In response to my post from last Sunday’s readings, Emil Anton has made some interesting interventions in the comments raising issues about papal infallibility. So I though it might be pertinent to walk through the steps that lead to papal infallibility—at least, the ones I find convincing. Let’s start with the question: who is the […]
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When the annual Applied Biblical Studies Conference, held on the campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville, wrapped up on July 29, 2011, the staff of the St. Paul Center was more than pleased. The conference, which featured talks on the Gospel of Matthew by Dr. Scott Hahn, Dr. Brant Pitre, Dr. Michael Barber, Fr. Pablo
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What would happen if, through some bending of the space-time continuum, it were possible to bring together at a conference table contemporary literary critics, theologians, and biblical scholars such as Harold Bloom, John Howard Yoder, and Richard Hays, as well as the common and angelic doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas? What would be the result if
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Pope Benedict XVI has urged Catholics to read the Bible while on vacation, particularly the lesser known books of sacred scripture. “This seems to be a good thing to do on the holidays: take a book of the Bible, so you have some relaxation and, at the same time, enter into the great expanse of
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Today is the feast of one of our favorite Doctors of the Church, St. Lawrence of Brindisi. The Church refers to him as the Apostolic Doctor. He lived in turbulent times but he put his immense gifts of learning at the service of Christ and His Church and he gained much fruit. The Protestants were
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By Nick Pisa in Rome 1:39PM BST 29 Jun 2011 The fresco was found during restoration work at the Catacombs of San Gennaro (Saint Januarius) in the southern port city of Naples by experts from the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Art. The announcement was made on the feast day of St Peter and Paul which
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“The aim of the Church’s mission is a humanity that has itself become a living glorification of God, the true worship that God expects: this is the profound meaning of catholicity… Like Paul, Peter also came to Rome, the city that was the place of convergence of all peoples and which precisely because of this
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This is a hugely important question. But, actually, in a certain sense, this question really contains a number of other questions rolled up into one: Isn’t Christ the “one mediator between God and man” (1 Tim 2:5)? If so, isn’t affirming the ability of the dead to pray for us a violation of that biblical
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For so many people in my part of the world, June is a time to kick back and relax. School’s out. Summer vacation begins. Americans dust off their lawnchairs and string up their hammocks. For us at the St. Paul Center, June has always been the busiest month of the year — and for good
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