In a wonderful 1991 address on "Conscience and Truth," then-Cardinal Ratzinger mentioned a comment a senior colleague had made to him to the effect that one should actually be grateful to God that He allows there to be so many unbelievers in good conscience.
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.
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)
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.
Catholics have a right to a liturgy that is in accord with the mind of the Church and her tradition.
The first time I ever went to a Life Teen Mass I was sixteen years old.
