Questions and Answers on Salvation

Father Michael Muller was one of the most widely read theologians of the 19th Century. He ranks as one of the greatest defenders of the dogma “Outside the Church there is no salvation” in modern times. Father Muller always submitted his works to two Redemptorist theologians and to his religious superiors before publication, thus we are sure of the doctrinal soundness of his teachings. This article, first published in 1875, is one of the finest treatments of the doctrinal truth that Our Lord founded one true Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation. Father Muller’s firm writings are desperately needed in our time when this doctrine is denied by those who are the most influential members of our Holy Church. We publish Father Muller’s excellent little Catechism as an antidote to the prevalent religious indifferentism — an indifferentism that is the direct result of what Blessed Pius IX denounced as “Liberal Catholicism”.

I don't like the idea of your Patriarch being "subject" to the Pope

Again ... poor choice of words on my part.

His Beatitude Mar Nasrallah Boutros Cardinal Sfeir, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East

He is the 3rd Maronite Cardinal and the 76th Patriarch of the Maronite Church.

He was born in Rayfoun, Kesrouan on May 15, 1920.

He completed his Primary and Complementary studies at Mar Abda School in Harharaya and his Secondary studies (i.e. High School) at St. Maron Seminary in Ghazir.

He holds a Doctorate degree in Philosophical and Theological studies from Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon.

May 7, 1950: Ordained Priest

1951 - 1955: Priest of Rayfoun Parish. In charge of the secretariat of the Maronite Bishopric of Damascus.

1956: Secretary of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke. Professor of Translation in Literature and Philosophy at the Freres Maronite School in Jounieh.

June 19, 1961: Titular Bishop of Tarse and Patriarchal Vicar.

July 3, 1961: Confirmation of his election by His Holiness Pope John XXIII.

July 16, 1961: Ordained Bishop.

1961 - 1986: Patriarchal Vicar and Secretary of the Maronite Patriarchate.

April 19, 1986: Elected Maronite Patriarch for Antioch and all the East.

May 7, 1986: His Holiness Pope John Paul II entrusted him the "ecclesiastic communio" .

November 26, 1994: Created Cardinal by His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

1995: Delegate President of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Lebanon.

His Publications (in Arabic language):

1. Of the sources of the Gospel, Bkerke, 1975, 416 pages.

2. Personalities who have disappeared from 1961 - 1974 in 2 volumes, Bkerke, 1984

3. Sunday Sermons: spiritual reflections and stand of national positions, many volumes, Bkerke, 1988 to present.

For more details on the biography, homilies and publications of His Beatitude Nasrallah Sfeir, please visit: http://www.bkerke.org.lb

My reading of Scripture and observations of man, religion and God in our era leave me with an intense conclusion that God hates RELIGION in all it's forms.

City of God St. Augustine

"For He is the fountain of our happiness, He the end of all our desires. Being attached to Him, or rather let me say, re-attached,-for we had detached ourselves and lost hold of Him,-being, I say, re-attached to Him...

Augustin here remarks, in a clause that cannot be given in English, that the word religio is derived from religere.-So Cicero, De Nat. Deor. ii. 28.

Accr'd to St. Augustine, "Religion" comes from relegere 'to re-elect'.

James 1:26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

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