Newman’s classic work on relationship between the Church and the World
The lectures in Anglican Difficulties, says Edward Short, "warn readers of the great evil establishments can do when they seek to warp, appropriate or suppress the Church."
The lectures in Anglican Difficulties, says Edward Short, "warn readers of the great evil establishments can do when they seek to warp, appropriate or suppress the Church."
It is one of the commonplaces of the genius of Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman that while he might have written for set occasions, he always found ways to transcend them.
Over and over in Scripture, we see Jesus and the apostles laying down a blueprint for the Christian Church, writes Graham Osborne.
If I were an eager "C.S. Lewis" Protestant – as I once was – I would become a Catholic, here and now, again.
"Why do I need to confess my sins to a priest? He can't forgive my sins. He's not God!"
If you read my column regularly, you know my great desire for Christian unity.
There were, in short, multiple Reformations. Their sometimes-violent interaction created much of what became the modern world, for good and for ill.
I believe in the following Christian principle: everything the Bible tells us is true. I do not, however, believe that everything the Bible tells us is clear.