Catholics Are Not Biblical Literalists

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“St Mark’s Church is that an evangelical church now?” a sincere Catholic parishioner asked me as a meeting was about to begin. A new sign five blocks away, said “St. Mark, the Evangelist Church.” St. Mark wrote the first of the four gospels the other three are of course by Saints Matthew, Luke, and John. The Greek word for the gospel is euaggelion, in English, we call their authors evangelists. The Catholics in the area…