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What To Do With People Attacking Your Faith How Catholics should Respond to Common Protestant Obstructions "There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be." - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Dear brothers and sisters in Christ....      The above image and quote by Fulton Sheen highlights something every Catholic will encounter at some point: Catholic prejudice. If youre Catholic, you can expect to be assailed sooner or later by non-Catholics for your faith, and about The Church. It has been that way for a very long time, in fact, since the Protestant reformation. That movement started with anti-Catholic belligerence and it has not abated in the 500 years since. It is THEIR reaction to US, however; keep that in mind as we go along.     And h ere's what you have to remember... very often, if not most of the time, non-Catholics are ...
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BIBLE ONLY - Sorry, No

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ....      Have you ever heard of the doctrine and tradition known as, "sola scriptura"? In that doctrine,  S ola scriptura treats the Bible as the only infallible authority there is, or can ever be. Protestants of all kinds hold to this tradition, claiming there can be nothing else, and nothing else is considered. (1)      And while that may sound logical from the outside, there are two big problems with 'sola scriptura' that most adherents of that tradition never think about: 1. The Bible never says that it is the last word, the final authority. In fact, it recounts the different ways God has given Humanity His teaching. It even says, "...at many times and in various ways." 2. If the Bible alone is actually the final authority, that is, if it is all you can go by....how was it decided what is in the Bible?      The Bible didn't fall from heaven with a list of what should be in it. The Catholic Church ...
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St. Thomas - He Is US

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle . First Reading – Ephesians Brothers and sisters, You are no longer strangers or foreigners. You are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. You have been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. Upon Christ the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. United with Him, you also are being built together by the Holy Spirit into a dwelling place for God. The Word of the Lord. ==== ===== ===== Gospel – From the Book of John Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with the others when Jesus came. The other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But Thomas replied, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the nail marks, and place my hand into His side, I will no...
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