We have seen how over the course of time, as the Catholic Encyclopedia phrased it, a “cultus of Mary”, along with the trappings of idol worship took hold; – both in Rome and in the Eastern Orthodox churches. That hold is increasing even today. Now it is beginning to cut across not only denominational but […]
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THE BIG PICTURE
Sometime it’s easy to get lost in the details. We live in a really mess world right now during a really messy time. We are seeing the ‘future’ unfold before us until it is become our present. Headlines bump up against each other until there are crisis on many fronts; foreign and domestic; material and […]
FINDING MEANING IN MADNESS
We know that we are living on the edge of Christ’s return; that He holds us responsible to know the season of His coming and that we are on the eve of a day of Judgment when all our world will change. The myriad crisis, engulfing chaos and unalloyed violence and hate we see are […]
GIMME DAT ‘ONE WORLD RELIGION’
We have traced how during its early centuries, the faith handed down by Christ and his disciples compromised and gave way to a new hybrid religion. Pagan ceremonies were adapted to accommodate the throngs of former pagans that were now entering the Church.[i] At the dawn of the 4th century Christianity was factionalized as false […]
GIMME DAT ‘ONE WORLD RELIGION’
Last time out we chronicled how following the two destructions of Jerusalem in the years AD 70 and 135 the Jewish character and influence in the Church declined severely. The Church was open to change….and change it did. PART VII – THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FAITH A little history is necessary to set the framework. […]