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Real Presence Coalition
As you are aware, Jesse is part of the Real Presence Coalition https://realpresencecoalition.com/ which was launched last week. We are hoping to collect over 10 thousand survey responses through our effort. To achieve this goal, we will need your help....Read more
Live In A State of Grace
I have had 4 generations in three family lines on my mother’s side of my family not raised by fathers because of either by abandonment or death. I have had two great uncles, my father, and my...Read more
It's Election Season! The Right to an Abortion Overturned
In the midst of the Biden presidency let me walk you back down memory lane and share some good news. Thanks to the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, gave us the conservative justices who he promised. These...Read more
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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Psychiatry and Sin
So general has the denial of sin been, that it has not been theologians who have resurrected the idea, but psychiatrists. Karl Menninger, of the Menninger Psychiatric Institute of Kansas, has published a book entitled 'What Ever Became of Sin.' He shows the slow devolution of the concept of sin. According to him, moralists stopped preaching about sin because everything was love; then the jurists picked the theme, and sin under law became a crime. Then the psychiatrists took it up from the legalists, and sin then became a symptom or a complex. Some rather tragic effects have resulted from this denial of sin. First of all, we have many complexes that are produced by sin, and we are blind to the true cause, which is guilt.