“Algunos llaman imprudencia y atrevimiento a la fe y a la confianza en Dios.”
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“Some call imprudence and rashness what is in fact faith and trust in God.”
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“The one mediator, Christ, established and constantly sustains here on earth his holy Church, the community of faith, hope, and charity, as a visible structure through which he communicates truth and grace to everyone. But, the society equipped with hierarchical structures and the mystical body of Christ, the visible society and the spiritual community, the earthly church and the church endowed with heavenly riches, are not to be thought of as two realities. On the contrary, they form one complex reality compromising a human and a divine element. For this reason the Church is compared, in no mean analogy, to the mystery of the incarnate Word. As the assumed nature, inseparably united to him, serves the divine Word as a living instrument of salvation, so, in somewhat similar fashion, does the social structure of the Church serve the Spirit of Christ who vivifies it, in the building up of the body.” -Lumen Gentium, Vatican II
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that’s some beautiful theology right there.
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Reblogging from arielss1991. If you haven’t heard about the anti-Catholic demonstrations in Madrid on Wednesday, here’s a look into their ugliness, along with the beauty of the response of the WYD participants. A fantastic short video.
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Why is the Church called catholic?
“Catholic” (Greek kat’ holon) means related to the whole. The Church is catholic because Christ called her to profess the whole faith, to preserve all the sacraments, to administer them and proclaim the Good News to all; and he sent her to all nations.
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And You Should Be Too!
by Dave Armstrong
1. Best One-Sentence Summary: I am convinced that the Catholic Church conforms much more closely to all of the biblical data, offers the only coherent view of the history of Christianity (i.e., Christian, apostolic Tradition), and possesses the most profound and sublime Christian morality, spirituality, social ethic, and philosophy.
2. Alternate: I am a Catholic because I sincerely believe, by virtue of much cumulative evidence, that Catholicism is true, and that the Catholic Church is the visible Church divinely-established by our Lord Jesus, against which the gates of hell cannot and will not prevail (Mt 16:18), thereby possessing an authority to which I feel bound in Christian duty to submit.
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If you’re into either of those, you may well appreciate this article as much as I did.
What younger believers are increasingly experiencing is not a rebellion against the Church—for that is old; but a rebellion against rebellion, a revolt against intellectual anarchy and a return to tradition.
Anyway, I found it fascinating.
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