Comments on: Christopher Buckley on Newt Gingrich’s Catholic conversion

By: Indiana Catholic

Indiana Catholic — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:34:39 +0000

Jim in Georgia said that Catholicism is not a religion, just another Christian church. Jim, you seriously need to go talk to your priest becasue YOU ARE WRONG. The church teaches, and it is laid out in the catechism, that the Catholic church is THE church, not “one among many so go choose what you want.” Get a grip on reality.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:56:18 +0000

Youtree, Put the catholic relgion in context…the Pope’s word is infallable? That’s what they claim. II Tim 3:16,17 says all that we need is the scriptures…they make us complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. If we’re complete with the scriptures, why would we need spoken traditions? Traditions are not inspired by God. Jesus said we will be judged by his word…John 12:48. If we will be judged by his words, we had better know what they say. Matthew 7:21 indicates that many will call Jesus Lord, but will not enter heaven because they won’t do God’s will. Why? Because following man-made doctrines or “traditions” is deemed acceptable in our religious world. There are many more problems with the Catholic religion than calling the Pope and all other “priests” father. We are born sinful? This goes against clear bible teaching. Mark 16: 15,16 “He who believes and is baptized will be saved” Is a baby able to believe? Sin is defined as a transgression of God’s law Romans 4:15. How is a baby capable of breaking a law of which he doesn’t comprehend?

By: youtree

youtree — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:57:06 +0000

Bill – Jesus calls Abraham “father” and Paul calls himself “spiritual father”. Its important to read the bible in context of the rest of the bible. Paul tells Timothy to follow his teachings both writen and spoken (Tradition). God’s word is not only the writen word (Peter).

By: youtree

youtree — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:41:51 +0000

for Boots – A fetus is less likely to stab you in the gut and rape your daughter. Society has a right to defend itself, not kill the innocent (being in prison doesn’t always stop a killer from killing – it should but it doesn’t – “Thanks” prisoner rights attorneys)

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:49:29 +0000

Does Newt believe the Bible is inspired by God? Matt 16:18 makes reference to the confession of Peter that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God. When you read the gospels, Peter is hardly a rock. He denied Christ 3 times. He certainly is an Apostle, Saint and inspired writer, but the bible reads nothing about a Pope. As a matter of fact, this is a man-made teaching…Matt 15:8,9. We are to call no one on earth our father (spiritual), but catholics refer to the pope as the holy father and priests as father…where is the authority for that? Matt 23:9. We should look to God’s word and it only for guidance in our personal and religious lives. II Tim 3:16,17. If we follow man-made teaching, we will worship God in vain (uselessly).

By: Dr. Joseph K. Prince, Ph.D. MPH, ASCP.

Dr. Joseph K. Prince, Ph.D. MPH, ASCP. — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:57:17 +0000

I congratulate Newt on his entry into the catholic faith. It is heartwarming and consistent with our founding fathers who proudly communicated their faith in God and Jesus to all the world. Their religious faith is discussed and printed throughout all the Federalist Papers and demonstrated their thinking and appreciation of the Creator and his Blessings, called “iinalienable rights”. Their fundamental religious thoughts are present in our laws and are all consistent with the ten commandments which is a great set of guiding principles for living. I laugh at those non believers and wonder, how unfortunate that so many sentientintelligent people are so scared of the teachings of Christ and the blessings and gifts we enjoy from our Creator. Hooray for Newt and His Wife! and God bless America.!!!

By: Ramon

Ramon — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:39:28 +0000

As Catholics, we welcome you,Newt, to this Church made up of sinners and saints. i hope the cynicals reading this site understand this and hope they understand metanoia is a conversion process based upon Faith which is freely given to us by God.Be charitable and give him space. It behooves us to nurture and let it grow to be holy just like Christ is Holy.
Although there are a lot of sinners or as you perceive are hypocrites in the Catholic Church,we know it is always a struggle process in life through Faith, through our Fall/Sin and the gift of repentance
As Catholics, we do know our Faith is based upon the Rock (Petrus or Cephas) upon this Rock ,I build my Church and this has been a belief throughout the Church history, til 11th century and until the 15th century was a held belief by the Western world. Our Church ,the Catholic Church has roots going back to Christ,the Church Fathers etc.Even the Bible itself only came into this Canonical form by the 5th Century.
For us , where else can we go and lay our hope to reach Heaven, than through this historical and divinely ordained Catholic Church.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:02 +0000

Well, now Barry O’Bama has converted from the fundamentalist Black power church of Jeremiah Wright to the urbane establishment church across Lafayette Park. No comments?

By: Will Jones - Atlanta

Will Jones - Atlanta — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:16:21 +0000

To Samuel Kercheval
Monticello, January 19, 1810

SIR, — Yours of the 7th instant has been duly received, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. Nothing can be more exactly and seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that
the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ. TJ

By: Fr. Bruce Wilkinson

Fr. Bruce Wilkinson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:05:19 +0000

First Prime Minister Tony Blair becomes a Catholic, and now Newt Gingrich. Just goes to show that the Catholic Church can hold all types of political bed fellows.