“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.” YearsWarChurchPeriodsHundredCrisisUnityBrokeMedieval Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.” WorldFatherNationsChurchHolyCrisisSacredLaysMissionsMythSymbolsSavingProphetVisibleCelebrationDogmaMartyrGenesisHymnsPriesthoodApocalypticLiturgyHoly Days Book:The Anti-communist Impulse Source: The Anti-communist Impulse
“I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentRealWholeHomeKidsTogetherSpiritualThreeChurchTalkingWorryWifeProduceMomDadCrisisMy WifeHopefullyGuaranteesPretendingBeing RealContributingGuarantees ThatMom And DadHopefully Not Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.” PeopleStillsShowsBigsChurchInterestingCrisisLaysKicksOfficialsCollectionsWeekendPlatesScandalShowing UpEnronEnron Scandal Author:David Letterman
“Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.” IfsNeedsGivingLongRealStatesCareChurchUnitedUnited StatesCrisisTake CareFaithfulPriestsVocationLong LifeNun Author:Timothy M. Dolan