Calming the Storm Quotes

“The holy struggle to remain faithful to what the Church has handed down to us requires the radicality that Cardinal Sarah wrote about in his 2015 book God or Nothing. The powerful of this world often exaggerate their importance and power and try to manipulate people by means of self-serving ideologies that, in fact, deprive the people of their God-given freedoms. In truth, either we believe in God and his truth or we have nothing, not even ourselves.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“doctrine, and I don’t think it’s appropriate to use such categories. Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). The Sacred Scriptures record the revelation of God, and the Gospels tell us exactly what Jesus taught. And one of the things he taught to the Apostles was, “He who hears you hears me” (Luke 10:16). So, the Apostles have a solemn role to teach what Jesus taught and then to proclaim that teaching down through the generations.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“The salvation of souls is the mission of the Church. This can only mean saving souls from perdition. Perdition means eternal damnation in Hell. God is the just judge who renders perfect justice with perfect mercy. The mystery of his love for mankind includes the existence of both Heaven and Hell.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“The spiritual life has suffered, and this is caused by a “horizontalist” vision of the life of the Church, i.e., that we should spend our energies on charitable works and trying to arrange social structures so as to favor a Christlike spirit, which is all to the good but it’s not the main mission of the Church. Her main mission is the salvation of souls and that has to do with preparing people for a heavenly life. That starts with being in living union and in conversation with Christ, striving to seek constantly to grow in the grace of God.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“Since the Church is the living voice of Tradition, as Cardinal Newman said,17 the Tradition has to be applied in circumstances that present themselves over time, and challenges need to be met.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“The loss of reverence is another. Bishop Athanasius Schneider has been so insistent that reverence for the Eucharist is the key to the renewal of the Church.13 I agree with that. It would restore faith and devotion. How do you do that? In the United States, in the Catholic school system there were religious women who devoted themselves”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“The Enlightenment is the source of modern skepticism and rationalism, relativism, these theories which deny objective truth or any common natural law to guide behavior.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“The Enlightenment largely rejected the God-centered understanding of creation and redemption and replaced it with a man-centered perspective in which human genius would no longer seek to know the truth of creation but would rather redefine reality.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“is the foundation of Western civilization. Metaphysical realism is an essentially Aristotelian view of the world, which, when combined with the Roman legal mind, produced Western civilization in the pre-Christian period. Christianity then added the supernatural understanding that correctly guides sense perception. Understanding accurately the nature of things is complemented by the supernatural understanding of the divine purpose of creation.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society

“Therefore, to say you cannot criticize a papal decision because it shows a lack of respect to the pope is not correct. The greatest respect you can show to someone is to speak the truth in charity.”
― Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society