Some claim that it was James, not Peter, who was the leader of the early Church.
How does this claim stand up to closer examination? These sources will provide the evidence needed to answer that question:
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If you are looking for a verse that uses the word “Magisterium”, you won’t find it-just like you won’t find the word “Trinity” or any words about women receiving communion. However, the concept of the magisterium can be seen from Genesis and throughout scripture.
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The Church functioned as a visible, hierarchical and Apostolic Church since the church began. The reformers redefined the church as an invisible collection of believers. The responses below address their claim:
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It has been said that “Jesus has a strict immigration policy”. The bible speaks of two moral duties when it comes to helping the foreigner and we can’t do one without the other.
What does charity require us to do? The fist duty is to welcome the foreigner to the extent we are able. We have an obligation to help those truly in need to the extent we have the ability to do so. Does that mean that you must bring the homeless man asking for help to sleep in your home? Remember the Good Samaritan was good and commended by Christ. The Good Samaritan did the right thing: humanitarian aid. He did not take the roadside victim home with him. Rather, the Good Samaritan put the victim up in a hotel and paid for him to get better.
Our second duty is to secure one’s border and enforce the law for the sake of the common good of all people. Do you lock your doors at night while your children sleep? Or do you leave them wide open for anyone who may enter, no matter what their intent, risking good of your children to anyone who demands that you allow them in?
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he question comes up every year. Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Over the years, our family, like many of our friends, has been thoughtful about how to approach the day without glorifying evil. When I taught Speech, every autumn brought a new batch of persuasive speeches about Halloween that were as diverse as the colors of fall. Some claimed it had pagan origins. Others claimed it was a Satanist’s holiday and that participating in any festivities opened the door for demons. Still others claimed that is was just a way to have some fun as long as you didn’t practice anything occultish.
Well, it turns out they were all wrong. The truth is that Halloween is actually a Christian holiday.
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Paul said, “But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal 6:14).
Read More“The Sign of the Cross is indeed a distinctly Catholic (and Orthodox) practice, but it is also one that is deeply rooted in both the Old and New Testaments. Its witness to a faith that is ever ancient, yet ever new is yet another way the Sign of the Cross symbolizes the heart of what we believe and practice as Catholics.
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The classic Protestant suspicion is that Catholics fear the Bible; that the Church forbade the laity to read it for centuries because if that had been allowed, people would have seen how unscriptural Catholic doctrines were. This is simply untrue, of course, but is still widely believed among Protestants. -Peter Kreeft
The Catholic view of the bible is that Scripture is but one book and that book is Christ.
“Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely.
For this reason, the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord’s Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God’s Word and Christ’s Body. In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, “but as what it really is, the word of God”. “In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them.
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Did Pope Francis change infallible church teaching when he changed the catechism on the death penalty?
No. He didn’t change the moral principles, he changed how the principles are currently are applied. Why? Because, “in Pope Francis’s judgment, society has changed in a way that requires a different application of them.” Understanding the Catechism Changes on the Death Penalty