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Where the Crusades justified?
I've been catholic my whole life and one thing that people always bring up to me is the horrible things the Catholics did during the crusades and how they "started" it. Also, sex abuse in the church. I remember...Read more
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God parent only in the Catholic Church and/or Protestant Church? Which one?
Can a catholic be a God Mother to a child who is not baptized as a Catholic?
ANSWER!When someone becomes a godparent they are fulfilling that role for someone who is being baptized into the Catholic Church....Read more
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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The cross without Christ; Christ without the cross
If we could take Jesus off the cross and put Him over to one side, and then put the cross without Jesus on the other side, we would have the picture of the world. Who picks up Christ without the cross? Our Western, affluent, Christian civilization. No discipline, no mortification, no cross, no self-denial. Who picks up the cross without Christ? Russia, China. The ascetic principle of Christianity has moved to the totalitarian states: discipline, order, law, commitment to a common end. But neither side has the answer. The cross less Christ is weak, effeminate, and can never save, because there is no mention of sin. The Christless cross allows Dachau, Auschwitz, the squeezing of the lives of individuals like so many grapes to make the totalitarian wine of the state. The world problem and our own personal problem is this: Will Christ find the cross before the cross finds Christ?