2nd Sex Abuse Suit Against Santa Rosa Diocese - KPIX A man who claimed he was sexually abused as a child by an Irish priest filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa — the second such suit alleging the church knew the priest faced abuse ... Publ.Date : 2010-08-26T23:32:51Z
Raimon Panikkar, Catholic Theologian, Is Dead at 91 - New York Times Raimon Panikkar, a Roman Catholic theologian whose embrace of Hindu scriptures and Buddhism made him an influential voice for promoting dialogue among the world’s religions, died on Aug. 26 at his home ... Publ.Date : 2010-09-04T22:46:23Z
Queen City Bike and the Catholic Church - Cincinnati CityBeat CATHOLIC CHURCH : Just days before his trial was expected to begin, all charges against a Cincinnati priest accused of molesting a boy in West Virginia were dropped Aug. 27. The Rev. Robert Poandl allegedly abused a ... Publ.Date : 2010-09-01T20:33:56Z
Thousands welcome Bishop Cupich as head of Spokane Catholic Diocese - KREM SPOKANE -- Bishop Blase Cupich was installed as the sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane Friday. Bishop Cupich comes from Rapid City, South Dakota, where he was the head of the Diocese ... Publ.Date : 2010-09-03T19:19:59Z
Catholic church ordains woman as priest - AZCentral.com a Catholic priest who resigned from the diocese this month. DeFrancesco said independent churches "are not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church and should not identify themselves as Catholic" because of ... Publ.Date : 2010-08-31T06:16:08Z
Synopsis
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest denomination with 1.1 billion adherents. Recently the pope Benedict XVI reasserted that the Catholic Church is the only true church founded by Christ. Today there is a pervasive indifference as to the question what is the true Christianity. This is a serious situation because there are numerous false or only partly true versions of Christianity. The author of this book attempts a critical appraisal of the Roman Catholic Church by the criteria of the Bible and history.
The conclusion he reached is that the Catholic Church is a perversion of the Christianity of the New Testament. The author believes that he has substantiated the proposition that there are many unbiblical pagan elements in the Church. To give one example the monarchical papacy and the authoritarian church structure developed after the model of the authoritarian government of the ancient Roman Empire. No wonder that its official name is the Roman Catholic Church.
A theologian and a minister. Received a doctorate in systematic theology from the University of Toronto. He did the ministerial work for 17 years in the United Church of Canada. Took early retirement in 1990 to study and write books, which is, he feels, the talent and his main vocation he has received from God. He respects the Bible as containing the revealed word of God.
