Adventist and Catholic News & Views 003 – 17 Jan 2020

News and commentary on Adventism:

Kari Paulsen, Wife of Former World Church President Jan Paulsen, Passes AwayAdventist Review
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Anima eius et animae omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace.

Man Who Served as Adventist Pastor Charged with Multiple Counts of Sexual AssaultAdventist Today
Problems like this exist everywhere where people have power over other people. Not just Adventism. Not just Catholicism. Commentary here.

How to live with a husband in a cultProclamation! online magazine
Good advice for religiously mixed marriages. A lot depends on how you view the salvation of those who disagree with you. If you believe they’re damned to hell, life will be a living hell for you, and you should hope to die before they do to avoid spending your last days convinced of your loved one’s current and unending torment in hell.

Is Christmas pagan?Adventist News Network – The official news service of the Seventh-day Adventist world church
Excellent article. The Christmas = pagan myth is well debunked now by Adventists. This could have been straight from a Catholic website.

 

News and commentary on Catholicism:

Unity without truth? Questions about Eastern CatholicismReddit: r/Catholicism
Fascinating discussion on Reddit about unity between the western Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, and the Orthodox Churches, as well as how each legitimately differs doctrinally. New terms for me: Ratzinger Proposal, Zogby Initiative.

Order of Malta brings holiday cheer to those in needAngelus News
Cardinal Burke is their sponsor, and wisely isn’t preventing vaccination.

Report: Mccarrick Fund Gave More Than $600,000 To Clerics, Two PopesThe Southern Cross
Corrupt cardinals. Most recipients, I imagine, assumed they were innocent gifts of some sort – presumed to be licit donations.

Towards altar or laity? Syro-Malabar Church faces dilemmaThe New Indian Express
Whatever the practice was before Latinisation, so it should be today.

Clerical Celibacy: Not Essential to OrdersHenry Karlson
Nothing Cardinal Sarah says can change this fact.

 

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