Lessons on Lying, or, How I Could Be Wrong Too.
Wherein I share my thoughts on this whole question of lying and Live Action.
Wherein I share my thoughts on this whole question of lying and Live Action.
The Enlightenment and its ideas of near-total moral relativism created the stuff of Hitler and Stalin. “Without God,” as Dostoevsky wrote, “all things are permitted.”
Hope for the poor is in Christ Jesus, in their and our encounter with Him, and not in the promises of political parties or community organizations that pledge caring attention to the needs of the poor. Christ, the Good News, reveals to us ourselves and thus our real needs…needs detached from news cycles and election years. This is why Popes Paul VI, John Paul the Great, and Benedict XVI all say that the social doctrine is evangelizaton and evangelization fulfills the social doctrine.
Today marks the Memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam often referred to as the Memorial of Andrew Dung Lac and …
The care of the littlest one is our responsibility, at the local level. It is not for the State to come in and usurp our authority by usurping our responsibility.
Every little act of kind attention to God’s creation can be a salvific and sanctifying act of grace…if only we could turn our hearts over to Him.
Beware those who wish to make the State the mother of all invention.
The ritual demonstrates a willingness to lose ourselves in the largeness of the thing before us. Ritual is a sign of physical solidarity with the world. Ritual is humanizing and oh so human.
Here is another quick bit from Henri de Lubac.
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is not some optional addendum to the work of catechetics. It is necessary, and it is something which in the patristic age was given “prominence.”
The self-made man is a myth. And the notion that our private property is ours because we are the sole cause of its coming into existence is a fallacy. We are not our own.
The distribution of wealth is something which raises a good many hackles. I was on the radio recently about the …
The Holy Fathers have spoken of the need to make education available to the poor. It is one of the liberating tools of society, and makes possible solidarity and participation in culture. So is good education social justice? YES!!!
Henri de Lubac is just one of the coolest people who ever lived. Paradoxes of Faith is a collection of his short thoughts on various subjects. I want to present some of his thoughts in the chapter “Socialization.”