Only the living swim upstream
To put this more succinctly, we need to understand that the only alienation worth worrying about is alienation from our Heavenly Father.
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To put this more succinctly, we need to understand that the only alienation worth worrying about is alienation from our Heavenly Father.
The problem of authentic Catholic renewal is very much in the air leading up to the Synod on Synodality.
I wish to look at this issue of “rigidity” more closely. I am certain it is very commonly misunderstood. The Pope himself has never described the issue well.
Sound Catholic educational institutions draw sound Catholic families like spiritual magnets; sound dioceses with outstanding bishops and priests do the same.
Even if we do not wish our homilists to preach in verse, we might benefit from imitations of St. Ephrem in the occasional flight of reverent rhetoric.