02599 – Human Life is Sacred

Human life is sacred: this means that God has consecrated each and every human being—without exception and in all circumstances—as a unique, incalculably precious being of elevated status and dignity. from Introducing Christian Ethics

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02339 – Basing Our Life on God

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Human One. Talk about an upside-down universe! I’m not happy when people hate me—and some people do hate me. Jesus is saying that we have to...

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02027 – Getting Reoriented

Jesus instructs not by means of the rule, but by means of the exception... Parables, paradoxes, hyperboles, and extreme commandments all disorient only in order to reorient us... I would say that what is reoriented by these extreme sayings is less our will than our...

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