
A Pair of Promissory Notes Signed by Christ
Here, it seems, is the flash point of the crisis we now face; indeed, we’ve been facing it for a very long time.
Here, it seems, is the flash point of the crisis we now face; indeed, we’ve been facing it for a very long time.
‘God was in love, but he could not keep the secret,’ said Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. ‘The telling of it was creation.’
The Mystery of Holy Saturday tells us is that God himself marched through the gate of death, releasing us from a state of bondage we were never created to have to endure.
To think of the spiritual life in terms of grim, unceasing duty is repellent to anyone intent on loving and serving the Lord.
Here is the deepest truth of the human heart: that we are made for God, and that without him we shall surely perish, falling into a nothingness from which there is no escape.
Death is an affront to the human heart — but death is not the last word
We cannot be reborn with Christ until we have first died with Christ
‘To die in mortal sin … means remaining separated from God forever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion … is called hell.’ (CCC 1033)
The deeper crisis we face in this country is about adoration, not abortion.
Had the ‘Letter on Christian Hope’ been the only thing Benedict XVI wrote after nine years of being pope, it would have been worth it.
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