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  “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”

  28 August 2010, by Fr. Philippe

  “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
  (St. Jerome, a father and Doctor of the Catholic Church from the 5th century AD)
  We read in the Gospel of Luke how, on two occasions, Jesus opened the Scriptures to his disciples after his resurrection. Through the Scriptures they came to believe in the Risen Christ. This indicates how important the Scriptures were to early Christians. Our Bishops similarly underlined this importance by their decision to establish a National (...)

  
  
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  What is Authority For?

  21 August 2010, by Fr. Philippe

  Quotation: The common good is ’the reason the political authority exists’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church).
  Reflection: I remember a philosophy lecturer once arguing that no authority exists of and for itself. All authority, he maintained, is there for the sake of something else and has therefore to be justified by something outside of itself. So the authority of a pastor exists for the sake of the congregation, that of the principal for the good of the school and that of the politician (...)