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Young Girl, Comatose and on Life Support, Miraculously Recovers After Baptism by Priest

by Brian Kelly August 11, 2011

CatholicOnline: Lucy Hussey-Bergonzi was 13 years old when she collapsed with a brain hemorrhage in February of 2009. At the hospital, her parents called for a Catholic priest to baptize her before she died. As the holy water touched her forehead, Lucy’s arm shot up in the air and within 24 hours she was taken off life support. Read full report here.

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Baptism of Desire: Its Origin and Abandonment in the Thought of Saint Augustine

by Brian Kelly April 28, 2011

Perish the thought that a person predestined to eternal life could be allowed to end this life without the sacrament of the mediator. (Saint Augustine) This article will focus on the question of explicit baptism of desire — as it was understood by most western doctors of the Church from the time of Saint Augustine (+430) until Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (+1787), the last … More →

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Girl Pulls Dying Boyfriend From Jaws of Shark, Baptizes Him on Beach

by Brian Kelly June 7, 2010

This is a most astounding story of the heroic kind of fortitude God gives in time of danger to those ordinary Catholics who love the Faith. May 18, 1959. Search Time.com. “Looking down on the ocean from the Presidio, San Francisco’s history-encrusted Army post, Master Sergeant Leo P. Day saw what happened next. ‘I could see the boy in the foaming red water, shouting and … More →

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Faith and Good Works

by Brother André Marie March 18, 2009

Whenever the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism are enumerated, one of the most common items on the list is “Faith and Good Works.” The role of good works in human salvation was one of the crucial issues of the Protestant Revolt of 1517, Martin Luther going so far as to interpolate his own spin on the matter right into the Bible.

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The Limbo of the Infants

by Br. Thomas Mary Sennott, M.I.C.M. January 22, 2009

As a corollary to the necessity of Faith and Baptism for salvation, St. Thomas also taught that unbaptized babies went to the Limbo of the Children (Summa Theologica. III, Q. 52, a. 7). But later the rigorist Jansenists taught that unbaptized babies rather went to the fires of hell, and they called the Limbo of the Children a “Pelagian Heresy.”

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To My Young Friend

by Br. John Neumann, M.I.C.M., Tert. October 29, 2008

LET’S HAVE A LITTLE TALK, my young friend, just you and I. It is private, yes.

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A Letter to Bedfordshire (in Response to Mr. Thomas Sparks)

by Brother André Marie September 22, 2006

(240K PDF version of this same article. ) Introduction. Mr. Thomas Sparks, of Bedfordshire, England, has posted an “Open Letter” to me on his web site. The present offering is my reply.

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Reply to a Liberal: Conclusion

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

Modern liberalism, which makes membership in the Catholic Church unnecessary for salvation, undermines something more than the dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. In postulating the existence of an Invisible Church, or in suggesting that membership in the Visible Church can be invisible and purely internal, liberals are actually, whether they realize it or not, endangering the doctrine of the Incarnation.

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Reply to a Liberal Part III: Baptism

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

Contents : 1. Baptism is Absolutely Necessary for Salvation. 2. Is Baptism by Itself Sufficient for Salvation? 3. Baptism of Blood and Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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Reply to a Liberal Part II: Outside the Church There is No Salvation

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

Contents : 1. Explicit Faith in the Catholic Church and in Her Teaching is Necessary for Salvation. 2. there Two Kinds of Membership in the Church? 3. Can a Person Who Remains Separated from the Church be Saved? 4. Are Protestants Formal Heretics? 5. Pope Pius IX’s Real Teaching with Regard to the Salvation of Non-Catholics 6. Concerning the Question of Ignorance

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Reply to a Liberal Part I: Answer to Five Minor Points

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

I It seems to be a habit of liberal theologians to give more weight to the opinions of theologians of their own type than to the infallible definitions of the Church. Some of them never quote the Scriptures and the Councils; others do, usually by way of pious preamble.

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Reply to a Liberal – Introduction

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

We have been asked many times to explain what we mean by the term “liberal Catholic.” Articles in each issue of From the Housetops have referred to these “liberals,” accusing them of religious indifferentism, or lack of concern for the Faith, of absence of loyalty to the Church, to the Pope, to the officially appointed teachers of Catholic doctrine, and, at times, of open heresy.

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Doctrinal Summary

by Br. Thomas Mary Sennott, M.I.C.M. March 16, 2005

Editor’s Introduction: This “Doctrinal Summary” is an appendix to a work to be published at a future date: Father Feeney’s Doctrinal Case. The work is intended as a supplement to the larger volume by Brother Thomas Mary, They Fought the Good Fight.

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Father Feeney and Catholic Doctrine — A Reply to Verbum

by Br. Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. January 31, 2005

This article was published in February, 1987 as a Res Fidei monograph. The Verbum in question (#24) is no longer available online. However, the offending article can be read here.