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Nothing really startling here. Anne Catherine Emmerich, the 19th century visionary whose book, The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ provided a major portion of Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, will be beatified at a ceremony October 3rd, a move which puts her on the road to “sainthood.” For those who only know the biblical definition of a

For to this day we are a wonder to God’s enemies, who carry themselves not only with boldness but with abandoned impudence against the pure doctrine of the gospel. To them we are heretics, schismatics, dogs — nay, the offscouring of the world. But although we are to them for signs and wonders, it is sufficient for us to be

For those of you on dial-up, may I extend once again my sympathies. Being stuck on dial-up while traveling is enough to make me count my blessings for my office computer’s high-speed internet access, believe me. Life these days involves the constant juxtaposition of the greatly encouraging next to the greatly discouraging. On the one hand I see the faithfulness

I noted in Karl Keating’s E-letter that Catholic Answers was going to put up some forums on their website just a few weeks ago. I have been traveling (obviously), and am home for just a few days before heading back to Long Island, so I took advantage of a real Internet connection to check it out. First, this is a

At first I didn’t even see it.  I saw a reference to it on Dave Armstrong’s blog, of all places.  Good ol’ Alexander the Coppersmith (AtC), who has the amazing ability of joining hands with anyone, no matter what their beliefs, as long as it means he can get into print insulting me, had posted on l0g0s’ blog regarding the

Did you know that Terminal 7 at JFK Airport is closed if you arrive at 2:25am? Yes indeedy. The things you learn when you travel. And did you know you have to get on that train thing and go to Terminal 4 to hang around at that time in the morning? And that they had Attila the Hun design the

With what effrontery then will the Papists boast that they possess the gospel, which is not only corrupted by many inventions, but more than adulterated by many wicked doctrines? Let us remember that it is not enough to retain the name of the gospel, and some kind of summary of its doctrines, if its solid purity do not remain untouched.

Alexander the Coppersmith blew a fuse a couple of days ago. I’ll try to find time to document the words of this “zealous Reformed Catholic” later on, though the next few days do not look good for allowing much time for that. Just one gem from the words of this wonderful correspondent: The theology of the Baptist schismatics stinks. Its

Hey, dynamic equivalency is all the rage, and no one wants to be a literalist and actually worry about things like context and word meaning, so the NRCT may well be a big hit. Here’s an example: For Christ did not send me to make people Christians and join them to the new covenant by an external religious act, but

The Gobbler (a not-so-famous theological super-hero) sent me this quote from a sermon by Greg Bahnsen. No date was included, but it may have been post-ECT and had relevance to (seemingly) Gerry Matatics. In a sermon titled The Road to Rome, Was the Reformation Right?, the late Dr. Bahnsen said, “No, I cannot embrace a Roman bishop and say we