Given the confusion, is it time to return to work some of the old rituals?
Primarily for the Catholics, but good is a free forum:
In ecumenical discussions, popular devotion to the saints seems to be the main obstacle. Following the Joint Declaration on Justification, there should be no confusion in the soteriology - except for Chris.
While it is clear to most of us Catholics that the statues are [...]
About the confusion Penitencia Serivces In Roman Catholic Church?
I am really confused about a penance service attended last night in my local parish. The priest asked the parish to confess our sins, reciting the act of contrition and told us to recite the Our Father as penance. Then he said that could rise after the service of individual confession and receive absolution from [...]
Purgatory is not only the Catholic confusion about the work of sanctification of God here on Earth?
In the case of quotation from the Bible to support the idea of Purgatory, all those passages in the context of the Bible relate to the Christian life on Earth.
Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, and the Splendor of Truth
From Publishers Weekly
Readers acquainted with Neuhaus’s previous books and his work with the magazine First Things will be most interested in this latest tome on the state of the Catholic Church. A former Lutheran pastor who became Catholic in 1990 and a priest in 1991, Neuhaus has [...]