Praxis of Truth, The

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div style=width: 400px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 1em And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. div style=text-align:right;font-style:italic;-John 8:32/div /div

Though now apostate, I was Catholic for a number of years and in many ways, I feel like an a-religious Catholic. The most attractive part of Catholicism was and is the Catholic attitude towards confession.

Forgiveness is granted by God. The priest does not control grace, but his presence grounds the confession. The WASP conception of forgiveness, in my opinion, has become abstract and theoretical. It lacks the practice of the Catholics.

Praxical thinking is marked by the dissolution of the theory/practice dichotomy and by an emphasis on the connection between agency and social change.refhttp://cpic.binghamton.edu/praxical.html/ref The admission to the priest is really an admission to the self, and that admission is the agent of change in the penitent.

I cannot say whether or not grace can save our soul, but I do know that it is the confrontation and acceptance of truth which makes us better here and now. This is more than theory and it is more than practice. It is the nature of truth itself.

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