Calling All Catholics
Resources mentioned on the show
19 November
12 November
- How Catholics Should Read the Bible.
- Good books for God's children.
- Eastern and Western Rites of the Roman Catholic Church. I think I have 25 Roman Catholic rites on the page, plus the Anglican Ordinariates, which conceivably could someday give rise to a new rite.
5 November
22 October
15 October
- Canon law about marriage.
- Divorce and remarriage.
- Annulment.
- Porneia.
- The Rosary.
- Good books for God's children.
- Transmitter antenna project.
- Consolation and Desolation.
3 September
- "Ordination of Married Men in the Roman Catholic Church."
- I need to do a page on Celibacy. I had another question from Facebook about that this week.
27 August
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We are calling all Catholics to see how the world looks through the eyes of faith.
Paul says we should "think in harmony with one another":
- "May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 15:5-6).
Blind faith (a.k.a. "fideism") is a vice, not a virtue.
God created us as intelligent beings. Our powers of the intellect are part of being in the "image and likeness" of God (Gen 1:27-18). God is not offended by our thinking about what and why we believe. On the contrary, Peter tells us we should "always be ready to give an explanation [Greek: apologos] to anyone who asks you for a reason [Greek: logos--word, logic, reason, principle] for your hope" (1 Pet 3:15).
Faith is a vision of reality granted to us by God-revealing-God.
Everything looks different when we see the world from the perspective of the faith.
We have good reasons for what we believe.
Teaching faith to think and reason to believe is the task of systematic theology. St. Thomas Aquinas set the pattern for the union of faith and reason in the 13th century (1225-1274 AD). In his view, a sound philosophy is the handmaid of theology, just as today mathematics is the handmaid of science. Philosophy is not theology, nor is mathematics physics, but it is impossible to do theology without a philosophy or to do physics without mathematics. If the philosophical assumptions used in theological reasoning are unsound, the theology will be unsound.
The goal is to think faithfully and believe intelligently so that we may:
- Preach Jesus faithfully.
- Love our neighbor as Jesus has loved us.
I intend to believe what the Church teaches and teach what the Church believes.
The purpose of Vatican II: "To strive calmly to show the strength and beauty of the doctrine of the faith" (John Paul II, "Fidei Depositum").
The heart is the seat of wisdom. It is our heart that keeps our minds on track. Another name for the show: "Cor ad cor loquitur"--"Heart to Heart." Or "Heart of Wisdom."
"When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things" (1 Cor 13:11).
"Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect" (Rom 12:2).
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