Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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“Our Declaration of Independence is a declaration of dependence. We are independent because we are dependent on God. If we wish to keep our rights and liberties, we must also keep our God.” – Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Read MoreWeekends with Chesterton: Education
Over the years, I have read a number of books by G.K. Chesterton. However, since I am not currently reading anything by this great Catholic writer, I thought that I wouldn’t be joining Sarah for her Weekends with Chesterton. Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Children and Parents caused me to change my mind. In his book, Venerable…
Read MoreA Plea for Intolerance
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. The man who can make up his mind in…
Read MorePlanting Seeds
Several weeks ago, as I sat in the dentist office reading a book, I heard a lady say, “I thought he was old school.” I looked up and she looked at me and repeated, “I thought he was old school.” I responded, “Actually what he has written is just as pertinent today as it was…
Read MoreStoop
“The son of God made man was invited to enter His own world through a back door. Exiled from the earth, He was born under the earth, in a sense, the first Cave man in recorded history. There He shook the earth to its very foundations. Because He was born in cave, all who wish…
Read MoreDivinity is always…
“If the artist is at home in his studio because the paintings are the creation of his own mind; if the sculptor is at home among his statues because they are the work of his own hands; if the husband-man is at home among his vines because he planted them; and if the father is…
Read MoreDivinity is always…
“No worldly mind would ever have suspected that He Who could make the sun warm the earth would one day have need of an ox and an ass to warm Him with their breath; that He Who, in the language of Scriptures, could stop the turning about of Arcturus would have His birthplace dictated by…
Read MoreDivinity is always…
“There was no room in the inn, but there was room in the stable. The inn is the gathering place of public opinion, the focal point of the world’s moods, the rendezvous of the worldly, the rallying place of the popular and the successful. But the stable is a place for the outcasts, the ignored,…
Read MoreSuffering and Love
On Sunday, our pastor gave an excellent sermon on suffering. He drove his sermon home with a final nail in the bulletin by including a quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen on suffering and love. The lesson of the Crucifix is that pain is never to be isolated or separated from love. The Crucifix does not…
Read MoreObedience
“Obedience does not mean the execution of orders that are given by a drill sergeant. It springs, rather, from the love of an order, and love of Him who gave it. The merit of obedience is less in the act than in the love; the submission, the devotion, and the service that obedience implies are…
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