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Did Pope Francis say everyone will be saved by doing good?

May 23, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Enormous theological ignorance and bad reading exploded onto the scene this week: Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics (An earlier version had this headline: “Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good Are Redeemed – Atheists included.”) (Huffington Post) Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus,…

Is Jesus coming back in the next 40 years?

March 29, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

It seems that nearly half of Christians in America think that Jesus is coming back by the time we could be swearing in an occupant for the 67th term for a President of the United States: (Pew Forum) According to a 2010 Pew Research Center survey, roughly half (48%) of Christians in the U.S. say they believe that Christ will definitely (27%)…

Cyril Jenkins on Forensic Justification in Scripture

November 24, 2012 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Here’s an interesting post from earlier this week by O&H author Dr. Cyril Jenkins on why all the “righteousness” language in Scripture cannot actually be interpreted in a single way, namely, the Reformed sense of forensic justification. This is from his weblog Lux Christi.