Author: John Schultz

“What’s the least I have to believe and do to feel good about myself?”
That’s the fundamental question modern religious seekers seem to be asking. For many contemporary Americans, religion is like a scented candle: The purpose of its light is to provide a comforting psychological ambience. But for a small, growing minority – for whom religion, properly understood, exists to illuminate the challenging path to truth and holiness – there is an alternative: tradition. …full article

Francis Beckworth will not be getting a lifetime achievement award from the Evangelical Theological Society.

Have you been surprised by the hostility of some of the reactions to your reversion?
Some of the hostility was not surprising, for some of it came from well-meaning Protestants who simply do not have a good grounding in Christian history or the Catholic Catechism. Many of these well-meaning folks, unfortunately, have sat under the teachings of less-than-careful Bible-church preachers and pastors who approach Catholicism with a cluster of flawed categories that make even a charitable reading of the Catechism almost impossible.

From Mother Nature to Europe with love.

Sudbury woman ‘ordained’ priest; Marie Bouclin took vows not sanctioned by Catholic church
This would make your dog turn it’s head sideways if you were reading to it and it could understand english:

The standing-room-only crowd of a couple of hundred people

Why not rent a banquet hall? Then the couple of hundred people would have chairs and a dance floor.
And here’s your dose of bad writing:

Bouclin, who was ordained a deacon in a secret service last year, was literally beaming after Sunday’s two-and-a-half hour ordination. If she had any doubts before that rank-and-file Roman Catholics support the ordination of women and married men as priests, they flew out the stained-glass windows of West Hill United Church.

Is it me, or does this sound like a high-school break-up note?

“Good-bye America … you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.