How different would your favorite movie or television show be if one, or all, of the characters wrestled with temptation but instead chose virtue over vice? No sex outside marriage (one man, one woman, for life) being a primary example.
Every good Catholic father understands parenting, which is always manful properly done, occurs in moments, which may be any amount of time leading up to now so as to most fully understand now and what single next step is needed to more fully run toward Christ. Parenting, of course, is a type of shepherding, and one I find particularly helpful in illuminating our understanding of this shepherding moment.
To understand this shepherding moment of centuries,
Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi: “As we pray, so we believe, so we live.”
Over our two-thousand-year history, Catholics learned we become our liturgy. How we pray becomes who we are. Yet, in the years and decades since the Second Vatican Council, our liturgy has become confused. No wonder we Catholics are confused. Our faith, prayer, and lives are not integrated. We live disintegrated from our faith, to varying degrees, because our prayer has become disintegrated from our faith.
The deep, satiating Mass of the Ages, the Vetus Ordo, is frozen in time. The Mass prayed, lived, and loved by nearly all the Church's saints in her history, is no longer
We live in a Catholic monarchy. Jesus our Christ is our King, our Blessed Virgin Mother our Queen. True, in the United States, our local government is, of the moment, if we can keep it, a democratic republic, with regions devolving into anarchy courtesy of modernism's progressivism. Yet, we all, each and every one,
The debate around free speech vs the banning of hate speech is again at the fore in public spheres. What is the Catholic answer?
Catholic understanding and terms differ greatly from that of society. Why? As Catholics, we have Christ's full revelation of Truth (Love, Justice, and Mercy), and this differs