
God Made Catholicism a Businesslike Religion
COMMENTARY: The Church was designed to last. That’s why the practice of the faith can look so businesslike to outside observers.
COMMENTARY: The Church was designed to last. That’s why the practice of the faith can look so businesslike to outside observers.
COMMENTARY: The hope people once placed in God, they now place in technological progress, democracy, globalization and the blind forces of history.
COMMENTARY: As Jesus said, ‘When you did it to one of the least of my brethren here’ — like a mother who has her hands full — ‘you did it to me.’
COMMENTARY: The Church we see mixes Divine and human, and the human beings in it show themselves to be very human indeed.
COMMENTARY: The Nobel laureate discovered that ‘only a supernatural intervention can save us from ourselves. The Christian Church teaches that Christ was Himself this intervention.’
COMMENTARY: Even friends need rules for talking to each other, and his ‘Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing’ are a good place to start.
COMMENTARY: The Church should be a family for the faithful, and a sign of excellence for the apathetic — but most of all, the Church must be a living force in the world.
COMMENTARY: Christianity is a beautifully dialectical balance, a balance leaning to one side and then the other.
Having a rule, even if it’s not closely defined, is a great gift.
COMMENTARY: From Day’s autobiography, ‘The Long Loneliness,’ to her letters, this list ‘is a beginning for all of us’
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