Read on Twitter
Here's what Catholic theology teaches:
Joe Biden is a Catholic. Mike Pence is a Catholic, too.
You're a Catholic because you're baptized into the Church or received into it. Because of what God does, not what you do.
Being Catholic is a grace, and a responsibility.
Joe Biden is a Catholic. Mike Pence is a Catholic, too.
You're a Catholic because you're baptized into the Church or received into it. Because of what God does, not what you do.
Being Catholic is a grace, and a responsibility.
That does not mean that everyone who is a Catholic is in the full communion of the Church. Our actions can separate us from the Church, and indeed from God.
Being Catholic means that God calls us into the communion of the Church, and gives us the grace to live as God calls us.
Being Catholic means that God calls us into the communion of the Church, and gives us the grace to live as God calls us.
That doesn't mean we won't all stand before God to be judged. And we'll be judged according to whether we live as Christ and his Church call us.
We're all sinners. In the sacraments of the Church, Christ gives us the grace to overcome sin: To live, act, and worship in truth.
We're all sinners. In the sacraments of the Church, Christ gives us the grace to overcome sin: To live, act, and worship in truth.
I urge Catholics to call out and call on their brothers and sisters who have strayed from the truth. Who support legal protection for abortion, a grave moral evil, for example.
But remember that Catholicism is the means by which we overcome falsehood and live in truth.
But remember that Catholicism is the means by which we overcome falsehood and live in truth.
I'll do "voting as a Catholic" another time.
By the way, I don’t care about this to be pedantic.
I care about this because I am certain that the first stage in the New Evangelization is to say “God has already claimed you as his own and made you his child. Now he’s calling you to turn away from sin and to live in freedom.”
I care about this because I am certain that the first stage in the New Evangelization is to say “God has already claimed you as his own and made you his child. Now he’s calling you to turn away from sin and to live in freedom.”
People say “well, that’s just how people talk.”
Listen, talking imprecisely about truths of the faith— talking from the terms and presumptions of Protestant ecclesiology— it’s a big part of how the Church got where she is.
When we accept false premises, we don’t act truly.
Listen, talking imprecisely about truths of the faith— talking from the terms and presumptions of Protestant ecclesiology— it’s a big part of how the Church got where she is.
When we accept false premises, we don’t act truly.
Guy gets divorced. He says of his wife “she’s not my wife, anymore,” because, well, that’s how people talk.
He starts living like she’s not his wife. Like he owes her nothing. Like the terms of his marriage are self-defined. He moves further from reality, not closer.
He starts living like she’s not his wife. Like he owes her nothing. Like the terms of his marriage are self-defined. He moves further from reality, not closer.
Or, a lady gets divorced. She says to herself and her friends “I’m estranged from my husband.”
It’s easier for her to live in truth, to honor it, and to hope for its fruition and fullness.
It’s easier for her to live in truth, to honor it, and to hope for its fruition and fullness.
