Category: Popes
The Silent Pope Francis Turns to Mysticism for Self-Defense
Pope Francis’s attempt to play a mystical trump card would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.
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Pope Francis’s Suggested Change of the Lord’s Prayer Could Harm the Faithful
The problem is not that the phrase is confusing, as the pope suggests. The problem is with the inclination today to make everything easy for the lazy.
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An Argument In Favor of More Married Priests in the Catholic Church
The married priesthood serves, when it is allowed to flower, as a sign of the importance of marriage to the Church and to society.
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Father Thomas Weinandy to Pope Francis: “A chronic confusion seems to mark your pontificate.”
Fr. Weinandy also laments behaviors of the pope that he says seem to demean Church doctrine…..
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What’s Wrong With the Church? Why Our Labels Fail.
To begin with, I’ve always been uncomfortable with any one-size-fits-all label that, by the mere utterance, is supposed to convince the hearer. Labels then become short-cuts for research, analysis, and argument.
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And What About Papal Primacy? – Robert Hugh Benson’s The Religion of the Plain Man
Robert Hugh Benson’s The Religion of the Plain Man is a concise, thoughtful, gracious, persuasive, and beautifully written account of a convert’s journey and the reasons why one might wish to enter into communion with the Catholic Church.
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My Bickering Spirit Is Healed By a Breaking Heart
I have no answers on how to deal with the seeming cultural surrender to endless bickering. I do know that when this happens, those on both sides, in the end, only wound themselves and destroy their inner peace.
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Pope Francis and the Lives of Others
The world has always been a rough, messy, cruel, going-to-hell-in-a hand-basket kind of place, yet Christ Jesus came to us, loves us, and when we pray we are to open up our hearts to all
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Reflective and Revealing: Pope Benedict XVI’s Last Testament – A Review
What Benedict says about his successor, Pope Francis, is gracious and supportive, which is as it should be. This, it seems, is more the result of Benedict’s humility than decorum.
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Pope Francis: Answer the Four Cardinals
The cardinals have taken a necessary and courageous step in an effort to protect the holiness of the Church, its faithfulness to the teachings of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and its faithfulness to the Church’s traditional teachings on faith and morals that have Our Lord’s teachings through Scripture and tradition as a foundation.
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A Vote for Clinton/Kaine Is a Vote Against Christianity
Why do politicians like Tim Kaine think they are Catholic? Why do they go to such lengths to...
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Why I Cringe When Pope Francis Gets On An Airplane
My interpretation of the Pope’s remarks are this: Pope Francis thinks that the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, it’s “intrinsically disordered,” and homosexual act, they’re always “sinful,” have created in the minds and heart of Christians a prejudicial disdain toward homosexuals, lesbians, etc. In other words, Christians have not been able to love them authentically because Church teaching, as well as much Christian, has labelled them and their sexuality as unnatural and morally wrong.
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