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I’m sure I’ve written on this before, but I thought the significance of obedience was important enough to repeat here. It occurs to me that obedience to God is, or certainly should be, an exercise in ...

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead....You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. James 2:17,24 Some Christians claim that we need only to believe or trust in Christ ...

Sunday, Feb. 14, is the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46; Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 11; 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1; Mark 1:40-45. This Sunday coincides with Valentine’s Day, ...

Who in the Bible had the greatest faith? Was I Noah who built the Ark? Was it Abraham, the father of the Jewish race? Was it the prophet Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Elijah? Each of these and many more whose ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It has been said, “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon will inevitably come to pass!" I think this sums up the attitude of obedience. When a ...

Rebellion, not obedience, is characteristic of our jet-age generation. This spirit is evident in our art, literature, and morals, in the revolt against law and authority, in the talk of the death of ...

Throughout the first 12 years of my time teaching moral theology at Benedictine College, students would occasionally ask whether or not they had to follow a law that they believed to be unjust. When ...

Addressing the role of authority in religious life at a gathering of global women religious leaders here, Congregation of Jesus Sr. Martha Zechmeister told the women they owe ultimate obedience only ...