by Matt Kennedy | Nov 20, 2020 | Anglicans, Jesus, Podcast, Roman Catholics
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the sacraments of communion and baptism. They talk about what makes a sacrament, their symbolic-and-more nature, whether or not they “work,” and where the Good News is in these...
by Matt Kennedy | Oct 30, 2020 | History, Podcast, Roman Catholics, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about the Vatican’s recent statement about indulgences and purgatory, why the idea is such bad news, and how the attempt to buy one’s way into grace is widespread, both inside and outside...
by Anne Kennedy | Oct 4, 2020 | Biblical Illiteracy, Roman Catholics, Woke Church
This has been a busy week and Matt didn’t bother to wake me up this morning, which is super shocking and terrible of him. So I only have time for not even a paragraph. But, as I’ve been stewing along about the Enneagram for the last six weeks, I’ve been sitting on...
by David Fischler | Apr 4, 2020 | Radical Environmentalism, Roman Catholics, Theological Liberalism
Pope Paul VI, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, famously wrote that “Through some crack the smoke of Satan has entered into the Church of God.” He didn’t know the half of it.Under the reign of Pope Francis, the “smoke of Satan”...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 24, 2020 | Abortion, Biblical Illiteracy, Roman Catholics, The Gospel, U.S. Politics
Rusty Reno, over at First Things, has been digging himself in for the last week, about how the church, and now even the government, should be handling this thing—this thing, of course, being an illness that is sweeping across the world, an illness that one can spread...
by Mark Marshall | Feb 11, 2020 | Abortion, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Sexuality, U.S. Politics
In 1983, the American hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church was faced with a quandary. Most of them had conflicting allegiances politically. They opposed abortion, but at the same time, they supported the Democrat Party – an increasingly pro-abortion Democrat Party....
