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My view is not just scriptural, its historical. The Apostles trained up their replacements to carry on the ministry. Paul was training Timothy to be Bishop of Ephesus, which he was. Timothy was trained and given the Apostolic gift through the laying on of Paul hands. This is the Apostolic...

You can see the primitive Catholic Church structure in the Bible, also its continuation among the Fathers that the Apostles appointed. What you don't see is protestant or baptist structure. The Bible didn't exist, so you didn't see independent churches built on each mans interpretation of...

Do you kneel when you pray, fast and meditate on Jesus passion? The other thing is. There is a spiritual condition called the Dark Night of the Senses, where prayer is dry and seemingly gets little to nothing from it. No matter how you persevere in prayer, this eventually eases and consolations...

If you don't pray, you won't have any relationship with God. He will always be a vague concept until you die and stand before Him in shock. He tells everyone that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, and people ignore that and don't do any deep medatitive prayer their entire lives. Many people...

We are created of eternal fabric to be with God forever. Rejecting God and His mercy does not change the fact that souls are eternal after their creation. People will continue eternally with God or without God.

What they do is choose. God created a creature in His image and His likeness, with enough sovereignty and agency to freely choose or reject God. To the angels He gave an instant to decide, to us a 70-year lifespan. God will not force us to love Him who is all good. But rejecting all Good...

It's all turning the other way I'm afraid, everyone is starting to see the truths of the Catholic Church, even through the deepest darkest and most entrenched prejudices they have been nursing all their lives, and in their communities and families. Bible aloners are seeing their new human...

What does the Catechism say?

Are you teaching Catholics about their faith?

Didn't a fundamental Church mightily condemn colonoscopies as Sodomoscopy?

Even if I granted that these are not in the Bible, which I don't. The Christian religion is not confined to the Bible. The Bible itself is not even scriptural, but Catholic Tradition. There are no books in the Bible that list what books belong in the Bible, this was done by the Authority of The...

Protestants try to build their churches on their interpretation of written text, this is not the Church Jesus founded. These are human churches, with human doctrines, they had nothing to with the Bible, and have no authority to interpret it. Jesus founded an Apostolic Church, with Apostolic...

This is true. It seems no matter our little misadventures, agonies and doubts, Jesus is still supporting us. I have found that the people who really lost their faith stopped praying, and I don't mean just verbal prayers, but daily prayer from the heart, inner speaking with the Lord. They fell...

I think those taught falsely about Catholicism are suffering shockwaves of cognitive dissonance. They have lived so long with false assumptions of what Catholics believe.

There are also miracles of circumstance and providence. Angelic help.

I get tired of re explaining it. It's been decades since I first started explaining it. It's like the same guy you meet in every town you ride into.

It would have been written in the Catholic Catechism if John Paul 2 was speaking Ex Cathedra, that's how we know. If you can find it, let me know.

Yes, Mary's intercession is biblical however. At the wedding feast of Cana we see Mary intercede with Jesus on behalf of the wedding party. When Mary asked Jesus to deal with the situation of the lack of wine, it was not in God's timing that Jesus should reveal Himself. Think on this a...

It's important to get definitions right. Necromancy is summoning or conjuring the dead to gain some special knowledge, which is a totally different thing from taking prayer requests. Yes all Heaven takes prayer requests, because they are the Living, and 'Asking an alive friend to pray for you...

I was surprised that many in protestantism were so surprised at the document Ejection of specific titles: The document explicitly rejects titles like "co-redemptrix" and "co-mediatrix" because they risk "eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ" as the sole Savior. Emphasis on Jesus as the...