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why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:
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Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Therese said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace."
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And since perfected souls will be incapable of envy, all will rejoice in their lesser level of brightness, because it will be exactly what God wills for the common good; and all will identify with that common good as the fulfillment of their individual good, rather than a rival to it, as we fools do now.
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Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.
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Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle
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To a humble mind nothing is more astonishing than to hear its own excellence.
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If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie.
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The Exodus also = salvation; Egypt = sin; Pharoah = Satan; Moses = Christ; the Jews = the Church; the Red Sea = death; the wilderness = Purgatory; the Old Law = the New Law; the gospel; the old Mount (Sinai) = the new mount from which Jesus preached His "sermon on the mount" (Mt 5-7); and the Promised Land = Heaven. The "=" is not mathematical but symbolic."
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sacramentally present at Mass--this Church is either God 's own or it is the devil's own.
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Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular--they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.
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Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.
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is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He
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Here is what they got out of their hoax. Their friends and families scorned them. Their social standing, possessions, and political privileges were stolen from them by both Jews and Romans. They were persecuted, imprisoned, whipped, tortured, exiled, crucified, eaten by lions, and cut to pieces by gladiators. So some silly Jews invented the whole elaborate, incredible lie of Christianity for absolutely no reason, and millions of Gentiles be..
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What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work.
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God, I don't know whether you exist or not. Maybe I'm praying to nobody, but maybe I'm praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only the Truth, whatever it is. If you are the Truth, here I am, ready and willing to follow you wherever you lead.
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KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot be proved by speculative, theoretical reason. It cannot be known with certainty. I wanted to construct an absolute and certain ethics; that's why I confined myself to the parameters of reason alone--and of practical reason alone, for I believe that practical reason can do much more tha..
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Every human soul craves "the good, the true, and the beautiful" absolutely and without limit. And it is precisely about these three most fundamental values that the gap is the widest. Ordinary people still believe in a real morality, a real difference between good and evil; and in objective truth and the possibility of knowing it; and in the superiority of beauty over ugliness. But our educators, or "experts" (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus calls..
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If a government is built on the principle of benevolence similar to that of a father towards his children, that is, a paternal government . . . , in which subjects are treated like children who have not yet come of age and who cannot distinguish what is truly beneficial from what is harmful for them . . . this is the greatest despotism imaginable. . . . Not a paternal but a patriotic government . . . is the only government conceivable for h..
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St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;
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The second reason was to make public and visible an invisible spiritual reality. This is the purpose of all the sacraments. Indeed, it is the fundamental purpose of matter itself.
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Even biologists rank species in a hierarchical order.
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God judges justly. "All who sinned without [knowing] the [Mosaic] law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law" (Rom 2:12). Even pagans show "that what the law requires is written on their hearts" (Rom 2:15). If we honestly consult our hearts, we will find two truths: that we know what we ought to do and be, and that we fail to do and be that. Fundamentalists, faithful to the clear on..
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It is an a fortiori argument: if even the veneration of a beloved father's relics after he dies is a good thing, how much more the veneration of a saint's?
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the doctrine of anamnesis: that all learning-that is, all learning of eternal truths-is really a remembering,
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the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.
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ora et labora, prayer and work.
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Many saints were made out of passionate sinners--the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful.
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Scholastics called the "irascible" (averting) and "concupiscible" (attracting) emotions."
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That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything")"
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They are our bodyguards and soulguards. But not as servants or pets. If anything, we are like pets to them.
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desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection--indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring,
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Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness
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In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world.
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Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity.
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Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.
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The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.
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angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.
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More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.
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the medieval idea that angels were required to move the heavenly bodies.
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Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia--that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another--but not the other half--that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.
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Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible.
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Physical emotions are moved by chemicals, nerve endings, weather, digestion, hormones, and a thousand other things in the body or the physical world. Animals can't love without physical emotion. Angels can't love with physical emotion. We can love with or without physical emotion.
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2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
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8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.
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