March 2012

My Updated Article on Infant Baptism

by Steve Ray on March 31, 2012

Even among Evangelical Protestants there is much debate about Infant Baptism. My old Baptist tradition rejected it as a Catholic tradition of men. Dr. Francis Schaeffer, my favorite Evangelical Presbyterian theologian wrote a booklet entitled Infant Baptism in favor of the practice – my wife Janet was raised Presbyterian and baptized as an infant. It [...]

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I only had 35 minutes but we discussed a lot: Atheism, Catholicism, Morality and Marriage, Sex and why would girls want to be reduced to boy-toys. It was a great time at St. Mary’s Ryken Catholic High School.

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How does Catholic Answers get Steve Ray scheduled once a month for the Catholic Answers Live Shows? Well, now you know how it all works! This is pretty funny — made by the radio staff at Catholic Answers Live.

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 This is a great website with conversion stories from every religious tradition imaginable to Catholic. The Why I’m Catholic website should be passed around to family and friends. It is very well done, beautifully laid out and full of great stories. Our story was posted this week. You can read it HERE.  

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Well, not actually Mary, but girls from Nazareth from over 100 years ago. These are actually Nazarean girls getting water from the same well where Mary got water every day 2,000 years ago. To see the pictures of the well, the cave of the Annunciation and the altar that says, “The Word Became Flesh Here!” [...]

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The Bible on Politics :-)

by Steve Ray on March 24, 2012

Read this with a smile on your face – a bit of political humor: “A wise man’s heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool’s heart toward the left” (Ecclesiastes 10:2).

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Bravo Nick Thomm and all the local Catholics and other Christians too. My son Jesse and his kids were there (I was on a plane). This video was made by Andrew Kruczek with is new video camera!

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This IS the overriding human rights issue of our time. 39 young women, some post abortive, some abortion survivors, many of whom are minority women, but all with a passion for life, are walking from Houston, site of the largest abortion facility in the western hemisphere, to the courthouse in Dallas, where the 39 year [...]

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Make sure everyone sees this because it is a marvelous argument against abortion. This is new technology that won its inventors the Nobel Prize. It pulls back the curtain on the developing baby and the mystery inside the womb. Hang in there for the first three minutes while he is explaining the technology — the [...]

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I was organizing the 5,000 books in my Logos Bible Software program on my laptop and noticed this quote about the so-called “Rapture” as taught by many Evangelical Protestants. The Rapture is a new Protestant doctrine that was invented in the mid-1800′s in Scotland. The new novelty is mainly based on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. The [...]

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The New York Times is being accused of having a double standard when it comes to questioning religion, after it ran an ad calling on Catholics to leave their church, but nixed an ad making the same plea to Muslims. The newspaper published an ad from Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation on March 9 which [...]

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Update Below from Ed Peters. Neumayr’s Article begins: Cardinal Wuerl’s Dereliction of Duty, by George Neumayr on 3.19.12 @ 6:09AM “Since he won’t control the sacraments, the Church’s enemies will. “The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bad bishops. That’s a slight paraphrase of a line from St. John Chrysostom. “The saints [...]

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October Baby

by Steve Ray on March 19, 2012

Many Catholics and lovers of good movies are promoting what looks like a great movie coming to theaters this Friday. Catholic News Services Review I thought you’d like to know about it:

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My Daughter Charlotte Now Married

by Steve Ray on March 17, 2012

Wesley & Charlotte Sorrell

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Jimmy Akin is absolutely correct in his analysis on the HHS Mandate. He acted as an Emperor rather than President. He is being forced to back down by the bishops, but he still has not backed off enough. Keep up the pressure! Read the story HERE.

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Submission: Turning a Blind Eye March 12, 2012 By Chuck Colson For the past year, Christians in northern Nigeria have been the victims of murder and ethnic cleansing by an al Qaeda-affiliated group named Boko Haram. The group, whose name means “book learning is forbidden,” has pledged to kill every Nigerian Christian in its effort [...]

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