Growing into God: The Fathers of the Church on Christian Maturity. By John Gavin, S.J. Reviewed by Fr. Joseph Briody. (skip to review) Plato and Christian Personalism. By D.T. Sheffler. Reviewed by Fr. M. Ross Romero, S.J. (skip to … [Read more...]
A Forthright Faith
May 31, 2019 by Carolyn Humphreys, OCDS
In his book Conversion, Donald Haggerty relates the following story: Toward the close of the Spanish Civil War, two soldiers from the Communist Republican faction were returning to their barracks after a night of drinking and cavorting … [Read more...]
Conversion, Consecration, Communion
Movements into Salvation
January 23, 2018 by R. Thomas Richard, PhD
The Sequence in Salvation History This sequence—Conversion, Consecration, Communion—can describe three steps in several important processes, in the Catholic Faith. Historically, it can describe periods in the salvation history of humanity. … [Read more...]
What Happens to a Church When the Members Won’t Grow Up?
September 24, 2013 by R. Thomas Richard, PhD
The problem for the Church is ... the spiritual immaturity of men and of women in the Church, and the lack of guidance they are receiving on how to grow up to spiritual maturity as Catholic Christians. What happens to … [Read more...]
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