Harrison Ford finding out Tim Burton once considered him for BATMAN is comedy gold. That split-second panic says it all.

Summer in Oxford.

I'll be speaking on Pat Flynn's YouTube channel in thirty minutes about the dispute over whether Muslims and Jews worship the same God. I'll discuss other issues that Orthodox and Protestant Christians find problems, e.g., authority and doctrinal development. Anything else?

Really, this represents the dialectic around whether Muslims and Jews worships the same God more than anything else I could think of.

I am a Dominican, and I am here to help.

Whenever I get a bit stressed, I stop and ask myself, “Am I becoming a man of prayer?” Ultimately, everything else will eventually fade away, but God will always be there. Is He my priority? Too often, my answer is no. Then, I must embrace the call to conversion. This is life.

A bit odd to think Catholics don't venerate icons or that the Orthodox don't venerate Mary... Our shared belief comes from taking Scripture seriously: Christ lives in those of faith (e.g., Gal. 2:20). Our communion as one Body extends beyond this life (Heb. 12:1, James 5:16).

There are Protestants who venerate Our Lady, the saints, and who use icons of Christ and the saints in worship, because they - like Catholics & Orthodox Christians - understand historical Christianity to have correctly seen these as Scriptural practices.

Maybe some don't want to say Muslims and Jews believe in God because they think saving faith is a matter of believing in God's existence. So, to admit others believe in the same God is to say they have saving faith. But saving faith is not the same as believing in God.

Joseph Clifford Fenton points out that when "Cantate Domino" says that you can only be saved "within" the Catholic Church this means at least by an implicit intention to enter her, but not necessarily full visible union with the earthy society (p. 31) lib.undercaffeinated.xyz/get/PDF/5299/C…

Document diarrhea is the chronic illness of the modern papacy. It actually limits the Pope's (and the Holy See's) effectiveness as a teacher, because his salient points get buried in verbiage and go unread after a few news cycles.

Should a person (priest or not) be given authority in a Catholic diocese after being convicted of raping a teenager?

I’m sure it’s fine.

Wise words from St. Anselm of Canterbury on the practical significance of "Many are called; few are chosen."