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Catholic Church set to welcome Anglicans back into the fold

October 21, 2009 · 5 comments

Pope Benedict in a neat hat

“I was teaching Moral Theology this morning when I learned that the Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans had been officially announced by the Holy Father. I was so overcome with emotion that I had to leave the classroom. The Holy Father is so generous and desires so deeply ‘that they all might be one.’” – Taylor Marshall

Read the whole post on Taylor Marshall’s blog.  He is a Catholic convert and former Anglican/Episcopalian priest.  So he has a very unique perspective on this breaking news. [Keep Reading]

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How many Catholics are in the world?

December 4, 2008 · 26 comments

Depending on where one lives in the world it can often seem like either everyone is Catholic or nobody is Catholic! So it can be hard to get a real sense of just how Catholics fit into the world as a whole. Well, here are some numbers for you.

There are currently an estimated 6.7 billion people on the planet Earth. [Keep Reading]

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Not Just Another Denomination: Part 2 of 2

In the first part of this article we tried to put denominational Christianity into proper perspective and showed, above all, that Jesus created one, organized, visible, authoritative Church.
We also suggested that when we put aside our own cultural predispositions to denominational Christianity, that the one Church that Jesus founded seems to look like the Catholic [...]

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Not Just Another Denomination: Part 1 of 2

Many things can be said about the modern state of Christianity, but there is one thing that is particularly divisive – the idea of the Christian “denomination.”
Denominations are just another part of the Christian vernacular anymore – and they’re all very different. But this division is not what God intended. Jesus prays in John 17:11:
“That [...]

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