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Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: The Root of Ecumenism

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by on Dec 05, 2014 in Catechesis, Evangelization, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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At Wednesday’s General Audience on Dec.3, Pope Francis’s catechesis focused on “ the hope that fruits of dialogue will flow be it in our relations with our Orthodox brothers, be it in those with Muslims, be it in the path to peace among peoples”, as a result of his apostolic visit to Turkey. While most […]

The Bad Evangelist Club: Do Protestants Have the Holy Spirit?
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The Bad Evangelist Club: Do Protestants Have the Holy Spirit?

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by on Sep 23, 2014 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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Here at the Bad Evangelist Club, we are trying to do more than just correct some misguided ideas you hear from a lot of apologists and evangelists.  In addition to pointing out what not to think, it helps to remember what we should think.  When it comes to the topic of Protestants and Ecumenism, it is […]

Are Protestant Communities "Churches"?
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Are Protestant Communities “Churches”?

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by on Jul 29, 2014 in Apologetics, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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In our last article, we demonstrated how Dr. Alan Schreck, as many orthodox Catholics do, erroneously applies the hermeneutic of discontinuity to the use of the terms “heresy” and “heretic” before Vatican II and the non-use of those terms in the Council. We will now do likewise with the term “church” as it was used […]

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: The Path to Unity

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by on May 30, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.” (John 17:20-21) Pope Francis […]

Continuity & Ecumenism: Heretics or Seperated Brethren?
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Continuity & Ecumenism: Heretics or Seperated Brethren?

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by on May 15, 2014 in Apologetics, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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While writing my self-published manuscript, New Things and Old: Re-Implementing Vatican II, I came to the realization that Vatican II could only be understood in light of past magisterial teaching and the sources of the Tradition.  Taken by themselves the documents could lead even orthodox Catholics to formulate or embrace conclusions that were erroneous and […]

Orthodox and Catholics Pursuing New Approaches Together
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Orthodox and Catholics Pursuing New Approaches Together

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Featured, Those in Need
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Metropolitan Hilarion, responsible for the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, pointed out the joint tasks of members of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in a world characterized by materialism and consumerism at a meeting on Pentecost with the Executive President of the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). “We must […]

All in the Family? Don't Take Faith for Granted
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All in the Family? Don’t Take Faith for Granted

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by on Aug 05, 2011 in Catechesis, Featured
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Last summer I went on a field trip.  I attended a three-day seminar on Christian-Jewish relations.  This happened at the Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  I arrived on Monday, checked into my dormitory on campus, and we all enjoyed kosher cuisine with other divinity and rabbinical students as we kibitzed about what Jews and […]

Liturgy Should Say: ‘We’re not in Kansas Anymore’
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Liturgy Should Say: ‘We’re not in Kansas Anymore’

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by on May 17, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Live in Christ
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Last Wednesday night I had the pleasure of addressing a “Theology on Tap” gathering of young adults on the topic of how to prepare for the new English translation of the Roman Missal. During the Q&A portion of our time together I was somewhat surprised when a number of attendees wondered aloud about how the […]

Swiss Cardinal at the Helm of Catholic Ecumenism
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Swiss Cardinal at the Helm of Catholic Ecumenism

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by on May 06, 2011 in Apologetics, Featured
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Looking ahead to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) started a Luther Garden in Wittenberg and invited each of the Lutheran Churches worldwide and also their ecumenical dialogue partners to plant a tree “as a sign of reconciliation and mutual understanding”.  In one of his […]