Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo.

Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive.

That we've encountered him as the best thing that's happened in our lives,

and making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

In the Catholic version of the Decalogue, the Sixth and Ninth Commandments are coupled together. making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

In the Catholic version of the Decalogue, the Sixth and Ninth Commandments are coupled together.

Both prescribe the practice of chastity.

Both versions of the Sixth Commandment read,

You shall not commit adultery.

In Deuteronomy, the Ninth Commandment reads,

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your heart on his house,

his field, his servant, man or woman, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is his.

Here is Father John Ricardo, who asks, who has a better vision of sex, Cosmo, Maxim, or the Catholic

Church.

How about a starting point, a point of departure?

The ancient Near East.

We mentioned once before, I think, that in the ancient Near East, roughly the time when Genesis is being written down,

the neighbors of the Israelites have a vision of reality.

And the vision of reality is something like there are a whole multitude of gods and goddesses

who are basically just reflections of humans.

They get angry.

They're adulterous.

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