To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world.
Certainly, it is difficult to make the demands of the Gospel understandable to secularized people. But this pastoral difficulty must not lead to compromises with the truth.
For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
I thought I was the only one who referred to Dolan as Cheesehead Dolan, but Steve Skojec over at OnePeterFive sees it fit to call that big buffoon 'Cardinal “Cheeshead” Dolan' (spelling mistake left in) as well.
The name is very fitting, although insulting to cheesse.
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