In John 8:36 Jesus makes a wonderful statement of victory. He says, “So if the Son sets you free you will be free indeed.” If you look at the Greek, you will discover this word free can mean to liberate or to exempt from liability. First, there are things Christ has freed you from. Second, there are things Christ has freed you to.
When I was growing up, "You will know They Are Christians by Their Love" and "Red and Yellow, Black and White, They Are Precious in His Sight" were popular hymns.
When I was growing up, "You will know They Are Christians by Their Love" and "Red and Yellow, Black and White, They Are Precious in His Sight" were popular hymns.
Biden and the Catholic Church - punishing moral choices is a misuse of the sacraments The belief that Biden and his Democratic colleagues should be shunned by the priest distributing Communion may get a majority vote from the USCCB, but this shaming tactic faces major obstacles.
Gerry O’Shea
Jul 01, 2021
January 20, 2021: Joe Biden, with his hand on a family heirloom bible, being inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. Getty Images
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Salvadore Cordileone, archbishop of San Francisco and a prominent leader in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), declared after the recent bishops’ meeting that they wouldn’t be taken seriously in America if they didn’t deal with what is widely described as the Biden communion issue.
Vatican City, Mar 9, 2018 / 12:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At his annual Lenten penitential service on Friday, Pope Francis said that it is not God who abandons us when we sin, but we who separate ourselves from him by choosing to sin, and that no matter what we do, God never stops loving us.
“We know that the state of sin distances us from God. But in fact, sin is the way that we distance ourselves from him. Yet that does not mean that God distances himself from us,” the Pope said March 9.
“The state of weakness and confusion that results from sin is one more reason for God to remain close to us,” he continued. “The certainty of this should accompany us throughout our lives.”