The Called to Communion Podcast is now available at EWTN.com Itunes podcast here: In addition, you can listen to or watch the live stream here. I appreciate your calls and your interest. -David
Catholics and some non-Catholic Christians disagree about the nature of the sacraments. Are they merely signs? Do they really conform us to Christ?
How do we know the will of God for the Church? On CTC Radio today, I hope we can generate discussion about Scripture and Tradition. I welcome your emails at ctc@ewtn.com There is also live video feed from the Radio Studios at https://www.ewtn.com/radio/radiolive.asp Here, finally, is a short text I prepared for One Voice, the Diocesan […]
Dear Friends, Today at 2:00 PM Eastern, we launch the new EWTN Radio Show Called to Communion. We hope to encourage collaboration across media (internet and radio) as we continue to discuss what divides us as Christians and as human beings.
In the most recent edition of Nova et Vetera, the Dominicans of the Eastern Province have published an extremely well-written and well-researched reflection on the Catholic doctrine on marriage, divorce, “remarriage,” annulment, and communion.  (Please read it here.)  In anticipation of the upcoming Synod on the Family, these Catholic theologians – faithful to the Church’s Magisterium – […]
Most Americans probably think of Christianity as either Protestant or Latin Rite Roman Catholic. They may have a vague understanding of âOrthodoxy,â which they identify with the Greeks, Russians, or other Eastern Europeans. But, by and large, âChristianityâ means the Latin West or, to a lesser extent, the Greek (and Cyrillic) East. As generalizations go, […]
World Vision’s Richard Stearns Christianity Today reports that Evangelical charity World Vision will now employ same-sex “married” couples, although chastity within marriage still remains corporate policy. World Vision president Richard Stearns explains that the policy change is meant to serve church unity. Since Protestant denominations disagree on the morality of homosexual unions, World Vision will […]
Last week (February 14, 2014), the McClatchy-Tribune News Service published a syndicated column (Voices of Faith) that was critical of Catholics and their devotion to the saints. I first discovered it in my own local Birmingham News. The piece was written by Rev. Perry Sukstorf and Rev. Marcia Fleischman. The newspaper included no Catholic rebuttal. […]
For non-Catholics, one of the strangest aspects of Catholic faith is its doctrine of suffering. It is not strange that Catholics should concern themselves with suffering. Suffering is a universal human problem. Some religious traditions (like Buddhism) are almost wholly concerned with the problem of suffering: how to eliminate it, endure it, or even deny […]
I have often heard Protestants object that the Catholic concept of Tradition is practically useless. There are usually two arguments for this position. First, Tradition allegedly reduces to “whatever the Magisterium says,” in which case it is redundant. Alternately, the concept of Tradition is supposedly too vague to be serviceable. On this view, there is […]
