[Lady In Blue]

FYI and Discussion.

[Claud]

Bump for a very interesting article.

[D-fendr]

Thanks for posting this.

I thing it might be interesting some time to have a discussion on the Protestant Principle referenced in the article.

[Theresa]

"Then too, our being saved was something that God did through His Church; it was a given, a gift. It did not depend—as it did for Dougy Cahill, our evangelical friend—upon feelings or spiritual experience."

Good point. Good article. Thanks.

[B-Chan]

Great article. As a former LCMS member (now Catholic by the Grace of God), this testimony has special meaning for me. God bless all the good and orthodox people in the LCMS.

[ThomasMore]

Councils can err, said the Reformers. No, says the Catholic Church, but the Church’s teaching lives forward, and no definition, including that of councils, is entirely adequate to the whole of the truth. The Catholic Church has always taught with St. Paul that now, as he says in 1 Corinthians 13, we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now we know in part; then we shall understand fully, even as we have been fully understood. Along the way to that eschatological fullness—which is a frequently jagged, confusing, and conflicted way—it is promised to the Church that she will not, she will not irretrievably, lose the way. It is not everything that we might want, but it is enough; it is more than enough.

This says an awful lot about God's eternal truth and the steward of that truth..The Church...IMHO, both Protestants and Catholics have a skewed idea of what Fr. Neuhaus is presenting here. We would be sorely lacking if we did not come to terms with it.

I love reading Fr. Neuhaus' writings.
Thanks, Lady In Blue

TM