Never Have Grudges Against Others Or Lose Your Temper

Guard against foul talk; let your words be for the improvement of others, as occasion offers, and do good to your listeners, otherwise you will only be grieving the Holy Spirit of God who has marked you with his seal for you to be set free when the day comes. Never have grudges against others, or lose your temper, or raise your voice to anybody, or call each other names, or allow any sort of spitefulness. Be friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ. - Ephesians 4:29-32

Adapt Yourself With Gracious And Charitable Compliance To All Your Neighbor's Weaknesses

Adapt yourself with gracious and charitable compliance to all your neighbor’s weaknesses. In particular, make a rule to hide your feelings in many inconsequential matters. Give up all bitterness toward your neighbor, no matter what. And be convinced that your neighbor is in everything better than you. This will not be difficult if you keep even a little aware of yourself. It will give you the ability to overcome your feelings of resentment. Each day look for every possible opportunity to do a kindness for those you do not like. After examining yourselves on this matter every morning, decide what you are going to do, and do it faithfully with kindness and humility. - Saint John Baptist de la Salle

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People who think they want socialism are in for a rude awakening when all the luxuries capitalism gave them are taken away. - Steve Sheppard

ObamaCare makes it FUNCTIONALLY IMPOSSIBLE to be a Roman Catholic AND an American. It prohibits the FREE EXERCISE of Catholicism. Period. This is not debatable. It is an objective fact...Forcing Catholics to subsidize contraception is like forcing muslims to eat pork every day. How do you think a “daily pork consumption mandate” would go over? - Ann Barnhardt

He Who Died In Place Of Us Is The One Object Of My Desire

No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world. - Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Families Are Called To Be Islands Of Christian Life In An Unbelieving World

From the beginning, the core of the Church was often constituted by those who had become believers "together with all their household." When they were converted, they desired that "their whole household" should also be saved. These families who became believers were islands of Christian life in an unbelieving world...In our own time, in a world often alien and even hostile to faith, believing families are of primary importance as centers of living, radiant faith. It is in the bosom of the family that parents are 'by word and example...the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children. They should encourage them in the vocation which is proper to each child, fostering with special care any religious vocation.'" - Catechism of the Catholic Church 1655 & 1656

Which Is The One True Church?

Now, in order to determine which is this one true Church, it is necessary to examine which is the Church first founded by Jesus Christ, for when this is ascertained, it must be confessed that this one alone is the true Church which, having once been the true Church must always have been the true Church and must forever be the true Church. For to this first Church has been made the promise of the Savior that the gates of Hell would never be able to overturn it [Matt 16:18]. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

The Founders spoke of rights being endowed by the Creator. The government does not grant us rights. It acknowledges them. A government that sees itself as the giver of rights is an arrogant and deluded government. Likewise, the government has no authority to supersede the moral law. It is not in the power of government to redefine marriage. Perhaps, though I'd oppose it, it could claim to have the power of establishing an alternative form of "civil union", but that is wholly different from marriage. Since it disrupts society's understanding of marriage by introducing a false alternative, it is not in for the good of society, and should on those grounds be opposed though government might have the power to establish it. - Anthony Summers

Law that is not in accordance with the moral law is stripped of authoritative power, but is simply enforced by brute force. Nothing in it binds conscience. Therefore, government must not abandon its ground in objective moral law. However, it does not need to enforce the entirety of the moral law. Only those that are most directly and clearly bring necessary stability to a society. Marriage is paramount. - Anthony Summers

Sacraments Recall In Many Ways The Means Our Lord Merited The Graces We Recieve Through Them

The Sacraments recall in many ways the means by which Our Lord merited the graces we receive through them. Baptism recalls His profound humility; Confirmation His ceaseless prayer; Holy Eucharist His care of the needy; Penance His mortified life; Extreme Unction His model death; Holy Orders His establishment of the priesthood, and Matrimony His close union with the Church. - Baltimore Catechism

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All Men Are Equal And Have Been Created For The Same End -- God

All men are equal in whatever is necessary for their nature and end. They are all composed of a body and soul; they are all created to the image and likeness of God; they are all gifted with understanding and free will; and they have all been created for the same end--God. - Baltimore Catechism

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Contempt Is A Grievous Sin

Nothing is so opposed to charity, much more to a devout spirit, as contempt and depreciation of one's neighbour, and where satire and ridicule exist contempt must be. Therefore contempt is a grievous sin, and our spiritual doctors have well said that ridicule is the greatest sin we can commit in word against our neighbour, inasmuch as when we offend him in any other way, there may still be some respect for him in our heart, but we are sure to despise those whom we ridicule. - Saint Francis de Sales

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There Are Many Ways To Be A Mortified Soul

There are many ways to be a mortified soul and make spiritual progress without doing a complete fast. You can: Choose to eat foods you don't care for, or leave off the butter or salt or other condiment. Skip snacks and desserts - give your share to your children. Prepare your coffee in a way you don't like - drink it black if you like cream and sugar, or sweeten it if you prefer it black, etc. Omit TV or computer time, or watch what others prefer and you don't. Fast from having the last word or making clever comments. Don't make unnecessary small purchases for yourself. Put your own needs aside in favor of the others.

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In The Mass, You And I Have Heaven On Earth

Our heritage includes the whole of the Bible, the uninterrupted witness of the Mass, the constant teachings of the saints, the research of the schools, the methods of contemplative prayer, and the pastoral care of the popes and bishops. In the Mass, you and I have heaven on earth. The evidence is overwhelming. The experience is a revelation. - Scott Hahn

We Should Only Fear Offending God

We should only fear offending God. Other than that, fear is not of God and we should reject it in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Teaches Without Noise Of Words

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words. - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

If It Is Daily Bread, Why Do You Take It Once A Year?

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year. - Saint Ambrose of Milan

You're Bored? That's Because You Keep Your Senses Awake And Your Soul Asleep

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep. ― Saint Josemaría Escrivá

Sin Is The Executioner Of The Good God And The Assasin Of The Soul

SIN IS the executioner of the good God, and the assassin of the soul. It snatches us away from Heaven to precipitate us into Hell. And we love it! What folly! If we thought seriously about it, we should have such a lively horror of sin that we could not commit it. O my children, how ungrateful we are! The good God wishes to make us happy; that is very certain; He gave us His Law for no other end. The Law of God is great; it is broad. King David said that he found his delight in it, and that it was a treasure more precious to him than the greatest riches. He said also that he walked at large, because he had sought after the Commandments of the Lord. The good God wishes, then, to make us happy, and we do not wish to be so. We turn away from Him, and give ourselves to the devil! We fly from our Friend, and we seek after our murderer! We commit sin; we plunge ourselves into the mire. Once sunk in this mire, we know not how to get out. If our fortune were in the case, we should soon find out how to get out of the difficulty; but because it only concerns our soul, we stay where we are.

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Defensive Violence Will Always Be A Sad Necessity But It Would Be More Unfortunate If Wrongdoers Should Dominate Just Men

Though defensive violence will always be a ’sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men. - Saint Augustine

God has assigned as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman. - Blessed Pope John Paul II

The Catholic School System Could Be A Source Of Spiritual Dynamite

The Catholic School System could be a source of Spiritual Dynamite and until it is, the Catholic Church in America and all over the world is going to limp into eternity. Souls will continue to be lost and lives will continue to be broken.

Throwing Away The Teaching Of The Gospel Cannot Make People Happy

Liberalism and throwing away the precepts of the Church and throwing away the teaching of the Gospel cannot make people happy. Only God can make people happy...the Fulfillment of all desire. - Gabrielle Catillo

A Catholic School That Fails To Make The Eucharist The Source And Summit Of Its Life Has Failed At Being Catholic

A Catholic school that fails to make the Eucharist the source and summit of its life has failed at being Catholic. We are called to love God above all else and the Eucharist is really, truly, and substantially Jesus Christ, God.

God Enriches The Soul Which Empties Itself Of Everything

God enriches the soul which empties itself of everything. - Saint Padre Pio

God, Grant Me The Serenity

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.

Leave Those Worldly Things That Shackle The Heart And Come With Us In Search Of Love

Don't you long to shout to those... who are bustling around you.. 'Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that, and come with us, in search of Love!' - Saint Josemaria Escriva

Jesus Christ Is The Only One Who Can Satisfy The Innermost Yearnings Of The Human Mind And Heart

Jesus Christ is the only one who can satisfy the innermost yearnings of the human mind and heart…it is Him that you seek when you dream of happiness. It is Him who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your life. - Blessed Pope John Paul II

Be Quick To Listen But Slow To Speak

Be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to rouse your temper; God’s righteousness is never served by man’s anger. Nobody must imagine that he is religious while he still goes on deceiving himself and not keeping control over his tongue; anyone who does this has the wrong idea of religion. - James 1:19-20,26

Don't Let Yourselves Be Intimidated By An Environment That Pretends To Exclude God

‎Don't let yourselves be intimidated by an environment that pretends to exclude God, and in which power, possessions and pleasure are often the criteria by which people judge their lives. - Pope Benedict XVI

America Is Suffering From Indifference To Truth

America is suffering not so much from intolerance, which is bigotry, as it is from tolerance, which is indifference to truth and error, and a philosophical nonchalance that has been interpreted as broad-mindedness. - Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Inflation Is Taxation Without Representation

Inflation is taxation without legislation. - Milton Friedman

To Have A Blessed Home In Myself

Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised.. to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and to be at peace, as in a deep sea of calmness when all around and about is seeming trouble.

Discipline Is Needed, Not Eloquence; Character, Not Cleverness

Isn't it absurd to send children out to jobs and to school, and to do all you can to prepare them for these, and yet not to "bring them up in the chastening and admonition of the Lord" [Eph. 6:4]?... Discipline is needed, not eloquence; character, not clevernes; deeds, not words. These gain a man the kingdom. - Saint John Chrysostom (347-407AD)

JPII On World Youth Day

When asked why he wanted to start a World Youth Day, John Paul II responded, "To greet the martyrs of the Third Millennium."

Truth Suffers, But Never Dies

Truth suffers, but never dies. - Saint Teresa of Avila

Once Thought A Safety Net, Welfare Has Become A Cage, Entrapping People In Poverty

Entitlement programs have taken the drive to thrive out of a whole segment of society. Just like caging a tiger, after a while they forget how to hunt. Once thought a safety net, welfare has become a cage, entrapping people in poverty. - Christina Molander Pasterz

Jesus And The Jewish Roots Of The Papacy

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Papacy
Ancient Jewish Literature

1. Mishnah: a collection of oral traditions of the Rabbis (1st-3rd centuries A.D.), compiled
by Rabbi Judah the Patriarch ca. 200 A.D.
2. Babylonian Talmud: a thirty-volume collection of rabbinic traditions, in the shape of a
commentary on the tractates in the Mishnah
3. Midrash Rabbah: ancient rabbinic commentary on the books of the Bible. (1st-5th centuries A.D.)
4. Aramaic Targums: ancient Jewish translations and adaptations of the Hebrew Bible
into Aramaic, the language of the people (3rd century B.C.—5th century A.D.)

Jesus, Peter, and the “Keys of the Kingdom”
And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not
revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and
on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. I
will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew
16:13-19)
1. The Foundation Stone 3. The Power to “Bind” and “Loose”
2. The Keys of the Kingdom 4. The Priestly ‘Prime Minister’
1. The “Foundation Stone” in Jewish Tradition
The “Foundation Stone” (’Eben Shetiyah)
[On the day of Atonement, the High Priest] went through the Sanctuary until he came to
the space between the two curtains separating the Sanctuary from the Holy of Holies….
When he reached the Ark he put the fire-pan between the two bars. He heaped up the
incense on the coals and the whole place became filled with smoke. He came out by the
way he went in, and in the outer space he prayed a short prayer. But he did not prolong
his prayer lest he put Israel in terror. After the Ark was taken away a stone remained there
from the time of the early prophets and it was called “Shetiyah.” It was higher than the
ground by three fingerbreadths. On this he used to put… (Mishnah, Yoma [Day of
Atonement] 5:2)

The Foundation Stone: the Center of the World
“And it was called Shetiyah [foundation].” A Tanna taught: [It was so called] because
from it the world was founded. We were taught in accord with the view that the world
was started [created] from Zion on… Rabbi Isaac the Smith said: “The Holy One, blessed
be He, cast a stone into the ocean, from which the world then was founded as it is said:
‘Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the corner stone thereof?’
(Job 38:38). But the Sages said: The world was started [created] from Zion, as it is said…
“Out of Zion, the perfection of the world” (Ps 50:2). (Babylonian Talmud, Yoma [The
Day of Atonement] 54a-54b)

2. The Keys of the Kingdom in Jewish Tradition
The Keys Were Kept by the Temple Priests in a Rock
…for although there be four courses of the priests, and everyone of them have above five
thousand men in them, yet do they officiate on certain days only; and when those days
are over, other priests succeed in the performance of their sacrifices, and assemble
together at midday, and receive the keys of the temple (Josephus, Against Apion 2.108).

And there was a place there… whereon lay a slab of marble in which was fixed a ring
and a chain on which hung the keys. When the time was come to lock up [the Temple
Court] he lifted up the slab by the ring and took the keys from the chain. The priest
locked [the gates] from inside while a Levite slept outside. When he had finished locking
[the gates] he put back the keys on the chain and the slab in its place, put his mattress
over it, and went to sleep (Mishnah Middoth 1.9).

The Captain of the Temple and the Keys
Thus also, before the Jews rebellion, and before those commotions which preceded the
war [in 67-70 A.D.]… the eastern gate of the inner [court of the] Temple, which was of
brass, and vastly heavey, and had been with difficulty shut by twenty men, and rested
upon a basis armed with iron… was seen to be opened of its own accord about the sixth
hour of the night. Now, those that kept watch in the Temple came hereupon running to
the captain of the Temple, and told him of it: who then came up there, and not without
great difficulty, and was able to shut the gate again. This also appeared to the vulgar to
be a very happy prodigy, as if God did thereby open the gate of happiness. But the men of
learning understood it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own
accord, and that the gate was opened for the advantage of their enemies. So these
publicly declared that this signal foreshadowed the desolation that was coming upon
them. (Josephus, War 6:293-96)

The Destruction of the Temple and the Keys of the Kingdom
“Our Rabbis have taught: When the First Temple was about to be destroyed bands upon
bands of young priests with the keys of the Temple in their hands assembled and mounted
the roof of the Temple and exclaimed, ‘Master of the Universe, as we did not have the
merit to be faithful treasurers these keys are handed back into Thy keeping’. They then
threw the keys up towards heaven. And there emerged the figure of a hand and received
the keys from them. Whereupon they jumped and fell into the fire.” (Babylonian Talmud,
Ta’anith 29a)
“What did [Jeconiah] do?―He collected all the keys of the Temple and ascended the
roof [of the Temple], and said, “Lord of the Universe! Seeing that we have hitherto not
proved worthy stewards, faithful custodians for Thee, from now and henceforth, behold
Thy Keys are Thine.” Two Amoraim [differ as to what followed]. One said: A kind of
fiery hand descended and took them from him; the other said: As he threw them upward
they did not come down any more.” (Leviticus Rabbah 19.6).

3.“Binding” and “Loosing” in Jewish Tradition
Josephus on “Binding” and “Loosing”
The Pharisees, a body of Jews with the reputation of excelling the rest of their nation in
the observances of religion, and as exact exponents of the laws… became at length the
real administrators of the state, at liberty to banish and recall, to loose (Greek luein) and
to bind (Greek desmein) whom they would. In short, the enjoyments of royal authority
were theirs… [even though Alexandra was the queen]. (Josephus, War 1.5.2)
The Cathedra of Moses and the Power to “Bind and Loose”
Scribes and Pharisees Peter, Prefect of the Priests
1. “The scribes and Pharisees sit on 1. The Pope sits on the seat of Peter
Moses’ seat (Gk kathedras Mouseos); (Lat cathedra; Gk kathedra)
therefore do and keep whatever they tell you... when he teaches authoritatively (Matthew 23:1-2)
2. “They bind (Gk desmeuousin) heavy burdens 2. “Whatever you bind (Gk deses)
on the shoulders of others; but they themselves on earth will be bound
are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.” (Gk dedemenon) in heaven.”
(Matthew 23:4 ) (Matthew 16:19)
3. “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! For 3. Jesus said to Peter: “I give to
you key shut (Gk kleiete) the kingdom of heaven you [sg.] the keys (Gk kleidas)
against people. of the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt 16:19)
(Mat 23:13)
Modern Protestant Commentary
[T]he major opinion of modern exegetes… [is] that Peter, as a sort of supreme rabbi or
prime minister of the kingdom, is in 16.19 given teaching authority, given that is the
power to declare what is permitted (cf. the rabbinic shara’ ) and what is not permitted (cf.
the rabbinic ’asar). Peter can decide by doctrinal decision what Christians must and must
not do. This is the traditional Roman Catholic understanding, with the proviso that Peter
had successors. This interpretation of binding and loosing in terms of teaching authority
seems to us to be correct… Peter is the authoritative teacher without peer” (W. D.
Davies and Dale C. Allison, The Gospel according to Saint Matthew, 2:638-39)

4. The Priestly ‘Prime Minister’ in Jewish Tradition
The “Over the House” in the Bible (Isaiah 22)
“Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house (Hb al bayith), and say to
him: ‘What have you to do here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself…? Behold,
the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on
you, and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you
shall die... I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your
station. In that day, I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and I will clothe
him with your robe, and will bind your belt on him, and will commit your authority to his
hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none
shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him like a peg in a
sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house. And they will
hang on him the whole weight of his father’s house, the offspring of every issue, every
small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons...” (Isaiah 22:15-24)

The Priestly Overseer in the Targum on Isaiah 22
Thus says the LORD God of hosts, “Come go to this guardian, to Shebna, who is
appointed over the house, and you will say to him: What have you do to here and why do
you act this way; that you have prepared a place for yourself here?” He has prepared his
place on the height, sets his residence in the rock. “Behold, the LORD casts you out, a
mighty man is cast out, and shame will cover you. He will take away from you the turban
and encircle you with enemies as an encircling wall… there you shall die, and there shall
your glorious chariots return in shame, because you did not guard the glory of your
master’s house. And I will thrust you from your place and throw you down from your
ministry. And it will come to pass in that time that I will exalt my servant Eliakim, the
son of Hilkiah, and I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your cincture, and
place your authority in his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah. And I will place the key of the Sanctuary and the authority of
the house of David in his hand; and he will open, and none shall shut; and he will shut,
and none shall open. And I will appoint him a faithful officer ministering in an enduring
place... And all the glorious ones of his father’s house will rely on him, the sons and the
sons’s sons, from the princes to the juniors, from the priests wearing the ephod to the
sons of the Levites holding the harps. (Targum on Isaiah 22:15-25)

The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Jesus entrusted a specific authority to Peter: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven...” The “power of the keys” designates authority to govern the house of God,
which is the Church... The power to “bind and lose” connotes the authority to absolve
sins, to pronounce doctrinal judgments, and to make disciplinary decisions in the
Church. Jesus entrusted this authority to the Church through the ministry of the apostles
and in particular through the ministry of Peter, the only one to whom he specifically
entrusted the keys of the kingdom (CCC 553).

As Soon As You Wish To Follow A Devout Life They Will Slander Your Conversion As Hypocrisy, Bigotry, And Trickery

As soon as worldly people see that you wish to follow a devout life they aim a thousand darts of mockery and even detraction at you. The most malicious of them will slander your conversion as hypocrisy, bigotry and trickery. - Saint Frances de Sales, Introduction To The Devout Life

Children Will Dislike Their Parents Because They Never Gave Them A Moral Sense Of Right And Wrong

‎Mothers who are afraid to discipline think pain is more serious than wrong. When children grow up, they will not dislike their parents because they disciplined them when wrong, but because they never gave them a moral sense of right and wrong. - Archbishop Fulton Sheen

How Free Is Our Free Market?

"Free market? Really? You mean when Boeing can't locate their plant where they want in the United States? When banks are forced to make loans to people who can't pay them back? When government picks winners and losers? That is not a free market. There are plenty of socialist countries around the world, why don't you go to one of them? I bet you would love Greece. They practice "social justice," whatever the hell that is. How is that working out?"

Discovering That Only In Me Is Your Satisfaction To Be Found, Will You Be Capable Of The Perfect Human Relationship, That I Have Planned For You

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone, to have a deep soul relationship with another, To be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But to a Christian, God says, “No, not until you are satisfied, Full and content with being loved by me alone, with giving yourself totally and unreservedly to me. With having an intensely personal and unique relationship with me alone.

Discovering that only in me is your satisfaction to be found, Will you be capable of the perfect human relationship, That I have planned for you. You will never be united to another until you are united with me. Exclusive of anyone or anything else. Exclusive of any other desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, to stop wishing, and allow me to give you The most thrilling plan existing… one you cannot imagine. I want you to have the best. Please allow me to bring it to you.

You just keep watching me, expecting the greatest things. Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I am. Keep listening and learning the things that I tell you. Just wait, that’s all. Don’t be anxious, don’t worry. Don’t look around at things others have gotten or that I have given them. Don’t look around at the things you think you want, Just keep looking off and away up to me, Or you’ll miss what I want to show you, And then, when you’re ready, I’ll surprise you with a love Far more wonderful than you could dream of.

You see, until you are ready, and until the one I have for you is ready, I am working even at this moment. To have both of you ready at the same time. Until you are both satisfied exclusively with me. - Saint Anthony de Padua

Evil People In Power See The Normalizing Of Homosexuality, Contraceptives, Sterilization, Pornography, And Abortion As Useful Policies To Reduce World Population Growth

Because evil people in power see the normalizing of homosexuality, contraceptives, sterilization, pornography and abortion as useful policies to reduce world population growth. They don't believe people can control themselves sexually so they encourage sexual activity in forms that don't give birth to children. They believe that there's only so much wealth/resources to go around that only a few are entitled to, thus more people must die and the rest become controllable slaves. - K. Mitchell

A Joyless Catholic Is The Devil's Best Tool

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument. - Scott Hahn

Leave Your Past To The Mercy Of God. Leave Your Future To The Providence Of God

Leave your past to the mercy of God. Leave your future to the providence of God. Have great confidence that God will take care of the future in the future. - Gabriel Castillo

The Supreme Court Cannot Give Us The Right To Do Wrong

There is no such thing as a right to take an innocent human life. The Supreme Court cannot give us the right to do wrong. There is no such thing as 'the right to abortion.' It is a legal fiction. To talk about same-sex marriage is to talk about dry water. Because same-sex contradicts the nature of marriage, just as dry contradicts the nature of water. Dry water is an oxy-moron. It is a non-existent thing. Same-sex marriage does not exist. The Church is not swayed by politics or by popular opinion. She sees reality. She sees the truth. The Church gives us a clear vision of the mind of Christ. And this is really what the Gospel speaks of, "the wisdom that God has hidden from the learned and the clever but revealed to his merest children." The learned and the clever were the people who went to school, the scribes, the pharisees. The virtue of wisdom allows a young adult to be wiser than the majority of justices on the Supreme Court. - Fr. Tito

To Arrive At Christ, Man Must Be On The Path Of Truth

If Christ is the Logos, the truth, man must correspond to Him with his own logos, with his reason. To arrive at Christ, man must be on the path of truth. - Pope Benedict XVI

The Heart Of Jesus Is An Open Heart

The heart of Jesus is an open heart. Spend your time there. - Mother Teresa

Faith Is Not About Feelings, It Is About A Realization Of Truth

Faith is not about feelings, it is about a realization of truth. - Fr. Craig Harrison