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12/10/2011
Three common objections to the Church’s doctrine that every State should be Catholic are answered. Nobody is to be forced to believe.
Three common objections to the Church’s doctrine that every State should be Catholic are answered. Nobody is to be forced to believe.
Liberals are punished in this life by becoming false crusaders, true tyrants and effeminate men. True leaders can come only from God.
For any human being to achieve eternal salvation may be a hazardous undertaking, but free choices greatly increase or decrease the hazards.
Pagan classical authors are worth reading because they can testify quite independently of the Church to the universe’s moral structure and order.
The difference between Judas Iscariot’s remorse and Peter’s repentance is that Judas’ will was set on resisting grace, Peter’s on loving Jesus.
Japan’s terrible earth- and sea-quake remind us that suffering can be a punishment or warning or an occasion to practise virtue.
Free-will’s inclination to sense delights accounts for the damnation of numberless souls, but also for God’s Paradise being no little reward.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.