Bishops can turn the new "blessings text" into a virtue
It would be a grave error to conclude from this new text on blessings that a liturgical blessing is to a personal blessing as Matrimony is to same-sex coupling.
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It would be a grave error to conclude from this new text on blessings that a liturgical blessing is to a personal blessing as Matrimony is to same-sex coupling.
Authentic renewal requires an end to all this confusion. Sound Catholic teaching and sound Church administration demand that moral problems be faced head-on.
There has been a progressive hollowing out of modern nation states over the past two hundred years or more, mostly in the name of “the vote”.
After reading Scripture regularly for a time, we will start making more of the connections that the Holy Spirit, in His infinite goodness, prompts us to see.
By some instinct we grasp that there is a law. If there is a law there must be a law-giver. And if there is a law-giver, then there must be a judge.