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Jerome D. Gilmartin – April 15, 2025
Soon after Pentecost the apostles began to follow the command of Jesus: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.“ (Mt 28:19-20). Two of those apostles, Matthew and John, would soon write eyewitness reports of all Jesus had commanded them…
Sorry, Catholics — Jesus never said, “You are Peter, and on this rock . . .” or promised him the Keys
Jerome D. Gilmartin – February 26, 2024
Well, yes he did. But not according to the theory taught to most Catholic seminarians as the best explanation of Gospel origin. Consider the following hypothetical conversation with a Catholic bishop…
Will Schism be the Coup de Grâce to plummeting Catholic faith and practice? An urgent appeal to our bishops
Jerome D. Gilmartin – February 26, 2024
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!”
Does that plea, so courageously expressed by Patrick Henry in 1775, have a corollary in the Church today?
Is ecumenism so dear, or dialogue so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of the Gospels as given to us by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
As Schism threatens to rend the one Church Christ founded, let faithful Catholics everywhere answer…
Replacing “thin air” Jesus with the true Jesus in Catholic universities
Jerome D. Gilmartin – September 8, 2023
Pope Benedict XVI: “Intimate friendship with Jesus … is in danger of clutching at thin air.” Jesus of Nazareth, 2007, p. xii.
Catholic universities, and seminaries as well, now have reason to bring an end to five decades of instruction that, as Pope Benedict XVI wrote, has reduced Jesus to “thin air,”…
The Poison Pill taken by Catholic universities and seminaries — and the antidote
Jerome D. Gilmartin – July 16, 2021 revised February 3, 2023
It began with a mutiny. Not the upheaval that struck the Church following the July 29, 1968 announcement of Humanae Vitae. Not the many liturgical and other changes that — though not mandated by the second Vatican council — nonetheless were soon implemented.
A far more consequential mutiny followed a conference that took place in July, 1967 in Land O’ Lakes Wisconsin. There, led by Holy Cross Father Theodore (Ted) Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame University, leaders of ten major Catholic universities and of two religious orders issued a declaration of independence; most importantly from the Pope…
The Key to Restoring Catholic Orthodoxy
Jerome D. Gilmartin – February, 2022. Revised July 5, 2023
It is well known that the “Spirit of Vatican II” changed the Catholic landscape, undermining the orthodoxy that resulted in the pre-Vatican II golden age of Catholicism. What is not well known among Catholics is this…
Jesus Emerges from the Historical-Critical Fog
Jerome D. Gilmartin – Fall/Winter 2017
From the time the Gospels were written in the decades after Christ’s death on the cross and Resurrection, few Christians doubted that eyewitness-apostles Matthew and John, and “apostolic men” Mark (Peter) and Luke (Paul), wrote them. In the late 1800s, however, soon after the First Vatican Council declared the Dogma of Papal Infallibility, biblical scholars using the historical-critical method developed the Markan Priority Two-Source Hypothesis (TSH), which — virtually ignoring the early historical record — casts doubt on evangelists Matthew, Mark and Luke as writers of those Gospels and generally attributes them to later unknown writers who may never have seen or never heard Jesus…
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