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With the Vigil of All Saints (Halloween) coming up, it is time to say: Parents ignoring the dangers of the Halloween imagery and activities and the possible demonic attachments that could, in some cases, happen, are not doing their job to protect their kids. I will quote St. Paul, but I do so...

Well, if that is what they do, that's what they do. As I said, such a length is very rare. In any regard, it is worth the wait, whether 8 months or 18 months. You will never regret it. Welcome to the Church.

Baptism of blood requires that you are killed for the faith (a martyr). Baptism by Desire is the one that applies to catechumens. But, eighteen months? That is very rare!!! RCIA is usually from August or September to the following Easter Vigil, around eight months. What was you parish...

Steve Ray? Well, he must sound like me, then, since I came into the Church a year before he did.

Jesus said that one must be baptized in water and spirit to be saved. The New Testament was written by Catholics under the inspiration of God. What Jesus says here is clear. Baptism is a Sacrament of initiation into the Kingdom of God. If one is not validly baptized, then they are not Christian...

Congrats Johnny. If I can be any help with your transition, let me know. I am a convert in 1992. I was Baptist clergy for 15 years or so. Mostly Southern Baptist.

Both confessions and "incriminating" statements are often manipulated by the police. This is the reason one should NEVER talk to the police without a lawyer. Here is a lawyer and a police officer talking about this: Never talk to the Cops

At least 4% of death row inmates found to be innocent. If we kill them and then find the evidence that they are innocent, what are we to say, "oops". Wrongful convictions climb in U.S. "During the past 25 years, almost 60 percent of the wrongful convictions for homicide in the US are...

There is no excuse for the Death penalty in the U.S., according to the criteria of the Church. I think, among first world nations, it is only the U.S. and Japan that disgraces itself with the death penalty.

I know this post is not about religion, but this man was very important to me and a major influence to me as a professional poet. Merwin was a former Poet Laurette of the United States. He was also one of my teachers at the University of Iowa. His poetry was beyond excellent. He will be missed...

No, my friend. Jesus says the center of the Church is St. Peter. St. Peter was Jesus' appointed Prime Minister. This is proven in the Bible in Matthew 16 and Isaiah 22. This is crystal clear. No matter what the influence of the East may have been at the time, the Church rests upon Peter...

Only an Orthodox Christian would say the center of Christianity was in the east. The Center of Christianity is, was, and always will be the Chair of Peter that Jesus established to lead the Church. Jesus established the center of of the Church.

No, Pope's began with St. Peter, who was appointed Pope by Jesus himself. Pope Clement exercised Papal authority over the Church of Corinth around AD90 proving the Popes did have such power in the 1st century.

There is no contraction here. Peter was the 1st Pope . Linus was second. Linus was the first after Peter. When the Church talks about successors, Peter is not a successor, as he was the first Pope. All others, Linus which was first, are successors of Peter. Remember that in this passage it is...

I know, it is a joke about how some people think the KJV is the only valid version. The version of the Old Testament that Jesus read was the Septuagint (this is the version of the Old Testament used by Catholics). If that version of the Old Testament was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough...

As for me, If the King James Version was good enough for Sts. Peter and Paul, it is good enough for me.

No answer. I thought so.

What happens is this: Are you qualified to make this conclusion? What are your credentials that would make your mere opinion outrank the Church's official teaching over the last 1600 years (long before your denomination or christian group even existed?

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I guess I have not heard of this alleged quote applying to anything other than homosexuality (not gay, since gay mean "joyous", not homosexual).