"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Today I’d like to address an objection to Christianity which you hear every now and again:
“Jesus prophesied that the Jerusalem Temple would be completely destroyed. However, the “Wailing Wall” is still standing, proving him wrong. Jesus is therefore a failed prophet and therefore can’t be God”
Jews praying in front of The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
Last Sunday I got to pray in front of the tomb of Venerable Fulton Sheen. Since it’s Friday and time for a little bit of Friday Frivolity, here’s the vide of Grandpa Sheen as the special guess on the hit TV show of the era, “What’s my line?”:
Several months ago I had a lively online exchange with a Protestant from the Reformed tradition. The conversation got really interesting and I had intended to write a series of posts based on our discussion. Alas, before I could do this, his blog was suddenly taken down, meaning that I was unable to use the record of our exchange to save me some work in constructing my posts (yes, I’m rather lazy).
To make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again, today I wanted to do a short post which is effectively a slightly expanded reproduction of my comments on an article over at Reformed Reader, in response to the blog author’s claims concerning Christian history and the Early Church Fathers.
I’ve posted quite a few links to Soul Device over the years. It’s probably one of my favourite apologetics sites. Here is the story of blog’s author, Douglas, and his conversion to Catholicism:
I spent a good chunk of this weekend traveling to the East Coast, so I’m rather jet-lagged. Time for some morning pep! Here’s the song referred to by Fr. Jacob in his recent Theology On Tap talk, “Happiness” by Pharrell Williams:
