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Ecce Fides Pillar of Truth Ecce Fides Pillar of Truth Fr. John J. Pasquini TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Foreword Introduction Chapter I: The Holy Scriptures and Tradition Where did the Bible come from? Would Jesus leave us in confusion? The Bible alone is insufficient and unchristian What Protestants can’t answer! Two forms of Revelation What about Revelation 22:18-19? Is all Scripture to be interpreted in the same way? Why was the Catholic Church careful in making Bibles available to individual believers? Why do Catholics have more books in the Old Testament than Protestants or Jews? Chapter II: The Church Who’s your founder? Was Constantine the founder of the Catholic Church? Was there a great apostasy? Is the Catholic Church the “Whore of Babylon”? Who founded the Church in Rome? Peter, the Rock upon which Jesus built his Church! Are the popes antichrists? Why is the pope so important? Without the popes, the successors of St. Peter, there would be no authentic Christianity! Why is apostolic succession so important? The gates of hell will not prevail against it! The major councils of the Church and the assurance of the true faith! Why is there so much confusion in belief among Protestants? What gave rise to the birth of Protestantism? Chapter III: Sacraments Are sacraments just symbols? What do Catholics mean by being “born again” and why do they baptize children? Baptism by blood and desire for adults and infants Does baptism require immersion? Baptism of the dead? Where do we find the Sacrament of Confirmation? Why do Catholics believe the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of Jesus? Why do Catholics have a Mass? Is the Mass a true sacrifice? Why do we celebrate the Lord’s Day on a Sunday? The Mass, completely Biblical Where do Catholics get the idea of mortal and venial sins? Why do we need priests to forgive sins? What does it mean to be excommunicated? Why indulgences? Is there a Sacrament of Holy Orders? Why celibate priests? Why “Father”? Why do Catholics not allow woman priests? Is there such a thing as the Last Rites? Prayer and the Doctor? What about blood transfusions? Is marriage a sacrament? What is an annulment? Chapter IV: The Trinity and the Communion of Saints Is there a Trinity? Who is Christ? Who is the Holy Spirit? Jesus is God! God, not gods! Do Catholics worship saints? What about the communion of saints? Jesus, the fulfillment of Judaism’s hopes! Chapter V: Mary Is Mary the Mother of God? What is the Immaculate Conception? Brothers and sisters of the Lord? Why was Mary assumed into heaven? Mary, the “woman” (cf. Jn. 2:4; 19:26) How much should we love Mary? Chapter VI: End-time Issues Hell, a reality Where do we get purgatory from? Is there such a thing as temporal punishment? Is hell eternal or are the souls of the evil or dead annihilated? Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, Amillennialism and the Rapture What about the 144,000? Celestial marriages? What are we to think of Bible prophecy? 2 Chapter VII: Salvation Do Catholics have a different understanding of the human person than Protestants? “Proofs” for existence of God Predestination or providence? Is salvation assured? What about this faith and works? Why do Catholics believe that so-called “non-Christians” can be saved? Chapter VIII: Miscellaneous Issues Do Catholics practice idol worship? Why relics? Are Catholics pagans? Why do some Catholics believe in the theory of evolution? Are Catholic doctrines invented? What is a heretic? What gave rise to the birth of Protestantism? The Real Jesus! The health and wealth gospel! The New Age Chapter IX: Understanding the Religion of Secularism Birth pangs of secularism! Implications of the turn toward the self What was lost! More consequences! The media, secularism’s evangelizing tool Secularism, in conclusion Chapter X: Moral Doctrines under Attack The Ten Commandments and their implications for Catholics The natural and moral law, essential dimensions to moral theology Why is homosexual activity (and same-sex marriages) contrary to the Word of God? No such thing as pro-choice Catholics! Why are contraceptives evil and why is Natural Family Planning holy? Why do Catholics believe in legitimate wars? The death penalty revisited Euthanasia? Genetic engineering and assisted reproduction Embryonic stem cell research Chapter XI: Concluding Remarks There are no new questions! The future of Christianity The ship continues moving! Appendix: An Apologetics Debate Handbook 3 FOREWORD Anywhere from twenty to eighty percent of Protestant and pseudo-Christian denominations are made up of former Catholics. And sadly, there are too many practicing Catholics who do not believe in the Church’s infallibility in the areas of faith and morals. This book is intended to combat this dangerous trend. Ecce Fides is a book intended to reaffirm Catholics in their faith and in the infallibility of their Church. It is intended to bring back home those who have fallen away from their faith, to convince searching Christians of a home in the Catholic Church, and to convert in a gentle manner Protestants and Pseudo-Christians to the fullness of Christianity as found in the Catholic Church. Ecce Fides is a work dedicated to defending Catholic beliefs through reason, Scripture, and the life of the Holy Spirit. In the first three hundred years of Christianity, one million Catholics lost their lives as martyrs. Come join the faith that was built on Christ and the blood of his martyrs. 4 INTRODUCTION By His Eminence Paul Cardinal Poupard Of vital importance for evangelization is an awareness of the cultures in which people live, shape their thinking, develop their lifestyles, and seek to grow in their humanity. In our task of spreading the Good News we are called on to read the signs of the times and renew the way we participate in the Church’s evangelizing mission, adapting to the new situations emerging in our continually changing cultures. But as cultures and currents of thought are fickle, changing under influences both good and bad, it is important for us to remain focused on the fullness of our faith if we are to carry out our mission as Christians, the great commandment to go out and preach the good news to all the people. Our faith, revealed in biblical culture, further understood through 2000 years of changing cultures, remains our response to the same Good News, the Gospel, the story of salvation in which God sent his Son to redeem the world through his birth, death, and resurrection. Through the Church, the bride of Christ, his light shines visibly to all men; by the power of the Spirit, in the sacraments instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, we can be healed, transformed, conformed to the same Son of God in preparation for eternal life. This is the truth we need to hear, meet, interiorize, and live out in conversion to God’s own divine will. The Church is the custodian of the Good News and is also described by my patron, St. Paul, in his letter to Timothy, as the pillar of truth, the subtitle of this useful catechetical book. The same Apostle to the gentiles took his missionary zeal from his awareness that ours is not a faith limited to Hebrew roots, but contains within it a zeal to engage a dynamic and salvific encounter with cultures, for, as John Paul II would later proclaim magisterially, “a faith that does not become culture, is a faith which is not fully thought through, not truly lived out and not faithfully lived” (John Paul II, Letter creating the Pontifical Council for Culture, 20 May 1982). The Church is also expert in humanity; it also safeguards the truth, not as a treasure hidden under a lampshade or in a bushel, but as an announcement for all humanity. Contrary to the characteristics of many sects and new alternative religions springing up today, the Church’s essential truth is no secret, but a series of historical events that we need to proclaim in a way our contemporaries can access, ad modum recipientis as I was taught in the seminary. We seek to hand this faith on to new generations with new energy, new ardour, and a daring new creativity in charity (cf. Novo Millennio Ineunte). And let us add, with a word characterizing Benedict XVI’s Pontificate, joyfully. Following the paradigm of the Incarnation, wherein God became Man for our sake, the light of truth, takes on the form and fullness of cultures, to glory in its sinful nature, but to transform them anew in order to reconcile men with each other, recreating them in the image and likeness of the new Adam. The 5 meeting between one faith and the many cultures is fundamentally at the service of this new Christian humanism, which is why “the split between the Gospel and culture is the drama of our times” as Pope Paul VI stated in the Apostolic Exhortation, Evagnelii Nuntiandi 1975. Pope John Paul II also describes how “the future of man depends on culture,” which is not a mere neutral context, but the battleground for the new evangelization. He set out our task thus: “In fact, we have to reach out to people where they are, with their worries and questions, to help them find the moral and spiritual landmarks they need to live lives worthy of our specific vocation, and to find in Christ’s call the hope that does not disappoint (cf. Rom. 5:5), as we follow the method used by the Apostle Paul at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17:22-34)” (Discourse on the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, 16 March 2002).
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