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The Honeymoon Symphony
The chaste love of husband and wife, together with their household—or barnyard—of children, is an image of the communal life, mysterious love, and perfect unity of the Trinity. God is one. Husband and wife are one in His grace.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Paul Duda joins James and Thomas to discuss Steven Spielberg's first extant UFO movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and what it says about the kind of meaning and transcendence people are seeking in the current UFO obsession. Paul also talks about the film he is producing about St. Bernadette.
Social encyclicals as motives of credibility for the Church
Insofar as the world gets the social principles without getting the grace of Christ, only the smallest part of the task has been completed. That part is hardly worthless. But it is really only by uniting their good sense with Our Lady’s “poetry and prophecy” of Redemption that social encyclicals can succeed in offering the remedy we really need. If social principles in this fallen world do not lead also to Christ, then they will never be sustained.
An American PR executive in the Vatican’s court
Effective public-relations executives want to put the story out before the news breaks, framing the issues so that they set the terms of the discussion. Whether the Vatican can adapt to that approach, overcoming the habits of centuries, remains to be seen
Liturgical Suspicion and Thoughtless Words
Defining suspicion as “evil thinking based on slight indications,” St. Thomas states that it is sinful to ascribe malice without cause. Therefore, the inclination towards malicious interpretation of slight indications is a temptation to sin. Thus it is sinful to entertain the suspicion that those who kneel for communion are motivated by self-righteousness.
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