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Doing Our Job in the Church
Dear friends, It’s in fashion today for men claiming to be “traditional Cathollics” to set themselves up as critics of the hierarchy of the Church. These men pretend to do so because they are smart and faithful, but, if we examine things more carefully, we will see that they are not only shallow-minded and weak in faith, but do the devil’s work of amplifying and exaggerating the problems in the Church for personal profit. In my walk talk this afternoon, I discussed the problem with this thinking and proposed a solution. William C. Michael · Trust and Obey
Plato on Life After Death
Modern scholars love to present the classical Greek and Roman authors as godless men who promoted all of the immorality in fashion in today’s anti-Christian society. They are, however, liars. The wise men of the past were good, and knew many truths without the assistance of divine revelation. God, according to Catholic tradition, judges them not based on Christian truth, but on the truth that was available to them when and where they lived. Consider this passage from the Republic of Plato, on life after death. Does this sound like the stuff of ungodly men? “Socrates, when a man thinks … Continue