PROMISE KEEPERS REPRESENTATIVES TO SPEAK AT CATHOLIC CONFERENCE

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April 17, 1996 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Promise Keepers representatives are scheduled to speak at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, May 31 - June 2, at a Christian Men's Conference. This institution stands unequivocally for traditional Catholic doctrine and practice. The head of the school, priest Michael Scanlan, participated at the North American Congress on the Holy Spirit & World Evangelization in New Orleans, July 1987, and in Indianapolis, August 1990. The O Timothy Editor attended these meetings with press credentials. The Franciscan University of Steubenville was one of the participants, and this Editor has followed the teaching and activities of this school since 1987. Scanlan distributed elements at one of the masses which were held each morning of the conferences. He believes the sacraments are necessary for salvation. He believes he can turn the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper into the very body and blood of Christ. He believes in auricular confession. He calls the pope "holy father" and believes in papal infallibility as defined by Catholic tradition. He prays to Mary. In Indianapolis Scanlan told the story of being jailed for participating in ecumenical anti-abortion marches. During his time in jail, he conducted masses and taught the Protestants how to pray the rosary. He considered it a great achievement that some of the Protestant anti-abortion crusaders adopted the rosary into their worship. This Catholic priest will not give up any of his heretical doctrines, but he certainly is not opposed to teaching them to any gullible "Protestants" who will listen. The Franciscan University sponsors annual "Defending the Faith" conferences, in which Catholic dogma is upheld and defended with great boldness. The Catholicism of the Franciscan University is even more dangerous than traditional Catholicism because its adoption of charismatic experience has given it a semblance of biblical piety and spiritual fervor.

This institution is now a participant in Promise Keepers, and has been since 1995. According to the July 23, 1995 issue of Today's Catholic, Scanlan conducted a mass to conclude a Promise Keepers Leadership Seminar in at his university in July 1995. More than 600 Catholic men participated.