There is about it a curious, cracked look that is very puzzling until you suddenly realize that at one time, and long ago, the right side of the front porch had been painted, and part of the wall -- but the painting was left unfinished and one portion of the house is darker and din...
The family sits among piles of UNASSEMBLED PIZZA BOXES and folds them in silence. The crunch of cardboard is the only sound as the cheap Pizza Time logo comes in and goes out of the foreground. They hear a truck rattling closer. Through the window, they see a STREET FUMIGATION TRUCK sp...
Religion booknotes.(Christ, the Life of the Soul)(What Is the Point of Being a Christian?)(The Tree of Life: Models of Christian Prayer)(Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite)(New Ecclesial Movements)(Book review)Cunningham, Lawrence S...
Kuyper understood that Christian faith is not merely belief in a set of concepts, but belief in a relationship: that Christ has joined us to Him and to other believers in such a close bond that we are now part of one, living organism. “A believer may feel disconnected from an organized...
“Let no one do anything of concern to the Church without the bishop. Let that be considered a valid Eucharist which is celebrated by the bishop or by one whom he ordains [i.e., a presbyter]. Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, th...
Concerning the reality of hell, the pope says, “In point of fact, the ancient councils rejected the theory . . . according to which the world would be regenerated after destruction, and every creature would be saved; a theory which abolished hell. . . . [T]he words of Christ are uneq...
The sublime paradox of Jesus I want to point out here is thathe is both humananddivine.As St. Paul the Apostle writes about Jesus: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made him...
1. Jesus Christ is the Only Way to Eternal Salvation with God the Father As stated above, there is no other name under Heaven by which man can be saved other than through the name of Jesus Christ! God the Father will not honor any other name, religion or faith!
in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called Catholic, when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house” (Against the Letter of Mani called “The Foundation”, ...
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. —Mother Teresa 51 Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love. —Mother Teresa 50 Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for...