being Catholic
ACCORDING
to the Second
Vatican Coun-
cil, “. . . Sacred
tradition takes
the word of
God entrusted
by Christ the
Lord and the
Holy Spirit to
the apostles,
and hands it
on to their suc-
cessors in its
full purity.”
What do Catholics mean
by “authority”?
When it comes to the big issues in life, you want to find the source that
speaks with integrity and can point you in the right direction. That’s
what the teaching office of the church is for.
i Kno W soME things, and so do you.
no one lives very long in this world
without picking up a certain amount
of experience, knowledge, and wisdom
on-the-go. But i’ll be the first to admit
BY
ALICE
CAMILLE i
Alice Camille is a religious edu-
cator and author of Invitation
to Catholicism and other titles
found at
alicecamille.com.
that not everything i think i know is really so. not every idea i carry around in
my head (and on which i bet my daily
decisions) is dropped in there by cosmic
revelation. Angels rarely talk to me—or
if they do, i don’t always listen up.
But what do we do when we’re not
sure that the information we’re working
with is accurate? in the information age
the answer’s obvious: Troll for the facts.
A Google search has provided a one-stop
solution to simple problems i’ve recently
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