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Headlines TUESDAY HOMILY: The Width of the Door of Faith By Fr. Roger J. Landry | August 20, 2013 The disciples, few of which would have been wealthy by material standards, nevertheless took Jesus' words personally, asking, "Then who can be saved?" They knew what Jesus meant, which is to pass through the door of faith into his kingdom we must be willing to detach ourselves from our possessions, to do what the Rich Young Man didn't believe he could, to live the first beatitude and acquire true spiritual poverty because we find our wealth in God's kingdom. We cannot serve both God and mammon. Either we leave our attachments mammon to pass through the door of faith into Christ's kingdom or we hold on to the mammon, like the Rich Young Man and remain outside. Continue Reading... Recapturing the Two Wings of Faith and Reason By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | August 20, 2013 Perhaps the two wings of reason and faith that inform the Catechism may, with a bit of grace and with some sincere prayer, find their way into your mind and heart and therein engender love, love of the God-man Jesus, the Logos (Reason) made Flesh (John 1:14), in whom "we see our God made visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot see." Continue Reading... A Reflection on Moral Theology: What Are We Choosing and Who Are We becoming? By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 20, 2013 What we choose determines who we will become. Choosing what is good changes the chooser, empowering him or her to proceed along the pathways of virtue and develop the habis which form Christian character. The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses human choice, action and freedom: "The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to "the slavery of sin. (Cf. Rom 6:17)" (CCC#1733) Continue Reading... Crackdown in Egypt; Rage Directed at Coptic Christians; U.S. Response Is Hypocritical By Michael Terheyden | August 20, 2013 The Egyptian military crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood was tragic. However, I believe ousting Morsi and cracking down on the Brotherhood is necessary. I also believe that President Obama's response was hypocritical. Taken together, these events constitute a warning for Americans. Continue Reading... MONDAY HOMILY: Sincerity is Essential for Discipleship By Fr. Stephen B. Reynolds | August 19, 2013 Despite his faithfulness to The Law, the youth of the Gospel was unfulfilled. His obedience was a good beginning, but it could not satisfy his inner longing for holiness. He is looking for something more, and he goes to Jesus to find it. Continue Reading... Guest Opinion: Sweet Cakes by Melissa and the Secularist Liberals' Quest to 'Rehabilitate' Christians By Matt Barber | August 19, 2013 The Oregonian reports: "A same-sex couple who requested a cake for their wedding in January but were refused service by a Gresham bakery have filed a complaint with the state, alleging Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against them based on their sexual orientation. Christians have a right to own a "successful business" in Oregon, so long as they don't, well, be Christian. Continue Reading... SUNDAY HOMILY: The Happy Priest - Why Does Jesus Cause Division? By Fr. James Farfaglia | August 19, 2013 To be Catholic means that we embrace the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church without tearing out the pages that we do not agree with. Continue Reading... Let the Children Come to Me. The Way of Spiritual Childhood is the Way of Freedom By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 19, 2013 Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." After he placed his hands on them, he went away. (Mt. 19:13-15)  Exchanging the Truth of God for a Lie: Rejecting Marriage and Gender are Connected By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 17, 2013 Western culture needs conversion, from the inside out. We need a Christian revolution of the heart. Christians need to once again take the eternal and timeless values of the classical and orthodox Christian worldview and knead them again into the loaf of western culture. They are the yeast which alone can revivify a western civilization which has lost it's soul. There is a clash of worldviews currently underway in the West. It involves competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. Both cannot be true. Classical, orthodox Christians are now contending with the hostility of a secularist relativism which claims there are no truths. That is what makes Christians so increasingly countercultural. Continue Reading...
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