Loss Of Dignity

"When God disappears, men and women do not become greater; indeed they lose the divine dignity, their faces lose God's splendor. In the end, they turn out to be merely products of a blind evolution and, as such, can be used and abused. This is precisely what the experience of our epoch has confirmed for us."

          --Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Papal Tweeting

The Pope is now on Twitter - @Pontifix.  I'm sure our Catholic friends will rejoice at the number of evangelicals now following the Pope!

Truth & Alienation

“When a man sets himself against God, he sets himself against his own truth, and therefore does not become free, but alienated from himself.”

    -Pope Benedict XVI

Hat Tip: The Anchoress

Opening Doors of Hope

"Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart’s memory so that it can discern the star of hope.…

     It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope."


-Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) , Seek That Which Is Above,1986

Dos and Don'ts for Web-Savy Ministries

At the website of America Magazine, "the National Catholic Weekly," there is a good list of 10 Dos and Don'ts for Web-Savy Organizations. Good advice here for any church, ministry or any Christian organization.

Hat Tip: The Anchoress

BTW: Did you know that the Pope now has a twitter account? See http://t.co/fVHpS9y