Saturday, November 9, 2019

True indifference

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     "False indifference is the scourge of a domesticated Christianity, tired and worn-out, readily accommodating itself to its culture...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

"the Father, the Father's Name, and the Father's Kingdom"

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"the words of the [Lord’s] prayer point out the Father, the Father’s name, and the Father’s kingdom to help us learn from the source ...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

"We who are as good as you swear to you who are no better than us, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our laws and liberties; but if not, not."

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Antonio Pérez, 1534-1611 "Nos, que valemos tanto como vos os hazemos nuestro Rey, y Señor, con tal que nos guardeys nuestros fueros...
Friday, October 25, 2019

"why we have no trouble in being kind to heretics, and no repugnance in rubbing shoulders with them"

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     "If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity ...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

"a technology is not simply a technique that may be employed for good or ill"

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"a technology is not simply a technique that may be employed for good or ill but bears within itself a value system and a worldview—per...

"What John Paul II has done with . . . his establishment of the John Paul II Institute, with its branches in every continent, cannot now be undone."

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      Stratford Caldecott, "New sins:  technology and the frontiers of Catholic social teaching," Communio:  international Catholi...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

"technology is never merely technology. It reveals man and his aspirations"

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"Technology — it is worth emphasizing — is a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy and freedom of man. In technology we expr...