De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

I found this so emotional to watch. This young lady reads Jn 6 and cannot deny the Catholic truth she finds there. It leads her (impels her - see Lumen Gentium 8) to the truth, but it takes an honest reading of the text and the impetus of the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth when your whole experience has been telling you this is something else. Do you take your faith for granted? Even today, right now, there are people abandoning popularity, friends, even family to follow Jesus and His Church. Think there's no difference between the denominations? Think again. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." Matthew 10:34

Luther as the Devil’s Bagpipes by Eduard Schoen, circa 1535. So in the modern Catholic Church under Pope Francis, we see young Catholics kicked out of a Catholic Cathedral for praying the Rosary, while Protestant heretics are lauded and welcomed. The Youtube video below shows Police removing a group of young Catholics from the cathedral in Brussels after they recited the rosary out loud, disrupting a service celebrating the Reformation. The Catholic Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula hosted the service with the United Protestant Church in Belgium, the country’s largest Protestant denomination. UPCB president Steven Fuit, who preached at the service, said the event sent a “strong ecumenical signal” (yes it does, the wrong one!). However, several young Catholics disrupted the ceremony by reciting the rosary at the back of the Cathedral, preventing the pastor from beginning his sermon. The video shows police eventually breaking up the group and escorting them outside. ...

Although I have known that there was an Anglican Church since my history studies of the Tudor age in school, I wasn't ever hugely aware of the importance and value of an established church in our country until, probably, the first influx of Anglicans came home to Rome back in 1992. That was on the back of the ordination of women; if you want to understand what the Catholic position is regarding that I would suggest you have a look at this wonderful exposition by Megan Hodder . More recently (January 2011), the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a Decree which formally established a ‘Personal Ordinariate’ in England and Wales for groups of Anglican faithful and their clergy who wish to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church. The establishment of this Ordinariate was the first fruit of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus , issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 November 2009. The purpose of this was to respond to petitions received “repeate...