There are times when life-sustaining treatments can be legitimately withheld or withdrawn. Traditionally, in the Roman Catholic Church, but in other Christian denominations as well, the distinction between ordinary (proportionate) and extraordinary (disproportionate) means of treatment has been regarded ...
While the Church counts the weeks of this Ordinary Time, we are immersed in extraordinary times in our country. The Covid pandemic rates continue to be catastrophically high, with death rates also at an all-time high. And in the meantime, we have witnessed the dramatic violence in our natio...
The catch is that opting out takes planning, effort, and at times resources. I am also of course not operating in the world of people able to send their kids to these types of schools so no idea what the norm is for them. Though part of the reason we do Catholic school is because ...
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John lived in “interesting times.” He was born just three years before the cataclysm that was the French Revolution. In his earliest years he and his family worshipped in an underground Church not unlike the church of the catacombs of the early Christians. (See “The Anti-Catholic French ...
Define ordinary lay. ordinary lay synonyms, ordinary lay pronunciation, ordinary lay translation, English dictionary definition of ordinary lay. n the form of lay found in a cable-laid rope Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edit
I’m the past week, we’ve seen the same people who were, and remain, opposed to gay marriage insisting that the Catholic Church abuse scandal is the fault of gay priests. Would you describe comparing gay men to pedophiles as bigotry, or simply as a difference of opinion, or as somethi...
What did he do so he could see Jesus? Climbed a tree.5. Jesus taught Zacchaeus that what he did was wrong and to live in God's way so what did Zacchaeus do? He gave half of his property to the poor and he would give back four times the amount he stole from others....
The Jews, for example, in comparatively modern times have been persecuted and oppressed very much in almost every European kingdom. . . . And yet we find that the Jews, the so pitilessly oppressed minority, now hold in their hands the rule, the very fate of some of the kingdoms who we...
Book Tyrion is those things to such extent that at times they lull him into such a false sense of security, enabling people like Catelyn Stark get the jump on him. But Show Tyrion is only allowed to be those things when there’s a clever quip to be had out of it — andon the show...