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The magisterium is not above the word of God, but serves it by teaching nothing but what has been handed down, because it hears the word of God by divine mandate and, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, listens to it with reverence and preserves it sacredly and interprets it faithfully.
(Dei verbum--one of the primary documents from Vatican II)
"[Some baptized Catholics are] still without any explicit personal attachment to Jesus Christ; they only have the capacity to believe placed within them by Baptism and the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Why do Priests do blatantly stupid things? I read another article about a Priest in Pennsylvania who stole thousands of dollars from his own parish in order to play slot machine games. Yes, horrible;
I read two words the other day in an article that were amazing: "of course". They were amazing for two different reasons. The first reason is obvious because of the context. A man was asked why there