Friday Frivolity: No knowledge needed

The stupidity of so much of the media coverage during the recent Papal Election was almost unbearable. I tried to avoid much of it as possible.

However, this is priceless. Prior to the actual election of Pope Francis, Jimmy Kimmel sent out a camera crew to ask the American public what they thought of the new (non-existent) Pope. The results were impressive, conclusively demonstrating that knowledge is an entirely unnecessary prerequisite to the holding of an opinion…

Unfortunately the video has been removed 🙁

Catholic View of Salvation

Quite some time ago I remember reading an article at Called To Communion where I was presented with the positive case for Catholic salvation and I had my mind blown. I hadn’t realized quite how many non-Catholic concepts had crept into my brain.

During this past Lenten season I sent an email to Nick over at Nick’s Catholic Blog. Nick writes a lot on the subject of justification so I asked him to write a post putting forward the positive case for the Catholic view of salvation. The Protestant identity is often a negative one i.e. Not Catholic” and I didn’t want to see Catholic soteriology go in the same direction i.e. Not Sola Fide”. Here’s what he wrote:

Nick

If you’d like to understand more about the Protestant Reformed view of salvation and Penal Substitution, Joe recently did an article on this subject over at Shameless Popery.