by Steve Ray on February 29, 2008
The rules on baptism are meant to be followed Canon Lawyer Ed Peters on Baptism: You might recall when I [Ed Peters] blogged against using baptismal formulae contrived to avoid masculine nouns for Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I said back in 2004 that such ‘baptisms’ were invalid, and that people who received ‘baptism’ under [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 24, 2008
An anti-Catholic recently put up a pathetic YouTube video criticizing my recent radio show where I talked about the Apostolic Fathers and how Catholic they really were. Some of these angry anti-Catholics try to twist the early Christians into pretzels — ridiculously trying recreate them into Reformed Baptists or other such nonsense. I recently wrote a [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 23, 2008
One can't walk the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem – like I'm doing this week — and not wonder what in the world God has done and is doing with the Jews. Did he abandon them after they as a nation rejected his Messiah? Do his promises to Abraham still stand for the ethnic [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 21, 2008
This is a clever little joke passed to me from a good Franciscan priest friend of mine here in Jerusalem. Catholics need good jokes and this is one we can add to our collection. One day while he was at the track playing the ponies and all but losing his shirt, Mitch, a Protestant noticed [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 20, 2008
Jesus didn't really do a miracle, right? He just taught everyone to care and share, right? You've heard that homily, right? The people had all brought picnic baskets which they kept hidden up under their robes. Jesus convinced them all to pull out their picnic baskets to share with everyone else. The REAL miracle was [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 19, 2008
In one of his arguements against Purgatory and Prayer for the dead and prayer to the Saints, Luther rejected an estalished doctrine of the Church concerning life after death. He adopted what the Seventh Day Adventists believe today — after death we are not conscious but are in a dreamless sleep until the final resurrection. Most [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 18, 2008
This puzzle was written by a lady in California in 1890 in response to a gentlemen in Philadelphia, who said that he would pay $1,000 to anyone who could write a puzzle that he could not solve. He failed to do so, and paid the lady $1,000 (a great sum at that time). The answer [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 16, 2008
I've moved all the Virtual Videos & Comments to my Pilgrimage website. To see all the videos, click here First group arrived on British Air with their fearless leader Fr. Michael Monette. They are now napping comfortably at the Sheraton in Tiberias. Janet and I picked them up at 5:30 AM. We are now on [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 16, 2008
Forty is no insiginficant number in the Bible! That is why we have the liturgical season of Lent for forty days which begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter. Lent is the primary penitential season in the Church’s liturgical year, reflecting the forty days Jesus spent in the desert in fasting and prayer ( [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 15, 2008
There are always new things to discover in Jerusalem, even after fifty times. Today I visited the darkened Armenian Cathedral of St. James not too far from the Western Wall where the Temple used to stand. It is only open one hour in the afternoon and there was a divine liturgy in progress. I made friends [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 15, 2008
Stare at the four veriticle black dots in the middle of the image for 30 seconds and then look at a white wall and start blinking your eyes. What do you see?
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by Steve Ray on February 14, 2008
Several months ago I was accused of using a quote from Luther out of context and for shock value. It was stated that I, and many other modern Catholic apologists who used this particular Luther quote, did not do our homework. There was a assumption that Catholics can't and don't do serious research on these matters. [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 12, 2008
Very uneventful flights from Detroit to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv. Good to be home again! We are excited to greet our group on Saturday and take them north to Galilee. But first we have places to explore and need to practice making videos for you all with my new Macbook Pro laptop. [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 12, 2008
Steve will join Chuck Neff to promote Relevant Radio during the fund drive. The interview will be between 1:30-2:00 Eastern time. To learn more or to contribute, click here at www.relevantradio.com.
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by Steve Ray on February 11, 2008
Over the weekend I flew out to Wichita Kansas to speak at a conference to support KAHS Catholic Radio. Dr. Marcelino d'Abrosio was also there. I spoke three times and it was a great group of fired up folks. The plane flight there and back was a nightmare. From Detroit to Memphis was fine, but [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 8, 2008
From April 1- 10, 2008 Teresa Tomeo (Catholic Connections Radio Show) and I will lead pilgrims to the Holy Land. We have a special host going with us — Immaculee Ilibagiza, author of the New York Times best-seller "Left to Tell." Immaculee is a world-renowned writer, international speaker and Catholic survivor of the genecide in Rwanda. She [...]
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