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Only Listen to Catholic Sources
I attended and loved your presentation and as a result I have listened (and enjoyed) some of your YouTube videos. In one of the videos you mention that demons are fallen angels. However, another well educated man...Read more
ASK YOUR PASTOR!
What does the Church say about the red sanctuary lamp at the altar? I learned in Catholic school that it signified the presence of Christ, however, am stymied as to why our parish is allowing parishioners to...Read more
Human Composting Is Not Biblical
It appears the governor of New York has followed a number of other states by making human composting legal. How do I explain to my non-Catholic friends that this is not what should be happening?
ANSWER!...Read more
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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The World Is Our Testing Ground
At the Vatican Council, there was the discussion about the world. I remember one of the bishops from Belgium arose and made the proper distinction between the two uses of the word 'world' in scripture. The word 'world' can mean the theater of the redemption, and in that sense it is good: 'God so loved the world.' But the world also means a spirit, an organization without God. So our Lord said, 'I have taken you out of the world. Therefore the world will hate you.' 'I pray not for the world,' he said. But there was a confusion. And the result is that today we have lost many of our faithful and our priests and our sisters, not because of Christological heresy, nor because of persecution. The Lord has been very good to us; the only test He gave us was: 'Will you become secular, will you leave?