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Fr. Benedict Kiely: Let’s Make Dogma Great Again – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Benedict Kiely: Let’s Make Dogma Great Again

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Fresco of the fathers of the First Council of Nicaea, c. 13th century [Basilica of St. Nicholas, Demre, Turkey]

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, The Catholic Thing, February 2, 2025

Fr. Benedict Kiely is a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He is the founder of Nasarean.org, helping persecuted Christians.

 

We remember Chesterton’s great quip that the object of a New Year is that “we should have a new soul.” Part of that, I think, apart from repentance and resolution to avoid the sins and failures of the past year, is to enter the new year with a sense of hope.

Not a naïve optimism, but a sense of hope and trust in God, and a willingness to cooperate with Him, to listen to Him. And yes, a new soul means a conversion. Let us, in a profound way, be more committed to our faith, in public and in private, even as we end the first month of the new year, than we were in 2024.

That sense of hope has, I believe, solid grounds, even if the grounds are the size of a mustard seed. Although it is necessary to speak realistically and regularly of the great void that has appeared in the West due to the decline of the Faith, and the dark forces that are massing, there are some points of light, visible, even if small, due to the darkness. …

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