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COMMENTARY: While politics is a necessary and inevitable part of our lives, its ambitions should not be confused with the Kingdom.
The relationship of the Church and the Christian in society has always been tricky. From the very beginning of the Christian faith, followers of Jesus have been struggling with the two worlds to which they are tied: the temporal and the heavenly. Faced with an ever-growing secular society, it is crucial that Catholics in America unequivocally embrace what it means to be in the world but not of it. Let me explain.
Professor Russell Hittinger, a senior fellow at The Catholic University’s Institute for Human Ecology, gave a talk recently asserting that the proper term for the relationship between the heavenly state and the temporal state is “separated.” They are set apart. And this setting apart, he explained, was done by Jesus when he declared in John 18:36, “My kingdom is not of this world.”
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The relationship of the Church and the Christian in society has always been tricky. From the very beginning of the Christian faith, followers of Jesus have been struggling with the two worlds to which they are tied: the temporal and the heavenly. Faced with an ever-growing secular society, it is crucial that Catholics in America unequivocally embrace what it means to be in the world but not of it. Let me explain.
Professor Russell Hittinger, a senior fellow at The Catholic University’s Institute for Human Ecology, gave a talk recently asserting that the proper term for the relationship between the heavenly state and the temporal state is “separated.” They are set apart. And this setting apart, he explained, was done by Jesus when he declared in John 18:36, “My kingdom is not of this world.”
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Catholics in America, Be in the World but Not of It
COMMENTARY: While politics is a necessary and inevitable part of our lives, its ambitions should not be confused with the Kingdom.
