Believers who oppose abortion are not doing so by divine dictate. On the contrary, though our ethical thought is certainly inspired by our religious faith, it is not directly derived from it.
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Jesus didn’t come to preach about heaven and hell
Our eschatology became focused upon place rather than person, but that is a fundamental distortion of the Gospel preached by the disciples.
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A farmer’s lesson: Following Jesus takes time
A life lived in the Gospel makes demands upon us. If it does not, we need to look again. Maybe we are not living such a life.
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The feast of Corpus Christi comes out of medieval spirituality. But it is not a relic of the past.
With Vatican II and the return of the sacred liturgy to the faithful, Corpus Christi seemed to become a relic of an earlier, deprived spirituality. But the church tends to rearrange her treasures rather than abandon them.
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Prince Charles will succeed his mother. Christ will not succeed his Father.
Even with the clarity of later church teaching, we still struggle to avoid a multitude of misleading notions about the Most Holy Trinity. One such misconception comes from the ancient institution we call monarchy.
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With the Holy Spirit, one plus one equals three
The Holy Spirit exists because the Father and the Son, together, are more than the sum of their parts.
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At the Ascension, Christ reveals a road untrod
The Lord did not withhold his kingdom from his first disciples, nor does he keep it from us.
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We cannot worship without words.
The great mistake that many make in what they call their spiritual lives is to believe that they do not need words to be in communion with God.
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Think life is hard? Wait until you see heaven.
It is faith that makes us ready for heaven. And what is faith? Stubbornly seeing purpose in this life—stubbornly because sometimes it does take a great effort—that others cannot see.
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The miracle of the Eucharist does not depend on using the ‘right’ liturgy
Young advocates of the Tridentine liturgy like to believe that it was always celebrated with great beauty and dignity. Older Catholics know that this is not true.