Tom HoopesWhere Christian leadership means service, numbers grow. Where it means “lording it over” others, numbers fall. In the United States, numbers are falling. Fast.
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How about us? What will we be known for? What we gave up for love, or what we clung to so tightly that we held it more dear than God himself?
Jesus, Genesis, Proverbs and the Psalms agree with the old Dean Martin song: the bliss of marital union makes life beautiful.
Benedictine CollegeMark 9:37 | Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 8:29 | Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Pictured: Sacred Heart of Jesus Statue at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.
All around us are people just like that deaf man in the Decapolis, stuck in a silent, Christless world … waiting.
If you must virtue signal, virtue signal to God. St. James describes how.
His demands may be easy or difficult, consoling or awkward. Our answer is always the same: “Where else can we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
What we love about the Catholic Church can be summed up in a single word: Mary.
In the Gospel this Sunday, Jesus speaks to a faithless, murmuring audience. An audience just like us.