A Catholic Friend:
I have a good friend who is Catholic and has always been a great person to talk to about issues of faith and sprituality. He is well versed in the Bible and church history (just...
Last Modified: 05/14/2004 15:10:36 |
Faith and Works:
You responded to a recent question saying "The Lutheran church strongly teaches good works, but not as a cause of our forgiveness. We do works not to be forgiven, but because we ...
Last Modified: 05/14/2004 15:03:45 |
Purgatory:
I wonder if a different idea regarding purgatory may make sense to you. We speak often in discussions of faith and God about things that are difficult if not impossible for us t...
Last Modified: 05/10/2004 09:38:37 |
Cursillo:
My uncle is very active in his Catholic church and my family is WELS. He wrote and asked us this question: "Our church had a Cursillo this past weekend and Jackie was on the te...
Last Modified: 05/10/2004 07:41:00 |
Papal infallibility:
Is it the office of the papacy itself, it's claim to infallibility, or the current occupant that WELS opposes so strongly? In other words, if the pope did not claim infallibilit...
Last Modified: 05/04/2004 06:51:54 |
religion:
My boyfriend and I were talking about why he isn't allowed to eat meat on good Friday, and so we went into other things like why he prays to Mary and so on. He told me the story...
Last Modified: 05/02/2004 15:59:12 |
purgatory:
I have yet another question. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that I once read in your Q & A section that the doctrine of purgatory did not come from the book of Mac...
Last Modified: 05/02/2004 15:35:03 |
Responses to previous questions...:
First of all, one of the responses to a question states that Catholics are in great danger of [not] being saved. Lutherans believe in being saved through faith alone but not in ...
Last Modified: 04/23/2004 09:31:37 |
Jesus’ Death:
First off, I am a WELS member and love the Q&A Web site. I have used it to research the Bible and help my faith grow stronger by learning more about it through this wonderful tool....
Last Modified: 04/20/2004 17:39:51 |
Faith and Works:
The Catholics speak of an active faith that expresses itself through works and love. Is this another translation of the Catholic teaching of salvation through faith plus works?
Last Modified: 04/20/2004 16:58:17 |
Main Differences:
I am Catholic and am currently dating a WELS guy. The topic recently came up about our different religions and to be quite honest neither of us knew enough about the other relig...
Last Modified: 04/14/2004 16:33:25 |
The Early Church's Leadership:
I was wondering what the role of the bishop of Rome was in the early church. There are many quotes from Jerome, St. Cyprian, Pope Innocent III, and others that show that all t...
Last Modified: 04/12/2004 07:24:50 |
Communion:
I would like to clarify somehing that was said about communion in the Roman Catholic Church. First, the reason that wine/sacred blood is typically not given with the bread/sacre...
Last Modified: 04/12/2004 07:18:22 |
Fairness:
In several questions discussing the papacy, you make statements such as "He says that anyone who believes he is saved by faith alone should be damned. "To characterize current Roma...
Last Modified: 04/05/2004 12:02:51 |
Faith AND Works:
Canons X and XII, from the sixth session of the Council of Trent, are often cited in proving the Roman Catholic Church teaches salvation through faith and works. Canon X states:...
Last Modified: 03/27/2004 09:08:08 |
Homosexuality in Catholic Church:
Due to the abuse crisis within the Catholic Church, it appears that alot of the priests are homosexual. I also know some people that are gay and very active within the church as f...
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Protestant Catholic:
I have been looking at the Catholic site, EWTN. I am concerned about the number of people who were raised up evangelical/protestant who are converts to the Catholic Faith. What i...
Last Modified: 03/18/2004 13:53:51 |
Satan:
Several members of our church saw "The Passion of the Christ" last night. I appreciated Pastor Gurgel's review, which I read today, and was pleased that many of the odd things we ...
Last Modified: 03/11/2004 07:30:43 |
Catholic Books of the Bible which WELS does not recognize:
Recently a Catholic co-worker quoted the book of MACABEES. Being a lutheran, I had never heard of this book. He called it Holy and inspired and blamed Martin Luther for taking it...
Last Modified: 03/01/2004 11:12:27 |
Holy week:
I know you're not "experts on Catholicism" but perhaps you know this...I've dealt with many people from Latin America and in general most of those people are, in name at least, Cat...
Last Modified: 03/01/2004 09:51:55 |