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This collection of testimonies by people who’ve found new life in the Catholic Church is one of the most potent weapons for the Faith ever crafted! These authors don’t just tell their stories — they also give you an insider’s view of the fatal weaknesses in the creeds and belief systems that... read more
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“The Church was meant to be one (1 Corinthians).”
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“Yes, there has been scandal in the Catholic Church. There is some pretty rotten history. There were some popes who were dopes. But these are not Catholic problems; they are human problems.”
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“There have been more than 28,000 distinct denominations at one time or another since the Reformation. There are estimates that five new Protestant denominations are created each week around the world. This, in my mind, makes a mockery of the concept of Truth... If the doctrines of the Reformation were sound, we would expect to see one Protestant Church, one Protestant doctrine based on Scripture alone, but that is absolutely impossible, as five hundred years of history proves.”
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“I discovered through studying Scripture and the writings of the early Church Fathers that the Holy Spirit did indeed guide the Church into all Truth (John 16:13) and that the Apostles and their successors spread this Truth throughout the world by means of the Catholic Church, which grew despite the many persecutions that came against her.”
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“From the time of the Apostles, one Church has faithfully taught the doctrine of the Apostles -- both oral and written -- and administered the sacraments. It is pastored by the successors of the Apostles (bishops), in union with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope), who is the successor of St. Peter. That succession remains unbroken -- and continues today -- in the Catholic Church.”
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“Sola scriptura ("Scripture alone") is a form of restorationism. It's the key slogan of Protestantism: every Christian belief must be clearly proved from Scripture. Ironically the belief itself -- that all must be proved from Scripture -- can't be proved from Scripture. Scripture nowhere asserts it.”
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“God has entered history, revealing Himself in the redemption of mankind through our Lord Jesus Christ. Has He left no means in His Church to ensure man's true grasp of that revelation? Jesus Christ promised to lead the Church into all truth through the Holy Spirit. Has He broken His promise by failing to establish criteria and means of expression for that truth Our Blessed Lord has prayed that all members of His Mystical Body would be one. Has He given His Church no early center of unity by which this prayer can be answered?”
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“The overwhelming historical evidence supports the Catholic teaching on apostolic succession. It was first demonstrated in the replacement of Judas by Matthias (Acts 1:15-26) and has continued to this day. The Apostles ordained their successors, who ordained their successors, and so on. The chain is unbroken from St. Peter to John Paul II.”
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“The writings of the early Church Fathers show overwhelmingly that there was a unity of belief and organization in the early Church. We have not indication of an extraordinary concern for a total apostasy of the Church in any of their writings. Quite to the contrary, we see the Church growing and spreading throughout the world, sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ just as she received it directly from the Apostles. This same Gospel has been protected and preserved for the past two thousand years by the successors to the Apostles, the bishops of the Catholic Church. Indeed, if there had been a total apostasy of the Church, sometime in the late second century or early third century... there should be evidence showing that what the Church taught before the alleged apostasy differed from what she taught afterward. There is no such evidence.”
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“Jesus Christ had founded a Church that could never be overcome, not even by wicked members.”
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“Know your faith, live you faith, and be ever ready to explain your faith.”
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“A person who seeks truth, knowingly or unknowingly, seeks God.”
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“How could so many denominations be based on the Bible, yet have such vastly different interpretations? How could the prerequisites for salvation be viewed so differently by so many people? How could matters of faith and morals be decided simply by majority vote”
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“Luther also too it upon himself to use his personal interpretation of Romans while translating the Bible into German. Luther added, "Faith ...alone" to Romans 3:28, because he believed that the verse was an important key to the Gospel -- his gospel, that is. But Christ gave no man the power to change Scripture -- not even Peter, the rock who received the keys to the Kingdom, and surely not Martin Luther.”
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“Too many times the Protestant authors were forced into contortions, bending over backward, it seemed to me, to make the Bible square with their interpretations.”
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- Patrick Madrid (Author)
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- Dewey: 248.2420922
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