Jan Bentz (@jan_c_bentz) delves into the complexities of brain death and organ donation & the implications of these issues for both medical practice and Catholic moral theology with Dr. John Di Camillo (@jadicamillo), an ethicist at @NCBCenter.
For those who say “the gates of hell will not prevail” as if it’s a promise that things can’t really get that bad for the Church, just remember that God’s idea of a path to victory is offering His Son to arrest, abandonment, torture, and death on a Cross.
It will not be Science that kills religious belief in a hundred years. It will be Nescience that kills it, without even looking at what it kills. It will be a sort of supreme stupidity, that boasts of having studied everything except the thing that it criticizes.
May 1, St Joseph the Worker, let us continue to honor God, praying the prayer His Son taught us and seeking to live His Will in all that we do. Our troubles as God’s children flow from our stubborn choice of our will instead of God’s. May His Will Be Done. ALLELUIA!
One fact that sticks out like a spike as huge as the Matterhorn is the fact that the Christianity which created Christendom did definitely declare that its religious founder unlike the other religious founders, had risen materially from the dead.
Perhaps the real meaning of St. George and the Dragon is that an evil has to be about as big and ugly as a dragon before an Englishman even knows it is there.
A priest from Spain tells me he wasn’t “too worried” about COVID 10days ago. Later he got the virus and the whole parish got infected. He cries now for his people. He wished he had taken it more seriously.
It is possible to take this seriously and ALSO don’t give into fear.
@SteveSkojec And even our most official and reliable data only reflect what is actually being tested. Which has been rather limited in the US, as acknowledged by experts: https://t.co/vmCbtEcv10
Big fan of “spiritual Communion”, I, but MASS is primarily about WORSHIPPING God and is performed even without receiving. Canons 1248/1174 recommend, in default of Mass, lsms, the Office, etc. “Spiritual Communion” is great but don’t equate Mass and Communion. They are distinct.
(12) Ultimately, I mostly wish people would respect that people of good will can come to different—even opposing—viewpoints in this crisis, and not act like those who come to a different conclusion either hate the vulnerable or hate freedom. /fin