Jeanie Hannaman

By Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., Integrated Catholic Life - One of the great battle cries of the Protestant Reformation was “sola scriptura!” Many thought that the Catholic Church had cluttered up the simple Christian faith by adding all sorts of practices, customs and doctrines over the centuries. They thought the Church in their day was guilty of exactly the same Pharisaical obsession with traditions condemned by Jesus in Mark 7:1-23. The solution, it seemed, was simple. Let’s purify the Church by ditching all these traditions and keeping the Bible alone.

By Archbishop Gomez, Angelus (Catholic Vote) - “The early Christians never tried to change the world by using power or violence,” the Archbishop continued, “but they turned the world upside down by proclaiming and practicing values and virtues that the world had never seen before.”.. “At Ephesus, they challenged the idols of the economy and society; at Athens, they engaged the ideals of cultural and intellectual elites,” he wrote.