Confession by itself is not repentance. Confession moves the lips; repentance moves the heart. Naming an act as evil before God is not the same as leaving it. Though your confession may be honest and emotional, it is not enough unless it expresses a true change of heart. There are those who confess only for the show of it, whose so-called repentance may be theatrical but not actual.
Jim Elliff

Pagan Influences

Pagan Influences

PAGAN INFLUENCES

BASIC R.C. BELIEF From Knights of Ciolumbus Correspondence Course, Lesson 10, page 16. “Plato, for example, established an outlook on life that lasted hundreds of years and which, in many aspects, influenced the thinking of the early Christian Church. . . Some of (Aristotle’s) principles are followed even today.”

POST VATICAN II Richard McBrien, Notre Dame theologian, “The conversion of Constantine also allowed the Church to be less defensive about pagan culture, to learn from it and be enriched by it.”

CHRISTIAN COMMENT All one has to do is to study the history of the sacramentals of the Roman Catholic Church to see evidence of this pagan influence. See articles concerning the sacramentals.