By Steve’s Kids and their Families
- Abortion and the Great Man – by Emily Ray
- Abortion: High-schooler Asks: Anna Answers Brilliantly
- Does God Exist – by Cindy (Ray) Brown
- Faith and Works – by Cindy (Ray) Brown
- Is Faith a Gift? – by Ben Brown
- Should Women Abort their Babies? – by Charlotte Ray
- The Philosophical Relationship between Faith and Works – Cindy’s College Thesis
- Why I Won’t Wear a Mask
By Other Authors or Apologists
- Accusations Against Benedict
- Answering Anti-Catholic Claims – Michuta
- Apostles after the New Testament Chart
- Aquinas on Mary’s Evervirginity
- Archbishop Vigano’s Letter to President Trump
- Are You Saved?
- Arrogance of Secularists
- Balmes Luther Quote 1
- Balmes Luther Quote 2
- Baptism by Dr. Francis Schaeffer
- Becoming Catholic – A Convert’s Beautiful Presentation of the Faith
- Can the Vatican Sell its Treasures?
- Catholic Doctrine in Scripture: 84 pages
- Catholic Doctrine in Scripture: Very Complete Resource by Topic
- Catholic Doctrine Provided in Scripture – 84 pages
- Catholic Doctrines Proved in Scripture – 87 pages
- Confession: Comprehensive Discussion of the Sacrament of Penance
- Contraception, Quick and Easy Explanation
- Critique of Webster on the the Eucharist by Gary Michuta
- David’s Tomb (Biblical Archaeological Review)
- Do We (Protestants) Need a Pope?
- Dogma Pyramid – Jimmy Akins
- Englesia Ni Christo, An Open Letter for Filipinos
- Epiphany, by Pope Benedict XVI
- Eternal Security: Randy Carson
- Gregory the Great and the Bishop of Bishops
- Holy Hour, How to Pray a Holy Hour
- How To Be Saved: Catholic vs. Protestant
- How We Really Got the Bible
- I Was Raised A Catholic – You Too! Maybe Time to Revisit
- Infallibility: Steve Ray Interviewed
- Ireland Pilgrimage Journal by Mike Sweeney
- Islam and Christianity: Understanding the Differences
- Keating’s Letter to Barack Obama
- Mary as Queen in Revelation 12
- Mary, Scripture & Tradition by Dave Armstrong
- Mary’s Perpetual Virginity as Believed by Protestant Reformers, by Dave Armstrong
- Meletian Schism & Basil, by Herbert (Part 1)
- Meletian Schism & Chrysostom, by Herbert (Part 2)
- Michuta Answers Anti-Catholic
- Mormons: A Summary
- Old Testament Saints
- Peter: Was He in Rome?
- Pilate’s Wife: From Sinner to Saint
- Pilgrimage & Islam
- Priesthood in the New Testament
- Queen Mother and the Great Lady
- Rapture & End-times: Unbiblical & Theologically-flawed Protestant Teaching
- Real Presence in the Eucharist & St. Augustine
- Resigned from Educational Unions
- Response to Protestant: Tradition, Purgatory, Salvation in the Church
- Short Apologia by Rob Grassley
- The New Age: A Catholic Critique
- Titanic Mistake: Jesus Family Tomb
- Tom’s Top Ten in the Holy Land
- Why Are We Catholic?
- Why Protestants Reject Deutero-canon-Short Answer
Miscellaneous – Interesting
- 4th Century Pilgrimage Ships carved in stone in the Negev Desert
- Archaeo-Apologetics
- Baptism Institution in Catholic Encyclopedia
- Be Proud to be a Jew!
- Biblical Verses Definitively Defined by the Church
- Brochure for Steve’s Classes in Rome
- Brochure for Steve’s Classes in Rome Eng.
- Canticle Magazine: Ray Family in Israel
- Christian Population in the Holy Land
- Christmas Holyland
- Dan Grajek’s Resume
- Death of a Sister: the Faith of Yeti Lim
- Denomination Chart page 1
- Denomination Chart page 2
- Denomination Chart page 3
- Denominations pg 1 – World Christian Encyclopedia
- Denominations pg 2 – World Christian Encyclopedia
- First Seven Ecumenical Councils – Excellent Summary
- Gay Marriage in San Francisco – Funny, Sad, and True
- Greek Kyrie in Latin Mass
- Hidden Face of the Philippines
- How Old is YOUR Church?
- Institution of Baptism Catholic Encyclopedia
- Islam in Damascus
- Jesus Family Tomb
- Legatus Magazine: Faith-based Travel (with Steve Ray)
- Marriage and Romance Talking Points for Teresa Tomeo
- Muslims Slaughter Iraqi Christians
- Patriarch Twal on Middle East
- Paul’s Journies on Subway Map
- Pedophilia in Protestant Churches
- Philip’s Spring or Ein Hanniya
- Pilate’s Wife: From Sinner to Saint
- Pilgrim Father Comments on Christians in the Holy Land
- Poland, Journal of Catholic Pilgrimage
- Politics, Politicians, and the Eucharist
- Protestant’s Objection to Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
- Protestant’s Objection to Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
- Protoevangelium of James – Ancient Story of Mary’s Birth
- Queen Mother in the OT: by Roland de Vaux
- Ratzinger’s Funeral Homily: Rogito placed in JPII’s coffin
- Resigned from Educational Unions
- Revelation of St. John Timeline, by Tom Fredericks
- Review of Angels & Demons by Dr. Stephen Patton
- Road to Damascus Actual Route
- Sad News of Christians in the Holy Land
- Scriptural Rosary – Spanish
- Scriptural Rosary in English
- Statues and Images Notes
- Steve Ray: Evangelist & Apologist
- Strongest Dad in the World
- The Justification Chart
- Timeline of Holy Week
- Timeline of Holy Week 2
- Trees: the Arbor of God
- Twenty Things I Want My Kids to Know – Great Jewish Wisdom
- Virus Stole Christmas
- What Is The Pastor Paid?
- Year of the Priest
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Would there be something you could post on why "Healing Touch" (TM) energy healing is not Catholic and does not belong in the Catholic Church, please? Several of us in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati have been trying for years to get this practice to stop. The practitioners even word things to claim this is OK by the Vatican. After speaking to an Exorcist from another diocese, I understand this is not just restricted to Cincinnati area parishes. They mask this by caling it different thigns at several parishes to keep it off the radar:
Healing Christ Ministry
We are a non-sacramental ministry of Good Shepherd that invokes God as the Source of all healing.
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The ministry follows the Instruction on Prayers for Healing issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (9/14/2000) and written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), and the Healing Touch Program™.
http://www.good-shepherd.org/ministries/healing-christ-ministry
STEVE RAY HERE I am not aware of this group and what they do. Sorry. Maybe somebody else can address it but it sounds dangerous to me from the little that you have said.
How should a Catholic respond to Romans 10: 8-10. I have looked for Catholic Commentary on the verses but had no luck.
STEVE RAY HERE:
The new way of uprightness, open to all, is easy, as Scripture shows. Moses writes: Lv 18:5, also quoted in Gal 3:12, promises life to men who strive for legal uprightness. The practical observance of the Torah’s prescriptions was a necessary condition for the life so promised. Implied in the quotation is the arduous nature of that condition. In contrast with this demand, the new way of uprightness does not ask of man anything so arduous. To illustrate this point, Paul alludes to Moses’ words in the Torah (Dt 30:11-14). Just as Moses tried to convince the Israelites that the observance of the Law did not demand one to scale the heights or descend to the depths, so Paul plays with Moses’ words, applying them in an accommodated sense to Christ himself. The heights have been scaled and the depths have been plumbed, for Christ has come to the world of man and has been raised from the dead. Man is not asked to bring about an incarnation and a resurrection; he is asked only to accept in faith what has already been done for him and identify himself with Christ (Incarnate and Risen), who is man’s salvation and uprightness. Paul adds an allusion to Ps 107:26 in his midrashic explanation of Dt. In this explanation “Christ” is substituted for the “word” of the Torah. (See S. Lyonnet, in Mélanges bibliques [Fest. A. Robert; Paris, 1957] 494-506.)9. if you acknowledge: That is, utter the basic Christian confession of faith and mean it. Paul proceeds to cite the credal (baptismal?) formula of the early Palestinian churches, Kyrios I?sous (Jesus is the Lord); cf. 1 Cor 12:3; Phil 2:11; L. Cerfaux, Christ, 20. An inward faith is demanded that will guide the whole man; but it is also an assent to an expression of that faith. The man seeking justification and salvation is called on to acknowledge Christ as the Risen Kyrios and as the source of salvation precisely as the one raised from the dead by the Father. Again, Paul asserts the efficiency of the Father in Christ’s resurrection (? Pauline Theology, 79:72).10. This verse formulates rhetorically the relation of man’s uprightness and salvation to his faith and the profession of it. The balance stresses certain aspects of the one basic act of personal adherence to Christ and its effect. One should not overstress the distinction between justification and salvation, or between faith and profession.11. no one who believes in him will be put to shame: Is 28:16 is used again; cf. 9:33. Paul modifies the quotation by adding pas (all), thus emphasizing the universality of the application: “not…all” = “no one.” In is the words referred to the precious cornerstone laid by Yahweh in Zion; they are accommodated by Paul to faith in Christ and used as an assurance of salvation for the Christian believer. The addition of the word pas prepares for the next verse.12. no distinction between Jew and Greek: As far as the opportunity to share in the new uprightness through faith is concerned (cf. 3:22-23). the same Lord: At first it might seem that Paul is referring to Yahweh, since he uses Jewish expressions, “the Lord of all” (Josephus, Ant. 20.4, 2 § 90), “call upon the name of” (1 Sm 12:17-18; 2 Sm 22:7), and explicitly refers in 10:13 to Jl 3:5 (Eng 2:32). But in the context (esp. after 10:9) kyrios can only refer to Jesus, who is the Lord of Jew and Greek (cf. Acts 10:36; Rom 9:5; Phil 2:9-11). In the OT “those who call on the name of the Lord” was a designation of sincere and pious Israelites; in the NT it is transferred to Christians (1 Cor 1:2; Acts 9:14), and the object of it is Christ. The title once reserved for Yahweh is now transferred to Christ; the vv. 12-13 are an eloquent witness to the early Church’s worship of Christ as Kyrios. Salvation was expected by the Jews from the kyrios of the OT (Yahweh); they are now told that that salvation comes through him who has been made Kyrios by Yahweh himself (Acts 2:36) as of the resurrection.
Raymond Edward Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland Edmund Murphy, The Jerome Biblical Commentary, vol. 2 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996), 321.
It seems you are teaching your family well! Anna is a great speaker about the evil of abortion. God is waking up the world lately especially with the present plague. May the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always!
Steve, I heard you say there was an article on your website regarding Mary as the new Tabernacle but was not able to find it. Can you help me to find it. Would love to have a copy of it. Thanks Steve!!
STEVE RAY HERE: You can find the article at this link https://catholicconvert.com/download/1611512
I also have an article there about Mary as the ark of the covenant in the fathers. You can see all my writings at https://catholicconvert.com/