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By Bishop Donald J. Hying, Catholic World Report, March 2, 2025
We have arrived at a point of such intellectual and moral confusion that myriads of intelligent and educated people deny the basic facts of our biology and humanity, but, as G. K. Chesterton reminds us, asserting that the sky is green does not make it so.
An intriguing paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I have often pondered, is #675:
The Church’s ultimate trial. Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution which accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil “the mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
Very few people sin because they want to make themselves miserable and endanger the salvation of their soul.
Evil usually comes to us disguised as an angel of light, promising us happiness and fulfillment if we simply surrender to our temptations towards the seven deadly sins, whether it be pride, avarice, anger, lust, sloth, envy, or gluttony. …
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