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Sacred Scripture resides within and reaches out to us from the Heart of Christ, who is both the reflection of the Father’s love and our way of return to Him.

Too often the Church seems to be dragged kicking and screaming into a century that most frequently offers the cross.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | May 25, 2021 There is a fine line between moral prudence and moral cowardice. There is an even finer line between trusting and not trusting God. I admit that discerning these things can be difficult. But in praying with Ezra the other day, I discovered something all of us need to think about more often than we do. Ezra, as many readers will recall, was permitted by King Cyrus of Persia to spearhead a Jewish mission out of exile and back to Jerusalem, to rebuild the Temple of the Lord. He made ready and at length gathered al...

By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | May 21, 2021 Here’s a novel thought for you: There is a big difference between “policy” and “virtue” and, choosing between these two, the Church’s business is virtue. A similar difference exists between “facts” and “truth” and, again choosing between the two, the business of the Church is truth. Now I know you would never think of this on your own. After all, if what I have just declared were really the case, why would so many ecclesiastical statements and initiatives over the past fifty years concern th...

By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | May 18, 2021 Manasseh, King of Judah, did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had broken down, and erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he burned his sons as an offering in the valley of the son of Hin...