Dr. Albert Mohler, Jr. is the ninth president of the Southern Bapist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, the flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. He writes regularly for Newsweek’s “On Faith” blog and he recently addressed the fundamental differences which remain between Evangelicals and Catholics.

Perhaps the most clarifying moment since his election came last July when the Vatican released the document known as “Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church” – a document that reasserted the claim that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church.

I actually appreciated the Pope’s concern. If he is right, we are endangering our souls and the souls of our church members. Yet, I am convinced that he is not right — not right on the papacy, not right on the sacraments, not right on the priesthood, not right on the Gospel, not right in understanding the church.

The Roman Catholic Church believes that evangelicals are in spiritual danger for obstinately and disobediently excluding ourselves from submission to its universal claims and its papacy. Evangelicals are concerned that Catholics are in spiritual danger for their submission to these very claims. We both understand what is at stake.

Read the entire “On Faith” post here.

Certainly all Red Sox fans remember what happened on the night of October 25, 1986 as Boston was on the verge of winning its first World Series since 1913. Bill Buckner allowed a routine grounder to pass through his legs at first base, allowing the winning run in the 10th inning against the Mets and forcing a Game 7 which the Mets also won.

Buckner’s life hasn’t been the same since that night. A few days after committing that fateful error a local Boston sportscaster reported: “Bill Buckner tried to commit suicide today. He jumped in front of a train but it went through his legs.” He and has family were the butt of jokes and even received death threats.

That was 1986. This is 2008, When Boston opened its 2008 season (the Tigers were in town), Buckner was honored by throwing out the first pitch. It was more than routine:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Fransico) was asked in an interview yesterday with mtvU’s Editorial Board program about whether or not she supported the protestors who scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to unfurl a banner that read, “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet.” Pelosi spoke in almost reverant terms about the protestors, at one point calling their act “a feat.” It may be a feat, but before it’s anything, it’s ILLEGAL!

While heaping absurbed praise on the protestors, she is adamant that the Olympics should not be boycotted. That, however, is not the contradiction. At one point she tells the students interviewing her:

The Olympics are a sporting event and as such I don’t think they should be boycotted.

But then later in the interview she says the Olympics are NOT a sporting event, but rather about peace and harmony, but because of China’s records on human rights we should just call them “a sporting event”:

If you want to say the Olympics is about harmony, and one world, and one dream, then let’s at least be consistent. If not, just don’t say it’s that, just say it’s a sporting event.

So let me get this straight, Nancy. The Olympics ARE a sporting event for the purposes of NOT boycotting them. But they are NOT a sporting event for the purpose of praising some idiots scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, or violently attempting to put out the Olympic Torch?

Like a true liberal Speaker Pelosi lives in two worlds simultaneously.
 

Charlie Duke walked on the lunar surface April 21-23, 1972. He’s my guest on the Wednesday, April 9 edition of The Paul Edwards Program.