If you are on schedule with the Old Testament Challenge reading schedule, then today's reading marks the half way point for the Challenge. Congratulations! This is no mean feat! Some have dropped by the wayside, some are a little behind in their reading, and some are running along next to us. Just … [Read more...]
Did the Early Church Venerate Icons?
from his "Stump the Priest" Series by Fr. John Whiteford Question: "Isn't the fact that there were controversies over icons well into the 9th century proof that the early Church did not venerate icons?" There were indeed controversies at various times, most notably the Iconoclastic … [Read more...]
An Uncomplicated Truth
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon It is reasonable, I suppose—or at least natural—for modern students of religion to wonder how the earliest Christians, all of them Jews, were able to reconcile their belief in the divinity of Christ with the monotheism enshrined in Israel’s Sh’ma’. Indeed, historians of … [Read more...]
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