I was never fed in the Catholic Church.
How many times have you heard a former Catholic say this? When I was an Evangelical Christian it was probably the most common response I heard from Catholics when asked why they had left the Church. The sad truth is that most of these lapsed Catholics were never properly catechized, so they became easy targets for Protestants who were only too eager to help them abandon the sacraments and join a church that "feeds you...
A textbook used for confirmation preparation in a parish in California teaches students that the sacrament of confirmation “only came into existence in the third century” and that “there was no sacrament of penance in the early church”. I suppose such sacramental ignorance is not surprising given that a deacon who instructs catechists in the same diocese teaches that at one time there were only two sacraments and, at another time, twenty two.
The Church teaches very clearly that the...
Pitiful, just pitiful.
That was my reaction on watching this five-minute clip from The Colbert Report, in which host Stephen Colbert talks with Garry Wills about his new book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition. The book was published last week.
Colbert is a Catholic but not, so far as I can tell, a completely orthodox one. Still, he professes...
“As a cradle Catholic and a mother of seven grown children and four grandsons, I have become more educated about my precious faith through your program and featured guests and apologists than I have ever been.”
"What a man is in the sight of God, so much he is and no more."
