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• Other Regular Updates on Terri | Insight Scoop Web Log
• Appeal to Reconnect Terri's Tube Denied | Insight Scoop Web Log | March 23, 2005.
• Enough Is Enough | An IgnatiusInsight.com Commentary by Valerie Schmalz | March 22, 2005.
• Republicans, Family Fight for Terri's Life; Supreme Court Denies Committee's Request |
Valerie Schmalz | March 19, 2005.
• Terri's Murder Begins; Feeding Tube Removed | Valerie Schmalz | March 18, 2005.
• Congress Attempts to Delay Terri's Murder | Valerie Schmalz | March 18, 2005.
• Vatican, Gibson Join Fight For Terri's Life: A Summary of Recent Events | Valerie Schmalz |
Updated March 15, 2005.
• The Vatican Steps In: Cardinal Martino's Statement on Terri Schiavo | Valerie Schmalz.
March 8, 2005.
• Terri's Brother Fights For Sister's Life | by Margaret Zagroba | Vice President,
Princeton Pro-Life. Saturday, March 5, 2005.
• Will Habeaus Corpus Save Terri's Life? | by Valerie Schmalz. Updated March 4, 2005.
• The Battle Over Terri | by Valerie Schmalz. Updated February 25, 2005.
• The Case of Terri Schiavo: When Does Dignity End? | by Fr. Michael Black. March 1, 2005.
• BlogsForTerri.com
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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