catholic herald

If the Herald magazine was sold publicly, how does it pose a threat to Muslim follower. In this IT world they can easily access information through the Internet.It's rather illogical
To Natukong

http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/

in west malaysia where got if u have the website u tell me pls

thanks

2009-04-09 09:34:21 by Super sapien

Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the 11th Archbishop of Westminster, speaks to Luke Coppen, editor of The Catholic Herald newspaper.

and yet in Malaysia they banned the Malay version of the bible,banned the crucifix symbol in missionary school,banned the statue of Jesus and Mother Mary in Missionary school,limit the size of crucifix that can be display outside the church.Disallow the Malays to convert to Christianity, banning the church in West Malaysia to display Christian large poster, restrict the sales of Herald Catholic magazine,banned the use of the word Allah. Is like the pot calling the kettle back
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the pot calling the kettle black

cause Satan is shaken ..

a relative of mine just came back from Sahara and was saying that they were serving pork so openly and they had pork stalls everywhere, being a muslim country.. its just Malaysia thats behaving extreme..

2009-11-30 06:12:40 by Jedi Sapien

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/200712 21/tap-as-rel-malaysia-catholic-god-b3c6 5ae.html

so what next ,we can't use the word Isa for Jesus
Ibrahim for Abraham
Nuh for Noah
King Solomon for Sulaiman
Moses for Musa
Mary for Marriam

Band it.... go ahead. As I can see this government is trying to band others religion as well. Like the Bear said a lot of the name had been used before Isalam. Why band right now? It is like Korean try to claim Fun Sui belong to them.

UMNO have to learn how to respect others religion and culture. Beside that MCA, MIA please wake up. Do your part!!

2007-12-23 08:45:30 by Jedi Sapien

the herald model of the church
sacramental model of the church
institutional model of the church
servant of the church

can you explain this to me?

A bit of each.

We herald the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We celebrate seven sacraments.

We have an institution to govern over a billion people.

The Pope is the servant of the servants of Christ.

The Catholic Church has always been a "both" organization rather than an "either/or" organization.

With love in Christ.

2008-11-02 14:26:17 by palmbeach2100

"The first Christians took Jesus at His word and refused to be conscripted into the Roman army even if the penalty was death." The Catholic Herald.

"The earliest Christians did not serve in the armed forces. Only gradually did Christians abandon their opposition to military service." The Christian Century.

"One of the issues on which the early Christians were at variance with the Greco-Roman world was participation in war. For the first three centuries no Christian writing which has survived to our time condoned Christian participation in war." A History of Christianity.

"It was impossible that the Christians, without renouncing a more sacred duty, could assume the character of soldiers, of magistrates, or of princes." The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

50 years before Constantine synthesized "Christianity," no Christians served in the military.

50 years after Constantine every military member was required to be "Christians."

How is this justified today?

You are right, of course, though apparently many professed Christians are not aware that until the time of Marcus Aurelius, Christians did not engage in carnal warfare.

Today the justifications are too numerous to mention here. I believe one is what is known as the just war theory. It goes something like this: The moral theory of the "just-war" or "limited-war" doctrine begins with the presumption which binds all Christians: We should do no harm to our neighbors. Just-war teaching has evolved as an effort to prevent war. Only if war cannot be rationally avoided does the teaching then seek to restrict and reduce its horrors. It does this by establishing a set of rigorous conditions which must be met if the decision to go to war is to be morally permissible.

Then there is a list of criteria that must be met:

Just cause. War is permissible only to confront "a real and certain danger," i.e., to protect innocent life, to preserve conditions necessary for decent human existence and to secure basic human rights.

Competent authority. War must be declared by those with responsibility for public order, not by private groups or individuals.

Comparative justice. In essence: Which side is sufficiently "right" in a dispute, and are the values at stake critical enough to override the presumption against war? Do the rights and values involved justify killing? Given techniques of propaganda and the ease with which nations and individuals either assume or delude themselves into believing that God or right is clearly on their side, the test of comparative justice may be extremely difficult to apply.

Right intention. War can be legitimately intended only for the reasons set forth above as a just cause.
Last resort. For resort to war to be justified, all peaceful alternatives must have been exhausted.
Probability of success. This is a difficult criterion to apply, but its purpose is to prevent irrational resort to force or hopeless resistance when the outcome of either will clearly be disproportionate or futile.

Proportionality. This means that the damage to be inflicted and the costs incurred by war must be proportionate to the good expected by taking up arms."


Certainly, many individuals refuse to engage in carnal warfare. As a religious group, however, Jehovah's Witnesses, numbering about 7 million, do not engage in carnal warfare and never have. They ended up in prison in the United States as well as in Nazi Germany. To this day, many Christian Witnesses of Jehovah are in prison for refusing to serve in military capacity. In this, we imitate the first century Christians.

Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is more treacherous than anything else. When the heart is set on something, it can justify it by any means necessary. No amount of reason or logic will sway it from its set course. Our minds reason but it must be remembered that the heart reasons too: although it doesn't have to do with logic as it does with what is going on in the heart as motives, affections and desires take shape and gather momentum in a certain direction. Then when the heart takes aim, everything else follows.

Hannah J Paul

2008-06-12 09:49:06 by Greek & Coptic Translator