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Instead of going through a litany of troubling things Pope Francis has said, let's zero in on just one. On several occasions, the Pope seemed to teach that faith is not necessary to salvation or entrance into Heaven. At the very least, Pope Francis has a positive opinion of an atheist's chances for getting into Heaven.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.

expositional listening encourages faithful pastors.

The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling, the heart of the nation.

But if thou knowest that it shall be hurtful unto me, and not profitable for the health of my soul, take the desire away from me'! For not every desire is from the Holy Ghost, although it appear to a man right and good.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.

But to say, as some writers alluded to by Augustine (Gen. ad lit. ii, 4), that waters resolved into vapor may be lifted above the starry heaven, is a mere absurdity.

In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.

It is not without reason that the Evangelist is careful to tell us the smallest details. For these two disciples signify two peoples, the Jews [by John] and the Gentiles [by Peter].

The same Reply can be given to OBJ 2. For an essential term applied to the Father does not exclude the Son or the Holy Ghost, by reason of the unity of essence. Hence we must understand that in the text quoted the term "no one" [*Nemo = non-homo, i.e. no man] is not the same as "no man," which the word itself would seem to signify (for the person of the Father could not be excepted), but is taken according to the usual way of speaking in a distributive sense, to mean any rational nature.