Jeanie Hannaman

By  Rev. Francis J. Hoffman, Relevant Radio - Theologians who study the sacraments distinguish the Matter and the Form for a Sacrament.  For Baptism, the Matter is water . . . natural water.  It can be fresh water or salt water, but it must be water, not soap, not beer, not wine, not honey.  Water.  Why water?  Because that is what Jesus did, and that is what he said we should do.   And remember, Jesus is God.  The water can be warm or cold, but it cannot be ice or steam, because if Jesus meant ice or steam, he would have said “ice” or “steam.”

By Dr. Gavin Ashenden, What We Need Now Substack - All the ethical compromises of liberal Catholics, from birth control to abortion, gay rights to net zero, place the body before the soul, the political before the spiritual, the now before the then, earth before heaven, the seen before the unseen, power before Spirit... The absolute gives way to the relative, the higher principle to the attainable pragmatic. The fact that the elusive moral and relational “progress” sought for and invoked is disappearing in a puff of fin de siècle smoke is a realization the liberal Catholic mind has managed to rebuff by means of some increasingly desperate cognitive dissonance.