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The perpetual virginity of Mary — the teaching that Mary remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus — is one of the oldest and most consistently held beliefs in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity.
The perpetual virginity of Mary — the teaching that Mary remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus — is one of the oldest and most consistently held beliefs in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity.
Faith is integral to human understanding, influencing science and religion by shaping how we interpret reality, from trusting historical records and scientific principles to exploring spiritual beliefs. This article will cover the reasoning for faith in the supernatural.
The true purpose of religion is not ethics but reconciliation — healing the severed relationship between Creator and creature. Only one religion offers God's descent to man rather than man's attempt to ascend to God.
Catholicism is not just one denomination among many, nor is it merely a system of tradition and ritual. It is the original Church founded by Jesus Christ, safeguarded for two thousand years, and offered to the world as the one true path to union with God.
Pride is the capital sin of disordered self-love and self-exaltation, seeking one's own excellence in opposition to God and neighbor.
Pride is considered the most serious of the seven deadly (or capital) sins, as it is the root from which all other sins arise. It is a disordered love of self and a desire for one's own excellence that rejects submission to God and refuses to acknowledge one's status as a dependent creature (CCC 1866).
The original sin of Adam and Eve was fundamentally a sin of pride—the desire to be "like God" but without God, before God, and not in accordance with God. Pride blinds the intellect and hardens the will against grace. The only remedy for the vice of pride is the cultivation of its opposing virtue: humility, which is the truthful recognition of our absolute dependence on the Creator (CCC 398, 2559).
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
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