From the First Things Website. My church is better than your church. It sounds like the stuff of schoolboy quarrels on the playground: My dad can beat your dad! Yet, sad to say, that is how many Christians have understood recent statements on Catholic ecclesiology. In 2000 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
Pontiff Reflects on Messianic Secret Says Suffering Was Key to Christ’s Mission from zenit.org VATICAN CITY, FEB. 1, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Christ knew that to fulfill his mission he had to suffer and die on the cross. For this reason, he took great strides to keep his identity hidden, says Benedict XVI. Reflecting on today’s...
Source: http://www.archden.org/dcr/news.php?e=454&s=2&a=9553 by Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbischop of Denver Personal witness is always the best proof of what we claim to believe. And this year, like every other year, with or without an election, we need to apply the idea of Catholic witness in a special way to our public life as...
