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Human Freedom

Created for the Desire to Hope

September 24, 2020 by Kaitlyn Boyd 2 Comments

Waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ, Sacred Heart of Jesus

Have you ever caught yourself questioning what you are meant to do in your life? What career is best, who you will marry, where you’re going to live? Being human, we have a tendency to question everything since we always will have a questioning nature. It’s the reason so many question the existence of God: we need to know the answers.

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The Great Twenty-First Century Lie: Freedom is for Freedom’s Sake

June 23, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Morality and Catholic Voting in America

The Compendium Of The Social Doctrine Of The Church explains that “Jesus’ followers are called to live like him and, after his Passover of death and resurrection, to live also in him and by him, thanks to the superabundant gift of the Holy Spirit, the Consoler, who internalizes Christ’s own style of life in human hearts” (29).

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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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Jesus Christ and Human Freedom

May 6, 2018 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Jesus is for us a model of holiness (CCC, 459). In and through and with Christ, we begin to understand the real meaning of authentic human freedom, as well as how it is properly exercised. Through faith in Christ and belief in the teaching of his Church, true freedom is unveiled as we begin to see and live by the light of God.

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Pope St. John Paul II:

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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