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Frustrating isn't it? I'd like to have both, really, a nice copper landline and my internet on optic fibre.

I wish I did, I wish I had a landline that used the old copper wire technology, because the copper tech landline supplied its own power that was very stable and didn't drop out when there was a power loss. But in Australia landline just means a internet phone now, and internet phones depend on...

I do not think that you have a point.

What you have written is not right because it is only the first three councils that all branches of the ancient Church accept. Catholic and Orthodox receive the first seven, Oriental Orthodox receive only the first three, Catholics receive the eighth, and Catholics receive the nineth through the...

I can't say I have ever met such a person. It is, however, true that every doctrine of the Church has its roots in revelation which has existed from the beginning and with that as a foundation for one's understanding of Church Dogmatics, it follows that the Church has always believed what she...

THE REFORM COUNCILS — TRENT, VATICAN I, VATICAN II #19 Trent (1545-63) Rejected the Protestant Reformation, affirmed Church teachings, implemented reforms Lasting 18 years, due to wars and plagues, the Council of Trent was called in reaction to the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. This was...

ECUMENICAL COUNCILS OF THE WEST — THE POPE CALLS ALL COUNCILS #9 Lateran I (1123) Condemned lay investiture The first Lateran Council, held at the Palace of Lateran in Rome, was called by Pope Callistus II with 300 bishops attending. The attendees affirmed and decreed that a monarch did not...

The councils of the Catholic Church provide a good record of how Christian doctrine has developed, largely in response to heresies and partly in response to internal debates on the meaning of the scriptures. Here is a summary of the twenty-one councils of the Catholic Church. The following is...

It is good to see a fellow Catholic here.

Do you think that converts from Protestantism to one or another of the Orthodoxies leads to the convert carrying over from Protestantism whatever prejudices and misapprehensions about Catholicism they had as Protestants to Orthodoxy?

Hello @Hadassah :)

I visit this site every now and then, so I have not read all the posts you've written. I have read some.

Aren't there are lot of posts in here! not many replies.

Today, after receiving a powered USB hub from Amazon.com.au I am resurrecting a slightly crippled Windows 10 on my Teclast X98 Air 3G tablet. I damaged its drivers by installing "optional updates" for drivers. The optional updates didn't work, and Microsoft did warn that they might not, so it...

Aside from Gordon Clarke's rhyme (and he meant it as a criticism of some Presbyterians who he said believed "nothing, just nothing at all") I have never heard a pastor in any church I have visited teach that we may sin as we please and still have remission.

Interesting. I became a Catholic for some theological reasons (the antiquity of the Church, her unity, and apostolic practises) and some liturgical reasons (I like the mass with its emphasis on the Holy Eucharist, its scripture readings, and short homily) and some convenience reasons (it was...

If, for some good reason, you were to decide to become either a Catholic or an Orthodox Christian, which would you choose?

hi :)

With the rosary and most Catholic liturgical prayers from the Divine Office Catholics (me included) open with the sign of the cross and its accompanying prayer In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Then follows the prayer we intend to pray, be it spontaneous or...

I know that more posts appear in the "Christians only" part of this site, and I understand why that is so, and I understand why non-trinitarians who like to discuss matters that are not directly related to the doctrine of the Trinity may want to participate in such threads in the "Christians...