Margaret L

A Jew has been making claims that Fr. Edward Flannery, a Catholic priest who wrote "Anguish of the Jews" was tasked by Pope John Paul II to implement Vatican II.

I disagreed with her told her that Vatican II was completed during the time of Pope Paul VI and was already implemented even before Pope John Paul II became pope. I want to know if there are Catholics who agree with her. Please give your source.

Are American or European Jews who converted to Christianity and Islam entitled to Alliya?

Have you seen the posts of Christian Zionists there. I am convinced that those Christian Zionists are crazy. They support war and murder all for their love of Israel. Those people are sick in the head.

I think Christian Zionism is a cult. What do you think?

I want to get Catholic answers and if possible supported by offician Church pronouncements.

I did some research but got conflicting results. I am of the impression however, that the Catholic Church considers itself to be the new Israel and considers Christian Zionism to be heresy.

I also found out that the Catholic Church was reluctant to recognize Israel and diplomatic relations between the two states were established only in 1994. On the other hand, the Catholic Church expressed support to establishment of the state of Palestine according to 1967 borders.

The news tells us that the US intelligence got information that led to Bin Laden's death by administering "waterboarding" interrogation on prisoners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSpKYzgf60&feature...

History also tells us that the same method was used by the Americans on Filipino prisoners during the Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) and on Vietnamese prisoners during the Vietnam War.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3404

http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/11/08/wat...

Were the Amricans the first to use this method of torture in order to extract information?

Former US President Bush defended the waterboarding as a legal technique that saves lives.

http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/11/08/wat...

If I already have a B1/B2 visa and I accept this job offer to work in a cruise ship, then I would need a C1/D visa. Can I hold both a B1/B2 and a C1/D visa? Or will the C1/D visa cancel out my B1/B2 visa?

...that will stop over in a US port?

I hold a Philppine passport. Can I work in a cruise ship that stops at US ports if I hold a B1/B2 visa or do I still need to get a C1 visa?

I used to have a B1/B2 visa but it expired last Novermber 2010. I was planning on getting a new one but I am now being hired to work in a cruise ship and the manning agency said they would work on my visa.

Or would the evacuation only include Canadian citizens?

And if non-Citizen Canadian residents would be left in Egypt, would they still be required to pay taxes in Canada?

Protestants separated from the Catholic Church. Now there are many denominations of Protestants. And the number of denominations continue to grow as members protest (or disagree with their sect's leaders, practices and doctrines) and leave to form new denominations. Some of those who leave become lone-rangers who claim to be not part of any denomination (these are the fundies).

Your views please.

Fireball,

Do your research, Luther and Calvin are not considered early Church fathers. And I am sure Luther does not support the fundamentalist concept of being born again.

Consider these writings by the early Christian fathers:

Justin Martyr

"As many as are persuaded and believe that what we [Christians] teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, and instructed to pray and to entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins that are past, we pray and fast with them. Then they are brought by us where there is water and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated. For, in the name of God, the Father . . . and of our Savior Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit [Matt. 28:19], they then receive the washing with water. For Christ also said, ‘Unless you are born again, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven’ [John 3:3]" (First Apology 61 [A.D. 151]).

Irenaeus

"‘And [Naaman] dipped himself . . . seven times in the Jordan’ [2 Kgs. 5:14]. It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes, even as the Lord has declared: ‘Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven’" (Fragment 34 [A.D. 190]).

Tertullian

"[N]o one can attain salvation without baptism, especially in view of the declaration of the Lord, who says, ‘Unless a man shall be born of water, he shall not have life’" (Baptism 12:1 [A.D. 203]).

Hippolytus

"The Father of immortality sent the immortal Son and Word into the world, who came to man in order to wash him with water and the Spirit; and he, begetting us again to incorruption of soul and body, breathed into us the Spirit of life, and endued us with an incorruptible panoply. If, therefore, man has become immortal, he will also be God. And if he is made God by water and the Holy Spirit after the regeneration of the laver he is found to be also joint-heir with Christ after the resurrection from the dead. Wherefore I preach to this effect: Come, all ye kindreds of the nations, to the immortality of the baptism" (Discourse on the Holy Theophany 8 [A.D. 217]).

The Recognitions of Clement

"But you will perhaps say, ‘What does the baptism of water contribute toward the worship of God?’ In the first place, because that which has pleased God is fulfilled. In the second place, because when you are regenerated and born again of water and of God, the frailty of your former birth, which you have through men, is cut off, and so . . . you shall be able to attain salvation; but otherwise it is impossible. For thus has the true prophet [Jesus] testified to us with an oath: ‘Verily, I say to you, that unless a man is born again of water . . . he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven’" (The Recognitions of Clement 6:9 [A.D. 221]).

Testimonies Concerning the Jews

"That unless a man have been baptized and born again, he cannot attain unto the kingdom of God. In the Gospel according to John: ‘Except a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God’ [John 3:5]. . . . Also in the same place: ‘Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you’ [John 6:53]. That it is of small account to be baptized and to receive the Eucharist, unless one profit by it both in deeds and works" (Testimonies Concerning the Jews 3:2:25)

Is there any early Christian writing that says being born again means reciting the sinner's prayer? It is very clear that the fundies' concept of being born again is heresy based on erroneous interpretation of Scripture.

Why did the fundies change the meaning of being born again from being baptized to reciting the sinner's prayer?

Are they fundies?

Do the Landover Baptist teach the same things as the Wesboro Baptists?

Do you think it's possible?