, 2018. Name the day and I’ll tell you where I was, what I did, who I saw and how the day went.
If you listen to the above video clip starting at 26:17 and listen for about 45 seconds, you’ll find out why the entire ensemble of western nations has completely collapsed on this issue. In this small portion, Prager mentioned that he has a homosexual on the board of directors for Prager University. He then said that he and his wife were godparents to the children of a homosexual couple.
Many Muslims on my Twitter feed have been retweeting a man named Dr. Craig Considine. This man is a self proclaimed Catholic and he constantly obsesses over Islam, particularly the person of Muhammad. In the above tweet from a couple of days ago he talks about how Muslims say that they love Jesus but Christians never say that they love Muhammad. It’s also ironic that this tweet was the only tweet on August 15 which was the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. He didn’t wish his fellow Catholics a happy feast of the Assumption. He told us to love Muhammad instead.
Yesterday Catholics around the world celebrated the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven to be with her divine Son. This is a doctrine that is often mocked by Protestants like James White. I always say that there isn’t a verse in the Bible that denies this doctrine. Of course that doesn’t mean it’s true, but I always point out that justification by faith alone is word for word condemned in the Bible and therefore its more consistent with Biblical Christianity to believe in the Assumption of Mary into heaven than justification by faith alone. If I ever said this to James White I bet he’d mention the 24 pages of his book on justification(which I’ve read btw) that deals with James.
The Baptism of Christ
I’ve recently come across Muslims trying to use the accounts of John the Baptist in the NT to try and discredit the Gospels having a consistent narrative. Of course this isn’t new to Muslims. It’s been a tactic employed by liberals for a couple hundred years. It’s not like modern Muslim apologists are attempting anything new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKu49v10udg
I recently reviewed The Price to Pay by Joseph Fadelle. A few month ago I reviewed From Islam to Christ by Derya Little. Both are conversion stories from Islam to Catholicism. Earlier today I just happened to gaze at my bookshelf and notice the similar spines on those books. They’re both published by Ignatius Press. Although Fadelle’s book was back in 2015, Little’s book is from 2017.
Several months ago, I reviewed Derya Little’s book From Islam to Christ. Little is Turkish and she goes through the struggles that she had being a Christian in a Muslim country like Turkey. In her book she references another book which contains a conversion story. The book is The Price to Pay by Joseph Fadelle. Little mentions that after reading this book, she was thankful that she was from a more liberal Muslim country. Joseph Fadelle is from Iraq. While in Turkey you’ll only face social consequences for conversion, Iraq is a whole new ball game.
Canada is one of the most secular countries in the world. I’ve often referred to it as a swamp of secularism. I was recently talking to a Polish lady. She had been born and raised in Poland and had gone to church all of her life. She came to Canada and she stopped going to church while she lived here. She later moved to Ireland and resumed going to Church. Canada had that affect on her like it does on many people.
Pope Gregory VII
In the early church the two biggest players were the Greek Church and the Latin Church. The Greek Church was larger but the Latin Church was clearly second. I’m aware that there were other churches such as Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian and others. However, these churches were quite small and by the end of the sixth century, most of them had fallen into Monophysitism.
I’ve always wondered what book I would give to a liberal heretic if I ever met them. Obviously Fr. James Martin is the most famous one in the English speaking world so he occupies the heretic slot in the question. What book would I give to Fr. Martin? Of course, Fr. Martin could be replaced with Ted McCarrick, Cardinal Wuerl, or any of the pseudo-theologians who composed the Instrumemtum Laboris for the upcoming Amazon Synod.