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Evaluating the Synod by Pope Francis' own evangelical principles.
While serving as chaplain in a large mental hospital, I quickly learned that one can be both mentally ill and highly intelligent.
Many Protestants will claim that, while the Catholic may say he does not adore statues, his actions prove otherwise.
The last thing many people want to hear today, and somehow know that they do not dare to hear, is how everything is related to Christ.
I can only be the kind of priest Pope Francis calls me to be if the timeless truths of the Catholic faith are firmly defined and defended.
A most vivid passage in Scripture, one often repeated by St. Ignatius, reads: "What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his immortal soul." (Mark 8:36)
Through faith we are able to turn our faces to God and meet his gaze.
A heathen poet has said,..."I am a man; nothing human is without interest to me": and the sentiment has been widely and deservedly praised.
Having had father, uncles and cousins in combat on the high seas for our country, I may have been a disappointment to the family line, being prone to seasickness when doing anything more adventurous than rowing in college.