Blog Post #12: Church in the Present
What were some of the main points in Thomas Groome’s book, “What Makes Us Catholic?” Do you agree/disagree and why? For the book presentation we did "Practicing a Humanizing Spiritually". The three main points are love respect yourself, render unconditional respect to other persons, and pray for graces you need. It states that loving and respecting yourself is very important and you show care for yourself. To have unconditional respect for people is to care for the others. And lastly praying for graces you need. This means to pray for what you need, and if you do God will listen. What were some new things that you learned about Pope Francis from the video clips? I learned a lot of new things from this documentary about Pope Francis. One thing being he had pneumonia. He was loosing hope and thought he would never feel better until a nun told him that it will pass and it helped him get through it. Another thing is that he has never owned a car or taken a ta...
