“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who together with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke through the prophets; in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church” (Nicene Creed [A.D. 381]). “Those who em...
It covers just about every single topic imaginable in the early church and gives clear explanations for why the Catholic Church believes what it believes. Reading the church father quotes for each section is incredibly helpful for gaining perspective on how the church's teaching developed. A great...
The claim that the pope is the Antichrist has been part of anti-Catholic rhetoric since the Reformation, when it was needed to justify the Protestant Reformers’ desire to leave the Catholic Church. Thus the Lutheran Book of Concord states, “[T]he pope is the real Antichrist who has raised...
As Christians, we are dear to the Son, Jesus Christ, but the Jewish race and Nation are specifically termed in Scripture as “ dear to the Father”, and that whoever touches them as a race and National entity, touches the apple of God’s eye, the most sensitive part of external anatomy...
He is the door of the Father, by which enter in Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, and the apostles, and the Church. All these have for their object the attaining to the unity of God (Ignatius. Letter to the Romans, Chapter 9).Polycarp...
Creation and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God On May 13, 1978, the late Pastor General of the old Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong (HWA), gave a sermon titled Creation and the Gospel. This article is highly based on that with many quotes, but also with updates. Here ...
The first papal Bull against Freemasons,In Eminenti, was issued April 28, 1738, promulgated in Portugal in June, and its text was affixed on church doors in Lisbon soon afterwards. Called as a witness, O’Kelly stated «that as soon as he heard that the Holy Father[...]had prohibited...
The Boston Pilot (1829) and Freeman's Journal (1840) were Catholic Church-affiliated publications. The Boston Pilot, now a weekly, bills itself as one of the oldest Irish American newspapers and the oldest Catholic newspaper in the United States. Seminal news periodicals targeting African ...
In the17th and 18th centuries, just as English scholars were reading and writing about their heritage in the continental prestige language of Latin, so too were Japanese members of the Buddhist clergy researching and publishing about the Chinese language
Lacoste’s ‘being-in-the-Church’ is constituted in the same formal way: it has existentials, e.g., ontological restlessness, and its modes, e.g., mission, imitation. Additionally, the analogy not only holds at this formal level. Where in Sein und Zeit the confrontation with one’s ...