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.
Category Archives: Religion
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.
Two Good Debates
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In the last couple of months there have been two important debates that need to be watched, or specifically listened to as I believe only the audio is available. The first is between two Catholic apologists and the second one is between a Catholic and an atheist libertarian.
A Very Merry Christmas to All My Readers
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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.
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.