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FURIOUS caller scolds Christianity for dividing people: "It is not what God wants!"
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We can't have a moral system based only on "consent."
Take self-injury. Some “transabled” persons feel as though they should be disabled, and so they desire to have a doctor render them paraplegic or to amputate a healthy limb. But just because these persons, and the doctors, consent to such acts does not make them morally permissible. Most people would still say this is wrong.
Or consider the more absurd example of Armin Meiwes, who butchered and ate a willing victim who responded to his internet ad. Should murder and cannibalism be morally permissible if consented to?
“But those people must be mentally ill if they’re consenting to that.” Why must we draw that conclusion? We can judge that someone has a mental illness only if we first believe that his desired behaviors are grossly disordered. But disordered or bad behaviors can be evaluated based only on a presupposed moral standard that determines what ordered and good human behavior is.
This undermines the idea that choice, or consent, by itself is the sole moral criterion.
This meeting isn't as surreal as it appears.
By his own account, Bob Dylan is a serious and committed Christian. His 1979 conversion and subsequent recording of three Christian-themed albums (Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love) are well known among Dylan fans, and among many who are not.
The common assumption, however, is that Dylan discarded Christianity as quickly as he took it up, and that his “Christian phase” was just another bizarre incident in a strange man’s multifacetedly quirky career.
The man himself, however, says otherwise. In 2022, long after he is widely assumed to have left Christianity and never looked back, Dylan said,
"I’m a religious person. I read the scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination. The Five Books of Moses, Pauline Epistles, Invocation of the Saints, all of it."
And in 2009, when he released Christmas in the Heart, an album of Christmas carols and hymns sung as only he could sing them, an interviewer said to him, “You really give a heroic performance of ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem.’ The way you do it reminds me a little of an Irish rebel song. There’s something almost defiant in the way you sing, ‘The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.’ I don’t want to put you on the spot, but you sure deliver that song like a true believer.”
Dylan replied simply, “Well, I am a true believer.”
Let's pray that he puts to good use the rosary that Pope Leo gave him and comes all the way home to the Catholic Church!
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Are Protestants Wrong?
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If you can't pray for 30 minutes, pray for 10.
If you can't read a chapter of Scripture, read half.
If you can't pray a rosary, pray a decade.
If you can't give $10 to the poor, give $1.
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Yes, the Church should convert Muslims.
Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco recently made a declaration that the Catholic Church in Algeria exists to foster fraternity with Muslims rather than seek their conversion. “We are the Church of this people,” he said—“not a proselytizing Church, not a Church that is there to convert, but a Church that aspires to be one of the components of this people.” His remarks raise a serious theological question concerning the purpose for which Jesus Christ established his Church and entrusted it with the salvation of souls.
The Catholic Church possesses a divinely instituted missionary identity; its essential purpose is the proclamation of Jesus Christ for the conversion and eternal salvation of humanity. Consequently, any insinuation that evangelization is dispensable must be corrected. The Church derives her missionary obligations directly from the commission and authority of her divine founder. Christ commanded his Church to make disciples of every nation through baptism and instruction, establishing a universal missionary mandate. Its binding authority extends throughout human history and across every political boundary until his return.
Furthermore, the underlying Greek of "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations" (Mt. 28:19) explicitly commands the making of disciples literally among ALL nations. That identifies conversion and incorporation into Christ’s covenantal family as an essential dimension of the Church’s apostolic commission.
The universality of this command is even more significant when considering Christianity’s earliest expansion throughout territories governed by political authorities who frequently regarded Christian conversion as a direct challenge to established religious institutions, one often resulting in the execution of Christians. Yet the earliest Christians proclaimed the gospel throughout the Roman Empire despite encountering imprisonment, social hostility, and martyrdom, because their apostolic conviction rested upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ, his universal sovereignty, and the recognition of salvation to be found only in Him.
Saint Paul gut-wrenchingly declared in 1 Corinthians 9:16 that divine necessity compelled his preaching, and that failing to proclaim the gospel would constitute a profound betrayal of his apostolic vocation.
The Church’s entire missionary identity is a result of the saving mission of Christ. Hence, it possesses an enduring theological significance that transcends any fluctuating political circumstances confronting Christian communities throughout the world. Pope Paul VI, in Evangelii Nuntiandi, declared that evangelization constitutes the Church’s “deepest identity” and explained that the Church exists precisely to proclaim Christ and communicate divine grace (14).
Cardinal Vesco subsequently doubled down on his position, invoking the interreligious labor of Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI:
"The Church that gives life to me is the Church of Saint John Paul II and the interreligious declaration of Assisi, whose 40th anniversary was celebrated in recent days and which Pope Leo had planned to attend; the Church of Pope Benedict, who, together with Cardinal Tauran, developed more ties with the Muslim world than any pope before him; the Church of Pope Francis, with the Abu Dhabi Declaration on Human Fraternity, signed with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar on February 4, 2019; and the Church of Pope Leo, with his visit to Algeria and his silent prayer at the Great Mosque of Algiers, shoulder to shoulder with the rector.
“I believe that the believers of the three monotheistic religions,” Vesco wrote, “have better things to do than to seek to convert one another.”
But the pontiffs Vesco invokes would disagree with his position.
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If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out. Keep the stove tightly shut so that it will not lose its heat and grow cold. In other words, avoid distractions as well as you can. Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.
-St. Charles Borromeo
The Eucharist is really Jesus
yes, to be contrarian. but obviously no one, even a "devout Catholic," which is what O'Connor called herself, seriously believes that the communion wafer isn't a wafer.
if you even believed that the wafer was soaked in someone's actual DNA, you would not want to take it into your mouth & let it melt on your tongue.
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Flannery O'Connor did not believe the Eucharist was merely "symbolic" or "metaphorical," contrary to Oates' claim. O'Connor repeatedly stated the Catholic belief that although the wafer has the physical qualities ("accidents") of bread, its true substance is Jesus Christ.
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Why the Abortion Debate Goes Nowhere
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