Category: Renewal
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The Last Days
Are we living in the Last Days? Is the great and terrible apocalypse upon us? Shane Schaetzel, a trained catechist and Evangelical convert to the Catholic Church, through Anglicanism, delves into the greatest question of our time. Are we soon approaching the end of the world? In the pages of this book, the author exposes […]
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Why I Don’t Believe in the Rapture
Catholics do not believe in the Rapture. It’s not part of our eschatology, and it violates historic tradition on this matter. For that matter, the Eastern Orthodox don’t believe in the Rapture either, nor do the Coptic Christians, nor do non-Evangelical Protestants. In fact, the majority of Christians, throughout the world, do not believe in […]
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The Social Kingship of Jesus Christ – In America
JESUS IS KING! But what does that mean? How do we act as instruments by which the Kingdom of God may shine through? I am an Integralist. That means I believe governments should be subject to the basic principles of Christian religion. Let me clarify that in stating that I am an Integralist of the […]
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The King James Version (KJV) Only?
The King James Only movement is growing among Evangelicals as of late. This is probably the biggest growth I’ve ever seen of the movement in my lifetime. The King James Only movement is a Protestant quirk, popular among some Evangelical Fundamentalists, wherein they assert that the King James Version is the ONLY authoritative English translation […]
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Do not confuse the Catholic Church with the corrupt hierarchy. These are two totally different things. The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by corrupt clergy in the past. And each time, these corrupt clergy were defeated not by schism, (the Protestant solution), nor by miracles, (the unlikely solution), but rather by faithful Catholic clergy and […]
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The Ozarks – A Missionary Field for Catholics
A Eucharistic Procession in Springfield, Missouri — Photo Credit: J.B. Kelly The Ozarks are a small mountain outcropping that extends west of the Mississippi River. They are, in actuality, a westward extension of the southern Appalachian Mountain chain, though much smaller, and the last mountains one will see before entering the Great Plains of North […]
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Interview with Tony of Reverent Catholic Mass
In the wake of Traditionis Custodes, the recent papal decree that severely curtails the availability of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), many Catholics have been scrambling to find reverent Catholic liturgy. Some bishops have already banned the TLM in their dioceses, others have cut back on its availability. On the flip side, however, a few […]
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I Love the Catholic Church, and That is Why I Criticize its Leaders
“In accord with the knowledge, competence, and preeminence which they possess, [lay people] have the right and even at times a duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church, and they have a right to make their opinion known to the other Christian faithful, […]
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How To Use St. Gregory’s Prayer Book
St. Gregory was the name of the pope (Pope St. Gregory the Great) who dispatched St. Augustine of Canterbury to convert the English in AD 595. The St. Gregory’s Prayer Book (SGPB), available directly from Ignatius Press and most book retailers, is a prayer book designed for all English-speaking Christians, using Sacred English exclusively, and […]
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The End of an Era
We have reached the end of an era. Pope Francis Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes has revoked and nullified Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum which liberalized usage of the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) throughout the Church. For that matter, it also nullified Pope Saint John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei which likewise […]
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