Lawson "Trip" Cox on Apr 28th 2009 Catholic News, Saints
Last Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI canonized five saints: Italian Blesseds Arcangelo Tadini (1846-1912), Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348), Gertrude Comensoli (1847-1903) and Caterina Volpicelli (1839-1894), and the Portuguese Blessed Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira (1360-1431). The Vatican lists bios, but not all have been translated to English yet. I’ll try to post them as they are available.
*Update: April 29*
I promised links to their bios. Here are three that are in English so far:
Lawson "Trip" Cox on Apr 27th 2009 Apologetics
As an addendum to an earlier posting – Where the Bible Came From – I offer the following insight from the late Jaroslav Pelikan, who was Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University:
As part of the Septuagint “canon,” the Apocrypha became and still are part of the Christian Bible in both the Eastern Orthodox and the Western Roman Catholic churches. They continued to hold this position, though without definitive and formal church legislation according it to them, until the Reformation churches assigned them (at best) second-class status, on the grounds that they were books which “the church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners, but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine.” For most of Christendom during most of Christian history, however, they were and still are simply part of the Bible.
This quote is taken from Pelikan’s 2005 book Whose Bible Is It?: A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages, page 72 (emphasis added).
So you can see that in the 16th Century, it was Protestants who removed these books from the Old Testament, not Catholics who added them.
Lawson "Trip" Cox on Apr 25th 2009 General
Whew! Finally, the web technical bugs have been resolved. Not sure what exactly happened, but the blog is now fully functional. Thanks for your patience.
Lawson "Trip" Cox on Apr 20th 2009 General
Sorry for the lack of posts in recent days. I have been experiencing hosting problems and hope to have them resolved soon.
Lawson "Trip" Cox on Apr 3rd 2009 Humor
Strange what comes up in a Google Image search sometimes. I searched for “catholic photos” and this gem shows up on page one:
Yes, it’s The Hulk as a Catholic priest. As if walking into a confessional wasn’t intimidating enough!
Anyway, I had to follow the link to see where this came from. Turns out there is an article explaining that this Marvel Comics character is a (seemingly lapsed) Catholic. In the infamous words of Stan Lee…’Nuff said! Or perhaps more appropriately…Excelsior!
