"Then people brought little children to him, for him to lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples scolded them, but Jesus said, 'Let the little children alone, and do not stop them from coming to me; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of Heaven belongs.' Then he la...
Kreeft seems to be inadvertently transposing Christian notions into Islam.[As far as I know, ‘Isa doesn’t call the family “sacred”. What Kreeft is saying is that the Muslim emphasis on the importance of marriage and family life can be a reminder to Western Christians that Christianity act...
that time, I read the passage about the Wedding Feast from my Bible, and reflected asking for the New Wine of the Divine Will of God and His Holy Spirit for us as individuals and as a couple/parents, asking Jesus and Mama Mary to remain in our home with us, consecrated our marriage....
We will meditate on examples of Mary's trust in God through- out her life: The Annunciation, the birth of Jesus, the Presentation, the marriage at Cana, the Cross and the ways in which Mary trusted God in all these situ- ations. On this night we are encouraged to take Mary as our...
and sane. Women who are not virgins can become a nun. Women who have been previously married and are divorced may not generally become a nun unless they have received a divorce or annulment from the Catholic Church. They must prove that the marriage was somehow invalid or contracted under ...
Seitz also painted a symbolic representation of four ideas taken from the Encyclicals of Leo XIII: Christian marriage, the praise of the Third Order of St. Francis, the condemnation of Freemasonry, and the agreement between secular and religious authority. This classical cycle of paintings is ...
According to this approach, a pro-life, anti-death penalty, pro-welfare, pro-traditional marriage ethic is internally consistent. Coalition-building then becomes difficult, because such positions are not consistent with the views of external groups. The bishops, however, are comfortable with the ...
This marriage was concluded by Paul II and Cardinal Bessarion, and served as the pretext for the tsars to declare themselves heirs of the Byzantine basileis, to take as their arms the two-headed eagle, and to assume the role of defenders and champions of the Orthodox Church. With Sophia ...
and sane. Women who are not virgins can become a nun. Women who have been previously married and are divorced may not generally become a nun unless they have received a divorce or annulment from the Catholic Church. They must prove that the marriage was somehow invalid or contracted under ...