BEING CATHOLIC
UNSPLASH
On whose authority? by Alice Camille
Alice Camille is a religious educator and author of Invitation to Catholicism and other titles found at alicecamille.com.
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WHILE Google helps answer some questions, the Catholic Church has its own structure and tradition for answering the questions of faith.
Catholics turn to both scripture and tradition in forming ideas about discipleship. The faithful and the magisterium both play a role in handing on the faith.
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KNOW SOME THINGS, and so do you. No one lives very long in this world without picking up a certain amount of experience, knowledge, and wisdom on-the-go. But I’ll be the first to admit that not everything I think I know is really so. Not every idea I carry around in my head (and on which I bet my daily decisions) is dropped in there by cosmic revelation. Angels rarely talk to me—or if they do, I don’t always listen up. But what do we do when we’re not sure that the information we’re working with is accurate? In the information age the answer’s
