How Catholics Can Regain a Proper Sense of Tradition
COMMENTARY: True Catholic tradition means handing on God’s Revelation in Christ — not freezing it in one age, nor reshaping it to suit modern tastes.
COMMENTARY: True Catholic tradition means handing on God’s Revelation in Christ — not freezing it in one age, nor reshaping it to suit modern tastes.
The following remarks were delivered April 2 during a panel at the Danube Institute’s conference in Budapest, where EWTN Europe correspondent Solène Tadié was invited to offer on-the-ground insights into how young Europeans are rediscovering tradition and reclaiming Christianity.
COMMENTARY: ‘Anyone who is so progressive,’ says the Second Epistle of John, ‘as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.’
COMMENTARY: Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture are the two major sources by which we receive God’s Revelation. By his words and deeds, God unveils himself to us.
I want to look back someday and know that I did all I could to live in the divine life as Christ wanted me to do.
‘Without our traditions,’ Topol’s character Tevye reminds us, ‘our lives would be as shaky as … a fiddler on the roof!’
It is supremely closed-minded to throw away Homer and Mozart and Augustine.
An interview with Princess Maria-Anna Galitzine, the granddaughter of Blessed Karl of Austria and his wife, Servant of God Empress Zita.
“Because of our traditions,” says Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, “every one of us knows who he is, and what God expects him to do.”
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