Joe Biden and Proverbs

If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet. (Proverbs 29:9)

Joe Biden fits the "fool" in Proverbs 29:9 to the letter.

Obama vs. Romney

For Actual Catholics the choice is clear this November



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New York Times is Anti-Catholic

The Hypocrisy's of the New York times as shown on FOX News

Listen Up Liberal Catholics

Liberal Catholics are undermining the Church by trying to turn the Catholic Church into something they want in an effort to change the Church to reflect the teachings of modern secularism.

Hypocrisy of Ray Comfort

Just got kicked off the Facebook page called “Living Waters’” which is a ministry run by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron, in regards to my reponse to their video below which was posted on their Facebook Page:

In response I post the follow video and explain how Ray misrepresented history and makes the same mistake as atheist… as their video points outs:

“They (atheist) paint a picture of Christians as a murderous group of people as a way to discredit Jesus and the bible”

So I pointed out that in the video below, Ray paints a picture of the Catholic Church as a murderous institution as a way to discredit the Catholic Church, and Catholics as well, as not Christian.

But Ray forgets that the crusades were started as a defensive response to the invasion of Islam where Christian were killed and forces to convert by the sword as well as converting Churches into Mosque that still exist today.

Maybe Ray Comfort should have watched his friend Todd Friel interviewing Peter Hammond on the real history of the crusades.

Now both Ray Comfort and Todd Friel do not believe that Catholics are Christians, that is not shocking news, but my point is that Ray Comfort misrepresents history and uses that to make a point that Catholics and their Church are not Christian and his very premise or tactic is contradicted by the video his ministry just put forth. by Dean Sampson

Many Protestants mistaking claim that the Catholic Church teaches that one can receive an Indulgence for the remission of sins.

The definition of indulgences presupposes that forgiveness has already taken place; they deal only with punishments left after sins have been forgiven.

CCC 1471 An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.

To acquire a plenary indulgence, it is necessary to perform the work to which the indulgence is attached and to fulfill three conditions: sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion, and prayer for the intentions of the supreme pontiff. It is further required that all attachment to sin, even to venial sin, be absent. If this disposition is in any way less than complete, or if the prescribed three conditions are not fulfilled, the indulgence will be only partial. (Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Indulgentiarum doctrina )

The Catholic Church made it illegal to read the bible in English

It is often said that the Catholic Church made it illegal to read the bible in the vernacular. The council of Oxford is cited as proof that reading the bible in English was against the law in England. Actually in 1408 the third synod of Oxford, England, after the many errors found in Wycliffe’s English bible, BANNED UNAUTHORIZED English translations of the Bible and decreed that possession of English translation's had to be approved by diocesan authorities first before being used in Church or personnel devotion. This shows that the Catholic Church took seriously its role in protecting and preserving scripture. 


The Oxford council declared: "It is dangerous, as St. Jerome declares, to translate the text of Holy Scriptures out of one idiom into another, since it is not easy in translations to preserve exactly the same meaning in all things. We therefore command and ordain that henceforth no one translate the text of Holy Scripture into English or any other language as a book, booklet, or tract, of this kind lately made in the time of the said John Wyclif or since, or that hereafter may be made, either in part or wholly, either publicly or privately, under pain of excommunication, until such translation shall have been approved and allowed by the Provincial Council. He who shall act otherwise let him be punished as an abettor of heresy and error."

Was the Catholic Church against people hearing God's word in the vernacular? No, because the Catholic Church had already translated the bible into French, Dutch, Polish, Italian and Spanish in the 12th and 13th century. The approved English bible (Douay Rheims) started with the NT in 1578 and was finished by 1582 with the completion of the OT in 1609.

Pre-Wyclif English Translation:

Besides these versions of particular books of Holy Scripture, there existed numerous renderings of the Our Father, the Ten Commandments, the Life, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ, and of the parts read on... Sundays and Feastdays in the Mass. In general, if we may believe the testimony of Archbishop Cranmer, Sir Thomas More, Foxe the martyrologist, and the authors of the Preface to the Reims Testament, the whole Bible was to be found in the mother tongue long before John Wyclif was born (cf. "American Ecclesiastical Review", XXXII, Philadelphia, June, 1905, 594).