Ronald Davis
A friend sent me this video:
But if any one has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? – 1 John 3:17
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
A friend sent me this video:
But if any one has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? – 1 John 3:17
I just finished reading an article about one of my favourites, Blessed John Henry Newman, a famous English Anglican convert to Catholicism:
If you’re like to know more about this great man, there are a series of audio programs available online from EWTN.

Out of all the “Out there” beliefs I’ve looked at so far, this one is by far the biggest head-scratcher. It is the belief that the Bible prohibits the consumption of alcohol.
I was rather blind-sided when I first came across this belief, initially not knowing what to say because it is rather equivalent to hearing somebody say that the moon is made out of cheese.
Here is a statement I recently saw:
“The Bible says alcoholic drink is evil. It is not just the amount one drinks that makes drinking a sin. God condemns the drink itself: ‘Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise'”
– Proverbs 20:1
Huh. Well, firstly, that passage doesn’t condemn alcohol outright, it just states that those who are “led astray” by it are not wise. This is hardly shocking stuff – I’ve witnessed enough nonsense spoken through an excess of wine and enough pointless fights started through beer-induced stupidity to know this to be true.
However, aside from trying to make this passage say something it doesn’t, Scripture presents many other problems with such an assertion. When Paul told Timothy to take wine for his stomach, was he telling him to ingest something morally evil (1 Timothy 5:23)? Should deacons only “moderately” indulge in this immorality (1 Timothy 3:8)? When Jesus transformed water into wine did he lead everyone at the wedding into sin (John 2:1-11)?
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For a more thoughtful commentary on the different kinds of friendship, I’d invite you to read this article by Dr. Taylor Marshall.
The article Modern Friendship first appeared on RestlessPilgrim.net
A while ago I saw an article on Facebook which reported that Fr. Bourgeois, a priest who for many years publicly opposed the Catholic teaching of a male-only priesthood, had been dismissed from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.
A friend of mine posted a link on Facebook to the article with the comment “Those bastards in the vatican!!!!”.
My friend has links to the Catholic Church and we have Catholic friends in common, but when I saw the article on his Facebook Timeline I noticed that not a single person had offered a defense of the Church’s actions.