Recent content by BartholomewB

@John Carberry, once again you have posted an enormously long essay. It must run to at least 1,000 words, possibly even 2,000. Are you simply trying to impress us by filling up a lot of space, or do you actually want people to read what you have written? If you want us to read it, kindly allow...

@Dissenter says he or she knows what it means, but he or she is mistaken. It doesn't mean anything.

I think it’s reasonable to have doubts about that, and not only in the case of baptized Protestants. What about Catholics who were baptized by a priest who used the wrong form of words, “We baptize ...” instead of “I baptize ...”? Whether or not we know the answer to your question, I don’t...

The people who gave you those answers, were they both Franciscans? I think Anobistar was on the right track when he advised you to disregard any answer given by anyone who is not himself a Franciscan.

So much has been written about the apparent disagreement or “tension” between James and Paul that it’s hard to remember all the arguments. Jimmy Akin, for example, once posted a long piece about it at Catholic Answers, focussing on the different meanings attached to the word “faith” in Catholic...

Is it really? In what sense? For adults who have needed to go through RCIA, isn't the Easter Vigil the usual date for confirmation?

A Register contributor named Christian Brugger appears to be answering a reader’s letter that begins with the words, “I was recently at a Mass ...” Do Register contributors habitually make up fake readers’ letters like that? Would that even be ethical?

The Register doesn’t name the diocese where this occurred, but I expect the pastor will have asked his Bishop to advise him on how to handle the situation if it should happen a second time. Presumably the cross-dressing male is being deliberately provocative. If he is denied communion or...

Two activities that are equally a waste of time. One, trying to persuade someone who believes in “gender” that there is really no such thing, The other, trying to persuade someone who doesn’t believe in gender that it is a real thing.

CNA has more about the notes he left. This has more extensive details than I had seen at the time of my earlier post today. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266243/minneapolis-catholic-church-shooter-expressed-regret-about-gender-transition

According to one online source, he “transitioned” several years ago — although it didn’t say at what age exactly — and had later come to regret it. That would suggest the possibility that nobody made much of an effort, at the time, to induce him to change his mind.

I have never seen or heard a non-Catholic make that statement, either in speech or in writing, but I think I can see where a Protestant would be coming from if he did say that. We all, Catholics and Protestants alike, believe in a trinitarian or triune God. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...

Another possible answer to the puzzle is this, from the New Jerome Biblical Commentary, p. 913a: As is clear from context, this does not mean that genuine faith is insufficient for justification, but that faith unaccompanied by works is not genuine. There is thus no basic disagreement of James...

@po18guy, from your link: Ver. 11. Samuel. Here we behold the antiquity of necromancy, which is a proof that people believed the soul’s immortality; animas responsa daturas. (Horace, i. sat. 8.) (Calmet) — Protestants sometimes deny (Haydock) that souls appear again, contrary to this history...

The meeting seems to have gone well. They're hinting at a follow-up meeting, possibly in Moscow, though they don't seem to have said anything about a date for that. I suppose there'll be a pause now to see what Zelensky has to say about it all and then, after that, another pause to see what...