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Apologetics (Religion)

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  • Episcopal Priest Loses Jeopardy! Tournament After Being Stumped on Bible Question

    03/18/2024 6:48:31 PM PDT · by Morgana · 33 replies
    Protestia ^ | March 15, 2024 | staff
    An Episcopal priest competing in a Jeopardy Tournament failed to advance to the finals, the result of falling badly behind and also being stumped by a question on the New Testament, according to the Episcopal News Service. David Sibley is the LGBTQ+ affirming rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Walla Walla, Washington, who recently participated in a Jeopardy Tournament. He previously competed in 2022, where he won $79,098 through four straight episodes. During that contest, he failed to answer a $1000 question: “It’s the ascension heavenward by true Christians both living and dead at Christ’s second coming.” Rather than...
  • Elevation Church Reveals Why They Don’t Use Words Like ‘Resurrection’ On Easter Invites (Hint, It’s a Terrible Reason)

    03/18/2024 6:38:40 PM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Protestia ^ | March 18, 2024 | staff
    Pro Church Tools recently sat down with Nicki Shearer, Elevation Church’s Digital Content Director. She is responsible for overseeing all the copy coming out of Elevation Church, the 25,000-member multisite led by Steven Furtick. She sets the tone of church emails, blesses or nixes the language of social media posts, and develops guidelines for responding to events in the news. In a wide-ranging interview, Shearer explains that while they may use certain phrases in church, Elevation Church doesn’t use words like “resurrection,” “calvary,” or “blood of Jesus” on its Easter invites, as that language will “immediately make someone feel like...
  • Following the Unfaithful

    03/18/2024 3:49:13 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | March 18, 2024 | Eric Sammons
    Following the UnfaithfulIn an effort to be more "welcoming," many Church leaders are looking to fallen-away Catholics to lead the way.A well-known tactic in political circles is to release a “survey” that supports a predetermined conclusion. For example, a Republican PAC might send out a survey to its base asking “Do you think Joe Biden is right about the 2nd amendment?” Or the Democrats might ask if Trump is the next Hitler. Then the results will be touted as proof of massive support for the forgone conclusion. This doesn’t just happen in political circles, though, as is clear from a...
  • Biden hosts papal nuncio Christophe Pierre, Fr. James Martin at White House St. Patrick’s Day brunch

    03/18/2024 3:33:26 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 13 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Claire Chretien
    Biden hosts papal nuncio Christophe Pierre, Fr. James Martin at White House St. Patrick’s Day brunchPapal nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre, homosexual Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and left-wing Jesuit Fathers James Martin and Thomas Reese joined President Joe Biden at the White House yesterday for a St. Patrick’s Day brunch.Pierre, who as papal nuncio is the pope’s ambassador to the U.S., delivered an invocation and led grace before the meal.“We gather on St. Patrick’s Day to pay tribute to the Catholic leadership in this country, especially the fields of charity and social engagement. And so, we give thanks to God...
  • Vatican Revolution: yes to euthanasia and artificial insemination

    03/18/2024 10:59:13 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 20 replies
    Daily Compass ^ | March 18, 2024 | Tommaso Scandroglio
    Vatican Revolution: yes to euthanasia and artificial inseminationThe ban on euthanasia causes worse harm than good; green light to homologous fertilisation: these are the resounding statements contained in the book La gioia della vita (The Joy of Life), a joint reflection of the theologians of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Pav). And even the Bible can be corrected. It’s an unapologetic declaration of heresy.La gioia della vita (The Joy of Life) is a text, published last month, and "the fruit of the common reflection of a qualified group of theologians who met on the initiative of the Pontifical Academy for...
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST OF JESUS” ✝️ Link to New Video, PASSION OF THE CHRIST Series

    03/18/2024 7:54:33 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 3 replies
    CARAVAGGIO "The Taking of Christ"
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “JESUS' AGONY IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE” ✝️ Link to New Video, PASSION OF THE CHRIST Series

    03/17/2024 10:33:29 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 5 replies
    CARL BLOCH "Gethsemane"
  • [Catholic Caucus] New Synod documents reveal discussion themes for study groups formed by Pope Francis

    03/16/2024 11:17:12 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 14, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] New Synod documents reveal discussion themes for study groups formed by Pope FrancisA new document from Synod on Synodality leaders outlined study groups to explore key synod themes.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Leaders of the Synod on Synodality have published two new texts, highlighting Pope Francis’ plans to implement a more permanent effect of the multi-year synod by the format of study groups for key synod themes.At a press conference today, a panel of speakers comprised of the Synod on Synodality’s leading members presented two lengthy documents, showing the results of the General Secretariat of the Synod’s recent workings...
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “THE LAST SUPPER--Betrayal, Communion, Cleansing” ✝️ Link to New Video, PASSION OF THE CHRIST Series

    03/16/2024 8:23:02 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 7 replies
    LEONARDO DA VINCI ""The Last Supper""
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “JESUS RIDES INTO JERUSALEM TRIUMPHANTLY” ✝️ Link to New Video, PASSION OF THE CHRIST Series

    03/15/2024 10:31:11 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 10 replies
    JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “MARY OF BETHANY ANOINTS JESUS FOR BURIAL” ✝️ Link to New Video, PASSION OF THE CHRIST Series

    03/13/2024 9:53:59 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 13 replies
    JULIA STANKOVA "Unction of Christ"
  • [Catholic Caucus] Puerto Rico bishop removed by Pope Francis: Bishops must reject Fiducia Supplicans or risk God’s wrath

    03/12/2024 8:41:40 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 12, 2024 | Raymond Wolfe
    [Catholic Caucus] Puerto Rico bishop removed by Pope Francis: Bishops must reject Fiducia Supplicans or risk God’s wrathBishop Daniel Fernández Torres denounced Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans for causing ‘scandal and great suffering’ to many Catholics and violating Church teaching, and stressed that bishops ‘must’ rebuke the document.ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (LifeSiteNews) — A Puerto Rican bishop deposed from his diocese by Pope Francis after opposing COVID “vaccine” mandates strongly denounced Fiducia Supplicans and warned that bishops who fail to speak out against it risk incurring God’s wrath.Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who led the Diocese of Arecibo from 2010 until his sudden...
  • Pope Francis has declared war on faithful Catholics

    03/12/2024 8:14:19 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 43 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 12, 2024 | John-Henry Westen
    Pope Francis has declared war on faithful CatholicsFor Christians, Lent is a season of repentance. But for some radical leftists in America, it’s been an opportunity for sacrilege.On Ash Wednesday 2024, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, “America’s Parish Church,” was thronged with the faithful, seeking ashes of repentance.But the following day, the same hallowed space was desecrated by the sacrilegious clamor of a thousand God-hating radicals.As the coffin of “Cecilia” Gentili, a self-styled “whore” drag queen, was carried down the aisle, the godless crowds proclaimed him as the: “Great whore, St. Cecilia, the Mother of All Whores.”And as this cry echoed from...
  • [Catholic Caucus] A Catechism to Save Biden’s Soul

    03/11/2024 4:10:09 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | March 11, 2024 | Aaron Seng
    [Catholic Caucus] A Catechism to Save Biden’s SoA Catechism to Save Biden’s SoulFor any who may need a catechism refresher, Biden’s statements on the House floor would qualify as grave external violations of the First and Fifth Commandments. They contain irreverence, scandal, and moral cooperation in murder.In the span of a few brief centuries, what was once an uncharted wilderness has risen to become the single most powerful nation on earth: the United States of America. This great nation is currently governed by a President who claims to be Roman Catholic: a tenure of Church–State relations that should have been...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Archbishop of San Antonio gave Biden communion, ignored Gov. Abbott at Uvalde Mass

    03/11/2024 3:25:55 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 15 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 11, 2024 | LifeSite News Staff
    [Catholic Caucus] Archbishop of San Antonio gave Biden communion, ignored Gov. Abbott at Uvalde MassArchbishop Gustavo García-Siller's actions before and after the 2022 shooting have raised plenty of questions among faithful Catholics.SAN ANTONIO, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller’s politics could not have been clearer the day he gave Holy Communion to pro-abortion President Joe Biden and ignored pro-life Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Professor Randall B. Smith of the University of St. Thomas in Houston told the story vividly in an August 29, 2022 article for Catholic World Report: … it’s odd that before the Mass for the families...
  • Pope at Angelus: God embraces us and frees us from our sins

    03/10/2024 7:37:27 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    Vatican News ^ | March 10, 2024 | Deborah Castellano Lubov
    Pope at Angelus: God embraces us and frees us from our sinsAt the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis acknowledges that God loves us so much that He is not interested in putting us on trial to condemn us, but rather to embrace and save us all, as to ensure that none of us is lost.
  • [Catholic Caucus] Canceled priest accuses San Antonio archbishop of libel in Sanctus Ranch prohibition

    03/10/2024 5:53:10 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 8, 2024 | Dorothy Cummings McLean
    [Catholic Caucus] Canceled priest accuses San Antonio archbishop of libel in Sanctus Ranch prohibitionFather Donald Kloster is prepared to take legal action against Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller for publishing what he says is libel against him in the January 30 'Prohibition' against the family-owned Sanctus Ranch retreat center where he lives.PIPE CREEK, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – A priest named by the Archbishop of San Antonio in an order forbidding Catholics from assembling at a private business is determined to fight back.Father Donald Kloster, ordained a priest of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1995, told LifeSiteNews in a recent interview that he is prepared to...
  • An Exorcist on What Happens During an Exorcism

    03/09/2024 3:47:07 PM PST · by NYer · 10 replies
    Catholic Exchange ^ | October 27, 2020 | FR. GABRIELE AMORTH
    What happens during the exorcism to the person afflicted by the possession? Above all, it is necessary to say that normally a person affected by possession desires to be liberated from the influence of the demon and as a result will ask to be exorcized. A difficulty can arise in approaching the rite. When the person enters the room where the exorcist works, it sometimes happens that he will begin to feel the influence of the spell more intensely and will manifest a nervousness and discomfort, or, in more serious cases, the person will enter into a trance and must...
  • Evidence that Pontius Pilate Converted to Christianity

    03/08/2024 9:48:35 PM PST · by Jonty30 · 37 replies
    www.goorthodox.com ^ | March 1, 2022 | Global Orthodox
    While Pontius Pilate's wife, Claudia, has been glorified as a saint, what happened to Pontius Pilate himself? There are three writers from the Early Church who say he became a Christian. There is a similar tradition in Ethiopia, and sometimes there one can find icons of Pontius Pilate, together with his wife Claudia. The fate of Pontius Pilate after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is disputed among historians. According to some, Pilate killed himself while in exile to Gallia. Others suggest that he was executed during the reign of Emperor Nero. According to legend, the bad omens accompanying...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Disgraced homosexual priest attends Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag ‘ordination’ in Germany

    03/08/2024 9:18:02 AM PST · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 7, 2024 | Andreas Wailzer
    [Catholic Caucus] Disgraced homosexual priest attends Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag ‘ordination’ in GermanyFather Wolfgang Rothe, a former seminary vice-rector who resigned in disgrace after a homosexual and child pornography scandal, has become notorious for his LGBT activism, though Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the Vatican have refused to punish him.Fr. Wolfgang RotheA scandal-plagued homosexual priest known for his LGBT activism has promoted the anti-Catholic hate group “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Father Wolfgang Rothe thanked the drag queen group for inviting him to a sacrilegious mock “ordination” of a man in drag who calls himself...