Evil may issue a challenge one day. We may be asked to renounce our faith, whether it is based in Islam, Judaism, Christianity or any other religion. Only at that moment would each of us know, for sure, whether we would die before denying what we believe to appease a maniac.
For people killed last Thursday at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, it wasn't some distant hypothetical. A deranged gunman asked them, "Are you Christian?" Those who said "yes" were told "you are going to see God in just about one second." Then he shot them in the head.
VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) – Numerous bishops voiced alarm over the lack of a clear definition of marriage in the synod's controversial guiding text, prompting a call for one based on scripture and Church teaching to be added.
"The Instrumentum Laboris nowhere defines marriage. This is a serious defect," group "D" of the four English-speaking circles wrote in their second report, published Wednesday.
