If Cardinal Burke gets elected pope … Cardinal Burke takes which one of the following names as the new pope …
February 2020 archive
Feb 28 2020
Adventist and Catholic News & Views 009 – 28 Feb 2020
Key words: Perception creep, Judgement creep, Concept creep, Ridigity, China, Religious persecution, James Martin, Archbishop Wester, Bishop Biegler, Darrell Patterson, Walgreens, Patterson v Walgreens, Married priests, Eastern Catholics, Bishop Gallaro, Religious liberty, Vatican II
Feb 26 2020
Commentary on Prophecy in the Bible
What follows are two comments on the role of biblical prophecy in our modern era. One is from 2016; the first is from 2020.
Feb 22 2020
Pachamama and Pope St John Paul II
In 1988, Pope St John Paul II mentioned Pachamama in a sermon. Pachamama, the earth, so-called by their ancestors; producing food and reflecting the work of divine providence.
Feb 22 2020
Eucharistic pronouns – It vs Him?
This week on Facebook, I observed someone being attacked for incorrect and disrespectful pronoun usage. The main topic was churches allowing the homeless poor to sleep in the pews at night. A definite no-no for some, with legitimate reasons either way. But this particular grammar episode became bizarre.
Feb 21 2020
Adventist and Catholic News & Views 008 – 21 Feb 2020
Key words: Enzyme bonded concrete, Concrete, Amazon, Pope Francis, Hermits of Westray, Pets, Death of pets, Hong Kong, COVID-19, Seal of confession, Third way, Third Rite of Reconciliation, Joseph Zhu Baoyu, Querida Amazonia, Phylolinguistics, Married priests
Feb 16 2020
On the Virginity of Mary “in partu”
In 2015 I wrote to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding Mary’s virginity, specifically the aspect about it remaining intact during Jesus’ birth.
Feb 15 2020
Adventist and Catholic News & Views 007 – 15 Feb 2020
Key words: Conspiracy Theories, Special Knowledge, Conspiracies, Coronavirus, Gaming, Pope Francis, Amazon, Celibacy, Married priests, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Requiem aeternam, Querida Amazonia
Feb 14 2020
Some sabbath silliness
Feb 14 2020
The Pope as Pontifex Maximus and supposedly Christian High Priest
One of the titles used by the pope is “Pontifex Maximus”. Literally, this means “chief bridge builder”, if the Latin etymology is correct. “Pontifex” may be derived from the Etruscan “preparer of the road”, which is similar to “bridge builder”.
Feb 14 2020
The Lateran Council, the Universe, and Time’s Beginning
Firmly we believe and we confess simply that the true God is one alone … creator of all visible and invisible things, of the spiritual and of the corporal; who by His own omnipotent power at once from the beginning of time created each creature from nothing, spiritual and corporal, namely, angelic and mundane, and finally the human, constituted as it were, alike of the spirit and the body
Feb 08 2020
Adventist and Catholic News & Views 006 – 8 Feb 2020
Key words: 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, Health Network, Taylor Marshall, Anti-Catholics, Bishop Barron, Mandatum, Tim Gordon, Galileo, Galileo Affair, Knights of Columbus, Freemasons, Walmart, Work on the sabbath, Secret handshake, Diet, Food rules, Pig meat, Unclean meats
Feb 02 2020
The Presentation of Jesus, The Purification of Mary
Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord (Luke 2, Leviticus 12)
Feb 01 2020
Proof texting, the Bible, and the Church
Providing a quote from the Bible seems like a good thing if you’re trying to convince someone else about what the Bible teaches. But often enough, you get another verse back at you, without context. That’s proof texting.
Feb 01 2020
Adventist and Catholic News & Views 005 – 1 Feb 2020
Key words: Episcopalian consecration, Fatima, Private revelation, Pillars of Adventism, Sabbath, Old Covenant, Diet, Ellen White, Investigative Judgement, Creationism, LBGTQ+
