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Catholicism does not teach “works righteousness.” It teaches faith in action as a manifestation of God’s grace in one’s life. That’s why Abraham’s faith results in righteousness only when he attempts to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God.

Then I read the Council of Trent, which some Protestant friends had suggested I do. What I found was shocking. I found a document that had been nearly universally misrepresented by many Protestants, including some friends.

I do not believe, however, that the misrepresentation is the result of purposeful deception. But rather, it is the result of reading Trent with Protestant assumptions and without a charitable disposition.

For example, Trent talks about the four causes of justification, which correspond somewhat to Aristotle’s four causes. None of these causes is the work of the individual Christian. For, according to Trent, God’s grace does all the work. However, Trent does condemn “faith alone,” but what it means is mere intellectual assent without allowing God’s grace to be manifested in one’s actions and communion with the Church. This is why Trent also condemns justification by works.

I am convinced that the typical “Council of Trent” rant found on anti-Catholic websites is the Protestant equivalent of the secular urban legend that everyone prior to Columbus believed in a flat earth.

Its censure in March of Father Jon Sobrino, a leading liberation theology proponent, prompted an appeal for a thorough overhaul of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the modern-day successor of the Inquisition.

“The structure of the CDF must be reformed,” said Peter Huenermann from Tuebingen, Germany.

“It still operates just like the censorship bureaus most European countries had until the end of the 19th century,” Huenermann, the appeal’s author and a retired theology professor from Tuebingen University, said.

He said the CDF should work like an academic review board, using modern methods such as peer review for publications to allow theologians to test out new ideas. He said he and some colleagues were considering drawing up a proposal for reforms.

“modern quality control” for Church theology.

In subsequent Digital Catholic articles I have indulged in the glory of reading numerous blogs and surfing through the near endless Catholic content on YouTube. In a perfect world each of us would schedule a sliver of time per day aimed at satisfying a positive spiritual need of learning something new about our faith. In reality though, we all know that a fine line can be crossed that sends us on a downward spiral. Tools that we once used to strengthen our faith can become a constant distraction standing between us and our families, employers and worst of all, God.(more)

This post will be home base for the YouTube Summer Project. As you find good, solid, orthodox, Catholic videos on YouTube or Google Videos, leave a comment providing the title of the video and a link to it. As new videos are provided, I will add them to the list. Before you submit your video, check the list and make sure it has not already been submitted.

As sovereign autocrat of this miserable blog and all its lands ( It doesn't have any, so forget that part. ) I have decided to found an Order of Chivalry. The Militant and Just Bloody Rotten Order of the Torch begins. What, you ask, is the purpose of the Order? Simple, really. We're going to declare war. On what? That disgusting relic of the fraudulant, defunct and stinking "spirit of Vatican II"....

....those friggin felt banners.

what's needed is a book of apologetics that corrects the catechetical canards that are passed on to unsuspecting Catholics in places like RCIA.

It may not be explicit in the Old Testament; but the idea of fallen angels is a part of Jewish rabbinic tradition. Stories of fallen angels exist in the Talmud.

Gents. I would like to get some input from other Catholic dads -- especially the dads of boys.

Many of us come from checkered backgrounds. There is a reason that there are many ministries to deal with sexual sin aimed at men. Satan attacks us very strongly in this manner and very little of what comes to us in the form of regular mass media assists us in any direction except TOWARDS sin. In my own life I was most affected by the air of relativism that was permeated throughout my public school education. By the grace of God, I came around, but not without injury that I wish I had avoided altogether. More ...

1. Promote and defend Life conception up to natural death. You shall not have false values that degrade the dignity of life and the welfare of the family, the basic unit of society.

2. You shall not compromise your pro-life and pro-family principles in your dialogue with and in selecting candidates. You shall not bow down to immoral, corrupt and inept candidates and vote them to office. Our life, our family and our country are too precious to be entrusted to such people.

3. You shall not take your vote in vain. You shall not sell it for a price or for money. You shall not vote without scrutinizing the candidate's track record both in public and private life.

4. You shall not vote for candidates that are in favor of legalizing absolute divorce and are themselves not faithful to their own marriage and family.

5. You shall not vote for candidates that are for legalization of euthanasia or mercy killing and are not caring for the older persons and the sick.

6. You shall not vote for candidates that are for legalization of abortion and any form of abortifacients. You shall not vote for candidates that advocate for reproductive rights and support contraceptive use and sterilization as a means for population control.

7. You shall not vote for candidates that promote sex education that is focused on contraceptive use and emphasize "safe sex' rather than moral values and developing virtues.

8. You shall not vote for candidates that advocate same-sex unions and the legalization of same-sex marriage in the guise of anti-discrimination.

9. You shall not vote candidates that sell our country's future to foreign and elite interest, concerned with their vested interest to the destruction of our environment and natural resources, and disregard the plight of the poor.

10. You shall not vote for candidates that are corrupt, steal from the government, that are insensitive to our people's demand and opinion; that are undemocratic, unjust and unpatriotic in their governance and programs. True development is the upliftment of the lives of the least of our brethren and the enjoyment of justice, freedom and peace.

Pope Benedict, elaborating his views on evolution for the first time as Pontiff, says science has narrowed the way life's origins are understood and Christians should take a broader approach to the question.

The Pope also says the Darwinist theory of evolution is not completely provable because mutations over hundreds of thousands of years cannot be reproduced in a laboratory.

But Benedict, whose remarks were published today in Germany in the book Schoepfung und Evolution , praised scientific progress and did not endorse creationist or "intelligent design" views about life's origins.

"I've never heard of anyone converting to Catholicism, only the other way around"

Bobby Jindal (Louisiana congressman, candidate for governor), Robert Novak (conservative columnist and television commentator), Senator Sam Brownback (candidate for President), Jeb Bush (former governor of Florida, brother of George W Bush), Dorothy Day (social activist), Thomas Merton (writer), Malcolm Muggeridge (British journalist, author, satirist, media personality), Ronald Knox (Oxford movement) Dave Brubeck (jazz musician), Sir Alec Guinness (actor most known for his Obi Wan Kenobi role in Star Wars), Clare Boothe Luce (editor, playwright, politician, journalist, and diplomat), John Howard Griffin (of "Black Like Me" fame), John Henry Newman (Anglican, founder of Oxford Movement), Edith Stein (philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr), G. K. Chesterton (writer), Elizabeth Ann Seton (), Gary Cooper (actor), Walker Percy (writer), Oscar Wilde (playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer), John Wayne (actor), Evelyn Waugh (British writer), Graham Greene (English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic), Edith Sitwell (British poet and critic), Alex Jones (Pentacostal pastor converted and took many of his congregants with him into the Church), Scott Hahn (),
J. Budziszewski (Evangelical thinker, philosophy professor at UT-Austin), Norma McCorvey (Roe from Roe v Wade, current pro-life activist), Israel Zolli - (Chief Rabbi of Rome during the Second World War)

This new book, The Feminine Mistake by Lesley Bennett takes a hard look at the price at-home moms make when they drop out of the working world. Most of the points she mentioned on her appearance on The Today Show were expected. She makes the claim that while men are raised to expect to have to take care of themselves, too many women still expect Prince Charming to come and take care of them. The reality of today's society is quite different.