AN AGNOSTIC WITH NO AX TO GRIND TOLD ME, ‘IF I WERE RELIGIOUS, I’D BE A ROMAN CATHOLIC.’
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1. It was the haphazard remark of a photographer, an agnostic I believe, that opened my eyes... it was to the effect
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1. It was the haphazard remark of a photographer, an agnostic I believe, that opened my eyes... it was to the effect
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2. that if Christianity were true, obviously the Roman Catholic Church, with her authority was right.
It was the testimony of a man who had no ax to grind. A Jewish dentist made the same remark in effect to me shortly afterwards. The man-in-the-street
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It was the testimony of a man who had no ax to grind. A Jewish dentist made the same remark in effect to me shortly afterwards. The man-in-the-street
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3. testifies the same with his: ‘If I were religious, I’d be a Roman Catholic.’
WHY SHOULD I STAKE MY IMMORTAL SOUL UPON HUMAN OPINION?
I entered upon an intensive study of the point. I read the history of the doctrine,
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WHY SHOULD I STAKE MY IMMORTAL SOUL UPON HUMAN OPINION?
I entered upon an intensive study of the point. I read the history of the doctrine,
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4. the Fathers and the Councils of the Church, and what they had to say; examined its rationality. At the end of some months I came to the conclusion – that, as far as Holy Scripture, history, and reason were concerned, the Catholic Church could prove her claim
5. to be God’s Infallible Teacher up to the hilt.
It is difficult after all these years to recapture the exact mode of its appeal to my reason; but it was the appeal that the doctrine of the Infallibility of the Church inevitably presents to any man who is
It is difficult after all these years to recapture the exact mode of its appeal to my reason; but it was the appeal that the doctrine of the Infallibility of the Church inevitably presents to any man who is
6. prepared to lay aside bias, prejudice, and preconceptions. I will try to state it in the fewest words possible.
Infallibility is the only guarantee we have that the Christian religion is true. Actually, if I, at the moment, did not believe
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Infallibility is the only guarantee we have that the Christian religion is true. Actually, if I, at the moment, did not believe
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7. in an Infallible Teacher appointed by God, then nothing on earth would induce me to believe in the Christian religion. If, as outside the Catholic Church, Christian doctrines are a matter of private judgment, and therefore the Christian religion a mere matter of human opinion,
8. then there is no obligation upon any living soul to believe in it. Why should I stake my immortal soul upon human opinion? For that is all you have if you refuse the Infallible Church.
(From: Fr Owen Francis Dudley, reprinted in “Christ to the World” - Nov-Dec 2009 Vol. 54)
(From: Fr Owen Francis Dudley, reprinted in “Christ to the World” - Nov-Dec 2009 Vol. 54)
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