The Canonizing Machine
Since JP2 and Johnny XXIII are to be declared to be canonized Saints this weekend, I thought it would be good to ask the question: How Does the Catholic Church Declare Official Saints?
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Since JP2 and Johnny XXIII are to be declared to be canonized Saints this weekend, I thought it would be good to ask the question: How Does the Catholic Church Declare Official Saints?
In a recent newsletter from the Coming Home Network there was the first part of a work by Orestes Brownson (1803-1876), entitled “Saint Worship”. In today’s post I just wanted to post a few extracts since it ties into some of the recent discussion concerning Our Lady.
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Yesterday on Facebook, Joe from Shameless Popery shared that he had intended to write a post on the supposed Pagan origins of Easter, but that our mutual friend, Steve, had referred him to Easter: The Pagan Conspiracy, a post I wrote on the same subject last year.
Joe had initially said he wasn’t going to write his own defense. Fortunately for us, rather than depriving the world of another of Joe’s excellent articles, he did write his own post on the subject, building off my original entry:
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It is often asserted that the Catholic Church was founded by the Constantine, who was Emperor of the Roman Empire from AD 306-337. A couple of weeks ago, a lady named Monica made such an assertion and in earlier post I pointed out some of the problems with such a theory.
However, today I would like to do something a little different… In this post I would like to set forth the positive historical case for the existence of the Catholic Faith in the generations prior to Constantine. I will show how twenty-one different Catholic doctrines were taught long before Constantine rose to power:
I will demonstrate these early Christian belief by looking at primary sources alone and restricting myself to writings produced prior to AD 300.
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