My Daily Domestic Diigolet 11/27/2008

• Can CLEP credits transfer to non-CLEP colleges? – Yahoo! AnswersInteresting Q&A about CLEP and transfer credits. tags: CLEP, college, homeschool
• 18 Hair-Raising Uses for Hairspray | Life HackerySome surprising uses- just in time for the holidaystags: homemaking
• There is no contradiction between faith and works, Pope assertstags: catholic, pope
  • Vatican City, Nov 26, 2008 / 12:12 pm (CNA).- Pope Benedict continued his reflections on St. Paul today, urging the 9,000 people present to consider Paul’s teaching on faith and works in the process of justification. Emphasizing that works do not justify a person, the Pope said that works necessarily flow from love for Christ.
    In his catechesis on St. Paul’s teaching on justification, the Pontiff stated that man is unable to justify himself by his works, but becomes just before God only because God restores us to right relationship by uniting us with Christ.
    He continued, “Man obtains this union with Christ by means of faith.” This faith, if it is true and real, becomes love and expresses itself in charity; without charity faith would be dead.
    Pope Benedict then noted that there has been confusion concerning the relevance of man’s actions for salvation.
    According to the Pope, the interpretive key can be found in St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, which emphasizes the gratuitousness of justification apart from man’s works and highlights the relationship between faith and charity and faith and works.

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