The Vatican document is very brief -- just a few paragraphs in fact. Its official title is "Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church," and it was released by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on June 29 of this year.
Read moreEcumenists lament that the clock has been turned back and that the Roman Church must not be serious about its prior overtures toward mutual acceptance by Christian bodies. Some suggest darkly that the Pope cannot pray in unison with Jesus "that they all may be one." Apparently the ecumenicists forget who broke up the party to begin with.
Read moreFor the first time since before President Clinton said what "is, is" a majority of American teens - 53% - have not had sex and are choosing to not do so. In Clinton's "hey days" the number was around 47%. But it would be hard to know this from just reading the headlines of the liberals' most important of allies, the mainstream media. Here's a sampling of some the outlets that commented on the survey that confirmed these amazing numbers:
Read moreDespite the request of the Primates, there are currently some 40 property lawsuits being conducted by the Episcopal lawyers against churches which have left. This provides an added threat to the orthodox who remain. But the Network which primarily consists of the orthodox rump within TEC, with additions, has refused to get disgruntled or negative. Instead they have set up three initiatives under competent leadership.
Read moreAnd yet, that is what one lady in the United States claims to possess: two religions. Reverend Ann Holmes Redding, a minister of the Episcopal Church, claims to have declared Shahadah and become Muslim, while at the same time remaining Christian and fulfilling all of her duties as a minister.
Read moreRadical changes over the last 40 years or so have made it acceptable in TEC to deny the Trinity, the Resurrection, the divinity of Jesus, and many other basics of Christianity. Even some priests and bishops deny these basic tenets of the faith, and are not corrected or disciplined in any way. We know that no church on Earth can be perfect, but we cannot belong to a church that openly and blatantly contradicts the faith that we believe. Homosexuals are welcome at St. Andrew's.
Read moreThe preface to the Book of Common Prayer states, "It is a most invaluable part of that blessed 'liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,' that in his worship different forms and usages may without offense be allowed, provided the substance of the Faith be kept entire; and that, in every Church, what cannot be clearly determined to belong to Doctrine must be referred to Discipline."
Read moreMattingly double-majored in journalism and history at Baylor University and then earned an M.A. at Baylor in Church-State Studies and an M.S. in Communications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is a prodigal Texan who has never met a mountain he didn't love. He is a music fanatic whose interests range from Celtic acoustic guitar to Russian chant. His wife, Debra Bridges Mattingly, is a librarian in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Read moreOver the course of my ministry, I began to notice that whenever my revisionist colleagues were not able to refute an orthodox argument, they could reduce their opponents to embarrassed stammerings of protested innocence, and thereby regain the upper hand, merely by declaring "You sound like a fundamentalist."
Read moreOn any journey we need to know not only where we are, but also where we have come from and where we are going to. We are where we are, but where we are has been largely determined by where we have come from. Where we go to and the route we take may seem to be a matter of free choice, but even that choice will be influenced by past experiences, both good and bad.
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