Ecce Fides - Pillar of Truth - St. Patrick's Basilica

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Puritans T. Cartwright (ca. 1570) Congregationalists Robert Brown (ca. 1582) Baptists John Smyth (ca. 1609) Dutch Reformed Michaelis Jones (ca. 1628) Quakers George Fox (ca. 1650) Mennonites Menno Simons (ca. 1653) Cameronians Richard Cameron (ca. 1681) Pietism Philip Jacob Spener (1675) Amish Jakob Amman (ca. 1693) Church of the Brethren Alexander Mack (ca. 1708) Moravians Count Zinzendorf (ca. 1727) Calvinistic Methodist Howell Harris (ca. 1735) American Dutch Reformed Theodore Frelinghuysen (ca. 1737) Seceders Ebenezer Erskine (ca. 1740) Shakers Ann Lee (ca. 1741) Methodists John Wesley (ca. 1744) Universalists John Murray (ca. 1779) Episcopalians Samuel Seabury (ca. 1784) African Methodist Episcopal Richard Allen (ca. 1787) Zion Church Unitarians Joseph Priestley (ca. 1794) Harmony Society Church George Rapp (ca. 1803) Mormons Joseph Smith (ca. 1829) Disciples of Christ Barton W. Stone/ Alexander Campbell (ca. 1832) Seventh Day Adventist William Miller (ca. 1844)/ Ellen G. White Christadelphians John Thomas (ca. 1848) Christian Reformed Gysbert Haan (ca. 1857) Salvation Army William Booth (ca. 1865) Christian Scientists Mary Baker Eddy (ca. 1879) Jehovah’s Witnesses Charles Taze Russell (ca. 1884) Nazarenes Phineas Bresee (ca. 1895) Pentecostals C.F. Parham/ William Seymour/ A.J.Tomlinson (ca.1903/1906) Alliance Albert Benjamin Simpson (ca. 1905) Church of God in Christ Charles Mason (ca. 1907) Foursquare Aimee Semple McPherson (ca. 1918) Church of God Joseph Marsh (ca. 1920) Worldwide Church of God Herbert W. Armstrong (ca. 1934) Confessing Church Martin Niemoller (ca. 1934) Evangelical Free E. A. Halleen (ca. 1950) Moonies Sun Myung Moon (ca. 1954) Children of God David Mo Berg (ca. 1969) Universal Church of Macedo de Bezarra (1977) the Kingdom of God Obviously we cannot name all 33,000 Protestant denominations and their founders, nor the 150,000 plus pseudo-Christian denominations. But I think the point is obvious. Only one Church was founded upon Christ in the year 33 AD, the Catholic Church. As Ignatius of Antioch, the disciple of John and friend of Peter and Paul, and the one referred to in Mark 9:35, declares in his letter to the Smyrneans (8): “[W]herever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” 22
Irenaeus, the disciple of Polycarp, who in turn was the disciple of the apostle John, also makes mention of the Catholic Church as the authentic Church founded by Christ: The blessed apostles [Peter and Paul] having founded and built up the Church of [Rome], handed over the office of the episcopate to Linus. Paul makes mention of this Linus in the Epistle to Timothy. To him succeeded Anecletus; and after him, in the third place from the apostles, Clement was chosen for the episcopate. He had seen the blessed apostles and was acquainted with them, and had their traditions before his eyes (Against Heresies, 3:3, trans. Jurgens). History is on the side of the Catholic Church. No one can question with any sense of respectability the founding of the Catholic Church by Christ. Look at any encyclopedia in the world and you will find as the founder of the Catholic Church, Jesus Christ. The Church was founded by Christ and his apostles, and it continues today through, with, and in Christ and the successors of the apostles, the bishops (cf. Eph. 2:20). • Offshoots of the Lutherans include the Lutheran Brethren, the Evangelical Covenant Church, the Evangelical Free Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Missouri Synod Lutherans, the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans, and the Moravian Church. • Offshoots of the Anabaptists include the North American Baptist, the Advent Christian Church, the Seventh Day Adventist, the Amish, the Conservative Mennonites, the General Conference of Mennonites, the Old Mennonite Church, the Brethren in Christ, the Hutterite Brethren, the Independent Brethren, and the Mennonite Brethren. • Offshoots of the Anglican Church include the United Church of Christ, the Free Will Baptist, the Conservative Baptist, the Progressive National Baptist, the American Baptist, the Independent Bible Churches, the Friends United, the Friends General Conference, the United Methodist, the African Methodist, the Episcopal, the Free Methodist, and the many offshoots of the Pentecostal churches. • Offshoots of Calvinism include the Presbyterian Church in America, the Presbyterian Church in the USA, the Orthodox Presbyterian, the Reformed Presbyterian, the Reformed Church in America, the Christian Reformed, the Churches of Christ, the Disciples of Christ, and the “Christian Churches.” • The Catholic Church has many rites, yet one faith that traces itself back to Jesus Christ, the apostles and their successors, the bishops. Their Catholic identity is found in their union to the successor of St. Peter, the pope, in proclaiming the one true faith—in diverse cultural expressions--of Jesus Christ. Whether one is a member of the Roman, the Mozarabic, the Ambrosian, the Byzantine, the Chaldean, the Syro-Malabarese, the Alexandrian, the Coptic, the Abyssinian, the Antiochene, the Malankarese, the Maronite, or the Armenian rite, one is a member of the one Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ through his apostles. Was Constantine the founder of the Catholic Church? Some have tried to make the emperor Constantine the founder of the Catholic Church. No historian from any reputable university accepts this. Constantine was instrumental in calling together the bishops to meet at the Council of Nicaea (ca. 325). 23
Page 1 and 2: Ecce Fides Pillar of Truth TABLE OF
Page 3 and 4: Chapter VII: Salvation Do Catholics
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION By His Eminence Paul C
Page 7 and 8: Where did the Bible come from? I HO
Page 9 and 10: estimated that there are as much as
Page 11 and 12: unroll the order of their bishops,
Page 13 and 14: (Acts 15:1-35). With every succeedi
Page 15 and 16: lacking. Let us take just one book
Page 17 and 18: Church must fit together like a puz
Page 19 and 20: Catholic scholar Johann Eck on the
Page 21: Who’s your founder? II THE CHURCH
Page 25 and 26: Babylonians destroyed the temple an
Page 27 and 28: Peter, the Rock upon which Jesus bu
Page 29 and 30: the current pope, the Church has al
Page 31 and 32: faith of the Church: They who have
Page 33 and 34: Paul mentions how he “laid the fo
Page 35 and 36: Anastasius III (911-913) Landus (91
Page 37 and 38: Cyprian in his Letter to all his Pe
Page 39 and 40: Hussitism (fifteenth century): Huss
Page 41 and 42: Church). It also affirmed the gift
Page 43 and 44: dealing with the belief as much as
Page 45 and 46: from “original sin,” personal s
Page 47 and 48: Trinitarian formula. The Didache (c
Page 49 and 50: (Cf. Nm. 52-54, 58: SC 25 bis, 186-
Page 51 and 52: (Philadelphia, 4, trans. Lake). In
Page 53 and 54: existence in the Church of a set Ma
Page 55 and 56: namely himself to be offered by the
Page 57 and 58: human hands have made (cf. Qo 3:13)
Page 59 and 60: You are to confess your sins in the
Page 61 and 62: priest. What does it mean to be exc
Page 63 and 64: whose contributions to the world ha
Page 65 and 66: Where the bishop is to be seen, the
Page 67 and 68: the priesthood as much as it is a c
Page 69 and 70: the bond between two believers, now
Page 71 and 72: communion, albeit a distinction, be
Page 73 and 74:
supernatural life (2 Cor. 3:8) with
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Mary…” The Governor of Pontus,
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Transfiguration (Mk: 9:4). Joshua f
Page 79 and 80:
Mary is the mother of Jesus. Mary i
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Redeemer and Savior. Where do Catho
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I firmly believe that Mary, accordi
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ehold your son.” Then he said to
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generations will call me blessed”
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“saved, but only through fire”
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punished, yet is their hope full of
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What about the 144,000? Basing thei
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Original sin was the sin committed
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security, a resignation, and a hope
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egin contracting until it collapses
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eliminate the capacity to love God.
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He that believes in the Son has eve
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So people from other religions (i.e
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our minds might wing aloft in yearn
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markers to mark important places (G
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held by the popes became the faith
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that Jesus demands a response to th
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Descartes and Kant Rene Descartes a
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Evolutionalism/ Progressivism Evolu
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changes for the new epoch or era. M
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The natural law is based on the law
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The American Psychological Associat
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The fostering of passivity Televisi
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4. The fourth commandment demands t
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fact, there is no way of understand
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Why are contraceptives evil and why
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longer two, but one flesh. Therefor
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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross was a world-r
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Techniques involving only the marri
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uying a new car. Promiscuity and th
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APPENDIX AN APOLOGETICS DEBATE HAND
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another; Photinus, Apollinaris, Pri
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Adversus Marcionem libri quinque ,
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Christians are brought to future li
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Blood?”…. “Do not therefore r
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Ad uxorem, 2, 8, 6-7: PL 1, 1412-14
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Lk. 1:43: Mother of my Lord Mary wi
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expecting the Lord to come. And beh
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Heb. 10:26-27: if sin after receivi
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