
The “Faith and Experience” of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary models the perfect disciple who, simply, never stops following her Lord.
Mary models the perfect disciple who, simply, never stops following her Lord.
We must not measure faith by the world, but learn to see as God sees.
Christians are given what they need to perform what without God’s grace would seem, and be, impossible.
Both St. John Henry Newman and Pope Benedict XVI understood the way of beauty that leads to God.
For both theologians, the written Word of God must be approached in a prayerful manner, with humility and faith.
With both St. John Henry Newman and Pope Benedict XVI, we see how God uses the gifts of intelligence and learning.
In both Benedict and Newman we have models of kindness, a kindness rooted in commitment to truth, to reality. Secure in the knowledge that they were loved by God and in the truth that had set them free, they were at liberty to love others.
As “co-workers in the truth,” Newman and Benedict teach us that only from within the setting of God’s truth can “heart speak unto heart.”
“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too.”
Newman, Wojtyla and Ratzinger are among the Christian thinkers who have best explained the correct relationship between faith and reason.