Just for Faith: BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

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1. The Difference Between “Making” and “Doing
            Long ago Aristotle clearly distinguished between “making” and “doing,” and St. Thomas Aquinas, following the “Philosopher,” commented on the significance of this difference.[1] In making, the action proceeds from an agent or agents to something in the external world, to a product. Autoworkers, [...]

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BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

You can read the WHOLE article here 
1. The Difference Between “Making” and “Doing
            Long ago Aristotle clearly distinguished between “making” and “doing,” and St. Thomas Aquinas, following the “Philosopher,” commented on the significance of this difference.[1] In making, the action proceeds from an agent or agents to something in the external world, to a product. Autoworkers, for [...]

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The Church and Divine Revelation

Did Christ intend the Gospel to be proclaimed by the circulation of the Bible? — No; it was mainly by preaching that He intended to convert the nations.
Our Lord said: “Go, make disciples of all nations.” “Preach the Gospel to every creature.” “He that heareth you heareth me.” Christ did not say: “Go and make [...]

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Divine Tradition

What is `Tradition’?
What Catholics mean by Tradition is not the same that Jesus complains about when he says, “So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.” (Mt 15:6) and “You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.” (Mk 7:8). Jesus here means human traditions, [...]

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I do it because the [Catholic Church] has not merely told this truth or that truth, but has revealed itself as a truth-telling thing. All other philosophies say the things that plainly seem to be true; only this philosophy has again and again said the thing that does not seem to be true, but is [...]

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Contraception is Anti-God

God had not called to immorality, but to holiness.– St. Paul to the Thessalonians

Father John Hardon, S.J., was surely one of the greatest theologians of the last century. Toward the end of his life, he gave a lecture entitled, “Our greatest moral responsibility: to convert the contraceptive mentality.” There are great evils in the world [...]

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Spe Salvi

“SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom 8:24). According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply a given. Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: [...]

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ALTAR GIRLS?

                 ALTAR GIRLS?
              Sermon given by Rev. Peter R. Pilsner on the
                 Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 24, 1994
The letter from Cardinal Antonio Javierre Ortas, prefect of the
Congregation for Divine Worship in the Vatican, recently instructed the
bishops of the world, that girls as well as boys may be permitted to serve
at the altar.  The letter [...]

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Blessings on the Communion Line

This seems to be such a hot topic.
Why do people feel the need to get on the Communion Line to not recieve Communion but to get a blessing? If you want to “feel” a part of something then by all means stay in your seat (if unworthy to recieve) and make an  Act of Spiritual Communion…
My Jesus,
I believe [...]

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Saving a Church

The residents of  Heuersdorf Germany may have lost their village but they went to extrodinary lengths to save their church!
The 300 residents must move to allow miners to get at the coal beneath their houses in eastern Germany, a court has ruled, and neighbouring Borna has agreed to provide sanctuary to their 700-year-old church.
On Thursday, a [...]

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