Which is your favorite Gospel?
Matthew, Mark, Luke or John?
Cathoholicism
Exploring the continued addiction to the Catholic Church by people who in good conscience cannot accept all of the Church's teachings.
The ethical path, which forms part of the human being, is pre-religious. No person, be they a believer, an agnostic, or an atheist, can avoid the demands of what is ethical, which range from the most general principles - the most basic of all: “Do good and avoid evil” - to the most specific.
Pope Francis, from Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words
The essential paradox at the heart of the religious quest is that the sacred manifests itself in the profane, the absolute in the relative, the eternal in the temporal.
Karen Armstrong, from Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
I don’t have all the answers. I don’t even have all the questions.
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis
Miraculous intervention is a form of religiosity that reduces spirituality to magic.
- Karen Armstrong, from Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
How did you respond? Plz share.I said that none of the documents with the most historical veracity point to a relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene but that I appreciate Dan brown’s imagination.
Of course, Jesus’ Dad had a relationship with a woman named Mary…
Yes, some small restorationist factions have continued to multiply; I call them fundamentalists. As you said, before this heap of uncertainties they tell young people: “Do this, do that.” So a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boy or girl gets excited and they push them forward with rigid directives. And to be honest, they mortgage their lives at thirty, they burst because they were not properly prepared to overcome the thousand and one crises in life, or the thousand and one shortcomings that everyone has, or the thousand and one wrongs that they are going to commit. They do not have the proper criteria to know and understand the mercy of God, for example. This type of rigid religiosity is disguised with doctrines that claim to give justifications, but in reality deprive people of their freedom and do not allow them to grow as persons. A large number end up living a double life.
Pope Francis, ‘On Fundamentalists,’ in On Heaven and Earth by Skoka and Bergolgio, 2010.
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“According to Christianity, every existence in nature is something which was created for or given to us by God. That is the perfect idea of giving. But if you think that God created man, and that somehow you are separate from God, you are liable to think you have the ability to create something separate, something not given by Him. For instance, we create airplanes and highways. And when we repeat, “I create, I create, I create,” soon we forget who is actually the “I” which creates various things; we soon forget about God. This is the danger of human culture.”
- Shunryu Suzuki
Friendly reminder that the only reason to be Catholic is that Catholicism is true.
Most of it, anyway.
Cardinal Dolan Uses NYPD To Bar Gay Catholics From Sunday Worship In St. Patrick’s
catholicsforjusticeinthechurch:
Wow, Dolan ended up taking his own analogy quite literally.
Only police officers with gaydar were called to the scene…
