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So, as some of you know, I was recently in Rome. I tried to post the photos here, but they were too large and, frankly, I have no idea how to resize them 256 KB. So I uploaded them to an online photo album. I do hope that is allowed. Place comments here, or, if on the album, sign your names...

I agree. While avoiding falling into that modern error that male and female are simply the irrelevant "packaging" that the person appears in, making them interchangable in all things, I do think we need to excercise reason and remember the God-given dignity and equality of both sexes. Certainly...

Perhaps despite the saying of John that "these things are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God", there is a certain danger, and especially so today, in using the Gospels as a kind of "proof text" for the reality of Jesus, as though they are primarily...

Hey Eric, There's an article I read, though directed more specifically to theologians, the question of historical criticism is unavoidable. It is titled "The Challenge of Jesus of Nazareth for Theologians", by Roch Kereszty. The 20 page work in full can be found here...

I often think we do an injustice to the intelligence and integrity of our anicent predecessors. When we look at the early Christian Church we see people who are consumed by the study of scripture, who could quote from memory a passage to suit any situation they found themselves in and for any...

What I think is probably a good maxim to abide by is this... In any given discussion, we ourselves will never change one person's opinion. Does this make discussion and debate futile? No, but it can become so. And I think this is what Rad is saying. People, being independent, free...

Eric's story illustrates a micro scale example of the final end of Christian Liberalism, certainly as it would stand founded on the Historical Critical school. The kind of weak Christianity that, in the end, is really nothing other than a doctrinal puddy for one's own individual shaping...

Excellent post, Rad.

Well... I would say that's something of a stretch, and if you want to take the argument in that direction we are no longer talking about the Incarnation, but the question of "God" and of the role of faith alltogether. I am not a fideist (sp?), meaning I don't reject reason in its proper...

Christianity begins on the premise that the illogical has happened, that the world does not proceed strictly according to reason, but that there has been an unprecedented and unforseen breakthrough. As I like to say, Christians are up to their necks in reason....but we breathe in the air of...

We're staying in Rome pretty much, but will likely take a day trip to Florence. So sorry Vic, no pizza for you. My Godfather is taking me as a vactaion, which is fitting because a Godparent takes a vow at the baptism of their Godchild to help keep the child in the Catholic Christian faith...

*Note, this is not a debate topic, not a discussion of doctrine or differences between Christian denominations. PLEASE RESPECT THAT. I leave for Rome this saturday! I'm going to be there for two weeks, the first week we're staying in an apartment only minutes away from the Holy See. I'm very...

Ok, Now many of you may not know how diverse my spiritual resume actually is, but I breifly dabbled in Wiccanism, and I certainly tried the "invent your own spiritual path" approach. The first thing I think should be said is that the assumption that Wicca is "of the devil" is, in my opinion...

Havoc, If you don't mind me asking, what is your basic belief system? Do you identify with any one group or another? Thanks.

That would be wonderful. I'm an avid Ratzinger fan, wonderful theologian. Thanks be to God for his election, because it will truly expose the world to his many deeply insightful works.

Oh, for certain the Orthodox mean something different by primacy. That is another argument all together, which is worth discussing with Rad if he were Orthodox. In regard's to his objections, it is most important to emphasize the fact that Peter as the Roman bishop was well known, and that Rome...

Who appointed Peter to be bishop of Rome? We don't know who. All we know is that tradition holds him to have been the Roman bishop, where there he was also crucified. This was commonly known in the ancient world, and it is not only Catholic Christians who believe so.

Yes Scott, it is true that Vatican II (if that is what you are quoting) has brought a refreshing nuance to the question of communities separated from visible communion with the Catholic Church. But what we are really delving into here is the question of the visible and invisibe dimensions of...

I do believe it is the other way around, Israel is a typology of the Catholic Church. I don't think the Catholic Church will ever consider itself a denomination among many. The bare fact is that it has no distinguishable point of origin apart from the initial impetus of Pentecost (perhaps we...