Monday, January 29, 2024

It Is No Longer I Who Live

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While I enjoy and treasure the writings of Joseph Ratzinger I find the essay of Stanislaw Grygiel on “The New Evangelization” also quite w...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

In My Father’s House There Are Many Dwelling Places

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  I find the question of whether solidarity is a virtue difficult to answer.  True, John Paul II described it as such: “It is above all a qu...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

The Trinitarian Vision of John Paul II as the Basis of His Sexual Ethics

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  It can be said that in the Holy Spirit the intimate life of the Triune God becomes totally gift, an exchange of mutual love between the ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

He Will Glorify Me

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  A vibrant definition of sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church connects sacrament to the Holy Spirit: “ Sacraments are "powers that c...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

If Your Eye Is Unhealthy Your Whole Body Will Be Full Of Darkness

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John Paul II uses the standard title for “the unforgiveable sin”--"blasphemy against the Holy Spirit"--in Dominum et Vivificantem ...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Fools Say In Their Hearts There Is No God

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  I think that the second source of disenchantment, “voluntarist self-creation”, is the biggest “challenge” for those who are disenchanted. ...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Apart From Me You Can Do Nothing

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            “By living "as if God did not exist", man not only loses sight of the mystery of God, but also of the mystery of the w...