Tradition

The great thing about being Catholic is that you can plagiarize and call it “being faithful to the Tradition”.

-Mark Shea

Sin and forgiveness

A culture that perpetually excuses sin is a culture that cannot, when push comes to shove, forgive it. Paradoxically, a culture that bites the bullet of acknowledging the reality of sin is a culture that carries within it the possibility of accepting forgiveness for sin.

-Mark Shea