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Did Luther Want to Start His Own Church? – Shameless Popery I read this blog pretty often. It's full of informative articles expounding the faith. And in order to do that, you pretty much have to address Luther at some point or another. Now, I've seen that whole "Luther wanted to reform the...

Okay, this is it. My wife is getting induced today and my daughter will be born pretty soon. Prayers, especially from Catholics, are most welcome right now.

You are in the Catholic forum. If your identifier is not set to Catholic, your thoughts are not welcome in this thread. Not trying to be rude but I'm not really a diplomatic person. Miraculous Medal - Wikipedia I ordered some Miraculous Medals. Obviously I'm keeping one for myself. But the...

Got engaged to my beloved last May. We've been working our way through Catholic marriage prep. It was a little infuriating in some places because we're planning to get married in May 2019. The woman at the parish in charge of marriage formation had a very difficult time wrapping her mind around...

You ever wonder how many kids surely must have pursued careers in archaeology just because they grew up eating cookies + cream ice cream?

Marriage Prep started last night. Father and the leader of the program basically gave an overview of what’s involved with it and what the different phases are intended for, etc. My girlfriend, who isn’t Catholic btw, seemed rather taken with the whole thing. This was likely helped by Father’s...

So I went to Confession today. It had been too long since my last one and it was time to get it done. I'd never been to Confession at this particular parish before because I moved not long ago and haven't had a lot of time to check things out around here. So after I finished telling Father...

It's funny because it's true. I don't miss these silly things from my Southern Baptist days.

One cow-orker of mine makes a habit of talking about religion on a semi-regular basis. I confess this would be more annoying but my other cow-orkers make conversation frequently about politics. So I ask what it's worth? I'm sincerely not sure which is more off-putting. But in the plus column...

This video is a reconstruction of the Mass as it would've been celebrated on October 4, 1450, 18th Sunday after Pentecost. The first three minutes is someone speaking a language I don't know (parts of it sound Russian to me) after which the reconstruction of the Mass starts. I thought it was...

I have today off from work... because it's Labor Day in America. I guess that's supposed to be ironic or something. So anyway, I saw today as an opportunity to go to Daily Mass at an Anglican Use parish near here. I was voluntold by the deacon to do the readings. Now, I've never done readings...

The Real Presence is one of the great mysteries of the faith. But the evangelical community, into which I was born, has instituted a heretical rebellion against this doctrine so complete that I never even heard of the Real Presence until I was in my 20's. At that time, it seemed without...

Not to be dismissive of anybody else's tradition but I've heard a lot of Catholics (even clergy) joke that when evangelicals switch to Rome, they usually do so after a layover in Canterbury. That's certainly true in my case as I could not have switched directly from evangelicalism to...

The Church has historically regarded the bolded passage as a prophecy of Our Lady. You may agree or disagree but it remains interesting. The angel greeted Our Lady by calling her "full of grace". He did not use that term to describe her spiritual condition; that's the name he used to address...

As might be self-evident, there is little or nothing about the Nicene Creed that is not part and parcel of orthodox, historical Christianity. The Council of Nicaea had a few items on the agenda, of which the two most famous are the Arian controversy and the consensus of the Scriptural canon...

Right now my FSSP parish shares space with a regular one until our own parish property can be built. It needs to happen soon since we outgrew our temporary space probably a year ago. I just sent Father a proposal on how crowd funding might be able to assist with that. We'll see what he has to...

I've been attending a small ACNA parish for a bit less than a year now. For reasons that are quite completely irrelevant to this post, I've decided it may be time to move on. Because of that I attended Mass at a nearby Roman Catholic church tonight. I noticed that the communion near my pew was...

I've been known to repeatedly and loudly say something mysterious and oblique such as "I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. Not for you, not for anybody. If the survival of the entire human race hinged exclusively upon my willingness to celebrate Valentine's Day, the human race had better get...

That seemed like a more interesting subject line for my first post. Anyway. I'm new here. How's everybody doing?