[NYer]

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping
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[MEGoody]

. . .former University of Chicago Provost Geoff Stone, who in condemning the decision as upholding what he ludicrously regarded as a an imposition of the Catholic religion pointedly called attention to the fact that the five justices forming the majority are members of the Catholic Church

No, Geoffy, the decision was based on the fact that partial birth abortion is outright murder, which is a violation of the right to life.

[JamesP81]

Might be worth a baptist ping.

[kalee]

Leaders of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, etc. were silent. The prejudice antennae of these leaders–ordinarily so sensitive–seems to shut down when the victims of prejudice are Catholics. Has nothing to do with anti-catholic sentiment and everything to do with the fact that they are pro-abortion.

[wideawake]

Good article. Shows how the only friends of orthodox Catholics in America today are the Evangelicals who are caricatured as "redneck Bible-thumpers" by the MSM.

It also shows how AU was founded by the socialist, atheist, anti-Catholic bigot Paul Blanshard, just as PP was founded by the socialist, atheist, racist, anti-Catholic bigot Margaret Sanger.

[WKB]

Baptist Ping

[franky1]

Catholic / Protestant

C-—Authority: Scripture and tradition

P-—Sola Scriptura - Scripture alone

Bible: C—— Includes apocrypha- P-— Excludes apocrypha

Results of Fall: C-— Corruption and tendency to sin/

P-—Total depravity and guilt

Free will:C-— Free to do good or evil /P-— Free only to do evil

Predestination: C-—Related to God’s foreknowledge /P-— Related to God’s decrees

Atonement: C-— Death of Christ created merit that is shared with sinners through sacraments /

P-—Death of Christ was a substitutionary sacrifice that satisfied God’s justice

Divine grace: C-— Prevenient grace helps one believe; efficacious grace cooperates with the human will to do good /

P-—Common grace enabling good works given to all; sufficient grace for salvation given to elect only

Good works:C-— Meritorious/ P-—Results of divine grace and unworthy of merit/

Salvation: C-— Received at baptism; may be lost by mortal sin; regained by penance. Those who have never heard of Christ may be saved. (Catech 847)

P-—Result of divine grace; unconditional. Those who have never heard of Christ may be saved. /

The Church: C-— The Catholic Church is “the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation” (Catech 845) but those baptized in other Christian denominations are in communion with the Church (Catech 838). /

P-—There is a distinction between the visible and invisible church. God saves anyone he chooses, or anyone with proper faith, regardless of church membership.

Sacraments:C-— Convey grace by their operation (ex opere operato).
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P-—Means of grace only if received with faith.

C-—Priests A special vocation for some believers; mediators between God and man/

P-—Priesthood of all believers.

Transubstantiation: C-— Affirmed / P-— Rejected

Purgatory: C-— Affirmed P-— / Denied

Prayer to saints: C-— Accepted / P-— Rejected

[DesScorp]

No one wanted that abominable law replealed more than evangelicals. I thank God for those Catholic justices.