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Sep 29, 2021 · It's hard out here for a pope. See, when it comes to religious history, the list of Catholic Church transgressions makes for pretty uncomfortable reading. Despite exalting virtue and kindness in its teaching, church leadership has spearheaded a long history of outright unforgivable Catholic actions.
- Lea Rose Emery
Oct 12, 2023 · Spending weeks researching the devil and Catholic attitudes toward evil is not my idea of a good time. I am admittedly somewhat skeptical of the devil—or at least the devil I have come to know ...
The word Satan comes from the Hebrew word Satan, meaning to oppose, to harass someone; so Satan would be the tempter, the one to make up trip and fall, the one to turn us from God. The word devil is derived from the Greek diabolos , meaning an accuser, a slanderer. Other synonyms for Satan in Sacred Scripture are the Evil One, Beelzebub, the ...
- The Argument from Authority
- The Argument from Skepticism
- The Argument from Silence
- But What’s The Evidence For The Papacy?
There are a lot of places in the Bible in which Jesus seems to treat Peter as the head of the Apostles: the famous scene in which he seems to build the Church upon Peter in Matthew 16:17-19; the time that he says to “let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves” and then calls Peter to serve the other Apostles...
Walls’ argument, in a nutshell, works like this: the Resurrection is foundational to Christianity, and so we should expect it to be historically well-supported, and it is. Papal succession is foundational to Catholicism, and so we should expect it to be historically well-supported, but it isn’t. There are two major fallacies in this reasoning. Firs...
If you insist on dismissing all of the early Christian witnesses to the papacy as believing in “pious romance,” you’re left with nothing, because nobody in the early Church actually argues against the papacy, or says that Peter didn’t die in Rome, or that there wasn’t an unbroken line of bishops after him. Walls views this resultant silence as a po...
I alluded to the biblical evidence above, and would refer you to my book if that piques your interest. But since Walls is focused on the evidence from the first 200 years of Christianity, I’ll do likewise. And the focus is specifically on whether or not Peter had successors as the Bishop of Rome. The most obvious evidence is from St. Irenaeus, who ...
The new Catechism of the Catholic Church asserts, "Behind the disobedient voice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy. Scripture and the Church's tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called 'Satan' or the 'devil'" (No. 391).
Aug 15, 2018 · The priest at St Paul’s spoke of “horrendous and evil acts,” “moral failure” by church leaders, and the “grief, sadness, feelings of betrayal, even anger” that followed. One woman ...
EVIL: The opposite or absence of good. One form of evil, physical evil, is a result of the “state of journeying” toward its ultimate perfection in which God created the world, involving the existence of the less perfect alongside the more perfect, the constructive and the destructive forces of nature, the appearance and disappearance of ...
