March 2025
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Shea Week Five
The author introduces a term “imaginative vision” that he says is a set of assumptions and a way of looking at things especially with regard to moral matters and spiritual matters that is largely taken for granted rather than argued for. As a holistic way of seeing things, it is usually secured by a religion Continue reading
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Shea Week Four
The pace of change over the last hundred to 150 years has been so rapid that institutions aligned to the eternal mindset of God seem to be pretty far behind the curve. The Catholic Church was established by Jesus Christ and is protected by the Holy Spirit. God — who is eternal — set up Continue reading
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Exodus and Repentance
The readings this Sunday focus on baptism, Exodus, and repentance. The Exodus of the Old Testament is the story of Moses leading the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt through the waters of the Red Sea. Christians see in that passage through the Red Sea a prefiguring of the waters of baptism. It Continue reading
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Age of Change
Contributing to the idea that everything is changing in this age, and therefore change may be the defining characteristic of this age, is the rapid pace of technological innovation and revolution. We spent about 100 years moving from horse-drawn vehicles that moved at about three or 4 miles an hour to automobiles — that is Continue reading
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Christendom and the Need for Something New
Christendom is a term that means different things to different people, so it will be important that we define it for our purposes and for the purposes of understanding Monsignor Shea’s message. Let’s consider world history from a very high perspective. In the ancient world, there were many dominant civilizations tied to pagan religions. The Continue reading
Bound in Love 