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A few weeks ago, a Catholic priest caused quite a stir in one of our local diocesan high schools. He spoke the truth about sex. Pause here to sigh, and to wish that our heresies were more interesting.
The soul desirous of progress must aim then, not at destroying its natural affections, but rather at purifying them.
Holiness is the fruit of prayer, and mental prayer is extremely difficult without the reading of spiritual books.
The development of the supernatural virtues in us is attended by a process which has a twofold aspect.
This state is at once the effect of and the condition needed for prayer. Silence is a necessary and indispensable means to prayer.
"Do you know you're saved so that if you were to die right now, heaven would be absolutely certain for you?" This "all-important" question is designed to bait Catholics into an ambush.
There are certain movements of will and intellect which should interpenetrate all our relations with God in much the same way as a fundamental theme runs through all the figures of a piece of music.
A movement is now afoot across the nation to legalize the growing and smoking of cannabis — marijuana.
This "nothing" that the disciples share with Jesus expresses at once the power and the importance of the apostolic office.