Discernment is the Mother of all Virtues; Bishop Baldwin of Canterbury

Submission by OV Cruz, JCD

Social Doctrine of the Church

ArchBishop OV Cruz Justice in the Church/Papal Magisterium

Appointment to see the Bishop of Lansing Michigan

What are the church teachings?

Pope Francis: Adequate Structures for lay participation… “to give voice to the entire people of God”

OVCruz: Do they want a church that is blind?, Deaf and dumb in the face of moral decadence?

JP2 “ Evil does not have the last word”

Pope Francis… Voices of Catholic Laity can no longer be ignored.

Spanish Philosopher /Poet George Santayana

“ Those who cannot remember our condemned to repeat it”

Three-Fold Goals to Service

1)Truth/Reality

2.) Justice/Demand

3.)Peace/ Blessings

Pope John Paul ll’s “Suffering is the property of the church”

OV Cruz “ Divinity and injustice” Cannot be a possible pairing: it’s one or the other- with no middle ground of any kind at all in between.

1.)Strong words from St Augustine to those who would be Shepard’s. By MSGR Charles Pope. 2.)

Episcopal Disciplinary Ministry on Errant Members of the Clergy by OV Cruz, JCD pp. 82-86

Princes and Paupers

Pope Leo X1V speaks about , Bishops as little Princes in their kingdom

OV Cruz, Magisterium Pp 69-74

Pope John Paul 2, Thinking with theChurch

General means to attaining Perfection: A habit of self control

Chapter 3 ; Scandal in the Church

Bellermine Forum, Catechism explained :

General Means for the Attainment of Perfection