{"id":25527,"date":"2010-04-28T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/why-i-am-a-catholic-is-a-good\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:16:27","slug":"why-i-am-a-catholic-is-a-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/why-i-am-a-catholic-is-a-good\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why I am a Catholic?&#8221; is a good question to ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McGill University professor of History John Zucchi, Canada&#8217;s national leader for Communion and Liberation, asks the provocative question in a brief essay, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsussidiario.net\/News\/Culture-Religion-Education\/2010\/4\/27\/JOHN-ZUCCHI-Why-I-am-a-Catholic\/82309\/\">Why I am a Catholic<\/a>.&#8221; John is a great guy, he&#8217;s serious about his faith and he&#8217;s sensitive to the movement of the Holy Spirit, but no one would claim he&#8217;s a mediocre follower of Christ. The claims of faith in Christ, Zucchi tells us, have to have two criteria borrowing from Luigi Giussani: faith in Christ has to be reasonable and it has to broaden my humanity, a gift given by God Himself. Reason and humanity lead to and exude Mercy. Paraphrasing Cardinal Ratzinger in <i>God and the World<\/i>, to be a Christian means that you are sympathetic toward one&#8217;s humanity that of another; a Christian is accepting of one&#8217;s injuries and within these wounds a deeper healing is found.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I highly recommend you read, and re-read&nbsp;<i>God and the World<\/i> (2002),Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger&#8217;s conversation with Peter Seewald. It&#8217;s more than right on target&#8230;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGill University professor of History John Zucchi, Canada&#8217;s national leader for Communion and Liberation, asks the provocative question in a brief essay, &#8220;Why I am a Catholic.&#8221; John is a great guy, he&#8217;s serious about his faith and he&#8217;s sensitive to the movement of the Holy Spirit, but no one would claim he&#8217;s a mediocre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/why-i-am-a-catholic-is-a-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Why I am a Catholic?&#8221; is a good question to ask<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1715,1749,2411,2046,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}