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Aug 30, 2019 · If you speak Common English, and you’re Catholic, chances are you’re already a natural at Sacred English. Most regular Catholics, who visit a Divine Worship Mass, tend to fit right in before the thing is over.
Feb 7, 2013 · I would say it’s in effectively reaching the second and third generation, the English-speaking Latino Catholic. A lot of young Latinos are struggling with living in two worlds, the world of their parents’ Hispanic roots and the world of their peers in the United States.
- Vastly Different Concepts of God
- Islam Denies The Trinity
- Allah Is Not A Father
- Allah The Source of Good and Evil
- Shortcomings of Islamic Morality
- Choose Allies Carefully
The proposition that we worship the same God is affirmed by Vatican II: “Together with us they [Muslims] adore the one merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day” (Lumen Gentium16). The Muslim holy book, the Qur’an, also affirms this: Allah tells his prophet Muhammed to say to the “People of the Book”—that is, the Jews, Christians, and a few oth...
The most obvious difference between the Christian and Islamic conceptions of God is the Trinity. The Qur’an several times denies the Trinity, or at least attempts to do so. And so in the Muslim holy book, Allah asks Jesus: “O Jesus son of Mary, didst thou say unto men, ‘Take me and my mother as gods, apart from God’?” (5:116) The Qur’an has Jesus d...
Allah in the Qur’an, in the first place, is not a father. He is above all not the father of Jesus Christ. The Qur’an repeatedly rejects, as an insult to Allah’s transcendent majesty, the idea that Jesus is his son—and, indeed, that he has any son at all. The Qur’an envisions Allah as a physical being and so dismisses the idea of the divine fatherho...
And the one whom one must obey has inclined mankind to evil as well as good. In the Qur’an, Allah inspires in the soul both “lewdness and god fearing” (91:8). The world-renowned Pakistani Muslim political leader and theologian Syed Abul Ala Maududi (1902–1979), who wrote an influential commentary on the Qur’an, explains that this verse means that “...
What’s more, Islamic morality is quite different from what some ecumenical Catholics assume it to be. Not only does it have much less common ground with Catholic morality than most Catholics assume, but it compares unfavorably even to the decadent West in fostering genuine virtues.
Secularism is encroaching upon the Church. And it is always good to have allies. At the same time, the best ally is not one who is likely to turn and join one’s enemies in the struggle, or to initiate new hostilities within the alliance once the battle is won. The doctrines of Islam that inculcate among too many Muslims hatred and suspicion of Chri...
Aug 18, 2015 · Whether it’s same-sex marriage, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, deradicalisation programs or Islamic State (IS), academics and commentators have found a need to engage with religion....
The trauma facing English Catholics is how a nation, so steeped in the Catholic faith that it was known in the Middle Ages as the Dowry of Mary, should in the space of a generation turn upon the ancient Church, tear down its images, outlaw its liturgy — and deny its Englishness.
Jul 1, 2002 · In the wake of 9/11 it has become more important than ever that Catholics have an accurate view of Islam. A starting point, though not the ending point, is reading what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say.
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Jun 15, 2023 · Because of their historical development within the Anglosphere, English-speaking Catholics are usually able to adapt to this form of Traditional Catholicism rather quickly. It requires a very minimal amount of adjustment and does not require learning any new languages or customs.
