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Archives for May 2018

Memorial Day 2018: The Meaning of True and Authentic Freedom

May 29, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Christ and the rich young man

A disordered view of freedom has arisen in America since the 1940’s and 50’s promoting a freedom without limits. This new, depraved view of freedom demands a system of “rights” that, ultimately, violate the dignity of the human person and labor to dismantle society. It’s become man for man, not man for the love of God.

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The Holy Trinity and the Temporal Mission of God

May 26, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels 1 Comment

Holy Trinity, one God in three divine Persons

It has been the constant belief of the Church that God is Triune, a plurality of Persons. God is one and God is three.

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Can Catholics And Other Christians Divorce and Remarry?

May 25, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

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In today’s gospel (Mk 10:1-12), Jesus answers a pointed question from the Pharisees regarding the permanency of marriage and the possibility of divorce. The answer he gives was as countercultural then as it is now.

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Stumbling Blocks and The Danger of Scandal

May 24, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Millstones

It’s a convenient, easy, worldly and “New-Agie” thing to do—making God “easy to get along with” or viewing him in a “nice” unchallenging way. But it’s not a virtuous or spiritually intelligent thing to do. It’s not a wise thing to do. Nor is it a loving thing to do. Worse yet, it can lead to the sin of scandal.

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The Human Conscience: The Voice of God Within

May 22, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Cardinal Raymond Burke

“Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey” (CCC 1776). What is the human conscience, how is it formed, and what does it mean to follow it?

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Jesus Christ meets the man of every age, including our own, with the same words: “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” These words contain both a fundamental requirement and a warning: the requirement of an honest relationship with regard to truth as a condition for authentic freedom, and the warning to avoid every kind of illusory freedom, every superficial unilateral freedom, every freedom that fails to enter into the whole truth about man and the world.  (Redemptor Hominis No. 12)

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