Posted on 05/17/2006 9:08:53 PM PDT by Full Court
font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4" color="#990000">From Operation Rescue to Operation Convert
May 21-27, 2006 |
by TIM DRAKE |
Also in the Register: Randal Terry, CatholicRandall Terry has become Catholic. Tell me about your family. How did you come to know Christ? How did you first get started in pro-life work? What led to the founding of Operation Rescue? How many times were you arrested? When did you first take an interest in the Catholic Church? Which theological hurdles were the most difficult for you to jump? I understand that you are awaiting word on the annulment of your first marriage. Can you tell me why you chose to be received into the Church (without being able to receive the Eucharist), before the resolution of your annulment? Tell me how your reception into the Church came about. What was your greatest fear? How do you expect your evangelical colleagues will react to news of your conversion? Do you anticipate that your conversion could hurt you in your Senate race in a predominantly Protestant state?
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I'm still quibbling. :-) It was a Catholic court, in Belgium. But you're right, he was convicted of teaching Lutheranism, not of translating the Bible into English.
I haven't converted but I'm so glad that I discovered EWTN network and now my mom is watching it too. Who's my news anchor now? Well, it's not Shep Smith or Brian Williams. It's Raymond Arroyo on The World Over.
Strictly speaking, "what somebody wants" isn't supposed to matter in a marriage case. If one party to the marriage asks for the marriage to be examined to determine whether it's valid, then the examination has to be done. "What I want to happen" is irrelevant to the question of whether valid consent was given in the first place.
Really? Why?
He didn't pray to them and bypass Jesus Christ.
He ASKED them to pray to Jesus on his behalf.
Yes, the correct term for that is "intercession" or "intercessory prayer".
According to you, Jesus is the only intercessor. Therefore, Paul sinned by asking people other than the "only intercessor" to pray for him.
Incidentally, Scripture never says that Jesus is the only intercessor. It says "one is the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus". The word translated "one" is heis ("one, unique, primary") not monos ("exactly one").
Amen, but as a fellow Baptist we have our problems.
See what is going on in the Southern Baptist Convention!
What a mess that is!
Oh, BTW, no Catholic prays to a saint in hopes of bypassing Christ. We ask the saints to pray to Jesus and through Jesus to the Father, for us.
That is clear example of what hatred does to one's recollection of Scripture.
A great quote by Tyndale, great-grandfather of the King James Bible, the Bible hated by Rome and Ecumenical's.
The truth divides.
God didn't dictate the Bible in its King James edition.
Now, now, the KJV is not perfect, but it's quite a bit better than many modern versions ... especially in the original 1611 version, with all 73 books. :-)
Well, hmm (furrowed brow) right: I thought he'd been convicted by an Anglican court first (Cuthbert Tunstall?), and then by a Catholic court in what is now Belgium. (Take off 5 points for that.)
You're entirely correct that Tyndale supported in effect the Catholic position against Henry VIII's divorce; that incurred the king's wrath and set in motion the "politics" of his betrayal and eventual execution.
The cruelty of that period is hair-raising. I recently read Ackroyd's bio of Thomas More: I have to think he repented his part in the blood-spilling, before his own was spilt.
Sheila Rauch Kennedy actually petitioned for the divorce. Years and years later a Catholic marriage tribunal found that there was a sacramental defect at the outset. I don't understand why Sheila wouldn't agree with that. Joseph K. was a heartless adulterer from the gitgo.
Yeah! Yes! Bueno! Bingo. You got it. That's what it's all about.
Who d'heck ever prayed to "bypass Jesus"???
If the Sacrament is INVALID, it's invalid for BOTH participants. I never understood why she was so upset about it anyway. She was divorced, which is OK in her Church, and since she wasn't Catholic, the annulment had no effect on her ability to marry again. I guess she was just mad at Joseph Kennedy, and probably rightly so, but the annulment wasn't affecting her or their kids, if they had any, legally, so what was her argument against it? It always seemed to me as just a way to bash the Kennedys and sell her book.
As for him re-marrying, he is free to do so, if his first marriage is annuled. One can only hope that he mended his unfaithful ways. That's between him and his Confessor, and if his second marriage is working out, it just may be. Thank God for repentance.
I would ask a friend to pray for me, but I wouldn't ask a dead one.
Now, now, you know the Apocrypha books were never considered Canonical by the King James translators and were placed in the middle of the Bible, not intermixed in the Old Testament (as Canonical) like they are in a RCC bible.
Erasmus's Greek Text(Textus Receptus) was placed on the forbidden reading list by Rome as soon as it was published.
No, but God made sure that the spirit filled translators got it right.(Ps.12:6-7)
God didn't 'dictate' the originals either (2Pet.1:21)
You think people in heaven are dead?
Sacred tradition IS "The Infallible Word of God". If you really believe the Bible, you have no choice. The Bible is very clear about that.
Why is it so difficult for you folks to believe that the Holy Spirit worked to keep error out of the Bible as it was being compiled by the Catholic Church, and yet that same Holy Spirit would be unable to prevent error in the teaching of matters of faith and morals when it is transmitted by (originally) non-written means. MOST of the teaching of the Apostles was NOT written down until after their lifetimes, by those who had been THEIR disciples.
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