Fr paul scalia church belligerent def
"Church Belligerent" is a term that indicates the necessary fighting spirit of the Church Militant severed from the principle of charity..
A Keeper
— Valerie Schmalz
San Francisco, California
Incisive
After reading the May/June 2007 This Rock article by Fr.
Paul Scalia (“The Church Militant or the Church Belligerent?”), one can appreciate why you concluded your editorial (Reasons for Hope) for the same issue the way you did.
Any family connection of Fr. Paul with Supreme Court Justice Scalia?
An incisive mind is God’s gift to both of them.
- Fr. Paul Scalia.— Fr. Robert Buholzer
Stoughton, Wisconsin
Rules for Battle
I enjoyed Fr. Scalia’s article. In my own experience there are three rules when doing battle:
1. Stand up, state the truth clearly and dispassionately; shut up and sit down.
2.
Realize the only weapon the Christian possesses is the cross.
He has the heart of Christ in the sense of the Church Militant rather than the Church Belligerent and how as Catholics we have to have a heart.
It is not to be wielded against your opponent, it is to be crawled up on.
3. Live a clean life.
If you do this, the truth will do the rest. The ontological reality is that all men’s hearts were made for the truth.
The truth does not belong to you