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Apologies, but I am going to mention a television show, not to praise it or blame it, but simply because it portrays an interesting, troubling character.
Apologies, but I am going to mention a television show, not to praise it or blame it, but simply because it portrays an interesting, troubling character.
Blueprints for flourishing in the midst of a decaying civilization.
In his 1990 Address to the Roman Rota (the Pope's ordinary court of appeal), Pope Saint John Paul II describes the inseparability of sound pastoral practice and canonical discipline.
Over the past few years, certain words, for example, "pastoral," "mercy," "listening," "discernment," "accompaniment," and "integration" have been applied to the Church in a kind of magical way, that is, without clear definition but as the slogans of an ideology replacing what is irreplaceable for us: the constant doctrine and discipline of the Church.
In the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and, even more so, in the post-Conciliar period, the Church's canonical discipline was called into question at its very foundations.
How we remember the dead is significant in how we live.
In an age that prioritizes mammon over God, how many Christians will take up that courage?
One of the most frequently quoted passages from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's many writings is his famous assertion that the "only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb."
A few years ago, I took up painting as a hobby.
Fear no one ... do not be afraid ... be afraid ... do not be afraid (see Mt 10:26-33). Our Lord seems to be giving contradictory commands.
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