Faith is a gift from God to those who will accept it.
I can best perhaps describe it as a holy light-heartedness which I have often since noticed in Catholics who have lived and loved their religion since early childhood. —Philip Trower, “How I Became a Catholic”
Catholics are catholic, not ideologues.
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Who art in Heaven,
Our Father is in heaven; heaven is our home. We are not necessarily far from heaven. The kingdom of heaven is at hand, and perhaps, within us. But heaven is not earth. “Meaning in the Our Father”
The office of the US presidency has been hijacked in the most cynical, undisguised, arrogant, unprincipled, often dilettante, and sometimes thuggish manner imaginable. —John Harris, New Year’s Day, 2021
Semper Lux Mundi ("Always the Light of the World")
Mr. Trump excelled at chaining a name to an epithet during his mercurial political career: Lying Ted, Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe. It was effective in a childish way. What if we, as unplayful adults, insistently link our nation’s plunderers to the evidence of their plunder? “I won’t support Mr. Biden’s bills, whose presidency is illegitimate… our nation’s policy with China will remain in free fall until we have a legitimate president… I’m not surprised by the bid to pack the court, since it reflects the bullying anomy which brought this illegitimate regime to power.” Always, every day, speak the horrible truth out in the open. —John Harris
Chief Nolo considers idle chatter a great corruptive of sacred mission. John Harris
We leave a purely theological discussion and move on to a question that is more prudential and disciplinary. —Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández
You speak for men and not God. Sc. 53, Matthew 16:23, Mark 8:33
Unfortunately, “enslavers” has come to include all slave owners.
In Gabriel’s visitation to Mary (Lk. 1:26-38), something takes place that never occurred before in all the exchanges between heaven and earth. Father V
Now come the greens.
The potato salad is the first to arrive.
“The Church of the modern world”. Quoted
The Church wants to be a church of a world that is passing – has passed.
Analysis of motives behind Francis appointing Victor Manuel Fernandez to the Doctrine of the Faith
Pope Francis is living his last days, and is looking to ensure that everything he has done in his pontificate will be “tied up and well tied up.” But we know how long the knots tied by poor Francisco Franco, when he said this phrase in 1969, actually lasted. Caminante Wanderer
I thought at the time was a cliché. Now I know it’s a cliché because it’s true. —Peter Hitchens
The choice of belief is driven by desire. —Peter Hitchens
Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they are doing. Sc. 87, Luke 23:34
It was still grave sin and great suffering to the Son of God.
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