Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Ideals, potentialities are your loaves and fishes from God, to be given to the Church and to the world...

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I am reading an old, but still valid book by Rudof Allers, in which the Psychology of Character is examined. As Europe slides into a rece...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Complacency, apathy allow evil to thrive

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In 2003, I asked two very bright, advanced religion classes when I was teaching Great Catholic Thinkers, and another class, History of Ide...

See update at bottom--Diocese Caved...Diocese comes out against gay scholarship decision at school--good thing

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I am very proud of one of my old dioceses at the moment. A crucial decision regarding the awarding of a scholarship which promotes the gay a...

Will Madame Guillotine reappear in the center of Paris?

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And , I do not mean the rock band....A young conservative told me yesterday that there will be war because of the politics of envy. He s...
Monday, 7 May 2012

Part 8--Love vs. Ideologies; the Church vs. Socialism

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The Pope in Britain Cor ad cor loquitur. Newman. Fulton J. Sheen, (and I have repeated this story before), once told bishops that they...

Ministries in the Church are not just vocations, are not careers, but movements of love. No one should be out there doing activities for their own aggrandizement. Part 7 on Deus Caritas Est

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The encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, moves one's thoughts from eros, to agape, to caritas. Now before I continue, I would like to emphas...
Sunday, 6 May 2012

Socialism Wins in France

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Hollande 51.9% Sarkozy 48.1% As France goes, so goes Europe. Do Catholics realize that this is a disaster for France and for Europe? Thi...

Part Six on Deus Caritas Est

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Continuing the discussion on Deus Caritas Est, I am reminded that just in the past few days, the Pope asked for a review of Caritas, the...

On Baptism again and again and again.....

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OK, back to the necessity of Baptism. Today, a person in my parish noted that it was not necessary to get babies baptized who were seriou...

Part Five: Caritas vs. Socialism

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Continuing the examination of how the Church combats socialism, one can see a movement from eros to agape to caritas. The State does not n...