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The Kingdom of God is Within [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]odily health is a good thing, but what is truly blessed is not only to know how to keep one’s health but actually to be healthy. If someone praises health but then goes and eats...

Fight the Good Fight of Faith [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hoever is in Christ is a new creation; the old has passed away. Now by the “new creation” Paul means the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in a heart that is pure and blameless, free...

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps] Official Roman Liturgical Texts , Instructions and Commentaries Thereupon Book of Blessings.  ICEL trans of De Benedictionibus.  Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1989. Paperback  edition of all the liturgical blessings of the Church for people, places, and objects (sacramentals).  Contains official texts, commentary, and suggestions for celebration.  832pp.   Available also...

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ver the past few years, vast changes have occurred in the concept of marriage, at least in the Western world.  There is tremendous disagreement over the goals, purposes, and the very definition of marriage these days.   Surprisingly, however, there is one thing that everyone on...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Indulgences   [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NDULGENCES 1471 The doctrine and practice of indulgences in the Church are closely linked to the effects of the sacrament of Penance.  What is an indulgence? "An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment...

A. Primary Sources: Writings by Henri de Lubac A. Selected Booksby Henri de Lubac [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]ffrontements mystiques. Paris: Témoignage Chrétien, 1950. Athéisme et Sens de l'homme: Une double requête de Gaudium et spes. Paris: Cerf, 1968. Catholicisme: Les aspects sociaux du dogme chrétien. Unam Sanctam, no. 3....

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']F[/dropcaps]or an integral interpretation to occur, both Christian tradition and Christian practice must be brought into the interpetation process. I. Allegorical versus critical exegesis? In Pius XlI's encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943), a rigorously scientific and critical approach to the study of the Bible...

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]n April 6, 2006, The National Geographic Society (www.nationalgeographic.com) unveiled a document that is not exactly true to its name.  The term "Gospel" comes from the Greek term for "Good News" and has historically referred to an eyewitness account of the...

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]onfirmation/Chrismation Biblical and Historical Basis Biblical Christ’s anointing with Holy Spirit coming up after baptism in fulfillment of Is 61:1, anointing for battle & mission Acts 10:38 “I take it you know what has been reported all over Judea about...

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]hough many, we are one body, and members one of another, united by Christ in the bonds of love. Christ has made Jews and Gentiles one by breaking down the barrier that divided us and abolishing the law with its precepts...