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Coming Home to Rome: 2011 in Review


December, 2011
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Have you seen the "Catholics Come Home" commercials?

 

Again this December, TV ads were aired urging lapsed Catholics to return home to the mother Church. Apparently, these ads have been highly successful.

 

It is my fervant prayer that these lapsed Catholics be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that they not be reincorporated into the false system of Rome.

 

Here is an article about the ads from Christianity Today.

 

Here is the Catholics Come Home website where you can view the commercials and other propaganda.

 

 

 

Book/Tract of the Month
 
Great book by Martyn Lloyd-Jones
by James White
Quick Links...
Mike Gendron's Website
Topic this month: Year in Review/Summaries of Excellent Resources 
  
Greetings in Christ! This month, in lieu of articles, I have compiled links to resources that my favorite apologists published in 2011.

The year was marked by further ecumenical agreements that seek to unify Catholics and evangelicals, politicians distancing themselves from their evangelical pastors, and a papal visit to Luther's birthplace. Below are links to Catholic and ecumenical news of the past year:

The Vatican approved an eleventh Marian Apparition (Our Lady of Good Hope in Green Bay, Wisconsin). John Paul II was beatified, his first step to sainthood. The John Jay Report on the causes of the sex abuse scandal was released. An ecumenical agreement was entered into between the World Evangelical Alliance and the Vatican concerning evangelism. And another between the Reformed Churches and the Vatican concerning Baptism. Republican candidates for president and their pastors were in the news: Barbara Bachmann and the antichrist controversy, Rick Perry and the whore of Babylon controversy, and Newt Gingrich's conversion to Catholicism. And the Vatican called for the creation of a global authority to regulate the world economy.

I trust that these resources are helpful to you and that you will be further equipped to share the eternal gospel with your Catholic friends and neighbors. May we all grow more and more in the grace and knowledge of Jesus in 2012!
  
In Christ,

Dale Rudiger
The Ex-Catholic Journal
Mike Gendron at Proclaiming the Gospel 
 
  •  Debate on eternal security w/Tim Staples of Catholic Answers
  • Can Born-Again Christians Remain in the Catholic Church?
  • Should I participate with Catholics in pro-life activities?
  • Pope seeks ecumenical cooperation at Luther's Home 
  • How Mike got started in Evangelism
  • Is Roman Catholicism the true Church?
  • Perpetual adoration of the blessed sacrament
  • First Protestant church in America to become Catholic

Link to: Apr/Jun Newsletter

  • The only Hope in perilous times
  • Are Muslims Really Seeing Visions of Jesus?
  • The Virgin Mary's Role in Ecumenical Unity
  • Beatification of John Paul II

 

 Link to: Jan/Mar Newsletter

  • Professors who are not possessors
  • The errors of Brennan Manning and contemplative prayer
  • Vatican demands that Israel end its occupation of Arab lands
  • Catholics and Hindus Together

 

 

Rob Zins at Christian Witness to Roman Catholicism 


  Romans 3:23: All have sinned. Is there anything in scripture that leads us to believe that Mary is an exception? Who is "full of grace"?


  An article on popular Catholic apologist Michael Voris and his attack on "straw man" Protestants


  A review of Michael Coren's book: Why Catholics Are Right
Dale Rudiger at Ex-Catholic Journal 





By Guest author Matt McQuaid: Testing the Spirits


Richard Bennett at Berean Beacon


Dr. Bill Jackson at Christians Evangelizing Catholics 

Dr. Jackson went home to be with the Lord on October 20th. He finished the race and his ministry will be greatly missed. Here are a few links to his work:

 

Link to: Discover a Do, Present a Done

 


Link to: Autobiography
Topic for next month: The Jesuits try to hide the antichrist