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    Be Perfect

    The gospel reading today ends with Jesus summing up his great Sermon on the Mount by saying, ?So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.? We can easily misunderstand what this passage means and leave feeling like Jesus is placing…

    By Paul February 23, 2020
  • Gaudete et Exsultate,  Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    Holiness isn?t about trying harder

    I?ve noticed that ?growing in holiness? is usually presented by popular Catholic media as something like ?We just gotta pray more and try harder, then the Lord will make us holier.? As if becoming holy will take a lot of…

    By Paul April 1, 2019
  • Amoris Laetitia,  Gaudete et Exsultate,  Pope Francis

    “My power is made perfect in weakness?

    When the Church takes up someone?s cause for sainthood, one of the things they look for is heroic virtue. Drawing from Pope Benedict XIV and St. Thomas Aquinas, the?Catholic Encyclopedia?defines ?heroic virtue? as ??a habit of good conduct that has…

    By Paul November 19, 2018
  • Diocesan,  Gaudete et Exsultate,  Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    St Paul?s Letter Against Pelagianism

    Pope Francis appears to to be pretty concerned with something called ?Pelagianism.? He has made multiple references to it throughout his pontificate, including his new Apostolic Exhortation?Gaudete et Exsultate, and recently the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith?released a…

    By Paul June 6, 2018
  • Amoris Laetitia,  Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    We cannot make ourselves holy

    The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recently released a document ?On Certain Aspects of Christian Salvation.? This document is concerned with what it calls neo-Pelagianism and neo-Gnosticism. Concerning the former it says: ?A new form of Pelagianism is…

    By Paul April 5, 2018

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