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Dr. David Anders, a former Calvinist who spent 10 years pursuing a PhD to disprove the Catholic Faith, and came out of it a Catholic: “There’s a standard answer to that question [why the 1,500 gap?] within protestant polemics, and the standard answer is that the papacy buried the gospel under a lot of superstitious smoke, largely in exercise of self-aggrandizement; that the ambition of the popes of Rome had smothered the gospel under a host of manmade traditions. There are a lot of reasons why that view of history is false. But one of them is that it’s evident if you look around the ancient Christian world—not everyone recognized the authority of the Pope in antiquity, and even those who did sometimes were removed from him geographically such that the Pope couldn’t exercise effective jurisdiction over churches in far-flung corners of the empire, except you know maybe by a correspondence that could take centuries to play out. So if the reformers’ thesis was true, if Catholic tradition is really kind of the aggression of the Roman hierarchy to suppress the gospel, we should expect to find in communities remote from the Pope something that looks like Lutheranism. If protestantism naturally flows forth from the pages of Scripture, we should find protestantism flourishing wherever there’s an absence of Catholicism. And in fact what you find is something very different. If you go look in ancient Persia, or southern India, or Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, north Africa (well north Africa was Roman), Arabia, these places in the world that were remote from direct Roman influence, you find nothing remotely similar to Lutheranism, nothing remotely similar to Calvinism! And it puts the lie to this Calvinist thesis that the protestant religion just sort of spontaneously emerges out of the Bible. No, protestantism emerged in a very specific time and place: Saxony, Europe, northern Europe, in the early 16th century for reasons that were highly particular, and very, very related to that social context. It’s not the natural outgrowth of the Bible. It’s the natural outgrowth of that particular historical era.”

St Joseph pray for us!

I don’t know who needs to hear this (other than everyone), but until our nation repents, begs God for forgiveness, and seeks the redemption that only Christ can provide, we are cooked. Until we repent and turn to God, the misery and chaos we see all around us will only worsen.

Amen Kristan, if we know abortion for what it is we can never allow it at any point after conception.

What happened on that Good Friday morning was that through propagandists the people became the masses. A democracy with a conscience became a mobocracy with power. When a democracy loses its moral sense, it can vote itself right out of democracy.

Good luck Eamon! (PPA grad)

It’s Race Day! #THWND

#CatholicTwitter: Will you be watching The Passion of the Christ this week?

If I may quote our great martyr, St Oliver Plunkett, the days of Nero & Diocletian may well be upon us again. Indeed, in a particular Irish context, those of Cromwell too.

A motion picture depicting the beauty of the life of an unborn child in the womb. Efforts to deny this & promote attacks on these children are truly diabolical. Promoting these murders is not Catholic, Christian or even simply human. Abortionists, harden not your hearts.

The good news is that Bud Light tastes like rain water that someone siphoned out of a tin bucket so it should be very easy to boycott

Let us embrace this powerful message from Pope St Pius X,

Saint Ludovico, pray for our students, teachers, friends & families! franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-d…

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PPA's production of "The Sound of Music" was a huge success. Thanks cast & crew and everyone who sacrificed to help make it possible. In a world where chaos & ugliness are so often celebrated, pray this beautiful production sparks more efforts that are good, true & beautiful.

Thank you Cardinal Muller, your clear analysis needs to be read & understood by every faithful Catholic in Germany & around the world. We must cling to Jesus Christ & the doctrines of His Church & reject any “way” that contradicts His Way. lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-mulle…

Fr Paddy, a native of Offaly like myself, was ordained a priest for our diocese & served in Dunboyne. He heard the call to mission, joined the Columbans & after working at the mother house for a number of years, was sent to Malate parish in Manila in The Philippines. He proved..

Been doing work in archives of Columban Fathers, their mother house is in our diocese. Extraordinary Society of heroic men, many martyrs & confessors. Two I regard as among the greatest martyrs of the Church: our own Fr Patrick Kelly & New Zealander, Fr Francis Vernon Douglas.

St Benedict, pray for us!

As our corrupt Biden-lead government slides closer to collapse it becomes more critical that we get our spiritual house in order. Repent, turn to God, atone for your sins & resolve to live the truth no matter what, Jesus is about eternity.