{"id":23061,"date":"2021-02-22T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=23061"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:18:57","slug":"the-chair-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-chair-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chair of Rock","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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ON THE FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST.\u00a0PETER THE APOSTLE<\/p>\n

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I <\/strong>was passing through a trade fair when I came across a “Christian Cowboy” booth. Sitting on a ledge were a stack of NIV bibles with a snapshot of horses on the cover. I picked one up, then looked at the three men in front of me grinning proudly beneath the brim of their Stetsons.<\/p>\n

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“Thank you for spreading the Word,\u00a0brothers,” I said, returning their smiles. “I’m a Catholic evangelist myself.” And with that, their faces dropped, their smiles now forced. The oldest of the three cowboys, a man\u00a0I venture\u00a0in his sixties, suddenly blurted out, “Huh. What’s that<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

I knew exactly what I was in for.<\/p>\n

“A Catholic evangelist is someone who preaches the Gospel, that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”<\/p>\n

“Well, then you better stop worshipping Mary…”<\/p>\n

And with that, the man launched into a tirade on how the Catholic Church is not the real Church, a mere invention about 1500 years ago; that she is fomenting a “new world order”, and Pope Francis is calling for a “one world religion”… [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. Did Francis Promote a One World Religion?<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>