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6 days ago | 
ewtn.co.uk | Regis Martin
All the dungeons of death have been thrown open by the Lord of Life. , April 11, 2020 – National Catholic RegisterWhat is the bottom line of Christian faith? Is there an essential element, the expression of which says everything? And if so, is it reasonable to expect people living today to believe it?
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6 days ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin
The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. —T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets What do you say to someone who is about to die? Is there some advice you should pass along, a recommendation, say, on how best to spend his or her last day? And, by the way, that’s everyone, since nobody’s getting out of here alive.
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1 week ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Regis Martin
Putting it in precise Augustinian terms, it is the choice between the love of God and the love of self that will determine the outcome of a man’s life. There are two forces at work in the world—gravity and grace—and each of us must choose to follow one or the other. There is no third way. Are we to be moved by the downward pull of the one, leading to dissolution and death? Or do we allow ourselves to be drawn upward by the other, which leads to everlasting life and the joys of Paradise?
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1 week ago | 
ncregister.com | Regis Martin
Here’s a fact for people looking to move to Colorado. It’s one of the main reasons why some people might wish to live there, especially if they happen to be poor and pregnant. Which means, of course, they’ll probably seek an abortion at some point. So long as it doesn’t cost too much, that is. Well, they’ve certainly come to the right place.
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1 week ago | 
lewrockwell.com | Regis Martin
How do we know God loves us? Is there any evidence in the Scriptures telling us that He does? Is there an image perhaps to which we can easily point to prove that we are loved by God in the most intimate and unmistakable way? There are actually a whole busload of examples, of which the following may be the most profound and compelling of all. It is certainly the most recent, appearing just the other day in one of the Lenten readings taken from the prophet Isaiah (49:6-15).
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1 week ago | 
brownpelicanla.com | Regis Martin
By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, April 12, 2025Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. How do we know God loves us? Is there any evidence in the Scriptures telling us that He does?
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1 week ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin
How do we know God loves us? Is there any evidence in the Scriptures telling us that He does? Is there an image perhaps to which we can easily point to prove that we are loved by God in the most intimate and unmistakable way? There are actually a whole busload of examples, of which the following may be the most profound and compelling of all. It is certainly the most recent, appearing just the other day in one of the Lenten readings taken from the prophet Isaiah (49:6-15).
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2 weeks ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Regis Martin
What was it about Augustine’s “Confessions” that made it so readable, or managed to endear its author to so many who read it? Might its appeal have had something to do with the fact that here was a great sinner who lived to regret his sins, and so completely reform his life as to become a great saint? In the space of three centuries following the death of Christ, two very different threats arose to bedevil the life of the Church.
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2 weeks ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin
In looking over the synoptic accounts of Jesus going off to the desert to do battle with Satan and the temptations that await Him, one sees that there is complete agreement among the three Evangelists concerning both the length of His struggle and what exactly He was doing before and after. Forty days is the figure they each report; and all agree that on one side there was a baptism to be performed, while on the other there will be a public ministry to begin.
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3 weeks ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Regis Martin
Who among us is erudite enough to set about measuring the immensity of the achievement wrought by Augustine, whose depths clearly defy one’s best efforts to plumb? It was during the pontificate of Paul VI, who has since been raised to the altar, that a gathering of scholars arrived in Rome for a conference on St. Augustine.
