Reconciliation and the Visible Church

Posted on 2014/08/15 by aquinasetc — Leave a comment

The CCC says in §1445: Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God. Reconciliation with God and with the Church go together. You can’t have one without the other. Why is that? The answer, I think, is to…

Ashes

Posted on 2012/02/26 by aquinasetc — Leave a comment

Some Protestants suggest that Jesus’s words in Matthew 6:17 are an unconditional prohibition of the use of ashes in association with fasting (and presumably that their use at the beginning of Lent is therefore unwarranted): But you, when you fast,…

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