Dede LaRock

          There are several ways of thinking about and looking at Christianity.  We can see it as an ecclesiastical structure, with two thousand years of history behind it and millions of members belonging to it.  We can think of it as a theological system that holds to certain basic ideas about God and about life.  We can look upon it as a moral and ethical standard that calls for the highest kind of conduct that the world has ever known.            All of these are valid views of Christianity; but in its […]

ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Remarks of Robert P. George, Professor at Princeton University – National Catholic Prayer Breakfast             The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over.  The days of comfortable Catholicism are past.  It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic witness to the truths of the Gospel.  A price is demanded.  There are costs of discipleship – heavy costs.           Of course, one can still safely identify oneself as a “Catholic”, and even be seen going to mass.  That is because the […]