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Hell: It’s Your Choice

February 7, 2025 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Hell and fire

Hell is a choice. As St. Augustine famously pointed out, God created us without our consent, but he will not save us without our consent.

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The Church Fathers and Their Importance

December 11, 2024 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

St. Augustine

It’s not uncommon for people to portray a fundamental misunderstanding of not only who the Church Fathers are, but also the place they hold in terms of expounding Catholic doctrine.

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Hurricane Helene and Physical Evils

September 30, 2024 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

hurricane

As we pray for all those effected by the devastation in the wake of hurricane Helene, events like these also lead us to ask questions.

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Lust: Path into Darkness

May 31, 2024 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Lust

As Aquinas observes in the Summa, the vice of lust gravely disorders the powers of reason and will.

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Catholic Guilt

May 9, 2024 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Catholic guilt

“Catholic guilt over past sins shows that Catholics have no real faith in Christ, his grace and his mercy. It’s a sign of their reliance on works for salvation.”

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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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