In art, the Bible scholar Saint Jerome is often depicted as a cardinal, along with a lion that looks like a Cheshire cat because the artist had not seen a real lion.
Like the optimist who sees a glass of water half-full and the pessimist who sees it half-empty, people assess the times in which they live by their personality.
The former Vatican doctrinal head has written a four page "Manifesto of Faith" with the aim of strengthening the Faith of Catholics whose belief has been massively questioned by the "dictatorship of relativism."
I hoped to create for my family a home full of joy and faith and Catholic traditions.
"This gem is both deep and wide. It's an encyclopedia of ideas for living liturgically at home. But it's also a personal story of one woman's deep love for the Catholic faith and how she brings it to life for her family." - Elizabeth Foss
"Exclude," and the noun "exclusion," have become contentious moral terms.
We should despise our shortcomings, but if we're getting anxious about it, we need a different route.
Now, one of these characteristics of a Christian spirit, springing from the three theological virtues, and then in turn defending and strengthening them, is that habit of waiting and watching, to which this season of the year especially invites us.
We are not at liberty to be at liberty, i.e., to be free of the burden of judgment.
