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Dear Dr. Valli, I was moved when I read your reflections on the state of the Church and on the “migration” of Catholics from a dying reality to a new, more combative and guerilla dimension, as you wrote, using an image taken from a well-known radio meditation given by the young Joseph Ratzinger. The Church is not over and will not end. This “migration” is not a migration out of the Mystical Body to a human and utopian reality created in the minds of those who lament the loss of the past and are disgusted with the present. Because if this were our temptation, we would be committing a betrayal of the Church herself, separating ourselves from her and thus precluding our salvation, which She alone ensures to her members. Ponder that paradox, dear Aldo Maria: precisely those who proclaim that they are proudly faithful to the immutable Catholic Magisterium would thus be constructing a [false] oasis, without recalling that we are all ....
It has to be one of the strangest things in the world: So many Christians who love Jesus with all their hearts recoil in fear at the mention of His mothers name, while many who do love her find themselves tongue-tied when asked to explain why. Most of the issues people have with Mary are really issues about something else. Where is the Assumption of Mary in the Bible? isn t really a question about Mary. It s a question about the validity of Sacred Tradition and the authority of the Church. Why should I pray to Mary? isn t really about Mary, either. It s actually a question about the relationship of the living and the dead in Christ. Do Catholics worship Mary? isn t a question about Mary. It s concerned more with whether or not Catholics countenance idolatry and what the word honor means. And curiously enough, all these and many more objections both pay homage to and completely overlook the central truth about Mary that the Catholic Church labors to help us see: that h ....
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REFLECTIONS TODAY While attention is given to Peter being entrusted with the care of Jesus’ flock, at the background stands a figure as important as Peter, even more important for the community that gave origin to the Fourth Gospel. He is known as the Beloved Disciple. He is said to be the witness and even the writer of what we know as the Gospel according to John. The Gospel is now seen as not written by John, the son of Zebedee and one of the Twelve. The true writer might even be someone who derived his materials from the Beloved Disciple whose closeness to Jesus earned him the sobriquet “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” He was close to Jesus at the Last Supper, stood with Mary underneath Jesus’ cross, and first to point out Jesus, “It is the Lord.” In the “Johannine community,” it was even thought that he would not die, but this is corrected by the evangelist. He gives witness to Jesus not by the shedding of blood, but by his love and memory now contained in ....