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...Christ calls us to "Make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28: 19); that is a call to action, not inaction. Christians are obligated to engage the culture, and the political arena is no exception. Lukewarm Christianity is indefensible. Christians living out their faith may take comfort in Holy Scripture: "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you" (John...
...Also last week, Benedict approved a careful censure of the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, accused of sexually abusing minors: the 86-year-old Father Marcial Maciel Degollado will have to give up his public ministry, but no more action will be taken against him because of his age and poor health...
...preserve life--whether it's an unborn child or whether it's a person with HIV/AIDS sleeping on a park bench. I think we need to do everything we can to save and preserve life. Every person has a soul. And every person is a soul whom Jesus Christ died for on Calvary's cross, when he died for the sins of this world. I just want to do all that I can to try to save and preserve life...
...controversial Roman Catholic society Opus Dei [April 24]. I have been a supernumerary member for 13 years, and I am still struggling to do my work well in order to please God. Are we conservative? Well, if you consider Opus Dei's efforts to conserve the core values of Christ's ministry, then yes, that is indeed true. But terms that are more descriptive of the character of Opus Dei are faithfulness and fidelity to the teaching of the Catholic Church. Studying Christ's teachings as expounded by the church and trying to live my life as a good Christian...
...plot--about the pursuit of a Harvard professor (Tom Hanks) and a French policewoman (Audrey Tautou) by a devout, albino hit man (Paul Bettany) and rival gangs of learned loonies, all in search of Christ's Holy Grail--has some superficial bustle, but essentially it's a course in speculative religious and art history. Somebody talks, the others listen. Those lectures give most of the actors little to do. Ian McKellen, as a crotchety charmer, fares best, because he does most of the talking. Bettany, finding poignancy in murder and masochism, comes in second...