Recent content by nfp guy

You and Gandhi, right?

I don't think there is any evidence for it in Scripture or tradition.

JV, I am not sure that miracle accounts will persuade anyone who is not involved in them personally. I think the Chuch itself generally only goes so far as to say certain very few occurrences are "worthy of belief", but even if a hypothetical Catholic did not think Fatima was legit, one would...

It doesn't sound like they would be super-friendly to Catholics. Two, it does not seem that their core principles are peculiarly "Christian". Third, I think in the common objections section they say they are not seeking a theocracy, per se.

But I have heard the truth is both out there, and will set you free.

Yes, I have a lot of his talks from Lighthouse. I gather he is not all that well respected by other "professional" theologians, but I don't know enough to tell whether the opposition is because he is othodox or something else. From what I can tell, he backs up his positions.

Well, my journey was only from non-practicing Methodism to Catholicism, but still.

Great book, IMHO. It was really instrumental in my own conversion, along with John 6.

Thanks, gigi. I am pretty good now, still sore & achy, and I get fatigued more quickly. Because of the kind of breaks that I had, I had surgery to put them back together, with titanium plates, kind of like scales or chain mail, holding them together. So, once they were back together, the...

I didn't miss too much? I was in the hospital for ten days, starting on Dec. 26. I was playing with my kids at the park, and I fell down a sliding board, landed on the end, broke four ribs, two vertebrae, and punctured my lung. I hope everyone's Christmas to post-New-Year's was better than...

Well, I believe in St. Nicholas.

http://www.strangenotions.com/gods-philosophers/ Interesting read, and a common topic, it seems, here at PJ.

Wow, that is a looooooooooong sentence!

Yes, it is - I think this link is accurate: http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm. From the link, regarding the U.S.: On the Fridays outside of Lent the U.S. bishops conference obtained the permission of the Holy See for Catholics in the US to substitute a penitential, or even a charitable...

Dogma is usually reserved for a divinely revealed truth, and while denying ourselves is certainly part of what is communicated in divinely revealed truth, the particular example of abstinence from meat is not part of divinely revealed truth; rather, it is more accurately described, I think, as a...