Virtus In Medio Stat

I'm being interviewed for an atheist/agnostic podcast or YouTube cast whatever it's called, tomorrow, 5 pm PST. He wanted to debate me on predestination and free will a few months ago. I said a debate wouldn't make sense. My reason for it is faith. His reason for rejecting free will is "science". I only agreed if this was a discussion, not a debate. So anyway, it's happening. I'll write my basic thesis today. Probably won't be official Catholic teaching, but not outside of the defined dogmas, which are basically there is predestination, and there is free will. Not much else has been defined. Interview on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/shanemysterio/videos Determinism, Free Will, and Predestination Laurence Gonzaga Free will, as I understand it, is the ability to choose between two or more options with each of the options being equally probable. Apart from theological assumptions or conclusions, I believe there is sufficient reason to concl...

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Facebook post:  https://www.facebook.com/laurencegonzagausa/posts/10100133425018386  On a recent thread, I shared with a friend, a potential convert, about the traditional view of Divine Revelation, Catholic Tradition and Scripture, known as partim-partim. Now, modern apologists and theologians would probably distance from partim-partim to a sort of middle way with sola Scriptura, a concept some call "prima scriptura". I've heard it used by Patrick Madrid, and Robert Sungenis shared with me that this idea likely came from the influence of Scott Hahn.  Anyway, the idea of partim-partim is that there are two separate sources (plural) of Divine Revelation, Scripture and Tradition. This was certainly the idea at the time of the prep for the Second Vatican Council as the draft schema for the document on Sacred Scripture, Schema Constitutionis Dogmaticae de Fontibus Revelationis, referred to "sources of revelation". What came out of Vatican II, in Dei Verbum, was a si...

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Converting to the Catholic Faith 02.09.21   Question posted by “A.D.” Hello everyone, this is my first post. I hope to be charitable. If I say something that troubles someone, please know, it isn’t on purpose. I am hear to learn and am quite ignorant on what Catholicism teaches. I am a Protestant, more specificity, I am a southern baptist. I currently work as a chaplain at a rescue mission to help men recover from drug and alcohol abuse. I’ve thought about converting many times over the last couple months. Catholicism has a lot that draws me.... architecture, a teaching magisterium, history, and infallibility. It is scary to say that though because Converting would completely change my family life and career though. My question is this, how does the Catholic Church know and establish its own infallibility? Is choosing to be a catholic a fallible or infallible decision? Finally, Is there an answer to this question that is not circular and unique to Catholicism that p...