"Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine [Ephesians 4:14], seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's ego and desires." --- Cardinal Ratzinger (before he became pope)
Read morePray not to this end, that your own desires be fulfilled. You can be sure they do not fully accord with the will of God. Once you have learned to accept this point, pray instead that "Thy will be done" in me. In every matter ask Him in this way for what is good and for what confers profit on your soul, for you yourself do not seek this so completely as He does. Many times while I was at prayer, I would keep asking for what seemed good to me.
Read more"Individual homosexuals may show splendid qualities. Some become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die of Aids. But the influence of the homosexual ideology destroys the social fabric of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, homosexuality is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout western European civilization, raising militants at every step.
Read moreReforming the Church. The church's failings. We need to get the failures of the church on our conscience, to feel the offence to Christ and to the world which these failures are, to weep over the credibility gap between the church's talk and the church's walk, to repent of our readiness to excuse and even condone our failures, and to determine to do something about it.
Read moreSeveral years ago when Russia removed its ban on Bibles and allowed open worship again, some Navigators went to Moscow to aid in the return of confiscated Bibles. They were taken to this immense warehouse by an atheist government person who laughed at the whole process. The Navigators kept to their mission and did not reply. Going into the warehouse they noticed the atheist going in to jeer them as they worked bringing out the Bibles to trucks.
Read more"Be assured that those who go against the will of the Holy Spirit will be relentlessly destroyed by the same Spirit." --- Bishop Terwilliger
'It is not at all easy (humanly speaking) to wind up an Englishman to a dogmatic level' ---- Newman's Apologia,
Read moreDear Brothers and Sisters,
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7/16/2009
The other shoe dropped yesterday.
Resolutions D025 and C056 are the pair of shoes that will goose step The Episcopal Church right out the door of the worldwide Anglican Communion, at least as a partner that will be recognized by the orthodox Global South.
Read moreBut criticism for this resolution came from an unlikely source. Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, roundly condemned the action of TEC and wrote a piece saying so for the London Times.
Read more"...the difficulty is reaching across the chasm that divides us. It will take nothing less than a fundamental change of heart and mind for those on opposite sides of this debate to truly come together. There is a move on to declare that our essential unity is not impaired, even though we are deeply divided on these issues - but that view does not square with the events of the last six years. It is unlikely that either side will eventually come around.
Read moreThe Archbishop of the Southern Cone, The Most Rev. Gregory Venables said that these are "crucial moments," in the life of the Anglican Communion and the "church is being lulled into relativism."
The archbishop cautioned about the danger of drifting away from the central tenets of the faith and urged Anglicans to reclaim the gospel of God's redemptive love in Christ. He also stated that the Cross was central to that message.
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