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Most importantly, the council rejected Luther’s teachings on justification, asserting the reality of human freedom in the work of redemption, the indispensability of good works and the need for the co-operation of the will set free by grace. Moreover, it did this with so thorough and plenteous an exposition from scripture that no Protestant theolog
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Great article from Italian media on the conclave. Parolin couldn't rally the votes of the developing world Cardinals. And the Kingmaker... was Cardinal Dolan.
https://t.co/0i8LWaNXFW
Chris Tomlinsonx.com
It’s time to respond,
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
The Church’s “preferential option for the poor” (the great phrase from the 1968 Medellin Conference) may be a proper imperative, but not on the basis of intrinsically different worth among classes. What counts is to offer the depth of God’s love to those with whom one lives. The poor are preferred only because they are “there”—or “here”—but are ign... See more