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In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

  
  The Differences Between Catholics and Protestants
In the Catholic church the altar is central.
In the Protestant churches the pulpit is the center of attention.
Differences between Catholic doctrine, and that of those for whom the Bible is the final authority do not result from a Protestant desire to be obnoxious, but rather from the fact that where there is a conflict between the teachings of the Bible and those of the RCC, it is impossible to accept both.
www.ovrlnd.com /Cults/diffofcatholics.html   (1495 words)

  
  Info and facts on 'Liberal Catholic Church'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity (A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior) open to theosophical ideas (additional info and facts about theosophical ideas).
In 1941, there was a schism in the Liberal Catholic Church in the United States, surrounding a controversy involving Bishop Charles Hampton, who, while he was himself a theosophist, wished to keep adherence to theosophical tenets optional for the clergy.
The Liberal Catholic Church International maintains that these beliefs and lifestyle choices should be optional for clergy, and practices the ordination of women (additional info and facts about ordination of women) to all Holy Orders up to and including bishop.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liberal_catholic_church.htm   (412 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Liberal Catholic Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thus the difference between The Liberal Catholic Church and all other Catholic and Protestant Churches lies in the fact that with the ancient sacramental worship have been associated the widest measure of intellectual freedom and respect for the individual conscience.
The Liberal Catholic Church welcomes all and everyone to its services, those who have faith and those who have lost faith; those who believe in the literal exposition of the scriptures and those who accept the allegorical spiritual interpretation.
The Liberal Catholic Church is one of thirty or more Catholic Churches in the world which are independent of Rome, such as the Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Old Catholic, etc. It teaches the Christianity of the Christ and administers the seven Sacraments which are regarded as channels of His blessing.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Catholic-Church   (320 words)

  
 Liberal Catholic Church
Bishop Leadbeater was the Presiding-Bishop of the LCC from 1923 until his death in 1934.He wrote a number of books in which he presented his unique vision of aspects of the Christian tradition, including The Christian Creed (1899), The Inner Side of Christian Festivals (1920) and The Science of the Sacraments (1920).
In 1916 he came back into the Church, was elevated to the rank of bishop and devoted his time to the building up of this work, a new venture and a new point of view, planned not only for our own day but for the years and centuries to come.
Blavatsky in her condemnation of the churches, he was very quick to see that the church now proposed by Bishop Wedgwood’s effortless powers could have brought the great man back to the calling he had abandoned some forty-five years earlier.
www.cwlworld.info /html/liberal_catholic_church.html   (3627 words)

  
 Newman Reader - Catholic Encyclopedia Essay
Law's "Serious Call" had on the youth a Catholic or ascetic influence; he was born to be a missionary; thought it God's will that he should lead a single life; was enamoured of quotations from the Fathers given in Milner's "Church History", and, reading Newton on the Prophecies, felt convinced that the pope was Antichrist.
With immense labour he composed the "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine", in which the apparent variations of dogma, formerly objected by him against the Catholic Church, were explained on a theory of evolution, curiously anticipating on certain points the great work of Darwin.
John Henry Newman thus continues in modern literature the Catholic tradition of East and West, sealing it with a martyr's faith and suffering, steadfast in loyalty to the truth, while discerning with a prophet's vision the task of the future.
www.newmanreader.org /biography/biography.html   (6974 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: States of the Church
The States of the Church founded by the Carlovingians were the security for the friendly alliance between the papacy and the empire which dominated the Middle Ages.
All these new acquisitions and the States of the Church in their entirety were again placed in the greatest jeopardy when the great struggle between Frederick II and the Curia broke out, With the exception of the city of Rome the emperor had brought the States of the Church into his power.
When the Liberal minister Rossi sought to reorganize the States of the Church and at the same time urged on the formation of a confederation of the Italian states, he was stabbed to death on the steps of the Palace of the Cancelleria on 15 November, 1848.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14257a.htm   (12122 words)

  
 Church of St. Francis
The Liberal Catholic Church is an independent and self-governing body; neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant---but Catholic.
It aims at combining the traditional sacramental from of worship---with its stately ritual, its deep mysticism, and its abiding witness to the reality of sacramental grace---with the widest measure of intellectual liberty and respect for the individual conscience.
Its Apostolic Success is accepted as valid by all branches of the Catholic Church; it maintains the seven historical sacraments and the Holy Eucharist as its primary service of worship.
liberalcatholic.com /index.html   (198 words)

  
 Why ADL is concerned about Mel Gibson's film "The Passion"
Gibson is making a movie on the death of Jesus that is consistent with church teachings and free of the anti-Semitism that haunted passion dramas for centuries, the very raising of questions is now being depicted as a part of the culture wars that have overwhelmed American society in recent years.
In 1988, the Catholic United States Bishops Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs issued a pamphlet, "Criteria for the Evaluation of Dramatizations of the Passion," which stresses that passion plays must avoid caricatures of Jews and falsely opposing Jews and Jesus.
Gibson, a "traditionalist" Catholic, has expressed strong criticisms of the modern church and is supportive of views of church policy that question or reject the many 20th-century changes, including the revolution in attitudes toward Jews beginning with Nostra Aetate in 1965.
www.adl.org /Interfaith/gibson_oped.asp   (888 words)

  
 National Catholic Reporter
Catholic Press Association General Excellence Award for the last 8 years.
The dignity of workers and the rights of workers are central elements of Catholic social teaching.
story “Liberal Catholicism endures in pastoral church” in the Aug. 31 issue was the joint effort of William d’Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge and Mary L. Gautier.
www.natcath.com   (936 words)

  
 Catholic Encyclopedia’s and Dictionaries
This the Church teaches is the revelation regarding 'God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.
The writers of this school contend that the doctrine of the Trinity, as professed by the Church, is not contained in the New Testament, but that it was first formulated in the second century and received final approbation in the fourth, as the result of the Arian and Macedonian controversies...
The writers of this school contend that the doctrine of the Trinity, as professed by the Church, is not contained in the New Testament, but that it was first formulated in the second century and received final approbation in the fourth, as the result of the Arian and Macedonian controversies (cf.
www.bible.ca /trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm   (16046 words)

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