Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Jesus teaches, “You are my friends if you do what I command you.” (Jn. 15:14) The Ten Commandments, applied with God’s grace, direct us to salvation and eternal glory. Discussing the Commandments as our firm first principles can even enrich dinner conversations. Maybe... When we say, “Thou shalt not murder,” we oppose murder by anyone. Killing combatants in a just war is not murder, but targeting civilians is. “Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.”

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus joins all three concepts and summons us to a new attitude... the Lord joins the three concepts of love, law, and joy. This is precisely the opposite of what Western culture does. The best that Western culture will admit of law is that it is a necessary evil; more routinely it is viewed as an unloving imposition by the powerful on the weak, the hierarchy on the laity, the (evil, oppressive, pharisaical) Church on decent people. ....