Tag: Sacraments
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Ten “Fatal Flaws” of Catholicism?
A CatholicG33k Response to Mike Gendron Editor’s Note Mike Gendron’s Ten Fatal Flaws of Catholicism is frequently presented as a biblical exposure of what the Catholic Church supposedly teaches. The difficulty is not that Gendron cites the Catechism. The difficulty is that he repeatedly cites Catholic sources and then interprets them in ways those same…
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How Can I Be Saved? When “Faith Alone” Says More Than Scripture Does
A Catholic Rebuke of Answering Catholics on Salvation, Justification, Baptism, and Good Works Patrick O’Brien’s Answering Catholics asks the most important question a sinner can ask: “How can I be saved?” That question deserves a serious biblical answer. And to Patrick’s credit, his article begins with several truths Catholics wholeheartedly confess. Man cannot save himself.…
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The Strange Freedom of Surrender
Reading Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain Some books are interesting. Others make you uncomfortable in exactly the way a good spiritual book should. Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain did that for me. I expected a conversion story. And, of course, that is what the book is: Merton’s account of his restless early life,…
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What Began in Eden Points to Calvary
The Bride From the Side There is a mystery hidden in the opening pages of Genesis that reaches its fulfillment beneath the Cross. In the garden, Adam is cast into a deep sleep. God opens his side, and from his side comes the woman who will become his bride: “Then the Lord God cast a…