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.- A new book written by Catholic women describes personal journeys of discovering that although Church teaching on important issues can be difficult and countercultural, it offers truth, peace and ultimate freedom.
“I’d really like to show the public that there is freedom in the content of what it is we stand for in the first place,” said George Mason law professor Helen Alvaré, who is the editor and a co-author of “Breaking Through: Catholic Women Speak for Themselves.”
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“The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God’s work of creation. In a special way, it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end.”
— Blessed John Paul II, during the 1993 World Youth Day
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(Vatican Radio) - A very small word that sums up Christ’s mission on earth was the focus of Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus reflections this week: “Ephphatha,” which means, “Be opened. Drawn from the Sunday Gospel, Mark Chapter 7, which recounts Christ’s healing of the deaf mute, Pope Benedict XVI said Jesus “became man so that man, made inwardly deaf and dumb by sin, would become able to hear the voice of God, the voice of love speaking to his heart, and learn to speak in the language of love, to communicate with God and with others”.
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Love informs, corrects and purifies knowledge, but knowledge without love inflates. Jesus tells us that if we know him, we have known the Father… (Jn 14: 7-11).
Once Gnosticism exalted knowledge over love, ideas over intimate union with God, the ruinous harvest was close behind—inflated, narrow arrogance, naively prone to believe the most bizarre fantasies about the divinity or the “divine plemora,” with little room left for Christian charity and sincere love for others…
Are people free from gnostic tendencies today?
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As Christians we have the duty to “speak the truth in love” (Eph 4:15). To do this we must know how to recognize the errors of the worldviews around us…
And since falsehoods tend to repeat themselves throughout the ages, we can learn a great deal from history and how the greatest minds of the Church responded to the harmful worldviews of their day.
Gnosticism & Learning from History
by Fr. Patrick T. Murphy, LC
The sound of children singing together calls to mind heavenly things.
