"It is necessary to know that one is lost in order to want to be saved." —Madeleine DelbrĂȘl from the book, The Holiness of Ordinary People

The Uncensored Truth


 

Christianity is all or nothing. Jesus died on the cross and gave everything for us that we might give everything to Him.  If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all. 

One Bread, One Body November 5, 2000

 

Putting Our Faith In Perspective

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I'm here as a Catholic Christian and an American citizen – in that order.  Both of these identities are important.  They don't need to conflict.  They are not, however, the same thing.  And they do not have the same weight.  I love my country.  I revere the genius of its founding documents and its public institutions.  But no nation, not even the one I love, has a right to my allegiance, or my silence, in matters that belong to God or that undermine the dignity of the human persons He created. 

                                    Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap 

 


An Additional Form of Fasting

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Fasting ought to be fulfilled not in abstinence of food only, but much more in cutting off vices.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Be Sure To Judge Yourself

 

I will judge myself often while I still live in the flesh, by the daily examination of conscience with its act of perfect contrition and by the frequent and sorrowful reception of the Sacrament of Penance.  If I judge myself, I shall not be judged to my condemnation.

  Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.

He Was Not Off The Mark, Was He?