Teaching the Catholic faith isn’t just teaching a subject of inquiry like any other, it is introducing beloveds to their Lover, and helping them to know about this Love. Modern Catholic education has been, “let’s talk about you, and also about God, but mostly about you."
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Frankly, there is no better manifestation of this than Bishop Krautler’s recent testimony about why celibacy should be relaxed in the Amazon: “they don’t and can’t understand it, and they look at me funny.”
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Teach them, bishop. Introduce them to the love of your life, the One for whom it is worth forsaking all others. And not just worth it, but makes that sacrifice a positive desire. A delight even. Teaching is literally your number one job as a bishop.
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If you do not teach that which has been given to you for safeguarding and reliable transmission you are betraying your Beloved. If, that int, you ever truly loved the Beloved in the first place.
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If our bishops and priests are not madly in love with God—if they have not charity—they are clattering cymbals. But they become worse than that. They become parasites on the Body of Christ, tapeworms in His belly, viruses in his blood, robbing life from his members.
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I read the Baltimore Catechism to my kids evert Sunday morning and then we’d discuss it. It makes a huge difference when they are teenagers
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