Catholic and Enjoying It!
Wonder is the mother of art, philosophy, theology and science.
Incredibly, some people have a hard time telling the difference between ideology and the Catholic faith. The distinction is simple. The former has absolutely no room for wonder; the latter lives, moves, and has its being in Wonder.
The difference between the Catholic faith and ideology is that the Catholic faith is certain about a few truths (summed up in the creed) and lets the rest be mystery penetrable (to a degree) by human wonder playing out in the arts, science, philosophy, and theology. Ideologues, in contrast, glom on to an All-Explaining Theory of Everything that has to reduce all experience to Evolution, or Class Struggle, or Capitalism, or Electricity or whatever.
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