Your real beef with Tim Staples is he used to a Catholic-hating pentacostal and he converted to Catholicism, now being one of the best Catholic apologists around.
Seriesly.
Isn't it interesting how some of these male converts have become SUCH vocal preachers in our faith? Besides Tim Staples there are:
SCOTT HAHN
STEVE RAY
They are TRULY a gift from God. THANK YOU, LORD!
I went on one of Steve and Janet Ray's FOOTPRINTS OF GOD pilgrimages to Israel. It was THE most fabulous tour I have ever been on.
[My husband and I lived and worked in the middle east for five years and went, oh, everywhere. WHAT a lucky woman I was!]
Steve, being a former evangelical Baptist minister, knew his Bible backwards and forwards. He could quote chapter and verse of every place we visited. The story of his conversion was most interesting and heart rending.
It WAS a hoot to watch him deal with the Israelis (Jewish ones) who were NOT thrilled at so many Christians, especially CATHOLICS, visiting the Holy Land.
It was HOMERIC! There was MUCH hand-waving, much movement, turning, looking up and down and much head shaking, as in NO.
My money was on Steve--HOMERIC!!!
Steve always got that "extra" that he wanted us to see and visit.
And NO, he never had to bribe. The Israelis (Jewish ones) don't take bribes and would probably would have been rather annoyed at the offer. Just a guess.
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Every Christian who can OUGHT to save his pennies and visit the place where our Savior lived, taught, suffered and died. That is what our plastic cards are for!
I still get choked up when thinking of our Lord's tomb on Calvary. I kissed His tomb and placed my rosary on it.
Side note: There is no more HILL of Calvary. The Romans took it down in the 3rd or 4th century because it had become a NUISANCE with all the Christian pilgrims.
Not at all, it his shallow apologetic’s that I don’t appreciate. I could careless about his “church” habits. I do not like him trying to speak for “non-catholics” we don’t all believe as he previously did.