'COURAGEOUS' MOVIE PARTNERS WITH CATHOLICS

ATLANTA — When Sherwood Pictures’ Courageous opens nationally in theaters Sept. 30, the film will demonstrate that Protestants and Catholics can indeed work together. The film, which is a product of the Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., has partnered with a Catholic public-relations agency and a variety of Catholic ministries to successfully market the motion picture, which is about four police officers struggling with issues of fatherhood. At least 10 Catholic men’s, marriage and family ministries have partnered with the filmmakers to help support and promote the film. They include the Knights of Columbus’ Fathers for Good, Alexander House, National Fellowship of Catholic Men, The King’s Men, the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers, Fraternus, That Man Is You, Familia and The Men of St. Joseph.

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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CONTINUES TO ABANDON BIBLICAL TRUTH

The British Newspaper, The Times, reported an alarming story on October 5th. The story was titled, "Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible".[i] The story reports that as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Dei Verbum, the Second Vatican Council document which explains the role of Scripture in God's revelation, the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a new document titled The Gift of Scripture that instructs parishioners to be aware that certain parts of the Bible are not actually historically true.

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THE AVALON PROJECT: DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE WAR OF INVESTITURES THE DICTATE OF THE POPE

This document is from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. It includes the declaration made of the infallibility of the popes and their alleged power of the church. That the Roman church was founded by God alone. That the Roman pontiff alone can with right be called universal. That he alone can depose or reinstate bishops. That, in a council, his legate, even if a lower grade, is above all bishops, and can pass sentence of deposition Against them. That the pope may depose the absent. That, among other things, we ought not to remain in The same house with those excommunicated by him. That for him alone is it lawful, according to the needs of the time, to make new laws, to assemble together new congregations, to make an abbey of a canonry; and, on the other hand, to divide a rich bishopric and unite the poor ones.

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POPE BENEDICT KISSES THE BLOOD OF JOHN PAUL II

The blood of John Paul II has arrived in Colombia.“His blood is the symbol of life, says Father Slawomir Oder. The small round cylinder inside the glass mounter contains a sample of the blood of the late Pope, ready to be carried through the streets of Bogota. The relics that arrived ion Bogota 20th of January consist of a small vile of the late pontiff’s blood which was extracted by medical officials before his death in April of 2005.

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"PROTESTANTS AREN'T PROPER CHRISTIANS," SAYS POPE BENEDICT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI declared yesterday that Christian denominations other than his own were not true churches and their holy orders have no value. Protestant leaders immediately responded by saying the claims were offensive and would hurt efforts to promote ecumenism. Roman Catholic- Anglican relations are already strained over the Church of England's plans to ordain homosexuals and women as bishops. The claims came in a document, from a Vatican watchdog which was approved by the Pope. It said the branches of Christianity formed after the split with Rome at the Reformation could not be called churches "in the proper sense" because they broke with a succession of popes who dated back to St Peter. As a result, it went on, Protestant churches have "no sacramental priesthood", effectively reaffirming the controversial Catholic position that Anglican holy orders are worthless. The document claimed the Catholic church was the "one true church of Christ". Pope Benedict's commitment to the hardline teaching comes days after he reinstated the Mass in Latin, which was sidelined in the 1960s in an attempt to modernise.

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